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<title>King James Clarified NT</title>
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<div type="x-testament">
<div type="book" osisID="Mal.3.18">
<chapter osisID="Mal.4.6">
<verse osisID="Matt.1.1">The book of the generation of Jesus Christ, the son of David, the son of Abraham.<lb type="x-end-paragraph"/> <lb type="x-begin-paragraph"/></verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.1.2">Abraham begot Isaac; and Isaac begot Jacob; and Jacob begot Judas and his brothers;</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.1.3">And Judas begot Phares and Zara of Thamar; and Phares begot Esrom; and Esrom begot Aram;</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.1.4">And Aram begot Aminadab; and Aminadab begot Naasson; and Naasson begot Salmon;</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.1.5">And Salmon begot Booz of Rachab; and Booz begot Obed of Ruth; and Obed begot Jesse;</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.1.6">And Jesse begot David the king; and David the king begot Solomon of her that had been the wife of Urias;</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.1.7">And Solomon begot Roboam; and Roboam begot Abia; and Abia begot Asa;</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.1.8">And Asa begot Josaphat; and Josaphat begot Joram; and Joram begot Ozias;</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.1.9">And Ozias begot Joatham; and Joatham begot Achaz; and Achaz begot Ezekias;</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.1.10">And Ezekias begot Manasses; and Manasses begot Amon; and Amon begot Josias;</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.1.11">And Josias begot Jechonias and his brothers, about the time they were carried away to Babylon:<lb type="x-end-paragraph"/> <lb type="x-begin-paragraph"/></verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.1.12">And after they were brought to Babylon, Jechonias begot Salathiel; and Salathiel begot Zorobabel;</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.1.13">And Zorobabel begot Abiud; and Abiud begot Eliakim; and Eliakim begot Azor;</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.1.14">And Azor begot Sadoc; and Sadoc begot Achim; and Achim begot Eliud;</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.1.15">And Eliud begot Eleazar; and Eleazar begot Matthan; and Matthan begot Jacob;</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.1.16">And Jacob begot Joseph the husband of Mary, of whom was born Jesus, who is called Christ.<lb type="x-end-paragraph"/> <lb type="x-begin-paragraph"/></verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.1.17">So all the generations from Abraham to David are fourteen generations; and from David until the carrying away into Babylon are fourteen generations; and from the carrying away into Babylon unto Christ are fourteen generations.<lb type="x-end-paragraph"/> <lb type="x-begin-paragraph"/></verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.1.18">Now the birth of Jesus Christ happened this way: When as his mother Mary was espoused to Joseph, before they came together, she was found with child of the Holy Spirit.</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.1.19">Then Joseph her husband, being a just man, and not willing to make her a public example, was minded to put her away secretly.</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.1.20">But while he thought on these things, behold, the angel of the LORD appeared unto him in a dream, saying, Joseph, you son of David, fear not to take unto you Mary your wife: for that which is conceived in her is of the Holy Spirit.</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.1.21">And she shall bring forth a son, and you shall call his name JESUS: for he shall save his people from their sins.</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.1.22">Now all this was done, that it might be fulfilled which was spoken of the Lord by the prophet, saying,<lb type="x-end-paragraph"/> <q marker="" sID="q1" type="block"/></verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.1.23">Behold, a virgin shall be with child, and shall bring forth a son, and they shall call his name Emmanuel,<q eID="q1" marker="" type="block"/> which being interpreted is, God with us.</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.1.24">Then Joseph being raised from sleep did as the angel of the Lord had bidden him, and took unto him his wife:</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.1.25">And knew her not till she had brought forth her firstborn son: and he called his name JESUS.</verse>
</chapter>
<chapter osisID="Matt.1.25">
<verse osisID="Matt.2.1">Now when Jesus was born in Bethlehem of Judaea in the days of Herod the king, behold, there came wise men from the east to Jerusalem,</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.2.2">Saying, Where is he that is born King of the Jews? for we have seen his star in the east, and are come to worship him.</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.2.3">When Herod the king had heard these things, he was troubled, and all Jerusalem with him.</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.2.4">And when he had gathered all the chief priests and scribes of the people together, he demanded of them where Christ should be born.</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.2.5">And they said unto him, In Bethlehem of Judaea: for thus it is written by the prophet,<lb type="x-end-paragraph"/> <q marker="" sID="q2" type="block"/></verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.2.6">And you Bethlehem, in the land of Juda, are not the least among the princes of Juda: for out of you shall come a Governor, that shall rule my people Israel.<q eID="q2" marker="" type="block"/></verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.2.7">Then Herod, when he had secretly called the wise men, inquired of them diligently what time the star appeared.</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.2.8">And he sent them to Bethlehem, and said, Go and search diligently for the young child; and when you have found him, bring me word again, that I may come and worship him also.</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.2.9">When they had heard the king, they departed; and, lo, the star, which they saw in the east, went before them, till it came and stood over where the young child was.</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.2.10">When they saw the star, they rejoiced with exceeding great joy.</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.2.11">And when they had come into the house, they saw the young child with Mary his mother, and fell down, and worshipped him: and when they had opened their treasures, they presented unto him gifts; gold, and frankincense and myrrh.</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.2.12">And being warned of God in a dream that they should not return to Herod, they departed into their own country another way. <lb type="x-begin-paragraph"/></verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.2.13">And when they were departed, behold, the angel of the Lord appears to Joseph in a dream, saying, Arise, and take the young child and his mother, and flee into Egypt, and be you there until I bring you word: for Herod will seek the young child to destroy him.</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.2.14">When he arose, he took the young child and his mother by night, and departed into Egypt:</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.2.15">And was there until the death of Herod: that it might be fulfilled which was spoken of the Lord by the prophet, saying, Out of Egypt have I called my son.<lb type="x-end-paragraph"/> <lb type="x-begin-paragraph"/></verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.2.16">Then Herod, when he saw that he was mocked of the wise men, was exceedingly angry, and sent forth, and slew all the children that were in Bethlehem, and in all the borders of it, from two years old and under, according to the time which he had diligently inquired of the wise men.</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.2.17">Then was fulfilled that which was spoken by Jeremiah the prophet, saying,<lb type="x-end-paragraph"/> <q marker="" sID="q3" type="block"/></verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.2.18">In Rama was there a voice heard, lamentation, and weeping, and great mourning, Rachel weeping for her children, and would not be comforted, because they are not.<q eID="q3" marker="" type="block"/></verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.2.19">But when Herod was dead, behold, an angel of the Lord appears in a dream to Joseph in Egypt,</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.2.20">Saying, Arise, and take the young child and his mother, and go into the land of Israel: for they are dead which sought the young child's life.</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.2.21">And he arose, and took the young child and his mother, and came into the land of Israel.</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.2.22">But when he heard that Archelaus did reign in Judaea in the place of his father Herod, he was afraid to go to there: notwithstanding, being warned of God in a dream, he turned aside into the parts of Galilee:</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.2.23">And he came and dwelled in a city called Nazareth: that it might be fulfilled which was spoken by the prophets, He shall be called a Nazarene.</verse>
</chapter>
<chapter osisID="Matt.2.23">
<verse osisID="Matt.3.1">In those days came John the Baptist, preaching in the wilderness of Judaea,</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.3.2">And saying, Repent: for the kingdom of heaven is at hand.</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.3.3">For this is he that was spoken of by the prophet Isaiah, saying,<lb type="x-end-paragraph"/> <q marker="" sID="q4" type="block"/>The voice of one crying in the wilderness, Prepare you the way of the Lord, make his paths straight.<q eID="q4" marker="" type="block"/></verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.3.4">And the same John had his clothing of camel's hair, and a leather girdle about his loins; and his food was locusts and wild honey.</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.3.5">Then went out to him Jerusalem, and all Judaea, and all the region round about the Jordan,</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.3.6">And were baptized of him in the Jordan, confessing their sins. <lb type="x-begin-paragraph"/></verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.3.7">But when he saw many of the Pharisees and Sadducees come to his baptism, he said unto them, O generation of vipers, who has warned you to flee from the wrath to come?</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.3.8">Bring forth therefore fruits fit for repentance:</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.3.9">And think not to say within yourselves, We have Abraham to our father: for I say unto you, that God is able of these stones to raise up children unto Abraham.</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.3.10">And now also the axe is laid unto the root of the trees: therefore every tree which does not bring forth good fruit is hewn down, and cast into the fire.<lb type="x-end-paragraph"/> <lb type="x-begin-paragraph"/></verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.3.11">I indeed baptize you with water unto repentance: but he that comes after me is mightier than I, whose shoes I am not worthy to bear: he shall baptize you with the Holy Spirit, and with fire:</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.3.12">Whose fan is in his hand, and he will thoroughly purge his floor, and gather his wheat into the garner; but he will burn up the chaff with unquenchable fire.<lb type="x-end-paragraph"/> <lb type="x-begin-paragraph"/></verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.3.13">Then comes Jesus from Galilee to the Jordan unto John, to be baptized of him.</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.3.14">But John forbad him, saying, I have need to be baptized of you, and you come to me?</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.3.15">And Jesus answering said unto him, Permit it to be so now: for thus it becomes us to fulfill all righteousness. Then he permitted him.</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.3.16">And Jesus, when he was baptized, went up directly out of the water: and, lo, the heavens were opened unto him, and he saw the Spirit of God descending like a dove, and lighting upon him:</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.3.17">And lo a voice from heaven, saying, This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased.<lb type="x-end-paragraph"/></verse>
</chapter>
<chapter osisID="Matt.3.17">
<verse osisID="Matt.4.1">Then was Jesus led up of the spirit into the wilderness to be tempted of the devil.</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.4.2">And when he had fasted forty days and forty nights, he was afterward hungry.</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.4.3">And when the tempter came to him, he said, If you be the Son of God, command that these stones be made bread.</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.4.4">But he answered and said, <q marker="" who="Jesus">It is written,</q><lb type="x-end-paragraph"/> <q marker="" type="block" who="Jesus">Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceeds out of the mouth of God.</q></verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.4.5">Then the devil takes him up into the holy city, and sets him on a pinnacle of the temple,</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.4.6">And says unto him, If you be the Son of God, cast yourself down: for it is written, <q marker="" sID="q5" type="block"/>He shall give his angels charge concerning you: and in their hands they shall bear you up, lest at any time you dash your foot against a stone.<q eID="q5" marker="" type="block"/></verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.4.7">Jesus said unto him, <q marker="" who="Jesus">It is written again,</q> <q marker="" type="block" who="Jesus">You shall not tempt the Lord your God.</q></verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.4.8">Again, the devil takes him up into an exceedingly high mountain, and shows him all the kingdoms of the world, and the glory of them;</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.4.9">And says unto him, All these things will I give you, if you will fall down and worship me.</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.4.10">Then says Jesus unto him, <q marker="" who="Jesus">Get you hence, Satan: for it is written,</q> <q marker="" type="block" who="Jesus">You shall worship the Lord your God, and him only shall you serve.</q></verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.4.11">Then the devil left him, and, behold, angels came and ministered unto him. <lb type="x-begin-paragraph"/></verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.4.12">Now when Jesus had heard that John was cast into prison, he departed into Galilee;</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.4.13">And leaving Nazareth, he came and dwelled in Capernaum, which is upon the sea coast, in the borders of Zabulon and Nephthalim:</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.4.14">That it might be fulfilled which was spoken by Isaiah the prophet, saying,<lb type="x-end-paragraph"/> <q marker="" sID="q6" type="block"/></verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.4.15">The land of Zabulon, and the land of Nephthalim, by the way of the sea, beyond the Jordan, Galilee of the Gentiles;</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.4.16">The people which sat in darkness saw great light; and to those who sat in the region and shadow of death light is sprung up.<q eID="q6" marker="" type="block"/></verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.4.17">From that time Jesus began to preach, and to say, <q marker="" who="Jesus">Repent: for the kingdom of heaven is at hand.</q> <lb type="x-begin-paragraph"/></verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.4.18">And Jesus, walking by the sea of Galilee, saw two brothers, Simon called Peter, and Andrew his brother, casting a net into the sea: for they were fishers.</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.4.19">And he says unto them, <q marker="" who="Jesus">Follow me, and I will make you fishers of men.</q></verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.4.20">And they directly left their nets, and followed him.</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.4.21">And going on from there, he saw other two brothers, James the son of Zebedee, and John his brother, in a boat with Zebedee their father, mending their nets; and he called them.</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.4.22">And they immediately left the boat and their father, and followed him.<lb type="x-end-paragraph"/> <lb type="x-begin-paragraph"/></verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.4.23">And Jesus went about all Galilee, teaching in their synagogues, and preaching the gospel of the kingdom, and healing all manner of sickness and all manner of disease among the people.</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.4.24">And his fame went throughout all Syria: and they brought unto him all sick people that were taken with different diseases and torments, and those which were possessed with devils, and those which were insane, and those that had the palsy; and he healed them.</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.4.25">And there followed him great multitudes of people from Galilee, and from Decapolis, and from Jerusalem, and from Judaea, and from beyond the Jordan.<lb type="x-end-paragraph"/></verse>
</chapter>
<chapter osisID="Matt.4.25">
<verse osisID="Matt.5.1">And seeing the multitudes, he went up into a mountain: and when he was set, his disciples came unto him:</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.5.2">And he opened his mouth, and taught them, saying,<lb type="x-end-paragraph"/> <q marker="" type="block" who="Jesus"/></verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.5.3">Blessed are the poor in spirit: for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.<lb/></verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.5.4">Blessed are they that mourn: for they shall be comforted.<lb/></verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.5.5">Blessed are the meek: for they shall inherit the earth.<lb/></verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.5.6">Blessed are they which do hunger and thirst after righteousness: for they shall be filled.<lb/></verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.5.7">Blessed are the merciful: for they shall obtain mercy.<lb/></verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.5.8">Blessed are the pure in heart: for they shall see God.<lb/></verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.5.9">Blessed are the peacemakers: for they shall be called the children of God.</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.5.10">Blessed are they who are persecuted for righteousness' sake: for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.5.11">Blessed are you, when men shall revile you, and persecute you, and shall say all manner of evil against you falsely, for my sake.</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.5.12">Rejoice, and be exceedingly glad: for great is your reward in heaven: for so persecuted they the prophets which were before you. <lb type="x-begin-paragraph"/></verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.5.13">You are the salt of the earth: but if the salt has lost its savour, with what shall it be salted? it is thereafter good for nothing, but to be cast out, and to be trodden under foot of men.<lb type="x-end-paragraph"/> <lb type="x-begin-paragraph"/></verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.5.14">You are the light of the world. A city that is set on a hill cannot be hid.</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.5.15">Neither do men light a candle, and put it under a bushel, but on a candlestick; and it gives light unto all that are in the house.</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.5.16">Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father who is in heaven.<lb type="x-end-paragraph"/> <lb type="x-begin-paragraph"/></verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.5.17">Think not that I am come to destroy the law, or the prophets: I am not come to destroy, but to fulfill.</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.5.18">For truthfully I say unto you, Till heaven and earth pass, one jot or one small mark shall in no way pass from the law, till all be fulfilled.</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.5.19">Whosoever therefore shall break one of these least commandments, and shall teach men so, he shall be called the least in the kingdom of heaven: but whosoever shall do and teach them, the same shall be called great in the kingdom of heaven.</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.5.20">For I say unto you, That unless your righteousness shall exceed the righteousness of the scribes and Pharisees, you shall in no case enter into the kingdom of heaven.<lb type="x-end-paragraph"/> <lb type="x-begin-paragraph"/></verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.5.21">You have heard that it was said of them of old time, You shall not kill; and whosoever shall kill shall be in danger of the judgment:</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.5.22">But I say unto you, That whosoever is angry with his brother without a cause shall be in danger of the judgment: and whosoever shall say to his brother, Raca, shall be in danger of the council: but whosoever shall say, You fool, shall be in danger of hell fire.</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.5.23">Therefore if you bring your gift to the altar, and there remember that your brother has anything against you;</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.5.24">Leave there your gift before the altar, and go your way; first be reconciled to your brother, and then come and offer your gift.</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.5.25">Agree with your adversary quickly, while you are in the way with him; lest at any time the adversary deliver you to the judge, and the judge deliver you to the officer, and you be cast into prison.</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.5.26">Truthfully I say unto you, You shall by no means come out from there, till you have paid the last copper coin.<lb type="x-end-paragraph"/> <lb type="x-begin-paragraph"/></verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.5.27">You have heard that it was said by them of old time, You shall not commit adultery:</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.5.28">But I say unto you, That whosoever looks on a woman to lust after her has committed adultery with her already in his heart.</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.5.29">And if your right eye offend you, pluck it out, and cast it from you: for it is profitable for you that one of your members should perish, and not that your whole body should be cast into hell.</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.5.30">And if your right hand offend you, cut it off, and cast it from you: for it is profitable for you that one of your members should perish, and not that your whole body should be cast into hell.<lb type="x-end-paragraph"/> <lb type="x-begin-paragraph"/></verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.5.31">It has been said, Whosoever shall put away his wife, let him give her a writing of divorcement:</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.5.32">But I say unto you, That whosoever shall put away his wife, except for the cause of fornication, causes her to commit adultery: and whosoever shall marry her that is divorced commits adultery.<lb type="x-end-paragraph"/> <lb type="x-begin-paragraph"/></verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.5.33">Again, you have heard that it has been said by them of old time, You shall not swear falsely, but shall perform unto the Lord your oaths:</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.5.34">But I say unto you, Swear not at all; neither by heaven; for it is God's throne:</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.5.35">Nor by the earth; for it is his footstool: neither by Jerusalem; for it is the city of the great King.</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.5.36">Neither shall you swear by your head, because you cannot make one hair white or black.</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.5.37">But let your communication be, Yes, yes; No, no: for whatsoever is more than these comes of evil.<lb type="x-end-paragraph"/> <lb type="x-begin-paragraph"/></verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.5.38">You have heard that it has been said, An eye for an eye, and a tooth for a tooth:</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.5.39">But I say unto you, That you resist not evil: but whosoever shall smite you on your right cheek, turn to him the other also.</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.5.40">And if any man will sue you at the law, and take away your coat, let him have your cloak also.</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.5.41">And whosoever shall compel you to go a mile, go with him two.</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.5.42">Give to him that asks you, and from him that would borrow of you turn you not away.<lb type="x-end-paragraph"/> <lb type="x-begin-paragraph"/></verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.5.43">You have heard that it has been said, You shall love your neighbor, and hate your enemy.</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.5.44">But I say unto you, Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for those who despitefully use you, and persecute you;</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.5.45">That you may be the children of your Father who is in heaven: for he makes his sun to rise on the evil and on the good, and sends rain on the just and on the unjust.</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.5.46">For if you love those who love you, what reward have you? do not even the publicans the same?</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.5.47">And if you salute your brothers only, what do you more than others? do not even the publicans so?</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.5.48">Be you therefore perfect, just as your Father who is in heaven is perfect.<lb type="x-end-paragraph"/></verse>
</chapter>
<chapter osisID="Matt.5.48">
<verse osisID="Matt.6.1">Take heed that you do not your alms before men, to be seen of them: otherwise you have no reward of your Father who is in heaven.<lb type="x-end-paragraph"/> <lb type="x-begin-paragraph"/></verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.6.2">Therefore when you are doing your alms, do not sound a trumpet before you, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and in the streets, that they may have glory of men. Truthfully I say unto you, They have their reward.</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.6.3">But when you are doing alms, let not your left hand know what your right hand does:</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.6.4">That your alms may be in secret: and your Father which sees in secret himself shall reward you openly.<lb type="x-end-paragraph"/> <lb type="x-begin-paragraph"/></verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.6.5">And when you pray, you shall not be as the hypocrites are: for they love to pray standing in the synagogues and in the corners of the streets, that they may be seen of men. Truthfully I say unto you, They have their reward.</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.6.6">But you, when you pray, enter into your closet, and when you have shut your door, pray to your Father who is in secret; and your Father which sees in secret shall reward you openly.<lb type="x-end-paragraph"/> <lb type="x-begin-paragraph"/></verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.6.7">But when you pray, use not vain repetitions, as the heathen do: for they think that they shall be heard for their much speaking.</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.6.8">Be not you therefore like unto them: for your Father knows what things you have need of, before you ask him.</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.6.9">After this manner therefore pray you:<lb type="x-end-paragraph"/> <q marker="" sID="q7" type="block"/>Our Father who is in heaven,<lb/> Hallowed be your name.<lb/></verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.6.10">Your kingdom come,<lb/> Your will be done<lb/> in earth, as it is in heaven.<lb/></verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.6.11">Give us this day our daily bread.<lb/></verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.6.12">And forgive us our debts,<lb/> as we forgive our debtors.<lb/></verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.6.13">And lead us not into temptation,<lb/> but deliver us from evil:<lb/> For yours is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory, for ever. Amen.<q eID="q7" marker="" type="block"/></verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.6.14">For if you forgive men their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you:</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.6.15">But if you forgive not men their trespasses, neither will your Father forgive your trespasses. <lb type="x-begin-paragraph"/></verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.6.16">Moreover when you fast, be not, as the hypocrites, of a sad countenance: for they disfigure their faces, that they may appear unto men to fast. Truthfully I say unto you, They have their reward.</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.6.17">But you, when you fast, anoint your head, and wash your face;</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.6.18">That you appear not unto men to fast, but unto your Father who is in secret: and your Father, which sees in secret, shall reward you openly.<lb type="x-end-paragraph"/> <lb type="x-begin-paragraph"/></verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.6.19">Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon earth, where moth and rust corrupt, and where thieves break through and steal:</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.6.20">But lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust corrupts, and where thieves do not break through nor steal:</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.6.21">For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.<lb type="x-end-paragraph"/> <lb type="x-begin-paragraph"/></verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.6.22">The light of the body is the eye: if therefore your eye be sound, your whole body shall be full of light.</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.6.23">But if your eye be evil, your whole body shall be full of darkness. If therefore the light that is in you be darkness, how great is that darkness!<lb type="x-end-paragraph"/> <lb type="x-begin-paragraph"/></verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.6.24">No man can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other. You cannot serve God and mammon.<lb type="x-end-paragraph"/> <lb type="x-begin-paragraph"/></verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.6.25">Therefore I say unto you, Take no thought for your life, what you shall eat, or what you shall drink; nor yet for your body, what you shall put on. Is not the life more than food, and the body than clothing?</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.6.26">Behold the fowls of the air: for they sow not, neither do they reap, nor gather into barns; yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much better than they?</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.6.27">Which of you by taking thought can add one cubit unto his stature?</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.6.28">And why take you thought for clothing? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow; they toil not, neither do they spin:</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.6.29">And yet I say unto you, That even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these.</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.6.30">Therefore, if God so clothes the grass of the field, which today exists, and tomorrow is cast into the oven, shall he not much more clothe you, O you of little faith?</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.6.31">Therefore take no thought, saying, What shall we eat? or, What shall we drink? or, How shall we be clothed?</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.6.32">(For after all these things do the Gentiles seek:) for your heavenly Father knows that you have need of all these things.</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.6.33">But seek you first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you.<lb type="x-end-paragraph"/> <lb type="x-begin-paragraph"/></verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.6.34">Take therefore no thought for the next day: for the next day shall take thought for the things of itself. Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof.<lb type="x-end-paragraph"/></verse>
</chapter>
<chapter osisID="Matt.6.34">
<verse osisID="Matt.7.1">Judge not, that you be not judged.</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.7.2">For with what judgment you judge, you shall be judged: and with what measure you mete out, it shall be measured back to you again.</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.7.3">And why do you behold the speck that is in your brother's eye, but consider not the beam that is in your own eye?</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.7.4">Or how will you say to your brother, Let me pull out the speck out of your eye; and, behold, a beam is in your own eye?</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.7.5">You hypocrite, first cast out the beam out of your own eye; and then shall you see clearly to cast out the speck out of your brother's eye.<lb type="x-end-paragraph"/> <lb type="x-begin-paragraph"/></verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.7.6">Give not that which is holy unto the dogs, neither cast your pearls before swine, lest they trample them under their feet, and turn again and tear you.<lb type="x-end-paragraph"/> <lb type="x-begin-paragraph"/></verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.7.7">Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and you shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you:</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.7.8">For every one that asks receives; and he that seeks finds; and to him that knocks it shall be opened.</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.7.9">Or what man is there of you, whom if his son ask bread, will he give him a stone?</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.7.10">Or if he ask a fish, will he give him a serpent?</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.7.11">If you then, being evil, know how to give good gifts unto your children, how much more shall your Father who is in heaven give good things to them that ask him?<lb type="x-end-paragraph"/> <lb type="x-begin-paragraph"/></verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.7.12">Therefore all things whatsoever you would that men should do to you, do even so to them: for this is the law and the prophets.<lb type="x-end-paragraph"/> <lb type="x-begin-paragraph"/></verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.7.13">Enter you in at the narrow gate: for wide is the gate, and broad is the way, that leads to destruction, and many there be which go in there:</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.7.14">Because narrow is the gate, and constricted is the way, which leads unto life, and few there be that find it.<lb type="x-end-paragraph"/> <lb type="x-begin-paragraph"/></verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.7.15">Beware of false prophets, which come to you in sheep's clothing, but inwardly they are ravening wolves.</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.7.16">You shall know them by their fruits. Do men gather grapes of thorns, or figs of thistles?</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.7.17">Even so every good tree brings forth good fruit; but a corrupt tree brings forth evil fruit.</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.7.18">A good tree cannot bring forth evil fruit, neither can a corrupt tree bring forth good fruit.</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.7.19">Every tree that does not bring forth good fruit is hewn down, and cast into the fire.</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.7.20">Therefore by their fruits you shall know them.<lb type="x-end-paragraph"/> <lb type="x-begin-paragraph"/></verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.7.21">Not every one that says unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven; but he that does the will of my Father who is in heaven.</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.7.22">Many will say to me in that day, Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in your name? and in your name have cast out devils? and in your name done many wonderful works?</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.7.23">And then will I profess unto them, I never knew you: depart from me, you that work iniquity.<lb type="x-end-paragraph"/> <lb type="x-begin-paragraph"/></verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.7.24">Therefore whosoever hears these sayings of mine, and does them, I will liken him unto a wise man, which built his house upon a rock:</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.7.25">And the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat upon that house; and it fell not: for it was founded upon a rock.</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.7.26">And every one that hears these sayings of mine, and does them not, shall be likened unto a foolish man, which built his house upon the sand:</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.7.27">And the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat upon that house; and it fell: and great was the fall thereof.<lb type="x-end-paragraph"/> <lb type="x-begin-paragraph"/></verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.7.28">And it came to pass, when Jesus had ended these sayings, the people were astonished at his doctrine:</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.7.29">For he taught them as one having authority, and not as the scribes.<lb type="x-end-paragraph"/></verse>
</chapter>
<chapter osisID="Matt.7.29">
<verse osisID="Matt.8.1">When he was come down from the mountain, great multitudes followed him.</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.8.2">And, behold, there came a leper and worshipped him, saying, Lord, if you will, you can make me clean.</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.8.3">And Jesus put forth his hand, and touched him, saying, <q marker="" who="Jesus">I will; be you clean.</q> And immediately his leprosy was cleansed.</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.8.4">And Jesus says unto him, <q marker="" who="Jesus">See you tell no man; but go your way, show your self to the priest, and offer the gift that Moses commanded, for a testimony unto them.</q><lb type="x-end-paragraph"/> <lb type="x-begin-paragraph"/></verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.8.5">And when Jesus was entered into Capernaum, there came unto him a centurion, beseeching him,</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.8.6">And saying, Lord, my servant lies at home sick of the palsy, grievously tormented.</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.8.7">And Jesus says unto him, I will come and heal him.</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.8.8">The centurion answered and said, Lord, I am not worthy that you should come under my roof: but speak the word only, and my servant shall be healed.</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.8.9">For I am a man of authority, having soldiers under me: and I say to this man, Go, and he goes; and to another, Come, and he comes; and to my servant, Do this, and he does it.</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.8.10">When Jesus heard it, he marvelled, and said to them that followed, <q marker="" who="Jesus">Truthfully I say unto you, I have not found so great faith, no, not in Israel.</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.8.11">And I say unto you, That many shall come from the east and west, and shall sit down with Abraham, and Isaac, and Jacob, in the kingdom of heaven.</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.8.12">But the children of the kingdom shall be cast out into outer darkness: there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.</q></verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.8.13">And Jesus said unto the centurion, <q marker="" who="Jesus">Go your way; and as you have believed, so be it done unto you.</q> And his servant was healed in the very same hour.<lb type="x-end-paragraph"/> <lb type="x-begin-paragraph"/></verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.8.14">And when Jesus was come into Peter's house, he saw his wife's mother laid down, and burning with fever.</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.8.15">And he touched her hand, and the fever left her: and she arose, and ministered unto them.</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.8.16">When the evening was come, they brought unto him many that were possessed with devils: and he cast out the spirits with his word, and healed all that were sick:</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.8.17">That it might be fulfilled which was spoken by Isaiah the prophet, saying, He took our infirmities, and bore our sicknesses.<lb type="x-end-paragraph"/> <lb type="x-begin-paragraph"/></verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.8.18">Now when Jesus saw great multitudes about him, he gave commandment to depart unto the other side.</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.8.19">And a certain scribe came, and said unto him, Master, I will follow you to wherever you go.</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.8.20">And Jesus says unto him, <q marker="" who="Jesus">The foxes have holes, and the birds of the air have nests; but the Son of man has nowhere to lay his head.</q></verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.8.21">And another of his disciples said unto him, Lord, permit me first to go and bury my father.</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.8.22">But Jesus said unto him, <q marker="" who="Jesus">Follow me; and let the dead bury their dead.</q><lb type="x-end-paragraph"/> <lb type="x-begin-paragraph"/></verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.8.23">And when he was entered into a boat, his disciples followed him.</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.8.24">And, behold, there arose a great tempest in the sea, insomuch that the boat was covered with the waves: but he was asleep.</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.8.25">And his disciples came to him, and awoke him, saying, Lord, save us: we perish.</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.8.26">And he says unto them, <q marker="" who="Jesus">Why are you fearful, O you of little faith?</q> Then he arose, and rebuked the winds and the sea; and there was a great calm.</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.8.27">But the men marvelled, saying, What manner of man is this, that even the winds and the sea obey him!<lb type="x-end-paragraph"/> <lb type="x-begin-paragraph"/></verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.8.28">And when he was come to the other side into the country of the Gergesenes, there met him two possessed with devils, coming out of the tombs, exceedingly fierce, so that no man might pass by that way.</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.8.29">And, behold, they cried out, saying, What have we to do with you, Jesus, you Son of God? are you come here to torment us before the time?</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.8.30">And there was a good way off from them a herd of many swine feeding.</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.8.31">So the devils besought him, saying, If you cast us out, permit us to go away into the herd of swine.</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.8.32">And he said unto them, Go. And when they had come out, they went into the herd of swine: and, behold, the whole herd of swine ran violently down a steep place into the sea, and perished in the waters.</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.8.33">And they that kept them fled, and went their ways into the city, and told everything, and what was befallen to those possessed of the devils.</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.8.34">And, behold, the whole city came out to meet Jesus: and when they saw him, they asked him to depart out of their borders.<lb type="x-end-paragraph"/></verse>
</chapter>
<chapter osisID="Matt.8.34">
<verse osisID="Matt.9.1">And he entered into a boat, and passed over, and came into his own city.<lb type="x-end-paragraph"/> <lb type="x-begin-paragraph"/></verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.9.2">And, behold, they brought to him a man sick of the palsy, lying on a bed: and Jesus seeing their faith said unto him who was sick of the palsy; <q marker="" who="Jesus">Son, be of good cheer; your sins be forgiven you.</q></verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.9.3">And, behold, certain of the scribes said within themselves, This man blasphemes.</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.9.4">And Jesus knowing their thoughts said, <q marker="" who="Jesus">Why think you evil in your hearts?</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.9.5">For which is easier to say, Your sins be forgiven you; or to say, Arise, and walk?</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.9.6">But that you may know that the Son of man has power on earth to forgive sins,</q> (then says he to the man sick of the palsy,) <q marker="" who="Jesus">Arise, take up your bed, and go unto your house.</q></verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.9.7">And he arose, and departed to his house.</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.9.8">But when the multitudes saw it, they marvelled, and glorified God, which had given such power unto men.<lb type="x-end-paragraph"/> <lb type="x-begin-paragraph"/></verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.9.9">And as Jesus passed forth from there, he saw a man, named Matthew, sitting at the receipt of custom: and he says unto him, <q marker="" who="Jesus">Follow me.</q> And he arose, and followed him.<lb type="x-end-paragraph"/> <lb type="x-begin-paragraph"/></verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.9.10">And it came to pass, as Jesus sat at food in the house, behold, many publicans and sinners came and sat down with him and his disciples.</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.9.11">And when the Pharisees saw it, they said unto his disciples, Why does your Master eat with publicans and sinners?</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.9.12">But when Jesus heard that, he said unto them, <q marker="" who="Jesus">They that be whole need not a physician, but they that are sick.</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.9.13">But go you and learn what that means, I will have mercy, and not sacrifice: for I am not come to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.</q><lb type="x-end-paragraph"/> <lb type="x-begin-paragraph"/></verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.9.14">Then came to him the disciples of John, saying, Why do we and the Pharisees fast often, but your disciples fast not?</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.9.15">And Jesus said unto them, <q marker="" who="Jesus">Can the children of the bridechamber mourn, as long as the bridegroom is with them? but the days will come, when the bridegroom shall be taken from them, and then shall they fast.</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.9.16">No man puts a piece of new cloth unto an old garment, for that which is put in to fill it up takes from the garment, and the tear is made worse.</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.9.17">Neither do men put new wine into old bottles: else the bottles break, and the wine runs out, and the bottles perish: but they put new wine into new bottles, and both are preserved.</q><lb type="x-end-paragraph"/> <lb type="x-begin-paragraph"/></verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.9.18">While he spoke these things unto them, behold, there came a certain ruler, and worshipped him, saying, My daughter is even now dead: but come and lay your hand upon her, and she shall live.</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.9.19">And Jesus arose, and followed him, and so did his disciples.</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.9.20">And, behold, a woman, which was diseased with an issue of blood twelve years, came behind him, and touched the hem of his garment:</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.9.21">For she said within herself, If I may but touch his garment, I shall be whole.</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.9.22">But Jesus turned him about, and when he saw her, he said, <q marker="" who="Jesus">Daughter, be of good comfort; your faith has made you whole.</q> And the woman was made whole from that hour.</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.9.23">And when Jesus came into the ruler's house, and saw the minstrels and the people making a noise,</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.9.24">He said unto them, <q marker="" who="Jesus">Give place: for the maid is not dead, but sleeps.</q> And they laughed him to scorn.</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.9.25">But when the people were put forth, he went in, and took her by the hand, and the maid arose.</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.9.26">And the fame of this went abroad into all that land.<lb type="x-end-paragraph"/> <lb type="x-begin-paragraph"/></verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.9.27">And when Jesus departed from there, two blind men followed him, crying, and saying, You son of David, have mercy on us.</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.9.28">And when he was come into the house, the blind men came to him: and Jesus says unto them, <q marker="" who="Jesus">Believe you that I am able to do this?</q> They said unto him, Yes, Lord.</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.9.29">Then touched he their eyes, saying, <q marker="" who="Jesus">According to your faith be it unto you.</q></verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.9.30">And their eyes were opened; and Jesus strictly instructed them, saying, <q marker="" who="Jesus">See that no man know it.</q></verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.9.31">But they, when they were departed, spread abroad his fame in all that country.<lb type="x-end-paragraph"/> <lb type="x-begin-paragraph"/></verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.9.32">As they went out, behold, they brought to him a dumb man possessed with a devil.</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.9.33">And when the devil was cast out, the dumb spoke: and the multitudes marvelled, saying, It was never so seen in Israel.</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.9.34">But the Pharisees said, He casts out devils through the prince of the devils.<lb type="x-end-paragraph"/> <lb type="x-begin-paragraph"/></verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.9.35">And Jesus went about all the cities and villages, teaching in their synagogues, and preaching the gospel of the kingdom, and healing every sickness and every disease among the people.</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.9.36">But when he saw the multitudes, he was moved with compassion on them, because they fainted, and were scattered abroad, as sheep having no shepherd.</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.9.37">Then says he unto his disciples, <q marker="" who="Jesus">The harvest truly is plenteous, but the laborers are few;</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.9.38">Pray you therefore the Lord of the harvest, that he will send forth laborers into his harvest.</q><lb type="x-end-paragraph"/></verse>
</chapter>
<chapter osisID="Matt.9.38">
<verse osisID="Matt.10.1">And when he had called unto him his twelve disciples, he gave them power against unclean spirits, to cast them out, and to heal all manner of sickness and all manner of disease.</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.10.2">Now the names of the twelve apostles are these; The first, Simon, who is called Peter, and Andrew his brother; James the son of Zebedee, and John his brother;</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.10.3">Philip, and Bartholomew; Thomas, and Matthew the publican; James the son of Alphaeus, and Lebbaeus, whose surname was Thaddaeus;</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.10.4">Simon the Canaanite, and Judas Iscariot, who also betrayed him.<lb type="x-end-paragraph"/> <lb type="x-begin-paragraph"/></verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.10.5">These twelve Jesus sent forth, and commanded them, saying, <q marker="" who="Jesus">Go not into the way of the Gentiles, and into any city of the Samaritans enter you not:</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.10.6">But go rather to the lost sheep of the house of Israel.</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.10.7">And as you go, preach, saying, The kingdom of heaven is at hand.</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.10.8">Heal the sick, cleanse the lepers, raise the dead, cast out devils: freely you have received, freely give.</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.10.9">Provide neither gold, nor silver, nor brass in your purses,</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.10.10">Nor scrip for your journey, neither two coats, neither shoes, nor yet staves: for the workman is worthy of his food.</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.10.11">And into whatsoever city or town you shall enter, inquire who in it is worthy; and there abide till you go from there.</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.10.12">And when you come into a house, salute it.</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.10.13">And if the house be worthy, let your peace come upon it: but if it be not worthy, let your peace return to you.</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.10.14">And whosoever shall not receive you, nor hear your words, when you depart out of that house or city, shake off the dust of your feet.</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.10.15">Truthfully I say unto you, It shall be more tolerable for the land of Sodom and Gomorrha in the day of judgment, than for that city.</q><lb type="x-end-paragraph"/> <lb type="x-begin-paragraph"/><q marker="" who="Jesus"></verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.10.16">Behold, I send you forth as sheep in the midst of wolves: be you therefore wise as serpents, and harmless as doves.</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.10.17">But beware of men: for they will deliver you up to the councils, and they will whip you in their synagogues;</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.10.18">And you shall be brought before governors and kings for my sake, for a testimony against them and the Gentiles.</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.10.19">But when they deliver you up, take no thought how or what you shall speak: for it shall be given you in that same hour what you shall speak.</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.10.20">For it is not you that speak, but the Spirit of your Father which speaks in you.</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.10.21">And the brother shall deliver up the brother to death, and the father the child: and the children shall rise up against their parents, and cause them to be put to death.</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.10.22">And you shall be hated of all men for my name's sake: but he that endures to the end shall be saved.</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.10.23">But when they persecute you in this city, flee you into another: for truthfully I say unto you, You shall not have gone over the cities of Israel, till the Son of man be come.</q><lb type="x-end-paragraph"/> <lb type="x-begin-paragraph"/><q marker="" who="Jesus"></verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.10.24">The disciple is not above his master, nor the servant above his lord.</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.10.25">It is enough for the disciple that he be as his master, and the servant as his lord. If they have called the master of the house Beelzebub, how much more shall they call them of his household?</q><lb type="x-end-paragraph"/> <lb type="x-begin-paragraph"/><q marker="" who="Jesus"></verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.10.26">Fear them not therefore: for there is nothing covered, that shall not be revealed; and hid, that shall not be known.</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.10.27">What I tell you in darkness, that speak you in light: and what you hear in the ear, that preach you upon the housetops.</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.10.28">And fear not those who kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul: but rather fear him which is able to destroy both soul and body in hell.</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.10.29">Are not two sparrows sold for a copper coin? and one of them shall not fall on the ground without your Father.</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.10.30">But the very hairs of your head are all numbered.</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.10.31">Fear you not therefore, you are of more value than many sparrows.</q><lb type="x-end-paragraph"/> <lb type="x-begin-paragraph"/><q marker="" who="Jesus"></verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.10.32">Whosoever therefore shall confess me before men, him will I confess also before my Father who is in heaven.</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.10.33">But whosoever shall deny me before men, him will I also deny before my Father who is in heaven.</q><lb type="x-end-paragraph"/> <lb type="x-begin-paragraph"/><q marker="" who="Jesus"></verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.10.34">Think not that I am come to send peace on earth: I came not to send peace, but a sword.</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.10.35">For I am come to set a man at variance against his father, and the daughter against her mother, and the daughter in law against her mother in law.</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.10.36">And a man's foes shall be they of his own household.</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.10.37">He that loves father or mother more than me is not worthy of me: and he that loves son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me.</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.10.38">And he that takes not his cross, and follows after me, is not worthy of me.</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.10.39">He that finds his life shall lose it: and he that loses his life for my sake shall find it.</q><lb type="x-end-paragraph"/> <lb type="x-begin-paragraph"/><q marker="" who="Jesus"></verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.10.40">He that receives you receives me, and he that receives me receives him that sent me.</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.10.41">He that receives a prophet in the name of a prophet shall receive a prophet's reward; and he that receives a righteous man in the name of a righteous man shall receive a righteous man's reward.</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.10.42">And whosoever shall give to drink unto one of these little ones a cup of cold water only in the name of a disciple, Truthfully I say unto you, he shall in no way lose his reward.</q><lb type="x-end-paragraph"/></verse>
</chapter>
<chapter osisID="Matt.10.42">
<verse osisID="Matt.11.1">And it came to pass, when Jesus had made an end of commanding his twelve disciples, he departed from there to teach and to preach in their cities.<lb type="x-end-paragraph"/> <lb type="x-begin-paragraph"/></verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.11.2">Now when John had heard in the prison the works of Christ, he sent two of his disciples,</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.11.3">And said unto him, Are you he that should come, or do we look for another?</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.11.4">Jesus answered and said unto them, <q marker="" who="Jesus">Go and show John again those things which you do hear and see:</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.11.5">The blind receive their sight, and the lame walk, the lepers are cleansed, and the deaf hear, the dead are raised up, and the poor have the gospel preached to them.</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.11.6">And blessed is he, whosoever shall not be offended in me.</q><lb type="x-end-paragraph"/> <lb type="x-begin-paragraph"/></verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.11.7">And as they departed, Jesus began to say unto the multitudes concerning John, <q marker="" who="Jesus">What went you out into the wilderness to see? A reed shaken with the wind?</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.11.8">But what went you out for to see? A man clothed in soft clothing? behold, they that wear soft clothing are in kings' houses.</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.11.9">But what went you out for to see? A prophet? yes, I say unto you, and more than a prophet.</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.11.10">For this is he, of whom it is written,</q><lb type="x-end-paragraph"/> <q marker="" type="block" who="Jesus">Behold, I send my messenger before your face, which shall prepare your way before you.</q></verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.11.11">Truthfully I say unto you, Among them that are born of women there has not risen one greater than John the Baptist: notwithstanding he that is least in the kingdom of heaven is greater than he.</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.11.12">And from the days of John the Baptist until now the kingdom of heaven suffers violence, and the violent take it by force.</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.11.13">For all the prophets and the law prophesied until John.</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.11.14">And if you will receive it, this is Elijah, which was for to come.</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.11.15">He that has ears to hear, let him hear. <lb type="x-begin-paragraph"/></verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.11.16">But whereunto shall I liken this generation? It is like unto children sitting in the markets, and calling unto their fellows,</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.11.17">And saying,<lb type="x-end-paragraph"/> <q marker="" sID="q8" type="block"/>We have piped unto you, and you have not danced; we have mourned unto you, and you have not lamented.<q eID="q8" marker="" type="block"/></verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.11.18">For John came neither eating nor drinking, and they say, He has a devil.</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.11.19">The Son of man came eating and drinking, and they say, Behold a man gluttonous, and a winebibber, a friend of publicans and sinners. But wisdom is justified of her children. <lb type="x-begin-paragraph"/></verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.11.20">Then began he to upbraid the cities in which most of his mighty works were done, because they repented not:</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.11.21"><q marker="" who="Jesus">Woe unto you, Chorazin! woe unto you, Bethsaida! for if the mighty works, which were done in you, had been done in Tyre and Sidon, they would have repented long ago in sackcloth and ashes.</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.11.22">But I say unto you, It shall be more tolerable for Tyre and Sidon at the day of judgment, than for you.</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.11.23">And you, Capernaum, which is exalted unto heaven, shall be brought down to hell: for if the mighty works, which have been done in you, had been done in Sodom, it would have remained until this day.</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.11.24">But I say unto you, That it shall be more tolerable for the land of Sodom in the day of judgment, than for you.</q><lb type="x-end-paragraph"/> <lb type="x-begin-paragraph"/></verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.11.25">At that time Jesus answered and said, <q marker="" who="Jesus">I thank you, O Father, Lord of heaven and earth, because you have hid these things from the wise and prudent, and have revealed them unto babes.</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.11.26">Even so, Father: for so it seemed good in your sight.</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.11.27">All things are delivered unto me of my Father: and no man knows the Son, but the Father; neither knows any man the Father, but the Son, and he to whomsoever the Son will reveal him.</q><lb type="x-end-paragraph"/> <lb type="x-begin-paragraph"/><q marker="" who="Jesus"></verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.11.28">Come unto me, all you that labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.11.29">Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me; for I am meek and lowly in heart: and you shall find rest unto your souls.</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.11.30">For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light.</q><lb type="x-end-paragraph"/></verse>
</chapter>
<chapter osisID="Matt.11.30">
<verse osisID="Matt.12.1">At that time Jesus went on the sabbath day through the corn; and his disciples were hungry, and began to pluck the ears of corn and to eat.</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.12.2">But when the Pharisees saw it, they said unto him, Behold, your disciples do that which is not lawful to do upon the sabbath day.</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.12.3">But he said unto them, <q marker="" who="Jesus">Have you not read what David did, when he was hungry, and they that were with him;</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.12.4">How he entered into the house of God, and did eat the showbread, which was not lawful for him to eat, neither for those who were with him, but only for the priests?</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.12.5">Or have you not read in the law, that on the sabbath days the priests in the temple profane the sabbath, and are blameless?</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.12.6">But I say unto you, That in this place is one greater than the temple.</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.12.7">But if you had known what this means, I will have mercy, and not sacrifice, you would not have condemned the guiltless.</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.12.8">For the Son of man is Lord even of the sabbath day.</q><lb type="x-end-paragraph"/> <lb type="x-begin-paragraph"/></verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.12.9">And when he was departed from there, he went into their synagogue:</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.12.10">And, behold, there was a man which had his hand withered. And they asked him, saying, Is it lawful to heal on the sabbath days? that they might accuse him.</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.12.11">And he said unto them, <q marker="" who="Jesus">What man shall there be among you, that shall have one sheep, and if it fall into a pit on the sabbath day, will he not lay hold on it, and lift it out?</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.12.12">How much then is a man better than a sheep? Therefore it is lawful to do good on the sabbath days.</q></verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.12.13">Then says he to the man, <q marker="" who="Jesus">Stretch forth your hand.</q> And he stretched it forth; and it was restored whole, just as the other.</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.12.14">Then the Pharisees went out, and held a council against him, how they might destroy him.<lb type="x-end-paragraph"/> <lb type="x-begin-paragraph"/></verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.12.15">But when Jesus knew it, he withdrew himself from there: and great multitudes followed him, and he healed them all;</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.12.16">And charged them that they should not make him known:</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.12.17">That it might be fulfilled which was spoken by Isaiah the prophet, saying,<lb type="x-end-paragraph"/> <q marker="" sID="q9" type="block"/></verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.12.18">Behold my servant, whom I have chosen; my beloved, in whom my soul is well pleased: I will put my spirit upon him, and he shall show judgment to the Gentiles.</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.12.19">He shall not strive, nor cry; neither shall any man hear his voice in the streets.</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.12.20">A bruised reed shall he not break, and smoking flax shall he not quench, till he send forth judgment unto victory.</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.12.21">And in his name shall the Gentiles trust.<q eID="q9" marker="" type="block"/></verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.12.22">Then was brought unto him one possessed with a devil, blind, and dumb: and he healed him, insomuch that the blind and dumb man both spoke and saw.</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.12.23">And all the people were amazed, and said, Is not this the son of David?</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.12.24">But when the Pharisees heard it, they said, This fellow does not cast out devils, but by Beelzebub the prince of the devils.</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.12.25">And Jesus knew their thoughts, and said unto them, <q marker="" who="Jesus">Every kingdom divided against itself is brought to desolation; and every city or house divided against itself shall not stand:</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.12.26">And if Satan cast out Satan, he is divided against himself; how shall then his kingdom stand?</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.12.27">And if I by Beelzebub cast out devils, by whom do your children cast them out? therefore they shall be your judges.</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.12.28">But if I cast out devils by the Spirit of God, then the kingdom of God is come unto you.</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.12.29">Or else how can one enter into a strong man's house, and plunder his goods, unless he first bind the strong man? and then he will plunder his house.</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.12.30">He that is not with me is against me; and he that does not scatter with me scatters abroad.</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.12.31">Therefore I say unto you, All manner of sin and blasphemy shall be forgiven unto men: but the blasphemy against the Holy Spirit shall not be forgiven unto men.</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.12.32">And whosoever speaks a word against the Son of man, it shall be forgiven him: but whosoever speaks against the Holy Spirit, it shall not be forgiven him, neither in this world, neither in the world to come.</q> <lb type="x-begin-paragraph"/><q marker="" who="Jesus"></verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.12.33">Either make the tree good, and its fruit good; or else make the tree corrupt, and its fruit corrupt: for the tree is known by its fruit.</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.12.34">O generation of vipers, how can you, being evil, speak good things? for out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks.</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.12.35">A good man out of the good treasure of the heart brings forth good things: and an evil man out of the evil treasure brings forth evil things.</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.12.36">But I say unto you, That every idle word that men shall speak, they shall give account of it in the day of judgment.</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.12.37">For by your words you shall be justified, and by your words you shall be condemned.</q><lb type="x-end-paragraph"/> <lb type="x-begin-paragraph"/></verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.12.38">Then certain of the scribes and of the Pharisees answered, saying, Master, we would see a sign from you.</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.12.39">But he answered and said unto them, <q marker="" who="Jesus">An evil and adulterous generation seeks after a sign; and there shall no sign be given to it, but the sign of the prophet Jonas:</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.12.40">For as Jonas was three days and three nights in the whale's belly; so shall the Son of man be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth.</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.12.41">The men of Nineveh shall rise in judgment with this generation, and shall condemn it: because they repented at the preaching of Jonas; and, behold, one greater than Jonas is here.</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.12.42">The queen of the south shall rise up in the judgment with this generation, and shall condemn it: for she came from the uttermost parts of the earth to hear the wisdom of Solomon; and, behold, one greater than Solomon is here.</q><lb type="x-end-paragraph"/> <lb type="x-begin-paragraph"/><q marker="" who="Jesus"></verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.12.43">When the unclean spirit is gone out of a man, he walks through dry places, seeking rest, and finds none.</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.12.44">Then he says, I will return into my house from where I came out; and when he is come, he finds it empty, swept, and garnished.</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.12.45">Then goes he, and takes with himself seven other spirits more wicked than himself, and they enter in and dwell there: and the last state of that man is worse than the first. Even so shall it be also unto this wicked generation.</q><lb type="x-end-paragraph"/> <lb type="x-begin-paragraph"/></verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.12.46">While he yet talked to the people, behold, his mother and his brothers stood outside, desiring to speak with him.</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.12.47">Then one said unto him, Behold, your mother and your brothers stand outside, desiring to speak with you.</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.12.48">But he answered and said unto him that told him, <q marker="" who="Jesus">Who is my mother? and who are my brothers?</q></verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.12.49">And he stretched forth his hand toward his disciples, and said, <q marker="" who="Jesus">Behold my mother and my brothers!</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.12.50">For whosoever shall do the will of my Father who is in heaven, the same is my brother, and sister, and mother.</q><lb type="x-end-paragraph"/></verse>
</chapter>
<chapter osisID="Matt.12.50">
<verse osisID="Matt.13.1">The same day went Jesus out of the house, and sat by the sea side.</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.13.2">And great multitudes were gathered together unto him, so that he went into a boat, and sat; and the whole multitude stood on the shore.</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.13.3">And he spoke many things unto them in parables, saying, <q marker="" who="Jesus">Behold, a sower went forth to sow;</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.13.4">And when he sowed, some seeds fell by the wayside, and the fowls came and devoured them up:</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.13.5">Some fell upon stony places, where they had not much earth: and forthwith they sprung up, because they had no deepness of earth:</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.13.6">And when the sun was up, they were scorched; and because they had no root, they withered away.</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.13.7">And some fell among thorns; and the thorns sprung up, and choked them:</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.13.8">But other fell into good ground, and brought forth fruit, some a hundredfold, some sixtyfold, some thirtyfold.</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.13.9">Who has ears to hear, let him hear.</q><lb type="x-end-paragraph"/> <lb type="x-begin-paragraph"/></verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.13.10">And the disciples came, and said unto him, Why speak you unto them in parables?</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.13.11">He answered and said unto them, <q marker="" who="Jesus">Because it is given unto you to know the mysteries of the kingdom of heaven, but to them it is not given.</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.13.12">For whosoever has, to him shall be given, and he shall have more abundance: but whosoever has not, from him shall be taken away even that which he has.</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.13.13">Therefore I speak to them in parables: because they seeing see not; and hearing they hear not, neither do they understand.</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.13.14">And in them is fulfilled the prophecy of Isaiah, which says,</q><lb type="x-end-paragraph"/> <q marker="" type="block" who="Jesus">By hearing you shall hear, and shall not understand; and seeing you shall see, and shall not perceive:</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.13.15">For this people's heart is grown gross, and their ears are dull of hearing, and their eyes they have closed; lest at any time they should see with their eyes and hear with their ears, and should understand with their heart, and should be converted, and I should heal them.</q></verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.13.16">But blessed are your eyes, for they see: and your ears, for they hear.</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.13.17">For truthfully I say unto you, That many prophets and righteous men have desired to see those things which you see, and have not seen them; and to hear those things which you hear, and have not heard them. <lb type="x-begin-paragraph"/></verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.13.18">Hear you therefore the parable of the sower.</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.13.19">When any one hears the word of the kingdom, and understands it not, then comes the wicked one, and catches away that which was sown in his heart. This is he which received seed by the wayside.</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.13.20">But he that received the seed into stony places, the same is he that hears the word, and quickly with joy receives it;</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.13.21">yet has he not root in himself, but lasts for a while: for when tribulation or persecution arises because of the word, by and by he is offended.</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.13.22">He also that received seed among the thorns is he that hears the word; and the care of this world, and the deceitfulness of riches, choke the word, and he becomes unfruitful.</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.13.23">But he that received seed into the good ground is he that hears the word, and understands it; which also bears fruit, and brings forth, some a hundredfold, some sixty, some thirty.<lb type="x-end-paragraph"/> <lb type="x-begin-paragraph"/></verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.13.24">Another parable put he forth unto them, saying, <q marker="" who="Jesus">The kingdom of heaven is likened unto a man which sowed good seed in his field:</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.13.25">But while men slept, his enemy came and sowed tares among the wheat, and went his way.</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.13.26">But when the blade was sprung up, and brought forth fruit, then appeared the tares also.</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.13.27">So the servants of the householder came and said unto him, Sir, did you not sow good seed in your field? from whence then has it tares?</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.13.28">He said unto them, An enemy has done this. The servants said unto him, Do you want then that we go and gather them up?</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.13.29">But he said, No; lest while you gather up the tares, you root up also the wheat with them.</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.13.30">Let both grow together until the harvest: and in the time of harvest I will say to the reapers, Gather you together first the tares, and bind them in bundles to burn them: but gather the wheat into my barn.</q><lb type="x-end-paragraph"/> <lb type="x-begin-paragraph"/></verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.13.31">Another parable put he forth unto them, saying, <q marker="" who="Jesus">The kingdom of heaven is like unto a grain of mustard seed, which a man took, and sowed in his field:</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.13.32">Which indeed is the least of all seeds: but when it is grown, it is the greatest among herbs, and becomes a tree, so that the birds of the air come and lodge in the branches of it.</q><lb type="x-end-paragraph"/> <lb type="x-begin-paragraph"/></verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.13.33">Another parable spoke he unto them; <q marker="" who="Jesus">The kingdom of heaven is like unto leaven, which a woman took, and hid in three measures of meal, till the whole was leavened.</q><lb type="x-end-paragraph"/> <lb type="x-begin-paragraph"/></verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.13.34">All these things spoke Jesus unto the multitude in parables; and without a parable spoke he not unto them:</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.13.35">That it might be fulfilled which was spoken by the prophet, saying,<lb type="x-end-paragraph"/> <q marker="" sID="q10" type="block"/>I will open my mouth in parables; I will utter things which have been kept secret from the foundation of the world.<q eID="q10" marker="" type="block"/></verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.13.36">Then Jesus sent the multitude away, and went into the house: and his disciples came unto him, saying, Declare unto us the parable of the tares of the field.</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.13.37">He answered and said unto them, <q marker="" who="Jesus">He that sows the good seed is the Son of man;</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.13.38">The field is the world; the good seed are the children of the kingdom; but the tares are the children of the wicked one;</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.13.39">The enemy that sowed them is the devil; the harvest is the end of the world; and the reapers are the angels.</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.13.40">As therefore the tares are gathered and burned in the fire; so shall it be in the end of this world.</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.13.41">The Son of man shall send forth his angels, and they shall gather out of his kingdom all things that offend, and those who do iniquity;</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.13.42">And shall cast them into a furnace of fire: there shall be wailing and gnashing of teeth.</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.13.43">Then shall the righteous shine forth as the sun in the kingdom of their Father. Whoever has ears to hear, let him hear.</q> <lb type="x-begin-paragraph"/><q marker="" who="Jesus"></verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.13.44">Again, the kingdom of heaven is like unto treasure hid in a field; which when a man has found, he hides, and for joy of it goes and sells all that he has, and buys that field.</q><lb type="x-end-paragraph"/> <lb type="x-begin-paragraph"/><q marker="" who="Jesus"></verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.13.45">Again, the kingdom of heaven is like unto a merchant man, seeking good pearls:</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.13.46">Who, when he had found one pearl of great price, went and sold all that he had, and bought it.</q><lb type="x-end-paragraph"/> <lb type="x-begin-paragraph"/><q marker="" who="Jesus"></verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.13.47">Again, the kingdom of heaven is like unto a net, that was cast into the sea, and gathered of every kind:</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.13.48">Which, when it was full, they drew to shore, and sat down, and gathered the good into vessels, but cast the bad away.</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.13.49">So shall it be at the end of the world: the angels shall come forth, and sever the wicked from among the just,</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.13.50">And shall cast them into the furnace of fire: there shall be wailing and gnashing of teeth.</q><lb type="x-end-paragraph"/> <lb type="x-begin-paragraph"/></verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.13.51">Jesus says unto them, <q marker="" who="Jesus">Have you understood all these things?</q> They say unto him, Yes, Lord.</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.13.52">Then said he unto them, <q marker="" who="Jesus">Therefore every scribe who is instructed unto the kingdom of heaven is like unto a man that is a householder, which brings forth out of his treasure things new and old.</q></verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.13.53">And it came to pass, that when Jesus had finished these parables, he departed from there.<lb type="x-end-paragraph"/> <lb type="x-begin-paragraph"/></verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.13.54">And when he was come into his own country, he taught them in their synagogue, insomuch that they were astonished, and said, From where has this man this wisdom, and these mighty works?</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.13.55">Is not this the carpenter's son? is not his mother called Mary? and his brothers, James, and Joses, and Simon, and Judas?</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.13.56">And his sisters, are they not all with us? Whence then has this man all these things?</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.13.57">And they were offended in him. But Jesus said unto them, <q marker="" who="Jesus">A prophet is not without honor, except in his own country, and in his own house.</q></verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.13.58">And he did not many mighty works there because of their unbelief.<lb type="x-end-paragraph"/></verse>
</chapter>
<chapter osisID="Matt.13.58">
<verse osisID="Matt.14.1">At that time Herod the tetrarch heard of the fame of Jesus,</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.14.2">And said unto his servants, This is John the Baptist; he is risen from the dead; and therefore mighty works do show forth themselves in him.</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.14.3">For Herod had laid hold on John, and bound him, and put him in prison for Herodias' sake, his brother Philip's wife.</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.14.4">For John said unto him, It is not lawful for you to have her.</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.14.5">And when he would have put him to death, he feared the multitude, because they counted him as a prophet.</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.14.6">But when Herod's birthday was kept, the daughter of Herodias danced before them, and pleased Herod.</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.14.7">Whereupon he promised with an oath to give her whatsoever she would ask.</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.14.8">And she, being previously instructed of her mother, said, Give me here John Baptist's head in a charger.</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.14.9">And the king was sorry: nevertheless for the oath's sake, and those who sat with him at food, he commanded it to be given her.</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.14.10">And he sent, and beheaded John in the prison.</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.14.11">And his head was brought in a charger, and given to the damsel: and she brought it to her mother.</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.14.12">And his disciples came, and took up the body, and buried it, and went and told Jesus.<lb type="x-end-paragraph"/> <lb type="x-begin-paragraph"/></verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.14.13">When Jesus heard of it, he departed from there by boat into a deserted place apart: and when the people had heard of it, they followed him on foot out of the cities.</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.14.14">And Jesus went forth, and saw a great multitude, and was moved with compassion toward them, and he healed their sick.</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.14.15">And when it was evening, his disciples came to him, saying, This is a deserted place, and the time is now past; send the multitude away, that they may go into the villages, and buy themselves provisions.</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.14.16">But Jesus said unto them, <q marker="" who="Jesus">They need not depart; give you them to eat.</q></verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.14.17">And they say unto him, We have here but five loaves, and two fishes.</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.14.18">He said, Bring them to here to me.</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.14.19">And he commanded the multitude to sit down on the grass, and took the five loaves, and the two fishes, and looking up to heaven, he blessed, and broke, and gave the loaves to his disciples, and the disciples to the multitude.</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.14.20">And they did all eat, and were filled: and they took up of the fragments that remained twelve baskets full.</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.14.21">And they that had eaten were about five thousand men, besides women and children.<lb type="x-end-paragraph"/> <lb type="x-begin-paragraph"/></verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.14.22">And immediately Jesus constrained his disciples to get into a boat, and to go before him unto the other side, while he sent the multitudes away.</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.14.23">And when he had sent the multitudes away, he went up into a mountain apart to pray: and when the evening was come, he was there alone.</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.14.24">But the boat was now in the midst of the sea, tossed with waves: for the wind was contrary.</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.14.25">And in the fourth watch of the night Jesus went unto them, walking on the sea.</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.14.26">And when the disciples saw him walking on the sea, they were troubled, saying, It is a spirit; and they cried out for fear.</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.14.27">But immediately Jesus spoke unto them, saying, <q marker="" who="Jesus">Be of good cheer; it is I; be not afraid.</q><lb type="x-end-paragraph"/> <lb type="x-begin-paragraph"/></verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.14.28">And Peter answered him and said, Lord, if it be you, bid me come unto you on the water.</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.14.29">And he said, <q marker="" who="Jesus">Come.</q> And when Peter was come down out of the boat, he walked on the water, to go to Jesus.</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.14.30">But when he saw the wind boisterous, he was afraid; and beginning to sink, he cried, saying, Lord, save me.</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.14.31">And immediately Jesus stretched forth his hand, and caught him, and said unto him, <q marker="" who="Jesus">O you of little faith, why did you doubt?</q></verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.14.32">And when they had come into the boat, the wind ceased.</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.14.33">Then they that were in the boat came and worshipped him, saying, Of a truth you are the Son of God.<lb type="x-end-paragraph"/> <lb type="x-begin-paragraph"/></verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.14.34">And when they were gone over, they came into the land of Gennesaret.</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.14.35">And when the men of that place had knowledge of him, they sent out into all that country round about, and brought unto him all that were diseased;</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.14.36">And asked him that they might only touch the hem of his garment: and as many as touched were made perfectly whole.<lb type="x-end-paragraph"/></verse>
</chapter>
<chapter osisID="Matt.14.36">
<verse osisID="Matt.15.1">Then came to Jesus scribes and Pharisees, which were of Jerusalem, saying,</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.15.2">Why do your disciples transgress the tradition of the elders? for they wash not their hands when they eat bread.</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.15.3">But he answered and said unto them, <q marker="" who="Jesus">Why do you also transgress the commandment of God by your tradition?</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.15.4">For God commanded, saying, Honor your father and mother: and, He that curses father or mother, let him die the death.</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.15.5">But you say, Whosoever shall say to his father or his mother, It is a gift to God, whatever you might have gained from me;</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.15.6">And honor not his father or his mother, he shall be free. Thus have you made the commandment of God of no effect by your tradition.</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.15.7">You hypocrites, well did Isaiah prophesy of you, saying,</q><lb type="x-end-paragraph"/> <q marker="" type="block" who="Jesus"></verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.15.8">This people draws close unto me with their mouth, and honors me with their lips; but their heart is far from me.</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.15.9">But in vain they do worship me, teaching for doctrines the commandments of men.</q></verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.15.10">And he called the multitude, and said unto them, <q marker="" who="Jesus">Hear, and understand:</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.15.11">Not that which goes into the mouth defiles a man; but that which comes out of the mouth, this defiles a man.</q></verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.15.12">Then came his disciples, and said unto him, Do you know that the Pharisees were offended, after they heard this saying?</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.15.13">But he answered and said, <q marker="" who="Jesus">Every plant, which my heavenly Father has not planted, shall be rooted up.</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.15.14">Let them alone: they are blind leaders of the blind. And if the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch.</q></verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.15.15">Then answered Peter and said unto him, Declare unto us this parable.</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.15.16">And Jesus said, <q marker="" who="Jesus">Are you also yet without understanding?</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.15.17">Do not you yet understand, that whatsoever enters in at the mouth goes into the belly, and is cast out into the drain?</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.15.18">But those things which proceed out of the mouth come forth from the heart; and they defile the man.</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.15.19">For out of the heart proceed evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witness, blasphemies:</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.15.20">These are the things which defile a man: but to eat with unwashed hands defiles not a man.</q> <lb type="x-begin-paragraph"/></verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.15.21">Then Jesus went from there, and departed into the borders of Tyre and Sidon.</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.15.22">And, behold, a woman of Canaan came out of the same borders, and cried unto him, saying, Have mercy on me, O Lord, you son of David; my daughter is grievously vexed with a devil.</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.15.23">But he answered her not a word. And his disciples came and asked him, saying, Send her away; for she cries after us.</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.15.24">But he answered and said, <q marker="" who="Jesus">I am not sent but unto the lost sheep of the house of Israel.</q></verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.15.25">Then came she and worshipped him, saying, Lord, help me.</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.15.26">But he answered and said, <q marker="" who="Jesus">It is not suitable to take the children's bread, and to cast it to dogs.</q></verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.15.27">And she said, Truth, Lord: yet the dogs eat of the crumbs which fall from their masters' table.</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.15.28">Then Jesus answered and said unto her, <q marker="" who="Jesus">O woman, great is your faith: be it unto you just as you will.</q> And her daughter was made whole from that very hour.<lb type="x-end-paragraph"/> <lb type="x-begin-paragraph"/></verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.15.29">And Jesus departed from there, and came close unto the sea of Galilee; and went up into a mountain, and sat down there.</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.15.30">And great multitudes came unto him, having with them those that were lame, blind, dumb, maimed, and many others, and cast them down at Jesus' feet; and he healed them:</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.15.31">Insomuch that the multitude wondered, when they saw the dumb to speak, the maimed to be whole, the lame to walk, and the blind to see: and they glorified the God of Israel.<lb type="x-end-paragraph"/> <lb type="x-begin-paragraph"/></verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.15.32">Then Jesus called his disciples unto him, and said, <q marker="" who="Jesus">I have compassion on the multitude, because they continue with me now three days, and have nothing to eat: and I will not send them away fasting, lest they faint in the way.</q></verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.15.33">And his disciples say unto him, From where should we have so much bread in the wilderness, as to fill so great a multitude?</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.15.34">And Jesus says unto them, <q marker="" who="Jesus">How many loaves have you?</q> And they said, Seven, and a few little fishes.</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.15.35">And he commanded the multitude to sit down on the ground.</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.15.36">And he took the seven loaves and the fishes, and gave thanks, and broke them, and gave to his disciples, and the disciples to the multitude.</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.15.37">And they did all eat, and were filled: and they took up of the broken food that was left seven baskets full.</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.15.38">And they that did eat were four thousand men, beside women and children.</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.15.39">And he sent away the multitude, and took ship, and came into the borders of Magdala.<lb type="x-end-paragraph"/></verse>
</chapter>
<chapter osisID="Matt.15.39">
<verse osisID="Matt.16.1">The Pharisees also with the Sadducees came, and tempting desired him that he would show them a sign from heaven.</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.16.2">He answered and said unto them, <q marker="" who="Jesus">When it is evening, you say, It will be fair weather: for the sky is red.</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.16.3">And in the morning, It will be foul weather today: for the sky is red and lowering. O you hypocrites, you can discern the face of the sky; but can you not discern the signs of the times?</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.16.4">A wicked and adulterous generation seeks after a sign; and there shall no sign be given unto it, but the sign of the prophet Jonas.</q> And he left them, and departed.<lb type="x-end-paragraph"/> <lb type="x-begin-paragraph"/></verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.16.5">And when his disciples had come to the other side, they had forgotten to take bread.</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.16.6">Then Jesus said unto them, <q marker="" who="Jesus">Take heed and beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and of the Sadducees.</q></verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.16.7">And they reasoned among themselves, saying, It is because we have taken no bread.</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.16.8">Which when Jesus perceived, he said unto them, <q marker="" who="Jesus">O you of little faith, why reason you among yourselves, because you have brought no bread?</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.16.9">Do you not yet understand, neither remember the five loaves of the five thousand, and how many baskets you took up?</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.16.10">Neither the seven loaves of the four thousand, and how many baskets you took up?</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.16.11">How is it that you do not understand that I spoke it not to you concerning bread, but that you should beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and of the Sadducees?</q></verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.16.12">Then understood they how that he bade them not beware of the leaven of bread, but of the doctrine of the Pharisees and of the Sadducees.<lb type="x-end-paragraph"/> <lb type="x-begin-paragraph"/></verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.16.13">When Jesus came into the borders of Caesarea Philippi, he asked his disciples, saying, <q marker="" who="Jesus">Whom do men say that I the Son of man am?</q></verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.16.14">And they said, Some say that you are John the Baptist: some, Elijah; and others, Jeremiah, or one of the prophets.</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.16.15">He says unto them, <q marker="" who="Jesus">But whom say you that I am?</q></verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.16.16">And Simon Peter answered and said, You are the Christ, the Son of the living God.</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.16.17">And Jesus answered and said unto him, <q marker="" who="Jesus">Blessed are you, Simon Barjona: for flesh and blood has not revealed it unto you, but my Father who is in heaven.</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.16.18">And I say also unto you, That you are Peter, and upon this rock I will build my church; and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it.</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.16.19">And I will give unto you the keys of the kingdom of heaven: and whatsoever you shall bind on earth shall be bound in heaven: and whatsoever you shall loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven.</q></verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.16.20">Then he charged his disciples that they should tell no man that he was Jesus the Christ.<lb type="x-end-paragraph"/> <lb type="x-begin-paragraph"/></verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.16.21">From that time forth began Jesus to show unto his disciples, how he must go unto Jerusalem, and suffer many things of the elders and chief priests and scribes, and be killed, and be raised again the third day.</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.16.22">Then Peter took him, and began to rebuke him, saying, Be it far from you, Lord: this shall not be unto you.</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.16.23">But he turned, and said unto Peter, <q marker="" who="Jesus">Get you behind me, Satan: you are an offense unto me: for you savour not the things that be of God, but those that be of men.</q><lb type="x-end-paragraph"/> <lb type="x-begin-paragraph"/></verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.16.24">Then said Jesus unto his disciples, <q marker="" who="Jesus">If any man will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me.</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.16.25">For whosoever will save his life shall lose it: and whosoever will lose his life for my sake shall find it.</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.16.26">For what is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul? or what shall a man give in exchange for his soul?</q><lb type="x-end-paragraph"/> <lb type="x-begin-paragraph"/><q marker="" who="Jesus"></verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.16.27">For the Son of man shall come in the glory of his Father with his angels; and then he shall reward every man according to his works.</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.16.28">Truthfully I say unto you, There be some standing here, which shall not taste of death, till they see the Son of man coming in his kingdom.</q><lb type="x-end-paragraph"/></verse>
</chapter>
<chapter osisID="Matt.16.28">
<verse osisID="Matt.17.1">And after six days Jesus takes Peter, James, and John his brother, and brings them up into a high mountain apart,</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.17.2">And was transfigured before them: and his face did shine as the sun, and his clothing was white as the light.</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.17.3">And, behold, there appeared unto them Moses and Elijah talking with him.</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.17.4">Then answered Peter, and said unto Jesus, Lord, it is good for us to be here: if you will, let us make here three tabernacles; one for you, and one for Moses, and one for Elijah.</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.17.5">While he yet spoke, behold, a bright cloud overshadowed them: and behold a voice out of the cloud, which said, This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased; hear you him.</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.17.6">And when the disciples heard it, they fell on their face, and were intensely afraid.</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.17.7">And Jesus came and touched them, and said, <q marker="" who="Jesus">Arise, and be not afraid.</q></verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.17.8">And when they had lifted up their eyes, they saw no man, except Jesus only.<lb type="x-end-paragraph"/> <lb type="x-begin-paragraph"/></verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.17.9">And as they came down from the mountain, Jesus charged them, saying, <q marker="" who="Jesus">Tell the vision to no man, until the Son of man be risen again from the dead.</q></verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.17.10">And his disciples asked him, saying, Why then say the scribes that Elijah must first come?</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.17.11">And Jesus answered and said unto them, <q marker="" who="Jesus">Elijah truly shall first come, and restore all things.</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.17.12">But I say unto you, That Elijah is come already, and they knew him not, but have done unto him whatsoever they desired. Likewise shall also the Son of man suffer of them.</q></verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.17.13">Then the disciples understood that he spoke unto them of John the Baptist.<lb type="x-end-paragraph"/> <lb type="x-begin-paragraph"/></verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.17.14">And when they had come to the multitude, there came to him a certain man, kneeling down to him, and saying,</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.17.15">Lord, have mercy on my son: for he is insane, and intensely vexed: for frequently he falls into the fire, and often into the water.</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.17.16">And I brought him to your disciples, and they could not cure him.</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.17.17">Then Jesus answered and said, <q marker="" who="Jesus">O faithless and perverse generation, how long shall I be with you? how long shall I endure you? bring him to here to me.</q></verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.17.18">And Jesus rebuked the devil; and he departed out of him: and the child was cured from that very hour.</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.17.19">Then came the disciples to Jesus apart, and said, Why could not we cast him out?</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.17.20">And Jesus said unto them, <q marker="" who="Jesus">Because of your unbelief: for truthfully I say unto you, If you have faith as a grain of mustard seed, you shall say unto this mountain, Remove hence to yonder place; and it shall remove; and nothing shall be impossible unto you.</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.17.21">But this kind goes not out except by prayer and fasting.</q><lb type="x-end-paragraph"/> <lb type="x-begin-paragraph"/></verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.17.22">And while they abode in Galilee, Jesus said unto them, <q marker="" who="Jesus">The Son of man shall be betrayed into the hands of men:</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.17.23">And they shall kill him, and the third day he shall be raised again.</q> And they were exceedingly sorry.<lb type="x-end-paragraph"/> <lb type="x-begin-paragraph"/></verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.17.24">And when they had come to Capernaum, they that received tribute money came to Peter, and said, Does not your master pay tribute?</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.17.25">He says, Yes. And when he was come into the house, Jesus prevented him, saying, <q marker="" who="Jesus">What think you, Simon? of whom do the kings of the earth take custom or tribute? of their own children, or of strangers?</q></verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.17.26">Peter says unto him, Of strangers. Jesus says unto him, <q marker="" who="Jesus">Then are the children free.</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.17.27">Notwithstanding, lest we should offend them, go you to the sea, and cast a hook, and take up the fish that first comes up; and when you have opened his mouth, you shall find a piece of money: that take, and give unto them for me and you.</q><lb type="x-end-paragraph"/></verse>
</chapter>
<chapter osisID="Matt.17.27">
<verse osisID="Matt.18.1">At the same time came the disciples unto Jesus, saying, Who is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven?</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.18.2">And Jesus called a little child unto him, and set him in the midst of them,</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.18.3">And said, <q marker="" who="Jesus">Truthfully I say unto you, Unless you be converted, and become as little children, you shall not enter into the kingdom of heaven.</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.18.4">Whosoever therefore shall humble himself as this little child, the same is greatest in the kingdom of heaven.</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.18.5">And whoever shall receive one such little child in my name receives me.</q><lb type="x-end-paragraph"/> <lb type="x-begin-paragraph"/><q marker="" who="Jesus"></verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.18.6">But whoever shall offend one of these little ones which believe in me, it were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and that he were drowned in the depth of the sea.</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.18.7">Woe unto the world because of offenses! for it must be that offenses come; but woe to that man by whom the offense comes!</q><lb type="x-end-paragraph"/> <lb type="x-begin-paragraph"/><q marker="" who="Jesus"></verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.18.8">Therefore if your hand or your foot offend you, cut them off, and cast them from you: it is better for you to enter into life halt or maimed, rather than having two hands or two feet to be cast into everlasting fire.</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.18.9">And if your eye offend you, pluck it out, and cast it from you: it is better for you to enter into life with one eye, rather than having two eyes to be cast into hell fire.</q><lb type="x-end-paragraph"/> <lb type="x-begin-paragraph"/><q marker="" who="Jesus"></verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.18.10">Take heed that you despise not one of these little ones; for I say unto you, That in heaven their angels do always behold the face of my Father who is in heaven.</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.18.11">For the Son of man is come to save that which was lost.</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.18.12">How think you? if a man have a hundred sheep, and one of them be gone astray, does he not leave the ninety and nine, and goes into the mountains, and seeks that which is gone astray?</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.18.13">And if so be that he find it, truthfully I say unto you, he rejoices more of that sheep, than of the ninety and nine which went not astray.</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.18.14">Even so it is not the will of your Father who is in heaven, that one of these little ones should perish.</q><lb type="x-end-paragraph"/> <lb type="x-begin-paragraph"/><q marker="" who="Jesus"></verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.18.15">Moreover if your brother shall trespass against you, go and tell him his fault between you and him alone: if he shall hear you, you have gained your brother.</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.18.16">But if he will not hear you, then take with you one or two more, that in the mouth of two or three witnesses every word may be established.</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.18.17">And if he shall neglect to hear them, tell it unto the church: but if he neglect to hear the church, let him be unto you as an heathen man and a publican.</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.18.18">Truthfully I say unto you, Whatsoever you shall bind on earth shall be bound in heaven: and whatsoever you shall loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven.</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.18.19">Again I say unto you, That if two of you shall agree on earth as touching any thing that they shall ask, it shall be done for them of my Father who is in heaven.</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.18.20">For where two or three are gathered together in my name, there am I in the midst of them.</q><lb type="x-end-paragraph"/> <lb type="x-begin-paragraph"/></verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.18.21">Then came Peter to him, and said, Lord, how often shall my brother sin against me, and I forgive him? till seven times?</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.18.22">Jesus says unto him, <q marker="" who="Jesus">I say not unto you, Until seven times: but, Until seventy times seven.</q><lb type="x-end-paragraph"/> <lb type="x-begin-paragraph"/><q marker="" who="Jesus"></verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.18.23">Therefore is the kingdom of heaven likened unto a certain king, which would take account of his servants.</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.18.24">And when he had begun to reckon, one was brought unto him, which owed him ten thousand talents.</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.18.25">But forasmuch as he had not to pay, his lord commanded him to be sold, and his wife, and children, and all that he had, and payment to be made.</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.18.26">The servant therefore fell down, and worshipped him, saying, Lord, have patience with me, and I will pay you all.</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.18.27">Then the lord of that servant was moved with compassion, and loosed him, and forgave him the debt.</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.18.28">But the same servant went out, and found one of his fellow servants, which owed him a hundred denarii: and he laid hands on him, and took him by the throat, saying, Pay me what you owe.</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.18.29">And his fellow servant fell down at his feet, and asked him, saying, Have patience with me, and I will pay you all.</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.18.30">And he would not: but went and cast him into prison, till he should pay the debt.</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.18.31">So when his fellow servants saw what was done, they were very sorry, and came and told unto their lord all that was done.</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.18.32">Then his lord, after he had called him, said unto him, O you wicked servant, I forgave you all that debt, because you desired me to:</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.18.33">Should not you also have had compassion on your fellow servant, just as I had pity on you?</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.18.34">And his lord was very angry, and delivered him to the tormentors, till he should pay all that was due unto him.</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.18.35">So likewise shall my heavenly Father do also unto you, if you from your hearts forgive not every one his brother their trespasses.</q><lb type="x-end-paragraph"/></verse>
</chapter>
<chapter osisID="Matt.18.35">
<verse osisID="Matt.19.1">And it came to pass, that when Jesus had finished these sayings, he departed from Galilee, and came into the borders of Judaea beyond the Jordan;</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.19.2">And great multitudes followed him; and he healed them there.<lb type="x-end-paragraph"/> <lb type="x-begin-paragraph"/></verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.19.3">The Pharisees also came unto him, tempting him, and saying unto him, Is it lawful for a man to put away his wife for every cause?</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.19.4">And he answered and said unto them, <q marker="" who="Jesus">Have you not read, that he which made them at the beginning made them male and female,</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.19.5">And said, For this cause shall a man leave father and mother, and shall cleave to his wife: and they two shall be one flesh?</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.19.6">Therefore they are no more two, but one flesh. What therefore God has joined together, let not man put asunder.</q></verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.19.7">They say unto him, Why did Moses then command to give a writing of divorcement, and to put her away?</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.19.8">He says unto them, <q marker="" who="Jesus">Moses because of the hardness of your hearts permitted you to put away your wives: but from the beginning it was not so.</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.19.9">And I say unto you, Whosoever shall put away his wife, unless it be for fornication, and shall marry another, commits adultery: and whoever marries her who is put away does commit adultery.</q><lb type="x-end-paragraph"/> <lb type="x-begin-paragraph"/></verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.19.10">His disciples say unto him, If the case of the man be so with his wife, it is not good to marry.</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.19.11">But he said unto them, <q marker="" who="Jesus">All men cannot receive this saying, except they to whom it is given.</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.19.12">For there are some eunuchs, which were so born from their mother's womb: and there are some eunuchs, which were made eunuchs of men: and there be eunuchs, which have made themselves eunuchs for the kingdom of heaven's sake. He that is able to receive it, let him receive it.</q><lb type="x-end-paragraph"/> <lb type="x-begin-paragraph"/></verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.19.13">Then were there brought unto him little children, that he should put his hands on them, and pray: and the disciples rebuked them.</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.19.14">But Jesus said, <q marker="" who="Jesus">Permit little children, and forbid them not, to come unto me: for of such is the kingdom of heaven.</q></verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.19.15">And he laid his hands on them, and departed from there.<lb type="x-end-paragraph"/> <lb type="x-begin-paragraph"/></verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.19.16">And, behold, one came and said unto him, Good Master, what good thing shall I do, that I may have eternal life?</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.19.17">And he said unto him, <q marker="" who="Jesus">Why do you call me good? there is none good but one, that is, God: but if you will enter into life, keep the commandments.</q></verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.19.18">He says unto him, Which? Jesus said, <q marker="" who="Jesus">You shall do no murder, You shall not commit adultery, You shall not steal, You shall not bear false witness,</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.19.19">Honor your father and your mother: and, You shall love your neighbor as yourself.</q></verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.19.20">The young man says unto him, All these things have I kept from my youth up: what lack I yet?</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.19.21">Jesus said unto him, <q marker="" who="Jesus">If you will be perfect, go and sell what you have, and give to the poor, and you shall have treasure in heaven: and come and follow me.</q></verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.19.22">But when the young man heard that saying, he went away sorrowful: for he had great possessions.<lb type="x-end-paragraph"/> <lb type="x-begin-paragraph"/></verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.19.23">Then said Jesus unto his disciples, <q marker="" who="Jesus">Truthfully I say unto you, That a rich man shall hardly enter into the kingdom of heaven.</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.19.24">And again I say unto you, It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle, than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God.</q></verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.19.25">When his disciples heard it, they were exceedingly amazed, saying, Who then can be saved?</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.19.26">But Jesus beheld them, and said unto them, <q marker="" who="Jesus">With men this is impossible; but with God all things are possible.</q><lb type="x-end-paragraph"/> <lb type="x-begin-paragraph"/></verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.19.27">Then answered Peter and said unto him, Behold, we have forsaken all, and followed you; what shall we have therefore?</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.19.28">And Jesus said unto them, <q marker="" who="Jesus">Truthfully I say unto you, That you who have followed me, in the regeneration when the Son of man shall sit in the throne of his glory, you also shall sit upon twelve thrones, judging the twelve tribes of Israel.</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.19.29">And every one that has forsaken houses, or brothers, or sisters, or father, or mother, or wife, or children, or lands, for my name's sake, shall receive a hundredfold, and shall inherit everlasting life.</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.19.30">But many that are first shall be last; and the last shall be first.</q><lb type="x-end-paragraph"/></verse>
</chapter>
<chapter osisID="Matt.19.30">
<verse osisID="Matt.20.1">For the kingdom of heaven is like unto a man that is a householder, which went out early in the morning to hire laborers into his vineyard.</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.20.2">And when he had agreed with the laborers for a denarius a day, he sent them into his vineyard.</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.20.3">And he went out about the third hour, and saw others standing idle in the marketplace,</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.20.4">And said unto them; Go you also into the vineyard, and whatsoever is right I will give you. And they went their way.</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.20.5">Again he went out about the sixth and ninth hour, and did likewise.</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.20.6">And about the eleventh hour he went out, and found others standing idle, and says unto them, Why stand you here all the day idle?</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.20.7">They say unto him, Because no man has hired us. He says unto them, Go you also into the vineyard; and whatsoever is right, that shall you receive.</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.20.8">So when even was come, the lord of the vineyard says unto his steward, Call the laborers, and give them their hire, beginning from the last unto the first.</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.20.9">And when they came that were hired about the eleventh hour, they received every man a denarius.</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.20.10">But when the first came, they supposed that they should have received more; and they likewise received every man a denarius.</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.20.11">And when they had received it, they murmured against the goodman of the house,</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.20.12">Saying, These last have worked but one hour, and you have made them equal unto us, which have borne the burden and heat of the day.</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.20.13">But he answered one of them, and said, Friend, I do you no wrong: did not you agree with me for a denarius?</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.20.14">Take that which is yours, and go your way: I will give unto this last, just as unto you.</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.20.15">Is it not lawful for me to do what I will with my own? Is your eye evil, because I am good?</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.20.16">So the last shall be first, and the first last: for many are called, but few chosen.</q><lb type="x-end-paragraph"/> <lb type="x-begin-paragraph"/></verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.20.17">And Jesus going up to Jerusalem took the twelve disciples aside on the way, and said unto them,</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.20.18"><q marker="" who="Jesus">Behold, we go up to Jerusalem; and the Son of man shall be betrayed unto the chief priests and unto the scribes, and they shall condemn him to death,</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.20.19">And shall deliver him to the Gentiles to mock, and to whip, and to crucify him: and the third day he shall rise again.</q><lb type="x-end-paragraph"/> <lb type="x-begin-paragraph"/></verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.20.20">Then came to him the mother of Zebedees children with her sons, worshipping him, and desiring a certain thing of him.</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.20.21">And he said unto her, <q marker="" who="Jesus">What will you?</q> She says unto him, Grant that these my two sons may sit, the one on your right hand, and the other on the left, in your kingdom.</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.20.22">But Jesus answered and said, <q marker="" who="Jesus">You know not what you ask. Are you able to drink of the cup that I shall drink of, and to be baptized with the baptism that I am baptized with?</q> They say unto him, We are able.</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.20.23">And he says unto them, <q marker="" who="Jesus">You shall drink indeed of my cup, and be baptized with the baptism that I am baptized with: but to sit on my right hand, and on my left, is not mine to give, but it shall be given to them for whom it is prepared of my Father.</q><lb type="x-end-paragraph"/> <lb type="x-begin-paragraph"/></verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.20.24">And when the ten heard it, they were moved with indignation against the two brothers.</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.20.25">But Jesus called them unto him, and said, <q marker="" who="Jesus">You know that the princes of the Gentiles exercise dominion over them, and they that are great exercise authority upon them.</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.20.26">But it shall not be so among you: but whosoever will be great among you, let him be your minister;</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.20.27">And whosoever will be chief among you, let him be your servant:</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.20.28">Just as the Son of man came not to be ministered unto, but to minister, and to give his life as a ransom for many.</q><lb type="x-end-paragraph"/> <lb type="x-begin-paragraph"/></verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.20.29">And as they departed from Jericho, a great multitude followed him.</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.20.30">And, behold, two blind men sitting by the wayside, when they heard that Jesus passed by, cried out, saying, Have mercy on us, O Lord, you son of David.</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.20.31">And the multitude rebuked them, because they should hold their peace: but they cried the more, saying, Have mercy on us, O Lord, you son of David.</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.20.32">And Jesus stood still, and called them, and said, <q marker="" who="Jesus">What will you that I shall do unto you?</q></verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.20.33">They say unto him, Lord, that our eyes may be opened.</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.20.34">So Jesus had compassion on them, and touched their eyes: and immediately their eyes received sight, and they followed him.<lb type="x-end-paragraph"/></verse>
</chapter>
<chapter osisID="Matt.20.34">
<verse osisID="Matt.21.1">And when they drew close unto Jerusalem, and had come to Bethphage, unto the mount of Olives, then sent Jesus two disciples,</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.21.2">Saying unto them, <q marker="" who="Jesus">Go into the village next to you, and immediately you shall find an ass tied, and a colt with her: loose them, and bring them unto me.</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.21.3">And if any man say anything unto you, you shall say, The Lord has need of them; and immediately he will send them.</q></verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.21.4">All this was done, that it might be fulfilled that which was spoken by the prophet, saying,<lb type="x-end-paragraph"/> <q marker="" sID="q11" type="block"/></verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.21.5">Tell you the daughter of Sion, Behold, your King comes unto you, meek, and sitting upon an ass, and a colt the foal of an ass.<q eID="q11" marker="" type="block"/></verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.21.6">And the disciples went, and did as Jesus commanded them,</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.21.7">And brought the ass, and the colt, and put their cloaks on them, and they set him thereon.</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.21.8">And a very great multitude spread their garments on the way; others cut down branches from the trees, and scattered them on the way.</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.21.9">And the multitudes that went before, and that followed, cried, saying, <q marker="" sID="q12" type="block"/>Hosanna to the son of David: Blessed is he that comes in the name of the Lord; Hosanna in the highest.<q eID="q12" marker="" type="block"/></verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.21.10">And when he was come into Jerusalem, all the city was moved, saying, Who is this?</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.21.11">And the multitude said, This is Jesus the prophet of Nazareth of Galilee. <lb type="x-begin-paragraph"/></verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.21.12">And Jesus went into the temple of God, and cast out all them that sold and bought in the temple, and overthrew the tables of the moneychangers, and the seats of them that sold doves,</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.21.13">And said unto them, <q marker="" who="Jesus">It is written,</q><lb type="x-end-paragraph"/> <q marker="" type="block" who="Jesus">My house shall be called the house of prayer; but you have made it a den of thieves.</q></verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.21.14">And the blind and the lame came to him in the temple; and he healed them.</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.21.15">And when the chief priests and scribes saw the wonderful things that he did, and the children crying in the temple, and saying, Hosanna to the son of David; they were intensely displeased,</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.21.16">And said unto him, Do you hear what these say? And Jesus says unto them, <q marker="" who="Jesus">Yes; have you never read,</q> <q marker="" type="block" who="Jesus">Out of the mouth of babes and sucklings you have perfected praise?</q></verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.21.17">And he left them, and went out of the city into Bethany; and he lodged there. <lb type="x-begin-paragraph"/></verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.21.18">Now in the morning as he returned into the city, he hungered.</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.21.19">And when he saw a fig tree on the way, he came to it, and found nothing on it, but leaves only, and said unto it, <q marker="" who="Jesus">Let no fruit grow on you henceforward forever.</q> And immediately the fig tree withered away.</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.21.20">And when the disciples saw it, they marvelled, saying, How quickly is the fig tree withered away!</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.21.21">Jesus answered and said unto them, <q marker="" who="Jesus">Truthfully I say unto you, If you have faith, and doubt not, you shall not only do this which is done to the fig tree, but also if you shall say unto this mountain, Be you removed, and be you cast into the sea; it shall be done.</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.21.22">And all things, whatsoever you shall ask in prayer, believing, you shall receive.</q><lb type="x-end-paragraph"/> <lb type="x-begin-paragraph"/></verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.21.23">And when he was come into the temple, the chief priests and the elders of the people came unto him as he was teaching, and said, By what authority are you doing these things? and who gave you this authority?</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.21.24">And Jesus answered and said unto them, <q marker="" who="Jesus">I also will ask you one thing, which if you tell me, I in like wise will tell you by what authority I do these things.</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.21.25">The baptism of John, from where was it? from heaven, or of men?</q> And they reasoned with themselves, saying, If we shall say, From heaven; he will say unto us, Why did you not then believe him?</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.21.26">But if we shall say, Of men; we fear the people; for all hold John as a prophet.</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.21.27">And they answered Jesus, and said, We cannot tell. And he said unto them, <q marker="" who="Jesus">Neither tell I you by what authority I do these things.</q><lb type="x-end-paragraph"/> <lb type="x-begin-paragraph"/><q marker="" who="Jesus"></verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.21.28">But what think you? A certain man had two sons; and he came to the first, and said, Son, go work today in my vineyard.</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.21.29">He answered and said, I will not: but afterward he repented, and went.</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.21.30">And he came to the second, and said likewise. And he answered and said, I go, sir: and went not.</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.21.31">Whether of them two did the will of his father?</q> They say unto him, The first. Jesus says unto them, <q marker="" who="Jesus">Truthfully I say unto you, That the publicans and the harlots go into the kingdom of God before you.</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.21.32">For John came unto you on the way of righteousness, and you believed him not: but the publicans and the harlots believed him: and you, when you had seen it, repented not afterward, that you might believe him.</q><lb type="x-end-paragraph"/> <lb type="x-begin-paragraph"/><q marker="" who="Jesus"></verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.21.33">Hear another parable: There was a certain householder, which planted a vineyard, and hedged it round about, and digged a winepress in it, and built a tower, and let it out to husbandmen, and went into a far country:</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.21.34">And when the time of the fruit drew near, he sent his servants to the husbandmen, that they might receive the fruits of it.</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.21.35">And the husbandmen took his servants, and beat one, and killed another, and stoned another.</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.21.36">Again, he sent other servants more than the first: and they did unto them likewise.</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.21.37">But last of all he sent unto them his son, saying, They will respect my son.</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.21.38">But when the husbandmen saw the son, they said among themselves, This is the heir; come, let us kill him, and let us seize on his inheritance.</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.21.39">And they caught him, and cast him out of the vineyard, and slew him.</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.21.40">When the lord therefore of the vineyard comes, what will he do unto those husbandmen?</q></verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.21.41">They say unto him, He will miserably destroy those wicked men, and will let out his vineyard unto other husbandmen, which shall render him the fruits in their seasons.<lb type="x-end-paragraph"/> <lb type="x-begin-paragraph"/></verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.21.42">Jesus says unto them, <q marker="" who="Jesus">Did you never read in the scriptures,</q><lb type="x-end-paragraph"/> <q marker="" type="block" who="Jesus">The stone which the builders rejected, the same is become the head of the corner: this is the Lord's doing, and it is marvelous in our eyes?</q></verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.21.43">Therefore say I unto you, The kingdom of God shall be taken from you, and given to a nation bringing forth the fruits of it.</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.21.44">And whosoever shall fall on this stone shall be broken: but on whomsoever it shall fall, it will grind him to powder. <lb type="x-begin-paragraph"/></verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.21.45">And when the chief priests and Pharisees had heard his parables, they perceived that he spoke of them.</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.21.46">But when they sought to lay hands on him, they feared the multitude, because they took him for a prophet.<lb type="x-end-paragraph"/></verse>
</chapter>
<chapter osisID="Matt.21.46">
<verse osisID="Matt.22.1">And Jesus answered and spoke unto them again by parables, and said,</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.22.2"><q marker="" who="Jesus">The kingdom of heaven is like unto a certain king, which made a marriage for his son,</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.22.3">And sent forth his servants to call them that were bidden to the wedding: and they would not come.</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.22.4">Again, he sent forth other servants, saying, Tell those who are bidden, Behold, I have prepared my dinner: my oxen and my fatlings are killed, and all things are ready: come unto the marriage.</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.22.5">But they made light of it, and went their ways, one to his farm, another to his merchandise:</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.22.6">And the remnant took his servants, and treated them spitefully, and slew them.</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.22.7">But when the king heard of it, he was very angry: and he sent forth his armies, and destroyed those murderers, and burned up their city.</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.22.8">Then says he to his servants, The wedding is ready, but they which were invited were not worthy.</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.22.9">Go you therefore into the highways, and as many as you shall find, invite to the marriage.</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.22.10">So those servants went out into the highways, and gathered together all as many as they found, both bad and good: and the wedding was furnished with guests.</q><lb type="x-end-paragraph"/> <lb type="x-begin-paragraph"/><q marker="" who="Jesus"></verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.22.11">And when the king came in to see the guests, he saw there a man which had not on a wedding garment:</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.22.12">And he says unto him, Friend, how came you in to here not having a wedding garment? And he was speechless.</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.22.13">Then said the king to the servants, Bind him hand and foot, and take him away, and cast him into outer darkness, there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.22.14">For many are called, but few are chosen.</q><lb type="x-end-paragraph"/> <lb type="x-begin-paragraph"/></verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.22.15">Then went the Pharisees, and took counsel how they might entangle him in his talk.</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.22.16">And they sent out unto him their disciples with the Herodians, saying, Master, we know that you are true, and teach the way of God in truth, neither care you for any man: for you regard not the person of men.</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.22.17">Tell us therefore, What think you? Is it lawful to give tribute unto Caesar, or not?</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.22.18">But Jesus perceived their wickedness, and said, <q marker="" who="Jesus">Why tempt you me, you hypocrites?</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.22.19">Show me the tribute money.</q> And they brought unto him a denarius.</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.22.20">And he says unto them, <q marker="" who="Jesus">Whose is this image and superscription?</q></verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.22.21">They say unto him, Caesar's. Then says he unto them, <q marker="" who="Jesus">Render therefore unto Caesar the things which are Caesar's; and unto God the things that are God's.</q></verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.22.22">When they had heard these words, they marvelled, and left him, and went their way.<lb type="x-end-paragraph"/> <lb type="x-begin-paragraph"/></verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.22.23">The same day came to him the Sadducees, which say that there is no resurrection, and asked him,</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.22.24">Saying, Master, Moses said, If a man die, having no children, his brother shall marry his wife, and raise up seed unto his brother.</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.22.25">Now there were with us seven brothers: and the first, when he had married a wife, deceased, and, having no issue, left his wife unto his brother:</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.22.26">Likewise the second also, and the third, unto the seventh.</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.22.27">And last of all the woman died also.</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.22.28">Therefore in the resurrection whose wife shall she be of the seven? for they all had her.<lb type="x-end-paragraph"/> <lb type="x-begin-paragraph"/></verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.22.29">Jesus answered and said unto them, <q marker="" who="Jesus">You do err, not knowing the scriptures, nor the power of God.</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.22.30">For in the resurrection they neither marry, nor are given in marriage, but are as the angels of God in heaven.</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.22.31">But as touching the resurrection of the dead, have you not read that which was spoken unto you by God, saying,</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.22.32">I am the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob? God is not the God of the dead, but of the living.</q></verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.22.33">And when the multitude heard this, they were astonished at his doctrine.<lb type="x-end-paragraph"/> <lb type="x-begin-paragraph"/></verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.22.34">But when the Pharisees had heard that he had put the Sadducees to silence, they were gathered together.</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.22.35">Then one of them, which was a lawyer, asked him a question, tempting him, and saying,</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.22.36">Master, which is the great commandment in the law?</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.22.37">Jesus said unto him, <q marker="" who="Jesus">You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind.</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.22.38">This is the first and great commandment.</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.22.39">And the second is like unto it, You shall love your neighbor as yourself.</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.22.40">On these two commandments hang all the law and the prophets.</q><lb type="x-end-paragraph"/> <lb type="x-begin-paragraph"/></verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.22.41">While the Pharisees were gathered together, Jesus asked them,</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.22.42">Saying, <q marker="" who="Jesus">What think you of Christ? whose son is he?</q> They say unto him, The son of David.</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.22.43">He says unto them, <q marker="" who="Jesus">How then does David in spirit call him Lord, saying,</q><lb type="x-end-paragraph"/> <q marker="" type="block" who="Jesus"></verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.22.44">The LORD said unto my Lord, Sit you on my right hand, till I make your enemies your footstool?</q></verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.22.45">If David then call him Lord, how is he his son?</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.22.46">And no man was able to answer him a word, neither dared any man from that day forth ask him any more questions.</verse>
</chapter>
<chapter osisID="Matt.22.46">
<verse osisID="Matt.23.1">Then spoke Jesus to the multitude, and to his disciples,</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.23.2">Saying <q marker="" who="Jesus">The scribes and the Pharisees sit in Moses' seat:</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.23.3">All therefore whatsoever they bid you observe, that observe and do; but do not you after their works: for they say, and do not.</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.23.4">For they bind heavy burdens and grievous to be borne, and lay them on men's shoulders; but they themselves will not move them with one of their fingers.</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.23.5">But all their works they do to be seen of men: they make broad their phylacteries, and enlarge the borders of their garments,</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.23.6">And love the uppermost rooms at feasts, and the chief seats in the synagogues,</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.23.7">And greetings in the markets, and to be called of men, Rabbi, Rabbi.</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.23.8">But be not you called Rabbi: for one is your Master, even Christ; and all you are brothers.</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.23.9">And call no man your father upon the earth: for one is your Father, who is in heaven.</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.23.10">Neither be you called masters: for one is your Master, even Christ.</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.23.11">But he that is greatest among you shall be your servant.</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.23.12">And whosoever shall exalt himself shall be abased; and he that shall humble himself shall be exalted.</q><lb type="x-end-paragraph"/> <lb type="x-begin-paragraph"/><q marker="" who="Jesus"></verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.23.13">But woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for you shut up the kingdom of heaven against men: for you neither go in yourselves, nor permit them who are entering to go in.</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.23.14">Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for you devour widows' houses, and for a pretense make long prayer: therefore you shall receive the greater damnation.</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.23.15">Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for you cover sea and land to make one proselyte, and when he is made, you make him twofold more the child of hell than yourselves.</q><lb type="x-end-paragraph"/> <lb type="x-begin-paragraph"/><q marker="" who="Jesus"></verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.23.16">Woe unto you, you blind guides, which say, Whosoever shall swear by the temple, it is nothing; but whosoever shall swear by the gold of the temple, he is a debtor!</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.23.17">You fools and blind: for whether is greater, the gold, or the temple that sanctifies the gold?</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.23.18">And, Whosoever shall swear by the altar, it is nothing; but whosoever swears by the gift that is upon it, he is guilty.</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.23.19">You fools and blind: for whether is greater, the gift, or the altar that sanctifies the gift?</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.23.20">Whoso therefore shall swear by the altar, swears by it, and by all things thereon.</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.23.21">And whoever shall swear by the temple, swears by it, and by him that dwells in it.</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.23.22">And he that shall swear by heaven, swears by the throne of God, and by him that sits thereon.</q><lb type="x-end-paragraph"/> <lb type="x-begin-paragraph"/><q marker="" who="Jesus"></verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.23.23">Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for you pay tithe of mint and anise and cummin, and have omitted the weightier matters of the law, judgment, mercy, and faith: these you should have done, and not leave the other undone.</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.23.24">You blind guides, which strain out a gnat, and swallow a camel.</q><lb type="x-end-paragraph"/> <lb type="x-begin-paragraph"/><q marker="" who="Jesus"></verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.23.25">Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for you make clean the outside of the cup and of the platter, but within they are full of extortion and excess.</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.23.26">You blind Pharisee, cleanse first that which is within the cup and platter, that the outside of them may be clean also.</q><lb type="x-end-paragraph"/> <lb type="x-begin-paragraph"/><q marker="" who="Jesus"></verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.23.27">Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for you are like whitewashed sepulchers, which indeed appear beautiful outward, but are inside full of dead men's bones, and of all uncleanness.</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.23.28">Even so you also outwardly appear righteous unto men, but inside you are full of hypocrisy and iniquity.</q><lb type="x-end-paragraph"/> <lb type="x-begin-paragraph"/><q marker="" who="Jesus"></verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.23.29">Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! because you build the tombs of the prophets, and garnish the sepulchers of the righteous,</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.23.30">And say, If we had been in the days of our fathers, we would not have been partakers with them in the blood of the prophets.</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.23.31">Therefore you be witnesses unto yourselves, that you are the children of those who killed the prophets.</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.23.32">Fill you up then the measure of your fathers.</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.23.33">You serpents, you generation of vipers, how can you escape the damnation of hell?</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.23.34">Therefore, behold, I send unto you prophets, and wise men, and scribes: and some of them you shall kill and crucify; and some of them shall you whip in your synagogues, and persecute them from city to city:</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.23.35">That upon you may come all the righteous blood shed upon the earth, from the blood of righteous Abel unto the blood of Zacharias son of Barachias, whom you slew between the temple and the altar.</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.23.36">Truthfully I say unto you, All these things shall come upon this generation.</q><lb type="x-end-paragraph"/> <lb type="x-begin-paragraph"/><q marker="" who="Jesus"></verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.23.37">O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, you that kill the prophets, and stone those who are sent unto you, how often would I have gathered your children together, just as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, and you would not!</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.23.38">Behold, your house is left unto you desolate.</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.23.39">For I say unto you, You shall not see me henceforth, till you shall say, Blessed is he that comes in the name of the Lord.</q><lb type="x-end-paragraph"/></verse>
</chapter>
<chapter osisID="Matt.23.39">
<verse osisID="Matt.24.1">And Jesus went out, and departed from the temple: and his disciples came to him to show him the buildings of the temple.</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.24.2">And Jesus said unto them, <q marker="" who="Jesus">See you not all these things? Truthfully I say unto you, There shall not be left here one stone upon another, that shall not be thrown down.</q><lb type="x-end-paragraph"/> <lb type="x-begin-paragraph"/></verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.24.3">And as he sat upon the mount of Olives, the disciples came unto him privately, saying, Tell us, when shall these things be? and what shall be the sign of your coming, and of the end of the world?</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.24.4">And Jesus answered and said unto them, <q marker="" who="Jesus">Take heed that no man deceive you.</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.24.5">For many shall come in my name, saying, I am Christ; and shall deceive many.</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.24.6">And you shall hear of wars and rumors of wars: see that you be not troubled: for all these things must come to pass, but the end is not yet.</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.24.7">For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be famines, and pestilences, and earthquakes, in different places.</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.24.8">All these are the beginning of sorrows.</q><lb type="x-end-paragraph"/> <lb type="x-begin-paragraph"/><q marker="" who="Jesus"></verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.24.9">Then shall they deliver you up to be afflicted, and shall kill you: and you shall be hated of all nations for my name's sake.</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.24.10">And then shall many be offended, and shall betray one another, and shall hate one another.</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.24.11">And many false prophets shall rise, and shall deceive many.</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.24.12">And because iniquity shall abound, the love of many shall grow cold.</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.24.13">But he that shall endure unto the end, the same shall be saved.</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.24.14">And this gospel of the kingdom shall be preached in all the world for a witness unto all nations; and then shall the end come.</q><lb type="x-end-paragraph"/> <lb type="x-begin-paragraph"/><q marker="" who="Jesus"></verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.24.15">When you therefore shall see the abomination of desolation, spoken of by Daniel the prophet, stand in the holy place, (whoever reads, let him understand:)</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.24.16">Then let those who be in Judaea flee into the mountains:</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.24.17">Let him who is on the housetop not come down to take any thing out of his house:</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.24.18">Neither let him who is in the field return back to take his clothes.</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.24.19">And woe unto them that are with child, and to them that give suck in those days!</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.24.20">But pray you that your flight be not in the winter, neither on the sabbath day:</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.24.21">For then shall be great tribulation, such as was not since the beginning of the world to this time, no, nor ever shall be.</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.24.22">And unless those days should be shortened, there should no flesh be saved: but for the elect's sake those days shall be shortened.</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.24.23">Then if any man shall say unto you, Lo, here is Christ, or there; believe it not.</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.24.24">For there shall arise false Christs, and false prophets, and shall show great signs and wonders; insomuch that, if it were possible, they shall deceive the very elect.</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.24.25">Behold, I have told you before.</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.24.26">Therefore if they shall say unto you, Behold, he is in the desert; go not forth: behold, he is in the secret chambers; believe it not.</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.24.27">For as the lightning comes out of the east, and shines even unto the west; so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.24.28">For wherever the carcass is, there will the eagles be gathered together.</q><lb type="x-end-paragraph"/> <lb type="x-begin-paragraph"/><q marker="" who="Jesus"></verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.24.29">Immediately after the tribulation of those days shall the sun be darkened, and the moon shall not give her light, and the stars shall fall from heaven, and the powers of the heavens shall be shaken:</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.24.30">And then shall appear the sign of the Son of man in heaven: and then shall all the tribes of the earth mourn, and they shall see the Son of man coming in the clouds of heaven with power and great glory.</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.24.31">And he shall send his angels with a great sound of a trumpet, and they shall gather together his elect from the four winds, from one end of heaven to the other.</q><lb type="x-end-paragraph"/> <lb type="x-begin-paragraph"/><q marker="" who="Jesus"></verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.24.32">Now learn a parable of the fig tree; When its branch is yet tender, and puts forth leaves, you know that summer is close:</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.24.33">So likewise you, when you shall see all these things, know that it is near, even at the doors.</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.24.34">Truthfully I say unto you, This generation shall not pass, till all these things be fulfilled.</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.24.35">Heaven and earth shall pass away, but my words shall not pass away.</q><lb type="x-end-paragraph"/> <lb type="x-begin-paragraph"/><q marker="" who="Jesus"></verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.24.36">But of that day and hour knows no man, no, not the angels of heaven, but my Father only.</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.24.37">But as the days of Noah were, so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.24.38">For as in the days that were before the flood they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day that Noah entered into the ark,</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.24.39">And did not know until the flood came, and took them all away; so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.24.40">Then shall two be in the field; the one shall be taken, and the other left.</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.24.41">Two women shall be grinding at the mill; the one shall be taken, and the other left.</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.24.42">Watch therefore: for you know not what hour your Lord does come.</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.24.43">But know this, that if the goodman of the house had known in what watch the thief would come, he would have watched, and would not have permitted his house to be broken up.</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.24.44">Therefore be you also ready: for in such an hour as you think not the Son of man comes.</q><lb type="x-end-paragraph"/> <lb type="x-begin-paragraph"/><q marker="" who="Jesus"></verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.24.45">Who then is a faithful and wise servant, whom his lord has made ruler over his household, to give them food in due season?</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.24.46">Blessed is that servant, whom his lord when he comes shall find so doing.</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.24.47">Truthfully I say unto you, That he shall make him ruler over all his goods.</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.24.48">But and if that evil servant shall say in his heart, My lord delays his coming;</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.24.49">And shall begin to smite his fellow servants, and to eat and drink with the drunken;</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.24.50">The lord of that servant shall come in a day when he looks not for him, and in an hour that he is not aware of,</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.24.51">And shall cut him asunder, and appoint him his portion with the hypocrites: there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.</q><lb type="x-end-paragraph"/></verse>
</chapter>
<chapter osisID="Matt.24.51">
<verse osisID="Matt.25.1">Then shall the kingdom of heaven be likened unto ten virgins, which took their lamps, and went forth to meet the bridegroom.</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.25.2">And five of them were wise, and five were foolish.</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.25.3">They that were foolish took their lamps, and took no oil with them:</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.25.4">But the wise took oil in their vessels with their lamps.</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.25.5">While the bridegroom tarried, they all slumbered and slept.</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.25.6">And at midnight there was a cry made, Behold, the bridegroom comes; go you out to meet him.</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.25.7">Then all those virgins arose, and trimmed their lamps.</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.25.8">And the foolish said unto the wise, Give us of your oil; for our lamps are gone out.</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.25.9">But the wise answered, saying, Not so; lest there be not enough for us and you: but go you rather to them that sell, and buy for yourselves.</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.25.10">And while they went to buy, the bridegroom came; and they that were ready went in with him to the marriage: and the door was shut.</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.25.11">Afterward came also the other virgins, saying, Lord, Lord, open to us.</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.25.12">But he answered and said, Truthfully I say unto you, I know you not.</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.25.13">Watch therefore, for you know neither the day nor the hour in which the Son of man comes.</q><lb type="x-end-paragraph"/> <lb type="x-begin-paragraph"/><q marker="" who="Jesus"></verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.25.14">For the kingdom of heaven is as a man travelling into a far country, who called his own servants, and delivered unto them his goods.</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.25.15">And unto one he gave five talents, to another two, and to another one; to every man according to his own ability; and immediately took his journey.</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.25.16">Then he that had received the five talents went and traded with the same, and made them other five talents.</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.25.17">And likewise he that had received two, he also gained other two.</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.25.18">But he that had received one went and dug in the earth, and hid his lord's money.</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.25.19">After a long time the lord of those servants comes, and reckons with them.</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.25.20">And so he that had received five talents came and brought other five talents, saying, Lord, you delivered unto me five talents: behold, I have gained beside them five talents more.</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.25.21">His lord said unto him, Well done, you good and faithful servant: you have been faithful over a few things, I will make you ruler over many things: enter you into the joy of your lord.</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.25.22">He also that had received two talents came and said, Lord, you delivered unto me two talents: behold, I have gained two other talents beside them.</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.25.23">His lord said unto him, Well done, good and faithful servant; you have been faithful over a few things, I will make you ruler over many things: enter you into the joy of your lord.</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.25.24">Then he which had received the one talent came and said, Lord, I knew you that you are a hard man, reaping where you have not sown, and gathering where you have not scattered:</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.25.25">And I was afraid, and went and hid your talent in the earth: lo, there you have that which is yours.</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.25.26">His lord answered and said unto him, You wicked and slothful servant, you knew that I reap where I did not sow, and gather where I have not scattered:</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.25.27">You ought therefore to have put my money to the exchangers, and then at my coming I should have received my own with interest.</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.25.28">Take therefore the talent from him, and give it unto him which has ten talents.</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.25.29">For unto every one that has shall be given, and he shall have abundance: but from him that has not shall be taken away even that which he has.</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.25.30">And cast you the unprofitable servant into outer darkness: there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.</q><lb type="x-end-paragraph"/> <lb type="x-begin-paragraph"/><q marker="" who="Jesus"></verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.25.31">When the Son of man shall come in his glory, and all the holy angels with him, then shall he sit upon the throne of his glory:</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.25.32">And before him shall be gathered all nations: and he shall separate them one from another, as a shepherd divides his sheep from the goats:</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.25.33">And he shall set the sheep on his right hand, but the goats on the left.</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.25.34">Then shall the King say unto them on his right hand, Come, you blessed of my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world:</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.25.35">For I was hungry, and you gave me food: I was thirsty, and you gave me drink: I was a stranger, and you took me in:</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.25.36">Naked, and you clothed me: I was sick, and you visited me: I was in prison, and you came unto me.</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.25.37">Then shall the righteous answer him, saying, Lord, when did we see you hungry, and fed you? or thirsty, and gave you drink?</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.25.38">When did we see you a stranger, and took you in? or naked, and clothed you?</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.25.39">Or when did we see you sick, or in prison, and came unto you?</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.25.40">And the King shall answer and say unto them, Truthfully I say unto you, Inasmuch as you have done it unto one of the least of these my brothers, you have done it unto me.</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.25.41">Then shall he say also unto them on the left hand, Depart from me, you cursed, into everlasting fire, prepared for the devil and his angels:</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.25.42">For I was hungry, and you gave me no food: I was thirsty, and you gave me no drink:</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.25.43">I was a stranger, and you took me not in: naked, and you clothed me not: sick, and in prison, and you visited me not.</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.25.44">Then shall they also answer him, saying, Lord, when saw we you hungry, or athirst, or a stranger, or naked, or sick, or in prison, and did not minister unto you?</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.25.45">Then shall he answer them, saying, Truthfully I say unto you, Inasmuch as you did it not to one of the least of these, you did it not to me.</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.25.46">And these shall go away into everlasting punishment: but the righteous into life eternal.</q><lb type="x-end-paragraph"/></verse>
</chapter>
<chapter osisID="Matt.25.46">
<verse osisID="Matt.26.1">And it came to pass, when Jesus had finished all these sayings, he said unto his disciples,</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.26.2"><q marker="" who="Jesus">You know that after two days is the feast of the passover, and the Son of man is betrayed to be crucified.</q><lb type="x-end-paragraph"/> <lb type="x-begin-paragraph"/></verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.26.3">Then assembled together the chief priests, and the scribes, and the elders of the people, unto the palace of the high priest, who was called Caiaphas,</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.26.4">And consulted that they might take Jesus by trickery, and kill him.</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.26.5">But they said, Not on the feast day, lest there be an uproar among the people.<lb type="x-end-paragraph"/> <lb type="x-begin-paragraph"/></verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.26.6">Now when Jesus was in Bethany, in the house of Simon the leper,</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.26.7">There came unto him a woman having an alabaster box of very precious ointment, and poured it on his head, as he sat at food.</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.26.8">But when his disciples saw it, they had indignation, saying, To what purpose is this waste?</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.26.9">For this ointment might have been sold for much, and given to the poor.</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.26.10">When Jesus understood it, he said unto them, <q marker="" who="Jesus">Why trouble you the woman? for she has wrought a good work upon me.</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.26.11">For you have the poor always with you; but me you have not always.</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.26.12">For in that she has poured this ointment on my body, she did it for my burial.</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.26.13">Truthfully I say unto you, Wherever this gospel shall be preached in the whole world, there shall also this, that this woman has done, be told for a memorial of her.</q><lb type="x-end-paragraph"/> <lb type="x-begin-paragraph"/></verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.26.14">Then one of the twelve, called Judas Iscariot, went unto the chief priests,</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.26.15">And said unto them, What will you give me, and I will deliver him unto you? And they contracted with him for thirty pieces of silver.</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.26.16">And from that time he sought opportunity to betray him.<lb type="x-end-paragraph"/> <lb type="x-begin-paragraph"/></verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.26.17">Now the first day of the feast of unleavened bread the disciples came to Jesus, saying unto him, Where will you that we prepare for you to eat the passover?</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.26.18">And he said, <q marker="" who="Jesus">Go into the city to such a man, and say unto him, The Master says, My time is at hand; I will keep the passover at your house with my disciples.</q></verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.26.19">And the disciples did as Jesus had appointed them; and they made ready the passover.<lb type="x-end-paragraph"/> <lb type="x-begin-paragraph"/></verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.26.20">Now when the evening was come, he sat down with the twelve.</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.26.21">And as they did eat, he said, <q marker="" who="Jesus">Truthfully I say unto you, that one of you shall betray me.</q></verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.26.22">And they were exceedingly sorrowful, and began every one of them to say unto him, Lord, is it I?</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.26.23">And he answered and said, <q marker="" who="Jesus">He that dips his hand with me in the dish, the same shall betray me.</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.26.24">The Son of man goes as it is written of him: but woe unto that man by whom the Son of man is betrayed! it had been good for that man if he had not been born.</q></verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.26.25">Then Judas, which betrayed him, answered and said, Master, is it I? He said unto him, <q marker="" who="Jesus">You have said it.</q><lb type="x-end-paragraph"/> <lb type="x-begin-paragraph"/></verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.26.26">And as they were eating, Jesus took bread, and blessed it, and broke it, and gave it to the disciples, and said, <q marker="" who="Jesus">Take, eat; this is my body.</q></verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.26.27">And he took the cup, and gave thanks, and gave it to them, saying, <q marker="" who="Jesus">Drink you all of it;</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.26.28">For this is my blood of the new covenant, which is shed for many for the remission of sins.</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.26.29">But I say unto you, I will not drink henceforth of this fruit of the vine, until that day when I drink it new with you in my Father's kingdom.</q><lb type="x-end-paragraph"/> <lb type="x-begin-paragraph"/></verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.26.30">And when they had sung a hymn, they went out into the mount of Olives.<lb type="x-end-paragraph"/> <lb type="x-begin-paragraph"/></verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.26.31">Then says Jesus unto them, <q marker="" who="Jesus">All you shall be offended because of me this night: for it is written,</q><lb type="x-end-paragraph"/> <q marker="" type="block" who="Jesus">I will smite the shepherd, and the sheep of the flock shall be scattered abroad.</q></verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.26.32">But after I am risen again, I will go before you into Galilee.</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.26.33">Peter answered and said unto him, Though all men shall be offended because of you, yet will I never be offended.</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.26.34">Jesus said unto him, <q marker="" who="Jesus">Truthfully I say unto you, That this night, before the cock crow, you shall deny me three times.</q></verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.26.35">Peter said unto him, Though I should die with you, yet will I not deny you. Likewise also said all the disciples. <lb type="x-begin-paragraph"/></verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.26.36">Then comes Jesus with them unto a place called Gethsemane, and says unto the disciples, <q marker="" who="Jesus">Sit you here, while I go and pray yonder.</q></verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.26.37">And he took with him Peter and the two sons of Zebedee, and began to be sorrowful and very heavy.</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.26.38">Then says he unto them, <q marker="" who="Jesus">My soul is exceedingly sorrowful, even unto death: tarry you here, and watch with me.</q></verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.26.39">And he went a little farther, and fell on his face, and prayed, saying, <q marker="" who="Jesus">O my Father, if it be possible, let this cup pass from me: nevertheless not as I will, but as you will.</q></verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.26.40">And he comes unto the disciples, and finds them asleep, and says unto Peter, <q marker="" who="Jesus">What, could you not watch with me one hour?</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.26.41">Watch and pray, that you enter not into temptation: the spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak.</q></verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.26.42">He went away again the second time, and prayed, saying, <q marker="" who="Jesus">O my Father, if this cup may not pass away from me, unless I drink it, your will be done.</q></verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.26.43">And he came and found them asleep again: for their eyes were heavy.</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.26.44">And he left them, and went away again, and prayed the third time, saying the same words.</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.26.45">Then comes he to his disciples, and says unto them, <q marker="" who="Jesus">Sleep on now, and take your rest: behold, the hour is at hand, and the Son of man is betrayed into the hands of sinners.</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.26.46">Rise, let us be going: behold, he is at hand that does betray me.</q><lb type="x-end-paragraph"/> <lb type="x-begin-paragraph"/></verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.26.47">And while he yet spoke, lo, Judas, one of the twelve, came, and with him a great multitude with swords and staves, from the chief priests and elders of the people.</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.26.48">Now he that betrayed him gave them a sign, saying, Whomever I shall kiss, that same is he: hold him fast.</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.26.49">And immediately he came to Jesus, and said, Hail, master; and kissed him.</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.26.50">And Jesus said unto him, <q marker="" who="Jesus">Friend, why are you come?</q> Then came they, and laid hands on Jesus and took him.</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.26.51">And, behold, one of those who were with Jesus stretched out his hand, and drew his sword, and struck a servant of the high priest's, and smote off his ear.</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.26.52">Then said Jesus unto him, <q marker="" who="Jesus">Put up again your sword into his place: for all they that take the sword shall perish with the sword.</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.26.53">Think you that I cannot now pray to my Father, and he shall presently give me more than twelve legions of angels?</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.26.54">But how then shall the scriptures be fulfilled, that thus it must be?</q></verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.26.55">In that same hour said Jesus to the multitudes, <q marker="" who="Jesus">Are you come out as against a thief with swords and staves for to take me? I sat daily with you teaching in the temple, and you laid no hold on me.</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.26.56">But all this was done, that the scriptures of the prophets might be fulfilled.</q> Then all the disciples forsook him, and fled.<lb type="x-end-paragraph"/> <lb type="x-begin-paragraph"/></verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.26.57">And they that had laid hold on Jesus led him away to Caiaphas the high priest, where the scribes and the elders were assembled.</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.26.58">But Peter followed him afar off unto the high priest's palace, and went in, and sat with the servants, to see the end.</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.26.59">Now the chief priests, and elders, and all the council, sought false witness against Jesus, to put him to death;</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.26.60">But found none: yes, though many false witnesses came, yet found they none. At the last came two false witnesses,</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.26.61">And said, This fellow said, I am able to destroy the temple of God, and to build it in three days.</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.26.62">And the high priest arose, and said unto him, Answer you nothing? what is it which these witness against you?</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.26.63">But Jesus held his peace, And the high priest answered and said unto him, I adjure you by the living God, that you tell us whether you be the Christ, the Son of God.</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.26.64">Jesus says unto him, <q marker="" who="Jesus">You have said it: nevertheless I say unto you,</q><lb type="x-end-paragraph"/> <q marker="" type="block" who="Jesus">Hereafter shall you see the Son of man sitting on the right hand of power, and coming in the clouds of heaven.</q></verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.26.65">Then the high priest tore his clothes, saying, He has spoken blasphemy; what further need have we of witnesses? behold, now you have heard his blasphemy.</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.26.66">What think you? They answered and said, He is guilty of death.</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.26.67">Then did they spit in his face, and buffeted him; and others smote him with the palms of their hands,</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.26.68">Saying, Prophesy unto us, you Christ, Who is he that smote you? <lb type="x-begin-paragraph"/></verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.26.69">Now Peter sat outside in the palace: and a damsel came unto him, saying, You also were with Jesus of Galilee.</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.26.70">But he denied before them all, saying, I do not know what you say.</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.26.71">And when he was gone out into the porch, another maid saw him, and said unto them that were there, This fellow was also with Jesus of Nazareth.</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.26.72">And again he denied with an oath, I do not know the man.</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.26.73">And after a while came unto him they that stood by, and said to Peter, Surely you also are one of them; for your speech betrays you.</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.26.74">Then began he to curse and to swear, saying, I do not know the man. And immediately the cock crowed.</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.26.75">And Peter remembered the word of Jesus, which said unto him, Before the cock crows, you shall deny me three times. And he went out, and wept bitterly.<lb type="x-end-paragraph"/></verse>
</chapter>
<chapter osisID="Matt.26.75">
<verse osisID="Matt.27.1">When the morning was come, all the chief priests and elders of the people took counsel against Jesus to put him to death:</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.27.2">And when they had bound him, they led him away, and delivered him to Pontius Pilate the governor.<lb type="x-end-paragraph"/> <lb type="x-begin-paragraph"/></verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.27.3">Then Judas, which had betrayed him, when he saw that he was condemned, repented himself, and brought again the thirty pieces of silver to the chief priests and elders,</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.27.4">Saying, I have sinned in that I have betrayed innocent blood. And they said, What is that to us? see you to that.</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.27.5">And he cast down the pieces of silver in the temple, and departed, and went and hanged himself.</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.27.6">And the chief priests took the silver pieces, and said, It is not lawful to put them into the treasury, because it is the price of blood.</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.27.7">And they took counsel, and bought with them the potter's field, to bury strangers in.</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.27.8">Therefore that field was called, The field of blood, unto this day.</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.27.9">Then was fulfilled that which was spoken by Jeremiah the prophet, saying, And they took the thirty pieces of silver, the price of him that was valued, whom they of the children of Israel did value;</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.27.10">And gave them for the potter's field, as the Lord appointed me.<lb type="x-end-paragraph"/> <lb type="x-begin-paragraph"/></verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.27.11">And Jesus stood before the governor: and the governor asked him, saying, Are you the King of the Jews? And Jesus said unto him, You say it.</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.27.12">And when he was accused by the chief priests and elders, he answered nothing.</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.27.13">Then said Pilate unto him, Do you hear not how many things they witness against you?</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.27.14">And he answered him never a word; insomuch that the governor marvelled greatly.<lb type="x-end-paragraph"/> <lb type="x-begin-paragraph"/></verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.27.15">Now at that feast the governor was accustomed to release unto the people a prisoner, whomever they desired.</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.27.16">And they had then a notorious prisoner, called Barabbas.</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.27.17">Therefore when they were gathered together, Pilate said unto them, Whom do you will that I release unto you? Barabbas, or Jesus who is called Christ?</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.27.18">For he knew that because of envy they had delivered him.</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.27.19">When he was set down on the judgment seat, his wife sent unto him, saying, Do nothing to that righteous man: for I have endured many things this day in a dream because of him.</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.27.20">But the chief priests and elders persuaded the multitude that they should ask for Barabbas, and destroy Jesus.</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.27.21">The governor answered and said unto them, Which of the two do you will that I release unto you? They said, Barabbas.</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.27.22">Pilate says unto them, What shall I do then with Jesus who is called Christ? They all say unto him, Let him be crucified.</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.27.23">And the governor said, Why, what evil has he done? But they cried out the more, saying, Let him be crucified.<lb type="x-end-paragraph"/> <lb type="x-begin-paragraph"/></verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.27.24">When Pilate saw that he could prevail nothing, but that rather a tumult was made, he took water, and washed his hands before the multitude, saying, I am innocent of the blood of this just person: see you to it.</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.27.25">Then answered all the people, and said, His blood be on us, and on our children.</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.27.26">Then he released Barabbas unto them: and after Jesus was whipped, he delivered him to be crucified.<lb type="x-end-paragraph"/> <lb type="x-begin-paragraph"/></verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.27.27">Then the soldiers of the governor took Jesus into the common hall, and gathered unto him the whole band of soldiers.</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.27.28">And they stripped him, and put on him a scarlet robe.</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.27.29">And when they had platted a crown of thorns, they put it upon his head, and a reed in his right hand: and they bowed the knee before him, and mocked him, saying, Hail, King of the Jews!</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.27.30">And they spit upon him, and took the reed, and smote him on the head.</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.27.31">And after they had mocked him, they took the robe off from him, and put his own clothing on him, and led him away to crucify him.<lb type="x-end-paragraph"/> <lb type="x-begin-paragraph"/></verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.27.32">And as they came out, they found a man of Cyrene, Simon by name: him they compelled to bear his cross.</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.27.33">And when they had come unto a place called Golgotha, that is to say, a place of a skull,</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.27.34">They gave him vinegar to drink mingled with gall: and when he had tasted of it, he would not drink.</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.27.35">And they crucified him, and divided his garments, casting lots: that it might be fulfilled which was spoken by the prophet, They divided my garments among them, and upon my vesture did they cast lots.</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.27.36">And sitting down they watched him there;</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.27.37">And set up over his head his accusation written, THIS IS JESUS THE KING OF THE JEWS.<lb type="x-end-paragraph"/> <lb type="x-begin-paragraph"/></verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.27.38">Then were there two thieves crucified with him, one on the right hand, and another on the left.</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.27.39">And they that passed by reviled him, shook their heads,</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.27.40">And saying, You that destroys the temple, and builds it in three days, save yourself. If you be the Son of God, come down from the cross.</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.27.41">Likewise also the chief priests mocking him, with the scribes and elders, said,</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.27.42">He saved others; himself he cannot save. If he be the King of Israel, let him now come down from the cross, and we will believe him.</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.27.43">He trusted in God; let him deliver him now, if he will have him: for he said, I am the Son of God.</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.27.44">The thieves also, which were crucified with him, reproached him the same way.<lb type="x-end-paragraph"/> <lb type="x-begin-paragraph"/></verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.27.45">Now from the sixth hour there was darkness over all the land unto the ninth hour.</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.27.46">And about the ninth hour Jesus cried with a loud voice, saying, <q marker="" who="Jesus">Eli, Eli, lama sabachthani?</q> that is to say, My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.27.47">Some of them that stood there, when they heard that, said, This man calls for Elijah.</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.27.48">And immediately one of them ran, and took a sponge, and filled it with vinegar, and put it on a reed, and gave him to drink.</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.27.49">The rest said, Let it be, let us see whether Elijah will come to save him.</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.27.50">Jesus, when he had cried again with a loud voice, yielded up the ghost.</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.27.51">And, behold, the veil of the temple was torn in two from the top to the bottom; and the earth did quake, and the rocks tore;</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.27.52">And the graves were opened; and many bodies of the saints which slept arose,</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.27.53">And came out of the graves after his resurrection, and went into the holy city, and appeared unto many.</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.27.54">Now when the centurion, and they that were with him, watching Jesus, saw the earthquake, and those things that were done, they feared greatly, saying, Truly this was the Son of God.<lb type="x-end-paragraph"/> <lb type="x-begin-paragraph"/></verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.27.55">And many women were there beholding far off, which followed Jesus from Galilee, ministering unto him:</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.27.56">Among which was Mary Magdalene, and Mary the mother of James and Joses, and the mother of Zebedee's children.<lb type="x-end-paragraph"/> <lb type="x-begin-paragraph"/></verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.27.57">When the evening was come, there came a rich man of Arimathaea, named Joseph, who also himself was Jesus' disciple:</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.27.58">He went to Pilate, and requested the body of Jesus. Then Pilate commanded the body to be delivered.</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.27.59">And when Joseph had taken the body, he wrapped it in a clean linen cloth,</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.27.60">And laid it in his own new tomb, which he had hewn out in the rock: and he rolled a great stone to the door of the sepulcher, and departed.</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.27.61">And there was Mary Magdalene, and the other Mary, sitting over against the sepulcher.<lb type="x-end-paragraph"/> <lb type="x-begin-paragraph"/></verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.27.62">Now the next day, that followed the day of the preparation, the chief priests and Pharisees came together unto Pilate,</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.27.63">Saying, Sir, we remember that that deceiver said, while he was yet alive, After three days I will rise again.</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.27.64">Command therefore that the sepulcher be made secure until the third day, lest his disciples come by night, and steal him away, and say unto the people, He is risen from the dead: so the last error shall be worse than the first.</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.27.65">Pilate said unto them, You have a watch: go your way, make it as secure as you can.</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.27.66">So they went, and made the sepulcher secure, sealing the stone, and setting a watch.<lb type="x-end-paragraph"/></verse>
</chapter>
<chapter osisID="Matt.27.66">
<verse osisID="Matt.28.1">In the end of the sabbath, as it began to dawn toward the first day of the week, came Mary Magdalene and the other Mary to see the sepulcher.</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.28.2">And, behold, there was a great earthquake: for the angel of the Lord descended from heaven, and came and rolled back the stone from the door, and sat upon it.</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.28.3">His countenance was like lightning, and his clothing white as snow:</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.28.4">And for fear of him the keepers did shake, and became as dead men.</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.28.5">And the angel answered and said unto the women, Fear not you: for I know that you seek Jesus, which was crucified.</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.28.6">He is not here: for he is risen, as he said. Come, see the place where the Lord lay.</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.28.7">And go quickly, and tell his disciples that he is risen from the dead; and, behold, he goes before you into Galilee; there shall you see him: lo, I have told you.</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.28.8">And they departed quickly from the sepulcher with fear and great joy; and did run to bring his disciples word.</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.28.9">And as they went to tell his disciples, behold, Jesus met them, saying, <q marker="" who="Jesus">All hail.</q> And they came and held him by the feet, and worshipped him.</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.28.10">Then said Jesus unto them, <q marker="" who="Jesus">Be not afraid: go tell my brothers that they go into Galilee, and there shall they see me.</q><lb type="x-end-paragraph"/> <lb type="x-begin-paragraph"/></verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.28.11">Now when they were going, behold, some of the watch came into the city, and showed unto the chief priests all the things that were done.</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.28.12">And when they were assembled with the elders, and had taken counsel, they gave large money unto the soldiers,</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.28.13">Saying, Say you, His disciples came by night, and stole him away while we slept.</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.28.14">And if this come to the governor's ears, we will persuade him, and secure you.</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.28.15">So they took the money, and did as they were instructed: and this saying is commonly reported among the Jews until this day.<lb type="x-end-paragraph"/> <lb type="x-begin-paragraph"/></verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.28.16">Then the eleven disciples went away into Galilee, into a mountain where Jesus had appointed them.</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.28.17">And when they saw him, they worshipped him: but some doubted.</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.28.18">And Jesus came and spoke unto them, saying, <q marker="" who="Jesus">All power is given unto me in heaven and in earth.</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.28.19">Go you therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit:</verse>
<verse osisID="Matt.28.20">Teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you: and, lo, I am with you always, even unto the end of the world.</q> Amen.<lb type="x-end-paragraph"/> </div></verse>
</chapter>
</div>
<div type="book" osisID="Matt.27.66">
<chapter osisID="Matt.28.20">
<verse osisID="Mark.1.1">The beginning of the gospel of Jesus Christ, the Son of God;</verse>
<verse osisID="Mark.1.2">As it is written in the prophets, Behold, I send my messenger before your face, which shall prepare your way before you.</verse>
<verse osisID="Mark.1.3">The voice of one crying in the wilderness, Prepare you the way of the Lord, make his paths straight.</verse>
<verse osisID="Mark.1.4">John did baptize in the wilderness, and preach the baptism of repentance for the remission of sins.</verse>
<verse osisID="Mark.1.5">And there went out unto him all the land of Judaea, and they of Jerusalem, and were all baptized of him in the river Jordan, confessing their sins.</verse>
<verse osisID="Mark.1.6">And John was clothed with camel's hair, and with a girdle of a skin about his loins; and he did eat locusts and wild honey;</verse>
<verse osisID="Mark.1.7">And preached, saying, There comes one mightier than I after me, the latchet of whose shoes I am not worthy to stoop down and unloose.</verse>
<verse osisID="Mark.1.8">I indeed have baptized you with water: but he shall baptize you with the Holy Ghost.</verse>
<verse osisID="Mark.1.9">And it came to pass in those days, that Jesus came from Nazareth of Galilee, and was baptized of John in the Jordan.</verse>
<verse osisID="Mark.1.10">And immediately coming up out of the water, he saw the heavens opened, and the Spirit like a dove descending upon him:</verse>
<verse osisID="Mark.1.11">And there came a voice from heaven, saying, You are my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased.</verse>
<verse osisID="Mark.1.12">And immediately the spirit drives him into the wilderness.</verse>
<verse osisID="Mark.1.13">And he was there in the wilderness forty days, tempted of Satan; and was with the wild beasts; and the angels ministered unto him.</verse>
<verse osisID="Mark.1.14">Now after John was put in prison, Jesus came into Galilee, preaching the gospel of the kingdom of God,</verse>
<verse osisID="Mark.1.15">And saying, The time is fulfilled, and the kingdom of God is at hand: repent you, and believe the gospel.</verse>
<verse osisID="Mark.1.16">Now as he walked by the sea of Galilee, he saw Simon and Andrew his brother casting a net into the sea: for they were fishers.</verse>
<verse osisID="Mark.1.17">And Jesus said unto them, Come you after me, and I will make you to become fishers of men.</verse>
<verse osisID="Mark.1.18">And immediately they gave up their nets, and followed him.</verse>
<verse osisID="Mark.1.19">And when he had gone a little farther from there, he saw James the son of Zebedee, and John his brother, who also were in the boat mending their nets.</verse>
<verse osisID="Mark.1.20">And immediately he called them: and they left their father Zebedee in the boat with the hired servants, and went after him.</verse>
<verse osisID="Mark.1.21">And they went into Capernaum; and immediately on the sabbath day he entered into the synagogue, and taught.</verse>
<verse osisID="Mark.1.22">And they were astonished at his doctrine: for he taught them as one that had authority, and not as the scribes.</verse>
<verse osisID="Mark.1.23">And there was in their synagogue a man with an unclean spirit; and he cried out,</verse>
<verse osisID="Mark.1.24">Saying, Let us alone; what have we to do with you, Jesus of Nazareth? are you come to destroy us? I know you who you are, the Holy One of God.</verse>
<verse osisID="Mark.1.25">And Jesus rebuked him, saying, Hold your peace, and come out of him.</verse>
<verse osisID="Mark.1.26">And when the unclean spirit had torn him, and cried with a loud voice, he came out of him.</verse>
<verse osisID="Mark.1.27">And they were all amazed, insomuch that they questioned among themselves, saying, What thing is this? what new doctrine is this? for with authority he commands even the unclean spirits, and they do obey him.</verse>
<verse osisID="Mark.1.28">And immediately his fame spread abroad throughout all the region round about Galilee.</verse>
<verse osisID="Mark.1.29">And immediately, when they had come out of the synagogue, they entered into the house of Simon and Andrew, with James and John.</verse>
<verse osisID="Mark.1.30">But Simon's wife's mother lay sick of a fever, and soon they tell him of her.</verse>
<verse osisID="Mark.1.31">And he came and took her by the hand, and lifted her up; and immediately the fever left her, and she ministered unto them.</verse>
<verse osisID="Mark.1.32">And at evening, when the sun did set, they brought unto him all that were diseased, and them that were possessed with devils.</verse>
<verse osisID="Mark.1.33">And all the city was gathered together at the door.</verse>
<verse osisID="Mark.1.34">And he healed many that were sick of different diseases, and cast out many devils; and permitted not the devils to speak, because they knew him.</verse>
<verse osisID="Mark.1.35">And in the morning, rising up much before daybreak, he went out, and departed into a solitary place, and there prayed.</verse>
<verse osisID="Mark.1.36">And Simon and they that were with him followed after him.</verse>
<verse osisID="Mark.1.37">And when they had found him, they said unto him, All men seek for you.</verse>
<verse osisID="Mark.1.38">And he said unto them, Let us go into the next towns, that I may preach there also: for this purpose came I forth.</verse>
<verse osisID="Mark.1.39">And he preached in their synagogues throughout all Galilee, and cast out devils.</verse>
<verse osisID="Mark.1.40">And there came a leper to him, beseeching him, and kneeling down to him, and saying unto him, If you will, you can make me clean.</verse>
<verse osisID="Mark.1.41">And Jesus, moved with compassion, put forth his hand, and touched him, and says unto him, I will; be clean.</verse>
<verse osisID="Mark.1.42">And as soon as he had spoken, immediately the leprosy departed from him, and he was cleansed.</verse>
<verse osisID="Mark.1.43">And he strictly instructed him, and immediately sent him away;</verse>
<verse osisID="Mark.1.44">And says unto him, See you say nothing to any man: but go your way, show yourself to the priest, and offer for your cleansing those things which Moses commanded, for a testimony unto them.</verse>
<verse osisID="Mark.1.45">But he went out, and began to announce it much, and to blaze abroad the matter, insomuch that Jesus could no more openly enter into the city, but was outside in deserted places: and they came to him from every quarter.</verse>
</chapter>
<chapter osisID="Mark.1.45">
<verse osisID="Mark.2.1">And again he entered into Capernaum after some days; and it was reported that he was in the house.</verse>
<verse osisID="Mark.2.2">And immediately many were gathered together, insomuch that there was no room to receive them, no, not so much as around the door: and he preached the word unto them.</verse>
<verse osisID="Mark.2.3">And they come unto him, bringing one sick of the palsy, which was carried by four.</verse>
<verse osisID="Mark.2.4">And when they could not come close unto him for the press, they uncovered the roof where he was: and when they had broken it up, they let down the bed in which the one sick of the palsy lay.</verse>
<verse osisID="Mark.2.5">When Jesus saw their faith, he said unto the one sick of the palsy, Son, your sins be forgiven you.</verse>
<verse osisID="Mark.2.6">But there was certain of the scribes sitting there, and reasoning in their hearts,</verse>
<verse osisID="Mark.2.7">Why does this man thus speak blasphemies? who can forgive sins but God only?</verse>
<verse osisID="Mark.2.8">And immediately when Jesus perceived in his spirit that they so reasoned within themselves, he said unto them, Why reason you these things in your hearts?</verse>
<verse osisID="Mark.2.9">Which is easier to say to the one sick of the palsy, Your sins be forgiven you; or to say, Arise, and take up your bed, and walk?</verse>
<verse osisID="Mark.2.10">But that you may know that the Son of man has power on earth to forgive sins, (he says to the one sick of the palsy,)</verse>
<verse osisID="Mark.2.11">I say unto you, Arise, and take up your bed, and go your way into your house.</verse>
<verse osisID="Mark.2.12">And immediately he arose, took up the bed, and went forth before them all; insomuch that they were all amazed, and glorified God, saying, We never saw it in this manner.</verse>
<verse osisID="Mark.2.13">And he went forth again by the seaside; and all the multitude resorted unto him, and he taught them.</verse>
<verse osisID="Mark.2.14">And as he passed by, he saw Levi the son of Alphaeus sitting at the receipt of custom, and said unto him, Follow me. And he arose and followed him.</verse>
<verse osisID="Mark.2.15">And it came to pass, that, as Jesus sat at food in his house, many publicans and sinners sat also together with Jesus and his disciples: for there were many, and they followed him.</verse>
<verse osisID="Mark.2.16">And when the scribes and Pharisees saw him eat with publicans and sinners, they said unto his disciples, How is it that he eats and drinks with publicans and sinners?</verse>
<verse osisID="Mark.2.17">When Jesus heard it, he says unto them, They that are whole have no need of the physician, but they that are sick: I came not to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.</verse>
<verse osisID="Mark.2.18">And the disciples of John and of the Pharisees used to fast: and they come and say unto him, Why do the disciples of John and of the Pharisees fast, but your disciples fast not?</verse>
<verse osisID="Mark.2.19">And Jesus said unto them, Can the children of the bridechamber fast, while the bridegroom is with them? as long as they have the bridegroom with them, they cannot fast.</verse>
<verse osisID="Mark.2.20">But the days will come, when the bridegroom shall be taken away from them, and then shall they fast in those days.</verse>
<verse osisID="Mark.2.21">No man also sews a piece of new cloth on an old garment: else the new piece that filled it up takes away from the old, and the tear is made worse.</verse>
<verse osisID="Mark.2.22">And no man puts new wine into old bottles: else the new wine does burst the bottles, and the wine is spilled, and the bottles will be marred: but new wine must be put into new bottles.</verse>
<verse osisID="Mark.2.23">And it came to pass, that he went through the corn fields on the sabbath day; and his disciples began, as they went, to pluck the ears of corn.</verse>
<verse osisID="Mark.2.24">And the Pharisees said unto him, Behold, why do they on the sabbath day that which is not lawful?</verse>
<verse osisID="Mark.2.25">And he said unto them, Have you never read what David did, when he had need, and was hungry, he, and they that were with him?</verse>
<verse osisID="Mark.2.26">How he went into the house of God in the days of Abiathar the high priest, and did eat the showbread, which is not lawful to eat but for the priests, and gave also to those who were with him?</verse>
<verse osisID="Mark.2.27">And he said unto them, The sabbath was made for man, and not man for the sabbath:</verse>
<verse osisID="Mark.2.28">Therefore the Son of man is Lord also of the sabbath.</verse>
</chapter>
<chapter osisID="Mark.2.28">
<verse osisID="Mark.3.1">And he entered again into the synagogue; and there was a man there which had a withered hand.</verse>
<verse osisID="Mark.3.2">And they watched him, whether he would heal him on the sabbath day; that they might accuse him.</verse>
<verse osisID="Mark.3.3">And he says unto the man which had the withered hand, Stand forth.</verse>
<verse osisID="Mark.3.4">And he says unto them, Is it lawful to do good on the sabbath days, or to do evil? to save life, or to kill? But they held their peace.</verse>
<verse osisID="Mark.3.5">And when he had looked round about on them with anger, being grieved for the hardness of their hearts, he says unto the man, Stretch forth your hand. And he stretched it out: and his hand was restored whole as the other.</verse>
<verse osisID="Mark.3.6">And the Pharisees went forth, and immediately took counsel with the Herodians against him, how they might destroy him.</verse>
<verse osisID="Mark.3.7">But Jesus withdrew himself with his disciples to the sea: and a great multitude from Galilee followed him, and from Judaea,</verse>
<verse osisID="Mark.3.8">And from Jerusalem, and from Idumea, and from beyond the Jordan; and they about Tyre and Sidon, a great multitude, when they had heard what great things he did, came unto him.</verse>
<verse osisID="Mark.3.9">And he spoke to his disciples, that a small boat should wait on him because of the multitude, lest they should throng him.</verse>
<verse osisID="Mark.3.10">For he had healed many; insomuch that they pressed upon him for to touch him, as many as had plagues.</verse>
<verse osisID="Mark.3.11">And unclean spirits, when they saw him, fell down before him, and cried, saying, You are the Son of God.</verse>
<verse osisID="Mark.3.12">And he strictly instructed them that they should not make him known.</verse>
<verse osisID="Mark.3.13">And he goes up into a mountain, and calls unto him those whom he desired: and they came unto him.</verse>
<verse osisID="Mark.3.14">And he ordained twelve, that they should be with him, and that he might send them forth to preach,</verse>
<verse osisID="Mark.3.15">And to have power to heal sicknesses, and to cast out devils:</verse>
<verse osisID="Mark.3.16">And Simon he surnamed Peter;</verse>
<verse osisID="Mark.3.17">And James the son of Zebedee, and John the brother of James; and he surnamed them Boanerges, which is, The sons of thunder:</verse>
<verse osisID="Mark.3.18">And Andrew, and Philip, and Bartholomew, and Matthew, and Thomas, and James the son of Alphaeus, and Thaddaeus, and Simon the Canaanite,</verse>
<verse osisID="Mark.3.19">And Judas Iscariot, which also betrayed him: and they went into a house.</verse>
<verse osisID="Mark.3.20">And the multitude comes together again, so that they could not so much as eat bread.</verse>
<verse osisID="Mark.3.21">And when his friends heard of it, they went out to lay hold on him: for they said, He is beside himself.</verse>
<verse osisID="Mark.3.22">And the scribes which came down from Jerusalem said, He has Beelzebub, and by the prince of the devils he casts out devils.</verse>
<verse osisID="Mark.3.23">And he called them unto him, and said unto them in parables, How can Satan cast out Satan?</verse>
<verse osisID="Mark.3.24">And if a kingdom be divided against itself, that kingdom cannot stand.</verse>
<verse osisID="Mark.3.25">And if a house be divided against itself, that house cannot stand.</verse>
<verse osisID="Mark.3.26">And if Satan rise up against himself, and be divided, he cannot stand, but has an end.</verse>
<verse osisID="Mark.3.27">No man can enter into a strong man's house, and plunder his goods, unless he will first bind the strong man; and then he will plunder his house.</verse>
<verse osisID="Mark.3.28">Truthfully I say unto you, All sins shall be forgiven unto the sons of men, and blasphemies with whichever they shall blaspheme:</verse>
<verse osisID="Mark.3.29">But he that shall blaspheme against the Holy Ghost never has forgiveness, but is in danger of eternal damnation.</verse>
<verse osisID="Mark.3.30">Because they said, He has an unclean spirit.</verse>
<verse osisID="Mark.3.31">There came then his brothers and his mother, and, standing outside, sent unto him, calling him.</verse>
<verse osisID="Mark.3.32">And the multitude sat about him, and they said unto him, Behold, your mother and your brothers outside seek for you.</verse>
<verse osisID="Mark.3.33">And he answered them, saying, Who is my mother, or my brothers?</verse>
<verse osisID="Mark.3.34">And he looked round about on those who sat about him, and said, Behold my mother and my brothers!</verse>
<verse osisID="Mark.3.35">For whosoever shall do the will of God, the same is my brother, and my sister, and mother.</verse>
</chapter>
<chapter osisID="Mark.3.35">
<verse osisID="Mark.4.1">And he began again to teach by the seaside: and there was gathered unto him a great multitude, so that he entered into a boat, and sat in the sea; and the whole multitude was by the sea on the land.</verse>
<verse osisID="Mark.4.2">And he taught them many things by parables, and said unto them in his doctrine,</verse>
<verse osisID="Mark.4.3">Hearken; Behold, there went out a sower to sow:</verse>
<verse osisID="Mark.4.4">And it came to pass, as he sowed, some fell by the wayside, and the fowls of the air came and devoured it up.</verse>
<verse osisID="Mark.4.5">And some fell on stony ground, where it had not much earth; and immediately it sprang up, because it had no depth of earth:</verse>
<verse osisID="Mark.4.6">But when the sun was up, it was scorched; and because it had no root, it withered away.</verse>
<verse osisID="Mark.4.7">And some fell among thorns, and the thorns grew up, and choked it, and it yielded no fruit.</verse>
<verse osisID="Mark.4.8">And other fell on good ground, and did yield fruit that sprang up and increased; and brought forth, some thirty, and some sixty, and some a hundred.</verse>
<verse osisID="Mark.4.9">And he said unto them, He that has ears to hear, let him hear.</verse>
<verse osisID="Mark.4.10">And when he was alone, they that were about him with the twelve asked of him the parable.</verse>
<verse osisID="Mark.4.11">And he said unto them, Unto you it is given to know the mystery of the kingdom of God: but unto them that are outside, all these things are done in parables:</verse>
<verse osisID="Mark.4.12">That seeing they may see, and not perceive; and hearing they may hear, and not understand; lest at any time they should be converted, and their sins should be forgiven them.</verse>
<verse osisID="Mark.4.13">And he said unto them, Do you not know this parable? and how then will you know all parables?</verse>
<verse osisID="Mark.4.14">The sower sows the word.</verse>
<verse osisID="Mark.4.15">And these are they by the wayside, where the word is sown; but when they have heard, Satan comes immediately, and takes away the word that was sown in their hearts.</verse>
<verse osisID="Mark.4.16">And these are they likewise which are sown on stony ground; who, when they have heard the word, immediately receive it with gladness;</verse>
<verse osisID="Mark.4.17">And have no root in themselves, and so endure but for a time: afterward, when affliction or persecution arises for the word's sake, immediately they are offended.</verse>
<verse osisID="Mark.4.18">And these are they which are sown among thorns; such as hear the word,</verse>
<verse osisID="Mark.4.19">And the cares of this world, and the deceitfulness of riches, and the lusts of other things entering in, choke the word, and it becomes unfruitful.</verse>
<verse osisID="Mark.4.20">And these are they which are sown on good ground; such as hear the word, and receive it, and bring forth fruit, some thirtyfold, some sixty, and some a hundred.</verse>
<verse osisID="Mark.4.21">And he said unto them, Is a candle brought to be put under a bushel, or under a bed? and not to be set on a candlestick?</verse>
<verse osisID="Mark.4.22">For there is nothing hid, which shall not be manifested; neither was any thing kept secret, but that it should come abroad.</verse>
<verse osisID="Mark.4.23">If any man have ears to hear, let him hear.</verse>
<verse osisID="Mark.4.24">And he said unto them, Take heed what you hear: with what measure you mete out, it shall be measured back to you: and unto you that hear shall more be given.</verse>
<verse osisID="Mark.4.25">For he that has, to him shall be given: and he that has not, from him shall be taken even that which he has.</verse>
<verse osisID="Mark.4.26">And he said, So is the kingdom of God, as if a man should cast seed into the ground;</verse>
<verse osisID="Mark.4.27">And should sleep, and rise night and day, and the seed should spring and grow up, he knows not how.</verse>
<verse osisID="Mark.4.28">For the earth brings forth fruit of herself; first the blade, then the ear, after that the full corn in the ear.</verse>
<verse osisID="Mark.4.29">But when the fruit is brought forth, immediately he puts in the sickle, because the harvest is come.</verse>
<verse osisID="Mark.4.30">And he said, Whereunto shall we liken the kingdom of God? or with what comparison shall we compare it?</verse>
<verse osisID="Mark.4.31">It is like a grain of mustard seed, which, when it is sown in the earth, is less than all the seeds that be in the earth:</verse>
<verse osisID="Mark.4.32">But when it is sown, it grows up, and becomes greater than all herbs, and shoots out great branches; so that the fowls of the air may lodge under the shadow of it.</verse>
<verse osisID="Mark.4.33">And with many such parables spoke he the word unto them, as they were able to hear it.</verse>
<verse osisID="Mark.4.34">But without a parable spoke he not unto them: and when they were alone, he expounded all things to his disciples.</verse>
<verse osisID="Mark.4.35">And the same day, when the evening was come, he says unto them, Let us pass over unto the other side.</verse>
<verse osisID="Mark.4.36">And when they had sent away the multitude, they took him just as he was in the boat. And there were also with him other little boats.</verse>
<verse osisID="Mark.4.37">And there arose a great storm of wind, and the waves beat into the boat, so that it was now full.</verse>
<verse osisID="Mark.4.38">And he was in the hinder part of the boat, asleep on a pillow: and they awake him, and say unto him, Master, care you not that we perish?</verse>
<verse osisID="Mark.4.39">And he arose, and rebuked the wind, and said unto the sea, Peace, be still. And the wind ceased, and there was a great calm.</verse>
<verse osisID="Mark.4.40">And he said unto them, Why are you so fearful? how is it that you have no faith?</verse>
<verse osisID="Mark.4.41">And they feared exceedingly, and said one to another, What manner of man is this, that even the wind and the sea obey him?</verse>
</chapter>
<chapter osisID="Mark.4.41">
<verse osisID="Mark.5.1">And they came over unto the other side of the sea, into the country of the Gadarenes.</verse>
<verse osisID="Mark.5.2">And when he was come out of the boat, immediately there met him out of the tombs a man with an unclean spirit,</verse>
<verse osisID="Mark.5.3">Who had his dwelling among the tombs; and no man could bind him, no, not with chains:</verse>
<verse osisID="Mark.5.4">Because that he had been often bound with fetters and chains, and the chains had been plucked asunder by him, and the fetters broken in pieces: neither could any man tame him.</verse>
<verse osisID="Mark.5.5">And always, night and day, he was in the mountains, and in the tombs, crying, and cutting himself with stones.</verse>
<verse osisID="Mark.5.6">But when he saw Jesus afar off, he ran and worshipped him,</verse>
<verse osisID="Mark.5.7">And cried with a loud voice, and said, What have I to do with you, Jesus, you Son of the most high God? I beg you by God, that you torment me not.</verse>
<verse osisID="Mark.5.8">For he said unto him, Come out of the man, you unclean spirit.</verse>
<verse osisID="Mark.5.9">And he asked him, What is your name? And he answered, saying, My name is Legion: for we are many.</verse>
<verse osisID="Mark.5.10">And he asked him much that he would not send them away out of the country.</verse>
<verse osisID="Mark.5.11">Now there was there close unto the mountains a great herd of swine feeding.</verse>
<verse osisID="Mark.5.12">And all the devils asked him, saying, Send us into the swine, that we may enter into them.</verse>
<verse osisID="Mark.5.13">And immediately Jesus gave them leave. And the unclean spirits went out, and entered into the swine: and the herd ran violently down a steep place into the sea, (they were about two thousand;) and were choked in the sea.</verse>
<verse osisID="Mark.5.14">And they that fed the swine fled, and told it in the city, and in the country. And they went out to see what it was that was done.</verse>
<verse osisID="Mark.5.15">And they come to Jesus, and see him that was possessed with the devil, and had the legion, sitting, and clothed, and in his right mind: and they were afraid.</verse>
<verse osisID="Mark.5.16">And they that saw it told them how it happened to him that was possessed with the devil, and also concerning the swine.</verse>
<verse osisID="Mark.5.17">And they began to ask him to depart out of their borders.</verse>
<verse osisID="Mark.5.18">And when he was come into the boat, he that had been possessed with the devil asked him that he might be with him.</verse>
<verse osisID="Mark.5.19">However Jesus did not permit it, but says unto him, Go home to your friends, and tell them how the Lord has done great things for you, and has had compassion on you.</verse>
<verse osisID="Mark.5.20">And he departed, and began to speak out in Decapolis how Jesus had done great things for him: and all men did marvel.</verse>
<verse osisID="Mark.5.21">And when Jesus had passed over again by boat unto the other side, many people gathered unto him: and he was close unto the sea.</verse>
<verse osisID="Mark.5.22">And, behold, there comes one of the rulers of the synagogue, Jairus by name; and when he saw him, he fell at his feet,</verse>
<verse osisID="Mark.5.23">And asked him greatly, saying, My little daughter lies at the point of death: I pray you, come and lay your hands on her, that she may be healed; and she shall live.</verse>
<verse osisID="Mark.5.24">And Jesus went with him; and many people followed him, and thronged him.</verse>
<verse osisID="Mark.5.25">And a certain woman, which had an issue of blood for twelve years,</verse>
<verse osisID="Mark.5.26">And had endured many things of many physicians, and had spent all that she had, and was nothing bettered, but rather grew worse,</verse>
<verse osisID="Mark.5.27">When she had heard of Jesus, came in the press behind, and touched his garment.</verse>
<verse osisID="Mark.5.28">For she said, If I may touch but his clothes, I shall be whole.</verse>
<verse osisID="Mark.5.29">And immediately the fountain of her blood was dried up; and she felt in her body that she was healed of that plague.</verse>
<verse osisID="Mark.5.30">And Jesus, immediately knowing in himself that power had gone out of him, turned him about in the press, and said, Who touched my clothes?</verse>
<verse osisID="Mark.5.31">And his disciples said unto him, You see the multitude thronging you, and say you, Who touched me?</verse>
<verse osisID="Mark.5.32">And he looked round about to see her that had done this thing.</verse>
<verse osisID="Mark.5.33">But the woman fearing and trembling, knowing what was done in her, came and fell down before him, and told him all the truth.</verse>
<verse osisID="Mark.5.34">And he said unto her, Daughter, your faith has made you whole; go in peace, and be whole of your plague.</verse>
<verse osisID="Mark.5.35">While he yet spoke, there came from the ruler of the synagogue's house certain which said, Your daughter is dead: why trouble you the Master any further?</verse>
<verse osisID="Mark.5.36">As soon as Jesus heard the word that was spoken, he says unto the ruler of the synagogue, Be not afraid, only believe.</verse>
<verse osisID="Mark.5.37">And he permitted no man to follow him, except Peter, and James, and John the brother of James.</verse>
<verse osisID="Mark.5.38">And he comes to the house of the ruler of the synagogue, and sees the tumult, and them that wept and wailed greatly.</verse>
<verse osisID="Mark.5.39">And when he was come in, he says unto them, Why make you this ado, and weep? the damsel is not dead, but sleeps.</verse>
<verse osisID="Mark.5.40">And they laughed him to scorn. But when he had put them all out, he takes the father and the mother of the damsel, and them that were with him, and enters in where the damsel was lying.</verse>
<verse osisID="Mark.5.41">And he took the damsel by the hand, and said unto her, Talitha cumi; which is, being interpreted, Damsel, I say unto you, arise.</verse>
<verse osisID="Mark.5.42">And immediately the damsel arose, and walked; for she was of the age of twelve years. And they were astonished with a great astonishment.</verse>
<verse osisID="Mark.5.43">And he charged them strictly that no man should know it; and commanded that something should be given her to eat.</verse>
</chapter>
<chapter osisID="Mark.5.43">
<verse osisID="Mark.6.1">And he went out from there, and came into his own country; and his disciples follow him.</verse>
<verse osisID="Mark.6.2">And when the sabbath day was come, he began to teach in the synagogue: and many hearing him were astonished, saying, From where has this man these things? and what wisdom is this which is given unto him, that even such mighty works are wrought by his hands?</verse>
<verse osisID="Mark.6.3">Is not this the carpenter, the son of Mary, the brother of James, and Joses, and of Juda, and Simon? and are not his sisters here with us? And they were offended at him.</verse>
<verse osisID="Mark.6.4">But Jesus, said unto them, A prophet is not without honor, but in his own country, and among his own kin, and in his own house.</verse>
<verse osisID="Mark.6.5">And he could there do no mighty work, except that he laid his hands upon a few sick people, and healed them.</verse>
<verse osisID="Mark.6.6">And he marvelled because of their unbelief. And he went round about the villages, teaching.</verse>
<verse osisID="Mark.6.7">And he called unto him the twelve, and began to send them forth by two and two; and gave them power over unclean spirits;</verse>
<verse osisID="Mark.6.8">And commanded them that they should take nothing for their journey, except a staff only; no scrip, no bread, no money in their purse:</verse>
<verse osisID="Mark.6.9">But be shod with sandals; and not put on two coats.</verse>
<verse osisID="Mark.6.10">And he said unto them, In whatever place you enter into a house, there abide till you depart from that place.</verse>
<verse osisID="Mark.6.11">And whosoever shall not receive you, nor hear you, when you depart from there, shake off the dust under your feet for a testimony against them. Truthfully I say unto you, It shall be more tolerable for Sodom and Gomorrha in the day of judgment, than for that city.</verse>
<verse osisID="Mark.6.12">And they went out, and preached that men should repent.</verse>
<verse osisID="Mark.6.13">And they cast out many devils, and anointed with oil many that were sick, and healed them.</verse>
<verse osisID="Mark.6.14">And king Herod heard of him; (for his name was spread abroad:) and he said, That John the Baptist was risen from the dead, and therefore mighty works do show forth themselves in him.</verse>
<verse osisID="Mark.6.15">Others said, That it is Elijah. And others said, That it is a prophet, or as one of the prophets.</verse>
<verse osisID="Mark.6.16">But when Herod heard of it, he said, It is John, whom I beheaded: he is risen from the dead.</verse>
<verse osisID="Mark.6.17">For Herod himself had sent forth and laid hold upon John, and bound him in prison for Herodias' sake, his brother Philip's wife: for he had married her.</verse>
<verse osisID="Mark.6.18">For John had said unto Herod, It is not lawful for you to have your brother's wife.</verse>
<verse osisID="Mark.6.19">Therefore Herodias had a quarrel against him, and would have killed him; but she could not:</verse>
<verse osisID="Mark.6.20">For Herod feared John, knowing that he was a just man and a holy, and observed him; and when he heard him, he did many things, and heard him gladly.</verse>
<verse osisID="Mark.6.21">And when a convenient day was come, that Herod on his birthday made a supper to his lords, high captains, and chief estates of Galilee;</verse>
<verse osisID="Mark.6.22">And when the daughter of the said Herodias came in, and danced, and pleased Herod and them that sat with him, the king said unto the damsel, Ask of me whatsoever you will, and I will give it you.</verse>
<verse osisID="Mark.6.23">And he swore unto her, Whatsoever you shall ask of me, I will give it you, unto the half of my kingdom.</verse>
<verse osisID="Mark.6.24">And she went forth, and said unto her mother, What shall I ask? And she said, The head of John the Baptist.</verse>
<verse osisID="Mark.6.25">And she came in immediately with haste unto the king, and asked, saying, I will that you give me by and by in a charger the head of John the Baptist.</verse>
<verse osisID="Mark.6.26">And the king was exceedingly sorry; yet for his oath's sake, and for their sakes which sat with him, he would not reject her.</verse>
<verse osisID="Mark.6.27">And immediately the king sent an executioner, and commanded his head to be brought: and he went and beheaded him in the prison,</verse>
<verse osisID="Mark.6.28">And brought his head in a charger, and gave it to the damsel: and the damsel gave it to her mother.</verse>
<verse osisID="Mark.6.29">And when his disciples heard of it, they came and took up his corpse, and laid it in a tomb.</verse>
<verse osisID="Mark.6.30">And the apostles gathered themselves together unto Jesus, and told him all things, both what they had done, and what they had taught.</verse>
<verse osisID="Mark.6.31">And he said unto them, Come you yourselves apart into a deserted place, and rest a while: for there were many coming and going, and they had no leisure so much as to eat.</verse>
<verse osisID="Mark.6.32">And they departed into a deserted place by boat privately.</verse>
<verse osisID="Mark.6.33">And the people saw them departing, and many knew him, and ran on foot to there out of all cities, and got there before them, and came together unto him.</verse>
<verse osisID="Mark.6.34">And Jesus, when he came out, saw many people, and was moved with compassion toward them, because they were as sheep not having a shepherd: and he began to teach them many things.</verse>
<verse osisID="Mark.6.35">And when the day was now far spent, his disciples came unto him, and said, This is a deserted place, and now the time is far passed:</verse>
<verse osisID="Mark.6.36">Send them away, that they may go into the country round about, and into the villages, and buy themselves bread: for they have nothing to eat.</verse>
<verse osisID="Mark.6.37">He answered and said unto them, Give them something to eat. And they say unto him, Shall we go and buy two hundred denarii worth of bread, and give them to eat?</verse>
<verse osisID="Mark.6.38">He says unto them, How many loaves have you? go and see. And when they knew, they say, Five, and two fishes.</verse>
<verse osisID="Mark.6.39">And he commanded them to make all sit down by companies upon the green grass.</verse>
<verse osisID="Mark.6.40">And they sat down in ranks, by hundreds, and by fifties.</verse>
<verse osisID="Mark.6.41">And when he had taken the five loaves and the two fishes, he looked up to heaven, and blessed, and broke the loaves, and gave them to his disciples to set before them; and the two fishes divided he among them all.</verse>
<verse osisID="Mark.6.42">And they did all eat, and were filled.</verse>
<verse osisID="Mark.6.43">And they took up twelve baskets full of the fragments, and of the fishes.</verse>
<verse osisID="Mark.6.44">And they that did eat of the loaves were about five thousand men.</verse>
<verse osisID="Mark.6.45">And immediately he constrained his disciples to get into the boat, and to go to the other side before unto Bethsaida, while he sent away the people.</verse>
<verse osisID="Mark.6.46">And when he had sent them away, he departed into a mountain to pray.</verse>
<verse osisID="Mark.6.47">And when evening was come, the boat was in the midst of the sea, and he alone on the land.</verse>
<verse osisID="Mark.6.48">And he saw them toiling in rowing; for the wind was contrary unto them: and about the fourth watch of the night he comes unto them, walking upon the sea, and would have passed by them.</verse>
<verse osisID="Mark.6.49">But when they saw him walking upon the sea, they supposed it had been a spirit, and cried out:</verse>
<verse osisID="Mark.6.50">For they all saw him, and were troubled. And immediately he talked with them, and says unto them, Be of good cheer: it is I; be not afraid.</verse>
<verse osisID="Mark.6.51">And he went up unto them into the boat; and the wind ceased: and they were intensely amazed in themselves beyond measure, and wondered.</verse>
<verse osisID="Mark.6.52">For they considered not the miracle of the loaves: for their heart was hardened.</verse>
<verse osisID="Mark.6.53">And when they had passed over, they came into the land of Gennesaret, and drew to the shore.</verse>
<verse osisID="Mark.6.54">And when they had come out of the boat, immediately they knew him,</verse>
<verse osisID="Mark.6.55">And ran through that whole region round about, and began to carry about in beds those that were sick, where they heard he was.</verse>
<verse osisID="Mark.6.56">And wherever he entered, into villages, or cities, or country, they laid the sick in the streets, and asked him that they might touch if it were but the border of his garment: and as many as touched him were made whole.</verse>
</chapter>
<chapter osisID="Mark.6.56">
<verse osisID="Mark.7.1">Then came together unto him the Pharisees, and certain of the scribes, which came from Jerusalem.</verse>
<verse osisID="Mark.7.2">And when they saw some of his disciples eat bread with defiled, that is to say, with unwashed, hands, they found fault.</verse>
<verse osisID="Mark.7.3">For the Pharisees, and all the Jews, unless they wash their hands often, eat not, holding the tradition of the elders.</verse>
<verse osisID="Mark.7.4">And when they come from the market, unless they wash, they eat not. And many other things there be, which they have received to hold, as the washing of cups, and pots, brazen vessels, and of tables.</verse>
<verse osisID="Mark.7.5">Then the Pharisees and scribes asked him, Why walk not your disciples according to the tradition of the elders, but eat bread with unwashed hands?</verse>
<verse osisID="Mark.7.6">He answered and said unto them, Well has Isaiah prophesied of you hypocrites, as it is written, This people honors me with their lips, but their heart is far from me.</verse>
<verse osisID="Mark.7.7">And in vain do they worship me, teaching for doctrines the commandments of men.</verse>
<verse osisID="Mark.7.8">For laying aside the commandment of God, you hold the tradition of men, as the washing of pots and cups: and many other such like things you do.</verse>
<verse osisID="Mark.7.9">And he said unto them, Full well you reject the commandment of God, that you may keep your own tradition.</verse>
<verse osisID="Mark.7.10">For Moses said, Honor your father and your mother; and, Whoever curses father or mother, let him die the death:</verse>
<verse osisID="Mark.7.11">But you say, If a man shall say to his father or mother, It is Corban, that is to say, a gift (to God), whatever you might have gained from me; he shall be free.</verse>
<verse osisID="Mark.7.12">And you permit him no more to do anything for his father or his mother;</verse>
<verse osisID="Mark.7.13">Making the word of God of no effect through your tradition, which you have delivered: and many such like things do you.</verse>
<verse osisID="Mark.7.14">And when he had called all the people unto him, he said unto them, Hearken unto me every one of you, and understand:</verse>
<verse osisID="Mark.7.15">There is nothing from outside a man, that entering into him can defile him: but the things which come out of him, those are they that defile the man.</verse>
<verse osisID="Mark.7.16">If any man have ears to hear, let him hear.</verse>
<verse osisID="Mark.7.17">And when he was entered into the house from the people, his disciples asked him concerning the parable.</verse>
<verse osisID="Mark.7.18">And he says unto them, Are you so without understanding also? Do you not perceive, that whatsoever thing from outside enters into the man, it cannot defile him;</verse>
<verse osisID="Mark.7.19">Because it enters not into his heart, but into the belly, and goes out into the drain, purging all foods?</verse>
<verse osisID="Mark.7.20">And he said, That which comes out of the man, that defiles the man.</verse>
<verse osisID="Mark.7.21">For from within, out of the heart of men, proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, fornications, murders,</verse>
<verse osisID="Mark.7.22">Thefts, covetousness, wickedness, deceit, lasciviousness, an evil eye, blasphemy, pride, foolishness:</verse>
<verse osisID="Mark.7.23">All these evil things come from within, and defile the man.</verse>
<verse osisID="Mark.7.24">And from there he arose, and went into the borders of Tyre and Sidon, and entered into a house, and would have no man know it: but he could not be hid.</verse>
<verse osisID="Mark.7.25">For a certain woman, whose young daughter had an unclean spirit, heard of him, and came and fell at his feet:</verse>
<verse osisID="Mark.7.26">The woman was a Greek, a Syrophenician by nation; and she asked him that he would cast forth the devil out of her daughter.</verse>
<verse osisID="Mark.7.27">But Jesus said unto her, Let the children first be filled: for it is not suitable to take the children's bread, and to cast it unto the dogs.</verse>
<verse osisID="Mark.7.28">And she answered and said unto him, Yes, Lord: yet the dogs under the table eat of the children's crumbs.</verse>
<verse osisID="Mark.7.29">And he said unto her, For this saying go your way; the devil is gone out of your daughter.</verse>
<verse osisID="Mark.7.30">And when she was come to her house, she found the devil gone out, and her daughter laid upon the bed.</verse>
<verse osisID="Mark.7.31">And again, departing from the borders of Tyre and Sidon, he came unto the sea of Galilee, through the midst of the borders of Decapolis.</verse>
<verse osisID="Mark.7.32">And they bring unto him one that was deaf, and had an impediment in his speech; and they beseech him to put his hand upon him.</verse>
<verse osisID="Mark.7.33">And he took him aside from the multitude, and put his fingers into his ears, and he spit, and touched his tongue;</verse>
<verse osisID="Mark.7.34">And looking up to heaven, he sighed, and says unto him, Ephphatha, that is, Be opened.</verse>
<verse osisID="Mark.7.35">And immediately his ears were opened, and the string of his tongue was loosed, and he spoke plainly.</verse>
<verse osisID="Mark.7.36">And he charged them that they should tell no man: but the more he charged them, so much the more a great deal they announced it;</verse>
<verse osisID="Mark.7.37">And were beyond measure astonished, saying, He has done all things well: he makes both the deaf to hear, and the dumb to speak.</verse>
</chapter>
<chapter osisID="Mark.7.37">
<verse osisID="Mark.8.1">In those days the multitude being very great, and having nothing to eat, Jesus called his disciples unto him, and says unto them,</verse>
<verse osisID="Mark.8.2">I have compassion on the multitude, because they have now been with me three days, and have nothing to eat:</verse>
<verse osisID="Mark.8.3">And if I send them away without food to their own houses, they will faint by the way: for some of them came from far.</verse>
<verse osisID="Mark.8.4">And his disciples answered him, From where can a man satisfy these men with bread here in the wilderness?</verse>
<verse osisID="Mark.8.5">And he asked them, How many loaves have you? And they said, Seven.</verse>
<verse osisID="Mark.8.6">And he commanded the people to sit down on the ground: and he took the seven loaves, and gave thanks, and broke, and gave to his disciples to set before them; and they did set them before the people.</verse>
<verse osisID="Mark.8.7">And they had a few small fishes: and he blessed, and commanded to set them also before them.</verse>
<verse osisID="Mark.8.8">So they did eat, and were filled: and they took up of the broken food that was left seven baskets.</verse>
<verse osisID="Mark.8.9">And they that had eaten were about four thousand: and he sent them away.</verse>
<verse osisID="Mark.8.10">And immediately he entered into a boat with his disciples, and came into the parts of Dalmanutha.</verse>
<verse osisID="Mark.8.11">And the Pharisees came forth, and began to question with him, seeking of him a sign from heaven, tempting him.</verse>
<verse osisID="Mark.8.12">And he sighed deeply in his spirit, and says, Why does this generation seek after a sign? Truthfully I say unto you, There shall no sign be given unto this generation.</verse>
<verse osisID="Mark.8.13">And he left them, and entering into the boat again departed to the other side.</verse>
<verse osisID="Mark.8.14">Now the disciples had forgotten to take bread, neither had they in the boat with them more than one loaf.</verse>
<verse osisID="Mark.8.15">And he charged them, saying, Take heed, beware of the leaven of the Pharisees, and of the leaven of Herod.</verse>
<verse osisID="Mark.8.16">And they reasoned among themselves, saying, It is because we have no bread.</verse>
<verse osisID="Mark.8.17">And when Jesus knew it, he says unto them, Why reason you, because you have no bread? perceive you not yet, neither understand? have you your heart yet hardened?</verse>
<verse osisID="Mark.8.18">Having eyes, see you not? and having ears, hear you not? and do you not remember?</verse>
<verse osisID="Mark.8.19">When I broke the five loaves among five thousand, how many baskets full of fragments took you up? They say unto him, Twelve.</verse>
<verse osisID="Mark.8.20">And when the seven among four thousand, how many baskets full of fragments took you up? And they said, Seven.</verse>
<verse osisID="Mark.8.21">And he said unto them, How is it that you do not understand?</verse>
<verse osisID="Mark.8.22">And he comes to Bethsaida; and they bring a blind man unto him, and asked him to touch him.</verse>
<verse osisID="Mark.8.23">And he took the blind man by the hand, and led him out of the town; and when he had spit on his eyes, and put his hands upon him, he asked him if he saw anything.</verse>
<verse osisID="Mark.8.24">And he looked up, and said, I see men as trees, walking.</verse>
<verse osisID="Mark.8.25">After that he put his hands again upon his eyes, and made him look up: and he was restored, and saw every man clearly.</verse>
<verse osisID="Mark.8.26">And he sent him away to his house, saying, Neither go into the town, nor tell it to any in the town.</verse>
<verse osisID="Mark.8.27">And Jesus went out, and his disciples, into the towns of Caesarea Philippi: and by the way he asked his disciples, saying unto them, Whom do men say that I am?</verse>
<verse osisID="Mark.8.28">And they answered, John the Baptist; but some say, Elijah; and others, One of the prophets.</verse>
<verse osisID="Mark.8.29">And he says unto them, But whom say you that I am? And Peter answers and says unto him, You are the Christ.</verse>
<verse osisID="Mark.8.30">And he charged them that they should tell no man of him.</verse>
<verse osisID="Mark.8.31">And he began to teach them, that the Son of man must suffer many things, and be rejected of the elders, and of the chief priests, and scribes, and be killed, and after three days rise again.</verse>
<verse osisID="Mark.8.32">And he spoke that saying openly. And Peter took him, and began to rebuke him.</verse>
<verse osisID="Mark.8.33">But when he had turned about and looked on his disciples, he rebuked Peter, saying, Get you behind me, Satan: for you savour not the things that be of God, but the things that be of men.</verse>
<verse osisID="Mark.8.34">And when he had called the people unto him with his disciples also, he said unto them, Whosoever will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me.</verse>
<verse osisID="Mark.8.35">For whosoever will save his life shall lose it; but whosoever shall lose his life for my sake and the gospel's, the same shall save it.</verse>
<verse osisID="Mark.8.36">For what shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul?</verse>
<verse osisID="Mark.8.37">Or what shall a man give in exchange for his soul?</verse>
<verse osisID="Mark.8.38">Whosoever therefore shall be ashamed of me and of my words in this adulterous and sinful generation; of him also shall the Son of man be ashamed, when he comes in the glory of his Father with the holy angels.</verse>
</chapter>
<chapter osisID="Mark.8.38">
<verse osisID="Mark.9.1">And he said unto them, Truthfully I say unto you, That there be some of them that stand here, which shall not taste of death, till they have seen the kingdom of God come with power.</verse>
<verse osisID="Mark.9.2">And after six days Jesus takes with him Peter, and James, and John, and leads them up into a high mountain apart by themselves: and he was transfigured before them.</verse>
<verse osisID="Mark.9.3">And his clothing became shining, exceedingly white as snow; so as no fuller on earth can whiten them.</verse>
<verse osisID="Mark.9.4">And there appeared unto them Elijah with Moses: and they were talking with Jesus.</verse>
<verse osisID="Mark.9.5">And Peter answered and said to Jesus, Master, it is good for us to be here: and let us make three tabernacles; one for you, and one for Moses, and one for Elijah.</verse>
<verse osisID="Mark.9.6">For he knew not what to say; for they were intensely afraid.</verse>
<verse osisID="Mark.9.7">And there was a cloud that overshadowed them: and a voice came out of the cloud, saying, This is my beloved Son: hear him.</verse>
<verse osisID="Mark.9.8">And suddenly, when they had looked round about, they saw no man any more, except Jesus only with themselves.</verse>
<verse osisID="Mark.9.9">And as they came down from the mountain, he charged them that they should tell no man what things they had seen, till the Son of man were risen from the dead.</verse>
<verse osisID="Mark.9.10">And they kept that saying with themselves, questioning one with another what the rising from the dead should mean.</verse>
<verse osisID="Mark.9.11">And they asked him, saying, Why say the scribes that Elijah must first come?</verse>
<verse osisID="Mark.9.12">And he answered and told them, Elijah truthfully comes first, and restores all things; and how it is written of the Son of man, that he must suffer many things, and be despised.</verse>
<verse osisID="Mark.9.13">But I say unto you, That Elijah is indeed come, and they have done unto him whatsoever they desired, as it is written of him.</verse>
<verse osisID="Mark.9.14">And when he came to his disciples, he saw a great multitude about them, and the scribes arguing with them.</verse>
<verse osisID="Mark.9.15">And immediately all the people, when they beheld him, were greatly amazed, and running to him saluted him.</verse>
<verse osisID="Mark.9.16">And he asked the scribes, What do you question with them?</verse>
<verse osisID="Mark.9.17">And one of the multitude answered and said, Master, I have brought unto you my son, which has a dumb spirit;</verse>
<verse osisID="Mark.9.18">And wherever he takes him, he tears him: and he foams, and gnashes with his teeth, and pines away: and I spoke to your disciples that they should cast him out; and they could not.</verse>
<verse osisID="Mark.9.19">He answers him, and says, O faithless generation, how long shall I be with you? how long shall I endure you? bring him unto me.</verse>
<verse osisID="Mark.9.20">And they brought him unto him: and when he saw him, immediately the spirit tore him; and he fell on the ground, and wallowed foaming.</verse>
<verse osisID="Mark.9.21">And he asked his father, How long is it ago since this came unto him? And he said, Of a child.</verse>
<verse osisID="Mark.9.22">And frequently it has cast him into the fire, and into the waters, to destroy him: but if you can do anything, have compassion on us, and help us.</verse>
<verse osisID="Mark.9.23">Jesus said unto him, If you can believe, all things are possible to him that believes.</verse>
<verse osisID="Mark.9.24">And immediately the father of the child cried out, and said with tears, Lord, I believe; help you my unbelief.</verse>
<verse osisID="Mark.9.25">When Jesus saw that the people came running together, he rebuked the foul spirit, saying unto him, You dumb and deaf spirit, I charge you, come out of him, and enter no more into him.</verse>
<verse osisID="Mark.9.26">And the spirit cried, and tore him extremely, and came out of him: and he was as one dead; so much that many said, He is dead.</verse>
<verse osisID="Mark.9.27">But Jesus took him by the hand, and lifted him up; and he arose.</verse>
<verse osisID="Mark.9.28">And when he was come into the house, his disciples asked him secretly, Why could not we cast him out?</verse>
<verse osisID="Mark.9.29">And he said unto them, This kind can come forth by nothing, but by prayer and fasting.</verse>
<verse osisID="Mark.9.30">And they departed from there, and passed through Galilee; and he desired not that any man should know it.</verse>
<verse osisID="Mark.9.31">For he taught his disciples, and said unto them, The Son of man is delivered into the hands of men, and they shall kill him; and after he is killed, he shall rise the third day.</verse>
<verse osisID="Mark.9.32">But they understood not that saying, and were afraid to ask him.</verse>
<verse osisID="Mark.9.33">And he came to Capernaum: and being in the house he asked them, What was it that you disputed among yourselves by the way?</verse>
<verse osisID="Mark.9.34">But they held their peace: for by the way they had disputed among themselves, who should be the greatest.</verse>
<verse osisID="Mark.9.35">And he sat down, and called the twelve, and says unto them, If any man desire to be first, the same shall be last of all, and servant of all.</verse>
<verse osisID="Mark.9.36">And he took a child, and set him in the midst of them: and when he had taken him in his arms, he said unto them,</verse>
<verse osisID="Mark.9.37">Whosoever shall receive one of such children in my name, receives me: and whosoever shall receive me, receives not me, but him that sent me.</verse>
<verse osisID="Mark.9.38">And John answered him, saying, Master, we saw one casting out devils in your name, and he follows not us: and we forbad him, because he follows not us.</verse>
<verse osisID="Mark.9.39">But Jesus said, Forbid him not: for there is no man which shall do a miracle in my name, that can lightly speak evil of me.</verse>
<verse osisID="Mark.9.40">For he that is not against us is on our part.</verse>
<verse osisID="Mark.9.41">For whosoever shall give you a cup of water to drink in my name, because you belong to Christ, Truthfully I say unto you, he shall not lose his reward.</verse>
<verse osisID="Mark.9.42">And whosoever shall offend one of these little ones that believe in me, it is better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and he were cast into the sea.</verse>
<verse osisID="Mark.9.43">And if your hand offend you, cut it off: it is better for you to enter into life maimed, than having two hands to go into hell, into the fire that never shall be quenched:</verse>
<verse osisID="Mark.9.44">Where their worm dies not, and the fire is not quenched.</verse>
<verse osisID="Mark.9.45">And if your foot offend you, cut it off: it is better for you to enter halt into life, than having two feet to be cast into hell, into the fire that never shall be quenched:</verse>
<verse osisID="Mark.9.46">Where their worm dies not, and the fire is not quenched.</verse>
<verse osisID="Mark.9.47">And if your eye offend you, pluck it out: it is better for you to enter into the kingdom of God with one eye, than having two eyes to be cast into hell fire:</verse>
<verse osisID="Mark.9.48">Where their worm dies not, and the fire is not quenched.</verse>
<verse osisID="Mark.9.49">For every one shall be salted with fire, and every sacrifice shall be salted with salt.</verse>
<verse osisID="Mark.9.50">Salt is good: but if the salt has lost its saltiness, with what will you season it? Have salt in yourselves, and have peace one with another.</verse>
</chapter>
<chapter osisID="Mark.9.50">
<verse osisID="Mark.10.1">And he arose from there, and comes into the borders of Judaea by the farther side of the Jordan: and the people resort unto him again; and, as he was accustomed, he taught them again.</verse>
<verse osisID="Mark.10.2">And the Pharisees came to him, and asked him, Is it lawful for a man to put away his wife? tempting him.</verse>
<verse osisID="Mark.10.3">And he answered and said unto them, What did Moses command you?</verse>
<verse osisID="Mark.10.4">And they said, Moses permitted to write a bill of divorcement, and to put her away.</verse>
<verse osisID="Mark.10.5">And Jesus answered and said unto them, For the hardness of your heart he wrote you this precept.</verse>
<verse osisID="Mark.10.6">But from the beginning of the creation God made them male and female.</verse>
<verse osisID="Mark.10.7">For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and cleave to his wife;</verse>
<verse osisID="Mark.10.8">And they two shall be one flesh: so then they are no more two, but one flesh.</verse>
<verse osisID="Mark.10.9">What therefore God has joined together, let not man put asunder.</verse>
<verse osisID="Mark.10.10">And in the house his disciples asked him again of the same matter.</verse>
<verse osisID="Mark.10.11">And he says unto them, Whosoever shall put away his wife, and marry another, commits adultery against her.</verse>
<verse osisID="Mark.10.12">And if a woman shall put away her husband, and be married to another, she commits adultery.</verse>
<verse osisID="Mark.10.13">And they brought young children to him, that he should touch them: and his disciples rebuked those that brought them.</verse>
<verse osisID="Mark.10.14">But when Jesus saw it, he was much displeased, and said unto them, Permit the little children to come unto me, and forbid them not: for of such is the kingdom of God.</verse>
<verse osisID="Mark.10.15">Truthfully I say unto you, Whosoever shall not receive the kingdom of God as a little child, he shall not enter in it.</verse>
<verse osisID="Mark.10.16">And he took them up in his arms, put his hands upon them, and blessed them.</verse>
<verse osisID="Mark.10.17">And when he was gone forth into the way, there came one running, and kneeled to him, and asked him, Good Master, what shall I do that I may inherit eternal life?</verse>
<verse osisID="Mark.10.18">And Jesus said unto him, Why do you call me good? there is none good but one, that is, God.</verse>
<verse osisID="Mark.10.19">You know the commandments, Do not commit adultery, Do not kill, Do not steal, Do not bear false witness, Defraud not, Honor your father and mother.</verse>
<verse osisID="Mark.10.20">And he answered and said unto him, Master, all these have I observed from my youth.</verse>
<verse osisID="Mark.10.21">Then Jesus beholding him loved him, and said unto him, One thing you lack: go your way, sell whatsoever you have, and give to the poor, and you shall have treasure in heaven: and come, take up the cross, and follow me.</verse>
<verse osisID="Mark.10.22">And he was sad at that saying, and went away grieved: for he had great possessions.</verse>
<verse osisID="Mark.10.23">And Jesus looked round about, and says unto his disciples, How hardly shall they that have riches enter into the kingdom of God!</verse>
<verse osisID="Mark.10.24">And the disciples were astonished at his words. But Jesus answers again, and says unto them, Children, how hard is it for them that trust in riches to enter into the kingdom of God!</verse>
<verse osisID="Mark.10.25">It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle, than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God.</verse>
<verse osisID="Mark.10.26">And they were astonished beyond measure, saying among themselves, Who then can be saved?</verse>
<verse osisID="Mark.10.27">And Jesus looking upon them says, With men it is impossible, but not with God: for with God all things are possible.</verse>
<verse osisID="Mark.10.28">Then Peter began to say unto him, Lo, we have left all, and have followed you.</verse>
<verse osisID="Mark.10.29">And Jesus answered and said, Truthfully I say unto you, There is no man that has left house, or brothers, or sisters, or father, or mother, or wife, or children, or lands, for my sake, and the gospel's,</verse>
<verse osisID="Mark.10.30">But he shall receive a hundredfold now in this time, houses, and brothers, and sisters, and mothers, and children, and lands, along with persecutions; and in the world to come eternal life.</verse>
<verse osisID="Mark.10.31">But many that are first shall be last; and the last first.</verse>
<verse osisID="Mark.10.32">And they were on the way going up to Jerusalem; and Jesus went before them: and they were amazed; and as they followed, they were afraid. And he took again the twelve, and began to tell them what things should happen unto him,</verse>
<verse osisID="Mark.10.33">Saying, Behold, we go up to Jerusalem; and the Son of man shall be delivered unto the chief priests, and unto the scribes; and they shall condemn him to death, and shall deliver him to the Gentiles:</verse>
<verse osisID="Mark.10.34">And they shall mock him, and shall whip him, and shall spit upon him, and shall kill him: and the third day he shall rise again.</verse>
<verse osisID="Mark.10.35">And James and John, the sons of Zebedee, come unto him, saying, Master, we would that you should do for us whatsoever we shall desire.</verse>
<verse osisID="Mark.10.36">And he said unto them, What would you that I should do for you?</verse>
<verse osisID="Mark.10.37">They said unto him, Grant unto us that we may sit, one on your right hand, and the other on your left hand, in your glory.</verse>
<verse osisID="Mark.10.38">But Jesus said unto them, You know not what you ask: can you drink of the cup that I drink of? and be baptized with the baptism that I am baptized with?</verse>
<verse osisID="Mark.10.39">And they said unto him, We can. And Jesus said unto them, You shall indeed drink of the cup that I drink of; and with the baptism that I am baptized with shall you be baptized:</verse>
<verse osisID="Mark.10.40">But to sit on my right hand and on my left hand is not mine to give; but it shall be given to them for whom it is prepared.</verse>
<verse osisID="Mark.10.41">And when the ten heard it, they began to be much displeased with James and John.</verse>
<verse osisID="Mark.10.42">But Jesus called them to him, and says unto them, You know that they which are accounted to rule over the Gentiles exercise lordship over them; and their great ones exercise authority upon them.</verse>
<verse osisID="Mark.10.43">But so shall it not be among you: but whosoever will be great among you, shall be your minister:</verse>
<verse osisID="Mark.10.44">And whosoever of you will be the chief, shall be servant of all.</verse>
<verse osisID="Mark.10.45">For even the Son of man came not to be ministered unto, but to minister, and to give his life a ransom for many.</verse>
<verse osisID="Mark.10.46">And they came to Jericho: and as he went out of Jericho with his disciples and a great number of people, blind Bartimaeus, the son of Timaeus, sat by the highway side begging.</verse>
<verse osisID="Mark.10.47">And when he heard that it was Jesus of Nazareth, he began to cry out, and say, Jesus, you son of David, have mercy on me.</verse>
<verse osisID="Mark.10.48">And many charged him that he should hold his peace: but he cried the more a great deal, You son of David, have mercy on me.</verse>
<verse osisID="Mark.10.49">And Jesus stood still, and commanded him to be called. And they call the blind man, saying unto him, Be of good comfort, rise; he calls you.</verse>
<verse osisID="Mark.10.50">And he, casting away his garment, rose, and came to Jesus.</verse>
<verse osisID="Mark.10.51">And Jesus answered and said unto him, What will you that I should do unto you? The blind man said unto him, Lord, that I might receive my sight.</verse>
<verse osisID="Mark.10.52">And Jesus said unto him, Go your way; your faith has made you whole. And immediately he received his sight, and followed Jesus on the way.</verse>
</chapter>
<chapter osisID="Mark.10.52">
<verse osisID="Mark.11.1">And when they came close to Jerusalem, unto Bethphage and Bethany, at the mount of Olives, he sends forth two of his disciples,</verse>
<verse osisID="Mark.11.2">And says unto them, Go your way into the village over against you: and as soon as you be entered into it, you shall find a colt tied, whereon never man sat; loose him, and bring him.</verse>
<verse osisID="Mark.11.3">And if any man say unto you, Why do you this? say you that the Lord has need of him; and immediately he will send him to here.</verse>
<verse osisID="Mark.11.4">And they went their way, and found the colt tied by the door outside in a place where two ways met; and they loose him.</verse>
<verse osisID="Mark.11.5">And certain of them that stood there said unto them, What do you, loosing the colt?</verse>
<verse osisID="Mark.11.6">And they said unto them just as Jesus had commanded: and they let them go.</verse>
<verse osisID="Mark.11.7">And they brought the colt to Jesus, and cast their garments on him; and he sat upon him.</verse>
<verse osisID="Mark.11.8">And many spread their garments on the way: and others cut down branches off the trees, and scattered them on the way.</verse>
<verse osisID="Mark.11.9">And they that went before, and they that followed, cried, saying, Hosanna; Blessed is he that comes in the name of the Lord:</verse>
<verse osisID="Mark.11.10">Blessed be the kingdom of our father David, that comes in the name of the Lord: Hosanna in the highest.</verse>
<verse osisID="Mark.11.11">And Jesus entered into Jerusalem, and into the temple: and when he had looked round about upon all things, and now the evening was come, he went out unto Bethany with the twelve.</verse>
<verse osisID="Mark.11.12">And on the next day, when they had come from Bethany, he was hungry:</verse>
<verse osisID="Mark.11.13">And seeing a fig tree afar off having leaves, he came, if perhaps he might find any thing on it: and when he came to it, he found nothing but leaves; for the time of figs was not yet.</verse>
<verse osisID="Mark.11.14">And Jesus answered and said unto it, No man eat fruit of you hereafter forever. And his disciples heard it.</verse>
<verse osisID="Mark.11.15">And they come to Jerusalem: and Jesus went into the temple, and began to cast out them that sold and bought in the temple, and overthrew the tables of the money changers, and the seats of them that sold doves;</verse>
<verse osisID="Mark.11.16">And would not permit that any man should carry any vessel through the temple.</verse>
<verse osisID="Mark.11.17">And he taught, saying unto them, Is it not written, My house shall be called of all nations the house of prayer? but you have made it a den of thieves.</verse>
<verse osisID="Mark.11.18">And the scribes and chief priests heard it, and sought how they might destroy him: for they feared him, because all the population was astonished at his doctrine.</verse>
<verse osisID="Mark.11.19">And when evening was come, he went out of the city.</verse>
<verse osisID="Mark.11.20">And in the morning, as they passed by, they saw the fig tree dried up from the roots.</verse>
<verse osisID="Mark.11.21">And Peter calling to remembrance says unto him, Master, behold, the fig tree which you cursed is withered away.</verse>
<verse osisID="Mark.11.22">And Jesus answering says unto them, Have faith in God.</verse>
<verse osisID="Mark.11.23">For Truthfully I say unto you, That whosoever shall say unto this mountain, Be you removed, and be you cast into the sea; and shall not doubt in his heart, but shall believe that those things which he says shall come to pass; he shall have whatsoever he says.</verse>
<verse osisID="Mark.11.24">Therefore I say unto you, Whatever things you desire, when you pray, believe that you receive them, and you shall have them.</verse>
<verse osisID="Mark.11.25">And when you stand praying, forgive, if you have anything against any: that your Father also which is in heaven may forgive you your trespasses.</verse>
<verse osisID="Mark.11.26">But if you do not forgive, neither will your Father which is in heaven forgive your trespasses.</verse>
<verse osisID="Mark.11.27">And they come again to Jerusalem: and as he was walking in the temple, there come to him the chief priests, and the scribes, and the elders,</verse>
<verse osisID="Mark.11.28">And say unto him, By what authority are you doing these things? and who gave you this authority to do these things?</verse>
<verse osisID="Mark.11.29">And Jesus answered and said unto them, I will also ask of you one question, and answer me, and I will tell you by what authority I do these things.</verse>
<verse osisID="Mark.11.30">The baptism of John, was it from heaven, or of men? answer me.</verse>
<verse osisID="Mark.11.31">And they reasoned with themselves, saying, If we shall say, From heaven; he will say, Why then did you not believe him?</verse>
<verse osisID="Mark.11.32">But if we shall say, Of men; they feared the people: for all men counted John, that he was a prophet indeed.</verse>
<verse osisID="Mark.11.33">And they answered and said unto Jesus, We cannot tell. And Jesus answering says unto them, Neither do I tell you by what authority I do these things.</verse>
</chapter>
<chapter osisID="Mark.11.33">
<verse osisID="Mark.12.1">And he began to speak unto them by parables. A certain man planted a vineyard, and set a hedge about it, and dug a place for the wine vat, and built a tower, and let it out to husbandmen, and went into a far country.</verse>
<verse osisID="Mark.12.2">And at the season he sent to the husbandmen a servant, that he might receive from the husbandmen of the fruit of the vineyard.</verse>
<verse osisID="Mark.12.3">And they caught him, and beat him, and sent him away empty.</verse>
<verse osisID="Mark.12.4">And again he sent unto them another servant; and at him they cast stones, and wounded him in the head, and sent him away shamefully handled.</verse>
<verse osisID="Mark.12.5">And again he sent another; and him they killed, and many others; beating some, and killing some.</verse>
<verse osisID="Mark.12.6">Having yet therefore one son, his wellbeloved, he sent him also last unto them, saying, They will respect my son.</verse>
<verse osisID="Mark.12.7">But those husbandmen said among themselves, This is the heir; come, let us kill him, and the inheritance shall be our's.</verse>
<verse osisID="Mark.12.8">And they took him, and killed him, and cast him out of the vineyard.</verse>
<verse osisID="Mark.12.9">What shall therefore the lord of the vineyard do? he will come and destroy the husbandmen, and will give the vineyard unto others.</verse>
<verse osisID="Mark.12.10">And have you not read this scripture; The stone which the builders rejected is become the head of the corner:</verse>
<verse osisID="Mark.12.11">This was the Lord's doing, and it is marvelous in our eyes?</verse>
<verse osisID="Mark.12.12">And they sought to lay hold on him, but feared the people: for they knew that he had spoken the parable against them: and they left him, and went their way.</verse>
<verse osisID="Mark.12.13">And they send unto him certain of the Pharisees and of the Herodians, to catch him in his words.</verse>
<verse osisID="Mark.12.14">And when they had come, they say unto him, Master, we know that you are true, and care for no man: for you regard not the person of men, but teach the way of God in truth: Is it lawful to give tribute to Caesar, or not?</verse>
<verse osisID="Mark.12.15">Shall we give, or shall we not give? But he, knowing their hypocrisy, said unto them, Why do you tempt me? bring me a denarius, that I may see it.</verse>
<verse osisID="Mark.12.16">And they brought it. And he says unto them, Whose is this image and superscription? And they said unto him, Caesar's.</verse>
<verse osisID="Mark.12.17">And Jesus answering said unto them, Render to Caesar the things that are Caesar's, and to God the things that are God's. And they marvelled at him.</verse>
<verse osisID="Mark.12.18">Then come unto him the Sadducees, which say there is no resurrection; and they asked him, saying,</verse>
<verse osisID="Mark.12.19">Master, Moses wrote unto us, If a man's brother die, and leave his wife behind him, and leave no children, that his brother should take his wife, and raise up seed unto his brother.</verse>
<verse osisID="Mark.12.20">Now there were seven brothers: and the first took a wife, and dying left no seed.</verse>
<verse osisID="Mark.12.21">And the second took her, and died, neither left he any seed: and the third likewise.</verse>
<verse osisID="Mark.12.22">And the seven had her, and left no seed: last of all the woman died also.</verse>
<verse osisID="Mark.12.23">In the resurrection therefore, when they shall rise, whose wife shall she be of them? for the seven had her as wife.</verse>
<verse osisID="Mark.12.24">And Jesus answering said unto them, Do you not therefore err, because you know not the scriptures, neither the power of God?</verse>
<verse osisID="Mark.12.25">For when they shall rise from the dead, they neither marry, nor are given in marriage; but are as the angels which are in heaven.</verse>
<verse osisID="Mark.12.26">And as touching the dead, that they rise: have you not read in the book of Moses, how in the bush God spoke unto him, saying, I am the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob?</verse>
<verse osisID="Mark.12.27">He is not the God of the dead, but the God of the living: you therefore do greatly err.</verse>
<verse osisID="Mark.12.28">And one of the scribes came, and having heard them reasoning together, and perceiving that he had answered them well, asked him, Which is the first commandment of all?</verse>
<verse osisID="Mark.12.29">And Jesus answered him, The first of all the commandments is, Hear, O Israel; The Lord our God is one Lord:</verse>
<verse osisID="Mark.12.30">And you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind, and with all your strength: this is the first commandment.</verse>
<verse osisID="Mark.12.31">And the second is similar, namely this, You shall love your neighbor as yourself. There is none other commandment greater than these.</verse>
<verse osisID="Mark.12.32">And the scribe said unto him, Well, Master, you have said the truth: for there is one God; and there is none other but he:</verse>
<verse osisID="Mark.12.33">And to love him with all the heart, and with all the understanding, and with all the soul, and with all the strength, and to love his neighbor as himself, is more than all whole burnt offerings and sacrifices.</verse>
<verse osisID="Mark.12.34">And when Jesus saw that he answered wisely, he said unto him, You are not far from the kingdom of God. And no man after that dared ask him any question.</verse>
<verse osisID="Mark.12.35">And Jesus answered and said, while he taught in the temple, How say the scribes that Christ is the son of David?</verse>
<verse osisID="Mark.12.36">For David himself said by the Holy Ghost, The LORD said to my Lord, Sit you on my right hand, till I make your enemies your footstool.</verse>
<verse osisID="Mark.12.37">David therefore himself calls him Lord; and how is he then his son? And the common people heard him gladly.</verse>
<verse osisID="Mark.12.38">And he said unto them in his doctrine, Beware of the scribes, which love to go in long clothing, and love salutations in the marketplaces,</verse>
<verse osisID="Mark.12.39">And the chief seats in the synagogues, and the uppermost rooms at feasts:</verse>
<verse osisID="Mark.12.40">Which devour widows' houses, and for a pretense make long prayers: these shall receive greater damnation.</verse>
<verse osisID="Mark.12.41">And Jesus sat over against the treasury, and beheld how the people cast money into the treasury: and many that were rich cast in much.</verse>
<verse osisID="Mark.12.42">And there came a certain poor widow, and she threw in two mites, which make a small fraction of a denarius.</verse>
<verse osisID="Mark.12.43">And he called unto him his disciples, and says unto them, Truthfully I say unto you, That this poor widow has cast more in, than all they which have cast into the treasury:</verse>
<verse osisID="Mark.12.44">For all they did cast in of their abundance; but she of her want did cast in all that she had, even all her living.</verse>
</chapter>
<chapter osisID="Mark.12.44">
<verse osisID="Mark.13.1">And as he went out of the temple, one of his disciples says unto him, Master, see what manner of stones and what buildings are here!</verse>
<verse osisID="Mark.13.2">And Jesus answering said unto him, See you these great buildings? there shall not be left one stone upon another, that shall not be thrown down.</verse>
<verse osisID="Mark.13.3">And as he sat upon the mount of Olives over against the temple, Peter and James and John and Andrew asked him secretly,</verse>
<verse osisID="Mark.13.4">Tell us, when shall these things be? and what shall be the sign when all these things shall be fulfilled?</verse>
<verse osisID="Mark.13.5">And Jesus answering them began to say, Take heed lest any man deceive you:</verse>
<verse osisID="Mark.13.6">For many shall come in my name, saying, I am Christ; and shall deceive many.</verse>
<verse osisID="Mark.13.7">And when you shall hear of wars and rumors of wars, be not troubled: for such things must be; but the end shall not be yet.</verse>
<verse osisID="Mark.13.8">For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be earthquakes in different places, and there shall be famines and troubles: these are the beginnings of sorrows.</verse>
<verse osisID="Mark.13.9">But take heed to yourselves: for they shall deliver you up to councils; and in the synagogues you shall be beaten: and you shall be brought before rulers and kings for my sake, for a testimony against them.</verse>
<verse osisID="Mark.13.10">And the gospel must first be proclaimed among all nations.</verse>
<verse osisID="Mark.13.11">But when they shall lead you, and deliver you up, take no thought beforehand what you shall speak, neither do you premeditate: but whatsoever shall be given you in that hour, that speak you: for it is not you that speak, but the Holy Ghost.</verse>
<verse osisID="Mark.13.12">Now the brother shall betray the brother to death, and the father the son; and children shall rise up against their parents, and shall cause them to be put to death.</verse>
<verse osisID="Mark.13.13">And you shall be hated of all men for my name's sake: but he that shall endure unto the end, the same shall be saved.</verse>
<verse osisID="Mark.13.14">But when you shall see the abomination of desolation, spoken of by Daniel the prophet, standing where it should not, (let him that read understand,) then let them that be in Judaea flee to the mountains:</verse>
<verse osisID="Mark.13.15">And let him that is on the housetop not go down into the house, neither enter in it, to take any thing out of his house:</verse>
<verse osisID="Mark.13.16">And let him that is in the field not turn back again to take up his garment.</verse>
<verse osisID="Mark.13.17">But woe to them that are with child, and to them that give suck in those days!</verse>
<verse osisID="Mark.13.18">And pray you that your flight be not in the winter.</verse>
<verse osisID="Mark.13.19">For in those days shall be affliction, such as was not from the beginning of the creation which God created unto this time, neither shall be.</verse>
<verse osisID="Mark.13.20">And unless that the Lord had shortened those days, no flesh should be saved: but for the elect's sake, whom he has chosen, he has shortened the days.</verse>
<verse osisID="Mark.13.21">And then if any man shall say to you, Lo, here is Christ; or, lo, he is there; believe him not:</verse>
<verse osisID="Mark.13.22">For false Christs and false prophets shall rise, and shall show signs and wonders, to seduce, if it were possible, even the elect.</verse>
<verse osisID="Mark.13.23">But take you heed: behold, I have foretold you all things.</verse>
<verse osisID="Mark.13.24">But in those days, after that tribulation, the sun shall be darkened, and the moon shall not give her light,</verse>
<verse osisID="Mark.13.25">And the stars of heaven shall fall, and the powers that are in heaven shall be shaken.</verse>
<verse osisID="Mark.13.26">And then shall they see the Son of man coming in the clouds with great power and glory.</verse>
<verse osisID="Mark.13.27">And then shall he send his angels, and shall gather together his elect from the four winds, from the uttermost part of the earth to the uttermost part of heaven.</verse>
<verse osisID="Mark.13.28">Now learn a parable of the fig tree; When her branch is yet tender, and puts forth leaves, you know that summer is near:</verse>
<verse osisID="Mark.13.29">So you in like manner, when you shall see these things come to pass, know that it is close, even at the doors.</verse>
<verse osisID="Mark.13.30">Truthfully I say unto you, that this generation shall not pass, till all these things be done.</verse>
<verse osisID="Mark.13.31">Heaven and earth shall pass away: but my words shall not pass away.</verse>
<verse osisID="Mark.13.32">But of that day and that hour knows no man, no, not the angels which are in heaven, neither the Son, but the Father.</verse>
<verse osisID="Mark.13.33">Take you heed, watch and pray: for you know not when the time is.</verse>
<verse osisID="Mark.13.34">For the Son of Man is as a man taking a far journey, who left his house, and gave authority to his servants, and to every man his work, and commanded the porter to watch.</verse>
<verse osisID="Mark.13.35">Watch you therefore: for you know not when the master of the house comes, at even, or at midnight, or at the cockcrowing, or in the morning:</verse>
<verse osisID="Mark.13.36">Lest coming suddenly he find you sleeping.</verse>
<verse osisID="Mark.13.37">And what I say unto you I say unto all, Watch.</verse>
</chapter>
<chapter osisID="Mark.13.37">
<verse osisID="Mark.14.1">After two days was the feast of the passover, and of unleavened bread: and the chief priests and the scribes sought how they might take him by craft, and put him to death.</verse>
<verse osisID="Mark.14.2">But they said, Not on the feast day, lest there be an uproar of the people.</verse>
<verse osisID="Mark.14.3">And being in Bethany in the house of Simon the leper, as he sat at food, there came a woman having an alabaster box of ointment of spikenard very precious; and she broke the box, and poured it on his head.</verse>
<verse osisID="Mark.14.4">And there were some that had indignation within themselves, and said, Why was this waste of the ointment made?</verse>
<verse osisID="Mark.14.5">For it might have been sold for more than three hundred denarii, and have been given to the poor. And they murmured against her.</verse>
<verse osisID="Mark.14.6">And Jesus said, Let her alone; why trouble you her? she has wrought a good work on me.</verse>
<verse osisID="Mark.14.7">For you have the poor with you always, and whenever you will you may do them good: but me you have not always.</verse>
<verse osisID="Mark.14.8">She has done what she could: she is come beforehand to anoint my body to the burying.</verse>
<verse osisID="Mark.14.9">Truthfully I say unto you, Wheresoever this gospel shall be preached throughout the whole world, this also that she has done shall be spoken of for a memorial of her.</verse>
<verse osisID="Mark.14.10">And Judas Iscariot, one of the twelve, went unto the chief priests, to betray him unto them.</verse>
<verse osisID="Mark.14.11">And when they heard it, they were glad, and promised to give him money. And he sought how he might conveniently betray him.</verse>
<verse osisID="Mark.14.12">And the first day of unleavened bread, when they killed the passover, his disciples said unto him, Where will you that we go and prepare that you may eat the passover?</verse>
<verse osisID="Mark.14.13">And he sends forth two of his disciples, and says unto them, Go you into the city, and there shall meet you a man bearing a pitcher of water: follow him.</verse>
<verse osisID="Mark.14.14">And wherever he shall go in, say you to the goodman of the house, The Master says, Where is the guestchamber, where I shall eat the passover with my disciples?</verse>
<verse osisID="Mark.14.15">And he will show you a large upper room furnished and prepared: there make ready for us.</verse>
<verse osisID="Mark.14.16">And his disciples went forth, and came into the city, and found as he had said unto them: and they made ready the passover.</verse>
<verse osisID="Mark.14.17">And in the evening he comes with the twelve.</verse>
<verse osisID="Mark.14.18">And as they sat and did eat, Jesus said, Truthfully I say unto you, One of you who eats with me shall betray me.</verse>
<verse osisID="Mark.14.19">And they began to be sorrowful, and to say unto him one by one, Is it I? and another said, Is it I?</verse>
<verse osisID="Mark.14.20">And he answered and said unto them, It is one of the twelve, that dips with me in the dish.</verse>
<verse osisID="Mark.14.21">The Son of man indeed goes, as it is written of him: but woe to that man by whom the Son of man is betrayed! good were it for that man if he had never been born.</verse>
<verse osisID="Mark.14.22">And as they did eat, Jesus took bread, and blessed, and broke it, and gave to them, and said, Take, eat: this is my body.</verse>
<verse osisID="Mark.14.23">And he took the cup, and when he had given thanks, he gave it to them: and they all drank of it.</verse>
<verse osisID="Mark.14.24">And he said unto them, This is my blood of the new testament, which is shed for many.</verse>
<verse osisID="Mark.14.25">Truthfully I say unto you, I will drink no more of the fruit of the vine, until that day that I drink it new in the kingdom of God.</verse>
<verse osisID="Mark.14.26">And when they had sung a hymn, they went out into the mount of Olives.</verse>
<verse osisID="Mark.14.27">And Jesus says unto them, All you shall be offended because of me this night: for it is written, I will smite the shepherd, and the sheep shall be scattered.</verse>
<verse osisID="Mark.14.28">But after I am risen, I will go before you into Galilee.</verse>
<verse osisID="Mark.14.29">But Peter said unto him, Although all shall be offended, yet will not I.</verse>
<verse osisID="Mark.14.30">And Jesus says unto him, Truthfully I say unto you, That this day, even in this night, before the cock crow twice, you shall deny me three times.</verse>
<verse osisID="Mark.14.31">But he spoke the more vehemently, If I should die with you, I will not deny you in any wise. Likewise also said they all.</verse>
<verse osisID="Mark.14.32">And they came to a place which was named Gethsemane: and he says to his disciples, Sit you here, while I shall pray.</verse>
<verse osisID="Mark.14.33">And he takes with him Peter and James and John, and began to be sore amazed, and to be very heavy;</verse>
<verse osisID="Mark.14.34">And says unto them, My soul is exceedingly sorrowful unto death: tarry you here, and watch.</verse>
<verse osisID="Mark.14.35">And he went forward a little, and fell on the ground, and prayed that, if it were possible, the hour might pass from him.</verse>
<verse osisID="Mark.14.36">And he said, Abba, Father, all things are possible unto you; take away this cup from me: nevertheless not what I will, but what you will.</verse>
<verse osisID="Mark.14.37">And he comes, and finds them sleeping, and says unto Peter, Simon, do you sleep? could you not watch one hour?</verse>
<verse osisID="Mark.14.38">Watch you and pray, lest you enter into temptation. The spirit truly is ready, but the flesh is weak.</verse>
<verse osisID="Mark.14.39">And again he went away, and prayed, and spoke the same words.</verse>
<verse osisID="Mark.14.40">And when he returned, he found them asleep again, (for their eyes were heavy,) neither did they know what to answer him.</verse>
<verse osisID="Mark.14.41">And he comes the third time, and says unto them, Sleep on now, and take your rest: it is enough, the hour is come; behold, the Son of man is betrayed into the hands of sinners.</verse>
<verse osisID="Mark.14.42">Rise up, let us go; lo, he that betrays me is at hand.</verse>
<verse osisID="Mark.14.43">And immediately, while he yet spoke, comes Judas, one of the twelve, and with him a great multitude with swords and staves, from the chief priests and the scribes and the elders.</verse>
<verse osisID="Mark.14.44">And he that betrayed him had given them a token, saying, Whomsoever I shall kiss, that same is he; take him, and lead him away safely.</verse>
<verse osisID="Mark.14.45">And as soon as he was come, he goes immediately to him, and says, Master, master; and kissed him.</verse>
<verse osisID="Mark.14.46">And they laid their hands on him, and took him.</verse>
<verse osisID="Mark.14.47">And one of them that stood by drew a sword, and smote a servant of the high priest, and cut off his ear.</verse>
<verse osisID="Mark.14.48">And Jesus answered and said unto them, Are you come out, as against a thief, with swords and with staves to take me?</verse>
<verse osisID="Mark.14.49">I was daily with you in the temple teaching, and you took me not: but the scriptures must be fulfilled.</verse>
<verse osisID="Mark.14.50">And they all forsook him, and fled.</verse>
<verse osisID="Mark.14.51">And there followed him a certain young man, having a linen cloth cast about his naked body; and the young men laid hold on him:</verse>
<verse osisID="Mark.14.52">And he left the linen cloth, and fled from them naked.</verse>
<verse osisID="Mark.14.53">And they led Jesus away to the high priest: and with him were assembled all the chief priests and the elders and the scribes.</verse>
<verse osisID="Mark.14.54">And Peter followed him afar off, even into the palace of the high priest: and he sat with the servants, and warmed himself at the fire.</verse>
<verse osisID="Mark.14.55">And the chief priests and all the council sought for witness against Jesus to put him to death; and found none.</verse>
<verse osisID="Mark.14.56">For many bare false witness against him, but their witness agreed not together.</verse>
<verse osisID="Mark.14.57">And there arose certain, and bare false witness against him, saying,</verse>
<verse osisID="Mark.14.58">We heard him say, I will destroy this temple that is made with hands, and within three days I will build another made without hands.</verse>
<verse osisID="Mark.14.59">But neither so did their witness agree together.</verse>
<verse osisID="Mark.14.60">And the high priest stood up in the midst, and asked Jesus, saying, Answer you nothing? what is it which these witness against you?</verse>
<verse osisID="Mark.14.61">But he held his peace, and answered nothing. Again the high priest asked him, and said unto him, Are you the Christ, the Son of the Blessed?</verse>
<verse osisID="Mark.14.62">And Jesus said, I am: and you shall see the Son of man sitting on the right hand of power, and coming in the clouds of heaven.</verse>
<verse osisID="Mark.14.63">Then the high priest tore his clothes, and says, What need we any further witnesses?</verse>
<verse osisID="Mark.14.64">You have heard the blasphemy: what think you? And they all condemned him to be guilty of death.</verse>
<verse osisID="Mark.14.65">And some began to spit on him, and to cover his face, and to buffet him, and to say unto him, Prophesy: and the servants did strike him with the palms of their hands.</verse>
<verse osisID="Mark.14.66">And as Peter was beneath in the palace, there comes one of the maids of the high priest:</verse>
<verse osisID="Mark.14.67">And when she saw Peter warming himself, she looked upon him, and said, And you also were with Jesus of Nazareth.</verse>
<verse osisID="Mark.14.68">But he denied, saying, I do not know, neither understand I what you say. And he went out into the porch; and the cock crowed.</verse>
<verse osisID="Mark.14.69">And a maid saw him again, and began to say to them that stood by, This is one of them.</verse>
<verse osisID="Mark.14.70">And he denied it again. And a little after, they that stood by said again to Peter, Surely you are one of them: for you are a Galilaean, and your speech agrees to that.</verse>
<verse osisID="Mark.14.71">But he began to curse and to swear, saying, I do not know this man of whom you speak.</verse>
<verse osisID="Mark.14.72">And the second time the cock crowed. And Peter called to mind the word that Jesus said unto him, Before the cock crows twice, you shall deny me three times. And when he thought on this, he wept.</verse>
</chapter>
<chapter osisID="Mark.14.72">
<verse osisID="Mark.15.1">And immediately in the morning the chief priests held a consultation with the elders and scribes and the whole council, and bound Jesus, and carried him away, and delivered him to Pilate.</verse>
<verse osisID="Mark.15.2">And Pilate asked him, Are you the King of the Jews? And he answering said unto them, You say it.</verse>
<verse osisID="Mark.15.3">And the chief priests accused him of many things: but he answered nothing.</verse>
<verse osisID="Mark.15.4">And Pilate asked him again, saying, Answer you nothing? behold how many things they witness against you.</verse>
<verse osisID="Mark.15.5">But Jesus yet answered nothing; so that Pilate marvelled.</verse>
<verse osisID="Mark.15.6">Now at that feast he released unto them one prisoner, whoever they desired.</verse>
<verse osisID="Mark.15.7">And there was one named Barabbas, which lay bound with them that had made insurrection with him, who had committed murder in the insurrection.</verse>
<verse osisID="Mark.15.8">And the multitude crying aloud began to desire him to do as he had always done unto them.</verse>
<verse osisID="Mark.15.9">But Pilate answered them, saying, Will you that I release unto you the King of the Jews?</verse>
<verse osisID="Mark.15.10">For he knew that the chief priests had delivered him because of.</verse>
<verse osisID="Mark.15.11">But the chief priests moved the people, that he should rather release Barabbas unto them.</verse>
<verse osisID="Mark.15.12">And Pilate answered and said again unto them, What will you then that I shall do unto him whom you call the King of the Jews?</verse>
<verse osisID="Mark.15.13">And they cried out again, Crucify him.</verse>
<verse osisID="Mark.15.14">Then Pilate said unto them, Why, what evil has he done? And they cried out the more exceedingly, Crucify him.</verse>
<verse osisID="Mark.15.15">And so Pilate, willing to content the people, released Barabbas unto them, and delivered Jesus, when he had whipped him, to be crucified.</verse>
<verse osisID="Mark.15.16">And the soldiers led him away into the hall, called Praetorium; and they call together the whole band.</verse>
<verse osisID="Mark.15.17">And they clothed him with purple, and platted a crown of thorns, and put it about his head,</verse>
<verse osisID="Mark.15.18">And began to salute him, Hail, King of the Jews!</verse>
<verse osisID="Mark.15.19">And they smote him on the head with a reed, and did spit upon him, and bowing their knees worshipped him.</verse>
<verse osisID="Mark.15.20">And when they had mocked him, they took off the purple from him, and put his own clothes on him, and led him out to crucify him.</verse>
<verse osisID="Mark.15.21">And they compel one Simon a Cyrenian, who passed by, coming out of the country, the father of Alexander and Rufus, to bear his cross.</verse>
<verse osisID="Mark.15.22">And they bring him unto the place Golgotha, which is, being interpreted, The place of a skull.</verse>
<verse osisID="Mark.15.23">And they gave him to drink wine mingled with myrrh: but he received it not.</verse>
<verse osisID="Mark.15.24">And when they had crucified him, they parted his garments, casting lots upon them, what every man should take.</verse>
<verse osisID="Mark.15.25">And it was the third hour, and they crucified him.</verse>
<verse osisID="Mark.15.26">And the superscription of his accusation was written over, THE KING OF THE JEWS.</verse>
<verse osisID="Mark.15.27">And with him they crucify two thieves; the one on his right hand, and the other on his left.</verse>
<verse osisID="Mark.15.28">And the scripture was fulfilled, which says, And he was numbered with the transgressors.</verse>
<verse osisID="Mark.15.29">And they that passed by railed on him, wagging their heads, and saying, Ah, you that destroys the temple, and builds it in three days,</verse>
<verse osisID="Mark.15.30">Save yourself, and come down from the cross.</verse>
<verse osisID="Mark.15.31">Likewise also the chief priests mocking said among themselves with the scribes, He saved others; himself he cannot save.</verse>
<verse osisID="Mark.15.32">Let Christ the King of Israel descend now from the cross, that we may see and believe. And they that were crucified with him reviled him.</verse>
<verse osisID="Mark.15.33">And when the sixth hour was come, there was darkness over the whole land until the ninth hour.</verse>
<verse osisID="Mark.15.34">And at the ninth hour Jesus cried with a loud voice, saying, Eloi, Eloi, lama sabachthani? which is, being interpreted, My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?</verse>
<verse osisID="Mark.15.35">And some of them that stood by, when they heard it, said, Behold, he calls Elijah.</verse>
<verse osisID="Mark.15.36">And one ran and filled a sponge full of vinegar, and put it on a reed, and gave him to drink, saying, Let him alone; let us see whether Elijah will come to take him down.</verse>
<verse osisID="Mark.15.37">And Jesus cried with a loud voice, and gave up the ghost.</verse>
<verse osisID="Mark.15.38">And the veil of the temple was torn in two from the top to the bottom.</verse>
<verse osisID="Mark.15.39">And when the centurion, which stood over against him, saw that he so cried out, and gave up the ghost, he said, Truly this man was the Son of God.</verse>
<verse osisID="Mark.15.40">There were also women looking on afar off: among whom was Mary Magdalene, and Mary the mother of James the less and of Joses, and Salome;</verse>
<verse osisID="Mark.15.41">(Who also, when he was in Galilee, followed him, and ministered unto him;) and many other women which came up with him unto Jerusalem.</verse>
<verse osisID="Mark.15.42">And now when the even was come, because it was the preparation, that is, the day before the sabbath,</verse>
<verse osisID="Mark.15.43">Joseph of Arimathaea, an honorable counselor, which also waited for the kingdom of God, came, and went in boldly unto Pilate, and requested the body of Jesus.</verse>
<verse osisID="Mark.15.44">And Pilate wondered if he were already dead: and calling unto him the centurion, he asked him whether he had been any while dead.</verse>
<verse osisID="Mark.15.45">And when he knew it of the centurion, he gave the body to Joseph.</verse>
<verse osisID="Mark.15.46">And he bought fine linen, and took him down, and wrapped him in the linen, and laid him in a sepulcher which was hewn out of a rock, and rolled a stone unto the door of the sepulcher.</verse>
<verse osisID="Mark.15.47">And Mary Magdalene and Mary the mother of Joses beheld where he was laid.</verse>
</chapter>
<chapter osisID="Mark.15.47">
<verse osisID="Mark.16.1">And when the sabbath was past, Mary Magdalene, and Mary the mother of James, and Salome, had bought sweet spices, that they might come and anoint him.</verse>
<verse osisID="Mark.16.2">And very early in the morning the first day of the week, they came unto the sepulcher at the rising of the sun.</verse>
<verse osisID="Mark.16.3">And they said among themselves, Who shall roll us away the stone from the door of the sepulcher?</verse>
<verse osisID="Mark.16.4">And when they looked, they saw that the stone was rolled away: for it was very great.</verse>
<verse osisID="Mark.16.5">And entering into the sepulcher, they saw a young man sitting on the right side, clothed in a long white garment; and they were frightened.</verse>
<verse osisID="Mark.16.6">And he says unto them, Be not frightened: You seek Jesus of Nazareth, which was crucified: he is risen; he is not here: behold the place where they laid him.</verse>
<verse osisID="Mark.16.7">But go your way, tell his disciples and Peter that he goes before you into Galilee: there shall you see him, as he said unto you.</verse>
<verse osisID="Mark.16.8">And they went out quickly, and fled from the sepulcher; for they trembled and were amazed: neither said they any thing to any man; for they were afraid.</verse>
<verse osisID="Mark.16.9">Now when Jesus was risen early the first day of the week, he appeared first to Mary Magdalene, out of whom he had cast seven devils.</verse>
<verse osisID="Mark.16.10">And she went and told them that had been with him, as they mourned and wept.</verse>
<verse osisID="Mark.16.11">And they, when they had heard that he was alive, and had been seen of her, believed not.</verse>
<verse osisID="Mark.16.12">After that he appeared in another form unto two of them, as they walked, and went into the country.</verse>
<verse osisID="Mark.16.13">And they went and told it unto the others: neither believed they them.</verse>
<verse osisID="Mark.16.14">Afterward he appeared unto the eleven as they sat at food, and upbraided them with their unbelief and hardness of heart, because they believed not those who had seen him after he was risen.</verse>
<verse osisID="Mark.16.15">And he said unto them, Go you into all the world, and preach the gospel to every creature.</verse>
<verse osisID="Mark.16.16">He that believes and is baptized shall be saved; but he that believes not shall be damned.</verse>
<verse osisID="Mark.16.17">And these signs shall follow them that believe; In my name shall they cast out devils; they shall speak with new tongues;</verse>
<verse osisID="Mark.16.18">They shall take up serpents; and if they drink any deadly thing, it shall not hurt them; they shall lay hands on the sick, and they shall recover.</verse>
<verse osisID="Mark.16.19">So then after the Lord had spoken unto them, he was received up into heaven, and sat on the right hand of God.</verse>
<verse osisID="Mark.16.20">And they went forth, and preached everywhere, the Lord working with them, and confirming the word with signs following. Amen. </div></verse>
</chapter>
</div>
<div type="book" osisID="Mark.15.47">
<chapter osisID="Mark.16.20">
<verse osisID="Luke.1.1">Since many have taken in hand to set forth in order a declaration of those things which are most surely believed among us,</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.1.2">Just as they delivered them unto us, which from the beginning were eyewitnesses, and ministers of the word;</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.1.3">It seemed good to me also, having had perfect understanding of all things from the very first, to write unto you in order, most excellent Theophilus,</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.1.4">That you might know the certainty of those things, in which you have been instructed.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.1.5">THERE was in the days of Herod, the king of Judaea, a certain priest named Zacharias, of the course of Abia: and his wife was of the daughters of Aaron, and her name was Elisabeth.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.1.6">And they were both righteous before God, walking in all the commandments and ordinances of the Lord blameless.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.1.7">And they had no child, because Elisabeth was barren, and they both were now well advanced in years.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.1.8">And it came to pass, that while he executed the priest's office before God in the order of his course,</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.1.9">According to the custom of the priest's office, his lot was to burn incense when he went into the temple of the Lord.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.1.10">And the whole multitude of the people were praying outside at the time of incense.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.1.11">And there appeared unto him an angel of the Lord standing on the right side of the altar of incense.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.1.12">And when Zacharias saw him, he was troubled, and fear fell upon him.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.1.13">But the angel said unto him, Fear not, Zacharias: for your prayer is heard; and your wife Elisabeth shall bear you a son, and you shall call his name John.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.1.14">And you shall have joy and gladness; and many shall rejoice at his birth.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.1.15">For he shall be great in the sight of the Lord, and shall drink neither wine nor strong drink; and he shall be filled with the Holy Ghost, even from his mother's womb.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.1.16">And many of the children of Israel shall he turn to the Lord their God.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.1.17">And he shall go before him in the spirit and power of Elijah, to turn the hearts of the fathers to the children, and the disobedient to the wisdom of the just; to make ready a people prepared for the Lord.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.1.18">And Zacharias said unto the angel, How shall I know this? for I am an old man, and my wife well advanced in years.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.1.19">And the angel answering said unto him, I am Gabriel, that stand in the presence of God; and am sent to speak unto you, and to show you these glad tidings.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.1.20">And, behold, you shall be dumb, and not able to speak, until the day that these things shall be performed, because you believe not my words, which shall be fulfilled in their appropriate time.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.1.21">And the people waited for Zacharias, and wondered why he tarried so long in the temple.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.1.22">And when he came out, he could not speak unto them: and they perceived that he had seen a vision in the temple: for he beckoned unto them, and remained speechless.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.1.23">And it came to pass, that, as soon as the days of his ministration were accomplished, he departed to his own house.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.1.24">And after those days his wife Elisabeth conceived, and hid herself five months, saying,</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.1.25">Thus has the Lord dealt with me in the days in which he looked on me, to take away my reproach among men.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.1.26">And in the sixth month the angel Gabriel was sent from God unto a city of Galilee, named Nazareth,</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.1.27">To a virgin espoused to a man whose name was Joseph, of the house of David; and the virgin's name was Mary.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.1.28">And the angel came in unto her, and said, Hail, you that are highly favored, the Lord is with you: blessed are you among women.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.1.29">And when she saw him, she was troubled at his saying, and cast in her mind what manner of salutation this should be.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.1.30">And the angel said unto her, Fear not, Mary: for you have found favor with God.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.1.31">And, behold, you shall conceive in your womb, and bring forth a son, and shall call his name JESUS.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.1.32">He shall be great, and shall be called the Son of the Highest: and the Lord God shall give unto him the throne of his father David:</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.1.33">And he shall reign over the house of Jacob forever; and of his kingdom there shall be no end.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.1.34">Then said Mary unto the angel, How shall this be, seeing I know not a man?</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.1.35">And the angel answered and said unto her, The Holy Ghost shall come upon you, and the power of the Highest shall overshadow you: therefore also that holy thing which shall be born of you shall be called the Son of God.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.1.36">And, behold, your cousin Elisabeth, she has also conceived a son in her old age: and this is the sixth month with her, who was called barren.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.1.37">For with God nothing shall be impossible.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.1.38">And Mary said, Behold the handmaid of the Lord; be it unto me according to your word. And the angel departed from her.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.1.39">And Mary arose in those days, and went into the hill country with haste, into a city of Juda;</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.1.40">And entered into the house of Zacharias, and saluted Elisabeth.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.1.41">And it came to pass, that, when Elisabeth heard the salutation of Mary, the babe leaped in her womb; and Elisabeth was filled with the Holy Ghost:</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.1.42">And she spoke out with a loud voice, and said, Blessed are you among women, and blessed is the fruit of your womb.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.1.43">And why is this to me, that the mother of my Lord should come to me?</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.1.44">For, lo, as soon as the voice of your salutation sounded in my ears, the babe leaped in my womb for joy.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.1.45">And blessed is she that believed: for there shall be a performance of those things which were told her from the Lord.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.1.46">And Mary said, My soul does magnify the Lord,</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.1.47">And my spirit has rejoiced in God my Saviour.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.1.48">For he has regarded the low estate of his handmaiden: for, behold, from henceforth all generations shall call me blessed.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.1.49">For he that is mighty has done to me great things; and holy is his name.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.1.50">And his mercy is on them that fear him from generation to generation.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.1.51">He has showed strength with his arm; he has scattered the proud in the imagination of their hearts.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.1.52">He has put down the mighty from their seats, and exalted them of low degree.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.1.53">He has filled the hungry with good things; and the rich he has sent empty away.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.1.54">He has helped his servant Israel, in remembrance of his mercy;</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.1.55">As he spoke to our fathers, to Abraham, and to his seed forever.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.1.56">And Mary abode with her about three months, and returned to her own house.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.1.57">Now Elisabeth's full time came that she should be delivered; and she brought forth a son.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.1.58">And her neighbors and her cousins heard how the Lord had showed great mercy upon her; and they rejoiced with her.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.1.59">And it came to pass, that on the eighth day they came to circumcise the child; and they called him Zacharias, after the name of his father.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.1.60">And his mother answered and said, Not so; but he shall be called John.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.1.61">And they said unto her, There is none of your kindred that is called by this name.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.1.62">And they made signs to his father, how he would have him called.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.1.63">And he asked for a writing table, and wrote, saying, His name is John. And they marvelled all.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.1.64">And his mouth was opened immediately, and his tongue loosed, and he spoke, and praised God.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.1.65">And fear came on all that dwelled round about them: and all these sayings were reported abroad throughout all the hill country of Judaea.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.1.66">And all they that heard them laid them up in their hearts, saying, What manner of child shall this be! And the hand of the Lord was with him.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.1.67">And his father Zacharias was filled with the Holy Ghost, and prophesied, saying,</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.1.68">Blessed be the Lord God of Israel; for he has visited and redeemed his people,</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.1.69">And has raised up a horn of salvation for us in the house of his servant David;</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.1.70">As he spoke by the mouth of his holy prophets, which have been since the world began:</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.1.71">That we should be saved from our enemies, and from the hand of all that hate us;</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.1.72">To perform the mercy promised to our fathers, and to remember his holy covenant;</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.1.73">The oath which he helped to our father Abraham,</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.1.74">That he would grant unto us, that we being delivered out of the hand of our enemies might serve him without fear,</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.1.75">In holiness and righteousness before him, all the days of our life.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.1.76">And you, child, shall be called the prophet of the Highest: for you shall go before the face of the Lord to prepare his ways;</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.1.77">To give knowledge of salvation unto his people by the remission of their sins,</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.1.78">Through the tender mercy of our God; whereby the dayspring from on high has visited us,</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.1.79">To give light to them that sit in darkness and in the shadow of death, to guide our feet into the way of peace.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.1.80">And the child grew, and grew strong in spirit, and was in the deserted places till the day of his appearance unto Israel.</verse>
</chapter>
<chapter osisID="Luke.1.80">
<verse osisID="Luke.2.1">And it came to pass in those days, that there went out a decree from Caesar Augustus that all the world should be registered.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.2.2">(And this registration was first made when Cyrenius was governor of Syria.)</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.2.3">And all went to be registered, every one into his own city.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.2.4">And Joseph also went up from Galilee, out of the city of Nazareth, into Judaea, unto the city of David, which is called Bethlehem; (because he was of the house and lineage of David:)</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.2.5">To be registered with Mary his espoused wife, being great with child.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.2.6">And so it was, that, while they were there, the days were accomplished that she should be delivered.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.2.7">And she brought forth her firstborn son, and wrapped him in swaddling clothes, and laid him in a manger; because there was no room for them in the inn.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.2.8">And there were in the same country shepherds abiding in the field, keeping watch over their flock by night.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.2.9">And, lo, the angel of the Lord came upon them, and the glory of the Lord shone round about them: and they were intensely afraid.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.2.10">And the angel said unto them, Fear not: for, behold, I bring you good tidings of great joy, which shall be to all people.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.2.11">For unto you is born this day in the city of David a Saviour, which is Christ the Lord.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.2.12">And this shall be a sign unto you; You shall find the babe wrapped in swaddling clothes, lying in a manger.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.2.13">And suddenly there was with the angel a multitude of the heavenly host praising God, and saying,</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.2.14">Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace, good will toward men.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.2.15">And it came to pass, as the angels were gone away from them into heaven, the shepherds said one to another, Let us now go even unto Bethlehem, and see this thing which is come to pass, which the Lord has made known unto us.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.2.16">And they came with haste, and found Mary, and Joseph, and the babe lying in a manger.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.2.17">And when they had seen it, they made known abroad the saying which was told them concerning this child.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.2.18">And all they that heard it wondered at those things which were told them by the shepherds.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.2.19">But Mary kept all these things, and pondered them in her heart.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.2.20">And the shepherds returned, glorifying and praising God for all the things that they had heard and seen, as it was told unto them.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.2.21">And when eight days were accomplished for the circumcising of the child, his name was called JESUS, which was so named of the angel before he was conceived in the womb.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.2.22">And when the days of her purification according to the law of Moses were accomplished, they brought him to Jerusalem, to present him to the Lord;</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.2.23">(As it is written in the law of the LORD, Every male that opens the womb shall be called holy to the Lord;)</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.2.24">And to offer a sacrifice according to that which is said in the law of the Lord, A pair of turtledoves, or two young pigeons.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.2.25">And, behold, there was a man in Jerusalem, whose name was Simeon; and the same man was just and devout, waiting for the consolation of Israel: and the Holy Ghost was upon him.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.2.26">And it was revealed unto him by the Holy Ghost, that he should not see death, before he had seen the Lord's Christ.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.2.27">And he came by the Spirit into the temple: and when the parents brought in the child Jesus, to do for him after the custom of the law,</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.2.28">Then took he him up in his arms, and blessed God, and said,</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.2.29">Lord, now let your servant depart in peace, according to your word:</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.2.30">For my eyes have seen your salvation,</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.2.31">Which you have prepared before the face of all people;</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.2.32">A light to lighten the Gentiles, and the glory of your people Israel.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.2.33">And Joseph and his mother marvelled at those things which were spoken of him.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.2.34">And Simeon blessed them, and said unto Mary his mother, Behold, this child is set for the fall and rising again of many in Israel; and for a sign which shall be spoken against;</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.2.35">(Yes, a sword shall pierce through your own soul also,) that the thoughts of many hearts may be revealed.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.2.36">And there was one Anna, a prophetess, the daughter of Phanuel, of the tribe of Aser: she was of a great age, and had lived with a husband seven years from her virginity;</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.2.37">And she was a widow of about fourscore and four years, which departed not from the temple, but served God with fastings and prayers night and day.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.2.38">And she coming in that instant gave thanks likewise unto the Lord, and spoke of him to all them that looked for redemption in Jerusalem.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.2.39">And when they had performed all things according to the law of the Lord, they returned into Galilee, to their own city Nazareth.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.2.40">And the child grew, and grew strong in spirit, filled with wisdom: and the grace of God was upon him.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.2.41">Now his parents went to Jerusalem every year at the feast of the passover.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.2.42">And when he was twelve years old, they went up to Jerusalem after the custom of the feast.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.2.43">And when they had fulfilled the days, as they returned, the child Jesus tarried behind in Jerusalem; and Joseph and his mother did not know of it.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.2.44">But they, supposing him to have been in the company, went a day's journey; and they sought him among their kinsfolk and acquaintance.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.2.45">And when they found him not, they turned back again to Jerusalem, seeking him.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.2.46">And it came to pass, that after three days they found him in the temple, sitting in the midst of the teachers, both hearing them, and asking them questions.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.2.47">And all that heard him were astonished at his understanding and answers.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.2.48">And when they saw him, they were amazed: and his mother said unto him, Son, why have you thus dealt with us? behold, your father and I have sought you sorrowing.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.2.49">And he said unto them, How is it that you sought me? know you not that I must be about my Father's business?</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.2.50">And they understood not the saying which he spoke unto them.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.2.51">And he went down with them, and came to Nazareth, and was subject unto them: but his mother kept all these sayings in her heart.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.2.52">And Jesus increased in wisdom and stature, and in favor with God and man.</verse>
</chapter>
<chapter osisID="Luke.2.52">
<verse osisID="Luke.3.1">Now in the fifteenth year of the reign of Tiberius Caesar, Pontius Pilate being governor of Judaea, and Herod being tetrarch of Galilee, and his brother Philip tetrarch of Ituraea and of the region of Trachonitis, and Lysanias the tetrarch of Abilene,</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.3.2">Annas and Caiaphas being the high priests, the word of God came unto John the son of Zacharias in the wilderness.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.3.3">And he came into all the country around the Jordan, preaching the baptism of repentance for the remission of sins;</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.3.4">As it is written in the book of the words of Isaiah the prophet, saying, The voice of one crying in the wilderness, Prepare you the way of the Lord, make his paths straight.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.3.5">Every valley shall be filled, and every mountain and hill shall be brought low; and the crooked shall be made straight, and the rough ways shall be made smooth;</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.3.6">And all flesh shall see the salvation of God.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.3.7">Then said he to the multitude that came forth to be baptized of him, O generation of vipers, who has warned you to flee from the wrath to come?</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.3.8">Bring forth therefore fruits worthy of repentance, and begin not to say within yourselves, We have Abraham to our father: for I say unto you, That God is able of these stones to raise up children unto Abraham.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.3.9">And now also the axe is laid unto the root of the trees: every tree therefore which does not bring forth good fruit is hewn down, and cast into the fire.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.3.10">And the people asked him, saying, What shall we do then?</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.3.11">He answers and says unto them, He that has two coats, let him give to him that has none; and he that has food, let him do likewise.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.3.12">Then came also publicans to be baptized, and said unto him, Master, what shall we do?</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.3.13">And he said unto them, Exact no more than that which is appointed you.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.3.14">And the soldiers likewise demanded of him, saying, And what shall we do? And he said unto them, Do violence to no man, neither accuse any falsely; and be content with your wages.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.3.15">And as the people were in expectation, and all men mused in their hearts of John, whether he were the Christ, or not;</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.3.16">John answered, saying unto them all, I indeed baptize you with water; but one mightier than I comes, the latchet of whose shoes I am not worthy to unloose: he shall baptize you with the Holy Ghost and with fire:</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.3.17">Whose fan is in his hand, and he will thoroughly purge his floor, and will gather the wheat into his garner; but the chaff he will burn with fire unquenchable.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.3.18">And many other things in his exhortation preached he unto the people.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.3.19">But Herod the tetrarch, being reproved by him for Herodias his brother Philip's wife, and for all the evils which Herod had done,</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.3.20">Added yet this above all, that he shut up John in prison.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.3.21">Now when all the people were baptized, it came to pass, that Jesus also being baptized, and praying, the heaven was opened,</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.3.22">And the Holy Ghost descended in a bodily shape like a dove upon him, and a voice came from heaven, which said, You are my beloved Son; in you I am well pleased.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.3.23">And Jesus himself began to be about thirty years of age, being (as was supposed) the son of Joseph, which was the son of Heli,</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.3.24">Which was the son of Matthat, which was the son of Levi, which was the son of Melchi, which was the son of Janna, which was the son of Joseph,</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.3.25">Which was the son of Mattathias, which was the son of Amos, which was the son of Naum, which was the son of Esli, which was the son of Nagge,</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.3.26">Which was the son of Maath, which was the son of Mattathias, which was the son of Semei, which was the son of Joseph, which was the son of Juda,</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.3.27">Which was the son of Joanna, which was the son of Rhesa, which was the son of Zorobabel, which was the son of Salathiel, which was the son of Neri,</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.3.28">Which was the son of Melchi, which was the son of Addi, which was the son of Cosam, which was the son of Elmodam, which was the son of Er,</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.3.29">Which was the son of Jose, which was the son of Eliezer, which was the son of Jorim, which was the son of Matthat, which was the son of Levi,</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.3.30">Which was the son of Simeon, which was the son of Juda, which was the son of Joseph, which was the son of Jonan, which was the son of Eliakim,</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.3.31">Which was the son of Melea, which was the son of Menan, which was the son of Mattatha, which was the son of Nathan, which was the son of David,</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.3.32">Which was the son of Jesse, which was the son of Obed, which was the son of Booz, which was the son of Salmon, which was the son of Naasson,</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.3.33">Which was the son of Aminadab, which was the son of Aram, which was the son of Esrom, which was the son of Phares, which was the son of Juda,</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.3.34">Which was the son of Jacob, which was the son of Isaac, which was the son of Abraham, which was the son of Thara, which was the son of Nachor,</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.3.35">Which was the son of Saruch, which was the son of Ragau, which was the son of Phalec, which was the son of Heber, which was the son of Sala,</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.3.36">Which was the son of Cainan, which was the son of Arphaxad, which was the son of Sem, which was the son of Noah, which was the son of Lamech,</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.3.37">Which was the son of Mathusala, which was the son of Enoch, which was the son of Jared, which was the son of Maleleel, which was the son of Cainan,</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.3.38">Which was the son of Enos, which was the son of Seth, which was the son of Adam, which was the son of God.</verse>
</chapter>
<chapter osisID="Luke.3.38">
<verse osisID="Luke.4.1">And Jesus being full of the Holy Ghost returned from the Jordan, and was led by the Spirit into the wilderness,</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.4.2">Being forty days tempted of the devil. And in those days he did eat nothing: and when they were ended, he afterward hungered.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.4.3">And the devil said unto him, If you be the Son of God, command this stone that it be made bread.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.4.4">And Jesus answered him, saying, It is written, That man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word of God.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.4.5">And the devil, taking him up into a high mountain, showed unto him all the kingdoms of the world in a moment of time.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.4.6">And the devil said unto him, All this power will I give you, and the glory of them: for that is delivered unto me; and to whomsoever I will I give it.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.4.7">If you therefore will worship me, all shall be yours.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.4.8">And Jesus answered and said unto him, Get you behind me, Satan: for it is written, You shall worship the Lord your God, and him only shall you serve.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.4.9">And he brought him to Jerusalem, and set him on a pinnacle of the temple, and said unto him, If you be the Son of God, cast yourself down from here:</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.4.10">For it is written, He shall give his angels charge over you, to keep you:</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.4.11">And in their hands they shall bear you up, lest at any time you dash your foot against a stone.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.4.12">And Jesus answering said unto him, It is said, You shall not tempt the Lord your God.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.4.13">And when the devil had ended all the temptation, he departed from him for a time.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.4.14">And Jesus returned in the power of the Spirit into Galilee: and there went out a fame of him through all the region round about.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.4.15">And he taught in their synagogues, being glorified of all.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.4.16">And he came to Nazareth, where he had been brought up: and, as his custom was, he went into the synagogue on the sabbath day, and stood up to read.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.4.17">And there was delivered unto him the book of the prophet Isaiah. And when he had opened the book, he found the place where it was written,</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.4.18">The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he has anointed me to preach the gospel to the poor; he has sent me to heal the brokenhearted, to preach deliverance to the captives, and recovering of sight to the blind, to set at liberty them that are bruised,</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.4.19">To preach the acceptable year of the Lord.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.4.20">And he closed the book, and he gave it again to the minister, and sat down. And the eyes of all them that were in the synagogue were fastened on him.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.4.21">And he began to say unto them, This day is this scripture fulfilled in your ears.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.4.22">And all bore him witness, and wondered at the gracious words which proceeded out of his mouth. And they said, Is not this Joseph's son?</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.4.23">And he said unto them, You will surely say unto me this proverb, Physician, heal yourself: whatsoever we have heard done in Capernaum, do also here in your country.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.4.24">And he said, Truthfully I say unto you, No prophet is accepted in his own country.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.4.25">But I tell you of a truth, many widows were in Israel in the days of Elijah, when the heaven was shut up three years and six months, when great famine was throughout all the land;</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.4.26">But unto none of them was Elijah sent, save unto Sarepta, a city of Sidon, unto a woman that was a widow.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.4.27">And many lepers were in Israel in the time of Eliseus the prophet; and none of them was cleansed, saving Naaman the Syrian.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.4.28">And all they in the synagogue, when they heard these things, were filled with wrath,</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.4.29">And rose up, and thrust him out of the city, and led him unto the brow of the hill whereon their city was built, that they might cast him down headlong.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.4.30">But he passing through the midst of them went his way,</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.4.31">And came down to Capernaum, a city of Galilee, and taught them on the sabbath days.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.4.32">And they were astonished at his doctrine: for his word was with power.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.4.33">And in the synagogue there was a man, which had a spirit of an unclean devil, and cried out with a loud voice,</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.4.34">Saying, Let us alone; what have we to do with you, you Jesus of Nazareth? are you come to destroy us? I know you who you are; the Holy One of God.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.4.35">And Jesus rebuked him, saying, Hold your peace, and come out of him. And when the devil had thrown him in the midst, he came out of him, and hurt him not.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.4.36">And they were all amazed, and spoke among themselves, saying, What a word is this! for with authority and power he commands the unclean spirits, and they come out.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.4.37">And the fame of him went out into every place of the country round about.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.4.38">And he arose out of the synagogue, and entered into Simon's house. And Simon's wife's mother was taken with a great fever; and they sought him for her.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.4.39">And he stood over her, and rebuked the fever; and it left her: and immediately she arose and ministered unto them.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.4.40">Now when the sun was setting, all they that had any sick with different diseases brought them unto him; and he laid his hands on every one of them, and healed them.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.4.41">And devils also came out of many, crying out, and saying, You are Christ the Son of God. And he rebuking them permitted them not to speak: for they knew that he was Christ.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.4.42">And when it was day, he departed and went into a deserted place: and the people sought him, and came unto him, and restrained him, that he should not depart from them.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.4.43">And he said unto them, I must preach the kingdom of God to other cities also: for therefore am I sent.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.4.44">And he preached in the synagogues of Galilee.</verse>
</chapter>
<chapter osisID="Luke.4.44">
<verse osisID="Luke.5.1">And it came to pass, that, as the people pressed upon him to hear the word of God, he stood by the lake of Gennesaret,</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.5.2">And saw two boats standing by the lake: but the fishermen were gone out of them, and were washing their nets.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.5.3">And he entered into one of the boats, which was Simon's, and prayed him that he would thrust out a little from the land. And he sat down, and taught the people out of the boat.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.5.4">Now when he had left speaking, he said unto Simon, Launch out into the deep, and let down your nets for a drawing of fish.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.5.5">And Simon answering said unto him, Master, we have toiled all the night, and have taken nothing: nevertheless at your word I will let down the net.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.5.6">And when they had this done, they enclosed a great multitude of fishes: and their net broke.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.5.7">And they beckoned unto their partners, which were in the other boat, that they should come and help them. And they came, and filled both the boats, so that they began to sink.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.5.8">When Simon Peter saw it, he fell down at Jesus' knees, saying, Depart from me; for I am a sinful man, O Lord.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.5.9">For he was astonished, and all that were with him, at the drawing of the fishes which they had taken:</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.5.10">And so was also James, and John, the sons of Zebedee, which were partners with Simon. And Jesus said unto Simon, Fear not; from now on you shall catch men.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.5.11">And when they had brought their boats to land, they forsook all, and followed him.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.5.12">And it came to pass, when he was in a certain city, behold a man full of leprosy: who seeing Jesus fell on his face, and sought him, saying, Lord, if you will, you can make me clean.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.5.13">And he put forth his hand, and touched him, saying, I will: be you clean. And immediately the leprosy departed from him.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.5.14">And he charged him to tell no man: but go, and show yourself to the priest, and offer for your cleansing, according as Moses commanded, for a testimony unto them.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.5.15">But so much the more went there a fame abroad of him: and great multitudes came together to hear, and to be healed by him of their infirmities.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.5.16">And he withdrew himself into the wilderness, and prayed.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.5.17">And it came to pass on a certain day, as he was teaching, that there were Pharisees and teachers of the law sitting by, which were come out of every town of Galilee, and Judaea, and Jerusalem: and the power of the Lord was present to heal them.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.5.18">And, behold, men brought in a bed a man which was taken with a palsy: and they sought means to bring him in, and to lay him before him.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.5.19">And when they could not find by what way they might bring him in because of the multitude, they went upon the housetop, and let him down through the tiling with his couch into the midst before Jesus.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.5.20">And when he saw their faith, he said unto him, Man, your sins are forgiven you.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.5.21">And the scribes and the Pharisees began to reason, saying, Who is this which speaks blasphemies? Who can forgive sins, but God alone?</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.5.22">But when Jesus perceived their thoughts, he answering said unto them, What reason you in your hearts?</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.5.23">Which is easier, to say, Your sins be forgiven you; or to say, Rise up and walk?</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.5.24">But that you may know that the Son of man has power upon earth to forgive sins, (he said unto the sick of the palsy,) I say unto you, Arise, and take up your couch, and go into your house.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.5.25">And immediately he rose up before them, and took up that whereon he lay, and departed to his own house, glorifying God.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.5.26">And they were all amazed, and they glorified God, and were filled with fear, saying, We have seen strange things today.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.5.27">And after these things he went forth, and saw a publican, named Levi, sitting at the receipt of custom: and he said unto him, Follow me.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.5.28">And he left all, rose up, and followed him.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.5.29">And Levi made him a great feast in his own house: and there was a great company of publicans and of others that sat down with them.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.5.30">But their scribes and Pharisees murmured against his disciples, saying, Why do you eat and drink with publicans and sinners?</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.5.31">And Jesus answering said unto them, They that are whole need not a physician; but they that are sick.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.5.32">I came not to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.5.33">And they said unto him, Why do the disciples of John fast often, and make prayers, and likewise the disciples of the Pharisees; but yours eat and drink?</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.5.34">And he said unto them, Can you make the children of the bridechamber fast, while the bridegroom is with them?</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.5.35">But the days will come, when the bridegroom shall be taken away from them, and then shall they fast in those days.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.5.36">And he spoke also a parable unto them; No man puts a piece of a new garment upon an old; or else, then the new makes a tear, and the piece that was taken out of the new does not agree with the old.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.5.37">And no man puts new wine into old bottles; else the new wine will burst the bottles, and be spilled, and the bottles shall perish.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.5.38">But new wine must be put into new bottles; and both are preserved.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.5.39">No man also having drunk old wine immediately desires new: for he says, The old is better.</verse>
</chapter>
<chapter osisID="Luke.5.39">
<verse osisID="Luke.6.1">And it came to pass on the second sabbath after the first, that he went through the corn fields; and his disciples plucked the ears of corn, and did eat, rubbing them in their hands.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.6.2">And certain of the Pharisees said unto them, Why do you that which is not lawful to do on the sabbath days?</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.6.3">And Jesus answering them said, Have you not read so much as this, what David did, when himself was hungry, and they which were with him;</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.6.4">How he went into the house of God, and did take and eat the showbread, and gave also to them that were with him; which it is not lawful to eat but for the priests alone?</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.6.5">And he said unto them, That the Son of man is Lord also of the sabbath.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.6.6">And it came to pass also on another sabbath, that he entered into the synagogue and taught: and there was a man whose right hand was withered.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.6.7">And the scribes and Pharisees watched him, whether he would heal on the sabbath day; that they might find an accusation against him.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.6.8">But he knew their thoughts, and said to the man which had the withered hand, Rise up, and stand forth in the midst. And he arose and stood forth.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.6.9">Then said Jesus unto them, I will ask you one thing; Is it lawful on the sabbath days to do good, or to do evil? to save life, or to destroy it?</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.6.10">And looking round about upon them all, he said unto the man, Stretch forth your hand. And he did so: and his hand was restored whole as the other.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.6.11">And they were filled with anger; and communed one with another what they might do to Jesus.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.6.12">And it came to pass in those days, that he went out into a mountain to pray, and continued all night in prayer to God.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.6.13">And when it was day, he called unto him his disciples: and of them he chose twelve, whom also he named apostles;</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.6.14">Simon, (whom he also named Peter,) and Andrew his brother, James and John, Philip and Bartholomew,</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.6.15">Matthew and Thomas, James the son of Alphaeus, and Simon called Zelotes,</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.6.16">And Judas the brother of James, and Judas Iscariot, which also was the traitor.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.6.17">And he came down with them, and stood in the plain, and the company of his disciples, and a great multitude of people out of all Judaea and Jerusalem, and from the sea coast of Tyre and Sidon, which came to hear him, and to be healed of their diseases;</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.6.18">And they that were vexed with unclean spirits: and they were healed.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.6.19">And the whole multitude sought to touch him: for there went virtue out of him, and healed them all.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.6.20">And he lifted up his eyes on his disciples, and said, Blessed be you poor: for yours is the kingdom of God.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.6.21">Blessed are you that hunger now: for you shall be filled. Blessed are you that weep now: for you shall laugh.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.6.22">Blessed are you, when men shall hate you, and when they shall separate you from their company, and shall reproach you, and cast out your name as evil, for the Son of man's sake.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.6.23">Rejoice you in that day, and leap for joy: for, behold, your reward is great in heaven: for in the like manner did their fathers unto the prophets.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.6.24">But woe unto you that are rich! for you have received your consolation.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.6.25">Woe unto you that are full! for you shall hunger. Woe unto you that laugh now! for you shall mourn and weep.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.6.26">Woe unto you, when all men shall speak well of you! for so did their fathers to the false prophets.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.6.27">But I say unto you who hear, Love your enemies, do good to them which hate you,</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.6.28">Bless them that curse you, and pray for them which despitefully use you.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.6.29">And unto him that smites you on the one cheek offer also the other; and him that takes away your cloak forbid not to take your coat also.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.6.30">Give to every man that asks of you; and of him that takes away your goods ask them not again.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.6.31">And as you would that men should do to you, do you also to them likewise.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.6.32">For if you love those who love you, what thanks have you? for sinners also love those that love them.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.6.33">And if you do good to those who do good to you, what thanks have you? for sinners also do even the same.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.6.34">And if you lend to them of whom you hope to receive, what thanks have you? for sinners also lend to sinners, to receive as much again.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.6.35">But love your enemies, and do good, and lend, hoping for nothing again; and your reward shall be great, and you shall be the children of the Highest: for he is kind even unto the unthankful and to the evil.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.6.36">Be you therefore merciful, as your Father also is merciful.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.6.37">Judge not, and you shall not be judged: condemn not, and you shall not be condemned: forgive, and you shall be forgiven:</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.6.38">Give, and it shall be given unto you; good measure, pressed down, and shaken together, and running over, shall men give into your bosom. For with the same measure that you mete out it shall be measured back to you again.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.6.39">And he spoke a parable unto them, Can the blind lead the blind? shall they not both fall into the ditch?</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.6.40">The disciple is not above his master: but every one that is perfect shall be as his master.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.6.41">And why do you behold the speck that is in your brother's eye, but perceive not the beam that is in your own eye?</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.6.42">Either how can you say to your brother, Brother, let me pull out the speck that is in your eye, when you yourself behold not the beam that is in your own eye? You hypocrite, cast out first the beam out of your own eye, and then shall you see clearly to pull out the speck that is in your brother's eye.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.6.43">For a good tree does not bring forth corrupt fruit; neither does a corrupt tree bring forth good fruit.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.6.44">For every tree is known by its own fruit. For of thorns men do not gather figs, nor of a bramble bush gather they grapes.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.6.45">A good man out of the good treasure of his heart brings forth that which is good; and an evil man out of the evil treasure of his heart brings forth that which is evil: for of the abundance of the heart his mouth speaks.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.6.46">And why call you me, Lord, Lord, and do not the things which I say?</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.6.47">Whosoever comes to me, and hears my sayings, and does them, I will show you to whom he is like:</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.6.48">He is like a man which built a house, and dug deep, and laid the foundation on a rock: and when the flood arose, the stream beat vehemently upon that house, and could not shake it: for it was founded upon a rock.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.6.49">But he that hears, and does not, is like a man that without a foundation built a house upon the earth; against which the stream did beat vehemently, and immediately it fell; and the ruin of that house was great.</verse>
</chapter>
<chapter osisID="Luke.6.49">
<verse osisID="Luke.7.1">Now when he had ended all his sayings in the audience of the people, he entered into Capernaum.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.7.2">And a certain centurion's servant, who was dear unto him, was sick, and ready to die.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.7.3">And when he heard of Jesus, he sent unto him the elders of the Jews, beseeching him that he would come and heal his servant.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.7.4">And when they came to Jesus, they sought him instantly, saying, That he was worthy for whom he should do this:</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.7.5">For he loves our nation, and he has built us a synagogue.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.7.6">Then Jesus went with them. And when he was now not far from the house, the centurion sent friends to him, saying unto him, Lord, trouble not yourself: for I am not worthy that you should enter under my roof:</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.7.7">Therefore neither thought I myself worthy to come unto you: but say in a word, and my servant shall be healed.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.7.8">For I also am a man set under authority, having under me soldiers, and I say unto one, Go, and he goes; and to another, Come, and he comes; and to my servant, Do this, and he does it.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.7.9">When Jesus heard these things, he marvelled at him, and turned him about, and said unto the people that followed him, I say unto you, I have not found so great faith, no, not in Israel.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.7.10">And they that were sent, returning to the house, found the servant whole that had been sick.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.7.11">And it came to pass the day after, that he went into a city called Nain; and many of his disciples went with him, and many people.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.7.12">Now when he came close to the gate of the city, behold, there was a dead man carried out, the only son of his mother, and she was a widow: and many people of the city was with her.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.7.13">And when the Lord saw her, he had compassion on her, and said unto her, Weep not.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.7.14">And he came and touched the bier: and they that bore him stood still. And he said, Young man, I say unto you, Arise.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.7.15">And he that was dead sat up, and began to speak. And he delivered him to his mother.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.7.16">And there came a fear on all: and they glorified God, saying, That a great prophet is risen up among us; and, That God has visited his people.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.7.17">And this rumor of him went forth throughout all Judaea, and throughout all the region round about.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.7.18">And the disciples of John showed him of all these things.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.7.19">And John calling unto him two of his disciples sent them to Jesus, saying, Are you he that should come? or look we for another?</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.7.20">When the men had come unto him, they said, John Baptist has sent us unto you, saying, Are you he that should come? or look we for another?</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.7.21">And in that same hour he cured many of their infirmities and plagues, and of evil spirits; and unto many that were blind he gave sight.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.7.22">Then Jesus answering said unto them, Go your way, and tell John what things you have seen and heard; that the blind see, the lame walk, the lepers are cleansed, the deaf hear, the dead are raised, to the poor the gospel is preached.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.7.23">And blessed is he, whosoever shall not be offended in me.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.7.24">And when the messengers of John were departed, he began to speak unto the people concerning John, What went you out into the wilderness for to see? A reed shaken with the wind?</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.7.25">But what went you out for to see? A man clothed in soft clothing? Behold, they which are gorgeously apparelled, and live delicately, are in kings' courts.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.7.26">But what went you out for to see? A prophet? yes, I say unto you, and much more than a prophet.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.7.27">This is he, of whom it is written, Behold, I send my messenger before your face, which shall prepare your way before you.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.7.28">For I say unto you, Among those that are born of women there is not a greater prophet than John the Baptist: but he that is least in the kingdom of God is greater than he.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.7.29">And all the people that heard him, and the publicans, justified God, being baptized with the baptism of John.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.7.30">But the Pharisees and lawyers rejected the counsel of God against themselves, being not baptized of him.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.7.31">And the Lord said, Whereunto then shall I liken the men of this generation? and to what are they like?</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.7.32">They are like unto children sitting in the marketplace, and calling one to another, and saying, We have piped unto you, and you have not danced; we have mourned to you, and you have not wept.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.7.33">For John the Baptist came neither eating bread nor drinking wine; and you say, He has a devil.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.7.34">The Son of man is come eating and drinking; and you say, Behold a gluttonous man, and a winebibber, a friend of publicans and sinners!</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.7.35">But wisdom is justified of all her children.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.7.36">And one of the Pharisees desired him that he would eat with him. And he went into the Pharisee's house, and sat down to food.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.7.37">And, behold, a woman in the city, which was a sinner, when she knew that Jesus sat at food in the Pharisee's house, brought an alabaster box of ointment,</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.7.38">And stood at his feet behind him weeping, and began to wash his feet with tears, and did wipe them with the hairs of her head, and kissed his feet, and anointed them with the ointment.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.7.39">Now when the Pharisee which had invited him saw it, he spoke within himself, saying, This man, if he were a prophet, would have known who and what manner of woman this is that touches him: for she is a sinner.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.7.40">And Jesus answering said unto him, Simon, I have somewhat to say unto you. And he says, Master, say on.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.7.41">There was a certain creditor which had two debtors: the one owed five hundred denarii, and the other fifty.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.7.42">And when they had nothing to pay, he frankly forgave them both. Tell me therefore, which of them will love him most?</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.7.43">Simon answered and said, I suppose that he, to whom he forgave most. And he said unto him, You have rightly judged.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.7.44">And he turned to the woman, and said unto Simon, See you this woman? I entered into your house, you gave me no water for my feet: but she has washed my feet with tears, and wiped them with the hair of her head.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.7.45">You gave me no kiss: but this woman since the time I came in has not ceased to kiss my feet.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.7.46">My head with oil you did not anoint: but this woman has anointed my feet with ointment.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.7.47">Therefore I say unto you, Her sins, which are many, are forgiven; for she loved much: but to whom little is forgiven, the same loves little.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.7.48">And he said unto her, Your sins are forgiven.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.7.49">And they that sat at food with him began to say within themselves, Who is this that forgives sins also?</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.7.50">And he said to the woman, Your faith has saved you; go in peace.</verse>
</chapter>
<chapter osisID="Luke.7.50">
<verse osisID="Luke.8.1">And it came to pass afterward, that he went throughout every city and village, preaching and showing the glad tidings of the kingdom of God: and the twelve were with him,</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.8.2">And certain women, which had been healed of evil spirits and infirmities, Mary called Magdalene, out of whom went seven devils,</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.8.3">And Joanna the wife of Chuza Herod's steward, and Susanna, and many others, which ministered unto him of their substance.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.8.4">And when many people were gathered together, and had come to him out of every city, he spoke by a parable:</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.8.5">A sower went out to sow his seed: and as he sowed, some fell by the wayside; and it was trodden down, and the fowls of the air devoured it.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.8.6">And some fell upon a rock; and as soon as it was sprung up, it withered away, because it lacked moisture.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.8.7">And some fell among thorns; and the thorns sprang up with it, and choked it.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.8.8">And other fell on good ground, and sprang up, and bore fruit an hundredfold. And when he had said these things, he cried, He that has ears to hear, let him hear.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.8.9">And his disciples asked him, saying, What might this parable be?</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.8.10">And he said, Unto you it is given to know the mysteries of the kingdom of God: but to others in parables; that seeing they might not see, and hearing they might not understand.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.8.11">Now the parable is this: The seed is the word of God.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.8.12">Those by the wayside are they that hear; then comes the devil, and takes away the word out of their hearts, lest they should believe and be saved.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.8.13">They on the rock are they, which, when they hear, receive the word with joy; and these have no root, which for a while believe, and in time of temptation fall away.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.8.14">And that which fell among thorns are they, which, when they have heard, go forth, and are choked with cares and riches and pleasures of this life, and bring no fruit to perfection.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.8.15">But that on the good ground are they, which in a honest and good heart, having heard the word, keep it, and bring forth fruit with patience.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.8.16">No man, when he has lighted a candle, covers it with a vessel, or puts it under a bed; but sets it on a candlestick, that they which enter in may see the light.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.8.17">For nothing is secret, that shall not be made manifest; neither any thing hid, that shall not be known and come abroad.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.8.18">Take heed therefore how you hear: for whosoever has, to him shall be given; and whosoever has not, from him shall be taken even that which he seems to have.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.8.19">Then came to him his mother and his brothers, and could not come at him for the press.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.8.20">And it was told him by certain which said, Your mother and your brothers stand outside, desiring to see you.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.8.21">And he answered and said unto them, My mother and my brothers are these which hear the word of God, and do it.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.8.22">Now it came to pass on a certain day, that he went into a boat with his disciples: and he said unto them, Let us go over unto the other side of the lake. And they launched forth.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.8.23">But as they sailed he fell asleep: and there came down a storm of wind on the lake; and they were filled with water, and were in jeopardy.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.8.24">And they came to him, and awoke him, saying, Master, master, we perish. Then he arose, and rebuked the wind and the raging of the water: and they ceased, and there was a calm.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.8.25">And he said unto them, Where is your faith? And they being afraid wondered, saying one to another, What manner of man is this! for he commands even the winds and water, and they obey him.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.8.26">And they arrived at the country of the Gadarenes, which is over against Galilee.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.8.27">And when he went forth to land, there met him out of the city a certain man, which had devils long time, and ware no clothes, neither abode in any house, but in the tombs.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.8.28">When he saw Jesus, he cried out, and fell down before him, and with a loud voice said, What have I to do with you, Jesus, you Son of God most high? I beseech you, torment me not.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.8.29">(For he had commanded the unclean spirit to come out of the man. For oftentimes it had caught him: and he was kept bound with chains and in fetters; and he broke the bands, and was driven of the devil into the wilderness.)</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.8.30">And Jesus asked him, saying, What is your name? And he said, Legion: because many devils were entered into him.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.8.31">And they sought him that he would not command them to go out into the deep.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.8.32">And there was there a herd of many swine feeding on the mountain: and they sought him that he would permit them to enter into them. And he permitted them.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.8.33">Then went the devils out of the man, and entered into the swine: and the herd ran violently down a steep place into the lake, and were choked.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.8.34">When they that fed them saw what was done, they fled, and went and told it in the city and in the country.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.8.35">Then they went out to see what was done; and came to Jesus, and found the man, out of whom the devils were departed, sitting at the feet of Jesus, clothed, and in his right mind: and they were afraid.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.8.36">They also which saw it told them by what means he that was possessed of the devils was healed.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.8.37">Then the whole multitude of the country of the Gadarenes round about sought him to depart from them; for they were taken with great fear: and he went up into the boat, and returned back again.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.8.38">Now the man out of whom the devils were departed sought him that he might be with him: but Jesus sent him away, saying,</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.8.39">Return to your own house, and show what great things God has done unto you. And he went his way, and announced throughout the whole city what great things Jesus had done unto him.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.8.40">And it came to pass, that, when Jesus was returned, the people gladly received him: for they were all waiting for him.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.8.41">And, behold, there came a man named Jairus, and he was a ruler of the synagogue: and he fell down at Jesus' feet, and sought him that he would come into his house:</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.8.42">For he had one only daughter, about twelve years of age, and she lay a dying. But as he went the people thronged him.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.8.43">And a woman having an issue of blood twelve years, which had spent all her living upon physicians, neither could be healed of any,</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.8.44">Came behind him, and touched the border of his garment: and immediately her issue of blood stanched.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.8.45">And Jesus said, Who touched me? When all denied, Peter and they that were with him said, Master, the multitude throng you and press you, and say you, Who touched me?</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.8.46">And Jesus said, Somebody has touched me: for I perceive that virtue is gone out of me.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.8.47">And when the woman saw that she was not hid, she came trembling, and falling down before him, she declared unto him before all the people for what cause she had touched him, and how she was healed immediately.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.8.48">And he said unto her, Daughter, be of good comfort: your faith has made you whole; go in peace.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.8.49">While he yet spoke, there comes one from the ruler of the synagogue's house, saying to him, Your daughter is dead; trouble not the Master.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.8.50">But when Jesus heard it, he answered him, saying, Fear not: believe only, and she shall be made whole.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.8.51">And when he came into the house, he permitted no man to go in, save Peter, and James, and John, and the father and the mother of the maiden.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.8.52">And all wept, and bewailed her: but he said, Weep not; she is not dead, but sleeps.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.8.53">And they laughed him to scorn, knowing that she was dead.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.8.54">And he put them all out, and took her by the hand, and called, saying, Maid, arise.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.8.55">And her spirit came again, and she arose immediately: and he commanded to give her food.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.8.56">And her parents were astonished: but he charged them that they should tell no man what was done.</verse>
</chapter>
<chapter osisID="Luke.8.56">
<verse osisID="Luke.9.1">Then he called his twelve disciples together, and gave them power and authority over all devils, and to cure diseases.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.9.2">And he sent them to preach the kingdom of God, and to heal the sick.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.9.3">And he said unto them, Take nothing for your journey, neither staves, nor scrip, neither bread, neither money; neither have two coats apiece.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.9.4">And whatsoever house you enter into, there abide, and from there depart.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.9.5">And whosoever will not receive you, when you go out of that city, shake off the very dust from your feet for a testimony against them.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.9.6">And they departed, and went through the towns, preaching the gospel, and healing every where.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.9.7">Now Herod the tetrarch heard of all that was done by him: and he was perplexed, because it was said of some, that John was risen from the dead;</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.9.8">And of some, that Elijah had appeared; and of others, that one of the old prophets was risen again.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.9.9">And Herod said, John have I beheaded: but who is this, of whom I hear such things? And he desired to see him.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.9.10">And the apostles, when they were returned, told him all that they had done. And he took them, and went aside secretly into a deserted place belonging to the city called Bethsaida.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.9.11">And the people, when they knew it, followed him: and he received them, and spoke unto them of the kingdom of God, and healed them that had need of healing.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.9.12">And when the day began to wear away, then came the twelve, and said unto him, Send the multitude away, that they may go into the towns and country round about, and lodge, and get provisions: for we are here in a deserted place.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.9.13">But he said unto them, Give them something to eat. And they said, We have no more but five loaves and two fishes; unless we should go and buy food for all these people.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.9.14">For they were about five thousand men. And he said to his disciples, Make them sit down by fifties in a company.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.9.15">And they did so, and made them all sit down.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.9.16">Then he took the five loaves and the two fishes, and looking up to heaven, he blessed them, and broke, and gave to the disciples to set before the multitude.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.9.17">And they did eat, and were all filled: and there was taken up of fragments that remained to them twelve baskets.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.9.18">And it came to pass, as he was alone praying, his disciples were with him: and he asked them, saying, Whom say the people that I am?</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.9.19">They answering said, John the Baptist; but some say, Elijah; and others say, that one of the old prophets is risen again.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.9.20">He said unto them, But whom say you that I am? Peter answering said, The Christ of God.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.9.21">And he strictly instructed them, and commanded them to tell no man that thing;</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.9.22">Saying, The Son of man must suffer many things, and be rejected of the elders and chief priests and scribes, and be slain, and be raised the third day.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.9.23">And he said to them all, If any man will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross daily, and follow me.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.9.24">For whosoever will save his life shall lose it: but whosoever will lose his life for my sake, the same shall save it.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.9.25">For what is a man advantaged, if he gain the whole world, and lose himself, or be cast away?</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.9.26">For whosoever shall be ashamed of me and of my words, of him shall the Son of man be ashamed, when he shall come in his own glory, and in his Father's, and of the holy angels.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.9.27">But I tell you of a truth, there be some standing here, which shall not taste of death, till they see the kingdom of God.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.9.28">And it came to pass about an eight days after these sayings, he took Peter and John and James, and went up into a mountain to pray.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.9.29">And as he prayed, the fashion of his countenance was altered, and his clothing was white and glistening.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.9.30">And, behold, there talked with him two men, which were Moses and Elijah:</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.9.31">Who appeared in glory, and spoke of his decease which he should accomplish at Jerusalem.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.9.32">But Peter and they that were with him were heavy with sleep: and when they were awake, they saw his glory, and the two men that stood with him.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.9.33">And it came to pass, as they departed from him, Peter said unto Jesus, Master, it is good for us to be here: and let us make three tabernacles; one for you, and one for Moses, and one for Elijah: not knowing what he said.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.9.34">While he thus spoke, there came a cloud, and overshadowed them: and they feared as they entered into the cloud.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.9.35">And there came a voice out of the cloud, saying, This is my beloved Son: hear him.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.9.36">And when the voice was past, Jesus was found alone. And they kept it close, and told no man in those days any of those things which they had seen.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.9.37">And it came to pass, that on the next day, when they had come down from the hill, many people met him.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.9.38">And, behold, a man of the company cried out, saying, Master, I beseech you, look upon my son: for he is my only child.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.9.39">And, lo, a spirit takes him, and he suddenly cries out; and it tears him that he foams again, and bruising him hardly departs from him.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.9.40">And I asked your disciples to cast him out; and they could not.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.9.41">And Jesus answering said, O faithless and perverse generation, how long shall I be with you, and tolerate you? Bring your son to here.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.9.42">And as he was yet a coming, the devil threw him down, and tare him. And Jesus rebuked the unclean spirit, and healed the child, and delivered him again to his father.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.9.43">And they were all amazed at the mighty power of God. But while they wondered every one at all things which Jesus did, he said unto his disciples,</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.9.44">Let these sayings sink down into your ears: for the Son of man shall be delivered into the hands of men.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.9.45">But they understood not this saying, and it was hid from them, that they perceived it not: and they feared to ask him of that saying.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.9.46">Then there arose a reasoning among them, which of them should be greatest.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.9.47">And Jesus, perceiving the thought of their heart, took a child, and set him by him,</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.9.48">And said unto them, Whosoever shall receive this child in my name receives me: and whosoever shall receive me receives him that sent me: for he that is least among you all, the same shall be great.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.9.49">And John answered and said, Master, we saw one casting out devils in your name; and we forbad him, because he follows not with us.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.9.50">And Jesus said unto him, Forbid him not: for he that is not against us is for us.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.9.51">And it came to pass, when the time was come that he should be received up, he steadfastly set his face to go to Jerusalem,</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.9.52">And sent messengers before his face: and they went, and entered into a village of the Samaritans, to make ready for him.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.9.53">And they did not receive him, because his face was as though he would go to Jerusalem.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.9.54">And when his disciples James and John saw this, they said, Lord, will you that we command fire to come down from heaven, and consume them, just as Elijah did?</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.9.55">But he turned, and rebuked them, and said, You know not what manner of spirit you are of.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.9.56">For the Son of man is not come to destroy men's lives, but to save them. And they went to another village.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.9.57">And it came to pass, that, as they went on the way, a certain man said unto him, Lord, I will follow you wherever you go.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.9.58">And Jesus said unto him, Foxes have holes, and birds of the air have nests; but the Son of man has nowhere to lay his head.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.9.59">And he said unto another, Follow me. But he said, Lord, permit me first to go and bury my father.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.9.60">Jesus said unto him, Let the dead bury their dead: but go you and preach the kingdom of God.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.9.61">And another also said, Lord, I will follow you; but let me first go bid them farewell, which are at home at my house.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.9.62">And Jesus said unto him, No man, having put his hand to the plough, and looking back, is fit for the kingdom of God.</verse>
</chapter>
<chapter osisID="Luke.9.62">
<verse osisID="Luke.10.1">After these things the LORD appointed other seventy also, and sent them two and two before his face into every city and place, to where he himself would come.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.10.2">Therefore said he unto them, The harvest truly is great, but the laborers are few: pray you therefore the Lord of the harvest, that he would send forth laborers into his harvest.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.10.3">Go your ways: behold, I send you forth as lambs among wolves.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.10.4">Carry neither purse, nor scrip, nor shoes: and salute no man by the way.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.10.5">And into whatsoever house you enter, first say, Peace be to this house.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.10.6">And if the son of peace be there, your peace shall rest upon it: if not, it shall turn to you again.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.10.7">And in the same house remain, eating and drinking such things as they give: for the laborer is worthy of his hire. Go not from house to house.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.10.8">And into whatsoever city you enter, and they receive you, eat such things as are set before you:</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.10.9">And heal the sick that are in it, and say unto them, The kingdom of God is come close unto you.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.10.10">But into whatsoever city you enter, and they receive you not, go your ways out into the streets of the same, and say,</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.10.11">Even the very dust of your city, which cleaves on us, we do wipe off against you: notwithstanding be sure of this, that the kingdom of God is come close unto you.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.10.12">But I say unto you, that it shall be more tolerable in that day for Sodom, than for that city.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.10.13">Woe unto you, Chorazin! woe unto you, Bethsaida! for if the mighty works had been done in Tyre and Sidon, which have been done in you, they had a great while ago repented, sitting in sackcloth and ashes.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.10.14">But it shall be more tolerable for Tyre and Sidon at the judgment, than for you.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.10.15">And you, Capernaum, which are exalted to heaven, shall be thrust down to hell.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.10.16">He that hears you hears me; and he that despises you despises me; and he that despises me despises him that sent me.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.10.17">And the seventy returned again with joy, saying, Lord, even the devils are subject unto us through your name.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.10.18">And he said unto them, I beheld Satan as lightning fall from heaven.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.10.19">Behold, I give unto you power to tread on serpents and scorpions, and over all the power of the enemy: and nothing shall by any means hurt you.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.10.20">Notwithstanding in this rejoice not, that the spirits are subject unto you; but rather rejoice, because your names are written in heaven.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.10.21">In that hour Jesus rejoiced in spirit, and said, I thank you, O Father, Lord of heaven and earth, that you have hid these things from the wise and prudent, and have revealed them unto babes: even so, Father; for so it seemed good in your sight.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.10.22">All things are delivered to me of my Father: and no man knows who the Son is, but the Father; and who the Father is, but the Son, and he to whom the Son will reveal him.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.10.23">And he turned him unto his disciples, and said secretly, Blessed are the eyes which see the things that you see:</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.10.24">For I tell you, that many prophets and kings have desired to see those things which you see, and have not seen them; and to hear those things which you hear, and have not heard them.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.10.25">And, behold, a certain lawyer stood up, and tested him, saying, Master, what shall I do to inherit eternal life?</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.10.26">He said unto him, What is written in the law? how do you read it?</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.10.27">And he answering said, You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your strength, and with all your mind; and your neighbor as yourself.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.10.28">And he said unto him, You have answered right: this do, and you shall live.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.10.29">But he, willing to justify himself, said unto Jesus, And who is my neighbor?</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.10.30">And Jesus answering said, A certain man went down from Jerusalem to Jericho, and fell among thieves, which stripped him of his clothing, and wounded him, and departed, leaving him half dead.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.10.31">And by chance there came down a certain priest that way: and when he saw him, he passed by on the other side.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.10.32">And likewise a Levite, when he was at the place, came and looked on him, and passed by on the other side.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.10.33">But a certain Samaritan, as he journeyed, came where he was: and when he saw him, he had compassion on him,</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.10.34">And went to him, and bound up his wounds, pouring in oil and wine, and set him on his own beast, and brought him to an inn, and took care of him.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.10.35">And on the next day when he departed, he took out two denarii, and gave them to the host, and said unto him, Take care of him; and whatsoever you spend more, when I come again, I will repay you.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.10.36">Which now of these three, think you, was neighbor unto him that fell among the thieves?</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.10.37">And he said, He that showed mercy on him. Then said Jesus unto him, Go, and do likewise.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.10.38">Now it came to pass, as they went, that he entered into a certain village: and a certain woman named Martha received him into her house.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.10.39">And she had a sister called Mary, which also sat at Jesus' feet, and heard his word.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.10.40">But Martha was burdened by much serving, and came to him, and said, Lord, do you not care that my sister has left me to serve alone? bid her therefore that she help me.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.10.41">And Jesus answered and said unto her, Martha, Martha, you are anxious and troubled about many things:</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.10.42">But one thing is necessary: and Mary has chosen that good part, which shall not be taken away from her.</verse>
</chapter>
<chapter osisID="Luke.10.42">
<verse osisID="Luke.11.1">And it came to pass, that, as he was praying in a certain place, when he ceased, one of his disciples said unto him, Lord, teach us to pray, as John also taught his disciples.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.11.2">And he said unto them, When you pray, say, Our Father which are in heaven, Hallowed be your name. Your kingdom come. Your will be done, as in heaven, so in earth.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.11.3">Give us day by day our daily bread.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.11.4">And forgive us our sins; for we also forgive every one that is indebted to us. And lead us not into temptation; but deliver us from evil.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.11.5">And he said unto them, Which of you shall have a friend, and shall go unto him at midnight, and say unto him, Friend, lend me three loaves;</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.11.6">For a friend of my in his journey is come to me, and I have nothing to set before him?</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.11.7">And he from within shall answer and say, Trouble me not: the door is now shut, and my children are with me in bed; I cannot rise and give you.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.11.8">I say unto you, Though he will not rise and give him, because he is his friend, yet because of his importunity he will rise and give him as many as he needs.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.11.9">And I say unto you, Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and you shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.11.10">For every one that asks receives; and he that seeks finds; and to him that knocks it shall be opened.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.11.11">If a son shall ask bread of any of you that is a father, will he give him a stone? or if he ask a fish, will he for a fish give him a serpent?</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.11.12">Or if he shall ask an egg, will he offer him a scorpion?</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.11.13">If you then, being evil, know how to give good gifts unto your children: how much more shall your heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to them that ask him?</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.11.14">And he was casting out a devil, and it was dumb. And it came to pass, when the devil was gone out, the dumb spoke; and the people wondered.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.11.15">But some of them said, He casts out devils through Beelzebub the chief of the devils.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.11.16">And others, tempting him, sought of him a sign from heaven.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.11.17">But he, knowing their thoughts, said unto them, Every kingdom divided against itself is brought to desolation; and a house divided against a house falls.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.11.18">If Satan also be divided against himself, how shall his kingdom stand? because you say that I cast out devils through Beelzebub.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.11.19">And if I by Beelzebub cast out devils, by whom do your sons cast them out? therefore shall they be your judges.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.11.20">But if I with the finger of God cast out devils, no doubt the kingdom of God is come upon you.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.11.21">When a strong man armed keeps his palace, his goods are in peace:</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.11.22">But when a stronger than he shall come upon him, and overcome him, he takes from him all his armour in which he trusted, and divides his spoils.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.11.23">He that is not with me is against me: and he that scatters not with me scatters.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.11.24">When the unclean spirit is gone out of a man, he walks through dry places, seeking rest; and finding none, he says, I will return unto my house from where I came out.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.11.25">And when he comes, he finds it swept and garnished.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.11.26">Then goes he, and takes to him seven other spirits more wicked than himself; and they enter in, and dwell there: and the last state of that man is worse than the first.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.11.27">And it came to pass, as he spoke these things, a certain woman of the company lifted up her voice, and said unto him, Blessed is the womb that bore you, and the paps which you have sucked.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.11.28">But he said, yes rather, blessed are they that hear the word of God, and keep it.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.11.29">And when the people were gathered thick together, he began to say, This is an evil generation: they seek a sign; and there shall no sign be given it, but the sign of Jonas the prophet.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.11.30">For as Jonas was a sign unto the Ninevites, so shall also the Son of man be to this generation.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.11.31">The queen of the south shall rise up in the judgment with the men of this generation, and condemn them: for she came from the utmost parts of the earth to hear the wisdom of Solomon; and, behold, a greater than Solomon is here.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.11.32">The men of Nineve shall rise up in the judgment with this generation, and shall condemn it: for they repented at the preaching of Jonas; and, behold, a greater than Jonas is here.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.11.33">No man, when he has lighted a candle, puts it in a secret place, neither under a bushel, but on a candlestick, that they which come in may see the light.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.11.34">The light of the body is the eye: therefore when your eye is single, your whole body also is full of light; but when your eye is evil, your body also is full of darkness.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.11.35">Take heed therefore that the light which is in you be not darkness.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.11.36">If your whole body therefore be full of light, having no part dark, the whole shall be full of light, as when the bright shining of a candle does give you light.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.11.37">And as he spoke, a certain Pharisee asked him to dine with him: and he went in, and sat down to food.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.11.38">And when the Pharisee saw it, he marvelled that he had not first washed before dinner.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.11.39">And the Lord said unto him, Now do you Pharisees make clean the outside of the cup and the platter; but your inward part is full of ravening and wickedness.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.11.40">You fools, did not he that made that which is outside make that which is within also?</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.11.41">But rather give alms of such things as you have; and, behold, all things are clean unto you.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.11.42">But woe unto you, Pharisees! for you tithe mint and rue and all manner of herbs, and pass over judgment and the love of God: these ought you to have done, and not to leave the other undone.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.11.43">Woe unto you, Pharisees! for you love the uppermost seats in the synagogues, and greetings in the markets.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.11.44">Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for you are as graves which appear not, and the men that walk over them are not aware of them.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.11.45">Then answered one of the lawyers, and said unto him, Master, thus saying you reproach us also.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.11.46">And he said, Woe unto you also, you lawyers! for you lade men with burdens grievous to be borne, and you yourselves touch not the burdens with one of your fingers.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.11.47">Woe unto you! for you build the sepulchers of the prophets, and your fathers killed them.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.11.48">Truly you bear witness that you allow the deeds of your fathers: for they indeed killed them, and you build their sepulchers.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.11.49">Therefore also said the wisdom of God, I will send them prophets and apostles, and some of them they shall slay and persecute:</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.11.50">That the blood of all the prophets, which was shed from the foundation of the world, may be required of this generation;</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.11.51">From the blood of Abel unto the blood of Zacharias which perished between the altar and the temple: truthfully I say unto you, It shall be required of this generation.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.11.52">Woe unto you, lawyers! for you have taken away the key of knowledge: you entered not in yourselves, and them that were entering in you hindered.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.11.53">And as he said these things unto them, the scribes and the Pharisees began to urge him vehemently, and to provoke him to speak of many things:</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.11.54">Laying wait for him, and seeking to catch something out of his mouth, that they might accuse him.</verse>
</chapter>
<chapter osisID="Luke.11.54">
<verse osisID="Luke.12.1">In the mean time, when there were gathered together an innumerable multitude of people, insomuch that they stepped one upon another, he began to say unto his disciples first of all, Beware you of the leaven of the Pharisees, which is hypocrisy.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.12.2">For there is nothing covered, that shall not be revealed; neither hid, that shall not be known.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.12.3">Therefore whatsoever you have spoken in darkness shall be heard in the light; and that which you have spoken in the ear in closets shall be proclaimed upon the housetops.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.12.4">And I say unto you my friends, Be not afraid of them that kill the body, and after that have no more that they can do.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.12.5">But I will forewarn you whom you shall fear: Fear him, which after he has killed has power to cast into hell; yes, I say unto you, Fear him.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.12.6">Are not five sparrows sold for two copper coin, and not one of them is forgotten before God?</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.12.7">But even the very hairs of your head are all numbered. Fear not therefore: you are of more value than many sparrows.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.12.8">Also I say unto you, Whosoever shall confess me before men, him shall the Son of man also confess before the angels of God:</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.12.9">But he that denies me before men shall be denied before the angels of God.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.12.10">And whosoever shall speak a word against the Son of man, it shall be forgiven him: but unto him that blasphemes against the Holy Ghost it shall not be forgiven.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.12.11">And when they bring you unto the synagogues, and unto magistrates, and powers, take you no thought how or what thing you shall answer, or what you shall say:</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.12.12">For the Holy Ghost shall teach you in the same hour what you ought to say.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.12.13">And one of the company said unto him, Master, speak to my brother, that he divide the inheritance with me.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.12.14">And he said unto him, Man, who made me a judge or a divider over you?</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.12.15">And he said unto them, Take heed, and beware of covetousness: for a man's life consists not in the abundance of the things which he possesses.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.12.16">And he spoke a parable unto them, saying, The ground of a certain rich man brought forth plentifully:</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.12.17">And he thought within himself, saying, What shall I do, because I have no room where to bestow my fruits?</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.12.18">And he said, This will I do: I will pull down my barns, and build greater; and there will I bestow all my fruits and my goods.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.12.19">And I will say to my soul, Soul, you have much goods laid up for many years; take your ease, eat, drink, and be merry.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.12.20">But God said unto him, You fool, this night your soul shall be required of you: then whose shall those things be, which you have provided?</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.12.21">So is he that lays up treasure for himself, and is not rich toward God.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.12.22">And he said unto his disciples, Therefore I say unto you, Take no thought for your life, what you shall eat; neither for the body, what you shall put on.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.12.23">The life is more than food, and the body is more than clothing.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.12.24">Consider the ravens: for they neither sow nor reap; which neither have storehouse nor barn; and God feeds them: how much more are you better than the fowls?</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.12.25">And which of you with taking thought can add to his stature one cubit?</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.12.26">If you then be not able to do that thing which is least, why take you thought for the rest?</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.12.27">Consider the lilies how they grow: they toil not, they spin not; and yet I say unto you, that Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.12.28">If then God so clothe the grass, which is today in the field, and the next day is cast into the oven; how much more will he clothe you, O you of little faith?</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.12.29">And seek not you what you shall eat, or what you shall drink, neither be of doubtful mind.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.12.30">For all these things do the nations of the world seek after: and your Father knows that you have need of these things.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.12.31">But rather seek you the kingdom of God; and all these things shall be added unto you.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.12.32">Fear not, little flock; for it is your Father's good pleasure to give you the kingdom.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.12.33">Sell that you have, and give alms; provide yourselves bags which wax not old, a treasure in the heavens that fails not, where no thief approaches, neither moth corrupts.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.12.34">For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.12.35">Let your loins be girded about, and your lights burning;</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.12.36">And you yourselves like unto men that wait for their lord, when he will return from the wedding; that when he comes and knocks, they may open unto him immediately.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.12.37">Blessed are those servants, whom the lord when he comes shall find watching: truthfully I say unto you, that he shall gird himself, and make them to sit down to food, and will come forth and serve them.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.12.38">And if he shall come in the second watch, or come in the third watch, and find them so, blessed are those servants.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.12.39">And this know, that if the goodman of the house had known what hour the thief would come, he would have watched, and not have permitted his house to be broken through.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.12.40">Be you therefore ready also: for the Son of man comes at an hour when you think not.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.12.41">Then Peter said unto him, Lord, speak you this parable unto us, or even to all?</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.12.42">And the Lord said, Who then is that faithful and wise steward, whom his lord shall make ruler over his household, to give them their portion of food in due season?</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.12.43">Blessed is that servant, whom his lord when he comes shall find so doing.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.12.44">Of a truth I say unto you, that he will make him ruler over all that he has.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.12.45">But and if that servant say in his heart, My lord delays his coming; and shall begin to beat the menservants and maidens, and to eat and drink, and to be drunken;</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.12.46">The lord of that servant will come in a day when he looks not for him, and at an hour when he is not aware, and will cut him in sunder, and will appoint him his portion with the unbelievers.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.12.47">And that servant, which knew his lord's will, and prepared not himself, neither did according to his will, shall be beaten with many stripes.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.12.48">But he that did not know, and did commit things worthy of stripes, shall be beaten with few stripes. For unto whomsoever much is given, of him shall be much required: and to whom men have committed much, of him they will ask the more.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.12.49">I am come to send fire on the earth; and what will I, if it be already kindled?</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.12.50">But I have a baptism to be baptized with; and how restricted I am till it be accomplished!</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.12.51">Suppose you that I am come to give peace on earth? I tell you, No; but rather division:</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.12.52">For from now on there shall be five in one house divided, three against two, and two against three.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.12.53">The father shall be divided against the son, and the son against the father; the mother against the daughter, and the daughter against the mother; the mother in law against her daughter in law, and the daughter in law against her mother in law.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.12.54">And he said also to the people, When you see a cloud rise out of the west, immediately you say, There comes a shower; and so it is.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.12.55">And when you see the south wind blow, you say, There will be heat; and it comes to pass.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.12.56">You hypocrites, you can discern the face of the sky and of the earth; but how is it that you do not discern this time?</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.12.57">yes, and why even of yourselves judge you not what is right?</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.12.58">When you go with your adversary to the magistrate, as you are on the way, give diligence that you may be delivered from him; lest he hale you to the judge, and the judge deliver you to the officer, and the officer cast you into prison.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.12.59">I tell you, you shall not depart from there, till you have paid the very last mite.</verse>
</chapter>
<chapter osisID="Luke.12.59">
<verse osisID="Luke.13.1">There were present at that season some that told him of the Galilaeans, whose blood Pilate had mingled with their sacrifices.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.13.2">And Jesus answering said unto them, Suppose you that these Galilaeans were sinners above all the Galilaeans, because they permitted such things?</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.13.3">I tell you, No: but, unless you repent, you shall all likewise perish.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.13.4">Or those eighteen, upon whom the tower in Siloam fell, and slew them, think you that they were sinners above all men that dwelled in Jerusalem?</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.13.5">I tell you, No: but, unless you repent, you shall all likewise perish.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.13.6">He spoke also this parable; A certain man had a fig tree planted in his vineyard; and he came and sought fruit thereon, and found none.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.13.7">Then said he unto the dresser of his vineyard, Behold, these three years I come seeking fruit on this fig tree, and find none: cut it down; why does it occupy the ground?</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.13.8">And he answering said unto him, Lord, let it alone this year also, till I shall dig about it, and dung it:</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.13.9">And if it bear fruit, well: and if not, then after that you shall cut it down.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.13.10">And he was teaching in one of the synagogues on the sabbath.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.13.11">And, behold, there was a woman which had a spirit of infirmity eighteen years, and was bowed together, and could in no way lift up herself.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.13.12">And when Jesus saw her, he called her to him, and said unto her, Woman, you are loosed from your infirmity.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.13.13">And he laid his hands on her: and immediately she was made straight, and glorified God.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.13.14">And the ruler of the synagogue answered with indignation, because Jesus had healed on the sabbath day, and said unto the people, There are six days in which men ought to work: in them therefore come and be healed, and not on the sabbath day.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.13.15">The Lord then answered him, and said, You hypocrite, does not each one of you on the sabbath loose his ox or his ass from the stall, and lead him away to watering?</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.13.16">And ought not this woman, being a daughter of Abraham, whom Satan has bound, lo, these eighteen years, be loosed from this bond on the sabbath day?</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.13.17">And when he had said these things, all his adversaries were ashamed: and all the people rejoiced for all the glorious things that were done by him.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.13.18">Then said he, Unto what is the kingdom of God like? and whereunto shall I resemble it?</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.13.19">It is like a grain of mustard seed, which a man took, and cast into his garden; and it grew, and waxed a great tree; and the fowls of the air lodged in the branches of it.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.13.20">And again he said, Whereunto shall I liken the kingdom of God?</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.13.21">It is like leaven, which a woman took and hid in three measures of meal, till the whole was leavened.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.13.22">And he went through the cities and villages, teaching, and journeying toward Jerusalem.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.13.23">Then said one unto him, Lord, are there few that be saved? And he said unto them,</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.13.24">Strive to enter in at the tight gate: for many, I say unto you, will seek to enter in, and shall not be able.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.13.25">When once the master of the house is risen up, and has shut to the door, and you begin to stand outside, and to knock at the door, saying, Lord, Lord, open unto us; and he shall answer and say unto you, I know you not, nor from where you are:</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.13.26">Then shall you begin to say, We have eaten and drunk in your presence, and you have taught in our streets.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.13.27">But he shall say, I tell you, I know you not, nor from where you are; depart from me, all you workers of iniquity.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.13.28">There shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth, when you shall see Abraham, and Isaac, and Jacob, and all the prophets, in the kingdom of God, and you yourselves thrust out.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.13.29">And they shall come from the east, and from the west, and from the north, and from the south, and shall sit down in the kingdom of God.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.13.30">And, behold, there are last which shall be first, and there are first which shall be last.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.13.31">The same day there came certain of the Pharisees, saying unto him, Get you out, and depart hence: for Herod will kill you.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.13.32">And he said unto them, Go you, and tell that fox, Behold, I cast out devils, and I do cures today and the next day, and the third day I shall be perfected.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.13.33">Nevertheless I must walk today, and the next day, and the day following: for it cannot be that a prophet perish out of Jerusalem.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.13.34">O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, which kill the prophets, and stone them that are sent unto you; how often would I have gathered your children together, as a hen does gather her brood under her wings, and you would not!</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.13.35">Behold, your house is left unto you desolate: and truthfully I say unto you, You shall not see me, until the time come when you shall say, Blessed is he that comes in the name of the Lord.</verse>
</chapter>
<chapter osisID="Luke.13.35">
<verse osisID="Luke.14.1">And it came to pass, as he went into the house of one of the chief Pharisees to eat bread on the sabbath day, that they watched him.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.14.2">And, behold, there was a certain man before him which had the dropsy.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.14.3">And Jesus answering spoke unto the lawyers and Pharisees, saying, Is it lawful to heal on the sabbath day?</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.14.4">And they held their peace. And he took him, and healed him, and let him go;</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.14.5">And answered them, saying, Which of you shall have an ass or an ox fallen into a pit, and will not immediately pull him out on the sabbath day?</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.14.6">And they could not answer him again to these things.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.14.7">And he put forth a parable to those which were invited, when he marked how they chose out the chief rooms; saying unto them.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.14.8">When you are invited of any man to a wedding, sit not down in the highest room; lest a more honorable man than you be invited of him;</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.14.9">And he that bade you and him come and say to you, Give this man place; and you begin with shame to take the lowest room.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.14.10">But when you are invited, go and sit down in the lowest room; that when he that bade you comes, he may say unto you, Friend, go up higher: then shall you have worship in the presence of them that sit at food with you.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.14.11">For whosoever exalts himself shall be abased; and he that humbles himself shall be exalted.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.14.12">Then said he also to him that bade him, When you make a dinner or a supper, call not your friends, nor your brothers, neither your kinsmen, nor your rich neighbors; lest they also invite you again, and a recompense be made you.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.14.13">But when you make a feast, call the poor, the maimed, the lame, the blind:</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.14.14">And you shall be blessed; for they cannot recompense you: for you shall be recompensed at the resurrection of the just.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.14.15">And when one of them that sat at food with him heard these things, he said unto him, Blessed is he that shall eat bread in the kingdom of God.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.14.16">Then said he unto him, A certain man made a great supper, and bade many:</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.14.17">And sent his servant at supper time to say to them that were invited, Come; for all things are now ready.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.14.18">And they all with one consent began to make excuse. The first said unto him, I have bought a piece of ground, and I must needs go and see it: I pray you have me excused.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.14.19">And another said, I have bought five yoke of oxen, and I go to prove them: I pray you have me excused.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.14.20">And another said, I have married a wife, and therefore I cannot come.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.14.21">So that servant came, and showed his lord these things. Then the master of the house being angry said to his servant, Go out quickly into the streets and lanes of the city, and bring in to here the poor, and the maimed, and the halt, and the blind.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.14.22">And the servant said, Lord, it is done as you have commanded, and yet there is room.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.14.23">And the lord said unto the servant, Go out into the highways and hedges, and compel them to come in, that my house may be filled.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.14.24">For I say unto you, That none of those men which were invited shall taste of my supper.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.14.25">And there went great multitudes with him: and he turned, and said unto them,</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.14.26">If any man come to me, and hate not his father, and mother, and wife, and children, and brothers, and sisters, yes and his own life also, he cannot be my disciple.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.14.27">And whosoever does not bear his cross, and come after me, cannot be my disciple.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.14.28">For which of you, intending to build a tower, sits not down first, and counts the cost, whether he have sufficient to finish it?</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.14.29">Lest haply, after he has laid the foundation, and is not able to finish it, all that behold it begin to mock him,</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.14.30">Saying, This man began to build, and was not able to finish.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.14.31">Or what king, going to make war against another king, sits not down first, and consults whether he be able with ten thousand to meet him that comes against him with twenty thousand?</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.14.32">Or else, while the other is yet a great way off, he sends an ambassage, and desires conditions of peace.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.14.33">So likewise, whosoever he be of you that forsakes not all that he has, he cannot be my disciple.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.14.34">Salt is good: but if the salt has lost its savour, with what shall it be seasoned?</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.14.35">It is neither fit for the land, nor yet for the dunghill; but men cast it out. He that has ears to hear, let him hear.</verse>
</chapter>
<chapter osisID="Luke.14.35">
<verse osisID="Luke.15.1">Then drew near unto him all the publicans and sinners for to hear him.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.15.2">And the Pharisees and scribes murmured, saying, This man receives sinners, and eats with them.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.15.3">And he spoke this parable unto them, saying,</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.15.4">What man of you, having a hundred sheep, if he lose one of them, does not leave the ninety and nine in the wilderness, and go after that which is lost, until he find it?</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.15.5">And when he has found it, he lays it on his shoulders, rejoicing.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.15.6">And when he comes home, he calls together his friends and neighbors, saying unto them, Rejoice with me; for I have found my sheep which was lost.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.15.7">I say unto you, that likewise joy shall be in heaven over one sinner that repents, more than over ninety and nine just persons, which need no repentance.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.15.8">Either what woman having ten pieces of silver, if she lose one piece, does not light a candle, and sweep the house, and seek diligently till she find it?</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.15.9">And when she has found it, she calls her friends and her neighbors together, saying, Rejoice with me; for I have found the piece which I had lost.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.15.10">Likewise, I say unto you, there is joy in the presence of the angels of God over one sinner that repents.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.15.11">And he said, A certain man had two sons:</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.15.12">And the younger of them said to his father, Father, give me the portion of goods that falls to me. And he divided unto them his living.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.15.13">And not many days after the younger son gathered all together, and took his journey into a far country, and there wasted his substance with riotous living.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.15.14">And when he had spent all, there arose a mighty famine in that land; and he began to be in want.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.15.15">And he went and joined himself to a citizen of that country; and he sent him into his fields to feed swine.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.15.16">And he would gladly have filled his belly with the husks that the swine did eat: and no man gave unto him.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.15.17">And when he came to himself, he said, How many hired servants of my father's have bread enough and to spare, and I perish with hunger!</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.15.18">I will arise and go to my father, and will say unto him, Father, I have sinned against heaven, and before you,</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.15.19">And am no more worthy to be called your son: make me as one of your hired servants.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.15.20">And he arose, and came to his father. But when he was yet a great way off, his father saw him, and had compassion, and ran, and fell on his neck, and kissed him.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.15.21">And the son said unto him, Father, I have sinned against heaven, and in your sight, and am no more worthy to be called your son.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.15.22">But the father said to his servants, Bring forth the best robe, and put it on him; and put a ring on his hand, and shoes on his feet:</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.15.23">And bring to here the fatted calf, and kill it; and let us eat, and be merry:</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.15.24">For this my son was dead, and is alive again; he was lost, and is found. And they began to be merry.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.15.25">Now his elder son was in the field: and as he came and drew close to the house, he heard music and dancing.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.15.26">And he called one of the servants, and asked what these things meant.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.15.27">And he said unto him, Your brother is come; and your father has killed the fatted calf, because he has received him safe and sound.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.15.28">And he was angry, and would not go in: therefore came his father out, and entreated him.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.15.29">And he answering said to his father, Lo, these many years do I serve you, neither transgressed I at any time your commandment: and yet you never gave me a kid, that I might make merry with my friends:</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.15.30">But as soon as this your son was come, which has devoured your living with harlots, you have killed for him the fatted calf.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.15.31">And he said unto him, Son, you are ever with me, and all that I have is yours.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.15.32">It was suitable that we should make merry, and be glad: for this your brother was dead, and is alive again; and was lost, and is found.</verse>
</chapter>
<chapter osisID="Luke.15.32">
<verse osisID="Luke.16.1">And he said also unto his disciples, There was a certain rich man, which had a steward; and the same was accused unto him of wasting his possessions.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.16.2">And he called him, and said unto him, How is it that I hear this of you? give an account of your stewardship; for you may be no longer steward.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.16.3">Then the steward said within himself, What shall I do? for my lord takes away from me the stewardship: I cannot dig; to beg I am ashamed.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.16.4">I know what I may do, that when I am put out of the stewardship, they may receive me into their houses.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.16.5">So he called every one of his lord's debtors unto him, and said unto the first, How much do you owe unto my lord?</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.16.6">And he said, A hundred measures of oil. And he said unto him, Take your bond, and sit down quickly, and write payment for fifty.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.16.7">Then said he to another, And how much do you owe? And he said, A hundred measures of wheat. And he said unto him, Take your bond, and write payment for eighty.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.16.8">And the lord commended the unjust steward, because he had done wisely: for the children of this world are in their generation wiser than the children of light.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.16.9">And I say unto you, Make to yourselves friends by means of the mammon of unrighteousness; that, when you fail, you may be received into eternal dwellings.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.16.10">He that is faithful in that which is least is faithful also in much: and he that is unjust in the least is unjust also in much.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.16.11">If therefore you have not been faithful in the unrighteous mammon, who will commit to your trust the true riches?</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.16.12">And if you have not been faithful in that which is another man's, who shall give you that which is your own?</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.16.13">No servant can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other. You cannot serve God and mammon.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.16.14">And the Pharisees also, who were covetous, heard all these things: and they derided him.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.16.15">And he said unto them, You are they which justify yourselves before men; but God knows your hearts: for that which is highly esteemed among men is abomination in the sight of God.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.16.16">The law and the prophets were until John: since that time the kingdom of God is preached, and every man presses into it.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.16.17">And it is easier for heaven and earth to pass, than one small mark of the law to fail.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.16.18">Whosoever puts away his wife, and marries another, commits adultery: and whosoever marries her that is put away from her husband commits adultery.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.16.19">There was a certain rich man, which was clothed in purple and fine linen, and dined sumptuously every day:</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.16.20">And there was a certain beggar named Lazarus, which was laid at his gate, full of sores,</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.16.21">And desiring to be fed with the crumbs which fell from the rich man's table: moreover the dogs came and licked his sores.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.16.22">And it came to pass, that the beggar died, and was carried by the angels into Abraham's bosom: the rich man also died, and was buried;</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.16.23">And in hell he lifts up his eyes, being in torment, and sees Abraham afar off, and Lazarus in his bosom.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.16.24">And he cried and said, Father Abraham, have mercy on me, and send Lazarus, that he may dip the tip of his finger in water, and cool my tongue; for I am tormented in this flame.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.16.25">But Abraham said, Son, remember that you in your lifetime received your good things, and likewise Lazarus evil things: but now he is comforted, and you are tormented.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.16.26">And beside all this, between us and you there is a great gulf fixed: so that they which would pass from here to you cannot; neither can they pass to us, that would come from there.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.16.27">Then he said, I pray you therefore, father, that you would send him to my father's house:</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.16.28">For I have five brothers; that he may testify unto them, lest they also come into this place of torment.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.16.29">Abraham says unto him, They have Moses and the prophets; let them hear them.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.16.30">And he said, No, father Abraham: but if one went unto them from the dead, they will repent.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.16.31">And he said unto him, If they hear not Moses and the prophets, neither will they be persuaded, though one rose from the dead.</verse>
</chapter>
<chapter osisID="Luke.16.31">
<verse osisID="Luke.17.1">Then said he unto the disciples, It is impossible but that offenses will come: but woe unto him, through whom they come!</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.17.2">It were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and he cast into the sea, than that he should offend one of these little ones.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.17.3">Take heed to yourselves: If your brother trespass against you, rebuke him; and if he repent, forgive him.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.17.4">And if he trespass against you seven times in a day, and seven times in a day turn again to you, saying, I repent; you shall forgive him.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.17.5">And the apostles said unto the Lord, Increase our faith.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.17.6">And the Lord said, If you had faith as a grain of mustard seed, you might say unto this mulberry tree, Be you plucked up by the root, and be you planted in the sea; and it should obey you.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.17.7">But which of you, having a servant plowing or feeding cattle, will say unto him by and by, when he is come from the field, Go and sit down to food?</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.17.8">And will not rather say unto him, Make ready with which I may sup, and gird yourself, and serve me, till I have eaten and drunk; and afterward you shall eat and drink?</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.17.9">Does he thank that servant because he did the things that were commanded him? I think not.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.17.10">So likewise you, when you shall have done all those things which are commanded you, say, We are unprofitable servants: we have done that which was our duty to do.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.17.11">And it came to pass, as he went to Jerusalem, that he passed through the midst of Samaria and Galilee.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.17.12">And as he entered into a certain village, there met him ten men that were lepers, which stood afar off:</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.17.13">And they lifted up their voices, and said, Jesus, Master, have mercy on us.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.17.14">And when he saw them, he said unto them, Go show yourselves unto the priests. And it came to pass, that, as they went, they were cleansed.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.17.15">And one of them, when he saw that he was healed, turned back, and with a loud voice glorified God,</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.17.16">And fell down on his face at his feet, giving him thanks: and he was a Samaritan.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.17.17">And Jesus answering said, Were there not ten cleansed? but where are the nine?</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.17.18">There are not found that returned to give glory to God, save this stranger.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.17.19">And he said unto him, Arise, go your way: your faith has made you whole.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.17.20">And when he was demanded of the Pharisees, when the kingdom of God should come, he answered them and said, The kingdom of God comes not with observation:</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.17.21">Neither shall they say, Lo here! or, lo there! for, behold, the kingdom of God is within you.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.17.22">And he said unto the disciples, The days will come, when you shall desire to see one of the days of the Son of man, and you shall not see it.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.17.23">And they shall say to you, See here; or, see there: go not after them, nor follow them.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.17.24">For as the lightning, that lightens out of the one part under heaven, shines unto the other part under heaven; so shall also the Son of man be in his day.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.17.25">But first must he suffer many things, and be rejected of this generation.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.17.26">And as it was in the days of Noah, so shall it be also in the days of the Son of man.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.17.27">They did eat, they drank, they married wives, they were given in marriage, until the day that Noah entered into the ark, and the flood came, and destroyed them all.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.17.28">Likewise also as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold, they planted, they builded;</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.17.29">But the same day that Lot went out of Sodom it rained fire and brimstone from heaven, and destroyed them all.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.17.30">Even thus shall it be in the day when the Son of man is revealed.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.17.31">In that day, he which shall be upon the housetop, and his goods in the house, let him not come down to take it away: and he that is in the field, let him likewise not return back.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.17.32">Remember Lot's wife.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.17.33">Whosoever shall seek to save his life shall lose it; and whosoever shall lose his life shall preserve it.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.17.34">I tell you, in that night there shall be two men in one bed; the one shall be taken, and the other shall be left.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.17.35">Two women shall be grinding together; the one shall be taken, and the other left.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.17.36">Two men shall be in the field; the one shall be taken, and the other left.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.17.37">And they answered and said unto him, Where, Lord? And he said unto them, Wheresoever the body is, to there will the eagles be gathered together.</verse>
</chapter>
<chapter osisID="Luke.17.37">
<verse osisID="Luke.18.1">And he spoke a parable unto them to this end, that men ought always to pray, and not to faint;</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.18.2">Saying, There was in a city a judge, which feared not God, neither regarded man:</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.18.3">And there was a widow in that city; and she came unto him, saying, Avenge me of my adversary.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.18.4">And he would not for a while: but afterward he said within himself, Though I fear not God, nor regard man;</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.18.5">yet because this widow troubles me, I will avenge her, lest by her continual coming she weary me.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.18.6">And the Lord said, Hear what the unjust judge says.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.18.7">And shall not God avenge his own elect, which cry day and night unto him, though he bear long with them?</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.18.8">I tell you that he will avenge them speedily. Nevertheless when the Son of man comes, shall he find faith on the earth?</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.18.9">And he spoke this parable unto certain which trusted in themselves that they were righteous, and despised others:</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.18.10">Two men went up into the temple to pray; the one a Pharisee, and the other a publican.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.18.11">The Pharisee stood and prayed thus with himself, God, I thank you, that I am not as other men are, extortioners, unjust, adulterers, or even as this publican.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.18.12">I fast twice in the week, I give tithes of all that I possess.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.18.13">And the publican, standing afar off, would not lift up so much as his eyes unto heaven, but smote upon his breast, saying, God be merciful to me a sinner.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.18.14">I tell you, this man went down to his house justified rather than the other: for every one that exalts himself shall be abased; and he that humbles himself shall be exalted.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.18.15">And they brought unto him also infants, that he would touch them: but when his disciples saw it, they rebuked them.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.18.16">But Jesus called them unto him, and said, Permit little children to come unto me, and forbid them not: for of such is the kingdom of God.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.18.17">Truthfully I say unto you, Whosoever shall not receive the kingdom of God as a little child shall in no way enter in it.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.18.18">And a certain ruler asked him, saying, Good Master, what shall I do to inherit eternal life?</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.18.19">And Jesus said unto him, Why do you call me good? none is good, except one, that is, God.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.18.20">You know the commandments, Do not commit adultery, Do not kill, Do not steal, Do not bear false witness, Honor your father and your mother.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.18.21">And he said, All these have I kept from my youth up.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.18.22">Now when Jesus heard these things, he said unto him, yet lack you one thing: sell all that you have, and distribute unto the poor, and you shall have treasure in heaven: and come, follow me.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.18.23">And when he heard this, he was very sorrowful: for he was very rich.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.18.24">And when Jesus saw that he was very sorrowful, he said, How hardly shall they that have riches enter into the kingdom of God!</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.18.25">For it is easier for a camel to go through a needle's eye, than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.18.26">And they that heard it said, Who then can be saved?</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.18.27">And he said, The things which are impossible with men are possible with God.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.18.28">Then Peter said, Lo, we have left all, and followed you.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.18.29">And he said unto them, Truthfully I say unto you, There is no man that has left house, or parents, or brothers, or wife, or children, for the kingdom of God's sake,</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.18.30">Who shall not receive manifold more in this present time, and in the world to come life everlasting.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.18.31">Then he took unto him the twelve, and said unto them, Behold, we go up to Jerusalem, and all things that are written by the prophets concerning the Son of man shall be accomplished.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.18.32">For he shall be delivered unto the Gentiles, and shall be mocked, and spitefully treated, and spitted on:</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.18.33">And they shall whip him, and put him to death: and the third day he shall rise again.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.18.34">And they understood none of these things: and this saying was hid from them, neither knew they the things which were spoken.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.18.35">And it came to pass, that as he was come close unto Jericho, a certain blind man sat by the wayside begging:</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.18.36">And hearing the multitude pass by, he asked what it meant.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.18.37">And they told him, that Jesus of Nazareth passes by.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.18.38">And he cried, saying, Jesus, you son of David, have mercy on me.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.18.39">And they which went before rebuked him, that he should hold his peace: but he cried so much the more, You son of David, have mercy on me.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.18.40">And Jesus stood, and commanded him to be brought unto him: and when he was come near, he asked him,</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.18.41">Saying, What will you that I shall do unto you? And he said, Lord, that I may receive my sight.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.18.42">And Jesus said unto him, Receive your sight: your faith has saved you.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.18.43">And immediately he received his sight, and followed him, glorifying God: and all the people, when they saw it, gave praise unto God.</verse>
</chapter>
<chapter osisID="Luke.18.43">
<verse osisID="Luke.19.1">And Jesus entered and passed through Jericho.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.19.2">And, behold, there was a man named Zacchaeus, which was the chief among the publicans, and he was rich.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.19.3">And he sought to see Jesus who he was; and could not for the press, because he was little of stature.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.19.4">And he ran before, and climbed up into a sycamore tree to see him: for he was to pass that way.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.19.5">And when Jesus came to the place, he looked up, and saw him, and said unto him, Zacchaeus, make haste, and come down; for today I must abide at your house.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.19.6">And he made haste, and came down, and received him joyfully.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.19.7">And when they saw it, they all murmured, saying, That he was gone to be guest with a man that is a sinner.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.19.8">And Zacchaeus stood, and said unto the Lord: Behold, Lord, the half of my goods I give to the poor; and if I have taken any thing from any man by false accusation, I restore him fourfold.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.19.9">And Jesus said unto him, This day is salvation come to this house, forsomuch as he also is a son of Abraham.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.19.10">For the Son of man is come to seek and to save that which was lost.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.19.11">And as they heard these things, he added and spoke a parable, because he was close to Jerusalem, and because they thought that the kingdom of God should immediately appear.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.19.12">He said therefore, A certain nobleman went into a far country to receive for himself a kingdom, and to return.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.19.13">And he called his ten servants, and delivered them ten pounds, and said unto them, Occupy till I come.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.19.14">But his citizens hated him, and sent a message after him, saying, We will not have this man to reign over us.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.19.15">And it came to pass, that when he was returned, having received the kingdom, then he commanded these servants to be called unto him, to whom he had given the money, that he might know how much every man had gained by trading.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.19.16">Then came the first, saying, Lord, your pound has gained ten pounds.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.19.17">And he said unto him, Well, you good servant: because you have been faithful in a very little, have you authority over ten cities.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.19.18">And the second came, saying, Lord, your pound has gained five pounds.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.19.19">And he said likewise to him, Be you also over five cities.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.19.20">And another came, saying, Lord, behold, here is your pound, which I have kept laid up in a napkin:</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.19.21">For I feared you, because you are an austere man: you take up that which you did not lay down, and reap that which you did not sow.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.19.22">And he says unto him, Out of your own mouth will I judge you, you wicked servant. You knew that I was an austere man, taking up that I laid not down, and reaping that I did not sow:</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.19.23">Why then did you not give my money into the bank, that at my coming I might have required my own with interest?</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.19.24">And he said unto them that stood by, Take from him the pound, and give it to him that has ten pounds.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.19.25">(And they said unto him, Lord, he has ten pounds.)</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.19.26">For I say unto you, That unto every one which has shall be given; and from him that has not, even that he has shall be taken away from him.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.19.27">But those my enemies, which would not that I should reign over them, bring to here, and slay them before me.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.19.28">And when he had thus spoken, he went before, ascending up to Jerusalem.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.19.29">And it came to pass, when he was come close to Bethphage and Bethany, at the mount called the mount of Olives, he sent two of his disciples,</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.19.30">Saying, Go you into the village over against you; in the which at your entering you shall find a colt tied, whereon yet never man sat: loose him, and bring him to here.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.19.31">And if any man ask you, Why do you loose him? thus shall you say unto him, Because the Lord has need of him.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.19.32">And they that were sent went their way, and found just as he had said unto them.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.19.33">And as they were loosing the colt, the owners of it said unto them, Why loose you the colt?</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.19.34">And they said, The Lord has need of him.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.19.35">And they brought him to Jesus: and they cast their garments upon the colt, and they set Jesus thereon.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.19.36">And as he went, they spread their clothes on the way.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.19.37">And when he was come close, even now at the descent of the mount of Olives, the whole multitude of the disciples began to rejoice and praise God with a loud voice for all the mighty works that they had seen;</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.19.38">Saying, Blessed be the King that comes in the name of the Lord: peace in heaven, and glory in the highest.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.19.39">And some of the Pharisees from among the multitude said unto him, Master, rebuke your disciples.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.19.40">And he answered and said unto them, I tell you that, if these should hold their peace, the stones would immediately cry out.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.19.41">And when he was come near, he beheld the city, and wept over it,</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.19.42">Saying, If you had known, even you, at least in this your day, the things which belong unto your peace! but now they are hid from your eyes.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.19.43">For the days shall come upon you, that your enemies shall cast a trench about you, and compass you round, and keep you in on every side,</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.19.44">And shall lay you even with the ground, and your children within you; and they shall not leave in you one stone upon another; because you knew not the time of your visitation.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.19.45">And he went into the temple, and began to cast out them that sold in it, and them that bought;</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.19.46">Saying unto them, It is written, My house is the house of prayer: but you have made it a den of thieves.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.19.47">And he taught daily in the temple. But the chief priests and the scribes and the chief of the people sought to destroy him,</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.19.48">And could not find what they might do: for all the people were very attentive to hear him.</verse>
</chapter>
<chapter osisID="Luke.19.48">
<verse osisID="Luke.20.1">And it came to pass, that on one of those days, as he taught the people in the temple, and preached the gospel, the chief priests and the scribes came upon him with the elders,</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.20.2">And spoke unto him, saying, Tell us, by what authority are you doing these things? or who is he that gave you this authority?</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.20.3">And he answered and said unto them, I will also ask you one thing; and answer me:</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.20.4">The baptism of John, was it from heaven, or of men?</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.20.5">And they reasoned with themselves, saying, If we shall say, From heaven; he will say, Why then believed you him not?</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.20.6">But and if we say, Of men; all the people will stone us: for they are persuaded that John was a prophet.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.20.7">And they answered, that they could not tell from where it was.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.20.8">And Jesus said unto them, Neither tell I you by what authority I do these things.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.20.9">Then began he to speak to the people this parable; A certain man planted a vineyard, and let it forth to husbandmen, and went into a far country for a long time.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.20.10">And at the appropriate time he sent a servant to the husbandmen, that t should give him of the fruit of the vineyard: but the husbandmen beat him, and sent him away empty.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.20.11">And again he sent another servant: and they beat him also, and treated him shamefully, and sent him away empty.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.20.12">And again he sent a third: and they wounded him also, and cast him out.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.20.13">Then said the lord of the vineyard, What shall I do? I will send my beloved son: it may be they will respect him when they see him.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.20.14">But when the husbandmen saw him, they reasoned among themselves, saying, This is the heir: come, let us kill him, that the inheritance may be ours.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.20.15">So they cast him out of the vineyard, and killed him. What therefore shall the lord of the vineyard do unto them?</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.20.16">He shall come and destroy these husbandmen, and shall give the vineyard to others. And when they heard it, they said, God forbid.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.20.17">And he beheld them, and said, What is this then that is written, The stone which the builders rejected, the same is become the head of the corner?</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.20.18">Whosoever shall fall upon that stone shall be broken; but on whomsoever it shall fall, it will grind him to powder.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.20.19">And the chief priests and the scribes the same hour sought to lay hands on him; and they feared the people: for they perceived that he had spoken this parable against them.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.20.20">And they watched him, and sent forth spies, which should feign themselves just men, that they might take hold of his words, that so they might deliver him unto the power and authority of the governor.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.20.21">And they asked him, saying, Master, we know that you say and teach rightly, neither accept you the person of any, but teach the way of God truly:</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.20.22">Is it lawful for us to give tribute unto Caesar, or no?</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.20.23">But he perceived their craftiness, and said unto them, Why tempt you me?</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.20.24">Show me a denarius. Whose image and superscription has it? They answered and said, Caesar's.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.20.25">And he said unto them, Render therefore unto Caesar the things which be Caesar's, and unto God the things which be God's.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.20.26">And they could not take hold of his words before the people: and they marvelled at his answer, and held their peace.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.20.27">Then came to him certain of the Sadducees, which deny that there is any resurrection; and they asked him,</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.20.28">Saying, Master, Moses wrote unto us, If any man's brother die, having a wife, and he die without children, that his brother should take his wife, and raise up seed unto his brother.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.20.29">There were therefore seven brothers: and the first took a wife, and died without children.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.20.30">And the second took her to wife, and he died childless.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.20.31">And the third took her; and in like manner the seven also: and they left no children, and died.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.20.32">Last of all the woman died also.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.20.33">Therefore in the resurrection whose wife of them is she? for seven had her to wife.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.20.34">And Jesus answering said unto them, The children of this world marry, and are given in marriage:</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.20.35">But they which shall be accounted worthy to obtain that world, and the resurrection from the dead, neither marry, nor are given in marriage:</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.20.36">Neither can they die any more: for they are equal unto the angels; and are the children of God, being the children of the resurrection.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.20.37">Now that the dead are raised, even Moses showed at the bush, when he calls the Lord the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.20.38">For he is not a God of the dead, but of the living: for all live unto him.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.20.39">Then certain of the scribes answering said, Master, you have well said.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.20.40">And after that they dared not ask him any question at all.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.20.41">And he said unto them, How say they that Christ is David's son?</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.20.42">And David himself says in the book of Psalms, The LORD said unto my Lord, Sit you on my right hand,</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.20.43">Till I make your enemies your footstool.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.20.44">David therefore calls him Lord, how is he then his son?</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.20.45">Then in the audience of all the people he said unto his disciples,</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.20.46">Beware of the scribes, which desire to walk in long robes, and love greetings in the markets, and the highest seats in the synagogues, and the chief rooms at feasts;</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.20.47">Which devour widows' houses, and for a show make long prayers: the same shall receive greater damnation.</verse>
</chapter>
<chapter osisID="Luke.20.47">
<verse osisID="Luke.21.1">And he looked up, and saw the rich men casting their gifts into the treasury.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.21.2">And he saw also a certain poor widow casting into there two mites.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.21.3">And he said, Of a truth I say unto you, that this poor widow has cast in more than they all:</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.21.4">For all these have of their abundance cast in unto the offerings of God: but she of her poverty has cast in all the living that she had.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.21.5">And as some spoke of the temple, how it was adorned with good stones and gifts, he said,</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.21.6">As for these things which you behold, the days will come, in which there shall not be left one stone upon another, that shall not be thrown down.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.21.7">And they asked him, saying, Master, but when shall these things be? and what sign will there be when these things shall come to pass?</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.21.8">And he said, Take heed that you be not deceived: for many shall come in my name, saying, I am Christ; and the time draws near: go you not therefore after them.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.21.9">But when you shall hear of wars and commotions, be not terrified: for these things must first come to pass; but the end is not by and by.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.21.10">Then said he unto them, Nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom:</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.21.11">And great earthquakes shall be in different places, and famines, and pestilences; and fearful sights and great signs shall there be from heaven.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.21.12">But before all these, they shall lay their hands on you, and persecute you, delivering you up to the synagogues, and into prisons, being brought before kings and rulers for my name's sake.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.21.13">And it shall turn to you for a testimony.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.21.14">Settle it therefore in your hearts, not to think ahead before making your defense:</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.21.15">For I will give you a mouth and wisdom, which all your adversaries shall not be able to contradict nor resist.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.21.16">And you shall be betrayed both by parents, and brothers, and kinsfolk, and friends; and some of you shall they cause to be put to death.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.21.17">And you shall be hated of all men for my name's sake.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.21.18">But there shall not a hair of your head perish.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.21.19">In your patience possess you your souls.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.21.20">And when you shall see Jerusalem compassed with armies, then know that the desolation of it is close.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.21.21">Then let those who are in Judaea flee to the mountains; and let those who are in the midst of it depart out; and let not them that are in the countries enter in itto.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.21.22">For these be the days of vengeance, that all things which are written may be fulfilled.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.21.23">But woe unto them that are with child, and to them that give suck, in those days! for there shall be great distress in the land, and wrath upon this people.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.21.24">And they shall fall by the edge of the sword, and shall be led away captive into all nations: and Jerusalem shall be trodden down of the Gentiles, until the times of the Gentiles be fulfilled.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.21.25">And there shall be signs in the sun, and in the moon, and in the stars; and upon the earth distress of nations, with perplexity; the sea and the waves roaring;</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.21.26">Men's hearts failing them for fear, and for looking after those things which are coming on the earth: for the powers of heaven shall be shaken.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.21.27">And then shall they see the Son of man coming in a cloud with power and great glory.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.21.28">And when these things begin to come to pass, then look up, and lift up your heads; for your redemption draws close.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.21.29">And he spoke to them a parable; Behold the fig tree, and all the trees;</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.21.30">When they now shoot forth, you see and know of your own selves that summer is now close at hand.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.21.31">So likewise you, when you see these things come to pass, know you that the kingdom of God is close at hand.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.21.32">Truthfully I say unto you, This generation shall not pass away, till all be fulfilled.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.21.33">Heaven and earth shall pass away: but my words shall not pass away.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.21.34">And take heed to yourselves, lest at any time your hearts be overcharged with surfeiting, and drunkenness, and cares of this life, and so that day come upon you unawares.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.21.35">For as a snare shall it come on all them that dwell on the face of the whole earth.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.21.36">Watch you therefore, and pray always, that you may be accounted worthy to escape all these things that shall come to pass, and to stand before the Son of man.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.21.37">And in the day time he was teaching in the temple; and at night he went out, and abode in the mount that is called the mount of Olives.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.21.38">And all the people came early in the morning to him in the temple, for to hear him.</verse>
</chapter>
<chapter osisID="Luke.21.38">
<verse osisID="Luke.22.1">Now the feast of unleavened bread drew close, which is called the Passover.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.22.2">And the chief priests and scribes sought how they might kill him; for they feared the people.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.22.3">Then entered Satan into Judas surnamed Iscariot, being of the number of the twelve.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.22.4">And he went his way, and communed with the chief priests and captains, how he might betray him unto them.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.22.5">And they were glad, and covenanted to give him money.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.22.6">And he promised, and sought opportunity to betray him unto them in the absence of the multitude.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.22.7">Then came the day of unleavened bread, when the passover must be killed.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.22.8">And he sent Peter and John, saying, Go and prepare us the passover, that we may eat.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.22.9">And they said unto him, Where will you that we prepare?</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.22.10">And he said unto them, Behold, when you are entered into the city, there shall a man meet you, bearing a pitcher of water; follow him into the house where he enters in.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.22.11">And you shall say unto the goodman of the house, The Master says unto you, Where is the guestchamber, where I shall eat the passover with my disciples?</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.22.12">And he shall show you a large upper room furnished: there make ready.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.22.13">And they went, and found as he had said unto them: and they made ready the passover.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.22.14">And when the hour was come, he sat down, and the twelve apostles with him.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.22.15">And he said unto them, With desire I have desired to eat this passover with you before I suffer:</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.22.16">For I say unto you, I will not any more eat of it, until it be fulfilled in the kingdom of God.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.22.17">And he took the cup, and gave thanks, and said, Take this, and divide it among yourselves:</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.22.18">For I say unto you, I will not drink of the fruit of the vine, until the kingdom of God shall come.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.22.19">And he took bread, and gave thanks, and broke it, and gave unto them, saying, This is my body which is given for you: this do in remembrance of me.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.22.20">Likewise also the cup after supper, saying, This cup is the new testament in my blood, which is shed for you.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.22.21">But, behold, the hand of him that betrays me is with me on the table.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.22.22">And truly the Son of man goes, as it was determined: but woe unto that man by whom he is betrayed!</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.22.23">And they began to inquire among themselves, which of them it was that should do this thing.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.22.24">And there was also a strife among them, which of them should be accounted the greatest.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.22.25">And he said unto them, The kings of the Gentiles exercise lordship over them; and they that exercise authority upon them are called benefactors.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.22.26">But you shall not be so: but he that is greatest among you, let him be as the younger; and he that is chief, as he that does serve.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.22.27">For whether is greater, he that sits at food, or he that serves? is not he that sits at food? but I am among you as he that serves.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.22.28">You are they which have continued with me in my temptations.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.22.29">And I appoint unto you a kingdom, as my Father has appointed unto me;</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.22.30">That you may eat and drink at my table in my kingdom, and sit on thrones judging the twelve tribes of Israel.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.22.31">And the Lord said, Simon, Simon, behold, Satan has desired to have you, that he may sift you as wheat:</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.22.32">But I have prayed for you, that your faith fail not: and when you are converted, strengthen your brothers.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.22.33">And he said unto him, Lord, I am ready to go with you, both into prison, and to death.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.22.34">And he said, I tell you, Peter, the cock shall not crow this day, before that you shall three times deny that you know me.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.22.35">And he said unto them, When I sent you without purse, and scrip, and shoes, lacked you any thing? And they said, Nothing.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.22.36">Then said he unto them, But now, he that has a purse, let him take it, and likewise his scrip: and he that has no sword, let him sell his garment, and buy one.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.22.37">For I say unto you, that this that is written must yet be accomplished in me, And he was reckoned among the transgressors: for the things concerning me have an end.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.22.38">And they said, Lord, behold, here are two swords. And he said unto them, It is enough.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.22.39">And he came out, and went, as he was accustomed, to the mount of Olives; and his disciples also followed him.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.22.40">And when he was at the place, he said unto them, Pray that you enter not into temptation.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.22.41">And he was withdrawn from them about a stone's cast, and kneeled down, and prayed,</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.22.42">Saying, Father, if you be willing, remove this cup from me: nevertheless not my will, but your, be done.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.22.43">And there appeared an angel unto him from heaven, strengthening him.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.22.44">And being in an agony he prayed more earnestly: and his sweat was as it were great drops of blood falling down to the ground.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.22.45">And when he rose up from prayer, and was come to his disciples, he found them sleeping for sorrow,</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.22.46">And said unto them, Why sleep you? rise and pray, lest you enter into temptation.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.22.47">And while he yet spoke, behold a multitude, and he that was called Judas, one of the twelve, went before them, and drew near unto Jesus to kiss him.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.22.48">But Jesus said unto him, Judas, do you betray the Son of man with a kiss?</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.22.49">When they which were about him saw what would follow, they said unto him, Lord, shall we smite with the sword?</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.22.50">And one of them smote the servant of the high priest, and cut off his right ear.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.22.51">And Jesus answered and said, Permit this much. And he touched his ear, and healed him.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.22.52">Then Jesus said unto the chief priests, and captains of the temple, and the elders, which had come to him, Be you come out, as against a thief, with swords and staves?</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.22.53">When I was with you each day in the temple, you stretched forth no hands against me: but this is your hour, and the power of darkness.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.22.54">Then took they him, and led him, and brought him into the high priest's house. And Peter followed afar off.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.22.55">And when they had kindled a fire in the midst of the hall, and were set down together, Peter sat down among them.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.22.56">But a certain maid beheld him as he sat by the fire, and earnestly looked upon him, and said, This man was also with him.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.22.57">And he denied him, saying, Woman, I know him not.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.22.58">And after a little while another saw him, and said, You are also of them. And Peter said, Man, I am not.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.22.59">And about the space of one hour after another confidently affirmed, saying, Of a truth this fellow also was with him: for he is a Galilaean.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.22.60">And Peter said, Man, I do not know what you say. And immediately, while he yet spoke, the cock crowed.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.22.61">And the Lord turned, and looked upon Peter. And Peter remembered the word of the Lord, how he had said unto him, Before the cock crows, you shall deny me three times.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.22.62">And Peter went out, and wept bitterly.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.22.63">And the men that held Jesus mocked him, and smote him.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.22.64">And when they had blindfolded him, they struck him on the face, and asked him, saying, Prophesy, who is it that smote you?</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.22.65">And many other things blasphemously spoke they against him.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.22.66">And as soon as it was day, the elders of the people and the chief priests and the scribes came together, and led him into their council, saying,</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.22.67">Are you the Christ? tell us. And he said unto them, If I tell you, you will not believe:</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.22.68">And if I also ask you, you will not answer me, nor let me go.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.22.69">Hereafter shall the Son of man sit on the right hand of the power of God.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.22.70">Then said they all, Are you then the Son of God? And he said unto them, You say that I am.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.22.71">And they said, What need we any further witness? for we ourselves have heard of his own mouth.</verse>
</chapter>
<chapter osisID="Luke.22.71">
<verse osisID="Luke.23.1">And the whole multitude of them arose, and led him unto Pilate.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.23.2">And they began to accuse him, saying, We found this fellow perverting the nation, and forbidding to give tribute to Caesar, saying that he himself is Christ a King.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.23.3">And Pilate asked him, saying, Are you the King of the Jews? And he answered him and said, You say it.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.23.4">Then said Pilate to the chief priests and to the people, I find no fault in this man.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.23.5">And they were the more fierce, saying, He stirs up the people, teaching throughout all Jewry, beginning from Galilee to this place.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.23.6">When Pilate heard of Galilee, he asked whether the man were a Galilaean.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.23.7">And as soon as he knew that he belonged unto Herod's jurisdiction, he sent him to Herod, who himself also was at Jerusalem at that time.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.23.8">And when Herod saw Jesus, he was exceedingly glad: for had desired to see him for a long time, because he had heard many things of him; and he hoped to have seen some miracle done by him.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.23.9">Then he questioned with him in many words; but he answered him nothing.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.23.10">And the chief priests and scribes stood and vehemently accused him.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.23.11">And Herod with his men of war treated him with contempt, and mocked him and arrayed him in a gorgeous robe, and sent him again to Pilate.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.23.12">And the same day Pilate and Herod were made friends together: for before they were at enmity between themselves.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.23.13">And Pilate, when he had called together the chief priests and the rulers and the people,</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.23.14">Said unto them, You have brought this man unto me, as one that perverts the people: and, behold, I, having examined him before you, have found no fault in this man touching those things whereof you accuse him:</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.23.15">No, nor yet Herod: for I sent you to him; and, lo, nothing worthy of death is done unto him.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.23.16">I will therefore chastise him, and release him.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.23.17">(For of necessity he must release one unto them at the feast.)</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.23.18">And they cried out all at once, saying, Away with this man, and release unto us Barabbas:</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.23.19">(Who for a certain sedition made in the city, and for murder, was cast into prison.)</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.23.20">Pilate therefore, willing to release Jesus, spoke again to them.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.23.21">But they cried, saying, Crucify him, crucify him.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.23.22">And he said unto them the third time, Why, what evil has he done? I have found no cause of death in him: I will therefore chastise him, and let him go.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.23.23">And they were instant with loud voices, requiring that he might be crucified. And the voices of them and of the chief priests prevailed.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.23.24">And Pilate gave sentence that it should be as they required.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.23.25">And he released unto them him that for sedition and murder was cast into prison, whom they had desired; but he delivered Jesus to their will.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.23.26">And as they led him away, they laid hold upon one Simon, a Cyrenian, coming out of the country, and on him they laid the cross, that he might bear it after Jesus.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.23.27">And there followed him a great company of people, and of women, which also bewailed and lamented him.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.23.28">But Jesus turning unto them said, Daughters of Jerusalem, weep not for me, but weep for yourselves, and for your children.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.23.29">For, behold, the days are coming, in which they shall say, Blessed are the barren, and the wombs that never bore, and the paps which never gave suck.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.23.30">Then shall they begin to say to the mountains, Fall on us; and to the hills, Cover us.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.23.31">For if they do these things in a green tree, what shall be done in the dry?</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.23.32">And there were also two other, malefactors, led with him to be put to death.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.23.33">And when they had come to the place, which is called Calvary, there they crucified him, and the malefactors, one on the right hand, and the other on the left.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.23.34">Then said Jesus, Father, forgive them; for they know not what they do. And they parted his clothing, and cast lots.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.23.35">And the people stood beholding. And the rulers also with them derided him, saying, He saved others; let him save himself, if he be Christ, the chosen of God.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.23.36">And the soldiers also mocked him, coming to him, and offering him vinegar,</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.23.37">And saying, If you be the king of the Jews, save yourself.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.23.38">And a superscription also was written over him in letters of Greek, and Latin, and Hebrew, THIS IS THE KING OF THE JEWS.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.23.39">And one of the malefactors which were hanged railed on him, saying, If you be Christ, save yourself and us.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.23.40">But the other answering rebuked him, saying, Do not you fear God, seeing you are in the same condemnation?</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.23.41">And we indeed justly; for we receive the due reward of our deeds: but this man has done nothing amiss.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.23.42">And he said unto Jesus, Lord, remember me when you come into your kingdom.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.23.43">And Jesus said unto him, Truthfully I say unto you, Today shall you be with me in paradise.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.23.44">And it was about the sixth hour, and there was a darkness over all the earth until the ninth hour.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.23.45">And the sun was darkened, and the veil of the temple was tore in the midst.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.23.46">And when Jesus had cried with a loud voice, he said, Father, into your hands I commend my spirit: and having said thus, he gave up the ghost.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.23.47">Now when the centurion saw what was done, he glorified God, saying, Certainly this was a righteous man.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.23.48">And all the people that came together to that sight, beholding the things which were done, smote their breasts, and returned.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.23.49">And all his acquaintance, and the women that followed him from Galilee, stood afar off, beholding these things.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.23.50">And, behold, there was a man named Joseph, a counselor; and he was a good man, and a just:</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.23.51">(The same had not consented to the counsel and deed of them;) he was of Arimathaea, a city of the Jews: who also himself waited for the kingdom of God.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.23.52">This man went unto Pilate, and begged the body of Jesus.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.23.53">And he took it down, and wrapped it in linen, and laid it in a sepulcher that was hewn in stone, in which never man before was laid.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.23.54">And that day was the preparation, and the sabbath drew on.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.23.55">And the women also, which came with him from Galilee, followed after, and beheld the sepulcher, and how his body was laid.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.23.56">And they returned, and prepared spices and ointments; and rested the sabbath day according to the commandment.</verse>
</chapter>
<chapter osisID="Luke.23.56">
<verse osisID="Luke.24.1">Now upon the first day of the week, very early in the morning, they came unto the sepulcher, bringing the spices which they had prepared, and certain others with them.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.24.2">And they found the stone rolled away from the sepulcher.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.24.3">And they entered in, and found not the body of the Lord Jesus.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.24.4">And it came to pass, as they were much perplexed thereabout, behold, two men stood by them in shining garments:</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.24.5">And as they were afraid, and bowed down their faces to the earth, they said unto them, Why seek you the living among the dead?</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.24.6">He is not here, but is risen: remember how he spoke unto you when he was yet in Galilee,</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.24.7">Saying, The Son of man must be delivered into the hands of sinful men, and be crucified, and the third day rise again.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.24.8">And they remembered his words,</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.24.9">And returned from the sepulcher, and told all these things unto the eleven, and to all the rest.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.24.10">It was Mary Magdalene and Joanna, and Mary the mother of James, and other women that were with them, which told these things unto the apostles.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.24.11">And their words seemed to them as idle tales, and they believed them not.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.24.12">Then arose Peter, and ran unto the sepulcher; and stooping down, he beheld the linen clothes laid by themselves, and departed, wondering in himself at that which was come to pass.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.24.13">And, behold, two of them went that same day to a village called Emmaus, which was from Jerusalem about threescore furlongs.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.24.14">And they talked together of all these things which had happened.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.24.15">And it came to pass, that, while they communed together and reasoned, Jesus himself drew near, and went with them.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.24.16">But their eyes were held back that they should not know him.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.24.17">And he said unto them, What manner of communications are these that you have one to another, as you walk, and are sad?</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.24.18">And the one of them, whose name was Cleopas, answering said unto him, Are you only a stranger in Jerusalem, and have not known the things which are come to pass there in these days?</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.24.19">And he said unto them, What things? And they said unto him, Concerning Jesus of Nazareth, which was a prophet mighty in deed and word before God and all the people:</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.24.20">And how the chief priests and our rulers delivered him to be condemned to death, and have crucified him.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.24.21">But we trusted that it had been he which should have redeemed Israel: and beside all this, today is the third day since these things were done.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.24.22">Yes, and certain women also of our company made us astonished, which were early at the sepulcher;</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.24.23">And when they found not his body, they came, saying, that they had also seen a vision of angels, which said that he was alive.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.24.24">And certain of those who were with us went to the sepulcher, and found it even so as the women had said: but him they saw not.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.24.25">Then he said unto them, O fools, and slow of heart to believe all that the prophets have spoken:</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.24.26">Ought not Christ to have suffered these things, and to enter into his glory?</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.24.27">And beginning at Moses and all the prophets, he expounded unto them in all the scriptures the things concerning himself.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.24.28">And they drew close unto the village, to where they went: and he made as though he would have gone further.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.24.29">But they constrained him, saying, Abide with us: for it is toward evening, and the day is far spent. And he went in to tarry with them.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.24.30">And it came to pass, as he sat at food with them, he took bread, and blessed it, and broke, and gave to them.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.24.31">And their eyes were opened, and they knew him; and he vanished out of their sight.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.24.32">And they said one to another, Did not our heart burn within us, while he talked with us by the way, and while he opened to us the scriptures?</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.24.33">And they rose up the same hour, and returned to Jerusalem, and found the eleven gathered together, and them that were with them,</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.24.34">Saying, The Lord is risen indeed, and has appeared to Simon.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.24.35">And they told what things were done on the way, and how he was known of them in breaking of bread.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.24.36">And as they thus spoke, Jesus himself stood in the midst of them, and says unto them, Peace be unto you.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.24.37">But they were terrified and frightened, and supposed that they had seen a spirit.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.24.38">And he said unto them, Why are you troubled? and why do thoughts arise in your hearts?</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.24.39">Behold my hands and my feet, that it is I myself: handle me, and see; for a spirit has not flesh and bones, as you see me have.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.24.40">And when he had thus spoken, he showed them his hands and his feet.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.24.41">And while they yet believed not for joy, and wondered, he said unto them, Have you here any food?</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.24.42">And they gave him a piece of a broiled fish, and of a honeycomb.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.24.43">And he took it, and did eat before them.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.24.44">And he said unto them, These are the words which I spoke unto you, while I was yet with you, that all things must be fulfilled, which were written in the law of Moses, and in the prophets, and in the psalms, concerning me.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.24.45">Then opened he their understanding, that they might understand the scriptures,</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.24.46">And said unto them, Thus it is written, and thus it was proper for Christ to suffer, and to rise from the dead the third day:</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.24.47">And that repentance and remission of sins should be preached in his name among all nations, beginning at Jerusalem.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.24.48">And you are witnesses of these things.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.24.49">And, behold, I send the promise of my Father upon you: but tarry you in the city of Jerusalem, until you be endued with power from on high.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.24.50">And he led them out as far as to Bethany, and he lifted up his hands, and blessed them.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.24.51">And it came to pass, while he blessed them, he was parted from them, and carried up into heaven.</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.24.52">And they worshipped him, and returned to Jerusalem with great joy:</verse>
<verse osisID="Luke.24.53">And were continually in the temple, praising and blessing God. Amen. </div></verse>
</chapter>
</div>
<div type="book" osisID="Luke.23.56">
<chapter osisID="Luke.24.53">
<verse osisID="John.1.1">In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.</verse>
<verse osisID="John.1.2">The same was in the beginning with God.</verse>
<verse osisID="John.1.3">All things were made by him; and outside him was not any thing made that was made.</verse>
<verse osisID="John.1.4">In him was life; and the life was the light of men.</verse>
<verse osisID="John.1.5">And the light shines in darkness; and the darkness comprehended it not.</verse>
<verse osisID="John.1.6">There was a man sent from God, whose name was John.</verse>
<verse osisID="John.1.7">The same came for a witness, to bear witness of the Light, that all men through him might believe.</verse>
<verse osisID="John.1.8">He was not that Light, but was sent to bear witness of that Light.</verse>
<verse osisID="John.1.9">That was the true Light, which lights every man that comes into the world.</verse>
<verse osisID="John.1.10">He was in the world, and the world was made by him, and the world knew him not.</verse>
<verse osisID="John.1.11">He came unto his own, and his own received him not.</verse>
<verse osisID="John.1.12">But as many as received him, to them gave he power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on his name:</verse>
<verse osisID="John.1.13">Which were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God.</verse>
<verse osisID="John.1.14">And the Word was made flesh, and dwelled among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth.</verse>
<verse osisID="John.1.15">John bore witness of him, and cried, saying, This was he of whom I spoke, He that comes after me is preferred before me: for he was before me.</verse>
<verse osisID="John.1.16">And of his fullness have all we received, and grace for grace.</verse>
<verse osisID="John.1.17">For the law was given by Moses, but grace and truth came by Jesus Christ.</verse>
<verse osisID="John.1.18">No man has seen God at any time, the only begotten Son, which is in the bosom of the Father, he has declared him.</verse>
<verse osisID="John.1.19">And this is the record of John, when the Jews sent priests and Levites from Jerusalem to ask him, Who are you?</verse>
<verse osisID="John.1.20">And he confessed, and denied not; but confessed, I am not the Christ.</verse>
<verse osisID="John.1.21">And they asked him, What then? Are you Elijah? And he says, I am not. Are you that prophet? And he answered, No.</verse>
<verse osisID="John.1.22">Then said they unto him, Who are you? that we may give an answer to them that sent us. What say you of yourself?</verse>
<verse osisID="John.1.23">He said, I am the voice of one crying in the wilderness, Make straight the way of the Lord, as said the prophet Isaiah.</verse>
<verse osisID="John.1.24">And they which were sent were of the Pharisees.</verse>
<verse osisID="John.1.25">And they asked him, and said unto him, Why do you baptize then, if you be not that Christ, nor Elijah, neither that prophet?</verse>
<verse osisID="John.1.26">John answered them, saying, I baptize with water: but there stands one among you, whom you know not;</verse>
<verse osisID="John.1.27">He it is, who coming after me is preferred before me, whose shoe's latchet I am not worthy to unloose.</verse>
<verse osisID="John.1.28">These things were done in Bethabara beyond the Jordan, where John was baptizing.</verse>
<verse osisID="John.1.29">The next day John sees Jesus coming unto him, and says, Behold the Lamb of God, which takes away the sin of the world.</verse>
<verse osisID="John.1.30">This is he of whom I said, After me comes a man which is preferred before me: for he was before me.</verse>
<verse osisID="John.1.31">And I knew him not: but that he should be made manifest to Israel, therefore am I come baptizing with water.</verse>
<verse osisID="John.1.32">And John bore record, saying, I saw the Spirit descending from heaven like a dove, and it abode upon him.</verse>
<verse osisID="John.1.33">And I knew him not: but he that sent me to baptize with water, the same said unto me, Upon whom you shall see the Spirit descending, and remaining on him, the same is he which baptizes with the Holy Ghost.</verse>
<verse osisID="John.1.34">And I saw, and bore record that this is the Son of God.</verse>
<verse osisID="John.1.35">Again the next day after John stood, and two of his disciples;</verse>
<verse osisID="John.1.36">And looking upon Jesus as he walked, he says, Behold the Lamb of God!</verse>
<verse osisID="John.1.37">And the two disciples heard him speak, and they followed Jesus.</verse>
<verse osisID="John.1.38">Then Jesus turned, and saw them following, and says unto them, What do you seek? They said unto him, Rabbi, (which is to say, being interpreted, Master,) where do you dwell?</verse>
<verse osisID="John.1.39">He says unto them, Come and see. They came and saw where he dwelled, and abode with him that day: for it was about the tenth hour.</verse>
<verse osisID="John.1.40">One of the two which heard John speak, and followed him, was Andrew, Simon Peter's brother.</verse>
<verse osisID="John.1.41">He first finds his own brother Simon, and says unto him, We have found the Messias, which is, being interpreted, the Christ.</verse>
<verse osisID="John.1.42">And he brought him to Jesus. And when Jesus beheld him, he said, You are Simon the son of Jona: you shall be called Cephas, which is by interpretation, A stone.</verse>
<verse osisID="John.1.43">The day following Jesus would go forth into Galilee, and finds Philip, and says unto him, Follow me.</verse>
<verse osisID="John.1.44">Now Philip was of Bethsaida, the city of Andrew and Peter.</verse>
<verse osisID="John.1.45">Philip finds Nathanael, and says unto him, We have found him, of whom Moses in the law, and the prophets, did write, Jesus of Nazareth, the son of Joseph.</verse>
<verse osisID="John.1.46">And Nathanael said unto him, Can there any good thing come out of Nazareth? Philip says unto him, Come and see.</verse>
<verse osisID="John.1.47">Jesus saw Nathanael coming to him, and says of him, Behold an Israelite indeed, in whom is no guile!</verse>
<verse osisID="John.1.48">Nathanael says unto him, &gt;From where know you me? Jesus answered and said unto him, Before that Philip called you, when you were under the fig tree, I saw you.</verse>
<verse osisID="John.1.49">Nathanael answered and says unto him, Rabbi, you are the Son of God; you are the King of Israel.</verse>
<verse osisID="John.1.50">Jesus answered and said unto him, Because I said unto you, I saw you under the fig tree, you believe? you shall see greater things than these.</verse>
<verse osisID="John.1.51">And he says unto him, Truthfully, truthfully, I say unto you, Hereafter you shall see heaven open, and the angels of God ascending and descending upon the Son of man.</verse>
</chapter>
<chapter osisID="John.1.51">
<verse osisID="John.2.1">And the third day there was a marriage in Cana of Galilee; and the mother of Jesus was there:</verse>
<verse osisID="John.2.2">And both Jesus was called, and his disciples, to the marriage.</verse>
<verse osisID="John.2.3">And when they wanted wine, the mother of Jesus says unto him, They have no wine.</verse>
<verse osisID="John.2.4">Jesus says unto her, Woman, what have I to do with you? my hour is not yet come.</verse>
<verse osisID="John.2.5">His mother says unto the servants, Whatsoever he says unto you, do it.</verse>
<verse osisID="John.2.6">And there were set there six waterpots of stone, after the manner of the purifying of the Jews, containing twenty or thirty gallons each.</verse>
<verse osisID="John.2.7">Jesus says unto them, Fill the waterpots with water. And they filled them up to the brim.</verse>
<verse osisID="John.2.8">And he says unto them, Draw out now, and bear unto the governor of the feast. And they bore it.</verse>
<verse osisID="John.2.9">When the ruler of the feast had tasted the water that was made wine, and did not know from where it was: (but the servants which drew the water knew;) the governor of the feast called the bridegroom,</verse>
<verse osisID="John.2.10">And says unto him, Every man at the beginning does set forth good wine; and when men have well drunk, then that which is worse: but you have kept the good wine until now.</verse>
<verse osisID="John.2.11">This beginning of miracles did Jesus in Cana of Galilee, and manifested forth his glory; and his disciples believed on him.</verse>
<verse osisID="John.2.12">After this he went down to Capernaum, he, and his mother, and his brothers, and his disciples: and they continued there not many days.</verse>
<verse osisID="John.2.13">And the Jews' passover was at hand, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem.</verse>
<verse osisID="John.2.14">And found in the temple those that sold oxen and sheep and doves, and the changers of money sitting:</verse>
<verse osisID="John.2.15">And when he had made a whip of small cords, he drove them all out of the temple, and the sheep, and the oxen; and poured out the changers' money, and overthrew the tables;</verse>
<verse osisID="John.2.16">And said unto them that sold doves, Take these things hence; make not my Father's house a house of merchandise.</verse>
<verse osisID="John.2.17">And his disciples remembered that it was written, The zeal of your house has eaten me up.</verse>
<verse osisID="John.2.18">Then answered the Jews and said unto him, What sign do you show unto us, seeing that you are doing these things?</verse>
<verse osisID="John.2.19">Jesus answered and said unto them, Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up.</verse>
<verse osisID="John.2.20">Then said the Jews, Forty and six years was this temple in building, and will you rear it up in three days?</verse>
<verse osisID="John.2.21">But he spoke of the temple of his body.</verse>
<verse osisID="John.2.22">When therefore he was risen from the dead, his disciples remembered that he had said this unto them; and they believed the scripture, and the word which Jesus had said.</verse>
<verse osisID="John.2.23">Now when he was in Jerusalem at the passover, in the feast day, many believed in his name, when they saw the miracles which he did.</verse>
<verse osisID="John.2.24">But Jesus did not commit himself unto them, because he knew all men,</verse>
<verse osisID="John.2.25">And needed not that any should testify of man: for he knew what was in man.</verse>
</chapter>
<chapter osisID="John.2.25">
<verse osisID="John.3.1">There was a man of the Pharisees, named Nicodemus, a ruler of the Jews:</verse>
<verse osisID="John.3.2">The same came to Jesus by night, and said unto him, Rabbi, we know that you are a teacher come from God: for no man can do these miracles that you are doing, unless God be with him.</verse>
<verse osisID="John.3.3">Jesus answered and said unto him, Truthfully, truthfully, I say unto you, Unless a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God.</verse>
<verse osisID="John.3.4">Nicodemus says unto him, How can a man be born when he is old? can he enter the second time into his mother's womb, and be born?</verse>
<verse osisID="John.3.5">Jesus answered, Truthfully, truthfully, I say unto you, Unless a man be born of water and of the Spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God.</verse>
<verse osisID="John.3.6">That which is born of the flesh is flesh; and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit.</verse>
<verse osisID="John.3.7">Marvel not that I said unto you, You must be born again.</verse>
<verse osisID="John.3.8">The wind blows where it chooses, and you hear the sound of it, but cannot tell from where it comes, and to where it goes: so is every one that is born of the Spirit.</verse>
<verse osisID="John.3.9">Nicodemus answered and said unto him, How can these things be?</verse>
<verse osisID="John.3.10">Jesus answered and said unto him, Are you a master of Israel, and know not these things?</verse>
<verse osisID="John.3.11">Truthfully, Truthfully, I say unto you, We speak what we do know, and testify what we have seen; and you receive not our witness.</verse>
<verse osisID="John.3.12">If I have told you earthly things, and you believe not, how shall you believe, if I tell you of heavenly things?</verse>
<verse osisID="John.3.13">And no man has ascended up to heaven, but he that came down from heaven, even the Son of man which is in heaven.</verse>
<verse osisID="John.3.14">And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of man be lifted up:</verse>
<verse osisID="John.3.15">That whosoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life.</verse>
<verse osisID="John.3.16">For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believes in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.</verse>
<verse osisID="John.3.17">For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved.</verse>
<verse osisID="John.3.18">He that believes on him is not condemned: but he that believes not is condemned already, because he has not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God.</verse>
<verse osisID="John.3.19">And this is the condemnation, that light is come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil.</verse>
<verse osisID="John.3.20">For every one that does evil hates the light, neither comes to the light, lest his deeds should be reproved.</verse>
<verse osisID="John.3.21">But he that does truth comes to the light, that his deeds may be made manifest, that they are wrought in God.</verse>
<verse osisID="John.3.22">After these things came Jesus and his disciples into the land of Judaea; and there he tarried with them, and baptized.</verse>
<verse osisID="John.3.23">And John also was baptizing in Aenon near to Salim, because there was much water there: and they came, and were baptized.</verse>
<verse osisID="John.3.24">For John was not yet cast into prison.</verse>
<verse osisID="John.3.25">Then there arose a question between some of John's disciples and the Jews about purifying.</verse>
<verse osisID="John.3.26">And they came unto John, and said unto him, Rabbi, he that was with you beyond the Jordan, to whom you bore witness, behold, the same baptizes, and all men come to him.</verse>
<verse osisID="John.3.27">John answered and said, A man can receive nothing, unless it be given him from heaven.</verse>
<verse osisID="John.3.28">You yourselves bear me witness, that I said, I am not the Christ, but that I am sent before him.</verse>
<verse osisID="John.3.29">He that has the bride is the bridegroom: but the friend of the bridegroom, which stands and hears him, rejoices greatly because of the bridegroom's voice: this my joy therefore is fulfilled.</verse>
<verse osisID="John.3.30">He must increase, but I must decrease.</verse>
<verse osisID="John.3.31">He that comes from above is above all: he that is of the earth is earthly, and speaks of the earth: he that comes from heaven is above all.</verse>
<verse osisID="John.3.32">And what he has seen and heard, that he testifies; and no man receives his testimony.</verse>
<verse osisID="John.3.33">He that has received his testimony has set to his seal that God is true.</verse>
<verse osisID="John.3.34">For he whom God has sent speaks the words of God: for God gives not the Spirit by measure unto him.</verse>
<verse osisID="John.3.35">The Father loves the Son, and has given all things into his hand.</verse>
<verse osisID="John.3.36">He that believes on the Son has everlasting life: and he that believes not the Son shall not see life; but the wrath of God abides on him.</verse>
</chapter>
<chapter osisID="John.3.36">
<verse osisID="John.4.1">When therefore the LORD knew how the Pharisees had heard that Jesus made and baptized more disciples than John,</verse>
<verse osisID="John.4.2">(Though Jesus himself baptized not, but his disciples,)</verse>
<verse osisID="John.4.3">He left Judaea, and departed again into Galilee.</verse>
<verse osisID="John.4.4">And he must needs go through Samaria.</verse>
<verse osisID="John.4.5">Then comes he to a city of Samaria, which is called Sychar, near to the parcel of ground that Jacob gave to his son Joseph.</verse>
<verse osisID="John.4.6">Now Jacob's well was there. Jesus therefore, being wearied with his journey, sat thus on the well: and it was about the sixth hour.</verse>
<verse osisID="John.4.7">There comes a woman of Samaria to draw water: Jesus says unto her, Give me to drink.</verse>
<verse osisID="John.4.8">(For his disciples were gone away unto the city to buy food.)</verse>
<verse osisID="John.4.9">Then says the woman of Samaria unto him, How is it that you, being a Jew, ask drink of me, which am a woman of Samaria? for the Jews have no dealings with the Samaritans.</verse>
<verse osisID="John.4.10">Jesus answered and said unto her, If you knew the gift of God, and who it is that says to you, Give me to drink; you would have asked of him, and he would have given you living water.</verse>
<verse osisID="John.4.11">The woman says unto him, Sir, you have nothing to draw with, and the well is deep: from where then have you that living water?</verse>
<verse osisID="John.4.12">Are you greater than our father Jacob, which gave us the well, and drank of it himself, and his children, and his cattle?</verse>
<verse osisID="John.4.13">Jesus answered and said unto her, Whosoever drinks of this water shall thirst again:</verse>
<verse osisID="John.4.14">But whosoever drinks of the water that I shall give him shall never thirst; but the water that I shall give him shall be in him a well of water springing up into everlasting life.</verse>
<verse osisID="John.4.15">The woman says unto him, Sir, give me this water, that I thirst not, neither come to here to draw.</verse>
<verse osisID="John.4.16">Jesus says unto her, Go, call your husband, and come to here.</verse>
<verse osisID="John.4.17">The woman answered and said, I have no husband. Jesus said unto her, You have well said, I have no husband:</verse>
<verse osisID="John.4.18">For you have had five husbands; and he whom you now have is not your husband: in that said you truly.</verse>
<verse osisID="John.4.19">The woman says unto him, Sir, I perceive that you are a prophet.</verse>
<verse osisID="John.4.20">Our fathers worshipped in this mountain; and you say, that in Jerusalem is the place where men ought to worship.</verse>
<verse osisID="John.4.21">Jesus says unto her, Woman, believe me, the hour comes, when you shall neither in this mountain, nor yet at Jerusalem, worship the Father.</verse>
<verse osisID="John.4.22">You worship you know not what: we know what we worship: for salvation is of the Jews.</verse>
<verse osisID="John.4.23">But the hour comes, and now is, when the true worshipers shall worship the Father in spirit and in truth: for the Father seeks such to worship him.</verse>
<verse osisID="John.4.24">God is a Spirit: and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth.</verse>
<verse osisID="John.4.25">The woman says unto him, I know that Messias comes, which is called Christ: when he is come, he will tell us all things.</verse>
<verse osisID="John.4.26">Jesus says unto her, I that speak unto you am he.</verse>
<verse osisID="John.4.27">And upon this came his disciples, and marvelled that he talked with the woman: yet no man said, What do you seek? or, Why do you talk with her?</verse>
<verse osisID="John.4.28">The woman then left her waterpot, and went her way into the city, and says to the men,</verse>
<verse osisID="John.4.29">Come, see a man, which told me all things that ever I did: is not this the Christ?</verse>
<verse osisID="John.4.30">Then they went out of the city, and came unto him.</verse>
<verse osisID="John.4.31">In the meanwhile his disciples prayed him, saying, Master, eat.</verse>
<verse osisID="John.4.32">But he said unto them, I have food to eat that you know not of.</verse>
<verse osisID="John.4.33">Therefore said the disciples one to another, Has any man brought him anything to eat?</verse>
<verse osisID="John.4.34">Jesus says unto them, My food is to do the will of him that sent me, and to finish his work.</verse>
<verse osisID="John.4.35">Do you not say, There are yet four months, and then comes harvest? behold, I say unto you, Lift up your eyes, and look on the fields; for they are white already to harvest.</verse>
<verse osisID="John.4.36">And he that reaps receives wages, and scatters fruit unto life eternal: that both he that sows and he that reaps may rejoice together.</verse>
<verse osisID="John.4.37">And herein is that saying true, One sows, and another reaps.</verse>
<verse osisID="John.4.38">I sent you to reap that whereon you bestowed no labor: other men labored, and you are entered into their labors.</verse>
<verse osisID="John.4.39">And many of the Samaritans of that city believed on him for the saying of the woman, which testified, He told me all that ever I did.</verse>
<verse osisID="John.4.40">So when the Samaritans had come unto him, they asked him that he would tarry with them: and he abode there two days.</verse>
<verse osisID="John.4.41">And many more believed because of his own word;</verse>
<verse osisID="John.4.42">And said unto the woman, Now we believe, not because of your saying: for we have heard him ourselves, and know that this is indeed the Christ, the Saviour of the world.</verse>
<verse osisID="John.4.43">Now after two days he departed from there, and went into Galilee.</verse>
<verse osisID="John.4.44">For Jesus himself testified, that a prophet has no honor in his own country.</verse>
<verse osisID="John.4.45">Then when he was come into Galilee, the Galilaeans received him, having seen all the things that he did at Jerusalem at the feast: for they also went unto the feast.</verse>
<verse osisID="John.4.46">So Jesus came again into Cana of Galilee, where he made the water wine. And there was a certain nobleman, whose son was sick at Capernaum.</verse>
<verse osisID="John.4.47">When he heard that Jesus was come out of Judaea into Galilee, he went unto him, and asked him that he would come down, and heal his son: for he was at the point of death.</verse>
<verse osisID="John.4.48">Then said Jesus unto him, Unless you see signs and wonders, you will not believe.</verse>
<verse osisID="John.4.49">The nobleman says unto him, Sir, come down before my child dies.</verse>
<verse osisID="John.4.50">Jesus says unto him, Go your way; your son lives. And the man believed the word that Jesus had spoken unto him, and he went his way.</verse>
<verse osisID="John.4.51">And as he was now going down, his servants met him, and told him, saying, Your son lives.</verse>
<verse osisID="John.4.52">Then inquired he of them the hour when he began to get well. And they said unto him, yesterday at the seventh hour the fever left him.</verse>
<verse osisID="John.4.53">So the father knew that it was at the same hour, in which Jesus said unto him, Your son lives: and himself believed, and his whole house.</verse>
<verse osisID="John.4.54">This is again the second miracle that Jesus did, when he was come out of Judaea into Galilee.</verse>
</chapter>
<chapter osisID="John.4.54">
<verse osisID="John.5.1">After this there was a feast of the Jews; and Jesus went up to Jerusalem.</verse>
<verse osisID="John.5.2">Now there is at Jerusalem by the sheep market a pool, which is called in the Hebrew tongue Bethesda, having five porches.</verse>
<verse osisID="John.5.3">In these lay a great multitude of sick people, of blind, halt, withered, waiting for the moving of the water.</verse>
<verse osisID="John.5.4">For an angel went down at a certain time into the pool, and troubled the water: whosoever then first after the troubling of the water stepped in was made whole of whatsoever disease he had.</verse>
<verse osisID="John.5.5">And a certain man was there, which had an infirmity thirty and eight years.</verse>
<verse osisID="John.5.6">When Jesus saw him lie, and knew that he had been now a long time in that case, he says unto him, Do you want be made whole?</verse>
<verse osisID="John.5.7">The sick man answered him, Sir, I have no man, when the water is troubled, to put me into the pool: but while I am coming, another steps down before me.</verse>
<verse osisID="John.5.8">Jesus says unto him, Rise, take up your bed, and walk.</verse>
<verse osisID="John.5.9">And immediately the man was made whole, and took up his bed, and walked: and on the same day was the sabbath.</verse>
<verse osisID="John.5.10">The Jews therefore said unto him that was cured, It is the sabbath day: it is not lawful for you to carry your bed.</verse>
<verse osisID="John.5.11">He answered them, He that made me whole, the same said unto me, Take up your bed, and walk.</verse>
<verse osisID="John.5.12">Then asked they him, What man is that which said unto you, Take up your bed, and walk?</verse>
<verse osisID="John.5.13">And he that was healed knew not who it was: for Jesus had conveyed himself away, a multitude being in that place.</verse>
<verse osisID="John.5.14">Afterward Jesus finds him in the temple, and said unto him, Behold, you are made whole: sin no more, lest a worse thing come unto you.</verse>
<verse osisID="John.5.15">The man departed, and told the Jews that it was Jesus, which had made him whole.</verse>
<verse osisID="John.5.16">And therefore did the Jews persecute Jesus, and sought to slay him, because he had done these things on the sabbath day.</verse>
<verse osisID="John.5.17">But Jesus answered them, My Father works until now, and I work.</verse>
<verse osisID="John.5.18">Therefore the Jews sought the more to kill him, because he not only had broken the sabbath, but said also that God was his Father, making himself equal with God.</verse>
<verse osisID="John.5.19">Then answered Jesus and said unto them, Truthfully, truthfully, I say unto you, The Son can do nothing of himself, but what he sees the Father do: for what things soever he does, these also does the Son likewise.</verse>
<verse osisID="John.5.20">For the Father loves the Son, and shows him all things that himself does: and he will show him greater works than these, that you may marvel.</verse>
<verse osisID="John.5.21">For as the Father raises up the dead, and gives life to them; even so the Son gives life to whom he will.</verse>
<verse osisID="John.5.22">For the Father judges no man, but has committed all judgment unto the Son:</verse>
<verse osisID="John.5.23">That all men should honor the Son, just as they honor the Father. He that honors not the Son honors not the Father which has sent him.</verse>
<verse osisID="John.5.24">Truthfully, truthfully, I say unto you, He that hears my word, and believes on him that sent me, has everlasting life, and shall not come into condemnation; but is passed from death unto life.</verse>
<verse osisID="John.5.25">Truthfully, truthfully, I say unto you, The hour is coming, and now is, when the dead shall hear the voice of the Son of God: and they that hear shall live.</verse>
<verse osisID="John.5.26">For as the Father has life in himself; so has he given to the Son to have life in himself;</verse>
<verse osisID="John.5.27">And has given him authority to execute judgment also, because he is the Son of man.</verse>
<verse osisID="John.5.28">Marvel not at this: for the hour is coming, in which all that are in the graves shall hear his voice,</verse>
<verse osisID="John.5.29">And shall come forth; they that have done good, unto the resurrection of life; and they that have done evil, unto the resurrection of damnation.</verse>
<verse osisID="John.5.30">I can of my own self do nothing: as I hear, I judge: and my judgment is just; because I seek not my own will, but the will of the Father which has sent me.</verse>
<verse osisID="John.5.31">If I bear witness of myself, my witness is not true.</verse>
<verse osisID="John.5.32">There is another that bears witness of me; and I know that the witness which he witnesses of me is true.</verse>
<verse osisID="John.5.33">You sent unto John, and he bore witness unto the truth.</verse>
<verse osisID="John.5.34">But I receive not testimony from man: but these things I say, that you might be saved.</verse>
<verse osisID="John.5.35">He was a burning and a shining light: and you were willing for a season to rejoice in his light.</verse>
<verse osisID="John.5.36">But I have greater witness than that of John: for the works which the Father has given me to finish, the same works that I do, bear witness of me, that the Father has sent me.</verse>
<verse osisID="John.5.37">And the Father himself, which has sent me, has borne witness of me. You have neither heard his voice at any time, nor seen his shape.</verse>
<verse osisID="John.5.38">And you have not his word abiding in you: for whom he has sent, him you believe not.</verse>
<verse osisID="John.5.39">Search the scriptures; for in them you think you have eternal life: and they are they which testify of me.</verse>
<verse osisID="John.5.40">And you will not come to me, that you might have life.</verse>
<verse osisID="John.5.41">I receive not honor from men.</verse>
<verse osisID="John.5.42">But I know you, that you have not the love of God in you.</verse>
<verse osisID="John.5.43">I am come in my Father's name, and you receive me not: if another shall come in his own name, him you will receive.</verse>
<verse osisID="John.5.44">How can you believe, which receive honor one of another, and seek not the honor that comes from God only?</verse>
<verse osisID="John.5.45">Do not think that I will accuse you to the Father: there is one that accuses you, even Moses, in whom you trust.</verse>
<verse osisID="John.5.46">For had you believed Moses, you would have believed me; for he wrote of me.</verse>
<verse osisID="John.5.47">But if you believe not his writings, how shall you believe my words?</verse>
</chapter>
<chapter osisID="John.5.47">
<verse osisID="John.6.1">After these things Jesus went over the sea of Galilee, which is the sea of Tiberias.</verse>
<verse osisID="John.6.2">And a great multitude followed him, because they saw his miracles which he did on them that were diseased.</verse>
<verse osisID="John.6.3">And Jesus went up into a mountain, and there he sat with his disciples.</verse>
<verse osisID="John.6.4">And the passover, a feast of the Jews, was close.</verse>
<verse osisID="John.6.5">When Jesus then lifted up his eyes, and saw a great company come unto him, he says unto Philip, From where shall we buy bread, that these may eat?</verse>
<verse osisID="John.6.6">And this he said to prove him: for he himself knew what he would do.</verse>
<verse osisID="John.6.7">Philip answered him, Two hundred denarii worth of bread is not sufficient for them, that every one of them may take a little.</verse>
<verse osisID="John.6.8">One of his disciples, Andrew, Simon Peter's brother, says unto him,</verse>
<verse osisID="John.6.9">There is a lad here, which has five barley loaves, and two small fishes: but what are they among so many?</verse>
<verse osisID="John.6.10">And Jesus said, Make the men sit down. Now there was much grass in the place. So the men sat down, in number about five thousand.</verse>
<verse osisID="John.6.11">And Jesus took the loaves; and when he had given thanks, he distributed to the disciples, and the disciples to them that were set down; and likewise of the fishes as much as they would.</verse>
<verse osisID="John.6.12">When they were filled, he said unto his disciples, Gather up the fragments that remain, that nothing be lost.</verse>
<verse osisID="John.6.13">Therefore they gathered them together, and filled twelve baskets with the fragments of the five barley loaves, which remained over and above unto them that had eaten.</verse>
<verse osisID="John.6.14">Then those men, when they had seen the miracle that Jesus did, said, This is of a truth that prophet that should come into the world.</verse>
<verse osisID="John.6.15">When Jesus therefore perceived that they would come and take him by force, to make him a king, he departed again into a mountain himself alone.</verse>
<verse osisID="John.6.16">And when even was now come, his disciples went down unto the sea,</verse>
<verse osisID="John.6.17">And entered into a boat, and went over the sea toward Capernaum. And it was now dark, and Jesus was not come to them.</verse>
<verse osisID="John.6.18">And the sea arose by reason of a great wind that blew.</verse>
<verse osisID="John.6.19">So when they had rowed about five and twenty or thirty furlongs, they see Jesus walking on the sea, and drawing close unto the boat: and they were afraid.</verse>
<verse osisID="John.6.20">But he says unto them, It is I; be not afraid.</verse>
<verse osisID="John.6.21">Then they willingly received him into the boat: and immediately the boat was at the land to where they went.</verse>
<verse osisID="John.6.22">The day following, when the people which stood on the other side of the sea saw that there was none other boat there, except that one into which his disciples were entered, and that Jesus went not with his disciples into the boat, but that his disciples were gone away alone;</verse>
<verse osisID="John.6.23">(Howbeit there came other boats from Tiberias close unto the place where they did eat bread, after the Lord had given thanks:)</verse>
<verse osisID="John.6.24">When the people therefore saw that Jesus was not there, neither his disciples, they also took shipping, and came to Capernaum, seeking for Jesus.</verse>
<verse osisID="John.6.25">And when they had found him on the other side of the sea, they said unto him, Rabbi, when came you to here?</verse>
<verse osisID="John.6.26">Jesus answered them and said, Truthfully, truthfully, I say unto you, You seek me, not because you saw the miracles, but because you did eat of the loaves, and were filled.</verse>
<verse osisID="John.6.27">Labor not for the food which perishes, but for that food which endures unto everlasting life, which the Son of man shall give unto you: for him has God the Father sealed.</verse>
<verse osisID="John.6.28">Then said they unto him, What shall we do, that we might work the works of God?</verse>
<verse osisID="John.6.29">Jesus answered and said unto them, This is the work of God, that you believe on him whom he has sent.</verse>
<verse osisID="John.6.30">They said therefore unto him, What sign do you show then, that we may see, and believe you? what do you work?</verse>
<verse osisID="John.6.31">Our fathers did eat manna in the desert; as it is written, He gave them bread from heaven to eat.</verse>
<verse osisID="John.6.32">Then Jesus said unto them, Truthfully, truthfully, I say unto you, Moses gave you not that bread from heaven; but my Father gives you the true bread from heaven.</verse>
<verse osisID="John.6.33">For the bread of God is he which comes down from heaven, and gives life unto the world.</verse>
<verse osisID="John.6.34">Then said they unto him, Lord, evermore give us this bread.</verse>
<verse osisID="John.6.35">And Jesus said unto them, I am the bread of life: he that comes to me shall never hunger; and he that believes on me shall never thirst.</verse>
<verse osisID="John.6.36">But I said unto you, That you also have seen me, and believe not.</verse>
<verse osisID="John.6.37">All that the Father gives me shall come to me; and him that comes to me I will in no way cast out.</verse>
<verse osisID="John.6.38">For I came down from heaven, not to do my own will, but the will of him that sent me.</verse>
<verse osisID="John.6.39">And this is the Father's will which has sent me, that of all which he has given me I should lose nothing, but should raise it up again at the last day.</verse>
<verse osisID="John.6.40">And this is the will of him that sent me, that every one which sees the Son, and believes on him, may have everlasting life: and I will raise him up at the last day.</verse>
<verse osisID="John.6.41">The Jews then murmured at him, because he said, I am the bread which came down from heaven.</verse>
<verse osisID="John.6.42">And they said, Is not this Jesus, the son of Joseph, whose father and mother we know? how is it then that he says, I came down from heaven?</verse>
<verse osisID="John.6.43">Jesus therefore answered and said unto them, Murmur not among yourselves.</verse>
<verse osisID="John.6.44">No man can come to me, unless the Father which has sent me draw him: and I will raise him up at the last day.</verse>
<verse osisID="John.6.45">It is written in the prophets, And they shall be all taught of God. Every man therefore that has heard, and has learned of the Father, comes unto me.</verse>
<verse osisID="John.6.46">Not that any man has seen the Father, save he which is of God, he has seen the Father.</verse>
<verse osisID="John.6.47">Truthfully, truthfully, I say unto you, He that believes on me has everlasting life.</verse>
<verse osisID="John.6.48">I am that bread of life.</verse>
<verse osisID="John.6.49">Your fathers did eat manna in the wilderness, and are dead.</verse>
<verse osisID="John.6.50">This is the bread which comes down from heaven, that a man may eat of it, and not die.</verse>
<verse osisID="John.6.51">I am the living bread which came down from heaven: if any man eat of this bread, he shall live forever: and the bread that I will give is my flesh, which I will give for the life of the world.</verse>
<verse osisID="John.6.52">The Jews therefore strove among themselves, saying, How can this man give us his flesh to eat?</verse>
<verse osisID="John.6.53">Then Jesus said unto them, Truthfully, truthfully, I say unto you, Unless you eat the flesh of the Son of man, and drink his blood, you have no life in you.</verse>
<verse osisID="John.6.54">Whoso eats my flesh, and drinks my blood, has eternal life; and I will raise him up at the last day.</verse>
<verse osisID="John.6.55">For my flesh is food indeed, and my blood is drink indeed.</verse>
<verse osisID="John.6.56">He that eats my flesh, and drinks my blood, dwells in me, and I in him.</verse>
<verse osisID="John.6.57">As the living Father has sent me, and I live by the Father: so he that eats me, even he shall live by me.</verse>
<verse osisID="John.6.58">This is that bread which came down from heaven: not as your fathers did eat manna, and are dead: he that eats of this bread shall live forever.</verse>
<verse osisID="John.6.59">These things said he in the synagogue, as he taught in Capernaum.</verse>
<verse osisID="John.6.60">Many therefore of his disciples, when they had heard this, said, This is a hard saying; who can hear it?</verse>
<verse osisID="John.6.61">When Jesus knew in himself that his disciples murmured at it, he said unto them, Does this offend you?</verse>
<verse osisID="John.6.62">What and if you shall see the Son of man ascend up where he was before?</verse>
<verse osisID="John.6.63">It is the spirit that gives life; the flesh profits nothing: the words that I speak unto you, they are spirit, and they are life.</verse>
<verse osisID="John.6.64">But there are some of you that believe not. For Jesus knew from the beginning who they were that believed not, and who should betray him.</verse>
<verse osisID="John.6.65">And he said, Therefore said I unto you, that no man can come unto me, unless it were given unto him of my Father.</verse>
<verse osisID="John.6.66">From that time many of his disciples went back, and walked no more with him.</verse>
<verse osisID="John.6.67">Then said Jesus unto the twelve, Will you also go away?</verse>
<verse osisID="John.6.68">Then Simon Peter answered him, Lord, to whom shall we go? you have the words of eternal life.</verse>
<verse osisID="John.6.69">And we believe and are sure that you are that Christ, the Son of the living God.</verse>
<verse osisID="John.6.70">Jesus answered them, Have not I chosen you twelve, and one of you is a devil?</verse>
<verse osisID="John.6.71">He spoke of Judas Iscariot the son of Simon: for he it was that should betray him, being one of the twelve.</verse>
</chapter>
<chapter osisID="John.6.71">
<verse osisID="John.7.1">After these things Jesus walked in Galilee: for he would not walk in Jewry, because the Jews sought to kill him.</verse>
<verse osisID="John.7.2">Now the Jew's feast of tabernacles was at hand.</verse>
<verse osisID="John.7.3">His brothers therefore said unto him, Depart hence, and go into Judaea, that your disciples also may see the works that you are doing.</verse>
<verse osisID="John.7.4">For there is no man that does any thing in secret, and he himself seeks to be known openly. If you do these things, show yourself to the world.</verse>
<verse osisID="John.7.5">For neither did his brothers believe in him.</verse>
<verse osisID="John.7.6">Then Jesus said unto them, My time is not yet come: but your time is always ready.</verse>
<verse osisID="John.7.7">The world cannot hate you; but me it hates, because I testify of it, that the works of it are evil.</verse>
<verse osisID="John.7.8">Go you up unto this feast: I go not up yet unto this feast: for my time is not yet full come.</verse>
<verse osisID="John.7.9">When he had said these words unto them, he abode still in Galilee.</verse>
<verse osisID="John.7.10">But when his brothers were gone up, then went he also up unto the feast, not openly, but as it were in secret.</verse>
<verse osisID="John.7.11">Then the Jews sought him at the feast, and said, Where is he?</verse>
<verse osisID="John.7.12">And there was much murmuring among the people concerning him: for some said, He is a good man: others said, No; but he deceives the people.</verse>
<verse osisID="John.7.13">Howbeit no man spoke openly of him for fear of the Jews.</verse>
<verse osisID="John.7.14">Now about the midst of the feast Jesus went up into the temple, and taught.</verse>
<verse osisID="John.7.15">And the Jews marvelled, saying, How knows this man letters, having never learned?</verse>
<verse osisID="John.7.16">Jesus answered them, and said, My doctrine is not mine, but his that sent me.</verse>
<verse osisID="John.7.17">If any man will do his will, he shall know of the doctrine, whether it be of God, or whether I speak of myself.</verse>
<verse osisID="John.7.18">He that speaks of himself seeks his own glory: but he that seeks his glory that sent him, the same is true, and no unrighteousness is in him.</verse>
<verse osisID="John.7.19">Did not Moses give you the law, and yet none of you keeps the law? Why go you about to kill me?</verse>
<verse osisID="John.7.20">The people answered and said, You have a devil: who goes about to kill you?</verse>
<verse osisID="John.7.21">Jesus answered and said unto them, I have done one work, and you all marvel.</verse>
<verse osisID="John.7.22">Moses therefore gave unto you circumcision; (not because it is of Moses, but of the fathers;) and you on the sabbath day circumcise a man.</verse>
<verse osisID="John.7.23">If a man on the sabbath day receive circumcision, that the law of Moses should not be broken; are you angry at me, because I have made a man every whit whole on the sabbath day?</verse>
<verse osisID="John.7.24">Judge not according to the appearance, but judge righteous judgment.</verse>
<verse osisID="John.7.25">Then said some of them of Jerusalem, Is not this he, whom they seek to kill?</verse>
<verse osisID="John.7.26">But, lo, he speaks boldly, and they say nothing unto him. Do the rulers know indeed that this is the very Christ?</verse>
<verse osisID="John.7.27">Howbeit we know this man from where he is: but when Christ comes, no man knows from where he is.</verse>
<verse osisID="John.7.28">Then cried Jesus in the temple as he taught, saying, You both know me, and you know from where I am: and I am not come of myself, but he that sent me is true, whom you know not.</verse>
<verse osisID="John.7.29">But I know him: for I am from him, and he has sent me.</verse>
<verse osisID="John.7.30">Then they sought to take him: but no man laid hands on him, because his hour was not yet come.</verse>
<verse osisID="John.7.31">And many of the people believed on him, and said, When Christ comes, will he do more miracles than these which this man has done?</verse>
<verse osisID="John.7.32">The Pharisees heard that the people murmured such things concerning him; and the Pharisees and the chief priests sent officers to take him.</verse>
<verse osisID="John.7.33">Then said Jesus unto them, yet a little while am I with you, and then I go unto him that sent me.</verse>
<verse osisID="John.7.34">You shall seek me, and shall not find me: and where I am, to there you cannot come.</verse>
<verse osisID="John.7.35">Then said the Jews among themselves, To where will he go, that we shall not find him? will he go unto the dispersed among the Gentiles, and teach the Gentiles?</verse>
<verse osisID="John.7.36">What manner of saying is this that he said, You shall seek me, and shall not find me: and where I am, to there you cannot come?</verse>
<verse osisID="John.7.37">In the last day, that great day of the feast, Jesus stood and cried, saying, If any man thirst, let him come unto me, and drink.</verse>
<verse osisID="John.7.38">He that believes on me, as the scripture has said, out of his belly shall flow rivers of living water.</verse>
<verse osisID="John.7.39">(But this spoke he of the Spirit, which they that believe on him should receive: for the Holy Ghost was not yet given; because Jesus was not yet glorified.)</verse>
<verse osisID="John.7.40">Many of the people therefore, when they heard this saying, said, Of a truth this is the Prophet.</verse>
<verse osisID="John.7.41">Others said, This is the Christ. But some said, Shall Christ come out of Galilee?</verse>
<verse osisID="John.7.42">Has not the scripture said, That Christ comes of the seed of David, and out of the town of Bethlehem, where David was?</verse>
<verse osisID="John.7.43">So there was a division among the people because of him.</verse>
<verse osisID="John.7.44">And some of them would have taken him; but no man laid hands on him.</verse>
<verse osisID="John.7.45">Then came the officers to the chief priests and Pharisees; and they said unto them, Why have you not brought him?</verse>
<verse osisID="John.7.46">The officers answered, Never man spoke like this man.</verse>
<verse osisID="John.7.47">Then answered them the Pharisees, Are you also deceived?</verse>
<verse osisID="John.7.48">Have any of the rulers or of the Pharisees believed on him?</verse>
<verse osisID="John.7.49">But this people who knows not the law are cursed.</verse>
<verse osisID="John.7.50">Nicodemus says unto them, (he that came to Jesus by night, being one of them,)</verse>
<verse osisID="John.7.51">Does our law judge any man, before it hear him, and know what he does?</verse>
<verse osisID="John.7.52">They answered and said unto him, Are you also of Galilee? Search, and look: for out of Galilee arises no prophet.</verse>
<verse osisID="John.7.53">And every man went unto his own house.</verse>
</chapter>
<chapter osisID="John.7.53">
<verse osisID="John.8.1">Jesus went unto the mount of Olives.</verse>
<verse osisID="John.8.2">And early in the morning he came again into the temple, and all the people came unto him; and he sat down, and taught them.</verse>
<verse osisID="John.8.3">And the scribes and Pharisees brought unto him a woman taken in adultery; and when they had set her in the midst,</verse>
<verse osisID="John.8.4">They say unto him, Master, this woman was taken in adultery, in the very act.</verse>
<verse osisID="John.8.5">Now Moses in the law commanded us, that such should be stoned: but what say you?</verse>
<verse osisID="John.8.6">This they said, tempting him, that they might have something to accuse him. But Jesus stooped down, and with his finger wrote on the ground, as though he heard them not.</verse>
<verse osisID="John.8.7">So when they continued asking him, he lifted up himself, and said unto them, He that is without sin among you, let him cast the first stone at her.</verse>
<verse osisID="John.8.8">And again he stooped down, and wrote on the ground.</verse>
<verse osisID="John.8.9">And they which heard it, being convicted by their own conscience, went out one by one, beginning at the eldest, even unto the last: and Jesus was left alone, and the woman standing in the midst.</verse>
<verse osisID="John.8.10">When Jesus had lifted up himself, and saw none but the woman, he said unto her, Woman, where are those your accusers? has no man condemned you?</verse>
<verse osisID="John.8.11">She said, No man, Lord. And Jesus said unto her, Neither do I condemn you: go, and sin no more.</verse>
<verse osisID="John.8.12">Then spoke Jesus again unto them, saying, I am the light of the world: he that follows me shall not walk in darkness, but shall have the light of life.</verse>
<verse osisID="John.8.13">The Pharisees therefore said unto him, You bear record of yourself; your record is not true.</verse>
<verse osisID="John.8.14">Jesus answered and said unto them, Though I bear record of myself, yet my record is true: for I know from where I came, and to where I go; but you cannot tell from where I come, and to where I go.</verse>
<verse osisID="John.8.15">You judge after the flesh; I judge no man.</verse>
<verse osisID="John.8.16">And yet if I judge, my judgment is true: for I am not alone, but I and the Father that sent me.</verse>
<verse osisID="John.8.17">It is also written in your law, that the testimony of two men is true.</verse>
<verse osisID="John.8.18">I am one that bear witness of myself, and the Father that sent me bears witness of me.</verse>
<verse osisID="John.8.19">Then said they unto him, Where is your Father? Jesus answered, you neither know me, nor my Father: if you had known me, you should have known my Father also.</verse>
<verse osisID="John.8.20">These words spoke Jesus in the treasury, as he taught in the temple: and no man laid hands on him; for his hour was not yet come.</verse>
<verse osisID="John.8.21">Then said Jesus again unto them, I go my way, and you shall seek me, and shall die in your sins: to where I go, you cannot come.</verse>
<verse osisID="John.8.22">Then said the Jews, Will he kill himself? because he says, To where I go, you cannot come.</verse>
<verse osisID="John.8.23">And he said unto them, You are from beneath; I am from above: you are of this world; I am not of this world.</verse>
<verse osisID="John.8.24">I said therefore unto you, that you shall die in your sins: for if you believe not that I am he, you shall die in your sins.</verse>
<verse osisID="John.8.25">Then said they unto him, Who are you? And Jesus says unto them, Even the same that I said unto you from the beginning.</verse>
<verse osisID="John.8.26">I have many things to say and to judge of you: but he that sent me is true; and I speak to the world those things which I have heard of him.</verse>
<verse osisID="John.8.27">They understood not that he spoke to them of the Father.</verse>
<verse osisID="John.8.28">Then said Jesus unto them, When you have lifted up the Son of man, then shall you know that I am he, and that I do nothing of myself; but as my Father has taught me, I speak these things.</verse>
<verse osisID="John.8.29">And he that sent me is with me: the Father has not left me alone; for I do always those things that please him.</verse>
<verse osisID="John.8.30">As he spoke these words, many believed on him.</verse>
<verse osisID="John.8.31">Then said Jesus to those Jews which believed on him, If you continue in my word, then are you my disciples indeed;</verse>
<verse osisID="John.8.32">And you shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.</verse>
<verse osisID="John.8.33">They answered him, We be Abraham's seed, and were never in bondage to any man: how say you, You shall be made free?</verse>
<verse osisID="John.8.34">Jesus answered them, Truthfully, truthfully, I say unto you, Whosoever commits sin is the servant of sin.</verse>
<verse osisID="John.8.35">And the servant abides not in the house forever: but the Son abides ever.</verse>
<verse osisID="John.8.36">If the Son therefore shall make you free, you shall be free indeed.</verse>
<verse osisID="John.8.37">I know that you are Abraham's seed; but you seek to kill me, because my word has no place in you.</verse>
<verse osisID="John.8.38">I speak that which I have seen with my Father: and you do that which you have seen with your father.</verse>
<verse osisID="John.8.39">They answered and said unto him, Abraham is our father. Jesus says unto them, If you were Abraham's children, you would do the works of Abraham.</verse>
<verse osisID="John.8.40">But now you seek to kill me, a man that has told you the truth, which I have heard of God: this did not Abraham.</verse>
<verse osisID="John.8.41">You do the deeds of your father. Then said they to him, We be not born of fornication; we have one Father, even God.</verse>
<verse osisID="John.8.42">Jesus said unto them, If God were your Father, you would love me: for I proceeded forth and came from God; neither came I of myself, but he sent me.</verse>
<verse osisID="John.8.43">Why do you not understand my speech? even because you cannot hear my word.</verse>
<verse osisID="John.8.44">You are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father you will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaks a lie, he speaks of his own: for he is a liar, and the father of it.</verse>
<verse osisID="John.8.45">And because I tell you the truth, you believe me not.</verse>
<verse osisID="John.8.46">Which of you convinces me of sin? And if I say the truth, why do you not believe me?</verse>
<verse osisID="John.8.47">He that is of God hears God's words: you therefore hear them not, because you are not of God.</verse>
<verse osisID="John.8.48">Then answered the Jews, and said unto him, Say we not well that you are a Samaritan, and have a devil?</verse>
<verse osisID="John.8.49">Jesus answered, I have not a devil; but I honor my Father, and you do dishonor me.</verse>
<verse osisID="John.8.50">And I seek not my own glory: there is one that seeks and judges.</verse>
<verse osisID="John.8.51">Truthfully, truthfully, I say unto you, If a man keep my saying, he shal never see death.</verse>
<verse osisID="John.8.52">Then said the Jews unto him, Now we know that you have a devil. Abraham is dead, and the prophets; and you say, If a man keep my saying, he shall never taste of death.</verse>
<verse osisID="John.8.53">Are you greater than our father Abraham, which is dead? and the prophets are dead: who do you think you are?</verse>
<verse osisID="John.8.54">Jesus answered, If I honor myself, my honor is nothing: it is my Father that honors me; of whom you say, that he is your God:</verse>
<verse osisID="John.8.55">yet you have not known him; but I know him: and if I should say, I know him not, I shall be a liar like unto you: but I know him, and keep his saying.</verse>
<verse osisID="John.8.56">Your father Abraham rejoiced to see my day: and he saw it, and was glad.</verse>
<verse osisID="John.8.57">Then said the Jews unto him, You are not yet fifty years old, and have you seen Abraham?</verse>
<verse osisID="John.8.58">Jesus said unto them, Truthfully, truthfully, I say unto you, Before Abraham was, I am.</verse>
<verse osisID="John.8.59">Then took they up stones to cast at him: but Jesus hid himself, and went out of the temple, going through the midst of them, and so passed by.</verse>
</chapter>
<chapter osisID="John.8.59">
<verse osisID="John.9.1">And as Jesus passed by, he saw a man which was blind from his birth.</verse>
<verse osisID="John.9.2">And his disciples asked him, saying, Master, who did sin, this man, or his parents, that he was born blind?</verse>
<verse osisID="John.9.3">Jesus answered, Neither has this man sinned, nor his parents: but that the works of God should be made manifest in him.</verse>
<verse osisID="John.9.4">I must work the works of him that sent me, while it is day: the night comes, when no man can work.</verse>
<verse osisID="John.9.5">As long as I am in the world, I am the light of the world.</verse>
<verse osisID="John.9.6">When he had thus spoken, he spat on the ground, and made clay of the spittle, and he anointed the eyes of the blind man with the clay,</verse>
<verse osisID="John.9.7">And said unto him, Go, wash in the pool of Siloam, (which is by interpretation, Sent.) He went his way therefore, and washed, and came seeing.</verse>
<verse osisID="John.9.8">The neighbors therefore, and they which before had seen him that he was blind, said, Is not this he that sat and begged?</verse>
<verse osisID="John.9.9">Some said, This is he: others said, He is like him: but he said, I am he.</verse>
<verse osisID="John.9.10">Therefore said they unto him, How were your eyes opened?</verse>
<verse osisID="John.9.11">He answered and said, A man that is called Jesus made clay, and anointed my eyes, and said unto me, Go to the pool of Siloam, and wash: and I went and washed, and I received sight.</verse>
<verse osisID="John.9.12">Then said they unto him, Where is he? He said, I do not know.</verse>
<verse osisID="John.9.13">They brought to the Pharisees him that previously was blind.</verse>
<verse osisID="John.9.14">And it was the sabbath day when Jesus made the clay, and opened his eyes.</verse>
<verse osisID="John.9.15">Then again the Pharisees also asked him how he had received his sight. He said unto them, He put clay upon my eyes, and I washed, and do see.</verse>
<verse osisID="John.9.16">Therefore said some of the Pharisees, This man is not of God, because he keeps not the sabbath day. Others said, How can a man that is a sinner do such miracles? And there was a division among them.</verse>
<verse osisID="John.9.17">They say unto the blind man again, What say you of him, that he has opened your eyes? He said, He is a prophet.</verse>
<verse osisID="John.9.18">But the Jews did not believe concerning him, that he had been blind, and received his sight, until they called the parents of him that had received his sight.</verse>
<verse osisID="John.9.19">And they asked them, saying, Is this your son, who you say was born blind? how then does he now see?</verse>
<verse osisID="John.9.20">His parents answered them and said, We know that this is our son, and that he was born blind:</verse>
<verse osisID="John.9.21">But by what means he now sees, we know not; or who has opened his eyes, we know not: he is of age; ask him: he shall speak for himself.</verse>
<verse osisID="John.9.22">These words spoke his parents, because they feared the Jews: for the Jews had agreed already, that if any man did confess that he was Christ, he should be put out of the synagogue.</verse>
<verse osisID="John.9.23">Therefore said his parents, He is of age; ask him.</verse>
<verse osisID="John.9.24">Then again called they the man that was blind, and said unto him, Give God the praise: we know that this man is a sinner.</verse>
<verse osisID="John.9.25">He answered and said, Whether he be a sinner or no, I do not know: one thing I know, that, whereas I was blind, now I see.</verse>
<verse osisID="John.9.26">Then said they to him again, What did he to you? how opened he your eyes?</verse>
<verse osisID="John.9.27">He answered them, I have told you already, and you did not hear: why would you hear it again? will you also be his disciples?</verse>
<verse osisID="John.9.28">Then they reviled him, and said, You are his disciple; but we are Moses' disciples.</verse>
<verse osisID="John.9.29">We know that God spoke unto Moses: as for this fellow, we know not from from where he is.</verse>
<verse osisID="John.9.30">The man answered and said unto them, Why herein is a marvelous thing, that you know not from from where he is, and yet he has opened mine eyes.</verse>
<verse osisID="John.9.31">Now we know that God hears not sinners: but if any man be a worshiper of God, and does his will, him he hears.</verse>
<verse osisID="John.9.32">Since the world began was it not heard that any man opened the eyes of one that was born blind.</verse>
<verse osisID="John.9.33">If this man were not of God, he could do nothing.</verse>
<verse osisID="John.9.34">They answered and said unto him, You were altogether born in sins, and do you teach us? And they cast him out.</verse>
<verse osisID="John.9.35">Jesus heard that they had cast him out; and when he had found him, he said unto him, Do you believe on the Son of God?</verse>
<verse osisID="John.9.36">He answered and said, Who is he, Lord, that I might believe on him?</verse>
<verse osisID="John.9.37">And Jesus said unto him, You have both seen him, and it is he that talks with you.</verse>
<verse osisID="John.9.38">And he said, Lord, I believe. And he worshipped him.</verse>
<verse osisID="John.9.39">And Jesus said, For judgment I am come into this world, that they which see not might see; and that they which see might be made blind.</verse>
<verse osisID="John.9.40">And some of the Pharisees which were with him heard these words, and said unto him, Are we blind also?</verse>
<verse osisID="John.9.41">Jesus said unto them, If you were blind, you should have no sin: but now you say, We see; therefore your sin remains.</verse>
</chapter>
<chapter osisID="John.9.41">
<verse osisID="John.10.1">Truthfully, truthfully, I say unto you, He that enters not by the door into the sheepfold, but climbs up some other way, the same is a thief and a robber.</verse>
<verse osisID="John.10.2">But he that enters in by the door is the shepherd of the sheep.</verse>
<verse osisID="John.10.3">To him the porter opens; and the sheep hear his voice: and he calls his own sheep by name, and leads them out.</verse>
<verse osisID="John.10.4">And when he puts forth his own sheep, he goes before them, and the sheep follow him: for they know his voice.</verse>
<verse osisID="John.10.5">And a stranger will they not follow, but will flee from him: for they know not the voice of strangers.</verse>
<verse osisID="John.10.6">This parable spoke Jesus unto them: but they understood not what things they were which he spoke unto them.</verse>
<verse osisID="John.10.7">Then said Jesus unto them again, Truthfully, truthfully, I say unto you, I am the door of the sheep.</verse>
<verse osisID="John.10.8">All that ever came before me are thieves and robbers: but the sheep did not hear them.</verse>
<verse osisID="John.10.9">I am the door: by me if any man enter in, he shall be saved, and shall go in and out, and find pasture.</verse>
<verse osisID="John.10.10">The thief comes not, but for to steal, and to kill, and to destroy: I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly.</verse>
<verse osisID="John.10.11">I am the good shepherd: the good shepherd gives his life for the sheep.</verse>
<verse osisID="John.10.12">But he that is a hireling, and not the shepherd, whose own the sheep are not, sees the wolf coming, and leaves the sheep, and flees: and the wolf catches them, and scatters the sheep.</verse>
<verse osisID="John.10.13">The hireling flees, because he is a hireling, and cares not for the sheep.</verse>
<verse osisID="John.10.14">I am the good shepherd, and know my sheep, and am known of mine.</verse>
<verse osisID="John.10.15">As the Father knows me, even so know I the Father: and I lay down my life for the sheep.</verse>
<verse osisID="John.10.16">And other sheep I have, which are not of this fold: them also I must bring, and they shall hear my voice; and there shall be one fold, and one shepherd.</verse>
<verse osisID="John.10.17">Therefore does my Father love me, because I lay down my life, that I might take it again.</verse>
<verse osisID="John.10.18">No man takes it from me, but I lay it down of myself. I have power to lay it down, and I have power to take it again. This commandment have I received of my Father.</verse>
<verse osisID="John.10.19">There was a division therefore again among the Jews for these sayings.</verse>
<verse osisID="John.10.20">And many of them said, He has a devil, and is mad; why hear you him?</verse>
<verse osisID="John.10.21">Others said, These are not the words of him that has a devil. Can a devil open the eyes of the blind?</verse>
<verse osisID="John.10.22">And it was at Jerusalem the feast of the dedication, and it was winter.</verse>
<verse osisID="John.10.23">And Jesus walked in the temple in Solomon's porch.</verse>
<verse osisID="John.10.24">Then came the Jews round about him, and said unto him, How long do you make us to doubt? If you be the Christ, tell us plainly.</verse>
<verse osisID="John.10.25">Jesus answered them, I told you, and you believed not: the works that I do in my Father's name, they bear witness of me.</verse>
<verse osisID="John.10.26">But you believe not, because you are not of my sheep, as I said unto you.</verse>
<verse osisID="John.10.27">My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me:</verse>
<verse osisID="John.10.28">And I give unto them eternal life; and they shall never perish, neither shall any man pluck them out of my hand.</verse>
<verse osisID="John.10.29">My Father, which gave them me, is greater than all; and no man is able to pluck them out of my Father's hand.</verse>
<verse osisID="John.10.30">I and my Father are one.</verse>
<verse osisID="John.10.31">Then the Jews took up stones again to stone him.</verse>
<verse osisID="John.10.32">Jesus answered them, Many good works have I showed you from my Father; for which of those works do you stone me?</verse>
<verse osisID="John.10.33">The Jews answered him, saying, For a good work we stone you not; but for blasphemy; and because you, being a man, make yourself God.</verse>
<verse osisID="John.10.34">Jesus answered them, Is it not written in your law, I said, you are gods?</verse>
<verse osisID="John.10.35">If he called them gods, unto whom the word of God came, and the scripture cannot be broken;</verse>
<verse osisID="John.10.36">Say you of him, whom the Father has sanctified, and sent into the world, You blaspheme; because I said, I am the Son of God?</verse>
<verse osisID="John.10.37">If I do not the works of my Father, believe me not.</verse>
<verse osisID="John.10.38">But if I do, though you believe not me, believe the works: that you may know, and believe, that the Father is in me, and I in him.</verse>
<verse osisID="John.10.39">Therefore they sought again to take him: but he escaped out of their hand,</verse>
<verse osisID="John.10.40">And went away again beyond the Jordan into the place where John at first baptized; and there he abode.</verse>
<verse osisID="John.10.41">And many resorted unto him, and said, John did no miracle: but all things that John spoke of this man were true.</verse>
<verse osisID="John.10.42">And many believed on him there.</verse>
</chapter>
<chapter osisID="John.10.42">
<verse osisID="John.11.1">Now a certain man was sick, named Lazarus, of Bethany, the town of Mary and her sister Martha.</verse>
<verse osisID="John.11.2">(It was that Mary which anointed the Lord with ointment, and wiped his feet with her hair, whose brother Lazarus was sick.)</verse>
<verse osisID="John.11.3">Therefore his sisters sent unto him, saying, Lord, behold, he whom you love is sick.</verse>
<verse osisID="John.11.4">When Jesus heard that, he said, This sickness is not unto death, but for the glory of God, that the Son of God might be glorified thereby.</verse>
<verse osisID="John.11.5">Now Jesus loved Martha, and her sister, and Lazarus.</verse>
<verse osisID="John.11.6">When he had heard therefore that he was sick, he abode two days still in the same place where he was.</verse>
<verse osisID="John.11.7">Then after that says he to his disciples, Let us go into Judaea again.</verse>
<verse osisID="John.11.8">His disciples say unto him, Master, the Jews of late sought to stone you; and you go to there again?</verse>
<verse osisID="John.11.9">Jesus answered, Are there not twelve hours in the day? If any man walk in the day, he stumbles not, because he sees the light of this world.</verse>
<verse osisID="John.11.10">But if a man walk in the night, he stumbles, because there is no light in him.</verse>
<verse osisID="John.11.11">These things said he: and after that he says unto them, Our friend Lazarus sleeps; but I go, that I may awake him out of sleep.</verse>
<verse osisID="John.11.12">Then said his disciples, Lord, if he sleep, he shall do well.</verse>
<verse osisID="John.11.13">Howbeit Jesus spoke of his death: but they thought that he had spoken of taking of rest in sleep.</verse>
<verse osisID="John.11.14">Then said Jesus unto them plainly, Lazarus is dead.</verse>
<verse osisID="John.11.15">And I am glad for your sakes that I was not there, to the intent you may believe; nevertheless let us go unto him.</verse>
<verse osisID="John.11.16">Then said Thomas, which is called Didymus, unto his fellow disciples, Let us also go, that we may die with him.</verse>
<verse osisID="John.11.17">Then when Jesus came, he found that he had lain in the grave four days already.</verse>
<verse osisID="John.11.18">Now Bethany was close unto Jerusalem, about fifteen furlongs off:</verse>
<verse osisID="John.11.19">And many of the Jews came to Martha and Mary, to comfort them concerning their brother.</verse>
<verse osisID="John.11.20">Then Martha, as soon as she heard that Jesus was coming, went and met him: but Mary sat still in the house.</verse>
<verse osisID="John.11.21">Then said Martha unto Jesus, Lord, if you had been here, my brother had not died.</verse>
<verse osisID="John.11.22">But I know, that even now, whatsoever you will ask of God, God will give it you.</verse>
<verse osisID="John.11.23">Jesus says unto her, Your brother shall rise again.</verse>
<verse osisID="John.11.24">Martha says unto him, I know that he shall rise again in the resurrection at the last day.</verse>
<verse osisID="John.11.25">Jesus said unto her, I am the resurrection, and the life: he that believes in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live:</verse>
<verse osisID="John.11.26">And whosoever lives and believes in me shall never die. Believe you this?</verse>
<verse osisID="John.11.27">She says unto him, Yes, Lord: I believe that you are the Christ, the Son of God, which should come into the world.</verse>
<verse osisID="John.11.28">And when she had so said, she went her way, and called Mary her sister secretly, saying, The Master is come, and calls for you.</verse>
<verse osisID="John.11.29">As soon as she heard that, she arose quickly, and came unto him.</verse>
<verse osisID="John.11.30">Now Jesus was not yet come into the town, but was in that place where Martha met him.</verse>
<verse osisID="John.11.31">The Jews then which were with her in the house, and comforted her, when they saw Mary, that she rose up hastily and went out, followed her, saying, She goes unto the grave to weep there.</verse>
<verse osisID="John.11.32">Then when Mary was come where Jesus was, and saw him, she fell down at his feet, saying unto him, Lord, if you had been here, my brother had not died.</verse>
<verse osisID="John.11.33">When Jesus therefore saw her weeping, and the Jews also weeping which came with her, he groaned in the spirit, and was troubled.</verse>
<verse osisID="John.11.34">And said, Where have you laid him? They said unto him, Lord, come and see.</verse>
<verse osisID="John.11.35">Jesus wept.</verse>
<verse osisID="John.11.36">Then said the Jews, Behold how he loved him!</verse>
<verse osisID="John.11.37">And some of them said, Could not this man, which opened the eyes of the blind, have caused that even this man should not have died?</verse>
<verse osisID="John.11.38">Jesus therefore again groaning in himself comes to the grave. It was a cave, and a stone lay upon it.</verse>
<verse osisID="John.11.39">Jesus said, Take you away the stone. Martha, the sister of him that was dead, says unto him, Lord, by this time he stinks: for he has been dead four days.</verse>
<verse osisID="John.11.40">Jesus says unto her, Said I not unto you, that, if you would believe, you should see the glory of God?</verse>
<verse osisID="John.11.41">Then they took away the stone from the place where the dead was laid. And Jesus lifted up his eyes, and said, Father, I thank you that you have heard me.</verse>
<verse osisID="John.11.42">And I knew that you hear me always: but because of the people which stand by I said it, that they may believe that you have sent me.</verse>
<verse osisID="John.11.43">And when he thus had spoken, he cried with a loud voice, Lazarus, come forth.</verse>
<verse osisID="John.11.44">And he that was dead came forth, bound hand and foot with graveclothes: and his face was bound about with a napkin. Jesus says unto them, Loose him, and let him go.</verse>
<verse osisID="John.11.45">Then many of the Jews which came to Mary, and had seen the things which Jesus did, believed on him.</verse>
<verse osisID="John.11.46">But some of them went their ways to the Pharisees, and told them what things Jesus had done.</verse>
<verse osisID="John.11.47">Then gathered the chief priests and the Pharisees a council, and said, What do we? for this man does many miracles.</verse>
<verse osisID="John.11.48">If we let him thus alone, all men will believe on him: and the Romans shall come and take away both our place and nation.</verse>
<verse osisID="John.11.49">And one of them, named Caiaphas, being the high priest that same year, said unto them, You know nothing at all,</verse>
<verse osisID="John.11.50">Nor consider that it is expedient for us, that one man should die for the people, and that the whole nation perish not.</verse>
<verse osisID="John.11.51">And this spoke he not of himself: but being high priest that year, he prophesied that Jesus should die for that nation;</verse>
<verse osisID="John.11.52">And not for that nation only, but that also he should gather together in one the children of God that were scattered abroad.</verse>
<verse osisID="John.11.53">Then from that day forth they took counsel together for to put him to death.</verse>
<verse osisID="John.11.54">Jesus therefore walked no more openly among the Jews; but went from there unto a country near to the wilderness, into a city called Ephraim, and there continued with his disciples.</verse>
<verse osisID="John.11.55">And the Jews' passover was close at hand: and many went out of the country up to Jerusalem before the passover, to purify themselves.</verse>
<verse osisID="John.11.56">Then sought they for Jesus, and spoke among themselves, as they stood in the temple, What think you, that he will not come to the feast?</verse>
<verse osisID="John.11.57">Now both the chief priests and the Pharisees had given a commandment, that, if any man knew where he were, he should show it, that they might take him.</verse>
</chapter>
<chapter osisID="John.11.57">
<verse osisID="John.12.1">Then Jesus six days before the passover came to Bethany, where Lazarus was, which had been dead, whom he raised from the dead.</verse>
<verse osisID="John.12.2">There they made him a supper; and Martha served: but Lazarus was one of them that sat at the table with him.</verse>
<verse osisID="John.12.3">Then took Mary a pound of ointment of spikenard, very costly, and anointed the feet of Jesus, and wiped his feet with her hair: and the house was filled with the odor of the ointment.</verse>
<verse osisID="John.12.4">Then says one of his disciples, Judas Iscariot, Simon's son, which should betray him,</verse>
<verse osisID="John.12.5">Why was not this ointment sold for three hundred denarii, and given to the poor?</verse>
<verse osisID="John.12.6">This he said, not that he cared for the poor; but because he was a thief, and had the bag, and bore what was put in it.</verse>
<verse osisID="John.12.7">Then said Jesus, Let her alone: against the day of my burying has she kept this.</verse>
<verse osisID="John.12.8">For the poor always you have with you; but me you have not always.</verse>
<verse osisID="John.12.9">Much people of the Jews therefore knew that he was there: and they came not for Jesus' sake only, but that they might see Lazarus also, whom he had raised from the dead.</verse>
<verse osisID="John.12.10">But the chief priests consulted that they might put Lazarus also to death;</verse>
<verse osisID="John.12.11">Because that by reason of him many of the Jews went away, and believed on Jesus.</verse>
<verse osisID="John.12.12">On the next day many people that had come to the feast, when they heard that Jesus was coming to Jerusalem,</verse>
<verse osisID="John.12.13">Took branches of palm trees, and went forth to meet him, and cried, Hosanna: Blessed is the King of Israel that comes in the name of the Lord.</verse>
<verse osisID="John.12.14">And Jesus, when he had found a young ass, sat thereon; as it is written,</verse>
<verse osisID="John.12.15">Fear not, daughter of Sion: behold, your King comes, sitting on an ass's colt.</verse>
<verse osisID="John.12.16">These things understood not his disciples at the first: but when Jesus was glorified, then remembered they that these things were written of him, and that they had done these things unto him.</verse>
<verse osisID="John.12.17">The people therefore that was with him when he called Lazarus out of his grave, and raised him from the dead, bore record.</verse>
<verse osisID="John.12.18">For this cause the people also met him, for that they heard that he had done this miracle.</verse>
<verse osisID="John.12.19">The Pharisees therefore said among themselves, Perceive you how you prevail nothing? behold, the world is gone after him.</verse>
<verse osisID="John.12.20">And there were certain Greeks among them that came up to worship at the feast:</verse>
<verse osisID="John.12.21">The same came therefore to Philip, which was of Bethsaida of Galilee, and desired him, saying, Sir, we would see Jesus.</verse>
<verse osisID="John.12.22">Philip comes and tells Andrew: and again Andrew and Philip tell Jesus.</verse>
<verse osisID="John.12.23">And Jesus answered them, saying, The hour is come, that the Son of man should be glorified.</verse>
<verse osisID="John.12.24">Truthfully, truthfully, I say unto you, Unless a corn of wheat fall int the ground and die, it abides alone: but if it die, it brings forth much fruit.</verse>
<verse osisID="John.12.25">He that loves his life shall lose it; and he that hates his life in this world shall keep it unto life eternal.</verse>
<verse osisID="John.12.26">If any man serve me, let him follow me; and where I am, there shall also my servant be: if any man serve me, him will my Father honor.</verse>
<verse osisID="John.12.27">Now is my soul troubled; and what shall I say? Father, save me from this hour: but for this cause came I unto this hour.</verse>
<verse osisID="John.12.28">Father, glorify your name. Then came there a voice from heaven, saying, I have both glorified it, and will glorify it again.</verse>
<verse osisID="John.12.29">The people therefore, that stood by, and heard it, said that it thundered: others said, An angel spoke to him.</verse>
<verse osisID="John.12.30">Jesus answered and said, This voice came not because of me, but for your sakes.</verse>
<verse osisID="John.12.31">Now is the judgment of this world: now shall the prince of this world be cast out.</verse>
<verse osisID="John.12.32">And I, if I be lifted up from the earth, will draw all men unto me.</verse>
<verse osisID="John.12.33">This he said, signifying what death he should die.</verse>
<verse osisID="John.12.34">The people answered him, We have heard out of the law that Christ abides forever: and how say you, The Son of man must be lifted up? who is this Son of man?</verse>
<verse osisID="John.12.35">Then Jesus said unto them, yet a little while is the light with you. Walk while you have the light, lest darkness come upon you: for he that walks in darkness knows not to where he goes.</verse>
<verse osisID="John.12.36">While you have light, believe in the light, that you may be the children of light. These things spoke Jesus, and departed, and did hide himself from them.</verse>
<verse osisID="John.12.37">But though he had done so many miracles before them, yet they believed not on him:</verse>
<verse osisID="John.12.38">That the saying of Isaiah the prophet might be fulfilled, which he spoke, Lord, who has believed our report? and to whom has the arm of the Lord been revealed?</verse>
<verse osisID="John.12.39">Therefore they could not believe, because Isaiah said again,</verse>
<verse osisID="John.12.40">He has blinded their eyes, and hardened their heart; that they should not see with their eyes, nor understand with their heart, and be converted, and I should heal them.</verse>
<verse osisID="John.12.41">These things said Isaiah, when he saw his glory, and spoke of him.</verse>
<verse osisID="John.12.42">Nevertheless among the chief rulers also many believed on him; but because of the Pharisees they did not confess him, lest they should be put out of the synagogue:</verse>
<verse osisID="John.12.43">For they loved the praise of men more than the praise of God.</verse>
<verse osisID="John.12.44">Jesus cried and said, He that believes on me, believes not on me, but on him that sent me.</verse>
<verse osisID="John.12.45">And he that sees me sees him that sent me.</verse>
<verse osisID="John.12.46">I am come a light into the world, that whosoever believes on me should not abide in darkness.</verse>
<verse osisID="John.12.47">And if any man hear my words, and believe not, I judge him not: for I came not to judge the world, but to save the world.</verse>
<verse osisID="John.12.48">He that rejects me, and receives not my words, has one that judges him: the word that I have spoken, the same shall judge him in the last day.</verse>
<verse osisID="John.12.49">For I have not spoken of myself; but the Father which sent me, he gave me a commandment, what I should say, and what I should speak.</verse>
<verse osisID="John.12.50">And I know that his commandment is life everlasting: whatsoever I speak therefore, just as the Father said unto me, so I speak.</verse>
</chapter>
<chapter osisID="John.12.50">
<verse osisID="John.13.1">Now before the feast of the passover, when Jesus knew that his hour was come that he should depart out of this world unto the Father, having loved his own which were in the world, he loved them unto the end.</verse>
<verse osisID="John.13.2">And supper being ended, the devil having now put into the heart of Judas Iscariot, Simon's son, to betray him;</verse>
<verse osisID="John.13.3">Jesus knowing that the Father had given all things into his hands, and that he was come from God, and went to God;</verse>
<verse osisID="John.13.4">He rises from supper, and laid aside his garments; and took a towel, and girded himself.</verse>
<verse osisID="John.13.5">After that he pours water into a basin, and began to wash the disciples' feet, and to wipe them with the towel with which he was girded.</verse>
<verse osisID="John.13.6">Then comes he to Simon Peter: and Peter says unto him, Lord, do you wash my feet?</verse>
<verse osisID="John.13.7">Jesus answered and said unto him, What I do you know not now; but you shall know hereafter.</verse>
<verse osisID="John.13.8">Peter says unto him, You shall never wash my feet. Jesus answered him, If I wash you not, you have no part with me.</verse>
<verse osisID="John.13.9">Simon Peter says unto him, Lord, not my feet only, but also my hands and my head.</verse>
<verse osisID="John.13.10">Jesus says to him, He that is washed needs not save to wash his feet, but is clean every whit: and you are clean, but not all.</verse>
<verse osisID="John.13.11">For he knew who should betray him; therefore said he, You are not all clean.</verse>
<verse osisID="John.13.12">So after he had washed their feet, and had taken his garments, and was set down again, he said unto them, Know you what I have done to you?</verse>
<verse osisID="John.13.13">You call me Master and Lord: and you say well; for so I am.</verse>
<verse osisID="John.13.14">If I then, your Lord and Master, have washed your feet; you also ought to wash one another's feet.</verse>
<verse osisID="John.13.15">For I have given you an example, that you should do as I have done to you.</verse>
<verse osisID="John.13.16">Truthfully, truthfully, I say unto you, The servant is not greater than his lord; neither he that is sent greater than he that sent him.</verse>
<verse osisID="John.13.17">If you know these things, happy are you if you do them.</verse>
<verse osisID="John.13.18">I speak not of you all: I know whom I have chosen: but that the scripture may be fulfilled, He that eats bread with me has lifted up his heel against me.</verse>
<verse osisID="John.13.19">Now I tell you before it come, that, when it is come to pass, you may believe that I am he.</verse>
<verse osisID="John.13.20">Truthfully, truthfully, I say unto you, He that receives whomsoever I send receives me; and he that receives me receives him that sent me.</verse>
<verse osisID="John.13.21">When Jesus had thus said, he was troubled in spirit, and testified, and said, Truthfully, truthfully, I say unto you, that one of you shall betray me.</verse>
<verse osisID="John.13.22">Then the disciples looked one on another, doubting of whom he spoke.</verse>
<verse osisID="John.13.23">Now there was leaning on Jesus' bosom one of his disciples, whom Jesus loved.</verse>
<verse osisID="John.13.24">Simon Peter therefore beckoned to him, that he should ask who it should be of whom he spoke.</verse>
<verse osisID="John.13.25">He then lying on Jesus' breast says unto him, Lord, who is it?</verse>
<verse osisID="John.13.26">Jesus answered, He it is, to whom I shall give a sop, when I have dipped it. And when he had dipped the sop, he gave it to Judas Iscariot, the son of Simon.</verse>
<verse osisID="John.13.27">And after the sop Satan entered into him. Then said Jesus unto him, That you are doing, do quickly.</verse>
<verse osisID="John.13.28">Now no man at the table knew for what intent he spoke this unto him.</verse>
<verse osisID="John.13.29">For some of them thought, because Judas had the bag, that Jesus had said unto him, Buy those things that we have need of against the feast; or, that he should give something to the poor.</verse>
<verse osisID="John.13.30">He then having received the sop went immediately out: and it was night.</verse>
<verse osisID="John.13.31">Therefore, when he was gone out, Jesus said, Now is the Son of man glorified, and God is glorified in him.</verse>
<verse osisID="John.13.32">If God be glorified in him, God shall also glorify him in himself, and shall immediately glorify him.</verse>
<verse osisID="John.13.33">Little children, yet a little while I am with you. You shall seek me: and as I said unto the Jews, Where I go, you cannot come; so now I say to you.</verse>
<verse osisID="John.13.34">A new commandment I give unto you, That you love one another; as I have loved you, that you also love one another.</verse>
<verse osisID="John.13.35">By this shall all men know that you are my disciples, if you have love one to another.</verse>
<verse osisID="John.13.36">Simon Peter said unto him, Lord, to where do you go? Jesus answered him, Where I go, you cannot follow me now; but you shall follow me afterwards.</verse>
<verse osisID="John.13.37">Peter said unto him, Lord, why cannot I follow you now? I will lay down my life for your sake.</verse>
<verse osisID="John.13.38">Jesus answered him, Will you lay down your life for my sake? Truthfully, truthfully, I say unto you, The cock shall not crow, till you have denied me three times.</verse>
</chapter>
<chapter osisID="John.13.38">
<verse osisID="John.14.1">Let not your heart be troubled: you believe in God, believe also in me.</verse>
<verse osisID="John.14.2">In my Father's house are many mansions: if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you.</verse>
<verse osisID="John.14.3">And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and receive you unto myself; that where I am, there you may be also.</verse>
<verse osisID="John.14.4">And to where I go you know, and the way you know.</verse>
<verse osisID="John.14.5">Thomas says unto him, Lord, we know not to where you go; and how can we know the way?</verse>
<verse osisID="John.14.6">Jesus says unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man comes unto the Father, but by me.</verse>
<verse osisID="John.14.7">If you had known me, you should have known my Father also: and from now on you know him, and have seen him.</verse>
<verse osisID="John.14.8">Philip says unto him, Lord, show us the Father, and it suffices us.</verse>
<verse osisID="John.14.9">Jesus says unto him, Have I been so long time with you, and yet Have You not known me, Philip? he that has seen me has seen the Father; and how say you then, Show us the Father?</verse>
<verse osisID="John.14.10">Believe you not that I am in the Father, and the Father in me? the words that I speak unto you I speak not of myself: but the Father that dwells in me, he does the works.</verse>
<verse osisID="John.14.11">Believe me that I am in the Father, and the Father in me: or else believe me for the very works' sake.</verse>
<verse osisID="John.14.12">Truthfully, truthfully, I say unto you, He that believes on me, the works that I do shall he do also; and greater works than these shall he do; because I go unto my Father.</verse>
<verse osisID="John.14.13">And whatsoever you shall ask in my name, that will I do, that the Father may be glorified in the Son.</verse>
<verse osisID="John.14.14">If you shall ask any thing in my name, I will do it.</verse>
<verse osisID="John.14.15">If you love me, keep my commandments.</verse>
<verse osisID="John.14.16">And I will pray the Father, and he shall give you another Comforter, that he may abide with you forever;</verse>
<verse osisID="John.14.17">Even the Spirit of truth; whom the world cannot receive, because it sees him not, neither knows him: but you know him; for he dwells with you, and shall be in you.</verse>
<verse osisID="John.14.18">I will not leave you comfortless: I will come to you.</verse>
<verse osisID="John.14.19">yet a little while, and the world sees me no more; but you see me: because I live, you shall live also.</verse>
<verse osisID="John.14.20">At that day you shall know that I am in my Father, and you in me, and I in you.</verse>
<verse osisID="John.14.21">He that has my commandments, and keeps them, he it is that loves me: and he that loves me shall be loved of my Father, and I will love him, and will manifest myself to him.</verse>
<verse osisID="John.14.22">Judas says unto him, not Iscariot, Lord, how is it that you will manifest yourself unto us, and not unto the world?</verse>
<verse osisID="John.14.23">Jesus answered and said unto him, If a man love me, he will keep my words: and my Father will love him, and we will come unto him, and make our abode with him.</verse>
<verse osisID="John.14.24">He that loves me not keeps not my sayings: and the word which you hear is not mine, but the Father's which sent me.</verse>
<verse osisID="John.14.25">These things have I spoken unto you, being yet present with you.</verse>
<verse osisID="John.14.26">But the Comforter, which is the Holy Ghost, whom the Father will send in my name, he shall teach you all things, and bring all things to your remembrance, whatsoever I have said unto you.</verse>
<verse osisID="John.14.27">Peace I leave with you, my peace I give unto you: not as the world gives, give I unto you. Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid.</verse>
<verse osisID="John.14.28">You have heard how I said unto you, I go away, and come again unto you. If you loved me, you would rejoice, because I said, I go unto the Father: for my Father is greater than I.</verse>
<verse osisID="John.14.29">And now I have told you before it come to pass, that, when it is come to pass, you might believe.</verse>
<verse osisID="John.14.30">Hereafter I will not talk much with you: for the prince of this world comes, and has nothing in me.</verse>
<verse osisID="John.14.31">But that the world may know that I love the Father; and as the Father gave me commandment, even so I do. Arise, let us go hence.</verse>
</chapter>
<chapter osisID="John.14.31">
<verse osisID="John.15.1">I am the true vine, and my Father is the husbandman.</verse>
<verse osisID="John.15.2">Every branch in me that bears not fruit he takes away: and every branch that bears fruit, he purges it, that it may bring forth more fruit.</verse>
<verse osisID="John.15.3">Now you are clean through the word which I have spoken unto you.</verse>
<verse osisID="John.15.4">Abide in me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, unless it abide in the vine; no more can you, unless you abide in me.</verse>
<verse osisID="John.15.5">I am the vine, you are the branches: He that abides in me, and I in him, the same brings forth much fruit: for without me you can do nothing.</verse>
<verse osisID="John.15.6">If a man abide not in me, he is cast forth as a branch, and is withered; and men gather them, and cast them into the fire, and they are burned.</verse>
<verse osisID="John.15.7">If you abide in me, and my words abide in you, you shall ask what you will, and it shall be done unto you.</verse>
<verse osisID="John.15.8">Herein is my Father glorified, that you bear much fruit; so shall you be my disciples.</verse>
<verse osisID="John.15.9">As the Father has loved me, so have I loved you: continue you in my love.</verse>
<verse osisID="John.15.10">If you keep my commandments, you shall abide in my love; just as I have kept my Father's commandments, and abide in his love.</verse>
<verse osisID="John.15.11">These things have I spoken unto you, that my joy might remain in you, and that your joy might be full.</verse>
<verse osisID="John.15.12">This is my commandment, That you love one another, as I have loved you.</verse>
<verse osisID="John.15.13">Greater love has no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.</verse>
<verse osisID="John.15.14">You are my friends, if you do whatsoever I command you.</verse>
<verse osisID="John.15.15">Henceforth I call you not servants; for the servant knows not what his lord does: but I have called you friends; for all things that I have heard of my Father I have made known unto you.</verse>
<verse osisID="John.15.16">You have not chosen me, but I have chosen you, and ordained you, that you should go and bring forth fruit, and that your fruit should remain: that whatsoever you shall ask of the Father in my name, he may give it you.</verse>
<verse osisID="John.15.17">These things I command you, that you love one another.</verse>
<verse osisID="John.15.18">If the world hate you, you know that it hated me before it hated you.</verse>
<verse osisID="John.15.19">If you were of the world, the world would love his own: but because you are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world, therefore the world hates you.</verse>
<verse osisID="John.15.20">Remember the word that I said unto you, The servant is not greater than his lord. If they have persecuted me, they will also persecute you; if they have kept my saying, they will keep yours also.</verse>
<verse osisID="John.15.21">But all these things will they do unto you for my name's sake, because they know not him that sent me.</verse>
<verse osisID="John.15.22">If I had not come and spoken unto them, they had not had sin: but now they have no cloak for their sin.</verse>
<verse osisID="John.15.23">He that hates me hates my Father also.</verse>
<verse osisID="John.15.24">If I had not done among them the works which none other man did, they had not had sin: but now have they both seen and hated both me and my Father.</verse>
<verse osisID="John.15.25">But this comes to pass, that the word might be fulfilled that is written in their law, They hated me without a cause.</verse>
<verse osisID="John.15.26">But when the Comforter is come, whom I will send unto you from the Father, even the Spirit of truth, which proceeds from the Father, he shall testify of me:</verse>
<verse osisID="John.15.27">And you also shall bear witness, because you have been with me from the beginning.</verse>
</chapter>
<chapter osisID="John.15.27">
<verse osisID="John.16.1">These things have I spoken unto you, that you should not be offended.</verse>
<verse osisID="John.16.2">They shall put you out of the synagogues: yes, the time comes, that whosoever kills you will think that he does God service.</verse>
<verse osisID="John.16.3">And these things will they do unto you, because they have not known the Father, nor me.</verse>
<verse osisID="John.16.4">But these things have I told you, that when the time shall come, you may remember that I told you of them. And these things I said not unto you at the beginning, because I was with you.</verse>
<verse osisID="John.16.5">But now I go my way to him that sent me; and none of you asks me, Where do you go?</verse>
<verse osisID="John.16.6">But because I have said these things unto you, sorrow has filled your heart.</verse>
<verse osisID="John.16.7">Nevertheless I tell you the truth; It is expedient for you that I go away: for if I go not away, the Comforter will not come unto you; but if I depart, I will send him unto you.</verse>
<verse osisID="John.16.8">And when he is come, he will reprove the world of sin, and of righteousness, and of judgment:</verse>
<verse osisID="John.16.9">Of sin, because they believe not on me;</verse>
<verse osisID="John.16.10">Of righteousness, because I go to my Father, and you see me no more;</verse>
<verse osisID="John.16.11">Of judgment, because the prince of this world is judged.</verse>
<verse osisID="John.16.12">I have yet many things to say unto you, but you cannot bear them now.</verse>
<verse osisID="John.16.13">Howbeit when he, the Spirit of truth, is come, he will guide you into all truth: for he shall not speak of himself; but whatsoever he shall hear, that shall he speak: and he will show you things to come.</verse>
<verse osisID="John.16.14">He shall glorify me: for he shall receive of mine, and shall show it unto you.</verse>
<verse osisID="John.16.15">All things that the Father has are mine: therefore said I, that he shall take of mine, and shall show it unto you.</verse>
<verse osisID="John.16.16">A little while, and you shall not see me: and again, a little while, and you shall see me, because I go to the Father.</verse>
<verse osisID="John.16.17">Then said some of his disciples among themselves, What is this that he says unto us, A little while, and you shall not see me: and again, a little while, and you shall see me: and, Because I go to the Father?</verse>
<verse osisID="John.16.18">They said therefore, What is this that he says, A little while? we cannot tell what he says.</verse>
<verse osisID="John.16.19">Now Jesus knew that they were desirous to ask him, and said unto them, Do you inquire among yourselves of that I said, A little while, and you shall not see me: and again, a little while, and you shall see me?</verse>
<verse osisID="John.16.20">Truthfully, truthfully, I say unto you, That you shall weep and lament, but the world shall rejoice: and you shall be sorrowful, but your sorrow shall be turned into joy.</verse>
<verse osisID="John.16.21">A woman when she is in travail has sorrow, because her hour is come: but as soon as she is delivered of the child, she remembers no more the anguish, for joy that a man is born into the world.</verse>
<verse osisID="John.16.22">And you now therefore have sorrow: but I will see you again, and your heart shall rejoice, and your joy no man takes from you.</verse>
<verse osisID="John.16.23">And in that day you shall ask me nothing. Truthfully, truthfully, I say unto you, Whatsoever you shall ask the Father in my name, he will give it you.</verse>
<verse osisID="John.16.24">Hitherto have you asked nothing in my name: ask, and you shall receive, that your joy may be full.</verse>
<verse osisID="John.16.25">These things have I spoken unto you in proverbs: but the time comes, when I shall no more speak unto you in proverbs, but I shall show you plainly of the Father.</verse>
<verse osisID="John.16.26">At that day you shall ask in my name: and I say not unto you, that I will pray the Father for you:</verse>
<verse osisID="John.16.27">For the Father himself loves you, because you have loved me, and have believed that I came out from God.</verse>
<verse osisID="John.16.28">I came forth from the Father, and am come into the world: again, I leave the world, and go to the Father.</verse>
<verse osisID="John.16.29">His disciples said unto him, Lo, now speak you plainly, and speak no proverb.</verse>
<verse osisID="John.16.30">Now are we sure that you know all things, and need not that any man should ask you: by this we believe that you came forth from God.</verse>
<verse osisID="John.16.31">Jesus answered them, Do you now believe?</verse>
<verse osisID="John.16.32">Behold, the hour comes, yes, is now come, that you shall be scattered, every man to his own, and shall leave me alone: and yet I am not alone, because the Father is with me.</verse>
<verse osisID="John.16.33">These things I have spoken unto you, that in me you might have peace. In the world you shall have tribulation: but be of good cheer; I have overcome the world.</verse>
</chapter>
<chapter osisID="John.16.33">
<verse osisID="John.17.1">These words spoke Jesus, and lifted up his eyes to heaven, and said, Father, the hour is come; glorify your Son, that your Son also may glorify you:</verse>
<verse osisID="John.17.2">As you have given him power over all flesh, that he should give eternal life to as many as you have given him.</verse>
<verse osisID="John.17.3">And this is life eternal, that they might know you the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom you have sent.</verse>
<verse osisID="John.17.4">I have glorified you on the earth: I have finished the work which you gave me to do.</verse>
<verse osisID="John.17.5">And now, O Father, glorify you me with your own self with the glory which I had with you before the world was.</verse>
<verse osisID="John.17.6">I have manifested your name unto the men which you gave me out of the world: your they were, and you gave them me; and they have kept your word.</verse>
<verse osisID="John.17.7">Now they have known that all things whatsoever you have given me are of you.</verse>
<verse osisID="John.17.8">For I have given unto them the words which you gave me; and they have received them, and have known surely that I came out from you, and they have believed that you did send me.</verse>
<verse osisID="John.17.9">I pray for them: I pray not for the world, but for those who you have given me; for they are your.</verse>
<verse osisID="John.17.10">And all my are your, and your are mine; and I am glorified in them.</verse>
<verse osisID="John.17.11">And now I am no more in the world, but these are in the world, and I come to you. Holy Father, keep through your own name those whom you have given me, that they may be one, as we are.</verse>
<verse osisID="John.17.12">While I was with them in the world, I kept them in your name: those that you gave me I have kept, and none of them is lost, but the son of perdition; that the scripture might be fulfilled.</verse>
<verse osisID="John.17.13">And now come I to you; and these things I speak in the world, that they might have my joy fulfilled in themselves.</verse>
<verse osisID="John.17.14">I have given them your word; and the world has hated them, because they are not of the world, just as I am not of the world.</verse>
<verse osisID="John.17.15">I pray not that you should take them out of the world, but that you should keep them from the evil.</verse>
<verse osisID="John.17.16">They are not of the world, just as I am not of the world.</verse>
<verse osisID="John.17.17">Sanctify them through your truth: your word is truth.</verse>
<verse osisID="John.17.18">As you have sent me into the world, even so have I also sent them into the world.</verse>
<verse osisID="John.17.19">And for their sakes I sanctify myself, that they also might be sanctified through the truth.</verse>
<verse osisID="John.17.20">Neither pray I for these alone, but for them also which shall believe on me through their word;</verse>
<verse osisID="John.17.21">That they all may be one; as you, Father, are in me, and I in you, that they also may be one in us: that the world may believe that you have sent me.</verse>
<verse osisID="John.17.22">And the glory which you gave me I have given them; that they may be one, just as we are one:</verse>
<verse osisID="John.17.23">I in them, and you in me, that they may be made perfect in one; and that the world may know that you have sent me, and have loved them, as you have loved me.</verse>
<verse osisID="John.17.24">Father, I will that they also, whom you have given me, be with me where I am; that they may behold my glory, which you have given me: for you loved me before the foundation of the world.</verse>
<verse osisID="John.17.25">O righteous Father, the world has not known you: but I have known you, and these have known that you have sent me.</verse>
<verse osisID="John.17.26">And I have declared unto them your name, and will declare it: that the love with which you have loved me may be in them, and I in them.</verse>
</chapter>
<chapter osisID="John.17.26">
<verse osisID="John.18.1">When Jesus had spoken these words, he went forth with his disciples over the brook Cedron, where was a garden, into the which he entered, and his disciples.</verse>
<verse osisID="John.18.2">And Judas also, which betrayed him, knew the place: for Jesus frequently resorted to there with his disciples.</verse>
<verse osisID="John.18.3">Judas then, having received a band of men and officers from the chief priests and Pharisees, comes to there with lanterns and torches and weapons.</verse>
<verse osisID="John.18.4">Jesus therefore, knowing all things that should come upon him, went forth, and said unto them, Whom seek you?</verse>
<verse osisID="John.18.5">They answered him, Jesus of Nazareth. Jesus says unto them, I am he. And Judas also, which betrayed him, stood with them.</verse>
<verse osisID="John.18.6">As soon then as he had said unto them, I am he, they went backward, and fell to the ground.</verse>
<verse osisID="John.18.7">Then asked he them again, Whom seek you? And they said, Jesus of Nazareth.</verse>
<verse osisID="John.18.8">Jesus answered, I have told you that I am he: if therefore you seek me, let these go their way:</verse>
<verse osisID="John.18.9">That the saying might be fulfilled, which he spoke, Of those who you gave me have I lost none.</verse>
<verse osisID="John.18.10">Then Simon Peter having a sword drew it, and smote the high priest's servant, and cut off his right ear. The servant's name was Malchus.</verse>
<verse osisID="John.18.11">Then said Jesus unto Peter, Put up your sword into the sheath: the cup which my Father has given me, shall I not drink it?</verse>
<verse osisID="John.18.12">Then the band and the captain and officers of the Jews took Jesus, and bound him,</verse>
<verse osisID="John.18.13">And led him away to Annas first; for he was father in law to Caiaphas, which was the high priest that same year.</verse>
<verse osisID="John.18.14">Now Caiaphas was he, which gave counsel to the Jews, that it was expedient that one man should die for the people.</verse>
<verse osisID="John.18.15">And Simon Peter followed Jesus, and so did another disciple: that disciple was known unto the high priest, and went in with Jesus into the palace of the high priest.</verse>
<verse osisID="John.18.16">But Peter stood at the door outside. Then went out that other disciple, which was known unto the high priest, and spoke unto her that kept the door, and brought in Peter.</verse>
<verse osisID="John.18.17">Then says the damsel that kept the door unto Peter, Are not you also one of this man's disciples? He says, I am not.</verse>
<verse osisID="John.18.18">And the servants and officers stood there, who had made a fire of coals; for it was cold: and they warmed themselves: and Peter stood with them, and warmed himself.</verse>
<verse osisID="John.18.19">The high priest then asked Jesus of his disciples, and of his doctrine.</verse>
<verse osisID="John.18.20">Jesus answered him, I spoke openly to the world; I ever taught in the synagogue, and in the temple, to where the Jews always resort; and in secret have I said nothing.</verse>
<verse osisID="John.18.21">Why do you ask me? ask those who heard me, what I have said unto them: behold, they know what I said.</verse>
<verse osisID="John.18.22">And when he had thus spoken, one of the officers which stood by struck Jesus with the palm of his hand, saying, Do you answer the high priest so?</verse>
<verse osisID="John.18.23">Jesus answered him, If I have spoken evil, bear witness of the evil: but if well, why do you smite me?</verse>
<verse osisID="John.18.24">Now Annas had sent him bound unto Caiaphas the high priest.</verse>
<verse osisID="John.18.25">And Simon Peter stood and warmed himself. They said therefore unto him, Are not you also one of his disciples? He denied it, and said, I am not.</verse>
<verse osisID="John.18.26">One of the servants of the high priest, being his kinsman whose ear Peter cut off, says, Did not I see you in the garden with him?</verse>
<verse osisID="John.18.27">Peter then denied again: and immediately the cock crowed.</verse>
<verse osisID="John.18.28">Then led they Jesus from Caiaphas unto the hall of judgment: and it was early; and they themselves went not into the judgment hall, lest they should be defiled; but that they might eat the passover.</verse>
<verse osisID="John.18.29">Pilate then went out unto them, and said, What accusation bring you against this man?</verse>
<verse osisID="John.18.30">They answered and said unto him, If he were not a malefactor, we would not have delivered him up unto you.</verse>
<verse osisID="John.18.31">Then said Pilate unto them, Take you him, and judge him according to your law. The Jews therefore said unto him, It is not lawful for us to put any man to death:</verse>
<verse osisID="John.18.32">That the saying of Jesus might be fulfilled, which he spoke, signifying what death he should die.</verse>
<verse osisID="John.18.33">Then Pilate entered into the judgment hall again, and called Jesus, and said unto him, Are you the King of the Jews?</verse>
<verse osisID="John.18.34">Jesus answered him, Say you this thing of yourself, or did others tell it you of me?</verse>
<verse osisID="John.18.35">Pilate answered, Am I a Jew? Your own nation and the chief priests have delivered you unto me: what have you done?</verse>
<verse osisID="John.18.36">Jesus answered, My kingdom is not of this world: if my kingdom were of this world, then would my servants fight, that I should not be delivered to the Jews: but now is my kingdom not from here.</verse>
<verse osisID="John.18.37">Pilate therefore said unto him, Are you a king then? Jesus answered, You say that I am a king. To this end was I born, and for this cause came I into the world, that I should bear witness unto the truth. Every one that is of the truth hears my voice.</verse>
<verse osisID="John.18.38">Pilate says unto him, What is truth? And when he had said this, he went out again unto the Jews, and says unto them, I find in him no fault at all.</verse>
<verse osisID="John.18.39">But you have a custom, that I should release unto you one at the passover: will you therefore that I release unto you the King of the Jews?</verse>
<verse osisID="John.18.40">Then cried they all again, saying, Not this man, but Barabbas. Now Barabbas was a robber.</verse>
</chapter>
<chapter osisID="John.18.40">
<verse osisID="John.19.1">Then Pilate therefore took Jesus, and whipped him.</verse>
<verse osisID="John.19.2">And the soldiers platted a crown of thorns, and put it on his head, and they put on him a purple robe,</verse>
<verse osisID="John.19.3">And said, Hail, King of the Jews! and they smote him with their hands.</verse>
<verse osisID="John.19.4">Pilate therefore went forth again, and says unto them, Behold, I bring him forth to you, that you may know that I find no fault in him.</verse>
<verse osisID="John.19.5">Then came Jesus forth, wearing the crown of thorns, and the purple robe. And Pilate says unto them, Behold the man!</verse>
<verse osisID="John.19.6">When the chief priests therefore and officers saw him, they cried out, saying, Crucify him, crucify him. Pilate says unto them, Take you him, and crucify him: for I find no fault in him.</verse>
<verse osisID="John.19.7">The Jews answered him, We have a law, and by our law he ought to die, because he made himself the Son of God.</verse>
<verse osisID="John.19.8">When Pilate therefore heard that saying, he was the more afraid;</verse>
<verse osisID="John.19.9">And went again into the judgment hall, and says unto Jesus, &gt;From where are you? But Jesus gave him no answer.</verse>
<verse osisID="John.19.10">Then says Pilate unto him, You do not speak unto me? do you not know that I have power to crucify you, and have power to release you?</verse>
<verse osisID="John.19.11">Jesus answered, You could have no power at all against me, unless it were given you from above: therefore he that delivered me unto you has the greater sin.</verse>
<verse osisID="John.19.12">And from then on, Pilate sought to release him: but the Jews cried out, saying, If you let this man go, you are not Caesar's friend: whosoever makes himself a king speaks against Caesar.</verse>
<verse osisID="John.19.13">When Pilate therefore heard that saying, he brought Jesus forth, and sat down in the judgment seat in a place that is called the Pavement, but in the Hebrew, Gabbatha.</verse>
<verse osisID="John.19.14">And it was the preparation of the passover, and about the sixth hour: and he says unto the Jews, Behold your King!</verse>
<verse osisID="John.19.15">But they cried out, Away with him, away with him, crucify him. Pilate says unto them, Shall I crucify your King? The chief priests answered, We have no king but Caesar.</verse>
<verse osisID="John.19.16">Then delivered he him therefore unto them to be crucified. And they took Jesus, and led him away.</verse>
<verse osisID="John.19.17">And he bearing his cross went forth into a place called the place of a skull, which is called in the Hebrew Golgotha:</verse>
<verse osisID="John.19.18">Where they crucified him, and two other with him, on either side one, and Jesus in the midst.</verse>
<verse osisID="John.19.19">And Pilate wrote a title, and put it on the cross. And the writing was JESUS OF NAZARETH THE KING OF THE JEWS.</verse>
<verse osisID="John.19.20">This title then read many of the Jews: for the place where Jesus was crucified was close to the city: and it was written in Hebrew, and Greek, and Latin.</verse>
<verse osisID="John.19.21">Then said the chief priests of the Jews to Pilate, Write not, The King of the Jews; but that he said, I am King of the Jews.</verse>
<verse osisID="John.19.22">Pilate answered, What I have written I have written.</verse>
<verse osisID="John.19.23">Then the soldiers, when they had crucified Jesus, took his garments, and made four parts, to every soldier a part; and also his coat: now the coat was without seam, woven from the top throughout.</verse>
<verse osisID="John.19.24">They said therefore among themselves, Let us not tear it, but cast lots for it, whose it shall be: that the scripture might be fulfilled, which says, They parted my clothing among them, and for my vesture they did cast lots. These things therefore the soldiers did.</verse>
<verse osisID="John.19.25">Now there stood by the cross of Jesus his mother, and his mother's sister, Mary the wife of Cleophas, and Mary Magdalene.</verse>
<verse osisID="John.19.26">When Jesus therefore saw his mother, and the disciple standing by, whom he loved, he says unto his mother, Woman, behold your son!</verse>
<verse osisID="John.19.27">Then says he to the disciple, Behold your mother! And from that hour that disciple took her unto his own home.</verse>
<verse osisID="John.19.28">After this, Jesus knowing that all things were now accomplished, that the scripture might be fulfilled, says, I thirst.</verse>
<verse osisID="John.19.29">Now there was set a vessel full of vinegar: and they filled a sponge with vinegar, and put it upon hyssop, and put it to his mouth.</verse>
<verse osisID="John.19.30">When Jesus therefore had received the vinegar, he said, It is finished: and he bowed his head, and gave up the ghost.</verse>
<verse osisID="John.19.31">The Jews therefore, because it was the preparation, that the bodies should not remain upon the cross on the sabbath day, (for that sabbath day was a high day,) asked Pilate that their legs might be broken, and that they might be taken away.</verse>
<verse osisID="John.19.32">Then came the soldiers, and broke the legs of the first, and of the other which was crucified with him.</verse>
<verse osisID="John.19.33">But when they came to Jesus, and saw that he was dead already, they broke not his legs:</verse>
<verse osisID="John.19.34">But one of the soldiers with a spear pierced his side, and immediately came there out blood and water.</verse>
<verse osisID="John.19.35">And he that saw it bore record, and his record is true: and he knows that he says true, that you might believe.</verse>
<verse osisID="John.19.36">For these things were done, that the scripture should be fulfilled, A bone of him shall not be broken.</verse>
<verse osisID="John.19.37">And again another scripture says, They shall look on him whom they pierced.</verse>
<verse osisID="John.19.38">And after this Joseph of Arimathaea, being a disciple of Jesus, but secretly for fear of the Jews, asked Pilate that he might take away the body of Jesus: and Pilate gave him leave. He came therefore, and took the body of Jesus.</verse>
<verse osisID="John.19.39">And there came also Nicodemus, which at the first came to Jesus by night, and brought a mixture of myrrh and aloes, about a hundred pound weight.</verse>
<verse osisID="John.19.40">Then took they the body of Jesus, and wound it in linen clothes with the spices, as the manner of the Jews is to bury.</verse>
<verse osisID="John.19.41">Now in the place where he was crucified there was a garden; and in the garden a new sepulcher, in which was never man yet laid.</verse>
<verse osisID="John.19.42">There laid they Jesus therefore because of the Jews' preparation day; for the sepulcher was close at hand.</verse>
</chapter>
<chapter osisID="John.19.42">
<verse osisID="John.20.1">The first day of the week comes Mary Magdalene early, when it was yet dark, unto the sepulcher, and sees the stone taken away from the sepulcher.</verse>
<verse osisID="John.20.2">Then she runs, and comes to Simon Peter, and to the other disciple, whom Jesus loved, and says unto them, They have taken away the LORD out of the sepulcher, and we know not where they have laid him.</verse>
<verse osisID="John.20.3">Peter therefore went forth, and that other disciple, and came to the sepulcher.</verse>
<verse osisID="John.20.4">So they ran both together: and the other disciple did outrun Peter, and came first to the sepulcher.</verse>
<verse osisID="John.20.5">And he stooping down, and looking in, saw the linen clothes lying; yet went he not in.</verse>
<verse osisID="John.20.6">Then comes Simon Peter following him, and went into the sepulcher, and sees the linen clothes lie,</verse>
<verse osisID="John.20.7">And the napkin, that was about his head, not lying with the linen clothes, but wrapped together in a place by itself.</verse>
<verse osisID="John.20.8">Then went in also that other disciple, which came first to the sepulcher, and he saw, and believed.</verse>
<verse osisID="John.20.9">For as yet they did not know the scripture, that he must rise again from the dead.</verse>
<verse osisID="John.20.10">Then the disciples went away again unto their own home.</verse>
<verse osisID="John.20.11">But Mary stood outside at the sepulcher weeping: and as she wept, she stooped down, and looked into the sepulcher,</verse>
<verse osisID="John.20.12">And sees two angels in white sitting, the one at the head, and the other at the feet, where the body of Jesus had lain.</verse>
<verse osisID="John.20.13">And they say unto her, Woman, why do you weep? She says unto them, Because they have taken away my LORD, and I do not know where they have laid him.</verse>
<verse osisID="John.20.14">And when she had thus said, she turned herself back, and saw Jesus standing, and did not know that it was Jesus.</verse>
<verse osisID="John.20.15">Jesus says unto her, Woman, why do you weep? whom do you seek? She, supposing him to be the gardener, says unto him, Sir, if you have carried him from here, tell me where you have laid him, and I will take him away.</verse>
<verse osisID="John.20.16">Jesus says unto her, Mary. She turned herself, and says unto him, Rabboni; which is to say, Master.</verse>
<verse osisID="John.20.17">Jesus says unto her, Touch me not; for I am not yet ascended to my Father: but go to my brothers, and say unto them, I ascend unto my Father, and your Father; and to my God, and your God.</verse>
<verse osisID="John.20.18">Mary Magdalene came and told the disciples that she had seen the LORD, and that he had spoken these things unto her.</verse>
<verse osisID="John.20.19">Then the same day at evening, being the first day of the week, when the doors were shut where the disciples were assembled for fear of the Jews, came Jesus and stood in the midst, and says unto them, Peace be unto you.</verse>
<verse osisID="John.20.20">And when he had so said, he showed unto them his hands and his side. Then were the disciples glad, when they saw the LORD.</verse>
<verse osisID="John.20.21">Then said Jesus to them again, Peace be unto you: as my Father has sent me, even so send I you.</verse>
<verse osisID="John.20.22">And when he had said this, he breathed on them, and says unto them, Receive you the Holy Ghost:</verse>
<verse osisID="John.20.23">Whose soever sins you remit, they are remitted unto them; and whose soever sins you retain, they are retained.</verse>
<verse osisID="John.20.24">But Thomas, one of the twelve, called Didymus, was not with them when Jesus came.</verse>
<verse osisID="John.20.25">The other disciples therefore said unto him, We have seen the LORD. But he said unto them, Unless I shall see in his hands the print of the nails, and put my finger into the print of the nails, and thrust my hand into his side, I will not believe.</verse>
<verse osisID="John.20.26">And after eight days again his disciples were within, and Thomas with them: then came Jesus, the doors being shut, and stood in the midst, and said, Peace be unto you.</verse>
<verse osisID="John.20.27">Then says he to Thomas, Reach to here your finger, and behold my hands; and reach to here your hand, and thrust it into my side: and be not faithless, but believing.</verse>
<verse osisID="John.20.28">And Thomas answered and said unto him, My LORD and my God.</verse>
<verse osisID="John.20.29">Jesus says unto him, Thomas, because you have seen me, you have believed: blessed are they that have not seen, and yet have believed.</verse>
<verse osisID="John.20.30">And many other signs truly did Jesus in the presence of his disciples, which are not written in this book:</verse>
<verse osisID="John.20.31">But these are written, that you might believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God; and that believing you might have life through his name.</verse>
</chapter>
<chapter osisID="John.20.31">
<verse osisID="John.21.1">After these things Jesus showed himself again to the disciples at the sea of Tiberias; and on this wise showed he himself.</verse>
<verse osisID="John.21.2">There were together Simon Peter, and Thomas called Didymus, and Nathanael of Cana in Galilee, and the sons of Zebedee, and two other of his disciples.</verse>
<verse osisID="John.21.3">Simon Peter says unto them, I go a fishing. They say unto him, We also go with you. They went forth, and entered into a boat immediately; and that night they caught nothing.</verse>
<verse osisID="John.21.4">But when the morning was now come, Jesus stood on the shore: but the disciples did not know that it was Jesus.</verse>
<verse osisID="John.21.5">Then Jesus says unto them, Children, have you any food? They answered him, No.</verse>
<verse osisID="John.21.6">And he said unto them, Cast the net on the right side of the boat, and you shall find. They cast therefore, and now they were not able to draw it for the multitude of fishes.</verse>
<verse osisID="John.21.7">Therefore that disciple whom Jesus loved says unto Peter, It is the Lord. Now when Simon Peter heard that it was the Lord, he girt his fisher's coat unto him, (for he was naked,) and did cast himself into the sea.</verse>
<verse osisID="John.21.8">And the other disciples came in a little boat; (for they were not far from land, but as it were two hundred cubits,) dragging the net with fishes.</verse>
<verse osisID="John.21.9">As soon then as they had come to land, they saw a fire of coals there, and fish laid thereon, and bread.</verse>
<verse osisID="John.21.10">Jesus says unto them, Bring of the fish which you have now caught.</verse>
<verse osisID="John.21.11">Simon Peter went up, and drew the net to land full of great fishes, a hundred and fifty and three: and for all there were so many, yet was not the net broken.</verse>
<verse osisID="John.21.12">Jesus says unto them, Come and dine. And none of the disciples dared ask him, Who are you? knowing that it was the Lord.</verse>
<verse osisID="John.21.13">Jesus then comes, and takes bread, and gives them, and fish likewise.</verse>
<verse osisID="John.21.14">This is now the third time that Jesus showed himself to his disciples, after he was risen from the dead.</verse>
<verse osisID="John.21.15">So when they had dined, Jesus says to Simon Peter, Simon, son of Jonas, do you love me more than these? He says unto him, Yes, Lord; you know that I love you. He says unto him, Feed my lambs.</verse>
<verse osisID="John.21.16">He says to him again the second time, Simon, son of Jonas, do you love me? He says unto him, Yes, Lord; you know that I love you. He says unto him, Feed my sheep.</verse>
<verse osisID="John.21.17">He says unto him the third time, Simon, son of Jonas, love you me? Peter was grieved because he said unto him the third time, Do you love me? And he said unto him, Lord, you know all things; you know that I love you. Jesus says unto him, Feed my sheep.</verse>
<verse osisID="John.21.18">Truthfully, truthfully, I say unto you, When you were young, you girded yourself, and walked to where you would: but when you shall be old, you shall stretch forth your hands, and another shall gird you, and carry you to where you would not.</verse>
<verse osisID="John.21.19">This spoke he, signifying by what death he should glorify God. And when he had spoken this, he says unto him, Follow me.</verse>
<verse osisID="John.21.20">Then Peter, turning about, sees the disciple whom Jesus loved following; which also leaned on his breast at supper, and said, Lord, which is he that betrays you?</verse>
<verse osisID="John.21.21">Peter seeing him says to Jesus, Lord, and what shall this man do?</verse>
<verse osisID="John.21.22">Jesus says unto him, If I will that he tarry till I come, what is that to you? follow you me.</verse>
<verse osisID="John.21.23">Then went this saying abroad among the brothers, that that disciple should not die: yet Jesus said not unto him, He shall not die; but, If I will that he tarry till I come, what is that to you?</verse>
<verse osisID="John.21.24">This is the disciple which testifies of these things, and wrote these things: and we know that his testimony is true.</verse>
<verse osisID="John.21.25">And there are also many other things which Jesus did, the which, if they should be written every one, I suppose that even the world itself could not contain the books that should be written. Amen. </div></verse>
</chapter>
</div>
<div type="book" osisID="John.20.31">
<chapter osisID="John.21.25">
<verse osisID="Acts.1.1">The former treatise have I made, O Theophilus, of all that Jesus began both to do and teach,</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.1.2">Until the day in which he was taken up, after he through the Holy Ghost had given commandments unto the apostles whom he had chosen:</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.1.3">To whom also he showed himself alive after his passion by many infallible proofs, being seen of them forty days, and speaking of the things pertaining to the kingdom of God:</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.1.4">And, being assembled together with them, commanded them that they should not depart from Jerusalem, but wait for the promise of the Father, which, says he, you have heard of me.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.1.5">For John truly baptized with water; but you shall be baptized with the Holy Ghost not many days hence.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.1.6">When they therefore had come together, they asked of him, saying, Lord, will you at this time restore again the kingdom to Israel?</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.1.7">And he said unto them, It is not for you to know the times or the seasons, which the Father has put in his own power.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.1.8">But you shall receive power, after the Holy Ghost is come upon you: and you shall be witnesses unto me both in Jerusalem, and in all Judaea, and in Samaria, and unto the uttermost part of the earth.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.1.9">And when he had spoken these things, while they beheld, he was taken up; and a cloud received him out of their sight.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.1.10">And while they looked steadfastly toward heaven as he went up, behold, two men stood by them in white apparel;</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.1.11">Which also said, You men of Galilee, why stand you gazing up into heaven? this same Jesus, which is taken up from you into heaven, shall so come in like manner as you have seen him go into heaven.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.1.12">Then returned they unto Jerusalem from the mount called Olivet, which is from Jerusalem a sabbath day's journey.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.1.13">And when they had come in, they went up into an upper room, where abode both Peter, and James, and John, and Andrew, Philip, and Thomas, Bartholomew, and Matthew, James the son of Alphaeus, and Simon Zelotes, and Judas the brother of James.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.1.14">These all continued with one accord in prayer and supplication, with the women, and Mary the mother of Jesus, and with his brothers.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.1.15">And in those days Peter stood up in the midst of the disciples, and said, (the number of names together were about a hundred and twenty,)</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.1.16">Men and brothers, this scripture must needs have been fulfilled, which the Holy Ghost by the mouth of David spoke before concerning Judas, which was guide to them that took Jesus.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.1.17">For he was numbered with us, and had obtained part of this ministry.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.1.18">Now this man purchased a field with the reward of iniquity; and falling headlong, he burst apart in the middle, and all his insides gushed out.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.1.19">And it was known unto all the dwellers at Jerusalem; insomuch as that field is called in their proper tongue, Aceldama, that is to say, The field of blood.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.1.20">For it is written in the book of Psalms, Let his habitation be desolate, and let no man dwell in it: and, Let another take his office.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.1.21">Therefore of these men which have accompanied us all the time that the Lord Jesus went in and out among us,</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.1.22">Beginning from the baptism of John, unto that same day that he was taken up from us, one must be ordained to be a witness with us of his resurrection.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.1.23">And they appointed two, Joseph called Barsabas, who was surnamed Justus, and Matthias.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.1.24">And they prayed, and said, You, Lord, which know the hearts of all men, show whether of these two you have chosen,</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.1.25">That he may take part of this ministry and apostleship, from which Judas by transgression fell, that he might go to his own place.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.1.26">And they gave forth their lots; and the lot fell upon Matthias; and he was numbered with the eleven apostles.</verse>
</chapter>
<chapter osisID="Acts.1.26">
<verse osisID="Acts.2.1">And when the day of Pentecost was fully come, they were all with one accord in one place.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.2.2">And suddenly there came a sound from heaven as of a rushing mighty wind, and it filled all the house where they were sitting.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.2.3">And there appeared unto them cloven tongues just as of fire, and it sat upon each of them.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.2.4">And they were all filled with the Holy Ghost, and began to speak with other tongues, as the Spirit gave them utterance.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.2.5">And there were dwelling at Jerusalem Jews, devout men, out of every nation under heaven.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.2.6">Now when this was reported abroad, the multitude came together, and were confounded, because every man heard them speak in his own language.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.2.7">And they were all amazed and marvelled, saying one to another, Behold, are not all these which speak Galilaeans?</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.2.8">And how hear we every man in our own tongue, in which we were born?</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.2.9">Parthians, and Medes, and Elamites, and the dwellers in Mesopotamia, and in Judaea, and Cappadocia, in Pontus, and Asia,</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.2.10">Phrygia, and Pamphylia, in Egypt, and in the parts of Libya about Cyrene, and strangers of Rome, Jews and proselytes,</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.2.11">Cretes and Arabians, we do hear them speak in our tongues the wonderful works of God.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.2.12">And they were all amazed, and were in doubt, saying one to another, What means this?</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.2.13">Others mocking said, These men are full of new wine.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.2.14">But Peter, standing up with the eleven, lifted up his voice, and said unto them, You men of Judaea, and all you that dwell at Jerusalem, be this known unto you, and hearken to my words:</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.2.15">For these are not drunken, as you suppose, seeing it is but the third hour of the day.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.2.16">But this is that which was spoken by the prophet Joel;</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.2.17">And it shall come to pass in the last days, says God, I will pour out of my Spirit upon all flesh: and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, and your young men shall see visions, and your old men shall dream dreams:</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.2.18">And on my servants and on my handmaidens I will pour out in those days of my Spirit; and they shall prophesy:</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.2.19">And I will show wonders in heaven above, and signs in the earth beneath; blood, and fire, and vapor of smoke:</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.2.20">The sun shall be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, before the great and notable day of the Lord come:</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.2.21">And it shall come to pass, that whosoever shall call on the name of the Lord shall be saved.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.2.22">You men of Israel, hear these words; Jesus of Nazareth, a man approved of God among you by miracles and wonders and signs, which God did by him in the midst of you, as you yourselves also know:</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.2.23">Him, being delivered by the determinate counsel and foreknowledge of God, you have taken, and by wicked hands have crucified and slain:</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.2.24">Whom God has raised up, having loosed the pains of death: because it was not possible that he should be held by it.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.2.25">For David speaks concerning him, I saw the Lord always before my face, for he is on my right hand, that I should not be moved:</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.2.26">Therefore did my heart rejoice, and my tongue was glad; moreover also my flesh shall rest in hope:</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.2.27">Because you will not leave my soul in hell, neither will you permit your Holy One to see corruption.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.2.28">You have made known to me the ways of life; you shall make me full of joy with your countenance.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.2.29">Men and brothers, let me freely speak unto you of the patriarch David, that he is both dead and buried, and his sepulcher is with us unto this day.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.2.30">Therefore being a prophet, and knowing that God had sworn with an oath to him, that of the fruit of his loins, according to the flesh, he would raise up Christ to sit on his throne;</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.2.31">He seeing this before spoke of the resurrection of Christ, that his soul was not left in hell, neither his flesh did see corruption.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.2.32">This Jesus has God raised up, whereof we all are witnesses.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.2.33">Therefore being by the right hand of God exalted, and having received of the Father the promise of the Holy Ghost, he has shed forth this, which you now see and hear.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.2.34">For David is not ascended into the heavens: but he says himself, The Lord said unto my Lord, Sit you on my right hand,</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.2.35">Until I make your foes your footstool.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.2.36">Therefore let all the house of Israel know assuredly, that God has made the same Jesus, whom you have crucified, both Lord and Christ.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.2.37">Now when they heard this, they were pricked in their heart, and said unto Peter and to the rest of the apostles, Men and brothers, what shall we do?</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.2.38">Then Peter said unto them, Repent, and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins, and you shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.2.39">For the promise is unto you, and to your children, and to all that are afar off, just as many as the LORD our God shall call.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.2.40">And with many other words did he testify and exhort, saying, Save yourselves from this untoward generation.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.2.41">Then they that gladly received his word were baptized: and the same day there were added unto them about three thousand souls.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.2.42">And they continued steadfastly in the apostles' doctrine and fellowship, and in breaking of bread, and in prayers.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.2.43">And fear came upon every soul: and many wonders and signs were done by the apostles.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.2.44">And all that believed were together, and had all things common;</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.2.45">And sold their possessions and goods, and parted them to all men, as every man had need.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.2.46">And they, continuing daily with one accord in the temple, and breaking bread from house to house, did eat their food with gladness and singleness of heart,</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.2.47">Praising God, and having favor with all the people. And the Lord added to the church daily such as should be saved.</verse>
</chapter>
<chapter osisID="Acts.2.47">
<verse osisID="Acts.3.1">Now Peter and John went up together into the temple at the hour of prayer, being the ninth hour.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.3.2">And a certain man lame from his mother's womb was carried, whom they laid daily at the gate of the temple which is called Beautiful, to ask alms of them that entered into the temple;</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.3.3">Who seeing Peter and John about to go into the temple asked an alms.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.3.4">And Peter, fastening his eyes upon him with John, said, Look on us.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.3.5">And he gave heed unto them, expecting to receive something of them.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.3.6">Then Peter said, Silver and gold have I none; but such as I have give I you: In the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth rise up and walk.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.3.7">And he took him by the right hand, and lifted him up: and immediately his feet and ankle bones received strength.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.3.8">And he leaping up stood, and walked, and entered with them into the temple, walking, and leaping, and praising God.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.3.9">And all the people saw him walking and praising God:</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.3.10">And they knew that it was he which sat for alms at the Beautiful gate of the temple: and they were filled with wonder and amazement at that which had happened unto him.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.3.11">And as the lame man which was healed held Peter and John, all the people ran together unto them in the porch that is called Solomon's, greatly wondering.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.3.12">And when Peter saw it, he answered unto the people, You men of Israel, why marvel you at this? or why look you so earnestly on us, as though by our own power or holiness we had made this man to walk?</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.3.13">The God of Abraham, and of Isaac, and of Jacob, the God of our fathers, has glorified his Son Jesus; whom you delivered up, and denied him in the presence of Pilate, when he was determined to let him go.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.3.14">But you denied the Holy One and the Just, and desired a murderer to be granted unto you;</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.3.15">And killed the Prince of life, whom God has raised from the dead; whereof we are witnesses.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.3.16">And his name through faith in his name has made this man strong, whom you see and know: yes, the faith which is by him has given him this perfect soundness in the presence of you all.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.3.17">And now, brothers, I know that through ignorance you did it, as did also your rulers.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.3.18">But those things, which God before had showed by the mouth of all his prophets, that Christ should suffer, he has so fulfilled.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.3.19">Repent you therefore, and be converted, that your sins may be blotted out, when the times of refreshing shall come from the presence of the Lord.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.3.20">And he shall send Jesus Christ, which before was preached unto you:</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.3.21">Whom the heaven must receive until the times of restitution of all things, which God has spoken by the mouth of all his holy prophets since the world began.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.3.22">For Moses truly said unto the fathers, A prophet shall the Lord your God raise up unto you of your brothers, like unto me; him shall you hear in all things whatsoever he shall say unto you.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.3.23">And it shall come to pass, that every soul, which will not hear that prophet, shall be destroyed from among the people.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.3.24">Yes, and all the prophets from Samuel and those that follow after, as many as have spoken, have likewise foretold of these days.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.3.25">You are the children of the prophets, and of the covenant which God made with our fathers, saying unto Abraham, And in your seed shall all the kindreds of the earth be blessed.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.3.26">Unto you first God, having raised up his Son Jesus, sent him to bless you, in turning away every one of you from his iniquities.</verse>
</chapter>
<chapter osisID="Acts.3.26">
<verse osisID="Acts.4.1">And as they spoke unto the people, the priests, and the captain of the temple, and the Sadducees, came upon them,</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.4.2">Being grieved that they taught the people, and preached through Jesus the resurrection from the dead.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.4.3">And they laid hands on them, and put them in hold unto the next day: for it was now evening.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.4.4">Howbeit many of those who heard the word believed; and the number of the men was about five thousand.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.4.5">And it came to pass on the next day, that their rulers, and elders, and scribes,</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.4.6">And Annas the high priest, and Caiaphas, and John, and Alexander, and as many as were of the kindred of the high priest, were gathered together at Jerusalem.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.4.7">And when they had set them in the midst, they asked, By what power, or by what name, have you done this?</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.4.8">Then Peter, filled with the Holy Ghost, said unto them, You rulers of the people, and elders of Israel,</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.4.9">If we this day be examined of the good deed done to the sick man, by what means he is made whole;</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.4.10">Be it known unto you all, and to all the people of Israel, that by the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, whom you crucified, whom God raised from the dead, even by him does this man stand here before you whole.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.4.11">This is the stone which was set at no value of you builders, which is become the head of the corner.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.4.12">Neither is there salvation in any other: for there is none other name under heaven given among men, whereby we must be saved.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.4.13">Now when they saw the boldness of Peter and John, and perceived that they were unlearned and ignorant men, they marvelled; and they took knowledge of them, that they had been with Jesus.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.4.14">And beholding the man which was healed standing with them, they could say nothing against it.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.4.15">But when they had commanded them to go aside out of the council, they conferred among themselves,</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.4.16">Saying, What shall we do to these men? for that indeed a notable miracle has been done by them is manifest to all them that dwell in Jerusalem; and we cannot deny it.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.4.17">But that it spread no further among the people, let us strictly threaten them, that they speak henceforth to no man in this name.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.4.18">And they called them, and commanded them not to speak at all nor teach in the name of Jesus.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.4.19">But Peter and John answered and said unto them, Whether it be right in the sight of God to hearken unto you more than unto God, judge you.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.4.20">For we cannot but speak the things which we have seen and heard.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.4.21">So when they had further threatened them, they let them go, finding nothing how they might punish them, because of the people: for all men glorified God for that which was done.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.4.22">For the man was above forty years old, on whom this miracle of healing was showed.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.4.23">And being let go, they went to their own company, and reported all that the chief priests and elders had said unto them.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.4.24">And when they heard that, they lifted up their voice to God with one accord, and said, Lord, you are God, which have made heaven, and earth, and the sea, and all that in them is:</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.4.25">Who by the mouth of your servant David have said, Why did the heathen rage, and the people imagine vain things?</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.4.26">The kings of the earth stood up, and the rulers were gathered together against the Lord, and against his Christ.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.4.27">For of a truth against your holy child Jesus, whom you have anointed, both Herod, and Pontius Pilate, with the Gentiles, and the people of Israel, were gathered together,</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.4.28">For to do whatsoever your hand and your counsel determined before to be done.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.4.29">And now, Lord, behold their threatenings: and grant unto your servants, that with all boldness they may speak your word,</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.4.30">By stretching forth your hand to heal; and that signs and wonders may be done by the name of your holy child Jesus.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.4.31">And when they had prayed, the place was shaken where they were assembled together; and they were all filled with the Holy Ghost, and they spoke the word of God with boldness.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.4.32">And the multitude of them that believed were of one heart and of one soul: neither said any of them that anything of the things which he possessed was his own; but they had all things common.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.4.33">And with great power gave the apostles witness of the resurrection of the Lord Jesus: and great grace was upon them all.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.4.34">Neither was there any among them that lacked: for as many as were possessors of lands or houses sold them, and brought the prices of the things that were sold,</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.4.35">And laid them down at the apostles' feet: and distribution was made unto every man according as he had need.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.4.36">And Joses, who by the apostles was surnamed Barnabas, (which is, being interpreted, The son of consolation,) a Levite, and of the country of Cyprus,</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.4.37">Having land, sold it, and brought the money, and laid it at the apostles' feet.</verse>
</chapter>
<chapter osisID="Acts.4.37">
<verse osisID="Acts.5.1">But a certain man named Ananias, with Sapphira his wife, sold a possession,</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.5.2">And kept back part of the price, his wife also being privy to it, and brought a certain part, and laid it at the apostles' feet.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.5.3">But Peter said, Ananias, why has Satan filled your heart to lie to the Holy Ghost, and to keep back part of the price of the land?</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.5.4">Whiles it remained, was it not your own? and after it was sold, was it not in your own power? why have you conceived this thing in your heart? you have not lied unto men, but unto God.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.5.5">And Ananias hearing these words fell down, and gave up the ghost: and great fear came on all them that heard these things.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.5.6">And the young men arose, wound him up, and carried him out, and buried him.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.5.7">And it was about the space of three hours after, when his wife, not knowing what was done, came in.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.5.8">And Peter answered unto her, Tell me whether you sold the land for so much? And she said, Yes, for so much.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.5.9">Then Peter said unto her, How is it that you have agreed together to tempt the Spirit of the Lord? behold, the feet of those who have buried your husband are at the door, and shall carry you out.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.5.10">Then fell she down immediately at his feet, and yielded up the ghost: and the young men came in, and found her dead, and, carrying her forth, buried her by her husband.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.5.11">And great fear came upon all the church, and upon as many as heard these things.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.5.12">And by the hands of the apostles were many signs and wonders wrought among the people; (and they were all with one accord in Solomon's porch.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.5.13">And of the rest no man dared join himself to them: but the people magnified them.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.5.14">And believers were the more added to the Lord, multitudes both of men and women.)</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.5.15">Insomuch that they brought forth the sick into the streets, and laid them on beds and couches, that at the least the shadow of Peter passing by might overshadow some of them.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.5.16">There came also a multitude out of the cities round about unto Jerusalem, bringing sick people, and those who were vexed with unclean spirits: and they were healed every one.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.5.17">Then the high priest rose up, and all they that were with him, (which is the sect of the Sadducees,) and were filled with indignation,</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.5.18">And laid their hands on the apostles, and put them in the common prison.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.5.19">But the angel of the Lord by night opened the prison doors, and brought them forth, and said,</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.5.20">Go, stand and speak in the temple to the people all the words of this life.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.5.21">And when they heard that, they entered into the temple early in the morning, and taught. But the high priest came, and they that were with him, and called the council together, and all the senate of the children of Israel, and sent to the prison to have them brought.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.5.22">But when the officers came, and found them not in the prison, they returned and told,</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.5.23">Saying, The prison truly found we shut with all safety, and the keepers standing outside before the doors: but when we had opened, we found no man within.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.5.24">Now when the high priest and the captain of the temple and the chief priests heard these things, they doubted of them whereunto this would grow.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.5.25">Then came one and told them, saying, Behold, the men whom you put in prison are standing in the temple, and teaching the people.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.5.26">Then went the captain with the officers, and brought them without violence: for they feared the people, lest they should have been stoned.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.5.27">And when they had brought them, they set them before the council: and the high priest asked them,</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.5.28">Saying, Did not we strictly command you that you should not teach in this name? and, behold, you have filled Jerusalem with your doctrine, and intend to bring this man's blood upon us.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.5.29">Then Peter and the other apostles answered and said, We ought to obey God rather than men.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.5.30">The God of our fathers raised up Jesus, whom you slew and hanged on a tree.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.5.31">Him has God exalted with his right hand to be a Prince and a Saviour, for to give repentance to Israel, and forgiveness of sins.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.5.32">And we are his witnesses of these things; and so is also the Holy Ghost, whom God has given to them that obey him.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.5.33">When they heard that, they were cut to the heart, and took counsel to slay them.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.5.34">Then stood there up one in the council, a Pharisee, named Gamaliel, a doctor of the law, had in reputation among all the people, and commanded to put the apostles forth a little space;</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.5.35">And said unto them, You men of Israel, take heed to yourselves what you intend to do as touching these men.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.5.36">For before these days rose up Theudas, boasting himself to be somebody; to whom a number of men, about four hundred, joined themselves: who was slain; and all, as many as obeyed him, were scattered, and brought to nought.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.5.37">After this man rose up Judas of Galilee in the days of the taxing, and drew away many people after him: he also perished; and all, just as many as obeyed him, were dispersed.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.5.38">And now I say unto you, Refrain from these men, and let them alone: for if this counsel or this work be of men, it will come to nought:</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.5.39">But if it be of God, you cannot overthrow it; lest haply you be found even to fight against God.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.5.40">And to him they agreed: and when they had called the apostles, and beaten them, they commanded that they should not speak in the name of Jesus, and let them go.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.5.41">And they departed from the presence of the council, rejoicing that they were counted worthy to suffer shame for his name.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.5.42">And daily in the temple, and in every house, they ceased not to teach and preach Jesus Christ.</verse>
</chapter>
<chapter osisID="Acts.5.42">
<verse osisID="Acts.6.1">And in those days, when the number of the disciples was multiplied, there arose a murmuring of the Grecians against the Hebrews, because their widows were neglected in the daily ministration.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.6.2">Then the twelve called the multitude of the disciples unto them, and said, It is not reason that we should leave the word of God, and serve tables.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.6.3">Therefore, brothers, select among you seven men of honest report, full of the Holy Ghost and wisdom, whom we may appoint over this business.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.6.4">But we will give ourselves continually to prayer, and to the ministry of the word.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.6.5">And the saying pleased the whole multitude: and they chose Stephen, a man full of faith and of the Holy Ghost, and Philip, and Prochorus, and Nicanor, and Timon, and Parmenas, and Nicolas a proselyte of Antioch:</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.6.6">Whom they set before the apostles: and when they had prayed, they laid their hands on them.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.6.7">And the word of God increased; and the number of the disciples multiplied in Jerusalem greatly; and a great company of the priests were obedient to the faith.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.6.8">And Stephen, full of faith and power, did great wonders and miracles among the people.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.6.9">Then there arose certain of the synagogue, which is called the synagogue of the Libertines, and Cyrenians, and Alexandrians, and of them of Cilicia and of Asia, disputing with Stephen.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.6.10">And they were not able to resist the wisdom and the spirit by which he spoke.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.6.11">Then they suborned men, which said, We have heard him speak blasphemous words against Moses, and against God.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.6.12">And they stirred up the people, and the elders, and the scribes, and came upon him, and caught him, and brought him to the council,</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.6.13">And set up false witnesses, which said, This man ceases not to speak blasphemous words against this holy place, and the law:</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.6.14">For we have heard him say, that this Jesus of Nazareth shall destroy this place, and shall change the customs which Moses delivered us.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.6.15">And all that sat in the council, looking steadfastly on him, saw his face as it had been the face of an angel.</verse>
</chapter>
<chapter osisID="Acts.6.15">
<verse osisID="Acts.7.1">Then said the high priest, Are these things so?</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.7.2">And he said, Men, brothers, and fathers, hearken; The God of glory appeared unto our father Abraham, when he was in Mesopotamia, before he dwelled in Charran,</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.7.3">And said unto him, Get you out of your country, and from your kindred, and come into the land which I shall show you.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.7.4">Then came he out of the land of the Chaldaeans, and dwelled in Charran: and from there, when his father was dead, he removed him into this land, in which you now dwell.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.7.5">And he gave him none inheritance in it, no, not so much as to set his foot on: yet he promised that he would give it to him for a possession, and to his seed after him, when as yet he had no child.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.7.6">And God spoke on this wise, That his seed should sojourn in a strange land; and that they should bring them into bondage, and entreat them evil four hundred years.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.7.7">And the nation to whom they shall be in bondage will I judge, said God: and after that shall they come forth, and serve me in this place.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.7.8">And he gave him the covenant of circumcision: and so Abraham begat Isaac, and circumcised him the eighth day; and Isaac begat Jacob; and Jacob begat the twelve patriarchs.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.7.9">And the patriarchs, moved with envy, sold Joseph into Egypt: but God was with him,</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.7.10">And delivered him out of all his afflictions, and gave him favor and wisdom in the sight of Pharaoh king of Egypt; and he made him governor over Egypt and all his house.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.7.11">Now there came a dearth over all the land of Egypt and Chanaan, and great affliction: and our fathers found no sustenance.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.7.12">But when Jacob heard that there was corn in Egypt, he sent out our fathers first.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.7.13">And at the second time Joseph was made known to his brothers; and Joseph's kindred was made known unto Pharaoh.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.7.14">Then sent Joseph, and called his father Jacob to him, and all his kindred, threescore and fifteen souls.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.7.15">So Jacob went down into Egypt, and died, he, and our fathers,</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.7.16">And were carried over into Sychem, and laid in the sepulcher that Abraham bought for a sum of money of the sons of Emmor the father of Sychem.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.7.17">But when the time of the promise drew close, which God had sworn to Abraham, the people grew and multiplied in Egypt,</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.7.18">Till another king arose, which did not know Joseph.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.7.19">The same dealt deceptively with our kindred, and badly treated our fathers, so that they cast out their young children, to the end they might not live.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.7.20">In which time Moses was born, and was exceedingly fair, and nourished up in his father's house three months:</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.7.21">And when he was cast out, Pharaoh's daughter took him up, and nourished him for her own son.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.7.22">And Moses was learned in all the wisdom of the Egyptians, and was mighty in words and in deeds.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.7.23">And when he was full forty years old, it came into his heart to visit his brothers the children of Israel.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.7.24">And seeing one of them suffer wrong, he defended him, and avenged him that was oppressed, and smote the Egyptian:</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.7.25">For he supposed his brothers would have understood that God by his hand would deliver them: but they understood not.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.7.26">And the next day he showed himself unto them as they strove, and would have set them at one again, saying, Sirs, you are brothers; why do you wrong one to another?</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.7.27">But he that did his neighbor wrong thrust him away, saying, Who made you a ruler and a judge over us?</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.7.28">Do you want kill me, as you did the Egyptian yesterday?</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.7.29">Then fled Moses at this saying, and was a stranger in the land of Madian, where he begat two sons.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.7.30">And when forty years were expired, there appeared to him in the wilderness of mount Sina an angel of the Lord in a flame of fire in a bush.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.7.31">When Moses saw it, he wondered at the sight: and as he drew near to behold it, the voice of the LORD came unto him,</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.7.32">Saying, I am the God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob. Then Moses trembled, and dared not behold.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.7.33">Then said the Lord to him, Put off your shoes from your feet: for the place where you stand is holy ground.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.7.34">I have seen, I have seen the affliction of my people which is in Egypt, and I have heard their groaning, and am come down to deliver them. And now come, I will send you into Egypt.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.7.35">This Moses whom they refused, saying, Who made you a ruler and a judge? the same did God send to be a ruler and a deliverer by the hand of the angel which appeared to him in the bush.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.7.36">He brought them out, after he had showed wonders and signs in the land of Egypt, and in the Red sea, and in the wilderness forty years.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.7.37">This is that Moses, which said unto the children of Israel, A prophet shall the Lord your God raise up unto you of your brothers, like unto me; him shall you hear.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.7.38">This is he, that was in the church in the wilderness with the angel which spoke to him in the mount Sina, and with our fathers: who received the lively oracles to give unto us:</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.7.39">To whom our fathers would not obey, but thrust him from them, and in their hearts turned back again into Egypt,</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.7.40">Saying unto Aaron, Make us gods to go before us: for as for this Moses, which brought us out of the land of Egypt, we know not what is become of him.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.7.41">And they made a calf in those days, and offered sacrifice unto the idol, and rejoiced in the works of their own hands.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.7.42">Then God turned, and gave them up to worship the host of heaven; as it is written in the book of the prophets, O you house of Israel, have you offered to me slain beasts and sacrifices by the space of forty years in the wilderness?</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.7.43">Yes, you took up the tabernacle of Moloch, and the star of your god Remphan, figures which you made to worship them: and I will carry you away beyond Babylon.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.7.44">Our fathers had the tabernacle of witness in the wilderness, as he had appointed, speaking unto Moses, that he should make it according to the fashion that he had seen.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.7.45">Which also our fathers that came after brought in with Jesus into the possession of the Gentiles, whom God drove out before the face of our fathers, unto the days of David;</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.7.46">Who found favor before God, and desired to find a tabernacle for the God of Jacob.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.7.47">But Solomon built him a house.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.7.48">Howbeit the most High dwells not in temples made with hands; as says the prophet,</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.7.49">Heaven is my throne, and earth is my footstool: what house will you build me? says the Lord: or what is the place of my rest?</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.7.50">Has not my hand made all these things?</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.7.51">You stiffnecked and uncircumcised in heart and ears, you do always resist the Holy Ghost: as your fathers did, so do you.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.7.52">Which of the prophets have not your fathers persecuted? and they have slain those who showed before of the coming of the Just One; of whom you have been now the betrayers and murderers:</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.7.53">Who have received the law by the disposition of angels, and have not kept it.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.7.54">When they heard these things, they were cut to the heart, and they gnashed on him with their teeth.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.7.55">But he, being full of the Holy Ghost, looked up steadfastly into heaven, and saw the glory of God, and Jesus standing on the right hand of God,</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.7.56">And said, Behold, I see the heavens opened, and the Son of man standing on the right hand of God.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.7.57">Then they cried out with a loud voice, and stopped their ears, and ran upon him with one accord,</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.7.58">And cast him out of the city, and stoned him: and the witnesses laid down their clothes at a young man's feet, whose name was Saul.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.7.59">And they stoned Stephen, calling upon God, and saying, Lord Jesus, receive my spirit.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.7.60">And he kneeled down, and cried with a loud voice, Lord, lay not this sin to their charge. And when he had said this, he fell asleep.</verse>
</chapter>
<chapter osisID="Acts.7.60">
<verse osisID="Acts.8.1">And Saul was consenting unto his death. And at that time there was a great persecution against the church which was at Jerusalem; and they were all scattered abroad throughout the regions of Judaea and Samaria, except the apostles.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.8.2">And devout men carried Stephen to his burial, and made great lamentation over him.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.8.3">As for Saul, he made havoc of the church, entering into every house, and haling men and women committed them to prison.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.8.4">Therefore they that were scattered abroad went every where preaching the word.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.8.5">Then Philip went down to the city of Samaria, and preached Christ unto them.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.8.6">And the people with one accord gave heed unto those things which Philip spoke, hearing and seeing the miracles which he did.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.8.7">For unclean spirits, crying with loud voice, came out of many that were possessed with them: and many taken with palsies, and that were lame, were healed.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.8.8">And there was great joy in that city.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.8.9">But there was a certain man, called Simon, which beforetime in the same city used sorcery, and bewitched the people of Samaria, giving out that himself was some great one:</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.8.10">To whom they all gave heed, from the least to the greatest, saying, This man is the great power of God.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.8.11">And to him they had regard, because of long time he had bewitched them with sorceries.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.8.12">But when they believed Philip preaching the things concerning the kingdom of God, and the name of Jesus Christ, they were baptized, both men and women.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.8.13">Then Simon himself believed also: and when he was baptized, he continued with Philip, and wondered, beholding the miracles and signs which were done.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.8.14">Now when the apostles which were at Jerusalem heard that Samaria had received the word of God, they sent unto them Peter and John:</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.8.15">Who, when they had come down, prayed for them, that they might receive the Holy Ghost:</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.8.16">(For as yet he was fallen upon none of them: only they were baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus.)</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.8.17">Then laid they their hands on them, and they received the Holy Ghost.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.8.18">And when Simon saw that through laying on of the apostles' hands the Holy Ghost was given, he offered them money,</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.8.19">Saying, Give me also this power, that on whomsoever I lay hands, he may receive the Holy Ghost.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.8.20">But Peter said unto him, Your money perish with you, because you have thought that the gift of God may be purchased with money.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.8.21">You have neither part nor lot in this matter: for your heart is not right in the sight of God.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.8.22">Repent therefore of this your wickedness, and pray God, if perhaps the thought of your heart may be forgiven you.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.8.23">For I perceive that you are in the gall of bitterness, and in the bond of iniquity.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.8.24">Then answered Simon, and said, Pray you to the LORD for me, that none of these things which you have spoken come upon me.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.8.25">And they, when they had testified and preached the word of the Lord, returned to Jerusalem, and preached the gospel in many villages of the Samaritans.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.8.26">And the angel of the Lord spoke unto Philip, saying, Arise, and go toward the south unto the way that goes down from Jerusalem unto Gaza, which is deserted.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.8.27">And he arose and went: and, behold, a man of Ethiopia, an eunuch of great authority under Candace queen of the Ethiopians, who had the charge of all her treasure, and had come to Jerusalem for to worship,</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.8.28">Was returning, and sitting in his chariot read Isaiah the prophet.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.8.29">Then the Spirit said unto Philip, Go near, and join yourself to this chariot.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.8.30">And Philip ran to there to him, and heard him read the prophet Isaiah, and said, Do you understand what you read?</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.8.31">And he said, How can I, unless some man should guide me? And he desired Philip that he would come up and sit with him.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.8.32">The place of the scripture which he read was this, He was led as a sheep to the slaughter; and like a lamb dumb before his shearer, so opened he not his mouth:</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.8.33">In his humiliation his judgment was taken away: and who shall declare his generation? for his life is taken from the earth.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.8.34">And the eunuch answered Philip, and said, I pray you, of whom speaks the prophet this? of himself, or of some other man?</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.8.35">Then Philip opened his mouth, and began at the same scripture, and preached unto him Jesus.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.8.36">And as they went on their way, they came unto a certain water: and the eunuch said, See, here is water; what does hinder me to be baptized?</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.8.37">And Philip said, If you believe with all your heart, you may. And he answered and said, I believe that Jesus Christ is the Son of God.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.8.38">And he commanded the chariot to stand still: and they went down both into the water, both Philip and the eunuch; and he baptized him.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.8.39">And when they had come up out of the water, the Spirit of the Lord caught away Philip, that the eunuch saw him no more: and he went on his way rejoicing.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.8.40">But Philip was found at Azotus: and passing through he preached in all the cities, till he came to Caesarea.</verse>
</chapter>
<chapter osisID="Acts.8.40">
<verse osisID="Acts.9.1">And Saul, yet breathing out threatenings and slaughter against the disciples of the Lord, went unto the high priest,</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.9.2">And desired of him letters to Damascus to the synagogues, that if he found any of this way, whether they were men or women, he might bring them bound unto Jerusalem.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.9.3">And as he journeyed, he came near Damascus: and suddenly there shined round about him a light from heaven:</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.9.4">And he fell to the earth, and heard a voice saying unto him, Saul, Saul, why persecute you me?</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.9.5">And he said, Who are you, Lord? And the Lord said, I am Jesus whom you persecute: it is hard for you to kick against the pricks.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.9.6">And he trembling and astonished said, Lord, what will you have me to do? And the Lord said unto him, Arise, and go into the city, and it shall be told you what you must do.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.9.7">And the men which journeyed with him stood speechless, hearing a voice, but seeing no man.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.9.8">And Saul arose from the earth; and when his eyes were opened, he saw no man: but they led him by the hand, and brought him into Damascus.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.9.9">And he was three days without sight, and neither did eat nor drink.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.9.10">And there was a certain disciple at Damascus, named Ananias; and to him said the Lord in a vision, Ananias. And he said, Behold, I am here, Lord.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.9.11">And the Lord said unto him, Arise, and go into the street which is called Straight, and inquire in the house of Judas for one called Saul, of Tarsus: for, behold, he prays,</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.9.12">And has seen in a vision a man named Ananias coming in, and putting his hand on him, that he might receive his sight.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.9.13">Then Ananias answered, Lord, I have heard by many of this man, how much evil he has done to your saints at Jerusalem:</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.9.14">And here he has authority from the chief priests to bind all that call on your name.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.9.15">But the Lord said unto him, Go your way: for he is a chosen vessel unto me, to bear my name before the Gentiles, and kings, and the children of Israel:</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.9.16">For I will show him how great things he must suffer for my name's sake.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.9.17">And Ananias went his way, and entered into the house; and putting his hands on him said, Brother Saul, the Lord, even Jesus, that appeared unto you on the way as you came, has sent me, that you might receive your sight, and be filled with the Holy Ghost.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.9.18">And immediately there fell from his eyes as it had been scales: and he received sight immediately, and arose, and was baptized.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.9.19">And when he had received food, he was strengthened. Then was Saul certain days with the disciples which were at Damascus.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.9.20">And immediately he preached Christ in the synagogues, that he is the Son of God.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.9.21">But all that heard him were amazed, and said; Is not this he that destroyed those who called on this name in Jerusalem, and came to here for that intent, that he might bring them bound unto the chief priests?</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.9.22">But Saul increased the more in strength, and confounded the Jews which dwelled at Damascus, proving that this is very Christ.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.9.23">And after many days were fulfilled, the Jews took counsel to kill him:</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.9.24">But their laying await was known of Saul. And they watched the gates day and night to kill him.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.9.25">Then the disciples took him by night, and let him down by the wall in a basket.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.9.26">And when Saul was come to Jerusalem, he attempted to join himself to the disciples: but they were all afraid of him, and believed not that he was a disciple.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.9.27">But Barnabas took him, and brought him to the apostles, and declared unto them how he had seen the Lord on the way, and that he had spoken to him, and how he had preached boldly at Damascus in the name of Jesus.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.9.28">And he was with them coming in and going out at Jerusalem.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.9.29">And he spoke boldly in the name of the Lord Jesus, and disputed against the Grecians: but they went about to slay him.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.9.30">Which when the brothers knew, they brought him down to Caesarea, and sent him forth to Tarsus.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.9.31">Then had the churches rest throughout all Judaea and Galilee and Samaria, and were edified; and walking in the fear of the Lord, and in the comfort of the Holy Ghost, were multiplied.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.9.32">And it came to pass, as Peter passed throughout all quarters, he came down also to the saints which dwelled at Lydda.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.9.33">And there he found a certain man named Aeneas, which had kept his bed eight years, and was sick of the palsy.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.9.34">And Peter said unto him, Aeneas, Jesus Christ makes you whole: arise, and make your bed. And he arose immediately.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.9.35">And all that dwelled at Lydda and Saron saw him, and turned to the Lord.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.9.36">Now there was at Joppa a certain disciple named Tabitha, which by interpretation is called Dorcas: this woman was full of good works and almsdeeds which she did.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.9.37">And it came to pass in those days, that she was sick, and died: whom when they had washed, they laid her in an upper chamber.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.9.38">And forasmuch as Lydda was close to Joppa, and the disciples had heard that Peter was there, they sent unto him two men, desiring him that he would not delay to come to them.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.9.39">Then Peter arose and went with them. When he was come, they brought him into the upper chamber: and all the widows stood by him weeping, and showing the coats and garments which Dorcas made, while she was with them.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.9.40">But Peter put them all forth, and kneeled down, and prayed; and turning him to the body said, Tabitha, arise. And she opened her eyes: and when she saw Peter, she sat up.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.9.41">And he gave her his hand, and lifted her up, and when he had called the saints and widows, presented her alive.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.9.42">And it was known throughout all Joppa; and many believed in the Lord.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.9.43">And it came to pass, that he tarried many days in Joppa with one Simon a tanner.</verse>
</chapter>
<chapter osisID="Acts.9.43">
<verse osisID="Acts.10.1">There was a certain man in Caesarea called Cornelius, a centurion of the band called the Italian band,</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.10.2">A devout man, and one that feared God with all his house, which gave much alms to the people, and prayed to God always.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.10.3">He saw in a vision evidently about the ninth hour of the day an angel of God coming in to him, and saying unto him, Cornelius.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.10.4">And when he looked on him, he was afraid, and said, What is it, Lord? And he said unto him, Your prayers and your alms are come up for a memorial before God.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.10.5">And now send men to Joppa, and call for one Simon, whose surname is Peter:</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.10.6">He lodges with one Simon a tanner, whose house is by the seaside: he shall tell you what you should do.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.10.7">And when the angel which spoke unto Cornelius was departed, he called two of his household servants, and a devout soldier of them that waited on him continually;</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.10.8">And when he had declared all these things unto them, he sent them to Joppa.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.10.9">On the next day, as they went on their journey, and drew close unto the city, Peter went up upon the housetop to pray about the sixth hour:</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.10.10">And he became very hungry, and would have eaten: but while they made ready, he fell into a trance,</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.10.11">And saw heaven opened, and a certain vessel descending upon him, as it had been a great sheet knit at the four corners, and let down to the earth:</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.10.12">Wherein were all manner of fourfooted beasts of the earth, and wild beasts, and creeping things, and fowls of the air.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.10.13">And there came a voice to him, Rise, Peter; kill, and eat.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.10.14">But Peter said, Not so, Lord; for I have never eaten any thing that is common or unclean.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.10.15">And the voice spoke unto him again the second time, What God has cleansed, that call not you common.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.10.16">This was done three times: and the vessel was received up again into heaven.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.10.17">Now while Peter doubted in himself what this vision which he had seen should mean, behold, the men which were sent from Cornelius had made inquiry for Simon's house, and stood before the gate,</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.10.18">And called, and asked whether Simon, which was surnamed Peter, were lodged there.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.10.19">While Peter thought on the vision, the Spirit said unto him, Behold, three men seek you.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.10.20">Arise therefore, and get you down, and go with them, doubting nothing: for I have sent them.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.10.21">Then Peter went down to the men which were sent unto him from Cornelius; and said, Behold, I am he whom you seek: what is the cause why you are come?</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.10.22">And they said, Cornelius the centurion, a just man, and one that fears God, and of good report among all the nation of the Jews, was warned from God by a holy angel to send for you into his house, and to hear words of you.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.10.23">Then called he them in, and lodged them. And on the next day Peter went away with them, and certain brothers from Joppa accompanied him.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.10.24">And the next day after they entered into Caesarea. And Cornelius waited for them, and he had called together his kinsmen and near friends.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.10.25">And as Peter was coming in, Cornelius met him, and fell down at his feet, and worshipped him.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.10.26">But Peter took him up, saying, Stand up; I myself also am a man.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.10.27">And as he talked with him, he went in, and found many that were come together.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.10.28">And he said unto them, You know that it is an unlawful thing for a man that is a Jew to keep company, or come unto one of another nation; but God has showed me that I should not call any man common or unclean.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.10.29">Therefore came I unto you without opposing, as soon as I was sent for: I ask therefore for what intent you have sent for me?</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.10.30">And Cornelius said, Four days ago I was fasting until this hour; and at the ninth hour I prayed in my house, and, behold, a man stood before me in bright clothing,</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.10.31">And said, Cornelius, your prayer is heard, and your alms are had in remembrance in the sight of God.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.10.32">Send therefore to Joppa, and call to here Simon, whose surname is Peter; he is lodged in the house of one Simon a tanner by the sea side: who, when he comes, shall speak unto you.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.10.33">Immediately therefore I sent to you; and you have well done that you are come. Now therefore are we all here present before God, to hear all things that are commanded you of God.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.10.34">Then Peter opened his mouth, and said, Of a truth I perceive that God is no respecter of persons:</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.10.35">But in every nation he that fears him, and works righteousness, is accepted with him.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.10.36">The word which God sent unto the children of Israel, preaching peace by Jesus Christ: (he is Lord of all:)</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.10.37">That word, I say, you know, which was spoken out throughout all Judaea, and began from Galilee, after the baptism which John preached;</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.10.38">How God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Ghost and with power: who went about doing good, and healing all that were oppressed of the devil; for God was with him.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.10.39">And we are witnesses of all things which he did both in the land of the Jews, and in Jerusalem; whom they slew and hanged on a tree:</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.10.40">Him God raised up the third day, and showed him openly;</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.10.41">Not to all the people, but unto witnesses chosen before God, even to us, who did eat and drink with him after he rose from the dead.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.10.42">And he commanded us to preach unto the people, and to testify that it is he which was ordained of God to be the Judge of quick and dead.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.10.43">To him give all the prophets witness, that through his name whosoever believes in him shall receive remission of sins.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.10.44">While Peter yet spoke these words, the Holy Ghost fell on all those who heard the word.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.10.45">And they of the circumcision which believed were astonished, as many as came with Peter, because on the Gentiles also was poured out the gift of the Holy Ghost.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.10.46">For they heard them speak with tongues, and magnify God. Then answered Peter,</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.10.47">Can any man forbid water, that these should not be baptized, which have received the Holy Ghost as well as we?</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.10.48">And he commanded them to be baptized in the name of the Lord. Then prayed they him to tarry certain days.</verse>
</chapter>
<chapter osisID="Acts.10.48">
<verse osisID="Acts.11.1">And the apostles and brothers that were in Judaea heard that the Gentiles had also received the word of God.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.11.2">And when Peter was come up to Jerusalem, they that were of the circumcision contended with him,</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.11.3">Saying, You went in to men uncircumcised, and did eat with them.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.11.4">But Peter rehearsed the matter from the beginning, and expounded it by order unto them, saying,</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.11.5">I was in the city of Joppa praying: and in a trance I saw a vision, A certain vessel descend, as it had been a great sheet, let down from heaven by four corners; and it came even to me:</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.11.6">Upon the which when I had fastened my eyes, I considered, and saw fourfooted beasts of the earth, and wild beasts, and creeping things, and fowls of the air.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.11.7">And I heard a voice saying unto me, Arise, Peter; slay and eat.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.11.8">But I said, Not so, Lord: for nothing common or unclean has at any time entered into my mouth.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.11.9">But the voice answered me again from heaven, What God has cleansed, that call not you common.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.11.10">And this was done three times: and all were drawn up again into heaven.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.11.11">And, behold, immediately there were three men already come unto the house where I was, sent from Caesarea unto me.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.11.12">And the Spirit bade me go with them, nothing doubting. Moreover these six brothers accompanied me, and we entered into the man's house:</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.11.13">And he showed us how he had seen an angel in his house, which stood and said unto him, Send men to Joppa, and call for Simon, whose surname is Peter;</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.11.14">Who shall tell you words, whereby you and all your house shall be saved.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.11.15">And as I began to speak, the Holy Ghost fell on them, as on us at the beginning.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.11.16">Then remembered I the word of the Lord, that he said, John indeed baptized with water; but you shall be baptized with the Holy Ghost.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.11.17">Since God gave them the like gift as he did unto us, who believed on the Lord Jesus Christ; what was I, that I could withstand God?</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.11.18">When they heard these things, they held their peace, and glorified God, saying, Then has God also to the Gentiles granted repentance unto life.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.11.19">Now they which were scattered abroad upon the persecution that arose about Stephen travelled as far as Phenice, and Cyprus, and Antioch, preaching the word to none but unto the Jews only.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.11.20">And some of them were men of Cyprus and Cyrene, which, when they had come to Antioch, spoke unto the Grecians, preaching the LORD Jesus.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.11.21">And the hand of the Lord was with them: and a great number believed, and turned unto the Lord.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.11.22">Then tidings of these things came unto the ears of the church which was in Jerusalem: and they sent forth Barnabas, that he should go as far as Antioch.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.11.23">Who, when he came, and had seen the grace of God, was glad, and exhorted them all, that with purpose of heart they would cleave unto the Lord.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.11.24">For he was a good man, and full of the Holy Ghost and of faith: and many people was added unto the Lord.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.11.25">Then departed Barnabas to Tarsus, for to seek Saul:</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.11.26">And when he had found him, he brought him unto Antioch. And it came to pass, that a whole year they assembled themselves with the church, and taught many people. And the disciples were called Christians first in Antioch.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.11.27">And in these days came prophets from Jerusalem unto Antioch.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.11.28">And there stood up one of them named Agabus, and signified by the Spirit that there should be great dearth throughout all the world: which came to pass in the days of Claudius Caesar.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.11.29">Then the disciples, every man according to his ability, determined to send relief unto the brothers which dwelled in Judaea:</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.11.30">Which also they did, and sent it to the elders by the hands of Barnabas and Saul.</verse>
</chapter>
<chapter osisID="Acts.11.30">
<verse osisID="Acts.12.1">Now about that time Herod the king stretched forth his hands to vex certain of the church.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.12.2">And he killed James the brother of John with the sword.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.12.3">And because he saw it pleased the Jews, he proceeded further to take Peter also. (Then were the days of unleavened bread.)</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.12.4">And when he had apprehended him, he put him in prison, and delivered him to four quaternions of soldiers to keep him; intending after passover to bring him forth to the people.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.12.5">Peter therefore was kept in prison: but prayer was made without ceasing of the church unto God for him.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.12.6">And when Herod would have brought him forth, the same night Peter was sleeping between two soldiers, bound with two chains: and the keepers before the door kept the prison.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.12.7">And, behold, the angel of the Lord came upon him, and a light shined in the prison: and he smote Peter on the side, and raised him up, saying, Arise up quickly. And his chains fell off from his hands.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.12.8">And the angel said unto him, Gird yourself, and bind on your sandals. And so he did. And he says unto him, Cast your garment about you, and follow me.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.12.9">And he went out, and followed him; and knew not that it was true which was done by the angel; but thought he saw a vision.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.12.10">When they were past the first and the second ward, they came unto the iron gate that leads unto the city; which opened to them of his own accord: and they went out, and passed on through one street; and immediately the angel departed from him.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.12.11">And when Peter was come to himself, he said, Now I know of a surety, that the LORD has sent his angel, and has delivered me out of the hand of Herod, and from all the expectation of the people of the Jews.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.12.12">And when he had considered the thing, he came to the house of Mary the mother of John, whose surname was Mark; where many were gathered together praying.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.12.13">And as Peter knocked at the door of the gate, a damsel came to hearken, named Rhoda.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.12.14">And when she knew Peter's voice, she opened not the gate for gladness, but ran in, and told how Peter stood before the gate.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.12.15">And they said unto her, You are mad. But she constantly affirmed that it was even so. Then said they, It is his angel.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.12.16">But Peter continued knocking: and when they had opened the door, and saw him, they were astonished.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.12.17">But he, beckoning unto them with the hand to hold their peace, declared unto them how the Lord had brought him out of the prison. And he said, Go show these things unto James, and to the brothers. And he departed, and went into another place.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.12.18">Now as soon as it was day, there was no small stir among the soldiers, what was become of Peter.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.12.19">And when Herod had sought for him, and found him not, he examined the keepers, and commanded that they should be put to death. And he went down from Judaea to Caesarea, and there abode.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.12.20">And Herod was highly displeased with them of Tyre and Sidon: but they came with one accord to him, and, having made Blastus the king's chamberlain their friend, desired peace; because their country was nourished by the king's country.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.12.21">And upon a set day Herod, arrayed in royal apparel, sat upon his throne, and made an oration unto them.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.12.22">And the people gave a shout, saying, It is the voice of a god, and not of a man.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.12.23">And immediately the angel of the Lord smote him, because he gave not God the glory: and he was eaten of worms, and gave up the ghost.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.12.24">But the word of God grew and multiplied.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.12.25">And Barnabas and Saul returned from Jerusalem, when they had fulfilled their ministry, and took with them John, whose surname was Mark.</verse>
</chapter>
<chapter osisID="Acts.12.25">
<verse osisID="Acts.13.1">Now there were in the church that was at Antioch certain prophets and teachers; as Barnabas, and Simeon that was called Niger, and Lucius of Cyrene, and Manaen, which had been brought up with Herod the tetrarch, and Saul.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.13.2">As they ministered to the Lord, and fasted, the Holy Ghost said, Separate me Barnabas and Saul for the work whereunto I have called them.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.13.3">And when they had fasted and prayed, and laid their hands on them, they sent them away.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.13.4">So they, being sent forth by the Holy Ghost, departed unto Seleucia; and from there they sailed to Cyprus.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.13.5">And when they were at Salamis, they preached the word of God in the synagogues of the Jews: and they had also John to their minister.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.13.6">And when they had gone through the isle unto Paphos, they found a certain sorcerer, a false prophet, a Jew, whose name was Barjesus:</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.13.7">Which was with the deputy of the country, Sergius Paulus, a prudent man; who called for Barnabas and Saul, and desired to hear the word of God.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.13.8">But Elymas the sorcerer (for so is his name by interpretation) withstood them, seeking to turn away the deputy from the faith.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.13.9">Then Saul, (who also is called Paul,) filled with the Holy Ghost, set his eyes on him.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.13.10">And said, O full of all trickery and all mischief, you child of the devil, you enemy of all righteousness, will you not cease to pervert the right ways of the Lord?</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.13.11">And now, behold, the hand of the Lord is upon you, and you shall be blind, not seeing the sun for a season. And immediately there fell on him a mist and a darkness; and he went about seeking some to lead him by the hand.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.13.12">Then the deputy, when he saw what was done, believed, being astonished at the doctrine of the Lord.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.13.13">Now when Paul and his company loosed from Paphos, they came to Perga in Pamphylia: and John departing from them returned to Jerusalem.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.13.14">But when they departed from Perga, they came to Antioch in Pisidia, and went into the synagogue on the sabbath day, and sat down.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.13.15">And after the reading of the law and the prophets the rulers of the synagogue sent unto them, saying, You men and brothers, if you have any word of exhortation for the people, say on.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.13.16">Then Paul stood up, and beckoning with his hand said, Men of Israel, and you that fear God, give audience.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.13.17">The God of this people of Israel chose our fathers, and exalted the people when they dwelled as strangers in the land of Egypt, and with a high arm brought he them out of it.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.13.18">And about the time of forty years suffered he their manners in the wilderness.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.13.19">And when he had destroyed seven nations in the land of Chanaan, he divided their land to them by lot.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.13.20">And after that he gave unto them judges about the space of four hundred and fifty years, until Samuel the prophet.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.13.21">And afterward they desired a king: and God gave unto them Saul the son of Cis, a man of the tribe of Benjamin, by the space of forty years.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.13.22">And when he had removed him, he raised up unto them David to be their king; to whom also he gave their testimony, and said, I have found David the son of Jesse, a man after my own heart, which shall fulfill all my will.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.13.23">Of this man's seed has God according to his promise raised unto Israel a Saviour, Jesus:</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.13.24">When John had first preached before his coming the baptism of repentance to all the people of Israel.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.13.25">And as John fulfilled his course, he said, Whom think you that I am? I am not he. But, behold, there comes one after me, whose shoes of his feet I am not worthy to loose.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.13.26">Men and brothers, children of the stock of Abraham, and whosoever among you fears God, to you is the word of this salvation sent.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.13.27">For they that dwell at Jerusalem, and their rulers, because they knew him not, nor yet the voices of the prophets which are read every sabbath day, they have fulfilled them in condemning him.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.13.28">And though they found no cause of death in him, yet desired they Pilate that he should be slain.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.13.29">And when they had fulfilled all that was written of him, they took him down from the tree, and laid him in a sepulcher.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.13.30">But God raised him from the dead:</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.13.31">And he was seen many days of those who came up with him from Galilee to Jerusalem, who are his witnesses unto the people.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.13.32">And we declare unto you glad tidings, that the promise which was made unto the fathers,</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.13.33">God has fulfilled the same unto us their children, in that he has raised up Jesus again; as it is also written in the second psalm, You are my Son, this day have I begotten you.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.13.34">And as concerning that he raised him up from the dead, now no more to return to corruption, he said on this wise, I will give you the sure mercies of David.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.13.35">Therefore he says also in another psalm, You shall not permit your Holy One to see corruption.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.13.36">For David, after he had served his own generation by the will of God, fell on sleep, and was laid unto his fathers, and saw corruption:</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.13.37">But he, whom God raised again, saw no corruption.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.13.38">Be it known unto you therefore, men and brothers, that through this man is preached unto you the forgiveness of sins:</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.13.39">And by him all that believe are justified from all things, from which you could not be justified by the law of Moses.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.13.40">Beware therefore, lest that come upon you, which is spoken of in the prophets;</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.13.41">Behold, you despisers, and wonder, and perish: for I work a work in your days, a work which you shall in no way believe, though a man declare it unto you.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.13.42">And when the Jews were gone out of the synagogue, the Gentiles asked that these words might be preached to them the next sabbath.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.13.43">Now when the congregation was broken up, many of the Jews and religious proselytes followed Paul and Barnabas: who, speaking to them, persuaded them to continue in the grace of God.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.13.44">And the next sabbath day came almost the whole city together to hear the word of God.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.13.45">But when the Jews saw the multitudes, they were filled with envy, and spoke against those things which were spoken by Paul, contradicting and blaspheming.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.13.46">Then Paul and Barnabas grown bold, and said, It was necessary that the word of God should first have been spoken to you: but seeing you put it from you, and judge yourselves unworthy of everlasting life, lo, we turn to the Gentiles.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.13.47">For so has the Lord commanded us, saying, I have set you to be a light of the Gentiles, that you should be for salvation unto the ends of the earth.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.13.48">And when the Gentiles heard this, they were glad, and glorified the word of the Lord: and as many as were ordained to eternal life believed.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.13.49">And the word of the Lord was spoken out throughout all the region.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.13.50">But the Jews stirred up the devout and honorable women, and the chief men of the city, and raised persecution against Paul and Barnabas, and expelled them out of their borders.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.13.51">But they shook off the dust of their feet against them, and came unto Iconium.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.13.52">And the disciples were filled with joy, and with the Holy Ghost.</verse>
</chapter>
<chapter osisID="Acts.13.52">
<verse osisID="Acts.14.1">And it came to pass in Iconium, that they went both together into the synagogue of the Jews, and so spoke, that a great multitude both of the Jews and also of the Greeks believed.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.14.2">But the unbelieving Jews stirred up the Gentiles, and made their minds evil affected against the brothers.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.14.3">Long time therefore abode they speaking boldly in the Lord, which gave testimony unto the word of his grace, and granted signs and wonders to be done by their hands.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.14.4">But the multitude of the city was divided: and part held with the Jews, and part with the apostles.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.14.5">And when there was an assault made both of the Gentiles, and also of the Jews with their rulers, to use them despitefully, and to stone them,</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.14.6">They were ware of it, and fled unto Lystra and Derbe, cities of Lycaonia, and unto the region that lies round about:</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.14.7">And there they preached the gospel.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.14.8">And there sat a certain man at Lystra, sick in his feet, being a cripple from his mother's womb, who never had walked:</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.14.9">The same heard Paul speak: who steadfastly beholding him, and perceiving that he had faith to be healed,</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.14.10">Said with a loud voice, Stand upright on your feet. And he leaped and walked.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.14.11">And when the people saw what Paul had done, they lifted up their voices, saying in the speech of Lycaonia, The gods are come down to us in the likeness of men.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.14.12">And they called Barnabas, Jupiter; and Paul, Mercurius, because he was the chief speaker.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.14.13">Then the priest of Jupiter, which was before their city, brought oxen and garlands unto the gates, and would have done sacrifice with the people.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.14.14">Which when the apostles, Barnabas and Paul, heard of, they tear their clothes, and ran in among the people, crying out,</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.14.15">And saying, Sirs, why do you these things? We also are men of like passions with you, and preach unto you that you should turn from these vanities unto the living God, which made heaven, and earth, and the sea, and all things that are in it:</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.14.16">Who in times past permitted all nations to walk in their own ways.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.14.17">Nevertheless he left not himself without witness, in that he did good, and gave us rain from heaven, and fruitful seasons, filling our hearts with food and gladness.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.14.18">And with these sayings scarce restrained they the people, that they had not done sacrifice unto them.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.14.19">And there came to there certain Jews from Antioch and Iconium, who persuaded the people, and having stoned Paul, drew him out of the city, supposing he had been dead.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.14.20">Howbeit, as the disciples stood round about him, he rose up, and came into the city: and the next day he departed with Barnabas to Derbe.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.14.21">And when they had preached the gospel to that city, and had taught many, they returned again to Lystra, and to Iconium, and Antioch,</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.14.22">Confirming the souls of the disciples, and exhorting them to continue in the faith, and that we must through much tribulation enter into the kingdom of God.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.14.23">And when they had ordained them elders in every church, and had prayed with fasting, they commended them to the Lord, on whom they believed.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.14.24">And after they had passed throughout Pisidia, they came to Pamphylia.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.14.25">And when they had preached the word in Perga, they went down into Attalia:</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.14.26">And from there sailed to Antioch, from from where they ha been recommended to the grace of God for the work which they fulfilled.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.14.27">And when they had come, and had gathered the church together, they rehearsed all that God had done with them, and how he had opened the door of faith unto the Gentiles.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.14.28">And there they abode long time with the disciples.</verse>
</chapter>
<chapter osisID="Acts.14.28">
<verse osisID="Acts.15.1">And certain men which came down from Judaea taught the brothers, and said, Unless you be circumcised after the manner of Moses, you cannot be saved.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.15.2">When therefore Paul and Barnabas had no small dissension and disputation with them, they determined that Paul and Barnabas, and certain other of them, should go up to Jerusalem unto the apostles and elders about this question.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.15.3">And being brought on their way by the church, they passed through Phenice and Samaria, declaring the conversion of the Gentiles: and they caused great joy unto all the brothers.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.15.4">And when they had come to Jerusalem, they were received of the church, and of the apostles and elders, and they declared all things that God had done with them.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.15.5">But there rose up certain of the sect of the Pharisees which believed, saying, That it was necessary to circumcise them, and to command them to keep the law of Moses.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.15.6">And the apostles and elders came together for to consider of this matter.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.15.7">And when there had been much disputing, Peter rose up, and said unto them, Men and brothers, you know that a good while ago God made choice among us, that the Gentiles by my mouth should hear the word of the gospel, and believe.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.15.8">And God, which knows the hearts, bore them witness, giving them the Holy Ghost, just as he did unto us;</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.15.9">And put no difference between us and them, purifying their hearts by faith.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.15.10">Now therefore why tempt you God, to put a yoke upon the neck of the disciples, which neither our fathers nor we were able to bear?</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.15.11">But we believe that through the grace of the LORD Jesus Christ we shall be saved, just as they.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.15.12">Then all the multitude kept silence, and gave audience to Barnabas and Paul, declaring what miracles and wonders God had wrought among the Gentiles by them.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.15.13">And after they had held their peace, James answered, saying, Men and brothers, hearken unto me:</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.15.14">Simeon has declared how God at the first did visit the Gentiles, to take out of them a people for his name.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.15.15">And to this agree the words of the prophets; as it is written,</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.15.16">After this I will return, and will build again the tabernacle of David, which is fallen down; and I will build again the ruins of it, and I will set it up:</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.15.17">That the residue of men might seek after the Lord, and all the Gentiles, upon whom my name is called, says the Lord, who does all these things.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.15.18">Known unto God are all his works from the beginning of the world.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.15.19">Therefore my sentence is, that we trouble not them, which from among the Gentiles are turned to God:</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.15.20">But that we write unto them, that they abstain from pollutions of idols, and from fornication, and from things strangled, and from blood.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.15.21">For Moses of old time has in every city them that preach him, being read in the synagogues every sabbath day.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.15.22">Then pleased it the apostles and elders with the whole church, to send chosen men of their own company to Antioch with Paul and Barnabas; namely, Judas surnamed Barsabas and Silas, chief men among the brothers:</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.15.23">And they wrote letters by them after this manner; The apostles and elders and brothers send greeting unto the brothers which are of the Gentiles in Antioch and Syria and Cilicia.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.15.24">Since as we have heard, that certain which went out from us have troubled you with words, subverting your souls, saying, You must be circumcised, and keep the law: to whom we gave no such commandment:</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.15.25">It seemed good unto us, being assembled with one accord, to send chosen men unto you with our beloved Barnabas and Paul,</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.15.26">Men that have hazarded their lives for the name of our Lord Jesus Christ.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.15.27">We have sent therefore Judas and Silas, who shall also tell you the same things by mouth.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.15.28">For it seemed good to the Holy Ghost, and to us, to lay upon you no greater burden than these necessary things;</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.15.29">That you abstain from foods offered to idols, and from blood, and from things strangled, and from fornication: from which if you keep yourselves, you shall do well. Fare you well.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.15.30">So when they were dismissed, they came to Antioch: and when they had gathered the multitude together, they delivered the epistle:</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.15.31">Which when they had read, they rejoiced for the consolation.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.15.32">And Judas and Silas, being prophets also themselves, exhorted the brothers with many words, and confirmed them.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.15.33">And after they had tarried there a space, they were let go in peace from the brothers unto the apostles.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.15.34">Notwithstanding it pleased Silas to abide there still.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.15.35">Paul also and Barnabas continued in Antioch, teaching and preaching the word of the Lord, with many others also.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.15.36">And some days after Paul said unto Barnabas, Let us go again and visit our brothers in every city where we have preached the word of the LORD, and see how they do.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.15.37">And Barnabas determined to take with them John, whose surname was Mark.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.15.38">But Paul thought not good to take him with them, who departed from them from Pamphylia, and went not with them to the work.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.15.39">And the contention was so sharp between them, that they departed asunder one from the other: and so Barnabas took Mark, and sailed unto Cyprus;</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.15.40">And Paul chose Silas, and departed, being recommended by the brothers unto the grace of God.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.15.41">And he went through Syria and Cilicia, confirming the churches.</verse>
</chapter>
<chapter osisID="Acts.15.41">
<verse osisID="Acts.16.1">Then came he to Derbe and Lystra: and, behold, a certain disciple was there, named Timotheus, the son of a certain woman, which was a Jewess, and believed; but his father was a Greek:</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.16.2">Which was well reported of by the brothers that were at Lystra and Iconium.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.16.3">Him would Paul have to go forth with him; and took and circumcised him because of the Jews which were in those quarters: for they knew all that his father was a Greek.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.16.4">And as they went through the cities, they delivered them the decrees for to keep, that were ordained of the apostles and elders which were at Jerusalem.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.16.5">And so were the churches established in the faith, and increased in number daily.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.16.6">Now when they had gone throughout Phrygia and the region of Galatia, and were forbidden of the Holy Ghost to preach the word in Asia,</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.16.7">After they had come to Mysia, they attempted to go into Bithynia: but the Spirit permitted them not.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.16.8">And they passing by Mysia came down to Troas.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.16.9">And a vision appeared to Paul in the night; There stood a man of Macedonia, and prayed him, saying, Come over into Macedonia, and help us.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.16.10">And after he had seen the vision, immediately we endeavored to go into Macedonia, assuredly gathering that the Lord had called us for to preach the gospel unto them.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.16.11">Therefore loosing from Troas, we came with a straight course to Samothracia, and the next day to Neapolis;</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.16.12">And from there to Philippi, which is the chief city of that part of Macedonia, and a colony: and we were in that city abiding certain days.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.16.13">And on the sabbath we went out of the city by a river side, where prayer was accustomed to be made; and we sat down, and spoke unto the women which resorted to there.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.16.14">And a certain woman named Lydia, a seller of purple, of the city of Youratira, which worshipped God, heard us: whose heart the Lord opened, that she attended unto the things which were spoken of Paul.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.16.15">And when she was baptized, and her household, she asked us, saying, If you have judged me to be faithful to the Lord, come into my house, and abide there. And she constrained us.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.16.16">And it came to pass, as we went to prayer, a certain damsel possessed with a spirit of divination met us, which brought her masters much gain by soothsaying:</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.16.17">The same followed Paul and us, and cried, saying, These men are the servants of the most high God, which show unto us the way of salvation.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.16.18">And this did she many days. But Paul, being grieved, turned and said to the spirit, I command you in the name of Jesus Christ to come out of her. And he came out the same hour.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.16.19">And when her masters saw that the hope of their gains was gone, they caught Paul and Silas, and drew them into the marketplace unto the rulers,</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.16.20">And brought them to the magistrates, saying, These men, being Jews, do exceedingly trouble our city,</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.16.21">And teach customs, which are not lawful for us to receive, neither to observe, being Romans.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.16.22">And the multitude rose up together against them: and the magistrates tore off their clothes, and commanded to beat them.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.16.23">And when they had laid many stripes upon them, they cast them into prison, charging the jailer to keep them safely:</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.16.24">Who, having received such a charge, thrust them into the inner prison, and made their feet fast in the stocks.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.16.25">And at midnight Paul and Silas prayed, and sang praises unto God: and the prisoners heard them.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.16.26">And suddenly there was a great earthquake, so that the foundations of the prison were shaken: and immediately all the doors were opened, and every one's bands were loosed.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.16.27">And the keeper of the prison awaking out of his sleep, and seeing the prison doors open, he drew out his sword, and would have killed himself, supposing that the prisoners had been fled.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.16.28">But Paul cried with a loud voice, saying, Do yourself no harm: for we are all here.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.16.29">Then he called for a light, and sprang in, and came trembling, and fell down before Paul and Silas,</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.16.30">And brought them out, and said, Sirs, what must I do to be saved?</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.16.31">And they said, Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and you shall be saved, and your house.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.16.32">And they spoke unto him the word of the Lord, and to all that were in his house.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.16.33">And he took them the same hour of the night, and washed their stripes; and was baptized, he and all his, immediately.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.16.34">And when he had brought them into his house, he set food before them, and rejoiced, believing in God with all his house.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.16.35">And when it was day, the magistrates sent the sergeants, saying, Let those men go.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.16.36">And the keeper of the prison told this saying to Paul, The magistrates have sent to let you go: now therefore depart, and go in peace.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.16.37">But Paul said unto them, They have beaten us openly uncondemned, being Romans, and have cast us into prison; and now do they thrust us out secretly? no truthfully; but let them come themselves and fetch us out.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.16.38">And the sergeants told these words unto the magistrates: and they feared, when they heard that they were Romans.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.16.39">And they came and sought them, and brought them out, and desired them to depart out of the city.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.16.40">And they went out of the prison, and entered into the house of Lydia: and when they had seen the brothers, they comforted them, and departed.</verse>
</chapter>
<chapter osisID="Acts.16.40">
<verse osisID="Acts.17.1">Now when they had passed through Amphipolis and Apollonia, they came to Thessalonica, where was a synagogue of the Jews:</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.17.2">And Paul, as his manner was, went in unto them, and three sabbath days reasoned with them out of the scriptures,</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.17.3">Opening and alleging, that Christ must needs have suffered, and risen again from the dead; and that this Jesus, whom I preach unto you, is Christ.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.17.4">And some of them believed, and consorted with Paul and Silas; and of the devout Greeks a great multitude, and of the chief women not a few.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.17.5">But the Jews which believed not, moved with envy, took unto them certain lewd fellows of the baser sort, and gathered a company, and set all the city on an uproar, and assaulted the house of Jason, and sought to bring them out to the people.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.17.6">And when they found them not, they drew Jason and certain brothers unto the rulers of the city, crying, These that have turned the world upside down are come to here also;</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.17.7">Whom Jason has received: and these all do contrary to the decrees of Caesar, saying that there is another king, one Jesus.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.17.8">And they troubled the people and the rulers of the city, when they heard these things.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.17.9">And when they had taken security of Jason, and of the other, they let them go.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.17.10">And the brothers immediately sent away Paul and Silas by night unto Berea: who coming to there went into the synagogue of the Jews.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.17.11">These were more noble than those in Thessalonica, in that they received the word with all readiness of mind, and searched the scriptures daily, whether those things were so.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.17.12">Therefore many of them believed; also of honorable women which were Greeks, and of men, not a few.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.17.13">But when the Jews of Thessalonica had knowledge that the word of God was preached of Paul at Berea, they came to there also, and stirred up the people.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.17.14">And then immediately the brothers sent away Paul to go as it were to the sea: but Silas and Timotheus abode there still.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.17.15">And they that conducted Paul brought him unto Athens: and receiving a commandment unto Silas and Timotheus for to come to him with all speed, they departed.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.17.16">Now while Paul waited for them at Athens, his spirit was stirred in him, when he saw the city wholly given to idolatry.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.17.17">Therefore disputed he in the synagogue with the Jews, and with the devout persons, and in the market daily with them that met with him.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.17.18">Then certain philosophers of the Epicureans, and of the Stoicks, encountered him. And some said, What will this babbler say? other some, He seems to be a setter forth of strange gods: because he preached unto them Jesus, and the resurrection.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.17.19">And they took him, and brought him unto Areopagus, saying, May we know what this new doctrine, whereof you speak, is?</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.17.20">For you bring certain strange things to our ears: we would know therefore what these things mean.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.17.21">(For all the Athenians and strangers which were there spent their time in nothing else, but either to tell, or to hear some new thing.)</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.17.22">Then Paul stood in the midst of Mars' hill, and said, You men of Athens, I perceive that in all things you are too superstitious.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.17.23">For as I passed by, and beheld your devotions, I found an altar with this inscription, TO THE UNKNOWN GOD. Whom therefore you ignorantly worship, him declare I unto you.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.17.24">God that made the world and all things in it, seeing that he is Lord of heaven and earth, dwells not in temples made with hands;</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.17.25">Neither is worshipped with men's hands, as though he needed any thing, seeing he gives to all life, and breath, and all things;</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.17.26">And has made of one blood all nations of men for to dwell on all the face of the earth, and has determined the times before appointed, and the bounds of their habitation;</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.17.27">That they should seek the Lord, if haply they might feel after him, and find him, though he be not far from every one of us:</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.17.28">For in him we live, and move, and have our being; as certain also of your own poets have said, For we are also his offspring.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.17.29">Since we are the offspring of God, we ought not to think that the Godhead is like unto gold, or silver, or stone, graven by are and man's device.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.17.30">And the times of this ignorance God winked at; but now commands all men every where to repent:</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.17.31">Because he has appointed a day, in which he will judge the world in righteousness by that man whom he has ordained; whereof he has given assurance unto all men, in that he has raised him from the dead.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.17.32">And when they heard of the resurrection of the dead, some mocked: and others said, We will hear you again of this matter.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.17.33">So Paul departed from among them.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.17.34">Howbeit certain men clave unto him, and believed: among the which was Dionysius the Areopagite, and a woman named Damaris, and others with them.</verse>
</chapter>
<chapter osisID="Acts.17.34">
<verse osisID="Acts.18.1">After these things Paul departed from Athens, and came to Corinth;</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.18.2">And found a certain Jew named Aquila, born in Pontus, lately come from Italy, with his wife Priscilla; (because Claudius had commanded all Jews to depart from Rome:) and came unto them.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.18.3">And because he was of the same craft, he abode with them, and wrought: for by their occupation they were tentmakers.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.18.4">And he reasoned in the synagogue every sabbath, and persuaded the Jews and the Greeks.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.18.5">And when Silas and Timotheus had come from Macedonia, Paul was pressed in the spirit, and testified to the Jews that Jesus was Christ.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.18.6">And when they opposed themselves, and blasphemed, he shook his clothing, and said unto them, Your blood be upon your own heads; I am clean; from now on I will go unto the Gentiles.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.18.7">And he departed from there, and entered into a certain man's house, named Justus, one that worshipped God, whose house joined hard to the synagogue.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.18.8">And Crispus, the chief ruler of the synagogue, believed on the Lord with all his house; and many of the Corinthians hearing believed, and were baptized.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.18.9">Then spoke the Lord to Paul in the night by a vision, Be not afraid, but speak, and hold not your peace:</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.18.10">For I am with you, and no man shall set on you to hurt you: for I have many people in this city.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.18.11">And he continued there a year and six months, teaching the word of God among them.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.18.12">And when Gallio was the deputy of Achaia, the Jews made insurrection with one accord against Paul, and brought him to the judgment seat,</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.18.13">Saying, This fellow persuades men to worship God contrary to the law.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.18.14">And when Paul was now about to open his mouth, Gallio said unto the Jews, If it were a matter of wrong or wicked lewdness, O you Jews, reason would that I should bear with you:</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.18.15">But if it be a question of words and names, and of your law, look you to it; for I will be no judge of such matters.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.18.16">And he drove them from the judgment seat.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.18.17">Then all the Greeks took Sosthenes, the chief ruler of the synagogue, and beat him before the judgment seat. And Gallio cared for none of those things.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.18.18">And Paul after this tarried there yet a good while, and then took his leave of the brothers, and sailed from there into Syria, and with him Priscilla and Aquila; having shorn his head in Cenchrea: for he had a vow.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.18.19">And he came to Ephesus, and left them there: but he himself entered into the synagogue, and reasoned with the Jews.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.18.20">When they desired him to tarry longer time with them, he consented not;</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.18.21">But bade them farewell, saying, I must by all means keep this feast that comes in Jerusalem: but I will return again unto you, if God will. And he sailed from Ephesus.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.18.22">And when he had landed at Caesarea, and gone up, and saluted the church, he went down to Antioch.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.18.23">And after he had spent some time there, he departed, and went over all the country of Galatia and Phrygia in order, strengthening all the disciples.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.18.24">And a certain Jew named Apollos, born at Alexandria, an eloquent man, and mighty in the scriptures, came to Ephesus.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.18.25">This man was instructed on the way of the Lord; and being fervent in the spirit, he spoke and taught diligently the things of the Lord, knowing only the baptism of John.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.18.26">And he began to speak boldly in the synagogue: whom when Aquila and Priscilla had heard, they took him unto them, and expounded unto him the way of God more perfectly.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.18.27">And when he was disposed to pass into Achaia, the brothers wrote, exhorting the disciples to receive him: who, when he was come, helped them much which had believed through grace:</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.18.28">For he mightily convinced the Jews, and that publicly, showing by the scriptures that Jesus was Christ.</verse>
</chapter>
<chapter osisID="Acts.18.28">
<verse osisID="Acts.19.1">And it came to pass, that, while Apollos was at Corinth, Paul having passed through the upper borders came to Ephesus: and finding certain disciples,</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.19.2">He said unto them, Have you received the Holy Ghost since you believed? And they said unto him, We have not so much as heard whether there be any Holy Ghost.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.19.3">And he said unto them, Unto what then were you baptized? And they said, Unto John's baptism.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.19.4">Then said Paul, John truthfully baptized with the baptism of repentance, saying unto the people, that they should believe on him which should come after him, that is, on Christ Jesus.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.19.5">When they heard this, they were baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.19.6">And when Paul had laid his hands upon them, the Holy Ghost came on them; and they spoke with tongues, and prophesied.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.19.7">And all the men were about twelve.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.19.8">And he went into the synagogue, and spoke boldly for the space of three months, disputing and persuading the things concerning the kingdom of God.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.19.9">But when different were hardened, and believed not, but spoke evil of that way before the multitude, he departed from them, and separated the disciples, disputing daily in the school of one Tyrannus.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.19.10">And this continued by the space of two years; so that all they which dwelled in Asia heard the word of the Lord Jesus, both Jews and Greeks.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.19.11">And God wrought special miracles by the hands of Paul:</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.19.12">So that from his body were brought unto the sick handkerchiefs or aprons, and the diseases departed from them, and the evil spirits went out of them.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.19.13">Then certain of the vagabond Jews, exorcists, took upon them to call over those who had evil spirits the name of the LORD Jesus, saying, We adjure you by Jesus whom Paul preacheth.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.19.14">And there were seven sons of one Sceva, a Jew, and chief of the priests, which did so.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.19.15">And the evil spirit answered and said, Jesus I know, and Paul I know; but who are you?</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.19.16">And the man in whom the evil spirit was leaped on them, and overcame them, and prevailed against them, so that they fled out of that house naked and wounded.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.19.17">And this was known to all the Jews and Greeks also dwelling at Ephesus; and fear fell on them all, and the name of the Lord Jesus was magnified.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.19.18">And many that believed came, and confessed, and showed their deeds.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.19.19">Many of them also which used curious arts brought their books together, and burned them before all men: and they counted the price of them, and found it fifty thousand pieces of silver.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.19.20">So mightily grew the word of God and prevailed.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.19.21">After these things were ended, Paul purposed in the spirit, when he had passed through Macedonia and Achaia, to go to Jerusalem, saying, After I have been there, I must also see Rome.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.19.22">So he sent into Macedonia two of them that ministered unto him, Timotheus and Erastus; but he himself stayed in Asia for a season.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.19.23">And the same time there arose no small stir about that way.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.19.24">For a certain man named Demetrius, a silversmith, which made silver shrines for Diana, brought no small gain unto the craftsmen;</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.19.25">Whom he called together with the workmen of like occupation, and said, Sirs, you know that by this craft we have our wealth.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.19.26">Moreover you see and hear, that not alone at Ephesus, but almost throughout all Asia, this Paul has persuaded and turned away much people, saying that they be no gods, which are made with hands:</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.19.27">So that not only this our craft is in danger to be set at nought; but also that the temple of the great goddess Diana should be despised, and her magnificence should be destroyed, whom all Asia and the world worships.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.19.28">And when they heard these sayings, they were full of wrath, and cried out, saying, Great is Diana of the Ephesians.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.19.29">And the whole city was filled with confusion: and having caught Gaius and Aristarchus, men of Macedonia, Paul's companions in travel, they rushed with one accord into the theater.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.19.30">And when Paul would have entered in unto the people, the disciples did not permit.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.19.31">And certain of the chief of Asia, which were his friends, sent unto him, desiring him that he would not adventure himself into the theater.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.19.32">Some therefore cried one thing, and some another: for the assembly was confused: and the more part did not know why they were come together.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.19.33">And they drew Alexander out of the multitude, the Jews putting him forward. And Alexander beckoned with the hand, and would have made his defense unto the people.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.19.34">But when they knew that he was a Jew, all with one voice about the space of two hours cried out, Great is Diana of the Ephesians.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.19.35">And when the town clerk had appeased the people, he said, You men of Ephesus, what man is there that knows not that the city of the Ephesians is a worshiper of the great goddess Diana, and of the image which fell down from Jupiter?</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.19.36">Seeing then that these things cannot be spoken against, you ought to be quiet, and to do nothing rashly.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.19.37">For you have brought to here these men, which are neither robbers of churches, nor yet blasphemers of your goddess.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.19.38">Therefore if Demetrius, and the craftsmen which are with him, have a matter against any man, the law is open, and there are deputies: let them plead with one another.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.19.39">But if you inquire any thing concerning other matters, it shall be determined in a lawful assembly.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.19.40">For we are in danger to be called in question for this day's uproar, there being no cause whereby we may give an account of this concourse.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.19.41">And when he had thus spoken, he dismissed the assembly.</verse>
</chapter>
<chapter osisID="Acts.19.41">
<verse osisID="Acts.20.1">And after the uproar was ceased, Paul called unto him the disciples, and embraced them, and departed for to go into Macedonia.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.20.2">And when he had gone over those parts, and had given them much exhortation, he came into Greece,</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.20.3">And there abode three months. And when the Jews laid wait for him, as he was about to sail into Syria, he purposed to return through Macedonia.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.20.4">And there accompanied him into Asia Sopater of Berea; and of the Thessalonians, Aristarchus and Secundus; and Gaius of Derbe, and Timotheus; and of Asia, Tychicus and Trophimus.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.20.5">These going before tarried for us at Troas.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.20.6">And we sailed away from Philippi after the days of unleavened bread, and came unto them to Troas in five days; where we abode seven days.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.20.7">And upon the first day of the week, when the disciples came together to break bread, Paul preached unto them, ready to depart on the next day; and continued his speech until midnight.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.20.8">And there were many lights in the upper chamber, where they were gathered together.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.20.9">And there sat in a window a certain young man named Eutychus, being fallen into a deep sleep: and as Paul was long preaching, he sunk down with sleep, and fell down from the third loft, and was taken up dead.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.20.10">And Paul went down, and fell on him, and embracing him said, Trouble not yourselves; for his life is in him.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.20.11">When he therefore was come up again, and had broken bread, and eaten, and talked a long while, even till break of day, so he departed.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.20.12">And they brought the young man alive, and were not a little comforted.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.20.13">And we went before to ship, and sailed unto Assos, there intending to take in Paul: for so had he appointed, minding himself to go on foot.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.20.14">And when he met with us at Assos, we took him in, and came to Mitylene.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.20.15">And we sailed from there, and came the next day over against Chios; and the next day we arrived at Samos, and tarried at Trogyllium; and the next day we came to Miletus.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.20.16">For Paul had determined to sail by Ephesus, because he would not spend the time in Asia: for he hasted, if it were possible for him, to be at Jerusalem the day of Pentecost.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.20.17">And from Miletus he sent to Ephesus, and called the elders of the church.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.20.18">And when they had come to him, he said unto them, You know, from the first day that I came into Asia, after what manner I have been with you at all seasons,</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.20.19">Serving the LORD with all humility of mind, and with many tears, and temptations, which befell me by the lying in wait of the Jews:</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.20.20">And how I kept back nothing that was profitable unto you, but have showed you, and have taught you publicly, and from house to house,</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.20.21">Testifying both to the Jews, and also to the Greeks, repentance toward God, and faith toward our Lord Jesus Christ.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.20.22">And now, behold, I go bound in the spirit unto Jerusalem, not knowing the things that shall befall me there:</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.20.23">Save that the Holy Ghost witnesses in every city, saying that bonds and afflictions abide me.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.20.24">But none of these things move me, neither count I my life dear unto myself, so that I might finish my course with joy, and the ministry, which I have received of the Lord Jesus, to testify the gospel of the grace of God.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.20.25">And now, behold, I know that you all, among whom I have gone preaching the kingdom of God, shall see my face no more.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.20.26">Therefore I take you to record this day, that I am pure from the blood of all men.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.20.27">For I have not shunned to declare unto you all the counsel of God.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.20.28">Take heed therefore unto yourselves, and to all the flock, over the which the Holy Ghost has made you overseers, to feed the church of God, which he has purchased with his own blood.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.20.29">For I know this, that after my departing shall grievous wolves enter in among you, not sparing the flock.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.20.30">Also of your own selves shall men arise, speaking perverse things, to draw away disciples after them.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.20.31">Therefore watch, and remember, that by the space of three years I ceased not to warn every one night and day with tears.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.20.32">And now, brothers, I commend you to God, and to the word of his grace, which is able to build you up, and to give you an inheritance among all those who are sanctified.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.20.33">I have coveted no man's silver, or gold, or apparel.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.20.34">Yes, you yourselves know, that these hands have ministered unto my necessities, and to them that were with me.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.20.35">I have showed you all things, that so laboring you ought to support the weak, and to remember the words of the Lord Jesus, how he said, It is more blessed to give than to receive.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.20.36">And when he had thus spoken, he kneeled down, and prayed with them all.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.20.37">And they all wept intensely, and fell on Paul's neck, and kissed him,</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.20.38">Sorrowing most of all for the words which he spoke, that they should see his face no more. And they accompanied him unto the ship.</verse>
</chapter>
<chapter osisID="Acts.20.38">
<verse osisID="Acts.21.1">And it came to pass, that after we were gotten from them, and had launched, we came with a straight course unto Coos, and the day following unto Rhodes, and from there unto Patara:</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.21.2">And finding a ship sailing over unto Phenicia, we went aboard, and set forth.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.21.3">Now when we had discovered Cyprus, we left it on the left hand, and sailed into Syria, and landed at Tyre: for there the ship was to unload her burden.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.21.4">And finding disciples, we tarried there seven days: who said to Paul through the Spirit, that he should not go up to Jerusalem.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.21.5">And when we had accomplished those days, we departed and went our way; and they all brought us on our way, with wives and children, till we were out of the city: and we kneeled down on the shore, and prayed.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.21.6">And when we had taken our leave one of another, we took ship; and they returned home again.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.21.7">And when we had finished our course from Tyre, we came to Ptolemais, and saluted the brothers, and abode with them one day.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.21.8">And the next day we that were of Paul's company departed, and came unto Caesarea: and we entered into the house of Philip the evangelist, which was one of the seven; and abode with him.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.21.9">And the same man had four daughters, virgins, which did prophesy.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.21.10">And as we tarried there many days, there came down from Judaea a certain prophet, named Agabus.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.21.11">And when he was come unto us, he took Paul's girdle, and bound his own hands and feet, and said, Thus says the Holy Ghost, So shall the Jews at Jerusalem bind the man that owns this girdle, and shall deliver him into the hands of the Gentiles.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.21.12">And when we heard these things, both we, and they of that place, asked him not to go up to Jerusalem.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.21.13">Then Paul answered, What mean you to weep and to break mine heart? for I am ready not to be bound only, but also to die at Jerusalem for the name of the Lord Jesus.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.21.14">And when he would not be persuaded, we ceased, saying, The will of the Lord be done.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.21.15">And after those days we took up our carriages, and went up to Jerusalem.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.21.16">There went with us also certain of the disciples of Caesarea, and brought with them one Mnason of Cyprus, an old disciple, with whom we should lodge.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.21.17">And when we had come to Jerusalem, the brothers received us gladly.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.21.18">And the day following Paul went in with us unto James; and all the elders were present.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.21.19">And when he had saluted them, he declared particularly what things God had wrought among the Gentiles by his ministry.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.21.20">And when they heard it, they glorified the Lord, and said unto him, You see, brother, how many thousands of Jews there are which believe; and they are all zealous of the law:</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.21.21">And they are informed of you, that you teach all the Jews which are among the Gentiles to forsake Moses, saying that they ought not to circumcise their children, neither to walk after the customs.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.21.22">What is it therefore? the multitude must needs come together: for they will hear that you are come.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.21.23">Do therefore this that we say to you: We have four men which have a vow on them;</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.21.24">Them take, and purify yourself with them, and be at charges with them, that they may shave their heads: and all may know that those things, whereof they were informed concerning you, are nothing; but that you yourself also walk orderly, and keep the law.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.21.25">As touching the Gentiles which believe, we have written and concluded that they observe no such thing, save only that they keep themselves from things offered to idols, and from blood, and from strangled, and from fornication.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.21.26">Then Paul took the men, and the next day purifying himself with them entered into the temple, to signify the accomplishment of the days of purification, until that an offering should be offered for every one of them.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.21.27">And when the seven days were almost ended, the Jews which were of Asia, when they saw him in the temple, stirred up all the people, and laid hands on him,</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.21.28">Crying out, Men of Israel, help: This is the man, that teaches all men every where against the people, and the law, and this place: and further brought Greeks also into the temple, and has polluted this holy place.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.21.29">(For they had seen before with him in the city Trophimus an Ephesian, whom they supposed that Paul had brought into the temple.)</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.21.30">And all the city was moved, and the people ran together: and they took Paul, and drew him out of the temple: and immediately the doors were shut.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.21.31">And as they went about to kill him, tidings came unto the chief captain of the band, that all Jerusalem was in an uproar.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.21.32">Who immediately took soldiers and centurions, and ran down unto them: and when they saw the chief captain and the soldiers, they left beating of Paul.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.21.33">Then the chief captain came near, and took him, and commanded him to be bound with two chains; and demanded who he was, and what he had done.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.21.34">And some cried one thing, some another, among the multitude: and when he could not know the certainty for the tumult, he commanded him to be carried into the castle.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.21.35">And when he came upon the stairs, so it was, that he was borne of the soldiers for the violence of the people.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.21.36">For the multitude of the people followed after, crying, Away with him.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.21.37">And as Paul was to be led into the castle, he said unto the chief captain, May I speak unto you? Who said, Can you speak Greek?</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.21.38">Are not you that Egyptian, which before these days made an uproar, and led out into the wilderness four thousand men that were murderers?</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.21.39">But Paul said, I am a man who is a Jew of Tarsus, a city in Cilicia, a citizen of no mean city: and, I beseech you, permit me to speak unto the people.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.21.40">And when he had given him license, Paul stood on the stairs, and beckoned with the hand unto the people. And when there was made a great silence, he spoke unto them in the Hebrew tongue, saying,</verse>
</chapter>
<chapter osisID="Acts.21.40">
<verse osisID="Acts.22.1">Men, brothers, and fathers, hear you my defense which I make now unto you.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.22.2">(And when they heard that he spoke in the Hebrew tongue to them, they kept the more silence: and he says,)</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.22.3">I am truthfully a man which am a Jew, born in Tarsus, a city in Cilicia, yet brought up in this city at the feet of Gamaliel, and taught according to the perfect manner of the law of the fathers, and was zealous toward God, as you all are this day.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.22.4">And I persecuted this way unto the death, binding and delivering into prisons both men and women.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.22.5">As also the high priest does bear me witness, and all the estate of the elders: from whom also I received letters unto the brothers, and went to Damascus, to bring those who were there bound unto Jerusalem, for to be punished.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.22.6">And it came to pass, that, as I made my journey, and was come close unto Damascus about noon, suddenly there shone from heaven a great light round about me.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.22.7">And I fell unto the ground, and heard a voice saying unto me, Saul, Saul, why do you persecute me?</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.22.8">And I answered, Who are you, Lord? And he said unto me, I am Jesus of Nazareth, whom you persecute.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.22.9">And they that were with me saw indeed the light, and were afraid; but they heard not the voice of him that spoke to me.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.22.10">And I said, What shall I do, LORD? And the Lord said unto me, Arise, and go into Damascus; and there it shall be told you of all things which are appointed for you to do.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.22.11">And when I could not see for the glory of that light, being led by the hand of them that were with me, I came into Damascus.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.22.12">And one Ananias, a devout man according to the law, having a good report of all the Jews which dwelled there,</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.22.13">Came unto me, and stood, and said unto me, Brother Saul, receive your sight. And the same hour I looked up upon him.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.22.14">And he said, The God of our fathers has chosen you, that you should know his will, and see that Just One, and should hear the voice of his mouth.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.22.15">For you shall be his witness unto all men of what you have seen and heard.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.22.16">And now why do you tarry? arise, and be baptized, and wash away your sins, calling on the name of the Lord.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.22.17">And it came to pass, that, when I was come again to Jerusalem, even while I prayed in the temple, I was in a trance;</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.22.18">And saw him saying unto me, Make haste, and get you quickly out of Jerusalem: for they will not receive your testimony concerning me.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.22.19">And I said, Lord, they know that I imprisoned and beat in every synagogue them that believed on you:</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.22.20">And when the blood of your martyr Stephen was shed, I also was standing by, and consenting unto his death, and kept the clothing of them that slew him.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.22.21">And he said unto me, Depart: for I will send you far hence unto the Gentiles.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.22.22">And they gave him audience unto this word, and then lifted up their voices, and said, Away with such a fellow from the earth: for it is not fit that he should live.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.22.23">And as they cried out, and cast off their clothes, and threw dust into the air,</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.22.24">The chief captain commanded him to be brought into the castle, and bade that he should be examined by scourging; that he might know why they cried so against him.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.22.25">And as they bound him with thongs, Paul said unto the centurion that stood by, Is it lawful for you to whip a man that is a Roman, and uncondemned?</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.22.26">When the centurion heard that, he went and told the chief captain, saying, Take heed what you are doing: for this man is a Roman.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.22.27">Then the chief captain came, and said unto him, Tell me, are you a Roman? He said, yes.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.22.28">And the chief captain answered, With a great sum obtained I this freedom. And Paul said, But I was free born.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.22.29">Then immediately they departed from him which should have examined him: and the chief captain also was afraid, after he knew that he was a Roman, and because he had bound him.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.22.30">On the next day, because he would have known the certainty why he was accused by the Jews, he loosed him from his bands, and commanded the chief priests and all their council to appear, and brought Paul down, and set him before them.</verse>
</chapter>
<chapter osisID="Acts.22.30">
<verse osisID="Acts.23.1">And Paul, earnestly beholding the council, said, Men and brothers, I have lived in all good conscience before God until this day.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.23.2">And the high priest Ananias commanded them that stood by him to smite him on the mouth.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.23.3">Then said Paul unto him, God shall smite you, you whited wall: for do you sit to judge me after the law, and command me to be smitten contrary to the law?</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.23.4">And they that stood by said, Do you revile God's high priest?</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.23.5">Then said Paul, I did not know, brothers, that he was the high priest: for it is written, You shall not speak evil of the ruler of your people.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.23.6">But when Paul perceived that the one part were Sadducees, and the other Pharisees, he cried out in the council, Men and brothers, I am a Pharisee, the son of a Pharisee: of the hope and resurrection of the dead I am called in question.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.23.7">And when he had so said, there arose a dissension between the Pharisees and the Sadducees: and the multitude was divided.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.23.8">For the Sadducees say that there is no resurrection, neither angel, nor spirit: but the Pharisees confess both.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.23.9">And there arose a great cry: and the scribes that were of the Pharisees' part arose, and strove, saying, We find no evil in this man: but if a spirit or an angel has spoken to him, let us not fight against God.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.23.10">And when there arose a great dissension, the chief captain, fearing lest Paul should have been pulled in pieces of them, commanded the soldiers to go down, and to take him by force from among them, and to bring him into the castle.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.23.11">And the night following the Lord stood by him, and said, Be of good cheer, Paul: for as you have testified of me in Jerusalem, so must you bear witness also at Rome.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.23.12">And when it was day, certain of the Jews banded together, and bound themselves under a curse, saying that they would neither eat nor drink till they had killed Paul.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.23.13">And they were more than forty which had made this conspiracy.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.23.14">And they came to the chief priests and elders, and said, We have bound ourselves under a great curse, that we will eat nothing until we have slain Paul.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.23.15">Now therefore you with the council signify to the chief captain that he bring him down unto you tomorrow, as though you would inquire something more perfectly concerning him: and we, or ever he come near, are ready to kill him.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.23.16">And when Paul's sister's son heard of their lying in wait, he went and entered into the castle, and told Paul.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.23.17">Then Paul called one of the centurions unto him, and said, Bring this young man unto the chief captain: for he has a certain thing to tell him.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.23.18">So he took him, and brought him to the chief captain, and said, Paul the prisoner called me unto him, and prayed me to bring this young man unto you, who has something to say unto you.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.23.19">Then the chief captain took him by the hand, and went with him aside secretly, and asked him, What is that you have to tell me?</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.23.20">And he said, The Jews have agreed to desire you that you would bring down Paul tomorrow into the council, as though they would inquire somewhat of him more perfectly.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.23.21">But do not you yield unto them: for there lie in wait for him of them more than forty men, which have bound themselves with an oath, that they will neither eat nor drink till they have killed him: and now are they ready, looking for a promise from you.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.23.22">So the chief captain then let the young man depart, and charged him, See you tell no man that you have showed these things to me.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.23.23">And he called unto him two centurions, saying, Make ready two hundred soldiers to go to Caesarea, and horsemen threescore and ten, and spearmen two hundred, at the third hour of the night;</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.23.24">And provide them beasts, that they may set Paul on, and bring him safe unto Felix the governor.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.23.25">And he wrote a letter after this manner:</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.23.26">Claudius Lysias unto the most excellent governor Felix sends greeting.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.23.27">This man was taken of the Jews, and should have been killed of them: then came I with an army, and rescued him, having understood that he was a Roman.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.23.28">And when I would have known the cause why they accused him, I brought him forth into their council:</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.23.29">Whom I perceived to be accused by questions of their law, but to have nothing laid to his charge worthy of death or of bonds.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.23.30">And when it was told me that the Jews laid wait for the man, I sent immediately to you, and gave commandment to his accusers also to say before you what they had against him. Farewell.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.23.31">Then the soldiers, as it was commanded them, took Paul, and brought him by night to Antipatris.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.23.32">On the next day they left the horsemen to go with him, and returned to the castle:</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.23.33">Who, when they came to Caesarea and delivered the epistle to the governor, presented Paul also before him.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.23.34">And when the governor had read the letter, he asked of what province he was. And when he understood that he was of Cilicia;</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.23.35">I will hear you, said he, when your accusers are also come. And he commanded him to be kept in Herod's judgment hall.</verse>
</chapter>
<chapter osisID="Acts.23.35">
<verse osisID="Acts.24.1">And after five days Ananias the high priest descended with the elders, and with a certain orator named Tertullus, who informed the governor against Paul.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.24.2">And when he was called forth, Tertullus began to accuse him, saying, Seeing that by you we enjoy great quietness, and that very worthy deeds are done unto this nation by your providence,</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.24.3">We accept it always, and in all places, most noble Felix, with all thankfulness.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.24.4">Notwithstanding, that I be not further tedious unto you, I pray you that you would hear us of your clemency a few words.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.24.5">For we have found this man a pestilent fellow, and a mover of sedition among all the Jews throughout the world, and a ringleader of the sect of the Nazarenes:</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.24.6">Who also has gone about to profane the temple: whom we took, and would have judged according to our law.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.24.7">But the chief captain Lysias came upon us, and with great violence took him away out of our hands,</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.24.8">Commanding his accusers to come unto you: by examining of whom yourself may take knowledge of all these things, whereof we accuse him.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.24.9">And the Jews also assented, saying that these things were so.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.24.10">Then Paul, after the governor had beckoned unto him to speak, answered, Since as I know that you have been of many years a judge unto this nation, I do the more cheerfully answer for myself:</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.24.11">Because that you may understand, that there are yet but twelve days since I went up to Jerusalem for to worship.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.24.12">And they neither found me in the temple disputing with any man, neither raising up the people, neither in the synagogues, nor in the city:</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.24.13">Neither can they prove the things whereof they now accuse me.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.24.14">But this I confess unto you, that after the way which they call heresy, so worship I the God of my fathers, believing all things which are written in the law and in the prophets:</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.24.15">And have hope toward God, which they themselves also allow, that there shall be a resurrection of the dead, both of the just and unjust.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.24.16">And herein do I exercise myself, to have always a conscience void to offense toward God, and toward men.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.24.17">Now after many years I came to bring alms to my nation, and offerings.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.24.18">Whereupon certain Jews from Asia found me purified in the temple, neither with multitude, nor with tumult.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.24.19">Who ought to have been here before you, and object, if they had ought against me.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.24.20">Or else let these same here say, if they have found any evil doing in me, while I stood before the council,</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.24.21">Unless it be for this one voice, that I cried standing among them, Touching the resurrection of the dead I am called in question by you this day.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.24.22">And when Felix heard these things, having more perfect knowledge of that way, he deferred them, and said, When Lysias the chief captain shall come down, I will know the last of your matter.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.24.23">And he commanded a centurion to keep Paul, and to let him have liberty, and that he should forbid none of his acquaintance to minister or come unto him.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.24.24">And after certain days, when Felix came with his wife Drusilla, which was a Jewess, he sent for Paul, and heard him concerning the faith in Christ.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.24.25">And as he reasoned of righteousness, temperance, and judgment to come, Felix trembled, and answered, Go your way for this time; when I have a convenient season, I will call for you.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.24.26">He hoped also that money should have been given him of Paul, that he might loose him: therefore he sent for him the more often, and communed with him.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.24.27">But after two years Porcius Festus came into Felix' room: and Felix, willing to show the Jews a pleasure, left Paul bound.</verse>
</chapter>
<chapter osisID="Acts.24.27">
<verse osisID="Acts.25.1">Now when Festus was come into the province, after three days he ascended from Caesarea to Jerusalem.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.25.2">Then the high priest and the chief of the Jews informed him against Paul, and besought him,</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.25.3">And desired favor against him, that he would send for him to Jerusalem, laying wait on the way to kill him.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.25.4">But Festus answered, that Paul should be kept at Caesarea, and that he himself would depart shortly to there.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.25.5">Let them therefore, said he, which among you are able, go down with me, and accuse this man, if there be any wickedness in him.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.25.6">And when he had tarried among them more than ten days, he went down unto Caesarea; and the next day sitting on the judgment seat commanded Paul to be brought.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.25.7">And when he was come, the Jews which came down from Jerusalem stood round about, and laid many and grievous complaints against Paul, which they could not prove.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.25.8">While he answered for himself, Neither against the law of the Jews, neither against the temple, nor yet against Caesar, have I offended any thing at all.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.25.9">But Festus, willing to do the Jews a pleasure, answered Paul, and said, Do you want go up to Jerusalem, and there be judged of these things before me?</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.25.10">Then said Paul, I stand at Caesar's judgment seat, where I ought to be judged: to the Jews have I done no wrong, as you very well know.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.25.11">For if I be an offender, or have committed any thing worthy of death, I refuse not to die: but if there be none of these things whereof these accuse me, no man may deliver me unto them. I appeal unto Caesar.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.25.12">Then Festus, when he had conferred with the council, answered, Have you appealed unto Caesar? unto Caesar shall you go.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.25.13">And after certain days king Agrippa and Bernice came unto Caesarea to salute Festus.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.25.14">And when they had been there many days, Festus declared Paul's cause unto the king, saying, There is a certain man left in bonds by Felix:</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.25.15">About whom, when I was at Jerusalem, the chief priests and the elders of the Jews informed me, desiring to have judgment against him.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.25.16">To whom I answered, It is not the manner of the Romans to deliver any man to die, before that he which is accused have the accusers face to face, and have license to answer for himself concerning the crime laid against him.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.25.17">Therefore, when they had come to here, without any delay on the morrow I sat on the judgment seat, and commanded the man to be brought forth.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.25.18">Against whom when the accusers stood up, they brought none accusation of such things as I supposed:</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.25.19">But had certain questions against him of their own superstition, and of one Jesus, which was dead, whom Paul affirmed to be alive.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.25.20">And because I doubted of such manner of questions, I asked him whether he would go to Jerusalem, and there be judged of these matters.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.25.21">But when Paul had appealed to be reserved unto the hearing of Augustus, I commanded him to be kept till I might send him to Caesar.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.25.22">Then Agrippa said unto Festus, I would also hear the man myself. To morrow, said he, you shall hear him.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.25.23">And on the next day, when Agrippa was come, and Bernice, with great pomp, and was entered into the place of hearing, with the chief captains, and principal men of the city, at Festus' commandment Paul was brought forth.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.25.24">And Festus said, King Agrippa, and all men which are here present with us, you see this man, about whom all the multitude of the Jews have dealt with me, both at Jerusalem, and also here, crying that he ought not to live any longer.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.25.25">But when I found that he had committed nothing worthy of death, and that he himself has appealed to Augustus, I have determined to send him.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.25.26">Of whom I have no certain thing to write unto my lord. Therefore I have brought him forth before you, and specially before you, O king Agrippa, that, after examination had, I might have somewhat to write.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.25.27">For it seems to me unreasonable to send a prisoner, and not also to signify the crimes laid against him.</verse>
</chapter>
<chapter osisID="Acts.25.27">
<verse osisID="Acts.26.1">Then Agrippa said unto Paul, You are permitted to speak for yourself. Then Paul stretched forth the hand, and answered for himself:</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.26.2">I think myself happy, king Agrippa, because I shall answer for myself this day before you touching all the things whereof I am accused by the Jews:</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.26.3">Especially because I know you to be expert in all customs and questions which are among the Jews: therefore I beseech you to hear me patiently.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.26.4">My manner of life from my youth, which was at the first among my own nation at Jerusalem, know all the Jews;</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.26.5">Which knew me from the beginning, if they would testify, that after the most strictest sect of our religion I lived a Pharisee.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.26.6">And now I stand and am judged for the hope of the promise made of God, unto our fathers:</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.26.7">Unto which promise our twelve tribes, instantly serving God day and night, hope to come. For which hope's sake, king Agrippa, I am accused by the Jews.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.26.8">Why should it be thought a thing incredible with you, that God should raise the dead?</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.26.9">I truthfully thought with myself, that I ought to do many things contrary to the name of Jesus of Nazareth.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.26.10">Which thing I also did in Jerusalem: and many of the saints did I shut up in prison, having received authority from the chief priests; and when they were put to death, I gave my voice against them.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.26.11">And I punished them often in every synagogue, and compelled them to blaspheme; and being exceedingly mad against them, I persecuted them even unto strange cities.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.26.12">Whereupon as I went to Damascus with authority and commission from the chief priests,</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.26.13">At midday, O king, I saw on the way a light from heaven, above the brightness of the sun, shining round about me and those who journeyed with me.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.26.14">And when we were all fallen to the earth, I heard a voice speaking unto me, and saying in the Hebrew tongue, Saul, Saul, why do you persecute me? it is hard for you to kick against the pricks.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.26.15">And I said, Who are you, Lord? And he said, I am Jesus whom you persecute.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.26.16">But rise, and stand upon your feet: for I have appeared unto you for this purpose, to make you a minister and a witness both of these things which you have seen, and of those things in which I will appear unto you;</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.26.17">Delivering you from the people, and from the Gentiles, unto whom now I send you,</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.26.18">To open their eyes, and to turn them from darkness to light, and from the power of Satan unto God, that they may receive forgiveness of sins, and inheritance among those who are sanctified by faith that is in me.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.26.19">Whereupon, O king Agrippa, I was not disobedient unto the heavenly vision:</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.26.20">But showed first unto them of Damascus, and at Jerusalem, and throughout all the borders of Judaea, and then to the Gentiles, that they should repent and turn to God, and do works suitable for repentance.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.26.21">For these causes the Jews caught me in the temple, and went about to kill me.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.26.22">Having therefore obtained help of God, I continue unto this day, witnessing both to small and great, saying none other things than those which the prophets and Moses did say should come:</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.26.23">That Christ should suffer, and that he should be the first that should rise from the dead, and should show light unto the people, and to the Gentiles.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.26.24">And as he thus spoke for himself, Festus said with a loud voice, Paul, you are beside yourself; much learning does make you mad.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.26.25">But he said, I am not mad, most noble Festus; but speak forth the words of truth and soberness.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.26.26">For the king knows of these things, before whom also I speak freely: for I am persuaded that none of these things are hidden from him; for this thing was not done in a corner.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.26.27">King Agrippa, do you believe the prophets? I know that you believe.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.26.28">Then Agrippa said unto Paul, Almost you persuade me to be a Christian.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.26.29">And Paul said, I would to God, that not only you, but also all that hear me this day, were both almost, and altogether such as I am, except these bonds.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.26.30">And when he had thus spoken, the king rose up, and the governor, and Bernice, and they that sat with them:</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.26.31">And when they were gone aside, they talked between themselves, saying, This man does nothing worthy of death or of bonds.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.26.32">Then said Agrippa unto Festus, This man might have been set at liberty, if he had not appealed unto Caesar.</verse>
</chapter>
<chapter osisID="Acts.26.32">
<verse osisID="Acts.27.1">And when it was determined that we should sail into Italy, they delivered Paul and certain other prisoners unto one named Julius, a centurion of Augustus' band.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.27.2">And entering into a ship of Adramyttium, we launched, meaning to sail by the borders of Asia; one Aristarchus, a Macedonian of Thessalonica, being with us.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.27.3">And the next day we touched at Sidon. And Julius courteously treated Paul, and gave him liberty to go unto his friends to refresh himself.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.27.4">And when we had launched from there, we sailed under Cyprus, because the winds were contrary.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.27.5">And when we had sailed over the sea of Cilicia and Pamphylia, we came to Myra, a city of Lycia.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.27.6">And there the centurion found a ship of Alexandria sailing into Italy; and he put us in it.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.27.7">And when we had sailed slowly many days, and scarce had come over against Cnidus, the wind not permitting us, we sailed under Crete, over against Salmone;</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.27.8">And, hardly passing it, came unto a place which is called The fair havens; close whereunto was the city of Lasea.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.27.9">Now when much time was spent, and when sailing was now dangerous, because the fast was now already past, Paul admonished them,</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.27.10">And said unto them, Sirs, I perceive that this voyage will be with hurt and much damage, not only of the lading and ship, but also of our lives.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.27.11">Nevertheless the centurion believed the master and the owner of the ship, more than those things which were spoken by Paul.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.27.12">And because the haven was not commodious to winter in, the more part advised to depart from there also, if by any means they might attain to Phenice, and there to winter; which is a haven of Crete, and lies toward the south west and north west.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.27.13">And when the south wind blew softly, supposing that they had obtained their purpose, loosing from there, they sailed close by Crete.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.27.14">But not long after there arose against it a tempestuous wind, called Euroclydon.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.27.15">And when the ship was caught, and could not bear up into the wind, we let her drive.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.27.16">And running under a certain island which is called Clauda, we had much work to come by the boat:</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.27.17">Which when they had taken up, they used helps, undergirding the ship; and, fearing lest they should fall into the quicksands, struck sail, and so were driven.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.27.18">And we being exceedingly tossed with a tempest, the next day they lightened the ship;</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.27.19">And the third day we cast out with our own hands the tackling of the ship.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.27.20">And when neither sun nor stars in many days appeared, and no small tempest lay on us, all hope that we should be saved was then taken away.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.27.21">But after long abstinence Paul stood forth in the midst of them, and said, Sirs, you should have harkened unto me, and not have loosed from Crete, and to have gained this harm and loss.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.27.22">And now I exhort you to be of good cheer: for there shall be no loss of any man's life among you, but of the ship.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.27.23">For there stood by me this night the angel of God, whose I am, and whom I serve,</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.27.24">Saying, Fear not, Paul; you must be brought before Caesar: and, lo, God has given you all them that sail with you.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.27.25">Therefore, sirs, be of good cheer: for I believe God, that it shall be just as it was told me.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.27.26">Howbeit we must be cast upon a certain island.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.27.27">But when the fourteenth night was come, as we were driven up and down in Adria, about midnight the shipmen deemed that they drew near to some country;</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.27.28">And sounded, and found it twenty fathoms: and when they had gone a little further, they sounded again, and found it fifteen fathoms.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.27.29">Then fearing lest we should have fallen upon rocks, they cast four anchors out of the stern, and wished for the day.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.27.30">And as the shipmen were about to flee out of the ship, when they had let down the boat into the sea, under color as though they would have cast anchors out of the foreship,</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.27.31">Paul said to the centurion and to the soldiers, Unless these abide in the ship, you cannot be saved.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.27.32">Then the soldiers cut off the ropes of the boat, and let her fall off.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.27.33">And while the day was coming on, Paul asked them all to take food, saying, This day is the fourteenth day that you have tarried and continued fasting, having taken nothing.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.27.34">Therefore I pray you to take some food: for this is for your health: for there shall not a hair fall from the head of any of you.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.27.35">And when he had thus spoken, he took bread, and gave thanks to God in presence of them all: and when he had broken it, he began to eat.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.27.36">Then were they all of good cheer, and they also took some food.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.27.37">And we were in all in the ship two hundred threescore and sixteen souls.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.27.38">And when they had eaten enough, they lightened the ship, and cast out the wheat into the sea.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.27.39">And when it was day, they did not know the land: but they discovered a certain creek with a shore, into the which they were minded, if it were possible, to thrust in the ship.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.27.40">And when they had taken up the anchors, they committed themselves unto the sea, and loosed the rudder bands, and hoisted up the mainsail to the wind, and made toward shore.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.27.41">And falling into a place where two seas met, they ran the ship aground; and the forepart stuck fast, and remained unmovable, but the hinder part was broken with the violence of the waves.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.27.42">And the soldiers' counsel was to kill the prisoners, lest any of them should swim out, and escape.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.27.43">But the centurion, willing to save Paul, kept them from their purpose; and commanded that they which could swim should cast themselves first into the sea, and get to land:</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.27.44">And the rest, some on boards, and some on broken pieces of the ship. And so it came to pass, that they escaped all safe to land.</verse>
</chapter>
<chapter osisID="Acts.27.44">
<verse osisID="Acts.28.1">And when they were escaped, then they knew that the island was called Melita.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.28.2">And the barbarous people showed us no little kindness: for they kindled a fire, and received us every one, because of the present rain, and because of the cold.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.28.3">And when Paul had gathered a bundle of sticks, and laid them on the fire, there came a viper out of the heat, and fastened on his hand.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.28.4">And when the barbarians saw the venomous beast hang on his hand, they said among themselves, No doubt this man is a murderer, whom, though he has escaped the sea, yet vengeance did not permit to live.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.28.5">And he shook off the beast into the fire, and felt no harm.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.28.6">Howbeit they looked when he should have swollen, or fallen down dead suddenly: but after they had looked a great while, and saw no harm come to him, they changed their minds, and said that he was a god.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.28.7">In the same quarters were possessions of the chief man of the island, whose name was Publius; who received us, and lodged us three days courteously.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.28.8">And it came to pass, that the father of Publius lay sick of a fever and of a bloody flux: to whom Paul entered in, and prayed, and laid his hands on him, and healed him.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.28.9">So when this was done, others also, which had diseases in the island, came, and were healed:</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.28.10">Who also honored us with many honors; and when we departed, they laded us with such things as were necessary.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.28.11">And after three months we departed in a ship of Alexandria, which had wintered in the isle, whose sign was Castor and Pollux.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.28.12">And landing at Syracuse, we tarried there three days.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.28.13">And from there we fetched a compass, and came to Rhegium: and after one day the south wind blew, and we came the next day to Puteoli:</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.28.14">Where we found brothers, and were desired to tarry with them seven days: and so we went toward Rome.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.28.15">And from there, when the brothers heard of us, they came to meet us as far as Appii forum, and The three taverns: whom when Paul saw, he thanked God, and took courage.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.28.16">And when we came to Rome, the centurion delivered the prisoners to the captain of the guard: but Paul was permitted to dwell by himself with a soldier that kept him.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.28.17">And it came to pass, that after three days Paul called the chief of the Jews together: and when they had come together, he said unto them, Men and brothers, though I have committed nothing against the people, or customs of our fathers, yet was I delivered prisoner from Jerusalem into the hands of the Romans.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.28.18">Who, when they had examined me, would have let me go, because there was no cause of death in me.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.28.19">But when the Jews spoke against it, I was constrained to appeal unto Caesar; not that I had anything to accuse my nation of.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.28.20">For this cause therefore have I called for you, to see you, and to speak with you: because for the hope of Israel I am bound with this chain.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.28.21">And they said unto him, We neither received letters out of Judaea concerning you, neither any of the brothers that came showed or spoke any harm of you.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.28.22">But we desire to hear of you what you think: for as concerning this sect, we know that every where it is spoken against.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.28.23">And when they had appointed him a day, there came many to him into his lodging; to whom he expounded and testified the kingdom of God, persuading them concerning Jesus, both out of the law of Moses, and out of the prophets, from morning till evening.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.28.24">And some believed the things which were spoken, and some believed not.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.28.25">And when they agreed not among themselves, they departed, after that Paul had spoken one word, Well spoke the Holy Ghost by Isaiah the prophet unto our fathers,</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.28.26">Saying, Go unto this people, and say, Hearing you shall hear, and shall not understand; and seeing you shall see, and not perceive:</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.28.27">For the heart of this people is waxed gross, and their ears are dull of hearing, and their eyes have they closed; lest they should see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and understand with their heart, and should be converted, and I should heal them.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.28.28">Be it known therefore unto you, that the salvation of God is sent unto the Gentiles, and that they will hear it.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.28.29">And when he had said these words, the Jews departed, and had great reasoning among themselves.</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.28.30">And Paul dwelled two whole years in his own hired house, and received all that came in unto him,</verse>
<verse osisID="Acts.28.31">Preaching the kingdom of God, and teaching those things which concern the Lord Jesus Christ, with all confidence, no man forbidding him. </div></verse>
</chapter>
</div>
<div type="book" osisID="Acts.27.44">
<chapter osisID="Acts.28.31">
<verse osisID="Rom.1.1">Paul, a servant of Jesus Christ, called to be an apostle, separated unto the gospel of God,</verse>
<verse osisID="Rom.1.2">(Which he had promised before by his prophets in the holy scriptures,)</verse>
<verse osisID="Rom.1.3">Concerning his Son Jesus Christ our Lord, which was made of the seed of David according to the flesh;</verse>
<verse osisID="Rom.1.4">And declared to be the Son of God with power, according to the spirit of holiness, by the resurrection from the dead:</verse>
<verse osisID="Rom.1.5">By whom we have received grace and apostleship, for obedience to the faith among all nations, for his name:</verse>
<verse osisID="Rom.1.6">Among whom are you also the called of Jesus Christ:</verse>
<verse osisID="Rom.1.7">To all that be in Rome, beloved of God, called to be saints: Grace to you and peace from God our Father, and the Lord Jesus Christ.</verse>
<verse osisID="Rom.1.8">First, I thank my God through Jesus Christ for you all, that your faith is spoken of throughout the whole world.</verse>
<verse osisID="Rom.1.9">For God is my witness, whom I serve with my spirit in the gospel of his Son, that without ceasing I make mention of you always in my prayers;</verse>
<verse osisID="Rom.1.10">Making request, if by any means now at length I might have a prosperous journey by the will of God to come unto you.</verse>
<verse osisID="Rom.1.11">For I long to see you, that I may impart unto you some spiritual gift, to the end you may be established;</verse>
<verse osisID="Rom.1.12">That is, that I may be comforted together with you by the mutual faith both of you and me.</verse>
<verse osisID="Rom.1.13">Now I would not have you ignorant, brothers, that oftentimes I purposed to come unto you, (but was hindered until now,) that I might have some fruit among you also, just as among other Gentiles.</verse>
<verse osisID="Rom.1.14">I am debtor both to the Greeks, and to the Barbarians; both to the wise, and to the unwise.</verse>
<verse osisID="Rom.1.15">So, as much as in me is, I am ready to preach the gospel to you that are at Rome also.</verse>
<verse osisID="Rom.1.16">For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ: for it is the power of God unto salvation to every one that believes; to the Jew first, and also to the Greek.</verse>
<verse osisID="Rom.1.17">For in it is the righteousness of God revealed from faith to faith: as it is written, The just shall live by faith.</verse>
<verse osisID="Rom.1.18">For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who hold the truth in unrighteousness;</verse>
<verse osisID="Rom.1.19">Because that which may be known of God is manifest in them; for God has showed it unto them.</verse>
<verse osisID="Rom.1.20">For the invisible things of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even his eternal power and Godhead; so that they are without excuse:</verse>
<verse osisID="Rom.1.21">Because that, when they knew God, they glorified him not as God, neither were thankful; but became vain in their imaginations, and their foolish heart was darkened.</verse>
<verse osisID="Rom.1.22">Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools,</verse>
<verse osisID="Rom.1.23">And changed the glory of the incorruptible God into an image made like unto corruptible man, and to birds, and fourfooted beasts, and creeping things.</verse>
<verse osisID="Rom.1.24">Therefore God also gave them up to uncleanness through the lusts of their own hearts, to dishonor their own bodies between themselves:</verse>
<verse osisID="Rom.1.25">Who changed the truth of God into a lie, and worshipped and served the creature more than the Creator, who is blessed forever. Amen.</verse>
<verse osisID="Rom.1.26">For this cause God gave them up unto vile affections: for even their women did change the natural use into that which is against nature:</verse>
<verse osisID="Rom.1.27">And likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust one toward another; men with men working that which is unseemly, and receiving in themselves that recompense of their error which was suitable.</verse>
<verse osisID="Rom.1.28">And just as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not fitting;</verse>
<verse osisID="Rom.1.29">Being filled with all unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder, debate, deceit, malignity; whisperers,</verse>
<verse osisID="Rom.1.30">Backbiters, haters of God, despiteful, proud, boasters, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents,</verse>
<verse osisID="Rom.1.31">Without understanding, covenant breakers, without natural affection, implacable, unmerciful:</verse>
<verse osisID="Rom.1.32">Who knowing the judgment of God, that they which commit such things are worthy of death, not only do the same, but have pleasure in them that do them.</verse>
</chapter>
<chapter osisID="Rom.1.32">
<verse osisID="Rom.2.1">Therefore you are inexcusable, O man, whosoever you are that judges: for in that which you judge another, you condemn yourself; for you that judge are doing the same things.</verse>
<verse osisID="Rom.2.2">But we are sure that the judgment of God is according to truth against those who commit such things.</verse>
<verse osisID="Rom.2.3">And think you this, O man, that judge those who do such things, and are doing the same, that you shall escape the judgment of God?</verse>
<verse osisID="Rom.2.4">Or do you despise the riches of his goodness and forbearance and longsuffering; not knowing that the goodness of God leads you to repentance?</verse>
<verse osisID="Rom.2.5">But after your hardness and impenitent heart treasure up unto yourself wrath against the day of wrath and revelation of the righteous judgment of God;</verse>
<verse osisID="Rom.2.6">Who will render to every man according to his deeds:</verse>
<verse osisID="Rom.2.7">To them who by patient continuance in well doing seek for glory and honor and immortality, eternal life:</verse>
<verse osisID="Rom.2.8">But unto them that are contentious, and do not obey the truth, but obey unrighteousness, indignation and wrath,</verse>
<verse osisID="Rom.2.9">Tribulation and anguish, upon every soul of man that does evil, of the Jew first, and also of the Gentile;</verse>
<verse osisID="Rom.2.10">But glory, honor, and peace, to every man that works good, to the Jew first, and also to the Gentile:</verse>
<verse osisID="Rom.2.11">For there is no respect of persons with God.</verse>
<verse osisID="Rom.2.12">For as many as have sinned outside law shall also perish outside law: and as many as have sinned in the law shall be judged by the law;</verse>
<verse osisID="Rom.2.13">(For not the hearers of the law are just before God, but the doers of the law shall be justified.</verse>
<verse osisID="Rom.2.14">For when the Gentiles, which have not the law, do by nature the things contained in the law, these, having not the law, are a law unto themselves:</verse>
<verse osisID="Rom.2.15">Which show the work of the law written in their hearts, their conscience also bearing witness, and their thoughts the mean while accusing or else excusing one another;)</verse>
<verse osisID="Rom.2.16">In the day when God shall judge the secrets of men by Jesus Christ according to my gospel.</verse>
<verse osisID="Rom.2.17">Behold, you are called a Jew, and rest in the law, and make your boast of God,</verse>
<verse osisID="Rom.2.18">And know his will, and approve the things that are more excellent, being instructed out of the law;</verse>
<verse osisID="Rom.2.19">And are confident that you yourself are a guide of the blind, a light of them which are in darkness,</verse>
<verse osisID="Rom.2.20">An instructor of the foolish, a teacher of babes, which have the form of knowledge and of the truth in the law.</verse>
<verse osisID="Rom.2.21">You therefore which teach another, teach you not yourself? you that preach a man should not steal, do you steal?</verse>
<verse osisID="Rom.2.22">You that say a man should not commit adultery, do you commit adultery? you that abhor idols, do you commit sacrilege?</verse>
<verse osisID="Rom.2.23">You that make your boast of the law, through breaking the law do you dishonor God?</verse>
<verse osisID="Rom.2.24">For the name of God is blasphemed among the Gentiles through you, as it is written.</verse>
<verse osisID="Rom.2.25">For circumcision truthfully profits, if you keep the law: but if you be a breaker of the law, your circumcision is made uncircumcision.</verse>
<verse osisID="Rom.2.26">Therefore if the uncircumcision keep the righteousness of the law, shall not his uncircumcision be counted for circumcision?</verse>
<verse osisID="Rom.2.27">And shall not uncircumcision which is by nature, if it fulfill the law, judge you, who by the letter and circumcision do transgress the law?</verse>
<verse osisID="Rom.2.28">For he is not a Jew, which is one outwardly; neither is that circumcision, which is outward in the flesh:</verse>
<verse osisID="Rom.2.29">But he is a Jew, which is one inwardly; and circumcision is that of the heart, in the spirit, and not in the letter; whose praise is not of men, but of God.</verse>
</chapter>
<chapter osisID="Rom.2.29">
<verse osisID="Rom.3.1">What advantage then has the Jew? or what profit is there of circumcision?</verse>
<verse osisID="Rom.3.2">Much every way: chiefly, because unto them were committed the oracles of God.</verse>
<verse osisID="Rom.3.3">For what if some did not believe? shall their unbelief make the faith of God without effect?</verse>
<verse osisID="Rom.3.4">God forbid: yes, let God be true, but every man a liar; as it is written, That you might be justified in your sayings, and might overcome when you are judged.</verse>
<verse osisID="Rom.3.5">But if our unrighteousness commend the righteousness of God, what shall we say? Is God unrighteous who takes vengeance? (I speak as a man)</verse>
<verse osisID="Rom.3.6">God forbid: for then how shall God judge the world?</verse>
<verse osisID="Rom.3.7">For if the truth of God has more abounded through my lie unto his glory; why yet am I also judged as a sinner?</verse>
<verse osisID="Rom.3.8">And not rather, (as we be slanderously reported, and as some affirm that we say,) Let us do evil, that good may come? whose damnation is just.</verse>
<verse osisID="Rom.3.9">What then? are we better than they? No, in no way: for we have before proved both Jews and Gentiles, that they are all under sin;</verse>
<verse osisID="Rom.3.10">As it is written, There is none righteous, no, not one:</verse>
<verse osisID="Rom.3.11">There is none that understands, there is none that seeks after God.</verse>
<verse osisID="Rom.3.12">They are all gone out of the way, they are together become unprofitable; there is none that does good, no, not one.</verse>
<verse osisID="Rom.3.13">Their throat is an open sepulcher; with their tongues they have used deceit; the poison of asps is under their lips:</verse>
<verse osisID="Rom.3.14">Whose mouth is full of cursing and bitterness:</verse>
<verse osisID="Rom.3.15">Their feet are swift to shed blood:</verse>
<verse osisID="Rom.3.16">Destruction and misery are in their ways:</verse>
<verse osisID="Rom.3.17">And the way of peace have they not known:</verse>
<verse osisID="Rom.3.18">There is no fear of God before their eyes.</verse>
<verse osisID="Rom.3.19">Now we know that what things soever the law says, it says to them who are under the law: that every mouth may be stopped, and all the world may become guilty before God.</verse>
<verse osisID="Rom.3.20">Therefore by the deeds of the law there shall no flesh be justified in his sight: for by the law is the knowledge of sin.</verse>
<verse osisID="Rom.3.21">But now the righteousness of God outside the law is manifested, being witnessed by the law and the prophets;</verse>
<verse osisID="Rom.3.22">Even the righteousness of God which is by faith of Jesus Christ unto all and upon all them that believe: for there is no difference:</verse>
<verse osisID="Rom.3.23">For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God;</verse>
<verse osisID="Rom.3.24">Being justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus:</verse>
<verse osisID="Rom.3.25">Whom God has set forth to be a propitiation through faith in his blood, to declare his righteousness for the remission of sins that are past, through the forbearance of God;</verse>
<verse osisID="Rom.3.26">To declare, I say, at this time his righteousness: that he might be just, and the justifier of him which believes in Jesus.</verse>
<verse osisID="Rom.3.27">Where is boasting then? It is excluded. By what law? of works? No: but by the law of faith.</verse>
<verse osisID="Rom.3.28">Therefore we conclude that a man is justified by faith outside the deeds of the law.</verse>
<verse osisID="Rom.3.29">Is he the God of the Jews only? is he not also of the Gentiles? Yes, of the Gentiles also:</verse>
<verse osisID="Rom.3.30">Seeing it is one God, which shall justify the circumcision by faith, and uncircumcision through faith.</verse>
<verse osisID="Rom.3.31">Do we then make void the law through faith? God forbid: yes, we establish the law.</verse>
</chapter>
<chapter osisID="Rom.3.31">
<verse osisID="Rom.4.1">What shall we say then that Abraham our father, as pertaining to the flesh, has found?</verse>
<verse osisID="Rom.4.2">For if Abraham were justified by works, he has whereof to glory; but not before God.</verse>
<verse osisID="Rom.4.3">For what says the scripture? Abraham believed God, and it was counted unto him for righteousness.</verse>
<verse osisID="Rom.4.4">Now to him that works is the reward not reckoned of grace, but of debt.</verse>
<verse osisID="Rom.4.5">But to him that works not, but believes on him that justifies the ungodly, his faith is counted for righteousness.</verse>
<verse osisID="Rom.4.6">Just as David also describes the blessedness of the man, unto whom God imputes righteousness without works,</verse>
<verse osisID="Rom.4.7">Saying, Blessed are they whose iniquities are forgiven, and whose sins are covered.</verse>
<verse osisID="Rom.4.8">Blessed is the man to whom the Lord will not impute sin.</verse>
<verse osisID="Rom.4.9">Comes this blessedness then upon the circumcision only, or upon the uncircumcision also? for we say that faith was reckoned to Abraham for righteousness.</verse>
<verse osisID="Rom.4.10">How was it then reckoned? when he was in circumcision, or in uncircumcision? Not in circumcision, but in uncircumcision.</verse>
<verse osisID="Rom.4.11">And he received the sign of circumcision, a seal of the righteousness of the faith which he had yet being uncircumcised: that he might be the father of all them that believe, though they be not circumcised; that righteousness might be imputed unto them also:</verse>
<verse osisID="Rom.4.12">And the father of circumcision to them who are not of the circumcision only, but who also walk in the steps of that faith of our father Abraham, which he had being yet uncircumcised.</verse>
<verse osisID="Rom.4.13">For the promise, that he should be the heir of the world, was not to Abraham, or to his seed, through the law, but through the righteousness of faith.</verse>
<verse osisID="Rom.4.14">For if they which are of the law be heirs, faith is made void, and the promise made of no effect:</verse>
<verse osisID="Rom.4.15">Because the law works wrath: for where no law is, there is no transgression.</verse>
<verse osisID="Rom.4.16">Therefore it is of faith, that it might be by grace; to the end the promise might be sure to all the seed; not to that only which is of the law, but to that also which is of the faith of Abraham; who is the father of us all,</verse>
<verse osisID="Rom.4.17">(As it is written, I have made you a father of many nations,) before him whom he believed, even God, who gives life to the dead, and calls those things which be not as though they were.</verse>
<verse osisID="Rom.4.18">Who against hope believed in hope, that he might become the father of many nations, according to that which was spoken, So shall your seed be.</verse>
<verse osisID="Rom.4.19">And being not weak in faith, he considered not his own body now dead, when he was about a hundred years old, neither yet the deadness of Sarah's womb:</verse>
<verse osisID="Rom.4.20">He staggered not at the promise of God through unbelief; but was strong in faith, giving glory to God;</verse>
<verse osisID="Rom.4.21">And being fully persuaded that, what he had promised, he was able also to perform.</verse>
<verse osisID="Rom.4.22">And therefore it was imputed to him for righteousness.</verse>
<verse osisID="Rom.4.23">Now it was not written for his sake alone, that it was imputed to him;</verse>
<verse osisID="Rom.4.24">But for us also, to whom it shall be imputed, if we believe on him that raised up Jesus our Lord from the dead;</verse>
<verse osisID="Rom.4.25">Who was delivered for our offenses, and was raised again for our justification.</verse>
</chapter>
<chapter osisID="Rom.4.25">
<verse osisID="Rom.5.1">Therefore being justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ:</verse>
<verse osisID="Rom.5.2">By whom also we have access by faith into this grace in which we stand, and rejoice in hope of the glory of God.</verse>
<verse osisID="Rom.5.3">And not only so, but we glory in tribulations also: knowing that tribulation works patience;</verse>
<verse osisID="Rom.5.4">And patience, experience; and experience, hope:</verse>
<verse osisID="Rom.5.5">And hope makes not ashamed; because the love of God is shed abroad in our hearts by the Holy Ghost which is given unto us.</verse>
<verse osisID="Rom.5.6">For when we were yet without strength, in due time Christ died for the ungodly.</verse>
<verse osisID="Rom.5.7">For scarcely for a righteous man will one die: yet perhaps for a good man some would even dare to die.</verse>
<verse osisID="Rom.5.8">But God commends his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.</verse>
<verse osisID="Rom.5.9">Much more then, being now justified by his blood, we shall be saved from wrath through him.</verse>
<verse osisID="Rom.5.10">For if, when we were enemies, we were reconciled to God by the death of his Son, much more, being reconciled, we shall be saved by his life.</verse>
<verse osisID="Rom.5.11">And not only so, but we also joy in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom we have now received the atonement.</verse>
<verse osisID="Rom.5.12">Therefore, as by one man sin entered into the world, and death by sin; and so death passed upon all men, for that all have sinned:</verse>
<verse osisID="Rom.5.13">(For until the law sin was in the world: but sin is not imputed when there is no law.</verse>
<verse osisID="Rom.5.14">Nevertheless death reigned from Adam to Moses, even over them that had not sinned after the similitude of Adam's transgression, who is the figure of him that was to come.</verse>
<verse osisID="Rom.5.15">But not as the offense, so also is the free gift. For if through the offense of one many be dead, much more the grace of God, and the gift by grace, which is by one man, Jesus Christ, has abounded unto many.</verse>
<verse osisID="Rom.5.16">And not as it was by one that sinned, so is the gift: for the judgment was by one to condemnation, but the free gift is of many offenses unto justification.</verse>
<verse osisID="Rom.5.17">For if by one man's offense death reigned by one; much more they which receive abundance of grace and of the gift of righteousness shall reign in life by one, Jesus Christ.)</verse>
<verse osisID="Rom.5.18">Therefore as by the offense of one judgment came upon all men to condemnation; even so by the righteousness of one the free gift came upon all men unto justification of life.</verse>
<verse osisID="Rom.5.19">For as by one man's disobedience many were made sinners, so by the obedience of one shall many be made righteous.</verse>
<verse osisID="Rom.5.20">Moreover the law entered, that the offense might abound. But where sin abounded, grace did much more abound:</verse>
<verse osisID="Rom.5.21">That as sin has reigned unto death, even so might grace reign through righteousness unto eternal life by Jesus Christ our Lord.</verse>
</chapter>
<chapter osisID="Rom.5.21">
<verse osisID="Rom.6.1">What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin, that grace may abound?</verse>
<verse osisID="Rom.6.2">God forbid. How shall we, that are dead to sin, live any longer in it?</verse>
<verse osisID="Rom.6.3">Do you not know, that so many of us as were baptized into Jesus Christ were baptized into his death?</verse>
<verse osisID="Rom.6.4">Therefore we are buried with him by baptism into death: that just as Christ was raised up from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life.</verse>
<verse osisID="Rom.6.5">For if we have been planted together in the likeness of his death, we shall be also in the likeness of his resurrection:</verse>
<verse osisID="Rom.6.6">Knowing this, that our old man is crucified with him, that the body of sin might be destroyed, that henceforth we should not serve sin.</verse>
<verse osisID="Rom.6.7">For he that is dead is freed from sin.</verse>
<verse osisID="Rom.6.8">Now if we be dead with Christ, we believe that we shall also live with him:</verse>
<verse osisID="Rom.6.9">Knowing that Christ being raised from the dead dies no more; death has no more dominion over him.</verse>
<verse osisID="Rom.6.10">For in that he died, he died unto sin once: but in that he lives, he lives unto God.</verse>
<verse osisID="Rom.6.11">Likewise reckon you also yourselves to be dead indeed unto sin, but alive unto God through Jesus Christ our Lord.</verse>
<verse osisID="Rom.6.12">Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal body, that you should obey it in the lusts of it.</verse>
<verse osisID="Rom.6.13">Neither yield you your members as instruments of unrighteousness unto sin: but yield yourselves unto God, as those that are alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness unto God.</verse>
<verse osisID="Rom.6.14">For sin shall not have dominion over you: for you are not under the law, but under grace.</verse>
<verse osisID="Rom.6.15">What then? shall we sin, because we are not under the law, but under grace? God forbid.</verse>
<verse osisID="Rom.6.16">Do you not know, that to whom you yield yourselves servants to obey, his servants you are to whom you obey; whether of sin unto death, or of obedience unto righteousness?</verse>
<verse osisID="Rom.6.17">But God be thanked, that you were the servants of sin, but you have obeyed from the heart that form of doctrine which was delivered you.</verse>
<verse osisID="Rom.6.18">Being then made free from sin, you became the servants of righteousness.</verse>
<verse osisID="Rom.6.19">I speak after the manner of men because of the infirmity of your flesh: for as you have yielded your members servants to uncleanness and to iniquity unto iniquity; even so now yield your members servants to righteousness unto holiness.</verse>
<verse osisID="Rom.6.20">For when you were the servants of sin, you were free from righteousness.</verse>
<verse osisID="Rom.6.21">What fruit had you then in those things whereof you are now ashamed? for the end of those things is death.</verse>
<verse osisID="Rom.6.22">But now being made free from sin, and become servants to God, you have your fruit unto holiness, and the end everlasting life.</verse>
<verse osisID="Rom.6.23">For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.</verse>
</chapter>
<chapter osisID="Rom.6.23">
<verse osisID="Rom.7.1">Do you not know, brothers, (for I speak to them that know the law,) that the law has dominion over a man as long as he lives?</verse>
<verse osisID="Rom.7.2">For the woman which has a husband is bound by the law to her husband so long as he lives; but if the husband be dead, she is loosed from the law of her husband.</verse>
<verse osisID="Rom.7.3">So then if, while her husband lives, she be married to another man, she shall be called an adulteress: but if her husband be dead, she is free from that law; so that she is no adulteress, though she be married to another man.</verse>
<verse osisID="Rom.7.4">Therefore, my brothers, you also have become dead to the law by the body of Christ; that you should be married to another, even to him who is raised from the dead, that we should bring forth fruit unto God.</verse>
<verse osisID="Rom.7.5">For when we were in the flesh, the motions of sins, which were by the law, did work in our members to bring forth fruit unto death.</verse>
<verse osisID="Rom.7.6">But now we are delivered from the law, that being dead in which we were held; that we should serve in newness of spirit, and not in the oldness of the letter.</verse>
<verse osisID="Rom.7.7">What shall we say then? Is the law sin? God forbid. No, I had not known sin, but by the law: for I had not known lust, except the law had said, You shall not covet.</verse>
<verse osisID="Rom.7.8">But sin, taking occasion by the commandment, wrought in me all manner of desire. For without the law sin was dead.</verse>
<verse osisID="Rom.7.9">For I was alive without the law once: but when the commandment came, sin revived, and I died.</verse>
<verse osisID="Rom.7.10">And the commandment, which was ordained to life, I found to be unto death.</verse>
<verse osisID="Rom.7.11">For sin, taking occasion by the commandment, deceived me, and by it slew me.</verse>
<verse osisID="Rom.7.12">Therefore the law is holy, and the commandment holy, and just, and good.</verse>
<verse osisID="Rom.7.13">Was then that which is good made death unto me? God forbid. But sin, that it might appear sin, working death in me by that which is good; that sin by the commandment might become exceedingly sinful.</verse>
<verse osisID="Rom.7.14">For we know that the law is spiritual: but I am carnal, sold under sin.</verse>
<verse osisID="Rom.7.15">For that which I do I allow not: for what I would, that do I not; but what I hate, that do I.</verse>
<verse osisID="Rom.7.16">If then I do that which I would not, I consent unto the law that it is good.</verse>
<verse osisID="Rom.7.17">Now then it is no more I that do it, but sin that dwells in me.</verse>
<verse osisID="Rom.7.18">For I know that in me (that is, in my flesh,) dwells no good thing: for to will is present with me; but how to perform that which is good I find not.</verse>
<verse osisID="Rom.7.19">For the good that I would I do not: but the evil which I would not, that I do.</verse>
<verse osisID="Rom.7.20">Now if I do that I would not, it is no more I that do it, but sin that dwells in me.</verse>
<verse osisID="Rom.7.21">I find then a law, that, when I would do good, evil is present with me.</verse>
<verse osisID="Rom.7.22">For I delight in the law of God after the inward man:</verse>
<verse osisID="Rom.7.23">But I see another law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity to the law of sin which is in my members.</verse>
<verse osisID="Rom.7.24">O wretched man that I am! who shall deliver me from the body of this death?</verse>
<verse osisID="Rom.7.25">I thank God through Jesus Christ our Lord. So then with the mind I myself serve the law of God; but with the flesh the law of sin.</verse>
</chapter>
<chapter osisID="Rom.7.25">
<verse osisID="Rom.8.1">There is therefore now no condemnation to those who are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.</verse>
<verse osisID="Rom.8.2">For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus has made me free from the law of sin and death.</verse>
<verse osisID="Rom.8.3">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:</verse>
<verse osisID="Rom.8.4">That the righteousness of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.</verse>
<verse osisID="Rom.8.5">For they that are after the flesh do mind the things of the flesh; but they that are after the Spirit the things of the Spirit.</verse>
<verse osisID="Rom.8.6">For to be carnally minded is death; but to be spiritually minded is life and peace.</verse>
<verse osisID="Rom.8.7">Because the carnal mind is enmity against God: for it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be.</verse>
<verse osisID="Rom.8.8">So then they that are in the flesh cannot please God.</verse>
<verse osisID="Rom.8.9">But you are not in the flesh, but in the Spirit, if so be that the Spirit of God dwell in you. Now if any man have not the Spirit of Christ, he is none of his.</verse>
<verse osisID="Rom.8.10">And if Christ be in you, the body is dead because of sin; but the Spirit is life because of righteousness.</verse>
<verse osisID="Rom.8.11">But if the Spirit of him that raised up Jesus from the dead dwell in you, he that raised up Christ from the dead shall also give life to your mortal bodies by his Spirit that dwells in you.</verse>
<verse osisID="Rom.8.12">Therefore, brothers, we are debtors, not to the flesh, to live after the flesh.</verse>
<verse osisID="Rom.8.13">For if you live after the flesh, you shall die: but if you through the Spirit do mortify the deeds of the body, you shall live.</verse>
<verse osisID="Rom.8.14">For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God.</verse>
<verse osisID="Rom.8.15">For you have not received the spirit of bondage again to fear; but you have received the Spirit of adoption, whereby we cry, Abba, Father.</verse>
<verse osisID="Rom.8.16">The Spirit itself bears witness with our spirit, that we are the children of God:</verse>
<verse osisID="Rom.8.17">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 together.</verse>
<verse osisID="Rom.8.18">For I reckon that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed in us.</verse>
<verse osisID="Rom.8.19">For the earnest expectation of the creature waits for the manifestation of the sons of God.</verse>
<verse osisID="Rom.8.20">For the creature was made subject to vanity, not willingly, but by reason of him who has subjected the same in hope,</verse>
<verse osisID="Rom.8.21">Because the creature itself also shall be delivered from the bondage of corruption into the glorious liberty of the children of God.</verse>
<verse osisID="Rom.8.22">For we know that the whole creation groans and travails in pain together until now.</verse>
<verse osisID="Rom.8.23">And not only they, but ourselves also, which have the first fruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting for the adoption, to wit, the redemption of our body.</verse>
<verse osisID="Rom.8.24">For we are saved by hope: but hope that is seen is not hope: for what a man sees, why does he yet hope for?</verse>
<verse osisID="Rom.8.25">But if we hope for that we see not, then do we with patience wait for it.</verse>
<verse osisID="Rom.8.26">Likewise the Spirit also helps our infirmities: for we know not what we should pray for as we ought: but the Spirit itself makes intercession for us with groanings which cannot be uttered.</verse>
<verse osisID="Rom.8.27">And he that searches the hearts knows what is the mind of the Spirit, because he makes intercession for the saints according to the will of God.</verse>
<verse osisID="Rom.8.28">And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose.</verse>
<verse osisID="Rom.8.29">For whom he did foreknow, he also did predestinate to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brothers.</verse>
<verse osisID="Rom.8.30">Moreover whom he did predestinate, them he also called: and whom he called, them he also justified: and whom he justified, them he also glorified.</verse>
<verse osisID="Rom.8.31">What shall we then say to these things? If God be for us, who can be against us?</verse>
<verse osisID="Rom.8.32">He that spared not his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, how shall he not with him also freely give us all things?</verse>
<verse osisID="Rom.8.33">Who shall lay any thing to the charge of God's elect? It is God that justifies.</verse>
<verse osisID="Rom.8.34">Who is he that condemns? It is Christ that died, yes rather, that is risen again, who is even at the right hand of God, who also makes intercession for us.</verse>
<verse osisID="Rom.8.35">Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?</verse>
<verse osisID="Rom.8.36">As it is written, For your sake we are killed all the day long; we are accounted as sheep for the slaughter.</verse>
<verse osisID="Rom.8.37">No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him that loved us.</verse>
<verse osisID="Rom.8.38">For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come,</verse>
<verse osisID="Rom.8.39">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.</verse>
</chapter>
<chapter osisID="Rom.8.39">
<verse osisID="Rom.9.1">I say the truth in Christ, I lie not, my conscience also bearing me witness in the Holy Ghost,</verse>
<verse osisID="Rom.9.2">That I have great heaviness and continual sorrow in my heart.</verse>
<verse osisID="Rom.9.3">For I could wish that myself were accursed from Christ for my brothers, my kinsmen according to the flesh:</verse>
<verse osisID="Rom.9.4">Who are Israelites; to whom pertains the adoption, and the glory, and the covenants, and the giving of the law, and the service of God, and the promises;</verse>
<verse osisID="Rom.9.5">Whose are the fathers, and of whom as concerning the flesh Christ came, who is over all, God blessed forever. Amen.</verse>
<verse osisID="Rom.9.6">Not as though the word of God has taken none effect. For they are not all Israel, which are of Israel:</verse>
<verse osisID="Rom.9.7">Neither, because they are the seed of Abraham, are they all children: but, In Isaac shall your seed be called.</verse>
<verse osisID="Rom.9.8">That is, They which are the children of the flesh, these are not the children of God: but the children of the promise are counted for the seed.</verse>
<verse osisID="Rom.9.9">For this is the word of promise, At this time will I come, and Sarah shall have a son.</verse>
<verse osisID="Rom.9.10">And not only this; but when Rebecca also had conceived by one, even by our father Isaac;</verse>
<verse osisID="Rom.9.11">(For the children being not yet born, neither having done any good or evil, that the purpose of God according to election might stand, not of works, but of him that calls;)</verse>
<verse osisID="Rom.9.12">It was said unto her, The elder shall serve the younger.</verse>
<verse osisID="Rom.9.13">As it is written, Jacob have I loved, but Esau have I hated.</verse>
<verse osisID="Rom.9.14">What shall we say then? Is there unrighteousness with God? God forbid.</verse>
<verse osisID="Rom.9.15">For he says to Moses, I will have mercy on whom I will have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I will have compassion.</verse>
<verse osisID="Rom.9.16">So then it is not of him that wills, nor of him that runs, but of God that shows mercy.</verse>
<verse osisID="Rom.9.17">For the scripture says unto Pharaoh, Even for this same purpose have I raised you up, that I might show my power in you, and that my name might be declared throughout all the earth.</verse>
<verse osisID="Rom.9.18">Therefore has he mercy on whom he will have mercy, and whom he will he hardens.</verse>
<verse osisID="Rom.9.19">You will say then unto me, Why does he yet find fault? For who has resisted his will?</verse>
<verse osisID="Rom.9.20">No but, O man, who are you that replies against God? Shall the thing formed say to him that formed it, Why have you made me thus?</verse>
<verse osisID="Rom.9.21">Has not the potter power over the clay, of the same lump to make one vessel unto honor, and another unto dishonor?</verse>
<verse osisID="Rom.9.22">What if God, willing to show his wrath, and to make his power known, endured with much longsuffering the vessels of wrath fitted to destruction:</verse>
<verse osisID="Rom.9.23">And that he might make known the riches of his glory on the vessels of mercy, which he had previously prepared unto glory,</verse>
<verse osisID="Rom.9.24">Even us, whom he has called, not of the Jews only, but also of the Gentiles?</verse>
<verse osisID="Rom.9.25">As he says also in Hosea, I will call them my people, which were not my people; and her beloved, which was not beloved.</verse>
<verse osisID="Rom.9.26">And it shall come to pass, that in the place where it was said unto them, You are not my people; there shall they be called the children of the living God.</verse>
<verse osisID="Rom.9.27">Isaiah also cries concerning Israel, Though the number of the children of Israel be as the sand of the sea, a remnant shall be saved:</verse>
<verse osisID="Rom.9.28">For he will finish the work, and cut it short in righteousness: because a short work will the Lord make upon the earth.</verse>
<verse osisID="Rom.9.29">And as Isaiah said before, Unless the Lord of Sabaoth had left us a seed, we had been as Sodoma, and been made like unto Gomorrha.</verse>
<verse osisID="Rom.9.30">What shall we say then? That the Gentiles, which followed not after righteousness, have attained to righteousness, even the righteousness which is of faith.</verse>
<verse osisID="Rom.9.31">But Israel, which followed after the law of righteousness, has not attained to the law of righteousness.</verse>
<verse osisID="Rom.9.32">Why? Because they sought it not by faith, but as it were by the works of the law. For they stumbled at that stumblingstone;</verse>
<verse osisID="Rom.9.33">As it is written, Behold, I lay in Sion a stumblingstone and rock of offense: and whosoever believes on him shall not be ashamed.</verse>
</chapter>
<chapter osisID="Rom.9.33">
<verse osisID="Rom.10.1">Brethren, my heart's desire and prayer to God for Israel is, that they might be saved.</verse>
<verse osisID="Rom.10.2">For I bear them record that they have a zeal of God, but not according to knowledge.</verse>
<verse osisID="Rom.10.3">For they being ignorant of God's righteousness, and going about to establish their own righteousness, have not submitted themselves unto the righteousness of God.</verse>
<verse osisID="Rom.10.4">For Christ is the end of the law for righteousness to every one that believes.</verse>
<verse osisID="Rom.10.5">For Moses describes the righteousness which is of the law, That the man which does those things shall live by them.</verse>
<verse osisID="Rom.10.6">But the righteousness which is of faith speaks on this wise, Say not in your heart, Who shall ascend into heaven? (that is, to bring Christ down from above:)</verse>
<verse osisID="Rom.10.7">Or, Who shall descend into the deep? (that is, to bring up Christ again from the dead.)</verse>
<verse osisID="Rom.10.8">But what says it? The word is close you, even in your mouth, and in your heart: that is, the word of faith, which we preach;</verse>
<verse osisID="Rom.10.9">That if you shall confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus, and shall believe in your heart that God has raised him from the dead, you shall be saved.</verse>
<verse osisID="Rom.10.10">For with the heart man believes unto righteousness; and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation.</verse>
<verse osisID="Rom.10.11">For the scripture says, Whosoever believes on him shall not be ashamed.</verse>
<verse osisID="Rom.10.12">For there is no difference between the Jew and the Greek: for the same Lord over all is rich unto all that call upon him.</verse>
<verse osisID="Rom.10.13">For whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved.</verse>
<verse osisID="Rom.10.14">How then shall they call on him in whom they have not believed? and how shall they believe in him of whom they have not heard? and how shall they hear without a preacher?</verse>
<verse osisID="Rom.10.15">And how shall they preach, unless they be sent? as it is written, How beautiful are the feet of them that preach the gospel of peace, and bring glad tidings of good things!</verse>
<verse osisID="Rom.10.16">But they have not all obeyed the gospel. For Isaiah says, Lord, who has believed our report?</verse>
<verse osisID="Rom.10.17">So then faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of God.</verse>
<verse osisID="Rom.10.18">But I say, Have they not heard? yes truthfully, their sound went into all the earth, and their words unto the ends of the world.</verse>
<verse osisID="Rom.10.19">But I say, Did not Israel know? First Moses says, I will provoke you to jealousy by them that are no people, and by a foolish nation I will anger you.</verse>
<verse osisID="Rom.10.20">But Isaiah is very bold, and says, I was found of them that sought me not; I was made manifest unto them that asked not after me.</verse>
<verse osisID="Rom.10.21">But to Israel he says, All day long I have stretched forth my hands unto a disobedient and opposing people.</verse>
</chapter>
<chapter osisID="Rom.10.21">
<verse osisID="Rom.11.1">I say then, Has God cast away his people? God forbid. For I also am an Israelite, of the seed of Abraham, of the tribe of Benjamin.</verse>
<verse osisID="Rom.11.2">God has not cast away his people which he foreknew. Don't you know what the scripture says of Elijah? how he makes intercession to God against Israel saying,</verse>
<verse osisID="Rom.11.3">Lord, they have killed your prophets, and dug down your altars; and I am left alone, and they seek my life.</verse>
<verse osisID="Rom.11.4">But what says the answer of God unto him? I have reserved to myself seven thousand men, who have not bowed the knee to the image of Baal.</verse>
<verse osisID="Rom.11.5">Even so then at this present time also there is a remnant according to the election of grace.</verse>
<verse osisID="Rom.11.6">And if by grace, then is it no more of works: otherwise grace is no more grace. But if it be of works, then it is no more grace: otherwise work is no more work.</verse>
<verse osisID="Rom.11.7">What then? Israel has not obtained that which he seeks for; but the election has obtained it, and the rest were blinded.</verse>
<verse osisID="Rom.11.8">(According as it is written, God has given them the spirit of slumber, eyes that they should not see, and ears that they should not hear;) unto this day.</verse>
<verse osisID="Rom.11.9">And David says, Let their table be made a snare, and a trap, and a stumbling block, and a recompense unto them:</verse>
<verse osisID="Rom.11.10">Let their eyes be darkened, that they may not see, and bow down their back always.</verse>
<verse osisID="Rom.11.11">I say then, Have they stumbled that they should fall? God forbid: but rather through their fall salvation is come unto the Gentiles, for to provoke them to jealousy.</verse>
<verse osisID="Rom.11.12">Now if the fall of them be the riches of the world, and the diminishing of them the riches of the Gentiles; how much more their fullness?</verse>
<verse osisID="Rom.11.13">For I speak to you Gentiles, inasmuch as I am the apostle of the Gentiles, I magnify my office:</verse>
<verse osisID="Rom.11.14">If by any means I may provoke to emulation those who are my flesh, and might save some of them.</verse>
<verse osisID="Rom.11.15">For if the casting away of them be the reconciling of the world, what shall the receiving of them be, but life from the dead?</verse>
<verse osisID="Rom.11.16">For if the first fruit be holy, the lump is also holy: and if the root be holy, so are the branches.</verse>
<verse osisID="Rom.11.17">And if some of the branches be broken off, and you, being a wild olive tree, were grafted in among them, and with them partake of the root and fatness of the olive tree;</verse>
<verse osisID="Rom.11.18">Boast not against the branches. But if you boast, you do not bear the root, but the root bears you.</verse>
<verse osisID="Rom.11.19">You will say then, The branches were broken off, that I might be grafted in.</verse>
<verse osisID="Rom.11.20">Well; because of unbelief they were broken off, and you stand by faith. Be not high minded, but fear:</verse>
<verse osisID="Rom.11.21">For if God spared not the natural branches, take heed lest he also spare not you.</verse>
<verse osisID="Rom.11.22">Behold therefore the goodness and severity of God: on those who fell, severity; but toward you, goodness, if you continue in his goodness: otherwise you also shall be cut off.</verse>
<verse osisID="Rom.11.23">And they also, if they abide not still in unbelief, shall be grafted in: for God is able to graft them in again.</verse>
<verse osisID="Rom.11.24">For if you wert cut out of the olive tree which is wild by nature, and wert grafted contrary to nature into a good olive tree: how much more shall these, which be the natural branches, be grafted into their own olive tree?</verse>
<verse osisID="Rom.11.25">For I would not, brothers, that you should be ignorant of this mystery, lest you should be wise in your own conceits; that blindness in part is happened to Israel, until the fullness of the Gentiles be come in.</verse>
<verse osisID="Rom.11.26">And so all Israel shall be saved: as it is written, There shall come out of Sion the Deliverer, and shall turn away ungodliness from Jacob:</verse>
<verse osisID="Rom.11.27">For this is my covenant unto them, when I shall take away their sins.</verse>
<verse osisID="Rom.11.28">As concerning the gospel, they are enemies for your sakes: but as touching the election, they are beloved for the father's sakes.</verse>
<verse osisID="Rom.11.29">For the gifts and calling of God are without repentance.</verse>
<verse osisID="Rom.11.30">For as you in times past have not believed God, yet have now obtained mercy through their unbelief:</verse>
<verse osisID="Rom.11.31">Even so have these also now not believed, that through your mercy they also may obtain mercy.</verse>
<verse osisID="Rom.11.32">For God has concluded them all in unbelief, that he might have mercy upon all.</verse>
<verse osisID="Rom.11.33">O the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and knowledge of God! how unsearchable are his judgments, and his ways past finding out!</verse>
<verse osisID="Rom.11.34">For who has known the mind of the Lord? or who has been his counselor?</verse>
<verse osisID="Rom.11.35">Or who has first given to him, and it shall be recompensed unto him again?</verse>
<verse osisID="Rom.11.36">For of him, and through him, and to him, are all things: to whom be glory forever. Amen.</verse>
</chapter>
<chapter osisID="Rom.11.36">
<verse osisID="Rom.12.1">I beseech you therefore, brothers, by the mercies of God, that you present your bodies as living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service.</verse>
<verse osisID="Rom.12.2">And be not conformed to this world: but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, that you may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God.</verse>
<verse osisID="Rom.12.3">For I say, through the grace given unto me, to every man that is among you, not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think; but to think soberly, according as God has dealt to every man the measure of faith.</verse>
<verse osisID="Rom.12.4">For as we have many members in one body, and all members have not the same function:</verse>
<verse osisID="Rom.12.5">So we, being many, are one body in Christ, and every one members one of another.</verse>
<verse osisID="Rom.12.6">Having then gifts differing according to the grace that is given to us, whether prophecy, let us prophesy according to the proportion of faith;</verse>
<verse osisID="Rom.12.7">Or ministry, let us wait on our ministering: or he that teaches, on teaching;</verse>
<verse osisID="Rom.12.8">Or he that exhorts, on exhortation: he that gives, let him do it with simplicity; he that rules, with diligence; he that shows mercy, with cheerfulness.</verse>
<verse osisID="Rom.12.9">Let love be without dissimulation. Abhor that which is evil; cleave to that which is good.</verse>
<verse osisID="Rom.12.10">Be kindly affectioned one to another with brotherly love; in honor preferring one another;</verse>
<verse osisID="Rom.12.11">Not slothful in business; fervent in spirit; serving the Lord;</verse>
<verse osisID="Rom.12.12">Rejoicing in hope; patient in tribulation; continuing instant in prayer;</verse>
<verse osisID="Rom.12.13">Distributing to the necessity of saints; given to hospitality.</verse>
<verse osisID="Rom.12.14">Bless those who persecute you: bless, and curse not.</verse>
<verse osisID="Rom.12.15">Rejoice with them that do rejoice, and weep with them that weep.</verse>
<verse osisID="Rom.12.16">Be of the same mind one toward another. Mind not high things, but condescend to men of low estate. Be not wise in your own conceits.</verse>
<verse osisID="Rom.12.17">Recompense to no man evil for evil. Provide things honest in the sight of all men.</verse>
<verse osisID="Rom.12.18">If it be possible, as much as lies in you, live peaceably with all men.</verse>
<verse osisID="Rom.12.19">Dearly beloved, avenge not yourselves, but rather give place unto wrath: for it is written, Vengeance is mine; I will repay, says the Lord.</verse>
<verse osisID="Rom.12.20">Therefore if your enemy hunger, feed him; if he thirst, give him drink: for in so doing you shall heap coals of fire on his head.</verse>
<verse osisID="Rom.12.21">Be not overcome of evil, but overcome evil with good.</verse>
</chapter>
<chapter osisID="Rom.12.21">
<verse osisID="Rom.13.1">Let every soul be subject unto the higher powers. For there is no power but of God: the powers that be are ordained of God.</verse>
<verse osisID="Rom.13.2">Whosoever therefore resists the power, resists the ordinance of God: and they that resist shall receive to themselves damnation.</verse>
<verse osisID="Rom.13.3">For rulers are not a terror to good works, but to the evil. Wilt you then not be afraid of the power? do that which is good, and you shall have praise of the same:</verse>
<verse osisID="Rom.13.4">For he is the minister of God to you for good. But if you do that which is evil, be afraid; for he bears not the sword in vain: for he is the minister of God, a revenger to execute wrath upon him that does evil.</verse>
<verse osisID="Rom.13.5">Therefore you must needs be subject, not only for wrath, but also for conscience sake.</verse>
<verse osisID="Rom.13.6">For for this cause pay you tribute also: for they are God's ministers, attending continually upon this very thing.</verse>
<verse osisID="Rom.13.7">Render therefore to all their dues: tribute to whom tribute is due; custom to whom custom; fear to whom fear; honor to whom honor.</verse>
<verse osisID="Rom.13.8">Owe no man any thing, but to love one another: for he that loves another has fulfilled the law.</verse>
<verse osisID="Rom.13.9">For this, You shall not commit adultery, You shall not kill, You shall not steal, You shall not bear false witness, You shall not covet; and if there be any other commandment, it is briefly comprehended in this saying, namely, You shall love your neighbor as yourself.</verse>
<verse osisID="Rom.13.10">Love works no ill to his neighbor: therefore love is the fulfilling of the law.</verse>
<verse osisID="Rom.13.11">And that, knowing the time, that now it is high time to awake out of sleep: for now is our salvation nearer than when we believed.</verse>
<verse osisID="Rom.13.12">The night is far spent, the day is at hand: let us therefore cast off the works of darkness, and let us put on the armour of light.</verse>
<verse osisID="Rom.13.13">Let us walk honestly, as in the day; not in rioting and drunkenness, not in lewdness and wantonness, not in strife and envying.</verse>
<verse osisID="Rom.13.14">But put you on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make not provision for the flesh, to fulfill the lusts of it.</verse>
</chapter>
<chapter osisID="Rom.13.14">
<verse osisID="Rom.14.1">Him that is weak in the faith receive you, but not to doubtful disputations.</verse>
<verse osisID="Rom.14.2">For one believes that he may eat all things: another, who is weak, eats herbs.</verse>
<verse osisID="Rom.14.3">Let not him that eats despise him that eats not; and let not him which eats not judge him that eats: for God has received him.</verse>
<verse osisID="Rom.14.4">Who are you that judges another man's servant? to his own master he stands or falls. Yes, he shall be held up: for God is able to make him stand.</verse>
<verse osisID="Rom.14.5">One man esteems one day above another: another esteems every day alike. Let every man be fully persuaded in his own mind.</verse>
<verse osisID="Rom.14.6">He that regards the day, regards it unto the Lord; and he that regards not the day, to the Lord he does not regard it. He that eats, eats to the Lord, for he gives God thanks; and he that eats not, to the Lord he eats not, and gives God thanks.</verse>
<verse osisID="Rom.14.7">For none of us lives to himself, and no man dies to himself.</verse>
<verse osisID="Rom.14.8">For whether we live, we live unto the Lord; and whether we die, we die unto the Lord: whether we live therefore, or die, we are the Lord's.</verse>
<verse osisID="Rom.14.9">For to this end Christ both died, and rose, and revived, that he might be Lord both of the dead and living.</verse>
<verse osisID="Rom.14.10">But why do you judge your brother? or why do you set at nought your brother? for we shall all stand before the judgment seat of Christ.</verse>
<verse osisID="Rom.14.11">For it is written, As I live, says the Lord, every knee shall bow to me, and every tongue shall confess to God.</verse>
<verse osisID="Rom.14.12">So then every one of us shall give account of himself to God.</verse>
<verse osisID="Rom.14.13">Let us not therefore judge one another any more: but judge this rather, that no man put a stumbling block or an occasion to fall in his brother's way.</verse>
<verse osisID="Rom.14.14">I know, and am persuaded by the Lord Jesus, that there is nothing unclean of itself: but to him that esteems any thing to be unclean, to him it is unclean.</verse>
<verse osisID="Rom.14.15">But if your brother be grieved with your food, now you do not walk charitably. Do not destroy him with your food, for whom Christ died.</verse>
<verse osisID="Rom.14.16">Let not then your good be evil spoken of:</verse>
<verse osisID="Rom.14.17">For the kingdom of God is not food and drink; but righteousness, and peace, and joy in the Holy Ghost.</verse>
<verse osisID="Rom.14.18">For he that in these things serves Christ is acceptable to God, and approved of men.</verse>
<verse osisID="Rom.14.19">Let us therefore follow after the things which make for peace, and things with which one may edify another.</verse>
<verse osisID="Rom.14.20">For food destroy not the work of God. All things indeed are pure; but it is evil for that man who eats with offense.</verse>
<verse osisID="Rom.14.21">It is good neither to eat flesh, nor to drink wine, nor any thing whereby your brother stumbles, or is offended, or is made weak.</verse>
<verse osisID="Rom.14.22">Have you faith? have it to yourself before God. Happy is he that condemns not himself in that thing which he allows.</verse>
<verse osisID="Rom.14.23">And he that doubts is damned if he eat, because he eats not of faith: for whatsoever is not of faith is sin.</verse>
</chapter>
<chapter osisID="Rom.14.23">
<verse osisID="Rom.15.1">We then that are strong ought to bear the infirmities of the weak, and not to please ourselves.</verse>
<verse osisID="Rom.15.2">Let every one of us please his neighbor for his good to edification.</verse>
<verse osisID="Rom.15.3">For even Christ pleased not himself; but, as it is written, The reproaches of them that reproached you fell on me.</verse>
<verse osisID="Rom.15.4">For whatsoever things were written earlier were written for our learning, that we through patience and comfort of the scriptures might have hope.</verse>
<verse osisID="Rom.15.5">Now the God of patience and consolation grant you to be likeminded one toward another according to Christ Jesus:</verse>
<verse osisID="Rom.15.6">That you may with one mind and one mouth glorify God, even the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ.</verse>
<verse osisID="Rom.15.7">Therefore receive you one another, as Christ also received us to the glory of God.</verse>
<verse osisID="Rom.15.8">Now I say that Jesus Christ was a minister of the circumcision for the truth of God, to confirm the promises made unto the fathers:</verse>
<verse osisID="Rom.15.9">And that the Gentiles might glorify God for his mercy; as it is written, For this cause I will confess to you among the Gentiles, and sing unto your name.</verse>
<verse osisID="Rom.15.10">And again he says, Rejoice, you Gentiles, with his people.</verse>
<verse osisID="Rom.15.11">And again, Praise the Lord, all you Gentiles; and laud him, all you people.</verse>
<verse osisID="Rom.15.12">And again, Isaiah says, There shall be a root of Jesse, and he that shall rise to reign over the Gentiles; in him shall the Gentiles trust.</verse>
<verse osisID="Rom.15.13">Now the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, that you may abound in hope, through the power of the Holy Ghost.</verse>
<verse osisID="Rom.15.14">And I myself also am persuaded of you, my brothers, that you also are full of goodness, filled with all knowledge, able also to admonish one another.</verse>
<verse osisID="Rom.15.15">Nevertheless, brothers, I have written the more boldly unto you in some sort, as putting you in mind, because of the grace that is given to me of God,</verse>
<verse osisID="Rom.15.16">That I should be the minister of Jesus Christ to the Gentiles, ministering the gospel of God, that the offering up of the Gentiles might be acceptable, being sanctified by the Holy Ghost.</verse>
<verse osisID="Rom.15.17">I have therefore whereof I may glory through Jesus Christ in those things which pertain to God.</verse>
<verse osisID="Rom.15.18">For I will not dare to speak of any of those things which Christ has not wrought by me, to make the Gentiles obedient, by word and deed,</verse>
<verse osisID="Rom.15.19">Through mighty signs and wonders, by the power of the Spirit of God; so that from Jerusalem, and round about unto Illyricum, I have fully preached the gospel of Christ.</verse>
<verse osisID="Rom.15.20">Yes, so have I strived to preach the gospel, not where Christ was named, lest I should build upon another man's foundation:</verse>
<verse osisID="Rom.15.21">But as it is written, To whom he was not spoken of, they shall see: and they that have not heard shall understand.</verse>
<verse osisID="Rom.15.22">For which cause also I have been much hindered from coming to you.</verse>
<verse osisID="Rom.15.23">But now having no more place in these parts, and having a great desire these many years to come unto you;</verse>
<verse osisID="Rom.15.24">Whensoever I take my journey into Spain, I will come to you: for I trust to see you in my journey, and to be brought on my way to there by you, if first I be somewhat filled with your company.</verse>
<verse osisID="Rom.15.25">But now I go unto Jerusalem to minister unto the saints.</verse>
<verse osisID="Rom.15.26">For it has pleased them of Macedonia and Achaia to make a certain contribution for the poor saints which are at Jerusalem.</verse>
<verse osisID="Rom.15.27">It has pleased them truthfully; and their debtors they are. For if the Gentiles have been made partakers of their spiritual things, their duty is also to minister unto them in carnal things.</verse>
<verse osisID="Rom.15.28">When therefore I have performed this, and have sealed to them this fruit, I will come by you into Spain.</verse>
<verse osisID="Rom.15.29">And I am sure that, when I come unto you, I shall come in the fullness of the blessing of the gospel of Christ.</verse>
<verse osisID="Rom.15.30">Now I beseech you, brothers, for the Lord Jesus Christ's sake, and for the love of the Spirit, that you strive together with me in your prayers to God for me;</verse>
<verse osisID="Rom.15.31">That I may be delivered from them that do not believe in Judaea; and that my service which I have for Jerusalem may be accepted of the saints;</verse>
<verse osisID="Rom.15.32">That I may come unto you with joy by the will of God, and may with you be refreshed.</verse>
<verse osisID="Rom.15.33">Now the God of peace be with you all. Amen.</verse>
</chapter>
<chapter osisID="Rom.15.33">
<verse osisID="Rom.16.1">I commend unto you Phebe our sister, which is a servant of the church which is at Cenchrea:</verse>
<verse osisID="Rom.16.2">That you receive her in the Lord, as becomes saints, and that you assist her in whatsoever business she has need of you: for she has been a helper of many, and of myself also.</verse>
<verse osisID="Rom.16.3">Greet Priscilla and Aquila my helpers in Christ Jesus:</verse>
<verse osisID="Rom.16.4">Who have for my life laid down their own necks: unto whom not only I give thanks, but also all the churches of the Gentiles.</verse>
<verse osisID="Rom.16.5">Likewise greet the church that is in their house. Salute my well-beloved Epaenetus, who is the first fruits of Achaia unto Christ.</verse>
<verse osisID="Rom.16.6">Greet Mary, who bestowed much labor on us.</verse>
<verse osisID="Rom.16.7">Salute Andronicus and Junia, my kinsmen, and my fellow prisoners, who are of note among the apostles, who also were in Christ before me.</verse>
<verse osisID="Rom.16.8">Greet Amplias my beloved in the Lord.</verse>
<verse osisID="Rom.16.9">Salute Urbane, our helper in Christ, and Stachys my beloved.</verse>
<verse osisID="Rom.16.10">Salute Apelles approved in Christ. Salute those who are of Aristobulus' household.</verse>
<verse osisID="Rom.16.11">Salute Herodion my kinsman. Greet them that be of the household of Narcissus, which are in the Lord.</verse>
<verse osisID="Rom.16.12">Salute Tryphena and Tryphosa, who labor in the Lord. Salute the beloved Persis, which labored much in the Lord.</verse>
<verse osisID="Rom.16.13">Salute Rufus chosen in the Lord, and his mother and mine.</verse>
<verse osisID="Rom.16.14">Salute Asyncritus, Phlegon, Hermas, Patrobas, Hermes, and the brothers which are with them.</verse>
<verse osisID="Rom.16.15">Salute Philologus, and Julia, Nereus, and his sister, and Olympas, and all the saints which are with them.</verse>
<verse osisID="Rom.16.16">Salute one another with a holy kiss. The churches of Christ salute you.</verse>
<verse osisID="Rom.16.17">Now I beseech you, brothers, mark those who cause divisions and offenses contrary to the doctrine which you have learned; and avoid them.</verse>
<verse osisID="Rom.16.18">For they that are such serve not our Lord Jesus Christ, but their own belly; and by good words and fair speeches deceive the hearts of the simple.</verse>
<verse osisID="Rom.16.19">For your obedience is come abroad unto all men. I am glad therefore on your behalf: but yet I would have you wise unto that which is good, and simple concerning evil.</verse>
<verse osisID="Rom.16.20">And the God of peace shall bruise Satan under your feet shortly. The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you. Amen.</verse>
<verse osisID="Rom.16.21">Timotheus my fellow worker, and Lucius, and Jason, and Sosipater, my kinsmen, salute you.</verse>
<verse osisID="Rom.16.22">I Tertius, who wrote this epistle, salute you in the Lord.</verse>
<verse osisID="Rom.16.23">Gaius my host, and of the whole church, salutes you. Erastus the chamberlain of the city salutes you, and Quartus a brother.</verse>
<verse osisID="Rom.16.24">The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you all. Amen.</verse>
<verse osisID="Rom.16.25">Now to him that is of power to establish you according to my gospel, and the preaching of Jesus Christ, according to the revelation of the mystery, which was kept secret since the world began,</verse>
<verse osisID="Rom.16.26">But now is made manifest, and by the scriptures of the prophets, according to the commandment of the everlasting God, made known to all nations for the obedience of faith:</verse>
<verse osisID="Rom.16.27">To God only wise, be glory through Jesus Christ forever. Amen. </div></verse>
</chapter>
</div>
<div type="book" osisID="Rom.15.33">
<chapter osisID="Rom.16.27">
<verse osisID="1Cor.1.1">Paul called to be an apostle of Jesus Christ through the will of God, and Sosthenes our brother,</verse>
<verse osisID="1Cor.1.2">Unto the church of God which is at Corinth, to them that are sanctified in Christ Jesus, called to be saints, with all that in every place call upon the name of Jesus Christ our Lord, both their's and our's:</verse>
<verse osisID="1Cor.1.3">Grace be unto you, and peace, from God our Father, and from the Lord Jesus Christ.</verse>
<verse osisID="1Cor.1.4">I thank my God always on your behalf, for the grace of God which is given you by Jesus Christ;</verse>
<verse osisID="1Cor.1.5">That in everything you are enriched by him, in all utterance, and in all knowledge;</verse>
<verse osisID="1Cor.1.6">Just as the testimony of Christ was confirmed in you:</verse>
<verse osisID="1Cor.1.7">So that you come behind in no gift; waiting for the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ:</verse>
<verse osisID="1Cor.1.8">Who shall also confirm you unto the end, that you may be blameless in the day of our Lord Jesus Christ.</verse>
<verse osisID="1Cor.1.9">God is faithful, by whom you were called unto the fellowship of his Son Jesus Christ our Lord.</verse>
<verse osisID="1Cor.1.10">Now I beseech you, brothers, by the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that you all speak the same thing, and that there be no divisions among you; but that you be perfectly joined together in the same mind and in the same judgment.</verse>
<verse osisID="1Cor.1.11">For it has been declared unto me of you, my brothers, by them which are of the house of Chloe, that there are contentions among you.</verse>
<verse osisID="1Cor.1.12">Now this I say, that each of you says, I am of Paul; and I of Apollos; and I of Cephas; and I of Christ.</verse>
<verse osisID="1Cor.1.13">Is Christ divided? was Paul crucified for you? or were you baptized in the name of Paul?</verse>
<verse osisID="1Cor.1.14">I thank God that I baptized none of you, but Crispus and Gaius;</verse>
<verse osisID="1Cor.1.15">Lest any should say that I had baptized in my own name.</verse>
<verse osisID="1Cor.1.16">And I baptized also the household of Stephanas: besides, I know not whether I baptized any other.</verse>
<verse osisID="1Cor.1.17">For Christ sent me not to baptize, but to preach the gospel: not with wisdom of words, lest the cross of Christ should be made of none effect.</verse>
<verse osisID="1Cor.1.18">For the preaching of the cross is to them that perish foolishness; but unto us which are saved it is the power of God.</verse>
<verse osisID="1Cor.1.19">For it is written, I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, and will bring to nothing the understanding of the prudent.</verse>
<verse osisID="1Cor.1.20">Where is the wise? where is the scribe? where is the disputer of this world? has not God made foolish the wisdom of this world?</verse>
<verse osisID="1Cor.1.21">For after in the wisdom of God the world by wisdom did not know God, it pleased God by the foolishness of preaching to save them that believe.</verse>
<verse osisID="1Cor.1.22">For the Jews require a sign, and the Greeks seek after wisdom:</verse>
<verse osisID="1Cor.1.23">But we preach Christ crucified, unto the Jews a stumbling block, and unto the Greeks foolishness;</verse>
<verse osisID="1Cor.1.24">But unto those who are called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God, and the wisdom of God.</verse>
<verse osisID="1Cor.1.25">Because the foolishness of God is wiser than men; and the weakness of God is stronger than men.</verse>
<verse osisID="1Cor.1.26">For you see your calling, brothers, that not many wise men after the flesh, not many mighty, not many noble, are called:</verse>
<verse osisID="1Cor.1.27">But God has chosen the foolish things of the world to confound the wise; and God has chosen the weak things of the world to confound the things which are mighty;</verse>
<verse osisID="1Cor.1.28">And base things of the world, and things which are despised, has God chosen, yes, and things which are not, to bring to nought things that are:</verse>
<verse osisID="1Cor.1.29">That no flesh should glory in his presence.</verse>
<verse osisID="1Cor.1.30">But of him are you in Christ Jesus, who of God is made unto us wisdom, and righteousness, and sanctification, and redemption:</verse>
<verse osisID="1Cor.1.31">That, according as it is written, He that glories, let him glory in the Lord.</verse>
</chapter>
<chapter osisID="1Cor.1.31">
<verse osisID="1Cor.2.1">And I, brothers, when I came to you, came not with excellency of speech or of wisdom, declaring unto you the testimony of God.</verse>
<verse osisID="1Cor.2.2">For I determined not to know any thing among you, save Jesus Christ, and him crucified.</verse>
<verse osisID="1Cor.2.3">And I was with you in weakness, and in fear, and in much trembling.</verse>
<verse osisID="1Cor.2.4">And my speech and my preaching was not with enticing words of man's wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power:</verse>
<verse osisID="1Cor.2.5">That your faith should not stand in the wisdom of men, but in the power of God.</verse>
<verse osisID="1Cor.2.6">Howbeit we speak wisdom among them that are perfect: yet not the wisdom of this world, nor of the princes of this world, that come to nought:</verse>
<verse osisID="1Cor.2.7">But we speak the wisdom of God in a mystery, even the hidden wisdom, which God ordained before the world unto our glory:</verse>
<verse osisID="1Cor.2.8">Which none of the princes of this world knew: for had they known it, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory.</verse>
<verse osisID="1Cor.2.9">But as it is written, eye has not seen, nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of man, the things which God has prepared for them that love him.</verse>
<verse osisID="1Cor.2.10">But God has revealed them unto us by his Spirit: for the Spirit searches all things, yes, the deep things of God.</verse>
<verse osisID="1Cor.2.11">For what man knows the things of a man, save the spirit of man which is in him? even so the things of God knows no man, but the Spirit of God.</verse>
<verse osisID="1Cor.2.12">Now we have received, not the spirit of the world, but the spirit which is of God; that we might know the things that are freely given to us of God.</verse>
<verse osisID="1Cor.2.13">Which things also we speak, not in the words which man's wisdom teaches, but which the Holy Ghost teaches; comparing spiritual things with spiritual.</verse>
<verse osisID="1Cor.2.14">But the natural man receives not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned.</verse>
<verse osisID="1Cor.2.15">But he that is spiritual judges all things, yet he himself is judged of no man.</verse>
<verse osisID="1Cor.2.16">For who has known the mind of the Lord, that he may instruct him? But we have the mind of Christ.</verse>
</chapter>
<chapter osisID="1Cor.2.16">
<verse osisID="1Cor.3.1">And I, brothers, could not speak unto you as unto spiritual, but as unto carnal, just as unto babes in Christ.</verse>
<verse osisID="1Cor.3.2">I have fed you with milk, and not with food: for until now you were not able to bear it, neither yet now are you able.</verse>
<verse osisID="1Cor.3.3">For you are yet carnal: for whereas there is among you envying, and strife, and divisions, are you not carnal, and walk as men?</verse>
<verse osisID="1Cor.3.4">For while one says, I am of Paul; and another, I am of Apollos; are you not carnal?</verse>
<verse osisID="1Cor.3.5">Who then is Paul, and who is Apollos, but ministers by whom you believed, just as the Lord gave to every man?</verse>
<verse osisID="1Cor.3.6">I have planted, Apollos watered; but God gave the increase.</verse>
<verse osisID="1Cor.3.7">So then neither is he that plants any thing, neither he that waters; but God that gives the increase.</verse>
<verse osisID="1Cor.3.8">Now he that plants and he that waters are one: and every man shall receive his own reward according to his own labor.</verse>
<verse osisID="1Cor.3.9">For we are laborers together with God: you are God's husbandry, you are God's building.</verse>
<verse osisID="1Cor.3.10">According to the grace of God which is given unto me, as a wise master builder, I have laid the foundation, and another builds thereon. But let every man take heed how he builds thereupon.</verse>
<verse osisID="1Cor.3.11">For other foundation can no man lay than that is laid, which is Jesus Christ.</verse>
<verse osisID="1Cor.3.12">Now if any man build upon this foundation gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, stubble;</verse>
<verse osisID="1Cor.3.13">Every man's work shall be made manifest: for the day shall declare it, because it shall be revealed by fire; and the fire shall try every man's work of what sort it is.</verse>
<verse osisID="1Cor.3.14">If any man's work abide which he has built thereupon, he shall receive a reward.</verse>
<verse osisID="1Cor.3.15">If any man's work shall be burned, he shall suffer loss: but he himself shall be saved; yet so as by fire.</verse>
<verse osisID="1Cor.3.16">Do you not know that you are the temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwells in you?</verse>
<verse osisID="1Cor.3.17">If any man defile the temple of God, him shall God destroy; for the temple of God is holy, which temple you are.</verse>
<verse osisID="1Cor.3.18">Let no man deceive himself. If any man among you seems to be wise in this world, let him become a fool, that he may be wise.</verse>
<verse osisID="1Cor.3.19">For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God. For it is written, He takes the wise in their own craftiness.</verse>
<verse osisID="1Cor.3.20">And again, The Lord knows the thoughts of the wise, that they are vain.</verse>
<verse osisID="1Cor.3.21">Therefore let no man glory in men. For all things are your's;</verse>
<verse osisID="1Cor.3.22">Whether Paul, or Apollos, or Cephas, or the world, or life, or death, or things present, or things to come; all are your's;</verse>
<verse osisID="1Cor.3.23">And you are Christ's; and Christ is God's.</verse>
</chapter>
<chapter osisID="1Cor.3.23">
<verse osisID="1Cor.4.1">Let a man so account of us, as of the ministers of Christ, and stewards of the mysteries of God.</verse>
<verse osisID="1Cor.4.2">Moreover it is required in stewards, that a man be found faithful.</verse>
<verse osisID="1Cor.4.3">But with me it is a very small thing that I should be judged of you, or of man's judgment: yes, I judge not my own self.</verse>
<verse osisID="1Cor.4.4">For I know nothing by myself; yet am I not hereby justified: but he that judges me is the Lord.</verse>
<verse osisID="1Cor.4.5">Therefore judge nothing before the time, until the Lord come, who both will bring to light the hidden things of darkness, and will make manifest the counsels of the hearts: and then shall every man have praise of God.</verse>
<verse osisID="1Cor.4.6">And these things, brothers, I have in a figure transferred to myself and to Apollos for your sakes; that you might learn in us not to think of men above that which is written, that no one of you be puffed up for one against another.</verse>
<verse osisID="1Cor.4.7">For who makes you to differ from another? and what have you that you did not receive? now if you did receive it, why do you glory, as if you had not received it?</verse>
<verse osisID="1Cor.4.8">Now you are full, now you are rich, you have reigned as kings without us: and I would to God you did reign, that we also might reign with you.</verse>
<verse osisID="1Cor.4.9">For I think that God has set forth us the apostles last, as it were appointed to death: for we are made a spectacle unto the world, and to angels, and to men.</verse>
<verse osisID="1Cor.4.10">We are fools for Christ's sake, but you are wise in Christ; we are weak, but you are strong; you are honorable, but we are despised.</verse>
<verse osisID="1Cor.4.11">Even unto this present hour we both hunger, and thirst, and are naked, and are buffeted, and have no certain dwelling place;</verse>
<verse osisID="1Cor.4.12">And labor, working with our own hands: being reviled, we bless; being persecuted, we tolerate it:</verse>
<verse osisID="1Cor.4.13">Being defamed, we entreat: we are made as the filth of the world, and are the offscouring of all things unto this day.</verse>
<verse osisID="1Cor.4.14">I write not these things to shame you, but as my beloved sons I warn you.</verse>
<verse osisID="1Cor.4.15">For though you have ten thousand instructors in Christ, yet have you not many fathers: for in Christ Jesus I have begotten you through the gospel.</verse>
<verse osisID="1Cor.4.16">Therefore I beseech you, be followers of me.</verse>
<verse osisID="1Cor.4.17">For this cause have I sent unto you Timotheus, who is my beloved son, and faithful in the Lord, who shall bring you into remembrance of my ways which be in Christ, as I teach every where in every church.</verse>
<verse osisID="1Cor.4.18">Now some are puffed up, as though I would not come to you.</verse>
<verse osisID="1Cor.4.19">But I will come to you shortly, if the Lord will, and will know, not the speech of those who are puffed up, but the power.</verse>
<verse osisID="1Cor.4.20">For the kingdom of God is not in word, but in power.</verse>
<verse osisID="1Cor.4.21">What will you? shall I come unto you with a rod, or in love, and in the spirit of meekness?</verse>
</chapter>
<chapter osisID="1Cor.4.21">
<verse osisID="1Cor.5.1">It is reported commonly that there is fornication among you, and such fornication as is not so much as named among the Gentiles, that one should have his father's wife.</verse>
<verse osisID="1Cor.5.2">And you are puffed up, and have not rather mourned, that he that has done this deed might be taken away from among you.</verse>
<verse osisID="1Cor.5.3">For I truthfully, as absent in body, but present in spirit, have judged already, as though I were present, concerning him that has so done this deed,</verse>
<verse osisID="1Cor.5.4">In the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, when you are gathered together, and my spirit, with the power of our Lord Jesus Christ,</verse>
<verse osisID="1Cor.5.5">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.</verse>
<verse osisID="1Cor.5.6">Your glorying is not good. Do you not know that a little leaven leavens the whole lump?</verse>
<verse osisID="1Cor.5.7">Purge out therefore the old leaven, that you may be a new lump, as you are unleavened. For even Christ our passover is sacrificed for us:</verse>
<verse osisID="1Cor.5.8">Therefore let us keep the feast, not with old leaven, neither with the leaven of malice and wickedness; but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.</verse>
<verse osisID="1Cor.5.9">I wrote unto you in an epistle not to company with fornicators:</verse>
<verse osisID="1Cor.5.10">yet not altogether with the fornicators of this world, or with the covetous, or extortioners, or with idolaters; for then must you needs go out of the world.</verse>
<verse osisID="1Cor.5.11">But now I have written unto you not to keep company, if any man that is called a brother be a fornicator, or covetous, or an idolater, or a railer, or a drunkard, or an extortioner; with such a one no not to eat.</verse>
<verse osisID="1Cor.5.12">For what have I to do to judge them also that are outside? do not you judge them that are within?</verse>
<verse osisID="1Cor.5.13">But them that are outside God judges. Therefore put away from among yourselves that wicked person.</verse>
</chapter>
<chapter osisID="1Cor.5.13">
<verse osisID="1Cor.6.1">Dare any of you, having a matter against another, go to law before the unjust, and not before the saints?</verse>
<verse osisID="1Cor.6.2">Do you not know that the saints shall judge the world? and if the world shall be judged by you, are you unworthy to judge the smallest matters?</verse>
<verse osisID="1Cor.6.3">Do you not know that we shall judge angels? how much more things that pertain to this life?</verse>
<verse osisID="1Cor.6.4">If then you have judgments of things pertaining to this life, set them to judge who are least esteemed in the church.</verse>
<verse osisID="1Cor.6.5">I speak to your shame. Is it so, that there is not a wise man among you? no, not one that shall be able to judge between his brothers?</verse>
<verse osisID="1Cor.6.6">But brother goes to law with brother, and that before the unbelievers.</verse>
<verse osisID="1Cor.6.7">Now therefore there is utterly a fault among you, because you go to law one with another. Why do you not rather take wrong? why do you not rather permit yourselves to be defrauded?</verse>
<verse osisID="1Cor.6.8">No, you do wrong, and defraud, and that your brothers.</verse>
<verse osisID="1Cor.6.9">Do you not know that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind,</verse>
<verse osisID="1Cor.6.10">Nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners, shall inherit the kingdom of God.</verse>
<verse osisID="1Cor.6.11">And such were some of you: but you are washed, but you are sanctified, but you are justified in the name of the Lord Jesus, and by the Spirit of our God.</verse>
<verse osisID="1Cor.6.12">All things are lawful unto me, but all things are not expedient: all things are lawful for me, but I will not be brought under the power of any.</verse>
<verse osisID="1Cor.6.13">Foods for the belly, and the belly for foods: but God shall destroy both it and them. Now the body is not for fornication, but for the Lord; and the Lord for the body.</verse>
<verse osisID="1Cor.6.14">And God has both raised up the Lord, and will also raise up us by his own power.</verse>
<verse osisID="1Cor.6.15">Do you not know that your bodies are the members of Christ? shall I then take the members of Christ, and make them the members of an harlot? God forbid.</verse>
<verse osisID="1Cor.6.16">What? do you not know that he which is joined to a harlot is one body? for two, says he, shall be one flesh.</verse>
<verse osisID="1Cor.6.17">But he that is joined unto the Lord is one spirit.</verse>
<verse osisID="1Cor.6.18">Flee fornication. Every sin that a man does is outside the body; but he that commits fornication sins against his own body.</verse>
<verse osisID="1Cor.6.19">What? do you not know that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which you have of God, and you are not your own?</verse>
<verse osisID="1Cor.6.20">For you are bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which are God's.</verse>
</chapter>
<chapter osisID="1Cor.6.20">
<verse osisID="1Cor.7.1">Now concerning the things whereof you wrote unto me: It is good for a man not to touch a woman.</verse>
<verse osisID="1Cor.7.2">Nevertheless, to avoid fornication, let every man have his own wife, and let every woman have her own husband.</verse>
<verse osisID="1Cor.7.3">Let the husband render unto the wife due benevolence: and likewise also the wife unto the husband.</verse>
<verse osisID="1Cor.7.4">The wife has not power of her own body, but the husband: and likewise also the husband has not power of his own body, but the wife.</verse>
<verse osisID="1Cor.7.5">Defraud you not one the other, unless it be with consent for a time, that you may give yourselves to fasting and prayer; and come together again, that Satan tempt you not for your lack of self control.</verse>
<verse osisID="1Cor.7.6">But I speak this by permission, and not of commandment.</verse>
<verse osisID="1Cor.7.7">For I would that all men were just as I myself. But every man has his proper gift of God, one after this manner, and another after that.</verse>
<verse osisID="1Cor.7.8">I say therefore to the unmarried and widows, It is good for them if they abide just as I.</verse>
<verse osisID="1Cor.7.9">But if they cannot contain, let them marry: for it is better to marry than to burn.</verse>
<verse osisID="1Cor.7.10">And unto the married I command, yet not I, but the Lord, Let not the wife depart from her husband:</verse>
<verse osisID="1Cor.7.11">But and if she depart, let her remain unmarried or be reconciled to her husband: and let not the husband put away his wife.</verse>
<verse osisID="1Cor.7.12">But to the rest speak I, not the Lord: If any brother has a wife that believes not, and she be pleased to dwell with him, let him not put her away.</verse>
<verse osisID="1Cor.7.13">And the woman which has a husband that believes not, and if he be pleased to dwell with her, let her not leave him.</verse>
<verse osisID="1Cor.7.14">For the unbelieving husband is sanctified by the wife, and the unbelieving wife is sanctified by the husband: else were your children unclean; but now are they holy.</verse>
<verse osisID="1Cor.7.15">But if the unbelieving depart, let him depart. A brother or a sister is not under bondage in such cases: but God has called us to peace.</verse>
<verse osisID="1Cor.7.16">For what know you, O wife, whether you shall save your husband? or how know you, O man, whether you shall save your wife?</verse>
<verse osisID="1Cor.7.17">But as God has distributed to every man, as the Lord has called every one, so let him walk. And so ordain I in all churches.</verse>
<verse osisID="1Cor.7.18">Is any man called being circumcised? let him not become uncircumcised. Is any called in uncircumcision? let him not be circumcised.</verse>
<verse osisID="1Cor.7.19">Circumcision is nothing, and uncircumcision is nothing, but the keeping of the commandments of God.</verse>
<verse osisID="1Cor.7.20">Let every man abide in the same calling in which he was called.</verse>
<verse osisID="1Cor.7.21">Are you called being a servant? care not for it: but if you may be made free, use it rather.</verse>
<verse osisID="1Cor.7.22">For he that is called in the Lord, being a servant, is the Lord's freeman: likewise also he that is called, being free, is Christ's servant.</verse>
<verse osisID="1Cor.7.23">You are bought with a price; be not you the servants of men.</verse>
<verse osisID="1Cor.7.24">Brethren, let every man, in which he is called, in it abide with God.</verse>
<verse osisID="1Cor.7.25">Now concerning virgins I have no commandment of the Lord: yet I give my judgment, as one that has obtained mercy of the Lord to be faithful.</verse>
<verse osisID="1Cor.7.26">I suppose therefore that this is good for the present distress, I say, that it is good for a man so to be.</verse>
<verse osisID="1Cor.7.27">Are you bound unto a wife? seek not to be loosed. Are you loosed from a wife? seek not a wife.</verse>
<verse osisID="1Cor.7.28">But and if you marry, you have not sinned; and if a virgin marry, she has not sinned. Nevertheless such shall have trouble in the flesh: but I spare you.</verse>
<verse osisID="1Cor.7.29">But this I say, brothers, the time is short: it remains, that both they that have wives be as though they had none;</verse>
<verse osisID="1Cor.7.30">And they that weep, as though they wept not; and they that rejoice, as though they rejoiced not; and they that buy, as though they possessed not;</verse>
<verse osisID="1Cor.7.31">And they that use this world, as not abusing it: for the fashion of this world passes away.</verse>
<verse osisID="1Cor.7.32">But I would have you without carefulness. He that is unmarried cares for the things that belong to the Lord, how he may please the Lord:</verse>
<verse osisID="1Cor.7.33">But he that is married cares for the things that are of the world, how he may please his wife.</verse>
<verse osisID="1Cor.7.34">There is difference also between a wife and a virgin. The unmarried woman cares for the things of the Lord, that she may be holy both in body and in spirit: but she that is married cares for the things of the world, how she may please her husband.</verse>
<verse osisID="1Cor.7.35">And this I speak for your own profit; not that I may cast a snare upon you, but for that which is comely, and that you may attend upon the Lord without distraction.</verse>
<verse osisID="1Cor.7.36">But if any man think that he behaves himself improperly toward his virgin, if she pass the flower of her age, and need so require, let him do what he will, he sins not: let them marry.</verse>
<verse osisID="1Cor.7.37">Nevertheless he that stands steadfast in his heart, having no necessity, but has power over his own will, and has so decreed in his heart that he will keep his virgin, does well.</verse>
<verse osisID="1Cor.7.38">So then he that gives her in marriage does well; but he that gives her not in marriage does better.</verse>
<verse osisID="1Cor.7.39">The wife is bound by the law as long as her husband lives; but if her husband be dead, she is at liberty to be married to whom she will; only in the Lord.</verse>
<verse osisID="1Cor.7.40">But she is happier if she so abide, after my judgment: and I think also that I have the Spirit of God.</verse>
</chapter>
<chapter osisID="1Cor.7.40">
<verse osisID="1Cor.8.1">Now as touching things offered unto idols, we know that we all have knowledge. Knowledge puffs up, but love edifies.</verse>
<verse osisID="1Cor.8.2">And if any man think that he knows any thing, he knows nothing yet as he ought to know.</verse>
<verse osisID="1Cor.8.3">But if any man love God, the same is known of him.</verse>
<verse osisID="1Cor.8.4">As concerning therefore the eating of those things that are offered in sacrifice unto idols, we know that an idol is nothing in the world, and that there is none other God but one.</verse>
<verse osisID="1Cor.8.5">For though there be that are called gods, whether in heaven or in earth, (as there be gods many, and lords many,)</verse>
<verse osisID="1Cor.8.6">But to us there is but one God, the Father, of whom are all things, and we in him; and one Lord Jesus Christ, by whom are all things, and we by him.</verse>
<verse osisID="1Cor.8.7">Howbeit there is not in every man that knowledge: for some with conscience of the idol unto this hour eat it as a thing offered unto an idol; and their conscience being weak is defiled.</verse>
<verse osisID="1Cor.8.8">But food commends us not to God: for neither, if we eat, are we the better; neither, if we eat not, are we the worse.</verse>
<verse osisID="1Cor.8.9">But take heed lest by any means this liberty of your's become a stumbling block to them that are weak.</verse>
<verse osisID="1Cor.8.10">For if any man see you who have knowledge sit at food in the idol's temple, shall not the conscience of him which is weak be emboldened to eat those things which are offered to idols;</verse>
<verse osisID="1Cor.8.11">And through your knowledge shall the weak brother perish, for whom Christ died?</verse>
<verse osisID="1Cor.8.12">But when you sin so against the brothers, and wound their weak conscience, you sin against Christ.</verse>
<verse osisID="1Cor.8.13">Therefore, if food make my brother to offend, I will eat no flesh while the world stands, lest I make my brother to offend.</verse>
</chapter>
<chapter osisID="1Cor.8.13">
<verse osisID="1Cor.9.1">Am I not an apostle? am I not free? have I not seen Jesus Christ our Lord? are not you my work in the Lord?</verse>
<verse osisID="1Cor.9.2">If I be not an apostle unto others, yet doubtless I am to you: for the seal of mine apostleship are you in the Lord.</verse>
<verse osisID="1Cor.9.3">Mine answer to them that do examine me is this,</verse>
<verse osisID="1Cor.9.4">Have we not power to eat and to drink?</verse>
<verse osisID="1Cor.9.5">Have we not power to lead about a sister, a wife, as well as other apostles, and as the brothers of the Lord, and Cephas?</verse>
<verse osisID="1Cor.9.6">Or I only and Barnabas, have not we power to forbear working?</verse>
<verse osisID="1Cor.9.7">Who goes a warfare any time at his own charges? who plants a vineyard, and eats not of the fruit of it? or who feeds a flock, and eats not of the milk of the flock?</verse>
<verse osisID="1Cor.9.8">Say I these things as a man? or says not the law the same also?</verse>
<verse osisID="1Cor.9.9">For it is written in the law of Moses, You shall not muzzle the mouth of the ox that treads out the corn. Does God take care for oxen?</verse>
<verse osisID="1Cor.9.10">Or says he it altogether for our sakes? For our sakes, no doubt, this is written: that he that plows should plow in hope; and that he that threshes in hope should be partaker of his hope.</verse>
<verse osisID="1Cor.9.11">If we have sown unto you spiritual things, is it a great thing if we shall reap your carnal things?</verse>
<verse osisID="1Cor.9.12">If others be partakers of this power over you, are not we rather? Nevertheless we have not used this power; but tolerate all things, lest we should hinder the gospel of Christ.</verse>
<verse osisID="1Cor.9.13">Do you not know that they which minister about holy things live of the things of the temple? and they which wait at the altar are partakers with the altar?</verse>
<verse osisID="1Cor.9.14">Even so has the Lord ordained that they which preach the gospel should live of the gospel.</verse>
<verse osisID="1Cor.9.15">But I have used none of these things: neither have I written these things, that it should be so done unto me: for it were better for me to die, than that any man should make my glorying void.</verse>
<verse osisID="1Cor.9.16">For though I preach the gospel, I have nothing to glory of: for necessity is laid upon me; yes, woe is unto me, if I preach not the gospel!</verse>
<verse osisID="1Cor.9.17">For if I do this thing willingly, I have a reward: but if against my will, a dispensation of the gospel is committed unto me.</verse>
<verse osisID="1Cor.9.18">What is my reward then? truthfully that, when I preach the gospel, I may make the gospel of Christ without charge, that I abuse not my power in the gospel.</verse>
<verse osisID="1Cor.9.19">For though I be free from all men, yet have I made myself servant unto all, that I might gain the more.</verse>
<verse osisID="1Cor.9.20">And unto the Jews I became as a Jew, that I might gain the Jews; to them that are under the law, as under the law, that I might gain them that are under the law;</verse>
<verse osisID="1Cor.9.21">To them that are without law, as without law, (being not without law to God, but under the law to Christ,) that I might gain them that are without law.</verse>
<verse osisID="1Cor.9.22">To the weak became I as weak, that I might gain the weak: I am made all things to all men, that I might by all means save some.</verse>
<verse osisID="1Cor.9.23">And this I do for the gospel's sake, that I might be partaker of it with you.</verse>
<verse osisID="1Cor.9.24">Do you not know that they which run in a race run all, but one receives the prize? So run, that you may obtain.</verse>
<verse osisID="1Cor.9.25">And every man that strives for the mastery is temperate in all things. Now they do it to obtain a corruptible crown; but we an incorruptible.</verse>
<verse osisID="1Cor.9.26">I therefore so run, not as uncertainly; so fight I, not as one that beats the air:</verse>
<verse osisID="1Cor.9.27">But I keep under my body, and bring it into subjection: lest that by any means, when I have preached to others, I myself should be a castaway.</verse>
</chapter>
<chapter osisID="1Cor.9.27">
<verse osisID="1Cor.10.1">Moreover, brothers, I would not that you should be ignorant, how that all our fathers were under the cloud, and all passed through the sea;</verse>
<verse osisID="1Cor.10.2">And were all baptized unto Moses in the cloud and in the sea;</verse>
<verse osisID="1Cor.10.3">And did all eat the same spiritual food;</verse>
<verse osisID="1Cor.10.4">And did all drink the same spiritual drink: for they drank of that spiritual Rock that followed them: and that Rock was Christ.</verse>
<verse osisID="1Cor.10.5">But with many of them God was not well pleased: for they were overthrown in the wilderness.</verse>
<verse osisID="1Cor.10.6">Now these things were our examples, to the intent we should not lust after evil things, as they also lusted.</verse>
<verse osisID="1Cor.10.7">Neither be idolaters, as were some of them; as it is written, The people sat down to eat and drink, and rose up to play.</verse>
<verse osisID="1Cor.10.8">Neither let us commit fornication, as some of them committed, and fell in one day three and twenty thousand.</verse>
<verse osisID="1Cor.10.9">Neither let us tempt Christ, as some of them also tempted, and were destroyed of serpents.</verse>
<verse osisID="1Cor.10.10">Neither murmur you, as some of them also murmured, and were destroyed of the destroyer.</verse>
<verse osisID="1Cor.10.11">Now all these things happened unto them for examples: and they are written for our admonition, upon whom the ends of the world are come.</verse>
<verse osisID="1Cor.10.12">Therefore let him that thinks he stands take heed lest he fall.</verse>
<verse osisID="1Cor.10.13">There has no temptation taken you but such as is common to man: but God is faithful, who will not permit you to be tempted above that you are able; but will with the temptation also make a way to escape, that you may be able to bear it.</verse>
<verse osisID="1Cor.10.14">Therefore, my dearly beloved, flee from idolatry.</verse>
<verse osisID="1Cor.10.15">I speak as to wise men; judge you what I say.</verse>
<verse osisID="1Cor.10.16">The cup of blessing which we bless, is it not the communion of the blood of Christ? The bread which we break, is it not the communion of the body of Christ?</verse>
<verse osisID="1Cor.10.17">For we being many are one bread, and one body: for we are all partakers of that one bread.</verse>
<verse osisID="1Cor.10.18">Behold Israel after the flesh: are not they which eat of the sacrifices partakers of the altar?</verse>
<verse osisID="1Cor.10.19">What say I then? that the idol is any thing, or that which is offered in sacrifice to idols is any thing?</verse>
<verse osisID="1Cor.10.20">But I say, that the things which the Gentiles sacrifice, they sacrifice to devils, and not to God: and I would not that you should have fellowship with devils.</verse>
<verse osisID="1Cor.10.21">You cannot drink the cup of the Lord, and the cup of devils: you cannot be partakers of the Lord's table, and of the table of devils.</verse>
<verse osisID="1Cor.10.22">Do we provoke the Lord to jealousy? are we stronger than he?</verse>
<verse osisID="1Cor.10.23">All things are lawful for me, but all things are not expedient: all things are lawful for me, but all things edify not.</verse>
<verse osisID="1Cor.10.24">Let no man seek his own, but every man another's wealth.</verse>
<verse osisID="1Cor.10.25">Whatsoever is sold in the shambles, that eat, asking no question for conscience sake:</verse>
<verse osisID="1Cor.10.26">For the earth is the Lord's, and the fullness of it.</verse>
<verse osisID="1Cor.10.27">If any of them that believe not invite you to a feast, and you be disposed to go; whatsoever is set before you, eat, asking no question for conscience sake.</verse>
<verse osisID="1Cor.10.28">But if any man say unto you, This is offered in sacrifice unto idols, eat not for his sake that showed it, and for conscience sake: for the earth is the Lord's, and the fullness of it:</verse>
<verse osisID="1Cor.10.29">Conscience, I say, not your own, but of the other: for why is my liberty judged of another man's conscience?</verse>
<verse osisID="1Cor.10.30">For if I by grace be a partaker, why am I evil spoken of for that for which I give thanks?</verse>
<verse osisID="1Cor.10.31">Whether therefore you eat, or drink, or whatsoever you do, do all to the glory of God.</verse>
<verse osisID="1Cor.10.32">Give none offense, neither to the Jews, nor to the Gentiles, nor to the church of God:</verse>
<verse osisID="1Cor.10.33">Just as I please all men in all things, not seeking my own profit, but the profit of many, that they may be saved.</verse>
</chapter>
<chapter osisID="1Cor.10.33">
<verse osisID="1Cor.11.1">Be you followers of me, just as I also am of Christ.</verse>
<verse osisID="1Cor.11.2">Now I praise you, brothers, that you remember me in all things, and keep the ordinances, as I delivered them to you.</verse>
<verse osisID="1Cor.11.3">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.</verse>
<verse osisID="1Cor.11.4">Every man praying or prophesying, having his head covered, dishonors his head.</verse>
<verse osisID="1Cor.11.5">But every woman that prays or prophesies with her head uncovered dishonors her head: for that is even all one as if she were shaven.</verse>
<verse osisID="1Cor.11.6">For if the woman be not covered, let her also be shorn: but if it be a shame for a woman to be shorn or shaven, let her be covered.</verse>
<verse osisID="1Cor.11.7">For a man indeed ought not to cover his head, forasmuch as he is the image and glory of God: but the woman is the glory of the man.</verse>
<verse osisID="1Cor.11.8">For the man is not of the woman: but the woman of the man.</verse>
<verse osisID="1Cor.11.9">Neither was the man created for the woman; but the woman for the man.</verse>
<verse osisID="1Cor.11.10">For this cause ought the woman to have power on her head because of the angels.</verse>
<verse osisID="1Cor.11.11">Nevertheless neither is the man without the woman, neither the woman without the man, in the Lord.</verse>
<verse osisID="1Cor.11.12">For as the woman is of the man, even so is the man also by the woman; but all things of God.</verse>
<verse osisID="1Cor.11.13">Judge in yourselves: is it comely that a woman pray unto God uncovered?</verse>
<verse osisID="1Cor.11.14">Does not even nature itself teach you, that, if a man have long hair, it is a shame unto him?</verse>
<verse osisID="1Cor.11.15">But if a woman have long hair, it is a glory to her: for her hair is given her for a covering.</verse>
<verse osisID="1Cor.11.16">But if any man seem to be contentious, we have no such custom, neither the churches of God.</verse>
<verse osisID="1Cor.11.17">Now in this that I declare unto you I praise you not, that you come together not for the better, but for the worse.</verse>
<verse osisID="1Cor.11.18">For first of all, when you come together in the church, I hear that there be divisions among you; and I partly believe it.</verse>
<verse osisID="1Cor.11.19">For there must be also heresies among you, that they which are approved may be made manifest among you.</verse>
<verse osisID="1Cor.11.20">When you come together therefore into one place, this is not to eat the Lord's supper.</verse>
<verse osisID="1Cor.11.21">For in eating every one takes before other his own supper: and one is hungry, and another is drunken.</verse>
<verse osisID="1Cor.11.22">What? have you not houses to eat and to drink in? or despise you the church of God, and shame them that have not? What shall I say to you? shall I praise you in this? I praise you not.</verse>
<verse osisID="1Cor.11.23">For I have received of the Lord that which also I delivered unto you, That the Lord Jesus the same night in which he was betrayed took bread:</verse>
<verse osisID="1Cor.11.24">And when he had given thanks, he broke it, and said, Take, eat: this is my body, which is broken for you: this do in remembrance of me.</verse>
<verse osisID="1Cor.11.25">After the same manner also he took the cup, when he had supped, saying, This cup is the new testament in my blood: this do you, as often as you drink it, in remembrance of me.</verse>
<verse osisID="1Cor.11.26">For as often as you eat this bread, and drink this cup, you do show the Lord's death till he come.</verse>
<verse osisID="1Cor.11.27">Therefore whosoever shall eat this bread, and drink this cup of the Lord, unworthily, shall be guilty of the body and blood of the Lord.</verse>
<verse osisID="1Cor.11.28">But let a man examine himself, and so let him eat of that bread, and drink of that cup.</verse>
<verse osisID="1Cor.11.29">For he that eats and drinks unworthily, eats and drinks damnation to himself, not discerning the Lord's body.</verse>
<verse osisID="1Cor.11.30">For this cause many are weak and sickly among you, and many sleep.</verse>
<verse osisID="1Cor.11.31">For if we would judge ourselves, we should not be judged.</verse>
<verse osisID="1Cor.11.32">But when we are judged, we are chastened of the Lord, that we should not be condemned with the world.</verse>
<verse osisID="1Cor.11.33">Therefore, my brothers, when you come together to eat, tarry one for another.</verse>
<verse osisID="1Cor.11.34">And if any man hunger, let him eat at home; that you come not together unto condemnation. And the rest will I set in order when I come.</verse>
</chapter>
<chapter osisID="1Cor.11.34">
<verse osisID="1Cor.12.1">Now concerning spiritual gifts, brothers, I would not have you ignorant.</verse>
<verse osisID="1Cor.12.2">You know that you were Gentiles, carried away unto these dumb idols, just as you were led.</verse>
<verse osisID="1Cor.12.3">Therefore I give you to understand, that no man speaking by the Spirit of God calls Jesus accursed: and that no man can say that Jesus is the Lord, but by the Holy Ghost.</verse>
<verse osisID="1Cor.12.4">Now there are diversities of gifts, but the same Spirit.</verse>
<verse osisID="1Cor.12.5">And there are differences of administrations, but the same Lord.</verse>
<verse osisID="1Cor.12.6">And there are diversities of operations, but it is the same God which works all in all.</verse>
<verse osisID="1Cor.12.7">But the manifestation of the Spirit is given to every man for the profit of all.</verse>
<verse osisID="1Cor.12.8">For to one is given by the Spirit the word of wisdom; to another the word of knowledge by the same Spirit;</verse>
<verse osisID="1Cor.12.9">To another faith by the same Spirit; to another the gifts of healing by the same Spirit;</verse>
<verse osisID="1Cor.12.10">To another the working of miracles; to another prophecy; to another discerning of spirits; to another different kinds of tongues; to another the interpretation of tongues:</verse>
<verse osisID="1Cor.12.11">But all these works that one and the very same Spirit, dividing to every man severally as he will.</verse>
<verse osisID="1Cor.12.12">For as the body is one, and has many members, and all the members of that one body, being many, are one body: so also is Christ.</verse>
<verse osisID="1Cor.12.13">For by one Spirit are we all baptized into one body, whether we be Jews or Gentiles, whether we be bond or free; and have been all made to drink into one Spirit.</verse>
<verse osisID="1Cor.12.14">For the body is not one member, but many.</verse>
<verse osisID="1Cor.12.15">If the foot shall say, Because I am not the hand, I am not of the body; is it therefore not of the body?</verse>
<verse osisID="1Cor.12.16">And if the ear shall say, Because I am not the eye, I am not of the body; is it therefore not of the body?</verse>
<verse osisID="1Cor.12.17">If the whole body were an eye, where were the hearing? If the whole were hearing, where were the smelling?</verse>
<verse osisID="1Cor.12.18">But now has God set the members every one of them in the body, as it has pleased him.</verse>
<verse osisID="1Cor.12.19">And if they were all one member, where were the body?</verse>
<verse osisID="1Cor.12.20">But now are they many members, yet but one body.</verse>
<verse osisID="1Cor.12.21">And the eye cannot say unto the hand, I have no need of you: nor again the head to the feet, I have no need of you.</verse>
<verse osisID="1Cor.12.22">No, much more those members of the body, which seem to be more feeble, are necessary:</verse>
<verse osisID="1Cor.12.23">And those members 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.</verse>
<verse osisID="1Cor.12.24">For our comely parts have no need: but God has tempered the body together, having given more abundant honor to that part which lacked.</verse>
<verse osisID="1Cor.12.25">That there should be no schism in the body; but that the members should have the same care one for another.</verse>
<verse osisID="1Cor.12.26">And whether one member suffer, all the members suffer with it; or one member be honored, all the members rejoice with it.</verse>
<verse osisID="1Cor.12.27">Now you are the body of Christ, and members in particular.</verse>
<verse osisID="1Cor.12.28">And God has set some in the church, first apostles, secondarily prophets, thirdly teachers, after that miracles, then gifts of healings, helps, governments, diversities of tongues.</verse>
<verse osisID="1Cor.12.29">Are all apostles? are all prophets? are all teachers? are all workers of miracles?</verse>
<verse osisID="1Cor.12.30">Have all the gifts of healing? do all speak with tongues? do all interpret?</verse>
<verse osisID="1Cor.12.31">But covet earnestly the best gifts: and yet show I unto you a more excellent way.</verse>
</chapter>
<chapter osisID="1Cor.12.31">
<verse osisID="1Cor.13.1">Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not love, I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal.</verse>
<verse osisID="1Cor.13.2">And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries, and all knowledge; and though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, and have not love, I am nothing.</verse>
<verse osisID="1Cor.13.3">And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and though I give my body to be burned, and have not love, it profits me nothing.</verse>
<verse osisID="1Cor.13.4">Love suffers long, and is kind; love envies not; love vaunts not itself, is not puffed up,</verse>
<verse osisID="1Cor.13.5">Does not behave itself unseemly, seeks not her own, is not easily provoked, thinks no evil;</verse>
<verse osisID="1Cor.13.6">Rejoices not in iniquity, but rejoices in the truth;</verse>
<verse osisID="1Cor.13.7">Bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.</verse>
<verse osisID="1Cor.13.8">Love never fails: but whether there be prophecies, they shall fail; whether there be tongues, they shall cease; whether there be knowledge, it shall vanish away.</verse>
<verse osisID="1Cor.13.9">For we know in part, and we prophesy in part.</verse>
<verse osisID="1Cor.13.10">But when that which is perfect is come, then that which is in part shall be done away.</verse>
<verse osisID="1Cor.13.11">When I was a child, I spoke as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish things.</verse>
<verse osisID="1Cor.13.12">For now we see through a glass, darkly; but then face to face: now I know in part; but then shall I know just as also I am known.</verse>
<verse osisID="1Cor.13.13">And now abide faith, hope, love, these three; but the greatest of these is love.</verse>
</chapter>
<chapter osisID="1Cor.13.13">
<verse osisID="1Cor.14.1">Follow after love, and desire spiritual gifts, but rather that you may prophesy.</verse>
<verse osisID="1Cor.14.2">For he that speaks in an unknown tongue speaks not unto men, but unto God: for no man understands him; howbeit in the spirit he speaks mysteries.</verse>
<verse osisID="1Cor.14.3">But he that prophesies speaks unto men to edification, and exhortation, and comfort.</verse>
<verse osisID="1Cor.14.4">He that speaks in an unknown tongue edifies himself; but he that prophesies edifies the church.</verse>
<verse osisID="1Cor.14.5">I would that you all spoke with tongues but rather that you prophesied: for greater is he that prophesies than he that speaks with tongues, unless he interpret, that the church may receive edifying.</verse>
<verse osisID="1Cor.14.6">Now, brothers, if I come unto you speaking with tongues, what shall I profit you, unless I shall speak to you either by revelation, or by knowledge, or by prophesying, or by doctrine?</verse>
<verse osisID="1Cor.14.7">And even things without life giving sound, whether pipe or harp, unless they give a distinction in the sounds, how shall it be known what is piped or harped?</verse>
<verse osisID="1Cor.14.8">For if the trumpet give an uncertain sound, who shall prepare himself to the battle?</verse>
<verse osisID="1Cor.14.9">So likewise you, unless you utter by the tongue words easy to be understood, how shall it be known what is spoken? for you shall speak into the air.</verse>
<verse osisID="1Cor.14.10">There are, it may be, so many kinds of voices in the world, and none of them is without signification.</verse>
<verse osisID="1Cor.14.11">Therefore if I do not know the meaning of the voice, I shall be unto him that speaks a barbarian, and he that speaks shall be a barbarian unto me.</verse>
<verse osisID="1Cor.14.12">Even so you, forasmuch as you are zealous of spiritual gifts, seek that you may excel to the edifying of the church.</verse>
<verse osisID="1Cor.14.13">Therefore let him that speaks in an unknown tongue pray that he may interpret.</verse>
<verse osisID="1Cor.14.14">For if I pray in an unknown tongue, my spirit prays, but my understanding is unfruitful.</verse>
<verse osisID="1Cor.14.15">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.</verse>
<verse osisID="1Cor.14.16">Else when you shall bless with the spirit, how shall he that occupies the room of the unlearned say Amen at your giving of thanks, seeing he does not understand what you say?</verse>
<verse osisID="1Cor.14.17">For you truthfully give thanks well, but the other is not edified.</verse>
<verse osisID="1Cor.14.18">I thank my God, I speak with tongues more than you all:</verse>
<verse osisID="1Cor.14.19">yet in the church I had rather speak five words with my understanding, that by my voice I might teach others also, than ten thousand words in an unknown tongue.</verse>
<verse osisID="1Cor.14.20">Brethren, be not children in understanding: howbeit in malice be you children, but in understanding be men.</verse>
<verse osisID="1Cor.14.21">In the law it is written, With men of other tongues and other lips will I speak unto this people; and yet for all that will they not hear me, says the LORD.</verse>
<verse osisID="1Cor.14.22">Therefore tongues are for a sign, not to them that believe, but to them that believe not: but prophesying serves not for them that believe not, but for those who believe.</verse>
<verse osisID="1Cor.14.23">If therefore the whole church be come together into one place, and all speak with tongues, and there come in those that are unlearned, or unbelievers, will they not say that you are mad?</verse>
<verse osisID="1Cor.14.24">But if all prophesy, and there come in one that believes not, or one unlearned, he is convinced of all, he is judged of all:</verse>
<verse osisID="1Cor.14.25">And thus are the secrets of his heart made manifest; and so falling down on his face he will worship God, and report that God is in you of a truth.</verse>
<verse osisID="1Cor.14.26">How is it then, brothers? when you come together, every one of you has a psalm, has a doctrine, has a tongue, has a revelation, has an interpretation. Let all things be done unto edifying.</verse>
<verse osisID="1Cor.14.27">If any man speak in an unknown tongue, let it be by two, or at the most by three, and that by course; and let one interpret.</verse>
<verse osisID="1Cor.14.28">But if there be no interpreter, let him keep silence in the church; and let him speak to himself, and to God.</verse>
<verse osisID="1Cor.14.29">Let the prophets speak two or three, and let the other judge.</verse>
<verse osisID="1Cor.14.30">If any thing be revealed to another that sits by, let the first hold his peace.</verse>
<verse osisID="1Cor.14.31">For you may all prophesy one by one, that all may learn, and all may be comforted.</verse>
<verse osisID="1Cor.14.32">And the spirits of the prophets are subject to the prophets.</verse>
<verse osisID="1Cor.14.33">For God is not the author of confusion, but of peace, as in all churches of the saints.</verse>
<verse osisID="1Cor.14.34">Let your women keep silence in the churches: for it is not permitted unto them to speak; but they are commanded to be under obedience as also says the law.</verse>
<verse osisID="1Cor.14.35">And if they will learn any thing, let them ask their husbands at home: for it is a shame for women to speak in the church.</verse>
<verse osisID="1Cor.14.36">What? came the word of God out from you? or came it unto you only?</verse>
<verse osisID="1Cor.14.37">If any man think himself to be a prophet, or spiritual, let him acknowledge that the things that I write unto you are the commandments of the Lord.</verse>
<verse osisID="1Cor.14.38">But if any man be ignorant, let him be ignorant.</verse>
<verse osisID="1Cor.14.39">Therefore, brothers, covet to prophesy, and forbid not to speak with tongues.</verse>
<verse osisID="1Cor.14.40">Let all things be done decently and in order.</verse>
</chapter>
<chapter osisID="1Cor.14.40">
<verse osisID="1Cor.15.1">Moreover, brothers, I declare unto you the gospel which I preached unto you, which also you have received, and in which you stand;</verse>
<verse osisID="1Cor.15.2">By which also you are saved, if you keep in memory what I preached unto you, unless you have believed in vain.</verse>
<verse osisID="1Cor.15.3">For I delivered unto you first of all that which I also received, that Christ died for our sins according to the scriptures;</verse>
<verse osisID="1Cor.15.4">And that he was buried, and that he rose again the third day according to the scriptures:</verse>
<verse osisID="1Cor.15.5">And that he was seen of Cephas, then of the twelve:</verse>
<verse osisID="1Cor.15.6">After that, he was seen of above five hundred brothers at once; of whom the greater part remain unto this present, but some are fallen asleep.</verse>
<verse osisID="1Cor.15.7">After that, he was seen of James; then of all the apostles.</verse>
<verse osisID="1Cor.15.8">And last of all he was seen of me also, as of one born out of due time.</verse>
<verse osisID="1Cor.15.9">For I am the least of the apostles, that am not suitable to be called an apostle, because I persecuted the church of God.</verse>
<verse osisID="1Cor.15.10">But by the grace of God I am what I am: and his grace which was bestowed upon me was not in vain; but I labored more abundantly than they all: yet not I, but the grace of God which was with me.</verse>
<verse osisID="1Cor.15.11">Therefore whether it were I or they, so we preach, and so you believed.</verse>
<verse osisID="1Cor.15.12">Now if Christ be preached that he rose from the dead, how say some among you that there is no resurrection of the dead?</verse>
<verse osisID="1Cor.15.13">But if there be no resurrection of the dead, then is Christ not risen:</verse>
<verse osisID="1Cor.15.14">And if Christ be not risen, then is our preaching vain, and your faith is also vain.</verse>
<verse osisID="1Cor.15.15">Yes, and we are found false witnesses of God; because we have testified of God that he raised up Christ: whom he raised not up, if so be that the dead rise not.</verse>
<verse osisID="1Cor.15.16">For if the dead rise not, then is not Christ raised:</verse>
<verse osisID="1Cor.15.17">And if Christ be not raised, your faith is vain; you are yet in your sins.</verse>
<verse osisID="1Cor.15.18">Then they also which are fallen asleep in Christ are perished.</verse>
<verse osisID="1Cor.15.19">If in this life only we have hope in Christ, we are of all men most miserable.</verse>
<verse osisID="1Cor.15.20">But now is Christ risen from the dead, and become the first fruits of them that slept.</verse>
<verse osisID="1Cor.15.21">For since by man came death, by man came also the resurrection of the dead.</verse>
<verse osisID="1Cor.15.22">For as in Adam all die, even so in Christ shall all be made alive.</verse>
<verse osisID="1Cor.15.23">But every man in his own order: Christ the first fruits; afterward they that are Christ's at his coming.</verse>
<verse osisID="1Cor.15.24">Then comes the end, when he shall have delivered up the kingdom to God, even the Father; when he shall have put down all rule and all authority and power.</verse>
<verse osisID="1Cor.15.25">For he must reign, till he has put all enemies under his feet.</verse>
<verse osisID="1Cor.15.26">The last enemy that shall be destroyed is death.</verse>
<verse osisID="1Cor.15.27">For he has put all things under his feet. But when he says all things are put under him, it is manifest that he is excepted, which did put all things under him.</verse>
<verse osisID="1Cor.15.28">And when all things shall be subdued unto him, then shall the Son also himself be subject unto him that put all things under him, that God may be all in all.</verse>
<verse osisID="1Cor.15.29">Else what shall they do which are baptized for the dead, if the dead rise not at all? why are they then baptized for the dead?</verse>
<verse osisID="1Cor.15.30">And why stand we in jeopardy every hour?</verse>
<verse osisID="1Cor.15.31">I protest by your rejoicing which I have in Christ Jesus our LORD, I die daily.</verse>
<verse osisID="1Cor.15.32">If after the manner of men I have fought with beasts at Ephesus, what advantages it me, if the dead rise not? let us eat and drink; for tomorrow we die.</verse>
<verse osisID="1Cor.15.33">Be not deceived: evil communications corrupt good manners.</verse>
<verse osisID="1Cor.15.34">Awake to righteousness, and sin not; for some have not the knowledge of God: I speak this to your shame.</verse>
<verse osisID="1Cor.15.35">But some man will say, How are the dead raised up? and with what body do they come?</verse>
<verse osisID="1Cor.15.36">You fool, that which you sow is not given life, unless it die:</verse>
<verse osisID="1Cor.15.37">And that which you sow, you do not sow that body that shall be, but bore grain, it may chance of wheat, or of some other grain:</verse>
<verse osisID="1Cor.15.38">But God gives it a body as it has pleased him, and to every seed his own body.</verse>
<verse osisID="1Cor.15.39">All flesh is not the same flesh: but there is one kind of flesh of men, another flesh of beasts, another of fishes, and another of birds.</verse>
<verse osisID="1Cor.15.40">There are also celestial bodies, and bodies terrestrial: but the glory of the celestial is one, and the glory of the terrestrial is another.</verse>
<verse osisID="1Cor.15.41">There is one glory of the sun, and another glory of the moon, and another glory of the stars: for one star differs from another star in glory.</verse>
<verse osisID="1Cor.15.42">So also is the resurrection of the dead. It is sown in corruption; it is raised in incorruption:</verse>
<verse osisID="1Cor.15.43">It is sown in dishonor; it is raised in glory: it is sown in weakness; it is raised in power:</verse>
<verse osisID="1Cor.15.44">It is sown a natural body; it is raised a spiritual body. There is a natural body, and there is a spiritual body.</verse>
<verse osisID="1Cor.15.45">And so it is written, The first man Adam was made a living soul; the last Adam was made a life-giving spirit.</verse>
<verse osisID="1Cor.15.46">Howbeit that was not first which is spiritual, but that which is natural; and afterward that which is spiritual.</verse>
<verse osisID="1Cor.15.47">The first man is of the earth, earthy; the second man is the Lord from heaven.</verse>
<verse osisID="1Cor.15.48">As is the earthy, such are they also that are earthy: and as is the heavenly, such are they also that are heavenly.</verse>
<verse osisID="1Cor.15.49">And as we have borne the image of the earthy, we shall also bear the image of the heavenly.</verse>
<verse osisID="1Cor.15.50">Now this I say, brothers, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God; neither does corruption inherit incorruption.</verse>
<verse osisID="1Cor.15.51">Behold, I show you a mystery; We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed,</verse>
<verse osisID="1Cor.15.52">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.</verse>
<verse osisID="1Cor.15.53">For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal must put on immortality.</verse>
<verse osisID="1Cor.15.54">So when this corruptible shall have put on incorruption, and this mortal shall have put on immortality, then shall be brought to pass the saying that is written, Death is swallowed up in victory.</verse>
<verse osisID="1Cor.15.55">O death, where is your sting? O grave, where is your victory?</verse>
<verse osisID="1Cor.15.56">The sting of death is sin; and the strength of sin is the law.</verse>
<verse osisID="1Cor.15.57">But thanks be to God, which gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.</verse>
<verse osisID="1Cor.15.58">Therefore, my beloved brothers, be steadfast, unmovable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, forasmuch as you know that your labor is not in vain in the Lord.</verse>
</chapter>
<chapter osisID="1Cor.15.58">
<verse osisID="1Cor.16.1">Now concerning the collection for the saints, as I have given order to the churches of Galatia, even so do you.</verse>
<verse osisID="1Cor.16.2">Upon the first day of the week let every one of you lay by him in store, as God has prospered him, that there be no gatherings when I come.</verse>
<verse osisID="1Cor.16.3">And when I come, whomsoever you shall approve by your letters, them will I send to bring your liberality unto Jerusalem.</verse>
<verse osisID="1Cor.16.4">And if it be suitable that I go also, they shall go with me.</verse>
<verse osisID="1Cor.16.5">Now I will come unto you, when I shall pass through Macedonia: for I do pass through Macedonia.</verse>
<verse osisID="1Cor.16.6">And it may be that I will abide, yes, and winter with you, that you may bring me on my journey to wheresoever I go.</verse>
<verse osisID="1Cor.16.7">For I will not see you now by the way; but I trust to tarry a while with you, if the Lord permit.</verse>
<verse osisID="1Cor.16.8">But I will tarry at Ephesus until Pentecost.</verse>
<verse osisID="1Cor.16.9">For a great and effective door is opened unto me, and there are many adversaries.</verse>
<verse osisID="1Cor.16.10">Now if Timotheus come, see that he may be with you without fear: for he works the work of the Lord, as I also do.</verse>
<verse osisID="1Cor.16.11">Let no man therefore despise him: but conduct him forth in peace, that he may come unto me: for I look for him with the brothers.</verse>
<verse osisID="1Cor.16.12">As touching our brother Apollos, I greatly desired him to come unto you with the brothers: but his will was not at all to come at this time; but he will come when he shall have convenient time.</verse>
<verse osisID="1Cor.16.13">Watch you, stand fast in the faith, quit you like men, be strong.</verse>
<verse osisID="1Cor.16.14">Let all your things be done with love.</verse>
<verse osisID="1Cor.16.15">I beseech you, brothers, (you know the house of Stephanas, that it is the first fruits of Achaia, and that they have addicted themselves to the ministry of the saints,)</verse>
<verse osisID="1Cor.16.16">That you submit yourselves unto such, and to every one that helps with us, and labors.</verse>
<verse osisID="1Cor.16.17">I am glad of the coming of Stephanas and Fortunatus and Achaicus: for that which was lacking on your part they have supplied.</verse>
<verse osisID="1Cor.16.18">For they have refreshed my spirit and your's: therefore acknowledge you them that are such.</verse>
<verse osisID="1Cor.16.19">The churches of Asia salute you. Aquila and Priscilla salute you much in the Lord, with the church that is in their house.</verse>
<verse osisID="1Cor.16.20">All the brothers greet you. Greet you one another with a holy kiss.</verse>
<verse osisID="1Cor.16.21">The salutation of me Paul with my own hand.</verse>
<verse osisID="1Cor.16.22">If any man love not the Lord Jesus Christ, let him be Anathema Maranatha.</verse>
<verse osisID="1Cor.16.23">The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you.</verse>
<verse osisID="1Cor.16.24">My love be with you all in Christ Jesus. Amen. </div></verse>
</chapter>
</div>
<div type="book" osisID="1Cor.15.58">
<chapter osisID="1Cor.16.24">
<verse osisID="2Cor.1.1">Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ by the will of God, and Timothy our brother, unto the church of God which is at Corinth, with all the saints which are in all Achaia:</verse>
<verse osisID="2Cor.1.2">Grace be to you and peace from God our Father, and from the Lord Jesus Christ.</verse>
<verse osisID="2Cor.1.3">Blessed be God, even the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies, and the God of all comfort;</verse>
<verse osisID="2Cor.1.4">Who comforts us in all our tribulation, that we may be able to comfort those who are in any trouble, by the comfort with which we ourselves are comforted of God.</verse>
<verse osisID="2Cor.1.5">For as the sufferings of Christ abound in us, so our consolation also abounds by Christ.</verse>
<verse osisID="2Cor.1.6">And whether we be afflicted, it is for your consolation and salvation, which is effective in the enduring of the same sufferings which we also suffer: or whether we be comforted, it is for your consolation and salvation.</verse>
<verse osisID="2Cor.1.7">And our hope of you is steadfast, knowing, that as you are partakers of the sufferings, so shall you be also of the consolation.</verse>
<verse osisID="2Cor.1.8">For we would not, brothers, have you ignorant of our trouble which came to us in Asia, that we were pressed out of measure, above strength, insomuch that we despaired even of life:</verse>
<verse osisID="2Cor.1.9">But we had the sentence of death in ourselves, that we should not trust in ourselves, but in God which raises the dead:</verse>
<verse osisID="2Cor.1.10">Who delivered us from so great a death, and does deliver: in whom we trust that he will yet deliver us;</verse>
<verse osisID="2Cor.1.11">You also helping together by prayer for us, that for the gift bestowed upon us by the means of many persons thanks may be given by many on our behalf.</verse>
<verse osisID="2Cor.1.12">For our rejoicing is this, the testimony of our conscience, that in simplicity and godly sincerity, not with fleshly wisdom, but by the grace of God, we have had our conduct in the world, and more abundantly toward you.</verse>
<verse osisID="2Cor.1.13">For we write none other things unto you, than what you read or acknowledge; and I trust you shall acknowledge even to the end;</verse>
<verse osisID="2Cor.1.14">As also you have acknowledged us in part, that we are your rejoicing, even as you also are our's in the day of the Lord Jesus.</verse>
<verse osisID="2Cor.1.15">And in this confidence I was minded to come unto you before, that you might have a second benefit;</verse>
<verse osisID="2Cor.1.16">And to pass by you into Macedonia, and to come again out of Macedonia unto you, and of you to be brought on my way toward Judaea.</verse>
<verse osisID="2Cor.1.17">When I therefore was thus minded, did I use lightness? or the things that I purpose, do I purpose according to the flesh, that with me there should be yes yes, and no no?</verse>
<verse osisID="2Cor.1.18">But as God is true, our word toward you was not yes and no.</verse>
<verse osisID="2Cor.1.19">For the Son of God, Jesus Christ, who was preached among you by us, even by me and Silvanus and Timotheus, was not yes and no, but in him was yes.</verse>
<verse osisID="2Cor.1.20">For all the promises of God in him are yes, and in him Amen, unto the glory of God by us.</verse>
<verse osisID="2Cor.1.21">Now he which establishes us with you in Christ, and has anointed us, is God;</verse>
<verse osisID="2Cor.1.22">Who has also sealed us, and given the earnest of the Spirit in our hearts.</verse>
<verse osisID="2Cor.1.23">Moreover I call God for a record upon my soul, that to spare you I came not as yet unto Corinth.</verse>
<verse osisID="2Cor.1.24">Not for that we have dominion over your faith, but are helpers of your joy: for by faith you stand.</verse>
</chapter>
<chapter osisID="2Cor.1.24">
<verse osisID="2Cor.2.1">But I determined this with myself, that I would not come again to you in heaviness.</verse>
<verse osisID="2Cor.2.2">For if I make you sorry, who is he then that makes me glad, but the same which is made sorry by me?</verse>
<verse osisID="2Cor.2.3">And I wrote this same unto you, lest, when I came, I should have sorrow from them of whom I ought to rejoice; having confidence in you all, that my joy is the joy of you all.</verse>
<verse osisID="2Cor.2.4">For out of much affliction and anguish of heart I wrote unto you with many tears; not that you should be grieved, but that you might know the love which I have more abundantly unto you.</verse>
<verse osisID="2Cor.2.5">But if any have caused grief, he has not grieved me, but in part: that I may not overcharge you all.</verse>
<verse osisID="2Cor.2.6">Sufficient to such a man is this punishment, which was inflicted of many.</verse>
<verse osisID="2Cor.2.7">So that contrariwise you ought rather to forgive him, and comfort him, lest perhaps such a one should be swallowed up with overmuch sorrow.</verse>
<verse osisID="2Cor.2.8">Therefore I beseech you that you would confirm your love toward him.</verse>
<verse osisID="2Cor.2.9">For to this end also did I write, that I might know the proof of you, whether you be obedient in all things.</verse>
<verse osisID="2Cor.2.10">To whom you forgive any thing, I forgive also: for if I forgave any thing, to whom I forgave it, for your sakes forgave I it in the person of Christ;</verse>
<verse osisID="2Cor.2.11">Lest Satan should get an advantage of us: for we are not ignorant of his devices.</verse>
<verse osisID="2Cor.2.12">Furthermore, when I came to Troas to preach Christ's gospel, and a door was opened unto me of the Lord,</verse>
<verse osisID="2Cor.2.13">I had no rest in my spirit, because I found not Titus my brother: but taking my leave of them, I went from there into Macedonia.</verse>
<verse osisID="2Cor.2.14">Now thanks be unto God, which always causes us to triumph in Christ, and makes manifest the savour of his knowledge by us in every place.</verse>
<verse osisID="2Cor.2.15">For we are unto God a sweet savour of Christ, in them that are saved, and in them that perish:</verse>
<verse osisID="2Cor.2.16">To the one we are the savour of death unto death; and to the other the savour of life unto life. And who is sufficient for these things?</verse>
<verse osisID="2Cor.2.17">For we are not as many, which corrupt the word of God: but as of sincerity, but as of God, in the sight of God speak we in Christ.</verse>
</chapter>
<chapter osisID="2Cor.2.17">
<verse osisID="2Cor.3.1">Do we begin again to commend ourselves? or need we, as some others, epistles of commendation to you, or letters of commendation from you?</verse>
<verse osisID="2Cor.3.2">You are our epistle written in our hearts, known and read of all men:</verse>
<verse osisID="2Cor.3.3">Since as you are manifestly declared to be the epistle of Christ ministered by us, written not with ink, but with the Spirit of the living God; not in tables of stone, but in fleshy tables of the heart.</verse>
<verse osisID="2Cor.3.4">And such trust have we through Christ to God-ward:</verse>
<verse osisID="2Cor.3.5">Not that we are sufficient of ourselves to think any thing as of ourselves; but our sufficiency is of God;</verse>
<verse osisID="2Cor.3.6">Who also has made us able ministers of the new testament; not of the letter, but of the spirit: for the letter kills, but the spirit gives life.</verse>
<verse osisID="2Cor.3.7">But if the ministration of death, written and engraved in stones, was glorious, so that the children of Israel could not steadfastly behold the face of Moses for the glory of his countenance; which glory was to be done away:</verse>
<verse osisID="2Cor.3.8">How shall not the ministration of the spirit be rather glorious?</verse>
<verse osisID="2Cor.3.9">For if the ministration of condemnation be glory, much more does the ministration of righteousness exceed in glory.</verse>
<verse osisID="2Cor.3.10">For even that which was made glorious had no glory in this respect, by reason of the glory that excels.</verse>
<verse osisID="2Cor.3.11">For if that which is done away was glorious, much more that which remains is glorious.</verse>
<verse osisID="2Cor.3.12">Seeing then that we have such hope, we use great plainness of speech:</verse>
<verse osisID="2Cor.3.13">And not as Moses, which put a veil over his face, that the children of Israel could not steadfastly look to the end of that which is abolished:</verse>
<verse osisID="2Cor.3.14">But their minds were blinded: for until this day remains the same veil untaken away in the reading of the old testament; which veil is done away in Christ.</verse>
<verse osisID="2Cor.3.15">But even unto this day, when Moses is read, the veil is upon their heart.</verse>
<verse osisID="2Cor.3.16">Nevertheless when it shall turn to the Lord, the veil shall be taken away.</verse>
<verse osisID="2Cor.3.17">Now the Lord is that Spirit: and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty.</verse>
<verse osisID="2Cor.3.18">But we all, with open face beholding as in a glass the glory of the Lord, are changed into the same image from glory to glory, just as by the Spirit of the LORD.</verse>
</chapter>
<chapter osisID="2Cor.3.18">
<verse osisID="2Cor.4.1">Therefore seeing we have this ministry, as we have received mercy, we faint not;</verse>
<verse osisID="2Cor.4.2">But have renounced the hidden things of dishonesty, not walking in craftiness, nor handling the word of God deceitfully; but by manifestation of the truth commending ourselves to every man's conscience in the sight of God.</verse>
<verse osisID="2Cor.4.3">But if our gospel be hid, it is hid to them that are lost:</verse>
<verse osisID="2Cor.4.4">In whom the god of this world has blinded the minds of those who believe not, lest the light of the glorious gospel of Christ, who is the image of God, should shine unto them.</verse>
<verse osisID="2Cor.4.5">For we preach not ourselves, but Christ Jesus the Lord; and ourselves your servants for Jesus' sake.</verse>
<verse osisID="2Cor.4.6">For God, who commanded the light to shine out of darkness, has shined in our hearts, to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.</verse>
<verse osisID="2Cor.4.7">But we have this treasure in earthen vessels, that the excellency of the power may be of God, and not of us.</verse>
<verse osisID="2Cor.4.8">We are troubled on every side, yet not distressed; we are perplexed, but not in despair;</verse>
<verse osisID="2Cor.4.9">Persecuted, but not forsaken; cast down, but not destroyed;</verse>
<verse osisID="2Cor.4.10">Always bearing about in the body the dying of the Lord Jesus, that the life also of Jesus might be made manifest in our body.</verse>
<verse osisID="2Cor.4.11">For we which live are always delivered unto death for Jesus' sake, that the life also of Jesus might be made manifest in our mortal flesh.</verse>
<verse osisID="2Cor.4.12">So then death works in us, but life in you.</verse>
<verse osisID="2Cor.4.13">We having the same spirit of faith, according as it is written, I believed, and therefore have I spoken; we also believe, and therefore speak;</verse>
<verse osisID="2Cor.4.14">Knowing that he which raised up the Lord Jesus shall raise up us also by Jesus, and shall present us with you.</verse>
<verse osisID="2Cor.4.15">For all things are for your sakes, that the abundant grace might through the thanksgiving of many redound to the glory of God.</verse>
<verse osisID="2Cor.4.16">For which cause we faint not; but though our outward man perish, yet the inward man is renewed day by day.</verse>
<verse osisID="2Cor.4.17">For our light affliction, which is but for a moment, works for us a far more exceedingly and eternal weight of glory;</verse>
<verse osisID="2Cor.4.18">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.</verse>
</chapter>
<chapter osisID="2Cor.4.18">
<verse osisID="2Cor.5.1">For we know that if our earthly house of this tabernacle were dissolved, we have a building of God, a house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens.</verse>
<verse osisID="2Cor.5.2">For in this we groan, earnestly desiring to be clothed upon with our house which is from heaven:</verse>
<verse osisID="2Cor.5.3">If so be that being clothed we shall not be found naked.</verse>
<verse osisID="2Cor.5.4">For we that are in this tabernacle do groan, being burdened: not for that we would be unclothed, but clothed upon, that mortality might be swallowed up of life.</verse>
<verse osisID="2Cor.5.5">Now he that has wrought us for the very same thing is God, who also has given unto us the earnest of the Spirit.</verse>
<verse osisID="2Cor.5.6">Therefore we are always confident, knowing that, while we are at home in the body, we are absent from the Lord:</verse>
<verse osisID="2Cor.5.7">(For we walk by faith, not by sight:)</verse>
<verse osisID="2Cor.5.8">We are confident, I say, and willing rather to be absent from the body, and to be present with the Lord.</verse>
<verse osisID="2Cor.5.9">Therefore we labor, that, whether present or absent, we may be accepted of him.</verse>
<verse osisID="2Cor.5.10">For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ; that every one may receive the things done in his body, according to that he has done, whether it be good or bad.</verse>
<verse osisID="2Cor.5.11">Knowing therefore the terror of the Lord, we persuade men; but we are made manifest unto God; and I trust also are made manifest in your consciences.</verse>
<verse osisID="2Cor.5.12">For we commend not ourselves again unto you, but give you occasion to glory on our behalf, that you may have somewhat to answer those who glory in appearance, and not in heart.</verse>
<verse osisID="2Cor.5.13">For whether we be beside ourselves, it is to God: or whether we be sober, it is for your cause.</verse>
<verse osisID="2Cor.5.14">For the love of Christ constrains us; because we thus judge, that if one died for all, then were all dead:</verse>
<verse osisID="2Cor.5.15">And that he died for all, that they which live should not henceforth live unto themselves, but unto him which died for them, and rose again.</verse>
<verse osisID="2Cor.5.16">Therefore henceforth know we no man after the flesh: yes, though we have known Christ after the flesh, yet now henceforth know we him no more.</verse>
<verse osisID="2Cor.5.17">Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things have become new.</verse>
<verse osisID="2Cor.5.18">And all things are of God, who has reconciled us to himself by Jesus Christ, and has given to us the ministry of reconciliation;</verse>
<verse osisID="2Cor.5.19">That is, that God was in Christ, reconciling the world unto himself, not imputing their trespasses unto them; and has committed unto us the word of reconciliation.</verse>
<verse osisID="2Cor.5.20">Now then we are ambassadors for Christ, as though God did beseech you by us: we pray you in Christ's stead, be reconciled to God.</verse>
<verse osisID="2Cor.5.21">For he has made him to be sin for us, who knew no sin; that we might be made the righteousness of God in him.</verse>
</chapter>
<chapter osisID="2Cor.5.21">
<verse osisID="2Cor.6.1">We then, as workers together with him, beseech you also that you receive not the grace of God in vain.</verse>
<verse osisID="2Cor.6.2">(For he says, I have heard you in a time accepted, and in the day of salvation have I succored you: behold, now is the accepted time; behold, now is the day of salvation.)</verse>
<verse osisID="2Cor.6.3">Giving no offense in any thing, that the ministry be not blamed:</verse>
<verse osisID="2Cor.6.4">But in all things approving ourselves as the ministers of God, in much patience, in afflictions, in necessities, in distresses,</verse>
<verse osisID="2Cor.6.5">In stripes, in imprisonments, in tumults, in labors, in watchings, in fastings;</verse>
<verse osisID="2Cor.6.6">By pureness, by knowledge, by longsuffering, by kindness, by the Holy Ghost, by love unfeigned,</verse>
<verse osisID="2Cor.6.7">By the word of truth, by the power of God, by the armour of righteousness on the right hand and on the left,</verse>
<verse osisID="2Cor.6.8">By honor and dishonor, by evil report and good report: as deceivers, and yet true;</verse>
<verse osisID="2Cor.6.9">As unknown, and yet well known; as dying, and, behold, we live; as chastened, and not killed;</verse>
<verse osisID="2Cor.6.10">As sorrowful, yet always rejoicing; as poor, yet making many rich; as having nothing, and yet possessing all things.</verse>
<verse osisID="2Cor.6.11">O you Corinthians, our mouth is open unto you, our heart is enlarged.</verse>
<verse osisID="2Cor.6.12">You are not restricted in us, but you are restricted in your own insides.</verse>
<verse osisID="2Cor.6.13">Now for a recompense in the same, (I speak as unto my children,) be you also enlarged.</verse>
<verse osisID="2Cor.6.14">Be you not unequally yoked together with unbelievers: for what fellowship has righteousness with unrighteousness? and what communion has light with darkness?</verse>
<verse osisID="2Cor.6.15">And what concord has Christ with Belial? or what part has he that believes with an infidel?</verse>
<verse osisID="2Cor.6.16">And what agreement has the temple of God with idols? for you are the temple of the living God; as God has said, I will dwell in them, and walk in them; and I will be their God, and they shall be my people.</verse>
<verse osisID="2Cor.6.17">Therefore come out from among them, and be separate, says the Lord, and touch not the unclean thing; and I will receive you.</verse>
<verse osisID="2Cor.6.18">And will be a Father unto you, and you shall be my sons and daughters, says the Lord Almighty.</verse>
</chapter>
<chapter osisID="2Cor.6.18">
<verse osisID="2Cor.7.1">Having therefore these promises, dearly beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from all filthiness of the flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God.</verse>
<verse osisID="2Cor.7.2">Receive us; we have wronged no man, we have corrupted no man, we have defrauded no man.</verse>
<verse osisID="2Cor.7.3">I speak not this to condemn you: for I have said before, that you are in our hearts to die and live with you.</verse>
<verse osisID="2Cor.7.4">Great is my boldness of speech toward you, great is my glorying of you: I am filled with comfort, I am exceedingly joyful in all our tribulation.</verse>
<verse osisID="2Cor.7.5">For, when we had come into Macedonia, our flesh had no rest, but we were troubled on every side; outside were fightings, within were fears.</verse>
<verse osisID="2Cor.7.6">Nevertheless God, that comforts those that are cast down, comforted us by the coming of Titus;</verse>
<verse osisID="2Cor.7.7">And not by his coming only, but by the consolation with which he was comforted in you, when he told us your earnest desire, your mourning, your fervent mind toward me; so that I rejoiced the more.</verse>
<verse osisID="2Cor.7.8">For though I made you sorry with a letter, I do not repent, though I did repent: for I perceive that the same epistle has made you sorry, though it were but for a season.</verse>
<verse osisID="2Cor.7.9">Now I rejoice, not that you were made sorry, but that you sorrowed to repentance: for you were made sorry after a godly manner, that you might receive damage by us in nothing.</verse>
<verse osisID="2Cor.7.10">For godly sorrow works repentance to salvation not to be repented of: but the sorrow of the world works death.</verse>
<verse osisID="2Cor.7.11">For behold this very same thing, that you sorrowed after a godly sort, what carefulness it wrought in you, yes, what clearing of yourselves, yes, what indignation, yes, what fear, yes, what vehement desire, yes, what zeal, yes, what revenge! In all things you have approved yourselves to be clear in this matter.</verse>
<verse osisID="2Cor.7.12">Therefore, though I wrote unto you, I did it not for his cause that had done the wrong, nor for his cause that suffered wrong, but that our care for you in the sight of God might appear unto you.</verse>
<verse osisID="2Cor.7.13">Therefore we were comforted in your comfort: yes, and exceedingly the more we rejoiced for the joy of Titus, because his spirit was refreshed by you all.</verse>
<verse osisID="2Cor.7.14">For if I have boasted any thing to him of you, I am not ashamed; but as we spoke all things to you in truth, even so our boasting, which I made before Titus, is found a truth.</verse>
<verse osisID="2Cor.7.15">And his inward affection is more abundant toward you, while he remembers the obedience of you all, how with fear and trembling you received him.</verse>
<verse osisID="2Cor.7.16">I rejoice therefore that I have confidence in you in all things.</verse>
</chapter>
<chapter osisID="2Cor.7.16">
<verse osisID="2Cor.8.1">Moreover, brothers, we do you to know of the grace of God bestowed on the churches of Macedonia;</verse>
<verse osisID="2Cor.8.2">That in a great trial of affliction the abundance of their joy and their deep poverty abounded unto the riches of their liberality.</verse>
<verse osisID="2Cor.8.3">For to their power, I bear record, yes, and beyond their power they were willing of themselves;</verse>
<verse osisID="2Cor.8.4">Praying us with much entreaty that we would receive the gift, and take upon us the fellowship of the ministering to the saints.</verse>
<verse osisID="2Cor.8.5">And this they did, not as we hoped, but first gave their own selves to the Lord, and unto us by the will of God.</verse>
<verse osisID="2Cor.8.6">Insomuch that we desired Titus, that as he had begun, so he would also finish in you the same grace also.</verse>
<verse osisID="2Cor.8.7">Therefore, as you abound in everything, in faith, and utterance, and knowledge, and in all diligence, and in your love to us, see that you abound in this grace also.</verse>
<verse osisID="2Cor.8.8">I speak not by commandment, but by occasion of the forwardness of others, and to prove the sincerity of your love.</verse>
<verse osisID="2Cor.8.9">For you know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that, though he was rich, yet for your sakes he became poor, that you through his poverty might be rich.</verse>
<verse osisID="2Cor.8.10">And herein I give my advice: for this is expedient for you, who have begun before, not only to do, but also to be forward a year ago.</verse>
<verse osisID="2Cor.8.11">Now therefore perform the doing of it; that as there was a readiness to will, so there may be a performance also out of that which you have.</verse>
<verse osisID="2Cor.8.12">For if there be first a willing mind, it is accepted according to that a man has, and not according to that he has not.</verse>
<verse osisID="2Cor.8.13">For I mean not that other men be eased, and you burdened:</verse>
<verse osisID="2Cor.8.14">But by an equality, that now at this time your abundance may be a supply for their want, that their abundance also may be a supply for your want: that there may be equality:</verse>
<verse osisID="2Cor.8.15">As it is written, He that had gathered much had nothing over; and he that had gathered little had no lack.</verse>
<verse osisID="2Cor.8.16">But thanks be to God, which put the same earnest care into the heart of Titus for you.</verse>
<verse osisID="2Cor.8.17">For indeed he accepted the exhortation; but being more forward, of his own accord he went unto you.</verse>
<verse osisID="2Cor.8.18">And we have sent with him the brother, whose praise is in the gospel throughout all the churches;</verse>
<verse osisID="2Cor.8.19">And not that only, but who was also chosen of the churches to travel with us with this grace, which is administered by us to the glory of the same Lord, and declaration of your ready mind:</verse>
<verse osisID="2Cor.8.20">Avoiding this, that no man should blame us in this abundance which is administered by us:</verse>
<verse osisID="2Cor.8.21">Providing for honest things, not only in the sight of the Lord, but also in the sight of men.</verse>
<verse osisID="2Cor.8.22">And we have sent with them our brother, whom we have oftentimes proved diligent in many things, but now much more diligent, upon the great confidence which I have in you.</verse>
<verse osisID="2Cor.8.23">Whether any do inquire of Titus, he is my partner and fellow helper concerning you: or our brothers be inquired of, they are the messengers of the churches, and the glory of Christ.</verse>
<verse osisID="2Cor.8.24">Therefore show you to them, and before the churches, the proof of your love, and of our boasting on your behalf.</verse>
</chapter>
<chapter osisID="2Cor.8.24">
<verse osisID="2Cor.9.1">For as touching the ministering to the saints, it is superfluous for me to write to you:</verse>
<verse osisID="2Cor.9.2">For I know the forwardness of your mind, for which I boast of you to them of Macedonia, that Achaia was ready a year ago; and your zeal has provoked very many.</verse>
<verse osisID="2Cor.9.3">yet have I sent the brothers, lest our boasting of you should be in vain in this behalf; that, as I said, you may be ready:</verse>
<verse osisID="2Cor.9.4">Lest haply if they of Macedonia come with me, and find you unprepared, we (that we say not, you) should be ashamed in this same confident boasting.</verse>
<verse osisID="2Cor.9.5">Therefore I thought it necessary to exhort the brothers, that they would go before unto you, and make up beforehand your bounty, whereof you had notice before, that the same might be ready, as a matter of bounty, and not as of covetousness.</verse>
<verse osisID="2Cor.9.6">But this I say, He which sows sparingly shall reap also sparingly; and he which sows bountifully shall reap also bountifully.</verse>
<verse osisID="2Cor.9.7">Every man according as he purposes in his heart, so let him give; not grudgingly, or of necessity: for God loves a cheerful giver.</verse>
<verse osisID="2Cor.9.8">And God is able to make all grace abound toward you; that you, always having all sufficiency in all things, may abound to every good work:</verse>
<verse osisID="2Cor.9.9">(As it is written, He has dispersed abroad; he has given to the poor: his righteousness remains forever.</verse>
<verse osisID="2Cor.9.10">Now he that ministers seed to the sower both minister bread for your food, and multiply your seed sown, and increase the fruits of your righteousness;)</verse>
<verse osisID="2Cor.9.11">Being enriched in everything to all bountifulness, which causes through us thanksgiving to God.</verse>
<verse osisID="2Cor.9.12">For the administration of this service not only supplies the want of the saints, but is abundant also by many thanksgivings unto God;</verse>
<verse osisID="2Cor.9.13">Whiles by the experiment of this ministration they glorify God for your professed subjection unto the gospel of Christ, and for your liberal distribution unto them, and unto all men;</verse>
<verse osisID="2Cor.9.14">And by their prayer for you, which long after you for the exceedingly grace of God in you.</verse>
<verse osisID="2Cor.9.15">Thanks be unto God for his unspeakable gift.</verse>
</chapter>
<chapter osisID="2Cor.9.15">
<verse osisID="2Cor.10.1">Now I Paul myself beseech you by the meekness and gentleness of Christ, who in presence am base among you, but being absent am bold toward you:</verse>
<verse osisID="2Cor.10.2">But I beseech you, that I may not be bold when I am present with that confidence, with which I think to be bold against some, which think of us as if we walked according to the flesh.</verse>
<verse osisID="2Cor.10.3">For though we walk in the flesh, we do not war after the flesh:</verse>
<verse osisID="2Cor.10.4">(For the weapons of our warfare are not carnal, but mighty through God to the pulling down of strong holds;)</verse>
<verse osisID="2Cor.10.5">Casting down imaginations, and every high thing that exalts itself against the knowledge of God, and bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ;</verse>
<verse osisID="2Cor.10.6">And having in a readiness to revenge all disobedience, when your obedience is fulfilled.</verse>
<verse osisID="2Cor.10.7">Do you look on things after the outward appearance? If any man trust to himself that he is Christ's, let him of himself think this again, that, as he is Christ's, even so are we Christ's.</verse>
<verse osisID="2Cor.10.8">For though I should boast somewhat more of our authority, which the Lord has given us for edification, and not for your destruction, I should not be ashamed:</verse>
<verse osisID="2Cor.10.9">That I may not seem as if I would terrify you by letters.</verse>
<verse osisID="2Cor.10.10">For his letters, say they, are weighty and powerful; but his bodily presence is weak, and his speech contemptible.</verse>
<verse osisID="2Cor.10.11">Let such a one think this, that, such as we are in word by letters when we are absent, such will we be also in deed when we are present.</verse>
<verse osisID="2Cor.10.12">For we dare not make ourselves of the number, or compare ourselves with some that commend themselves: but they measuring themselves by themselves, and comparing themselves among themselves, are not wise.</verse>
<verse osisID="2Cor.10.13">But we will not boast of things without our measure, but according to the measure of the rule which God has distributed to us, a measure to reach even unto you.</verse>
<verse osisID="2Cor.10.14">For we stretch not ourselves beyond our measure, as though we reached not unto you: for we are come as far as to you also in preaching the gospel of Christ:</verse>
<verse osisID="2Cor.10.15">Not boasting of things without our measure, that is, of other men's labors; but having hope, when your faith is increased, that we shall be enlarged by you according to our rule abundantly,</verse>
<verse osisID="2Cor.10.16">To preach the gospel in the regions beyond you, and not to boast in another man's line of things made ready to our hand.</verse>
<verse osisID="2Cor.10.17">But he that glories, let him glory in the Lord.</verse>
<verse osisID="2Cor.10.18">For not he that commends himself is approved, but whom the Lord commends.</verse>
</chapter>
<chapter osisID="2Cor.10.18">
<verse osisID="2Cor.11.1">Would to God you could bear with me a little in my folly: and indeed bear with me.</verse>
<verse osisID="2Cor.11.2">For I am jealous over you with godly jealousy: for I have espoused you to one husband, that I may present you as a chaste virgin to Christ.</verse>
<verse osisID="2Cor.11.3">But I fear, lest by any means, as the serpent beguiled Eve through his trickery, so your minds should be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ.</verse>
<verse osisID="2Cor.11.4">For if he that comes preaches another Jesus, whom we have not preached, or if you receive another spirit, which you have not received, or another gospel, which you have not accepted, you might well bear with him.</verse>
<verse osisID="2Cor.11.5">For I suppose I was not a whit behind the very chiefest apostles.</verse>
<verse osisID="2Cor.11.6">But though I be rude in speech, yet not in knowledge; but we have been thoroughly made manifest among you in all things.</verse>
<verse osisID="2Cor.11.7">Have I committed an offense in abasing myself that you might be exalted, because I have preached to you the gospel of God freely?</verse>
<verse osisID="2Cor.11.8">I robbed other churches, taking wages of them, to do you service.</verse>
<verse osisID="2Cor.11.9">And when I was present with you, and wanted, I was chargeable to no man: for that which was lacking to me the brothers which came from Macedonia supplied: and in all things I have kept myself from being burdensome unto you, and so will I keep myself.</verse>
<verse osisID="2Cor.11.10">As the truth of Christ is in me, no man shall stop me of this boasting in the regions of Achaia.</verse>
<verse osisID="2Cor.11.11">Why? because I love you not? God knows.</verse>
<verse osisID="2Cor.11.12">But what I do, that I will do, that I may cut off occasion from those who desire occasion; that in which they glory, they may be found just as we.</verse>
<verse osisID="2Cor.11.13">For such are false apostles, deceitful workers, transforming themselves into the apostles of Christ.</verse>
<verse osisID="2Cor.11.14">And no marvel; for Satan himself is transformed into an angel of light.</verse>
<verse osisID="2Cor.11.15">Therefore it is no great thing if his ministers also be transformed as the ministers of righteousness; whose end shall be according to their works.</verse>
<verse osisID="2Cor.11.16">I say again, Let no man think me a fool; if otherwise, yet as a fool receive me, that I may boast myself a little.</verse>
<verse osisID="2Cor.11.17">That which I speak, I speak it not after the Lord, but as it were foolishly, in this confidence of boasting.</verse>
<verse osisID="2Cor.11.18">Seeing that many glory after the flesh, I will glory also.</verse>
<verse osisID="2Cor.11.19">For you tolerate fools gladly, seeing you yourselves are wise.</verse>
<verse osisID="2Cor.11.20">For you suffer, if a man bring you into bondage, if a man devour you, if a man take of you, if a man exalt himself, if a man smite you on the face.</verse>
<verse osisID="2Cor.11.21">I speak as concerning reproach, as though we had been weak. Howbeit in whichsoever any is bold, (I speak foolishly,) I am bold also.</verse>
<verse osisID="2Cor.11.22">Are they Hebrews? so am I. Are they Israelites? so am I. Are they the seed of Abraham? so am I.</verse>
<verse osisID="2Cor.11.23">Are they ministers of Christ? (I speak as a fool) I am more; in labors more abundant, in stripes above measure, in prisons more frequent, in deaths often.</verse>
<verse osisID="2Cor.11.24">Of the Jews five times received I forty stripes less one.</verse>
<verse osisID="2Cor.11.25">Three times was I beaten with rods, once was I stoned, three times I suffered shipwreck, a night and a day I have been in the deep;</verse>
<verse osisID="2Cor.11.26">In journeyings often, in perils of waters, in perils of robbers, in perils by my own countrymen, in perils by the heathen, in perils in the city, in perils in the wilderness, in perils in the sea, in perils among false brothers;</verse>
<verse osisID="2Cor.11.27">In weariness and painfulness, in watchings often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, in cold and nakedness.</verse>
<verse osisID="2Cor.11.28">Beside those things that are outside, that which comes upon me daily, the care of all the churches.</verse>
<verse osisID="2Cor.11.29">Who is weak, and I am not weak? who is offended, and I burn not?</verse>
<verse osisID="2Cor.11.30">If I must needs glory, I will glory of the things which concern mine infirmities.</verse>
<verse osisID="2Cor.11.31">The God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, which is blessed for evermore, knows that I lie not.</verse>
<verse osisID="2Cor.11.32">In Damascus the governor under Aretas the king kept the city of the Damascenes with a garrison, desirous to apprehend me:</verse>
<verse osisID="2Cor.11.33">And through a window in a basket was I let down by the wall, and escaped his hands.</verse>
</chapter>
<chapter osisID="2Cor.11.33">
<verse osisID="2Cor.12.1">It is not expedient for me doubtless to glory. I will come to visions and revelations of the Lord.</verse>
<verse osisID="2Cor.12.2">I knew a man in Christ above fourteen years ago, (whether in the body, I cannot tell; or whether out of the body, I cannot tell: God knows;) such a one caught up to the third heaven.</verse>
<verse osisID="2Cor.12.3">And I knew such a man, (whether in the body, or out of the body, I cannot tell: God knows;)</verse>
<verse osisID="2Cor.12.4">That he was caught up into paradise, and heard unspeakable words, which it is not lawful for a man to utter.</verse>
<verse osisID="2Cor.12.5">Of such a one will I glory: yet of myself I will not glory, but in my infirmities.</verse>
<verse osisID="2Cor.12.6">For though I would desire to glory, I shall not be a fool; for I will say the truth: but now I hold back, lest any man should think of me above that which he sees me to be, or that he hears of me.</verse>
<verse osisID="2Cor.12.7">And lest I should be exalted above measure through the abundance of the revelations, there was given to me a thorn in the flesh, the messenger of Satan to buffet me, lest I should be exalted above measure.</verse>
<verse osisID="2Cor.12.8">For this thing I asked the Lord three times, that it might depart from me.</verse>
<verse osisID="2Cor.12.9">And he said unto me, My grace is sufficient for you: for my strength is made perfect in weakness. Most gladly therefore will I rather glory in my infirmities, that the power of Christ may rest upon me.</verse>
<verse osisID="2Cor.12.10">Therefore I take pleasure in infirmities, in reproaches, in necessities, in persecutions, in distresses for Christ's sake: for when I am weak, then am I strong.</verse>
<verse osisID="2Cor.12.11">I am become a fool in glorying; you have compelled me: for I ought to have been commended of you: for in nothing am I behind the very chiefest apostles, though I be nothing.</verse>
<verse osisID="2Cor.12.12">Truly the signs of an apostle were wrought among you in all patience, in signs, and wonders, and mighty deeds.</verse>
<verse osisID="2Cor.12.13">For what is it in which you were inferior to other churches, except it be that I myself was not burdensome to you? forgive me this wrong.</verse>
<verse osisID="2Cor.12.14">Behold, the third time I am ready to come to you; and I will not be burdensome to you: for I seek not your's but you: for the children ought not to lay up for the parents, but the parents for the children.</verse>
<verse osisID="2Cor.12.15">And I will very gladly spend and be spent for you; though the more abundantly I love you, the less I be loved.</verse>
<verse osisID="2Cor.12.16">But be it so, I did not burden you: nevertheless, being crafty, I caught you with guile.</verse>
<verse osisID="2Cor.12.17">Did I make a gain of you by any of them whom I sent unto you?</verse>
<verse osisID="2Cor.12.18">I desired Titus, and with him I sent a brother. Did Titus make a gain of you? walked we not in the same spirit? walked we not in the same steps?</verse>
<verse osisID="2Cor.12.19">Again, think you that we excuse ourselves unto you? we speak before God in Christ: but we do all things, dearly beloved, for your edifying.</verse>
<verse osisID="2Cor.12.20">For I fear, lest, when I come, I shall not find you such as I would, and that I shall be found unto you such as you would not: lest there be debates, envyings, wraths, strifes, backbitings, whisperings, swellings, tumults:</verse>
<verse osisID="2Cor.12.21">And lest, when I come again, my God will humble me among you, and that I shall bewail many which have sinned already, and have not repented of the uncleanness and fornication and lasciviousness which they have committed.</verse>
</chapter>
<chapter osisID="2Cor.12.21">
<verse osisID="2Cor.13.1">This is the third time I am coming to you. In the mouth of two or three witnesses shall every word be established.</verse>
<verse osisID="2Cor.13.2">I told you before, and foretell you, as if I were present, the second time; and being absent now I write to those who heretofore have sinned, and to all other, that, if I come again, I will not spare:</verse>
<verse osisID="2Cor.13.3">Since you seek a proof of Christ speaking in me, which to you-ward is not weak, but is mighty in you.</verse>
<verse osisID="2Cor.13.4">For though he was crucified through weakness, yet he lives by the power of God. For we also are weak in him, but we shall live with him by the power of God toward you.</verse>
<verse osisID="2Cor.13.5">Examine yourselves, whether you be in the faith; prove your own selves. Do you not know your own selves, that Jesus Christ is in you, unless you be reprobates?</verse>
<verse osisID="2Cor.13.6">But I trust that you shall know that we are not reprobates.</verse>
<verse osisID="2Cor.13.7">Now I pray to God that you do no evil; not that we should appear approved, but that you should do that which is honest, though we be as reprobates.</verse>
<verse osisID="2Cor.13.8">For we can do nothing against the truth, but for the truth.</verse>
<verse osisID="2Cor.13.9">For we are glad, when we are weak, and you are strong: and this also we wish, even your perfection.</verse>
<verse osisID="2Cor.13.10">Therefore I write these things being absent, lest being present I should use sharpness, according to the power which the Lord has given me to edification, and not to destruction.</verse>
<verse osisID="2Cor.13.11">Finally, brothers, farewell. Be perfect, be of good comfort, be of one mind, live in peace; and the God of love and peace shall be with you.</verse>
<verse osisID="2Cor.13.12">Greet one another with a holy kiss.</verse>
<verse osisID="2Cor.13.13">All the saints salute you.</verse>
<verse osisID="2Cor.13.14">The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, and the love of God, and the communion of the Holy Ghost, be with you all. Amen. </div></verse>
</chapter>
</div>
<div type="book" osisID="2Cor.12.21">
<chapter osisID="2Cor.13.14">
<verse osisID="Gal.1.1">Paul, an apostle, (not of men, neither by man, but by Jesus Christ, and God the Father, who raised him from the dead;)</verse>
<verse osisID="Gal.1.2">And all the brothers which are with me, unto the churches of Galatia:</verse>
<verse osisID="Gal.1.3">Grace be to you and peace from God the Father, and from our Lord Jesus Christ,</verse>
<verse osisID="Gal.1.4">Who gave himself for our sins, that he might deliver us from this present evil world, according to the will of God and our Father:</verse>
<verse osisID="Gal.1.5">To whom be glory forever and ever. Amen.</verse>
<verse osisID="Gal.1.6">I marvel that you are so soon removed from him that called you into the grace of Christ unto another gospel:</verse>
<verse osisID="Gal.1.7">Which is not another; but there be some that trouble you, and would pervert the gospel of Christ.</verse>
<verse osisID="Gal.1.8">But though we, or an angel from heaven, preach any other gospel unto you than that which we have preached unto you, let him be accursed.</verse>
<verse osisID="Gal.1.9">As we said before, so say I now again, if any man preach any other gospel unto you than that you have received, let him be accursed.</verse>
<verse osisID="Gal.1.10">For do I now persuade men, or God? or do I seek to please men? for if I yet pleased men, I should not be the servant of Christ.</verse>
<verse osisID="Gal.1.11">But I certify you, brothers, that the gospel which was preached of me is not after man.</verse>
<verse osisID="Gal.1.12">For I neither received it of man, neither was I taught it, but by the revelation of Jesus Christ.</verse>
<verse osisID="Gal.1.13">For you have heard of my manner of life in time past in the Jews' religion, that beyond measure I persecuted the church of God, and wasted it:</verse>
<verse osisID="Gal.1.14">And profited in the Jews' religion above many my equals in my own nation, being more exceedingly zealous of the traditions of my fathers.</verse>
<verse osisID="Gal.1.15">But when it pleased God, who separated me from my mother's womb, and called me by his grace,</verse>
<verse osisID="Gal.1.16">To reveal his Son in me, that I might preach him among the heathen; immediately I conferred not with flesh and blood:</verse>
<verse osisID="Gal.1.17">Neither went I up to Jerusalem to those who were apostles before me; but I went into Arabia, and returned again unto Damascus.</verse>
<verse osisID="Gal.1.18">Then after three years I went up to Jerusalem to see Peter, and abode with him fifteen days.</verse>
<verse osisID="Gal.1.19">But other of the apostles saw I none, save James the Lord's brother.</verse>
<verse osisID="Gal.1.20">Now the things which I write unto you, behold, before God, I lie not.</verse>
<verse osisID="Gal.1.21">Afterwards I came into the regions of Syria and Cilicia;</verse>
<verse osisID="Gal.1.22">And was unknown by face unto the churches of Judaea which were in Christ:</verse>
<verse osisID="Gal.1.23">But they had heard only, That he which persecuted us in times past now preaches the faith which once he destroyed.</verse>
<verse osisID="Gal.1.24">And they glorified God in me.</verse>
</chapter>
<chapter osisID="Gal.1.24">
<verse osisID="Gal.2.1">Then fourteen years after I went up again to Jerusalem with Barnabas, and took Titus with me also.</verse>
<verse osisID="Gal.2.2">And I went up by revelation, and communicated unto them that gospel which I preach among the Gentiles, but privately to those who were of reputation, lest by any means I should run, or had run, in vain.</verse>
<verse osisID="Gal.2.3">But not even Titus, who was with me, being a Greek, was compelled to be circumcised:</verse>
<verse osisID="Gal.2.4">And that because of false brothers unawares brought in, who came in secretly to spy out our liberty which we have in Christ Jesus, that they might bring us into bondage:</verse>
<verse osisID="Gal.2.5">To whom we gave place by subjection, no, not for an hour; that the truth of the gospel might continue with you.</verse>
<verse osisID="Gal.2.6">But of these who seemed to be somewhat, (whatsoever they were, it makes no matter to me: God accepts no man's person:) for they who seemed to be somewhat in conference added nothing to me:</verse>
<verse osisID="Gal.2.7">But contrariwise, when they saw that the gospel of the uncircumcision was committed unto me, as the gospel of the circumcision was unto Peter;</verse>
<verse osisID="Gal.2.8">(For he that wrought effectively in Peter to the apostleship of the circumcision, the same was mighty in me toward the Gentiles:)</verse>
<verse osisID="Gal.2.9">And when James, Cephas, and John, who seemed to be pillars, perceived the grace that was given unto me, they gave to me and Barnabas the right hands of fellowship; that we should go unto the heathen, and they unto the circumcision.</verse>
<verse osisID="Gal.2.10">Only they would that we should remember the poor; the same which I also was eager to do.</verse>
<verse osisID="Gal.2.11">But when Peter was come to Antioch, I withstood him to the face, because he was to be blamed.</verse>
<verse osisID="Gal.2.12">For before that certain came from James, he did eat with the Gentiles: but when they had come, he withdrew and separated himself, fearing those who were of the circumcision.</verse>
<verse osisID="Gal.2.13">And the other Jews dissembled likewise with him; insomuch that Barnabas also was carried away with their dissimulation.</verse>
<verse osisID="Gal.2.14">But when I saw that they walked not uprightly according to the truth of the gospel, I said unto Peter before them all, If you, being a Jew, live after the manner of Gentiles, and not as do the Jews, why do you compel the Gentiles to live as do the Jews?</verse>
<verse osisID="Gal.2.15">We who are Jews by nature, and not sinners of the Gentiles,</verse>
<verse osisID="Gal.2.16">Knowing that a man is not justified by the works of the law, but by the faith of Jesus Christ, even we have believed in Jesus Christ, that we might be justified by the faith of Christ, and not by the works of the law: for by the works of the law shall no flesh be justified.</verse>
<verse osisID="Gal.2.17">But if, while we seek to be justified by Christ, we ourselves also are found sinners, is therefore Christ the minister of sin? God forbid.</verse>
<verse osisID="Gal.2.18">For if I build again the things which I destroyed, I make myself a transgressor.</verse>
<verse osisID="Gal.2.19">For I through the law am dead to the law, that I might live unto God.</verse>
<verse osisID="Gal.2.20">I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ lives in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me.</verse>
<verse osisID="Gal.2.21">I do not frustrate the grace of God: for if righteousness come by the law, then Christ is dead in vain.</verse>
</chapter>
<chapter osisID="Gal.2.21">
<verse osisID="Gal.3.1">O foolish Galatians, who has bewitched you, that you should not obey the truth, before whose eyes Jesus Christ has been evidently set forth, crucified among you?</verse>
<verse osisID="Gal.3.2">This only would I learn of you, Received you the Spirit by the works of the law, or by the hearing of faith?</verse>
<verse osisID="Gal.3.3">Are you so foolish? having begun in the Spirit, are you now made perfect by the flesh?</verse>
<verse osisID="Gal.3.4">Have you suffered so many things in vain? if it be yet in vain.</verse>
<verse osisID="Gal.3.5">He therefore that ministers to you the Spirit, and works miracles among you, does he do it by the works of the law, or by the hearing of faith?</verse>
<verse osisID="Gal.3.6">Just as Abraham believed God, and it was accounted to him for righteousness.</verse>
<verse osisID="Gal.3.7">Know you therefore that they which are of faith, the same are the children of Abraham.</verse>
<verse osisID="Gal.3.8">And the scripture, foreseeing that God would justify the heathen through faith, preached before the gospel unto Abraham, saying, In you shall all nations be blessed.</verse>
<verse osisID="Gal.3.9">So then they which be of faith are blessed with faithful Abraham.</verse>
<verse osisID="Gal.3.10">For as many as are of the works of the law are under the curse: for it is written, Cursed is every one that continues not in all things which are written in the book of the law to do them.</verse>
<verse osisID="Gal.3.11">But that no man is justified by the law in the sight of God, it is evident: for, The just shall live by faith.</verse>
<verse osisID="Gal.3.12">And the law is not of faith: but, The man that does them shall live in them.</verse>
<verse osisID="Gal.3.13">Christ has redeemed us from the curse of the law, being made a curse for us: for it is written, Cursed is every one that hangs on a tree:</verse>
<verse osisID="Gal.3.14">That the blessing of Abraham might come on the Gentiles through Jesus Christ; that we might receive the promise of the Spirit through faith.</verse>
<verse osisID="Gal.3.15">Brethren, I speak after the manner of men; Though it be but a man's covenant, yet if it be confirmed, no man disannulls, or adds thereto.</verse>
<verse osisID="Gal.3.16">Now to Abraham and his seed were the promises made. He says not, And to seeds, as of many; but as of one, And to your seed, which is Christ.</verse>
<verse osisID="Gal.3.17">And this I say, that the covenant, that was confirmed before of God in Christ, the law, which was four hundred and thirty years after, cannot disannul, that it should make the promise of no effect.</verse>
<verse osisID="Gal.3.18">For if the inheritance be of the law, it is no more of promise: but God gave it to Abraham by promise.</verse>
<verse osisID="Gal.3.19">Why then serves the law? It was added because of transgressions, till the seed should come to whom the promise was made; and it was ordained by angels in the hand of a mediator.</verse>
<verse osisID="Gal.3.20">Now a mediator is not a mediator of one, but God is one.</verse>
<verse osisID="Gal.3.21">Is the law then against the promises of God? God forbid: for if there had been a law given which could have given life, truthfully righteousness should have been by the law.</verse>
<verse osisID="Gal.3.22">But the scripture has concluded all under sin, that the promise by faith of Jesus Christ might be given to them that believe.</verse>
<verse osisID="Gal.3.23">But before faith came, we were kept under the law, shut up unto the faith which should afterwards be revealed.</verse>
<verse osisID="Gal.3.24">Therefore the law was our schoolmaster to bring us unto Christ, that we might be justified by faith.</verse>
<verse osisID="Gal.3.25">But after faith is come, we are no longer under a schoolmaster.</verse>
<verse osisID="Gal.3.26">For you are all the children of God by faith in Christ Jesus.</verse>
<verse osisID="Gal.3.27">For as many of you as have been baptized into Christ have put on Christ.</verse>
<verse osisID="Gal.3.28">There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither bond nor free, there is neither male nor female: for you are all one in Christ Jesus.</verse>
<verse osisID="Gal.3.29">And if you be Christ's, then are you Abraham's seed, and heirs according to the promise.</verse>
</chapter>
<chapter osisID="Gal.3.29">
<verse osisID="Gal.4.1">Now I say, That the heir, as long as he is a child, differs nothing from a servant, though he be lord of all;</verse>
<verse osisID="Gal.4.2">But is under tutors and governors until the time appointed of the father.</verse>
<verse osisID="Gal.4.3">Even so we, when we were children, were in bondage under the elements of the world:</verse>
<verse osisID="Gal.4.4">But when the fullness of the time was come, God sent forth his Son, made of a woman, made under the law,</verse>
<verse osisID="Gal.4.5">To redeem them that were under the law, that we might receive the adoption of sons.</verse>
<verse osisID="Gal.4.6">And because you are sons, God has sent forth the Spirit of his Son into your hearts, crying, Abba, Father.</verse>
<verse osisID="Gal.4.7">Therefore you are no more a servant, but a son; and if a son, then an heir of God through Christ.</verse>
<verse osisID="Gal.4.8">Howbeit then, when you did not know God, you did service unto those who by nature are no gods.</verse>
<verse osisID="Gal.4.9">But now, after you have known God, or rather are known of God, how turn you again to the weak and beggarly elements, whereunto you desire again to be in bondage?</verse>
<verse osisID="Gal.4.10">You observe days, and months, and times, and years.</verse>
<verse osisID="Gal.4.11">I am afraid of you, lest I have bestowed upon you labor in vain.</verse>
<verse osisID="Gal.4.12">Brethren, I beseech you, be as I am; for I am as you are: you have not injured me at all.</verse>
<verse osisID="Gal.4.13">You know how through infirmity of the flesh I preached the gospel unto you at the first.</verse>
<verse osisID="Gal.4.14">And my temptation which was in my flesh you looked down upon not, nor rejected; but received me as an angel of God, just as Christ Jesus.</verse>
<verse osisID="Gal.4.15">Where is then the blessedness you spoke of? for I bear you record, that, if it had been possible, you would have plucked out your own eyes, and have given them to me.</verse>
<verse osisID="Gal.4.16">Am I therefore become your enemy, because I tell you the truth?</verse>
<verse osisID="Gal.4.17">They zealously affect you, but not well; yes, they would exclude you, that you might affect them.</verse>
<verse osisID="Gal.4.18">But it is good to be zealously affected always in a good thing, and not only when I am present with you.</verse>
<verse osisID="Gal.4.19">My little children, of whom I travail in birth again until Christ be formed in you,</verse>
<verse osisID="Gal.4.20">I desire to be present with you now, and to change my voice; for I stand in doubt of you.</verse>
<verse osisID="Gal.4.21">Tell me, you that desire to be under the law, do you not hear the law?</verse>
<verse osisID="Gal.4.22">For it is written, that Abraham had two sons, the one by a bondmaid, the other by a freewoman.</verse>
<verse osisID="Gal.4.23">But he who was of the bondwoman was born after the flesh; but he of the freewoman was by promise.</verse>
<verse osisID="Gal.4.24">Which things are an allegory: for these are the two covenants; the one from the mount Sinai, which genders to bondage, which is Agar.</verse>
<verse osisID="Gal.4.25">For this Agar is mount Sinai in Arabia, and answers to Jerusalem which now is, and is in bondage with her children.</verse>
<verse osisID="Gal.4.26">But Jerusalem which is above is free, which is the mother of us all.</verse>
<verse osisID="Gal.4.27">For it is written, Rejoice, you barren that bear not; break forth and cry, you that travail not: for the desolate has many more children than she which has a husband.</verse>
<verse osisID="Gal.4.28">Now we, brothers, as Isaac was, are the children of promise.</verse>
<verse osisID="Gal.4.29">But as then he that was born after the flesh persecuted him that was born after the Spirit, even so it is now.</verse>
<verse osisID="Gal.4.30">Nevertheless what says the scripture? Cast out the bondwoman and her son: for the son of the bondwoman shall not be heir with the son of the freewoman.</verse>
<verse osisID="Gal.4.31">So then, brothers, we are not children of the bondwoman, but of the free.</verse>
</chapter>
<chapter osisID="Gal.4.31">
<verse osisID="Gal.5.1">Stand fast therefore in the liberty with which Christ has made us free, and be not entangled again with the yoke of bondage.</verse>
<verse osisID="Gal.5.2">Behold, I Paul say unto you, that if you be circumcised, Christ shall profit you nothing.</verse>
<verse osisID="Gal.5.3">For I testify again to every man that is circumcised, that he is a debtor to do the whole law.</verse>
<verse osisID="Gal.5.4">Christ is become of no effect unto you, whosoever of you are justified by the law; you are fallen from grace.</verse>
<verse osisID="Gal.5.5">For we through the Spirit wait for the hope of righteousness by faith.</verse>
<verse osisID="Gal.5.6">For in Jesus Christ neither circumcision avails any thing, nor uncircumcision; but faith which works by love.</verse>
<verse osisID="Gal.5.7">You did run well; who did hinder you that you should not obey the truth?</verse>
<verse osisID="Gal.5.8">This persuasion comes not of him that calls you.</verse>
<verse osisID="Gal.5.9">A little leaven leavens the whole lump.</verse>
<verse osisID="Gal.5.10">I have confidence in you through the Lord, that you will be none otherwise minded: but he that troubles you shall bear his judgment, whosoever he be.</verse>
<verse osisID="Gal.5.11">And I, brothers, if I yet preach circumcision, why do I yet suffer persecution? then is the offense of the cross ceased.</verse>
<verse osisID="Gal.5.12">I would they were even cut off which trouble you.</verse>
<verse osisID="Gal.5.13">For, brothers, you have been called unto liberty; only use not liberty for an occasion to the flesh, but by love serve one another.</verse>
<verse osisID="Gal.5.14">For all the law is fulfilled in one word, even in this; You shall love your neighbor as yourself.</verse>
<verse osisID="Gal.5.15">But if you bite and devour one another, take heed that you be not consumed one of another.</verse>
<verse osisID="Gal.5.16">This I say then, Walk in the Spirit, and you shall not fulfill the lust of the flesh.</verse>
<verse osisID="Gal.5.17">For the flesh lusts against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh: and these are contrary the one to the other: so that you cannot do the things that you would.</verse>
<verse osisID="Gal.5.18">But if you be led of the Spirit, you are not under the law.</verse>
<verse osisID="Gal.5.19">Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these; Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness,</verse>
<verse osisID="Gal.5.20">Idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance, emulations, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies,</verse>
<verse osisID="Gal.5.21">Envyings, murders, drunkenness, revellings, and such like: of the which I tell you before, as I have also told you in time past, that they which do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God.</verse>
<verse osisID="Gal.5.22">But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith,</verse>
<verse osisID="Gal.5.23">Meekness, temperance: against such there is no law.</verse>
<verse osisID="Gal.5.24">And they that are Christ's have crucified the flesh with the affections and lusts.</verse>
<verse osisID="Gal.5.25">If we live in the Spirit, let us also walk in the Spirit.</verse>
<verse osisID="Gal.5.26">Let us not be desirous of vain glory, provoking one another, envying one another.</verse>
</chapter>
<chapter osisID="Gal.5.26">
<verse osisID="Gal.6.1">Brethren, if a man be overtaken in a fault, you who are spiritual, restore such a one in the spirit of meekness; considering yourself, lest you also be tempted.</verse>
<verse osisID="Gal.6.2">Bear you one another's burdens, and so fulfill the law of Christ.</verse>
<verse osisID="Gal.6.3">For if a man think himself to be something, when he is nothing, he deceives himself.</verse>
<verse osisID="Gal.6.4">But let every man prove his own work, and then shall he have rejoicing in himself alone, and not in another.</verse>
<verse osisID="Gal.6.5">For every man shall bear his own burden.</verse>
<verse osisID="Gal.6.6">Let him that is taught in the word communicate unto him that teaches in all good things.</verse>
<verse osisID="Gal.6.7">Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man sows, that shall he also reap.</verse>
<verse osisID="Gal.6.8">For he that sows to his flesh shall of the flesh reap corruption; but he that sows to the Spirit shall of the Spirit reap life everlasting.</verse>
<verse osisID="Gal.6.9">And let us not be weary in well doing: for in due season we shall reap, if we do not quit.</verse>
<verse osisID="Gal.6.10">As we have therefore opportunity, let us do good unto all men, especially unto them who are of the household of faith.</verse>
<verse osisID="Gal.6.11">You see how large a letter I have written unto you with my own hand.</verse>
<verse osisID="Gal.6.12">As many as desire to make a fair show in the flesh, they constrain you to be circumcised; only lest they should suffer persecution for the cross of Christ.</verse>
<verse osisID="Gal.6.13">For neither they themselves who are circumcised keep the law; but desire to have you circumcised, that they may glory in your flesh.</verse>
<verse osisID="Gal.6.14">But God forbid that I should glory, save in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom the world is crucified unto me, and I unto the world.</verse>
<verse osisID="Gal.6.15">For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision avails any thing, nor uncircumcision, but a new creature.</verse>
<verse osisID="Gal.6.16">And as many as walk according to this rule, peace be on them, and mercy, and upon the Israel of God.</verse>
<verse osisID="Gal.6.17">From now on let no man trouble me: for I bear in my body the marks of the Lord Jesus.</verse>
<verse osisID="Gal.6.18">Brethren, the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with your spirit. Amen. </div></verse>
</chapter>
</div>
<div type="book" osisID="Gal.5.26">
<chapter osisID="Gal.6.18">
<verse osisID="Eph.1.1">Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ by the will of God, to the saints which are at Ephesus, and to the faithful in Christ Jesus: <lb type="x-begin-paragraph"/></verse>
<verse osisID="Eph.1.2">Grace be to you, and peace, from God our Father, and from the Lord Jesus Christ.<lb type="x-end-paragraph"/> <lb type="x-begin-paragraph"/></verse>
<verse osisID="Eph.1.3">Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us with all spiritual blessings in heavenly places in Christ:</verse>
<verse osisID="Eph.1.4">According as he has chosen us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before him in love:</verse>
<verse osisID="Eph.1.5">Having predestinated us unto the adoption of children by Jesus Christ to himself, according to the good pleasure of his will,</verse>
<verse osisID="Eph.1.6">To the praise of the glory of his grace, in which he has made us accepted in the beloved.</verse>
<verse osisID="Eph.1.7">In whom we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of sins, according to the riches of his grace;</verse>
<verse osisID="Eph.1.8">Wherein he has abounded toward us in all wisdom and prudence;</verse>
<verse osisID="Eph.1.9">Having made known unto us the mystery of his will, according to his good pleasure which he has purposed in himself:</verse>
<verse osisID="Eph.1.10">That in the dispensation of the fullness of times he might gather together in one all things in Christ, both which are in heaven, and which are on earth; even in him:</verse>
<verse osisID="Eph.1.11">In whom also we have obtained an inheritance, being predestinated according to the purpose of him who works all things after the counsel of his own will:</verse>
<verse osisID="Eph.1.12">That we should be to the praise of his glory, who first trusted in Christ.</verse>
<verse osisID="Eph.1.13">In whom you also trusted, after you heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation: in whom also after you believed, you were sealed with that holy Spirit of promise,</verse>
<verse osisID="Eph.1.14">Which is the earnest of our inheritance until the redemption of the purchased possession, unto the praise of his glory.<lb type="x-end-paragraph"/> <lb type="x-begin-paragraph"/></verse>
<verse osisID="Eph.1.15">Therefore I also, after I heard of your faith in the Lord Jesus, and love unto all the saints,</verse>
<verse osisID="Eph.1.16">Cease not to give thanks for you, making mention of you in my prayers;</verse>
<verse osisID="Eph.1.17">That the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give unto you the spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of him:</verse>
<verse osisID="Eph.1.18">The eyes of your understanding being enlightened; that you may know what is the hope of his calling, and what the riches of the glory of his inheritance in the saints,</verse>
<verse osisID="Eph.1.19">And what is the exceeding greatness of his power toward us who believe, according to the working of his mighty power,</verse>
<verse osisID="Eph.1.20">Which he wrought in Christ, when he raised him from the dead, and set him at his own right hand in the heavenly places,</verse>
<verse osisID="Eph.1.21">Far above all principality, and power, and might, and dominion, and every name that is named, not only in this world, but also in that which is to come:</verse>
<verse osisID="Eph.1.22">And has put all things under his feet, and gave him to be the head over all things to the church,</verse>
<verse osisID="Eph.1.23">Which is his body, the fullness of him that fills all in all.<lb type="x-end-paragraph"/></verse>
</chapter>
<chapter osisID="Eph.1.23">
<verse osisID="Eph.2.1">And you has he given life, who were dead in trespasses and sins;</verse>
<verse osisID="Eph.2.2">Wherein in time past you walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that now works in the children of disobedience:</verse>
<verse osisID="Eph.2.3">Among whom also we all had our conduct in times past in the lusts of our flesh, fulfilling the desires of the flesh and of the mind; and were by nature the children of wrath, just as others.</verse>
<verse osisID="Eph.2.4">But God, who is rich in mercy, for his great love with which he loved us,</verse>
<verse osisID="Eph.2.5">Even when we were dead in sins, has given life to us together with Christ, (by grace you are saved;)</verse>
<verse osisID="Eph.2.6">And has raised us up together, and made us sit together in heavenly places in Christ Jesus:</verse>
<verse osisID="Eph.2.7">That in the ages to come he might show the exceeding riches of his grace in his kindness toward us through Christ Jesus.</verse>
<verse osisID="Eph.2.8">For by grace are you saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God:</verse>
<verse osisID="Eph.2.9">Not of works, lest any man should boast.</verse>
<verse osisID="Eph.2.10">For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto good works, which God has before ordained that we should walk in them.<lb type="x-end-paragraph"/> <lb type="x-begin-paragraph"/></verse>
<verse osisID="Eph.2.11">Therefore remember, that you being in time past Gentiles in the flesh, who are called Uncircumcision by that which is called the Circumcision in the flesh made by hands;</verse>
<verse osisID="Eph.2.12">That at that time you were without Christ, being aliens from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers from the covenants of promise, having no hope, and without God in the world:</verse>
<verse osisID="Eph.2.13">But now in Christ Jesus you who sometimes were far off are made close by the blood of Christ.</verse>
<verse osisID="Eph.2.14">For he is our peace, who has made both one, and has broken down the middle wall of partition between us;</verse>
<verse osisID="Eph.2.15">Having abolished in his flesh the enmity, even the law of commandments contained in ordinances; for to make in himself of two one new man, so making peace;</verse>
<verse osisID="Eph.2.16">And that he might reconcile both unto God in one body by the cross, having slain the enmity thereby:</verse>
<verse osisID="Eph.2.17">And came and preached peace to you who were afar off, and to them that were close.</verse>
<verse osisID="Eph.2.18">For through him we both have access by one Spirit unto the Father.</verse>
<verse osisID="Eph.2.19">Now therefore you are no more strangers and foreigners, but fellow citizens with the saints, and of the household of God;</verse>
<verse osisID="Eph.2.20">And are built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Jesus Christ himself being the chief corner stone;</verse>
<verse osisID="Eph.2.21">In whom all the building fitly framed together grows unto a holy temple in the Lord:</verse>
<verse osisID="Eph.2.22">In whom you also are builded together for a habitation of God through the Spirit.<lb type="x-end-paragraph"/></verse>
</chapter>
<chapter osisID="Eph.2.22">
<verse osisID="Eph.3.1">For this cause I Paul, the prisoner of Jesus Christ for you Gentiles,</verse>
<verse osisID="Eph.3.2">If you have heard of the dispensation of the grace of God which is given me toward you:</verse>
<verse osisID="Eph.3.3">That by revelation he made known unto me the mystery; (as I wrote before in few words,</verse>
<verse osisID="Eph.3.4">Whereby, when you read, you may understand my knowledge in the mystery of Christ)</verse>
<verse osisID="Eph.3.5">Which in other ages was not made known unto the sons of men, as it is now revealed unto his holy apostles and prophets by the Spirit;</verse>
<verse osisID="Eph.3.6">That the Gentiles should be fellow heirs, and of the same body, and partakers of his promise in Christ by the gospel:<lb type="x-end-paragraph"/> <lb type="x-begin-paragraph"/></verse>
<verse osisID="Eph.3.7">Whereof I was made a minister, according to the gift of the grace of God given unto me by the effective working of his power.</verse>
<verse osisID="Eph.3.8">Unto me, who am less than the least of all saints, is this grace given, that I should preach among the Gentiles the unsearchable riches of Christ;</verse>
<verse osisID="Eph.3.9">And to make all men see what is the fellowship of the mystery, which from the beginning of the world has been hid in God, who created all things by Jesus Christ:</verse>
<verse osisID="Eph.3.10">To the intent that now unto the principalities and powers in heavenly places might be known by the church the manifold wisdom of God,</verse>
<verse osisID="Eph.3.11">According to the eternal purpose which he purposed in Christ Jesus our Lord:</verse>
<verse osisID="Eph.3.12">In whom we have boldness and access with confidence by the faith of him.</verse>
<verse osisID="Eph.3.13">Therefore I desire that you faint not at my tribulations for you, which is your glory.<lb type="x-end-paragraph"/> <lb type="x-begin-paragraph"/></verse>
<verse osisID="Eph.3.14">For this cause I bow my knees unto the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ,</verse>
<verse osisID="Eph.3.15">Of whom the whole family in heaven and earth is named,</verse>
<verse osisID="Eph.3.16">That he would grant you, according to the riches of his glory, to be strengthened with might by his Spirit in the inner man;</verse>
<verse osisID="Eph.3.17">That Christ may dwell in your hearts by faith; that you, being rooted and grounded in love,</verse>
<verse osisID="Eph.3.18">May be able to comprehend with all saints what is the breadth, and length, and depth, and height;</verse>
<verse osisID="Eph.3.19">And to know the love of Christ, which passes knowledge, that you might be filled with all the fullness of God.<lb type="x-end-paragraph"/> <lb type="x-begin-paragraph"/></verse>
<verse osisID="Eph.3.20">Now unto him that is able to do exceedingly abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that works in us,</verse>
<verse osisID="Eph.3.21">Unto him be glory in the church by Christ Jesus throughout all ages, world without end. Amen.<lb type="x-end-paragraph"/></verse>
</chapter>
<chapter osisID="Eph.3.21">
<verse osisID="Eph.4.1">I therefore, the prisoner of the Lord, beseech you that you walk worthy of the vocation with which you are called,</verse>
<verse osisID="Eph.4.2">With all lowliness and meekness, with longsuffering, forbearing one another in love;</verse>
<verse osisID="Eph.4.3">Endeavoring to keep the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace.</verse>
<verse osisID="Eph.4.4">There is one body, and one Spirit, just as you are called in one hope of your calling;</verse>
<verse osisID="Eph.4.5">One Lord, one faith, one baptism,</verse>
<verse osisID="Eph.4.6">One God and Father of all, who is above all, and through all, and in you all.<lb type="x-end-paragraph"/> <lb type="x-begin-paragraph"/></verse>
<verse osisID="Eph.4.7">But unto every one of us is given grace according to the measure of the gift of Christ.</verse>
<verse osisID="Eph.4.8">Therefore he says,<lb type="x-end-paragraph"/> <q marker="" sID="q13" type="block"/>When he ascended up on high, he led captivity captive, and gave gifts unto men.<q eID="q13" marker="" type="block"/></verse>
<verse osisID="Eph.4.9">(Now that he ascended, what is it but that he also descended first into the lower parts of the earth?</verse>
<verse osisID="Eph.4.10">He that descended is the same also that ascended up far above all heavens, that he might fill all things.)</verse>
<verse osisID="Eph.4.11">And he gave some, apostles; and some, prophets; and some, evangelists; and some, pastors and teachers;</verse>
<verse osisID="Eph.4.12">For the perfecting of the saints, for the work of the ministry, for the edifying of the body of Christ:</verse>
<verse osisID="Eph.4.13">Till we all come in the unity of the faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of God, unto a perfect man, unto the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ:</verse>
<verse osisID="Eph.4.14">That we henceforth be no more children, tossed to and fro, and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the sleight of men, and cunning craftiness, whereby they lie in wait to deceive;</verse>
<verse osisID="Eph.4.15">But speaking the truth in love, may grow up into him in all things, which is the head, even Christ:</verse>
<verse osisID="Eph.4.16">From whom the whole body fitly joined together and compacted by that which every joint supplies, according to the effective working in the measure of every part, makes increase of the body unto the edifying of itself in love. <lb type="x-begin-paragraph"/></verse>
<verse osisID="Eph.4.17">This I say therefore, and testify in the Lord, that you now on walk not as other Gentiles walk, in the vanity of their mind,</verse>
<verse osisID="Eph.4.18">Having the understanding darkened, being alienated from the life of God through the ignorance that is in them, because of the blindness of their heart:</verse>
<verse osisID="Eph.4.19">Who being past feeling have given themselves over unto lasciviousness, to work all uncleanness with greediness.</verse>
<verse osisID="Eph.4.20">But you have not so learned Christ;</verse>
<verse osisID="Eph.4.21">If so be that you have heard him, and have been taught by him, as the truth is in Jesus:</verse>
<verse osisID="Eph.4.22">That you put off concerning the former conduct the old man, which is corrupt according to the deceitful lusts;</verse>
<verse osisID="Eph.4.23">And be renewed in the spirit of your mind;</verse>
<verse osisID="Eph.4.24">And that you put on the new man, which after God is created in righteousness and true holiness.<lb type="x-end-paragraph"/> <lb type="x-begin-paragraph"/></verse>
<verse osisID="Eph.4.25">Therefore putting away lying, speak every man truth with his neighbor: for we are members one of another.</verse>
<verse osisID="Eph.4.26">Be you angry, and sin not: let not the sun go down upon your wrath:</verse>
<verse osisID="Eph.4.27">Neither give place to the devil.</verse>
<verse osisID="Eph.4.28">Let him that stole steal no more: but rather let him labor, working with his hands the thing which is good, that he may have to give to him that needs.</verse>
<verse osisID="Eph.4.29">Let no corrupt communication proceed out of your mouth, but that which is good to the use of edifying, that it may minister grace unto the hearers.</verse>
<verse osisID="Eph.4.30">And grieve not the holy Spirit of God, whereby you are sealed unto the day of redemption.</verse>
<verse osisID="Eph.4.31">Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamor, and evil speaking, be put away from you, with all malice:</verse>
<verse osisID="Eph.4.32">And be kind one to another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, just as God for Christ's sake has forgiven you.<lb type="x-end-paragraph"/></verse>
</chapter>
<chapter osisID="Eph.4.32">
<verse osisID="Eph.5.1">Be you therefore followers of God, as dear children;</verse>
<verse osisID="Eph.5.2">And walk in love, as Christ also has loved us, and has given himself for us an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweet smelling savour.<lb type="x-end-paragraph"/> <lb type="x-begin-paragraph"/></verse>
<verse osisID="Eph.5.3">But fornication, and all uncleanness, or covetousness, let it not be once named among you, as becomes saints;</verse>
<verse osisID="Eph.5.4">Neither filthiness, nor foolish talking, nor jesting, which are not fitting: but rather giving of thanks.</verse>
<verse osisID="Eph.5.5">For this you know, that no whoremonger, nor unclean person, nor covetous man, who is an idolater, has any inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and of God.<lb type="x-end-paragraph"/> <lb type="x-begin-paragraph"/></verse>
<verse osisID="Eph.5.6">Let no man deceive you with vain words: for because of these things comes the wrath of God upon the children of disobedience.</verse>
<verse osisID="Eph.5.7">Be not you therefore partakers with them.</verse>
<verse osisID="Eph.5.8">For you were sometimes darkness, but now are you light in the Lord: walk as children of light:</verse>
<verse osisID="Eph.5.9">(For the fruit of the Spirit is in all goodness and righteousness and truth;)</verse>
<verse osisID="Eph.5.10">Proving what is acceptable unto the Lord.</verse>
<verse osisID="Eph.5.11">And have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather reprove them.</verse>
<verse osisID="Eph.5.12">For it is a shame even to speak of those things which are done of them in secret.</verse>
<verse osisID="Eph.5.13">But all things that are reproved are made manifest by the light: for whatsoever does make manifest is light.</verse>
<verse osisID="Eph.5.14">Therefore he says,<lb type="x-end-paragraph"/> <q marker="" sID="q14" type="block"/>Awake you that sleep, and arise from the dead, and Christ shall give you light.<q eID="q14" marker="" type="block"/></verse>
<verse osisID="Eph.5.15">See then that you walk circumspectly, not as fools, but as wise,</verse>
<verse osisID="Eph.5.16">Redeeming the time, because the days are evil.</verse>
<verse osisID="Eph.5.17">Therefore be you not unwise, but understanding what the will of the Lord is.</verse>
<verse osisID="Eph.5.18">And be not drunk with wine, in which is excess; but be filled with the Spirit;</verse>
<verse osisID="Eph.5.19">Speaking to yourselves in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making melody in your heart to the Lord;</verse>
<verse osisID="Eph.5.20">Giving thanks always for all things unto God and the Father in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ;</verse>
<verse osisID="Eph.5.21">Submitting yourselves one to another in the fear of God. <lb type="x-begin-paragraph"/></verse>
<verse osisID="Eph.5.22">Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord.</verse>
<verse osisID="Eph.5.23">For the husband is the head of the wife, just as Christ is the head of the church: and he is the saviour of the body.</verse>
<verse osisID="Eph.5.24">Therefore as the church is subject unto Christ, so let the wives be to their own husbands in everything.<lb type="x-end-paragraph"/> <lb type="x-begin-paragraph"/></verse>
<verse osisID="Eph.5.25">Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it;</verse>
<verse osisID="Eph.5.26">That he might sanctify and cleanse it with the washing of water by the word,</verse>
<verse osisID="Eph.5.27">That he might present it to himself a glorious church, not having spot, or wrinkle, or any such thing; but that it should be holy and without blemish.</verse>
<verse osisID="Eph.5.28">So ought men to love their wives as their own bodies. He that loves his wife loves himself.</verse>
<verse osisID="Eph.5.29">For no man ever yet hated his own flesh; but nourishes and cherishes it, just as the Lord the church:</verse>
<verse osisID="Eph.5.30">For we are members of his body, of his flesh, and of his bones.</verse>
<verse osisID="Eph.5.31">For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall be joined unto his wife, and they two shall be one flesh.</verse>
<verse osisID="Eph.5.32">This is a great mystery: but I speak concerning Christ and the church.</verse>
<verse osisID="Eph.5.33">Nevertheless let every one of you in particular so love his wife just as himself; and the wife see that she respect her husband.<lb type="x-end-paragraph"/></verse>
</chapter>
<chapter osisID="Eph.5.33">
<verse osisID="Eph.6.1">Children, obey your parents in the Lord: for this is right.</verse>
<verse osisID="Eph.6.2">honor your father and mother; which is the first commandment with promise;</verse>
<verse osisID="Eph.6.3">That it may be well with you, and you may live long on the earth.<lb type="x-end-paragraph"/> <lb type="x-begin-paragraph"/></verse>
<verse osisID="Eph.6.4">And, you fathers, provoke not your children to wrath: but bring them up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord.<lb type="x-end-paragraph"/> <lb type="x-begin-paragraph"/></verse>
<verse osisID="Eph.6.5">Servants, be obedient to them that are your masters according to the flesh, with fear and trembling, in singleness of your heart, as unto Christ;</verse>
<verse osisID="Eph.6.6">Not with eyeservice, as menpleasers; but as the servants of Christ, doing the will of God from the heart;</verse>
<verse osisID="Eph.6.7">With good will doing service, as to the Lord, and not to men:</verse>
<verse osisID="Eph.6.8">Knowing that whatsoever good thing any man does, the same shall he receive of the Lord, whether he be bond or free.<lb type="x-end-paragraph"/> <lb type="x-begin-paragraph"/></verse>
<verse osisID="Eph.6.9">And, you masters, do the same things unto them, forbearing threatening: knowing that your Master also is in heaven; neither is there respect of persons with him.<lb type="x-end-paragraph"/> <lb type="x-begin-paragraph"/></verse>
<verse osisID="Eph.6.10">Finally, my brothers, be strong in the Lord, and in the power of his might.</verse>
<verse osisID="Eph.6.11">Put on the whole armour of God, that you may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil.</verse>
<verse osisID="Eph.6.12">For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places.</verse>
<verse osisID="Eph.6.13">Therefore take unto you the whole armour of God, that you may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all, to stand.</verse>
<verse osisID="Eph.6.14">Stand therefore, having your loins girded about with truth, and having on the breastplate of righteousness;</verse>
<verse osisID="Eph.6.15">And your feet shod with the preparation of the gospel of peace;</verse>
<verse osisID="Eph.6.16">Above all, taking the shield of faith, with which you shall be able to quench all the fiery darts of the wicked.</verse>
<verse osisID="Eph.6.17">And take the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God:<lb type="x-end-paragraph"/> <lb type="x-begin-paragraph"/></verse>
<verse osisID="Eph.6.18">Praying always with all prayer and supplication in the Spirit, and watching thereunto with all perseverance and supplication for all saints;</verse>
<verse osisID="Eph.6.19">And for me, that utterance may be given unto me, that I may open my mouth boldly, to make known the mystery of the gospel,</verse>
<verse osisID="Eph.6.20">For which I am an ambassador in bonds: that in it I may speak boldly, as I ought to speak.<lb type="x-end-paragraph"/> <lb type="x-begin-paragraph"/></verse>
<verse osisID="Eph.6.21">But that you also may know my affairs, and how I do, Tychicus, a beloved brother and faithful minister in the Lord, shall make known to you all things:</verse>
<verse osisID="Eph.6.22">Whom I have sent unto you for the same purpose, that you might know our affairs, and that he might comfort your hearts.<lb type="x-end-paragraph"/> <lb type="x-begin-paragraph"/></verse>
<verse osisID="Eph.6.23">Peace be to the brothers, and love with faith, from God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.</verse>
<verse osisID="Eph.6.24">Grace be with all them that love our Lord Jesus Christ in sincerity. Amen.<lb type="x-end-paragraph"/> </div></verse>
</chapter>
</div>
<div type="book" osisID="Eph.5.33">
<chapter osisID="Eph.6.24">
<verse osisID="Phil.1.1">Paul and Timotheus, the servants of Jesus Christ, to all the saints in Christ Jesus which are at Philippi, with the bishops and deacons:</verse>
<verse osisID="Phil.1.2">Grace be unto you, and peace, from God our Father, and from the Lord Jesus Christ.</verse>
<verse osisID="Phil.1.3">I thank my God upon every remembrance of you,</verse>
<verse osisID="Phil.1.4">Always in every prayer of my for you all making request with joy,</verse>
<verse osisID="Phil.1.5">For your fellowship in the gospel from the first day until now;</verse>
<verse osisID="Phil.1.6">Being confident of this very thing, that he which has begun a good work in you will perform it until the day of Jesus Christ:</verse>
<verse osisID="Phil.1.7">Just as it is suitable for me to think this of you all, because I have you in my heart; inasmuch as both in my bonds, and in the defense and confirmation of the gospel, you all are partakers of my grace.</verse>
<verse osisID="Phil.1.8">For God is my record, how greatly I long after you all in the insides of Jesus Christ.</verse>
<verse osisID="Phil.1.9">And this I pray, that your love may abound yet more and more in knowledge and in all judgment;</verse>
<verse osisID="Phil.1.10">That you may approve things that are excellent; that you may be sincere and without offense till the day of Christ.</verse>
<verse osisID="Phil.1.11">Being filled with the fruits of righteousness, which are by Jesus Christ, unto the glory and praise of God.</verse>
<verse osisID="Phil.1.12">But I would you should understand, brothers, that the things which happened unto me have fallen out rather unto the furtherance of the gospel;</verse>
<verse osisID="Phil.1.13">So that my bonds in Christ are manifest in all the palace, and in all other places;</verse>
<verse osisID="Phil.1.14">And many of the brothers in the Lord, growing confident by my bonds, are much more bold to speak the word without fear.</verse>
<verse osisID="Phil.1.15">Some indeed preach Christ even of envy and strife; and some also of good will:</verse>
<verse osisID="Phil.1.16">The one preach Christ of contention, not sincerely, supposing to add affliction to my bonds:</verse>
<verse osisID="Phil.1.17">But the other of love, knowing that I am set for the defense of the gospel.</verse>
<verse osisID="Phil.1.18">What then? notwithstanding, every way, whether in pretense, or in truth, Christ is preached; and I in it do rejoice, yes, and will rejoice.</verse>
<verse osisID="Phil.1.19">For I know that this shall turn to my salvation through your prayer, and the supply of the Spirit of Jesus Christ,</verse>
<verse osisID="Phil.1.20">According to my earnest expectation and my hope, that in nothing I shall be ashamed, but that with all boldness, as always, so now also Christ shall be magnified in my body, whether it be by life, or by death.</verse>
<verse osisID="Phil.1.21">For to me to live is Christ, and to die is gain.</verse>
<verse osisID="Phil.1.22">But if I live in the flesh, this is the fruit of my labor: yet what I shall choose I know not.</verse>
<verse osisID="Phil.1.23">For I am in a tight place between the two, having a desire to depart, an to be with Christ; which is far better:</verse>
<verse osisID="Phil.1.24">Nevertheless to abide in the flesh is more needed by you.</verse>
<verse osisID="Phil.1.25">And having this confidence, I know that I shall abide and continue with you all for your furtherance and joy of faith;</verse>
<verse osisID="Phil.1.26">That your rejoicing may be more abundant in Jesus Christ for me by my coming to you again.</verse>
<verse osisID="Phil.1.27">Only let your conduct be as it becomes the gospel of Christ: that whether I come and see you, or else be absent, I may hear of your affairs, that you stand fast in one spirit, with one mind striving together for the faith of the gospel;</verse>
<verse osisID="Phil.1.28">And in nothing terrified by your adversaries: which is to them an evident token of perdition, but to you of salvation, and that of God.</verse>
<verse osisID="Phil.1.29">For unto you it is given in the behalf of Christ, not only to believe on him, but also to suffer for his sake;</verse>
<verse osisID="Phil.1.30">Having the same conflict which you saw in me, and now hear to be in me.</verse>
</chapter>
<chapter osisID="Phil.1.30">
<verse osisID="Phil.2.1">If there be therefore any consolation in Christ, if any comfort of love, if any fellowship of the Spirit, if any insides and mercies,</verse>
<verse osisID="Phil.2.2">Fulfill you my joy, that you be likeminded, having the same love, being of one accord, of one mind.</verse>
<verse osisID="Phil.2.3">Let nothing be done through strife or vainglory; but in lowliness of mind let each esteem other better than themselves.</verse>
<verse osisID="Phil.2.4">Look not every man on his own things, but every man also on the things of others.</verse>
<verse osisID="Phil.2.5">Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus:</verse>
<verse osisID="Phil.2.6">Who, being in the form of God, thought it not robbery to be equal with God:</verse>
<verse osisID="Phil.2.7">But made himself of no reputation, and took upon him the form of a servant, and was made in the likeness of men:</verse>
<verse osisID="Phil.2.8">And being found in fashion as a man, he humbled himself, and became obedient unto death, even the death of the cross.</verse>
<verse osisID="Phil.2.9">Therefore God also has highly exalted him, and given him a name which is above every name:</verse>
<verse osisID="Phil.2.10">That at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of things in heaven, and things in earth, and things under the earth;</verse>
<verse osisID="Phil.2.11">And that every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.</verse>
<verse osisID="Phil.2.12">Therefore, my beloved, as you 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.</verse>
<verse osisID="Phil.2.13">For it is God which works in you both to will and to do of his good pleasure.</verse>
<verse osisID="Phil.2.14">Do all things without murmurings and disputings:</verse>
<verse osisID="Phil.2.15">That you may be blameless and harmless, the sons of God, without rebuke, in the midst of a crooked and perverse nation, among whom you shine as lights in the world;</verse>
<verse osisID="Phil.2.16">Holding forth the word of life; that I may rejoice in the day of Christ, that I have not run in vain, neither labored in vain.</verse>
<verse osisID="Phil.2.17">Yes, and if I be offered upon the sacrifice and service of your faith, I joy, and rejoice with you all.</verse>
<verse osisID="Phil.2.18">For the same cause also do you joy, and rejoice with me.</verse>
<verse osisID="Phil.2.19">But I trust in the Lord Jesus to send Timotheus shortly unto you, that I also may be of good comfort, when I know your state.</verse>
<verse osisID="Phil.2.20">For I have no man likeminded, who will naturally care for your state.</verse>
<verse osisID="Phil.2.21">For all seek their own, not the things which are Jesus Christ's.</verse>
<verse osisID="Phil.2.22">But you know the proof of him, that, as a son with the father, he has served with me in the gospel.</verse>
<verse osisID="Phil.2.23">Him therefore I hope to send presently, so soon as I shall see how it will go with me.</verse>
<verse osisID="Phil.2.24">But I trust in the Lord that I also myself shall come shortly.</verse>
<verse osisID="Phil.2.25">Yet I supposed it necessary to send to you Epaphroditus, my brother, and companion in labor, and fellow soldier, but your messenger, and he that ministered to my wants.</verse>
<verse osisID="Phil.2.26">For he longed after you all, and was full of heaviness, because that you had heard that he had been sick.</verse>
<verse osisID="Phil.2.27">For indeed he was sick close unto death: but God had mercy on him; and not on him only, but on me also, lest I should have sorrow upon sorrow.</verse>
<verse osisID="Phil.2.28">I sent him therefore the more carefully, that, when you see him again, you may rejoice, and that I may be the less sorrowful.</verse>
<verse osisID="Phil.2.29">Receive him therefore in the Lord with all gladness; and hold such in reputation:</verse>
<verse osisID="Phil.2.30">Because for the work of Christ he was close unto death, not regarding his life, to supply your lack of service toward me.</verse>
</chapter>
<chapter osisID="Phil.2.30">
<verse osisID="Phil.3.1">Finally, my brothers, rejoice in the Lord. To write the same things to you, to me indeed is not grievous, but for you it is safe.</verse>
<verse osisID="Phil.3.2">Beware of dogs, beware of evil workers, beware of the concision.</verse>
<verse osisID="Phil.3.3">For we are the circumcision, which worship God in the spirit, and rejoice in Christ Jesus, and have no confidence in the flesh.</verse>
<verse osisID="Phil.3.4">Though I might also have confidence in the flesh. If any other man thinks that he has whereof he might trust in the flesh, I more:</verse>
<verse osisID="Phil.3.5">Circumcised the eighth day, of the stock of Israel, of the tribe of Benjamin, a Hebrew of the Hebrews; as touching the law, a Pharisee;</verse>
<verse osisID="Phil.3.6">Concerning zeal, persecuting the church; touching the righteousness which is in the law, blameless.</verse>
<verse osisID="Phil.3.7">But what things were gain to me, those I counted loss for Christ.</verse>
<verse osisID="Phil.3.8">Yes doubtless, and I count all things but loss for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord: for whom I have suffered the loss of all things, and do count them but dung, that I may win Christ,</verse>
<verse osisID="Phil.3.9">And be found in him, not having my own righteousness, which is of the law, but that which is through the faith of Christ, the righteousness which is of God by faith:</verse>
<verse osisID="Phil.3.10">That I may know him, and the power of his resurrection, and the fellowship of his sufferings, being made conformable unto his death;</verse>
<verse osisID="Phil.3.11">If by any means I might attain unto the resurrection of the dead.</verse>
<verse osisID="Phil.3.12">Not as though I had already attained, either were already perfect: but I follow after, if that I may apprehend that for which also I am apprehended of Christ Jesus.</verse>
<verse osisID="Phil.3.13">Brethren, I count not myself to have apprehended: but this one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forth unto those things which are before,</verse>
<verse osisID="Phil.3.14">I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.</verse>
<verse osisID="Phil.3.15">Let us therefore, as many as be perfect, be thus minded: and if in any thing you be otherwise minded, God shall reveal even this unto you.</verse>
<verse osisID="Phil.3.16">Nevertheless, whereto we have already attained, let us walk by the same rule, let us mind the same thing.</verse>
<verse osisID="Phil.3.17">Brethren, be followers together of me, and mark those who walk so as you have us for an example.</verse>
<verse osisID="Phil.3.18">(For many walk, of whom I have told you often, and now tell you even weeping, that they are the enemies of the cross of Christ:</verse>
<verse osisID="Phil.3.19">Whose end is destruction, whose God is their belly, and whose glory is in their shame, who mind earthly things.)</verse>
<verse osisID="Phil.3.20">For our conduct is in heaven; from where also we look for the Saviour, the Lord Jesus Christ:</verse>
<verse osisID="Phil.3.21">Who shall change our vile body, that it may be fashioned like unto his glorious body, according to the working whereby he is able even to subdue all things unto himself.</verse>
</chapter>
<chapter osisID="Phil.3.21">
<verse osisID="Phil.4.1">Therefore, my brothers dearly beloved and longed for, my joy and crown, so stand fast in the Lord, my dearly beloved.</verse>
<verse osisID="Phil.4.2">I beseech Euodias, and beseech Syntyche, that they be of the same mind in the Lord.</verse>
<verse osisID="Phil.4.3">And I entreat you also, true yokefellow, help those women which labored with me in the gospel, with Clement also, and with other my fellow laborers, whose names are in the book of life.</verse>
<verse osisID="Phil.4.4">Rejoice in the Lord always: and again I say, Rejoice.</verse>
<verse osisID="Phil.4.5">Let your moderation be known unto all men. The Lord is at hand.</verse>
<verse osisID="Phil.4.6">Be anxious for nothing; but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known unto God.</verse>
<verse osisID="Phil.4.7">And the peace of God, which passes all understanding, shall keep your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus.</verse>
<verse osisID="Phil.4.8">Finally, brothers, whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are of good report; if there be any virtue, and if there be any praise, think on these things.</verse>
<verse osisID="Phil.4.9">Those things, which you have both learned, and received, and heard, and seen in me, do: and the God of peace shall be with you.</verse>
<verse osisID="Phil.4.10">But I rejoiced in the Lord greatly, that now at the last your care of me has flourished again; in which you were also anxious, but you lacked opportunity.</verse>
<verse osisID="Phil.4.11">Not that I speak in respect of want: for I have learned, in whatsoever state I am, therewith to be content.</verse>
<verse osisID="Phil.4.12">I know both how to be abased, and I know how to abound: every where and in all things I am instructed both to be full and to be hungry, both to abound and to suffer need.</verse>
<verse osisID="Phil.4.13">I can do all things through Christ which strengthens me.</verse>
<verse osisID="Phil.4.14">Notwithstanding you have well done, that you did communicate with my affliction.</verse>
<verse osisID="Phil.4.15">Now you Philippians know also, that in the beginning of the gospel, when I departed from Macedonia, no church communicated with me as concerning giving and receiving, but you only.</verse>
<verse osisID="Phil.4.16">For even in Thessalonica you sent once and again unto my necessity.</verse>
<verse osisID="Phil.4.17">Not because I desire a gift: but I desire fruit that may abound to your account.</verse>
<verse osisID="Phil.4.18">But I have all, and abound: I am full, having received of Epaphroditus the things which were sent from you, an odor of a sweet smell, a sacrifice acceptable, well pleasing to God.</verse>
<verse osisID="Phil.4.19">But my God shall supply all your need according to his riches in glory by Christ Jesus.</verse>
<verse osisID="Phil.4.20">Now unto God and our Father be glory forever and ever. Amen.</verse>
<verse osisID="Phil.4.21">Salute every saint in Christ Jesus. The brothers which are with me greet you.</verse>
<verse osisID="Phil.4.22">All the saints salute you, chiefly they that are of Caesar's household.</verse>
<verse osisID="Phil.4.23">The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you all. Amen. </div></verse>
</chapter>
</div>
<div type="book" osisID="Phil.3.21">
<chapter osisID="Phil.4.23">
<verse osisID="Col.1.1">Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ by the will of God, and Timotheus our brother,</verse>
<verse osisID="Col.1.2">To the saints and faithful brothers in Christ which are at Colosse: Grace be unto you, and peace, from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.</verse>
<verse osisID="Col.1.3">We give thanks to God and the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, praying always for you,</verse>
<verse osisID="Col.1.4">Since we heard of your faith in Christ Jesus, and of the love which you have to all the saints,</verse>
<verse osisID="Col.1.5">For the hope which is laid up for you in heaven, whereof you heard before in the word of the truth of the gospel;</verse>
<verse osisID="Col.1.6">Which is come unto you, as it is in all the world; and brings forth fruit, as it does also in you, since the day you heard of it, and knew the grace of God in truth:</verse>
<verse osisID="Col.1.7">As you also learned of Epaphras our dear fellow servant, who is for you a faithful minister of Christ;</verse>
<verse osisID="Col.1.8">Who also declared unto us your love in the Spirit.</verse>
<verse osisID="Col.1.9">For this cause we also, since the day we heard it, do not cease to pray for you, and to desire that you might be filled with the knowledge of his will in all wisdom and spiritual understanding;</verse>
<verse osisID="Col.1.10">That you might walk worthy of the Lord unto all pleasing, being fruitful in every good work, and increasing in the knowledge of God;</verse>
<verse osisID="Col.1.11">Strengthened with all might, according to his glorious power, unto all patience and longsuffering with joyfulness;</verse>
<verse osisID="Col.1.12">Giving thanks unto the Father, which has made us suitable to be partakers of the inheritance of the saints in light:</verse>
<verse osisID="Col.1.13">Who has delivered us from the power of darkness, and has translated us into the kingdom of his dear Son:</verse>
<verse osisID="Col.1.14">In whom we have redemption through his blood, even the forgiveness of sins:</verse>
<verse osisID="Col.1.15">Who is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of every creature:</verse>
<verse osisID="Col.1.16">For by him were all things created, that are in heaven, and that are in earth, visible and invisible, whether they be thrones, or dominions, or principalities, or powers: all things were created by him, and for him:</verse>
<verse osisID="Col.1.17">And he is before all things, and by him all things consist.</verse>
<verse osisID="Col.1.18">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.</verse>
<verse osisID="Col.1.19">For it pleased the Father that in him should all fullness dwell;</verse>
<verse osisID="Col.1.20">And, having made peace through the blood of his cross, by him to reconcile all things unto himself; by him, I say, whether they be things in earth, or things in heaven.</verse>
<verse osisID="Col.1.21">And you, that were sometime alienated and enemies in your mind by wicked works, yet now has he reconciled</verse>
<verse osisID="Col.1.22">In the body of his flesh through death, to present you holy and unblameable and unreproveable in his sight:</verse>
<verse osisID="Col.1.23">If you continue in the faith grounded and settled, and be not moved away from the hope of the gospel, which you have heard, and which was preached to every creature which is under heaven; whereof I Paul am made a minister;</verse>
<verse osisID="Col.1.24">Who now rejoice in my sufferings for you, and fill up that which is behind of the afflictions of Christ in my flesh for his body's sake, which is the church:</verse>
<verse osisID="Col.1.25">Whereof I am made a minister, according to the dispensation of God which is given to me for you, to fulfill the word of God;</verse>
<verse osisID="Col.1.26">Even the mystery which has been hid from ages and from generations, but now is made manifest to his saints:</verse>
<verse osisID="Col.1.27">To whom God would make known what is the riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles; which is Christ in you, the hope of glory:</verse>
<verse osisID="Col.1.28">Whom we preach, warning every man, and teaching every man in all wisdom; that we may present every man perfect in Christ Jesus:</verse>
<verse osisID="Col.1.29">Whereunto I also labor, striving according to his working, which works in me mightily.</verse>
</chapter>
<chapter osisID="Col.1.29">
<verse osisID="Col.2.1">For I would that you knew what great conflict I have for you, and for them at Laodicea, and for as many as have not seen my face in the flesh;</verse>
<verse osisID="Col.2.2">That their hearts might be comforted, being knit together in love, and unto all riches of the full assurance of understanding, to the acknowledgement of the mystery of God, and of the Father, and of Christ;</verse>
<verse osisID="Col.2.3">In whom are hid all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge.</verse>
<verse osisID="Col.2.4">And this I say, lest any man should beguile you with enticing words.</verse>
<verse osisID="Col.2.5">For though I be absent in the flesh, yet am I with you in the spirit, joying and beholding your order, and the steadfastness of your faith in Christ.</verse>
<verse osisID="Col.2.6">As you have therefore received Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk you in him:</verse>
<verse osisID="Col.2.7">Rooted and built up in him, and established in the faith, as you have been taught, abounding in it with thanksgiving.</verse>
<verse osisID="Col.2.8">Beware lest any man spoil you through philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after the rudiments of the world, and not after Christ.</verse>
<verse osisID="Col.2.9">For in him dwells all the fullness of the Godhead bodily.</verse>
<verse osisID="Col.2.10">And you are complete in him, which is the head of all principality and power:</verse>
<verse osisID="Col.2.11">In whom also you are circumcised with the circumcision made without hands, in putting off the body of the sins of the flesh by the circumcision of Christ:</verse>
<verse osisID="Col.2.12">Buried with him in baptism, in which also you are risen with him through the faith of the operation of God, who has raised him from the dead.</verse>
<verse osisID="Col.2.13">And you, being dead in your sins and the uncircumcision of your flesh, has he given life together with him, having forgiven you all trespasses;</verse>
<verse osisID="Col.2.14">Blotting out the handwriting of ordinances that was against us, which was contrary to us, and took it out of the way, nailing it to his cross;</verse>
<verse osisID="Col.2.15">And having spoiled principalities and powers, he made a show of them openly, triumphing over them in it.</verse>
<verse osisID="Col.2.16">Let no man therefore judge you in food, or in drink, or in respect of a holy day, or of the new moon, or of the sabbath days:</verse>
<verse osisID="Col.2.17">Which are a shadow of things to come; but the body is of Christ.</verse>
<verse osisID="Col.2.18">Let no man beguile you of your reward in a false humility and worshipping of angels, intruding into those things which he has not seen, vainly puffed up by his fleshly mind,</verse>
<verse osisID="Col.2.19">And not holding the Head, from which all the body by joints and bands having nourishment ministered, and knit together, increases with the increase of God.</verse>
<verse osisID="Col.2.20">Therefore if you be dead with Christ from the rudiments of the world, why, as though living in the world, are you subject to ordinances,</verse>
<verse osisID="Col.2.21">(Touch not; taste not; handle not;</verse>
<verse osisID="Col.2.22">Which all are to perish with the using;) after the commandments and doctrines of men?</verse>
<verse osisID="Col.2.23">Which things have indeed a show of wisdom in will worship, and humility, and neglecting of the body: not in any honor to the satisfying of the flesh.</verse>
</chapter>
<chapter osisID="Col.2.23">
<verse osisID="Col.3.1">If you then be risen with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ sits on the right hand of God.</verse>
<verse osisID="Col.3.2">Set your affection on things above, not on things on the earth.</verse>
<verse osisID="Col.3.3">For you are dead, and your life is hid with Christ in God.</verse>
<verse osisID="Col.3.4">When Christ, who is our life, shall appear, then shall you also appear with him in glory.</verse>
<verse osisID="Col.3.5">Mortify therefore your members which are upon the earth; fornication, uncleanness, inordinate affection, evil sexual desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry:</verse>
<verse osisID="Col.3.6">For which things' sake the wrath of God comes on the children of disobedience:</verse>
<verse osisID="Col.3.7">In which you also walked some time, when you lived in them.</verse>
<verse osisID="Col.3.8">But now you also put off all these; anger, wrath, malice, blasphemy, filthy communication out of your mouth.</verse>
<verse osisID="Col.3.9">Lie not one to another, seeing that you have put off the old man with his deeds;</verse>
<verse osisID="Col.3.10">And have put on the new man, which is renewed in knowledge after the image of him that created him:</verse>
<verse osisID="Col.3.11">Where there is neither Greek nor Jew, circumcision nor uncircumcision, Barbarian, Scythian, bond nor free: but Christ is all, and in all.</verse>
<verse osisID="Col.3.12">Put on therefore, as the elect of God, holy and beloved, insides of mercies, kindness, humbleness of mind, meekness, longsuffering;</verse>
<verse osisID="Col.3.13">Forbearing one another, and forgiving one another, if any man have a quarrel against any: just as Christ forgave you, so also do you.</verse>
<verse osisID="Col.3.14">And above all these things put on love, which is the bond of perfectness.</verse>
<verse osisID="Col.3.15">And let the peace of God rule in your hearts, to the which also you are called in one body; and be you thankful.</verse>
<verse osisID="Col.3.16">Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly in all wisdom; teaching and admonishing one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing with grace in your hearts to the Lord.</verse>
<verse osisID="Col.3.17">And whatsoever you do in word or deed, do all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God and the Father by him.</verse>
<verse osisID="Col.3.18">Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as it is fit in the Lord.</verse>
<verse osisID="Col.3.19">Husbands, love your wives, and be not bitter against them.</verse>
<verse osisID="Col.3.20">Children, obey your parents in all things: for this is well pleasing unto the Lord.</verse>
<verse osisID="Col.3.21">Fathers, provoke not your children to anger, lest they be discouraged.</verse>
<verse osisID="Col.3.22">Servants, obey in all things your masters according to the flesh; not with eyeservice, as menpleasers; but in singleness of heart, fearing God;</verse>
<verse osisID="Col.3.23">And whatsoever you do, do it heartily, as to the Lord, and not unto men;</verse>
<verse osisID="Col.3.24">Knowing that of the Lord you shall receive the reward of the inheritance: for you serve the Lord Christ.</verse>
<verse osisID="Col.3.25">But he that does wrong shall receive for the wrong which he has done: and there is no respect of persons.</verse>
</chapter>
<chapter osisID="Col.3.25">
<verse osisID="Col.4.1">Masters, give unto your servants that which is just and equal; knowing that you also have a Master in heaven.</verse>
<verse osisID="Col.4.2">Continue in prayer, and watch in the same with thanksgiving;</verse>
<verse osisID="Col.4.3">Meanwhile praying also for us, that God would open unto us a door of utterance, to speak the mystery of Christ, for which I am also in bonds:</verse>
<verse osisID="Col.4.4">That I may make it manifest, as I ought to speak.</verse>
<verse osisID="Col.4.5">Walk in wisdom toward them that are without, redeeming the time.</verse>
<verse osisID="Col.4.6">Let your speech be always with grace, seasoned with salt, that you may know how you ought to answer every man.</verse>
<verse osisID="Col.4.7">All my state shall Tychicus declare unto you, who is a beloved brother, and a faithful minister and fellow servant in the Lord:</verse>
<verse osisID="Col.4.8">Whom I have sent unto you for the same purpose, that he might know your estate, and comfort your hearts;</verse>
<verse osisID="Col.4.9">With Onesimus, a faithful and beloved brother, who is one of you. They shall make known unto you all things which are done here.</verse>
<verse osisID="Col.4.10">Aristarchus my fellow prisoner salutes you, and Marcus, sister's son to Barnabas, (touching whom you received commandments: if he come unto you, receive him;)</verse>
<verse osisID="Col.4.11">And Jesus, which is called Justus, who are of the circumcision. These only are my fellow workers unto the kingdom of God, which have been a comfort unto me.</verse>
<verse osisID="Col.4.12">Epaphras, who is one of you, a servant of Christ, salutes you, always laboring fervently for you in prayers, that you may stand perfect and complete in all the will of God.</verse>
<verse osisID="Col.4.13">For I bear him record, that he has a great zeal for you, and them that are in Laodicea, and them in Hierapolis.</verse>
<verse osisID="Col.4.14">Luke, the beloved physician, and Demas, greet you.</verse>
<verse osisID="Col.4.15">Salute the brothers which are in Laodicea, and Nymphas, and the church which is in his house.</verse>
<verse osisID="Col.4.16">And when this epistle is read among you, cause that it be read also in the church of the Laodiceans; and that you likewise read the epistle from Laodicea.</verse>
<verse osisID="Col.4.17">And say to Archippus, Take heed to the ministry which you have received in the Lord, that you fulfill it.</verse>
<verse osisID="Col.4.18">The salutation by the hand of me Paul. Remember my bonds. Grace be with you. Amen. </div></verse>
</chapter>
</div>
<div type="book" osisID="Col.3.25">
<chapter osisID="Col.4.18">
<verse osisID="1Thess.1.1">Paul, and Silvanus, and Timotheus, unto the church of the Thessalonians which is in God the Father and in the Lord Jesus Christ: Grace be unto you, and peace, from God our Father, and the Lord Jesus Christ.</verse>
<verse osisID="1Thess.1.2">We give thanks to God always for you all, making mention of you in our prayers;</verse>
<verse osisID="1Thess.1.3">Remembering without ceasing your work of faith, and labor of love, and patience of hope in our Lord Jesus Christ, in the sight of God and our Father;</verse>
<verse osisID="1Thess.1.4">Knowing, brothers beloved, your election of God.</verse>
<verse osisID="1Thess.1.5">For our gospel came not unto you in word only, but also in power, and in the Holy Ghost, and in much assurance; as you know what manner of men we were among you for your sake.</verse>
<verse osisID="1Thess.1.6">And you became followers of us, and of the Lord, having received the word in much affliction, with joy of the Holy Ghost.</verse>
<verse osisID="1Thess.1.7">So that you were examples to all that believe in Macedonia and Achaia.</verse>
<verse osisID="1Thess.1.8">For from you sounded out the word of the Lord not only in Macedonia and Achaia, but also in every place your faith toward God is spread abroad; so that we need not to speak any thing.</verse>
<verse osisID="1Thess.1.9">For they themselves show of us what manner of entering in we had unto you, and how you turned to God from idols to serve the living and true God;</verse>
<verse osisID="1Thess.1.10">And to wait for his Son from heaven, whom he raised from the dead, which is Jesus, which delivered us from the wrath to come.</verse>
</chapter>
<chapter osisID="1Thess.1.10">
<verse osisID="1Thess.2.1">For yourselves, brothers, know our entrance in unto you, that it was not in vain:</verse>
<verse osisID="1Thess.2.2">But even after we had suffered before, and were shamefully treated, as you know, at Philippi, we were bold in our God to speak unto you the gospel of God with much contention.</verse>
<verse osisID="1Thess.2.3">For our exhortation was not of deceit, nor of uncleanness, nor in guile:</verse>
<verse osisID="1Thess.2.4">But as we were allowed of God to be put in trust with the gospel, even so we speak; not as pleasing men, but God, which tries our hearts.</verse>
<verse osisID="1Thess.2.5">For neither at any time used we flattering words, as you know, nor a cloak of covetousness; God is witness:</verse>
<verse osisID="1Thess.2.6">Nor of men sought we glory, neither of you, nor yet of others, when we might have been burdensome, as the apostles of Christ.</verse>
<verse osisID="1Thess.2.7">But we were gentle among you, just as a nurse cherishes her children:</verse>
<verse osisID="1Thess.2.8">So being affectionately desirous of you, we were willing to have imparted unto you, not the gospel of God only, but also our own souls, because you were dear unto us.</verse>
<verse osisID="1Thess.2.9">For you remember, brothers, our labor and travail: for laboring night and day, because we would not be chargeable unto any of you, we preached unto you the gospel of God.</verse>
<verse osisID="1Thess.2.10">You are witnesses, and God also, how devoutly and justly and unblameably we behaved ourselves among you that believe:</verse>
<verse osisID="1Thess.2.11">As you know how we exhorted and comforted and charged every one of you, as a father does his children,</verse>
<verse osisID="1Thess.2.12">That you would walk worthy of God, who has called you unto his kingdom and glory.</verse>
<verse osisID="1Thess.2.13">For this cause also thank we God without ceasing, because, when you received the word of God which you heard of us, you received it not as the word of men, but as it is in truth, the word of God, which effectively works also in you that believe.</verse>
<verse osisID="1Thess.2.14">For you, brothers, became followers of the churches of God which in Judaea are in Christ Jesus: for you also have suffered like things of your own countrymen, just as they have of the Jews:</verse>
<verse osisID="1Thess.2.15">Who both killed the Lord Jesus, and their own prophets, and have persecuted us; and they please not God, and are contrary to all men:</verse>
<verse osisID="1Thess.2.16">Forbidding us to speak to the Gentiles that they might be saved, to fill up their sins always: for the wrath is come upon them to the uttermost.</verse>
<verse osisID="1Thess.2.17">But we, brothers, being taken from you for a short time in presence, not in heart, endeavored the more abundantly to see your face with great desire.</verse>
<verse osisID="1Thess.2.18">Therefore we would have come unto you, even I Paul, once and again; but Satan hindered us.</verse>
<verse osisID="1Thess.2.19">For what is our hope, or joy, or crown of rejoicing? Are not even you in the presence of our Lord Jesus Christ at his coming?</verse>
<verse osisID="1Thess.2.20">For you are our glory and joy.</verse>
</chapter>
<chapter osisID="1Thess.2.20">
<verse osisID="1Thess.3.1">Therefore when we could no longer hold back, we thought it good to be left at Athens alone;</verse>
<verse osisID="1Thess.3.2">And sent Timotheus, our brother, and minister of God, and our fellow laborer in the gospel of Christ, to establish you, and to comfort you concerning your faith:</verse>
<verse osisID="1Thess.3.3">That no man should be moved by these afflictions: for yourselves know that we are appointed thereunto.</verse>
<verse osisID="1Thess.3.4">For truthfully, when we were with you, we told you before that we should suffer tribulation; just as it came to pass, and you know.</verse>
<verse osisID="1Thess.3.5">For this cause, when I could no longer hold back, I sent to know your faith, lest by some means the tempter have tempted you, and our labor be in vain.</verse>
<verse osisID="1Thess.3.6">But now when Timotheus came from you unto us, and brought us good tidings of your faith and love, and that you have good remembrance of us always, desiring greatly to see us, as we also to see you:</verse>
<verse osisID="1Thess.3.7">Therefore, brothers, we were comforted over you in all our affliction and distress by your faith:</verse>
<verse osisID="1Thess.3.8">For now we live, if you stand fast in the Lord.</verse>
<verse osisID="1Thess.3.9">For what thanks can we render to God again for you, for all the joy with which we joy for your sakes before our God;</verse>
<verse osisID="1Thess.3.10">Night and day praying exceedingly that we might see your face, and might perfect that which is lacking in your faith?</verse>
<verse osisID="1Thess.3.11">Now God himself and our Father, and our Lord Jesus Christ, direct our way unto you.</verse>
<verse osisID="1Thess.3.12">And the Lord make you to increase and abound in love one toward another, and toward all men, just as we do toward you:</verse>
<verse osisID="1Thess.3.13">To the end he may establish your hearts unblameable in holiness before God, even our Father, at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ with all his saints.</verse>
</chapter>
<chapter osisID="1Thess.3.13">
<verse osisID="1Thess.4.1">Furthermore then we beseech you, brothers, and exhort you by the Lord Jesus, that as you have received of us how you ought to walk and to please God, so you would abound more and more.</verse>
<verse osisID="1Thess.4.2">For you know what commandments we gave you by the Lord Jesus.</verse>
<verse osisID="1Thess.4.3">For this is the will of God, even your sanctification, that you should abstain from fornication:</verse>
<verse osisID="1Thess.4.4">That every one of you should know how to possess his vessel in sanctification and honor;</verse>
<verse osisID="1Thess.4.5">Not in the lust of sexual desire, just as the Gentiles which know not God:</verse>
<verse osisID="1Thess.4.6">That no man go beyond and defraud his brother in any matter: because that the Lord is the avenger of all such, as we also have forewarned you and testified.</verse>
<verse osisID="1Thess.4.7">For God has not called us unto uncleanness, but unto holiness.</verse>
<verse osisID="1Thess.4.8">He therefore that despises, despises not man, but God, who has also given unto us his holy Spirit.</verse>
<verse osisID="1Thess.4.9">But as touching brotherly love you need not that I write unto you: for you yourselves are taught of God to love one another.</verse>
<verse osisID="1Thess.4.10">And indeed you do it toward all the brothers which are in all Macedonia: but we beseech you, brothers, that you increase more and more;</verse>
<verse osisID="1Thess.4.11">And that you study to be quiet, and to do your own business, and to work with your own hands, as we commanded you;</verse>
<verse osisID="1Thess.4.12">That you may walk honestly toward them that are outside, and that you may have lack of nothing.</verse>
<verse osisID="1Thess.4.13">But I would not have you to be ignorant, brothers, concerning those who are asleep, that you sorrow not, just as others which have no hope.</verse>
<verse osisID="1Thess.4.14">For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so them also which sleep in Jesus will God bring with him.</verse>
<verse osisID="1Thess.4.15">For this we say unto you by the word of the Lord, that we which are alive and remain unto the coming of the Lord shall not prevent those who are asleep.</verse>
<verse osisID="1Thess.4.16">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:</verse>
<verse osisID="1Thess.4.17">Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord.</verse>
<verse osisID="1Thess.4.18">Therefore comfort one another with these words.</verse>
</chapter>
<chapter osisID="1Thess.4.18">
<verse osisID="1Thess.5.1">But of the times and the seasons, brothers, you have no need that I write unto you.</verse>
<verse osisID="1Thess.5.2">For yourselves know perfectly that the day of the Lord so comes as a thief in the night.</verse>
<verse osisID="1Thess.5.3">For when they shall say, Peace and safety; then sudden destruction comes upon them, as travail upon a woman with child; and they shall not escape.</verse>
<verse osisID="1Thess.5.4">But you, brothers, are not in darkness, that that day should overtake you as a thief.</verse>
<verse osisID="1Thess.5.5">You are all the children of light, and the children of the day: we are not of the night, nor of darkness.</verse>
<verse osisID="1Thess.5.6">Therefore let us not sleep, as do others; but let us watch and be sober.</verse>
<verse osisID="1Thess.5.7">For they that sleep sleep in the night; and they that be drunken are drunken in the night.</verse>
<verse osisID="1Thess.5.8">But let us, who are of the day, be sober, putting on the breastplate of faith and love; and for a helmet, the hope of salvation.</verse>
<verse osisID="1Thess.5.9">For God has not appointed us to wrath, but to obtain salvation by our Lord Jesus Christ,</verse>
<verse osisID="1Thess.5.10">Who died for us, that, whether we wake or sleep, we should live together with him.</verse>
<verse osisID="1Thess.5.11">Therefore comfort yourselves together, and edify one another, just as also you do.</verse>
<verse osisID="1Thess.5.12">And we beseech you, brothers, to know those who labor among you, and are over you in the Lord, and admonish you;</verse>
<verse osisID="1Thess.5.13">And to esteem them very highly in love for their work's sake. And be at peace among yourselves.</verse>
<verse osisID="1Thess.5.14">Now we exhort you, brothers, warn them that are unruly, comfort the fainthearted, support the weak, be patient toward all men.</verse>
<verse osisID="1Thess.5.15">See that none render evil for evil unto any man; but ever follow that which is good, both among yourselves, and to all men.</verse>
<verse osisID="1Thess.5.16">Rejoice evermore.</verse>
<verse osisID="1Thess.5.17">Pray without ceasing.</verse>
<verse osisID="1Thess.5.18">In everything give thanks: for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus concerning you.</verse>
<verse osisID="1Thess.5.19">Quench not the Spirit.</verse>
<verse osisID="1Thess.5.20">Despise not prophesyings.</verse>
<verse osisID="1Thess.5.21">Test all things; hold fast that which is good.</verse>
<verse osisID="1Thess.5.22">Abstain from all appearance of evil.</verse>
<verse osisID="1Thess.5.23">And the very God of peace sanctify you wholly; and I pray God your whole spirit and soul and body be preserved blameless unto the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.</verse>
<verse osisID="1Thess.5.24">Faithful is he that calls you, who also will do it.</verse>
<verse osisID="1Thess.5.25">Brethren, pray for us.</verse>
<verse osisID="1Thess.5.26">Greet all the brothers with a holy kiss.</verse>
<verse osisID="1Thess.5.27">I charge you by the Lord that this letter be read unto all the holy brothers.</verse>
<verse osisID="1Thess.5.28">The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you. Amen. </div></verse>
</chapter>
</div>
<div type="book" osisID="1Thess.4.18">
<chapter osisID="1Thess.5.28">
<verse osisID="2Thess.1.1">Paul, and Silvanus, and Timotheus, unto the church of the Thessalonians in God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ:</verse>
<verse osisID="2Thess.1.2">Grace unto you, and peace, from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.</verse>
<verse osisID="2Thess.1.3">We are bound to thank God always for you, brothers, as it is suitable, because that your faith grows exceedingly, and the love of every one of you all toward each other abounds;</verse>
<verse osisID="2Thess.1.4">So that we ourselves glory in you in the churches of God for your patience and faith in all your persecutions and tribulations that you endure:</verse>
<verse osisID="2Thess.1.5">Which is a manifest token of the righteous judgment of God, that you may be counted worthy of the kingdom of God, for which you also suffer:</verse>
<verse osisID="2Thess.1.6">Seeing it is a righteous thing with God to recompense tribulation to them that trouble you;</verse>
<verse osisID="2Thess.1.7">And to you who are troubled rest with us, when the Lord Jesus shall be revealed from heaven with his mighty angels,</verse>
<verse osisID="2Thess.1.8">In flaming fire taking vengeance on them that know not God, and that obey not the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ:</verse>
<verse osisID="2Thess.1.9">Who shall be punished with everlasting destruction from the presence of the Lord, and from the glory of his power;</verse>
<verse osisID="2Thess.1.10">When he shall come to be glorified in his saints, and to be admired in all them that believe (because our testimony among you was believed) in that day.</verse>
<verse osisID="2Thess.1.11">Therefore also we pray always for you, that our God would count you worthy of this calling, and fulfill all the good pleasure of his goodness, and the work of faith with power:</verse>
<verse osisID="2Thess.1.12">That the name of our Lord Jesus Christ may be glorified in you, and you in him, according to the grace of our God and the Lord Jesus Christ.</verse>
</chapter>
<chapter osisID="2Thess.1.12">
<verse osisID="2Thess.2.1">Now we beseech you, brothers, by the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, and by our gathering together unto him,</verse>
<verse osisID="2Thess.2.2">That you be not soon shaken in mind, or be troubled, neither by spirit, nor by word, nor by letter as from us, as that the day of Christ is at hand.</verse>
<verse osisID="2Thess.2.3">Let no man deceive you by any means: for that day shall not come, unless there come a falling away first, and that man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition;</verse>
<verse osisID="2Thess.2.4">Who opposes and exalts himself above all that is called God, or that is worshipped; so that he as God sits in the temple of God, showing himself that he is God.</verse>
<verse osisID="2Thess.2.5">Remember you not, that, when I was yet with you, I told you these things?</verse>
<verse osisID="2Thess.2.6">And now you know what withholds that he might be revealed in his time.</verse>
<verse osisID="2Thess.2.7">For the mystery of iniquity does already work: only he who now lets will let, until he be taken out of the way.</verse>
<verse osisID="2Thess.2.8">And then shall that Wicked be revealed, whom the Lord shall consume with the spirit of his mouth, and shall destroy with the brightness of his coming:</verse>
<verse osisID="2Thess.2.9">Even him, whose coming is after the working of Satan with all power and signs and lying wonders,</verse>
<verse osisID="2Thess.2.10">And with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish; because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved.</verse>
<verse osisID="2Thess.2.11">And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie:</verse>
<verse osisID="2Thess.2.12">That they all might be damned who believed not the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness.</verse>
<verse osisID="2Thess.2.13">But we are bound to give thanks always to God for you, brothers beloved of the Lord, because God has from the beginning chosen you to salvation through sanctification of the Spirit and belief of the truth:</verse>
<verse osisID="2Thess.2.14">Whereunto he called you by our gospel, to the obtaining of the glory of our Lord Jesus Christ.</verse>
<verse osisID="2Thess.2.15">Therefore, brothers, stand fast, and hold the traditions which you have been taught, whether by word, or our epistle.</verse>
<verse osisID="2Thess.2.16">Now our Lord Jesus Christ himself, and God, even our Father, which has loved us, and has given us everlasting consolation and good hope through grace,</verse>
<verse osisID="2Thess.2.17">Comfort your hearts, and establish you in every good word and work.</verse>
</chapter>
<chapter osisID="2Thess.2.17">
<verse osisID="2Thess.3.1">Finally, brothers, pray for us, that the word of the Lord may have free course, and be glorified, just as it is with you:</verse>
<verse osisID="2Thess.3.2">And that we may be delivered from unreasonable and wicked men: for all men have not faith.</verse>
<verse osisID="2Thess.3.3">But the Lord is faithful, who shall establish you, and keep you from evil.</verse>
<verse osisID="2Thess.3.4">And we have confidence in the Lord regarding you, that you both do and will do the things which we command you.</verse>
<verse osisID="2Thess.3.5">And the Lord direct your hearts into the love of God, and into the patient waiting for Christ.</verse>
<verse osisID="2Thess.3.6">Now we command you, brothers, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that you withdraw yourselves from every brother that walks disorderly, and not after the tradition which he received of us.</verse>
<verse osisID="2Thess.3.7">For yourselves know how you ought to follow us: for we behaved not ourselves disorderly among you;</verse>
<verse osisID="2Thess.3.8">Neither did we eat any man's bread for nothing; but wrought with labor and travail night and day, that we might not be chargeable to any of you:</verse>
<verse osisID="2Thess.3.9">Not because we have not power, but to make ourselves an example unto you to follow us.</verse>
<verse osisID="2Thess.3.10">For even when we were with you, this we commanded you, that if any would not work, neither should he eat.</verse>
<verse osisID="2Thess.3.11">For we hear that there are some which walk among you disorderly, working not at all, but are busybodies.</verse>
<verse osisID="2Thess.3.12">Now them that are such we command and exhort by our Lord Jesus Christ, that with quietness they work, and eat their own bread.</verse>
<verse osisID="2Thess.3.13">But you, brothers, be not weary in well doing.</verse>
<verse osisID="2Thess.3.14">And if any man obey not our word by this letter, note that man, and have no company with him, that he may be ashamed.</verse>
<verse osisID="2Thess.3.15">Yet count him not as an enemy, but admonish him as a brother.</verse>
<verse osisID="2Thess.3.16">Now the Lord of peace himself give you peace always by all means. The Lord be with you all.</verse>
<verse osisID="2Thess.3.17">The salutation of Paul with my own hand, which is the token in every letter: so I write.</verse>
<verse osisID="2Thess.3.18">The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you all. Amen. </div></verse>
</chapter>
</div>
<div type="book" osisID="2Thess.2.17">
<chapter osisID="2Thess.3.18">
<verse osisID="1Tim.1.1">Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ by the commandment of God our Saviour, and Lord Jesus Christ, which is our hope;</verse>
<verse osisID="1Tim.1.2">Unto Timothy, my own son in the faith: Grace, mercy, and peace, from God our Father and Jesus Christ our Lord.</verse>
<verse osisID="1Tim.1.3">As I asked you to abide still at Ephesus, when I went into Macedonia, that you might charge some that they teach no other doctrine,</verse>
<verse osisID="1Tim.1.4">Neither give heed to fables and endless genealogies, which minister questions, rather than godly edifying which is in faith: so do.</verse>
<verse osisID="1Tim.1.5">Now the end of the commandment is love out of a pure heart, and of a good conscience, and of faith unfeigned:</verse>
<verse osisID="1Tim.1.6">From which some having swerved have turned aside unto vain jangling;</verse>
<verse osisID="1Tim.1.7">Desiring to be teachers of the law; understanding neither what they say, nor whereof they affirm.</verse>
<verse osisID="1Tim.1.8">But we know that the law is good, if a man use it lawfully;</verse>
<verse osisID="1Tim.1.9">Knowing this, that the law is not made for a righteous man, but for the lawless and disobedient, for the ungodly and for sinners, for unholy and profane, for murderers of fathers and murderers of mothers, for manslayers,</verse>
<verse osisID="1Tim.1.10">For whoremongers, for them that defile themselves with mankind, for menstealers, for liars, for perjured persons, and if there be any other thing that is contrary to sound doctrine;</verse>
<verse osisID="1Tim.1.11">According to the glorious gospel of the blessed God, which was committed to my trust.</verse>
<verse osisID="1Tim.1.12">And I thank Christ Jesus our Lord, who has enabled me, for that he counted me faithful, putting me into the ministry;</verse>
<verse osisID="1Tim.1.13">Who was before a blasphemer, and a persecutor, and injurious: but I obtained mercy, because I did it ignorantly in unbelief.</verse>
<verse osisID="1Tim.1.14">And the grace of our Lord was exceedingly abundant with faith and love which is in Christ Jesus.</verse>
<verse osisID="1Tim.1.15">This is a faithful saying, and worthy of all acceptation, that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners; of whom I am chief.</verse>
<verse osisID="1Tim.1.16">Howbeit for this cause I obtained mercy, that in me first Jesus Christ might show forth all longsuffering, for a pattern to those who should hereafter believe on him to life everlasting.</verse>
<verse osisID="1Tim.1.17">Now unto the King eternal, immortal, invisible, the only wise God, be honor and glory forever and ever. Amen.</verse>
<verse osisID="1Tim.1.18">This charge I commit unto you, son Timothy, according to the prophecies which went before on you, that you by them might war a good warfare;</verse>
<verse osisID="1Tim.1.19">Holding faith, and a good conscience; which some having put away concerning faith have made shipwreck:</verse>
<verse osisID="1Tim.1.20">Of whom is Hymenaeus and Alexander; whom I have delivered unto Satan, that they may learn not to blaspheme.</verse>
</chapter>
<chapter osisID="1Tim.1.20">
<verse osisID="1Tim.2.1">I exhort therefore, that, first of all, supplications, prayers, intercessions, and giving of thanks, be made for all men;</verse>
<verse osisID="1Tim.2.2">For kings, and for all that are in authority; that we may lead a quiet and peaceable life in all godliness and honesty.</verse>
<verse osisID="1Tim.2.3">For this is good and acceptable in the sight of God our Saviour;</verse>
<verse osisID="1Tim.2.4">Who will have all men to be saved, and to come unto the knowledge of the truth.</verse>
<verse osisID="1Tim.2.5">For there is one God, and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus;</verse>
<verse osisID="1Tim.2.6">Who gave himself a ransom for all, to be testified in due time.</verse>
<verse osisID="1Tim.2.7">Whereunto I am ordained a preacher, and an apostle, (I speak the truth in Christ, and lie not;) a teacher of the Gentiles in faith and truth.</verse>
<verse osisID="1Tim.2.8">I will therefore that men pray everywhere, lifting up holy hands, without wrath and doubting.</verse>
<verse osisID="1Tim.2.9">In like manner also, that women adorn themselves in modest apparel, with shamefacedness and sobriety; not with braided hair, or gold, or pearls, or costly array;</verse>
<verse osisID="1Tim.2.10">But (which becomes women professing godliness) with good works.</verse>
<verse osisID="1Tim.2.11">Let the woman learn in silence with all subjection.</verse>
<verse osisID="1Tim.2.12">But I permit not a woman to teach, nor to usurp authority over the man, but to be in silence.</verse>
<verse osisID="1Tim.2.13">For Adam was first formed, then Eve.</verse>
<verse osisID="1Tim.2.14">And Adam was not deceived, but the woman being deceived was in the transgression.</verse>
<verse osisID="1Tim.2.15">Notwithstanding she shall be saved in childbearing, if they continue in faith and love and holiness with sobriety.</verse>
</chapter>
<chapter osisID="1Tim.2.15">
<verse osisID="1Tim.3.1">This is a true saying, If a man desire the office of a bishop, he desires a good work.</verse>
<verse osisID="1Tim.3.2">A bishop then must be blameless, the husband of one wife, vigilant, sober, of good behavior, given to hospitality, apt to teach;</verse>
<verse osisID="1Tim.3.3">Not given to wine, no striker, not greedy of filthy lucre; but patient, not a brawler, not covetous;</verse>
<verse osisID="1Tim.3.4">One that rules well his own house, having his children in subjection with all gravity;</verse>
<verse osisID="1Tim.3.5">(For if a man know not how to rule his own house, how shall he take care of the church of God?)</verse>
<verse osisID="1Tim.3.6">Not a novice, lest being lifted up with pride he fall into the condemnation of the devil.</verse>
<verse osisID="1Tim.3.7">Moreover he must have a good report of those who are outside; lest he fall into reproach and the snare of the devil.</verse>
<verse osisID="1Tim.3.8">Likewise must the deacons be grave, not doubletongued, not given to much wine, not greedy of filthy lucre;</verse>
<verse osisID="1Tim.3.9">Holding the mystery of the faith in a pure conscience.</verse>
<verse osisID="1Tim.3.10">And let these also first be tested; then let them use the office of a deacon, being found blameless.</verse>
<verse osisID="1Tim.3.11">Even so must their wives be grave, not slanderers, sober, faithful in all things.</verse>
<verse osisID="1Tim.3.12">Let the deacons be the husbands of one wife, ruling their children and their own houses well.</verse>
<verse osisID="1Tim.3.13">For they that have used the office of a deacon well purchase to themselves a good degree, and great boldness in the faith which is in Christ Jesus.</verse>
<verse osisID="1Tim.3.14">These things write I unto you, hoping to come unto you shortly:</verse>
<verse osisID="1Tim.3.15">But if I tarry long, that you may know how you ought to behave yourself in the house of God, which is the church of the living God, the pillar and ground of the truth.</verse>
<verse osisID="1Tim.3.16">And without controversy great is the mystery of godliness: God was manifest in the flesh, justified in the Spirit, seen of angels, preached unto the Gentiles, believed on in the world, received up into glory.</verse>
</chapter>
<chapter osisID="1Tim.3.16">
<verse osisID="1Tim.4.1">Now the Spirit speaks expressly, that in the latter times some shall depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits, and doctrines of devils;</verse>
<verse osisID="1Tim.4.2">Speaking lies in hypocrisy; having their conscience seared with a hot iron;</verse>
<verse osisID="1Tim.4.3">Forbidding to marry, and commanding to abstain from foods, which God has created to be received with thanksgiving of those who believe and know the truth.</verse>
<verse osisID="1Tim.4.4">For every creature of God is good, and nothing to be refused, if it be received with thanksgiving:</verse>
<verse osisID="1Tim.4.5">For it is sanctified by the word of God and prayer.</verse>
<verse osisID="1Tim.4.6">If you put the brothers in remembrance of these things, you shall be a good minister of Jesus Christ, nourished up in the words of faith and of good doctrine, whereunto you have attained.</verse>
<verse osisID="1Tim.4.7">But refuse profane and old wives' fables, and exercise yourself rather unto godliness.</verse>
<verse osisID="1Tim.4.8">For bodily exercise profits little: but godliness is profitable unto all things, having promise of the life that now is, and of that which is to come.</verse>
<verse osisID="1Tim.4.9">This is a faithful saying and worthy of all acceptation.</verse>
<verse osisID="1Tim.4.10">For therefore we both labor and suffer reproach, because we trust in the living God, who is the Saviour of all men, specially of those that believe.</verse>
<verse osisID="1Tim.4.11">These things command and teach.</verse>
<verse osisID="1Tim.4.12">Let no man despise your youth; but be an example of the believers, in word, in conduct, in love, in spirit, in faith, in purity.</verse>
<verse osisID="1Tim.4.13">Till I come, give attendance to reading, to exhortation, to doctrine.</verse>
<verse osisID="1Tim.4.14">Neglect not the gift that is in you, which was given you by prophecy, with the laying on of the hands of the presbytery.</verse>
<verse osisID="1Tim.4.15">Meditate upon these things; give yourself wholly to them; that your profiting may appear to all.</verse>
<verse osisID="1Tim.4.16">Take heed unto yourself, and unto the doctrine; continue in them: for in doing this you shall both save yourself, and them that hear you.</verse>
</chapter>
<chapter osisID="1Tim.4.16">
<verse osisID="1Tim.5.1">Rebuke not an elder, but entreat him as a father; and the younger men as brothers;</verse>
<verse osisID="1Tim.5.2">The elder women as mothers; the younger as sisters, with all purity.</verse>
<verse osisID="1Tim.5.3">Honor widows that are widows indeed.</verse>
<verse osisID="1Tim.5.4">But if any widow have children or nephews, let them learn first to show piety at home, and to repay their parents: for that is good and acceptable before God.</verse>
<verse osisID="1Tim.5.5">Now she that is a widow indeed, and desolate, trusts in God, and continues in supplications and prayers night and day.</verse>
<verse osisID="1Tim.5.6">But she that lives in pleasure is dead while she lives.</verse>
<verse osisID="1Tim.5.7">And these things give in charge, that they may be blameless.</verse>
<verse osisID="1Tim.5.8">But if any provide not for his own, and specially for those of his own house, he has denied the faith, and is worse than an infidel.</verse>
<verse osisID="1Tim.5.9">Let not a widow be taken into the number under threescore years old, having been the wife of one man.</verse>
<verse osisID="1Tim.5.10">Well reported of for good works; if she have brought up children, if she have lodged strangers, if she have washed the saints' feet, if she have relieved the afflicted, if she have diligently followed every good work.</verse>
<verse osisID="1Tim.5.11">But the younger widows refuse: for when they have begun to wax wanton against Christ, they will marry;</verse>
<verse osisID="1Tim.5.12">Having damnation, because they have cast off their first faith.</verse>
<verse osisID="1Tim.5.13">And beside this they learn to be idle, wandering about from house to house; and not only idle, but tattlers also and busybodies, speaking things which they ought not.</verse>
<verse osisID="1Tim.5.14">I will therefore that the younger women marry, bear children, guide the house, give none occasion to the adversary to speak reproachfully.</verse>
<verse osisID="1Tim.5.15">For some are already turned aside after Satan.</verse>
<verse osisID="1Tim.5.16">If any man or woman that believes have widows, let them relieve them, and let not the church be charged; that it may relieve them that are widows indeed.</verse>
<verse osisID="1Tim.5.17">Let the elders that rule well be counted worthy of double honor, especially they who labor in the word and doctrine.</verse>
<verse osisID="1Tim.5.18">For the scripture says, You shall not muzzle the ox that treads out the corn. And, The laborer is worthy of his reward.</verse>
<verse osisID="1Tim.5.19">Against an elder receive not an accusation, but before two or three witnesses.</verse>
<verse osisID="1Tim.5.20">Them that sin rebuke before all, that others also may fear.</verse>
<verse osisID="1Tim.5.21">I charge you before God, and the Lord Jesus Christ, and the elect angels, that you observe these things without preferring one before another, doing nothing by partiality.</verse>
<verse osisID="1Tim.5.22">Lay hands suddenly on no man, neither be partaker of other men's sins: keep yourself pure.</verse>
<verse osisID="1Tim.5.23">Drink no longer only water, but use a little wine for your stomach's sake and your often infirmities.</verse>
<verse osisID="1Tim.5.24">Some men's sins are open beforehand, going before to judgment; and some men they follow after.</verse>
<verse osisID="1Tim.5.25">Likewise also the good works of some are manifest beforehand; and they that are otherwise cannot be hid.</verse>
</chapter>
<chapter osisID="1Tim.5.25">
<verse osisID="1Tim.6.1">Let as many servants as are under the yoke count their own masters worthy of all honor, that the name of God and his doctrine be not blasphemed.</verse>
<verse osisID="1Tim.6.2">And they that have believing masters, let them not despise them, because they are brothers; but rather do them service, because they are faithful and beloved, partakers of the benefit. These things teach and exhort.</verse>
<verse osisID="1Tim.6.3">If any man teach otherwise, and consent not to wholesome words, even the words of our Lord Jesus Christ, and to the doctrine which is according to godliness;</verse>
<verse osisID="1Tim.6.4">He is proud, knowing nothing, but doting about questions and strifes of words, whereof comes envy, strife, railings, evil surmisings,</verse>
<verse osisID="1Tim.6.5">Perverse disputings of men of corrupt minds, and destitute of the truth, supposing that gain is godliness: from such withdraw yourself.</verse>
<verse osisID="1Tim.6.6">But godliness with contentment is great gain.</verse>
<verse osisID="1Tim.6.7">For we brought nothing into this world, and it is certain we can carry nothing out.</verse>
<verse osisID="1Tim.6.8">And having food and clothing let us be therewith content.</verse>
<verse osisID="1Tim.6.9">But they that will be rich fall into temptation and a snare, and into many foolish and hurtful lusts, which drown men in destruction and perdition.</verse>
<verse osisID="1Tim.6.10">For the love of money is the root of all kinds of evil: which while some coveted after, they have erred from the faith, and pierced themselves through with many sorrows.</verse>
<verse osisID="1Tim.6.11">But you, O man of God, flee these things; and follow after righteousness, godliness, faith, love, patience, meekness.</verse>
<verse osisID="1Tim.6.12">Fight the good fight of faith, lay hold on eternal life, whereunto you are also called, and have professed a good profession before many witnesses.</verse>
<verse osisID="1Tim.6.13">I give you charge in the sight of God, who gives life to all things, and before Christ Jesus, who before Pontius Pilate witnessed a good confession;</verse>
<verse osisID="1Tim.6.14">That you keep this commandment without spot, unrebukable, until the appearing of our Lord Jesus Christ:</verse>
<verse osisID="1Tim.6.15">Which in his times he shall show, who is the blessed and only Potentate, the King of kings, and Lord of lords;</verse>
<verse osisID="1Tim.6.16">Who only has immortality, dwelling in the light which no man can approach unto; whom no man has seen, nor can see: to whom be honor and power everlasting. Amen.</verse>
<verse osisID="1Tim.6.17">Charge them that are rich in this world, that they be not high minded, nor trust in uncertain riches, but in the living God, who gives us richly all things to enjoy;</verse>
<verse osisID="1Tim.6.18">That they do good, that they be rich in good works, ready to distribute, willing to communicate;</verse>
<verse osisID="1Tim.6.19">Laying up in store for themselves a good foundation against the time to come, that they may lay hold on eternal life.</verse>
<verse osisID="1Tim.6.20">O Timothy, keep that which is committed to your trust, avoiding profane and vain babblings, and oppositions of science falsely so called:</verse>
<verse osisID="1Tim.6.21">Which some professing have erred concerning the faith. Grace be with you. Amen. </div></verse>
</chapter>
</div>
<div type="book" osisID="1Tim.5.25">
<chapter osisID="1Tim.6.21">
<verse osisID="2Tim.1.1">Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ by the will of God, according to the promise of life which is in Christ Jesus,</verse>
<verse osisID="2Tim.1.2">To Timothy, my dearly beloved son: Grace, mercy, and peace, from God the Father and Christ Jesus our Lord.</verse>
<verse osisID="2Tim.1.3">I thank God, whom I serve from my forefathers with pure conscience, that without ceasing I have remembrance of you in my prayers night and day;</verse>
<verse osisID="2Tim.1.4">Greatly desiring to see you, being mindful of your tears, that I may be filled with joy;</verse>
<verse osisID="2Tim.1.5">When I call to remembrance the unfeigned faith that is in you, which dwelled first in your grandmother Lois, and your mother Eunice; and I am persuaded that in you also.</verse>
<verse osisID="2Tim.1.6">Therefore I put you in remembrance that you stir up the gift of God, which is in you by the putting on of my hands.</verse>
<verse osisID="2Tim.1.7">For God has not given us the spirit of fear; but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind.</verse>
<verse osisID="2Tim.1.8">Be not you therefore ashamed of the testimony of our Lord, nor of me his prisoner: but be you partaker of the afflictions of the gospel according to the power of God;</verse>
<verse osisID="2Tim.1.9">Who has 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 the world began,</verse>
<verse osisID="2Tim.1.10">But is now made manifest by the appearing of our Saviour Jesus Christ, who has abolished death, and has brought life and immortality to light through the gospel:</verse>
<verse osisID="2Tim.1.11">Whereunto I am appointed a preacher, and an apostle, and a teacher of the Gentiles.</verse>
<verse osisID="2Tim.1.12">For the which cause I also suffer these things: nevertheless I am not ashamed: for I know whom I have believed, and am persuaded that he is able to keep that which I have committed unto him against that day.</verse>
<verse osisID="2Tim.1.13">Hold fast the form of sound words, which you have heard of me, in faith and love which is in Christ Jesus.</verse>
<verse osisID="2Tim.1.14">That good thing which was committed unto you keep by the Holy Ghost which dwells in us.</verse>
<verse osisID="2Tim.1.15">This you know, that all they which are in Asia be turned away from me; of whom are Phygellus and Hermogenes.</verse>
<verse osisID="2Tim.1.16">The Lord give mercy unto the house of Onesiphorus; for he often refreshed me, and was not ashamed of my chain:</verse>
<verse osisID="2Tim.1.17">But, when he was in Rome, he sought me out very diligently, and found me.</verse>
<verse osisID="2Tim.1.18">The Lord grant unto him that he may find mercy of the Lord in that day: and in how many things he ministered unto me at Ephesus, you know very well.</verse>
</chapter>
<chapter osisID="2Tim.1.18">
<verse osisID="2Tim.2.1">You therefore, my son, be strong in the grace that is in Christ Jesus.</verse>
<verse osisID="2Tim.2.2">And the things that you have heard of me among many witnesses, the same commit you to faithful men, who shall be able to teach others also.</verse>
<verse osisID="2Tim.2.3">You therefore endure hardness, as a good soldier of Jesus Christ.</verse>
<verse osisID="2Tim.2.4">No man that wars entangles himself with the affairs of this life; that he may please him who has chosen him to be a soldier.</verse>
<verse osisID="2Tim.2.5">And if a man also strive for masteries, yet is he not crowned, unless he strive lawfully.</verse>
<verse osisID="2Tim.2.6">The husbandman that labors must be first partaker of the fruits.</verse>
<verse osisID="2Tim.2.7">Consider what I say; and the Lord give you understanding in all things.</verse>
<verse osisID="2Tim.2.8">Remember that Jesus Christ of the seed of David was raised from the dead according to my gospel:</verse>
<verse osisID="2Tim.2.9">Wherein I suffer trouble, as an evil doer, even unto bonds; but the word of God is not bound.</verse>
<verse osisID="2Tim.2.10">Therefore I endure all things for the elect's sakes, that they may also obtain the salvation which is in Christ Jesus with eternal glory.</verse>
<verse osisID="2Tim.2.11">It is a faithful saying: For if we be dead with him, we shall also live with him:</verse>
<verse osisID="2Tim.2.12">If we suffer, we shall also reign with him: if we deny him, he also will deny us:</verse>
<verse osisID="2Tim.2.13">If we believe not, yet he abides faithful: he cannot deny himself.</verse>
<verse osisID="2Tim.2.14">Of these things put them in remembrance, charging them before the Lord that they strive not about words to no profit, but to the subverting of the hearers.</verse>
<verse osisID="2Tim.2.15">Study to show yourself approved unto God, a workman that needs not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth.</verse>
<verse osisID="2Tim.2.16">But shun profane and vain babblings: for they will increase unto more ungodliness.</verse>
<verse osisID="2Tim.2.17">And their word will eat as does a canker: of whom is Hymenaeus and Philetus;</verse>
<verse osisID="2Tim.2.18">Who concerning the truth have erred, saying that the resurrection is past already; and overthrow the faith of some.</verse>
<verse osisID="2Tim.2.19">Nevertheless the foundation of God stands sure, having this seal, The Lord knows them that are his. And, Let every one that names the name of Christ depart from iniquity.</verse>
<verse osisID="2Tim.2.20">But in a great house there are not only vessels of gold and of silver, but also of wood and of earth; and some to honor, and some to dishonor.</verse>
<verse osisID="2Tim.2.21">If a man therefore purge himself from these, he shall be a vessel unto honor, sanctified, and suitable for the master's use, and prepared unto every good work.</verse>
<verse osisID="2Tim.2.22">Flee also yethful lusts: but follow righteousness, faith, love, peace, with them that call on the Lord out of a pure heart.</verse>
<verse osisID="2Tim.2.23">But foolish and unlearned questions avoid, knowing that they do gender strifes.</verse>
<verse osisID="2Tim.2.24">And the servant of the Lord must not strive; but be gentle unto all men, apt to teach, patient,</verse>
<verse osisID="2Tim.2.25">In meekness instructing those that oppose themselves; if God perhaps will give them repentance to the acknowledging of the truth;</verse>
<verse osisID="2Tim.2.26">And that they may recover themselves out of the snare of the devil, who are taken captive by him at his will.</verse>
</chapter>
<chapter osisID="2Tim.2.26">
<verse osisID="2Tim.3.1">This know also, that in the last days perilous times shall come.</verse>
<verse osisID="2Tim.3.2">For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy,</verse>
<verse osisID="2Tim.3.3">Without natural affection, trucebreakers, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, despisers of those that are good,</verse>
<verse osisID="2Tim.3.4">Traitors, heady, highminded, lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God;</verse>
<verse osisID="2Tim.3.5">Having a form of godliness, but denying the power of it: from such turn away.</verse>
<verse osisID="2Tim.3.6">For of this sort are they which creep into houses, and lead captive silly women laden with sins, led away with different lusts,</verse>
<verse osisID="2Tim.3.7">Ever learning, and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth.</verse>
<verse osisID="2Tim.3.8">Now as Jannes and Jambres withstood Moses, so do these also resist the truth: men of corrupt minds, reprobate concerning the faith.</verse>
<verse osisID="2Tim.3.9">But they shall proceed no further: for their folly shall be manifest unto all men, as their's also was.</verse>
<verse osisID="2Tim.3.10">But you have fully known my doctrine, manner of life, purpose, faith, longsuffering, love, patience,</verse>
<verse osisID="2Tim.3.11">Persecutions, afflictions, which came unto me at Antioch, at Iconium, at Lystra; what persecutions I endured: but out of them all the Lord delivered me.</verse>
<verse osisID="2Tim.3.12">Yes, and all that will live godly in Christ Jesus shall suffer persecution.</verse>
<verse osisID="2Tim.3.13">But evil men and seducers shall wax worse and worse, deceiving, and being deceived.</verse>
<verse osisID="2Tim.3.14">But continue you in the things which you have learned and have been assured of, knowing of whom you have learned them;</verse>
<verse osisID="2Tim.3.15">And that from a child you have known the holy scriptures, which are able to make you wise unto salvation through faith which is in Christ Jesus.</verse>
<verse osisID="2Tim.3.16">All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness:</verse>
<verse osisID="2Tim.3.17">That the man of God may be perfect, thoroughly furnished unto all good works.</verse>
</chapter>
<chapter osisID="2Tim.3.17">
<verse osisID="2Tim.4.1">I charge you therefore before God, and the Lord Jesus Christ, who shall judge the quick and the dead at his appearing and his kingdom;</verse>
<verse osisID="2Tim.4.2">Preach the word; be instant in season, out of season; reprove, rebuke, exhort with all longsuffering and doctrine.</verse>
<verse osisID="2Tim.4.3">For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but after their own lusts shall they heap to themselves teachers, having itching ears;</verse>
<verse osisID="2Tim.4.4">And they shall turn away their ears from the truth, and shall be turned unto fables.</verse>
<verse osisID="2Tim.4.5">But watch you in all things, endure afflictions, do the work of an evangelist, make full proof of your ministry.</verse>
<verse osisID="2Tim.4.6">For I am now ready to be offered, and the time of my departure is at hand.</verse>
<verse osisID="2Tim.4.7">I have fought a good fight, I have finished my course, I have kept the faith:</verse>
<verse osisID="2Tim.4.8">Henceforth there is laid up for me a crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous judge, shall give me at that day: and not to me only, but unto all them also that love his appearing.</verse>
<verse osisID="2Tim.4.9">Do your diligence to come shortly unto me:</verse>
<verse osisID="2Tim.4.10">For Demas has forsaken me, having loved this present world, and is departed unto Thessalonica; Crescens to Galatia, Titus unto Dalmatia.</verse>
<verse osisID="2Tim.4.11">Only Luke is with me. Take Mark, and bring him with you: for he is profitable to me for the ministry.</verse>
<verse osisID="2Tim.4.12">And Tychicus have I sent to Ephesus.</verse>
<verse osisID="2Tim.4.13">The cloak that I left at Troas with Carpus, when you come, bring with you, and the books, but especially the parchments.</verse>
<verse osisID="2Tim.4.14">Alexander the coppersmith did me much evil: the Lord reward him according to his works:</verse>
<verse osisID="2Tim.4.15">Of whom be you ware also; for he has greatly withstood our words.</verse>
<verse osisID="2Tim.4.16">At my first answer no man stood with me, but all men forsook me: I pray God that it may not be laid to their charge.</verse>
<verse osisID="2Tim.4.17">Notwithstanding the Lord stood with me, and strengthened me; that by me the preaching might be fully known, and that all the Gentiles might hear: and I was delivered out of the mouth of the lion.</verse>
<verse osisID="2Tim.4.18">And the Lord shall deliver me from every evil work, and will preserve me unto his heavenly kingdom: to whom be glory forever and ever. Amen.</verse>
<verse osisID="2Tim.4.19">Salute Prisca and Aquila, and the household of Onesiphorus.</verse>
<verse osisID="2Tim.4.20">Erastus abode at Corinth: but Trophimus have I left at Miletum sick.</verse>
<verse osisID="2Tim.4.21">Do your diligence to come before winter. Eubulus greets you, and Pudens, and Linus, and Claudia, and all the brothers.</verse>
<verse osisID="2Tim.4.22">The Lord Jesus Christ be with your spirit. Grace be with you. Amen. </div></verse>
</chapter>
</div>
<div type="book" osisID="2Tim.3.17">
<chapter osisID="2Tim.4.22">
<verse osisID="Titus.1.1">Paul, a servant of God, and an apostle of Jesus Christ, according to the faith of God's elect, and the acknowledging of the truth which is after godliness;</verse>
<verse osisID="Titus.1.2">In hope of eternal life, which God, that cannot lie, promised before the world began;</verse>
<verse osisID="Titus.1.3">But has in due times manifested his word through preaching, which is committed unto me according to the commandment of God our Saviour;</verse>
<verse osisID="Titus.1.4">To Titus, mine own son after the common faith: Grace, mercy, and peace, from God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ our Saviour.</verse>
<verse osisID="Titus.1.5">For this cause left I you in Crete, that you should set in order the things that are wanting, and ordain elders in every city, as I had appointed you:</verse>
<verse osisID="Titus.1.6">If any be blameless, the husband of one wife, having faithful children not accused of riot or unruly.</verse>
<verse osisID="Titus.1.7">For a bishop must be blameless, as the steward of God; not self willed, not soon angry, not given to wine, no striker, not given to filthy lucre;</verse>
<verse osisID="Titus.1.8">But a lover of hospitality, a lover of good men, sober, just, holy, temperate;</verse>
<verse osisID="Titus.1.9">Holding fast the faithful word as he has been taught, that he may be able by sound doctrine both to exhort and to convince the opponents.</verse>
<verse osisID="Titus.1.10">For there are many unruly and vain talkers and deceivers, specially they of the circumcision:</verse>
<verse osisID="Titus.1.11">Whose mouths must be stopped, who subvert whole houses, teaching things which they ought not, for filthy lucre's sake.</verse>
<verse osisID="Titus.1.12">One of themselves, even a prophet of their own, said, The Cretians are always liars, evil beasts, slow bellies.</verse>
<verse osisID="Titus.1.13">This witness is true. Therefore rebuke them sharply, that they may be sound in the faith;</verse>
<verse osisID="Titus.1.14">Not giving heed to Jewish fables, and commandments of men, that turn from the truth.</verse>
<verse osisID="Titus.1.15">Unto the pure all things are pure: but unto them that are defiled and unbelieving is nothing pure; but even their mind and conscience is defiled.</verse>
<verse osisID="Titus.1.16">They profess that they know God; but in works they deny him, being abominable, and disobedient, and unto every good work reprobate.</verse>
</chapter>
<chapter osisID="Titus.1.16">
<verse osisID="Titus.2.1">But speak you the things which become sound doctrine:</verse>
<verse osisID="Titus.2.2">That the aged men be sober, grave, temperate, sound in faith, in love, in patience.</verse>
<verse osisID="Titus.2.3">The aged women likewise, that they be in behavior as becomes holiness, not false accusers, not given to much wine, teachers of good things;</verse>
<verse osisID="Titus.2.4">That they may teach the young women to be sober, to love their husbands, to love their children,</verse>
<verse osisID="Titus.2.5">To be discreet, chaste, keepers at home, good, obedient to their own husbands, that the word of God be not blasphemed.</verse>
<verse osisID="Titus.2.6">Young men likewise exhort to be sober minded.</verse>
<verse osisID="Titus.2.7">In all things showing yourself a pattern of good works: in doctrine showing uncorruptness, gravity, sincerity,</verse>
<verse osisID="Titus.2.8">Sound speech, that cannot be condemned; that he that is of the contrary part may be ashamed, having no evil thing to say of you.</verse>
<verse osisID="Titus.2.9">Exhort servants to be obedient unto their own masters, and to please them well in all things; not talking back;</verse>
<verse osisID="Titus.2.10">Not stealing, but showing all good fidelity; that they may adorn the doctrine of God our Saviour in all things.</verse>
<verse osisID="Titus.2.11">For the grace of God that brings salvation has appeared to all men,</verse>
<verse osisID="Titus.2.12">Teaching us that, denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, we should live soberly, righteously, and godly, in this present world;</verse>
<verse osisID="Titus.2.13">Looking for that blessed hope, and the glorious appearing of the great God and our Saviour Jesus Christ;</verse>
<verse osisID="Titus.2.14">Who gave himself for us, that he might redeem us from all iniquity, and purify unto himself a peculiar people, zealous of good works.</verse>
<verse osisID="Titus.2.15">These things speak, and exhort, and rebuke with all authority. Let no man despise you.</verse>
</chapter>
<chapter osisID="Titus.2.15">
<verse osisID="Titus.3.1">Put them in mind to be subject to principalities and powers, to obey magistrates, to be ready to every good work,</verse>
<verse osisID="Titus.3.2">To speak evil of no man, to be no brawlers, but gentle, showing all meekness unto all men.</verse>
<verse osisID="Titus.3.3">For we ourselves also were sometimes foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving different lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, and hating one another.</verse>
<verse osisID="Titus.3.4">But after that the kindness and love of God our Saviour toward man appeared,</verse>
<verse osisID="Titus.3.5">Not by works of righteousness which we have done, but according to his mercy he saved us, by the washing of regeneration, and renewing of the Holy Ghost;</verse>
<verse osisID="Titus.3.6">Which he shed on us abundantly through Jesus Christ our Saviour;</verse>
<verse osisID="Titus.3.7">That being justified by his grace, we should be made heirs according to the hope of eternal life.</verse>
<verse osisID="Titus.3.8">This is a faithful saying, and these things I will that you affirm constantly, that they which have believed in God might be careful to maintain good works. These things are good and profitable unto men.</verse>
<verse osisID="Titus.3.9">But avoid foolish questions, and genealogies, and contentions, and strivings about the law; for they are unprofitable and vain.</verse>
<verse osisID="Titus.3.10">A man that is a heretic after the first and second admonition reject;</verse>
<verse osisID="Titus.3.11">Knowing that he that is such is subverted, and sins, being condemned of himself.</verse>
<verse osisID="Titus.3.12">When I shall send Areemas unto you, or Tychicus, be diligent to come unto me to Nicopolis: for I have determined there to winter.</verse>
<verse osisID="Titus.3.13">Bring Zenas the lawyer and Apollos on their journey diligently, that nothing be wanting unto them.</verse>
<verse osisID="Titus.3.14">And let our's also learn to maintain good works for necessary uses, that they be not unfruitful.</verse>
<verse osisID="Titus.3.15">All that are with me salute you. Greet them that love us in the faith. Grace be with you all. Amen. </div></verse>
</chapter>
</div>
<div type="book" osisID="Titus.2.15">
<chapter osisID="Titus.3.15">
<verse osisID="Phlm.1.1">Paul, a prisoner of Jesus Christ, and Timothy our brother, unto Philemon our dearly beloved, and fellow laborer,</verse>
<verse osisID="Phlm.1.2">And to our beloved Apphia, and Archippus our fellow soldier, and to the church in your house:</verse>
<verse osisID="Phlm.1.3">Grace to you, and peace, from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.</verse>
<verse osisID="Phlm.1.4">I thank my God, making mention of you always in my prayers,</verse>
<verse osisID="Phlm.1.5">Hearing of your love and faith, which you have toward the Lord Jesus, and toward all saints;</verse>
<verse osisID="Phlm.1.6">That the communication of your faith may become effective by the acknowledging of every good thing which is in you in Christ Jesus.</verse>
<verse osisID="Phlm.1.7">For we have great joy and consolation in your love, because the insides of the saints are refreshed by you, brother.</verse>
<verse osisID="Phlm.1.8">Therefore, though I might be much bold in Christ to enjoin you that which is fitting,</verse>
<verse osisID="Phlm.1.9">yet for love's sake I rather beseech you, being such a one as Paul the aged, and now also a prisoner of Jesus Christ.</verse>
<verse osisID="Phlm.1.10">I beseech you for my son Onesimus, whom I have begotten in my bonds:</verse>
<verse osisID="Phlm.1.11">Which in time past was to you unprofitable, but now profitable to you and to me:</verse>
<verse osisID="Phlm.1.12">Whom I have sent again: you therefore receive him, that is, my own insides:</verse>
<verse osisID="Phlm.1.13">Whom I would have retained with me, that in your stead he might have ministered unto me in the bonds of the gospel:</verse>
<verse osisID="Phlm.1.14">But without your mind would I do nothing; that your benefit should not be as it were of necessity, but willingly.</verse>
<verse osisID="Phlm.1.15">For perhaps he therefore departed for a season, that you should receive him forever;</verse>
<verse osisID="Phlm.1.16">Not now as a servant, but above a servant, a brother beloved, specially to me, but how much more unto you, both in the flesh, and in the Lord?</verse>
<verse osisID="Phlm.1.17">If you count me therefore a partner, receive him as myself.</verse>
<verse osisID="Phlm.1.18">If he has wronged you, or owes you anything, put that on mine account;</verse>
<verse osisID="Phlm.1.19">I Paul have written it with my own hand, I will repay it: albeit I do not say to you how you owe unto me even your own self besides.</verse>
<verse osisID="Phlm.1.20">Yes, brother, let me have joy of you in the Lord: refresh my insides in the Lord.</verse>
<verse osisID="Phlm.1.21">Having confidence in your obedience I wrote unto you, knowing that you will also do more than I say.</verse>
<verse osisID="Phlm.1.22">But meanwhile prepare me also a lodging: for I trust that through your prayers I shall be given unto you.</verse>
<verse osisID="Phlm.1.23">There salute you Epaphras, my fellow prisoner in Christ Jesus;</verse>
<verse osisID="Phlm.1.24">Marcus, Aristarchus, Demas, Lucas, my fellow laborers.</verse>
<verse osisID="Phlm.1.25">The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with your spirit. Amen. </div></verse>
</chapter>
</div>
<div type="book" osisID="Titus.3.15">
<chapter osisID="Phlm.1.25">
<verse osisID="Heb.1.1">God, who at various times and in different manners spoke in time past unto the fathers by the prophets,</verse>
<verse osisID="Heb.1.2">Has in these last days spoken unto us by his Son, whom he has appointed heir of all things, by whom also he made the worlds;</verse>
<verse osisID="Heb.1.3">Who being the brightness of his glory, and the express image of his person, and upholding all things by the word of his power, when he had by himself purged our sins, sat down on the right hand of the Majesty on high:</verse>
<verse osisID="Heb.1.4">Being made so much better than the angels, as he has by inheritance obtained a more excellent name than they.</verse>
<verse osisID="Heb.1.5">For unto which of the angels said he at any time, You are my Son, this day have I begotten you? And again, I will be to him a Father, and he shall be to me a Son?</verse>
<verse osisID="Heb.1.6">And again, when he brings in the firstbegotten into the world, he says, And let all the angels of God worship him.</verse>
<verse osisID="Heb.1.7">And of the angels he says, Who makes his angels spirits, and his ministers a flame of fire.</verse>
<verse osisID="Heb.1.8">But unto the Son he says, Your throne, O God, is forever and ever: a scepter of righteousness is the scepter of your kingdom.</verse>
<verse osisID="Heb.1.9">You have loved righteousness, and hated iniquity; therefore God, even your God, has anointed you with the oil of gladness above your fellows.</verse>
<verse osisID="Heb.1.10">And, You, Lord, in the beginning have laid the foundation of the earth; and the heavens are the works of your hands:</verse>
<verse osisID="Heb.1.11">They shall perish; but you remain; and they all shall wax old as does a garment;</verse>
<verse osisID="Heb.1.12">And as a vesture shall you fold them up, and they shall be changed: but you are the same, and your years shall not fail.</verse>
<verse osisID="Heb.1.13">But to which of the angels said he at any time, Sit on my right hand, until I make your enemies your footstool?</verse>
<verse osisID="Heb.1.14">Are they not all ministering spirits, sent forth to minister for them who shall be heirs of salvation?</verse>
</chapter>
<chapter osisID="Heb.1.14">
<verse osisID="Heb.2.1">Therefore we ought to give the more earnest heed to the things which we have heard, lest at any time we should let them slip.</verse>
<verse osisID="Heb.2.2">For if the word spoken by angels was steadfast, and every transgression and disobedience received a just recompense of reward;</verse>
<verse osisID="Heb.2.3">How shall we escape, if we neglect so great salvation; which at the first began to be spoken by the Lord, and was confirmed unto us by them that heard him;</verse>
<verse osisID="Heb.2.4">God also bearing them witness, both with signs and wonders, and with different miracles, and gifts of the Holy Ghost, according to his own will?</verse>
<verse osisID="Heb.2.5">For unto the angels has he not put in subjection the world to come, whereof we speak.</verse>
<verse osisID="Heb.2.6">But one in a certain place testified, saying, What is man, that you are mindful of him? or the son of man that you visit him?</verse>
<verse osisID="Heb.2.7">You made him a little lower than the angels; you crowned him with glory and honor, and did set him over the works of your hands:</verse>
<verse osisID="Heb.2.8">You have put all things in subjection under his feet. For in that he put all in subjection under him, he left nothing that is not put under him. But now we see not yet all things put under him.</verse>
<verse osisID="Heb.2.9">But we see Jesus, who was made a little lower than the angels for the suffering of death, crowned with glory and honor; that he by the grace of God should taste death for every man.</verse>
<verse osisID="Heb.2.10">For it became him, for whom are all things, and by whom are all things, in bringing many sons unto glory, to make the captain of their salvation perfect through sufferings.</verse>
<verse osisID="Heb.2.11">For both he that sanctifies and they who are sanctified are all of one: for which cause he is not ashamed to call them brothers,</verse>
<verse osisID="Heb.2.12">Saying, I will declare your name unto my brothers, in the midst of the church will I sing praise unto you.</verse>
<verse osisID="Heb.2.13">And again, I will put my trust in him. And again, Behold I and the children which God has given me.</verse>
<verse osisID="Heb.2.14">Since the children are partakers of flesh and blood, he also himself likewise took part of the same; that through death he might destroy him that had the power of death, that is, the devil;</verse>
<verse osisID="Heb.2.15">And deliver them who through fear of death were all their lifetime subject to bondage.</verse>
<verse osisID="Heb.2.16">For truthfully he took not on him the nature of angels; but he took on him the seed of Abraham.</verse>
<verse osisID="Heb.2.17">Therefore in all things it was proper for him to be made like unto his brothers, that he might be a merciful and faithful high priest in things pertaining to God, to make reconciliation for the sins of the people.</verse>
<verse osisID="Heb.2.18">For in that he himself has suffered being tempted, he is able to help them that are tempted.</verse>
</chapter>
<chapter osisID="Heb.2.18">
<verse osisID="Heb.3.1">Therefore, holy brothers, partakers of the heavenly calling, consider the Apostle and High Priest of our profession, Christ Jesus;</verse>
<verse osisID="Heb.3.2">Who was faithful to him that appointed him, as also Moses was faithful in all his house.</verse>
<verse osisID="Heb.3.3">For this man was counted worthy of more glory than Moses, inasmuch as he who has builded the house has more honor than the house.</verse>
<verse osisID="Heb.3.4">For every house is builded by some man; but he that built all things is God.</verse>
<verse osisID="Heb.3.5">And Moses truthfully was faithful in all his house, as a servant, for a testimony of those things which were to be spoken after;</verse>
<verse osisID="Heb.3.6">But Christ as a son over his own house; whose house are we, if we hold fast the confidence and the rejoicing of the hope firm unto the end.</verse>
<verse osisID="Heb.3.7">Therefore (as the Holy Ghost says, Today if you will hear his voice,</verse>
<verse osisID="Heb.3.8">Harden not your hearts, as in the provocation, in the day of temptation in the wilderness:</verse>
<verse osisID="Heb.3.9">When your fathers tempted me, proved me, and saw my works forty years.</verse>
<verse osisID="Heb.3.10">Therefore I was grieved with that generation, and said, They do always err in their heart; and they have not known my ways.</verse>
<verse osisID="Heb.3.11">So I swore in my wrath, They shall not enter into my rest.)</verse>
<verse osisID="Heb.3.12">Take heed, brothers, lest there be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief, in departing from the living God.</verse>
<verse osisID="Heb.3.13">But exhort one another daily, while it is called Today; lest any of you be hardened through the deceitfulness of sin.</verse>
<verse osisID="Heb.3.14">For we are made partakers of Christ, if we hold the beginning of our confidence steadfast unto the end;</verse>
<verse osisID="Heb.3.15">While it is said, Today if you will hear his voice, harden not your hearts, as in the provocation.</verse>
<verse osisID="Heb.3.16">For some, when they had heard, did provoke: howbeit not all that came out of Egypt by Moses.</verse>
<verse osisID="Heb.3.17">But with whom was he grieved forty years? was it not with them that had sinned, whose carcasses fell in the wilderness?</verse>
<verse osisID="Heb.3.18">And to whom swore he that they should not enter into his rest, but to them that believed not?</verse>
<verse osisID="Heb.3.19">So we see that they could not enter in because of unbelief.</verse>
</chapter>
<chapter osisID="Heb.3.19">
<verse osisID="Heb.4.1">Let us therefore fear, lest, a promise being left us of entering into his rest, any of you should seem to come short of it.</verse>
<verse osisID="Heb.4.2">For unto us was the gospel preached, as well as unto them: but the word preached did not profit them, not being mixed with faith in them that heard it.</verse>
<verse osisID="Heb.4.3">For we which have believed do enter into rest, as he said, As I have sworn in my wrath, if they shall enter into my rest: although the works were finished from the foundation of the world.</verse>
<verse osisID="Heb.4.4">For he spoke in a certain place of the seventh day on this wise, And God did rest the seventh day from all his works.</verse>
<verse osisID="Heb.4.5">And in this place again, If they shall enter into my rest.</verse>
<verse osisID="Heb.4.6">Seeing therefore it remains that some must enter in it, and they to whom it was first preached entered not in because of unbelief:</verse>
<verse osisID="Heb.4.7">Again, he limits a certain day, saying in David, Today, after so long a time; as it is said, Today if you will hear his voice, harden not your hearts.</verse>
<verse osisID="Heb.4.8">For if Jesus had given them rest, then would he not afterward have spoken of another day.</verse>
<verse osisID="Heb.4.9">There remains therefore a rest to the people of God.</verse>
<verse osisID="Heb.4.10">For he that is entered into his rest, he also has ceased from his own works, as God did from his.</verse>
<verse osisID="Heb.4.11">Let us labor therefore to enter into that rest, lest any man fall after the same example of unbelief.</verse>
<verse osisID="Heb.4.12">For the word of God is quick, and powerful, and sharper than any two edged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart.</verse>
<verse osisID="Heb.4.13">Neither is there any creature that is not manifest in his sight: but all things are naked and opened unto the eyes of him with whom we have to do.</verse>
<verse osisID="Heb.4.14">Seeing then that we have a great high priest, that is passed into the heavens, Jesus the Son of God, let us hold fast our profession.</verse>
<verse osisID="Heb.4.15">For we have not a high priest which cannot be touched with the feeling of our infirmities; but was in all points tempted just as we are, yet without sin.</verse>
<verse osisID="Heb.4.16">Let us therefore come boldly unto the throne of grace, that we may obtain mercy, and find grace to help in time of need.</verse>
</chapter>
<chapter osisID="Heb.4.16">
<verse osisID="Heb.5.1">For every high priest taken from among men is ordained for men in things pertaining to God, that he may offer both gifts and sacrifices for sins:</verse>
<verse osisID="Heb.5.2">Who can have compassion on the ignorant, and on them that are out of the way; for that he himself also is compassed with infirmity.</verse>
<verse osisID="Heb.5.3">And by reason hereof he ought, as for the people, so also for himself, to offer for sins.</verse>
<verse osisID="Heb.5.4">And no man takes this honor unto himself, but he that is called of God, as was Aaron.</verse>
<verse osisID="Heb.5.5">So also Christ glorified not himself to be made a high priest; but he that said unto him, You are my Son, today have I begotten you.</verse>
<verse osisID="Heb.5.6">As he says also in another place, You are a priest forever after the order of Melchisedec.</verse>
<verse osisID="Heb.5.7">Who in the days of his flesh, when he had offered up prayers and supplications with strong crying and tears unto him that was able to save him from death, and was heard in that he feared;</verse>
<verse osisID="Heb.5.8">Though he were a Son, yet learned he obedience by the things which he suffered;</verse>
<verse osisID="Heb.5.9">And being made perfect, he became the author of eternal salvation unto all them that obey him;</verse>
<verse osisID="Heb.5.10">Called of God a high priest after the order of Melchisedec.</verse>
<verse osisID="Heb.5.11">Of whom we have many things to say, and hard to be uttered, seeing you are dull of hearing.</verse>
<verse osisID="Heb.5.12">For when for the time you ought to be teachers, you have need that one teach you again which be the first principles of the oracles of God; and have become such as have need of milk, and not of strong food.</verse>
<verse osisID="Heb.5.13">For every one that uses milk is unskillfully in the word of righteousness: for he is a babe.</verse>
<verse osisID="Heb.5.14">But strong food belongs to them that are of full age, even those who by reason of use have their senses exercised to discern both good and evil.</verse>
</chapter>
<chapter osisID="Heb.5.14">
<verse osisID="Heb.6.1">Therefore leaving the principles of the doctrine of Christ, let us go on unto perfection; not laying again the foundation of repentance from dead works, and of faith toward God,</verse>
<verse osisID="Heb.6.2">Of the doctrine of baptisms, and of laying on of hands, and of resurrection of the dead, and of eternal judgment.</verse>
<verse osisID="Heb.6.3">And this will we do, if God permit.</verse>
<verse osisID="Heb.6.4">For it is impossible for those who were once enlightened, and have tasted of the heavenly gift, and were made partakers of the Holy Ghost,</verse>
<verse osisID="Heb.6.5">And have tasted the good word of God, and the powers of the world to come,</verse>
<verse osisID="Heb.6.6">If they shall fall away, to renew them again unto repentance; seeing they crucify to themselves the Son of God afresh, and put him to an open shame.</verse>
<verse osisID="Heb.6.7">For the earth which drinks in the rain that comes often upon it, and brings forth herbs suitable for them by whom it is dressed, receives blessing from God:</verse>
<verse osisID="Heb.6.8">But that which bears thorns and briers is rejected, and is close unto cursing; whose end is to be burned.</verse>
<verse osisID="Heb.6.9">But, beloved, we are persuaded better things of you, and things that accompany salvation, though we thus speak.</verse>
<verse osisID="Heb.6.10">For God is not unrighteous to forget your work and labor of love, which you have showed toward his name, in that you have ministered to the saints, and do minister.</verse>
<verse osisID="Heb.6.11">And we desire that every one of you do show the same diligence to the full assurance of hope unto the end:</verse>
<verse osisID="Heb.6.12">That you be not slothful, but followers of them who through faith and patience inherit the promises.</verse>
<verse osisID="Heb.6.13">For when God made promise to Abraham, because he could swear by no greater, he swore by himself,</verse>
<verse osisID="Heb.6.14">Saying, Surely blessing I will bless you, and multiplying I will multiply you.</verse>
<verse osisID="Heb.6.15">And so, after he had patiently endured, he obtained the promise.</verse>
<verse osisID="Heb.6.16">For men truthfully swear by the greater: and an oath for confirmation is to them an end of all strife.</verse>
<verse osisID="Heb.6.17">Wherein God, willing more abundantly to show unto the heirs of promise the immutability of his counsel, confirmed it by an oath:</verse>
<verse osisID="Heb.6.18">That by two immutable things, in which it was impossible for God to lie, we might have a strong consolation, who have fled for refuge to lay hold upon the hope set before us:</verse>
<verse osisID="Heb.6.19">Which hope we have as an anchor of the soul, both sure and steadfast, and which enters into that within the veil;</verse>
<verse osisID="Heb.6.20">Where the forerunner is for us entered, even Jesus, made a high priest forever after the order of Melchisedec.</verse>
</chapter>
<chapter osisID="Heb.6.20">
<verse osisID="Heb.7.1">For this Melchisedec, king of Salem, priest of the most high God, who met Abraham returning from the slaughter of the kings, and blessed him;</verse>
<verse osisID="Heb.7.2">To whom also Abraham gave a tenth part of all; first being by interpretation King of righteousness, and after that also King of Salem, which is, King of peace;</verse>
<verse osisID="Heb.7.3">Without father, without mother, without descent, having neither beginning of days, nor end of life; but made like unto the Son of God; abides a priest continually.</verse>
<verse osisID="Heb.7.4">Now consider how great this man was, unto whom even the patriarch Abraham gave the tenth of the spoils.</verse>
<verse osisID="Heb.7.5">And truthfully they that are of the sons of Levi, who receive the office of the priesthood, have a commandment to take tithes of the people according to the law, that is, of their brothers, though they come out of the loins of Abraham:</verse>
<verse osisID="Heb.7.6">But he whose descent is not counted from them received tithes of Abraham, and blessed him that had the promises.</verse>
<verse osisID="Heb.7.7">And without all contradiction the less is blessed of the better.</verse>
<verse osisID="Heb.7.8">And here men that die receive tithes; but there he receives them, of whom it is witnessed that he lives.</verse>
<verse osisID="Heb.7.9">And as I may so say, Levi also, who receives tithes, paid tithes in Abraham.</verse>
<verse osisID="Heb.7.10">For he was yet in the loins of his father, when Melchisedec met him.</verse>
<verse osisID="Heb.7.11">If therefore perfection were by the Levitical priesthood, (for under it the people received the law,) what further need was there that another priest should rise after the order of Melchisedec, and not be called after the order of Aaron?</verse>
<verse osisID="Heb.7.12">For the priesthood being changed, there is made of necessity a change also of the law.</verse>
<verse osisID="Heb.7.13">For he of whom these things are spoken pertains to another tribe, of which no man gave attendance at the altar.</verse>
<verse osisID="Heb.7.14">For it is evident that our Lord sprang out of Juda; of which tribe Moses spoke nothing concerning priesthood.</verse>
<verse osisID="Heb.7.15">And it is yet far more evident: for that after the similitude of Melchisedec there arises another priest,</verse>
<verse osisID="Heb.7.16">Who is made, not after the law of a carnal commandment, but after the power of an endless life.</verse>
<verse osisID="Heb.7.17">For he testifies, You are a priest forever after the order of Melchisedec.</verse>
<verse osisID="Heb.7.18">For there is truthfully a disannulling of the commandment going before for the weakness and unprofitableness of it.</verse>
<verse osisID="Heb.7.19">For the law made nothing perfect, but the bringing in of a better hope did; by the which we draw close unto God.</verse>
<verse osisID="Heb.7.20">And inasmuch as not without an oath he was made priest:</verse>
<verse osisID="Heb.7.21">(For those priests were made without an oath; but this with an oath by him that said unto him, The Lord swore and will not repent, You are a priest forever after the order of Melchisedec:)</verse>
<verse osisID="Heb.7.22">By so much was Jesus made a surety of a better testament.</verse>
<verse osisID="Heb.7.23">And they truly were many priests, because they were not permitted to continue by reason of death:</verse>
<verse osisID="Heb.7.24">But this man, because he continues ever, has an unchangeable priesthood.</verse>
<verse osisID="Heb.7.25">Therefore he is able also to save them to the uttermost that come unto God by him, seeing he ever lives to make intercession for them.</verse>
<verse osisID="Heb.7.26">For such a high priest became us, who is holy, harmless, undefiled, separate from sinners, and made higher than the heavens;</verse>
<verse osisID="Heb.7.27">Who needs not daily, as those high priests, to offer up sacrifice, first for his own sins, and then for the people's: for this he did once, when he offered up himself.</verse>
<verse osisID="Heb.7.28">For the law makes men high priests which have infirmity; but the word of the oath, which was since the law, makes the Son, who is consecrated for evermore.</verse>
</chapter>
<chapter osisID="Heb.7.28">
<verse osisID="Heb.8.1">Now of the things which we have spoken this is the sum: We have such a high priest, who is set on the right hand of the throne of the Majesty in the heavens;</verse>
<verse osisID="Heb.8.2">A minister of the sanctuary, and of the true tabernacle, which the Lord pitched, and not man.</verse>
<verse osisID="Heb.8.3">For every high priest is ordained to offer gifts and sacrifices: therefore it is of necessity that this man have somewhat also to offer.</verse>
<verse osisID="Heb.8.4">For if he were on earth, he should not be a priest, seeing that there are priests that offer gifts according to the law:</verse>
<verse osisID="Heb.8.5">Who serve unto the example and shadow of heavenly things, as Moses was admonished of God when he was about to make the tabernacle: for, See, says he, that you make all things according to the pattern showed to you in the mount.</verse>
<verse osisID="Heb.8.6">But now has he obtained a more excellent ministry, by how much also he is the mediator of a better covenant, which was established upon better promises.</verse>
<verse osisID="Heb.8.7">For if that first covenant had been faultless, then should no place have been sought for the second.</verse>
<verse osisID="Heb.8.8">For finding fault with them, he says, Behold, the days come, says the Lord, when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah:</verse>
<verse osisID="Heb.8.9">Not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day when I took them by the hand to lead them out of the land of Egypt; because they continued not in my covenant, and I regarded them not, says the Lord.</verse>
<verse osisID="Heb.8.10">For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, says the Lord; I will put my laws into their mind, and write them in their hearts: and I will be to them a God, and they shall be to me a people:</verse>
<verse osisID="Heb.8.11">And they shall not teach every man his neighbor, and every man his brother, saying, Know the Lord: for all shall know me, from the least to the greatest.</verse>
<verse osisID="Heb.8.12">For I will be merciful to their unrighteousness, and their sins and their iniquities will I remember no more.</verse>
<verse osisID="Heb.8.13">In that he says, A new covenant, he has made the first old. Now that which decays and grows old is ready to vanish away.</verse>
</chapter>
<chapter osisID="Heb.8.13">
<verse osisID="Heb.9.1">Then truthfully the first covenant had also ordinances of divine service, and a worldly sanctuary.</verse>
<verse osisID="Heb.9.2">For there was a tabernacle made; the first, in which was the candlestick, and the table, and the showbread; which is called the sanctuary.</verse>
<verse osisID="Heb.9.3">And after the second veil, the tabernacle which is called the Holiest of all;</verse>
<verse osisID="Heb.9.4">Which had the golden censer, and the ark of the covenant overlaid round about with gold, in which was the golden pot that had manna, and Aaron's rod that budded, and the tables of the covenant;</verse>
<verse osisID="Heb.9.5">And over it the cherubims of glory shadowing the mercy seat; of which we cannot now speak particularly.</verse>
<verse osisID="Heb.9.6">Now when these things were thus ordained, the priests went always into the first tabernacle, accomplishing the service of God.</verse>
<verse osisID="Heb.9.7">But into the second went the high priest alone once every year, not without blood, which he offered for himself, and for the errors of the people:</verse>
<verse osisID="Heb.9.8">The Holy Ghost this signifying, that the way into the holiest of all was not yet made manifest, while as the first tabernacle was yet standing:</verse>
<verse osisID="Heb.9.9">Which was a figure for the time then present, in which were offered both gifts and sacrifices, that could not make him that did the service perfect, as pertaining to the conscience;</verse>
<verse osisID="Heb.9.10">Which stood only in foods and drinks, and different washings, and carnal ordinances, imposed on them until the time of reformation.</verse>
<verse osisID="Heb.9.11">But Christ being come a high priest of good things to come, by a greater and more perfect tabernacle, not made with hands, that is to say, not of this building;</verse>
<verse osisID="Heb.9.12">Neither by the blood of goats and calves, but by his own blood he entered in once into the holy place, having obtained eternal redemption for us.</verse>
<verse osisID="Heb.9.13">For if the blood of bulls and of goats, and the ashes of an heifer sprinkling the unclean, sanctifies to the purifying of the flesh:</verse>
<verse osisID="Heb.9.14">How much more shall the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without spot to God, purge your conscience from dead works to serve the living God?</verse>
<verse osisID="Heb.9.15">And for this cause he is the mediator of the new testament, that by means of death, for the redemption of the transgressions that were under the first testament, they which are called might receive the promise of eternal inheritance.</verse>
<verse osisID="Heb.9.16">For where a testament is, there must also of necessity be the death of the testator.</verse>
<verse osisID="Heb.9.17">For a testament is of force after men are dead: otherwise it is of no strength at all while the testator lives.</verse>
<verse osisID="Heb.9.18">Whereupon neither the first testament was dedicated without blood.</verse>
<verse osisID="Heb.9.19">For when Moses had spoken every precept to all the people according to the law, he took the blood of calves and of goats, with water, and scarlet wool, and hyssop, and sprinkled both the book, and all the people,</verse>
<verse osisID="Heb.9.20">Saying, This is the blood of the testament which God has enjoined unto you.</verse>
<verse osisID="Heb.9.21">Moreover he sprinkled with blood both the tabernacle, and all the vessels of the ministry.</verse>
<verse osisID="Heb.9.22">And almost all things are by the law purged with blood; and without shedding of blood is no remission.</verse>
<verse osisID="Heb.9.23">It was therefore necessary that the patterns of things in the heavens should be purified with these; but the heavenly things themselves with better sacrifices than these.</verse>
<verse osisID="Heb.9.24">For Christ is not entered into the holy places made with hands, which are the figures of the true; but into heaven itself, now to appear in the presence of God for us:</verse>
<verse osisID="Heb.9.25">Nor yet that he should offer himself often, as the high priest enters into the holy place every year with blood of others;</verse>
<verse osisID="Heb.9.26">For then must he often have suffered since the foundation of the world: but now once in the end of the world has he appeared to put away sin by the sacrifice of himself.</verse>
<verse osisID="Heb.9.27">And as it is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the judgment:</verse>
<verse osisID="Heb.9.28">So Christ was once offered to bear the sins of many; and unto them that look for him shall he appear the second time without sin unto salvation.</verse>
</chapter>
<chapter osisID="Heb.9.28">
<verse osisID="Heb.10.1">For the law having a shadow of good things to come, and not the very image of the things, can never with those sacrifices which they offered year by year continually make the comers thereunto perfect.</verse>
<verse osisID="Heb.10.2">For then would they not have ceased to be offered? because that the worshipers once purged should have had no more conscience of sins.</verse>
<verse osisID="Heb.10.3">But in those sacrifices there is a remembrance again made of sins every year.</verse>
<verse osisID="Heb.10.4">For it is not possible that the blood of bulls and of goats should take away sins.</verse>
<verse osisID="Heb.10.5">Therefore when he comes into the world, he says, Sacrifice and offering you would not, but a body have you prepared me:</verse>
<verse osisID="Heb.10.6">In burnt offerings and sacrifices for sin you have had no pleasure.</verse>
<verse osisID="Heb.10.7">Then said I, Lo, I come (in the volume of the book it is written of me,) to do your will, O God.</verse>
<verse osisID="Heb.10.8">Above when he said, Sacrifice and offering and burnt offerings and offering for sin you would not, neither had pleasure in it; which are offered by the law;</verse>
<verse osisID="Heb.10.9">Then said he, Lo, I come to do your will, O God. He takes away the first, that he may establish the second.</verse>
<verse osisID="Heb.10.10">By the which will we are sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all.</verse>
<verse osisID="Heb.10.11">And every priest stands daily ministering and offering oftentimes the same sacrifices, which can never take away sins:</verse>
<verse osisID="Heb.10.12">But this man, after he had offered one sacrifice for sins forever, sat down on the right hand of God;</verse>
<verse osisID="Heb.10.13">From now on expecting till his enemies be made his footstool.</verse>
<verse osisID="Heb.10.14">For by one offering he has perfected forever them that are sanctified.</verse>
<verse osisID="Heb.10.15">Whereof the Holy Ghost also is a witness to us: for after that he had said before,</verse>
<verse osisID="Heb.10.16">This is the covenant that I will make with them after those days, says the Lord, I will put my laws into their hearts, and in their minds will I write them;</verse>
<verse osisID="Heb.10.17">And their sins and iniquities will I remember no more.</verse>
<verse osisID="Heb.10.18">Now where remission of these is, there is no more offering for sin.</verse>
<verse osisID="Heb.10.19">Having therefore, brothers, boldness to enter into the holiest by the blood of Jesus,</verse>
<verse osisID="Heb.10.20">By a new and living way, which he has consecrated for us, through the veil, that is to say, his flesh;</verse>
<verse osisID="Heb.10.21">And having a high priest over the house of God;</verse>
<verse osisID="Heb.10.22">Let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience, and our bodies washed with pure water.</verse>
<verse osisID="Heb.10.23">Let us hold fast the profession of our faith without wavering; (for he is faithful that promised;)</verse>
<verse osisID="Heb.10.24">And let us consider one another to provoke unto love and to good works:</verse>
<verse osisID="Heb.10.25">Not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as the manner of some is; but exhorting one another: and so much the more, as you see the day approaching.</verse>
<verse osisID="Heb.10.26">For if we sin willfully after we have received the knowledge of the truth, there remains no more sacrifice for sins,</verse>
<verse osisID="Heb.10.27">But a certain fearful looking for of judgment and fiery indignation, which shall devour the adversaries.</verse>
<verse osisID="Heb.10.28">He that looked down upon Moses' law died without mercy under two or three witnesses:</verse>
<verse osisID="Heb.10.29">Of how much sorer punishment, suppose you, shall he be thought worthy, who has trodden under foot the Son of God, and has counted the blood of the covenant, with which he was sanctified, an unholy thing, and has done despite unto the Spirit of grace?</verse>
<verse osisID="Heb.10.30">For we know him that has said, Vengeance belongs unto me, I will recompense, says the Lord. And again, The Lord shall judge his people.</verse>
<verse osisID="Heb.10.31">It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God.</verse>
<verse osisID="Heb.10.32">But call to remembrance the former days, in which, after you were illuminated, you endured a great fight of afflictions;</verse>
<verse osisID="Heb.10.33">Partly, while you were made a gazingstock both by reproaches and afflictions; and partly, while you became companions of them that were so used.</verse>
<verse osisID="Heb.10.34">For you had compassion of me in my bonds, and took joyfully the plundering of your goods, knowing in yourselves that you have in heaven a better and an enduring substance.</verse>
<verse osisID="Heb.10.35">Cast not away therefore your confidence, which has great recompense of reward.</verse>
<verse osisID="Heb.10.36">For you have need of patience, that, after you have done the will of God, you might receive the promise.</verse>
<verse osisID="Heb.10.37">For yet a little while, and he that shall come will come, and will not tarry.</verse>
<verse osisID="Heb.10.38">Now the just shall live by faith: but if any man draw back, my soul shall have no pleasure in him.</verse>
<verse osisID="Heb.10.39">But we are not of them who draw back unto perdition; but of them that believe to the saving of the soul.</verse>
</chapter>
<chapter osisID="Heb.10.39">
<verse osisID="Heb.11.1">Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.</verse>
<verse osisID="Heb.11.2">For by it the elders obtained a good report.</verse>
<verse osisID="Heb.11.3">Through faith we understand that the worlds were framed by the word of God, so that things which are seen were not made of things which do appear.</verse>
<verse osisID="Heb.11.4">By faith Abel offered unto God a more excellent sacrifice than Cain, by which he obtained witness that he was righteous, God testifying of his gifts: and by it he being dead yet speaks.</verse>
<verse osisID="Heb.11.5">By faith Enoch was translated that he should not see death; and was not found, because God had translated him: for before his translation he had this testimony, that he pleased God.</verse>
<verse osisID="Heb.11.6">But without faith it is impossible to please him: for he that comes to God must believe that he is, and that he is a rewarder of them that diligently seek him.</verse>
<verse osisID="Heb.11.7">By faith Noah, being warned of God of things not seen as yet, moved with fear, prepared an ark to the saving of his house; by the which he condemned the world, and became heir of the righteousness which is by faith.</verse>
<verse osisID="Heb.11.8">By faith Abraham, when he was called to go out into a place which he should after receive for an inheritance, obeyed; and he went out, not knowing to where he went.</verse>
<verse osisID="Heb.11.9">By faith he sojourned in the land of promise, as in a strange country, dwelling in tabernacles with Isaac and Jacob, the heirs with him of the same promise:</verse>
<verse osisID="Heb.11.10">For he looked for a city which has foundations, whose builder and maker is God.</verse>
<verse osisID="Heb.11.11">Through faith also Sara herself received strength to conceive seed, and was delivered of a child when she was past age, because she judged him faithful who had promised.</verse>
<verse osisID="Heb.11.12">Therefore sprang there even of one, and him as good as dead, so many as the stars of the sky in multitude, and as the sand which is by the sea shore innumerable.</verse>
<verse osisID="Heb.11.13">These all died in faith, not having received the promises, but having seen them afar off, and were persuaded of them, and embraced them, and confessed that they were strangers and pilgrims on the earth.</verse>
<verse osisID="Heb.11.14">For they that say such things declare plainly that they seek a country.</verse>
<verse osisID="Heb.11.15">And truly, if they had been mindful of that country from where they came out, they might have had opportunity to have returned.</verse>
<verse osisID="Heb.11.16">But now they desire a better country, that is, a heavenly: therefore God is not ashamed to be called their God: for he has prepared for them a city.</verse>
<verse osisID="Heb.11.17">By faith Abraham, when he was tried, offered up Isaac: and he that had received the promises offered up his only begotten son,</verse>
<verse osisID="Heb.11.18">Of whom it was said, That in Isaac shall your seed be called:</verse>
<verse osisID="Heb.11.19">Accounting that God was able to raise him up, even from the dead; from whence also he received him in a figure.</verse>
<verse osisID="Heb.11.20">By faith Isaac blessed Jacob and Esau concerning things to come.</verse>
<verse osisID="Heb.11.21">By faith Jacob, when he was a dying, blessed both the sons of Joseph; and worshipped, leaning upon the top of his staff.</verse>
<verse osisID="Heb.11.22">By faith Joseph, when he died, made mention of the departing of the children of Israel; and gave commandment concerning his bones.</verse>
<verse osisID="Heb.11.23">By faith Moses, when he was born, was hid three months of his parents, because they saw he was a proper child; and they were not afraid of the king's commandment.</verse>
<verse osisID="Heb.11.24">By faith Moses, when he was come to years, refused to be called the son of Pharaoh's daughter;</verse>
<verse osisID="Heb.11.25">Choosing rather to suffer affliction with the people of God, than to enjoy the pleasures of sin for a season;</verse>
<verse osisID="Heb.11.26">Esteeming the reproach of Christ greater riches than the treasures in Egypt: for he had respect unto the recompense of the reward.</verse>
<verse osisID="Heb.11.27">By faith he forsook Egypt, not fearing the wrath of the king: for he endured, as seeing him who is invisible.</verse>
<verse osisID="Heb.11.28">Through faith he kept the passover, and the sprinkling of blood, lest he that destroyed the firstborn should touch them.</verse>
<verse osisID="Heb.11.29">By faith they passed through the Red sea as by dry land: which the Egyptians assaying to do were drowned.</verse>
<verse osisID="Heb.11.30">By faith the walls of Jericho fell down, after they were compassed about seven days.</verse>
<verse osisID="Heb.11.31">By faith the harlot Rahab perished not with them that believed not, when she had received the spies with peace.</verse>
<verse osisID="Heb.11.32">And what shall I more say? for the time would fail me to tell of Gedeon, and of Barak, and of Samson, and of Jephthae; of David also, and Samuel, and of the prophets:</verse>
<verse osisID="Heb.11.33">Who through faith subdued kingdoms, wrought righteousness, obtained promises, stopped the mouths of lions.</verse>
<verse osisID="Heb.11.34">Quenched the violence of fire, escaped the edge of the sword, out of weakness were made strong, grown valiant in fight, turned to flight the armies of the aliens.</verse>
<verse osisID="Heb.11.35">Women received their dead raised to life again: and others were tortured, not accepting deliverance; that they might obtain a better resurrection:</verse>
<verse osisID="Heb.11.36">And others had trial of cruel mockings and scourgings, yes, moreover of bonds and imprisonment:</verse>
<verse osisID="Heb.11.37">They were stoned, they were sawn asunder, were tempted, were slain with the sword: they wandered about in sheepskins and goatskins; being destitute, afflicted, tormented;</verse>
<verse osisID="Heb.11.38">(Of whom the world was not worthy:) they wandered in deserted places, and in mountains, and in dens and caves of the earth.</verse>
<verse osisID="Heb.11.39">And these all, having obtained a good report through faith, received not the promise:</verse>
<verse osisID="Heb.11.40">God having provided some better thing for us, that they without us should not be made perfect.</verse>
</chapter>
<chapter osisID="Heb.11.40">
<verse osisID="Heb.12.1">Therefore seeing we also are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which does so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us,</verse>
<verse osisID="Heb.12.2">Looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith; who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God.</verse>
<verse osisID="Heb.12.3">For consider him that endured such contradiction of sinners against himself, lest you be wearied and faint in your minds.</verse>
<verse osisID="Heb.12.4">You have not yet resisted unto blood, striving against sin.</verse>
<verse osisID="Heb.12.5">And you have forgotten the exhortation which speaks unto you as unto children, My son, despise not you the chastening of the Lord, nor faint when you are rebuked of him:</verse>
<verse osisID="Heb.12.6">For whom the Lord loves he chastens, and scourges every son whom he receives.</verse>
<verse osisID="Heb.12.7">If you endure chastening, God deals with you as with sons; for what son is he whom the father chastens not?</verse>
<verse osisID="Heb.12.8">But if you be without chastisement, whereof all are partakers, then are you bastards, and not sons.</verse>
<verse osisID="Heb.12.9">Furthermore we have had fathers of our flesh which corrected us, and we gave them respect: shall we not much rather be in subjection unto the Father of spirits, and live?</verse>
<verse osisID="Heb.12.10">For they truthfully for a few days chastened us after their own pleasure; but he for our profit, that we might be partakers of his holiness.</verse>
<verse osisID="Heb.12.11">Now no chastening for the present seems to be joyous, but grievous: nevertheless afterward it yields the peaceable fruit of righteousness unto those who are exercised thereby.</verse>
<verse osisID="Heb.12.12">Therefore lift up the hands which hang down, and the feeble knees;</verse>
<verse osisID="Heb.12.13">And make straight paths for your feet, lest that which is lame be turned out of the way; but let it rather be healed.</verse>
<verse osisID="Heb.12.14">Follow peace with all men, and holiness, without which no man shall see the Lord:</verse>
<verse osisID="Heb.12.15">Looking diligently lest any man fail of the grace of God; lest any root of bitterness springing up trouble you, and thereby many be defiled;</verse>
<verse osisID="Heb.12.16">Lest there be any fornicator, or profane person, as Esau, who for one morsel of food sold his birthright.</verse>
<verse osisID="Heb.12.17">For you know that afterward, when he would have inherited the blessing, he was rejected: for he found no place of repentance, though he sought it anxiously with tears.</verse>
<verse osisID="Heb.12.18">For you are not come unto the mount that might be touched, and that burned with fire, nor unto blackness, and darkness, and tempest,</verse>
<verse osisID="Heb.12.19">And the sound of a trumpet, and the voice of words; which voice they that heard entreated that the word should not be spoken to them any more:</verse>
<verse osisID="Heb.12.20">(For they could not endure that which was commanded, And if so much as a beast touch the mountain, it shall be stoned, or thrust through with a dart:</verse>
<verse osisID="Heb.12.21">And so terrible was the sight, that Moses said, I exceedingly fear and quake:)</verse>
<verse osisID="Heb.12.22">But you are come unto mount Sion, and unto the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to an innumerable company of angels,</verse>
<verse osisID="Heb.12.23">To the general assembly and church of the firstborn, which are written in heaven, and to God the Judge of all, and to the spirits of just men made perfect,</verse>
<verse osisID="Heb.12.24">And to Jesus the mediator of the new covenant, and to the blood of sprinkling, that speaks better things that that of Abel.</verse>
<verse osisID="Heb.12.25">See that you refuse not him that speaks. For if they escaped not who refused him that spoke on earth, much more shall not we escape, if we turn away from him that speaks from heaven:</verse>
<verse osisID="Heb.12.26">Whose voice then shook the earth: but now he has promised, saying, yet once more I shake not the earth only, but also heaven.</verse>
<verse osisID="Heb.12.27">And this word, yet once more, signifies the removing of those things that are shaken, as of things that are made, that those things which cannot be shaken may remain.</verse>
<verse osisID="Heb.12.28">Therefore we receiving a kingdom which cannot be moved, let us have grace, whereby we may serve God acceptably with respect and godly fear:</verse>
<verse osisID="Heb.12.29">For our God is a consuming fire.</verse>
</chapter>
<chapter osisID="Heb.12.29">
<verse osisID="Heb.13.1">Let brotherly love continue.</verse>
<verse osisID="Heb.13.2">Be not forgetful to entertain strangers: for thereby some have entertained angels unawares.</verse>
<verse osisID="Heb.13.3">Remember them that are in bonds, as bound with them; and them which suffer adversity, as being yourselves also in the body.</verse>
<verse osisID="Heb.13.4">Marriage is honorable in all, and the bed undefiled: but whoremongers and adulterers God will judge.</verse>
<verse osisID="Heb.13.5">Let your conduct be without covetousness; and be content with such things as you have: for he has said, I will never leave you, nor forsake you.</verse>
<verse osisID="Heb.13.6">So that we may boldly say, The Lord is my helper, and I will not fear what man shall do unto me.</verse>
<verse osisID="Heb.13.7">Remember those who have the rule over you, who have spoken unto you the word of God: whose faith follow, considering the end of their conduct.</verse>
<verse osisID="Heb.13.8">Jesus Christ the same yesterday, and today, and forever.</verse>
<verse osisID="Heb.13.9">Be not carried about with different and strange doctrines. For it is a good thing that the heart be established with grace; not with foods, which have not profited them that have been occupied in it.</verse>
<verse osisID="Heb.13.10">We have an altar, whereof they have no right to eat which serve the tabernacle.</verse>
<verse osisID="Heb.13.11">For the bodies of those beasts, whose blood is brought into the sanctuary by the high priest for sin, are burned outside the camp.</verse>
<verse osisID="Heb.13.12">Therefore Jesus also, that he might sanctify the people with his own blood, suffered outside the gate.</verse>
<verse osisID="Heb.13.13">Let us go forth therefore unto him outside the camp, bearing his reproach.</verse>
<verse osisID="Heb.13.14">For here have we no continuing city, but we seek one to come.</verse>
<verse osisID="Heb.13.15">By him therefore let us offer the sacrifice of praise to God continually, that is, the fruit of our lips giving thanks to his name.</verse>
<verse osisID="Heb.13.16">But to do good and to communicate forget not: for with such sacrifices God is well pleased.</verse>
<verse osisID="Heb.13.17">Obey them that have the rule over you, and submit yourselves: for they watch for your souls, as they that must give account, that they may do it with joy, and not with grief: for that is unprofitable for you.</verse>
<verse osisID="Heb.13.18">Pray for us: for we trust we have a good conscience, in all things willing to live honestly.</verse>
<verse osisID="Heb.13.19">But I beseech you the rather to do this, that I may be restored to you the sooner.</verse>
<verse osisID="Heb.13.20">Now the God of peace, that brought again from the dead our Lord Jesus, that great shepherd of the sheep, through the blood of the everlasting covenant,</verse>
<verse osisID="Heb.13.21">Make you perfect in every good work to do his will, working in you that which is well pleasing in his sight, through Jesus Christ; to whom be glory forever and ever. Amen.</verse>
<verse osisID="Heb.13.22">And I beseech you, brothers, suffer the word of exhortation: for I have written a letter unto you in few words.</verse>
<verse osisID="Heb.13.23">Know you that our brother Timothy is set at liberty; with whom, if he come shortly, I will see you.</verse>
<verse osisID="Heb.13.24">Salute all them that have the rule over you, and all the saints. They of Italy salute you.</verse>
<verse osisID="Heb.13.25">Grace be with you all. Amen. </div></verse>
</chapter>
</div>
<div type="book" osisID="Heb.12.29">
<chapter osisID="Heb.13.25">
<verse osisID="Jas.1.1">James, a servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ, to the twelve tribes which are scattered abroad, greeting.</verse>
<verse osisID="Jas.1.2">My brothers, count it all joy when you fall into different temptations;</verse>
<verse osisID="Jas.1.3">Knowing this, that the trying of your faith works patience.</verse>
<verse osisID="Jas.1.4">But let patience have her perfect work, that you may be perfect and entire, wanting nothing.</verse>
<verse osisID="Jas.1.5">If any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God, that gives to all men liberally, and upbraids not; and it shall be given him.</verse>
<verse osisID="Jas.1.6">But let him ask in faith, nothing wavering. For he that wavers is like a wave of the sea driven with the wind and tossed.</verse>
<verse osisID="Jas.1.7">For let not that man think that he shall receive any thing of the Lord.</verse>
<verse osisID="Jas.1.8">A double minded man is unstable in all his ways.</verse>
<verse osisID="Jas.1.9">Let the brother of low degree rejoice in that he is exalted:</verse>
<verse osisID="Jas.1.10">But the rich, in that he is made low: because as the flower of the grass he shall pass away.</verse>
<verse osisID="Jas.1.11">For the sun is no sooner risen with a burning heat, but it withers the grass, and the flower of it falls, and the grace of the fashion of it perishes: so also shall the rich man fade away in his ways.</verse>
<verse osisID="Jas.1.12">Blessed is the man that endures temptation: for when he is tried, he shall receive the crown of life, which the Lord has promised to them that love him.</verse>
<verse osisID="Jas.1.13">Let no man say when he is tempted, I am tempted of God: for God cannot be tempted with evil, neither tempts he any man:</verse>
<verse osisID="Jas.1.14">But every man is tempted, when he is drawn away of his own lust, and enticed.</verse>
<verse osisID="Jas.1.15">Then when lust has conceived, it brings forth sin: and sin, when it is finished, brings forth death.</verse>
<verse osisID="Jas.1.16">Do not err, my beloved brothers.</verse>
<verse osisID="Jas.1.17">Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and comes down from the Father of lights, with whom is no variableness, neither shadow of turning.</verse>
<verse osisID="Jas.1.18">Of his own will begat he us with the word of truth, that we should be a kind of first fruits of his creatures.</verse>
<verse osisID="Jas.1.19">Therefore, my beloved brothers, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath:</verse>
<verse osisID="Jas.1.20">For the wrath of man works not the righteousness of God.</verse>
<verse osisID="Jas.1.21">Therefore lay aside all filthiness and superfluity of naughtiness, and receive with meekness the engrafted word, which is able to save your souls.</verse>
<verse osisID="Jas.1.22">But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving your own selves.</verse>
<verse osisID="Jas.1.23">For if any be a hearer of the word, and not a doer, he is like unto a man beholding his natural face in a glass:</verse>
<verse osisID="Jas.1.24">For he beholds himself, and goes his way, and immediately forgets what manner of man he was.</verse>
<verse osisID="Jas.1.25">But whoever looks into the perfect law of liberty, and continues in it, he being not a forgetful hearer, but a doer of the work, this man shall be blessed in his deed.</verse>
<verse osisID="Jas.1.26">If any man among you seem to be religious, and bridles not his tongue, but deceives his own heart, this man's religion is vain.</verse>
<verse osisID="Jas.1.27">Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this, To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep himself unspotted from the world.</verse>
</chapter>
<chapter osisID="Jas.1.27">
<verse osisID="Jas.2.1">My brothers, have not the faith of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Lord of glory, with respect of persons.</verse>
<verse osisID="Jas.2.2">For if there come unto your assembly a man with a gold ring, in good apparel, and there come in also a poor man in vile clothing;</verse>
<verse osisID="Jas.2.3">And you have respect to him that wears the gay clothing, and say unto him, Sit you here in a good place; and say to the poor, Stand you there, or sit here under my footstool:</verse>
<verse osisID="Jas.2.4">Are you not then partial in yourselves, and have become judges of evil thoughts?</verse>
<verse osisID="Jas.2.5">Hearken, my beloved brothers, Has not God chosen the poor of this world rich in faith, and heirs of the kingdom which he has promised to them that love him?</verse>
<verse osisID="Jas.2.6">But you have looked down upon the poor. Do not rich men oppres you, and draw you before the judgment seats?</verse>
<verse osisID="Jas.2.7">Do not they blaspheme that worthy name by the which you are called?</verse>
<verse osisID="Jas.2.8">If you fulfill the royal law according to the scripture, You shall love your neighbor as yourself, you do well:</verse>
<verse osisID="Jas.2.9">But if you have respect to persons, you commit sin, and are convinced of the law as transgressors.</verse>
<verse osisID="Jas.2.10">For whosoever shall keep the whole law, and yet offend in one point, he is guilty of all.</verse>
<verse osisID="Jas.2.11">For he that said, Do not commit adultery, said also, Do not kill. Now if you commit no adultery, yet if you kill, you have become a transgressor of the law.</verse>
<verse osisID="Jas.2.12">So speak you, and so do, as they that shall be judged by the law of liberty.</verse>
<verse osisID="Jas.2.13">For he shall have judgment without mercy, that has showed no mercy; and mercy rejoices against judgment.</verse>
<verse osisID="Jas.2.14">What does it profit, my brothers, though a man say he has faith, and have not works? can faith save him?</verse>
<verse osisID="Jas.2.15">If a brother or sister be naked, and destitute of daily food,</verse>
<verse osisID="Jas.2.16">And one of you say unto them, Depart in peace, be warmed and filled; notwithstanding you give them not those things which are necessary to the body; what does it profit?</verse>
<verse osisID="Jas.2.17">Even so faith, if it has not works, is dead, being alone.</verse>
<verse osisID="Jas.2.18">Yes, a man may say, You have faith, and I have works: show me your faith without your works, and I will show you my faith by my works.</verse>
<verse osisID="Jas.2.19">You believe that there is one God; you are doing well: the devils also believe, and tremble.</verse>
<verse osisID="Jas.2.20">But will you know, O vain man, that faith without works is dead?</verse>
<verse osisID="Jas.2.21">Was not Abraham our father justified by works, when he had offered Isaac his son upon the altar?</verse>
<verse osisID="Jas.2.22">See you how faith wrought with his works, and by works was faith made perfect?</verse>
<verse osisID="Jas.2.23">And the scripture was fulfilled which says, Abraham believed God, and it was imputed unto him for righteousness: and he was called the Friend of God.</verse>
<verse osisID="Jas.2.24">You see then that by works a man is justified, and not by faith only.</verse>
<verse osisID="Jas.2.25">Likewise also was not Rahab the harlot justified by works, when she had received the messengers, and had sent them out another way?</verse>
<verse osisID="Jas.2.26">For as the body without the spirit is dead, so faith without works is dead also.</verse>
</chapter>
<chapter osisID="Jas.2.26">
<verse osisID="Jas.3.1">My brothers, be not many masters, knowing that we shall receive the greater condemnation.</verse>
<verse osisID="Jas.3.2">For in many things we offend all. If any man offend not in word, the same is a perfect man, and able also to bridle the whole body.</verse>
<verse osisID="Jas.3.3">Behold, we put bits in the horses' mouths, that they may obey us; and we turn about their whole body.</verse>
<verse osisID="Jas.3.4">Behold also the ships, which though they be so great, and are driven of fierce winds, yet are they turned about with a very small helm, wherever the governor desires.</verse>
<verse osisID="Jas.3.5">Even so the tongue is a little member, and boasts great things. Behold, how great a matter a little fire kindles!</verse>
<verse osisID="Jas.3.6">And the tongue is a fire, a world of iniquity: so is the tongue among our members, that it defiles the whole body, and sets on fire the course of nature; and it is set on fire of hell.</verse>
<verse osisID="Jas.3.7">For every kind of beasts, and of birds, and of serpents, and of things in the sea, is tamed, and has been tamed of mankind:</verse>
<verse osisID="Jas.3.8">But the tongue can no man tame; it is an unruly evil, full of deadly poison.</verse>
<verse osisID="Jas.3.9">Therewith bless we God, even the Father; and therewith curse we men, which are made after the similitude of God.</verse>
<verse osisID="Jas.3.10">Out of the same mouth proceeds blessing and cursing. My brothers, these things ought not so to be.</verse>
<verse osisID="Jas.3.11">Does a fountain send forth at the same place sweet water and bitter?</verse>
<verse osisID="Jas.3.12">Can the fig tree, my brothers, bear olive berries? either a vine, figs? so can no fountain both yield salt water and fresh.</verse>
<verse osisID="Jas.3.13">Who is a wise man and endued with knowledge among you? let him show out of a good conduct his works with meekness of wisdom.</verse>
<verse osisID="Jas.3.14">But if you have bitter envying and strife in your hearts, glory not, and lie not against the truth.</verse>
<verse osisID="Jas.3.15">This wisdom descends not from above, but is earthly, sensual, devilish.</verse>
<verse osisID="Jas.3.16">For where envying and strife is, there is confusion and every evil work.</verse>
<verse osisID="Jas.3.17">But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, and easy to be entreated, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality, and without hypocrisy.</verse>
<verse osisID="Jas.3.18">And the fruit of righteousness is sown in peace of them that make peace.</verse>
</chapter>
<chapter osisID="Jas.3.18">
<verse osisID="Jas.4.1">From whence come wars and fightings among you? come they not hence, even of your lusts that war in your members?</verse>
<verse osisID="Jas.4.2">You lust, and have not: you kill, and desire to have, and cannot obtain: you fight and war, yet you have not, because you ask not.</verse>
<verse osisID="Jas.4.3">You ask, and receive not, because you ask amiss, that you may consume it upon your lusts.</verse>
<verse osisID="Jas.4.4">You adulterers and adulteresses, do you not know that the friendship of the world is enmity with God? whosoever therefore will be a friend of the world is the enemy of God.</verse>
<verse osisID="Jas.4.5">Do you think that the scripture says in vain, The spirit that dwells in us lusts to envy?</verse>
<verse osisID="Jas.4.6">But he gives more grace. Therefore he says, God resists the proud, but gives grace unto the humble.</verse>
<verse osisID="Jas.4.7">Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.</verse>
<verse osisID="Jas.4.8">Draw close to God, and he will draw close to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners; and purify your hearts, you double minded.</verse>
<verse osisID="Jas.4.9">Be afflicted, and mourn, and weep: let your laughter be turned to mourning, and your joy to heaviness.</verse>
<verse osisID="Jas.4.10">Humble yourselves in the sight of the Lord, and he shall lift you up.</verse>
<verse osisID="Jas.4.11">Speak not evil one of another, brothers. He that speaks evil of his brother, and judges his brother, speaks evil of the law, and judges the law: but if you judge the law, you are not a doer of the law, but a judge.</verse>
<verse osisID="Jas.4.12">There is one lawgiver, who is able to save and to destroy: who are you that judges another?</verse>
<verse osisID="Jas.4.13">Go to now, you that say, Today or tomorrow we will go into such a city, and continue there a year, and buy and sell, and get gain:</verse>
<verse osisID="Jas.4.14">Whereas you know not what shall be on the next day. For what is your life? It is even a vapor, that appears for a little time, and then vanishes away.</verse>
<verse osisID="Jas.4.15">For that you ought to say, If the Lord will, we shall live, and do this, or that.</verse>
<verse osisID="Jas.4.16">But now you rejoice in your boastings: all such rejoicing is evil.</verse>
<verse osisID="Jas.4.17">Therefore to him that knows to do good, and does it not, to him it is sin.</verse>
</chapter>
<chapter osisID="Jas.4.17">
<verse osisID="Jas.5.1">Go to now, you rich men, weep and howl for your miseries that shall come upon you.</verse>
<verse osisID="Jas.5.2">Your riches are corrupted, and your garments are moth eaten.</verse>
<verse osisID="Jas.5.3">Your gold and silver is cankered; and the rust of them shall be a witness against you, and shall eat your flesh as it were fire. You have heaped treasure together for the last days.</verse>
<verse osisID="Jas.5.4">Behold, the hire of the laborers who have reaped down your fields, which is of you kept back by fraud, cries: and the cries of those who have reaped are entered into the ears of the Lord of sabaoth.</verse>
<verse osisID="Jas.5.5">You have lived in pleasure on the earth, and been wanton; you have nourished your hearts, as in a day of slaughter.</verse>
<verse osisID="Jas.5.6">You have condemned and killed the just; and he does not resist you.</verse>
<verse osisID="Jas.5.7">Be patient therefore, brothers, unto the coming of the Lord. Behold, the husbandman waits for the precious fruit of the earth, and has long patience for it, until he receive the early and latter rain.</verse>
<verse osisID="Jas.5.8">Be you also patient; establish your hearts: for the coming of the Lord draws close.</verse>
<verse osisID="Jas.5.9">Grudge not one against another, brothers, lest you be condemned: behold, the judge stands before the door.</verse>
<verse osisID="Jas.5.10">Take, my brothers, the prophets, who have spoken in the name of the Lord, for an example of suffering affliction, and of patience.</verse>
<verse osisID="Jas.5.11">Behold, we count them happy which endure. You have heard of the patience of Job, and have seen the end of the Lord; that the Lord is very pitiful, and of tender mercy.</verse>
<verse osisID="Jas.5.12">But above all things, my brothers, swear not, neither by heaven, neither by the earth, neither by any other oath: but let your yes be yes; and your no, no; lest you fall into condemnation.</verse>
<verse osisID="Jas.5.13">Is any among you afflicted? let him pray. Is any merry? let him sing psalms.</verse>
<verse osisID="Jas.5.14">Is any sick among you? let him call for the elders of the church; and let them pray over him, anointing him with oil in the name of the Lord:</verse>
<verse osisID="Jas.5.15">And the prayer of faith shall save the sick, and the Lord shall raise him up; and if he have committed sins, they shall be forgiven him.</verse>
<verse osisID="Jas.5.16">Confess your faults one to another, and pray one for another, that you may be healed. The fervent prayer of a righteous man is effective and has great strength.</verse>
<verse osisID="Jas.5.17">Elijah was a man subject to like passions as we are, and he prayed earnestly that it might not rain: and it rained not on the earth by the space of three years and six months.</verse>
<verse osisID="Jas.5.18">And he prayed again, and the heaven gave rain, and the earth brought forth her fruit.</verse>
<verse osisID="Jas.5.19">Brethren, if any of you do err from the truth, and one convert him;</verse>
<verse osisID="Jas.5.20">Let him know, that he which converts the sinner from the error of his way shall save a soul from death, and shall hide a multitude of sins. </div></verse>
</chapter>
</div>
<div type="book" osisID="Jas.4.17">
<chapter osisID="Jas.5.20">
<verse osisID="1Pet.1.1">Peter, an apostle of Jesus Christ, to the strangers scattered throughout Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia, Asia, and Bithynia,</verse>
<verse osisID="1Pet.1.2">Elect according to the foreknowledge of God the Father, through sanctification of the Spirit, unto obedience and sprinkling of the blood of Jesus Christ: Grace unto you, and peace, be multiplied.</verse>
<verse osisID="1Pet.1.3">Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, which according to his abundant mercy has begotten us again unto a lively hope by the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead,</verse>
<verse osisID="1Pet.1.4">To an inheritance incorruptible, and undefiled, and that fades not away, reserved in heaven for you,</verse>
<verse osisID="1Pet.1.5">Who are kept by the power of God through faith unto salvation ready to be revealed in the last time.</verse>
<verse osisID="1Pet.1.6">Wherein you greatly rejoice, though now for a season, if need be, you are in heaviness through manifold temptations:</verse>
<verse osisID="1Pet.1.7">That the trial of your faith, being much more precious than of gold that perishes, though it be tried with fire, might be found unto praise and honor and glory at the appearing of Jesus Christ:</verse>
<verse osisID="1Pet.1.8">Whom having not seen, you love; in whom, though now you see him not, yet believing, you rejoice with joy unspeakable and full of glory:</verse>
<verse osisID="1Pet.1.9">Receiving the end of your faith, even the salvation of your souls.</verse>
<verse osisID="1Pet.1.10">Of which salvation the prophets have inquired and searched diligently, who prophesied of the grace that should come unto you:</verse>
<verse osisID="1Pet.1.11">Searching what, or what manner of time the Spirit of Christ which was in them did signify, when it testified beforehand the sufferings of Christ, and the glory that should follow.</verse>
<verse osisID="1Pet.1.12">Unto whom it was revealed, that not unto themselves, but unto us they did minister the things, which are now reported unto you by them that have preached the gospel unto you with the Holy Ghost sent down from heaven; which things the angels desire to look into.</verse>
<verse osisID="1Pet.1.13">Therefore gird up the loins of your mind, be sober, and hope to the end for the grace that is to be brought unto you at the revelation of Jesus Christ;</verse>
<verse osisID="1Pet.1.14">As obedient children, not fashioning yourselves according to the former lusts in your ignorance:</verse>
<verse osisID="1Pet.1.15">But as he which has called you is holy, so be holy in all manner of conduct;</verse>
<verse osisID="1Pet.1.16">Because it is written, Be you holy; for I am holy.</verse>
<verse osisID="1Pet.1.17">And if you call on the Father, who without respect of persons judges according to every man's work, pass the time of your sojourning here in fear:</verse>
<verse osisID="1Pet.1.18">Since as you know that you were not redeemed with corruptible things, as silver and gold, from your vain conduct received by tradition from your fathers;</verse>
<verse osisID="1Pet.1.19">But with the precious blood of Christ, as of a lamb without blemish and without spot:</verse>
<verse osisID="1Pet.1.20">Who truthfully was foreordained before the foundation of the world, but was manifest in these last times for you,</verse>
<verse osisID="1Pet.1.21">Who by him do believe in God, that raised him up from the dead, and gave him glory; that your faith and hope might be in God.</verse>
<verse osisID="1Pet.1.22">Seeing you have purified your souls in obeying the truth through the Spirit unto unfeigned love of the brothers, see that you love one another with a pure heart fervently:</verse>
<verse osisID="1Pet.1.23">Being born again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, by the word of God, which lives and abides forever.</verse>
<verse osisID="1Pet.1.24">For all flesh is as grass, and all the glory of man as the flower of grass. The grass withers, and the flower of it falls away:</verse>
<verse osisID="1Pet.1.25">But the word of the Lord endures forever. And this is the word which by the gospel is preached unto you.</verse>
</chapter>
<chapter osisID="1Pet.1.25">
<verse osisID="1Pet.2.1">Therefore laying aside all malice, and all guile, and hypocrisies, and envies, all evil speakings,</verse>
<verse osisID="1Pet.2.2">As newborn babes, desire the sincere milk of the word, that you may grow thereby:</verse>
<verse osisID="1Pet.2.3">If so be you have tasted that the Lord is gracious.</verse>
<verse osisID="1Pet.2.4">To whom coming, as unto a living stone, disallowed indeed of men, but chosen of God, and precious,</verse>
<verse osisID="1Pet.2.5">You also, as lively stones, are built up a spiritual house, a holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices, acceptable to God by Jesus Christ.</verse>
<verse osisID="1Pet.2.6">Therefore also it is contained in the scripture, Behold, I lay in Sion a chief corner stone, elect, precious: and he that believes on him shall not be confounded.</verse>
<verse osisID="1Pet.2.7">Unto you therefore which believe he is precious: but unto them which be disobedient, the stone which the builders disallowed, the same is made the head of the corner,</verse>
<verse osisID="1Pet.2.8">And a stone of stumbling, and a rock of offenses, even to those who stumble at the word, being disobedient: whereunto also they were appointed.</verse>
<verse osisID="1Pet.2.9">But you are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a peculiar people; that you should show forth the praises of him who has called you out of darkness into his marvelous light;</verse>
<verse osisID="1Pet.2.10">Which in time past were not a people, but are now the people of God: which had not obtained mercy, but now have obtained mercy.</verse>
<verse osisID="1Pet.2.11">Dearly beloved, I beseech you as strangers and pilgrims, abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul;</verse>
<verse osisID="1Pet.2.12">Having your conduct honest among the Gentiles: that, whereas they speak against you as evildoers, they may by your good works, which they shall behold, glorify God in the day of visitation.</verse>
<verse osisID="1Pet.2.13">Submit yourselves to every ordinance of man for the Lord's sake: whether it be to the king, as supreme;</verse>
<verse osisID="1Pet.2.14">Or unto governors, as unto them that are sent by him for the punishment of evildoers, and for the praise of them that do well.</verse>
<verse osisID="1Pet.2.15">For so is the will of God, that with well doing you may put to silence the ignorance of foolish men:</verse>
<verse osisID="1Pet.2.16">As free, and not using your liberty for a cloak of maliciousness, but as the servants of God.</verse>
<verse osisID="1Pet.2.17">Honor all men. Love the brotherhood. Fear God. Honor the king.</verse>
<verse osisID="1Pet.2.18">Servants, be subject to your masters with all fear; not only to the good and gentle, but also to the forward.</verse>
<verse osisID="1Pet.2.19">For this is thank worthy, if a man for conscience toward God endure grief, suffering wrongfully.</verse>
<verse osisID="1Pet.2.20">For what glory is it, if, when you be buffeted for your faults, you shall take it patiently? but if, when you do well, and suffer for it, you take it patiently, this is acceptable with God.</verse>
<verse osisID="1Pet.2.21">For even hereunto were you called: because Christ also suffered for us, leaving us an example, that you should follow his steps:</verse>
<verse osisID="1Pet.2.22">Who did no sin, neither was guile found in his mouth:</verse>
<verse osisID="1Pet.2.23">Who, when he was reviled, reviled not again; when he suffered, he threatened not; but committed himself to him that judges righteously:</verse>
<verse osisID="1Pet.2.24">Who his own self bore our sins in his own body on the tree, that we, being dead to sins, should live unto righteousness: by whose stripes you were healed.</verse>
<verse osisID="1Pet.2.25">For you were as sheep going astray; but are now returned unto the Shepherd and Bishop of your souls.</verse>
</chapter>
<chapter osisID="1Pet.2.25">
<verse osisID="1Pet.3.1">Likewise, you wives, be in subjection to your own husbands; that, if any obey not the word, they also may without the word be won by the conduct of the wives;</verse>
<verse osisID="1Pet.3.2">While they behold your chaste conduct coupled with fear.</verse>
<verse osisID="1Pet.3.3">Whose adorning let it not be that outward adorning of plaiting the hair, and of wearing of gold, or of putting on of apparel;</verse>
<verse osisID="1Pet.3.4">But let it be the hidden man of the heart, in that which is not corruptible, even the ornament of a meek and quiet spirit, which is in the sight of God of great price.</verse>
<verse osisID="1Pet.3.5">For after this manner in the old time the holy women also, who trusted in God, adorned themselves, being in subjection unto their own husbands:</verse>
<verse osisID="1Pet.3.6">Just as Sara obeyed Abraham, calling him lord: whose daughters you are, as long as you do well, and are not afraid with any amazement.</verse>
<verse osisID="1Pet.3.7">Likewise, you husbands, dwell with them according to knowledge, giving honor unto the wife, as unto the weaker vessel, and as being heirs together of the grace of life; that your prayers be not hindered.</verse>
<verse osisID="1Pet.3.8">Finally, be you all of one mind, having compassion one of another, love as brothers, be pitiful, be courteous:</verse>
<verse osisID="1Pet.3.9">Not rendering evil for evil, or railing for railing: but contrariwise blessing; knowing that you are thereunto called, that you should inherit a blessing.</verse>
<verse osisID="1Pet.3.10">For he that will love life, and see good days, let him refrain his tongue from evil, and his lips that they speak no guile:</verse>
<verse osisID="1Pet.3.11">Let him shun evil, and do good; let him seek peace, and ensue it.</verse>
<verse osisID="1Pet.3.12">For the eyes of the Lord are over the righteous, and his ears are open unto their prayers: but the face of the Lord is against them that do evil.</verse>
<verse osisID="1Pet.3.13">And who is he that will harm you, if you be followers of that which is good?</verse>
<verse osisID="1Pet.3.14">But and if you suffer for righteousness' sake, happy are you: and be not afraid of their terror, neither be troubled;</verse>
<verse osisID="1Pet.3.15">But sanctify the Lord God in your hearts: and be ready always to give an answer to every man that asks you a reason of the hope that is in you with meekness and fear:</verse>
<verse osisID="1Pet.3.16">Having a good conscience; that, whereas they speak evil of you, as of evildoers, they may be ashamed that falsely accuse your good conduct in Christ.</verse>
<verse osisID="1Pet.3.17">For it is better, if the will of God be so, that you suffer for well doing, than for evil doing.</verse>
<verse osisID="1Pet.3.18">For Christ also has once suffered for sins, the just for the unjust, that he might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh, but given life by the Spirit:</verse>
<verse osisID="1Pet.3.19">By which also he went and preached unto the spirits in prison;</verse>
<verse osisID="1Pet.3.20">Which sometime were disobedient, when once the longsuffering of God waited in the days of Noah, while the ark was a preparing, in which few, that is, eight souls were saved by water.</verse>
<verse osisID="1Pet.3.21">The like figure whereunto even baptism does also now save us (not the putting away of the filth of the flesh, but the answer of a good conscience toward God,) by the resurrection of Jesus Christ:</verse>
<verse osisID="1Pet.3.22">Who is gone into heaven, and is on the right hand of God; angels and authorities and powers being made subject unto him.</verse>
</chapter>
<chapter osisID="1Pet.3.22">
<verse osisID="1Pet.4.1">Since Christ has suffered for us in the flesh, arm yourselves likewise with the same mind: for he that has suffered in the flesh has ceased from sin;</verse>
<verse osisID="1Pet.4.2">That he no longer should live the rest of his time in the flesh to the lusts of men, but to the will of God.</verse>
<verse osisID="1Pet.4.3">For the time past of our life may suffice us to have wrought the will of the Gentiles, when we walked in lasciviousness, lusts, excess of wine, revellings, banquetings, and abominable idolatries:</verse>
<verse osisID="1Pet.4.4">Wherein they think it strange that you run not with them to the same excess of riot, speaking evil of you:</verse>
<verse osisID="1Pet.4.5">Who shall give account to him that is ready to judge the quick and the dead.</verse>
<verse osisID="1Pet.4.6">For for this cause was the gospel preached also to them that are dead, that they might be judged according to men in the flesh, but live according to God in the spirit.</verse>
<verse osisID="1Pet.4.7">But the end of all things is at hand: be you therefore sober, and watch unto prayer.</verse>
<verse osisID="1Pet.4.8">And above all things have fervent love among yourselves: for love shall cover the multitude of sins.</verse>
<verse osisID="1Pet.4.9">Use hospitality one to another without grudging.</verse>
<verse osisID="1Pet.4.10">As every man has received the gift, even so minister the same one to another, as good stewards of the manifold grace of God.</verse>
<verse osisID="1Pet.4.11">If any man speak, let him speak as the oracles of God; if any man minister, let him do it as of the ability which God gives: that God in all things may be glorified through Jesus Christ, to whom be praise and dominion forever and ever. Amen.</verse>
<verse osisID="1Pet.4.12">Beloved, think it not strange concerning the fiery trial which is to try you, as though some strange thing happened unto you:</verse>
<verse osisID="1Pet.4.13">But rejoice, inasmuch as you are partakers of Christ's sufferings; that, when his glory shall be revealed, you may be glad also with exceeding joy.</verse>
<verse osisID="1Pet.4.14">If you be reproached for the name of Christ, happy are you; for the spirit of glory and of God rests upon you: on their part he is evil spoken of, but on your part he is glorified.</verse>
<verse osisID="1Pet.4.15">But let none of you suffer as a murderer, or as a thief, or as an evildoer, or as a busybody in other men's matters.</verse>
<verse osisID="1Pet.4.16">yet if any man suffer as a Christian, let him not be ashamed; but let him glorify God on this behalf.</verse>
<verse osisID="1Pet.4.17">For the time is come that judgment must begin at the house of God: and if it first begin at us, what shall the end be of them that obey not the gospel of God?</verse>
<verse osisID="1Pet.4.18">And if the righteous scarcely be saved, where shall the ungodly and the sinner appear?</verse>
<verse osisID="1Pet.4.19">Therefore let them that suffer according to the will of God commit the keeping of their souls to him in well doing, as unto a faithful Creator.</verse>
</chapter>
<chapter osisID="1Pet.4.19">
<verse osisID="1Pet.5.1">The elders which are among you I exhort, who am also an elder, and a witness of the sufferings of Christ, and also a partaker of the glory that shall be revealed:</verse>
<verse osisID="1Pet.5.2">Feed the flock of God which is among you, taking the oversight of it, not by constraint, but willingly; not for filthy lucre, but of a ready mind;</verse>
<verse osisID="1Pet.5.3">Neither as being lords over God's heritage, but being examples to the flock.</verse>
<verse osisID="1Pet.5.4">And when the chief Shepherd shall appear, you shall receive a crown of glory that fades not away.</verse>
<verse osisID="1Pet.5.5">Likewise, you younger, submit yourselves unto the elder. yes, all of you be subject one to another, and be clothed with humility: for God resists the proud, and gives grace to the humble.</verse>
<verse osisID="1Pet.5.6">Humble yourselves therefore under the mighty hand of God, that he may exalt you in due time:</verse>
<verse osisID="1Pet.5.7">Casting all your care upon him; for he cares for you.</verse>
<verse osisID="1Pet.5.8">Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walks about, seeking whom he may devour:</verse>
<verse osisID="1Pet.5.9">Whom resist steadfast in the faith, knowing that the same afflictions are accomplished in your brothers that are in the world.</verse>
<verse osisID="1Pet.5.10">But the God of all grace, who has called us unto his eternal glory by Christ Jesus, after you have suffered a while, make you perfect, establish, strengthen, settle you.</verse>
<verse osisID="1Pet.5.11">To him be glory and dominion forever and ever. Amen.</verse>
<verse osisID="1Pet.5.12">By Silvanus, a faithful brother unto you, as I suppose, I have written briefly, exhorting, and testifying that this is the true grace of God in which you stand.</verse>
<verse osisID="1Pet.5.13">The church that is at Babylon, elected together with you, salutes you; and so does Marcus my son.</verse>
<verse osisID="1Pet.5.14">Greet you one another with a kiss of love. Peace be with you all that are in Christ Jesus. Amen. </div></verse>
</chapter>
</div>
<div type="book" osisID="1Pet.4.19">
<chapter osisID="1Pet.5.14">
<verse osisID="2Pet.1.1">Simon Peter, a servant and an apostle of Jesus Christ, to them that have obtained like precious faith with us through the righteousness of God and our Saviour Jesus Christ:</verse>
<verse osisID="2Pet.1.2">Grace and peace be multiplied unto you through the knowledge of God, and of Jesus our Lord,</verse>
<verse osisID="2Pet.1.3">According as his divine power has given unto us all things that pertain unto life and godliness, through the knowledge of him that has called us to glory and virtue:</verse>
<verse osisID="2Pet.1.4">Whereby are given unto us exceedingly great and precious promises: that by these you might be partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust.</verse>
<verse osisID="2Pet.1.5">And beside this, giving all diligence, add to your faith virtue; and to virtue knowledge;</verse>
<verse osisID="2Pet.1.6">And to knowledge temperance; and to temperance patience; and to patience godliness;</verse>
<verse osisID="2Pet.1.7">And to godliness brotherly kindness; and to brotherly kindness love.</verse>
<verse osisID="2Pet.1.8">For if these things be in you, and abound, they make you that you shall neither be barren nor unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.</verse>
<verse osisID="2Pet.1.9">But he that lacks these things is blind, and cannot see afar off, and has forgotten that he was purged from his old sins.</verse>
<verse osisID="2Pet.1.10">Therefore instead, brothers, give diligence to make your calling and election sure: for if you do these things, you shall never fall:</verse>
<verse osisID="2Pet.1.11">For so an entrance shall be ministered unto you abundantly into the everlasting kingdom of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ.</verse>
<verse osisID="2Pet.1.12">Therefore I will not be negligent to put you always in remembrance of these things, though you know them, and be established in the present truth.</verse>
<verse osisID="2Pet.1.13">Yes, I think it suitable, as long as I am in this tabernacle, to stir you up by putting you in remembrance;</verse>
<verse osisID="2Pet.1.14">Knowing that shortly I must put off this my tabernacle, just as our Lord Jesus Christ has showed me.</verse>
<verse osisID="2Pet.1.15">Moreover I will endeavor that you may be able after my decease to have these things always in remembrance.</verse>
<verse osisID="2Pet.1.16">For we have not followed cunningly devised fables, when we made known unto you the power and coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, but were eyewitnesses of his majesty.</verse>
<verse osisID="2Pet.1.17">For he received from God the Father honor and glory, when there came such a voice to him from the excellent glory, This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased.</verse>
<verse osisID="2Pet.1.18">And this voice which came from heaven we heard, when we were with him in the holy mount.</verse>
<verse osisID="2Pet.1.19">We have also a more sure word of prophecy; whereunto you do well that you take heed, as unto a light that shines in a dark place, until the day dawn, and the day star arise in your hearts:</verse>
<verse osisID="2Pet.1.20">Knowing this first, that no prophecy of the scripture is of any private interpretation.</verse>
<verse osisID="2Pet.1.21">For the prophecy came not in old time by the will of man: but holy men of God spoke as they were moved by the Holy Ghost.</verse>
</chapter>
<chapter osisID="2Pet.1.21">
<verse osisID="2Pet.2.1">But there were false prophets also among the people, just as there shall be false teachers among you, who secretly shall bring in damnable heresies, even denying the Lord that bought them, and bring upon themselves swift destruction.</verse>
<verse osisID="2Pet.2.2">And many shall follow their pernicious ways; by reason of whom the way of truth shall be evil spoken of.</verse>
<verse osisID="2Pet.2.3">And through covetousness shall they with feigned words make merchandise of you: whose judgment now of a long time lingers not, and their damnation slumbers not.</verse>
<verse osisID="2Pet.2.4">For if God spared not the angels that sinned, but cast them down to hell, and delivered them into chains of darkness, to be reserved unto judgment;</verse>
<verse osisID="2Pet.2.5">And spared not the old world, but saved Noah the eighth person, a preacher of righteousness, bringing in the flood upon the world of the ungodly;</verse>
<verse osisID="2Pet.2.6">And turning the cities of Sodom and Gomorrha into ashes condemned them with an overthrow, making them an example unto those that after should live ungodly;</verse>
<verse osisID="2Pet.2.7">And delivered just Lot, vexed with the filthy conduct of the wicked:</verse>
<verse osisID="2Pet.2.8">(For that righteous man dwelling among them, in seeing and hearing, vexed his righteous soul from day to day with their unlawful deeds;)</verse>
<verse osisID="2Pet.2.9">The Lord knows how to deliver the godly out of temptations, and to reserve the unjust unto the day of judgment to be punished:</verse>
<verse osisID="2Pet.2.10">But chiefly them that walk after the flesh in the lust of uncleanness, and despise government. Presumptuous are they, self willed, they are not afraid to speak evil of dignities.</verse>
<verse osisID="2Pet.2.11">Whereas angels, which are greater in power and might, bring not railing accusation against them before the Lord.</verse>
<verse osisID="2Pet.2.12">But these, as natural brute beasts, made to be taken and destroyed, speak evil of the things that they understand not; and shall utterly perish in their own corruption;</verse>
<verse osisID="2Pet.2.13">And shall receive the reward of unrighteousness, as they that count it pleasure to riot in the day time. Spots they are and blemishes, sporting themselves with their own deceivings while they feast with you;</verse>
<verse osisID="2Pet.2.14">Having eyes full of adultery, and that cannot cease from sin; beguiling unstable souls: a heart they have exercised with covetous practices; cursed children:</verse>
<verse osisID="2Pet.2.15">Which have forsaken the right way, and are gone astray, following the way of Balaam the son of Bosor, who loved the wages of unrighteousness;</verse>
<verse osisID="2Pet.2.16">But was rebuked for his iniquity: the dumb ass speaking with man's voice forbad the anger of the prophet.</verse>
<verse osisID="2Pet.2.17">These are wells without water, clouds that are carried with a tempest; to whom the mist of darkness is reserved forever.</verse>
<verse osisID="2Pet.2.18">For when they speak great swelling words of vanity, they allure through the lusts of the flesh, through much wantonness, those that were clean escaped from them who live in error.</verse>
<verse osisID="2Pet.2.19">While they promise them liberty, they themselves are the servants of corruption: for of whom a man is overcome, of the same is he brought in bondage.</verse>
<verse osisID="2Pet.2.20">For if after they have escaped the pollutions of the world through the knowledge of the Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, they are again entangled in it, and overcome, the latter end is worse with them than the beginning.</verse>
<verse osisID="2Pet.2.21">For it had been better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than, after they have known it, to turn from the holy commandment delivered unto them.</verse>
<verse osisID="2Pet.2.22">But it is happened unto them according to the true proverb, The dog is turned to his own vomit again; and the sow that was washed to her wallowing in the mire.</verse>
</chapter>
<chapter osisID="2Pet.2.22">
<verse osisID="2Pet.3.1">This second letter, beloved, I now write unto you; in both which I stir up your pure minds by way of remembrance:</verse>
<verse osisID="2Pet.3.2">That you may be mindful of the words which were spoken before by the holy prophets, and of the commandment of us the apostles of the Lord and Saviour:</verse>
<verse osisID="2Pet.3.3">Knowing this first, that there shall come in the last days scoffers, walking after their own lusts,</verse>
<verse osisID="2Pet.3.4">And saying, Where is the promise of his coming? for since the fathers fell asleep, all things continue as they were from the beginning of the creation.</verse>
<verse osisID="2Pet.3.5">For this they willingly are ignorant of, that by the word of God the heavens were of old, and the earth standing out of the water and in the water:</verse>
<verse osisID="2Pet.3.6">Whereby the world that then was, being overflowed with water, perished:</verse>
<verse osisID="2Pet.3.7">But the heavens and the earth, which are now, by the same word are kept in store, reserved unto fire against the day of judgment and perdition of ungodly men.</verse>
<verse osisID="2Pet.3.8">But, beloved, be not ignorant of this one thing, that one day is with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.</verse>
<verse osisID="2Pet.3.9">The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness; but is longsuffering toward us, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance.</verse>
<verse osisID="2Pet.3.10">But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night; in the which the heavens shall pass away with a great noise, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat, the earth also and the works that are in it shall be burned up.</verse>
<verse osisID="2Pet.3.11">Seeing then that all these things shall be dissolved, what manner of persons ought you to be in all holy conduct and godliness,</verse>
<verse osisID="2Pet.3.12">Looking for and hasting unto the coming of the day of God, in which the heavens being on fire shall be dissolved, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat?</verse>
<verse osisID="2Pet.3.13">Nevertheless we, according to his promise, look for new heavens and a new earth, in which dwells righteousness.</verse>
<verse osisID="2Pet.3.14">Therefore, beloved, seeing that you look for such things, be diligent that you may be found of him in peace, without spot, and blameless.</verse>
<verse osisID="2Pet.3.15">And account that the longsuffering of our Lord is salvation; even as our beloved brother Paul also according to the wisdom given unto him has written unto you;</verse>
<verse osisID="2Pet.3.16">As also in all his letters, speaking in them of these things; in which are some things hard to be understood, which they that are unlearned and unstable wrest, as they do also the other scriptures, unto their own destruction.</verse>
<verse osisID="2Pet.3.17">You therefore, beloved, seeing you know these things before, beware lest you also, being led away with the error of the wicked, fall from your own steadfastness.</verse>
<verse osisID="2Pet.3.18">But grow in grace, and in the knowledge of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. To him be glory both now and forever. Amen. </div></verse>
</chapter>
</div>
<div type="book" osisID="2Pet.2.22">
<chapter osisID="2Pet.3.18">
<verse osisID="1John.1.1">That which was from the beginning, which we have heard, which we have seen with our eyes, which we have looked upon, and our hands have handled, of the Word of life;</verse>
<verse osisID="1John.1.2">(For the life was manifested, and we have seen it, and bear witness, and show unto you that eternal life, which was with the Father, and was manifested unto us;)</verse>
<verse osisID="1John.1.3">That which we have seen and heard declare we unto you, that you also may have fellowship with us: and truly our fellowship is with the Father, and with his Son Jesus Christ.</verse>
<verse osisID="1John.1.4">And these things write we unto you, that your joy may be full.</verse>
<verse osisID="1John.1.5">This then is the message which we have heard of him, and declare unto you, that God is light, and in him is no darkness at all.</verse>
<verse osisID="1John.1.6">If we say that we have fellowship with him, and walk in darkness, we lie, and do not the truth:</verse>
<verse osisID="1John.1.7">But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship one with another, and the blood of Jesus Christ his Son cleanses us from all sin.</verse>
<verse osisID="1John.1.8">If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.</verse>
<verse osisID="1John.1.9">If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.</verse>
<verse osisID="1John.1.10">If we say that we have not sinned, we make him a liar, and his word is not in us.</verse>
</chapter>
<chapter osisID="1John.1.10">
<verse osisID="1John.2.1">My little children, these things write I unto you, that you sin not. And if any man sin, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous:</verse>
<verse osisID="1John.2.2">And he is the propitiation for our sins: and not for our's only, but also for the sins of the whole world.</verse>
<verse osisID="1John.2.3">And hereby we do know that we know him, if we keep his commandments.</verse>
<verse osisID="1John.2.4">He that says, I know him, and keeps not his commandments, is a liar, and the truth is not in him.</verse>
<verse osisID="1John.2.5">But whoever keeps his word, in him truthfully is the love of God perfected: hereby know we that we are in him.</verse>
<verse osisID="1John.2.6">He that says he abides in him ought himself also so to walk, just as he walked.</verse>
<verse osisID="1John.2.7">Brethren, I write no new commandment unto you, but an old commandment which you had from the beginning. The old commandment is the word which you have heard from the beginning.</verse>
<verse osisID="1John.2.8">Again, a new commandment I write unto you, which thing is true in him and in you: because the darkness is past, and the true light now shines.</verse>
<verse osisID="1John.2.9">He that says he is in the light, and hates his brother, is in darkness even until now.</verse>
<verse osisID="1John.2.10">He that loves his brother abides in the light, and there is none occasion of stumbling in him.</verse>
<verse osisID="1John.2.11">But he that hates his brother is in darkness, and walks in darkness, and knows not to where he goes, because darkness has blinded his eyes.</verse>
<verse osisID="1John.2.12">I write unto you, little children, because your sins are forgiven you for his name's sake.</verse>
<verse osisID="1John.2.13">I write unto you, fathers, because you have known him that is from the beginning. I write unto you, young men, because you have overcome the wicked one. I write unto you, little children, because you have known the Father.</verse>
<verse osisID="1John.2.14">I have written unto you, fathers, because you have known him that is from the beginning. I have written unto you, young men, because you are strong, and the word of God abides in you, and you have overcome the wicked one.</verse>
<verse osisID="1John.2.15">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.</verse>
<verse osisID="1John.2.16">For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world.</verse>
<verse osisID="1John.2.17">And the world passes away, and the lust of it: but he that does the will of God abides forever.</verse>
<verse osisID="1John.2.18">Little children, it is the last time: and as you have heard that antichrist shall come, even now are there many antichrists; whereby we know that it is the last time.</verse>
<verse osisID="1John.2.19">They went out from us, but they were not of us; for if they had been of us, they would no doubt have continued with us: but they went out, that they might be made manifest that they were not all of us.</verse>
<verse osisID="1John.2.20">But you have an unction from the Holy One, and you know all things.</verse>
<verse osisID="1John.2.21">I have not written unto you because you know not the truth, but because you know it, and that no lie is of the truth.</verse>
<verse osisID="1John.2.22">Who is a liar but he that denies that Jesus is the Christ? He is antichrist, that denies the Father and the Son.</verse>
<verse osisID="1John.2.23">Whosoever denies the Son, the same has not the Father: he that acknowledges the Son has the Father also.</verse>
<verse osisID="1John.2.24">Let that therefore abide in you, which you have heard from the beginning. If that which you have heard from the beginning shall remain in you, you also shall continue in the Son, and in the Father.</verse>
<verse osisID="1John.2.25">And this is the promise that he has promised us, even eternal life.</verse>
<verse osisID="1John.2.26">These things have I written unto you concerning them that seduce you.</verse>
<verse osisID="1John.2.27">But the anointing which you have received of him abides in you, and you need not that any man teach you: but as the same anointing teaches you of all things, and is truth, and is no lie, and just as it has taught you, you shall abide in him.</verse>
<verse osisID="1John.2.28">And now, little children, abide in him; that, when he shall appear, we may have confidence, and not be ashamed before him at his coming.</verse>
<verse osisID="1John.2.29">If you know that he is righteous, you know that every one that does righteousness is born of him.</verse>
</chapter>
<chapter osisID="1John.2.29">
<verse osisID="1John.3.1">Behold, what manner of love the Father has bestowed upon us, that we should be called the sons of God: therefore the world knows us not, because it knew him not.</verse>
<verse osisID="1John.3.2">Beloved, now are we the sons of God, and it does not yet appear what we shall be: but we know that, when he shall appear, we shall be like him; for we shall see him as he is.</verse>
<verse osisID="1John.3.3">And every man that has this hope in him purifies himself, even as he is pure.</verse>
<verse osisID="1John.3.4">Whosoever commits sin transgresses also the law: for sin is the transgression of the law.</verse>
<verse osisID="1John.3.5">And you know that he was manifested to take away our sins; and in him is no sin.</verse>
<verse osisID="1John.3.6">Whosoever abides in him sins not: whosoever sins has not seen him, neither known him.</verse>
<verse osisID="1John.3.7">Little children, let no man deceive you: he that does righteousness is righteous, just as he is righteous.</verse>
<verse osisID="1John.3.8">He that commits sin is of the devil; for the devil sins from the beginning. For this purpose the Son of God was manifested, that he might destroy the works of the devil.</verse>
<verse osisID="1John.3.9">Whosoever is born of God does not commit sin; for his seed remains in him: and he cannot sin, because he is born of God.</verse>
<verse osisID="1John.3.10">In this the children of God are manifest, and the children of the devil: whosoever does not righteousness is not of God, neither he that loves not his brother.</verse>
<verse osisID="1John.3.11">For this is the message that you heard from the beginning, that we should love one another.</verse>
<verse osisID="1John.3.12">Not as Cain, who was of that wicked one, and slew his brother. And why slew he him? Because his own works were evil, and his brother's righteous.</verse>
<verse osisID="1John.3.13">Marvel not, my brothers, if the world hate you.</verse>
<verse osisID="1John.3.14">We know that we have passed from death unto life, because we love the brothers. He that loves not his brother abides in death.</verse>
<verse osisID="1John.3.15">Whosoever hates his brother is a murderer: and you know that no murderer has eternal life abiding in him.</verse>
<verse osisID="1John.3.16">Hereby perceive we the love of God, because he laid down his life for us: and we ought to lay down our lives for the brothers.</verse>
<verse osisID="1John.3.17">But whoever has this world's good, and sees his brother have need, and shuts up his insides of compassion from him, how dwells the love of God in him?</verse>
<verse osisID="1John.3.18">My little children, let us not love in word, neither in tongue; but in deed and in truth.</verse>
<verse osisID="1John.3.19">And hereby we know that we are of the truth, and shall assure our hearts before him.</verse>
<verse osisID="1John.3.20">For if our heart condemn us, God is greater than our heart, and knows all things.</verse>
<verse osisID="1John.3.21">Beloved, if our heart condemn us not, then have we confidence toward God.</verse>
<verse osisID="1John.3.22">And whatsoever we ask, we receive of him, because we keep his commandments, and do those things that are pleasing in his sight.</verse>
<verse osisID="1John.3.23">And this is his commandment, That we should believe on the name of his Son Jesus Christ, and love one another, as he gave us commandment.</verse>
<verse osisID="1John.3.24">And he that keeps his commandments dwells in him, and he in him. And hereby we know that he abides in us, by the Spirit which he has given us.</verse>
</chapter>
<chapter osisID="1John.3.24">
<verse osisID="1John.4.1">Beloved, believe not every spirit, but try the spirits whether they are of God: because many false prophets are gone out into the world.</verse>
<verse osisID="1John.4.2">Hereby know you the Spirit of God: Every spirit that confesses that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is of God:</verse>
<verse osisID="1John.4.3">And every spirit that confesses not that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is not of God: and this is that spirit of antichrist, whereof you have heard that it should come; and even now already is it in the world.</verse>
<verse osisID="1John.4.4">You are of God, little children, and have overcome them: because greater is he that is in you, than he that is in the world.</verse>
<verse osisID="1John.4.5">They are of the world: therefore speak they of the world, and the world hears them.</verse>
<verse osisID="1John.4.6">We are of God: he that knows God hears us; he that is not of God hears not us. Hereby know we the spirit of truth, and the spirit of error.</verse>
<verse osisID="1John.4.7">Beloved, let us love one another: for love is of God; and every one that loves is born of God, and knows God.</verse>
<verse osisID="1John.4.8">He that loves not knows not God; for God is love.</verse>
<verse osisID="1John.4.9">In this was manifested the love of God toward us, because God sent his only begotten Son into the world, that we might live through him.</verse>
<verse osisID="1John.4.10">Herein is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins.</verse>
<verse osisID="1John.4.11">Beloved, if God so loved us, we ought also to love one another.</verse>
<verse osisID="1John.4.12">No man has seen God at any time. If we love one another, God dwells in us, and his love is perfected in us.</verse>
<verse osisID="1John.4.13">Hereby know we that we dwell in him, and he in us, because he has given us of his Spirit.</verse>
<verse osisID="1John.4.14">And we have seen and do testify that the Father sent the Son to be the Saviour of the world.</verse>
<verse osisID="1John.4.15">Whosoever shall confess that Jesus is the Son of God, God dwells in him, and he in God.</verse>
<verse osisID="1John.4.16">And we have known and believed the love that God has to us. God is love; and he that dwells in love dwells in God, and God in him.</verse>
<verse osisID="1John.4.17">Herein is our love made perfect, that we may have boldness in the day of judgment: because as he is, so are we in this world.</verse>
<verse osisID="1John.4.18">There is no fear in love; but perfect love casts out fear: because fear has torment. He that fears is not made perfect in love.</verse>
<verse osisID="1John.4.19">We love him, because he first loved us.</verse>
<verse osisID="1John.4.20">If a man say, I love God, and hates his brother, he is a liar: for he that loves not his brother whom he has seen, how can he love God whom he has not seen?</verse>
<verse osisID="1John.4.21">And this commandment have we from him, That he who loves God love his brother also.</verse>
</chapter>
<chapter osisID="1John.4.21">
<verse osisID="1John.5.1">Whosoever believes that Jesus is the Christ is born of God: and every one that loves him that begat loves him also that is begotten of him.</verse>
<verse osisID="1John.5.2">By this we know that we love the children of God, when we love God, and keep his commandments.</verse>
<verse osisID="1John.5.3">For this is the love of God, that we keep his commandments: and his commandments are not grievous.</verse>
<verse osisID="1John.5.4">For whatsoever is born of God overcomes the world: and this is the victory that overcomes the world, even our faith.</verse>
<verse osisID="1John.5.5">Who is he that overcomes the world, but he that believes that Jesus is the Son of God?</verse>
<verse osisID="1John.5.6">This is he that came by water and blood, even Jesus Christ; not by water only, but by water and blood. And it is the Spirit that bears witness, because the Spirit is truth.</verse>
<verse osisID="1John.5.7">For there are three that bear record in heaven, the Father, the Word, and the Holy Ghost: and these three are one.</verse>
<verse osisID="1John.5.8">And there are three that bear witness in earth, the Spirit, and the water, and the blood: and these three agree in one.</verse>
<verse osisID="1John.5.9">If we receive the witness of men, the witness of God is greater: for this is the witness of God which he has testified of his Son.</verse>
<verse osisID="1John.5.10">He that believes on the Son of God has the witness in himself: he that believes not God has made him a liar; because he believes not the record that God gave of his Son.</verse>
<verse osisID="1John.5.11">And this is the record, that God has given to us eternal life, and this life is in his Son.</verse>
<verse osisID="1John.5.12">He that has the Son has life; and he that has not the Son of God has not life.</verse>
<verse osisID="1John.5.13">These things have I written unto you that believe on the name of the Son of God; that you may know that you have eternal life, and that you may believe on the name of the Son of God.</verse>
<verse osisID="1John.5.14">And this is the confidence that we have in him, that, if we ask any thing according to his will, he hears us:</verse>
<verse osisID="1John.5.15">And if we know that he hear us, whatsoever we ask, we know that we have the petitions that we desired of him.</verse>
<verse osisID="1John.5.16">If any man see his brother sin a sin which is not unto death, he shall ask, and he shall give him life for them that sin not unto death. There is a sin unto death: I do not say that he shall pray for it.</verse>
<verse osisID="1John.5.17">All unrighteousness is sin: and there is a sin not unto death.</verse>
<verse osisID="1John.5.18">We know that whosoever is born of God sins not; but he that is begotten of God keeps himself, and that wicked one touches him not.</verse>
<verse osisID="1John.5.19">And we know that we are of God, and the whole world lies in wickedness.</verse>
<verse osisID="1John.5.20">And we know that the Son of God is come, and has given us an understanding, that we may know him that is true, and we are in him that is true, even in his Son Jesus Christ. This is the true God, and eternal life.</verse>
<verse osisID="1John.5.21">Little children, keep yourselves from idols. Amen. </div></verse>
</chapter>
</div>
<div type="book" osisID="1John.4.21">
<chapter osisID="1John.5.21">
<verse osisID="2John.1.1">The elder unto the elect lady and her children, whom I love in the truth; and not I only, but also all they that have known the truth;</verse>
<verse osisID="2John.1.2">For the truth's sake, which dwells in us, and shall be with us forever.</verse>
<verse osisID="2John.1.3">Grace be with you, mercy, and peace, from God the Father, and from the Lord Jesus Christ, the Son of the Father, in truth and love.</verse>
<verse osisID="2John.1.4">I rejoiced greatly that I found of your children walking in truth, as we have received a commandment from the Father.</verse>
<verse osisID="2John.1.5">And now I beseech you, lady, not as though I wrote a new commandment unto you, but that which we had from the beginning, that we love one another.</verse>
<verse osisID="2John.1.6">And this is love, that we walk after his commandments. This is the commandment, That, as you have heard from the beginning, you should walk in it.</verse>
<verse osisID="2John.1.7">For many deceivers are entered into the world, who confess not that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh. This is a deceiver and an antichrist.</verse>
<verse osisID="2John.1.8">Look to yourselves, that we lose not those things which we have wrought, but that we receive a full reward.</verse>
<verse osisID="2John.1.9">Whosoever transgresses, and abides not in the doctrine of Christ, has not God. He that abides in the doctrine of Christ, he has both the Father and the Son.</verse>
<verse osisID="2John.1.10">If there come any unto you, and bring not this doctrine, receive him not into your house, neither bid him God speed:</verse>
<verse osisID="2John.1.11">For he that bids him God speed is partaker of his evil deeds.</verse>
<verse osisID="2John.1.12">Having many things to write unto you, I would not write with paper and ink: but I trust to come unto you, and speak face to face, that our joy may be full.</verse>
<verse osisID="2John.1.13">The children of your elect sister greet you. Amen. </div></verse>
</chapter>
</div>
<div type="book" osisID="1John.5.21">
<chapter osisID="2John.1.13">
<verse osisID="3John.1.1">The elder unto the wellbeloved Gaius, whom I love in the truth.</verse>
<verse osisID="3John.1.2">Beloved, I wish above all things that you may prosper and be in health, just as your soul prospers.</verse>
<verse osisID="3John.1.3">For I rejoiced greatly, when the brothers came and testified of the truth that is in you, just as you walk in the truth.</verse>
<verse osisID="3John.1.4">I have no greater joy than to hear that my children walk in truth.</verse>
<verse osisID="3John.1.5">Beloved, you are doing faithfully whatsoever you are doing to the brothers, and to strangers;</verse>
<verse osisID="3John.1.6">Which have borne witness of your love before the church: whom if you bring forward on their journey after a godly sort, you shall do well:</verse>
<verse osisID="3John.1.7">Because that for his name's sake they went forth, taking nothing of the Gentiles.</verse>
<verse osisID="3John.1.8">We therefore ought to receive such, that we might be fellow helpers to the truth.</verse>
<verse osisID="3John.1.9">I wrote unto the church: but Diotrephes, who loves to have the preeminence among them, receives us not.</verse>
<verse osisID="3John.1.10">Therefore, if I come, I will remember his deeds which he does, prating against us with malicious words: and not content therewith, neither does he himself receive the brothers, and forbids them that would, and casts them out of the church.</verse>
<verse osisID="3John.1.11">Beloved, follow not that which is evil, but that which is good. He that does good is of God: but he that does evil has not seen God.</verse>
<verse osisID="3John.1.12">Demetrius has good report of all men, and of the truth itself: yes, and we also bear record; and you know that our record is true.</verse>
<verse osisID="3John.1.13">I had many things to write, but I will not with ink and pen write unto you:</verse>
<verse osisID="3John.1.14">But I trust I shall shortly see you, and we shall speak face to face. Peace be to you. Our friends salute you. Greet the friends by name. </div></verse>
</chapter>
</div>
<div type="book" osisID="2John.1.13">
<chapter osisID="3John.1.14">
<verse osisID="Jude.1.1">Jude, the servant of Jesus Christ, and brother of James, to them that are sanctified by God the Father, and preserved in Jesus Christ, and called:</verse>
<verse osisID="Jude.1.2">Mercy unto you, and peace, and love, be multiplied.</verse>
<verse osisID="Jude.1.3">Beloved, when I gave all diligence to write unto you of the common salvation, it was necessary for me to write unto you, and exhort you that you should earnestly contend for the faith which was once delivered unto the saints.</verse>
<verse osisID="Jude.1.4">For there are certain men crept in unawares, who were before of old ordained to this condemnation, ungodly men, turning the grace of our God into lasciviousness, and denying the only Lord God, and our Lord Jesus Christ.</verse>
<verse osisID="Jude.1.5">I will therefore put you in remembrance, though you once knew this, that the Lord, having saved the people out of the land of Egypt, afterward destroyed them that believed not.</verse>
<verse osisID="Jude.1.6">And the angels which kept not their first estate, but left their own habitation, he has reserved in everlasting chains under darkness unto the judgment of the great day.</verse>
<verse osisID="Jude.1.7">Just as Sodom and Gomorrha, and the cities about them in like manner, giving themselves over to fornication, and going after strange flesh, are set forth for an example, suffering the vengeance of eternal fire.</verse>
<verse osisID="Jude.1.8">Likewise also these filthy dreamers defile the flesh, despise dominion, and speak evil of dignities.</verse>
<verse osisID="Jude.1.9">Yet Michael the archangel, when contending with the devil he disputed about the body of Moses, dared not bring against him a railing accusation, but said, The Lord rebuke you.</verse>
<verse osisID="Jude.1.10">But these speak evil of those things which they know not: but what they know naturally, as brute beasts, in those things they corrupt themselves.</verse>
<verse osisID="Jude.1.11">Woe unto them! for they have gone on the way of Cain, and ran greedily after the error of Balaam for reward, and perished in the opposing of Core.</verse>
<verse osisID="Jude.1.12">These are spots in your feasts of love, when they feast with you, feeding themselves without fear: clouds they are without water, carried about of winds; trees whose fruit withers, without fruit, twice dead, plucked up by the roots;</verse>
<verse osisID="Jude.1.13">Raging waves of the sea, foaming out their own shame; wandering stars, to whom is reserved the blackness of darkness forever.</verse>
<verse osisID="Jude.1.14">And Enoch also, the seventh from Adam, prophesied of these, saying, Behold, the Lord comes with ten thousands of his saints,</verse>
<verse osisID="Jude.1.15">To execute judgment upon all, and to convince all that are ungodly among them of all their ungodly deeds which they have ungodly committed, and of all their hard speeches which ungodly sinners have spoken against him.</verse>
<verse osisID="Jude.1.16">These are murmurers, complainers, walking after their own lusts; and their mouth speaks great swelling words, having men's persons in admiration because of advantage.</verse>
<verse osisID="Jude.1.17">But, beloved, remember you the words which were spoken before of the apostles of our Lord Jesus Christ;</verse>
<verse osisID="Jude.1.18">That they told you there should be mockers in the last time, who should walk after their own ungodly lusts.</verse>
<verse osisID="Jude.1.19">These be they who separate themselves, sensual, having not the Spirit.</verse>
<verse osisID="Jude.1.20">But you, beloved, building up yourselves on your most holy faith, praying in the Holy Ghost,</verse>
<verse osisID="Jude.1.21">Keep yourselves in the love of God, looking for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ unto eternal life.</verse>
<verse osisID="Jude.1.22">And of some have compassion, making a difference:</verse>
<verse osisID="Jude.1.23">And others save with fear, pulling them out of the fire; hating even the garment spotted by the flesh.</verse>
<verse osisID="Jude.1.24">Now unto him that is able to keep you from falling, and to present you faultless before the presence of his glory with exceeding joy,</verse>
<verse osisID="Jude.1.25">To the only wise God our Saviour, be glory and majesty, dominion and power, both now and ever. Amen. </div></verse>
</chapter>
</div>
<div type="book" osisID="3John.1.14">
<chapter osisID="Jude.1.25">
<verse osisID="Rev.1.1">The Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave unto him, to show unto his servants things which must shortly come to pass; and he sent and signified it by his angel unto his servant John:</verse>
<verse osisID="Rev.1.2">Who bore record of the word of God, and of the testimony of Jesus Christ, and of all things that he saw.</verse>
<verse osisID="Rev.1.3">Blessed is he that reads, and they that hear the words of this prophecy, and keep those things which are written in it: for the time is at hand.</verse>
<verse osisID="Rev.1.4">John to the seven churches which are in Asia: Grace be unto you, and peace, from him which is, and which was, and which is to come; and from the seven Spirits which are before his throne;</verse>
<verse osisID="Rev.1.5">And from Jesus Christ, who is the faithful witness, and the first begotten of the dead, and the prince of the kings of the earth. Unto him that loved us, and washed us from our sins in his own blood,</verse>
<verse osisID="Rev.1.6">And has made us kings and priests unto God and his Father; to him be glory and dominion forever and ever. Amen.</verse>
<verse osisID="Rev.1.7">Behold, he comes with clouds; and every eye shall see him, and they also which pierced him: and all kindreds of the earth shall wail because of him. Even so, Amen.</verse>
<verse osisID="Rev.1.8">I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the ending, says the Lord, which is, and which was, and which is to come, the Almighty.</verse>
<verse osisID="Rev.1.9">I John, who also am your brother, and companion in tribulation, and in the kingdom and patience of Jesus Christ, was in the isle that is called Patmos, for the word of God, and for the testimony of Jesus Christ.</verse>
<verse osisID="Rev.1.10">I was in the Spirit on the Lord's day, and heard behind me a great voice, as of a trumpet,</verse>
<verse osisID="Rev.1.11">Saying, I am Alpha and Omega, the first and the last: and, What you see, write in a book, and send it unto the seven churches which are in Asia; unto Ephesus, and unto Smyrna, and unto Pergamos, and unto Youratira, and unto Sardis, and unto Philadelphia, and unto Laodicea.</verse>
<verse osisID="Rev.1.12">And I turned to see the voice that spoke with me. And being turned, I saw seven golden candlesticks;</verse>
<verse osisID="Rev.1.13">And in the midst of the seven candlesticks one like unto the Son of man, clothed with a garment down to the foot, and girded about the chest with a golden girdle.</verse>
<verse osisID="Rev.1.14">His head and his hair was white like wool, as white as snow; and his eyes were as a flame of fire;</verse>
<verse osisID="Rev.1.15">And his feet like unto fine brass, as if they burned in a furnace; and his voice as the sound of many waters.</verse>
<verse osisID="Rev.1.16">And he had in his right hand seven stars: and out of his mouth went a sharp twoedged sword: and his countenance was as the sun shines in his strength.</verse>
<verse osisID="Rev.1.17">And when I saw him, I fell at his feet as dead. And he laid his right hand upon me, saying unto me, Fear not; I am the first and the last:</verse>
<verse osisID="Rev.1.18">I am he that lives, and was dead; and, behold, I am alive for evermore, Amen; and have the keys of hell and of death.</verse>
<verse osisID="Rev.1.19">Write the things which you have seen, and the things which are, and the things which shall be hereafter;</verse>
<verse osisID="Rev.1.20">The mystery of the seven stars which you saw in my right hand, and the seven golden candlesticks. The seven stars are the angels of the seven churches: and the seven candlesticks which you saw are the seven churches.</verse>
</chapter>
<chapter osisID="Rev.1.20">
<verse osisID="Rev.2.1">Unto the angel of the church of Ephesus write; These things says he that holds the seven stars in his right hand, who walks in the midst of the seven golden candlesticks;</verse>
<verse osisID="Rev.2.2">I know your works, and your labor, and your patience, and how you cannot bear those who are evil: and you have tried those who say they are apostles, and are not, and have found them liars:</verse>
<verse osisID="Rev.2.3">And have borne, and have patience, and for my name's sake have labored, and have not fainted.</verse>
<verse osisID="Rev.2.4">Nevertheless I have somewhat against you, because you have left your first love.</verse>
<verse osisID="Rev.2.5">Remember therefore from whence you are fallen, and repent, and do the first works; or else I will come unto you quickly, and will remove your candlestick out of his place, unless you repent.</verse>
<verse osisID="Rev.2.6">But this you have, that you hate the deeds of the Nicolaitanes, which I also hate.</verse>
<verse osisID="Rev.2.7">He that has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says unto the churches; To him that overcomes will I give to eat of the tree of life, which is in the midst of the paradise of God.</verse>
<verse osisID="Rev.2.8">And unto the angel of the church in Smyrna write; These things says the first and the last, which was dead, and is alive;</verse>
<verse osisID="Rev.2.9">I know your works, and tribulation, and poverty, (but you are rich) and I know the blasphemy of those who say they are Jews, and are not, but are the synagogue of Satan.</verse>
<verse osisID="Rev.2.10">Fear none of those things which you shall suffer: behold, the devil shall cast some of you into prison, that you may be tried; and you shall have tribulation ten days: be you faithful unto death, and I will give you a crown of life.</verse>
<verse osisID="Rev.2.11">He that has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says unto the churches; He that overcomes shall not be hurt of the second death.</verse>
<verse osisID="Rev.2.12">And to the angel of the church in Pergamos write; These things says he which has the sharp sword with two edges;</verse>
<verse osisID="Rev.2.13">I know your works, and where you dwell, even where Satan's seat is: and you hold fast my name, and have not denied my faith, even in those days in which Antipas was my faithful martyr, who was slain among you, where Satan dwells.</verse>
<verse osisID="Rev.2.14">But I have a few things against you, because you have there them that hold the doctrine of Balaam, who taught Balac to cast a stumbling block before the children of Israel, to eat things sacrificed unto idols, and to commit fornication.</verse>
<verse osisID="Rev.2.15">So have you also them that hold the doctrine of the Nicolaitanes, which thing I hate.</verse>
<verse osisID="Rev.2.16">Repent; or else I will come unto you quickly, and will fight against them with the sword of my mouth.</verse>
<verse osisID="Rev.2.17">He that has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says unto the churches; To him that overcomes will I give to eat of the hidden manna, and will give him a white stone, and in the stone a new name written, which no man knows saving he that receives it.</verse>
<verse osisID="Rev.2.18">And unto the angel of the church in Youratira write; These things says the Son of God, who has his eyes like unto a flame of fire, and his feet are like fine brass;</verse>
<verse osisID="Rev.2.19">I know your works, and love, and service, and faith, and your patience, and your works; and the last to be more than the first.</verse>
<verse osisID="Rev.2.20">Notwithstanding I have a few things against you, because you permitted that woman Jezebel, who calls herself a prophetess, to teach and to seduce my servants to commit fornication, and to eat things sacrificed unto idols.</verse>
<verse osisID="Rev.2.21">And I gave her space to repent of her fornication; and she repented not.</verse>
<verse osisID="Rev.2.22">Behold, I will cast her into a bed, and them that commit adultery with her into great tribulation, unless they repent of their deeds.</verse>
<verse osisID="Rev.2.23">And I will kill her children with death; and all the churches shall know that I am he which searches the reins and hearts: and I will give unto every one of you according to your works.</verse>
<verse osisID="Rev.2.24">But unto you I say, and unto the rest in Thyatira, as many as have not this doctrine, and which have not known the depths of Satan, as they speak; I will put upon you none other burden.</verse>
<verse osisID="Rev.2.25">But that which you have already hold fast till I come.</verse>
<verse osisID="Rev.2.26">And he that overcomes, and keeps my works unto the end, to him will I give power over the nations:</verse>
<verse osisID="Rev.2.27">And he shall rule them with a rod of iron; as the vessels of a potter shall they be broken to shivers: just as I received of my Father.</verse>
<verse osisID="Rev.2.28">And I will give him the morning star.</verse>
<verse osisID="Rev.2.29">He that has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says unto the churches.</verse>
</chapter>
<chapter osisID="Rev.2.29">
<verse osisID="Rev.3.1">And unto the angel of the church in Sardis write; These things says he that has the seven Spirits of God, and the seven stars; I know your works, that you have a name that you live, and are dead.</verse>
<verse osisID="Rev.3.2">Be watchful, and strengthen the things which remain, that are ready to die: for I have not found your works perfect before God.</verse>
<verse osisID="Rev.3.3">Remember therefore how you have received and heard, and hold fast, and repent. If therefore you shall not watch, I will come on you as a thief, and you shall not know what hour I will come upon you.</verse>
<verse osisID="Rev.3.4">You have a few names even in Sardis which have not defiled their garments; and they shall walk with me in white: for they are worthy.</verse>
<verse osisID="Rev.3.5">He that overcomes, the same shall be clothed in white clothing; and I will not blot out his name out of the book of life, but I will confess his name before my Father, and before his angels.</verse>
<verse osisID="Rev.3.6">He that has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says unto the churches.</verse>
<verse osisID="Rev.3.7">And to the angel of the church in Philadelphia write; These things says he that is holy, he that is true, he that has the key of David, he that opens, and no man shuts; and shuts, and no man opens;</verse>
<verse osisID="Rev.3.8">I know your works: behold, I have set before you an open door, and no man can shut it: for you have a little strength, and have kept my word, and have not denied my name.</verse>
<verse osisID="Rev.3.9">Behold, I will make them of the synagogue of Satan, which say they are Jews, and are not, but do lie; behold, I will make them to come and worship before your feet, and to know that I have loved you.</verse>
<verse osisID="Rev.3.10">Because you have kept the word of my patience, I also will keep you from the hour of temptation, which shall come upon all the world, to try them that dwell upon the earth.</verse>
<verse osisID="Rev.3.11">Behold, I come quickly: hold that fast which you have, that no man take your crown.</verse>
<verse osisID="Rev.3.12">Him that overcomes will I make a pillar in the temple of my God, and he shall go no more out: and I will write upon him the name of my God, and the name of the city of my God, which is new Jerusalem, which comes down out of heaven from my God: and I will write upon him my new name.</verse>
<verse osisID="Rev.3.13">He that has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says unto the churches.</verse>
<verse osisID="Rev.3.14">And unto the angel of the church of the Laodiceans write; These things says the Amen, the faithful and true witness, the beginning of the creation of God;</verse>
<verse osisID="Rev.3.15">I know your works, that you are neither cold nor hot: I would you wert cold or hot.</verse>
<verse osisID="Rev.3.16">So then because you are lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I will spew you out of my mouth.</verse>
<verse osisID="Rev.3.17">Because you say, I am rich, and increased with goods, and have need of nothing; and know not that you are wretched, and miserable, and poor, and blind, and naked:</verse>
<verse osisID="Rev.3.18">I counsel you to buy of me gold tried in the fire, that you may be rich; and white clothing, that you may be clothed, and that the shame of your nakedness do not appear; and anoint your eyes with eye salve, that you may see.</verse>
<verse osisID="Rev.3.19">As many as I love, I rebuke and chasten: be zealous therefore, and repent.</verse>
<verse osisID="Rev.3.20">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.</verse>
<verse osisID="Rev.3.21">To him that overcomes will I grant to sit with me in my throne, just as I also overcame, and am set down with my Father in his throne.</verse>
<verse osisID="Rev.3.22">He that has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says unto the churches.</verse>
</chapter>
<chapter osisID="Rev.3.22">
<verse osisID="Rev.4.1">After this I looked, and, behold, a door was opened in heaven: and the first voice which I heard was as it were of a trumpet talking with me; which said, Come up to here, and I will show you things which must be hereafter.</verse>
<verse osisID="Rev.4.2">And immediately I was in the spirit: and, behold, a throne was set in heaven, and one sat on the throne.</verse>
<verse osisID="Rev.4.3">And he that sat was to look upon like a jasper and a sardine stone: and there was a rainbow round about the throne, in sight like unto an emerald.</verse>
<verse osisID="Rev.4.4">And round about the throne were four and twenty seats: and upon the seats I saw four and twenty elders sitting, clothed in white clothing; and they had on their heads crowns of gold.</verse>
<verse osisID="Rev.4.5">And out of the throne proceeded lightnings and thunderings and voices: and there were seven lamps of fire burning before the throne, which are the seven Spirits of God.</verse>
<verse osisID="Rev.4.6">And before the throne there was a sea of glass like unto crystal: and in the midst of the throne, and round about the throne, were four beasts full of eyes before and behind.</verse>
<verse osisID="Rev.4.7">And the first beast was like a lion, and the second beast like a calf, and the third beast had a face as a man, and the fourth beast was like a flying eagle.</verse>
<verse osisID="Rev.4.8">And the four beasts had each of them six wings about him; and they were full of eyes within: and they rest not day and night, saying, Holy, holy, holy, LORD God Almighty, which was, and is, and is to come.</verse>
<verse osisID="Rev.4.9">And when those beasts give glory and honor and thanks to him that sat on the throne, who lives forever and ever,</verse>
<verse osisID="Rev.4.10">The four and twenty elders fall down before him that sat on the throne, and worship him that lives forever and ever, and cast their crowns before the throne, saying,</verse>
<verse osisID="Rev.4.11">You are worthy, O Lord, to receive glory and honor and power: for you have created all things, and for your pleasure they are and were created.</verse>
</chapter>
<chapter osisID="Rev.4.11">
<verse osisID="Rev.5.1">And I saw in the right hand of him that sat on the throne a book written within and on the backside, sealed with seven seals.</verse>
<verse osisID="Rev.5.2">And I saw a strong angel proclaiming with a loud voice, Who is worthy to open the book, and to loose the seals of it?</verse>
<verse osisID="Rev.5.3">And no man in heaven, nor in earth, neither under the earth, was able to open the book, neither to look thereon.</verse>
<verse osisID="Rev.5.4">And I wept much, because no man was found worthy to open and to read the book, neither to look thereon.</verse>
<verse osisID="Rev.5.5">And one of the elders says unto me, Weep not: behold, the Lion of the tribe of Juda, the Root of David, has prevailed to open the book, and to loose the seven seals of it.</verse>
<verse osisID="Rev.5.6">And I beheld, and, lo, in the midst of the throne and of the four beasts, and in the midst of the elders, stood a Lamb as it had been slain, having seven horns and seven eyes, which are the seven Spirits of God sent forth into all the earth.</verse>
<verse osisID="Rev.5.7">And he came and took the book out of the right hand of him that sat upon the throne.</verse>
<verse osisID="Rev.5.8">And when he had taken the book, the four beasts and four and twenty elders fell down before the Lamb, having every one of them harps, and golden vials full of odors, which are the prayers of saints.</verse>
<verse osisID="Rev.5.9">And they sung a new song, saying, You are worthy to take the book, and to open the seals of it: for you were slain, and have redeemed us to God by your blood out of every kindred, and tongue, and people, and nation;</verse>
<verse osisID="Rev.5.10">And have made us unto our God kings and priests: and we shall reign on the earth.</verse>
<verse osisID="Rev.5.11">And I beheld, and I heard the voice of many angels round about the throne and the beasts and the elders: and the number of them was ten thousand times ten thousand, and thousands of thousands;</verse>
<verse osisID="Rev.5.12">Saying with a loud voice, Woryour is the Lamb that was slain to receive power, and riches, and wisdom, and strength, and honor, and glory, and blessing.</verse>
<verse osisID="Rev.5.13">And every creature which is in heaven, and on the earth, and under the earth, and such as are in the sea, and all that are in them, heard I saying, Blessing, and honor, and glory, and power, be unto him that sits upon the throne, and unto the Lamb forever and ever.</verse>
<verse osisID="Rev.5.14">And the four beasts said, Amen. And the four and twenty elders fell down and worshipped him that lives forever and ever.</verse>
</chapter>
<chapter osisID="Rev.5.14">
<verse osisID="Rev.6.1">And I saw when the Lamb opened one of the seals, and I heard, as it were the noise of thunder, one of the four beasts saying, Come and see.</verse>
<verse osisID="Rev.6.2">And I saw, and behold a white horse: and he that sat on him had a bow; and a crown was given unto him: and he went forth conquering, and to conquer.</verse>
<verse osisID="Rev.6.3">And when he had opened the second seal, I heard the second beast say, Come and see.</verse>
<verse osisID="Rev.6.4">And there went out another horse that was red: and power was given to him that sat thereon to take peace from the earth, and that they should kill one another: and there was given unto him a great sword.</verse>
<verse osisID="Rev.6.5">And when he had opened the third seal, I heard the third beast say, Come and see. And I beheld, and lo a black horse; and he that sat on him had a pair of balances in his hand.</verse>
<verse osisID="Rev.6.6">And I heard a voice in the midst of the four beasts say, A measure of wheat for a denarius, and three measures of barley for a denarius; and see you hurt not the oil and the wine.</verse>
<verse osisID="Rev.6.7">And when he had opened the fourth seal, I heard the voice of the fourth beast say, Come and see.</verse>
<verse osisID="Rev.6.8">And I looked, and behold a pale horse: and his name that sat on him was Death, and Hell followed with him. And power was given unto them over the fourth part of the earth, to kill with sword, and with hunger, and with death, and with the beasts of the earth.</verse>
<verse osisID="Rev.6.9">And when he had opened the fifth seal, I saw under the altar the souls of them that were slain for the word of God, and for the testimony which they held:</verse>
<verse osisID="Rev.6.10">And they cried with a loud voice, saying, How long, O Lord, holy and true, do you not judge and avenge our blood on them that dwell on the earth?</verse>
<verse osisID="Rev.6.11">And white robes were given unto every one of them; and it was said unto them, that they should rest yet for a little season, until their fellow servants also and their brothers, that should be killed as they were, should be fulfilled.</verse>
<verse osisID="Rev.6.12">And I beheld when he had opened the sixth seal, and, lo, there was a great earthquake; and the sun became black as sackcloth of hair, and the moon became as blood;</verse>
<verse osisID="Rev.6.13">And the stars of heaven fell unto the earth, just as a fig tree casts her untimely figs, when she is shaken of a mighty wind.</verse>
<verse osisID="Rev.6.14">And the heaven departed as a scroll when it is rolled together; and every mountain and island were moved out of their places.</verse>
<verse osisID="Rev.6.15">And the kings of the earth, and the great men, and the rich men, and the chief captains, and the mighty men, and every bondman, and every free man, hid themselves in the dens and in the rocks of the mountains;</verse>
<verse osisID="Rev.6.16">And said to the mountains and rocks, Fall on us, and hide us from the face of him that sits on the throne, and from the wrath of the Lamb:</verse>
<verse osisID="Rev.6.17">For the great day of his wrath is come; and who shall be able to stand?</verse>
</chapter>
<chapter osisID="Rev.6.17">
<verse osisID="Rev.7.1">And after these things I saw four angels standing on the four corners of the earth, holding the four winds of the earth, that the wind should not blow on the earth, nor on the the sea, nor on any tree.</verse>
<verse osisID="Rev.7.2">And I saw another angel ascending from the east, having the seal of the living God: and he cried with a loud voice to the four angels, to whom it was given to hurt the earth and the sea,</verse>
<verse osisID="Rev.7.3">Saying, Hurt not the earth, neither the sea, nor the trees, till we have sealed the servants of our God in their foreheads.</verse>
<verse osisID="Rev.7.4">And I heard the number of those who were sealed: and there were sealed a hundred and forty and four thousand of all the tribes of the children of Israel.</verse>
<verse osisID="Rev.7.5">Of the tribe of Juda were sealed twelve thousand. Of the tribe of Reuben were sealed twelve thousand. Of the tribe of Gad were sealed twelve thousand.</verse>
<verse osisID="Rev.7.6">Of the tribe of Aser were sealed twelve thousand. Of the tribe of Nephthalim were sealed twelve thousand. Of the tribe of Manasses were sealed twelve thousand.</verse>
<verse osisID="Rev.7.7">Of the tribe of Simeon were sealed twelve thousand. Of the tribe of Levi were sealed twelve thousand. Of the tribe of Issachar were sealed twelve thousand.</verse>
<verse osisID="Rev.7.8">Of the tribe of Zabulon were sealed twelve thousand. Of the tribe of Joseph were sealed twelve thousand. Of the tribe of Benjamin were sealed twelve thousand.</verse>
<verse osisID="Rev.7.9">After this I beheld, and, lo, a great multitude, which no man could number, of all nations, and kindreds, and people, and tongues, stood before the throne, and before the Lamb, clothed with white robes, and palms in their hands;</verse>
<verse osisID="Rev.7.10">And cried with a loud voice, saying, Salvation to our God which sits upon the throne, and unto the Lamb.</verse>
<verse osisID="Rev.7.11">And all the angels stood round about the throne, and about the elders and the four beasts, and fell before the throne on their faces, and worshipped God,</verse>
<verse osisID="Rev.7.12">Saying, Amen: Blessing, and glory, and wisdom, and thanksgiving, and honor, and power, and might, be unto our God forever and ever. Amen.</verse>
<verse osisID="Rev.7.13">And one of the elders answered, saying unto me, What are these which are arrayed in white robes? and from where came they?</verse>
<verse osisID="Rev.7.14">And I said unto him, Sir, you know. And he said to me, These are they which came out of great tribulation, and have washed their robes, and made them white in the blood of the Lamb.</verse>
<verse osisID="Rev.7.15">Therefore are they before the throne of God, and serve him day and night in his temple: and he that sits on the throne shall dwell among them.</verse>
<verse osisID="Rev.7.16">They shall hunger no more, neither thirst any more; neither shall the sun light on them, nor any heat.</verse>
<verse osisID="Rev.7.17">For the Lamb which is in the midst of the throne shall feed them, and shall lead them unto living fountains of waters: and God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes.</verse>
</chapter>
<chapter osisID="Rev.7.17">
<verse osisID="Rev.8.1">And when he had opened the seventh seal, there was silence in heaven about the space of half an hour.</verse>
<verse osisID="Rev.8.2">And I saw the seven angels which stood before God; and to them were given seven trumpets.</verse>
<verse osisID="Rev.8.3">And another angel came and stood at the altar, having a golden censer; and there was given unto him much incense, that he should offer it with the prayers of all saints upon the golden altar which was before the throne.</verse>
<verse osisID="Rev.8.4">And the smoke of the incense, which came with the prayers of the saints, ascended up before God out of the angel's hand.</verse>
<verse osisID="Rev.8.5">And the angel took the censer, and filled it with fire of the altar, and cast it into the earth: and there were voices, and thunderings, and lightnings, and an earthquake.</verse>
<verse osisID="Rev.8.6">And the seven angels which had the seven trumpets prepared themselves to sound.</verse>
<verse osisID="Rev.8.7">The first angel sounded, and there followed hail and fire mingled with blood, and they were cast upon the earth: and the third part of trees was burnt up, and all green grass was burnt up.</verse>
<verse osisID="Rev.8.8">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;</verse>
<verse osisID="Rev.8.9">And the third part of the creatures which were in the sea, and had life, died; and the third part of the ships were destroyed.</verse>
<verse osisID="Rev.8.10">And the third angel sounded, and there fell a great star from heaven, burning as it were a lamp, and it fell upon the third part of the rivers, and upon the fountains of waters;</verse>
<verse osisID="Rev.8.11">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.</verse>
<verse osisID="Rev.8.12">And the fourth angel sounded, and the third part of the sun was smitten, and the third part of the moon, and the third part of the stars; so as the third part of them was darkened, and the day shone not for a third part of it, and the night likewise.</verse>
<verse osisID="Rev.8.13">And I beheld, and heard an angel flying through the midst of heaven, saying with a loud voice, Woe, woe, woe, to the inhabitants of the earth by reason of the other voices of the trumpet of the three angels, which are yet to sound!</verse>
</chapter>
<chapter osisID="Rev.8.13">
<verse osisID="Rev.9.1">And the fifth angel sounded, and I saw a star fall from heaven unto the earth: and to him was given the key of the bottomless pit.</verse>
<verse osisID="Rev.9.2">And he opened the bottomless pit; and there arose a smoke out of the pit, as the smoke of a great furnace; and the sun and the air were darkened by reason of the smoke of the pit.</verse>
<verse osisID="Rev.9.3">And there came out of the smoke locusts upon the earth: and unto them was given power, as the scorpions of the earth have power.</verse>
<verse osisID="Rev.9.4">And it was commanded them that they should not hurt the grass of the earth, neither any green thing, neither any tree; but only those men which have not the seal of God in their foreheads.</verse>
<verse osisID="Rev.9.5">And to them it was given that they should not kill them, but that they should be tormented five months: and their torment was as the torment of a scorpion, when he strikes a man.</verse>
<verse osisID="Rev.9.6">And in those days shall men seek death, and shall not find it; and shall desire to die, and death shall flee from them.</verse>
<verse osisID="Rev.9.7">And the shapes of the locusts were like unto horses prepared unto battle; and on their heads were as it were crowns like gold, and their faces were as the faces of men.</verse>
<verse osisID="Rev.9.8">And they had hair as the hair of women, and their teeth were as the teeth of lions.</verse>
<verse osisID="Rev.9.9">And they had breastplates, as it were breastplates of iron; and the sound of their wings was as the sound of chariots of many horses running to battle.</verse>
<verse osisID="Rev.9.10">And they had tails like unto scorpions, and there were stings in their tails: and their power was to hurt men five months.</verse>
<verse osisID="Rev.9.11">And they had a king over them, which is the angel of the bottomless pit, whose name in the Hebrew tongue is Abaddon, but in the Greek tongue has his name Apollyon.</verse>
<verse osisID="Rev.9.12">One woe is past; and, behold, there come two woes more hereafter.</verse>
<verse osisID="Rev.9.13">And the sixth angel sounded, and I heard a voice from the four horns of the golden altar which is before God,</verse>
<verse osisID="Rev.9.14">Saying to the sixth angel which had the trumpet, Loose the four angels which are bound in the great river Euphrates.</verse>
<verse osisID="Rev.9.15">And the four angels were loosed, which were prepared for an hour, and a day, and a month, and a year, for to slay the third part of men.</verse>
<verse osisID="Rev.9.16">And the number of the army of the horsemen were two hundred thousand thousand: and I heard the number of them.</verse>
<verse osisID="Rev.9.17">And thus I saw the horses in the vision, and them that sat on them, having breastplates of fire, and of jacinth, and brimstone: and the heads of the horses were as the heads of lions; and out of their mouths issued fire and smoke and brimstone.</verse>
<verse osisID="Rev.9.18">By these three was the third part of men killed, by the fire, and by the smoke, and by the brimstone, which issued out of their mouths.</verse>
<verse osisID="Rev.9.19">For their power is in their mouth, and in their tails: for their tails were like unto serpents, and had heads, and with them they do hurt.</verse>
<verse osisID="Rev.9.20">And the rest of the men which were not killed by these plagues yet repented not of the works of their hands, that they should not worship devils, and idols of gold, and silver, and brass, and stone, and of wood: which neither can see, nor hear, nor walk:</verse>
<verse osisID="Rev.9.21">Neither repented they of their murders, nor of their sorceries, nor of their fornication, nor of their thefts.</verse>
</chapter>
<chapter osisID="Rev.9.21">
<verse osisID="Rev.10.1">And I saw another mighty angel come down from heaven, clothed with a cloud: and a rainbow was upon his head, and his face was as it were the sun, and his feet as pillars of fire:</verse>
<verse osisID="Rev.10.2">And he had in his hand a little book open: and he set his right foot upon the sea, and his left foot on the earth,</verse>
<verse osisID="Rev.10.3">And cried with a loud voice, as when a lion roars: and when he had cried, seven thunders uttered their voices.</verse>
<verse osisID="Rev.10.4">And when the seven thunders had uttered their voices, I was about to write: and I heard a voice from heaven saying unto me, Seal up those things which the seven thunders uttered, and write them not.</verse>
<verse osisID="Rev.10.5">And the angel which I saw stand upon the sea and upon the earth lifted up his hand to heaven,</verse>
<verse osisID="Rev.10.6">And swore by him that lives for ever and ever, who created heaven, and the things that are in it, and the earth, and the things that are in it, and the sea, and the things which are in it, that there should be time no longer:</verse>
<verse osisID="Rev.10.7">But in the days of the voice of the seventh angel, when he shall begin to sound, the mystery of God should be finished, as he has declared to his servants the prophets.</verse>
<verse osisID="Rev.10.8">And the voice which I heard from heaven spoke unto me again, and said, Go and take the little book which is open in the hand of the angel which stands upon the sea and upon the earth.</verse>
<verse osisID="Rev.10.9">And I went unto the angel, and said unto him, Give me the little book. And he said unto me, Take it, and eat it up; and it shall make your belly bitter, but it shall be in your mouth sweet as honey.</verse>
<verse osisID="Rev.10.10">And I took the little book out of the angel's hand, and ate it up; and it was in my mouth sweet as honey: and as soon as I had eaten it, my belly was bitter.</verse>
<verse osisID="Rev.10.11">And he said unto me, You must prophesy again before many peoples, and nations, and tongues, and kings.</verse>
</chapter>
<chapter osisID="Rev.10.11">
<verse osisID="Rev.11.1">And there was given me a reed like unto a rod: and the angel stood, saying, Rise, and measure the temple of God, and the altar, and them that worship in it.</verse>
<verse osisID="Rev.11.2">But the court which is outside the temple leave out, and measure it not; for it is given unto the Gentiles: and the holy city shall they tread under foot forty and two months.</verse>
<verse osisID="Rev.11.3">And I will give power unto my two witnesses, and they shall prophesy a thousand two hundred and threescore days, clothed in sackcloth.</verse>
<verse osisID="Rev.11.4">These are the two olive trees, and the two candlesticks standing before the God of the earth.</verse>
<verse osisID="Rev.11.5">And if any man will hurt them, fire proceeds out of their mouth, and devours their enemies: and if any man will hurt them, he must in this manner be killed.</verse>
<verse osisID="Rev.11.6">These have power to shut heaven, that it rain not in the days of their prophecy: and have power over waters to turn them to blood, and to smite the earth with all plagues, as often as they will.</verse>
<verse osisID="Rev.11.7">And when they shall have finished their testimony, the beast that ascends out of the bottomless pit shall make war against them, and shall overcome them, and kill them.</verse>
<verse osisID="Rev.11.8">And their dead bodies shall lie in the street of the great city, which spiritually is called Sodom and Egypt, where also our Lord was crucified.</verse>
<verse osisID="Rev.11.9">And they of the people and kindreds and tongues and nations shall see their dead bodies three days and a half, and shall not permit their dead bodies to be put in graves.</verse>
<verse osisID="Rev.11.10">And they that dwell upon the earth shall rejoice over them, and make merry, and shall send gifts one to another; because these two prophets tormented them that dwelled on the earth.</verse>
<verse osisID="Rev.11.11">And after three days and a half the spirit of life from God entered into them, and they stood upon their feet; and great fear fell upon those who saw them.</verse>
<verse osisID="Rev.11.12">And they heard a great voice from heaven saying unto them, Come up to here. And they ascended up to heaven in a cloud; and their enemies beheld them.</verse>
<verse osisID="Rev.11.13">And the same hour was there a great earthquake, and the tenth part of the city fell, and in the earthquake were slain of men seven thousand: and the remnant were frightened, and gave glory to the God of heaven.</verse>
<verse osisID="Rev.11.14">The second woe is past; and, behold, the third woe comes quickly.</verse>
<verse osisID="Rev.11.15">And the seventh angel sounded; and there were great voices in heaven, saying, The kingdoms of this world have become the kingdoms of our Lord, and of his Christ; and he shall reign forever and ever.</verse>
<verse osisID="Rev.11.16">And the four and twenty elders, which sat before God on their seats, fell upon their faces, and worshipped God,</verse>
<verse osisID="Rev.11.17">Saying, We give you thanks, O LORD God Almighty, which are, and was, and are to come; because you have taken to you your great power, and have reigned.</verse>
<verse osisID="Rev.11.18">And the nations were angry, and your wrath is come, and the time of the dead, that they should be judged, and that you should give reward unto your servants the prophets, and to the saints, and them that fear your name, small and great; and should destroy those who destroy the earth.</verse>
<verse osisID="Rev.11.19">And the temple of God was opened in heaven, and there was seen in his temple the ark of his testament: and there were lightnings, and voices, and thunderings, and an earthquake, and great hail.</verse>
</chapter>
<chapter osisID="Rev.11.19">
<verse osisID="Rev.12.1">And there appeared a great wonder in heaven; a woman clothed with the sun, and the moon under her feet, and upon her head a crown of twelve stars:</verse>
<verse osisID="Rev.12.2">And she being with child cried, travailing in birth, and pained to be delivered.</verse>
<verse osisID="Rev.12.3">And there appeared another wonder in heaven; and behold a great red dragon, having seven heads and ten horns, and seven crowns upon his heads.</verse>
<verse osisID="Rev.12.4">And his tail drew the third part of the stars of heaven, and did cast them to the earth: and the dragon stood before the woman which was ready to be delivered, for to devour her child as soon as it was born.</verse>
<verse osisID="Rev.12.5">And she brought forth a man child, who was to rule all nations with a rod of iron: and her child was caught up unto God, and to his throne.</verse>
<verse osisID="Rev.12.6">And the woman fled into the wilderness, where she has a place prepared of God, that they should feed her there a thousand two hundred and threescore days.</verse>
<verse osisID="Rev.12.7">And there was war in heaven: Michael and his angels fought against the dragon; and the dragon fought and his angels,</verse>
<verse osisID="Rev.12.8">And prevailed not; neither was their place found any more in heaven.</verse>
<verse osisID="Rev.12.9">And the great dragon was cast out, that old serpent, called the Devil, and Satan, which deceives the whole world: he was cast out into the earth, and his angels were cast out with him.</verse>
<verse osisID="Rev.12.10">And I heard a loud voice saying in heaven, Now is come salvation, and strength, and the kingdom of our God, and the power of his Christ: for the accuser of our brothers is cast down, which accused them before our God day and night.</verse>
<verse osisID="Rev.12.11">And they overcame him by the blood of the Lamb, and by the word of their testimony; and they loved not their lives unto the death.</verse>
<verse osisID="Rev.12.12">Therefore rejoice, you heavens, and you that dwell in them. Woe to the inhabiters of the earth and of the sea! for the devil is come down unto you, having great wrath, because he knows that he has but a short time.</verse>
<verse osisID="Rev.12.13">And when the dragon saw that he was cast unto the earth, he persecuted the woman which brought forth the man child.</verse>
<verse osisID="Rev.12.14">And to the woman were given two wings of a great eagle, that she might fly into the wilderness, into her place, where she is nourished for a time, and times, and half a time, from the face of the serpent.</verse>
<verse osisID="Rev.12.15">And the serpent cast out of his mouth water as a flood after the woman, that he might cause her to be carried away of the flood.</verse>
<verse osisID="Rev.12.16">And the earth helped the woman, and the earth opened her mouth, and swallowed up the flood which the dragon cast out of his mouth.</verse>
<verse osisID="Rev.12.17">And the dragon was very angry with the woman, and went to make war with the remnant of her seed, which keep the commandments of God, and have the testimony of Jesus Christ.</verse>
</chapter>
<chapter osisID="Rev.12.17">
<verse osisID="Rev.13.1">And I stood upon the sand of the sea, and saw a beast rise up out of the sea, having seven heads and ten horns, and upon his horns ten crowns, and upon his heads the name of blasphemy.</verse>
<verse osisID="Rev.13.2">And the beast which I saw was like unto a leopard, and his feet were as the feet of a bear, and his mouth as the mouth of a lion: and the dragon gave him his power, and his seat, and great authority.</verse>
<verse osisID="Rev.13.3">And I saw one of his heads as it were wounded to death; and his deadly wound was healed: and all the world wondered after the beast.</verse>
<verse osisID="Rev.13.4">And they worshipped the dragon which gave power unto the beast: and they worshipped the beast, saying, Who is like unto the beast? who is able to make war with him?</verse>
<verse osisID="Rev.13.5">And there was given unto him a mouth speaking great things and blasphemies; and power was given unto him to continue forty and two months.</verse>
<verse osisID="Rev.13.6">And he opened his mouth in blasphemy against God, to blaspheme his name, and his tabernacle, and them that dwell in heaven.</verse>
<verse osisID="Rev.13.7">And it was given unto him to make war with the saints, and to overcome them: and power was given him over all kindreds, and tongues, and nations.</verse>
<verse osisID="Rev.13.8">And all that dwell upon the earth shall worship him, whose names are not written in the book of life of the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world.</verse>
<verse osisID="Rev.13.9">If any man have an ear, let him hear.</verse>
<verse osisID="Rev.13.10">He that leads into captivity shall go into captivity: he that kills with the sword must be killed with the sword. Here is the patience and the faith of the saints.</verse>
<verse osisID="Rev.13.11">And I beheld another beast coming up out of the earth; and he had two horns like a lamb, and he spoke as a dragon.</verse>
<verse osisID="Rev.13.12">And he exercises all the power of the first beast before him, and causes the earth and those who dwell in it to worship the first beast, whose deadly wound was healed.</verse>
<verse osisID="Rev.13.13">And he does great wonders, so that he makes fire come down from heaven on the earth in the sight of men,</verse>
<verse osisID="Rev.13.14">And deceives them that dwell on the earth by the means of those miracles which he had power to do in the sight of the beast; saying to them that dwell on the earth, that they should make an image to the beast, which had the wound by a sword, and did live.</verse>
<verse osisID="Rev.13.15">And he had power to give life unto the image of the beast, that the image of the beast should both speak, and cause that as many as would not worship the image of the beast should be killed.</verse>
<verse osisID="Rev.13.16">And he causes all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads:</verse>
<verse osisID="Rev.13.17">And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name.</verse>
<verse osisID="Rev.13.18">Here is wisdom. Let him that has understanding count the number of the beast: for it is the number of a man; and his number is Six hundred threescore and six.</verse>
</chapter>
<chapter osisID="Rev.13.18">
<verse osisID="Rev.14.1">And I looked, and, lo, a Lamb stood on the mount Sion, and with him a hundred forty and four thousand, having his Father's name written in their foreheads.</verse>
<verse osisID="Rev.14.2">And I heard a voice from heaven, as the voice of many waters, and as the voice of a great thunder: and I heard the voice of harpers harping with their harps:</verse>
<verse osisID="Rev.14.3">And they sung as it were a new song before the throne, and before the four beasts, and the elders: and no man could learn that song but the hundred and forty and four thousand, which were redeemed from the earth.</verse>
<verse osisID="Rev.14.4">These are they which were not defiled with women; for they are virgins. These are they which follow the Lamb wherever he goes. These were redeemed from among men, being the first fruits unto God and to the Lamb.</verse>
<verse osisID="Rev.14.5">And in their mouth was found no guile: for they are without fault before the throne of God.</verse>
<verse osisID="Rev.14.6">And I saw another angel fly in the midst of heaven, having the everlasting gospel to preach unto them that dwell on the earth, and to every nation, and kindred, and tongue, and people,</verse>
<verse osisID="Rev.14.7">Saying with a loud voice, Fear God, and give glory to him; for the hour of his judgment is come: and worship him that made heaven, and earth, and the sea, and the fountains of waters.</verse>
<verse osisID="Rev.14.8">And there followed another angel, saying, Babylon is fallen, is fallen, that great city, because she made all nations drink of the wine of the wrath of her fornication.</verse>
<verse osisID="Rev.14.9">And the third angel followed them, saying with a loud voice, If any man worship the beast and his image, and receive his mark in his forehead, or in his hand,</verse>
<verse osisID="Rev.14.10">The same shall drink of the wine of the wrath of God, which is poured out without mixture into the cup of his indignation; and he shall be tormented with fire and brimstone in the presence of the holy angels, and in the presence of the Lamb:</verse>
<verse osisID="Rev.14.11">And the smoke of their torment ascends up forever and ever: and they have no rest day nor night, who worship the beast and his image, and whosoever receives the mark of his name.</verse>
<verse osisID="Rev.14.12">Here is the patience of the saints: here are they that keep the commandments of God, and the faith of Jesus.</verse>
<verse osisID="Rev.14.13">And I heard a voice from heaven saying unto me, Write, Blessed are the dead which die in the Lord from now on: yes, says the Spirit, that they may rest from their labors; and their works do follow them.</verse>
<verse osisID="Rev.14.14">And I looked, and behold a white cloud, and upon the cloud one sat like unto the Son of man, having on his head a golden crown, and in his hand a sharp sickle.</verse>
<verse osisID="Rev.14.15">And another angel came out of the temple, crying with a loud voice to him that sat on the cloud, Thrust in your sickle, and reap: for the time is come for you to reap; for the harvest of the earth is ripe.</verse>
<verse osisID="Rev.14.16">And he that sat on the cloud thrust in his sickle on the earth; and the earth was reaped.</verse>
<verse osisID="Rev.14.17">And another angel came out of the temple which is in heaven, he also having a sharp sickle.</verse>
<verse osisID="Rev.14.18">And another angel came out from the altar, which had power over fire; and cried with a loud cry to him that had the sharp sickle, saying, Thrust in your sharp sickle, and gather the clusters of the vine of the earth; for her grapes are fully ripe.</verse>
<verse osisID="Rev.14.19">And the angel thrust in his sickle into the earth, and gathered the vine of the earth, and cast it into the great winepress of the wrath of God.</verse>
<verse osisID="Rev.14.20">And the winepress was trodden outside the city, and blood came out of the winepress, even unto the horse bridles, by the space of a thousand and six hundred furlongs.</verse>
</chapter>
<chapter osisID="Rev.14.20">
<verse osisID="Rev.15.1">And I saw another sign in heaven, great and marvelous, seven angels having the seven last plagues; for in them is filled up the wrath of God.</verse>
<verse osisID="Rev.15.2">And I saw as it were a sea of glass mingled with fire: and them that had gotten the victory over the beast, and over his image, and over his mark, and over the number of his name, stand on the sea of glass, having the harps of God.</verse>
<verse osisID="Rev.15.3">And they sing the song of Moses the servant of God, and the song of the Lamb, saying, Great and marvelous are your works, Lord God Almighty; just and true are your ways, you King of saints.</verse>
<verse osisID="Rev.15.4">Who shall not fear you, O Lord, and glorify your name? for you only are holy: for all nations shall come and worship before you; for your judgments are made manifest.</verse>
<verse osisID="Rev.15.5">And after that I looked, and, behold, the temple of the tabernacle of the testimony in heaven was opened:</verse>
<verse osisID="Rev.15.6">And the seven angels came out of the temple, having the seven plagues, clothed in pure and white linen, and having their breasts girded with golden girdles.</verse>
<verse osisID="Rev.15.7">And one of the four beasts gave unto the seven angels seven golden vials full of the wrath of God, who lives forever and ever.</verse>
<verse osisID="Rev.15.8">And the temple was filled with smoke from the glory of God, and from his power; and no man was able to enter into the temple, till the seven plagues of the seven angels were fulfilled.</verse>
</chapter>
<chapter osisID="Rev.15.8">
<verse osisID="Rev.16.1">And I heard a great voice out of the temple saying to the seven angels, Go your ways, and pour out the vials of the wrath of God upon the earth.</verse>
<verse osisID="Rev.16.2">And the first went, and poured out his vial upon the earth; and there fell a noisome and grievous sore upon the men which had the mark of the beast, and upon those who worshipped his image.</verse>
<verse osisID="Rev.16.3">And the second angel poured out his vial upon the sea; and it became as the blood of a dead man: and every living soul died in the sea.</verse>
<verse osisID="Rev.16.4">And the third angel poured out his vial upon the rivers and fountains of waters; and they became blood.</verse>
<verse osisID="Rev.16.5">And I heard the angel of the waters say, You are righteous, O Lord, which are, and was, and shall be, because you have judged thus.</verse>
<verse osisID="Rev.16.6">For they have shed the blood of saints and prophets, and you have given them blood to drink; for they are worthy.</verse>
<verse osisID="Rev.16.7">And I heard another out of the altar say, Even so, Lord God Almighty, true and righteous are your judgments.</verse>
<verse osisID="Rev.16.8">And the fourth angel poured out his vial upon the sun; and power was given unto him to scorch men with fire.</verse>
<verse osisID="Rev.16.9">And men were scorched with great heat, and blasphemed the name of God, which has power over these plagues: and they repented not to give him glory.</verse>
<verse osisID="Rev.16.10">And the fifth angel poured out his vial upon the seat of the beast; and his kingdom was full of darkness; and they gnawed their tongues for pain,</verse>
<verse osisID="Rev.16.11">And blasphemed the God of heaven because of their pains and their sores, and repented not of their deeds.</verse>
<verse osisID="Rev.16.12">And the sixth angel poured out his vial upon the great river Euphrates; and the water of it was dried up, that the way of the kings of the east might be prepared.</verse>
<verse osisID="Rev.16.13">And I saw three unclean spirits like frogs come out of the mouth of the dragon, and out of the mouth of the beast, and out of the mouth of the false prophet.</verse>
<verse osisID="Rev.16.14">For they are the spirits of devils, working miracles, which go forth unto the kings of the earth and of the whole world, to gather them to the battle of that great day of God Almighty.</verse>
<verse osisID="Rev.16.15">Behold, I come as a thief. Blessed is he that watches, and keeps his garments, lest he walk naked, and they see his shame.</verse>
<verse osisID="Rev.16.16">And he gathered them together into a place called in the Hebrew tongue Armageddon.</verse>
<verse osisID="Rev.16.17">And the seventh angel poured out his vial into the air; and there came a great voice out of the temple of heaven, from the throne, saying, It is done.</verse>
<verse osisID="Rev.16.18">And there were voices, and thunders, and lightnings; and there was a great earthquake, such as was not since men were upon the earth, so mighty an earthquake, and so great.</verse>
<verse osisID="Rev.16.19">And the great city was divided into three parts, and the cities of the nations fell: and great Babylon came in remembrance before God, to give unto her the cup of the wine of the fierceness of his wrath.</verse>
<verse osisID="Rev.16.20">And every island fled away, and the mountains were not found.</verse>
<verse osisID="Rev.16.21">And there fell upon men a great hail out of heaven, every stone about the weight of a talent: and men blasphemed God because of the plague of the hail; for the plague of it was exceedingly great.</verse>
</chapter>
<chapter osisID="Rev.16.21">
<verse osisID="Rev.17.1">And there came one of the seven angels which had the seven vials, and talked with me, saying unto me, Come to here; I will show unto you the judgment of the great whore that sits upon many waters:</verse>
<verse osisID="Rev.17.2">With whom the kings of the earth have committed fornication, and the inhabitants of the earth have been made drunk with the wine of her fornication.</verse>
<verse osisID="Rev.17.3">So he carried me away in the spirit into the wilderness: and I saw a woman sit upon a scarlet colored beast, full of names of blasphemy, having seven heads and ten horns.</verse>
<verse osisID="Rev.17.4">And the woman was arrayed in purple and scarlet color, and decked with gold and precious stones and pearls, having a golden cup in her hand full of abominations and filthiness of her fornication:</verse>
<verse osisID="Rev.17.5">And upon her forehead was a name written, MYSTERY, BABYLON THE GREAT, THE MOTHER OF HARLOTS AND ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH.</verse>
<verse osisID="Rev.17.6">And I saw the woman drunken with the blood of the saints, and with the blood of the martyrs of Jesus: and when I saw her, I wondered with great admiration.</verse>
<verse osisID="Rev.17.7">And the angel said unto me, Why did you marvel? I will tell you the mystery of the woman, and of the beast that carries her, which has the seven heads and ten horns.</verse>
<verse osisID="Rev.17.8">The beast that you saw was, and is not; and shall ascend out of the bottomless pit, and go into perdition: and they that dwell on the earth shall wonder, whose names were not written in the book of life from the foundation of the world, when they behold the beast that was, and is not, and yet is.</verse>
<verse osisID="Rev.17.9">And here is the mind which has wisdom. The seven heads are seven mountains, on which the woman sits.</verse>
<verse osisID="Rev.17.10">And there are seven kings: five are fallen, and one is, and the other is not yet come; and when he comes, he must continue a short space.</verse>
<verse osisID="Rev.17.11">And the beast that was, and is not, even he is the eighth, and is of the seven, and goes into perdition.</verse>
<verse osisID="Rev.17.12">And the ten horns which you saw are ten kings, which have received no kingdom as yet; but receive power as kings one hour with the beast.</verse>
<verse osisID="Rev.17.13">These have one mind, and shall give their power and strength unto the beast.</verse>
<verse osisID="Rev.17.14">These shall make war with the Lamb, and the Lamb shall overcome them: for he is Lord of lords, and King of kings: and they that are with him are called, and chosen, and faithful.</verse>
<verse osisID="Rev.17.15">And he says unto me, The waters which you saw, where the whore sits, are peoples, and multitudes, and nations, and tongues.</verse>
<verse osisID="Rev.17.16">And the ten horns which you saw upon the beast, these shall hate the whore, and shall make her desolate and naked, and shall eat her flesh, and burn her with fire.</verse>
<verse osisID="Rev.17.17">For God has put in their hearts to fulfill his will, and to agree, and give their kingdom unto the beast, until the words of God shall be fulfilled.</verse>
<verse osisID="Rev.17.18">And the woman which you saw is that great city, which reigns over the kings of the earth.</verse>
</chapter>
<chapter osisID="Rev.17.18">
<verse osisID="Rev.18.1">And after these things I saw another angel come down from heaven, having great power; and the earth was lightened with his glory.</verse>
<verse osisID="Rev.18.2">And he cried mightily with a strong voice, saying, Babylon the great is fallen, is fallen, and is become the habitation of devils, and the hold of every foul spirit, and a cage of every unclean and hateful bird.</verse>
<verse osisID="Rev.18.3">For all nations have drunk of the wine of the wrath of her fornication, and the kings of the earth have committed fornication with her, and the merchants of the earth are waxed rich through the abundance of her delicacies.</verse>
<verse osisID="Rev.18.4">And I heard another voice from heaven, saying, Come out of her, my people, that you be not partakers of her sins, and that you receive not of her plagues.</verse>
<verse osisID="Rev.18.5">For her sins have reached unto heaven, and God has remembered her iniquities.</verse>
<verse osisID="Rev.18.6">Reward her just as she rewarded you, and double unto her double according to her works: in the cup which she has filled fill to her double.</verse>
<verse osisID="Rev.18.7">How much she has glorified herself, and lived deliciously, so much torment and sorrow give her: for she says in her heart, I sit a queen, and am no widow, and shall see no sorrow.</verse>
<verse osisID="Rev.18.8">Therefore shall her plagues come in one day, death, and mourning, and famine; and she shall be utterly burned with fire: for strong is the Lord God who judges her.</verse>
<verse osisID="Rev.18.9">And the kings of the earth, who have committed fornication and lived deliciously with her, shall bewail her, and lament for her, when they shall see the smoke of her burning,</verse>
<verse osisID="Rev.18.10">Standing afar off for the fear of her torment, saying, Alas, alas that great city Babylon, that mighty city! for in one hour is your judgment come.</verse>
<verse osisID="Rev.18.11">And the merchants of the earth shall weep and mourn over her; for no man buys their merchandise any more:</verse>
<verse osisID="Rev.18.12">The merchandise of gold, and silver, and precious stones, and of pearls, and fine linen, and purple, and silk, and scarlet, and all citron wood, and all manner vessels of ivory, and all manner vessels of most precious wood, and of brass, and iron, and marble,</verse>
<verse osisID="Rev.18.13">And cinnamon, and odors, and ointments, and frankincense, and wine, and oil, and fine flour, and wheat, and beasts, and sheep, and horses, and chariots, and slaves, and souls of men.</verse>
<verse osisID="Rev.18.14">And the fruits that your soul lusted after are departed from you, and all things which were dainty and good are departed from you, and you shall find them no more at all.</verse>
<verse osisID="Rev.18.15">The merchants of these things, which were made rich by her, shall stand afar off for the fear of her torment, weeping and wailing,</verse>
<verse osisID="Rev.18.16">And saying, Alas, alas that great city, that was clothed in fine linen, and purple, and scarlet, and decked with gold, and precious stones, and pearls!</verse>
<verse osisID="Rev.18.17">For in one hour so great riches is come to nothing. And every shipmaster, and all the company in ships, and sailors, and as many as trade by sea, stood afar off,</verse>
<verse osisID="Rev.18.18">And cried when they saw the smoke of her burning, saying, What city is like unto this great city!</verse>
<verse osisID="Rev.18.19">And they cast dust on their heads, and cried, weeping and wailing, saying, Alas, alas that great city, in which were made rich all that had ships in the sea by reason of her costliness! for in one hour is she made desolate.</verse>
<verse osisID="Rev.18.20">Rejoice over her, you heaven, and you holy apostles and prophets; for God has avenged you on her.</verse>
<verse osisID="Rev.18.21">And a mighty angel took up a stone like a great millstone, and cast it into the sea, saying, Thus with violence shall that great city Babylon be thrown down, and shall be found no more at all.</verse>
<verse osisID="Rev.18.22">And the voice of harpers, and musicians, and of pipers, and trumpeters, shall be heard no more at all in you; and no craftsman, of whatsoever craft he be, shall be found any more in you; and the sound of a millstone shall be heard no more at all in you;</verse>
<verse osisID="Rev.18.23">And the light of a candle shall shine no more at all in you; and the voice of the bridegroom and of the bride shall be heard no more at all in you: for your merchants were the great men of the earth; for by your sorceries were all nations deceived.</verse>
<verse osisID="Rev.18.24">And in her was found the blood of prophets, and of saints, and of all that were slain upon the earth.</verse>
</chapter>
<chapter osisID="Rev.18.24">
<verse osisID="Rev.19.1">And after these things I heard a great voice of many people in heaven, saying, Alleluia; Salvation, and glory, and honor, and power, unto the Lord our God:</verse>
<verse osisID="Rev.19.2">For true and righteous are his judgments: for he has judged the great whore, which did corrupt the earth with her fornication, and has avenged the blood of his servants at her hand.</verse>
<verse osisID="Rev.19.3">And again they said, Alleluia And her smoke rose up forever and ever.</verse>
<verse osisID="Rev.19.4">And the four and twenty elders and the four beasts fell down and worshipped God that sat on the throne, saying, Amen; Alleluia.</verse>
<verse osisID="Rev.19.5">And a voice came out of the throne, saying, Praise our God, all you his servants, and you that fear him, both small and great.</verse>
<verse osisID="Rev.19.6">And I heard as it were the voice of a great multitude, and as the voice of many waters, and as the voice of mighty thunderings, saying, Alleluia: for the Lord God omnipotent reigns.</verse>
<verse osisID="Rev.19.7">Let us be glad and rejoice, and give honor to him: for the marriage of the Lamb is come, and his wife has made herself ready.</verse>
<verse osisID="Rev.19.8">And to her was granted that she should be arrayed in fine linen, clean and white: for the fine linen is the righteousness of saints.</verse>
<verse osisID="Rev.19.9">And he says unto me, Write, Blessed are they which are called unto the marriage supper of the Lamb. And he says unto me, These are the true sayings of God.</verse>
<verse osisID="Rev.19.10">And I fell at his feet to worship him. And he said unto me, See you do it not: I am your fellow servant, and of your brothers that have the testimony of Jesus: worship God: for the testimony of Jesus is the spirit of prophecy.</verse>
<verse osisID="Rev.19.11">And I saw heaven opened, and behold a white horse; and he that sat upon him was called Faithful and True, and in righteousness he does judge and make war.</verse>
<verse osisID="Rev.19.12">His eyes were as a flame of fire, and on his head were many crowns; and he had a name written, that no man knew, but he himself.</verse>
<verse osisID="Rev.19.13">And he was clothed with a vesture dipped in blood: and his name is called The Word of God.</verse>
<verse osisID="Rev.19.14">And the armies which were in heaven followed him upon white horses, clothed in fine linen, white and clean.</verse>
<verse osisID="Rev.19.15">And out of his mouth goes a sharp sword, that with it he should smite the nations: and he shall rule them with a rod of iron: and he treads the winepress of the fierceness and wrath of Almighty God.</verse>
<verse osisID="Rev.19.16">And he has on his vesture and on his thigh a name written, KING OF KINGS, AND LORD OF LORDS.</verse>
<verse osisID="Rev.19.17">And I saw an angel standing in the sun; and he cried with a loud voice, saying to all the fowls that fly in the midst of heaven, Come and gather yourselves together unto the supper of the great God;</verse>
<verse osisID="Rev.19.18">That you may eat the flesh of kings, and the flesh of captains, and the flesh of mighty men, and the flesh of horses, and of them that sit on them, and the flesh of all men, both free and bond, both small and great.</verse>
<verse osisID="Rev.19.19">And I saw the beast, and the kings of the earth, and their armies, gathered together to make war against him that sat on the horse, and against his army.</verse>
<verse osisID="Rev.19.20">And the beast was taken, and with him the false prophet that wrought miracles before him, with which he deceived them that had received the mark of the beast, and them that worshipped his image. These both were cast alive into a lake of fire burning with brimstone.</verse>
<verse osisID="Rev.19.21">And the remnant were slain with the sword of him that sat upon the horse, which sword proceeded out of his mouth: and all the fowls were filled with their flesh.</verse>
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<chapter osisID="Rev.19.21">
<verse osisID="Rev.20.1">And I saw an angel come down from heaven, having the key of the bottomless pit and a great chain in his hand.</verse>
<verse osisID="Rev.20.2">And he laid hold on the dragon, that old serpent, which is the Devil, and Satan, and bound him a thousand years,</verse>
<verse osisID="Rev.20.3">And cast him into the bottomless pit, and shut him up, and set a seal upon him, that he should deceive the nations no more, till the thousand years should be fulfilled: and after that he must be loosed a little season.</verse>
<verse osisID="Rev.20.4">And I saw thrones, and they sat upon them, and judgment was given unto them: and I saw the souls of them that were beheaded for the witness of Jesus, and for the word of God, and which had not worshipped the beast, neither his image, neither had received his mark upon their foreheads, or in their hands; and they lived and reigned with Christ a thousand years.</verse>
<verse osisID="Rev.20.5">But the rest of the dead lived not again until the thousand years were finished. This is the first resurrection.</verse>
<verse osisID="Rev.20.6">Blessed and holy is he that has part in the first resurrection: on such the second death has no power, but they shall be priests of God and of Christ, and shall reign with him a thousand years.</verse>
<verse osisID="Rev.20.7">And when the thousand years are expired, Satan shall be loosed out of his prison,</verse>
<verse osisID="Rev.20.8">And shall go out to deceive the nations which are in the four quarters of the earth, Gog, and Magog, to gather them together to battle: the number of whom is as the sand of the sea.</verse>
<verse osisID="Rev.20.9">And they went up on the breadth of the earth, and compassed the camp of the saints about, and the beloved city: and fire came down from God out of heaven, and devoured them.</verse>
<verse osisID="Rev.20.10">And the devil that deceived them was cast into the lake of fire and brimstone, where the beast and the false prophet are, and shall be tormented day and night forever and ever.</verse>
<verse osisID="Rev.20.11">And I saw a great white throne, and him that sat on it, from whose face the earth and the heaven fled away; and there was found no place for them.</verse>
<verse osisID="Rev.20.12">And I saw the dead, small and great, stand before God; and the books were opened: and another book was opened, which is the book of life: and the dead were judged out of those things which were written in the books, according to their works.</verse>
<verse osisID="Rev.20.13">And the sea gave up the dead which were in it; and death and hell delivered up the dead which were in them: and they were judged every man according to their works.</verse>
<verse osisID="Rev.20.14">And death and hell were cast into the lake of fire. This is the second death.</verse>
<verse osisID="Rev.20.15">And whosoever was not found written in the book of life was cast into the lake of fire.</verse>
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<chapter osisID="Rev.20.15">
<verse osisID="Rev.21.1">And I saw a new heaven and a new earth: for the first heaven and the first earth were passed away; and there was no more sea.</verse>
<verse osisID="Rev.21.2">And I John saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down from God out of heaven, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband.</verse>
<verse osisID="Rev.21.3">And I heard a great voice out of heaven saying, Behold, the tabernacle of God is with men, and he will dwell with them, and they shall be his people, and God himself shall be with them, and be their God.</verse>
<verse osisID="Rev.21.4">And God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes; and there shall be no more death, neither sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain: for the former things are passed away.</verse>
<verse osisID="Rev.21.5">And he that sat upon the throne said, Behold, I make all things new. And he said unto me, Write: for these words are true and faithful.</verse>
<verse osisID="Rev.21.6">And he said unto me, It is done. I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end. I will give unto him that is athirst of the fountain of the water of life freely.</verse>
<verse osisID="Rev.21.7">He that overcomes shall inherit all things; and I will be his God, and he shall be my son.</verse>
<verse osisID="Rev.21.8">But the fearful, and unbelieving, and the abominable, and murderers, and whoremongers, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all liars, shall have their part in the lake which burns with fire and brimstone: which is the second death.</verse>
<verse osisID="Rev.21.9">And there came unto me one of the seven angels which had the seven vials full of the seven last plagues, and talked with me, saying, Come to here, I will show you the bride, the Lamb's wife.</verse>
<verse osisID="Rev.21.10">And he carried me away in the spirit to a great and high mountain, and showed me that great city, the holy Jerusalem, descending out of heaven from God,</verse>
<verse osisID="Rev.21.11">Having the glory of God: and her light was like unto a stone most precious, even like a jasper stone, clear as crystal;</verse>
<verse osisID="Rev.21.12">And had a wall great and high, and had twelve gates, and at the gates twelve angels, and names written thereon, which are the names of the twelve tribes of the children of Israel:</verse>
<verse osisID="Rev.21.13">On the east three gates; on the north three gates; on the south three gates; and on the west three gates.</verse>
<verse osisID="Rev.21.14">And the wall of the city had twelve foundations, and in them the names of the twelve apostles of the Lamb.</verse>
<verse osisID="Rev.21.15">And he that talked with me had a golden reed to measure the city, and the gates of it, and the wall of it.</verse>
<verse osisID="Rev.21.16">And the city lies foursquare, and the length is as large as the breadth: and he measured the city with the reed, twelve thousand furlongs. The length and the breadth and the height of it are equal.</verse>
<verse osisID="Rev.21.17">And he measured the wall of it, a hundred and forty and four cubits, according to the measure of a man, that is, of the angel.</verse>
<verse osisID="Rev.21.18">And the building of the wall of it was of jasper: and the city was pure gold, like unto clear glass.</verse>
<verse osisID="Rev.21.19">And the foundations of the wall of the city were garnished with all manner of precious stones. The first foundation was jasper; the second, sapphire; the third, a chalcedony; the fourth, an emerald;</verse>
<verse osisID="Rev.21.20">The fifth, sardonyx; the sixth, sardius; the seventh, chrysolyte; the eighth, beryl; the ninth, a topaz; the tenth, a chrysoprasus; the eleventh, a jacinth; the twelfth, an amethyst.</verse>
<verse osisID="Rev.21.21">And the twelve gates were twelve pearls: every several gate was of one pearl: and the street of the city was pure gold, as it were transparent glass.</verse>
<verse osisID="Rev.21.22">And I saw no temple in it: for the Lord God Almighty and the Lamb are the temple of it.</verse>
<verse osisID="Rev.21.23">And the city had no need of the sun, neither of the moon, to shine in it: for the glory of God did lighten it, and the Lamb is the light of it.</verse>
<verse osisID="Rev.21.24">And the nations of those who are saved shall walk in the light of it: and the kings of the earth do bring their glory and honor into it.</verse>
<verse osisID="Rev.21.25">And the gates of it shall not be shut at all by day: for there shall be no night there.</verse>
<verse osisID="Rev.21.26">And they shall bring the glory and honor of the nations into it.</verse>
<verse osisID="Rev.21.27">And there shall in no way enter into it any thing that defiles, neither whatsoever works abomination, or makes a lie: but they which are written in the Lamb's book of life.</verse>
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<chapter osisID="Rev.21.27">
<verse osisID="Rev.22.1">And he showed me a pure river of water of life, clear as crystal, proceeding out of the throne of God and of the Lamb.</verse>
<verse osisID="Rev.22.2">In the midst of the street of it, and on either side of the river, was there the tree of life, which bore twelve manner of fruits, and yielded her fruit every month: and the leaves of the tree were for the healing of the nations.</verse>
<verse osisID="Rev.22.3">And there shall be no more curse: but the throne of God and of the Lamb shall be in it; and his servants shall serve him:</verse>
<verse osisID="Rev.22.4">And they shall see his face; and his name shall be on their foreheads.</verse>
<verse osisID="Rev.22.5">And there shall be no night there; and they need no candle, neither light of the sun; for the Lord God gives them light: and they shall reign forever and ever.</verse>
<verse osisID="Rev.22.6">And he said unto me, These sayings are faithful and true: and the Lord God of the holy prophets sent his angel to show unto his servants the things which must shortly be done.</verse>
<verse osisID="Rev.22.7">Behold, I come quickly: blessed is he that keeps the sayings of the prophecy of this book.</verse>
<verse osisID="Rev.22.8">And I John saw these things, and heard them. And when I had heard and seen, I fell down to worship before the feet of the angel which showed me these things.</verse>
<verse osisID="Rev.22.9">Then says he unto me, See you do it not: for I am your fellow servant, and of your brothers the prophets, and of those who keep the sayings of this book: worship God.</verse>
<verse osisID="Rev.22.10">And he says unto me, Seal not the sayings of the prophecy of this book: for the time is at hand.</verse>
<verse osisID="Rev.22.11">He that is unjust, let him be unjust still: and he which is filthy, let him be filthy still: and he that is righteous, let him be righteous still: and he that is holy, let him be holy still.</verse>
<verse osisID="Rev.22.12">And, behold, I come quickly; and my reward is with me, to give every man according as his work shall be.</verse>
<verse osisID="Rev.22.13">I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end, the first and the last.</verse>
<verse osisID="Rev.22.14">Blessed are they that do his commandments, that they may have right to the tree of life, and may enter in through the gates into the city.</verse>
<verse osisID="Rev.22.15">For outside are dogs, and sorcerers, and whoremongers, and murderers, and idolaters, and whosoever loves and makes a lie.</verse>
<verse osisID="Rev.22.16">I Jesus have sent my angel to testify unto you these things in the churches. I am the root and the offspring of David, and the bright and morning star.</verse>
<verse osisID="Rev.22.17">And the Spirit and the bride say, Come. And let him that hears say, Come. And let him that is athirst come. And whosoever will, let him take the water of life freely.</verse>
<verse osisID="Rev.22.18">For I testify unto every man that hears the words of the prophecy of this book, If any man shall add unto these things, God shall add unto him the plagues that are written in this book:</verse>
<verse osisID="Rev.22.19">And if any man shall take away from the words of the book of this prophecy, God shall take away his part out of the book of life, and out of the holy city, and from the things which are written in this book.</verse>
<verse osisID="Rev.22.20">He which testifies these things says, Surely I come quickly. Amen. Even so, come, Lord Jesus.</verse>
<verse osisID="Rev.22.21">The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you all. Amen. </div></verse>
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