# t_ylt

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and a woman who hath a husband unbelieving, and he is pleased to dwell with her, let her not send him away;


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for the unbelieving husband hath been sanctified in the wife, and the unbelieving wife hath been sanctified in the husband; otherwise your children are unclean, but now they are holy.


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And, if the unbelieving doth separate himself -- let him separate himself: the brother or the sister is not under servitude in such `cases', and in peace hath God called us;


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for what, hast thou known, O wife, whether the husband thou shalt save? or what, hast thou known, O husband, whether the wife thou shalt save?


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if not, as God did distribute to each, as the Lord hath called each -- so let him walk; and thus in all the assemblies do I direct:


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being circumcised -- was any one called? let him not become uncircumcised; in uncircumcision was any one called? let him not be circumcised;


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the circumcision is nothing, and the uncircumcision is nothing -- but a keeping of the commands of God.


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a servant -- wast thou called? be not anxious; but if also thou art able to become free -- use `it' rather;


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for he who `is' in the Lord -- having been called a servant -- is the Lord's freedman: in like manner also he the freeman, having been called, is servant of Christ:


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And concerning the virgins, a command of the Lord I have not; and I give judgment as having obtained kindness from the Lord to be faithful:


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I suppose, therefore, this to be good because of the present necessity, that `it is' good for a man that the matter be thus: --


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Hast thou been bound to a wife? seek not to be loosed; hast thou been loosed from a wife? seek not a wife.


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But and if thou mayest marry, thou didst not sin; and if the virgin may marry, she did not sin; and such shall have tribulation in the flesh: and I spare you.


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And this I say, brethren, the time henceforth is having been shortened -- that both those having wives may be as not having;


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and those weeping, as not weeping; and those rejoicing, as not rejoicing; and those buying, as not possessing;


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And I wish you to be without anxiety; the unmarried is anxious for the things of the Lord, how he shall please the Lord;


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The wife and the virgin have been distinguished: the unmarried is anxious for the things of the Lord, that she may be holy both in body and in spirit, and the married is anxious for the things of the world, how she shall please the husband.


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And this for your own profit I say: not that I may cast a noose upon you, but for the seemliness and devotedness to the Lord, undistractedly,


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and if any one doth think `it' to be unseemly to his virgin, if she may be beyond the bloom of age, and it ought so to be, what he willeth let him do; he doth not sin -- let him marry.


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And he who hath stood stedfast in the heart -- not having necessity -- and hath authority over his own will, and this he hath determined in his heart -- to keep his own virgin -- doth well;


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so that both he who is giving in marriage doth well, and he who is not giving in marriage doth better.


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A wife hath been bound by law as long time as her husband may live, and if her husband may sleep, she is free to be married to whom she will -- only in the Lord;


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and she is happier if she may so remain -- according to my judgment; and I think I also have the Spirit of God.


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And concerning the things sacrificed to idols, we have known that we all have knowledge: knowledge puffeth up, but love buildeth up;


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and if any one doth think to know anything, he hath not yet known anything according as it behoveth `him' to know;


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Concerning the eating then of the things sacrificed to idols, we have known that an idol `is' nothing in the world, and that there is no other God except one;


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for even if there are those called gods, whether in heaven, whether upon earth -- as there are gods many and lords many --


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yet to us `is' one God, the Father, of whom `are' the all things, and we to Him; and one Lord, Jesus Christ, through whom `are' the all things, and we through Him;


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but not in all men `is' the knowledge, and certain with conscience of the idol, till now, as a thing sacrificed to an idol do eat `it', and their conscience, being weak, is defiled.


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But victuals do not commend us to God, for neither if we may eat are we in advance; nor if we may not eat, are we behind;


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for if any one may see thee that hast knowledge in an idol's temple reclining at meat -- shall not his conscience -- he being infirm -- be emboldened to eat the things sacrificed to idols,


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and thus sinning in regard to the brethren, and smiting their weak conscience -- in regard to Christ ye sin;


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wherefore, if victuals cause my brother to stumble, I may eat no flesh -- to the age -- that my brother I may not cause to stumble.


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


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if to others I am not an apostle -- yet doubtless to you I am; for the seal of my apostleship are ye in the Lord.


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have we not authority a sister -- a wife -- to lead about, as also the other apostles, and the brethren of the Lord, and Cephas?


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who doth serve as a soldier at his own charges at any time? who doth plant a vineyard, and of its fruit doth not eat? or who doth feed a flock, and of the milk of the flock doth not eat?


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for in the law of Moses it hath been written, `thou shalt not muzzle an ox treading out corn;' for the oxen doth God care?


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or because of us by all means doth He say `it'? yes, because of us it was written, because in hope ought the plower to plow, and he who is treading `ought' of his hope to partake in hope.


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if others do partake of the authority over you -- not we more? but we did not use this authority, but all things we bear, that we may give no hindrance to the good news of the Christ.


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Have ye not known that those working about the things of the temple -- of the temple do eat, and those waiting at the altar -- with the altar are partakers?


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And I have used none of these things; neither did I write these things that it may be so done in my case, for `it is' good for me rather to die, than that any one may make my glorying void;


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for if I may proclaim good news, it is no glorying for me, for necessity is laid upon me, and wo is to me if I may not proclaim good news;


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for if willing I do this, I have a reward; and if unwillingly -- with a stewardship I have been entrusted!


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What, then, is my reward? -- that proclaiming good news, without charge I shall make the good news of the Christ, not to abuse my authority in the good news;


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and I became to the Jews as a Jew, that Jews I might gain; to those under law as under law, that those under law I might gain;


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to those without law, as without law -- (not being without law to God, but within law to Christ) -- that I might gain those without law;


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I became to the infirm as infirm, that the infirm I might gain; to all men I have become all things, that by all means I may save some.


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have ye not known that those running in a race -- all indeed run, but one doth receive the prize? so run ye, that ye may obtain;


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and every one who is striving, is in all things temperate; these, indeed, then, that a corruptible crown they may receive, but we an incorruptible;


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but I chastise my body, and bring `it' into servitude, lest by any means, having preached to others -- I myself may become disapproved.


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And I do not wish you to be ignorant, brethren, that all our fathers were under the cloud, and all passed through the sea,


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and all the same spiritual drink did drink, for they were drinking of a spiritual rock following them, and the rock was the Christ;


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and those things became types of us, for our not passionately desiring evil things, as also these did desire.


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Neither become ye idolaters, as certain of them, as it hath been written, `The people sat down to eat and to drink, and stood up to play;'


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neither may we commit whoredom, as certain of them did commit whoredom, and there fell in one day twenty-three thousand;


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And all these things as types did happen to those persons, and they were written for our admonition, to whom the end of the ages did come,


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No temptation hath taken you -- except human; and God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above what ye are able, but He will make, with the temptation, also the outlet, for your being able to bear `it'.


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The cup of the blessing that we bless -- is it not the fellowship of the blood of the Christ? the bread that we break -- is it not the fellowship of the body of the Christ?


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See Israel according to the flesh! are not those eating the sacrifices in the fellowship of the altar?


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what then do I say? that an idol is anything? or that a sacrifice offered to an idol is anything? --


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`no,' but that the things that the nations sacrifice -- they sacrifice to demons and not to God; and I do not wish you to come into the fellowship of the demons.


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Ye are not able the cup of the Lord to drink, and the cup of demons; ye are not able of the table of the Lord to partake, and of the table of demons;


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All things to me are lawful, but all things are not profitable; all things to me are lawful, but all things do not build up;


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and if any one of the unbelieving do call you, and ye wish to go, all that is set before you eat, nothing inquiring, because of the conscience;


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and if any one may say to you, `This is a thing sacrificed to an idol,' -- do not eat, because of that one who shewed `it', and of the conscience, for the Lord's `is' the earth and its fulness:


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and conscience, I say, not of thyself, but of the other, for why `is it' that my liberty is judged by another's conscience?


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as I also in all things do please all, not seeking my own profit, but that of many -- that they may be saved.


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And I praise you, brethren, that in all things ye remember me, and according as I did deliver to you, the deliverances ye keep,


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and I wish you to know that of every man the head is the Christ, and the head of a woman is the husband, and the head of Christ is God.


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and every woman praying or prophesying with the head uncovered, doth dishonour her own head, for it is one and the same thing with her being shaven,


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for if a woman is not covered -- then let her be shorn, and if `it is' a shame for a woman to be shorn or shaven -- let her be covered;


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for a man, indeed, ought not to cover the head, being the image and glory of God, and a woman is the glory of a man,


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because of this the woman ought to have `a token of' authority upon the head, because of the messengers;


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for as the woman `is' of the man, so also the man `is' through the woman, and the all things `are' of God.


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doth not even nature itself teach you, that if a man indeed have long hair, a dishonour it is to him?


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and a woman, if she have long hair, a glory it is to her, because the hair instead of a covering hath been given to her;


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And this declaring, I give no praise, because not for the better, but for the worse ye come together;


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for first, indeed, ye coming together in an assembly, I hear of divisions being among you, and partly I believe `it',


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why, have ye not houses to eat and to drink in? or the assembly of God do ye despise, and shame those not having? what may I say to you? shall I praise you in this? I do not praise!


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For I -- I received from the Lord that which also I did deliver to you, that the Lord Jesus in the night in which he was delivered up, took bread,


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and having given thanks, he brake, and said, `Take ye, eat ye, this is my body, that for you is being broken; this do ye -- to the remembrance of me.'


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In like manner also the cup after the supping, saying, `This cup is the new covenant in my blood; this do ye, as often as ye may drink `it' -- to the remembrance of me;'


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for as often as ye may eat this bread, and this cup may drink, the death of the Lord ye do shew forth -- till he may come;


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so that whoever may eat this bread or may drink the cup of the Lord unworthily, guilty he shall be of the body and blood of the Lord:


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for he who is eating and drinking unworthily, judgment to himself he doth eat and drink -- not discerning the body of the Lord.


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and if any one is hungry, at home let him eat, that to judgment ye may not come together; and the rest, whenever I may come, I shall arrange.


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wherefore, I give you to understand that no one, in the Spirit of God speaking, saith Jesus `is' anathema, and no one is able to say Jesus `is' Lord, except in the Holy Spirit.


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for to one through the Spirit hath been given a word of wisdom, and to another a word of knowledge, according to the same Spirit;


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and to another in-workings of mighty deeds; and to another prophecy; and to another discernings of spirits; and to another `divers' kinds of tongues; and to another interpretation of tongues:


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For, even as the body is one, and hath many members, and all the members of the one body, being many, are one body, so also `is' the Christ,


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for also in one Spirit we all to one body were baptized, whether Jews or Greeks, whether servants or freemen, and all into one Spirit were made to drink,


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if the foot may say, `Because I am not a hand, I am not of the body;' it is not, because of this, not of the body;


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and if the ear may say, `Because I am not an eye, I am not of the body;' it is not, because of this, not of the body?


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and an eye is not able to say to the hand, `I have no need of thee;' nor again the head to the feet, `I have no need of you.'


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and those that we think to be less honourable of the body, around these we put more abundant honour, and our unseemly things have seemliness more abundant,


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and our seemly things have no need; but God did temper the body together, to the lacking part having given more abundant honour,


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that there may be no division in the body, but that the members may have the same anxiety for one another,


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and whether one member doth suffer, suffer with `it' do all the members, or one member is glorified, rejoice with `it' do all the members;


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And some, indeed, did God set in the assembly, first apostles, secondly prophets, thirdly teachers, afterwards powers, afterwards gifts of healings, helpings, governings, divers kinds of tongues;


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If with the tongues of men and of messengers I speak, and have not love, I have become brass sounding, or a cymbal tinkling;


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and if I have prophecy, and know all the secrets, and all the knowledge, and if I have all the faith, so as to remove mountains, and have not love, I am nothing;


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and if I give away to feed others all my goods, and if I give up my body that I may be burned, and have not love, I am profited nothing.


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The love is long-suffering, it is kind, the love doth not envy, the love doth not vaunt itself, is not puffed up,


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The love doth never fail; and whether `there be' prophecies, they shall become useless; whether tongues, they shall cease; whether knowledge, it shall become useless;


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When I was a babe, as a babe I was speaking, as a babe I was thinking, as a babe I was reasoning, and when I have become a man, I have made useless the things of the babe;


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for we see now through a mirror obscurely, and then face to face; now I know in part, and then I shall fully know, as also I was known;


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for he who is speaking in an `unknown' tongue -- to men he doth not speak, but to God, for no one doth hearken, and in spirit he doth speak secrets;


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he who is speaking in an `unknown' tongue, himself doth edify, and he who is prophesying, an assembly doth edify;


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and I wish you all to speak with tongues, and more that ye may prophecy, for greater is he who is prophesying than he who is speaking with tongues, except one may interpret, that the assembly may receive edification.


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And now, brethren, if I may come unto you speaking tongues, what shall I profit you, except I shall speak to you either in revelation, or in knowledge, or in prophesying, or in teaching?


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yet the things without life giving sound -- whether pipe or harp -- if a difference in the sounds they may not give, how shall be known that which is piped or that which is harped?


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so also ye, if through the tongue, speech easily understood ye may not give -- how shall that which is spoken be known? for ye shall be speaking to air.


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if, then, I do not know the power of the voice, I shall be to him who is speaking a foreigner, and he who is speaking, is to me a foreigner;


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so also ye, since ye are earnestly desirous of spiritual gifts, for the building up of the assembly seek that ye may abound;


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


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since, if thou mayest bless with the spirit, he who is filling the place of the unlearned, how shall he say the Amen at thy giving of thanks, since what thou dost say he hath not known?


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but in an assembly I wish to speak five words through my understanding, that others also I may instruct, rather than myriads of words in an `unknown' tongue.


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Brethren, become not children in the understanding, but in the evil be ye babes, and in the understanding become ye perfect;


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in the law it hath been written, that, `With other tongues and with other lips I will speak to this people, and not even so will they hear Me, saith the Lord;'


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so that the tongues are for a sign, not to the believing, but to the unbelieving; and the prophesy `is' not for the unbelieving, but for the believing,


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If, therefore, the whole assembly may come together, to the same place, and all may speak with tongues, and there may come in unlearned or unbelievers, will they not say that ye are mad?


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and if all may prophecy, and any one may come in, an unbeliever or unlearned, he is convicted by all, he is discerned by all,


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and so the secrets of his heart become manifest, and so having fallen upon `his' face, he will bow before God, declaring that God really is among you.


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What then is it, brethren? whenever ye may come together, each of you hath a psalm, hath a teaching, hath a tongue, hath a revelation, hath an interpretation? let all things be for building up;


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if an `unknown' tongue any one do speak, by two, or at the most, by three, and in turn, and let one interpret;


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and if there may be no interpreter, let him be silent in an assembly, and to himself let him speak, and to God.


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Your women in the assemblies let them be silent, for it hath not been permitted to them to speak, but to be subject, as also the law saith;


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and if they wish to learn anything, at home their own husbands let them question, for it is a shame to women to speak in an assembly.


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if any one doth think to be a prophet, or spiritual, let him acknowledge the things that I write to you -- that of the Lord they are commands;


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And I make known to you, brethren, the good news that I proclaimed to you, which also ye did receive, in which also ye have stood,


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through which also ye are being saved, in what words I proclaimed good news to you, if ye hold fast, except ye did believe in vain,


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for I delivered to you first, what also I did receive, that Christ died for our sins, according to the Writings,


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afterwards he appeared to above five hundred brethren at once, of whom the greater part remain till now, and certain also did fall asleep;


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for I am the least of the apostles, who am not worthy to be called an apostle, because I did persecute the assembly of God,


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and by the grace of God I am what I am, and His grace that `is' towards me came not in vain, but more abundantly than they all did I labour, yet not I, but the grace of God that `is' with me;


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And if Christ is preached, that out of the dead he hath risen, how say certain among you, that there is no rising again of dead persons?


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and we also are found false witnesses of God, because we did testify of God that He raised up the Christ, whom He did not raise if then dead persons do not rise;


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and each in his proper order, a first-fruit Christ, afterwards those who are the Christ's, in his presence,


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then -- the end, when he may deliver up the reign to God, even the Father, when he may have made useless all rule, and all authority and power --


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for all things He did put under his feet, and, when one may say that all things have been subjected, `it is' evident that He is excepted who did subject the all things to him,


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and when the all things may be subjected to him, then the Son also himself shall be subject to Him, who did subject to him the all things, that God may be the all in all.


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Seeing what shall they do who are baptized for the dead, if the dead do not rise at all? why also are they baptized for the dead?


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if after the manner of a man with wild beasts I fought in Ephesus, what the advantage to me if the dead do not rise? let us eat and drink, for to-morrow we die!


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awake up, as is right, and sin not; for certain have an ignorance of God; for shame to you I say `it'.


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and that which thou dost sow, not the body that shall be dost thou sow, but bare grain, it may be of wheat, or of some one of the others,


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All flesh `is' not the same flesh, but there is one flesh of men, and another flesh of beasts, and another of fishes, and another of birds;


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and `there are' heavenly bodies, and earthly bodies; but one `is' the glory of the heavenly, and another that of the earthly;


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one glory of sun, and another glory of moon, and another glory of stars, for star from star doth differ in glory.


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


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so also it hath been written, `The first man Adam became a living creature,' the last Adam `is' for a life-giving spirit,


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but that which is spiritual `is' not first, but that which `was' natural, afterwards that which `is' spiritual.


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as `is' the earthy, such `are' also the earthy; and as `is' the heavenly, such `are' also the heavenly;


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and, according as we did bear the image of the earthy, we shall bear also the image of the heavenly.


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And this I say, brethren, that flesh and blood the reign of God is not able to inherit, nor doth the corruption inherit the incorruption;


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in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, in the last trumpet, for it shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we -- we shall be changed:


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and when this corruptible may have put on incorruption, and this mortal may have put on immortality, then shall be brought to pass the word that hath been written, `The Death was swallowed up -- to victory;


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so that, my brethren beloved, become ye stedfast, unmovable, abounding in the work of the Lord at all times, knowing that your labour is not vain in the Lord.


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And concerning the collection that `is' for the saints, as I directed to the assemblies of Galatia, so also ye -- do ye;


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on every first `day' of the week, let each one of you lay by him, treasuring up whatever he may have prospered, that when I may come then collections may not be made;


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and whenever I may come, whomsoever ye may approve, through letters, these I will send to carry your favour to Jerusalem;


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and with you, it may be, I will abide, or even winter, that ye may send me forward whithersoever I go,


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for I do not wish to see you now in the passing, but I hope to remain a certain time with you, if the Lord may permit;


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And if Timotheus may come, see that he may become without fear with you, for the work of the Lord he doth work, even as I,


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no one, then, may despise him; and send ye him forward in peace, that he may come to me, for I expect him with the brethren;


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and concerning Apollos our brother, much I did entreat him that he may come unto you with the brethren, and it was not at all `his' will that he may come now, and he will come when he may find convenient.


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And I entreat you, brethren, ye have known the household of Stephanas, that it is the first-fruit of Achaia, and to the ministration to the saints they did set themselves --


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and I rejoice over the presence of Stephanas, and Fortunatus, and Achaicus, because the lack of you did these fill up;


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Salute you do the assemblies of Asia; salute you much in the Lord do Aquilas and Priscilla, with the assembly in their house;


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Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ, through the will of God, and Timotheus the brother, to the assembly of God that is in Corinth, with all the saints who are in all Achaia:


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Blessed `is' God, even the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of the mercies, and God of all comfort,


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who is comforting us in all our tribulation, for our being able to comfort those in any tribulation through the comfort with which we are comforted ourselves by God;


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because, as the sufferings of the Christ do abound to us, so through the Christ doth abound also our comfort;


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and whether we be in tribulation, `it is' for your comfort and salvation, that is wrought in the enduring of the same sufferings that we also suffer; whether we are comforted, `it is' for your comfort and salvation;


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


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For we do not wish you to be ignorant, brethren, of our tribulation that happened to us in Asia, that we were exceedingly burdened above `our' power, so that we despaired even of life;


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but we ourselves in ourselves the sentence of the death have had, that we may not be trusting on ourselves, but on God, who is raising the dead,


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who out of so great a death did deliver us, and doth deliver, in whom we have hoped that even yet He will deliver;


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ye working together also for us by your supplication, that the gift through many persons to us, through many may be thankfully acknowledged for us.


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For our glorying is this: the testimony of our conscience, that in simplicity and sincerity of God, not in fleshly wisdom, but in the grace of God, we did conduct ourselves in the world, and more abundantly toward you;


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for no other things do we write to you, but what ye either do read or also acknowledge, and I hope that also unto the end ye shall acknowledge,


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according as also ye did acknowledge us in part, that your glory we are, even as also ye `are' ours, in the day of the Lord Jesus;


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and through you to pass to Macedonia, and again from Macedonia to come unto you, and by you to be sent forward to Judea.


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This, therefore, counselling, did I then use the lightness; or the things that I counsel, according to the flesh do I counsel, that it may be with me Yes, yes, and No, no?


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for the Son of God, Jesus Christ, among you through us having been preached -- through me and Silvanus and Timotheus -- did not become Yes and No, but in him it hath become Yes;


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for as many as `are' promises of God, in him `are' the Yes, and in him the Amen, for glory to God through us;


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not that we are lords over your faith, but we are workers together with your joy, for by the faith ye stand.


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and I wrote to you this same thing, that having come, I may not have sorrow from them of whom it behoved me to have joy, having confidence in you all, that my joy is of you all,


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for out of much tribulation and pressure of heart I wrote to you through many tears, not that ye might be made sorry, but that ye might know the love that I have more abundantly toward you.


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And if any one hath caused sorrow, he hath not caused sorrow to me, but in part, that I may not burden you all;


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so that, on the contrary, `it is' rather for you to forgive and to comfort, lest by over abundant sorrow such a one may be swallowed up;


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


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And to whom ye forgive anything -- I also; for I also, if I have forgiven anything, to whom I have forgiven `it', because of you -- in the person of Christ -- `I forgive it,'


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And having come to Troas for the good news of the Christ, and a door to me having been opened in the Lord,


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I have not had rest to my spirit, on my not finding Titus my brother, but having taken leave of them, I went forth to Macedonia;


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and to God `are' thanks, who at all times is leading us in triumph in the Christ, and the fragrance of His knowledge He is manifesting through us in every place,


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to the one, indeed, a fragrance of death to death, and to the other, a fragrance of life to life; and for these things who is sufficient?


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for we are not as the many, adulterating the word of God, but as of sincerity -- but as of God; in the presence of God, in Christ we do speak.


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Do we begin again to recommend ourselves, except we need, as some, letters of recommendation unto you, or from you?


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manifested that ye are a letter of Christ ministered by us, written not with ink, but with the Spirit of the living God, not in the tablets of stone, but in fleshy tablets of the heart,


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not that we are sufficient of ourselves to think anything, as of ourselves, but our sufficiency `is' of God,


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who also made us sufficient `to be' ministrants of a new covenant, not of letter, but of spirit; for the letter doth kill, and the spirit doth make alive.


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and if the ministration of the death, in letters, engraved in stones, came in glory, so that the sons of Israel were not able to look stedfastly to the face of Moses, because of the glory of his face -- which was being made useless,


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for if the ministration of the condemnation `is' glory, much more doth the ministration of the righteousness abound in glory;


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for also even that which hath been glorious, hath not been glorious -- in this respect, because of the superior glory;


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for if that which is being made useless `is' through glory, much more that which is remaining `is' in glory.


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and `are' not as Moses, who was putting a vail upon his own face, for the sons of Israel not stedfastly to look to the end of that which is being made useless,


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but their minds were hardened, for unto this day the same vail at the reading of the Old Covenant doth remain unwithdrawn -- which in Christ is being made useless --


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and we all, with unvailed face, the glory of the Lord beholding in a mirror, to the same image are being transformed, from glory to glory, even as by the Spirit of the Lord.


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but did renounce for ourselves the hidden things of shame, not walking in craftiness, nor deceitfully using the word of God, but by the manifestation of the truth recommending ourselves unto every conscience of men, before God;


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in whom the god of this age did blind the minds of the unbelieving, that there doth not shine forth to them the enlightening of the good news of the glory of the Christ, who is the image of God;


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for not ourselves do we preach, but Christ Jesus -- Lord, and ourselves your servants because of Jesus;


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because `it is' God who said, Out of darkness light `is' to shine, who did shine in our hearts, for the enlightening of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.


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


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at all times the dying of the Lord Jesus bearing about in the body, that the life also of Jesus in our body may be manifested,


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for always are we who are living delivered up to death because of Jesus, that the life also of Jesus may be manifested in our dying flesh,


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And having the same spirit of the faith, according to that which hath been written, `I believed, therefore I did speak;' we also do believe, therefore also do we speak;


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knowing that He who did raise up the Lord Jesus, us also through Jesus shall raise up, and shall present with you,


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for the all things `are' because of you, that the grace having been multiplied, because of the thanksgiving of the more, may abound to the glory of God;


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wherefore, we faint not, but if also our outward man doth decay, yet the inward is renewed day by day;


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for the momentary light matter of our tribulation, more and more exceedingly an age-during weight of glory doth work out for us --


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we not looking to the things seen, but to the things not seen; for the things seen `are' temporary, but the things not seen `are' age-during.


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For we have known that if our earthly house of the tabernacle may be thrown down, a building from God we have, an house not made with hands -- age-during -- in the heavens,


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for also in this we groan, with our dwelling that is from heaven earnestly desiring to clothe ourselves,


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for we also who are in the tabernacle do groan, being burdened, seeing we wish not to unclothe ourselves, but to clothe ourselves, that the mortal may be swallowed up of the life.


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And He who did work us to this self-same thing `is' God, who also did give to us the earnest of the Spirit;


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having courage, then, at all times, and knowing that being at home in the body, we are away from home from the Lord, --


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we have courage, and are well pleased rather to be away from the home of the body, and to be at home with the Lord.


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for all of us it behoveth to be manifested before the tribunal of the Christ, that each one may receive the things `done' through the body, in reference to the things that he did, whether good or evil;


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having known, therefore, the fear of the Lord, we persuade men, and to God we are manifested, and I hope also in your consciences to have been manifested;


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for not again ourselves do we recommend to you, but we are giving occasion to you of glorifying in our behalf, that ye may have `something' in reference to those glorifying in face and not in heart;


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for whether we were beside ourselves, `it was' to God; whether we be of sound mind -- `it is' to you,


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for the love of the Christ doth constrain us, having judged thus: that if one for all died, then the whole died,


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and for all he died, that those living, no more to themselves may live, but to him who died for them, and was raised again.


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So that we henceforth have known no one according to the flesh, and even if we have known Christ according to the flesh, yet now we know him no more;


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so that if any one `is' in Christ -- `he is' a new creature; the old things did pass away, lo, become new have the all things.


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And the all things `are' of God, who reconciled us to Himself through Jesus Christ, and did give to us the ministration of the reconciliation,


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how that God was in Christ -- a world reconciling to Himself, not reckoning to them their trespasses; and having put in us the word of the reconciliation,


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in behalf of Christ, then, we are ambassadors, as if God were calling through us, we beseech, in behalf of Christ, `Be ye reconciled to God;'


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for him who did not know sin, in our behalf He did make sin, that we may become the righteousness of God in him.


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for He saith, `In an acceptable time I did hear thee, and in a day of salvation I did help thee, lo, now `is' a well-accepted time; lo, now, a day of salvation,' --


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but in everything recommending ourselves as God's ministrants; in much patience, in tribulations, in necessities, in distresses,


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in the word of truth, in the power of God, through the armour of the righteousness, on the right and on the left,


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


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Become not yoked with others -- unbelievers, for what partaking `is there' to righteousness and lawlessness?


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and what fellowship to light with darkness? and what concord to Christ with Belial? or what part to a believer with an unbeliever?


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and what agreement to the sanctuary of God with idols? for ye are a sanctuary of the living God, according as God said -- `I will dwell in them, and will walk among `them', and I will be their God, and they shall be My people,


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wherefore, come ye forth out of the midst of them, and be separated, saith the Lord, and an unclean thing do not touch, and I -- I will receive you,


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and I will be to you for a Father, and ye -- ye shall be to Me for sons and daughters, saith the Lord Almighty.'


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Having, then, these promises, beloved, may we cleanse ourselves from every pollution of flesh and spirit, perfecting sanctification in the fear of God;


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not to condemn you do I say `it', for I have said before that in our hearts ye are to die with and to live with;


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great `is' my freedom of speech unto you, great my glory on your behalf; I have been filled with the comfort, I overabound with the joy on all our tribulation,


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for also we, having come to Macedonia, no relaxation hath our flesh had, but on every side we are in tribulation, without `are' fightings, within -- fears;


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and not only in his presence, but also in the comfort with which he was comforted over you, declaring to us your longing desire, your lamentation, your zeal for me, so that the more I did rejoice,


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because even if I made you sorry in the letter, I do not repent -- if even I did repent -- for I perceive that the letter, even if for an hour, did make you sorry.


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I now do rejoice, not that ye were made sorry, but that ye were made sorry to reformation, for ye were made sorry toward God, that in nothing ye might receive damage from us;


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for the sorrow toward God reformation to salvation not to be repented of doth work, and the sorrow of the world doth work death,


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for, lo, this same thing -- your being made sorry toward God -- how much diligence it doth work in you! but defence, but displeasure, but fear, but longing desire, but zeal, but revenge; in every thing ye did approve yourselves to be pure in the matter.


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If, then, I also wrote to you -- not for his cause who did wrong, nor for his cause who did suffer wrong, but for our diligence in your behalf being manifested unto you before God --


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because of this we have been comforted in your comfort, and more abundantly the more did we rejoice in the joy of Titus, that his spirit hath been refreshed from you all;


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because if anything to him in your behalf I have boasted, I was not put to shame; but as all things in truth we did speak to you, so also our boasting before Titus became truth,


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and his tender affection is more abundantly toward you, remembering the obedience of you all, how with fear and trembling ye did receive him;


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And we make known to you, brethren, the grace of God, that hath been given in the assemblies of Macedonia,


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because in much trial of tribulation the abundance of their joy, and their deep poverty, did abound to the riches of their liberality;


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because, according to `their' power, I testify, and above `their' power, they were willing of themselves,


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with much entreaty calling on us to receive the favour and the fellowship of the ministration to the saints,


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and not according as we expected, but themselves they did give first to the Lord, and to us, through the will of God,


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so that we exhorted Titus, that, according as he did begin before, so also he may finish to you also this favour,


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but even as in every thing ye do abound, in faith, and word, and knowledge, and all diligence, and in your love to us, that also in this grace ye may abound;


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not according to command do I speak, but because of the diligence of others, and of your love proving the genuineness,


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for ye know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that because of you he became poor -- being rich, that ye by that poverty may become rich.


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and an opinion in this do I give: for this to you `is' expedient, who not only to do, but also to will, did begin before -- a year ago,


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and now also finish doing `it', that even as `there is' the readiness of the will, so also the finishing, out of that which ye have,


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for if the willing mind is present, according to that which any one may have it is well-accepted, not according to that which he hath not;


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but by equality, at the present time your abundance -- for their want, that also their abundance may be for your want, that there may be equality,


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according as it hath been written, `He who `did gather' much, had nothing over; and he who `did gather' little, had no lack.'


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because indeed the exhortation he accepted, and being more diligent, of his own accord he went forth unto you,


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and not only so, but who was also appointed by vote by the assemblies, our fellow-traveller, with this favour that is ministered by us, unto the glory of the same Lord, and your willing mind;


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and we sent with them our brother, whom we proved in many things many times being diligent, and now much more diligent, by the great confidence that is toward you,


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whether -- about Titus -- my partner and towards you fellow-worker, whether -- our brethren, apostles of assemblies -- glory of Christ;


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the shewing therefore of your love, and of our boasting on your behalf, to them shew ye, even in the face of the assemblies.


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For, indeed, concerning the ministration that `is' for the saints, it is superfluous for me to write to you,


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for I have known your readiness of mind, which in your behalf I boast of to Macedonians, that Achaia hath been prepared a year ago, and the zeal of you did stir up the more part,


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and I sent the brethren, that our boasting on your behalf may not be made vain in this respect; that, according as I said, ye may be ready,


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lest if Macedonians may come with me, and find you unprepared, we -- we may be put to shame (that we say not -- ye) in this same confidence of boasting.


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Necessary, therefore, I thought `it' to exhort the brethren, that they may go before to you, and may make up before your formerly announced blessing, that this be ready, as a blessing, and not as covetousness.


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And this: He who is sowing sparingly, sparingly also shall reap; and he who is sowing in blessings, in blessings also shall reap;


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each one, according as he doth purpose in heart, not out of sorrow or out of necessity, for a cheerful giver doth God love,


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and God `is' able all grace to cause to abound to you, that in every thing always all sufficiency having, ye may abound to every good work,


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(according as it hath been written, `He dispersed abroad, he gave to the poor, his righteousness doth remain to the age,')


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and may He who is supplying seed to the sower, and bread for food, supply and multiply your seed sown, and increase the fruits of your righteousness,


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because the ministration of this service not only is supplying the wants of the saints, but is also abounding through many thanksgivings to God,


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through the proof of this ministration glorifying God for the subjection of your confession to the good news of the Christ, and `for' the liberality of the fellowship to them and to all,


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and by their supplication in your behalf, longing after you because of the exceeding grace of God upon you;


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And I, Paul, myself, do call upon you -- through the meekness and gentleness of the Christ -- who in presence, indeed `am' humble among you, and being absent, have courage toward you,


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and I beseech `you', that, being present, I may not have courage, with the confidence with which I reckon to be bold against certain reckoning us as walking according to the flesh;


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for the weapons of our warfare `are' not fleshly, but powerful to God for bringing down of strongholds,


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reasonings bringing down, and every high thing lifted up against the knowledge of God, and bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of the Christ,


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The things in presence do ye see? if any one hath trusted in himself to be Christ's, this let him reckon again from himself, that according as he is Christ's, so also we `are' Christ's;


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for even if also anything more abundantly I shall boast concerning our authority, that the Lord gave us for building up, and not for casting you down, I shall not be ashamed;


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`because the letters indeed -- saith one -- `are' weighty and strong, and the bodily presence weak, and the speech despicable.'


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This one -- let him reckon thus: that such as we are in word, through letters, being absent, such also, being present, `we are' in deed.


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For we do not make bold to rank or to compare ourselves with certain of those commending themselves, but they, among themselves measuring themselves, and comparing themselves with themselves, are not wise,


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and we in regard to the unmeasured things will not boast ourselves, but after the measure of the line that the God of measure did appoint to us -- to reach even unto you;


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for not as not reaching to you do we stretch ourselves overmuch, for even unto you did we come in the good news of the Christ,


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not boasting of the things not measured, in other men's labours, and having hope -- your faith increasing -- in you to be enlarged, according to our line -- into abundance,


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in the `places' beyond you to proclaim good news, not in another's line in regard to the things made ready, to boast;


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for I am zealous for you with zeal of God, for I did betroth you to one husband, a pure virgin, to present to Christ,


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and I fear, lest, as the serpent did beguile Eve in his subtilty, so your minds may be corrupted from the simplicity that `is' in the Christ;


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for if, indeed, he who is coming doth preach another Jesus whom we did not preach, or another Spirit ye receive which ye did not receive, or other good news which ye did not accept -- well were ye bearing `it',


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and even if unlearned in word -- yet not in knowledge, but in every thing we were made manifest in all things to you.


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The sin did I do -- myself humbling that ye might be exalted, because freely the good news of God I did proclaim to you?


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and being present with you, and having been in want, I was chargeable to no one, for my lack did the brethren supply -- having come from Macedonia -- and in everything burdenless to you I did keep myself, and will keep.


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The truth of Christ is in me, because this boasting shall not be stopped in regard to me in the regions of Achaia;


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and what I do, I also will do, that I may cut off the occasion of those wishing an occasion, that in that which they boast they may be found according as we also;


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for those such `are' false apostles, deceitful workers, transforming themselves into apostles of Christ,


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no great thing, then, if also his ministrants do transform themselves as ministrants of righteousness -- whose end shall be according to their works.


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Again I say, may no one think me to be a fool; and if otherwise, even as a fool receive me, that I also a little may boast.


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That which I speak, I speak not according to the Lord, but as in foolishness, in this the confidence of boasting;


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for ye bear, if any one is bringing you under bondage, if any one doth devour, if any one doth take away, if any one doth exalt himself, if any one on the face doth smite you;


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in reference to dishonour I speak, how that we were weak, and in whatever any one is bold -- in foolishness I say `it' -- I also am bold.


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ministrants of Christ are they? -- as beside myself I speak -- I more; in labours more abundantly, in stripes above measure, in prisons more frequently, in deaths many times;


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thrice was I beaten with rods, once was I stoned, thrice was I shipwrecked, a night and a day in the deep I have passed;


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journeyings many times, perils of rivers, perils of robbers, perils from kindred, perils from nations, perils in city, perils in wilderness, perils in sea, perils among false brethren;


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in laboriousness and painfulness, in watchings many times, in hunger and thirst, in fastings many times, in cold and nakedness;


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apart from the things without -- the crowding upon me that is daily -- the care of all the assemblies.


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the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ -- who is blessed to the ages -- hath known that I do not lie! --


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In Damascus the ethnarch of Aretas the king was watching the city of the Damascenes, wishing to seize me,


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I have known a man in Christ, fourteen years ago -- whether in the body I have not known, whether out of the body I have not known, God hath known -- such an one being caught away unto the third heaven;


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and I have known such a man -- whether in the body, whether out of the body, I have not known, God hath known, --


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that he was caught away to the paradise, and heard unutterable sayings, that it is not possible for man to speak.


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for if I may wish to boast, I shall not be a fool, for truth I will say; but I forebear, lest any one in regard to me may think anything above what he doth see me, or doth hear anything of me;


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and that by the exceeding greatness of the revelations I might not be exalted overmuch, there was given to me a thorn in the flesh, a messenger of the Adversary, that he might buffet me, that I might not be exalted overmuch.


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and He said to me, `Sufficient for thee is My grace, for My power in infirmity is perfected;' most gladly, therefore, will I rather boast in my infirmities, that the power of the Christ may rest on me:


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wherefore I am well pleased in infirmities, in damages, in necessities, in persecutions, in distresses -- for Christ; for whenever I am infirm, then I am powerful;


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I have become a fool -- boasting; ye -- ye did compel me; for I ought by you to have been commended, for in nothing was I behind the very chiefest apostles -- even if I am nothing.


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The signs, indeed, of the apostle were wrought among you in all patience, in signs, and wonders, and mighty deeds,


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for what is there in which ye were inferior to the rest of the assemblies, except that I myself was not a burden to you? forgive me this injustice!


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Lo, a third time I am ready to come unto you, and I will not be a burden to you, for I seek not yours, but you, for the children ought not for the parents to lay up, but the parents for the children,


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and I most gladly will spend and be entirely spent for your souls, even if, more abundantly loving you, less I am loved.


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I entreated Titus, and did send with `him' the brother; did Titus take advantage of you? in the same spirit did we not walk? -- did we not in the same steps?


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Again, think ye that to you we are making defence? before God in Christ do we speak; and the all things, beloved, `are' for your up-building,


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for I fear lest, having come, not such as I wish I may find you, and I -- I may be found by you such as ye do not wish, lest there be strifes, envyings, wraths, revelries, evil-speakings, whisperings, puffings up, insurrections,


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lest again having come, my God may humble me in regard to you, and I may bewail many of those having sinned before, and not having reformed concerning the uncleanness, and whoredom, and lasciviousness, that they did practise.


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This third time do I come unto you; on the mouth of two witnesses or three shall every saying be established;


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I have said before, and I say `it' before, as being present, the second time, and being absent, now, do I write to those having sinned before, and to all the rest, that if I come again, I will not spare,


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since a proof ye seek of the Christ speaking in me, who to you is not infirm, but is powerful in you,


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for even if he was crucified from infirmity, yet he doth live from the power of God; for we also are weak in him, but we shall live with him from the power of God toward you.


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Your ownselves try ye, if ye are in the faith; your ownselves prove ye; do ye not know your ownselves, that Jesus Christ is in you, if ye be not in some respect disapproved of?


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and I pray before God that ye do no evil, not that we may appear approved, but that ye may do that which is right, and we may be as disapproved;


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for we rejoice when we may be infirm, and ye may be powerful; and this also we pray for -- your perfection!


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because of this, these things -- being absent -- I write, that being present, I may not treat `any' sharply, according to the authority that the Lord did give me for building up, and not for casting down.


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Henceforth, brethren, rejoice; be made perfect, be comforted, be of the same mind, be at peace, and the God of the love and peace shall be with you;


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the grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, and the love of God, and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit, `is' with you all! Amen.


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Paul, an apostle -- not from men, nor through man, but through Jesus Christ, and God the Father, who did raise him out of the dead --


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who did give himself for our sins, that he might deliver us out of the present evil age, according to the will of God even our Father,


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I wonder that ye are so quickly removed from Him who did call you in the grace of Christ to another good news;


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that is not another, except there be certain who are troubling you, and wishing to pervert the good news of the Christ;


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but even if we or a messenger out of heaven may proclaim good news to you different from what we did proclaim to you -- anathema let him be!


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as we have said before, and now say again, If any one to you may proclaim good news different from what ye did receive -- anathema let him be!


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for now men do I persuade, or God? or do I seek to please men? for if yet men I did please -- Christ's servant I should not be.


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And I make known to you, brethren, the good news that were proclaimed by me, that it is not according to man,


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for neither did I from man receive it, nor was I taught `it', but through a revelation of Jesus Christ,


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for ye did hear of my behaviour once in Judaism, that exceedingly I was persecuting the assembly of God, and wasting it,


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and I was advancing in Judaism above many equals in age in mine own race, being more abundantly zealous of my fathers' deliverances,


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and when God was well pleased -- having separated me from the womb of my mother, and having called `me' through His grace --


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to reveal His Son in me, that I might proclaim him good news among the nations, immediately I conferred not with flesh and blood,


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nor did I go up to Jerusalem unto those who were apostles before me, but I went away to Arabia, and again returned to Damascus,


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then, after three years I went up to Jerusalem to enquire about Peter, and remained with him fifteen days,


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and only they were hearing, that `he who is persecuting us then, doth now proclaim good news -- the faith that then he was wasting;'


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Then, after fourteen years again I went up to Jerusalem with Barnabas, having taken with me also Titus;


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and I went up by revelation, and did submit to them the good news that I preach among the nations, and privately to those esteemed, lest in vain I might run or did run;


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and `that' because of the false brethren brought in unawares, who did come in privily to spy out our liberty that we have in Christ Jesus, that us they might bring under bondage,


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to whom not even for an hour we gave place by subjection, that the truth of the good news might remain to you.


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And from those who were esteemed to be something -- whatever they were then, it maketh no difference to me -- the face of man God accepteth not, for -- to me those esteemed did add nothing,


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but, on the contrary, having seen that I have been entrusted with the good news of the uncircumcision, as Peter with `that' of the circumcision,


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for He who did work with Peter to the apostleship of the circumcision, did work also in me in regard to the nations,


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and having known the grace that was given to me, James, and Cephas, and John, who were esteemed to be pillars, a right hand of fellowship they did give to me, and to Barnabas, that we to the nations, and they to the circumcision `may go',


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for before the coming of certain from James, with the nations he was eating, and when they came, he was withdrawing and separating himself, fearing those of the circumcision,


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and dissemble with him also did the other Jews, so that also Barnabas was carried away by their dissimulation.


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But when I saw that they are not walking uprightly to the truth of the good news, I said to Peter before all, `If thou, being a Jew, in the manner of the nations dost live, and not in the manner of the Jews, how the nations dost thou compel to Judaize?


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having known also that a man is not declared righteous by works of law, if not through the faith of Jesus Christ, also we in Christ Jesus did believe, that we might be declared righteous by the faith of Christ, and not by works of law, wherefore declared righteous by works of law shall be no flesh.'


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And if, seeking to be declared righteous in Christ, we ourselves also were found sinners, `is' then Christ a ministrant of sin? let it not be!


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with Christ I have been crucified, and live no more do I, and Christ doth live in me; and that which I now live in the flesh -- in the faith I live of the Son of God, who did love me and did give himself for me;


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I do not make void the grace of God, for if righteousness `be' through law -- then Christ died in vain.


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O thoughtless Galatians, who did bewitch you, not to obey the truth -- before whose eyes Jesus Christ was described before among you crucified?


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this only do I wish to learn from you -- by works of law the Spirit did ye receive, or by the hearing of faith?


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He, therefore, who is supplying to you the Spirit, and working mighty acts among you -- by works of law or by the hearing of faith `is it'?


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and the Writing having foreseen that by faith God doth declare righteous the nations did proclaim before the good news to Abraham --


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`Blessed in thee shall be all the nations;' so that those of faith are blessed with the faithful Abraham,


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for as many as are of works of law are under a curse, for it hath been written, `Cursed `is' every one who is not remaining in all things that have been written in the Book of the Law -- to do them,'


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and that in law no one is declared righteous with God, is evident, because `The righteous by faith shall live;'


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Christ did redeem us from the curse of the law, having become for us a curse, for it hath been written, `Cursed is every one who is hanging on a tree,'


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that to the nations the blessing of Abraham may come in Christ Jesus, that the promise of the Spirit we may receive through the faith.


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Brethren, as a man I say `it', even of man a confirmed covenant no one doth make void or doth add to,


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and to Abraham were the promises spoken, and to his seed; He doth not say, `And to seeds,' as of many, but as of one, `And to thy seed,' which is Christ;


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and this I say, A covenant confirmed before by God to Christ, the law, that came four hundred and thirty years after, doth not set aside, to make void the promise,


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for if by law `be' the inheritance, `it is' no more by promise, but to Abraham through promise did God grant `it'.


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Why, then, the law? on account of the transgressions it was added, till the seed might come to which the promise hath been made, having been set in order through messengers in the hand of a mediator --


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the law, then, `is' against the promises of God? -- let it not be! for if a law was given that was able to make alive, truly by law there would have been the righteousness,


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but the Writing did shut up the whole under sin, that the promise by faith of Jesus Christ may be given to those believing.


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And before the coming of the faith, under law we were being kept, shut up to the faith about to be revealed,


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so that the law became our child-conductor -- to Christ, that by faith we may be declared righteous,


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there is not here Jew or Greek, there is not here servant nor freeman, there is not here male and female, for all ye are one in Christ Jesus;


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And I say, so long time as the heir is a babe, he differeth nothing from a servant -- being lord of all,


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and because ye are sons, God did send forth the spirit of His Son into your hearts, crying, `Abba, Father!'


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and now, having known God -- and rather being known by God -- how turn ye again unto the weak and poor elements to which anew ye desire to be in servitude?


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and my trial that `is' in my flesh ye did not despise nor reject, but as a messenger of God ye did receive me -- as Christ Jesus;


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what then was your happiness? for I testify to you, that if possible, your eyes having plucked out, ye would have given to me;


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they are zealous for you -- `yet' not well, but they wish to shut us out, that for them ye may be zealous;


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and `it is' good to be zealously regarded, in what is good, at all times, and not only in my being present with you;


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and I was wishing to be present with you now, and to change my voice, because I am in doubt about you.


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for it hath been written, that Abraham had two sons, one by the maid-servant, and one by the free-woman,


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but he who `is' of the maid-servant, according to flesh hath been, and he who `is' of the free-woman, through the promise;


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which things are allegorized, for these are the two covenants: one, indeed, from mount Sinai, to servitude bringing forth, which is Hagar;


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for this Hagar is mount Sinai in Arabia, and doth correspond to the Jerusalem that now `is', and is in servitude with her children,


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for it hath been written, `Rejoice, O barren, who art not bearing; break forth and cry, thou who art not travailing, because many `are' the children of the desolate -- more than of her having the husband.'


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but as then he who was born according to the flesh did persecute him according to the spirit, so also now;


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but what saith the Writing? `Cast forth the maid-servant and her son, for the son of the maid-servant may not be heir with the son of the free-woman;'


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In the freedom, then, with which Christ did make you free -- stand ye, and be not held fast again by a yoke of servitude;


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


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I have confidence in regard to you in the Lord, that ye will be none otherwise minded; and he who is troubling you shall bear the judgment, whoever he may be.


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And I, brethren, if uncircumcision I yet preach, why yet am I persecuted? then hath the stumbling-block of the cross been done away;


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For ye -- to freedom ye were called, brethren, only not the freedom for an occasion to the flesh, but through the love serve ye one another,


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for the flesh doth desire contrary to the Spirit, and the Spirit contrary to the flesh, and these are opposed one to another, that the things that ye may will -- these ye may not do;


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And manifest also are the works of the flesh, which are: Adultery, whoredom, uncleanness, lasciviousness,


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envyings, murders, drunkennesses, revellings, and such like, of which I tell you before, as I also said before, that those doing such things the reign of God shall not inherit.


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Brethren, if a man also may be overtaken in any trespass, ye who `are' spiritual restore such a one in a spirit of meekness, considering thyself -- lest thou also may be tempted;


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and his own work let each one prove, and then in regard to himself alone the glorying he shall have, and not in regard to the other,


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because he who is sowing to his own flesh, of the flesh shall reap corruption; and he who is sowing to the Spirit, of the Spirit shall reap life age-during;


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and in the doing good we may not be faint-hearted, for at the proper time we shall reap -- not desponding;


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therefore, then, as we have opportunity, may we work the good to all, and especially unto those of the household of the faith.


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as many as are willing to make a good appearance in the flesh, these constrain you to be circumcised -- only that for the cross of the Christ they may not be persecuted,


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for neither do those circumcised themselves keep the law, but they wish you to be circumcised, that in your flesh they may glory.


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And for me, let it not be -- to glory, except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, through which to me the world hath been crucified, and I to the world;


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Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ through the will of God, to the saints who are in Ephesus, and to the faithful in Christ Jesus:


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Blessed `is' the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who did bless us in every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places in Christ,


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according as He did choose us in him before the foundation of the world, for our being holy and unblemished before Him, in love,


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having foreordained us to the adoption of sons through Jesus Christ to Himself, according to the good pleasure of His will,


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


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having made known to us the secret of His will, according to His good pleasure, that He purposed in Himself,


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in regard to the dispensation of the fulness of the times, to bring into one the whole in the Christ, both the things in the heavens, and the things upon the earth -- in him;


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in whom also we did obtain an inheritance, being foreordained according to the purpose of Him who the all things is working according to the counsel of His will,


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


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which is an earnest of our inheritance, to the redemption of the acquired possession, to the praise of His glory.


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Because of this I also, having heard of your faith in the Lord Jesus, and the love to all the saints,


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


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the eyes of your understanding being enlightened, for your knowing what is the hope of His calling, and what the riches of the glory of His inheritance in the saints,


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and what the exceeding greatness of His power to us who are believing, according to the working of the power of His might,


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which He wrought in the Christ, having raised him out of the dead, and did set `him' at His right hand in the heavenly `places',


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far above all principality, and authority, and might, and lordship, and every name named, not only in this age, but also in the coming one;


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in which once ye did walk according to the age of this world, according to the ruler of the authority of the air, of the spirit that is now working in the sons of disobedience,


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among whom also we all did walk once in the desires of our flesh, doing the wishes of the flesh and of the thoughts, and were by nature children of wrath -- as also the others,


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even being dead in the trespasses, did make us to live together with the Christ, (by grace ye are having been saved,)


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and did raise `us' up together, and did seat `us' together in the heavenly `places' in Christ Jesus,


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that He might show, in the ages that are coming, the exceeding riches of His grace in kindness toward us in Christ Jesus,


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for of Him we are workmanship, created in Christ Jesus to good works, which God did before prepare, that in them we may walk.


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Wherefore, remember, that ye `were' once the nations in the flesh, who are called Uncircumcision by that called Circumcision in the flesh made by hands,


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


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the enmity in his flesh, the law of the commands in ordinances having done away, that the two he might create in himself into one new man, making peace,


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Then, therefore, ye are no more strangers and foreigners, but fellow-citizens of the saints, and of the household of God,


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


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if, indeed, ye did hear of the dispensation of the grace of God that was given to me in regard to you,


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in regard to which ye are able, reading `it', to understand my knowledge in the secret of the Christ,


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which in other generations was not made known to the sons of men, as it was now revealed to His holy apostles and prophets in the Spirit --


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that the nations be fellow-heirs, and of the same body, and partakers of His promise in the Christ, through the good news,


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of which I became a ministrant, according to the gift of the grace of God that was given to me, according to the working of His power;


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to me -- the less than the least of all the saints -- was given this grace, among the nations to proclaim good news -- the untraceable riches of the Christ,


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and to cause all to see what `is' the fellowship of the secret that hath been hid from the ages in God, who the all things did create by Jesus Christ,


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that there might be made known now to the principalities and the authorities in the heavenly `places', through the assembly, the manifold wisdom of God,


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that He may give to you, according to the riches of His glory, with might to be strengthened through His Spirit, in regard to the inner man,


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that ye may be in strength to comprehend, with all the saints, what `is' the breadth, and length, and depth, and height,


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to know also the love of the Christ that is exceeding the knowledge, that ye may be filled -- to all the fulness of God;


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and to Him who is able above all things to do exceeding abundantly what we ask or think, according to the power that is working in us,


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to Him `is' the glory in the assembly in Christ Jesus, to all the generations of the age of the ages. Amen.


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Call upon you, then, do I -- the prisoner of the Lord -- to walk worthily of the calling with which ye were called,


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and that, he went up, what is it except that he also went down first to the lower parts of the earth?


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he who went down is the same also who went up far above all the heavens, that He may fill all things --


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and He gave some `as' apostles, and some `as' prophets, and some `as' proclaimers of good news, and some `as' shepherds and teachers,


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unto the perfecting of the saints, for a work of ministration, for a building up of the body of the Christ,


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till we may all come to the unity of the faith and of the recognition of the Son of God, to a perfect man, to a measure of stature of the fulness of the Christ,


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that we may no more be babes, tossed and borne about by every wind of the teaching, in the sleight of men, in craftiness, unto the artifice of leading astray,


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from whom the whole body, being fitly joined together and united, through the supply of every joint, according to the working in the measure of each single part, the increase of the body doth make for the building up of itself in love.


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This, then, I say, and I testify in the Lord; ye are no more to walk, as also the other nations walk, in the vanity of their mind,


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


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who, having ceased to feel, themselves did give up to the lasciviousness, for the working of all uncleanness in greediness;


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ye are to put off concerning the former behaviour the old man, that is corrupt according to the desires of the deceit,


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and to put on the new man, which, according to God, was created in righteousness and kindness of the truth.


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Wherefore, putting away the lying, speak truth each with his neighbour, because we are members one of another;


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whoso is stealing let him no more steal, but rather let him labour, working the thing that is good with the hands, that he may have to impart to him having need.


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Let no corrupt word out of your mouth go forth, but what is good unto the needful building up, that it may give grace to the hearers;


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


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and become one to another kind, tender-hearted, forgiving one another, according as also God in Christ did forgive you.


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and walk in love, as also the Christ did love us, and did give himself for us, an offering and a sacrifice to God for an odour of a sweet smell,


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


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for this ye know, that every whoremonger, or unclean, or covetous person, who is an idolater, hath no inheritance in the reign of the Christ and God.


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Let no one deceive you with vain words, for because of these things cometh the anger of God upon the sons of the disobedience,


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and all the things reproved by the light are manifested, for everything that is manifested is light;


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wherefore he saith, `Arouse thyself, thou who art sleeping, and arise out of the dead, and the Christ shall shine upon thee.'


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


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because the husband is head of the wife, as also the Christ `is' head of the assembly, and he is saviour of the body,


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but even as the assembly is subject to Christ, so also `are' the wives to their own husbands in everything.


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The husbands! love your own wives, as also the Christ did love the assembly, and did give himself for it,


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that he might present it to himself the assembly in glory, not having spot or wrinkle, or any of such things, but that it may be holy and unblemished;


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so ought the husbands to love their own wives as their own bodies: he who is loving his own wife -- himself he doth love;


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for no one ever his own flesh did hate, but doth nourish and cherish it, as also the Lord -- the assembly,


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`for this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall be joined to his wife, and they shall be -- the two -- for one flesh;'


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but ye also, every one in particular -- let each his own wife so love as himself, and the wife -- that she may reverence the husband.


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which is the first command with a promise, `That it may be well with thee, and thou mayest live a long time upon the land.'


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And the fathers! provoke not your children, but nourish them in the instruction and admonition of the Lord.


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The servants! obey the masters according to the flesh with fear and trembling, in the simplicity of your heart, as to the Christ;


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not with eye-service as men-pleasers, but as servants of the Christ, doing the will of God out of soul,


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having known that whatever good thing each one may do, this he shall receive from the Lord, whether servant or freeman.


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And the masters! the same things do ye unto them, letting threatening alone, having known that also your Master is in the heavens, and acceptance of persons is not with him.


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because we have not the wrestling with blood and flesh, but with the principalities, with the authorities, with the world-rulers of the darkness of this age, with the spiritual things of the evil in the heavenly places;


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because of this take ye up the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to resist in the day of the evil, and all things having done -- to stand.


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Stand, therefore, having your loins girt about in truth, and having put on the breastplate of the righteousness,


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above all, having taken up the shield of the faith, in which ye shall be able all the fiery darts of the evil one to quench,


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through all prayer and supplication praying at all times in the Spirit, and in regard to this same, watching in all perseverance and supplication for all the saints --


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and in behalf of me, that to me may be given a word in the opening of my mouth, in freedom, to make known the secret of the good news,


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for which I am an ambassador in a chain, that in it I may speak freely -- as it behoveth me to speak.


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And that ye may know -- ye also -- the things concerning me -- what I do, all things make known to you shall Tychicus, the beloved brother and faithful ministrant in the Lord,


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whom I did send unto you for this very thing, that ye might know the things concerning us, and that he might comfort your hearts.


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Paul and Timotheus, servants of Jesus Christ, to all the saints in Christ Jesus who are in Philippi, with overseers and ministrants;


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having been confident of this very thing, that He who did begin in you a good work, will perform `it' till a day of Jesus Christ,


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according as it is righteous for me to think this in behalf of you all, because of my having you in the heart, both in my bonds, and `in' the defence and confirmation of the good news, all of you being fellow-partakers with me of grace.


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being filled with the fruit of righteousness, that `is' through Jesus Christ, to the glory and praise of God.


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And I wish you to know, brethren, that the things concerning me, rather to an advancement of the good news have come,


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so that my bonds have become manifest in Christ in the whole praetorium, and to the other places -- all,


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and the greater part of the brethren in the Lord, having confidence by my bonds, are more abundantly bold -- fearlessly to speak the word.


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Certain, indeed, even through envy and contention, and certain also through good-will, do preach the Christ;


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the one, indeed, of rivalry the Christ do proclaim, not purely, supposing to add affliction to my bonds,


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what then? in every way, whether in pretence or in truth, Christ is proclaimed -- and in this I rejoice, yea, and shall rejoice.


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For I have known that this shall fall out to me for salvation, through your supplication, and the supply of the Spirit of Christ Jesus,


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according to my earnest expectation and hope, that in nothing I shall be ashamed, and in all freedom, as always, also now Christ shall be magnified in my body, whether through life or through death,


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for I am pressed by the two, having the desire to depart, and to be with Christ, for it is far better,


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and of this being persuaded, I have known that I shall remain and continue with you all, to your advancement and joy of the faith,


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Only worthily of the good news of the Christ conduct ye yourselves, that, whether having come and seen you, whether being absent I may hear of the things concerning you, that ye stand fast in one spirit, with one soul, striving together for the faith of the good news,


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and not terrified in anything by those opposing, which to them indeed is a token of destruction, and to you of salvation, and that from God;


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because to you it was granted, on behalf of Christ, not only to believe in him, but also on behalf of him to suffer;


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If, then, any exhortation `is' in Christ, if any comfort of love, if any fellowship of spirit, if any bowels and mercies,


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fulfil ye my joy, that ye may mind the same thing -- having the same love -- of one soul -- minding the one thing,


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nothing in rivalry or vain-glory, but in humility of mind one another counting more excellent than yourselves --


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and in fashion having been found as a man, he humbled himself, having become obedient unto death -- death even of a cross,


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that in the name of Jesus every knee may bow -- of heavenlies, and earthlies, and what are under the earth --


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So that, my beloved, as ye always obey, not as in my presence only, but now much more in my absence, with fear and trembling your own salvation work out,


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that ye may become blameless and harmless, children of God, unblemished in the midst of a generation crooked and perverse, among whom ye do appear as luminaries in the world,


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the word of life holding forth, for rejoicing to me in regard to a day of Christ, that not in vain did I run, nor in vain did I labour;


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but if also I am poured forth upon the sacrifice and service of your faith, I rejoice and joy with you all,


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And I hope, in the Lord Jesus, Timotheus to send quickly to you, that I also may be of good spirit, having known the things concerning you,


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and the proof of him ye know, that as a child `serveth' a father, with me he did serve in regard to the good news;


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him, indeed, therefore, I hope to send, when I may see through the things concerning me -- immediately;


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And I thought `it' necessary Epaphroditus -- my brother, and fellow-workman, and fellow-soldier, and your apostle and servant to my need -- to send unto you,


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for he also ailed nigh to death, but God did deal kindly with him, and not with him only, but also with me, that sorrow upon sorrow I might not have.


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The more eagerly, therefore, I did send him, that having seen him again ye may rejoice, and I may be the less sorrowful;


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because on account of the work of the Christ he drew near to death, having hazarded the life that he might fill up your deficiency of service unto me.


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As to the rest, my brethren, rejoice in the Lord; the same things to write to you to me indeed is not tiresome, and for you `is' sure;


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for we are the circumcision, who by the Spirit are serving God, and glorying in Christ Jesus, and in flesh having no trust,


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though I also have `cause of' trust in flesh. If any other one doth think to have trust in flesh, I more;


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circumcision on the eighth day! of the race of Israel! of the tribe of Benjamin! a Hebrew of Hebrews! according to law a Pharisee!


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according to zeal persecuting the assembly! according to righteousness that is in law becoming blameless!


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yes, indeed, and I count all things to be loss, because of the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord, because of whom of the all things I suffered loss, and do count them to be refuse, that Christ I may gain, and be found in him,


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not having my righteousness, which `is' of law, but that which `is' through faith of Christ -- the righteousness that is of God by the faith,


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to know him, and the power of his rising again, and the fellowship of his sufferings, being conformed to his death,


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Not that I did already obtain, or have been already perfected; but I pursue, if also I may lay hold of that for which also I was laid hold of by the Christ Jesus;


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brethren, I do not reckon myself to have laid hold; and one thing -- the things behind indeed forgetting, and to the things before stretching forth --


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As many, therefore, as `are' perfect -- let us think this, and if `in' anything ye think otherwise, this also shall God reveal to you,


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become followers together of me, brethren, and observe those thus walking, according as ye have us -- a pattern;


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for many walk of whom many times I told you -- and now also weeping tell -- the enemies of the cross of the Christ!


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whose end `is' destruction, whose god `is' the belly, and whose glory `is' in their shame, who the things on earth are minding.


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who shall transform the body of our humiliation to its becoming conformed to the body of his glory, according to the working of his power, even to subject to himself the all things.


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and I ask also thee, genuine yoke-fellow, be assisting those women who in the good news did strive along with me, with Clement also, and the others, my fellow-workers, whose names `are' in the book of life.


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for nothing be anxious, but in everything by prayer, and by supplication, with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known unto God;


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and the peace of God, that is surpassing all understanding, shall guard your hearts and your thoughts in Christ Jesus.


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As to the rest, brethren, as many things as are true, as many as `are' grave, as many as `are' righteous, as many as `are' pure, as many as `are' lovely, as many as `are' of good report, if any worthiness, and if any praise, these things think upon;


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the things that also ye did learn, and receive, and hear, and saw in me, those do, and the God of the peace shall be with you.


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And I rejoiced in the Lord greatly, that now at length ye flourished again in caring for me, for which also ye were caring, and lacked opportunity;


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not that in respect of want I say `it', for I did learn in the things in which I am -- to be content;


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I have known both to be abased, and I have known to abound; in everything and in all things I have been initiated, both to be full and to be hungry, both to abound and to be in want.


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and ye have known, even ye Philippians, that in the beginning of the good news when I went forth from Macedonia, no assembly did communicate with me in regard to giving and receiving except ye only;


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and I have all things, and abound; I am filled, having received from Epaphroditus the things from you -- an odour of a sweet smell -- a sacrifice acceptable, well-pleasing to God:


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to the saints in Colossae, and to the faithful brethren in Christ: Grace to you, and peace from God our Father, and the Lord Jesus Christ!


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because of the hope that is laid up for you in the heavens, which ye heard of before in the word of the truth of the good news,


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which is present to you, as also in all the world, and is bearing fruit, as also in you, from the day in which ye heard, and knew the grace of God in truth;


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as ye also learned from Epaphras, our beloved fellow-servant, who is for you a faithful ministrant of the Christ,


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Because of this, we also, from the day in which we heard, do not cease praying for you, and asking that ye may be filled with the full knowledge of His will in all wisdom and spiritual understanding,


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to your walking worthily of the Lord to all pleasing, in every good work being fruitful, and increasing to the knowledge of God,


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in all might being made mighty according to the power of His glory, to all endurance and long-suffering with joy.


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Giving thanks to the Father who did make us meet for the participation of the inheritance of the saints in the light,


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who did rescue us out of the authority of the darkness, and did translate `us' into the reign of the Son of His love,


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because in him were the all things created, those in the heavens, and those upon the earth, those visible, and those invisible, whether thrones, whether lordships, whether principalities, whether authorities; all things through him, and for him, have been created,


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And himself is the head of the body -- the assembly -- who is a beginning, a first-born out of the dead, that he might become in all `things' -- himself -- first,


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and through him to reconcile the all things to himself -- having made peace through the blood of his cross -- through him, whether the things upon the earth, whether the things in the heavens.


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And you -- once being alienated, and enemies in the mind, in the evil works, yet now did he reconcile,


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in the body of his flesh through the death, to present you holy, and unblemished, and unblameable before himself,


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if also ye remain in the faith, being founded and settled, and not moved away from the hope of the good news, which ye heard, which was preached in all the creation that `is' under the heaven, of which I became -- I Paul -- a ministrant.


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I now rejoice in my sufferings for you, and do fill up the things lacking of the tribulations of the Christ in my flesh for his body, which is the assembly,


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of which I -- I did become a ministrant according to the dispensation of God, that was given to me for you, to fulfil the word of God,


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the secret that hath been hid from the ages and from the generations, but now was manifested to his saints,


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to whom God did will to make known what `is' the riches of the glory of this secret among the nations -- which is Christ in you, the hope of the glory,


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


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For I wish you to know how great a conflict I have for you and those in Laodicea, and as many as have not seen my face in the flesh,


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that their hearts may be comforted, being united in love, and to all riches of the full assurance of the understanding, to the full knowledge of the secret of the God and Father, and of the Christ,


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for if even in the flesh I am absent -- yet in the spirit I am with you, joying and beholding your order, and the stedfastness of your faith in regard to Christ;


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being rooted and built up in him, and confirmed in the faith, as ye were taught -- abounding in it in thanksgiving.


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See that no one shall be carrying you away as spoil through the philosophy and vain deceit, according to the deliverance of men, according to the rudiments of the world, and not according to Christ,


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in whom also ye were circumcised with a circumcision not made with hands, in the putting off of the body of the sins of the flesh in the circumcision of the Christ,


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being buried with him in the baptism, in which also ye rose with `him' through the faith of the working of God, who did raise him out of the dead.


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And you -- being dead in the trespasses and the uncircumcision of your flesh -- He made alive together with him, having forgiven you all the trespasses,


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having blotted out the handwriting in the ordinances that is against us, that was contrary to us, and he hath taken it out of the way, having nailed it to the cross;


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having stripped the principalities and the authorities, he made a shew of them openly -- having triumphed over them in it.


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Let no one, then, judge you in eating or in drinking, or in respect of a feast, or of a new moon, or of sabbaths,


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let no one beguile you of your prize, delighting in humble-mindedness and `in' worship of the messengers, intruding into the things he hath not seen, being vainly puffed up by the mind of his flesh,


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and not holding the head, from which all the body -- through the joints and bands gathering supply, and being knit together -- may increase with the increase of God.


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If, then, ye did die with the Christ from the rudiments of the world, why, as living in the world, are ye subject to ordinances?


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which are, indeed, having a matter of wisdom in will-worship, and humble-mindedness, and neglecting of body -- not in any honour, unto a satisfying of the flesh.


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


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when the Christ -- our life -- may be manifested, then also we with him shall be manifested in glory.


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Put to death, then, your members that `are' upon the earth -- whoredom, uncleanness, passion, evil desire, and the covetousness, which is idolatry --


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but now put off, even ye, the whole -- anger, wrath, malice, evil-speaking, filthy talking -- out of your mouth.


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and having put on the new, which is renewed in regard to knowledge, after the image of Him who did create him;


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where there is not Greek and Jew, circumcision and uncircumcision, foreigner, Scythian, servant, freeman -- but the all and in all -- Christ.


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Put on, therefore, as choice ones of God, holy and beloved, bowels of mercies, kindness, humble-mindedness, meekness, long-suffering,


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forbearing one another, and forgiving each other, if any one with any one may have a quarrel, as also the Christ did forgive you -- so also ye;


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and let the peace of God rule in your hearts, to which also ye were called in one body, and become thankful.


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


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and all, whatever ye may do in word or in work, `do' all things in the name of the Lord Jesus -- giving thanks to the God and Father, through him.


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The servants! obey in all things those who are masters according to the flesh, not in eye-service as men-pleasers, but in simplicity of heart, fearing God;


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having known that from the Lord ye shall receive the recompense of the inheritance -- for the Lord Christ ye serve;


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and he who is doing unrighteously shall receive what he did unrighteously, and there is no acceptance of persons.


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The masters! that which is righteous and equal to the servants give ye, having known that ye also have a Master in the heavens.


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praying at the same time also for us, that God may open to us a door for the word, to speak the secret of the Christ, because of which also I have been bound,


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your word always in grace -- with salt being seasoned -- to know how it behoveth you to answer each one.


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All the things concerning me make known to you shall Tychicus -- the beloved brother, and faithful ministrant, and fellow-servant in the Lord --


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whom I did send unto you for this very thing, that he might know the things concerning you, and might comfort your hearts,


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with Onesimus the faithful and beloved brother, who is of you; all things to you shall they make known that `are' here.


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Salute you doth Aristarchus, my fellow-captive, and Marcus, the nephew of Barnabas, (concerning whom ye did receive commands -- if he may come unto you receive him,)


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and Jesus who is called Justus, who are of the circumcision: these only `are' fellow-workers for the reign of God who did become a comfort to me.


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Salute you doth Epaphras, who `is' of you, a servant of Christ, always striving for you in the prayers, that ye may stand perfect and made full in all the will of God,


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for I do testify to him, that he hath much zeal for you, and those in Laodicea, and those in Hierapolis.


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and when the epistle may be read with you, cause that also in the assembly of the Laodiceans it may be read, and the `epistle' from Laodicea that ye also may read;


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and say to Archippus, `See to the ministration that thou didst receive in the Lord, that thou mayest fulfil it.'


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Paul, and Silvanus, and Timotheus, to the assembly of Thessalonians in God the Father, and the Lord Jesus Christ: Grace to you, and peace, from God our Father, and the Lord Jesus Christ!


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unceasingly remembering of you the work of the faith, and the labour of the love, and the endurance of the hope, of our Lord Jesus Christ, in the presence of our God and Father,


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because our good news did not come to you in word only, but also in power, and in the Holy Spirit, and in much assurance, even as ye have known of what sort we became among you because of you,


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and ye -- ye did become imitators of us, and of the Lord, having received the word in much tribulation, with joy of the Holy Spirit,


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for from you hath sounded forth the word of the Lord, not only in Macedonia and Achaia, but also in every place your faith toward God did go forth, so that we have no need to say anything,


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for they themselves concerning us do declare what entrance we had unto you, and how ye did turn unto God from the idols, to serve a living and true God,


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and to wait for His Son from the heavens, whom He did raise out of the dead -- Jesus, who is rescuing us from the anger that is coming.


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but having both suffered before, and having been injuriously treated (as ye have known) in Philippi, we were bold in our God to speak unto you the good news of God in much conflict,


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but as we have been approved by God to be entrusted with the good news, so we speak, not as pleasing men, but God, who is proving our hearts,


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for at no time did we come with speech of flattery, (as ye have known,) nor in a pretext for covetousness, (God `is' witness!)


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nor seeking of men glory, neither from you nor from others, being able to be burdensome, as Christ's apostles.


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so being desirous of you, we are well-pleased to impart to you not only the good news of God, but also our own souls, because beloved ye have become to us,


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for ye remember, brethren, our labour and travail, for, night and day working not to be a burden upon any of you, we did preach to you the good news of God;


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ye `are' witnesses -- God also -- how kindly and righteously, and blamelessly to you who believe we became,


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even as ye have known, how each one of you, as a father his own children, we are exhorting you, and comforting, and testifying,


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Because of this also, we -- we do give thanks to God continually, that, having received the word of hearing from us of God, ye accepted, not the word of man, but as it is truly, the word of God, who also doth work in you who believe;


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for ye became imitators, brethren, of the assemblies of God that are in Judea in Christ Jesus, because such things ye suffered, even ye, from your own countrymen, as also they from the Jews,


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who did both put to death the Lord Jesus and their own prophets, and did persecute us, and God they are not pleasing, and to all men `are' contrary,


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forbidding us to speak to the nations that they might be saved, to fill up their sins always, but the anger did come upon them -- to the end!


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And we, brethren, having been taken from you for the space of an hour -- in presence, not in heart -- did hasten the more abundantly to see your face in much desire,


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wherefore we wished to come unto you, (I indeed Paul,) both once and again, and the Adversary did hinder us;


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for what `is' our hope, or joy, or crown of rejoicing? are not even ye before our Lord Jesus Christ in his presence?


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and did send Timotheus -- our brother, and a ministrant of God, and our fellow-workman in the good news of the Christ -- to establish you, and to comfort you concerning your faith,


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for even when we were with you, we said to you beforehand, that we are about to suffer tribulation, as also it did come to pass, and ye have known `it';


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because of this also, I, no longer forbearing, did send to know your faith, lest he who is tempting did tempt you, and in vain might be our labour.


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And now Timotheus having come unto us from you, and having declared good news to us of your faith and love, and that ye have a good remembrance of us always, desiring much to see us, as we also `to see' you,


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because of this we were comforted, brethren, over you, in all our tribulation and necessity, through your faith,


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for what thanks are we able to recompense to God for you, for all the joy with which we do joy because of you in the presence of our God?


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night and day exceedingly beseeching, that we might see your face, and perfect the things lacking in your faith.


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and you the Lord cause to increase and to abound in the love to one another, and to all, even as we also to you,


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to the establishing your hearts blameless in sanctification before our God and Father, in the presence of our Lord Jesus Christ with all His saints.


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As to the rest, then, brethren, we request you, and call upon you in the Lord Jesus, as ye did receive from us how it behoveth you to walk and to please God, that ye may abound the more,


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that no one go beyond and defraud in the matter his brother, because an avenger `is' the Lord of all these, as also we spake before to you and testified,


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he, therefore, who is despising -- doth not despise man, but God, who also did give His Holy Spirit to us.


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And concerning the brotherly love, ye have no need of `my' writing to you, for ye yourselves are God-taught to love one another,


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for ye do it also to all the brethren who `are' in all Macedonia; and we call upon you, brethren, to abound still more,


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and to study to be quiet, and to do your own business, and to work with your own hands, as we did command you,


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And I do not wish you to be ignorant, brethren, concerning those who have fallen asleep, that ye may not sorrow, as also the rest who have not hope,


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for if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, so also God those asleep through Jesus he will bring with him,


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for this to you we say in the word of the Lord, that we who are living -- who do remain over to the presence of the Lord -- may not precede those asleep,


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because the Lord himself, in a shout, in the voice of a chief-messenger, and in the trump of God, shall come down from heaven, and the dead in Christ shall rise first,


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then we who are living, who are remaining over, together with them shall be caught away in clouds to meet the Lord in air, and so always with the Lord we shall be;


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for when they may say, Peace and surety, then sudden destruction doth stand by them, as the travail `doth' her who is with child, and they shall not escape;


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and we, being of the day -- let us be sober, putting on a breastplate of faith and love, and an helmet -- a hope of salvation,


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because God did not appoint us to anger, but to the acquiring of salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ,


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And we ask you, brethren, to know those labouring among you, and leading you in the Lord, and admonishing you,


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and we exhort you, brethren, admonish the disorderly, comfort the feeble-minded, support the infirm, be patient unto all;


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see no one evil for evil may render to any one, but always that which is good pursue ye, both to one another and to all;


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and the God of the peace Himself sanctify you wholly, and may your whole spirit, and soul, and body, be preserved unblameably in the presence of our Lord Jesus Christ;


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


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We ought to give thanks to God always for you, brethren, as it is meet, because increase greatly doth your faith, and abound doth the love of each one of you all, to one another;


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so that we ourselves do glory in you in the assemblies of God, for your endurance and faith in all your persecutions and tribulations that ye bear;


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a token of the righteous judgment of God, for your being counted worthy of the reign of God, for which also ye suffer,


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and to you who are troubled -- rest with us in the revelation of the Lord Jesus from heaven, with messengers of his power,


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in flaming fire, giving vengeance to those not knowing God, and to those not obeying the good news of our Lord Jesus Christ;


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who shall suffer justice -- destruction age-during -- from the face of the Lord, and from the glory of his strength,


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when He may come to be glorified in his saints, and to be wondered at in all those believing -- because our testimony was believed among you -- in that day;


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for which also we do pray always for you, that our God may count you worthy of the calling, and may fulfil all the good pleasure of goodness, and the work of the faith in power,


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


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And we ask you, brethren, in regard to the presence of our Lord Jesus Christ, and of our gathering together unto him,


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that ye be not quickly shaken in mind, nor be troubled, neither through spirit, neither through word, neither through letters as through us, as that the day of Christ hath arrived;


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let not any one deceive you in any manner, because -- if the falling away may not come first, and the man of sin be revealed -- the son of the destruction,


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who is opposing and is raising himself up above all called God or worshipped, so that he in the sanctuary of God as God hath sat down, shewing himself off that he is God -- `the day doth not come'.


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for the secret of the lawlessness doth already work, only he who is keeping down now `will hinder' -- till he may be out of the way,


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and then shall be revealed the Lawless One, whom the Lord shall consume with the spirit of his mouth, and shall destroy with the manifestation of his presence,


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`him,' whose presence is according to the working of the Adversary, in all power, and signs, and lying wonders,


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and in all deceitfulness of the unrighteousness in those perishing, because the love of the truth they did not receive for their being saved,


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that they may be judged -- all who did not believe the truth, but were well pleased in the unrighteousness.


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And we -- we ought to give thanks to God always for you, brethren, beloved by the Lord, that God did choose you from the beginning to salvation, in sanctification of the Spirit, and belief of the truth,


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to which He did call you through our good news, to the acquiring of the glory of our Lord Jesus Christ;


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so, then, brethren, stand ye fast, and hold the deliverances that ye were taught, whether through word, whether through our letter;


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and may our Lord Jesus Christ himself, and our God and Father, who did love us, and did give comfort age-during, and good hope in grace,


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As to the rest, pray ye, brethren, concerning us, that the word of the Lord may run and may be glorified, as also with you,


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


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And we command you, brethren, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, to withdraw yourselves from every brother disorderly walking, and not after the deliverance that ye received from us,


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for yourselves have known how it behoveth `you' to imitate us, because we did not act disorderly among you;


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nor for nought did we eat bread of any one, but in labour and in travail, night and day working, not to be chargeable to any of you;


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not because we have not authority, but that ourselves a pattern we might give to you, to imitate us;


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for even when we were with you, this we did command you, that if any one is not willing to work, neither let him eat,


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and such we command and exhort through our Lord Jesus Christ, that with quietness working, their own bread they may eat;


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and if any one do not obey our word through the letter, this one note ye, and have no company with him, that he may be ashamed,


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and may the Lord of the peace Himself give to you the peace always in every way; the Lord `is' with you all!


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Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ, according to a command of God our Saviour, and of the Lord Jesus Christ our hope,


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to Timotheus -- genuine child in faith: Grace, kindness, peace, from God our Father, and Christ Jesus our Lord,


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according as I did exhort thee to remain in Ephesus -- I going on to Macedonia -- that thou mightest charge certain not to teach any other thing,


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nor to give heed to fables and endless genealogies, that cause questions rather than the building up of God that is in faith: --


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And the end of the charge is love out of a pure heart, and of a good conscience, and of faith unfeigned,


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willing to be teachers of law, not understanding either the things they say, nor concerning what they asseverate,


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having known this, that for a righteous man law is not set, but for lawless and insubordinate persons, ungodly and sinners, impious and profane, parricides and matricides, men-slayers,


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whoremongers, sodomites, men-stealers, liars, perjured persons, and if there be any other thing that to sound doctrine is adverse,


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And I give thanks to him who enabled me -- Christ Jesus our Lord -- that he did reckon me stedfast, having put `me' to the ministration,


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who before was speaking evil, and persecuting, and insulting, but I found kindness, because, being ignorant, I did `it' in unbelief,


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stedfast `is' the word, and of all acceptation worthy, that Christ Jesus came to the world to save sinners -- first of whom I am;


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but because of this I found kindness, that in me first Jesus Christ might shew forth all long-suffering, for a pattern of those about to believe on him to life age-during:


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and to the King of the ages, the incorruptible, invisible, only wise God, `is' honour and glory -- to the ages of the ages! Amen.


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This charge I commit to thee, child Timotheus, according to the prophesies that went before upon thee, that thou mayest war in them the good warfare,


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having faith and a good conscience, which certain having thrust away, concerning the faith did make shipwreck,


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of whom are Hymenaeus and Alexander, whom I did deliver to the Adversary, that they might be instructed not to speak evil.


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I exhort, then, first of all, there be made supplications, prayers, intercessions, thanksgivings, for all men:


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for kings, and all who are in authority, that a quiet and peaceable life we may lead in all piety and gravity,


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in regard to which I was set a preacher and apostle -- truth I say in Christ, I do not lie -- a teacher of nations, in faith and truth.


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I wish, therefore, that men pray in every place, lifting up kind hands, apart from anger and reasoning;


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in like manner also the women, in becoming apparel, with modesty and sobriety to adorn themselves, not in braided hair, or gold, or pearls, or garments of great price,


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and she shall be saved through the child-bearing, if they remain in faith, and love, and sanctification, with sobriety.


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it behoveth, therefore, the overseer to be blameless, of one wife a husband, vigilant, sober, decent, a friend of strangers, apt to teach,


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not given to wine, not a striker, not given to filthy lucre, but gentle, not contentious, not a lover of money,


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(and if any one his own house `how' to lead hath not known, how an assembly of God shall he take care of?)


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and it behoveth him also to have a good testimony from those without, that he may not fall into reproach and a snare of the devil.


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Ministrants -- in like manner grave, not double-tongued, not given to much wine, not given to filthy lucre,


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for those who did minister well a good step to themselves do acquire, and much boldness in faith that `is' in Christ Jesus.


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and if I delay, that thou mayest know how it behoveth `thee' to conduct thyself in the house of God, which is an assembly of the living God -- a pillar and foundation of the truth,


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and, confessedly, great is the secret of piety -- God was manifested in flesh, declared righteous in spirit, seen by messengers, preached among nations, believed on in the world, taken up in glory!


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And the Spirit expressly speaketh, that in latter times shall certain fall away from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits and teachings of demons,


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forbidding to marry -- to abstain from meats that God created to be received with thanksgiving by those believing and acknowledging the truth,


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because every creature of God `is' good, and nothing `is' to be rejected, with thanksgiving being received,


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These things placing before the brethren, thou shalt be a good ministrant of Jesus Christ, being nourished by the words of the faith, and of the good teaching, which thou didst follow after,


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for the bodily exercise is unto little profit, and the piety is to all things profitable, a promise having of the life that now is, and of that which is coming;


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for for this we both labour and are reproached, because we hope on the living God, who is Saviour of all men -- especially of those believing.


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let no one despise thy youth, but a pattern become thou of those believing in word, in behaviour, in love, in spirit, in faith, in purity;


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be not careless of the gift in thee, that was given thee through prophecy, with laying on of the hands of the eldership;


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take heed to thyself, and to the teaching; remain in them, for this thing doing, both thyself thou shalt save, and those hearing thee.


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and if any widow have children or grandchildren, let them learn first to their own house to show piety, and to give back a recompense to the parents, for this is right and acceptable before God.


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And she who is really a widow and desolate, hath hoped upon God, and doth remain in the supplications and in the prayers night and day,


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and if any one for his own -- and especially for those of the household -- doth not provide, the faith he hath denied, and than an unbeliever he is worse.


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in good works being testified to: if she brought up children, if she entertained strangers, if saints' feet she washed, if those in tribulation she relieved, if every good work she followed after;


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and at the same time also, they learn `to be' idle, going about the houses; and not only idle, but also tattlers and busybodies, speaking the things they ought not;


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I wish, therefore, younger ones to marry, to bear children, to be mistress of the house, to give no occasion to the opposer to reviling;


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If any believing man or believing woman have widows, let them relieve them, and let not the assembly be burdened, that those really widows it may relieve.


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The well-leading elders of double honour let them be counted worthy, especially those labouring in word and teaching,


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for the Writing saith, `An ox treading out thou shalt not muzzle,' and `Worthy `is' the workman of his reward.'


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I testify fully, before God and the Lord Jesus Christ, and the choice messengers, that these things thou mayest keep, without forejudging, doing nothing by partiality.


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Be laying hands quickly on no one, nor be having fellowship with sins of others; be keeping thyself pure;


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no longer be drinking water, but a little wine be using, because of thy stomach and of thine often infirmities;


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of certain men the sins are manifest beforehand, leading before to judgment, and certain also they follow after;


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in like manner also the right works are manifest beforehand, and those that are otherwise are not able to be hid.


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As many as are servants under a yoke, their own masters worthy of all honour let them reckon, that the name of God and the teaching may not be evil spoken of;


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and those having believing masters, let them not slight `them', because they are brethren, but rather let them serve, because they are stedfast and beloved, who of the benefit are partaking. These things be teaching and exhorting;


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if any one be teaching otherwise, and do not consent to sound words -- those of our Lord Jesus Christ -- and to the teaching according to piety,


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he is proud, knowing nothing, but doting about questions and word-striving, out of which doth come envy, strife, evil-speakings, evil-surmisings,


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wranglings of men wholly corrupted in mind, and destitute of the truth, supposing the piety to be gain; depart from such;


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and those wishing to be rich, do fall into temptation and a snare, and many desires, foolish and hurtful, that sink men into ruin and destruction,


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for a root of all the evils is the love of money, which certain longing for did go astray from the faith, and themselves did pierce through with many sorrows;


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and thou, O man of God, these things flee, and pursue righteousness, piety, faith, love, endurance, meekness;


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be striving the good strife of the faith, be laying hold on the life age-during, to which also thou wast called, and didst profess the right profession before many witnesses.


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I charge thee, before God, who is making all things alive, and of Christ Jesus, who did testify before Pontius Pilate the right profession,


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which in His own times He shall shew -- the blessed and only potentate, the King of the kings and Lord of the lords,


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who only is having immortality, dwelling in light unapproachable, whom no one of men did see, nor is able to see, to whom `is' honour and might age-during! Amen.


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Those rich in the present age charge thou not to be high-minded, nor to hope in the uncertainty of riches, but in the living God, who is giving to us all things richly for enjoyment; --


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treasuring up to themselves a right foundation for the time to come, that they may lay hold on the life age-during.


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O Timotheus, the thing entrusted guard thou, avoiding the profane vain-words and opposition of the falsely-named knowledge,


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Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ, through the will of God, according to a promise of life that `is' in Christ Jesus,


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to Timotheus, beloved child: Grace, kindness, peace, from God the Father, and Christ Jesus our Lord!


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I am thankful to God, whom I serve from progenitors in a pure conscience, that unceasingly I have remembrance concerning thee in my supplications night and day,


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taking remembrance of the unfeigned faith that is in thee, that dwelt first in thy grandmother Lois, and thy mother Eunice, and I am persuaded that also in thee.


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For which cause I remind thee to stir up the gift of God that is in thee through the putting on of my hands,


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therefore thou mayest not be ashamed of the testimony of our Lord, nor of me his prisoner, but do thou suffer evil along with the good news according to the power of God,


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who did save us, and did call with an holy calling, not according to our works, but according to His own purpose and grace, that was given to us in Christ Jesus, before the times of the ages,


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and was made manifest now through the manifestation of our Saviour Jesus Christ, who indeed did abolish death, and did enlighten life and immortality through the good news,


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for which cause also these things I suffer, but I am not ashamed, for I have known in whom I have believed, and have been persuaded that he is able that which I have committed to him to guard -- to that day.


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The pattern hold thou of sound words, which from me thou didst hear, in faith and love that `is' in Christ Jesus;


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thou hast known this, that they did turn from me -- all those in Asia, of whom are Phygellus and Hermogenes;


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may the Lord give kindness to the house of Onesiphorus, because many times he did refresh me, and of my chain was not ashamed,


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may the Lord give to him to find kindness from the Lord in that day; and how many things in Ephesus he did minister thou dost very well know.


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and the things that thou didst hear from me through many witnesses, these things be committing to stedfast men, who shall be sufficient also others to teach;


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no one serving as a soldier did entangle himself with the affairs of life, that him who did enlist him he may please;


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because of this all things do I endure, because of the choice ones, that they also salvation may obtain that `is' in Christ Jesus, with glory age-during.


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These things remind `them' of, testifying fully before the Lord -- not to strive about words to nothing profitable, but to the subversion of those hearing;


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be diligent to present thyself approved to God -- a workman irreproachable, rightly dividing the word of the truth;


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who concerning the truth did swerve, saying the rising again to have already been, and do overthrow the faith of some;


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sure, nevertheless, hath the foundation of God stood, having this seal, `The Lord hath known those who are His,' and `Let him depart from unrighteousness -- every one who is naming the name of Christ.'


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


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if, then, any one may cleanse himself from these, he shall be a vessel to honour, sanctified and profitable to the master -- to every good work having been prepared,


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and the youthful lusts flee thou, and pursue righteousness, faith, love, peace, with those calling upon the Lord out of a pure heart;


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and a servant of the Lord it behoveth not to strive, but to be gentle unto all, apt to teach, patient under evil,


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in meekness instructing those opposing -- if perhaps God may give to them repentance to an acknowledging of the truth,


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for men shall be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boasters, proud, evil-speakers, to parents disobedient, unthankful, unkind,


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without natural affection, implacable, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, not lovers of those who are good,


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for of these there are those coming into the houses and leading captive the silly women, laden with sins, led away with desires manifold,


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and, even as Jannes and Jambres stood against Moses, so also these do stand against the truth, men corrupted in mind, disapproved concerning the faith;


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but they shall not advance any further, for their folly shall be manifest to all, as theirs also did become.


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And thou -- thou hast followed after my teaching, manner of life, purpose, faith, long-suffering, love, endurance,


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the persecutions, the afflictions, that befel me in Antioch, in Iconium, in Lystra; what persecutions I endured, and out of all the Lord did deliver me,


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And thou -- be remaining in the things which thou didst learn and wast entrusted with, having known from whom thou didst learn,


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and because from a babe the Holy Writings thou hast known, which are able to make thee wise -- to salvation, through faith that `is' in Christ Jesus;


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every Writing `is' God-breathed, and profitable for teaching, for conviction, for setting aright, for instruction that `is' in righteousness,


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I do fully testify, then, before God, and the Lord Jesus Christ, who is about to judge living and dead at his manifestation and his reign --


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preach the word; be earnest in season, out of season, convict, rebuke, exhort, in all long-suffering and teaching,


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for there shall be a season when the sound teaching they will not suffer, but according to their own desires to themselves they shall heap up teachers -- itching in the hearing,


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and indeed, from the truth the hearing they shall turn away, and to the fables they shall be turned aside.


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And thou -- watch in all things; suffer evil; do the work of one proclaiming good news; of thy ministration make full assurance,


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henceforth there is laid up for me the crown of the righteousness that the Lord -- the Righteous Judge -- shall give to me in that day, and not only to me, but also to all those loving his manifestation.


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for Demas forsook me, having loved the present age, and went on to Thessalonica, Crescens to Galatia, Titus to Dalmatia,


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Lukas only is with me; Markus having taken, bring with thyself, for he is profitable to me for ministration;


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the cloak that I left in Troas with Carpus, coming, bring thou and the books -- especially the parchments.


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and the Lord stood by me, and did strengthen me, that through me the preaching might be fully assured, and all the nations might hear, and I was freed out of the mouth of a lion,


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and the Lord shall free me from every evil work, and shall save `me' -- to his heavenly kingdom; to whom `is' the glory to the ages of the ages! Amen.


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be diligent to come before winter. Salute thee doth Eubulus, and Pudens, and Linus, and Claudia, and all the brethren.


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Paul, a servant of God, and an apostle of Jesus Christ, according to the faith of the choice ones of God, and an acknowledging of truth that `is' according to piety,


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(and He manifested in proper times His word,) in preaching, which I was entrusted with, according to a charge of God our Saviour,


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to Titus -- true child according to a common faith: Grace, kindness, peace, from God the Father, and the Lord Jesus Christ our Saviour!


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For this cause left I thee in Crete, that the things lacking thou mayest arrange, and mayest set down in every city elders, as I did appoint to thee;


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if any one is blameless, of one wife a husband, having children stedfast, not under accusation of riotous living or insubordinate --


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for it behoveth the overseer to be blameless, as God's steward, not self-pleased, nor irascible, not given to wine, not a striker, not given to filthy lucre;


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holding -- according to the teaching -- to the stedfast word, that he may be able also to exhort in the sound teaching, and the gainsayers to convict;


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for there are many both insubordinate, vain-talkers, and mind-deceivers -- especially they of the circumcision --


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whose mouth it behoveth to stop, who whole households do overturn, teaching what things it behoveth not, for filthy lucre's sake.


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A certain one of them, a prophet of their own, said -- `Cretans! always liars, evil beasts, lazy bellies!'


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all things, indeed, `are' pure to the pure, and to the defiled and unstedfast `is' nothing pure, but of them defiled `are' even the mind and the conscience;


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God they profess to know, and in the works they deny `Him', being abominable, and disobedient, and unto every good work disapproved.


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aged women, in like manner, in deportment as doth become sacred persons, not false accusers, to much wine not enslaved, of good things teachers,


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that they may make the young women sober-minded, to be lovers of `their' husbands, lovers of `their' children,


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sober, pure, keepers of `their own' houses, good, subject to their own husbands, that the word of God may not be evil spoken of.


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concerning all things thyself showing a pattern of good works; in the teaching uncorruptedness, gravity, incorruptibility,


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discourse sound, irreprehensible, that he who is of the contrary part may be ashamed, having nothing evil to say concerning you.


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Servants -- to their own masters `are' to be subject, in all things to be well-pleasing, not gainsaying,


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not purloining, but showing all good stedfastness, that the teaching of God our Saviour they may adorn in all things.


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teaching us, that denying the impiety and the worldly desires, soberly and righteously and piously we may live in the present age,


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waiting for the blessed hope and manifestation of the glory of our great God and Saviour Jesus Christ,


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who did give himself for us, that he might ransom us from all lawlessness, and might purify to himself a peculiar people, zealous of good works;


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Remind them to be subject to principalities and authorities, to obey rule, unto every good work to be ready,


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for we were once -- also we -- thoughtless, disobedient, led astray, serving desires and pleasures manifold, in malice and envy living, odious -- hating one another;


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(not by works that `are' in righteousness that we did but according to His kindness,) He did save us, through a bathing of regeneration, and a renewing of the Holy Spirit,


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that having been declared righteous by His grace, heirs we may become according to the hope of life age-during.


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Stedfast `is' the word; and concerning these things I counsel thee to affirm fully, that they may be thoughtful, to be leading in good works -- who have believed God; these are the good and profitable things to men,


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and foolish questions, and genealogies, and contentions, and strivings about law, stand away from -- for they are unprofitable and vain.


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


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and let them learn -- ours also -- to be leading in good works to the necessary uses, that they may not be unfruitful.


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Paul, a prisoner of Christ Jesus, and Timotheus the brother, to Philemon our beloved and fellow-worker,


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that the fellowship of thy faith may become working in the full knowledge of every good thing that `is' in you toward Christ Jesus;


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for we have much joy and comfort in thy love, because the bowels of the saints have been refreshed through thee, brother.


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because of the love I rather entreat, being such an one as Paul the aged, and now also a prisoner of Jesus Christ;


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whom I did wish to retain to myself, that in thy behalf he might minister to me in the bonds of the good news,


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and apart from thy mind I willed to do nothing, that as of necessity thy good deed may not be, but of willingness,


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no more as a servant, but above a servant -- a brother beloved, especially to me, and how much more to thee, both in the flesh and in the Lord!


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I, Paul did write with my hand, I -- I will repay; that I may not say that also thyself, besides, to me thou dost owe.


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having been confident in thy obedience I did write to thee, having known that also above what I may say thou wilt do;


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and at the same time also prepare for me a lodging, for I hope that through your prayers I shall be granted to you.


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in these last days did speak to us in a Son, whom He appointed heir of all things, through whom also He did make the ages;


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who being the brightness of the glory, and the impress of His subsistence, bearing up also the all things by the saying of his might -- through himself having made a cleansing of our sins, sat down at the right hand of the greatness in the highest,


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having become so much better than the messengers, as he did inherit a more excellent name than they.


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For to which of the messengers said He ever, `My Son thou art -- I to-day have begotten thee?' and again, `I will be to him for a father, and he shall be to Me for a son?'


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and when again He may bring in the first-born to the world, He saith, `And let them bow before him -- all messengers of God;'


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and unto the messengers, indeed, He saith, `Who is making His messengers spirits, and His ministers a flame of fire;'


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and unto the Son: `Thy throne, O God, `is' to the age of the age; a scepter of righteousness `is' the scepter of thy reign;


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thou didst love righteousness, and didst hate lawlessness; because of this did He anoint thee -- God, thy God -- with oil of gladness above thy partners;'


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and as a mantle Thou shall roll them together, and they shall be changed, and Thou art the same, and Thy years shall not fail.'


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And unto which of the messengers said He ever, `Sit at My right hand, till I may make thine enemies thy footstool?'


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are they not all spirits of service -- for ministration being sent forth because of those about to inherit salvation?


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Because of this it behoveth `us' more abundantly to take heed to the things heard, lest we may glide aside,


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for if the word being spoken through messengers did become stedfast, and every transgression and disobedience did receive a just recompense,


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how shall we escape, having neglected so great salvation? which a beginning receiving -- to be spoken through the Lord -- by those having heard was confirmed to us,


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God also bearing joint-witness both with signs and wonders, and manifold powers, and distributions of the Holy Spirit, according to His will.


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and one in a certain place did testify fully, saying, `What is man, that Thou art mindful of him, or a son of man, that Thou dost look after him?


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Thou didst make him some little less than messengers, with glory and honour Thou didst crown him, and didst set him over the works of Thy hands,


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all things Thou didst put in subjection under his feet,' for in the subjecting to him the all things, nothing did He leave to him unsubjected, and now not yet do we see the all things subjected to him,


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and him who was made some little less than messengers we see -- Jesus -- because of the suffering of the death, with glory and honour having been crowned, that by the grace of God for every one he might taste of death.


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For it was becoming to Him, because of whom `are' the all things, and through whom `are' the all things, many sons to glory bringing, the author of their salvation through sufferings to make perfect,


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for both he who is sanctifying and those sanctified `are' all of one, for which cause he is not ashamed to call them brethren,


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saying, `I will declare Thy name to my brethren, in the midst of an assembly I will sing praise to Thee;' and again, `I will be trusting on Him;'


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Seeing, then, the children have partaken of flesh and blood, he himself also in like manner did take part of the same, that through death he might destroy him having the power of death -- that is, the devil --


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and might deliver those, whoever, with fear of death, throughout all their life, were subjects of bondage,


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wherefore it did behove him in all things to be made like to the brethren, that he might become a kind and stedfast chief-priest in the things with God, to make propitiation for the sins of the people,


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Wherefore, holy brethren, partakers of a heavenly calling, consider the apostle and chief priest of our profession, Christ Jesus,


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for of more glory than Moses hath this one been counted worthy, inasmuch as more honour than the house hath he who doth build it,


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and Moses indeed `was' stedfast in all his house, as an attendant, for a testimony of those things that were to be spoken,


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and Christ, as a Son over his house, whose house are we, if the boldness and the rejoicing of the hope unto the end we hold fast.


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ye may not harden your hearts, as in the provocation, in the day of the temptation in the wilderness,


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wherefore I was grieved with that generation, and said, Always do they go astray in heart, and these have not known My ways;


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See, brethren, lest there shall be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief in the falling away from the living God,


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but exhort ye one another every day, while the To-day is called, that none of you may be hardened by the deceitfulness of the sin,


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for partakers we have become of the Christ, if the beginning of the confidence unto the end we may hold fast,


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in its being said, `To-day, if His voice ye may hear, ye may not harden your hearts, as in the provocation,'


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but with whom was He grieved forty years? was it not with those who did sin, whose carcasses fell in the wilderness?


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and to whom did He swear that they shall not enter into His rest, except to those who did not believe? --


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We may fear, then, lest a promise being left of entering into His rest, any one of you may seem to have come short,


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for we also are having good news proclaimed, even as they, but the word heard did not profit them, not being mixed with faith in those who heard,


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for we do enter into the rest -- we who did believe, as He said, `So I sware in My anger, If they shall enter into My rest -- ;' and yet the works were done from the foundation of the world,


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for He spake in a certain place concerning the seventh `day' thus: `And God did rest in the seventh day from all His works;'


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since then, it remaineth for certain to enter into it, and those who did first hear good news entered not in because of unbelief --


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again He doth limit a certain day, `To-day,' (in David saying, after so long a time,) as it hath been said, `To-day, if His voice ye may hear, ye may not harden your hearts,'


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for if Joshua had given them rest, He would not concerning another day have spoken after these things;


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May we be diligent, then, to enter into that rest, that no one in the same example of the unbelief may fall,


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for the reckoning of God is living, and working, and sharp above every two-edged sword, and piercing unto the dividing asunder both of soul and spirit, of joints also and marrow, and a discerner of thoughts and intents of the heart;


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and there is not a created thing not manifest before Him, but all things `are' naked and open to His eyes -- with whom is our reckoning.


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Having, then, a great chief priest passed through the heavens -- Jesus the Son of God -- may we hold fast the profession,


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for we have not a chief priest unable to sympathise with our infirmities, but `one' tempted in all things in like manner -- apart from sin;


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we may come near, then, with freedom, to the throne of the grace, that we may receive kindness, and find grace -- for seasonable help.


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For every chief priest -- out of men taken -- in behalf of men is set in things `pertaining' to God, that he may offer both gifts and sacrifices for sins,


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able to be gentle to those ignorant and going astray, since himself also is compassed with infirmity;


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so also the Christ did not glorify himself to become chief priest, but He who spake unto him: `My Son thou art, I to-day have begotten thee;'


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as also in another `place' He saith, `Thou `art' a priest -- to the age, according to the order of Melchisedek;'


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who in the days of his flesh both prayers and supplications unto Him who was able to save him from death -- with strong crying and tears -- having offered up, and having been heard in respect to that which he feared,


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and having been made perfect, he did become to all those obeying him a cause of salvation age-during,


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concerning whom we have much discourse and of hard explanation to say, since ye have become dull of hearing,


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for even owing to be teachers, because of the time, again ye have need that one teach you what `are' the elements of the beginning of the oracles of God, and ye have become having need of milk, and not of strong food,


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for every one who is partaking of milk `is' unskilled in the word of righteousness -- for he is an infant,


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and of perfect men is the strong food, who because of the use are having the senses exercised, unto the discernment both of good and of evil.


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Wherefore, having left the word of the beginning of the Christ, unto the perfection we may advance, not again a foundation laying of reformation from dead works, and of faith on God,


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of the teaching of baptisms, of laying on also of hands, of rising again also of the dead, and of judgment age-during,


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for `it is' impossible for those once enlightened, having tasted also of the heavenly gift, and partakers having became of the Holy Spirit,


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and having fallen away, again to renew `them' to reformation, having crucified again to themselves the Son of God, and exposed to public shame.


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For earth, that is drinking in the rain many times coming upon it, and is bringing forth herbs fit for those because of whom also it is dressed, doth partake of blessing from God,


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and that which is bearing thorns and briers `is' disapproved of, and nigh to cursing, whose end `is' for burning;


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and we are persuaded, concerning you, beloved, the things that are better, and accompanying salvation, though even thus we speak,


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for God is not unrighteous to forget your work, and the labour of the love, that ye shewed to His name, having ministered to the saints and ministering;


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and we desire each one of you the same diligence to shew, unto the full assurance of the hope unto the end,


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that ye may not become slothful, but followers of those who through faith and patient endurance are inheriting the promises.


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For to Abraham God, having made promise, seeing He was able to swear by no greater, did swear by Himself,


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for men indeed do swear by the greater, and an end of all controversy to them for confirmation `is' the oath,


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in which God, more abundantly willing to shew to the heirs of the promise the immutability of his counsel, did interpose by an oath,


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that through two immutable things, in which `it is' impossible for God to lie, a strong comfort we may have who did flee for refuge to lay hold on the hope set before `us',


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which we have, as an anchor of the soul, both sure and stedfast, and entering into that within the vail,


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whither a forerunner for us did enter -- Jesus, after the order of Melchisedek chief priest having become -- to the age.


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For this Melchisedek, king of Salem, priest of God Most High, who did meet Abraham turning back from the smiting of the kings, and did bless him,


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to whom also a tenth of all did Abraham divide, (first, indeed, being interpreted, `King of righteousness,' and then also, King of Salem, which is, King of Peace,)


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without father, without mother, without genealogy, having neither beginning of days nor end of life, and being made like to the Son of God, doth remain a priest continually.


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And see how great this one `is', to whom also a tenth Abraham the patriarch did give out of the best of the spoils,


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and those, indeed, out of the sons of Levi receiving the priesthood, a command have to take tithes from the people according to the law, that is, their brethren, even though they came forth out of the loins of Abraham;


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and he who was not reckoned by genealogy of them, received tithes from Abraham, and him having the promises he hath blessed,


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and here, indeed, men who die do receive tithes, and there `he', who is testified to that he was living,


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If indeed, then, perfection were through the Levitical priesthood -- for the people under it had received law -- what further need, according to the order of Melchisedek, for another priest to arise, and not to be called according to the order of Aaron?


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for he of whom these things are said in another tribe hath had part, of whom no one gave attendance at the altar,


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for `it is' evident that out of Judah hath arisen our Lord, in regard to which tribe Moses spake nothing concerning priesthood.


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And it is yet more abundantly most evident, if according to the similitude of Melchisedek there doth arise another priest,


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who came not according to the law of a fleshly command, but according to the power of an endless life,


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for a disannulling indeed doth come of the command going before because of its weakness, and unprofitableness,


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(for nothing did the law perfect) and the bringing in of a better hope, through which we draw nigh to God.


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and he with an oath through Him who is saying unto him, `The Lord sware, and will not repent, Thou `art' a priest -- to the age, according to the order of Melchisedek;')


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and those indeed are many who have become priests, because by death they are hindered from remaining;


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whence also he is able to save to the very end, those coming through him unto God -- ever living to make intercession for them.


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For such a chief priest did become us -- kind, harmless, undefiled, separate from the sinners, and become higher than the heavens,


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who hath no necessity daily, as the chief priests, first for his own sins to offer up sacrifice, then for those of the people; for this he did once, having offered up himself;


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for the law doth appoint men chief priests, having infirmity, but the word of the oath that `is' after the law `appointeth' the Son -- to the age having been perfected.


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And the sum concerning the things spoken of `is': we have such a chief priest, who did sit down at the right hand of the throne of the greatness in the heavens,


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for every chief priest to offer both gifts and sacrifices is appointed, whence `it is' necessary for this one to have also something that he may offer;


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for if, indeed, he were upon earth, he would not be a priest -- (there being the priests who are offering according to the law, the gifts,


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who unto an example and shadow do serve of the heavenly things, as Moses hath been divinely warned, being about to construct the tabernacle, for `See (saith He) thou mayest make all things according to the pattern that was shewn to thee in the mount;') --


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and now he hath obtained a more excellent service, how much also of a better covenant is he mediator, which on better promises hath been sanctioned,


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For finding fault, He saith to them, `Lo, days come, saith the Lord, and I will complete with the house of Israel, and with the house of Judah, a new covenant,


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not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers, in the day of My taking `them' by their hand, to bring them out of the land of Egypt -- because they did not remain in My covenant, and I did not regard them, saith the Lord, --


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because this `is' the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel, after those days, saith the Lord, giving My laws into their mind, and upon their hearts I will write them, and I will be to them for a God, and they shall be to Me for a people;


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and they shall not teach each his neighbour, and each his brother, saying, Know thou the Lord, because they shall all know Me from the small one of them unto the great one of them,


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because I will be merciful to their unrighteousness, and their sins and their lawlessnesses I will remember no more;' --


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in the saying `new,' He hath made the first old, and what doth become obsolete and is old `is' nigh disappearing.


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for a tabernacle was prepared, the first, in which was both the lamp-stand, and the table, and the bread of the presence -- which is called `Holy;'


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having a golden censer, and the ark of the covenant overlaid all round about with gold, in which `is' the golden pot having the manna, and the rod of Aaron that budded, and the tables of the covenant,


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and over it cherubim of the glory, overshadowing the mercy-seat, concerning which we are not now to speak particularly.


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And these things having been thus prepared, into the first tabernacle, indeed, at all times the priests do go in, performing the services,


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and into the second, once in the year, only the chief priest, not apart from blood, which he doth offer for himself and the errors of the people,


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the Holy Spirit this evidencing that not yet hath been manifested the way of the holy `places', the first tabernacle having yet a standing;


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which `is' a simile in regard to the present time, in which both gifts and sacrifices are offered, which are not able, in regard to conscience, to make perfect him who is serving,


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only in victuals, and drinks, and different baptisms, and fleshly ordinances -- till the time of reformation imposed upon `them'.


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And Christ being come, chief priest of the coming good things, through the greater and more perfect tabernacle not made with hands -- that is, not of this creation --


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neither through blood of goats and calves, but through his own blood, did enter in once into the holy places, age-during redemption having obtained;


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for if the blood of bulls, and goats, and ashes of an heifer, sprinkling those defiled, doth sanctify to the purifying of the flesh,


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how much more shall the blood of the Christ (who through the age-during Spirit did offer himself unblemished to God) purify your conscience from dead works to serve the living God?


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And because of this, of a new covenant he is mediator, that, death having come, for redemption of the transgressions under the first covenant, those called may receive the promise of the age-during inheritance,


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for a covenant over dead victims `is' stedfast, since it is no force at all when the covenant-victim liveth,


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for every command having been spoken, according to law, by Moses, to all the people, having taken the blood of the calves and goats, with water, and scarlet wool, and hyssop, he both the book itself and all the people did sprinkle,


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and both the tabernacle and all the vessels of the service with blood in like manner he did sprinkle,


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and with blood almost all things are purified according to the law, and apart from blood-shedding forgiveness doth not come.


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`It is' necessary, therefore, the pattern indeed of the things in the heavens to be purified with these, and the heavenly things themselves with better sacrifices than these;


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for not into holy places made with hands did the Christ enter -- figures of the true -- but into the heaven itself, now to be manifested in the presence of God for us;


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nor that he may many times offer himself, even as the chief priest doth enter into the holy places every year with blood of others;


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since it had behoved him many times to suffer from the foundation of the world, but now once, at the full end of the ages, for putting away of sin through his sacrifice, he hath been manifested;


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so also the Christ, once having been offered to bear the sins of many, a second time, apart from a sin-offering, shall appear, to those waiting for him -- to salvation!


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For the law having a shadow of the coming good things -- not the very image of the matters, every year, by the same sacrifices that they offer continually, is never able to make perfect those coming near,


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since, would they not have ceased to be offered, because of those serving having no more conscience of sins, having once been purified?


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Wherefore, coming into the world, he saith, `Sacrifice and offering Thou didst not will, and a body Thou didst prepare for me,


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then I said, Lo, I come, (in a volume of the book it hath been written concerning me,) to do, O God, Thy will;'


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saying above -- `Sacrifice, and offering, and burnt-offerings, and concerning sin-offering Thou didst not will, nor delight in,' -- which according to the law are offered --


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then he said, `Lo, I come to do, O God, Thy will;' he doth take away the first that the second he may establish;


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in the which will we are having been sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once,


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and every priest, indeed, hath stood daily serving, and the same sacrifices many times offering, that are never able to take away sins.


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And He, for sin one sacrifice having offered -- to the end, did sit down on the right hand of God, --


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`This `is' the covenant that I will make with them after those days, saith the Lord, giving My laws on their hearts, and upon their minds I will write them,'


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may we draw near with a true heart, in full assurance of faith, having the hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience, and having the body bathed with pure water;


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not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as a custom of certain `is', but exhorting, and so much the more as ye see the day coming nigh.


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For we -- willfully sinning after the receiving the full knowledge of the truth -- no more for sins doth there remain a sacrifice,


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any one who did set at nought a law of Moses, apart from mercies, by two or three witnesses, doth die,


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of how much sorer punishment shall he be counted worthy who the Son of God did trample on, and the blood of the covenant did count a common thing, in which he was sanctified, and to the Spirit of the grace did despite?


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for we have known Him who is saying, `Vengeance `is' Mine, I will recompense, saith the Lord;' and again, `The Lord shall judge His people;' --


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And call to your remembrance the former days, in which, having been enlightened, ye did endure much conflict of sufferings,


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partly both with reproaches and tribulations being made spectacles, and partly having become partners of those so living,


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for also with my bonds ye sympathised, and the robbery of your goods with joy ye did receive, knowing that ye have in yourselves a better substance in the heavens, and an enduring one.


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and `the righteous by faith shall live,' and `if he may draw back, My soul hath no pleasure in him,'


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and we are not of those drawing back to destruction, but of those believing to a preserving of soul.


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by faith we understand the ages to have been prepared by a saying of God, in regard to the things seen not having come out of things appearing;


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by faith a better sacrifice did Abel offer to God than Cain, through which he was testified to be righteous, God testifying of his gifts, and through it, he being dead, doth yet speak.


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By faith Enoch was translated -- not to see death, and was not found, because God did translate him; for before his translation he had been testified to -- that he had pleased God well,


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and apart from faith it is impossible to please well, for it behoveth him who is coming to God to believe that He is, and to those seeking Him He becometh a rewarder.


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By faith Noah, having been divinely warned concerning the things not yet seen, having feared, did prepare an ark to the salvation of his house, through which he did condemn the world, and of the righteousness according to faith he became heir.


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By faith Abraham, being called, did obey, to go forth to the place that he was about to receive for an inheritance, and he went forth, not knowing whither he doth go;


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by faith he did sojourn in the land of the promise as a strange country, in tabernacles having dwelt with Isaac and Jacob, fellow-heirs of the same promise,


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By faith also Sarah herself did receive power to conceive seed, and she bare after the time of life, seeing she did judge Him faithful who did promise;


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wherefore, also from one were begotten -- and that of one who had become dead -- as the stars of the heaven in multitude, and as sand that `is' by the sea-shore -- the innumerable.


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In faith died all these, not having received the promises, but from afar having seen them, and having been persuaded, and having saluted `them', and having confessed that strangers and sojourners they are upon the earth,


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and if, indeed, they had been mindful of that from which they came forth, they might have had an opportunity to return,


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but now they long for a better, that is, an heavenly, wherefore God is not ashamed of them, to be called their God, for He did prepare for them a city.


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By faith Abraham hath offered up Isaac, being tried, and the only begotten he did offer up who did receive the promises,


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reckoning that even out of the dead God is able to raise up, whence also in a figure he did receive `him'.


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by faith Jacob dying -- each of the sons of Joseph did bless, and did bow down upon the top of his staff;


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by faith, Joseph dying, concerning the outgoing of the sons of Israel did make mention, and concerning his bones did give command.


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By faith Moses, having been born, was hid three months by his parents, because they saw the child comely, and were not afraid of the decree of the king;


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having chosen rather to be afflicted with the people of God, than to have sin's pleasure for a season,


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greater wealth having reckoned the reproach of the Christ than the treasures in Egypt, for he did look to the recompense of reward;


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by faith he left Egypt behind, not having been afraid of the wrath of the king, for, as seeing the Invisible One -- he endured;


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by faith he kept the passover, and the sprinkling of the blood, that He who is destroying the first-born might not touch them.


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By faith they did pass through the Red Sea as through dry land, which the Egyptians having received a trial of, were swallowed up;


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by faith Rahab the harlot did not perish with those who disbelieved, having received the spies with peace.


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And what shall I yet say? for the time will fail me recounting about Gideon, Barak also, and Samson, and Jephthah, David also, and Samuel, and the prophets,


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who through faith did subdue kingdoms, wrought righteousness, obtained promises, stopped mouths of lions,


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quenched the power of fire, escaped the mouth of the sword, were made powerful out of infirmities, became strong in battle, caused to give way camps of the aliens.


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Women received by a rising again their dead, and others were tortured, not accepting the redemption, that a better rising again they might receive,


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they were stoned, they were sawn asunder, they were tried; in the killing of the sword they died; they went about in sheepskins, in goatskins -- being destitute, afflicted, injuriously treated,


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of whom the world was not worthy; in deserts wandering, and `in' mountains, and `in' caves, and `in' the holes of the earth;


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Therefore, we also having so great a cloud of witnesses set around us, every weight having put off, and the closely besetting sin, through endurance may we run the contest that is set before us,


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looking to the author and perfecter of faith -- Jesus, who, over-against the joy set before him -- did endure a cross, shame having despised, on the right hand also of the throne of God did sit down;


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for consider again him who endured such gainsaying from the sinners to himself, that ye may not be wearied in your souls -- being faint.


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and ye have forgotten the exhortation that doth speak fully with you as with sons, `My son, be not despising chastening of the Lord, nor be faint, being reproved by Him,


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if chastening ye endure, as to sons God beareth Himself to you, for who is a son whom a father doth not chasten?


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and if ye are apart from chastening, of which all have become partakers, then bastards are ye, and not sons.


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Then, indeed, fathers of our flesh we have had, chastising `us', and we were reverencing `them'; shall we not much rather be subject to the Father of the spirits, and live?


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for they, indeed, for a few days, according to what seemed good to them, were chastening, but He for profit, to be partakers of His separation;


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and all chastening for the present, indeed, doth not seem to be of joy, but of sorrow, yet afterward the peaceable fruit of righteousness to those exercised through it -- it doth yield.


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and straight paths make for your feet, that that which is lame may not be turned aside, but rather be healed;


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looking diligently over lest any one be failing of the grace of God, lest any root of bitterness springing up may give trouble, and through this many may be defiled;


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lest any one be a fornicator, or a profane person, as Esau, who in exchange for one morsel of food did sell his birthright,


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for ye know that also afterwards, wishing to inherit the blessing, he was disapproved of, for a place of reformation he found not, though with tears having sought it.


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For ye came not near to the mount touched and scorched with fire, and to blackness, and darkness, and tempest,


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and a sound of a trumpet, and a voice of sayings, which those having heard did entreat that a word might not be added to them,


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for they were not bearing that which is commanded, `And if a beast may touch the mountain, it shall be stoned, or with an arrow shot through,'


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But, ye came to Mount Zion, and to a city of the living God, to the heavenly Jerusalem, and to myriads of messengers,


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to the company and assembly of the first-born in heaven enrolled, and to God the judge of all, and to spirits of righteous men made perfect,


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and to a mediator of a new covenant -- Jesus, and to blood of sprinkling, speaking better things than that of Abel!


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See, may ye not refuse him who is speaking, for if those did not escape who refused him who upon earth was divinely speaking -- much less we who do turn away from him who `speaketh' from heaven,


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whose voice the earth shook then, and now hath he promised, saying, `Yet once -- I shake not only the earth, but also the heaven;'


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and this -- `Yet once' -- doth make evident the removal of the things shaken, as of things having been made, that the things not shaken may remain;


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wherefore, a kingdom that cannot be shaken receiving, may we have grace, through which we may serve God well-pleasingly, with reverence and religious fear;


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be mindful of those in bonds, as having been bound with them, of those maltreated, as also yourselves being in the body;


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honourable `is' the marriage in all, and the bed undefiled, and whoremongers and adulterers God shall judge.


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Without covetousness the behaviour, being content with the things present, for He hath said, `No, I will not leave, no, nor forsake thee,'


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so that we do boldly say, `The Lord `is' to me a helper, and I will not fear what man shall do to me.'


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Be mindful of those leading you, who did speak to you the word of God, whose faith -- considering the issue of the behaviour -- be imitating,


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with teachings manifold and strange be not carried about, for `it is' good that by grace the heart be confirmed, not with meats, in which they who were occupied were not profited;


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for of those beasts whose blood is brought for sin into the holy places through the chief priest -- of these the bodies are burned without the camp.


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Wherefore, also Jesus -- that he might sanctify through `his' own blood the people -- without the gate did suffer;


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through him, then, we may offer up a sacrifice of praise always to God, that is, the fruit of lips, giving thanks to His name;


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and of doing good, and of fellowship, be not forgetful, for with such sacrifices God is well-pleased.


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Be obedient to those leading you, and be subject, for these do watch for your souls, as about to give account, that with joy they may do this, and not sighing, for this `is' unprofitable to you.


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And the God of the peace, who did bring up out of the dead the great shepherd of the sheep -- in the blood of an age-during covenant -- our Lord Jesus,


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make you perfect in every good work to do His will, doing in you that which is well-pleasing before Him, through Jesus Christ, to whom `is' the glory -- to the ages of the ages! Amen.


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And I entreat you, brethren, suffer the word of the exhortation, for also through few words I have written to you.


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Know ye that the brother Timotheus is released, with whom, if he may come more shortly, I will see you.


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James, of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ a servant, to the Twelve Tribes who are in the dispersion: Hail!


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and if any of you do lack wisdom, let him ask from God, who is giving to all liberally, and not reproaching, and it shall be given to him;


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and let him ask in faith, nothing doubting, for he who is doubting hath been like a wave of the sea, driven by wind and tossed,


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for the sun did rise with the burning heat, and did wither the grass, and the flower of it fell, and the grace of its appearance did perish, so also the rich in his way shall fade away!


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Happy the man who doth endure temptation, because, becoming approved, he shall receive the crown of the life, which the Lord did promise to those loving Him.


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Let no one say, being tempted -- `From God I am tempted,' for God is not tempted of evil, and Himself doth tempt no one,


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afterward the desire having conceived, doth give birth to sin, and the sin having been perfected, doth bring forth death.


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every good giving, and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of the lights, with whom is no variation, or shadow of turning;


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having counselled, He did beget us with a word of truth, for our being a certain first-fruit of His creatures.


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wherefore having put aside all filthiness and superabundance of evil, in meekness be receiving the engrafted word, that is able to save your souls;


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because, if any one is a hearer of the word and not a doer, this one hath been like to a man viewing his natural face in a mirror,


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and he who did look into the perfect law -- that of liberty, and did continue there, this one -- not a forgetful hearer becoming, but a doer of work -- this one shall be happy in his doing.


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If any one doth think to be religious among you, not bridling his tongue, but deceiving his heart, of this one vain `is' the religion;


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religion pure and undefiled with the God and Father is this, to look after orphans and widows in their tribulation -- unspotted to keep himself from the world.


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for if there may come into your synagogue a man with gold ring, in gay raiment, and there may come in also a poor man in vile raiment,


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and ye may look upon him bearing the gay raiment, and may say to him, `Thou -- sit thou here well,' and to the poor man may say, `Thou -- stand thou there, or, Sit thou here under my footstool,' --


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Hearken, my brethren beloved, did not God choose the poor of this world, rich in faith, and heirs of the reign that He promised to those loving Him?


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and ye did dishonour the poor one; do not the rich oppress you and themselves draw you to judgment-seats;


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If, indeed, royal law ye complete, according to the Writing, `Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself,' -- ye do well;


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for whoever the whole law shall keep, and shall stumble in one `point', he hath become guilty of all;


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for He who is saying, `Thou mayest not commit adultery,' said also, `Thou mayest do no murder;' and if thou shalt not commit adultery, and shalt commit murder, thou hast become a transgressor of law;


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for the judgment without kindness `is' to him not having done kindness, and exult doth kindness over judgment.


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What `is' the profit, my brethren, if faith, any one may speak of having, and works he may not have? is that faith able to save him?


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and any one of you may say to them, `Depart ye in peace, be warmed, and be filled,' and may not give to them the things needful for the body, what `is' the profit?


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But say may some one, Thou hast faith, and I have works, shew me thy faith out of thy works, and I will shew thee out of my works my faith:


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thou -- thou dost believe that God is one; thou dost well, and the demons believe, and they shudder!


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Abraham our father -- was not he declared righteous out of works, having brought up Isaac his son upon the altar?


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dost thou see that the faith was working with his works, and out of the works the faith was perfected?


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and fulfilled was the Writing that is saying, `And Abraham did believe God, and it was reckoned to him -- to righteousness;' and, `Friend of God' he was called.


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and in like manner also Rahab the harlot -- was she not out of works declared righteous, having received the messengers, and by another way having sent forth?


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for we all make many stumbles; if any one in word doth not stumble, this one `is' a perfect man, able to bridle also the whole body;


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lo, the bits we put into the mouths of the horses for their obeying us, and their whole body we turn about;


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lo, also the ships, being so great, and by fierce winds being driven, are led about by a very small helm, whithersoever the impulse of the helmsman doth counsel,


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so also the tongue is a little member, and doth boast greatly; lo, a little fire how much wood it doth kindle!


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and the tongue `is' a fire, the world of the unrighteousness, so the tongue is set in our members, which is spotting our whole body, and is setting on fire the course of nature, and is set on fire by the gehenna.


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For every nature, both of beasts and of fowls, both of creeping things and things of the sea, is subdued, and hath been subdued, by the human nature,


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with it we do bless the God and Father, and with it we do curse the men made according to the similitude of God;


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out of the same mouth doth come forth blessing and cursing; it doth not need, my brethren, these things so to happen;


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is a fig-tree able, my brethren, olives to make? or a vine figs? so no fountain salt and sweet water `is able' to make.


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Who `is' wise and intelligent among you? let him shew out of the good behaviour his works in meekness of wisdom,


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and the wisdom from above, first, indeed, is pure, then peaceable, gentle, easily entreated, full of kindness and good fruits, uncontentious, and unhypocritical: --


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Whence `are' wars and fightings among you? not thence -- out of your passions, that are as soldiers in your members?


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ye desire, and ye have not; ye murder, and are zealous, and are not able to attain; ye fight and war, and ye have not, because of your not asking;


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Adulterers and adulteresses! have ye not known that friendship of the world is enmity with God? whoever, then, may counsel to be a friend of the world, an enemy of God he is set.


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Do ye think that emptily the Writing saith, `To envy earnestly desireth the spirit that did dwell in us,'


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and greater grace he doth give, wherefore he saith, `God against proud ones doth set Himself up, and to lowly ones He doth give grace?'


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draw nigh to God, and He will draw nigh to you; cleanse hands, ye sinners! and purify hearts, ye two-souled!


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be exceeding afflicted, and mourn, and weep, let your laughter to mourning be turned, and the joy to heaviness;


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Speak not one against another, brethren; he who is speaking against a brother, and is judging his brother, doth speak against law, and doth judge law, and if law thou dost judge, thou art not a doer of law but a judge;


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one is the lawgiver, who is able to save and to destroy; thou -- who art thou that dost judge the other?


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Go, now, ye who are saying, `To-day and to-morrow we will go on to such a city, and will pass there one year, and traffic, and make gain;'


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who do not know the thing of the morrow; for what is your life? for it is a vapour that is appearing for a little, and then is vanishing;


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your gold and silver have rotted, and the rust of them for a testimony shall be to you, and shall eat your flesh as fire. Ye made treasure in the last days!


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lo, the reward of the workmen, of those who in-gathered your fields, which hath been fraudulently kept back by you -- doth cry out, and the exclamations of those who did reap into the ears of the Lord of Sabaoth have entered;


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ye did live in luxury upon the earth, and were wanton; ye did nourish your hearts, as in a day of slaughter;


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Be patient, then, brethren, till the presence of the Lord; lo, the husbandman doth expect the precious fruit of the earth, being patient for it, till he may receive rain -- early and latter;


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murmur not against one another, brethren, that ye may not be condemned; lo, the Judge before the door hath stood.


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An example take ye of the suffering of evil, my brethren, and of the patience, the prophets who did speak in the name of the Lord;


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lo, we call happy those who are enduring; the endurance of Job ye heard of, and the end of the Lord ye have seen, that very compassionate is the Lord, and pitying.


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And before all things, my brethren, do not swear, neither by the heaven, neither by the earth, neither by any other oath, and let your Yes be Yes, and the No, No; that under judgment ye may not fall.


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is any infirm among you? let him call for the elders of the assembly, and let them pray over him, having anointed him with oil, in the name of the Lord,


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and the prayer of the faith shall save the distressed one, and the Lord shall raise him up, and if sins he may have committed, they shall be forgiven to him.


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Be confessing to one another the trespasses, and be praying for one another, that ye may be healed; very strong is a working supplication of a righteous man;


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Elijah was a man like affected as we, and with prayer he did pray -- not to rain, and it did not rain upon the land three years and six months;


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let him know that he who did turn back a sinner from the straying of his way shall save a soul from death, and shall cover a multitude of sins.


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Peter, an apostle of Jesus Christ, to the choice sojourners of the dispersion of Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia, Asia, and Bithynia,


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according to a foreknowledge of God the Father, in sanctification of the Spirit, to obedience and sprinkling of the blood of Jesus Christ: Grace to you and peace be multiplied!


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Blessed `is' the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who, according to the abundance of His kindness did beget us again to a living hope, through the rising again of Jesus Christ out of the dead,


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who, in the power of God are being guarded, through faith, unto salvation, ready to be revealed in the last time,


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that the proof of your faith -- much more precious than of gold that is perishing, and through fire being approved -- may be found to praise, and honour, and glory, in the revelation of Jesus Christ,


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whom, not having seen, ye love, in whom, now not seeing and believing, ye are glad with joy unspeakable and glorified,


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concerning which salvation seek out and search out did prophets who concerning the grace toward you did prophecy,


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searching in regard to what or what manner of time the Spirit of Christ that was in them was manifesting, testifying beforehand the sufferings of Christ and the glory after these,


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to whom it was revealed, that not to themselves, but to us they were ministering these, which now were told to you (through those who did proclaim good news to you,) in the Holy Spirit sent from heaven, to which things messengers do desire to bend looking.


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Wherefore having girded up the loins of your mind, being sober, hope perfectly upon the grace that is being brought to you in the revelation of Jesus Christ,


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and if on the Father ye do call, who without acceptance of persons is judging according to the work of each, in fear the time of your sojourn pass ye,


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having known that, not with corruptible things -- silver or gold -- were ye redeemed from your foolish behaviour delivered by fathers,


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foreknown, indeed, before the foundation of the world, and manifested in the last times because of you,


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who through him do believe in God, who did raise out of the dead, and glory to him did give, so that your faith and hope may be in God.


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Your souls having purified in the obedience of the truth through the Spirit to brotherly love unfeigned, out of a pure heart one another love ye earnestly,


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being begotten again, not out of seed corruptible, but incorruptible, through a word of God -- living and remaining -- to the age;


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because all flesh `is' as grass, and all glory of man as flower of grass; wither did the grass, and the flower of it fell away,


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and the saying of the Lord doth remain -- to the age; and this is the saying that was proclaimed good news to you.


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Having put aside, then, all evil, and all guile, and hypocrisies, and envyings, and all evil speakings,


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to whom coming -- a living stone -- by men, indeed, having been disapproved of, but with God choice, precious,


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and ye yourselves, as living stones, are built up, a spiritual house, a holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ.


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Wherefore, also, it is contained in the Writing: `Lo, I lay in Zion a chief corner-stone, choice, precious, and he who is believing on him may not be put to shame;'


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to you, then, who are believing `is' the preciousness; and to the unbelieving, a stone that the builders disapproved of, this one did become for the head of a corner,


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and a stone of stumbling and a rock of offence -- who are stumbling at the word, being unbelieving, -- to which also they were set;


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and ye `are' a choice race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people acquired, that the excellences ye may shew forth of Him who out of darkness did call you to His wondrous light;


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who `were' once not a people, and `are' now the people of God; who had not found kindness, and now have found kindness.


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Beloved, I call upon `you', as strangers and sojourners, to keep from the fleshly desires, that war against the soul,


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having your behaviour among the nations right, that in that which they speak against you as evil-doers, of the good works having beheld, they may glorify God in a day of inspection.


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whether to governors, as to those sent through him, for punishment, indeed, of evil-doers, and a praise of those doing good;


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The domestics! be subjecting yourselves in all fear to the masters, not only to the good and gentle, but also to the cross;


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for this `is' gracious, if because of conscience toward God any one doth endure sorrows, suffering unrighteously;


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for what renown `is it', if sinning and being buffeted, ye do endure `it'? but if, doing good and suffering `for it', ye do endure, this `is' gracious with God,


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for to this ye were called, because Christ also did suffer for you, leaving to you an example, that ye may follow his steps,


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who being reviled -- was not reviling again, suffering -- was not threatening, and was committing himself to Him who is judging righteously,


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who our sins himself did bear in his body, upon the tree, that to the sins having died, to the righteousness we may live; by whose stripes ye were healed,


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for ye were as sheep going astray, but ye turned back now to the shepherd and overseer of your souls.


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In like manner, the wives, be ye subject to your own husbands, that even if certain are disobedient to the word, through the conversation of the wives, without the word, they may be won,


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whose adorning -- let it not be that which is outward, of plaiting of hair, and of putting around of things of gold, or of putting on of garments,


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but -- the hidden man of the heart, in the incorruptible thing of the meek and quiet spirit, which is, before God, of great price,


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for thus once also the holy women who did hope on God, were adorning themselves, being subject to their own husbands,


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as Sarah was obedient to Abraham, calling him `sir,' of whom ye did become daughters, doing good, and not fearing any terror.


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The husbands, in like manner, dwelling with `them', according to knowledge, as to a weaker vessel -- to the wife -- imparting honour, as also being heirs together of the grace of life, that your prayers be not hindered.


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And finally, being all of one mind, having fellow-feeling, loving as brethren, compassionate, courteous,


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not giving back evil for evil, or railing for railing, and on the contrary, blessing, having known that to this ye were called, that a blessing ye may inherit;


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for `he who is willing to love life, and to see good days, let him guard his tongue from evil, and his lips -- not to speak guile;


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because the eyes of the Lord `are' upon the righteous, and His ears -- to their supplication, and the face of the Lord `is' upon those doing evil;'


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but if ye also should suffer because of righteousness, happy `are ye'! and of their fear be not afraid, nor be troubled,


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and the Lord God sanctify in your hearts. And `be' ready always for defence to every one who is asking of you an account concerning the hope that `is' in you, with meekness and fear;


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having a good conscience, that in that in which they speak against you as evil-doers, they may be ashamed who are traducing your good behaviour in Christ;


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because also Christ once for sin did suffer -- righteous for unrighteous -- that he might lead us to God, having been put to death indeed, in the flesh, and having been made alive in the spirit,


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who sometime disbelieved, when once the long-suffering of God did wait, in days of Noah -- an ark being preparing -- in which few, that is, eight souls, were saved through water;


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also to which an antitype doth now save us -- baptism, (not a putting away of the filth of flesh, but the question of a good conscience in regard to God,) through the rising again of Jesus Christ,


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who is at the right hand of God, having gone on to heaven -- messengers, and authorities, and powers, having been subjected to him.


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Christ, then, having suffered for us in the flesh, ye also with the same mind arm yourselves, because he who did suffer in the flesh hath done with sin,


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for sufficient to us `is' the past time of life the will of the nations to have wrought, having walked in lasciviousnesses, desires, excesses of wines, revelings, drinking-bouts, and unlawful idolatries,


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in which they think it strange -- your not running with them to the same excess of dissoluteness, speaking evil,


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for for this also to dead men was good news proclaimed, that they may be judged, indeed, according to men in the flesh, and may live according to God in the spirit.


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and, before all things, to one another having the earnest love, because the love shall cover a multitude of sins;


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each, according as he received a gift, to one another ministering it, as good stewards of the manifold grace of God;


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if any one doth speak -- `as oracles of God;' if any one doth minister -- `as of the ability which God doth supply;' that in all things God may be glorified through Jesus Christ, to whom is the glory and the power -- to the ages of the ages. Amen.


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Beloved, think it not strange at the fiery suffering among you that is coming to try you, as if a strange thing were happening to you,


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but, according as ye have fellowship with the sufferings of the Christ, rejoice ye, that also in the revelation of his glory ye may rejoice -- exulting;


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if ye be reproached in the name of Christ -- happy `are ye', because the Spirit of glory and of God upon you doth rest; in regard, indeed, to them, he is evil-spoken of, and in regard to you, he is glorified;


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for let none of you suffer as a murderer, or thief, or evil-doer, or as an inspector into other men's matters;


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because it is the time of the beginning of the judgment from the house of God, and if first from us, what the end of those disobedient to the good news of God?


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so that also those suffering according to the will of god, as to a stedfast Creator, let them commit their own souls in good doing.


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Elders who `are' among you, I exhort, who `am' a fellow-elder, and a witness of the sufferings of the Christ, and of the glory about to be revealed a partaker,


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feed the flock of God that `is' among you, overseeing not constrainedly, but willingly, neither for filthy lucre, but of a ready mind,


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In like manner, ye younger, be subject to elders, and all to one another subjecting yourselves; with humble-mindedness clothe yourselves, because God the proud doth resist, but to the humble He doth give grace;


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Be sober, vigilant, because your opponent the devil, as a roaring lion, doth walk about, seeking whom he may swallow up,


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whom resist, stedfast in the faith, having known the same sufferings to your brotherhood in the world to be accomplished.


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And the God of all grace, who did call you to His age-during glory in Christ Jesus, having suffered a little, Himself make you perfect, establish, strengthen, settle `you';


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Through Silvanus, to you the faithful brother, as I reckon, through few `words' I did write, exhorting and testifying this to be the true grace of God in which ye have stood.


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Simeon Peter, a servant and an apostle of Jesus Christ, to those who did obtain a like precious faith with us in the righteousness of our God and Saviour Jesus Christ:


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As all things to us His divine power (the things pertaining unto life and piety) hath given, through the acknowledgement of him who did call us through glory and worthiness,


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through which to us the most great and precious promises have been given, that through these ye may become partakers of a divine nature, having escaped from the corruption in the world in desires.


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And this same also -- all diligence having brought in besides, superadd in your faith the worthiness, and in the worthiness the knowledge,


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and in the knowledge the temperance, and in the temperance the endurance, and in the endurance the piety,


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for these things being to you and abounding, do make `you' neither inert nor unfruitful in regard to the acknowledging of our Lord Jesus Christ,


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for he with whom these things are not present is blind, dim-sighted, having become forgetful of the cleansing of his old sins;


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wherefore, the rather, brethren, be diligent to make stedfast your calling and choice, for these things doing, ye may never stumble,


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for so, richly shall be superadded to you the entrance into the age-during reign of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ.


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Wherefore, I will not be careless always to remind you concerning these things, though, having known them, and having been established in the present truth,


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having known that soon is the laying aside of my tabernacle, even as also our Lord Jesus Christ did shew to me,


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and I will be diligent that also at every time ye have, after my outgoing, power to make to yourselves the remembrance of these things.


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For, skilfully devised fables not having followed out, we did make known to you the power and presence of our Lord Jesus Christ, but eye-witnesses having become of his majesty --


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for having received from God the Father honour and glory, such a voice being borne to him by the excellent glory: `This is My Son -- the beloved, in whom I was well pleased;'


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And we have more firm the prophetic word, to which we do well giving heed, as to a lamp shining in a dark place, till day may dawn, and a morning star may arise -- in your hearts;


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for not by will of man did ever prophecy come, but by the Holy Spirit borne on holy men of God spake.


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And there did come also false prophets among the people, as also among you there shall be false teachers, who shall bring in besides destructive sects, and the Master who bought them denying, bringing to themselves quick destruction,


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and many shall follow out their destructive ways, because of whom the way of the truth shall be evil spoken of,


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and in covetousness, with moulded words, of you they shall make merchandise, whose judgment of old is not idle, and their destruction doth not slumber.


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For if God messengers who sinned did not spare, but with chains of thick gloom, having cast `them' down to Tartarus, did deliver `them' to judgment, having been reserved,


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and the old world did not spare, but the eighth person, Noah, of righteousness a preacher, did keep, a flood on the world of the impious having brought,


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and the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah having turned to ashes, with an overthrow did condemn, an example to those about to be impious having set `them';


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for in seeing and hearing, the righteous man, dwelling among them, day by day the righteous soul with unlawful works was harassing.


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The Lord hath known to rescue pious ones out of temptation, and unrighteous ones to a day of judgment, being punished, to keep,


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and chiefly those going behind the flesh in desire of uncleanness, and lordship despising; presumptuous, self-complacent, dignities they are not afraid to speak evil of,


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whereas messengers, in strength and power being greater, do not bear against them before the Lord an evil speaking judgment;


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and these, as irrational natural beasts, made to be caught and destroyed -- in what things they are ignorant of, speaking evil -- in their destruction shall be destroyed,


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about to receive a reward of unrighteousness, pleasures counting the luxury in the day, spots and blemishes, luxuriating in their deceits, feasting with you,


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having eyes full of adultery, and unable to cease from sin, enticing unstable souls, having an heart exercised in covetousnesses, children of a curse,


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having forsaken a right way, they did go astray, having followed in the way of Balaam the `son' of Bosor, who a reward of unrighteousness did love,


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and had a rebuke of his own iniquity -- a dumb ass, in man's voice having spoken, did forbid the madness of the prophet.


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These are wells without water, and clouds by a tempest driven, to whom the thick gloom of the darkness to the age hath been kept;


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for overswellings of vanity speaking, they do entice in desires of the flesh -- lasciviousnesses, those who had truly escaped from those conducting themselves in error,


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liberty to them promising, themselves being servants of the corruption, for by whom any one hath been overcome, to this one also he hath been brought to servitude,


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for, if having escaped from the pollutions of the world, in the acknowledging of the Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, and by these again being entangled, they have been overcome, become to them hath the last things worse than the first,


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for it were better to them not to have acknowledged the way of the righteousness, than having acknowledged `it', to turn back from the holy command delivered to them,


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and happened to them hath that of the true similitude; `A dog did turn back upon his own vomit,' and, `A sow having bathed herself -- to rolling in mire.'


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This, now, beloved, a second letter to you I write, in both which I stir up your pure mind in reminding `you',


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to be mindful of the sayings said before by the holy prophets, and of the command of us the apostles of the Lord and Saviour,


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this first knowing, that there shall come in the latter end of the days scoffers, according to their own desires going on,


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and saying, `Where is the promise of his presence? for since the fathers did fall asleep, all things so remain from the beginning of the creation;'


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for this is unobserved by them willingly, that the heavens were of old, and the earth out of water and through water standing together by the word of God,


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and the present heavens and the earth, by the same word are treasured, for fire being kept to a day of judgment and destruction of the impious men.


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And this one thing let not be unobserved by you, beloved, that one day with the Lord `is' as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day;


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the Lord is not slow in regard to the promise, as certain count slowness, but is long-suffering to us, not counselling any to be lost but all to pass on to reformation,


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and it will come -- the day of the Lord -- as a thief in the night, in which the heavens with a rushing noise will pass away, and the elements with burning heat be dissolved, and earth and the works in it shall be burnt up.


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All these, then, being dissolved, what kind of persons doth it behove you to be in holy behaviours and pious acts?


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waiting for and hasting to the presence of the day of God, by which the heavens, being on fire, shall be dissolved, and the elements with burning heat shall melt;


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and for new heavens and a new earth according to His promise we do wait, in which righteousness doth dwell;


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wherefore, beloved, these things waiting for, be diligent, spotless and unblameable, by Him to be found in peace,


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and the long-suffering of our Lord count ye salvation, according as also our beloved brother Paul -- according to the wisdom given to him -- did write to you,


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as also in all the epistles, speaking in them concerning these things, among which things are certain hard to be understood, which the untaught and unstable do wrest, as also the other Writings, unto their own destruction.


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Ye, then, beloved, knowing before, take heed, lest, together with the error of the impious being led away, ye may fall from your own stedfastness,


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and increase ye in grace, and in the knowledge of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ; to him `is' the glory both now, and to the day of the age! Amen.


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That which was from the beginning, that which we have heard, that which we have seen with our eyes, that which we did behold, and our hands did handle, concerning the Word of the Life --


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and the Life was manifested, and we have seen, and do testify, and declare to you the Life, the age-during, which was with the Father, and was manifested to us --


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that which we have seen and heard declare we to you, that ye also may have fellowship with us, and our fellowship `is' with the Father, and with His Son Jesus Christ;


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And this is the message that we have heard from Him, and announce to you, that God is light, and darkness in Him is not at all;


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if we may say -- `we have fellowship with Him,' and in the darkness may walk -- we lie, and do not the truth;


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and if in the light we may walk, as He is in the light -- we have fellowship one with another, and the blood of Jesus Christ His Son doth cleanse us from every sin;


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if we may confess our sins, stedfast He is and righteous that He may forgive us the sins, and may cleanse us from every unrighteousness;


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My little children, these things I write to you, that ye may not sin: and if any one may sin, an advocate we have with the Father, Jesus Christ, a righteous one,


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he who is saying, `I have known him,' and his command is not keeping, a liar he is, and in him the truth is not;


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and whoever may keep his word, truly in him the love of God hath been perfected; in this we know that in him we are.


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Brethren, a new command I write not to you, but an old command, that ye had from the beginning -- the old command is the word that ye heard from the beginning;


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again, a new command I write to you, which thing is true in him and in you, because the darkness doth pass away, and the true light doth now shine;


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he who is loving his brother, in the light he doth remain, and a stumbling-block in him there is not;


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and he who is hating his brother, in the darkness he is, and in the darkness he doth walk, and he hath not known whither he doth go, because the darkness did blind his eyes.


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I write to you, fathers, because ye have known him who `is' from the beginning; I write to you, young men, because ye have overcome the evil. I write to you, little youths, because ye have known the Father:


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I did write to you, fathers, because ye have known him who `is' from the beginning; I did write to you, young men, because ye are strong, and the word of God in you doth remain, and ye have overcome the evil.


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Love not ye the world, nor the things in the world; if any one doth love the world, the love of the Father is not in him,


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because all that `is' in the world -- the desire of the flesh, and the desire of the eyes, and the ostentation of the life -- is not of the Father, but of the world,


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and the world doth pass away, and the desire of it, and he who is doing the will of God, he doth remain -- to the age.


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Little youths, it is the last hour; and even as ye heard that the antichrist doth come, even now antichrists have become many -- whence we know that it is the last hour;


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out of us they went forth, but they were not of us, for if they had been of us, they would have remained with us; but -- that they might be manifested that they are not all of us.


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I did not write to you because ye have not known the truth, but because ye have known it, and because no lie is of the truth.


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Who is the liar, except he who is denying that Jesus is the Christ? this one is the antichrist who is denying the Father and the Son;


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every one who is denying the Son, neither hath he the Father, `he who is confessing the Son hath the Father also.'


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Ye, then, that which ye heard from the beginning, in you let it remain; if in you may remain that which from the beginning ye did hear, ye also in the Son and in the Father shall remain,


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and you, the anointing that ye did receive from him, in you it doth remain, and ye have no need that any one may teach you, but as the same anointing doth teach you concerning all, and is true, and is not a lie, and even as was taught you, ye shall remain in him.


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And now, little children, remain in him, that when he may be manifested, we may have boldness, and may not be ashamed before him, in his presence;


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if ye know that he is righteous, know ye that every one doing the righteousness, of him hath been begotten.


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See ye what love the Father hath given to us, that children of God we may be called; because of this the world doth not know us, because it did not know Him;


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beloved, now, children of God are we, and it was not yet manifested what we shall be, and we have known that if he may be manifested, like him we shall be, because we shall see him as he is;


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every one who is remaining in him doth not sin; every one who is sinning, hath not seen him, nor known him.


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Little children, let no one lead you astray; he who is doing the righteousness is righteous, even as he is righteous,


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he who is doing the sin, of the devil he is, because from the beginning the devil doth sin; for this was the Son of God manifested, that he may break up the works of the devil;


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every one who hath been begotten of God, sin he doth not, because his seed in him doth remain, and he is not able to sin, because of God he hath been begotten.


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In this manifest are the children of God, and the children of the devil; every one who is not doing righteousness, is not of God, and he who is not loving his brother,


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not as Cain -- of the evil one he was, and he did slay his brother, and wherefore did he slay him? because his works were evil, and those of his brother righteous.


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we -- we have known that we have passed out of the death to the life, because we love the brethren; he who is not loving the brother doth remain in the death.


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Every one who is hating his brother -- a man-killer he is, and ye have known that no man-killer hath life age-during in him remaining,


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in this we have known the love, because he for us his life did lay down, and we ought for the brethren the lives to lay down;


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and whoever may have the goods of the world, and may view his brother having need, and may shut up his bowels from him -- how doth the love of God remain in him?


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because if our heart may condemn -- because greater is God than our heart, and He doth know all things.


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and whatever we may ask, we receive from Him, because His commands we keep, and the things pleasing before Him we do,


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and this is His command, that we may believe in the name of His Son Jesus Christ, and may love one another, even as He did give command to us,


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and he who is keeping His commands, in Him he doth remain, and He in him; and in this we know that He doth remain in us, from the Spirit that He gave us.


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Beloved, every spirit believe not, but prove the spirits, if of God they are, because many false prophets have gone forth to the world;


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in this know ye the Spirit of God; every spirit that doth confess Jesus Christ in the flesh having come, of God it is,


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and every spirit that doth not confess Jesus Christ in the flesh having come, of God it is not; and this is that of the antichrist, which ye heard that it doth come, and now in the world it is already.


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Ye -- of God ye are, little children, and ye have overcome them; because greater is He who `is' in you, than he who is in the world.


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They -- of the world they are; because of this from the world they speak, and the world doth hear them;


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we -- of God we are; he who is knowing God doth hear us; he who is not of God, doth not hear us; from this we know the spirit of the truth, and the spirit of the error.


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Beloved, may we love one another, because the love is of God, and every one who is loving, of God he hath been begotten, and doth know God;


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In this was manifested the love of God in us, because His Son -- the only begotten -- hath God sent to the world, that we may live through him;


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in this is the love, not that we loved God, but that He did love us, and did send His Son a propitiation for our sins.


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God no one hath ever seen; if we may love one another, God in us doth remain, and His love is having been perfected in us;


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and we -- we have known and believed the love, that God hath in us; God is love, and he who is remaining in the love, in God he doth remain, and God in him.


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In this made perfect hath been the love with us, that boldness we may have in the day of the judgment, because even as He is, we -- we also are in this world;


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fear is not in the love, but the perfect love doth cast out the fear, because the fear hath punishment, and he who is fearing hath not been made perfect in the love;


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if any one may say -- `I love God,' and his brother he may hate, a liar he is; for he who is not loving his brother whom he hath seen, God -- whom he hath not seen -- how is he able to love?


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Every one who is believing that Jesus is the Christ, of God he hath been begotten, and every one who is loving Him who did beget, doth love also him who is begotten of Him:


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because every one who is begotten of God doth overcome the world, and this is the victory that did overcome the world -- our faith;


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This one is he who did come through water and blood -- Jesus the Christ, not in the water only, but in the water and the blood; and the Spirit it is that is testifying, because the Spirit is the truth,


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because three are who are testifying `in the heaven, the Father, the Word, and the Holy Spirit, and these -- the three -- are one;


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and three are who are testifying in the earth', the Spirit, and the water, and the blood, and the three are into the one.


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If the testimony of men we receive, the testimony of God is greater, because this is the testimony of God that He hath testified concerning His Son.


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He who is believing in the Son of God, hath the testimony in himself; he who is not believing God, a liar hath made Him, because he hath not believed in the testimony that God hath testified concerning His Son;


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and this is the testimony, that life age-during did God give to us, and this -- the life -- is in His Son;


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he who is having the Son, hath the life; he who is not having the Son of God -- the life he hath not.


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These things I did write to you who are believing in the name of the Son of God, that ye may know that life ye have age-during, and that ye may believe in the name of the Son of God.


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And this is the boldness that we have toward Him, that if anything we may ask according to his will, He doth hear us,


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and if we have known that He doth hear us, whatever we may ask, we have known that we have the requests that we have requested from Him.


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If any one may see his brother sinning a sin not unto death, he shall ask, and He shall give to him life to those sinning not unto death; there is sin to death, not concerning it do I speak that he may beseech;


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We have known that every one who hath been begotten of God doth not sin, but he who was begotten of God doth keep himself, and the evil one doth not touch him;


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and we have known that the Son of God is come, and hath given us a mind, that we may know Him who is true, and we are in Him who is true, in His Son Jesus Christ; this one is the true God and the life age-during!


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The Elder to the choice Kyria, and to her children, whom I love in truth, and not I only, but also all those having known the truth,


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there shall be with you grace, kindness, peace, from God the Father, and from the Lord Jesus Christ, the Son of the Father, in truth and love.


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I rejoiced exceedingly that I have found of thy children walking in truth, even as a command we did receive from the Father;


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and now I beseech thee, Kyria, not as writing to thee a new command, but which we had from the beginning, that we may love one another,


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and this is the love, that we may walk according to His commands; this is the command, even as ye did hear from the beginning, that in it ye may walk,


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because many leading astray did enter into the world, who are not confessing Jesus Christ coming in flesh; this one is he who is leading astray, and the antichrist.


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every one who is transgressing, and is not remaining in the teaching of the Christ, hath not God; he who is remaining in the teaching of the Christ, this one hath both the Father and the Son;


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if any one doth come unto you, and this teaching doth not bear, receive him not into the house, and say not to him, `Hail!'


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Many things having to write to you, I did not intend through paper and ink, but I hope to come unto you, and speak mouth to mouth, that our joy may be full;


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beloved, concerning all things I desire thee to prosper, and to be in health, even as thy soul doth prosper,


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for I rejoiced exceedingly, brethren coming and testifying of the truth in thee, even as thou in truth dost walk;


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who did testify of thy love before an assembly, whom thou wilt do well, having sent forward worthily of God,


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I did write to the assembly, but he who is loving the first place among them -- Diotrephes -- doth not receive us;


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because of this, if I may come, I will cause him to remember his works that he doth, with evil words prating against us; and not content with these, neither doth he himself receive the brethren, and those intending he doth forbid, and out of the assembly he doth cast.


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Beloved, be not thou following that which is evil, but that which is good; he who is doing good, of God he is, and he who is doing evil hath not seen God;


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to Demetrius testimony hath been given by all, and by the truth itself, and we also -- we do testify, and ye have known that our testimony is true.


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and I hope straightway to see thee, and mouth to mouth we shall speak. Peace to thee! salute thee do the friends; be saluting the friends by name.


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Judas, of Jesus Christ a servant, and brother of James, to those sanctified in God the Father, and in Jesus Christ kept -- called,


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Beloved, all diligence using to write to you concerning the common salvation, I had necessity to write to you, exhorting to agonize for the faith once delivered to the saints,


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for there did come in unobserved certain men, long ago having been written beforehand to this judgment, impious, the grace of our God perverting to lasciviousness, and our only Master, God, and Lord -- Jesus Christ -- denying,


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and to remind you I intend, you knowing once this, that the Lord, a people out of the land of Egypt having saved, again those who did not believe did destroy;


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messengers also, those who did not keep their own principality, but did leave their proper dwelling, to a judgment of a great day, in bonds everlasting, under darkness He hath kept,


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as Sodom and Gomorrah, and the cities around them, in like manner to these, having given themselves to whoredom, and gone after other flesh, have been set before -- an example, of fire age-during, justice suffering.


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In like manner, nevertheless, those dreaming also the flesh indeed do defile, and lordship they put away, and dignities they speak evil of,


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yet Michael, the chief messenger, when, with the devil contending, he was disputing about the body of Moses, did not dare to bring up an evil-speaking judgment, but said, `The Lord rebuke thee!'


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and these, as many things indeed as they have not known, they speak evil of; and as many things as naturally (as the irrational beasts) they understand, in these they are corrupted;


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wo to them! because in the way of Cain they did go on, and to the deceit of Balaam for reward they did rush, and in the gainsaying of Korah they did perish.


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These are in your love-feasts craggy rocks; feasting together with you, without fear shepherding themselves; clouds without water, by winds carried about; trees autumnal, without fruit, twice dead, rooted up;


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wild waves of a sea, foaming out their own shames; stars going astray, to whom the gloom of the darkness to the age hath been kept.


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And prophesy also to these did the seventh from Adam -- Enoch -- saying, `Lo, the Lord did come in His saintly myriads,


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to do judgment against all, and to convict all their impious ones, concerning all their works of impiety that they did impiously, and concerning all the stiff things that speak against Him did impious sinners.'


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These are murmurers, repiners; according to their desires walking, and their mouth doth speak great swellings, giving admiration to persons for the sake of profit;


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that they said to you, that in the last time there shall be scoffers, after their own desires of impieties going on,


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yourselves in the love of God keep ye, waiting for the kindness of our Lord Jesus Christ -- to life age-during;


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And to Him who is able to guard you not stumbling, and to set `you' in the presence of His glory unblemished, in gladness,


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to the only wise God our Saviour, `is' glory and greatness, power and authority, both now and to all the ages! Amen.


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A revelation of Jesus Christ, that God gave to him, to shew to his servants what things it behoveth to come to pass quickly; and he did signify `it', having sent through his messenger to his servant John,


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who did testify the word of God, and the testimony of Jesus Christ, as many things also as he did see.


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Happy is he who is reading, and those hearing, the words of the prophecy, and keeping the things written in it -- for the time is nigh!


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John to the seven assemblies that `are' in Asia: Grace to you, and peace, from Him who is, and who was, and who is coming, and from the Seven Spirits that are before His throne,


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and from Jesus Christ, the faithful witness, the first-born out of the dead, and the ruler of the kings of the earth; to him who did love us, and did bathe us from our sins in his blood,


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and did make us kings and priests to his God and Father, to him `is' the glory and the power to the ages of the ages! Amen.


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Lo, he doth come with the clouds, and see him shall every eye, even those who did pierce him, and wail because of him shall all the tribes of the land. Yes! Amen!


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`I am the Alpha and the Omega, beginning and end, saith the Lord, who is, and who was, and who is coming -- the Almighty.'


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I, John, who also `am' your brother, and fellow-partner in the tribulation, and in the reign and endurance, of Jesus Christ, was in the isle that is called Patmos, because of the word of God, and because of the testimony of Jesus Christ;


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I was in the Spirit on the Lord's-day, and I heard behind me a great voice, as of a trumpet, saying,


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`I am the Alpha and the Omega, the First and the Last;' and, `What thou dost see, write in a scroll, and send to the seven assemblies that `are' in Asia; to Ephesus, and to Smyrna, and to Pergamos, and to Thyatira, and to Sardis, and to Philadelphia, and to Laodicea.'


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And I did turn to see the voice that did speak with me, and having turned, I saw seven golden lamp-stands,


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and in the midst of the seven lamp-stands, `one' like to a son of man, clothed to the foot, and girt round at the breast with a golden girdle,


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and his feet like to fine brass, as in a furnace having been fired, and his voice as a sound of many waters,


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and having in his right hand seven stars, and out of his mouth a sharp two-edged sword is proceeding, and his countenance `is' as the sun shining in its might.


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And when I saw him, I did fall at his feet as dead, and he placed his right hand upon me, saying to me, `Be not afraid; I am the First and the Last,


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and he who is living, and I did become dead, and, lo, I am living to the ages of the ages. Amen! and I have the keys of the hades and of the death.


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`Write the things that thou hast seen, and the things that are, and the things that are about to come after these things;


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the secret of the seven stars that thou hast seen upon my right hand, and the seven golden lamp-stands: the seven stars are messengers of the seven assemblies, and the seven lamp-stands that thou hast seen are seven assemblies.


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`To the messenger of the Ephesian assembly write: These things saith he who is holding the seven stars in his right hand, who is walking in the midst of the seven lamp-stands -- the golden:


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I have known thy works, and thy labour, and thy endurance, and that thou art not able to bear evil ones, and that thou hast tried those saying themselves to be apostles and are not, and hast found them liars,


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and thou didst bear, and hast endurance, and because of my name hast toiled, and hast not been weary.


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remember, then, whence thou hast fallen, and reform, and the first works do; and if not, I come to thee quickly, and will remove thy lamp-stand from its place -- if thou mayest not reform;


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He who is having an ear -- let him hear what the Spirit saith to the assemblies: To him who is overcoming -- I will give to him to eat of the tree of life that is in the midst of the paradise of God.


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`And to the messenger of the assembly of the Smyrneans write: These things saith the First and the Last, who did become dead and did live;


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I have known thy works, and tribulation, and poverty -- yet thou art rich -- and the evil-speaking of those saying themselves to be Jews, and are not, but `are' a synagogue of the Adversary.


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`Be not afraid of the things that thou art about to suffer; lo, the devil is about to cast of you to prison, that ye may be tried, and ye shall have tribulation ten days; become thou faithful unto death, and I will give to thee the crown of the life.


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He who is having an ear -- let him hear what the Spirit saith to the assemblies: He who is overcoming may not be injured of the second death.


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`And to the messenger of the assembly in Pergamos write: These things saith he who is having the sharp two-edged sword:


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I have known thy works, and where thou dost dwell -- where the throne of the Adversary `is' -- and thou dost hold fast my name, and thou didst not deny my faith, even in the days in which Antipas `was' my faithful witness, who was put to death beside you, where the Adversary doth dwell.


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`But I have against thee a few things: That thou hast there those holding the teaching of Balaam, who did teach Balak to cast a stumbling-block before the sons of Israel, to eat idol-sacrifices, and to commit whoredom;


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`Reform! and if not, I come to thee quickly, and will fight against them with the sword of my mouth.


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He who is having an ear -- let him hear what the Spirit saith to the assemblies: To him who is overcoming, I will give to him to eat from the hidden manna, and will give to him a white stone, and upon the stone a new name written, that no one knew except him who is receiving `it'.


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`And to the messenger of the assembly of Thyatira write: These things saith the Son of God, who is having his eyes as a flame of fire, and his feet like to fine brass;


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I have known thy works, and love, and ministration, and faith, and thy endurance, and thy works -- and the last `are' more than the first.


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`But I have against thee a few things: That thou dost suffer the woman Jezebel, who is calling herself a prophetess, to teach, and to lead astray, my servants to commit whoredom, and idol-sacrifices to eat;


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lo, I will cast her into a couch, and those committing adultery with her into great tribulation -- if they may not repent of their works,


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and her children I will kill in death, and know shall all the assemblies that I am he who is searching reins and hearts; and I will give to you -- to each -- according to your works.


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`And to you I say, and to the rest who are in Thyatira, as many as have not this teaching, and who did not know the depths of the Adversary, as they say; I will not put upon you other burden;


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and he who is overcoming, and who is keeping unto the end my works, I will give to him authority over the nations,


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and he shall rule them with a rod of iron -- as the vessels of the potter they shall be broken -- as I also have received from my Father;


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And to the messenger of the assembly in Sardis write: These things saith he who is having the Seven Spirits of God, and the seven stars: I have known thy works, and that thou hast the name that thou dost live, and thou art dead;


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become watching, and strengthen the rest of the things that are about to die, for I have not found thy works fulfilled before God.


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`Remember, then, how thou hast received, and heard, and be keeping, and reform: if, then, thou mayest not watch, I will come upon thee as a thief, and thou mayest not know what hour I will come upon thee.


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Thou hast a few names even in Sardis who did not defile their garments, and they shall walk with me in white, because they are worthy.


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He who is overcoming -- this one -- shall be arrayed in white garments, and I will not blot out his name from the scroll of the life, and I will confess his name before my Father, and before His messengers.


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`And to the messenger of the assembly in Philadelphia write: These things saith he who is holy, he who is true, he who is having the key of David, he who is opening and no one doth shut, and he shutteth and no one doth open!


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I have known thy works; lo, I have set before thee a door -- opened, and no one is able to shut it, because thou hast a little power, and didst keep my word, and didst not deny my name;


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lo, I make of the synagogue of the Adversary those saying themselves to be Jews, and are not, but do lie; lo, I will make them that they may come and bow before thy feet, and may know that I loved thee.


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`Because thou didst keep the word of my endurance, I also will keep thee from the hour of the trial that is about to come upon all the world, to try those dwelling upon the earth.


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He who is overcoming -- I will make him a pillar in the sanctuary of my God, and without he may not go any more, and I will write upon him the name of my God, and the name of the city of my God, the new Jerusalem, that doth come down out of the heaven from my God -- also my new name.


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`And to the messenger of the assembly of the Laodiceans write: These things saith the Amen, the witness -- the faithful and true -- the chief of the creation of God;


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So -- because thou art lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I am about to vomit thee out of my mouth;


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because thou sayest -- I am rich, and have grown rich, and have need of nothing, and hast not known that thou art the wretched, and miserable, and poor, and blind, and naked,


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I counsel thee to buy from me gold fired by fire, that thou mayest be rich, and white garments that thou mayest be arrayed, and the shame of thy nakedness may not be manifest, and with eye-salve anoint thine eyes, that thou mayest see.


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lo, I have stood at the door, and I knock; if any one may hear my voice, and may open the door, I will come in unto him, and will sup with him, and he with me.


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He who is overcoming -- I will give to him to sit with me in my throne, as I also did overcome and did sit down with my Father in His throne.


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After these things I saw, and lo, a door opened in the heaven, and the first voice that I heard `is' as of a trumpet speaking with me, saying, `Come up hither, and I will shew thee what it behoveth to come to pass after these things;'


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and immediately I was in the Spirit, and lo, a throne was set in the heaven, and upon the throne is `one' sitting,


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and He who is sitting was in sight like a stone, jasper and sardine: and a rainbow was round the throne in sight like an emerald.


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And around the throne `are' thrones twenty and four, and upon the thrones I saw the twenty and four elders sitting, clothed in white garments, and they had upon their heads crowns of gold;


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and out of the throne proceed do lightnings, and thunders, and voices; and seven lamps of fire are burning before the throne, which are the Seven Spirits of God,


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and before the throne `is' a sea of glass like to crystal, and in the midst of the throne, and round the throne, `are' four living creatures, full of eyes before and behind;


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and the first living creature `is' like a lion, and the second living creature `is' like a calf, and the third living creature hath the face as a man, and the fourth living creature `is' like an eagle flying.


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And the four living creatures, each by itself severally, had six wings, around and within `are' full of eyes, and rest they have not day and night, saying, `Holy, holy, holy, Lord God Almighty, who was, and who is, and who is coming;'


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and when the living creatures do give glory, and honour, and thanks, to Him who is sitting upon the throne, who is living to the ages of the ages,


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fall down do the twenty and four elders before Him who is sitting upon the throne, and bow before Him who is living to the ages of the ages, and they cast their crowns before the throne, saying,


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`Worthy art Thou, O Lord, to receive the glory, and the honour, and the power, because Thou -- Thou didst create the all things, and because of Thy will are they, and they were created.'


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And I saw upon the right hand of Him who is sitting upon the throne a scroll, written within and on the back, sealed with seven seals;


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and I saw a strong messenger crying with a great voice, `Who is worthy to open the scroll and to loose the seals of it?'


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and no one was able in the heaven, nor upon the earth, nor under the earth, to open the scroll, nor to behold it.


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And I was weeping much, because no one was found worthy to open and to read the scroll, nor to behold it,


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and one of the elders saith to me, `Weep not; lo, overcome did the Lion, who is of the tribe of Judah, the root of David, to open the scroll, and to loose the seven seals of it;


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and I saw, and lo, in the midst of the throne, and of the four living creatures, and in the midst of the elders, a Lamb hath stood as it had been slain, having seven horns and seven eyes, which are the Seven Spirits of God, which are sent to all the earth,


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And when he took the scroll, the four living creatures and the twenty-four elders fell before the Lamb, having each one harps and golden vials full of perfumes, which are the prayers of the saints,


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and they sing a new song, saying, `Worthy art thou to take the scroll, and to open the seals of it, because thou wast slain, and didst redeem us to God in thy blood, out of every tribe, and tongue, and people, and nation,


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And I saw, and I heard the voice of many messengers round the throne, and the living creatures, and the elders -- and the number of them was myriads of myriads, and thousands of thousands --


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saying with a great voice, `Worthy is the Lamb that was slain to receive the power, and riches, and wisdom, and strength, and honour, and glory, and blessing!'


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and every creature that is in the heaven, and in the earth, and under the earth, and the things that are upon the sea, and the all things in them, heard I saying, `To Him who is sitting upon the throne, and to the Lamb, `is' the blessing, and the honour, and the glory, and the might -- to the ages of the ages!'


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and the four living creatures said, `Amen!' and the twenty-four elders fell down and they bow before Him who is living to the ages of the ages.


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And I saw when the Lamb opened one of the seals, and I heard one of the four living creatures saying, as it were a voice of thunder, `Come and behold!'


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and I saw, and lo, a white horse, and he who is sitting upon it is having a bow, and there was given to him a crown, and he went forth overcoming, and that he may overcome.


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and there went forth another horse -- red, and to him who is sitting upon it, there was given to him to take the peace from the land, and that one another they may slay, and there was given to him a great sword.


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And when he opened the third seal, I heard the third living creature saying, `Come and behold!' and I saw, and lo, a black horse, and he who is sitting upon it is having a balance in his hand,


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and I heard a voice in the midst of the four living creatures saying, `A measure of wheat for a denary, and three measures of barley for a denary,' and `The oil and the wine thou mayest not injure.'


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And when he opened the fourth seal, I heard the voice of the fourth living creature saying, `Come and behold!'


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and I saw, and lo, a pale horse, and he who is sitting upon him -- his name is Death, and Hades doth follow with him, and there was given to them authority to kill, (over the fourth part of the land,) with sword, and with hunger, and with death, and by the beasts of the land.


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And when he opened the fifth seal, I saw under the altar the souls of those slain because of the word of God, and because of the testimony that they held,


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and they were crying with a great voice, saying, `Till when, O Master, the Holy and the True, dost Thou not judge and take vengeance of our blood from those dwelling upon the land?'


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and there was given to each one white robes, and it was said to them that they may rest themselves yet a little time, till may be fulfilled also their fellow-servants and their brethren, who are about to be killed -- even as they.


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And I saw when he opened the sixth seal, and lo, a great earthquake came, and the sun became black as sackcloth of hair, and the moon became as blood,


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and the stars of the heaven fell to the earth -- as a fig-tree doth cast her winter figs, by a great wind being shaken --


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and heaven departed as a scroll rolled up, and every mountain and island -- out of their places they were moved;


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and the kings of the earth, and the great men, and the rich, and the chiefs of thousands, and the mighty, and every servant, and every freeman, hid themselves in the dens, and in the rocks of the mountains,


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and they say to the mountains and to the rocks, `Fall upon us, and hide us from the face of Him who is sitting upon the throne, and from the anger of the Lamb,'


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And after these things I saw four messengers, standing upon the four corners of the land, holding the four winds of the land, that the wind may not blow upon the land, nor upon the sea, nor upon any tree;


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and I saw another messenger going up from the rising of the sun, having a seal of the living God, and he did cry with a great voice to the four messengers, to whom it was given to injure the land and the sea, saying,


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`Do not injure the land, nor the sea, nor the trees, till we may seal the servants of our God upon their foreheads.'


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And I heard the number of those sealed, (144 thousands were sealed out of all the tribes of the sons of Israel):


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of the tribe of Judah 12 thousand were sealed; of the tribe of Reuben 12 thousand were sealed; of the tribe of Gad 12 thousand were sealed;


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of the tribe of Asher 12 thousand were sealed; of the tribe of Naphtali 12 thousand were sealed; of the tribe of Manasseh 12 thousand were sealed;


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of the tribe of Simeon 12 thousand were sealed; of the tribe of Levi 12 thousand were sealed; of the tribe of Issachar 12 thousand were sealed;


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of the tribe of Zebulun 12 thousand were sealed; of the tribe of Joseph 12 thousand were sealed; of the tribe of Benjamin 12 thousand were sealed.


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After these things I saw, and lo, a great multitude, which to number no one was able, out of all nations, and tribes, and peoples, and tongues, standing before the throne, and before the Lamb, arrayed in white robes, and palms in their hands,


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and crying with a great voice, saying, `The salvation `is' to Him who is sitting upon the throne -- to our God, and to the Lamb!'


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And all the messengers stood around the throne, and the elders and the four living creatures, and they fell upon their face, and bowed before God,


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saying, `Amen! the blessing, and the glory, and the wisdom, and the thanksgiving, and the honour, and the power, and the strength, `are' to our God -- to the ages of the ages! Amen!'


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And answer did one of the elders, saying to me, `These, who have been arrayed with the white robes -- who are they, and whence came they?'


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and I have said to him, `Sir, thou hast known;' and he said to me, `These are those who are coming out of the great tribulation, and they did wash their robes, and they made their robes white in the blood of the Lamb;


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because of this are they before the throne of God, and they do service to Him day and night in His sanctuary, and He who is sitting upon the throne shall tabernacle over them;


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because the Lamb that `is' in the midst of the throne shall feed them, and shall lead them unto living fountains of waters, and wipe away shall God every tear from their eyes.'


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and I saw the seven messengers who before God have stood, and there were given to them seven trumpets,


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and another messenger did come, and he stood at the altar, having a golden censer, and there was given to him much perfume, that he may give `it' to the prayers of all the saints upon the golden altar that `is' before the throne,


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and go up did the smoke of the perfumes to the prayers of the saints out of the hand of the messenger, before God;


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and the messenger took the censer, and did fill it out of the fire of the altar, and did cast `it' to the earth, and there came voices, and thunders, and lightnings, and an earthquake.


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And the seven messengers who are having the seven trumpets did prepare themselves that they may sound;


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and the first messenger did sound, and there came hail and fire, mingled with blood, and it was cast to the land, and the third of the trees was burnt up, and all the green grass was burnt up.


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And the second messenger did sound, and as it were a great mountain with fire burning was cast into the sea, and the third of the sea became blood,


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and die did the third of the creatures that `are' in the sea, those having life, and the third of the ships were destroyed.


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And the third messenger did sound, and there fell out of the heaven a great star, burning as a lamp, and it did fall upon the third of the rivers, and upon the fountains of waters,


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and the name of the star is called Wormwood, and the third of the waters doth become wormwood, and many of the men did die of the waters, because they were made bitter.


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And the fourth messenger did sound, and smitten was the third of the sun, and the third of the moon, and the third of the stars, that darkened may be the third of them, and that the day may not shine -- the third of it, and the night in like manner.


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And I saw, and I heard one messenger, flying in the mid-heaven, saying with a great voice, `Wo, wo, wo, to those dwelling upon the land from the rest of the voices of the trumpet of the three messengers who are about to sound.'


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And the fifth messenger did sound, and I saw a star out of the heaven having fallen to the earth, and there was given to it the key of the pit of the abyss,


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and he did open the pit of the abyss, and there came up a smoke out of the pit as smoke of a great furnace, and darkened was the sun and the air, from the smoke of the pit.


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And out of the smoke came forth locusts to the earth, and there was given to them authority, as scorpions of the earth have authority,


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and it was said to them that they may not injure the grass of the earth, nor any green thing, nor any tree, but -- the men only who have not the seal of God upon their foreheads,


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and it was given to them that they may not kill them, but that they may be tormented five months, and their torment `is' as the torment of a scorpion, when it may strike a man;


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and in those days shall men seek the death, and they shall not find it, and they shall desire to die, and the death shall flee from them.


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And the likenesses of the locusts `are' like to horses made ready to battle, and upon their heads as crowns like gold, and their faces as faces of men,


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and they had breastplates as breastplates of iron, and the noise of their wings `is' as the noise of chariots of many horses running to battle;


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and they have tails like to scorpions, and stings were in their tails; and their authority `is' to injure men five months;


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and they have over them a king -- the messenger of the abyss -- a name `is' to him in Hebrew, Abaddon, and in the Greek he hath a name, Apollyon.


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And the sixth messenger did sound, and I heard a voice out of the four horns of the altar of gold that is before God,


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saying to the sixth messenger who had the trumpet, `Loose the four messengers who are bound at the great river Euphrates;'


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and loosed were the four messengers, who have been made ready for the hour, and day, and month, and year, that they may kill the third of men;


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and the number of the forces of the horsemen `is' two myriads of myriads, and I heard the number of them.


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And thus I saw the horses in the vision, and those sitting upon them, having breastplates of fire, and jacinth, and brimstone; and the heads of the horses `are' as heads of lions, and out of their mouths proceedeth fire, and smoke, and brimstone;


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by these three were the third of men killed, from the fire, and from the smoke, and from the brimstone, that is proceeding out of their mouth,


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for their authorities are in their mouth, and in their tails, for their tails `are' like serpents, having heads, and with them they do injure;


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and the rest of men, who were not killed in these plagues, neither did reform from the works of their hands, that they may not bow before the demons, and idols, those of gold, and those of silver, and those of brass, and those of stone, and those of wood, that are neither able to see, nor to hear, nor to walk,


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yea they did not reform from their murders, nor from their sorceries, nor from their whoredoms, nor from their thefts.


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And I saw another strong messenger coming down out of the heaven, arrayed with a cloud, and a rainbow upon the head, and his face as the sun, and his feet as pillars of fire,


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and he had in his hand a little scroll opened, and he did place his right foot upon the sea, and the left upon the land,


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and he cried with a great voice, as a lion doth roar, and when he cried, speak out did the seven thunders their voices;


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and when the seven thunders spake their voices, I was about to write, and I heard a voice out of the heaven saying to me, `Seal the things that the seven thunders spake,' and, `Thou mayest not write these things.'


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And the messenger whom I saw standing upon the sea, and upon the land, did lift up his hand to the heaven,


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and did swear in Him who doth live to the ages of the ages, who did create the heaven and the things in it, and the land and the things in it, and the sea and the things in it -- that time shall not be yet,


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but in the days of the voice of the seventh messenger, when he may be about to sound, and the secret of God may be finished, as He did declare to His own servants, to the prophets.


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And the voice that I heard out of the heaven is again speaking with me, and saying, `Go, take the little scroll that is open in the hand of the messenger who hath been standing upon the sea, and upon the land:'


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and I went away unto the messenger, saying to him, `Give me the little scroll;' and he saith to me, `Take, and eat it up, and it shall make thy belly bitter, but in thy mouth it shall be sweet -- as honey.'


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And I took the little scroll out of the hand of the messenger, and did eat it up, and it was in my mouth as honey -- sweet, and when I did eat it -- my belly was made bitter;


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and he saith to me, `It behoveth thee again to prophesy about peoples, and nations, and tongues, and kings -- many.'


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And there was given to me a reed like to a rod, and the messenger stood, saying, `Rise, and measure the sanctuary of God, and the altar, and those worshipping in it;


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and the court that is without the sanctuary leave out, and thou mayest not measure it, because it was given to the nations, and the holy city they shall tread down forty-two months;


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and I will give to My two witnesses, and they shall prophesy days, a thousand, two hundred, sixty, arrayed with sackcloth;


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and if any one may will to injure them, fire doth proceed out of their mouth, and doth devour their enemies, and if any one may will to injure them, thus it behoveth him to be killed.


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These have authority to shut the heaven, that it may not rain rain in the days of their prophecy, and authority they have over the waters to turn them to blood, and to smite the land with every plague, as often as they may will.


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`And when they may finish their testimony, the beast that is coming up out of the abyss shall make war with them, and overcome them, and kill them,


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and their dead bodies `are' upon the broad-place of the great city (that is called spiritually Sodom, and Egypt, where also our Lord was crucified,)


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and they shall behold -- they of the peoples, and tribes, and tongues, and nations -- their dead bodies three days and a half, and their dead bodies they shall not suffer to be put into tombs,


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and those dwelling upon the land shall rejoice over them, and shall make merry, and gifts they shall send to one another, because these -- the two prophets -- did torment those dwelling upon the land.'


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And after the three days and a half, a spirit of life from God did enter into them, and they stood upon their feet, and great fear fell upon those beholding them,


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and they heard a great voice out of the heaven saying to them, `Come up hither;' and they went up to the heaven in the cloud, and their enemies beheld them;


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and in that hour came a great earthquake, and the tenth of the city did fall, and killed in the earthquake were names of men -- seven thousands, and the rest became affrighted, and they gave glory to the God of the heaven.


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And the seventh messenger did sound, and there came great voices in the heaven, saying, `The kingdoms of the world did become `those' of our Lord and of His Christ, and he shall reign to the ages of the ages!'


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and the twenty and four elders, who before God are sitting upon their thrones, did fall upon their faces, and did bow before God,


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saying, `We give thanks to Thee, O Lord God, the Almighty, who art, and who wast, and who art coming, because Thou hast taken Thy great power and didst reign;


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and the nations were angry, and Thine anger did come, and the time of the dead, to be judged, and to give the reward to Thy servants, to the prophets, and to the saints, and to those fearing Thy name, to the small and to the great, and to destroy those who are destroying the land.'


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And opened was the sanctuary of God in the heaven, and there was seen the ark of His covenant in His sanctuary, and there did come lightnings, and voices, and thunders, and an earthquake, and great hail.


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And a great sign was seen in the heaven, a woman arrayed with the sun, and the moon under her feet, and upon her head a crown of twelve stars,


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And there was seen another sign in the heaven, and, lo, a great red dragon, having seven heads and ten horns, and upon his head seven diadems,


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and his tail doth draw the third of the stars of the heaven, and he did cast them to the earth; and the dragon did stand before the woman who is about to bring forth, that when she may bring forth, her child he may devour;


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and she brought forth a male child, who is about to rule all the nations with a rod of iron, and caught away was her child unto God and His throne,


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and the woman did flee to the wilderness, where she hath a place made ready from God, that there they may nourish her -- days a thousand, two hundred, sixty.


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And there came war in the heaven; Michael and his messengers did war against the dragon, and the dragon did war, and his messengers,


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and the great dragon was cast forth -- the old serpent, who is called `Devil,' and `the Adversary,' who is leading astray the whole world -- he was cast forth to the earth, and his messengers were cast forth with him.


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And I heard a great voice saying in the heaven, `Now did come the salvation, and the power, and the reign, of our God, and the authority of His Christ, because cast down was the accuser of our brethren, who is accusing them before our God day and night;


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and they did overcome him because of the blood of the Lamb, and because of the word of their testimony, and they did not love their life -- unto death;


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because of this be glad, ye heavens, and those in them who do tabernacle; wo to those inhabiting the land and the sea, because the Devil did go down unto you, having great wrath, having known that he hath little time.'


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And when the dragon saw that he was cast forth to the earth, he pursued the woman who did bring forth the male,


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and there were given to the woman two wings of the great eagle, that she may fly to the wilderness, to her place, where she is nourished a time, and times, and half a time, from the face of the serpent;


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and the serpent did cast forth after the woman, out of his mouth, water as a river, that he may cause her to be carried away by the river,


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and the land did help the woman, and the land did open its mouth and did swallow up the river, that the dragon did cast forth out of his mouth;


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and the dragon was angry against the woman, and went away to make war with the rest of her seed, those keeping the commands of God, and having the testimony of Jesus Christ.


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And I stood upon the sand of the sea, and I saw out of the sea a beast coming up, having seven heads and ten horns, and upon its horns ten diadems, and upon its heads a name of evil speaking,


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and the beast that I saw was like to a leopard, and its feet as of a bear, and its mouth as the mouth of a lion, and the dragon did give to it his power, and his throne, and great authority.


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And I saw one of its heads as slain to death, and its deadly stroke was healed, and all the earth did wonder after the beast,


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and they did bow before the dragon who did give authority to the beast, and they did bow before the beast, saying, `Who `is' like to the beast? who is able to war with it?'


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And there was given to it a mouth speaking great things, and evil-speakings, and there was given to it authority to make war forty-two months,


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and it did open its mouth for evil-speaking toward God, to speak evil of His name, and of His tabernacle, and of those who in the heaven tabernacle,


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and there was given to it to make war with the saints, and to overcome them, and there was given to it authority over every tribe, and tongue, and nation.


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And bow before it shall all who are dwelling upon the land, whose names have not been written in the scroll of the life of the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world;


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if any one a captivity doth gather, into captivity he doth go away; if any one by sword doth kill, it behoveth him by sword to be killed; here is the endurance and the faith of the saints.


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And I saw another beast coming up out of the land, and it had two horns, like a lamb, and it was speaking as a dragon,


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and all the authority of the first beast doth it do before it, and it maketh the land and those dwelling in it that they shall bow before the first beast, whose deadly stroke was healed,


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and it doth great signs, that fire also it may make to come down from the heaven to the earth before men,


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and it leadeth astray those dwelling on the land, because of the signs that were given it to do before the beast, saying to those dwelling upon the land to make an image to the beast that hath the stroke of the sword and did live,


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and there was given to it to give a spirit to the image of the beast, that also the image of the beast may speak, and `that' it may cause as many as shall not bow before the image of the beast, that they may be killed.


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And it maketh all, the small, and the great, and the rich, and the poor, and the freemen, and the servants, that it may give to them a mark upon their right hand or upon their foreheads,


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and that no one may be able to buy, or to sell, except he who is having the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name.


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Here is the wisdom! He who is having the understanding, let him count the number of the beast, for the number of a man it is, and its number `is' 666.


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And I saw, and lo, a Lamb having stood upon the mount Sion, and with him an hundred forty-four thousands, having the name of his Father written upon their foreheads;


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and I heard a voice out of the heaven, as a voice of many waters, and as a voice of great thunder, and a voice I heard of harpers harping with their harps,


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and they sing, as it were, a new song before the throne, and before the four living creatures, and the elders, and no one was able to learn the song except the hundred forty-four thousands, who have been bought from the earth;


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these are they who with women were not defiled, for they are virgin; these are they who are following the Lamb whithersoever he may go; these were bought from among men -- a first-fruit to God and to the Lamb --


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And I saw another messenger flying in mid-heaven, having good news age-during to proclaim to those dwelling upon the earth, and to every nation, and tribe, and tongue, and people,


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saying in a great voice, `Fear ye God, and give to Him glory, because come did the hour of His judgment, and bow ye before Him who did make the heaven, and the land, and sea, and fountains of waters.'


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And another messenger did follow, saying, `Fall, fall, did Babylon, the great city, because of the wine of the wrath of her whoredom she hath given to all nations to drink.'


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And a third messenger did follow them, saying in a great voice, `If any one the beast doth bow before, and his image, and doth receive a mark upon his forehead, or upon his hand,


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he also shall drink of the wine of the wrath of God, that hath been mingled unmixed in the cup of His anger, and he shall be tormented in fire and brimstone before the holy messengers, and before the Lamb,


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and the smoke of their torment doth go up to ages of ages; and they have no rest day and night, who are bowing before the beast and his image, also if any doth receive the mark of his name.


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Here is endurance of the saints: here `are' those keeping the commands of God, and the faith of Jesus.'


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And I heard a voice out of the heaven saying to me, `Write: Happy are the dead who in the Lord are dying from this time!' `Yes, (saith the Spirit,) That they may rest from their labours -- and their works do follow them!'


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And I saw, and lo, a white cloud, and upon the cloud `one' sitting like to a son of man, having upon his head a golden crown, and in his hand a sharp sickle;


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and another messenger did come forth out of the sanctuary crying in a great voice to him who is sitting upon the cloud, `Send forth thy sickle and reap, because come to thee hath the hour of reaping, because ripe hath been the harvest of the earth;'


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and he who is sitting upon the cloud did put forth his sickle upon the earth, and the earth was reaped.


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And another messenger did come forth out of the sanctuary that `is' in the heaven, having -- he also -- a sharp sickle,


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and another messenger did come forth out from the altar, having authority over the fire, and he called with a great cry to him having the sharp sickle, saying, `Send forth thy sharp sickle, and gather the clusters of the vine of the earth, because come to perfection have her grapes;'


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and the messenger did put forth his sickle to the earth, and did gather the vine of the earth, and did cast `it' to the great wine-press of the wrath of God;


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and trodden was the wine-press outside of the city, and blood did come forth out of the wine-press -- unto the bridles of the horses, a thousand, six hundred furlongs.


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And I saw another sign in the heaven, great and wonderful, seven messengers having the seven last plagues, because in these was completed the wrath of God,


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and I saw as a sea of glass mingled with fire, and those who do gain the victory over the beast, and his image, and his mark, `and' the number of his name, standing by the sea of the glass, having harps of God,


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and they sing the song of Moses, servant of God, and the song of the Lamb, saying, `Great and wonderful `are' Thy works, O Lord God, the Almighty, righteous and true `are' Thy ways, O King of saints,


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who may not fear Thee, O Lord, and glorify Thy name? because Thou alone `art' kind, because all the nations shall come and bow before Thee, because Thy righteous acts were manifested.'


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And after these things I saw, and lo, opened was the sanctuary of the tabernacle of the testimony in the heaven;


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and come forth did the seven messengers having the seven plagues, out of the sanctuary, clothed in linen, pure and shining, and girded round the breasts with golden girdles:


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and one of the four living creatures did give to the seven messengers seven golden vials, full of the wrath of God, who is living to the ages of the ages;


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and filled was the sanctuary with smoke from the glory of God, and from His power, and no one was able to enter into the sanctuary till the seven plagues of the seven messengers may be finished.


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And I heard a great voice out of the sanctuary saying to the seven messengers, `Go away, and pour out the vials of the wrath of God to the earth;'


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and the first did go away, and did pour out his vial upon the land, and there came a sore -- bad and grievous -- to men, those having the mark of the beast, and those bowing to his image.


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And the second messenger did pour out his vial to the sea, and there came blood as of `one' dead, and every living soul died in the sea.


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And the third messenger did pour out his vial to the rivers, and to the fountains of the waters, and there came blood,


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and I heard the messenger of the waters, saying, `righteous, O Lord, art Thou, who art, and who wast, and who shalt be, because these things Thou didst judge,


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because blood of saints and prophets they did pour out, and blood to them Thou didst give to drink, for they are worthy;'


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and I heard another out of the altar, saying, `Yes, Lord God, the Almighty, true and righteous `are' Thy judgments.'


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And the fourth messenger did pour out his vial upon the sun, and there was given to him to scorch men with fire,


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and men were scorched with great heat, and they did speak evil of the name of God, who hath authority over these plagues, and they did not reform -- to give to Him glory.


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And the fifth messenger did pour out his vial upon the throne of the beast, and his kingdom did become darkened, and they were gnawing their tongues from the pain,


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and they did speak evil of the God of the heaven, from their pains, and from their sores, and they did not reform from their works.


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And the sixth messenger did pour out his vial upon the great river, the Euphrates, and dried up was its water, that the way of the kings who are from the rising of the sun may be made ready;


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and I saw `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, three unclean spirits like frogs --


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for they are spirits of demons, doing signs -- which go forth unto the kings of the earth, and of the whole world, to bring them together to the battle of that great day of God the Almighty; --


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`lo, I do come as a thief; happy `is' he who is watching, and keeping his garments, that he may not walk naked, and they may see his unseemliness,' --


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And the seventh messenger did pour out his vial to the air, and there came forth a great voice from the sanctuary of the heaven, from the throne, saying, `It hath come!'


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and there came voices, and thunders, and lightnings; and a great earthquake came, such as came not since men came upon the earth, so mighty an earthquake -- so great!


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And it came -- the great city -- into three parts, and the cities of the nations did fall, and Babylon the great was remembered before God, to give to her the cup of the wine of the wrath of His anger,


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and great hail (as of talent weight) doth come down out of the heaven upon men, and men did speak evil of God because of the plague of the hail, because its plague is very great.


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And there came one of the seven messengers, who were having the seven vials, and he spake with me, saying to me, `Come, I will shew to thee the judgment of the great whore, who is sitting upon the many waters,


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with whom the kings of the earth did commit whoredom; and made drunk from the wine of her whoredom were those inhabiting the earth;'


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and he carried me away to a wilderness in the Spirit, and I saw a woman sitting upon a scarlet-coloured beast, full of names of evil-speaking, having seven heads and ten horns,


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and the woman was arrayed with purple and scarlet-colour, and gilded with gold, and precious stone, and pearls, having a golden cup in her hand full of abominations and uncleanness of her whoredom,


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and upon her forehead was a name written: `Secret, Babylon the Great, the Mother of the Whores, and the Abominations of the earth.'


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And I saw the woman drunken from the blood of the saints, and from the blood of the witnesses of Jesus, and I did wonder -- having seen her -- with great wonder;


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and the messenger said to me, `Wherefore didst thou wonder? I -- I will tell thee the secret of the woman and of the beast that `is' carrying her, which hath the seven heads and the ten horns.


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`The beast that thou didst see: it was, and it is not; and it is about to come up out of the abyss, and to go away to destruction, and wonder shall those dwelling upon the earth, whose names have not been written upon the scroll of the life from the foundation of the world, beholding the beast that was, and is not, although it is.


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`Here `is' the mind that is having wisdom; the seven heads are seven mountains, upon which the woman doth sit,


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and there are seven kings, the five did fall, and the one is, the other did not yet come, and when he may come, it behoveth him to remain a little time;


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and the beast that was, and is not, he also is eighth, and out of the seven he is, and to destruction he doth go away.


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`And the ten horns that thou sawest, are ten kings, who a kingdom did not yet receive, but authority as kings the same hour do receive with the beast,


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these with the Lamb shall make war, and the Lamb shall overcome them, because Lord of lords he is, and King of kings, and those with him are called, and choice, and stedfast.'


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And he saith to me, `The waters that thou didst see, where the whore doth sit, are peoples, and multitudes, and nations, and tongues;'


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and the ten horns that thou didst see upon the beast, these shall hate the whore, and shall make her desolate and naked, and shall eat her flesh, and shall burn her in fire,


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for God did give into their hearts to do its mind, and to make one mind, and to give their kingdom to the beast till the sayings of God may be complete,


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and the woman that thou didst see is the great city that is having reign over the kings of the land.'


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And after these things I saw another messenger coming down out of the heaven, having great authority, and the earth was lightened from his glory,


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and he did cry in might -- a great voice, saying, `Fall, fall did Babylon the great, and she became a habitation of demons, and a hold of every unclean spirit, and a hold of every unclean and hateful bird,


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because of the wine of the wrath of her whoredom have all the nations drunk, and the kings of the earth with her did commit whoredom, and merchants of the earth from the power of her revel were made rich.


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And I heard another voice out of the heaven, saying, `Come forth out of her, My people, that ye may not partake with her sins, and that ye may not receive of her plagues,


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Render to her as also she did render to you, and double to her doubles according to her works; in the cup that she did mingle mingle to her double.


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`As much as she did glorify herself and did revel, so much torment and sorrow give to her, because in her heart she saith, I sit a queen, and a widow I am not, and sorrow I shall not see;


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because of this, in one day, shall come her plagues, death, and sorrow, and famine; and in fire she shall be utterly burned, because strong `is' the Lord God who is judging her;


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and weep over her, and smite themselves for her, shall the kings of the earth, who with her did commit whoredom and did revel, when they may see the smoke of her burning,


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from afar having stood because of the fear of her torment, saying, Wo, wo, the great city! Babylon, the strong city! because in one hour did come thy judgment.


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`And the merchants of the earth shall weep and sorrow over her, because their lading no one doth buy any more;


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lading of gold, and silver, and precious stone, and pearl, and fine linen, and purple, and silk, and scarlet, and all thyne wood, and every vessel of ivory, and every vessel of most precious wood, and brass, and iron, and marble,


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and cinnamon, and odours, and ointment, and frankincense, and wine, and oil, and fine flour, and wheat, and cattle, and sheep, and of horses, and of chariots, and of bodies and souls of men.


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`And the fruits of the desire of thy soul did go away from thee, and all things -- the dainty and the bright -- did go away from thee, and no more at all mayest thou find them.


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The merchants of these things, who were made rich by her, far off shall stand because of the fear of her torment, weeping, and sorrowing,


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and saying, Wo, wo, the great city, that was arrayed with fine linen, and purple, and scarlet, and gilded in gold, and precious stone, and pearls -- because in one hour so much riches were made waste!


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`And every shipmaster, and all the company upon the ships, and sailors, and as many as work the sea, far off stood,


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and they did cast dust upon their heads, and were crying out, weeping and sorrowing, saying, Wo, wo, the great city! in which were made rich all having ships in the sea, out of her costliness -- for in one hour was she made waste.


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`Be glad over her, O heaven, and ye holy apostles and prophets, because God did judge your judgment of her!'


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And one strong messenger did take up a stone as a great millstone, and did cast `it' to the sea, saying, `Thus with violence shall Babylon be cast, the great city, and may not be found any more at all;


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and voice of harpers, and musicians, and pipers, and trumpeters, may not be heard at all in thee any more; and any artizan of any art may not be found at all in thee any more; and noise of a millstone may not be heard at all in thee any more;


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and light of a lamp may not shine at all in thee any more; and voice of bridegroom and of bride may not be heard at all in thee any more; because thy merchants were the great ones of the earth, because in thy sorcery were all the nations led astray,


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and in her blood of prophets and of saints was found, and of all those who have been slain on the earth.'


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And after these things I heard a great voice of a great multitude in the heaven, saying, `Alleluia! the salvation, and the glory, and the honour, and the power, `is' to the Lord our God;


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because true and righteous `are' His judgments, because He did judge the great whore who did corrupt the earth in her whoredom, and He did avenge the blood of His servants at her hand;'


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And fall down did the elders -- the twenty and four -- and the four living creatures, and they did bow before God who is sitting upon the throne, saying, `Amen, Alleluia.'


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And a voice out of the throne did come forth, saying, `Praise our God, all ye His servants, and those fearing Him, both the small and the great;'


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and I heard as the voice of a great multitude, and as the voice of many waters, and as the voice of mighty thunderings, saying, `Alleluia! because reign did the Lord God -- the Almighty!


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may we rejoice and exult, and give the glory to Him, because come did the marriage of the Lamb, and his wife did make herself ready;


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and there was given to her that she may be arrayed with fine linen, pure and shining, for the fine linen is the righteous acts of the saints.'


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And he saith to me, `Write: Happy `are' they who to the supper of the marriage of the Lamb have been called;' and he saith to me, `These `are' the true words of God;'


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and I fell before his feet, to bow before him, and he saith to me, `See -- not! fellow servant of thee am I, and of thy brethren, those having the testimony of Jesus; bow before God, for the testimony of Jesus is the spirit of the prophecy.'


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And I saw the heaven having been opened, and lo, a white horse, and he who is sitting upon it is called Faithful and True, and in righteousness doth he judge and war,


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and his eyes `are' as a flame of fire, and upon his head `are' many diadems -- having a name written that no one hath known, except himself,


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And the armies in the heaven were following him upon white horses, clothed in fine linen -- white and pure;


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and out of his mouth doth proceed a sharp sword, that with it he may smite the nations, and he shall rule them with a rod of iron, and he doth tread the press of the wine of the wrath and the anger of God the Almighty,


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and he hath upon the garment and upon his thigh the name written, `King of kings, and Lord of lords.'


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And I saw one messenger standing in the sun, and he cried, a great voice, saying to all the birds that are flying in mid-heaven, `Come and be gathered together to the supper of the great God,


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that ye may eat flesh of kings, and flesh of chiefs of thousands, and flesh of strong men, and flesh of horses, and of those sitting on them, and the flesh of all -- freemen and servants -- both small and great.'


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And I saw the beast, and the kings of the earth, and their armies, having been gathered together to make war with him who is sitting upon the horse, and with his army;


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and the beast was taken, and with him the false prophet who did the signs before him, in which he led astray those who did receive the mark of the beast, and those who did bow before his image; living they were cast -- the two -- to the lake of the fire, that is burning with brimstone;


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and the rest were killed with the sword of him who is sitting on the horse, which `sword' is proceeding out of his mouth, and all the birds were filled out of their flesh.


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And I saw a messenger coming down out of the heaven, having the key of the abyss, and a great chain over his hand,


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and he laid hold on the dragon, the old serpent, who is Devil and Adversary, and did bind him a thousand years,


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and he cast him to the abyss, and did shut him up, and put a seal upon him, that he may not lead astray the nations any more, till the thousand years may be finished; and after these it behoveth him to be loosed a little time.


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And I saw thrones, and they sat upon them, and judgment was given to them, and the souls of those who have been beheaded because of the testimony of Jesus, and because of the word of God, and who did not bow before the beast, nor his image, and did not receive the mark upon their forehead and upon their hand, and they did live and reign with Christ the thousand years;


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and the rest of the dead did not live again till the thousand years may be finished; this `is' the first rising again.


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Happy and holy `is' he who is having part in the first rising again; over these the second death hath not authority, but they shall be priests of God and of the Christ, and shall reign with him a thousand years.


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and he shall go forth to lead the nations astray, that are in the four corners of the earth -- Gog and Magog -- to gather them together to war, of whom the number `is' as the sand of the sea;


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and they did go up over the breadth of the land, and did surround the camp of the saints, and the beloved city, and there came down fire from God out of the heaven, and devoured them;


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and the Devil, who is leading them astray, was cast into the lake of fire and brimstone, where `are' the beast and the false prophet, and they shall be tormented day and night -- to the ages of the ages.


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And I saw a great white throne, and Him who is sitting upon it, from whose face the earth and the heaven did flee away, and place was not found for them;


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and I saw the dead, small and great, standing before God, and scrolls were opened, and another scroll was opened, which is that of the life, and the dead were judged out of the things written in the scrolls -- according to their works;


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and the sea did give up those dead in it, and the death and the hades did give up the dead in them, and they were judged, each one according to their works;


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and if any one was not found written in the scroll of the life, he was cast to the lake of the fire.


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And I saw a new heaven and a new earth, for the first heaven and the first earth did pass away, and the sea is not any more;


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and I, John, saw the holy city -- new Jerusalem -- coming down from God out of the heaven, made ready as a bride adorned for her husband;


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and I heard a great voice out of the heaven, saying, `Lo, the tabernacle of God `is' with men, and He will tabernacle with them, and they shall be His peoples, and God Himself shall be with them -- their God,


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and God shall wipe away every tear from their eyes, and the death shall not be any more, nor sorrow, nor crying, nor shall there be any more pain, because the first things did go away.'


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And He who is sitting upon the throne said, `Lo, new I make all things; and He saith to me, `Write, because these words are true and stedfast;'


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and He said to me, `It hath been done! I am the Alpha and the Omega, the Beginning and the End; I, to him who is thirsting, will give of the fountain of the water of the life freely;


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he who is overcoming shall inherit all things, and I will be to him -- a God, and he shall be to me -- the son,


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and to fearful, and unstedfast, and abominable, and murderers, and whoremongers, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all the liars, their part `is' in the lake that is burning with fire and brimstone, which is a second death.'


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And there came unto me one of the seven messengers, who have the seven vials that are full of the seven last plagues, and he spake with me, saying, `Come, I will shew thee the bride of the Lamb -- the wife,'


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and he carried me away in the Spirit to a mountain great and high, and did shew to me the great city, the holy Jerusalem, coming down out of the heaven from God,


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having the glory of God, and her light `is' like a stone most precious, as a jasper stone clear as crystal,


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having also a wall great and high, having twelve gates, and at the gates twelve messengers, and names written thereon, which are `those' of the twelve tribes of the sons of Israel,


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at the east three gates, at the north three gates, at the south three gates, at the west three gates;


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and the wall of the city had twelve foundations, and in them names of the twelve apostles of the Lamb.


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And he who is speaking with me had a golden reed, that he may measure the city, and its gates, and its wall;


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and the city lieth square, and the length of it is as great as the breadth; and he did measure the city with the reed -- furlongs twelve thousand; the length, and the breadth, and the height, of it are equal;


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and he measured its wall, an hundred forty-four cubits, the measure of a man, that is, of the messenger;


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and the foundations of the wall of the city with every precious stone have been adorned; the first foundation jasper; the second, sapphire; the third, chalcedony; the fourth, emerald;


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And the twelve gates `are' twelve pearls, each several one of the gates was of one pearl; and the broad-place of the city `is' pure gold -- as transparent glass.


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And a sanctuary I did not see in it, for the Lord God, the Almighty, is its sanctuary, and the Lamb,


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and the city hath no need of the sun, nor of the moon, that they may shine in it; for the glory of God did lighten it, and the lamp of it `is' the Lamb;


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and the nations of the saved in its light shall walk, and the kings of the earth do bring their glory and honour into it,


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and there may not at all enter into it any thing defiling and doing abomination, and a lie, but -- those written in the scroll of the life of the Lamb.


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And he shewed me a pure river of water of life, bright as crystal, going forth out of the throne of God and of the Lamb:


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in the midst of its broad place, and of the river on this side and on that, `is' a tree of life, yielding twelve fruits, in each several month rendering its fruits, and the leaves of the tree `are' for the service of the nations;


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and any curse there shall not be any more, and the throne of God and of the Lamb shall be in it, and His servants shall serve Him,


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and night shall not be there, and they have no need of a lamp and light of a sun, because the Lord God doth give them light, and they shall reign -- to the ages of the ages.


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And he said to me, `These words `are' stedfast and true, and the Lord God of the holy prophets did send His messenger to shew to His servants the things that it behoveth to come quickly:


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And I, John, am he who is seeing these things and hearing, and when I heard and beheld, I fell down to bow before the feet of the messenger who is shewing me these things;


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and he saith to me, `See -- not; for fellow-servant of thee am I, and of thy brethren the prophets, and of those keeping the words of this scroll; before God bow.'


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And he saith to me, `Thou mayest not seal the words of the prophecy of this scroll, because the time is nigh;


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he who is unrighteous -- let him be unrighteous still, and he who is filthy -- let him be filthy still, and he who is righteous -- let him be declared righteous still, and he who is sanctified -- let him be sanctified still:


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`Happy are those doing His commands that the authority shall be theirs unto the tree of the life, and by the gates they may enter into the city;


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and without `are' the dogs, and the sorcerers, and the whoremongers, and the murderers, and the idolaters, and every one who is loving and is doing a lie.


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`I, Jesus did send my messenger to testify to you these things concerning the assemblies; I am the root and the offspring of David, the bright and morning star!


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And the Spirit and the Bride say, Come; and he who is hearing -- let him say, Come; and he who is thirsting -- let him come; and he who is willing -- let him take the water of life freely.


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`For I testify to every one hearing the words of the prophecy of this scroll, if any one may add unto these, God shall add to him the plagues that have been written in this scroll,


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and if any one may take away from the words of the scroll of this prophecy, God shall take away his part from the scroll of the life, and out of the holy city, and the things that have been written in this scroll;'


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he saith -- who is testifying these things -- `Yes, I come quickly!' Amen! Yes, be coming, Lord Jesus!


