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But Jesus said to him, No one having laid his hand on [the] plough and looking back is fit for the kingdom of God.


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Now after these things the Lord appointed seventy others also, and sent them two and two before his face into every city and place where he himself was about to come.


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And he said to them, The harvest indeed [is] great, but the workmen few; supplicate therefore the Lord of the harvest that he may send out workmen into his harvest.


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And if a son of peace be there, your peace shall rest upon it; but if not it shall turn to you again.


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And in the same house abide, eating and drinking such things as they have; for the workman is worthy of his hire. Remove not from house to house.


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But into whatsoever city ye may have entered and they do not receive you, go out into its streets and say,


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Even the dust of your city, which cleaves to us on the feet, do we shake off against you; but know this, that the kingdom of God is come nigh.


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Woe to thee, Chorazin! woe to thee, Bethsaida! for if the works of power which have taken place in you had taken place in Tyre and Sidon, they had long ago repented, sitting in sackcloth and ashes.


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He that hears you hears me; and he that rejects you rejects me; and he that rejects me rejects him that sent me.


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And the seventy returned with joy, saying, Lord, even the demons are subject to us through thy name.


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Behold, I give you the power of treading upon serpents and scorpions and over all the power of the enemy, and nothing shall in anywise injure you.


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Yet in this rejoice not, that the spirits are subjected to you, but rejoice that your names are written in the heavens.


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In the same hour Jesus rejoiced in spirit and said, I praise thee, Father, Lord of the heaven and of the earth, that thou hast hid these things from wise and prudent, and hast revealed them to babes: yea, Father, for thus has it been well-pleasing in thy sight.


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All things have been delivered to me by my Father, and no one knows who the Son is but the Father, and who the Father is but the Son, and he to whomsoever the Son is pleased to reveal [him].


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And having turned to the disciples privately he said, Blessed are the eyes which see the things that ye see.


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For I say to you that many prophets and kings have desired to see the things which ye behold, and did not see [them]; and to hear the things which ye hear, and did not hear [them].


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And behold, a certain lawyer stood up tempting him, and saying, Teacher, having done what, shall I inherit life eternal?


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But he answering said, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy strength, and with all thine understanding; and thy neighbour as thyself.


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And Jesus replying said, A certain man descended from Jerusalem to Jericho and fell into [the hands of] robbers, who also, having stripped him and inflicted wounds, went away leaving him in a half-dead state.


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and in like manner also a Levite, being at the spot, came and looked [at him] and passed on on the opposite side.


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and came up [to him] and bound up his wounds, pouring in oil and wine; and having put him on his own beast, took him to [the] inn and took care of him.


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And on the morrow [as he left], taking out two denarii he gave them to the innkeeper, and said to him, Take care of him, and whatsoever thou shalt expend more, *I* will render to thee on my coming back.


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Which [now] of these three seems to thee to have been neighbour of him who fell into [the hands of] the robbers?


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And it came to pass as they went that *he* entered into a certain village; and a certain woman, Martha by name, received him into her house.


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And she had a sister called Mary, who also, having sat down at the feet of Jesus was listening to his word.


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Now Martha was distracted with much serving, and coming up she said, Lord, dost thou not care that my sister has left me to serve alone? Speak to her therefore that she may help me.


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And it came to pass as he was in a certain place praying, when he ceased, one of his disciples said to him, Lord, teach us to pray, even as John also taught his disciples.


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and remit us our sins, for we also remit to every one indebted to us; and lead us not into temptation.


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And he said to them, Who among you shall have a friend, and shall go to him at midnight and say to him, Friend, let me have three loaves,


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and he within answering should say, Do not disturb me; the door is already shut, and my children are with me in bed; I cannot rise up to give [it] thee?


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-- I say to you, Although he will not get up and give [them] to him because he is his friend, because of his shamelessness, at any rate, he will rise and give him as many as he wants.


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And *I* say to you, Ask, and it shall be given to you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened to you.


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For every one that asks receives; and he that seeks finds; and to him that knocks it will be opened.


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But of whom of you that is a father shall a son ask bread, and [the father] shall give him a stone? or also a fish, and instead of a fish shall give him a serpent?


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If therefore *ye*, being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much rather shall the Father who is of heaven give [the] Holy Spirit to them that ask him?


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And he was casting out a demon, and it was dumb; and it came to pass, the demon being gone out, the dumb [man] spoke. And the crowds wondered.


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But *he*, knowing their thoughts, said to them, Every kingdom divided against itself is brought to desolation: and a house set against a house falls;


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and if also Satan is divided against himself, how shall his kingdom subsist? because ye say that I cast out demons by Beelzebub.


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But if *I* by Beelzebub cast out demons, your sons -- by whom do they cast [them] out? For this reason *they* shall be your judges.


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but when the stronger than he coming upon [him] overcomes him, he takes away his panoply in which he trusted, and he will divide the spoil [he has taken] from him.


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When the unclean spirit has gone out of the man, he goes through dry places seeking rest; and not finding [any] he says, I will return to my house whence I came out.


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Then he goes and takes seven other spirits worse than himself, and entering in, they dwell there; and the last condition of that man becomes worse than the first.


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And it came to pass as he spake these things, a certain woman, lifting up her voice out of the crowd, said to him, Blessed is the womb that has borne thee, and the paps which thou hast sucked.


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But as the crowds thronged together, he began to say, This generation is a wicked generation: it seeks a sign, and a sign shall not be given to it but the sign of Jonas.


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A queen of the south shall rise up in the judgment with the men of this generation, and shall condemn them: for she came from the ends of the earth to hear the wisdom of Solomon; and behold, more than Solomon is here.


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Men of Nineveh shall stand up in the judgment with this generation, and shall condemn it: for they repented at the preaching of Jonas; and behold, more than Jonas is here.


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But no one having lit a lamp sets it in secret, nor under the corn-measure, but on the lamp-stand, that they who enter in may see the light.


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The lamp of the body is thine eye: when thine eye is simple, thy whole body also is light; but when it is wicked, thy body also is dark.


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If therefore thy whole body [is] light, not having any part dark, it shall be all light as when the lamp lights thee with its brightness.


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But as he spoke, a certain Pharisee asked him that he would dine with him; and entering in he placed himself at table.


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But the Lord said to him, Now do ye Pharisees cleanse the outside of the cup and of the dish, but your inward [parts] are full of plunder and wickedness.


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But woe unto you, Pharisees, for ye pay tithes of mint and rue and every herb, and pass by the judgment and the love of God: these ye ought to have done, and not have left those aside.


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Woe unto you, Pharisees, for ye love the first seat in the synagogues and salutations in the market-places.


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Woe unto you, for ye are as the sepulchres which appear not, and the men walking over them do not know [it].


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And one of the doctors of the law answering says to him, Teacher, in saying these things thou insultest us also.


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And he said, To you also woe, doctors of the law, for ye lay upon men burdens heavy to bear, and yourselves do not touch the burdens with one of your fingers.


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Ye bear witness then, and consent to the works of your fathers; for *they* killed them, and *ye* build [their sepulchres].


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For this reason also the wisdom of God has said, I will send to them prophets and apostles, and of these shall they kill and drive out by persecution,


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that the blood of all the prophets which has been poured out from the foundation of the world may be required of this generation,


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from the blood of Abel to the blood of Zacharias, who perished between the altar and the house; yea, I say to you, it shall be required of this generation.


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Woe unto you, the doctors of the law, for ye have taken away the key of knowledge; yourselves have not entered in, and those who were entering in ye have hindered.


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And as he said these things to them, the scribes and the Pharisees began to press him urgently, and to make him speak of many things;


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In those [times], the myriads of the crowd being gathered together, so that they trod one on another, he began to say to his disciples first, Beware of the leaven of the Pharisees, which is hypocrisy;


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therefore whatever ye have said in the darkness shall be heard in the light, and what ye have spoken in the ear in chambers shall be proclaimed upon the housetops.


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But I say to you, my friends, Fear not those who kill the body and after this have no more that they can do.


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But I will shew you whom ye shall fear: Fear him who after he has killed has authority to cast into hell; yea, I say to you, Fear *him*.


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But even the hairs of your head are all numbered. Fear not therefore, ye are better than many sparrows.


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But I say to you, Whosoever shall confess me before men, the Son of man will confess him also before the angels of God;


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and whoever shall say a word against the Son of man it shall be forgiven him; but to him that speaks injuriously against the Holy Spirit it shall not be forgiven.


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But when they bring you before the synagogues and rulers and the authorities, be not careful how or what ye shall answer, or what ye shall say;


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And a person said to him out of the crowd, Teacher, speak to my brother to divide the inheritance with me.


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And he said to them, Take heed and keep yourselves from all covetousness, for [it is] not because a man is in abundance [that] his life is in his possessions.


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And he reasoned within himself saying, What shall I do? for I have not [a place] where I shall lay up my fruits.


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And he said, This will I do: I will take away my granaries and build greater, and there I will lay up all my produce and my good things;


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and I will say to my soul, Soul, thou hast much good things laid by for many years; repose thyself, eat, drink, be merry.


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But God said to him, Fool, this night thy soul shall be required of thee; and whose shall be what thou hast prepared?


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And he said to his disciples, For this cause I say unto you, Be not careful for life, what ye shall eat, nor for the body, what ye shall put on.


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Consider the ravens, that they sow not nor reap; which have neither storehouse nor granary; and God feeds them. How much better are *ye* than the birds?


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Consider the lilies how they grow: they neither toil nor spin; but I say unto you, Not even Solomon in all his glory was clothed as one of these.


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But if God thus clothe the grass, which to-day is in the field and to-morrow is cast into [the] oven, how much rather you, O ye of little faith?


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for all these things do the nations of the world seek after, and your Father knows that ye have need of these things;


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Sell what ye possess and give alms; make to yourselves purses which do not grow old, a treasure which does not fail in the heavens, where thief does not draw near nor moth destroy.


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and *ye* like men who wait their own lord whenever he may leave the wedding, that when he comes and knocks, they may open to him immediately.


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Blessed are those bondmen whom the lord [on] coming shall find watching; verily I say unto you, that he will gird himself and make them recline at table, and coming up will serve them.


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And if he come in the second watch, and come in the third watch, and find [them] thus, blessed are those [bondmen].


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But this know, that if the master of the house had known in what hour the thief was coming, he would have watched, and not have suffered his house to be dug through.


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And ye therefore, be *ye* ready, for in the hour in which ye do not think [it], the Son of man comes.


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And the Lord said, Who then is the faithful and prudent steward, whom his lord will set over his household, to give the measure of corn in season?


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But if that bondman should say in his heart, My lord delays to come, and begin to beat the menservants and the maidservants, and to eat and to drink and to be drunken,


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the lord of that bondman shall come in a day when he does not expect it, and in an hour he knows not of, and shall cut him in two and appoint his portion with the unbelievers.


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But that bondman who knew his own lord's will, and had not prepared [himself] nor done his will, shall be beaten with many [stripes];


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but he who knew [it] not, and did things worthy of stripes, shall be beaten with few. And to every one to whom much has been given, much shall be required from him; and to whom [men] have committed much, they will ask from him the more.


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But I have a baptism to be baptised with, and how am I straitened until it shall have been accomplished!


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for from henceforth there shall be five in one house divided; three shall be divided against two, and two against three:


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father against son, and son against father; mother against daughter, and daughter against mother; a mother-in-law against her daughter-in-law, and a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law.


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And he said also to the crowds, When ye see a cloud rising out of the west, straightway ye say, A shower is coming; and so it happens.


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Hypocrites, ye know how to judge of the appearance of the earth and of the heaven; how [is it then that] ye do not discern this time?


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For as thou goest with thine adverse party before a magistrate, strive in the way to be reconciled with him, lest he drag thee away to the judge, and the judge shall deliver thee to the officer, and the officer cast thee into prison.


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Now at the same time there were present some who told him of the Galileans whose blood Pilate mingled with [that of] their sacrifices.


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And he answering said to them, Think ye that these Galileans were sinners beyond all the Galileans because they suffered such things?


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Or those eighteen on whom the tower in Siloam fell and killed them, think ye that *they* were debtors beyond all the men who dwell in Jerusalem?


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And he spoke this parable: A certain [man] had a fig-tree planted in his vineyard, and he came seeking fruit upon it and did not find [any].


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And he said to the vinedresser, Behold, [these] three years I come seeking fruit on this fig-tree and find none: cut it down; why does it also render the ground useless?


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But he answering says to him, Sir, let it alone for this year also, until I shall dig about it and put dung,


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And lo, [there was] a woman having a spirit of infirmity eighteen years, and she was bent together and wholly unable to lift her head up.


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And Jesus, seeing her, called to [her], and said to her, Woman, thou art loosed from thine infirmity.


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But the ruler of the synagogue, indignant because Jesus healed on the sabbath, answering said to the crowd, There are six days in which [people] ought to work; in these therefore come and be healed, and not on the sabbath day.


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The Lord therefore answered him and said, Hypocrites! does not each one of you on the sabbath loose his ox or his ass from the manger and leading [it] away, water [it]?


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And this [woman], who is a daughter of Abraham, whom Satan has bound, lo, [these] eighteen years, ought she not to be loosed from this bond on the sabbath day?


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And as he said these things, all who were opposed to him were ashamed; and all the crowd rejoiced at all the glorious things which were being done by him.


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It is like a grain of mustard [seed] which a man took and cast into his garden; and it grew and became a great tree, and the birds of heaven lodged in its branches.


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It is like leaven, which a woman took and hid in three measures of meal until the whole was leavened.


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Strive with earnestness to enter in through the narrow door, for many, I say to you, will seek to enter in and will not be able.


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From the time that the master of the house shall have risen up and shall have shut the door, and ye shall begin to stand without and to knock at the door, saying, Lord, open to us; and he answering shall say to you, I know you not whence ye are:


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then shall ye begin to say, We have eaten in thy presence and drunk, and thou hast taught in our streets;


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and he shall say, I tell you, I do not know you whence ye are; depart from me, all [ye] workers of iniquity.


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There shall be the weeping and the gnashing of teeth, when ye shall see Abraham and Isaac and Jacob and all the prophets in the kingdom of God, but yourselves cast out.


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And they shall come from east and west, and from north and south, and shall lie down at table in the kingdom of God.


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The same hour certain Pharisees came up, saying to him, Get out, and go hence, for Herod is desirous to kill thee.


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And he said to them, Go, tell that fox, Behold, I cast out demons and accomplish cures to-day and to-morrow, and the third [day] I am perfected;


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but I must needs walk to-day and to-morrow and the [day] following, for it must not be that a prophet perish out of Jerusalem.


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Jerusalem, Jerusalem, the [city] that kills the prophets and stones those that are sent unto her, how often would I have gathered thy children together, as a hen her brood under her wings, and ye would not.


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Behold, your house is left unto you; and I say unto you, that ye shall not see me until it come that ye say, Blessed [is] he that comes in the name of [the] Lord.


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And it came to pass, as he went into the house of one of the rulers, [who was] of the Pharisees, to eat bread on [the] sabbath, that *they* were watching him.


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And Jesus answering spoke unto the doctors of the law and Pharisees, saying, Is it lawful to heal on the sabbath?


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And answering he said to them, Of which of you shall an ass or ox fall into a well, that he does not straightway pull him up on the sabbath day?


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And he spoke a parable to those that were invited, remarking how they chose out the first places, saying to them,


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When thou art invited by any one to a wedding, do not lay thyself down in the first place at table, lest perhaps a more honourable than thou be invited by him,


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and he who invited thee and him come and say to thee, Give place to this [man], and then thou begin with shame to take the last place.


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But when thou hast been invited, go and put thyself down in the last place, that when he who has invited thee comes, he may say to thee, Friend, go up higher: then shalt thou have honour before all that are lying at table with thee;


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And he said also to him that had invited him, When thou makest a dinner or a supper, call not thy friends, nor thy brethren, nor thy kinsfolk, nor rich neighbours, lest it may be they also should invite thee in return, and a recompense be made thee.


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and thou shalt be blessed; for they have not [the means] to recompense thee; for it shall be recompensed thee in the resurrection of the just.


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And one of those that were lying at table with [them], hearing these things, said to him, Blessed [is] he who shall eat bread in the kingdom of God.


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And he sent his bondman at the hour of supper to say to those who were invited, Come, for already all things are ready.


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And all began, without exception, to excuse themselves. The first said to him, I have bought land, and I must go out and see it; I pray thee hold me for excused.


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And another said, I have bought five yoke of oxen, and I go to prove them; I pray thee hold me for excused.


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And the bondman came up and brought back word of these things to his lord. Then the master of the house, in anger, said to his bondman, Go out quickly into the streets and lanes of the city, and bring here the poor and crippled and lame and blind.


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And the lord said to the bondman, Go out into the ways and fences and compel to come in, that my house may be filled;


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If any man come to me, and shall not hate his own father and mother, and wife, and children, and brothers, and sisters, yea, and his own life too, he cannot be my disciple;


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For which of you, desirous of building a tower, does not first sit down and count the cost, if he have what [is needed] to complete it;


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in order that, having laid the foundation of it, and not being able to finish it, all who see it do not begin to mock at him,


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Or what king, going on his way to engage in war with another king, does not, sitting down first, take counsel whether he is able with ten thousand to meet him coming against him with twenty thousand?


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It is proper neither for land nor for dung; it is cast out. He that hath ears to hear, let him hear.


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What man of you having a hundred sheep, and having lost one of them, does not leave the ninety and nine in the wilderness and go after that which is lost, until he find it?


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and being come to the house, calls together the friends and the neighbours, saying to them, Rejoice with me, for I have found my lost sheep.


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I say unto you, that thus there shall be joy in heaven for one repenting sinner, [more] than for ninety and nine righteous who have no need of repentance.


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Or, what woman having ten drachmas, if she lose one drachma, does not light a lamp and sweep the house and seek carefully till she find it?


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and having found it she calls together the friends and neighbours, saying, Rejoice with me, for I have found the drachma which I had lost.


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and the younger of them said to his father, Father, give to me the share of the property that falls [to me]. And he divided to them what he was possessed of.


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And after not many days the younger son gathering all together went away into a country a long way off, and there dissipated his property, living in debauchery.


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But when he had spent all there arose a violent famine throughout that country, and he began to be in want.


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And he went and joined himself to one of the citizens of that country, and he sent him into his fields to feed swine.


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And coming to himself, he said, How many hired servants of my father's have abundance of bread, and *I* perish here by famine.


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I will rise up and go to my father, and I will say to him, Father, I have sinned against heaven and before thee;


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And he rose up and went to his own father. But while he was yet a long way off, his father saw him, and was moved with compassion, and ran, and fell upon his neck, and covered him with kisses.


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And the son said to him, Father, I have sinned against heaven and before thee; I am no longer worthy to be called thy son.


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But the father said to his bondmen, Bring out the best robe and clothe him in [it], and put a ring on his hand and sandals on his feet;


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for this my son was dead and has come to life, was lost and has been found. And they began to make merry.


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And his elder son was in the field; and as, coming [up], he drew nigh to the house, he heard music and dancing.


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And he said to him, Thy brother is come, and thy father has killed the fatted calf because he has received him safe and well.


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But he answering said to his father, Behold, so many years I serve thee, and never have I transgressed a commandment of thine; and to me hast thou never given a kid that I might make merry with my friends:


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but when this thy son, who has devoured thy substance with harlots, is come, thou hast killed for him the fatted calf.


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But it was right to make merry and rejoice, because this thy brother was dead and has come to life again, and was lost and has been found.


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And he said also to [his] disciples, There was a certain rich man who had a steward, and *he* was accused to him as wasting his goods.


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And having called him, he said to him, What [is] this that I hear of thee? give the reckoning of thy stewardship, for thou canst be no longer steward.


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And the steward said within himself, What shall I do; for my lord is taking the stewardship from me? I am not able to dig; I am ashamed to beg.


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I know what I will do, that when I shall have been removed from the stewardship I may be received into their houses.


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And having called to [him] each one of the debtors of his own lord, he said to the first, How much owest thou to my lord?


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And he said, A hundred baths of oil. And he said to him, Take thy writing and sit down quickly and write fifty.


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Then he said to another, And thou, how much dost thou owe? And he said, A hundred cors of wheat. And he says to him, Take thy writing and write eighty.


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And the lord praised the unrighteous steward because he had done prudently. For the sons of this world are, for their own generation, more prudent than the sons of light.


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And *I* say to you, Make to yourselves friends with the mammon of unrighteousness, that when it fails ye may be received into the eternal tabernacles.


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He that is faithful in the least is faithful also in much; and he that is unrighteous in the least is unrighteous also in much.


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If therefore ye have not been faithful in the unrighteous mammon, who shall entrust to you the true?


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No servant can serve two masters, for either he will hate the one and will love the other, or he will cleave to the one and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon.


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And he said to them, *Ye* are they who justify themselves before men, but God knows your hearts; for what amongst men is highly thought of is an abomination before God.


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The law and the prophets [were] until John: from that time the glad tidings of the kingdom of God are announced, and every one forces his way into it.


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But it is easier that the heaven and the earth should pass away than that one tittle of the law should fail.


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Every one who puts away his wife and marries another commits adultery; and every one that marries one put away from a husband commits adultery.


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Now there was a rich man and he was clothed in purple and fine linen, making good cheer in splendour every day.


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and desiring to be filled with the crumbs which fell from the table of the rich man; but the dogs also coming licked his sores.


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And it came to pass that the poor man died, and that he was carried away by the angels into the bosom of Abraham. And the rich man also died and was buried.


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And in hades lifting up his eyes, being in torments, he sees Abraham afar off, and Lazarus in his bosom.


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And he crying out said, Father Abraham, have compassion on me, and send Lazarus that he may dip the tip of his finger in water and cool my tongue, for I am suffering in this flame.


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But Abraham said, Child, recollect that *thou* hast fully received thy good things in thy lifetime, and likewise Lazarus evil things. But now he is comforted here, and *thou* art in suffering.


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And besides all this, between us and you a great chasm is fixed, so that those who desire to pass hence to you cannot, nor do they who [desire to cross] from there pass over unto us.


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for I have five brothers, so that he may earnestly testify to them, that they also may not come to this place of torment.


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And he said to him, If they hear not Moses and the prophets, not even if one rise from among [the] dead will they be persuaded.


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And he said to his disciples, It cannot be but that offences come, but woe [to him] by whom they come!


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It would be [more] profitable for him if a millstone were hanged about his neck and he cast into the sea, than that he should be a snare to one of these little ones.


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Take heed to yourselves: if thy brother should sin, rebuke him; and if he should repent, forgive him.


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And if he should sin against thee seven times in the day, and seven times should return to thee, saying, I repent, thou shalt forgive him.


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But the Lord said, If ye have faith as a grain of mustard [seed], ye had said to this sycamine tree, Be thou rooted up, and be thou planted in the sea, and it would have obeyed you.


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But which of you [is there] who, having a bondman ploughing or shepherding, when he comes in out of the field, will say, Come and lie down immediately to table?


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But will he not say to him, Prepare what I shall sup on, and gird thyself and serve me that I may eat and drink; and after that *thou* shalt eat and drink?


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Thus *ye* also, when ye shall have done all things that have been ordered you, say, We are unprofitable bondmen; we have done what it was our duty to do.


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And it came to pass as he was going up to Jerusalem, that he passed through the midst of Samaria and Galilee.


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And seeing [them] he said to them, Go, shew yourselves to the priests. And it came to pass as they were going they were cleansed.


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And having been asked by the Pharisees, When is the kingdom of God coming? he answered them and said, The kingdom of God does not come with observation;


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And he said to the disciples, Days are coming, when ye shall desire to see one of the days of the Son of man, and shall not see [it].


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For as the lightning shines which lightens from [one end] under heaven to [the other end] under heaven, thus shall the Son of man be in his day.


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they ate, they drank, they married, they were given in marriage, until the day that Noe entered into the ark, and the flood came and destroyed all [of them];


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and in like manner as took place in the days of Lot: they ate, they drank, they bought, they sold, they planted, they builded;


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but on the day that Lot went out from Sodom, it rained fire and sulphur from heaven, and destroyed all [of them]:


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In that day, he who shall be on the housetop, and his stuff in the house, let him not go down to take it away; and he that is in the field, let him likewise not return back.


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I say to you, In that night there shall be two [men] upon one bed; one shall be seized and the other shall be let go.


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And answering they say to him, Where, Lord? And he said to them, Where the body [is], there the eagles will be gathered together.


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And he would not for a time; but afterwards he said within himself, If even I fear not God and respect not man,


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at any rate because this widow annoys me I will avenge her, that she may not by perpetually coming completely harass me.


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And shall not God at all avenge his elect, who cry to him day and night, and he bears long as to them?


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I say unto you that he will avenge them speedily. But when the Son of man comes, shall he indeed find faith on the earth?


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And he spoke also to some, who trusted in themselves that they were righteous and made nothing of all the rest [of men], this parable:


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The Pharisee, standing, prayed thus to himself: God, I thank thee that I am not as the rest of men, rapacious, unjust, adulterers, or even as this tax-gatherer.


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And the tax-gatherer, standing afar off, would not lift up even his eyes to heaven, but smote upon his breast, saying, O God, have compassion on me, the sinner.


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I say unto you, This [man] went down to his house justified rather than that [other]. For every one who exalts himself shall be humbled, and he that humbles himself shall be exalted.


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And they brought to him also infants that he might touch them, but the disciples when they saw [it] rebuked them.


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But Jesus calling them to [him] said, Suffer little children to come to me, and do not forbid them, for of such is the kingdom of God.


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Verily I say to you, Whosoever shall not receive the kingdom of God as a little child shall in no wise enter therein.


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Thou knowest the commandments: Do not commit adultery, Do not kill, Do not steal, Do not bear false witness, Honour thy father and thy mother.


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And when Jesus had heard this, he said to him, One thing is lacking to thee yet: Sell all that thou hast and distribute to the poor, and thou shalt have treasure in the heavens, and come, follow me.


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But when Jesus saw that he became very sorrowful, he said, How difficultly shall those who have riches enter into the kingdom of God;


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for it is easier for a camel to enter through a needle's eye than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God.


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And he said to them, Verily I say to you, There is no one who has left home, or parents, or brethren, or wife, or children, for the kingdom of God's sake,


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And he took the twelve to [him] and said to them, Behold, we go up to Jerusalem, and all things that are written of the Son of man by the prophets shall be accomplished;


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And they understood nothing of these things. And this word was hidden from them, and they did not know what was said.


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And it came to pass when he came into the neighbourhood of Jericho, a certain blind man sat by the wayside begging.


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And those [who were] going before rebuked him that he might be silent; but *he* cried out so much the more, Son of David, have mercy on me.


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And Jesus stood still, and commanded him to be led to him. And when he drew nigh he asked him [saying],


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And immediately he saw, and followed him, glorifying God. And all the people when they saw [it] gave praise to God.


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And behold, [there was] a man by name called Zacchaeus, and he was chief tax-gatherer, and he was rich.


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And he sought to see Jesus who he was: and he could not for the crowd, because he was little in stature.


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And running on before, he got up into a sycamore that he might see him, for he was going to pass that [way].


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And when he came up to the place, Jesus looked up and saw him, and said to him, Zacchaeus, make haste and come down, for to-day I must remain in thy house.


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But Zacchaeus stood and said to the Lord, Behold, Lord, the half of my goods I give to the poor, and if I have taken anything from any man by false accusation, I return [him] fourfold.


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And Jesus said to him, To-day salvation is come to this house, inasmuch as he also is a son of Abraham;


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But as they were listening to these things, he added and spake a parable, because he was near to Jerusalem and they thought that the kingdom of God was about to be immediately manifested.


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He said therefore, A certain high-born man went to a distant country to receive for himself a kingdom and return.


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And having called his own ten bondmen, he gave to them ten minas, and said to them, Trade while I am coming.


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But his citizens hated him, and sent an embassy after him, saying, We will not that this [man] should reign over us.


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And it came to pass on his arrival back again, having received the kingdom, that he desired these bondmen to whom he gave the money to be called to him, in order that he might know what every one had gained by trading.


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And he said to him, Well [done], thou good bondman; because thou hast been faithful in that which is least, be thou in authority over ten cities.


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For I feared thee because thou art a harsh man: thou takest up what thou hast not laid down, and thou reapest what thou hast not sowed.


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He says to him, Out of thy mouth will I judge thee, wicked bondman: thou knewest that *I* am a harsh man, taking up what I have not laid down and reaping what I have not sowed.


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And why didst thou not give my money to [the] bank; and *I* should have received it, at my coming, with interest?


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And he said to those that stood by, Take from him the mina and give [it] to him who has the ten minas.


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For I say unto you, that to every one that has shall be given; but from him that has not, that even which he has shall be taken from him.


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Moreover those mine enemies, who would not [have] me to reign over them, bring them here and slay [them] before me.


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And it came to pass as he drew near to Bethphage and Bethany at the mountain called [the mount] of Olives, he sent two of his disciples,


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saying, Go into the village over against [you], in which ye will find, on entering it, a colt tied up, on which no [child] of man ever sat at any time: loose it and lead it [here].


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And if any one ask you, Why do ye loose [it]? thus shall ye say to him, Because the Lord has need of it.


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And as he drew near, already at the descent of the mount of Olives, all the multitude of the disciples began, rejoicing, to praise God with a loud voice for all the works of power which they had seen,


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saying, Blessed the King that comes in the name of [the] Lord: peace in heaven, and glory in the highest.


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saying, If thou hadst known, even thou, even at least in this thy day, the things that are for thy peace: but now they are hid from thine eyes;


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for days shall come upon thee, that thine enemies shall make a palisaded mound about thee, and shall close thee around, and keep thee in on every side,


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and shall lay thee even with the ground, and thy children in thee; and shall not leave in thee a stone upon a stone: because thou knewest not the season of thy visitation.


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saying to them, It is written, My house is a house of prayer, but *ye* have made it a den of robbers.


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And he was teaching day by day in the temple: and the chief priests and the scribes and the chief of the people sought to destroy him,


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And it came to pass on one of the days, as he was teaching the people in the temple, and announcing the glad tidings, the chief priests and the scribes with the elders came up,


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and spoke to him saying, Tell us by what authority thou doest these things, or who is it who has given thee this authority?


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And they reasoned among themselves, saying, If we should say, Of heaven, he will say, Why have ye not believed him?


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but if we should say, Of men, the whole people will stone us, for they are persuaded that John was a prophet.


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And he began to speak to the people this parable: A man planted a vineyard and let it out to husbandmen, and left the country for a long time.


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And in the season he sent to the husbandmen a bondman, that they might give to him of the fruit of the vineyard; but the husbandmen, having beaten him, sent [him] away empty.


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And again he sent another bondman; but they, having beaten him also, and cast insult upon him, sent [him] away empty.


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And the lord of the vineyard said, What shall I do? I will send my beloved son: perhaps when they see him they will respect [him].


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But when the husbandmen saw him, they reasoned among themselves, saying, This is the heir; [come,] let us kill him, that the inheritance may become ours.


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And having cast him forth out of the vineyard, they killed [him]. What therefore shall the lord of the vineyard do to them?


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He will come and destroy those husbandmen, and will give the vineyard to others. And when they heard it they said, May it never be!


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But he looking at them said, What then is this that is written, The stone which they that builded rejected, this has become the corner-stone?


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Every one falling on this stone shall be broken, but on whomsoever it shall fall, it shall grind him to powder.


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And the chief priests and the scribes sought the same hour to lay hands on him, and they feared the people; for they knew that he had spoken this parable of them.


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And having watched [him], they sent out suborned persons, pretending to be just men, that they might take hold of him in [his] language, so that they might deliver him up to the power and authority of the governor.


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And they asked him saying, Teacher, we know that thou sayest and teachest rightly, and acceptest no [man's] person, but teachest with truth the way of God:


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And they were not able to take hold of him in [his] expressions before the people, and, wondering at his answer, they were silent.


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demanded of him saying, Teacher, Moses wrote to us, If any one's brother, who has a wife, die, and he die childless, his brother shall take the wife and raise up seed to his brother.


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but they who are counted worthy to have part in that world, and the resurrection from among [the] dead, neither marry nor are given in marriage;


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for neither can they die any more, for they are equal to angels, and are sons of God, being sons of the resurrection.


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But that the dead rise, even Moses shewed in [the section of] the bush, when he called [the] Lord the God of Abraham and the God of Isaac and the God of Jacob;


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Beware of the scribes, who like to walk about in long robes, and who love salutations in the market-places, and first seats in the synagogues, and first places at suppers;


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for all these out of their abundance have cast into the gifts [of God]; but she out of her need has cast in all the living which she had.


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And as some spoke of the temple, that it was adorned with goodly stones and consecrated offerings, he said,


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[As to] these things which ye are beholding, days are coming in which there shall not be left stone upon stone which shall not be thrown down.


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And they asked him saying, Teacher, when then shall these things be; and what [is] the sign when these things are going to take place?


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And he said, See that ye be not led astray, for many shall come in my name, saying, *I* am [he], and the time is drawn nigh: go ye not [therefore] after them.


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And when ye shall hear of wars and tumults, be not terrified, for these things must first take place, but the end is not immediately.


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there shall be both great earthquakes in different places, and famines and pestilences; and there shall be fearful sights and great signs from heaven.


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But before all these things they shall lay their hands upon you and persecute you, delivering [you] up to synagogues and prisons, bringing [you] before kings and governors on account of my name;


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for *I* will give you a mouth and wisdom which all your opposers shall not be able to reply to or resist.


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But ye will be delivered up even by parents and brethren and relations and friends, and they shall put to death [some] from among you,


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Then let those who are in Judaea flee to the mountains, and those who are in the midst of it depart out, and those who are in the country not enter into it;


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But woe to them that are with child and to them who give suck in those days, for there shall be great distress upon the land and wrath upon this people.


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And they shall fall by the edge of the sword, and be led captive into all the nations; and Jerusalem shall be trodden down of [the] nations until [the] times of [the] nations be fulfilled.


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And there shall be signs in sun and moon and stars, and upon the earth distress of nations in perplexity [at] the roar of the sea and rolling waves,


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men ready to die through fear and expectation of what is coming on the habitable earth, for the powers of the heavens shall be shaken.


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But when these things begin to come to pass, look up and lift up your heads, because your redemption draws nigh.


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when they already sprout, ye know of your own selves, [on] looking [at them], that already the summer is near.


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But take heed to yourselves lest possibly your hearts be laden with surfeiting and drinking and cares of life, and that day come upon you suddenly unawares;


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Watch therefore, praying at every season, that ye may be accounted worthy to escape all these things which are about to come to pass, and to stand before the Son of man.


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And by day he was teaching in the temple, and by night, going out, he remained abroad on the mountain called [the mount] of Olives;


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And he went away and spoke with the chief priests and captains as to how he should deliver him up to them.


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And he came to an agreement to do it, and sought an opportunity to deliver him up to them away from the crowd.


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And he said to them, Behold, as ye enter into the city a man will meet you, carrying an earthen pitcher of water; follow him into the house where he goes in;


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and ye shall say to the master of the house, The Teacher says to thee, Where is the guest-chamber where I may eat the passover with my disciples?


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For I say unto you, that I will not eat any more at all of it until it be fulfilled in the kingdom of God.


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And having received a cup, when he had given thanks he said, Take this and divide it among yourselves.


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For I say unto you, that I will not drink at all of the fruit of the vine until the kingdom of God come.


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And having taken a loaf, when he had given thanks, he broke [it], and gave [it] to them, saying, This is my body which is given for you: this do in remembrance of me.


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In like manner also the cup, after having supped, saying, This cup [is] the new covenant in my blood, which is poured out for you.


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and the Son of man indeed goes as it is determined, but woe unto that man by whom he is delivered up.


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And *they* began to question together among themselves who then it could be of them who was about to do this.


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And he said to them, The kings of the nations rule over them, and they that exercise authority over them are called benefactors.


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But *ye* [shall] not [be] thus; but let the greater among you be as the younger, and the leader as he that serves.


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For which [is] greater, he that is at table or he that serves? [Is] not he that is at table? But *I* am in the midst of you as the one that serves.


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that ye may eat and drink at my table in my kingdom, and sit on thrones judging the twelve tribes of Israel.


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but *I* have besought for thee that thy faith fail not; and *thou*, when once thou hast been restored, confirm thy brethren.


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And he said, I tell thee, Peter, [the] cock shall not crow to-day before that thou shalt thrice deny that thou knowest me.


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And he said to them, When I sent you without purse and scrip and sandals, did ye lack anything? And they said, Nothing.


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He said therefore to them, But now he that has a purse let him take [it], in like manner also a scrip, and he that has none let him sell his garment and buy a sword;


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for I say unto you, that this that is written must yet be accomplished in me, And he was reckoned with [the] lawless: for also the things concerning me have an end.


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And going forth he went according to his custom to the mount of Olives, and the disciples also followed him.


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And being in conflict he prayed more intently. And his sweat became as great drops of blood, falling down upon the earth.


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As he was yet speaking, behold, a crowd, and he that was called Judas, one of the twelve, went on before them, and drew near to Jesus to kiss him.


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And they who were around him, seeing what was going to follow, said [to him], Lord, shall we smite with [the] sword?


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And Jesus said to the chief priests and captains of the temple and elders, who were come against him, Have ye come out as against a robber with swords and sticks?


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When I was day by day with you in the temple ye did not stretch out your hands against me; but this is your hour and the power of darkness.


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And having laid hold on him, they led him [away], and they led [him] into the house of the high priest. And Peter followed afar off.


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And a certain maid, having seen him sitting by the light, and having fixed her eyes upon him, said, And this [man] was with him.


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And after a short time another seeing him said, And *thou* art of them. But Peter said, Man, I am not.


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And after the lapse of about one hour another stoutly maintained it, saying, In truth this [man] also was with him, for also he is a Galilaean.


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And Peter said, Man, I know not what thou sayest. And immediately, while he was yet speaking, [the] cock crew.


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And the Lord, turning round, looked at Peter; and Peter remembered the word of the Lord, how he said to him, Before [the] cock crow thou shalt deny me thrice.


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And when it was day, the elderhood of the people, both [the] chief priests and scribes, were gathered together, and led him into their council, saying,


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And they began to accuse him, saying, We have found this [man] perverting our nation, and forbidding to give tribute to Caesar, saying that he himself is Christ, a king.


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And Pilate demanded of him saying, Art *thou* the king of the Jews? And he answering him said, Thou sayest.


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But they insisted, saying, He stirs up the people, teaching throughout all Judaea, beginning from Galilee even on to here.


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and having learned that he was of Herod's jurisdiction, remitted him to Herod, who himself also was at Jerusalem in those days.


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And when Herod saw Jesus he greatly rejoiced, for he had been a long while desirous of seeing him, because of hearing many things concerning him, and he hoped to see some sign done by him;


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And Herod with his troops having set him at nought and mocked him, having put a splendid robe upon him, sent him back to Pilate.


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And Pilate and Herod became friends with one another the same day, for they had been at enmity before between themselves.


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said to them, Ye have brought to me this man as turning away the people [to rebellion], and behold, I, having examined him before you, have found nothing criminal in this man as to the things of which ye accuse him;


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who was one who, for a certain tumult which had taken place in the city, and [for] murder, had been cast into prison.


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And he said the third time to them, What evil then has this [man] done? I have found no cause of death in him: I will chastise him therefore and release him.


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But they were urgent with loud voices, begging that he might be crucified. And their voices [and those of the chief priests] prevailed.


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And he released him who, for tumult and murder, had been cast into prison, whom they begged for, and Jesus he delivered up to their will.


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And as they led him away, they laid hold on a certain Simon, a Cyrenian, coming from the field, and put the cross upon him to bear it behind Jesus.


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And Jesus turning round to them said, Daughters of Jerusalem, do not weep over me, but weep over yourselves and over your children;


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for behold, days are coming in which they will say, Blessed [are] the barren, and wombs that have not borne, and breasts that have not given suck.


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And when they came to the place which is called Skull, there they crucified him, and the malefactors, one on the right hand, the other on the left.


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And Jesus said, Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do. And, parting out his garments, they cast lots.


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And the people stood beholding, and the rulers also [with them] sneered, saying, He has saved others; let him save himself if this is the Christ, the chosen one of God.


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And there was also an inscription [written] over him in Greek, and Roman, and Hebrew letters: This is the King of the Jews.


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Now one of the malefactors who had been hanged spoke insultingly to him, saying, Art not thou the Christ? save thyself and us.


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But the other answering rebuked him, saying, Dost *thou* too not fear God, thou that art under the same judgment?


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and *we* indeed justly, for we receive the just recompense of what we have done; but this [man] has done nothing amiss.


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And it was about [the] sixth hour, and there came darkness over the whole land until [the] ninth hour.


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And Jesus, having cried with a loud voice, said, Father, into thy hands I commit my spirit. And having said this, he expired.


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And all the crowds who had come together to that sight, having seen the things that took place, returned, beating [their] breasts.


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And all those who knew him stood afar off, the women also who had followed him from Galilee, beholding these things.


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(this [man] had not assented to their counsel and deed), of Arimathaea, a city of the Jews, who also waited, [himself also,] for the kingdom of God


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and having taken it down, wrapped it in fine linen and placed him in a tomb hewn in the rock, where no one had ever been laid.


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And women, who had come along with him out of Galilee, having followed, saw the sepulchre and how his body was placed.


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And having returned they prepared aromatic spices and ointments, and remained quiet on the sabbath, according to the commandment.


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But on the morrow of the sabbath, very early indeed in the morning, they came to the tomb, bringing the aromatic spices which they had prepared.


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And it came to pass as they were in perplexity about it, that behold, two men suddenly stood by them in shining raiment.


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And as they were filled with fear and bowed their faces to the ground, they said to them, Why seek ye the living one among the dead?


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saying, The Son of man must be delivered up into the hands of sinners, and be crucified, and rise the third day.


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Now it was Mary of Magdala, and Johanna, and Mary the [mother] of James, and the others with them, who told these things to the apostles.


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But Peter, rising up, ran to the sepulchre, and stooping down he sees the linen clothes lying there alone, and went away home, wondering at what had happened.


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And behold, two of them were going on the same day to a village distant sixty stadia from Jerusalem, called Emmaus;


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And it came to pass as they conversed and reasoned, that Jesus himself drawing nigh, went with them;


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And one [of them], named Cleopas, answering said to him, Thou sojournest alone in Jerusalem, and dost not know what has taken place in it in these days?


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And he said to them, What things? And they said to him, The things concerning Jesus the Nazaraean, who was a prophet mighty in deed and word before God and all the people;


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and how the chief priests and our rulers delivered him up to [the] judgment of death and crucified him.


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But *we* had hoped that *he* was [the one] who is about to redeem Israel. But then, besides all these things, it is now, to-day, the third day since these things took place.


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and, not having found his body, came, saying that they also had seen a vision of angels, who say that he is living.


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And some of those with us went to the sepulchre, and found it so, as the women also had said, but him they saw not.


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And *he* said to them, O senseless and slow of heart to believe in all that the prophets have spoken!


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And having begun from Moses and from all the prophets, he interpreted to them in all the scriptures the things concerning himself.


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And they drew near to the village where they were going, and *he* made as though he would go farther.


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And they constrained him, saying, Stay with us, for it is toward evening and the day is declining. And he entered in to stay with them.


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And it came to pass as he was at table with them, having taken the bread, he blessed, and having broken it, gave it to them.


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And they said to one another, Was not our heart burning in us as he spoke to us on the way, [and] as he opened the scriptures to us?


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And rising up the same hour, they returned to Jerusalem. And they found the eleven, and those with them, gathered together,


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And they related what [had happened] on the way, and how he was made known to them in the breaking of bread.


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And as they were saying these things, he himself stood in their midst, and says to them, Peace [be] unto you.


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behold my hands and my feet, that it is *I* myself. Handle me and see, for a spirit has not flesh and bones as ye see me having.


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But while they yet did not believe for joy, and were wondering, he said to them, Have ye anything here to eat?


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And he said to them, These [are] the words which I spoke to you while I was yet with you, that all that is written concerning me in the law of Moses and prophets and psalms must be fulfilled.


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and said to them, Thus it is written, and thus it behoved the Christ to suffer, and to rise from among the dead the third day;


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and that repentance and remission of sins should be preached in his name to all the nations beginning at Jerusalem.


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And behold, I send the promise of my Father upon you; but do ye remain in the city till ye be clothed with power from on high.


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And it came to pass as he was blessing them, he was separated from them and was carried up into heaven.


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All things received being through him, and without him not one [thing] received being which has received being.


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He came for witness, that he might witness concerning the light, that all might believe through him.


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but as many as received him, to them gave he [the] right to be children of God, to those that believe on his name;


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And the Word became flesh, and dwelt among us (and we have contemplated his glory, a glory as of an only-begotten with a father), full of grace and truth;


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(John bears witness of him, and he has cried, saying, This was he of whom I said, He that comes after me is preferred before me, for he was before me;)


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No one has seen God at any time; the only-begotten Son, who is in the bosom of the Father, *he* hath declared [him].


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And this is the witness of John, when the Jews sent from Jerusalem priests and Levites that they might ask him, Thou, who art thou?


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And they asked him, What then? Art thou Elias? And he says, I am not. Art thou the prophet? And he answered, No.


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They said therefore to him, Who art thou? that we may give an answer to those who sent us. What sayest thou of thyself?


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He said, I [am] [the] voice of one crying in the wilderness, Make straight the path of [the] Lord, as said Esaias the prophet.


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And they asked him and said to him, Why baptisest thou then, if thou art not the Christ, nor Elias, nor the prophet?


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On the morrow he sees Jesus coming to him, and says, Behold the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world.


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He it is of whom I said, A man comes after me who takes a place before me, because he *was* before me;


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and I knew him not; but that he might be manifested to Israel, therefore have I come baptising with water.


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And John bore witness, saying, I beheld the Spirit descending as a dove from heaven, and it abode upon him.


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And I knew him not; but he who sent me to baptise with water, *he* said to me, Upon whom thou shalt see the Spirit descending and abiding on him, he it is who baptises with [the] Holy Spirit.


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But Jesus having turned, and seeing them following, says to them, What seek ye? And *they* said to him, Rabbi (which, being interpreted, signifies Teacher), where abidest thou?


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He says to them, Come and see. They went therefore, and saw where he abode; and they abode with him that day. It was about the tenth hour.


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He first finds his own brother Simon, and says to him, We have found the Messias (which being interpreted is Christ).


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And he led him to Jesus. Jesus looking at him said, Thou art Simon, the son of Jonas; thou shalt be called Cephas (which interpreted is stone).


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Philip finds Nathanael, and says to him, We have found him of whom Moses wrote in the law, and the prophets, Jesus, the son of Joseph, who is from Nazareth.


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And Nathanael said to him, Can anything good come out of Nazareth? Philip says to him, Come and see.


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Jesus saw Nathanael coming to him, and says of him, Behold [one] truly an Israelite, in whom there is no guile.


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Nathanael says to him, Whence knowest thou me? Jesus answered and said to him, Before that Philip called thee, when thou wast under the fig-tree, I saw thee.


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Jesus answered and said to him, Because I said to thee, I saw thee under the fig-tree, believest thou? Thou shalt see greater things than these.


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And he says to him, Verily, verily, I say to you, Henceforth ye shall see the heaven opened, and the angels of God ascending and descending on the Son of man.


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Now there were standing there six stone water-vessels, according to the purification of the Jews, holding two or three measures each.


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But when the feast-master had tasted the water which had been made wine (and knew not whence it was, but the servants knew who drew the water), the feast-master calls the bridegroom,


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and says to him, Every man sets on first the good wine, and when [men] have well drunk, then the inferior; thou hast kept the good wine till now.


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This beginning of signs did Jesus in Cana of Galilee, and manifested his glory; and his disciples believed on him.


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After this he descended to Capernaum, he and his mother and his brethren and his disciples; and there they abode not many days.


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and, having made a scourge of cords, he cast [them] all out of the temple, both the sheep and the oxen; and he poured out the change of the money-changers, and overturned the tables,


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and said to the sellers of doves, Take these things hence; make not my Father's house a house of merchandise.


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The Jews therefore answered and said to him, What sign shewest thou to us, that thou doest these things?


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The Jews therefore said, Forty and six years was this temple building, and thou wilt raise it up in three days?


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When therefore he was raised from among [the] dead, his disciples remembered that he had said this, and believed the scripture and the word which Jesus had spoken.


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And when he was in Jerusalem, at the passover, at the feast, many believed on his name, beholding his signs which he wrought.


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he came to him by night, and said to him, Rabbi, we know that thou art come a teacher from God, for none can do these signs that thou doest unless God be with him.


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Jesus answered and said to him, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except any one be born anew he cannot see the kingdom of God.


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Nicodemus says to him, How can a man be born being old? can he enter a second time into the womb of his mother and be born?


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Jesus answered, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except any one be born of water and of Spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God.


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The wind blows where it will, and thou hearest its voice, but knowest not whence it comes and where it goes: thus is every one that is born of the Spirit.


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Verily, verily, I say unto thee, We speak that which we know, and we bear witness of that which we have seen, and ye receive not our witness.


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If I have said the earthly things to you, and ye believe not, how, if I say the heavenly things to you, will ye believe?


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And no one has gone up into heaven, save he who came down out of heaven, the Son of man who is in heaven.


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For God so loved the world, that he gave his only-begotten Son, that whosoever believes on him may not perish, but have life eternal.


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For God has not sent his Son into the world that he may judge the world, but that the world may be saved through him.


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He that believes on him is not judged: but he that believes not has been already judged, because he has not believed on the name of the only-begotten Son of God.


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And this is the judgment, that light is come into the world, and men have loved darkness rather than light; for their works were evil.


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For every one that does evil hates the light, and does not come to the light that his works may not be shewn as they are;


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but he that practises the truth comes to the light, that his works may be manifested that they have been wrought in God.


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After these things came Jesus and his disciples into the land of Judaea; and there he abode with them and baptised.


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And John also was baptising in Aenon, near Salim, because there was a great deal of water there; and they came to [him] and were baptised:


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And they came to John and said to him, Rabbi, he who was with thee beyond the Jordan, to whom thou barest witness, behold, he baptises, and all come to him.


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He that has the bride is the bridegroom; but the friend of the bridegroom, who stands and hears him, rejoices in heart because of the voice of the bridegroom: this my joy then is fulfilled.


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He who comes from above is above all. He who has his origin in the earth is of the earth, and speaks [as] of the earth. He who comes out of heaven is above all,


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He that believes on the Son has life eternal, and he that is not subject to the Son shall not see life, but the wrath of God abides upon him.


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When therefore the Lord knew that the Pharisees had heard that Jesus makes and baptises more disciples than John


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He comes therefore to a city of Samaria called Sychar, near to the land which Jacob gave to his son Joseph.


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Now a fountain of Jacob's was there; Jesus therefore, being wearied with the way he had come, sat just as he was at the fountain. It was about the sixth hour.


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The Samaritan woman therefore says to him, How dost thou, being a Jew, ask to drink of me who am a Samaritan woman? for Jews have no intercourse with Samaritans.


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Jesus answered and said to her, If thou knewest the gift of God, and who it is that says to thee, Give me to drink, thou wouldest have asked of him, and he would have given thee living water.


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The woman says to him, Sir, thou hast nothing to draw with, and the well is deep: whence then hast thou the living water?


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Art thou greater than our father Jacob, who gave us the well, and drank of it himself, and his sons, and his cattle?


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but whosoever drinks of the water which I shall give him shall never thirst for ever, but the water which I shall give him shall become in him a fountain of water, springing up into eternal life.


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The woman answered and said, I have not a husband. Jesus says to her, Thou hast well said, I have not a husband;


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for thou hast had five husbands, and he whom now thou hast is not thy husband: this thou hast spoken truly.


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Our fathers worshipped in this mountain, and ye say that in Jerusalem is the place where one must worship.


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Jesus says to her, Woman, believe me, [the] hour is coming when ye shall neither in this mountain nor in Jerusalem worship the Father.


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But [the] hour is coming and now is, when the true worshippers shall worship the Father in spirit and truth; for also the Father seeks such as his worshippers.


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The woman says to him, I know that Messias is coming, who is called Christ; when *he* comes he will tell us all things.


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And upon this came his disciples, and wondered that he spoke with a woman; yet no one said, What seekest thou? or, Why speakest thou with her?


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Jesus says to them, My food is that I should do the will of him that has sent me, and that I should finish his work.


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Do not ye say, that there are yet four months and the harvest comes? Behold, I say to you, Lift up your eyes and behold the fields, for they are already white to harvest.


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He that reaps receives wages and gathers fruit unto life eternal, that both he that sows and he that reaps may rejoice together.


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I have sent you to reap that on which ye have not laboured; others have laboured, and ye have entered into their labours.


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But many of the Samaritans of that city believed on him because of the word of the woman who bore witness, He told me all things that I had ever done.


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When therefore the Samaritans came to him they asked him to abide with them, and he abode there two days.


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and they said to the woman, [It is] no longer on account of thy saying that we believe, for we have heard him ourselves, and we know that this is indeed the Saviour of the world.


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When therefore he came into Galilee, the Galileans received him, having seen all that he had done in Jerusalem during the feast, for they also went to the feast.


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He came therefore again to Cana of Galilee, where he made the water wine. And there was a certain courtier in Capernaum whose son was sick.


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He, having heard that Jesus had come out of Judaea into Galilee, went to him and asked [him] that he would come down and heal his son, for he was about to die.


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Jesus says to him, Go, thy son lives. And the man believed the word which Jesus said to him, and went his way.


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But already, as he was going down, his servants met him and brought [him] word saying, Thy child lives.


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He inquired therefore from them the hour at which he got better. And they said to him, Yesterday at the seventh hour the fever left him.


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The father therefore knew that [it was] in that hour in which Jesus said to him, Thy son lives; and he believed, himself and his whole house.


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Now there is in Jerusalem, at the sheepgate, a pool, which is called in Hebrew, Bethesda, having five porches.


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For an angel descended at a certain season in the pool and troubled the water. Whoever therefore first went in after the troubling of the water became well, whatever disease he laboured under.]


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But there was a certain man there who had been suffering under his infirmity thirty and eight years.


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Jesus seeing this [man] lying [there], and knowing that he was [in that state] now a great length of time, says to him, Wouldest thou become well?


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The infirm [man] answered him, Sir, I have not a man, in order, when the water has been troubled, to cast me into the pool; but while I am coming another descends before me.


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The Jews therefore said to the healed [man], It is sabbath, it is not permitted thee to take up thy couch.


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But he that had been healed knew not who it was, for Jesus had slidden away, there being a crowd in the place.


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After these things Jesus finds him in the temple, and said to him, Behold, thou art become well: sin no more, that something worse do not happen to thee.


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And for this the Jews persecuted Jesus [and sought to kill him], because he had done these things on sabbath.


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For this therefore the Jews sought the more to kill him, because he had not only violated the sabbath, but also said that God was his own Father, making himself equal with God.


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Jesus therefore answered and said to them, Verily, verily, I say to you, The Son can do nothing of himself save whatever he sees the Father doing: for whatever things *he* does, these things also the Son does in like manner.


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For the Father loves the Son and shews him all things which he himself does; and he will shew him greater works than these, that ye may wonder.


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For even as the Father raises the dead and quickens [them], thus the Son also quickens whom he will:


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that all may honour the Son, even as they honour the Father. He who honours not the Son, honours not the Father who has sent him.


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Verily, verily, I say unto you, that he that hears my word, and believes him that has sent me, has life eternal, and does not come into judgment, but is passed out of death into life.


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Verily, verily, I say unto you, that an hour is coming, and now is, when the dead shall hear the voice of the Son of God, and they that have heard shall live.


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For even as the Father has life in himself, so he has given to the Son also to have life in himself,


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and shall go forth; those that have practised good, to resurrection of life, and those that have done evil, to resurrection of judgment.


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I cannot do anything of myself; as I hear, I judge, and my judgment is righteous, because I do not seek my will, but the will of him that has sent me.


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It is another who bears witness concerning me, and I know that the witness which he bears concerning me is true.


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But I have the witness [that is] greater than [that] of John; for the works which the Father has given me that I should complete them, the works themselves which I do, bear witness concerning me that the Father has sent me.


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And the Father who has sent me himself has borne witness concerning me. Ye have neither heard his voice at any time, nor have seen his shape,


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Ye search the scriptures, for ye think that in them ye have life eternal, and they it is which bear witness concerning me;


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I am come in my Father's name, and ye receive me not; if another come in his own name, him ye will receive.


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How can ye believe, who receive glory one of another, and seek not the glory which [comes] from God alone?


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Think not that I will accuse you to the Father: there is [one] who accuses you, Moses, on whom ye trust;


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Jesus then, lifting up his eyes and seeing that a great crowd is coming to him, says to Philip, Whence shall we buy loaves that these may eat?


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Philip answered him, Loaves for two hundred denarii are not sufficient for them, that each may have some little [portion].


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There is a little boy here who has five barley loaves and two small fishes; but this, what is it for so many?


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[And] Jesus said, Make the men sit down. Now there was much grass in the place: the men therefore sat down, in number about five thousand.


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And Jesus took the loaves, and having given thanks, distributed [them] to those that were set down; and in like manner of the small fishes as much as they would.


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And when they had been filled, he says to his disciples, Gather together the fragments which are over and above, that nothing may be lost.


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They gathered [them] therefore together, and filled twelve hand-baskets full of fragments of the five barley loaves, which were over and above to those that had eaten.


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The men therefore, having seen the sign which Jesus had done, said, This is truly the prophet which is coming into the world.


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Jesus therefore knowing that they were going to come and seize him, that they might make [him] king, departed again to the mountain himself alone.


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and having gone on board ship, they went over the sea to Capernaum. And it had already become dark, and Jesus had not come to them,


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Having rowed then about twenty-five or thirty stadia, they see Jesus walking on the sea and coming near the ship; and they were frightened.


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They were willing therefore to receive him into the ship; and immediately the ship was at the land to which they went.


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On the morrow the crowd which stood on the other side of the sea, having seen that there was no other little ship there except that into which his disciples had got, and that Jesus had not gone with his disciples into the ship, but [that] his disciples had gone away alone;


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(but other little ships out of Tiberias came near to the place where they ate bread after the Lord had given thanks;)


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when therefore the crowd saw that Jesus was not there, nor his disciples, *they* got into the ships, and came to Capernaum, seeking Jesus.


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And having found him the other side of the sea, they said to him, Rabbi, when art thou arrived here?


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Jesus answered them and said, Verily, verily, I say to you, Ye seek me not because ye have seen signs, but because ye have eaten of the loaves and been filled.


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Work not [for] the food which perishes, but [for] the food which abides unto life eternal, which the Son of man shall give to you; for him has the Father sealed, [even] God.


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Jesus answered and said to them, This is the work of God, that ye believe on him whom *he* has sent.


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They said therefore to him, What sign then doest thou that we may see and believe thee? what dost thou work?


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Our fathers ate the manna in the wilderness, as it is written, He gave them bread out of heaven to eat.


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Jesus therefore said to them, Verily, verily, I say to you, [It is] not Moses that has given you the bread out of heaven; but my Father gives you the true bread out of heaven.


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[And] Jesus said to them, I am the bread of life: he that comes to me shall never hunger, and he that believes on me shall never thirst at any time.


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For I am come down from heaven, not that I should do *my* will, but the will of him that has sent me.


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And this is the will of him that has sent me, that of all that he has given me I should lose nothing, but should raise it up in the last day.


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For this is the will of my Father, that every one who sees the Son, and believes on him, should have life eternal; and I will raise him up at the last day.


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The Jews therefore murmured about him, because he said, I am the bread which has come down out of heaven.


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And they said, Is not this Jesus the son of Joseph, whose father and mother we have known? how then does *he* say, I am come down out of heaven?


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No one can come to me except the Father who has sent me draw him, and I will raise him up in the last day.


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It is written in the prophets, And they shall be all taught of God. Every one that has heard from the Father [himself], and has learned [of him], comes to me;


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I am the living bread which has come down out of heaven: if any one shall have eaten of this bread he shall live for ever; but the bread withal which I shall give is my flesh, which I will give for the life of the world.


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Jesus therefore said to them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Unless ye shall have eaten the flesh of the Son of man, and drunk his blood, ye have no life in yourselves.


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He that eats my flesh and drinks my blood has life eternal, and I will raise him up at the last day:


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As the living Father has sent me and I live on account of the Father, *he* also who eats me shall live also on account of me.


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This is the bread which has come down out of heaven. Not as the fathers ate and died: he that eats this bread shall live for ever.


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But Jesus, knowing in himself that his disciples murmur concerning this, said to them, Does this offend you?


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It is the Spirit which quickens, the flesh profits nothing: the words which I have spoken unto you are spirit and are life.


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But there are some of you who do not believe. For Jesus knew from the beginning who they were who did not believe, and who would deliver him up.


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And he said, Therefore said I unto you, that no one can come to me unless it be given to him from the Father.


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Now he spoke of Judas [the son] of Simon, Iscariote, for he [it was who] should deliver him up, being one of the twelve.


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And after these things Jesus walked in Galilee, for he would not walk in Judaea, because the Jews sought to kill him.


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His brethren therefore said to him, Remove hence and go into Judaea, that thy disciples also may see thy works which thou doest;


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for no one does anything in secret and himself seeks to be [known] in public. If thou doest these things, manifest thyself to the world:


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The world cannot hate you, but me it hates, because I bear witness concerning it that its works are evil.


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But when his brethren had gone up, then he himself also went up to the feast, not openly, but as in secret.


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And there was much murmuring concerning him among the crowds. Some said, He is [a] good [man]; others said, No; but he deceives the crowd.


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Jesus therefore answered them and said, My doctrine is not mine, but [that] of him that has sent me.


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If any one desire to practise his will, he shall know concerning the doctrine, whether it is of God, or [that] I speak from myself.


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He that speaks from himself seeks his own glory; but he that seeks the glory of him that has sent him, he is true, and unrighteousness is not in him.


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Therefore Moses gave you circumcision (not that it is of Moses, but of the fathers), and ye circumcise a man on sabbath.


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If a man receives circumcision on sabbath, that the law of Moses may not be violated, are ye angry with me because I have made a man entirely sound on sabbath?


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and behold, he speaks openly, and they say nothing to him. Have the rulers then indeed recognised that this is the Christ?


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But [as to] this [man] we know whence he is. Now [as to] the Christ, when he comes, no one knows whence he is.


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Jesus therefore cried out in the temple, teaching and saying, Ye both know me and ye know whence I am; and I am not come of myself, but he that sent me is true, whom ye do not know.


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They sought therefore to take him; and no one laid his hand upon him, because his hour had not yet come.


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But many of the crowd believed on him, and said, Will the Christ, when he comes, do more signs than those which this [man] has done?


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The Pharisees heard the crowd murmuring these things concerning him, and the Pharisees and the chief priests sent officers that they might take him.


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The Jews therefore said to one another, Where is he about to go that we shall not find him? Is he about to go to the dispersion among the Greeks, and teach the Greeks?


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What word is this which he said, Ye shall seek me and shall not find [me]; and where I am ye cannot come?


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In the last, the great day of the feast, Jesus stood and cried saying, If any one thirst, let him come to me and drink.


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He that believes on me, as the scripture has said, out of his belly shall flow rivers of living water.


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But this he said concerning the Spirit, which they that believed on him were about to receive; for [the] Spirit was not yet, because Jesus had not yet been glorified.


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Has not the scripture said that the Christ comes of the seed of David, and from the village of Bethlehem, where David was?


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The officers therefore came to the chief priests and Pharisees, and they said to them, Why have ye not brought him?


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They answered and said to him, Art thou also of Galilee? Search and look, that no prophet arises out of Galilee.


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And early in the morning he came again into the temple, and all the people came to him; and he sat down and taught them.


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And the scribes and the Pharisees bring [to him] a woman taken in adultery, and having set her in the midst,


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But this they said proving him, that they might have [something] to accuse him [of]. But Jesus, having stooped down, wrote with his finger on the ground.


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But when they continued asking him, he lifted himself up and said to them, Let him that is without sin among you first cast the stone at her.


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But they, having heard [that], went out one by one beginning from the elder ones until the last; and Jesus was left alone and the woman standing there.


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And Jesus, lifting himself up and seeing no one but the woman, said to her, Woman, where are those thine accusers? Has no one condemned thee?


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Again therefore Jesus spoke to them, saying, I am the light of the world; he that follows me shall not walk in darkness, but shall have the light of life.


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The Pharisees therefore said to him, Thou bearest witness concerning thyself; thy witness is not true.


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Jesus answered and said to them, Even if I bear witness concerning myself, my witness is true, because I know whence I came and whither I go: but ye know not whence I come and whither I go.


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And if also I judge, my judgment is true, because I am not alone, but I and the Father who has sent me.


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I am [one] who bear witness concerning myself, and the Father who has sent me bears witness concerning me.


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They said to him therefore, Where is thy Father? Jesus answered, Ye know neither me nor my Father. If ye had known me, ye would have known also my Father.


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These words spoke he in the treasury, teaching in the temple; and no one took him, for his hour was not yet come.


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He said therefore again to them, I go away, and ye shall seek me, and shall die in your sin; where I go ye cannot come.


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And he said to them, Ye are from beneath; I am from above. Ye are of this world; I am not of this world.


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I said therefore to you, that ye shall die in your sins; for unless ye shall believe that I am [he], ye shall die in your sins.


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They said therefore to him, Who art thou? [And] Jesus said to them, Altogether that which I also say to you.


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I have many things to say and to judge concerning you, but he that has sent me is true, and I, what I have heard from him, these things I say to the world.


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Jesus therefore said to them, When ye shall have lifted up the Son of man, then ye shall know that I am [he], and [that] I do nothing of myself, but as the Father has taught me I speak these things.


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And he that has sent me is with me; he has not left me alone, because I do always the things that are pleasing to him.


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Jesus therefore said to the Jews who believed him, If ye abide in my word, ye are truly my disciples;


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They answered him, We are Abraham's seed, and have never been under bondage to any one; how sayest thou, Ye shall become free?


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Jesus answered them, Verily, verily, I say to you, Every one that practises sin is the bondman of sin.


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They answered and said to him, Abraham is our father. Jesus says to them, If ye were Abraham's children, ye would do the works of Abraham;


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but now ye seek to kill me, a man who has spoken the truth to you, which I have heard from God: this did not Abraham.


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Ye do the works of your father. They said [therefore] to him, We are not born of fornication; we have one father, God.


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Jesus said to them, If God were your father ye would have loved me, for I came forth from God and am come [from him]; for neither am I come of myself, but *he* has sent me.


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Ye are of the devil, as [your] father, and ye desire to do the lusts of your father. He was a murderer from the beginning, and has not stood in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaks falsehood, he speaks of what is his own; for he is a liar and its father:


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The Jews therefore said to him, Now we know that thou hast a demon. Abraham has died, and the prophets, and thou sayest, If any one keep my word, he shall never taste death.


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Art thou greater than our father Abraham, who has died? and the prophets have died: whom makest thou thyself?


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Jesus answered, If I glorify myself, my glory is nothing: it is my Father who glorifies me, [of] whom ye say, He is our God.


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And ye know him not; but I know him; and if I said, I know him not, I should be like you, a liar. But I know him, and I keep his word.


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They took up therefore stones that they might cast [them] at him; but Jesus hid himself and went out of the temple, [going through the midst of them, and thus passed on.]


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And his disciples asked him, saying, Rabbi, who sinned, this [man] or his parents, that he should be born blind?


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Jesus answered, Neither has this [man] sinned nor his parents, but that the works of God should be manifested in him.


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I must work the works of him that has sent me while it is day. [The] night is coming, when no one can work.


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Having said these things, he spat on the ground and made mud of the spittle, and put the mud, as ointment, on his eyes.


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And he said to him, Go, wash in the pool of Siloam, which is interpreted, Sent. He went therefore and washed, and came seeing.


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The neighbours therefore, and those who used to see him before, that he was a beggar, said, Is not this he that was sitting and begging?


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He answered [and said], A man called Jesus made mud and anointed mine eyes, and said to me, Go to Siloam and wash: and having gone and washed, I saw.


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The Pharisees therefore also again asked him how he received his sight. And he said to them, He put mud upon mine eyes, and I washed, and I see.


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Some of the Pharisees therefore said, This man is not of God, for he does not keep the sabbath. Others said, How can a sinful man perform such signs? And there was a division among them.


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They say therefore again to the blind [man], What dost thou say of him, that he has opened thine eyes? And he said, He is a prophet.


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The Jews therefore did not believe concerning him that he was blind and had received sight, until they had called the parents of him that had received sight.


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And they asked them saying, This is your son, of whom ye say that he was born blind: how then does he now see?


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but how he now sees we do not know, or who has opened his eyes we do not know. *He* is of age: ask *him*; *he* will speak concerning himself.


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His parents said these things because they feared the Jews, for the Jews had already agreed that if any one confessed him [to be the] Christ, he should be excommunicated from the synagogue.


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They called therefore a second time the man who had been blind, and said to him, Give glory to God: we know that this man is sinful.


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He answered therefore, If he is sinful I know not. One thing I know, that, being blind [before], now I see.


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He answered them, I told you already and ye did not hear: why do ye desire to hear again? do ye also wish to become his disciples?


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The man answered and said to them, Now in this is a wonderful thing, that *ye* do not know whence he is, and he has opened mine eyes.


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[But] we know that God does not hear sinners; but if any one be God-fearing and do his will, him he hears.


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They answered and said to him, Thou hast been wholly born in sins, and thou teachest us? And they cast him out.


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Jesus heard that they had cast him out, and having found him, he said to him, Thou, dost thou believe on the Son of God?


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And Jesus said, For judgment am I come into this world, that they which see not may see, and they which see may become blind.


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And [some] of the Pharisees who were with him heard these things, and they said to him, Are we blind also?


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Jesus said to them, If ye were blind ye would not have sin; but now ye say, We see, your sin remains.


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Verily, verily, I say to you, He that enters not in by the door to the fold of the sheep, but mounts up elsewhere, *he* is a thief and a robber;


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To him the porter opens; and the sheep hear his voice; and he calls his own sheep by name, and leads them out.


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When he has put forth all his own, he goes before them, and the sheep follow him, because they know his voice.


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But they will not follow a stranger, but will flee from him, because they know not the voice of strangers.


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I am the door: if any one enter in by me, he shall be saved, and shall go in and shall go out and shall find pasture.


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The thief comes not but that he may steal, and kill, and destroy: I am come that they might have life, and might have [it] abundantly.


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but he who serves for wages, and who is not the shepherd, whose own the sheep are not, sees the wolf coming, and leaves the sheep and flees; and the wolf seizes them and scatters the sheep.


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Now he who serves for wages flees because he serves for wages, and is not himself concerned about the sheep.


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And I have other sheep which are not of this fold: those also I must bring, and they shall hear my voice; and there shall be one flock, one shepherd.


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No one takes it from me, but I lay it down of myself. I have authority to lay it down and I have authority to take it again. I have received this commandment of my Father.


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Others said, These sayings are not [those] of one that is possessed by a demon. Can a demon open blind people's eyes?


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The Jews therefore surrounded him, and said to him, Until when dost thou hold our soul in suspense? If thou art the Christ, say [so] to us openly.


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Jesus answered them, I told you, and ye do not believe. The works which I do in my Father's name, these bear witness concerning me:


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and I give them life eternal; and they shall never perish, and no one shall seize them out of my hand.


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My Father who has given [them] to me is greater than all, and no one can seize out of the hand of my Father.


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Jesus answered them, Many good works have I shewn you of my Father; for which work of them do ye stone me?


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The Jews answered him, For a good work we stone thee not, but for blasphemy, and because thou, being a man, makest thyself God.


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do ye say of him whom the Father has sanctified and sent into the world, Thou blasphemest, because I said, I am Son of God?


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but if I do, even if ye believe not me, believe the works, that ye may know [and believe] that the Father is in me and I in him.


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and departed again beyond the Jordan to the place where John was baptising at the first: and he abode there.


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And many came to him, and said, John did no sign; but all things which John said of this [man] were true.


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Now there was a certain [man] sick, Lazarus of Bethany, of the village of Mary and Martha her sister.


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It was [the] Mary who anointed the Lord with ointment and wiped his feet with her hair, whose brother Lazarus was sick.


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But when Jesus heard [it], he said, This sickness is not unto death, but for the glory of God, that the Son of God may be glorified by it.


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The disciples say to him, Rabbi, [even but] now the Jews sought to stone thee, and goest thou thither again?


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Jesus answered, Are there not twelve hours in the day? If any one walk in the day, he does not stumble, because he sees the light of this world;


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These things said he; and after this he says to them, Lazarus, our friend, is fallen asleep, but I go that I may awake him out of sleep.


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And I rejoice on your account that I was not there, in order that ye may believe. But let us go to him.


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Thomas therefore, called Didymus, said to his fellow disciples, Let *us* also go, that we may die with him.


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and many of the Jews came to Martha and Mary, that they might console them concerning their brother.


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Jesus said to her, I am the resurrection and the life: he that believes on me, though he have died, shall live;


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She says to him, Yea, Lord; I believe that thou art the Christ, the Son of God, who should come into the world.


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And having said this, she went away and called her sister Mary secretly, saying, The teacher is come and calls thee.


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The Jews therefore who were with her in the house and consoling her, seeing Mary that she rose up quickly and went out, followed her, saying, She goes to the tomb, that she may weep there.


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Mary therefore, when she came where Jesus was, seeing him, fell at his feet, saying to him, Lord, if thou hadst been here, my brother had not died.


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Jesus therefore, when he saw her weeping, and the Jews who came with her weeping, was deeply moved in spirit, and was troubled,


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And some of them said, Could not this [man], who has opened the eyes of the blind [man], have caused that this [man] also should not have died?


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Jesus therefore, again deeply moved in himself, comes to the tomb. Now it was a cave, and a stone lay upon it.


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Jesus says, Take away the stone. Martha, the sister of the dead, says to him, Lord, he stinks already, for he is four days [there].


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Jesus says to her, Did I not say to thee, that if thou shouldest believe, thou shouldest see the glory of God?


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They took therefore the stone away. And Jesus lifted up his eyes on high and said, Father, I thank thee that thou hast heard me;


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but I knew that thou always hearest me; but on account of the crowd who stand around I have said [it], that they may believe that thou hast sent me.


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And the dead came forth, bound feet and hands with graveclothes, and his face was bound round with a handkerchief. Jesus says to them, Loose him and let him go.


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The chief priests, therefore, and the Pharisees gathered a council, and said, What do we? for this man does many signs.


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If we let him thus alone, all will believe on him, and the Romans will come and take away both our place and our nation.


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nor consider that it is profitable for you that one man die for the people, and not that the whole nation perish.


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But this he did not say of himself; but, being high priest that year, prophesied that Jesus was going to die for the nation;


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and not for the nation only, but that he should also gather together into one the children of God who were scattered abroad.


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Jesus therefore walked no longer openly among the Jews, but went away thence into the country near the desert, to a city called Ephraim, and there he sojourned with the disciples.


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But the passover of the Jews was near, and many went up to Jerusalem out of the country before the passover, that they might purify themselves.


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They sought therefore Jesus, and said among themselves, standing in the temple, What do ye think? that he will not come to the feast?


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Now the chief priests and the Pharisees had given commandment that if any one knew where he was, he should make it known, that they might take him.


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Jesus therefore, six days before the passover, came to Bethany, where was the dead [man] Lazarus, whom Jesus raised from among [the] dead.


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There therefore they made him a supper, and Martha served, but Lazarus was one of those at table with him.


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Mary therefore, having taken a pound of ointment of pure nard of great price, anointed the feet of Jesus, and wiped his feet with her hair, and the house was filled with the odour of the ointment.


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One of his disciples therefore, Judas [son] of Simon, Iscariote, who was about to deliver him up, says,


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But he said this, not that he cared for the poor, but because he was a thief and had the bag, and carried what was put into [it].


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A great crowd therefore of the Jews knew that he was there; and they came, not because of Jesus only, but also that they might see Lazarus whom he raised from among [the] dead.


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On the morrow a great crowd who came to the feast, having heard that Jesus is coming into Jerusalem,


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took branches of palms and went out to meet him, and cried, Hosanna, blessed [is] he that comes in the name of [the] Lord, the King of Israel.


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[Now] his disciples knew not these things at the first; but when Jesus was glorified, then they remembered that these things were written of him, and that they had done these things to him.


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The crowd therefore that was with him bore witness because he had called Lazarus out of the tomb, and raised him from among [the] dead.


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The Pharisees therefore said to one another, Ye see that ye profit nothing: behold, the world is gone after him.


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these therefore came to Philip, who was of Bethsaida of Galilee, and they asked him saying, Sir, we desire to see Jesus.


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Verily, verily, I say unto you, Except the grain of wheat falling into the ground die, it abides alone; but if it die, it bears much fruit.


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He that loves his life shall lose it, and he that hates his life in this world shall keep it to life eternal.


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If any one serve me, let him follow me; and where I am, there also shall be *my* servant. [And] if any one serve me, him shall the Father honour.


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Now is my soul troubled, and what shall I say? Father, save me from this hour. But on account of this have I come to this hour.


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Father, glorify thy name. There came therefore a voice out of heaven, I both have glorified and will glorify [it] again.


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The crowd therefore, which stood [there] and heard [it], said that it had thundered. Others said, An angel has spoken to him.


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The crowd answered him, We have heard out of the law that the Christ abides for ever; and how sayest thou that the Son of man must be lifted up? Who *is* this, the Son of man?


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Jesus therefore said to them, Yet a little while is the light amongst you. Walk while ye have the light, that darkness may not overtake you. And he who walks in the darkness does not know where he goes.


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While ye have the light, believe in the light, that ye may become sons of light. Jesus said these things, and going away hid himself from them.


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that the word of the prophet Esaias which he said might be fulfilled, Lord, who has believed our report? and to whom has the arm of the Lord been revealed?


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He has blinded their eyes and hardened their heart, that they may not see with their eyes, and understand with their heart and be converted, and I should heal them.


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Although indeed from among the rulers also many believed on him, but on account of the Pharisees did not confess [him], that they might not be put out of the synagogue:


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and if any one hear my words and do not keep [them], I judge him not, for I am not come that I might judge the world, but that I might save the world.


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He that rejects me and does not receive my words, has him who judges him: the word which I have spoken, that shall judge him in the last day.


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For I have not spoken from myself, but the Father who sent me has himself given me commandment what I should say and what I should speak;


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and I know that his commandment is life eternal. What therefore I speak, as the Father has said to me, so I speak.


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Now before the feast of the passover, Jesus, knowing that his hour had come that he should depart out of this world to the Father, having loved his own who were in the world, loved them to the end.


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And during supper, the devil having already put it into the heart of Judas [son] of Simon, Iscariote, that he should deliver him up,


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[Jesus,] knowing that the Father had given him all things into his hands, and that he came out from God and was going to God,


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then he pours water into the washhand basin, and began to wash the feet of the disciples, and to wipe them with the linen towel with which he was girded.


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Peter says to him, Thou shalt never wash my feet. Jesus answered him, Unless I wash thee, thou hast not part with me.


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Jesus says to him, He that is washed all over needs not to wash save his feet, but is wholly clean; and ye are clean, but not all.


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When therefore he had washed their feet, and taken his garments, having sat down again, he said to them, Do ye know what I have done to you?


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If I therefore, the Lord and the Teacher, have washed your feet, ye also ought to wash one another's feet;


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Verily, verily, I say to you, The bondman is not greater than his lord, nor the sent greater than he who has sent him.


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I speak not of you all. I know those whom I have chosen; but that the scripture might be fulfilled, He that eats bread with me has lifted up his heel against me.


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Verily, verily, I say to you, He who receives whomsoever I shall send receives me; and he that receives me receives him who has sent me.


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Having said these things, Jesus was troubled in spirit, and testified and said, Verily, verily, I say to you, that one of you shall deliver me up.


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Jesus answers, He it is to whom I, after I have dipped the morsel, give it. And having dipped the morsel, he gives it to Judas [son] of Simon, Iscariote.


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And, after the morsel, then entered Satan into him. Jesus therefore says to him, What thou doest, do quickly.


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for some supposed, because Judas had the bag, that Jesus was saying to him, Buy the things of which we have need for the feast; or that he should give something to the poor.


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When therefore he was gone out Jesus says, Now is the Son of man glorified, and God is glorified in him.


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If God be glorified in him, God also shall glorify him in himself, and shall glorify him immediately.


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Children, yet a little while I am with you. Ye shall seek me; and, as I said to the Jews, Where I go ye cannot come, I say to you also now.


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A new commandment I give to you, that ye love one another; as I have loved you, that ye also love one another.


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Simon Peter says to him, Lord, where goest thou? Jesus answered him, Where I go thou canst not follow me now, but thou shalt follow me after.


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Jesus answers, Thou wilt lay down thy life for me! Verily, verily, I say to thee, The cock shall not crow till thou hast denied me thrice.


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In my Father's house there are many abodes; were it not so, I had told you: for I go to prepare you a place;


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and if I go and shall prepare you a place, I am coming again and shall receive you to myself, that where I am ye also may be.


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Jesus says to him, I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father unless by me.


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If ye had known me, ye would have known also my Father, and henceforth ye know him and have seen him.


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Jesus says to him, Am I so long a time with you, and thou hast not known me, Philip? He that has seen me has seen the Father; and how sayest thou, Shew us the Father?


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Believest thou not that I [am] in the Father, and that the Father is in me? The words which I speak to you I do not speak from myself; but the Father who abides in me, he does the works.


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Believe *me* that I [am] in the Father and the Father in me; but if not, believe me for the works' sake themselves.


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Verily, verily, I say to you, He that believes on me, the works which I do shall he do also, and he shall do greater than these, because I go to the Father.


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And whatsoever ye shall ask in my name, this will I do, that the Father may be glorified in the Son.


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And I will beg the Father, and he will give you another Comforter, that he may be with you for ever,


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the Spirit of truth, whom the world cannot receive, because it does not see him nor know him; but ye know him, for he abides with you, and shall be in you.


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He that has my commandments and keeps them, he it is that loves me; but he that loves me shall be loved by my Father, and I will love him and will manifest myself to him.


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Judas, not the Iscariote, says to him, Lord, how is it that thou wilt manifest thyself to us and not to the world?


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Jesus answered and said to him, If any one love me, he will keep my word, and my Father will love him, and we will come to him and make our abode with him.


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He that loves me not does not keep my words; and the word which ye hear is not mine, but [that] of the Father who has sent me.


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but the Comforter, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, *he* shall teach you all things, and will bring to your remembrance all the things which I have said to you.


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I leave peace with you; I give *my* peace to you: not as the world gives do I give to you. Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it fear.


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Ye have heard that I have said unto you, I go away and I am coming to you. If ye loved me ye would rejoice that I go to the Father, for [my] Father is greater than I.


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And now I have told you before it comes to pass, that when it shall have come to pass ye may believe.


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but that the world may know that I love the Father, and as the Father has commanded me, thus I do. Rise up, let us go hence.


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[As to] every branch in me not bearing fruit, he takes it away; and [as to] every one bearing fruit, he purges it that it may bring forth more fruit.


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Abide in me and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself unless it abide in the vine, thus neither [can] ye unless ye abide in me.


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I am the vine, ye [are] the branches. He that abides in me and I in him, *he* bears much fruit; for without me ye can do nothing.


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Unless any one abide in me he is cast out as the branch, and is dried up; and they gather them and cast them into the fire, and they are burned.


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If ye abide in me, and my words abide in you, ye shall ask what ye will and it shall come to pass to you.


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If ye shall keep my commandments, ye shall abide in my love, as I have kept my Father's commandments and abide in his love.


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I call you no longer bondmen, for the bondman does not know what his master is doing; but I have called you friends, for all things which I have heard of my Father I have made known to you.


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Ye have not chosen me, but I have chosen you, and have set you that ye should go and [that] ye should bear fruit, and [that] your fruit should abide, that whatsoever ye shall ask the Father in my name he may give you.


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If ye were of the world, the world would love its own; but because ye are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world, on account of this the world hates you.


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Remember the word which I said unto you, The bondman is not greater than his master. If they have persecuted me, they will also persecute you; if they have kept my word, they will keep also yours.


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But they will do all these things to you on account of my name, because they have not known him that sent me.


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If I had not come and spoken to them, they had not had sin; but now they have no excuse for their sin.


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If I had not done among them the works which no other one has done, they had not had sin; but now they have both seen and hated both me and my Father.


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But when the Comforter is come, whom I will send to you from the Father, the Spirit of truth who goes forth from with the Father, *he* shall bear witness concerning me;


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They shall put you out of the synagogues; but the hour is coming that every one who kills you will think to render service to God;


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But I have spoken these things to you, that when their hour shall have come, ye may remember them, that I have said [them] unto you. But I did not say these things unto you from [the] beginning, because I was with you.


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But I say the truth to you, It is profitable for you that I go away; for if I do not go away, the Comforter will not come to you; but if I go I will send him to you.


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And having come, he will bring demonstration to the world, of sin, and of righteousness, and of judgment:


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But when *he* is come, the Spirit of truth, he shall guide you into all the truth: for he shall not speak from himself; but whatsoever he shall hear he shall speak; and he will announce to you what is coming.


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All things that the Father has are mine; on account of this I have said that he receives of mine and shall announce [it] to you.


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A little while and ye do not behold me; and again a little while and ye shall see me, [because I go away to the Father].


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[Some] of his disciples therefore said to one another, What is this he says to us, A little while and ye do not behold me; and again a little while and ye shall see me, and, Because I go away to the Father?


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They said therefore, What is this which he says [of] the little while? We do not know [of] what he speaks.


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Jesus knew therefore that they desired to demand of him, and said to them, Do ye inquire of this among yourselves that I said, A little while and ye do not behold me; and again a little while and ye shall see me?


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Verily, verily, I say to you, that ye shall weep and lament, ye, but the world shall rejoice; and ye will be grieved, but your grief shall be turned to joy.


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A woman, when she gives birth to a child, has grief because her hour has come; but when the child is born, she no longer remembers the trouble, on account of the joy that a man has been born into the world.


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And ye now therefore have grief; but I will see you again, and your heart shall rejoice, and your joy no one takes from you.


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And in that day ye shall demand nothing of me: verily, verily, I say to you, Whatsoever ye shall ask the Father in my name, he will give you.


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These things I have spoken to you in allegories; the hour is coming that I will no longer speak to you in allegories, but will declare to you openly concerning the Father.


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for the Father himself has affection for you, because ye have had affection for me, and have believed that I came out from God.


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I came out from the Father and have come into the world; again, I leave the world and go to the Father.


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Now we know that thou knowest all things, and hast not need that any one should demand of thee. By this we believe that thou art come from God.


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Behold, [the] hour is coming, and has come, that ye shall be scattered, each to his own, and shall leave me alone; and [yet] I am not alone, for the Father is with me.


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These things have I spoken to you that in me ye might have peace. In the world ye have tribulation; but be of good courage: I have overcome the world.


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These things Jesus spoke, and lifted up his eyes to heaven and said, Father, the hour is come; glorify thy Son, that thy Son may glorify thee;


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as thou hast given him authority over all flesh, that [as to] all that thou hast given to him, he should give them life eternal.


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And this is the eternal life, that they should know thee, the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom thou hast sent.


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I have glorified *thee* on the earth, I have completed the work which thou gavest me that I should do it;


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and now glorify *me*, *thou* Father, along with thyself, with the glory which I had along with thee before the world was.


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I have manifested thy name to the men whom thou gavest me out of the world. They were thine, and thou gavest them me, and they have kept thy word.


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for the words which thou hast given me I have given them, and they have received [them], and have known truly that I came out from thee, and have believed that thou sentest me.


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I demand concerning them; I do not demand concerning the world, but concerning those whom thou hast given me, for they are thine,


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And I am no longer in the world, and these are in the world, and I come to thee. Holy Father, keep them in thy name which thou hast given me, that they may be one as we.


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When I was with them I kept them in thy name; those thou hast given me I have guarded, and not one of them has perished, but the son of perdition, that the scripture might be fulfilled.


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And now I come to thee. And these things I speak in the world, that they may have my joy fulfilled in them.


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I have given them thy word, and the world has hated them, because they are not of the world, as I am not of the world.


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I do not demand that thou shouldest take them out of the world, but that thou shouldest keep them out of evil.


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that they may be all one, as thou, Father, [art] in me, and I in thee, that they also may be one in us, that the world may believe that thou hast sent me.


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I in them and thou in me, that they may be perfected into one [and] that the world may know that thou hast sent me, and [that] thou hast loved them as thou hast loved me.


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Father, [as to] those whom thou hast given me, I desire that where I am they also may be with me, that they may behold my glory which thou hast given me, for thou lovedst me before [the] foundation of [the] world.


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Righteous Father, -- and the world has not known thee, but I have known thee, and these have known that thou hast sent me.


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And I have made known to them thy name, and will make [it] known; that the love with which thou hast loved me may be in them and I in them.


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Jesus, having said these things, went out with his disciples beyond the torrent Cedron, where was a garden, into which he entered, he and his disciples.


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And Judas also, who delivered him up, knew the place, because Jesus was often there, in company with his disciples.


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Judas therefore, having got the band, and officers of the chief priests and Pharisees, comes there with lanterns and torches and weapons.


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Jesus therefore, knowing all things that were coming upon him, went forth and said to them, Whom seek ye?


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They answered him, Jesus the Nazaraean. Jesus says to them, I am [he]. And Judas also, who delivered him up, stood with them.


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that the word might be fulfilled which he spoke, [As to] those whom thou hast given me, I have not lost one of them.


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Simon Peter therefore, having a sword, drew it, and smote the bondman of the high priest and cut off his right ear; and the bondman's name was Malchus.


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Jesus therefore said to Peter, Put the sword into the sheath; the cup which the Father has given me, shall I not drink it?


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and they led him away to Annas first; for he was father-in-law to Caiaphas, who was high priest that year.


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But it was Caiaphas who counselled the Jews that it was better that one man should perish for the people.


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Now Simon Peter followed Jesus, and the other disciple. But that disciple was known to the high priest, and went in with Jesus into the palace of the high priest;


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but Peter stood at the door without. The other disciple therefore, who was known to the high priest, went out and spoke to the porteress and brought in Peter.


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The maid therefore, who was porteress, says to Peter, Art thou also of the disciples of this man? He says, I am not.


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But the bondmen and officers, having made a fire of coals (for it was cold), stood and warmed themselves; and Peter was standing with them and warming himself.


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Jesus answered him, I spoke openly to the world; I taught always in [the] synagogue and in the temple, where all the Jews come together, and in secret I have spoken nothing.


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Why demandest thou of me? Demand of those who have heard, what I have spoken to them; behold, they know what I have said.


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But as he said these things, one of the officers who stood by gave a blow on the face to Jesus, saying, Answerest thou the high priest thus?


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Jesus answered him, If I have spoken evil, bear witness of the evil; but if well, why smitest thou me?


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But Simon Peter was standing and warming himself. They said therefore to him, Art thou also of his disciples? He denied, and said, I am not.


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One of the bondmen of the high priest, who was kinsman of him whose ear Peter cut off, says, Did not I see thee in the garden with him?


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They lead therefore Jesus from Caiaphas to the praetorium; and it was early morn. And *they* entered not into the praetorium, that they might not be defiled, but eat the passover.


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They answered and said to him, If this [man] were not an evildoer, we should not have delivered him up to thee.


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Pilate therefore said to them, Take him, ye, and judge him according to your law. The Jews therefore said to him, It is not permitted to us to put any one to death;


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Pilate therefore entered again into the praetorium and called Jesus, and said to him, Thou art the king of the Jews?


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Pilate answered, Am I a Jew? Thy nation and the chief priests have delivered thee up to me: what hast thou done?


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Jesus answered, My kingdom is not of this world; if my kingdom were of this world, my servants had fought that I might not be delivered up to the Jews; but now my kingdom is not from hence.


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Pilate therefore said to him, Thou art then a king? Jesus answered, Thou sayest [it], that I am a king. I have been born for this, and for this I have come into the world, that I might bear witness to the truth. Every one that is of the truth hears my voice.


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Pilate says to him, What is truth? And having said this he went out again to the Jews, and says to them, I find no fault whatever in him.


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But ye have a custom that I release [some] one to you at the passover; will ye therefore that I release unto you the king of the Jews?


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And Pilate went out again and says to them, Lo, I bring him out to you, that ye may know that I find in him no fault whatever.


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(Jesus therefore went forth without, wearing the crown of thorn, and the purple robe.) And he says to them, Behold the man!


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When therefore the chief priests and the officers saw him they cried out saying, Crucify, crucify [him]. Pilate says to them, Take him ye and crucify [him], for I find no fault in him.


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The Jews answered him, We have a law, and according to [our] law he ought to die, because he made himself Son of God.


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and went into the praetorium again and says to Jesus, Whence art thou? But Jesus gave him no answer.


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Pilate therefore says to him, Speakest thou not to *me*? Dost thou not know that I have authority to release thee and have authority to crucify thee?


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Jesus answered, Thou hadst no authority whatever against me if it were not given to thee from above. On this account he that has delivered me up to thee has [the] greater sin.


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From this time Pilate sought to release him; but the Jews cried out saying, If thou releasest this [man], thou art not a friend to Caesar. Every one making himself a king speaks against Caesar.


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Pilate therefore, having heard these words, led Jesus out and sat down upon [the] judgment-seat, at a place called Pavement, but in Hebrew Gabbatha;


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(now it was [the] preparation of the passover; it was about the sixth hour;) and he says to the Jews, Behold your king!


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But they cried out, Take [him] away, take [him] away, crucify him. Pilate says to them, Shall I crucify your king? The chief priests answered, We have no king but Caesar.


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Then therefore he delivered him up to them, that he might be crucified; and they took Jesus and led him away.


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And he went out, bearing his cross, to the place called [place] of a skull, which is called in Hebrew, Golgotha;


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where they crucified him, and with him two others, [one] on this side, and [one] on that, and Jesus in the middle.


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And Pilate wrote a title also and put it on the cross. But there was written: Jesus the Nazaraean, the King of the Jews.


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This title therefore many of the Jews read, for the place of the city where Jesus was crucified was near; and it was written in Hebrew, Greek, Latin.


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The chief priests of the Jews therefore said to Pilate, Do not write, The king of the Jews, but that *he* said, I am king of the Jews.


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The soldiers therefore, when they had crucified Jesus, took his clothes, and made four parts, to each soldier a part, and the body-coat; but the body-coat was seamless, woven through the whole from the top.


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They said therefore to one another, Let us not rend it, but let us cast lots for it, whose it shall be; that the scripture might be fulfilled which says, They parted my garments among themselves, and on my vesture they cast lots. The soldiers therefore did these things.


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And by the cross of Jesus stood his mother, and the sister of his mother, Mary the [wife] of Clopas, and Mary of Magdala.


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Jesus therefore, seeing his mother, and the disciple standing by, whom he loved, says to his mother, Woman, behold thy son.


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Then he says unto the disciple, Behold thy mother. And from that hour the disciple took her to his own home.


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After this, Jesus, knowing that all things were now finished, that the scripture might be fulfilled, says, I thirst.


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There was a vessel therefore there full of vinegar, and having filled a sponge with vinegar, and putting hyssop round it, they put it up to his mouth.


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When therefore Jesus had received the vinegar, he said, It is finished; and having bowed his head, he delivered up his spirit.


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The Jews therefore, that the bodies might not remain on the cross on the sabbath, for it was [the] preparation, (for the day of that sabbath was a great [day],) demanded of Pilate that their legs might be broken and they taken away.


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The soldiers therefore came and broke the legs of the first and of the other that had been crucified with him;


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but one of the soldiers pierced his side with a spear, and immediately there came out blood and water.


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And he who saw it bears witness, and his witness is true, and he knows that he says true that ye also may believe.


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For these things took place that the scripture might be fulfilled, Not a bone of him shall be broken.


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And after these things Joseph of Arimathaea, who was a disciple of Jesus, but secretly through fear of the Jews, demanded of Pilate that he might take the body of Jesus: and Pilate allowed it. He came therefore and took away the body of Jesus.


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And Nicodemus also, who at first came to Jesus by night, came, bringing a mixture of myrrh and aloes, about a hundred pounds [weight].


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They took therefore the body of Jesus and bound it up in linen with the spices, as it is the custom with the Jews to prepare for burial.


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But there was in the place where he had been crucified a garden, and in the garden a new tomb in which no one had ever been laid.


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There therefore, on account of the preparation of the Jews, because the tomb was near, they laid Jesus.


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And on the first [day] of the week Mary of Magdala comes in early morn to the tomb, while it was still dark, and sees the stone taken away from the tomb.


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She runs therefore and comes to Simon Peter, and to the other disciple, to whom Jesus was attached, and says to them, They have taken away the Lord out of the tomb, and we know not where they have laid him.


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And the two ran together, and the other disciple ran forward faster than Peter, and came first to the tomb,


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Simon Peter therefore comes, following him, and entered into the tomb, and sees the linen cloths lying,


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and the handkerchief which was upon his head, not lying with the linen cloths, but folded up in a distinct place by itself.


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Then entered in therefore the other disciple also who came first to the tomb, and he saw and believed;


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and beholds two angels sitting in white [garments], one at the head and one at the feet, where the body of Jesus had lain.


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And they say to her, Woman, why dost thou weep? She says to them, Because they have taken away my Lord, and I know not where they have laid him.


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Having said these things she turned backward and beholds Jesus standing [there], and knew not that it was Jesus.


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Jesus says to her, Woman, why dost thou weep? Whom seekest thou? She, supposing that it was the gardener, says to him, Sir, if thou hast borne him hence, tell me where thou hast laid him, and I will take him away.


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Jesus says to her, Touch me not, for I have not yet ascended to my Father; but go to my brethren and say to them, I ascend to my Father and your Father, and [to] my God and your God.


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Mary of Magdala comes bringing word to the disciples that she had seen the Lord, and [that] he had said these things to her.


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When therefore it was evening on that day, which was the first [day] of the week, and the doors shut where the disciples were, through fear of the Jews, Jesus came and stood in the midst, and says to them, Peace [be] to you.


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And having said this, he shewed to them his hands and his side. The disciples rejoiced therefore, having seen the Lord.


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[Jesus] said therefore again to them, Peace [be] to you: as the Father sent me forth, I also send you.


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whose soever sins ye remit, they are remitted to them; whose soever [sins] ye retain, they are retained.


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The other disciples therefore said to him, We have seen the Lord. But he said to them, Unless I see in his hands the mark of the nails, and put my finger into the mark of the nails, and put my hand into his side, I will not believe.


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And eight days after, his disciples were again within, and Thomas with them. Jesus comes, the doors being shut, and stood in the midst and said, Peace [be] to you.


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Then he says to Thomas, Bring thy finger here and see my hands; and bring thy hand and put it into my side; and be not unbelieving, but believing.


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Jesus says to him, Because thou hast seen me thou hast believed: blessed they who have not seen and have believed.


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but these are written that ye may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and that believing ye might have life in his name.


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After these things Jesus manifested himself again to the disciples at the sea of Tiberias. And he manifested [himself] thus.


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There were together Simon Peter, and Thomas called Didymus, and Nathanael who was of Cana of Galilee, and the [sons] of Zebedee, and two others of his disciples.


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Simon Peter says to them, I go to fish. They say to him, We also come with thee. They went forth, and went on board, and that night took nothing.


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And early morn already breaking, Jesus stood on the shore; the disciples however did not know that it was Jesus.


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And he said to them, Cast the net at the right side of the ship and ye will find. They cast therefore, and they could no longer draw it, from the multitude of fishes.


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That disciple therefore whom Jesus loved says to Peter, It is the Lord. Simon Peter therefore, having heard that it was the Lord, girded his overcoat [on him] (for he was naked), and cast himself into the sea;


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and the other disciples came in the small boat, for they were not far from the land, but somewhere about two hundred cubits, dragging the net of fishes.


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When therefore they went out on the land, they see a fire of coals there, and fish laid on it, and bread.


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Simon Peter went up and drew the net to the land full of great fishes, a hundred and fifty-three; and though there were so many, the net was not rent.


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Jesus says to them, Come [and] dine. But none of the disciples dared inquire of him, Who art thou? knowing that it was the Lord.


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This is already the third time that Jesus had been manifested to the disciples, being risen from among [the] dead.


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When therefore they had dined, Jesus says to Simon Peter, Simon, [son] of Jonas, lovest thou me more than these? He says to him, Yea, Lord; thou knowest that I am attached to thee. He says to him, Feed my lambs.


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He says to him again a second time, Simon, [son] of Jonas, lovest thou me? He says to him, Yea, Lord; thou knowest that I am attached to thee. He says to him, Shepherd my sheep.


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He says to him the third time, Simon, [son] of Jonas, art thou attached to me? Peter was grieved because he said to him the third time, Art thou attached to me? and said to him, Lord, thou knowest all things; thou knowest that I am attached to thee. Jesus says to him, Feed my sheep.


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Verily, verily, I say to thee, When thou wast young, thou girdedst thyself, and walkedst where thou desiredst; but when thou shalt be old, thou shalt stretch forth thy hands, and another shall gird thee, and bring thee where thou dost not desire.


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But he said this signifying by what death he should glorify God. And having said this, he says to him, Follow me.


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Peter, turning round, sees the disciple whom Jesus loved following, who also leaned at supper on his breast, and said, Lord, who is it that delivers thee up?


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This word therefore went out among the brethren, That disciple does not die. And Jesus did not say to him, He does not die; but, If I will that he abide until I come, what [is that] to thee?


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This is the disciple who bears witness concerning these things, and who has written these things; and we know that his witness is true.


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And there are also many other things which Jesus did, the which if they were written one by one, I suppose that not even the world itself would contain the books written.


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I composed the first discourse, O Theophilus, concerning all things which Jesus began both to do and to teach,


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until that day in which, having by the Holy Spirit charged the apostles whom he had chosen, he was taken up;


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to whom also he presented himself living, after he had suffered, with many proofs; being seen by them during forty days, and speaking of the things which concern the kingdom of God;


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and, being assembled with [them], commanded them not to depart from Jerusalem, but to await the promise of the Father, which [said he] ye have heard of me.


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For John indeed baptised with water, but *ye* shall be baptised with the Holy Spirit after now not many days.


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They therefore, being come together, asked him saying, Lord, is it at this time that thou restorest the kingdom to Israel?


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And he said to them, It is not yours to know times or seasons, which the Father has placed in his own authority;


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but ye will receive power, the Holy Spirit having come upon you, and ye shall be my witnesses both in Jerusalem, and in all Judaea and Samaria, and to the end of the earth.


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And having said these things he was taken up, they beholding [him], and a cloud received him out of their sight.


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And as they were gazing into heaven, as he was going, behold, also two men stood by them in white clothing,


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who also said, Men of Galilee, why do ye stand looking into heaven? This Jesus who has been taken up from you into heaven, shall thus come in the manner in which ye have beheld him going into heaven.


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Then they returned to Jerusalem from the mount called [the mount] of Olives, which is near Jerusalem, a sabbath-day's journey off.


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And when they were come into [the city], they went up to the upper chamber, where were staying both Peter, and John, and James, and Andrew, Philip and Thomas, Bartholomew and Matthew, James [son] of Alphaeus, and Simon the zealot, and Jude [the brother] of James.


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These gave themselves all with one accord to continual prayer, with [several] women, and Mary the mother of Jesus, and with his brethren.


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And in those days Peter, standing up in the midst of the brethren, said, (the crowd of names [who were] together [was] about a hundred and twenty,)


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Brethren, it was necessary that the scripture should have been fulfilled, which the Holy Spirit spoke before, by the mouth of David, concerning Judas, who became guide to those who took Jesus;


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(This [man] then indeed got a field with [the] reward of iniquity, and, having fallen down headlong, burst in the midst, and all his bowels gushed out.


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And it was known to all the inhabitants of Jerusalem, so that that field was called in their own dialect Aceldama; that is, field of blood.)


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For it is written in [the] book of Psalms, Let his homestead become desolate, and let there be no dweller in it; and, Let another take his overseership.


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It is necessary therefore, that of the men who have assembled with us all [the] time in which the Lord Jesus came in and went out among us,


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beginning from the baptism of John until the day in which he was taken up from us, one of these should be a witness with us of his resurrection.


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And they appointed two, Joseph, who was called Barsabas, who had been surnamed Justus, and Matthias.


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And they prayed, and said, Thou Lord, knower of the hearts of all, shew which one of these two thou hast chosen,


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to receive the lot of this service and apostleship, from which Judas transgressing fell to go to his own place.


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And they gave lots on them, and the lot fell on Matthias, and he was numbered with the eleven apostles.


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And there came suddenly a sound out of heaven as of a violent impetuous blowing, and filled all the house where they were sitting.


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And they were all filled with [the] Holy Spirit, and began to speak with other tongues as the Spirit gave to them to speak forth.


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But the rumour of this having spread, the multitude came together and were confounded, because each one heard them speaking in his own dialect.


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Parthians, and Medes, and Elamites, and those who inhabit Mesopotamia, and Judaea, and Cappadocia, Pontus and Asia,


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both Phrygia and Pamphylia, Egypt, and the parts of Libya which adjoin Cyrene, and the Romans sojourning [here], both Jews and proselytes,


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But Peter, standing up with the eleven, lifted up his voice and spoke forth to them, Men of Judaea, and all ye inhabitants of Jerusalem, let this be known to you, and give heed to my words:


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And it shall be in the last days, saith God, [that] I will pour out of my Spirit upon all flesh; and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, and your young men shall see visions, and your elders shall dream with dreams;


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yea, even upon my bondmen and upon my bondwomen in those days will I pour out of my Spirit, and they shall prophesy.


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And I will give wonders in the heaven above and signs on the earth below, blood, and fire, and vapour of smoke:


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the sun shall be changed to darkness and the moon to blood, before the great and gloriously appearing day of [the] Lord come.


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Men of Israel, hear these words: Jesus the Nazaraean, a man borne witness to by God to you by works of power and wonders and signs, which God wrought by him in your midst, as yourselves know


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-- him, given up by the determinate counsel and foreknowledge of God, ye, by [the] hand of lawless [men], have crucified and slain.


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Whom God has raised up, having loosed the pains of death, inasmuch as it was not possible that he should be held by its power;


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for David says as to him, I foresaw the Lord continually before me, because he is at my right hand that I may not be moved.


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Brethren, let it be allowed to speak with freedom to you concerning the patriarch David, that he has both died and been buried, and his monument is amongst us unto this day.


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Being therefore a prophet, and knowing that God had sworn to him with an oath, of the fruit of his loins to set upon his throne;


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he, seeing [it] before, spoke concerning the resurrection of the Christ, that neither has he been left in hades nor his flesh seen corruption.


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Having therefore been exalted by the right hand of God, and having received of the Father the promise of the Holy Spirit, he has poured out this which *ye* behold and hear.


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For David has not ascended into the heavens, but he says himself, The Lord said unto my Lord, Sit at my right hand


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Let the whole house of Israel therefore know assuredly that God has made him, this Jesus whom *ye* have crucified, both Lord and Christ.


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And having heard [it] they were pricked in heart, and said to Peter and the other apostles, What shall we do, brethren?


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And Peter said to them, Repent, and be baptised, each one of you, in the name of Jesus Christ, for remission of sins, and ye will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.


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For to you is the promise and to your children, and to all who [are] afar off, as many as [the] Lord our God may call.


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And with many other words he testified and exhorted them, saying, Be saved from this perverse generation.


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Those then who had accepted his word were baptised; and there were added in that day about three thousand souls.


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And they persevered in the teaching and fellowship of the apostles, in breaking of bread and prayers.


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and sold their possessions and substance, and distributed them to all, according as any one might have need.


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And every day, being constantly in the temple with one accord, and breaking bread in [the] house, they received their food with gladness and simplicity of heart,


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praising God, and having favour with all the people; and the Lord added [to the assembly] daily those that were to be saved.


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And Peter and John went up together into the temple at the hour of prayer, [which is] the ninth [hour];


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and a certain man who was lame from his mother's womb was being carried, whom they placed every day at the gate of the temple called Beautiful, to ask alms of those who were going into the temple;


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But Peter said, Silver and gold I have not; but what I have, this give I to thee: In the name of Jesus Christ the Nazaraean rise up and walk.


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And having taken hold of him [by] the right hand he raised him up, and immediately his feet and ankle bones were made strong.


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And leaping up he stood and walked, and entered with them into the temple, walking, and leaping, and praising God.


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and they recognised him, that it was *he* who sat for alms at the Beautiful gate of the temple; and they were filled with wonder and amazement at what had happened to him.


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And as he held Peter and John, all the people ran together to them in the portico which is called Solomon's, greatly wondering.


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And Peter, seeing it, answered the people, Men of Israel, why are ye astonished at this? or why do ye gaze on us as if we had by our own power or piety made him to walk?


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The God of Abraham and Isaac and Jacob, the God of our fathers, has glorified his servant Jesus, whom *ye* delivered up, and denied him in the presence of Pilate, when *he* had judged that he should be let go.


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But *ye* denied the holy and righteous one, and asked that a man [that was] a murderer should be granted to you;


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but the originator of life ye slew, whom God raised from among [the] dead, whereof *we* are witnesses.


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And, by faith in his name, his name has made this [man] strong whom ye behold and know; and the faith which is by him has given him this complete soundness in the presence of you all.


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but God has thus fulfilled what he had announced beforehand by the mouth of all the prophets, that his Christ should suffer.


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Repent therefore and be converted, for the blotting out of your sins, so that times of refreshing may come from [the] presence of the Lord,


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whom heaven indeed must receive till [the] times of [the] restoring of all things, of which God has spoken by the mouth of his holy prophets since time began.


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Moses indeed said, A prophet shall [the] Lord your God raise up to you out of your brethren like me: him shall ye hear in everything whatsoever he shall say to you.


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And it shall be that whatsoever soul shall not hear that prophet shall be destroyed from among the people.


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And indeed all the prophets from Samuel and those in succession after [him], as many as have spoken, have announced also these days.


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*Ye* are the sons of the prophets and of the covenant which God appointed to our fathers, saying to Abraham, And in thy seed shall all the families of the earth be blessed.


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To you first God, having raised up his servant, has sent him, blessing you in turning each one [of you] from your wickedness.


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And as they were speaking to the people, the priests and captain of the temple and the Sadducees came upon them,


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being distressed on account of their teaching the people and preaching by Jesus the resurrection from among [the] dead;


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But many of those who had heard the word believed; and the number of the men had become [about] five thousand.


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And it came to pass on the morrow that their rulers and elders and scribes were gathered together at Jerusalem,


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and Annas the high priest, and Caiaphas, and John, and Alexander, and as many as were of [the] high priestly family;


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and having placed them in the midst they inquired, In what power or in what name have *ye* done this?


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Then Peter, filled with [the] Holy Spirit, said to them, Rulers of the people and elders [of Israel],


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if *we* this day are called upon to answer as to the good deed [done] to the infirm man, how *he* has been healed,


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be it known to you all, and to all the people of Israel, that in the name of Jesus Christ the Nazaraean, whom *ye* have crucified, whom God has raised from among [the] dead, by *him* this [man] stands here before you sound [in body].


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*He* is the stone which has been set at nought by you the builders, which is become the corner stone.


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And salvation is in none other, for neither is there another name under heaven which is given among men by which we must be saved.


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But seeing the boldness of Peter and John, and perceiving that they were unlettered and uninstructed men, they wondered; and they recognised them that they were with Jesus.


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saying, What shall we do to these men? for that indeed an evident sign has come to pass through their means is manifest to all that inhabit Jerusalem, and we cannot deny it.


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But that it be not further spread among the people, let us threaten them severely no longer to speak to any man in this name.


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But Peter and John answering said to them, If it be righteous before God to listen to you rather than to God, judge ye;


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But they, having further threatened them, let them go, finding no way how they might punish them, on account of the people, because all glorified God for what had taken place;


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And having been let go, they came to their own [company], and reported all that the chief priests and elders had said to them.


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And they, having heard [it], lifted up [their] voice with one accord to God, and said, Lord, *thou* art the God who made the heaven and the earth and the sea, and all that is in them;


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who hast said by the mouth of thy servant David, Why have [the] nations raged haughtily and [the] peoples meditated vain things?


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The kings of the earth were there, and the rulers were gathered together against the Lord and against his Christ.


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For in truth against thy holy servant Jesus, whom thou hadst anointed, both Herod and Pontius Pilate, with [the] nations, and peoples of Israel, have been gathered together in this city


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And now, Lord, look upon their threatenings, and give to thy bondmen with all boldness to speak thy word,


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in that thou stretchest out thy hand to heal, and that signs and wonders take place through the name of thy holy servant Jesus.


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And when they had prayed, the place in which they were assembled shook, and they were all filled with the Holy Spirit, and spoke the word of God with boldness.


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And the heart and soul of the multitude of those that had believed were one, and not one said that anything of what he possessed was his own, but all things were common to them;


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and with great power did the apostles give witness of the resurrection of the Lord Jesus, and great grace was upon them all.


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For neither was there any one in want among them; for as many as were owners of lands or houses, selling them, brought the price of what was sold


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and laid it at the feet of the apostles; and distribution was made to each according as any one might have need.


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And Joseph, who had been surnamed Barnabas by the apostles (which is, being interpreted, Son of consolation), a Levite, Cyprian by birth,


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being possessed of land, having sold [it], brought the money and laid it at the feet of the apostles.


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and put aside for himself part of the price, [his] wife also being privy to it; and having brought a certain part, laid it at the feet of the apostles.


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But Peter said, Ananias, why has Satan filled thy heart that thou shouldest lie to the Holy Spirit, and put aside for thyself a part of the price of the estate?


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While it remained did it not remain to *thee*? and sold, was [it not] in thine own power? Why is it that thou hast purposed this thing in thine heart? Thou hast not lied to men, but to God.


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And Ananias, hearing these words, fell down and expired. And great fear came upon all who heard [it].


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And it came to pass about three hours afterwards, that his wife, not knowing what had happened, came in.


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And Peter said to her, Why [is it] that ye have agreed together to tempt the Spirit of [the] Lord? Lo, the feet of those that have buried thy husband [are] at the door, and they shall carry thee out.


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And she fell down immediately at his feet and expired. And when the young men came in they found her dead; and, having carried her out, they buried her by her husband.


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And by the hands of the apostles were many signs and wonders done among the people; (and they were all with one accord in Solomon's porch,


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so that they brought out the sick into the streets and put [them] on beds and couches, that at least the shadow of Peter, when he came, might overshadow some one of them.


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And the multitude also of the cities round about came together to Jerusalem, bringing sick persons and persons beset by unclean spirits, who were all healed.


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And the high priest rising up, and all they that were with him, which is the sect of the Sadducees, were filled with wrath,


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But an angel of [the] Lord during the night opened the doors of the prison, and leading them out, said,


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And when they heard it, they entered very early into the temple and taught. And when the high priest was come, and they that were with him, they called together the council and all the elderhood of the sons of Israel, and sent to the prison to have them brought.


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saying, We found the prison shut with all security, and the keepers standing at the doors; but when we had opened [them], within we found no one.


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And when they heard these words, both the priest and the captain of the temple and the chief priests were in perplexity as to them, what this would come to.


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And some one coming reported to them, Lo, the men whom ye put in the prison are in the temple, standing and teaching the people.


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Then the captain, having gone with the officers, brought them, not with violence, for they feared the people, lest they should be stoned.


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saying, We strictly enjoined you not to teach in this name: and lo, ye have filled Jerusalem with your doctrine, and purpose to bring upon us the blood of this man.


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Him has God exalted by his right hand as leader and saviour, to give repentance to Israel and remission of sins.


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And *we* are [his] witnesses of these things, and the Holy Spirit also, which God has given to those that obey him.


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But a certain [man], a Pharisee, named Gamaliel, a teacher of the law, held in honour of all the people, rose up in the council, and commanded to put the men out for a short while,


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and said to them, Men of Israel, take heed to yourselves as regards these men what ye are going to do;


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for before these days Theudas rose up, alleging himself to be somebody, to whom a number of men, about four hundred, were joined; who was slain, and all, as many as obeyed him, were dispersed and came to nothing.


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After him rose Judas the Galilean in the days of the census, and drew away [a number of] people after him; and *he* perished, and all, as many as obeyed him, were scattered abroad.


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And now I say to you, Withdraw from these men and let them alone, for if this counsel or this work have its origin from men, it will be destroyed;


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but if it be from God, ye will not be able to put them down, lest ye be found also fighters against God.


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And they listened to his advice; and having called the apostles, they beat them, and enjoined them not to speak in the name of Jesus, and dismissed them.


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They therefore went their way from [the] presence of the council, rejoicing that they were counted worthy to be dishonoured for the name.


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And every day, in the temple and in the houses, they ceased not teaching and announcing the glad tidings that Jesus [was] the Christ.


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But in those days, the disciples multiplying in number, there arose a murmuring of the Hellenists against the Hebrews because their widows were overlooked in the daily ministration.


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And the twelve, having called the multitude of the disciples to [them], said, It is not right that we, leaving the word of God, should serve tables.


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Look out therefore, brethren, from among yourselves seven men, well reported of, full of [the] [Holy] Spirit and wisdom, whom we will establish over this business:


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And the saying pleased the whole multitude: and they chose Stephen, a man full of faith and [the] Holy Spirit, and Philip, and Prochorus, and Nicanor, and Timon, and Parmenas, and Nicolas, a proselyte of Antioch,


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And the word of God increased; and the number of the disciples in Jerusalem was very greatly multiplied, and a great crowd of the priests obeyed the faith.


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And there arose up certain of those of the synagogue called of freedmen, and of Cyrenians, and of Alexandrians, and of those of Cilicia and Asia, disputing with Stephen.


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And they roused the people, and the elders, and the scribes. And coming upon [him] they seized him and brought [him] to the council.


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And they set false witnesses, saying, This man does not cease speaking words against the holy place and the law;


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for we have heard him saying, This Jesus the Nazaraean shall destroy this place, and change the customs which Moses taught us.


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And he said, Brethren and fathers, hearken. The God of glory appeared to our father Abraham when he was in Mesopotamia, before he dwelt in Charran,


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and said to him, Go out of thy land and out of thy kindred, and come into the land which I will shew thee.


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Then going out of the land of the Chaldeans he dwelt in Charran, and thence, after his father died, he removed him into this land in which *ye* now dwell.


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And he did not give him an inheritance in it, not even what his foot could stand on; and promised to give it to him for a possession, and to his seed after him, when he had no child.


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And God spoke thus: His seed shall be a sojourner in a strange land, and they shall enslave them and evil entreat [them] four hundred years;


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and the nation to which they shall be in bondage will *I* judge, said God; and after these things they shall come forth and serve me in this place.


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And he gave to him [the] covenant of circumcision; and thus he begat Isaac and circumcised him the eighth day; and Isaac Jacob, and Jacob the twelve patriarchs.


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and delivered him out of all his tribulations, and gave him favour and wisdom in the sight of Pharaoh king of Egypt, and he appointed him chief over Egypt and all his house.


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But a famine came upon all the land of Egypt and Canaan, and great distress, and our fathers found no food.


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and the second time Joseph was made known to his brethren, and the family of Joseph became known to Pharaoh.


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and were carried over to Sychem and placed in the sepulchre which Abraham bought for a sum of money of the sons of Emmor the [father] of Sychem.


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But as the time of promise drew near which God had promised to Abraham, the people increased and multiplied in Egypt,


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*He* dealt subtilly with our race, and evil entreated the fathers, casting out their infants that they might not live.


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In which time Moses was born, and was exceedingly lovely, who was nourished three months in the house of his father.


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And when he was cast out, the daughter of Pharaoh took him up, and brought him up for herself [to be] for a son.


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And Moses was instructed in all [the] wisdom of the Egyptians, and he was mighty in his words and deeds.


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And when a period of forty years was fulfilled to him, it came into his heart to look upon his brethren, the sons of Israel;


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and seeing a certain one wronged, he defended [him], and avenged him that was being oppressed, smiting the Egyptian.


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For he thought that his brethren would understand that God by his hand was giving them deliverance. But they understood not.


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And on the morrow he shewed himself to them as they were contending, and compelled them to peace, saying, *Ye* are brethren, why do ye wrong one another?


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But he that was wronging his neighbour thrust him away, saying, Who established thee ruler and judge over us?


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And Moses fled at this saying, and became a sojourner in the land of Madiam, where he begat two sons.


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And when forty years were fulfilled, an angel appeared to him in the wilderness of mount Sinai, in a flame of fire of a bush.


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And Moses seeing it wondered at the vision; and as he went up to consider it, there was a voice of [the] Lord,


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*I* am the God of thy fathers, the God of Abraham, and of Isaac, and of Jacob. And Moses trembled, and durst not consider [it].


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And the Lord said to him, Loose the sandal of thy feet, for the place on which thou standest is holy ground.


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I have surely seen the ill treatment of my people which is in Egypt, and I have heard their groan, and have come down to take them out of it; and now, come, I will send thee to Egypt.


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This Moses, whom they refused, saying, Who made thee ruler and judge? him did God send [to be] a ruler and deliverer with the hand of the angel who appeared to him in the bush.


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*He* led them out, having wrought wonders and signs in the land of Egypt, and in the Red sea, and in the wilderness forty years.


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This is the Moses who said to the sons of Israel, A prophet shall God raise up to you out of your brethren like me [him shall ye hear].


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This is he who was in the assembly in the wilderness, with the angel who spoke to him in the mount Sinai, and with our fathers; who received living oracles to give to us;


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to whom our fathers would not be subject, but thrust [him] from them, and in their hearts turned back to Egypt,


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saying to Aaron, Make us gods who shall go before us; for this Moses, who brought us out of the land of Egypt, we know not what has happened to him.


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And they made a calf in those days, and offered sacrifice to the idol, and rejoiced in the works of their own hands.


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But God turned and delivered them up to serve the host of heaven; as it is written in [the] book of the prophets, Have ye offered me victims and sacrifices forty years in the wilderness, O house of Israel?


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Yea, ye took up the tent of Moloch, and the star of [your] god Remphan, the forms which ye made to do homage to them; and I will transport you beyond Babylon.


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Our fathers had the tent of the testimony in the wilderness, as he that spoke to Moses commanded to make it according to the model which he had seen;


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which also our fathers, receiving from their predecessors, brought in with Joshua when they entered into possession of [the lands of] the nations, whom God drove out from [the] face of our fathers, until the days of David;


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The heaven [is] my throne and the earth the footstool of my feet: what house will ye build me? saith [the] Lord, or where [is the] place of my rest?


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O stiffnecked and uncircumcised in heart and ears, *ye* do always resist the Holy Spirit; as your fathers, *ye* also.


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Which of the prophets have not your fathers persecuted? and they have slain those who announced beforehand concerning the coming of the Just One, of whom *ye* have now become deliverers up and murderers!


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But being full of [the] Holy Spirit, having fixed his eyes on heaven, he saw [the] glory of God, and Jesus standing at the right hand of God,


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and having cast [him] out of the city, they stoned [him]. And the witnesses laid aside their clothes at the feet of a young man called Saul.


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And kneeling down, he cried with a loud voice, Lord, lay not this sin to their charge. And having said this, he fell asleep.


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And Saul was consenting to his being killed. And on that day there arose a great persecution against the assembly which was in Jerusalem, and all were scattered into the countries of Judaea and Samaria except the apostles.


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But Saul ravaged the assembly, entering into the houses one after another, and dragging off both men and women delivered them up to prison.


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Those then that had been scattered went through [the countries] announcing the glad tidings of the word.


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and the crowds with one accord gave heed to the things spoken by Philip, when they heard [him] and saw the signs which he wrought.


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For from many who had unclean spirits they went out, crying with a loud voice; and many that were paralysed and lame were healed.


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But a certain man, by name Simon, had been before in the city, using magic arts, and astonishing the nation of Samaria, saying that himself was some great one.


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To whom they had all given heed, from small to great, saying, This is the power of God which is called great.


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But when they believed Philip announcing the glad tidings concerning the kingdom of God and the name of Jesus Christ, they were baptised, both men and women.


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And Simon also himself believed; and, having been baptised, continued constantly with Philip; and, beholding the signs and great works of power which took place, was astonished.


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And the apostles who were in Jerusalem, having heard that Samaria had received the word of God, sent to them Peter and John;


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But Simon, having seen that by the laying on of the hands of the apostles the [Holy] Spirit was given, offered them money,


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saying, Give to me also this power, in order that on whomsoever I may lay hands he may receive [the] Holy Spirit.


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And Peter said to him, Thy money go with thee to destruction, because thou hast thought that the gift of God can be obtained by money.


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Repent therefore of this thy wickedness, and supplicate the Lord, if indeed the thought of thy heart may be forgiven thee;


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And Simon answering said, Supplicate *ye* for me to the Lord, so that nothing may come upon me of the things of which ye have spoken.


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They therefore, having testified and spoken the word of the Lord, returned to Jerusalem, and announced the glad tidings to many villages of the Samaritans.


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But [the] angel of [the] Lord spoke to Philip, saying, Rise up and go southward on the way which goes down from Jerusalem to Gaza: the same is desert.


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And he rose up and went. And lo, an Ethiopian, a eunuch, a man in power under Candace queen of the Ethiopians, who was over all her treasure, who had come to worship at Jerusalem,


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And Philip, running up, heard him reading the prophet Esaias, and said, Dost thou then know what thou art reading of?


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And he said, How should I then be able unless some one guide me? And he begged Philip to come up and sit with him.


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And the passage of the scripture which he read was this: He was led as a sheep to slaughter, and as a lamb is dumb in presence of him that shears him, thus he opens not his mouth.


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In his humiliation his judgment has been taken away, and who shall declare his generation? for his life is taken from the earth.


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And the eunuch answering Philip said, I pray thee, concerning whom does the prophet say this? of himself or of some other?


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And Philip, opening his mouth and beginning from that scripture, announced the glad tidings of Jesus to him.


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And as they went along the way, they came upon a certain water, and the eunuch says, Behold water; what hinders my being baptised?


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And he commanded the chariot to stop. And they went down both to the water, both Philip and the eunuch, and he baptised him.


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But when they came up out of the water [the] Spirit of [the] Lord caught away Philip, and the eunuch saw him no longer, for he went on his way rejoicing.


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And Philip was found at Azotus, and passing through he announced the glad tidings to all the cities till he came to Caesarea.


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But Saul, still breathing out threatenings and slaughter against the disciples of the Lord, came to the high priest


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and asked of him letters to Damascus, to the synagogues, so that if he found any who were of the way, both men and women, he might bring [them] bound to Jerusalem.


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But as he was journeying, it came to pass that he drew near to Damascus; and suddenly there shone round about him a light out of heaven,


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And Saul rose up from the earth, and his eyes being opened he saw no one. But leading [him] by the hand they brought him into Damascus.


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And there was a certain disciple in Damascus by name Ananias. And the Lord said to him in a vision, Ananias. And he said, Behold, [here am] I, Lord.


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And the Lord [said] to him, Rise up and go into the street which is called Straight, and seek in the house of Judas one by name Saul, [he is] of Tarsus: for, behold, he is praying,


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and has seen [in a vision] a man by name Ananias coming in and putting his hand on him, so that he should see.


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And Ananias answered, Lord, I have heard from many concerning this man how much evil he has done to thy saints at Jerusalem;


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And the Lord said to him, Go, for this [man] is an elect vessel to me, to bear my name before both nations and kings and [the] sons of Israel:


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And Ananias went and entered into the house; and laying his hands upon him he said, Saul, brother, the Lord has sent me, Jesus that appeared to thee in the way in which thou camest, that thou mightest see, and be filled with [the] Holy Spirit.


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and, having received food, got strength. And he was with the disciples who [were] in Damascus certain days.


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And all who heard were astonished and said, Is not this *he* who destroyed in Jerusalem those who called on this name, and here was come for this purpose, that he might bring them bound to the chief priests?


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But Saul increased the more in power, and confounded the Jews who dwelt in Damascus, proving that this is the Christ.


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But their plot became known to Saul. And they watched also the gates both day and night, that they might kill him;


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And having arrived at Jerusalem he essayed to join himself to the disciples, and all were afraid of him, not believing that he was a disciple.


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But Barnabas took him and brought him to the apostles, and related to them how he had seen the Lord in the way, and that he had spoken to him, and how in Damascus he had spoken boldly in the name of Jesus.


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and speaking boldly in the name of the Lord. And he spoke and discussed with the Hellenists; but they sought to kill him.


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The assemblies then throughout the whole of Judaea and Galilee and Samaria had peace, being edified and walking in the fear of the Lord, and were increased through the comfort of the Holy Spirit.


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Now it came to pass that Peter, passing through all [quarters], descended also to the saints who inhabited Lydda.


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And he found there a certain man, Aeneas by name, who had been lying for eight years upon a couch, who was paralysed.


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And Peter said to him, Aeneas, Jesus, the Christ, heals thee: rise up, and make thy couch for thyself. And straightway he rose up.


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And in Joppa there was a certain female disciple, by name Tabitha, which being interpreted means Dorcas. She was full of good works and alms-deeds which she did.


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And it came to pass in those days that she grew sick and died; and, having washed her, they put her in [the] upper room.


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But Lydda being near to Joppa, the disciples having heard that Peter was there, sent two men to him, beseeching him, Thou must not delay coming to us.


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And Peter rising up went with them, whom, when arrived, they brought up into the upper chamber; and all the widows stood by him weeping and shewing him the body-coats and garments which Dorcas had made while she was with them.


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But Peter, putting them all out, and kneeling down, prayed. And, turning to the body, he said, Tabitha, arise. And she opened her eyes, and, seeing Peter, sat up.


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And having given her [his] hand, he raised her up, and having called the saints and the widows, presented her living.


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pious, and fearing God with all his house, [both] giving much alms to the people, and supplicating God continually,


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-- saw plainly in a vision, about the ninth hour of the day, an angel of God coming unto him, and saying to him, Cornelius.


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But he, having fixed his eyes upon him, and become full of fear, said, What is it, Lord? And he said to him, Thy prayers and thine alms have gone up for a memorial before God.


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And when the angel who was speaking to him had departed, having called two of his household and a pious soldier of those who were constantly with him,


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And on the morrow, as these were journeying and drawing near to the city, Peter went up on the house to pray, about the sixth hour.


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and he beholds the heaven opened, and a certain vessel descending, as a great sheet, [bound] by [the] four corners [and] let down to the earth;


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And [there was] a voice again the second time to him, What God has cleansed, do not *thou* make common.


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And as Peter doubted in himself what the vision which he had seen might mean, behold also the men who were sent by Cornelius, having sought out the house of Simon, stood at the gate,


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But as Peter continued pondering over the vision, the Spirit said to him, Behold, three men seek thee;


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And Peter going down to the men said, Behold, *I* am he whom ye seek: what is the cause for which ye come?


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And they said, Cornelius, a centurion, a righteous man, and fearing God, and borne witness to by the whole nation of the Jews, has been divinely instructed by a holy angel to send for thee to his house, and hear words from thee.


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Having therefore invited them in, he lodged them. And on the morrow, rising up he went away with them, and certain of the brethren from Joppa went with him.


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And on the morrow they came to Caesarea. But Cornelius was looking for them, having called together his kinsmen and [his] intimate friends.


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And he said to them, *Ye* know how it is unlawful for a Jew to be joined or come to one of a strange race, and to *me* God has shewn to call no man common or unclean.


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Wherefore also, having been sent for, I came without saying anything against it. I inquire therefore for what reason ye have sent for me.


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And Cornelius said, Four days ago I had been [fasting] unto this hour, and the ninth [I was] praying in my house, and lo, a man stood before me in bright clothing,


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Send therefore to Joppa and fetch Simon, who is surnamed Peter; he lodges in the house of Simon, a tanner, by the sea [who when he is come will speak to thee].


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Immediately therefore I sent to thee, and *thou* hast well done in coming. Now therefore *we* are all present before God to hear all things that are commanded thee of God.


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The word which he sent to the sons of Israel, preaching peace by Jesus Christ, (*he* is Lord of all things,)


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*ye* know; the testimony which has spread through the whole of Judaea, beginning from Galilee after the baptism which John preached --


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Jesus who [was] of Nazareth: how God anointed him with [the] Holy Spirit and with power; who went through [all quarters] doing good, and healing all that were under the power of the devil, because God was with him.


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*We* also [are] witnesses of all things which he did both in the country of the Jews and in Jerusalem; whom they also slew, having hanged him on a cross.


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not of all the people, but of witnesses who were chosen before of God, *us* who have eaten and drunk with him after he arose from among [the] dead.


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And he commanded us to preach to the people, and to testify that *he* it is who was determinately appointed of God [to be] judge of living and dead.


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To him all the prophets bear witness that every one that believes on him will receive through his name remission of sins.


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While Peter was yet speaking these words the Holy Spirit fell upon all those who were hearing the word.


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And the faithful of the circumcision were astonished, as many as came with Peter, that upon the nations also the gift of the Holy Spirit was poured out:


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Can any one forbid water that these should not be baptised, who have received the Holy Spirit as we also [did]?


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And he commanded them to be baptised in the name of the Lord. Then they begged him to stay some days.


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And the apostles and the brethren who were in Judaea heard that the nations also had received the word of God;


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I was in the city of Joppa praying, and in an ecstasy I saw a vision, a certain vessel descending like a great sheet, let down by four corners out of heaven, and it came even to me:


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on which having fixed mine eyes, I considered, and saw the quadrupeds of the earth, and the wild beasts, and the creeping things, and the fowls of the heaven.


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And a voice answered the second time out of heaven, What God has cleansed, do not *thou* make common.


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And the Spirit said to me to go with them, nothing doubting. And there went with me these six brethren also, and we entered into the house of the man,


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and he related to us how he had seen the angel in his house, standing and saying [to him], Send [men] to Joppa and fetch Simon, who is surnamed Peter,


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And I remembered the word of the Lord, how he said, John baptised with water, but *ye* shall be baptised with [the] Holy Spirit.


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If then God has given them the same gift as also to us when we had believed on the Lord Jesus Christ, who indeed was *I* to be able to forbid God?


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And when they heard these things they held their peace, and glorified God, saying, Then indeed God has to the nations also granted repentance to life.


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They then who had been scattered abroad through the tribulation that took place on the occasion of Stephen, passed through [the country] to Phoenicia and Cyprus and Antioch, speaking the word to no one but to Jews alone.


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But there were certain of them, Cyprians and Cyrenians, who entering into Antioch spoke to the Greeks also, announcing the glad tidings of the Lord Jesus.


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And the report concerning them reached the ears of the assembly which was in Jerusalem, and they sent out Barnabas to go through as far as Antioch:


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who, having arrived and seeing the grace of God, rejoiced, and exhorted all with purpose of heart to abide with the Lord;


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for he was a good man and full of [the] Holy Spirit and of faith; and a large crowd [of people] were added to the Lord.


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And having found [him], he brought him to Antioch. And so it was with them that for a whole year they were gathered together in the assembly and taught a large crowd: and the disciples were first called Christians in Antioch.


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and one from among them, by name Agabus, rose up and signified by the Spirit that there was going to be a great famine over all the inhabited earth, which also came to pass under Claudius.


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And they determined, according as any one of the disciples was well off, each of them to send to the brethren who dwelt in Judaea, to minister [to them];


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And seeing that it was pleasing to the Jews, he went on to take Peter also: (and they were the days of unleavened bread:)


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whom having seized he put in prison, having delivered him to four quaternions of soldiers to keep, purposing after the passover to bring him out to the people.


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Peter therefore was kept in the prison; but unceasing prayer was made by the assembly to God concerning him.


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And when Herod was going to bring him forth, that night Peter was sleeping between two soldiers, bound with two chains, and guards before the door kept the prison.


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And lo, an angel of [the] Lord came there, and a light shone in the prison: and having smitten the side of Peter, he roused him up, saying, Rise up quickly. And his chains fell off his hands.


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And the angel said to him, Gird thyself, and bind on thy sandals. And he did so. And he says to him, Cast thine upper garment about thee and follow me.


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And going forth he followed [him] and did not know that what was happening by means of the angel was real, but supposed he saw a vision.


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And having passed through a first and second guard, they came to the iron gate which leads into the city, which opened to them of itself; and going forth they went down one street, and immediately the angel left him.


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And Peter, being come to himself, said, Now I know certainly that [the] Lord has sent forth his angel and has taken me out of the hand of Herod and all the expectation of the people of the Jews.


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And having become clearly conscious [in himself], he came to the house of Mary, the mother of John who was surnamed Mark, where were many gathered together and praying.


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and having recognised the voice of Peter, through joy did not open the entry, but running in, reported that Peter was standing before the entry.


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And they said to her, Thou art mad. But she maintained that it was so. And they said, It is his angel.


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And having made a sign to them with his hand to be silent, he related [to them] how the Lord had brought him out of prison; and he said, Report these things to James and to the brethren. And he went out and went to another place.


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And when it was day there was no small disturbance among the soldiers, what then was become of Peter.


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And Herod having sought him and not found him, having examined the guards, commanded [them] to be executed. And he went down from Judaea to Caesarea and stayed [there].


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And he was in bitter hostility with [the] Tyrians and Sidonians; but they came to him with one accord, and, having gained Blastus the king's chamberlain, sought peace, because their country was nourished by the king's.


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And on a set day, clothed in royal apparel and sitting on the elevated seat [of honour], Herod made a public oration to them.


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And immediately an angel of [the] Lord smote him, because he did not give the glory to God, and he expired, eaten of worms.


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And Barnabas and Saul returned from Jerusalem, having fulfilled the service [entrusted to them], taking also with them John, surnamed Mark.


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Now there were in Antioch, in the assembly which was [there], prophets and teachers: Barnabas, and Simeon who was called Niger, and Lucius the Cyrenian, and Manaen, foster-brother of Herod the tetrarch, and Saul.


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And as they were ministering to the Lord and fasting, the Holy Spirit said, Separate me now Barnabas and Saul for the work to which I have called them.


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They therefore, having been sent forth by the Holy Spirit, went down to Seleucia, and thence sailed away to Cyprus.


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And being in Salamis, they announced the word of God in the synagogues of the Jews. And they had John also as [their] attendant.


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And having passed through the whole island as far as Paphos, they found a certain man a magician, a false prophet, a Jew, whose name was Bar-jesus,


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who was with the proconsul Sergius Paulus, an intelligent man. *He*, having called Barnabas and Saul to [him], desired to hear the word of God.


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But Elymas the magician (for so his name is by interpretation) opposed them, seeking to turn away the proconsul from the faith.


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said, O full of all deceit and all craft: son of [the] devil, enemy of all righteousness; wilt thou not cease perverting the right paths of [the] Lord?


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And now behold, [the] Lord's hand [is] upon thee, and thou shalt be blind, not seeing the sun for a season. And immediately there fell upon him a mist and darkness; and going about he sought persons who should lead him by the hand.


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And having sailed from Paphos, Paul and his company came to Perga of Pamphylia; and John separated from them and returned to Jerusalem.


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But they, passing through from Perga, came to Antioch of Pisidia; and entering into the synagogue on the sabbath day they sat down.


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And after the reading of the law and the prophets, the rulers of the synagogue sent to them, saying, Brethren, if ye have any word of exhortation to the people, speak.


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And Paul, rising up and making a sign with the hand, said, Israelites, and ye that fear God, hearken.


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The God of this people Israel chose our fathers, and exalted the people in their sojourn in [the] land of Egypt, and with a high arm brought them out of it,


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And having destroyed seven nations in the land of Canaan, he gave them their land as an inheritance.


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And after these things he gave [them] judges till Samuel the prophet, [to the end of] about four hundred and fifty years.


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And then they asked for a king, and God gave to them Saul, son of Kis, a man of the tribe of Benjamin, during forty years.


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And having removed him he raised up to them David for king, of whom also bearing witness he said, I have found David, the son of Jesse, a man after my heart, who shall do all my will.


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John having proclaimed before the face of his entry [among the people] [the] baptism of repentance to all the people of Israel.


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And as John was fulfilling his course he said, Whom do ye suppose that I am? *I* am not [he]. But behold, there comes one after me, the sandal of whose feet I am not worthy to loose.


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Brethren, sons of Abraham's race, and those who among you fear God, to you has the word of this salvation been sent:


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for those who dwell in Jerusalem, and their rulers, not having known him, have fulfilled also the voices of the prophets which are read on every sabbath, [by] judging [him].


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And when they had fulfilled all things written concerning him, they took him down from the cross and put him in a sepulchre;


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who appeared for many days to those who had come up with him from Galilee to Jerusalem, who are now his witnesses to the people.


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that God has fulfilled this to us their children, having raised up Jesus; as it is also written in the second psalm, *Thou* art my Son: this day have *I* begotten thee.


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But that he raised him from among [the] dead, no more to return to corruption, he spoke thus: I will give to you the faithful mercies of David.


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For David indeed, having in his own generation ministered to the will of God, fell asleep, and was added to his fathers and saw corruption.


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Be it known unto you, therefore, brethren, that through this man remission of sins is preached to you,


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and from all things from which ye could not be justified in the law of Moses, in him every one that believes is justified.


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Behold, ye despisers, and wonder and perish; for *I* work a work in your days, a work which ye will in no wise believe if one declare it to you.


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And the congregation of the synagogue having broken up, many of the Jews and of the worshipping proselytes followed Paul and Barnabas, who speaking to them, persuaded them to continue in the grace of God.


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But the Jews, seeing the crowds, were filled with envy, and contradicted the things said by Paul, [contradicting and] speaking injuriously.


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And Paul and Barnabas spoke boldly and said, It was necessary that the word of God should be first spoken to you; but, since ye thrust it from you, and judge yourselves unworthy of eternal life, lo, we turn to the nations;


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for thus has the Lord enjoined us: I have set thee for a light of the nations, that thou shouldest be for salvation to the end of the earth.


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And [those of] the nations, hearing it, rejoiced, and glorified the word of the Lord, and believed, as many as were ordained to eternal life.


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But the Jews excited the women of the upper classes who were worshippers, and the first people of the city, and raised a persecution against Paul and Barnabas, and cast them out of their coasts.


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And it came to pass in Iconium that they entered together into the synagogue of the Jews, and so spake that a great multitude of both Jews and Greeks believed.


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But the Jews who did not believe stirred up the minds of [those of] the nations and made [them] evil-affected against the brethren.


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They stayed therefore a good while, speaking boldly, [confiding] in the Lord, who gave witness to the word of his grace, giving signs and wonders to be done by their hands.


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And when an assault was making, both of [those of] the nations and [the] Jews with their rulers, to use [them] ill and stone them,


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they, being aware of it, fled to the cities of Lycaonia, Lystra and Derbe, and the surrounding country,


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And a certain man in Lystra, impotent in his feet, sat, [being] lame from his mother's womb, who had never walked.


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This [man] heard Paul speaking, who, fixing his eyes on him, and seeing that he had faith to be healed,


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But the crowds, who saw what Paul had done, lifted up their voices in Lycaonian, saying, The gods, having made themselves like men, are come down to us.


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And the priest of Jupiter who was before the city, having brought bulls and garlands to the gates, would have done sacrifice along with the crowds.


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But the apostles Barnabas and Paul, having heard [it], rent their garments, and rushed out to the crowd, crying


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and saying, Men, why do ye these things? *We* also are men of like passions with you, preaching to you to turn from these vanities to the living God, who made the heaven, and the earth, and the sea, and all things in them;


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though indeed he did not leave himself without witness, doing good, and giving to you from heaven rain and fruitful seasons, filling your hearts with food and gladness.


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But there came Jews from Antioch and Iconium, and having persuaded the crowds and stoned Paul, drew him out of the city, supposing him to have died.


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But while the disciples encircled him, he rose up and entered into the city. And on the morrow he went away with Barnabas to Derbe.


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And having announced the glad tidings to that city, and having made many disciples, they returned to Lystra, and Iconium, and Antioch,


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establishing the souls of the disciples, exhorting them to abide in the faith, and that through many tribulations we must enter into the kingdom of God.


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And having chosen them elders in each assembly, having prayed with fastings, they committed them to the Lord, on whom they had believed.


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and thence they sailed away to Antioch, whence they had been committed to the grace of God for the work which they had fulfilled.


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And having arrived, and having brought together the assembly, they related to them all that God had done with them, and that he had opened a door of faith to the nations.


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And certain persons, having come down from Judaea, taught the brethren, If ye shall not have been circumcised according to the custom of Moses, ye cannot be saved.


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A commotion therefore having taken place, and no small discussion on the part of Paul and Barnabas against them, they arranged that Paul and Barnabas, and certain others from amongst them, should go up to Jerusalem to the apostles and elders about this question.


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They therefore, having been set on their way by the assembly, passed through Phoenicia and Samaria, relating the conversion of [those of] the nations. And they caused great joy to all the brethren.


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And being arrived at Jerusalem, they were received by the assembly, and the apostles, and the elders, and related all that God had wrought with them.


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And some of those who were of the sect of the Pharisees, who believed, rose up from among [them], saying that they ought to circumcise them and enjoin them to keep the law of Moses.


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And much discussion having taken place, Peter, standing up, said to them, Brethren, *ye* know that from the earliest days God amongst you chose that the nations by my mouth should hear the word of the glad tidings and believe.


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Now therefore why tempt ye God, by putting a yoke upon the neck of the disciples, which neither our fathers nor we have been able to bear?


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But we believe that we shall be saved by the grace of the Lord Jesus, in the same manner as they also.


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And all the multitude kept silence and listened to Barnabas and Paul relating all the signs and wonders which God had wrought among the nations by them.


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After these things I will return, and will rebuild the tabernacle of David which is fallen, and will rebuild its ruins, and will set it up,


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so that the residue of men may seek out the Lord, and all the nations on whom my name is invoked, saith [the] Lord, who does these things


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but to write to them to abstain from pollutions of idols, and from fornication, and from what is strangled, and from blood.


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For Moses, from generations of old, has in every city those who preach him, being read in the synagogues every sabbath.


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Then it seemed good to the apostles and to the elders, with the whole assembly, to send chosen men from among them with Paul and Barnabas to Antioch, Judas called Barsabas and Silas, leading men among the brethren,


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having by their hand written [thus]: The apostles, and the elders, and the brethren, to the brethren who are from among [the] nations at Antioch, and [in] Syria and Cilicia, greeting:


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Inasmuch as we have heard that some who went out from amongst us have troubled you by words, upsetting your souls, [saying that ye must be circumcised and keep the law]; to whom we gave no commandment;


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it seemed good to us, having arrived at a common judgment, to send chosen men to you with our beloved Barnabas and Paul,


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We have therefore sent Judas and Silas, who themselves also will tell you by word [of mouth] the same things.


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For it has seemed good to the Holy Spirit and to us to lay upon you no greater burden than these necessary things:


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to abstain from things sacrificed to idols, and from blood, and from what is strangled, and from fornication; keeping yourselves from which ye will do well. Farewell.


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They therefore, being let go, came to Antioch, and having gathered the multitude delivered to [them] the epistle.


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And Judas and Silas, being themselves also prophets, exhorted the brethren with much discourse, and strengthened them.


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And having passed some time [there], they were let go in peace from the brethren to those who sent them.


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And Paul and Barnabas stayed in Antioch, teaching and announcing the glad tidings, with many others also, of the word of the Lord.


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But after certain days Paul said to Barnabas, Let us return now and visit the brethren in every city where we have announced the word of the Lord, [and see] how they are getting on.


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but Paul thought it not well to take with them him who had abandoned them, [going back] from Pamphylia, and had not gone with them to the work.


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There arose therefore very warm feeling, so that they separated from one another; and Barnabas taking Mark sailed away to Cyprus;


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And he came to Derbe and Lystra: and behold, a certain disciple was there, by name Timotheus, son of a Jewish believing woman, but [the] father a Greek,


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Him would Paul have go forth with him, and took [him and] circumcised him on account of the Jews who were in those places, for they all knew his father that he was a Greek.


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And as they passed through the cities they instructed them to observe the decrees determined on by the apostles and elders who were in Jerusalem.


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And having passed through Phrygia and the Galatian country, having been forbidden by the Holy Spirit to speak the word in Asia,


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having come down to Mysia, they attempted to go to Bithynia, and the Spirit of Jesus did not allow them;


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And a vision appeared to Paul in the night: There was a certain Macedonian man, standing and beseeching him, and saying, Pass over into Macedonia and help us.


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And when he had seen the vision, immediately we sought to go forth to Macedonia, concluding that the Lord had called us to announce to them the glad tidings.


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Having sailed therefore away from Troas, we went in a straight course to Samothracia, and on the morrow to Neapolis,


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and thence to Philippi, which is [the] first city of that part of Macedonia, a colony. And we were staying in that city certain days.


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And on the sabbath day we went outside the gate by the river, where it was the custom for prayer to be, and we sat down and spoke to the women who had assembled.


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And a certain woman, by name Lydia, a seller of purple, of the city of Thyatira, who worshipped God, heard; whose heart the Lord opened to attend to the things spoken by Paul.


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And when she had been baptised and her house, she besought [us], saying, If ye have judged me to be faithful to the Lord, come into my house and abide [there]. And she constrained us.


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And it came to pass as we were going to prayer that a certain female slave, having a spirit of Python, met us, who brought much profit to her masters by prophesying.


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She, having followed Paul and us, cried saying, These men are bondmen of the Most High God, who announce to you [the] way of salvation.


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And this she did many days. And Paul, being distressed, turned, and said to the spirit, I enjoin thee in the name of Jesus Christ to come out of her. And it came out the same hour.


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And her masters, seeing that the hope of their gains was gone, having seized Paul and Silas, dragged [them] into the market before the magistrates;


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And the crowd rose up too against them; and the praetors, having torn off their clothes, commanded to scourge [them].


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And having laid many stripes upon them they cast [them] into prison, charging the jailor to keep them safely;


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who, having received such a charge, cast them into the inner prison, and secured their feet to the stocks.


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And at midnight Paul and Silas, in praying, were praising God with singing, and the prisoners listened to them.


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And suddenly there was a great earthquake, so that the foundations of the prison shook, and all the doors were immediately opened, and the bonds of all loosed.


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And the jailor being awakened out of his sleep, and seeing the doors of the prison opened, having drawn a sword was going to kill himself, thinking the prisoners had fled.


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And he took them the same hour of the night and washed [them] from their stripes; and was baptised, he and all his straightway.


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And having brought them into his house he laid the table [for them], and rejoiced with all his house, having believed in God.


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And the jailor reported these words to Paul: The praetors have sent that ye may be let go. Now therefore go out and depart in peace.


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But Paul said to them, Having beaten us publicly uncondemned, us who are Romans, they have cast us into prison, and now they thrust us out secretly? no, indeed, but let them come themselves and bring us out.


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And the lictors reported these words to the praetors. And they were afraid when they heard they were Romans.


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And having gone out of the prison, they came to Lydia; and having seen the brethren, they exhorted them and went away.


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And having journeyed through Amphipolis and Apollonia, they came to Thessalonica, where was the synagogue of the Jews.


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And according to Paul's custom he went in among them, and on three sabbaths reasoned with them from the scriptures,


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opening and laying down that the Christ must have suffered and risen up from among the dead, and that this is the Christ, Jesus whom *I* announce to you.


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And some of them believed, and joined themselves to Paul and Silas, and of the Greeks who worshipped, a great multitude, and of the chief women not a few.


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But the Jews having been stirred up to jealousy, and taken to [themselves] certain wicked men of the lowest rabble, and having got a crowd together, set the city in confusion; and having beset the house of Jason sought to bring them out to the people;


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and not having found them, dragged Jason and certain brethren before the politarchs, crying out, These [men] that have set the world in tumult, are come here also,


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whom Jason has received; and these all do contrary to the decrees of Caesar, saying, that there is another king, Jesus.


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But the brethren immediately sent away, in the night, Paul and Silas to Berea; who, being arrived, went away into the synagogue of the Jews.


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And these were more noble than those in Thessalonica, receiving the word with all readiness of mind, daily searching the scriptures if these things were so.


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Therefore many from among them believed, and of Grecian women of the upper classes and men not a few.


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But when the Jews from Thessalonica knew that the word of God was announced in Berea also by Paul, they came there also, stirring up the crowds.


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And then immediately the brethren sent away Paul to go as to the sea; but Silas and Timotheus abode there.


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But they that conducted Paul brought him as far as Athens; and, having received a commandment to Silas and Timotheus, that they should come to him as quickly as possible, they departed.


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But in Athens, while Paul was waiting for them, his spirit was painfully excited in him seeing the city given up to idolatry.


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He reasoned therefore in the synagogue with the Jews, and those who worshipped, and in the market-place every day with those he met with.


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But some also of the Epicurean and Stoic philosophers attacked him. And some said, What would this chatterer say? and some, He seems to be an announcer of foreign demons, because he announced the glad tidings of Jesus and the resurrection [to them].


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And having taken hold on him they brought [him] to Areopagus, saying, Might we know what this new doctrine which is spoken by thee [is]?


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For thou bringest certain strange things to our ears. We wish therefore to know what these things may mean.


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Now all [the] Athenians and the strangers sojourning there spent their time in nothing else than to tell and to hear the news.


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And Paul standing in the midst of Areopagus said, Athenians, in every way I see you given up to demon worship;


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for, passing through and beholding your shrines, I found also an altar on which was inscribed, To the unknown God. Whom therefore ye reverence, not knowing [him], him I announce to you.


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The God who has made the world and all things which are in it, *he*, being Lord of heaven and earth, does not dwell in temples made with hands,


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nor is served by men's hands as needing something, himself giving to all life and breath and all things;


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and has made of one blood every nation of men to dwell upon the whole face of the earth, having determined ordained times and the boundaries of their dwelling,


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that they may seek God; if indeed they might feel after him and find him, although he is not far from each one of us:


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for in him we live and move and exist; as also some of the poets amongst you have said, For we are also his offspring.


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Being therefore [the] offspring of God, we ought not to think that which is divine to be like gold or silver or stone, [the] graven form of man's art and imagination.


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God therefore, having overlooked the times of ignorance, now enjoins men that they shall all everywhere repent,


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because he has set a day in which he is going to judge the habitable earth in righteousness by [the] man whom he has appointed, giving the proof [of it] to all [in] having raised him from among [the] dead.


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And when they heard [of the] resurrection of the dead, some mocked, and some said, We will hear thee again also concerning this.


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But some men joining themselves to him believed; among whom also was Dionysius the Areopagite, and a woman by name Damaris, and others with them.


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and finding a certain Jew by name Aquila, of Pontus by race, just come from Italy, and Priscilla his wife, (because Claudius had ordered all the Jews to leave Rome,) came to them,


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and because they were of the same trade abode with them, and wrought. For they were tent-makers by trade.


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And when both Silas and Timotheus came down from Macedonia, Paul was pressed in respect of the word, testifying to the Jews that Jesus was the Christ.


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But as they opposed and spoke injuriously, he shook his clothes, and said to them, Your blood be upon your own head: *I* [am] pure; from henceforth I will go to the nations.


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And departing thence he came to the house of a certain [man], by name Justus, who worshipped God, whose house adjoined the synagogue.


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But Crispus the ruler of the synagogue believed in the Lord with all his house; and many of the Corinthians hearing, believed, and were baptised.


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because *I* am with thee, and no one shall set upon thee to injure thee; because I have much people in this city.


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But when Gallio was proconsul of Achaia, the Jews with one consent rose against Paul and led him to the judgment-seat,


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But as Paul was going to open his mouth, Gallio said to the Jews, If indeed it was some wrong or wicked criminality, O Jews, of reason I should have borne with you;


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but if it be questions about words, and names, and the law that ye have, see to it yourselves; [for] *I* do not intend to be judge of these things.


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And having all laid hold on Sosthenes the ruler of the synagogue, they beat him before the judgment-seat. And Gallio troubled himself about none of these things.


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And Paul, having yet stayed [there] many days, took leave of the brethren and sailed thence to Syria, and with him Priscilla and Aquila, having shorn his head in Cenchrea, for he had a vow;


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and he arrived at Ephesus, and left them there. But entering himself into the synagogue he reasoned with the Jews.


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but bade them farewell, saying, [I must by all means keep the coming feast at Jerusalem]; I will return to you again, if God will: and he sailed away from Ephesus.


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And having stayed [there] some time, he went forth, passing in order through the country of Galatia and Phrygia, establishing all the disciples.


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But a certain Jew, Apollos by name, an Alexandrian by race, an eloquent man, who was mighty in the scriptures, arrived at Ephesus.


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He was instructed in the way of the Lord, and being fervent in his spirit, he spoke and taught exactly the things concerning Jesus, knowing only the baptism of John.


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And *he* began to speak boldly in the synagogue. And Aquila and Priscilla, having heard him, took him to [them] and unfolded to him the way of God more exactly.


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And when he purposed to go into Achaia, the brethren wrote to the disciples engaging them to receive him, who, being come, contributed much to those who believed through grace.


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For he with great force convinced the Jews publicly, shewing by the scriptures that Jesus was the Christ.


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And it came to pass, while Apollos was at Corinth, Paul, having passed through the upper districts, came to Ephesus, and finding certain disciples,


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he said to them, Did ye receive [the] Holy Spirit when ye had believed? And they [said] to him, We did not even hear if [the] Holy Spirit was [come].


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And Paul said, John indeed baptised [with] the baptism of repentance, saying to the people that they should believe on him that was coming after him, that is, on Jesus.


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And Paul having laid [his] hands on them, the Holy Spirit came upon them, and they spoke with tongues and prophesied.


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And entering into the synagogue, he spoke boldly during three months, reasoning and persuading [the things] concerning the kingdom of God.


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But when some were hardened and disbelieved, speaking evil of the way before the multitude, he left them and separated the disciples, reasoning daily in the school of Tyrannus.


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And this took place for two years, so that all that inhabited Asia heard the word of the Lord, both Jews and Greeks.


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so that even napkins or aprons were brought from his body [and put] upon the sick, and the diseases left them, and the wicked spirits went out.


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And certain of the Jewish exorcists also, who went about, took in hand to call upon those who had wicked spirits the name of the Lord Jesus, saying, I adjure you by Jesus, whom Paul preaches.


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But the wicked spirit answering said to them, Jesus I know, and Paul I am acquainted with; but *ye*, who are ye?


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And the man in whom the wicked spirit was leaped upon them, and having mastered both, prevailed against them, so that they fled out of that house naked and wounded.


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And this became known to all, both Jews and Greeks, who inhabited Ephesus, and fear fell upon all of them, and the name of the Lord Jesus was magnified.


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And many of those that practised curious arts brought their books [of charms] and burnt them before all. And they reckoned up the prices of them, and found it fifty thousand pieces of silver.


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And when these things were fulfilled, Paul purposed in his spirit to go to Jerusalem, passing through Macedonia and Achaia, saying, After I have been there I must see Rome also.


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And having sent into Macedonia two of those ministering to him, Timotheus and Erastus, he remained himself awhile in Asia.


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For a certain [man] by name Demetrius, a silver-beater, making silver temples of Artemis, brought no small gain to the artisans;


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whom having brought together, and those who wrought in such things, he said, Men, ye know that our well-living arises from this work,


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and ye see and hear that this Paul has persuaded and turned away a great crowd, not only of Ephesus, but almost of all Asia, saying that they are no gods which are made with hands.


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Now not only there is danger for us that our business come into discredit, but also that the temple of the great goddess Artemis be counted for nothing, and that her greatness should be destroyed whom the whole of Asia and the world reveres.


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And having heard [this], and being filled with rage, they cried out, saying, Great [is] Artemis of the Ephesians.


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And the [whole] city was filled with confusion, and they rushed with one accord to the theatre, having seized and carried off with [them] Gaius and Aristarchus, Macedonians, fellow-travellers of Paul.


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and some of the Asiarchs also, who were his friends, sent to him and urged him not to throw himself into the theatre.


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Different persons therefore cried out some different thing; for the assembly was tumultuous, and the most did not know for what cause they had come together.


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But from among the crowd they put forward Alexander, the Jews pushing him forward. And Alexander, beckoning with his hand, would have made a defence to the people.


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But, recognising that he was a Jew, there was one cry from all, shouting for about two hours, Great [is] Artemis of the Ephesians.


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And the townclerk, having quieted the crowd, said, Ephesians, what man is there then who does not know that the city of the Ephesians is temple-keeper of Artemis the great, and of the [image] which fell down from heaven?


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These things therefore being undeniable, it is necessary that ye should be calm and do nothing headlong.


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For ye have brought these men, [who are] neither temple-plunderers, nor speak injuriously of your goddess.


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If therefore Demetrius and the artisans who [are] with him have a matter against any one, the courts are being held, and there are proconsuls: let them accuse one another.


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For also we are in danger to be put in accusation for sedition for this [affair] of to-day, no cause existing in reference to which we shall be able to give a reason for this concourse.


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But after the tumult had ceased, Paul having called the disciples to [him] and embraced [them], went away to go to Macedonia.


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And having passed through those parts, and having exhorted them with much discourse, he came to Greece.


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And having spent three months [there], a treacherous plot against him having been set on foot by the Jews, as he was going to sail to Syria, [the] resolution was adopted of returning through Macedonia.


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And there accompanied him as far as Asia, Sopater [son] of Pyrrhus, a Berean; and of Thessalonians, Aristarchus and Secundus, and Gaius and Timotheus of Derbe, and of Asia, Tychicus and Trophimus.


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but we sailed away from Philippi after the days of unleavened bread, and we came to them to Troas in five days, where we spent seven days.


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And the first day of the week, we being assembled to break bread, Paul discoursed to them, about to depart on the morrow. And he prolonged the discourse till midnight.


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And a certain youth, by name Eutychus, sitting at the window-opening, overpowered by deep sleep, while Paul discoursed very much at length, having been overpowered by the sleep, fell from the third story down to the bottom, and was taken up dead.


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But Paul descending fell upon him, and enfolding [him] [in his arms], said, Be not troubled, for his life is in him.


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And having gone up, and having broken the bread, and eaten, and having long spoken until daybreak, so he went away.


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And we, having gone before on board ship, sailed off to Assos, going to take in Paul there; for so he had directed, he himself being about to go on foot.


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and having sailed thence, on the morrow arrived opposite Chios, and the next day put in at Samos; and having stayed at Trogyllium, the next day we came to Miletus:


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for Paul thought it desirable to sail by Ephesus, so that he might not be made to spend time in Asia; for he hastened, if it was possible for him, to be the day of Pentecost at Jerusalem.


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And when they were come to him, he said to them, *Ye* know how I was with you all the time from the first day that I arrived in Asia,


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serving the Lord with all lowliness, and tears, and temptations, which happened to me through the plots of the Jews;


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how I held back nothing of what is profitable, so as not to announce [it] to you, and to teach you publicly and in every house,


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And now, behold, bound in my spirit *I* go to Jerusalem, not knowing what things shall happen to me in it;


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only that the Holy Spirit testifies to me in every city, saying that bonds and tribulations await me.


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But I make no account of [my] life [as] dear to myself, so that I finish my course, and the ministry which I have received of the Lord Jesus, to testify the glad tidings of the grace of God.


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And now, behold, I know that ye all, among whom I have gone about preaching the kingdom [of God], shall see my face no more.


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Take heed therefore to yourselves, and to all the flock, wherein the Holy Spirit has set you as overseers, to shepherd the assembly of God, which he has purchased with the blood of his own.


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[For] *I* know [this,] that there will come in amongst you after my departure grievous wolves, not sparing the flock;


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and from among your own selves shall rise up men speaking perverted things to draw away the disciples after them.


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Wherefore watch, remembering that for three years, night and day, I ceased not admonishing each one [of you] with tears.


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And now I commit you to God, and to the word of his grace, which is able to build [you] up and give [to you] an inheritance among all the sanctified.


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I have shewed you all things, that thus labouring [we] ought to come in aid of the weak, and to remember the words of the Lord Jesus, that he himself said, It is more blessed to give than to receive.


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specially pained by the word which he had said, that they would no more see his face. And they went down with him to the ship.


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And when, having got away from them, we at last sailed away, we came by a direct course to Cos, and on the morrow to Rhodes, and thence to Patara.


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and having sighted Cyprus, and left it on the left hand, we sailed to Syria, and made the land at Tyre, for there the ship was to discharge her cargo.


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And having found out the disciples, we remained there seven days; who said to Paul by the Spirit not to go up to Jerusalem.


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But when we had completed the days, we set out and took our journey, all of them accompanying us, with wives and children, till [we were] out of the city. And kneeling down upon the shore we prayed.


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And we, having completed the voyage, arrived from Tyre at Ptolemais, and having saluted the brethren, we remained one day with them.


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And leaving on the morrow, we came to Caesarea; and entering into the house of Philip the evangelist, who was of the seven, we abode with him.


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and coming to us and taking the girdle of Paul, and having bound his own hands and feet, said, Thus saith the Holy Spirit, The man whose this girdle is shall the Jews thus bind in Jerusalem, and deliver him up into the hands of [the] Gentiles.


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And when we heard these things, both we and those of the place besought [him] not to go up to Jerusalem.


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But Paul answered, What do ye, weeping and breaking my heart? for *I* am ready not only to be bound, but also to die at Jerusalem for the name of the Lord Jesus.


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And [some] of the disciples from Caesarea went with us, bringing [with them] a certain Mnason, a Cyprian, an old disciple, with whom we were to lodge.


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And having saluted them, he related one by one the things which God had wrought among the nations by his ministry.


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And they having heard [it] glorified God, and said to him, Thou seest, brother, how many myriads there are of the Jews who have believed, and all are zealous of the law.


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And they have been informed concerning thee, that thou teachest all the Jews among the nations apostasy from Moses, saying that they should not circumcise their children, nor walk in the customs.


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take these and be purified with them, and pay their expenses, that they may have their heads shaved; and all will know that [of those things] of which they have been informed about thee nothing is [true]; but that thou thyself also walkest orderly, keeping the law.


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But concerning [those of] the nations who have believed, we have written, deciding that they should [observe no such thing, only to] keep themselves both from things offered to idols, and from blood, and from things strangled, and from fornication.


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Then Paul, taking the men, on the next day, having been purified, entered with them into the temple, signifying the time the days of the purification would be fulfilled, until the offering was offered for every one of them.


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And when the seven days were nearly completed, the Jews from Asia, having seen him in the temple, set all the crowd in a tumult, and laid hands upon him,


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crying, Israelites, help! this is the man who teaches all everywhere against the people, and the law, and this place, and has brought Greeks too into the temple, and profaned this holy place.


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For they had before seen Trophimus the Ephesian with him in the city, whom they supposed that Paul had brought into the temple.


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And the whole city was moved, and there was a concourse of the people; and having laid hold on Paul they drew him out of the temple, and immediately the doors were shut.


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And as they were seeking to kill him, a representation came to the chiliarch of the band that the whole of Jerusalem was in a tumult;


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who, taking with him immediately soldiers and centurions, ran down upon them. But they, seeing the chiliarch and the soldiers, ceased beating Paul.


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Then the chiliarch came up and laid hold upon him, and commanded [him] to be bound with two chains, and inquired who he might be, and what he had done.


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And different persons cried some different thing in the crowd. But he, not being able to know the certainty on account of the uproar, commanded him to be brought into the fortress.


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But when he got upon the stairs it was so that he was borne by the soldiers on account of the violence of the crowd.


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But as he was about to be led into the fortress, Paul says to the chiliarch, Is it allowed me to say something to thee? And he said, Dost thou know Greek?


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Thou art not then that Egyptian who before these days raised a sedition and led out into the wilderness the four thousand men of the assassins?


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But Paul said, *I* am a Jew of Tarsus, citizen of no insignificant city of Cilicia, and I beseech of thee, allow me to speak to the people.


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And when he had allowed him, Paul, standing on the stairs, beckoned with his hand to the people; and a great silence having been made, he addressed them in the Hebrew tongue, saying,


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*I* am a Jew, born in Tarsus of Cilicia, but brought up in this city, at the feet of Gamaliel, educated according to [the] exactness of the law of [our] fathers, being zealous for God, as *ye* are all this day;


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as also the high priest bears me witness, and all the elderhood: from whom also, having received letters to the brethren, I went to Damascus to bring those also who were there, bound, to Jerusalem, to be punished.


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And it came to pass, as I was journeying and drawing near to Damascus, that, about mid-day, there suddenly shone out of heaven a great light round about me.


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And *I* answered, Who art thou, Lord? And he said to me, *I* am Jesus the Nazaraean, whom *thou* persecutest.


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But they that were with me beheld the light, [and were filled with fear], but heard not the voice of him that was speaking to me.


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And I said, What shall I do, Lord? And the Lord said to me, Rise up, and go to Damascus, and there it shall be told thee of all things which it is appointed thee to do.


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And as I could not see, through the glory of that light, being led by the hand of those who were with me, I came to Damascus.


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And a certain Ananias, a pious man according to the law, borne witness to by all the Jews who dwelt [there],


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coming to me and standing by me, said to me, Brother Saul, receive thy sight. And *I*, in the same hour, received my sight and saw him.


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And he said, The God of our fathers has chosen thee beforehand to know his will, and to see the just one, and to hear a voice out of his mouth;


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And now why lingerest thou? Arise and get baptised, and have thy sins washed away, calling on his name.


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And it came to pass when I had returned to Jerusalem, and as I was praying in the temple, that I became in ecstasy,


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and saw him saying to me, Make haste and go quickly out of Jerusalem, for they will not receive thy testimony concerning me.


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And *I* said, Lord, they themselves know that *I* was imprisoning and beating in every synagogue those that believe on thee;


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and when the blood of thy witness Stephen was shed, I also myself was standing by and consenting, and kept the clothes of them who killed him.


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And they heard him until this word, and lifted up their voice, saying, Away with such a one as that from the earth, for it was not fit he should live.


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the chiliarch commanded him to be brought into the fortress, saying that he should be examined by scourging, that he might ascertain for what cause they cried thus against him.


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But as they stretched him forward with the thongs, Paul said to the centurion who stood [by], Is it lawful for you to scourge a man [who is] a Roman and uncondemned?


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And the centurion, having heard it, went and reported it to the chiliarch, saying, What art thou going to do? for this man is a Roman.


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And the chiliarch answered, *I*, for a great sum, bought this citizenship. And Paul said, But *I* was also [free] born.


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Immediately therefore those who were going to examine him left him, and the chiliarch also was afraid when he ascertained that he was a Roman, and because he had bound him.


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And on the morrow, desirous to know the certainty [of the matter] why he was accused of the Jews, he loosed him, and commanded the chief priests and all the council to meet, and having brought Paul down set him before them.


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And Paul, fixing his eyes on the council, said, Brethren, I have walked in all good conscience with God unto this day.


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Then Paul said to him, God will smite thee, whited wall. And *thou*, dost thou sit judging me according to the law, and breaking the law commandest me to be smitten?


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And Paul said, I was not conscious, brethren, that he was high priest; for it is written, Thou shalt not speak evilly of the ruler of thy people.


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But Paul, knowing that the one part [of them] were of the Sadducees and the other of the Pharisees, cried out in the council, Brethren, *I* am a Pharisee, son of Pharisees: *I* am judged concerning the hope and resurrection of [the] dead.


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And when he had spoken this, there was a tumult of the Pharisees and the Sadducees, and the multitude was divided.


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For Sadducees say there is no resurrection, nor angel, nor spirit; but Pharisees confess both of them.


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And there was a great clamour, and the scribes of the Pharisees' part rising up contended, saying, We find nothing evil in this man; and if a spirit has spoken to him, or an angel ...


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And a great tumult having arisen, the chiliarch, fearing lest Paul should have been torn in pieces by them, commanded the troop to come down and take him by force from the midst of them, and to bring [him] into the fortress.


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But the following night the Lord stood by him, and said, Be of good courage; for as thou hast testified the things concerning me at Jerusalem, so thou must bear witness at Rome also.


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And when it was day, the Jews, having banded together, put themselves under a curse, saying that they would neither eat nor drink till they should kill Paul.


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and they went to the chief priests and elders, and said, We have cursed ourselves with a curse to taste nothing until we kill Paul.


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Now therefore do ye with the council make a representation to the chiliarch so that he may bring him down to you, as about to determine more precisely what concerns him, and we, before he draws near, are ready to kill him.


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But Paul's sister's son, having heard of the lying in wait, came and entered into the fortress and reported [it] to Paul.


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And Paul, having called one of the centurions, said, Take this youth to the chiliarch, for he has something to report to him.


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He therefore, having taken him with [him], led him to the chiliarch, and says, The prisoner Paul called me to [him] and asked me to lead this youth to thee, who has something to say to thee.


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And the chiliarch having taken him by the hand, and having gone apart in private, inquired, What is it that thou hast to report to me?


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And he said, The Jews have agreed together to make a request to thee, that thou mayest bring Paul down to-morrow into the council, as about to inquire something more precise concerning him.


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Do not thou then be persuaded by them, for there lie in wait for him of them more than forty men, who have put themselves under a curse neither to eat nor drink till they kill him; and now they are ready waiting the promise from thee.


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The chiliarch then dismissed the youth, commanding [him], Utter to no one that thou hast represented these things to me.


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And having called to [him] certain two of the centurions, he said, Prepare two hundred soldiers that they may go as far as Caesarea, and seventy horsemen, and two hundred light-armed footmen, for the third hour of the night.


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And [he ordered them] to provide beasts, that they might set Paul on them and carry [him] safe through to Felix the governor,


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This man, having been taken by the Jews, and being about to be killed by them, I came up with the military and took out [of their hands], having learned that he was a Roman.


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whom I found to be accused of questions of their law, but to have no charge laid against him [making him] worthy of death or of bonds.


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But having received information of a plot about to be put in execution against the man [by the Jews], I have immediately sent him to thee, commanding also his accusers to say before thee the things that are against him. [Farewell.]


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The soldiers therefore, according to what was ordered them, took Paul and brought him by night to Antipatris,


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And these, having entered into Caesarea, and given up the letter to the governor, presented Paul also to him.


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he said, I will hear thee fully when thine accusers also are arrived. And he commanded him to be kept in Herod's praetorium.


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And after five days came down the high priest Ananias, with the elders, and a certain orator called Tertullus, and laid their informations against Paul before the governor.


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And he having been called, Tertullus began to accuse, saying, Seeing we enjoy great peace through thee, and that excellent measures are executed for this nation by thy forethought,


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For finding this man a pest, and moving sedition among all the Jews throughout the world, and a leader of the sect of the Nazaraeans;


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who also attempted to profane the temple; whom we also had seized, [and would have judged according to our law;


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having commanded his accusers to come to thee;] of whom thou canst thyself, in examining [him], know the certainty of all these things of which we accuse him.


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But Paul, the governor having beckoned to him to speak, answered, Knowing that for many years thou hast been judge to this nation, I answer readily as to the things which concern myself.


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As thou mayest know that there are not more than twelve days since I went up to worship at Jerusalem,


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and neither in the temple did they find me discoursing to any one, or making any tumultuous gathering together of the crowd, nor in the synagogues, nor in the city;


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But this I avow to thee, that in the way which they call sect, so I serve my fathers' God, believing all things which are written throughout the law, and in the prophets;


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having hope towards God, which they themselves also receive, that there is to be a resurrection both of just and unjust.


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For this cause I also exercise [myself] to have in everything a conscience without offence towards God and men.


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Whereupon they found me purified in the temple, with neither crowd nor tumult. But it was certain Jews from Asia,


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[other] than concerning this one voice which I cried standing amongst them: I am judged this day by you touching [the] resurrection of [the] dead.


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And Felix, knowing accurately the things concerning the way, adjourned them, saying, When Lysias the chiliarch is come down I will determine your affair;


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ordering the centurion to keep him, and that he should have freedom, and to hinder none of his friends to minister to him.


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And after certain days, Felix having arrived with Drusilla his wife, who was a Jewess, he sent for Paul and heard him concerning the faith in Christ.


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And as he reasoned concerning righteousness, and temperance, and the judgment about to come, Felix, being filled with fear, answered, Go for the present, and when I get an opportunity I will send for thee;


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hoping at the same time that money would be given him by Paul: wherefore also he sent for him the oftener and communed with him.


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But when two years were completed, Felix was relieved by Porcius Festus as his successor; and Felix, desirous to oblige the Jews, to acquire their favour, left Paul bound.


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And the chief priests and the chief of the Jews laid informations before him against Paul, and besought him,


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asking as a grace against him that he would send for him to Jerusalem, laying people in wait to kill him on the way.


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Festus therefore answered that Paul should be kept at Caesarea, and that he himself was about to set out shortly.


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Let therefore the persons of authority among you, says he, going down too, if there be anything in this man, accuse him.


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And having remained among them not more than eight or ten days, he went down to Caesarea; and on the next day, having sat down on the judgment-seat, commanded Paul to be brought.


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And when he was come, the Jews who were come down from Jerusalem stood round, bringing many and grievous charges which they were not able to prove:


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Paul answering for himself, Neither against the law of the Jews, nor against the temple, nor against Caesar, have I offended [in] anything.


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But Festus, desirous of obliging the Jews, to acquire their favour, answering Paul, said, Art thou willing to go up to Jerusalem, there to be judged before me concerning these things?


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But Paul said, I am standing before the judgment-seat of Caesar, where I ought to be judged. To the Jews have I done no wrong, as *thou* also very well knowest.


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If then I have done any wrong and committed anything worthy of death, I do not deprecate dying; but if there is nothing of those things of which they accuse me, no man can give me up to them. I appeal to Caesar.


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Then Festus, having conferred with the council, answered, Thou hast appealed to Caesar. To Caesar shalt thou go.


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And when certain days had elapsed, Agrippa the king and Bernice arrived at Caesarea to salute Festus.


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And when they had spent many days there, Festus laid before the king the matters relating to Paul, saying, There is a certain man left prisoner by Felix,


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concerning whom, when I was at Jerusalem, the chief priests and the elders of the Jews laid informations, requiring judgment against him:


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to whom I answered, It is not [the] custom of the Romans to give up any man before that the accused have the accusers face to face, and he have got opportunity of defence touching the charge.


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When therefore they had come together here, without putting it off, I sat the next day on the judgment-seat and commanded the man to be brought:


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but had against him certain questions of their own system of worship, and concerning a certain Jesus who is dead, whom Paul affirmed to be living.


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And as I myself was at a loss as to an inquiry into these things, I said, Was he willing to go to Jerusalem and there to be judged concerning these things?


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But Paul having appealed to be kept for the cognisance of Augustus, I commanded him to be kept till I shall send him to Caesar.


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And Agrippa [said] to Festus, I myself also would desire to hear the man. To-morrow, said he, thou shalt hear him.


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On the morrow therefore, Agrippa being come, and Bernice, with great pomp, and having entered into the hall of audience, with the chiliarchs and the men of distinction of the city, and Festus having given command, Paul was brought.


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And Festus said, King Agrippa, and all men who are here present with us, ye see this person, concerning whom all the multitude of the Jews applied to me both in Jerusalem and here, crying out against [him] that he ought not to live any longer.


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But I, having found that he had done nothing worthy of death, and this [man] himself having appealed to Augustus, I have decided to send him;


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concerning whom I have nothing certain to write to my lord. Wherefore I have brought him before you, and specially before thee, king Agrippa, so that an examination having been gone into I may have something to write:


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And Agrippa said to Paul, It is permitted thee to speak for thyself. Then Paul stretching out his hand answered in his defence:


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I count myself happy, king Agrippa, in having to answer to-day before thee concerning all of which I am accused by the Jews,


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especially because thou art acquainted with all the customs and questions which are among the Jews; wherefore I beseech thee to hear me patiently.


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My manner of life then from my youth, which from its commencement was passed among my nation in Jerusalem, know all the Jews,


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who knew me before from the outset [of my life], if they would bear witness, that according to the strictest sect of our religion I lived a Pharisee.


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to which our whole twelve tribes serving incessantly day and night hope to arrive; about which hope, O king, I am accused of [the] Jews.


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Which also I did in Jerusalem, and myself shut up in prisons many of the saints, having received the authority from the chief priests; and when they were put to death I gave my vote.


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And often punishing them in all the synagogues, I compelled them to blaspheme. And, being exceedingly furious against them, I persecuted them even to cities out [of our own land].


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And when, [engaged] in this, I was journeying to Damascus, with authority and power from the chief priests,


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at mid-day, on the way, I saw, O king, a light above the brightness of the sun, shining from heaven round about me and those who were journeying with me.


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And, when we were all fallen to the ground, I heard a voice saying to me in the Hebrew tongue, Saul, Saul, why persecutest thou me? [it is] hard for thee to kick against goads.


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but rise up and stand on thy feet; for, for this purpose have I appeared to thee, to appoint thee to be a servant and a witness both of what thou hast seen, and of what I shall appear to thee in,


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to open their eyes, that they may turn from darkness to light, and from the power of Satan to God, that they may receive remission of sins and inheritance among them that are sanctified by faith in me.


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but have, first to those both in Damascus and Jerusalem, and to all the region of Judaea, and to the nations, announced that they should repent and turn to God, doing works worthy of repentance.


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On account of these things the Jews, having seized me in the temple, attempted to lay hands on and destroy me.


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Having therefore met with [the] help which is from God, I have stood firm unto this day, witnessing both to small and great, saying nothing else than those things which both the prophets and Moses have said should happen,


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[namely,] whether Christ should suffer; whether he first, through resurrection of [the] dead, should announce light both to the people and to the nations.


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And as he answered for his defence with these things, Festus says with a loud voice, Thou art mad, Paul; much learning turns thee to madness.


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for the king is informed about these things, to whom also I speak with all freedom. For I am persuaded that of these things nothing is hidden from him; for this was not done in a corner.


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And Paul [said], I would to God, both in little and in much, that not only thou, but all who have heard me this day, should become such as *I* also am, except these bonds.


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and having gone apart, they spoke to one another saying, This man does nothing worthy of death or of bonds.


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But when it had been determined that we should sail to Italy, they delivered up Paul and certain other prisoners to a centurion, by name Julius, of Augustus' company.


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And going on board a ship of Adramyttium about to navigate by the places along Asia, we set sail, Aristarchus, a Macedonian of Thessalonica, being with us.


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And the next day we arrived at Sidon. And Julius treated Paul kindly and suffered him to go to his friends and refresh himself.


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and there the centurion having found a ship of Alexandria sailing to Italy, he made us go on board her.


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And sailing slowly for many days, and having with difficulty got abreast of Cnidus, the wind not suffering us, we sailed under the lee of Crete abreast of Salmone;


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and coasting it with difficulty we came to a certain place called Fair Havens, near to which was [the] city of Lasaea.


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And much time having now been spent, and navigation being already dangerous, because the fast also was already past, Paul counselled them,


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saying, Men, I perceive that the navigation will be with disaster and much loss, not only of the cargo and the ship, but also of our lives.


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And the harbour being ill adapted to winter in, the most counselled to set sail thence, if perhaps they might reach Phoenice to winter in, a port of Crete looking north-east and south-east.


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And [the] south wind blowing gently, supposing that they had gained their object, having weighed anchor they sailed close in shore along Crete.


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And the ship being caught and driven, and not able to bring her head to the wind, letting her go we were driven [before it].


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But running under the lee of a certain island called Clauda, we were with difficulty able to make ourselves masters of the boat;


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which having hoisted up, they used helps, frapping the ship; and fearing lest they should run into Syrtis and run aground, and having lowered the gear they were so driven.


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And neither sun nor stars appearing for many days, and no small storm lying on us, in the end all hope of our being saved was taken away.


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And when they had been a long while without taking food, Paul then standing up in the midst of them said, Ye ought, O men, to have hearkened to me, and not have made sail from Crete and have gained this disaster and loss.


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And now I exhort you to be of good courage, for there shall be no loss at all of life of [any] of you, only of the ship.


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saying, Fear not, Paul; thou must stand before Caesar; and behold, God has granted to thee all those that sail with thee.


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Wherefore be of good courage, men, for I believe God that thus it shall be, as it has been said to me.


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And when the fourteenth night was come, we being driven about in Adria, towards the middle of the night the sailors supposed that some land neared them,


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and having sounded found twenty fathoms, and having gone a little farther and having again sounded they found fifteen fathoms;


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and fearing lest we should be cast on rocky places, casting four anchors out of the stern, they wished that day were come.


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But the sailors wishing to flee out of the ship, and having let down the boat into the sea under pretext of being about to carry out anchors from the prow,


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And while it was drawing on to daylight, Paul exhorted them all to partake of food, saying, Ye have passed the fourteenth day watching in expectation without taking food.


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Wherefore I exhort you to partake of food, for this has to do with your safety; for not a hair from the head of any one of you shall perish.


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And, having said these things and taken a loaf, he gave thanks to God before all, and having broken it began to eat.


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And having satisfied themselves with food, they lightened the ship, casting out the wheat into the sea.


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And when it was day they did not recognise the land; but they perceived a certain bay having a strand, on which they were minded, if they should be able, to run the ship ashore;


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and, having cast off the anchors, they left [them] in the sea, at the same time loosening the lashings of the rudders, and hoisting the foresail to the wind, they made for the strand.


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And falling into a place where two seas met they ran the ship aground, and the prow having stuck itself fast remained unmoved, but the stern was broken by the force of the waves.


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And [the] counsel of the soldiers was that they should kill the prisoners, lest any one should swim off and escape.


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But the centurion, desirous of saving Paul, hindered them of their purpose, and commanded those who were able to swim, casting themselves first [into the sea], to get out on land;


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and the rest, some on boards, some on some of the things [that came] from the ship; and thus it came to pass that all got safe to land.


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But the barbarians shewed us no common kindness; for, having kindled a fire, they took us all in because of the rain that was falling and because of the cold.


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And Paul having gathered a [certain] quantity of sticks together in a bundle and laid [it] on the fire, a viper coming out from the heat seized his hand.


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And when the barbarians saw the beast hanging from his hand, they said to one another, This man is certainly a murderer, whom, [though] saved out of the sea, Nemesis has not allowed to live.


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But *they* expected that he would have swollen or fallen down suddenly dead. But when they had expected a long time and saw nothing unusual happen to him, changing their opinion, they said he was a god.


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Now in the country surrounding that place were the lands belonging to the chief man of the island, by name Publius, who received us and gave [us] hospitality three days in a very friendly way.


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And it happened that the father of Publius lay ill of fever and dysentery; to whom Paul entered in, and having prayed and laid his hands on him cured him.


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who also honoured us with many honours, and on our leaving they made presents to us of what should minister to our wants.


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And after three months we sailed in a ship which had wintered in the island, an Alexandrian, with [the] Dioscuri for its ensign.


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Whence, going in a circuitous course, we arrived at Rhegium; and after one day, the wind having changed to south, on the second day we came to Puteoli,


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where, having found brethren, we were begged to stay with them seven days. And thus we went to Rome.


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And thence the brethren, having heard about us, came to meet us as far as Appii Forum and Tres Tabernae, whom when Paul saw, he thanked God and took courage.


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And when we came to Rome, [the centurion delivered up the prisoners to the praetorian prefect, but] Paul was allowed to remain by himself with the soldier who kept him.


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And it came to pass after three days, that he called together those who were the chief of the Jews; and when they had come together he said to them, Brethren, *I* having done nothing against the people or the customs of our forefathers, have been delivered a prisoner from Jerusalem into the hands of the Romans,


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But the Jews speaking against it, I was compelled to appeal to Caesar, not as having anything to accuse my nation of.


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For this cause therefore I have called you to [me] to see and to speak to you; for on account of the hope of Israel I have this chain about me.


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And they said to him, For our part, we have neither received letters from Judaea concerning thee, nor has any one of the brethren who has arrived reported or said anything evil concerning thee.


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But we beg to hear of thee what thou thinkest, for as concerning this sect it is known to us that it is everywhere spoken against.


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And having appointed him a day many came to him to the lodging, to whom he expounded, testifying of the kingdom of God, and persuading them concerning Jesus, both from the law of Moses and the prophets, from early morning to evening.


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And being disagreed among themselves they left; Paul having spoken one word, Well spoke the Holy Spirit through Esaias the prophet to our fathers,


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saying, Go to this people, and say, Hearing ye shall hear and not understand, and seeing ye shall see and not perceive.


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For the heart of this people has become fat, and they hear heavily with their ears, and they have closed their eyes; lest they should see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and understand with their heart, and be converted, and I should heal them.


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Be it known to you therefore, that this salvation of God has been sent to the nations; *they* also will hear [it].


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preaching the kingdom of God, and teaching the things concerning the Lord Jesus Christ, with all freedom unhinderedly.


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marked out Son of God in power, according to [the] Spirit of holiness, by resurrection of [the] dead) Jesus Christ our Lord;


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by whom we have received grace and apostleship in behalf of his name, for obedience of faith among all the nations,


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to all that are in Rome, beloved of God, called saints: Grace to you and peace from God our Father and [our] Lord Jesus Christ.


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First, I thank my God through Jesus Christ for you all, that your faith is proclaimed in the whole world.


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For God is my witness, whom I serve in my spirit in the glad tidings of his Son, how unceasingly I make mention of you,


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always beseeching at my prayers, if any way now at least I may be prospered by the will of God to come to you.


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that is, to have mutual comfort among you, each by the faith [which is] in the other, both yours and mine.


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But I do not wish you to be ignorant, brethren, that I often proposed to come to you, (and have been hindered until the present time,) that I might have some fruit among you too, even as among the other nations also.


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For I am not ashamed of the glad tidings; for it is God's power to salvation, to every one that believes, both to Jew first and to Greek:


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for righteousness of God is revealed therein, on the principle of faith, to faith: according as it is written, But the just shall live by faith.


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For there is revealed wrath of God from heaven upon all impiety, and unrighteousness of men holding the truth in unrighteousness.


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-- for from [the] world's creation the invisible things of him are perceived, being apprehended by the mind through the things that are made, both his eternal power and divinity, -- so as to render them inexcusable.


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Because, knowing God, they glorified [him] not as God, neither were thankful; but fell into folly in their thoughts, and their heart without understanding was darkened:


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and changed the glory of the incorruptible God into [the] likeness of an image of corruptible man and of birds and quadrupeds and reptiles.


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Wherefore God gave them up [also] in the lusts of their hearts to uncleanness, to dishonour their bodies between themselves:


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who changed the truth of God into falsehood, and honoured and served the creature more than him who had created [it], who is blessed for ever. Amen.


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For this reason God gave them up to vile lusts; for both their females changed the natural use into that contrary to nature;


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and in like manner the males also, leaving the natural use of the female, were inflamed in their lust towards one another; males with males working shame, and receiving in themselves the recompense of their error which was fit.


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And according as they did not think good to have God in [their] knowledge, God gave them up to a reprobate mind to practise unseemly things;


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being filled with all unrighteousness, wickedness, covetousness, malice; full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, evil dispositions; whisperers,


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back-biters, hateful to God, insolent, proud, boasters, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents,


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who knowing the righteous judgment of God, that they who do such things are worthy of death, not only practise them, but have fellow delight in those who do [them].


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Therefore thou art inexcusable, O man, every one who judgest, for in that in which thou judgest another, thou condemnest thyself; for thou that judgest doest the same things.


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And thinkest thou this, O man, who judgest those that do such things, and practisest them [thyself], that *thou* shalt escape the judgment of God?


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or despisest thou the riches of his goodness, and forbearance, and long-suffering, not knowing that the goodness of God leads thee to repentance?


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but, according to thy hardness and impenitent heart, treasurest up to thyself wrath, in [the] day of wrath and revelation of [the] righteous judgment of God,


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to them who, in patient continuance of good works, seek for glory and honour and incorruptibility, life eternal.


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But to those that are contentious, and are disobedient to the truth, but obey unrighteousness, [there shall be] wrath and indignation,


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For as many as have sinned without law shall perish also without law; and as many as have sinned under law shall be judged by law,


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For when [those of the] nations, which have no law, practise by nature the things of the law, these, having no law, are a law to themselves;


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who shew the work of the law written in their hearts, their conscience also bearing witness, and their thoughts accusing or else excusing themselves between themselves;)


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in [the] day when God shall judge the secrets of men, according to my glad tidings, by Jesus Christ.


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and knowest the will, and discerningly approvest the things that are more excellent, being instructed out of the law;


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and hast confidence that thou thyself art a leader of the blind, a light of those who [are] in darkness,


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an instructor of the foolish, a teacher of babes, having the form of knowledge and of truth in the law:


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thou then that teachest another, dost thou not teach thyself? thou that preachest not to steal, dost thou steal?


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thou that sayest [man should] not commit adultery, dost thou commit adultery? thou that abhorrest idols, dost thou commit sacrilege?


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For circumcision indeed profits if thou keep [the] law; but if thou be a law-transgressor, thy circumcision is become uncircumcision.


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If therefore the uncircumcision keep the requirements of the law, shall not his uncircumcision be reckoned for circumcision,


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and uncircumcision by nature, fulfilling the law, judge thee, who, with letter and circumcision, [art] a law-transgressor?


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but he [is] a Jew [who is so] inwardly; and circumcision, of the heart, in spirit, not in letter; whose praise [is] not of men, but of God.


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Far be the thought: but let God be true, and every man false; according as it is written, So that thou shouldest be justified in thy words, and shouldest overcome when thou art in judgment.


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But if our unrighteousness commend God's righteousness, what shall we say? Is God unrighteous who inflicts wrath? I speak according to man.


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For if the truth of God, in my lie, has more abounded to his glory, why yet am *I* also judged as a sinner?


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and not, according as we are injuriously charged, and according as some affirm that we say, Let us practise evil things, that good ones may come? whose judgment is just.


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What then? are we better? No, in no wise: for we have before charged both Jews and Greeks with being all under sin:


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All have gone out of the way, they have together become unprofitable; there is not one that practises goodness, there is not so much as one:


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their throat is an open sepulchre; with their tongues they have used deceit; asps' poison [is] under their lips:


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Now we know that whatever the things the law says, it speaks to those under the law, that every mouth may be stopped, and all the world be under judgment to God.


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But now without law righteousness of God is manifested, borne witness to by the law and the prophets;


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righteousness of God by faith of Jesus Christ towards all,and upon all those who believe: for there is no difference;


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whom God has set forth a mercy-seat, through faith in his blood, for [the] shewing forth of his righteousness, in respect of the passing by the sins that had taken place before, through the forbearance of God;


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for [the] shewing forth of his righteousness in the present time, so that he should be just, and justify him that is of [the] faith of Jesus.


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since indeed [it is] one God who shall justify [the] circumcision on the principle of faith, and uncircumcision by faith.


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For if Abraham has been justified on the principle of works, he has whereof to boast: but not before God;


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for what does the scripture say? And Abraham believed God, and it was reckoned to him as righteousness.


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but to him who does not work, but believes on him who justifies the ungodly, his faith is reckoned as righteousness.


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Even as David also declares the blessedness of the man to whom God reckons righteousness without works:


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[Does] this blessedness then [rest] on the circumcision, or also on the uncircumcision? For we say that faith has been reckoned to Abraham as righteousness.


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How then has it been reckoned? when he was in circumcision, or in uncircumcision? Not in circumcision, but in uncircumcision.


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And he received [the] sign of circumcision [as] seal of the righteousness of faith which [he had] being in uncircumcision, that he might be [the] father of all them that believe being in uncircumcision, that righteousness might be reckoned to them also;


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and father of circumcision, not only to those who are of [the] circumcision, but to those also who walk in the steps of the faith, during uncircumcision, of our father Abraham.


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For [it was] not by law that the promise was to Abraham, or to his seed, that he should be heir of [the] world, but by righteousness of faith.


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Therefore [it is] on the principle of faith, that [it might be] according to grace, in order to the promise being sure to all the seed, not to that only which [is] of the law, but to that also which [is] of Abraham's faith, who is father of us all,


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(according as it is written, I have made thee father of many nations,) before the God whom he believed, who quickens the dead, and calls the things which be not as being;


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who against hope believed in hope to his becoming father of many nations, according to that which was spoken, So shall thy seed be:


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and not being weak in faith, he considered not his own body already become dead, being about a hundred years old, and the deadening of Sarah's womb,


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and hesitated not at the promise of God through unbelief; but found strength in faith, giving glory to God;


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who has been delivered for our offences and has been raised for our justification, it will be reckoned.


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Therefore having been justified on the principle of faith, we have peace towards God through our Lord Jesus Christ;


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by whom we have also access by faith into this favour in which we stand, and we boast in hope of the glory of God.


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and hope does not make ashamed, because the love of God is shed abroad in our hearts by [the] Holy Spirit which has been given to us:


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For scarcely for [the] just [man] will one die, for perhaps for [the] good [man] some one might also dare to die;


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Much rather therefore, having been now justified in [the power of] his blood, we shall be saved by him from wrath.


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For if, being enemies, we have been reconciled to God through the death of his Son, much rather, having been reconciled, we shall be saved in [the power of] his life.


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And not only [that], but [we are] making our boast in God, through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom now we have received the reconciliation.


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For this [cause], even as by one man sin entered into the world, and by sin death; and thus death passed upon all men, for that all have sinned:


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but death reigned from Adam until Moses, even upon those who had not sinned in the likeness of Adam's transgression, who is [the] figure of him to come.


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But [shall] not the act of favour [be] as the offence? For if by the offence of one the many have died, much rather has the grace of God, and the free gift in grace, which [is] by the one man Jesus Christ, abounded unto the many.


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And [shall] not as by one that has sinned [be] the gift? For the judgment [was] of one to condemnation, but the act of favour, of many offences unto justification.


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For if by the offence of the one death reigned by the one, much rather shall those who receive the abundance of grace, and of the free gift of righteousness, reign in life by the one Jesus Christ:)


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so then as [it was] by one offence towards all men to condemnation, so by one righteousness towards all men for justification of life.


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For as indeed by the disobedience of the one man the many have been constituted sinners, so also by the obedience of the one the many will be constituted righteous.


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But law came in, in order that the offence might abound; but where sin abounded grace has overabounded,


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in order that, even as sin has reigned in [the power of] death, so also grace might reign through righteousness to eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.


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Are you ignorant that we, as many as have been baptised unto Christ Jesus, have been baptised unto his death?


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We have been buried therefore with him by baptism unto death, in order that, even as Christ has been raised up from among [the] dead by the glory of the Father, so *we* also should walk in newness of life.


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


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knowing this, that our old man has been crucified with [him], that the body of sin might be annulled, that we should no longer serve sin.


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knowing that Christ having been raised up from among [the] dead dies no more: death has dominion over him no more.


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Neither yield your members instruments of unrighteousness to sin, but yield yourselves to God as alive from among [the] dead, and your members instruments of righteousness to God.


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Know ye not that to whom ye yield yourselves bondmen for obedience, ye are bondmen to him whom ye obey, whether of sin unto death, or of obedience unto righteousness?


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But thanks [be] to God, that ye were bondmen of sin, but have obeyed from the heart the form of teaching into which ye were instructed.


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I speak humanly on account of the weakness of your flesh. For even as ye have yielded your members in bondage to uncleanness and to lawlessness unto lawlessness, so now yield your members in bondage to righteousness unto holiness.


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What fruit therefore had ye *then* in the things of which ye are *now* ashamed? for the end of *them* [is] death.


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But *now*, having got your freedom from sin, and having become bondmen to God, ye have your fruit unto holiness, and the end eternal life.


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For the wages of sin [is] death; but the act of favour of God, eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.


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Are ye ignorant, brethren, (for I speak to those knowing law,) that law rules over a man as long as he lives?


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For the married woman is bound by law to her husband so long as he is alive; but if the husband should die, she is clear from the law of the husband:


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so then, the husband being alive, she shall be called an adulteress if she be to another man; but if the husband should die, she is free from the law, so as not to be an adulteress, though she be to another man.


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So that, my brethren, *ye* also have been made dead to the law by the body of the Christ, to be to another, who has been raised up from among [the] dead, in order that we might bear fruit to God.


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For when we were in the flesh the passions of sins, which [were] by the law, wrought in our members to bring forth fruit to death;


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but now we are clear from the law, having died in that in which we were held, so that we should serve in newness of spirit, and not in oldness of letter.


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What shall we say then? [is] the law sin? Far be the thought. But I had not known sin, unless by law: for I had not had conscience also of lust unless the law had said, Thou shalt not lust;


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but sin, getting a point of attack by the commandment, wrought in me every lust; for without law sin [was] dead.


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Did then that which is good become death to me? Far be the thought. But sin, that it might appear sin, working death to me by that which is good; in order that sin by the commandment might become exceeding sinful.


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For that which I do, I do not own: for not what I will, this I do; but what I hate, this I practise.


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For I know that in me, that is, in my flesh, good does not dwell: for to will is there with me, but to do right [I find] not.


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But if what *I* do not will, this I practise, [it is] no longer *I* [that] do it, but the sin that dwells in me.


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but I see another law in my members, warring in opposition to the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity to the law of sin which exists in my members.


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


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


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in order that the righteous requirement of the law should be fulfilled in us, who do not walk according to flesh but according to Spirit.


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For they that are according to flesh mind the things of the flesh; and they that are according to Spirit, the things of the Spirit.


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


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But *ye* are not in flesh but in Spirit, if indeed God's Spirit dwell in you; but if any one has not [the] Spirit of Christ *he* is not of him:


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but if Christ be in you, the body is dead on account of sin, but the Spirit life on account of righteousness.


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But if the Spirit of him that has raised up Jesus from among [the] dead dwell in you, he that has raised up Christ from among [the] dead shall quicken your mortal bodies also on account of his Spirit which dwells in you.


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for if ye live according to flesh, ye are about to die; but if, by the Spirit, ye put to death the deeds of the body, ye shall live:


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For ye have not received a spirit of bondage again for fear, but ye have received a spirit of adoption, whereby we cry, Abba, Father.


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And if children, heirs also: heirs of God, and Christ's joint heirs; if indeed we suffer with [him], that we may also be glorified with [him].


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For I reckon that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy [to be compared] with the coming glory to be revealed to us.


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for the creature has been made subject to vanity, not of its will, but by reason of him who has subjected [the same], in hope


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that the creature itself also shall be set free from the bondage of corruption into the liberty of the glory of the children of God.


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And not only [that], but even *we* ourselves, who have the first-fruits of the Spirit, we also ourselves groan in ourselves, awaiting adoption, [that is] the redemption of our body.


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For we have been saved in hope; but hope seen is not hope; for what any one sees, why does he also hope?


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And in like manner the Spirit joins also its help to our weakness; for we do not know what we should pray for as is fitting, but the Spirit itself makes intercession with groanings which cannot be uttered.


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But he who searches the hearts knows what [is] the mind of the Spirit, because he intercedes for saints according to God.


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But we *do* know that all things work together for good to those who love God, to those who are called according to purpose.


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Because whom he has foreknown, he has also predestinated [to be] conformed to the image of his Son, so that he should be [the] firstborn among many brethren.


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But whom he has predestinated, these also he has called; and whom he has called, these also he has justified; but whom he has justified, these also he has glorified.


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He who, yea, has not spared his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, how shall he not also with him grant us all things?


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who is he that condemns? [It is] Christ who has died, but rather has been [also] raised up; who is also at the right hand of God; who also intercedes for us.


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


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According as it is written, For thy sake we are put to death all the day long; we have been reckoned as sheep for slaughter.


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


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


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for I have wished, I myself, to be a curse from the Christ for my brethren, my kinsmen, according to flesh;


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


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whose [are] the fathers; and of whom, as according to flesh, [is] the Christ, who is over all, God blessed for ever. Amen.


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nor because they are seed of Abraham [are] all children: but, In Isaac shall a seed be called to thee.


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That is, [they that are] the children of the flesh, these [are] not the children of God; but the children of the promise are reckoned as seed.


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For this word [is] of promise, According to this time I will come, and there shall be a son to Sarah.


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[the children] indeed being not yet born, or having done anything good or worthless (that the purpose of God according to election might abide, not of works, but of him that calls),


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For he says to Moses, I will shew mercy to whom I will shew mercy, and I will feel compassion for whom I will feel compassion.


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For the scripture says to Pharaoh, For this very thing I have raised thee up from amongst [men], that I might thus shew in thee my power, and so that my name should be declared in all the earth.


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Aye, but thou, O man, who art *thou* that answerest again to God? Shall the thing formed say to him that has formed it, Why hast thou made me thus?


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Or has not the potter authority over the clay, out of the same lump to make one vessel to honour, and another to dishonour?


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And if God, minded to shew his wrath and to make his power known, endured with much long-suffering vessels of wrath fitted for destruction;


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and that he might make known the riches of his glory upon vessels of mercy, which he had before prepared for glory,


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And it shall be, in the place where it was said to them, *Ye* [are] not my people, there shall they be called Sons of [the] living God.


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But Esaias cries concerning Israel, Should the number of the children of Israel be as the sand of the sea, the remnant shall be saved:


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for [he] is bringing the matter to an end, and [cutting [it] short in righteousness; because] a cutting short of the matter will [the] Lord accomplish upon the earth.


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And according as Esaias said before, Unless [the] Lord of hosts had left us a seed, we had been as Sodom, and made like even as Gomorrha.


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What then shall we say? That [they of the] nations, who did not follow after righteousness, have attained righteousness, but [the] righteousness that is on the principle of faith.


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Wherefore? Because [it was] not on the principle of faith, but as of works. They have stumbled at the stumblingstone,


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according as it is written, Behold, I place in Zion a stone of stumbling and rock of offence: and he that believes on him shall not be ashamed.


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Brethren, the delight of my own heart and my supplication which [I address] to God for them is for salvation.


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For they, being ignorant of God's righteousness, and seeking to establish their own [righteousness], have not submitted to the righteousness of God.


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For Moses lays down in writing the righteousness which is of the law, The man who has practised those things shall live by them.


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But the righteousness of faith speaks thus: Do not say in thine heart, Who shall ascend to the heavens? that is, to bring Christ down;


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


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


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For with [the] heart is believed to righteousness; and with [the] mouth confession made to salvation.


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For there is no difference of Jew and Greek; for the same Lord of all [is] rich towards all that call upon him.


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How then shall they call upon him in whom they have not believed? and how shall they believe on him of whom they have not heard? and how shall they hear without one who preaches?


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and how shall they preach unless they have been sent? according as it is written, How beautiful the feet of them that announce glad tidings of peace, of them that announce glad tidings of good things!


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But I say, Have they not heard? Yea, surely, Their voice has gone out into all the earth, and their words to the extremities of the habitable world.


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But I say, Has not Israel known? First, Moses says, *I* will provoke you to jealousy through [them that are] not a nation: through a nation without understanding I will anger you.


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But Esaias is very bold, and says, I have been found by those not seeking me; I have become manifest to those not inquiring after me.


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But unto Israel he says, All the day long I have stretched out my hands unto a people disobeying and opposing.


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I say then, Has God cast away his people? Far be the thought. For *I* also am an Israelite, of [the] seed of Abraham, of [the] tribe of Benjamin.


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God has not cast away his people whom he foreknew. Know ye not what the scripture says in [the history of] Elias, how he pleads with God against Israel?


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Lord, they have killed thy prophets, they have dug down thine altars; and *I* have been left alone, and they seek my life.


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But what says the divine answer to him? I have left to myself seven thousand men, who have not bowed knee to Baal.


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What [is it] then? What Israel seeks for, that he has not obtained; but the election has obtained, and the rest have been blinded,


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according as it is written, God has given to them a spirit of slumber, eyes not to see, and ears not to hear, unto this day.


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And David says, Let their table be for a snare, and for a gin, and for a fall-trap, and for a recompense to them:


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I say then, Have they stumbled in order that they might fall? Far be the thought: but by their fall [there is] salvation to the nations to provoke them to jealousy.


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But if their fall [be the] world's wealth, and their loss [the] wealth of [the] nations, how much rather their fulness?


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if by any means I shall provoke to jealousy [them which are] my flesh, and shall save some from among them.


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For if their casting away [be the] world's reconciliation, what [their] reception but life from among [the] dead?


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Now if some of the branches have been broken out, and *thou*, being a wild olive tree, hast been grafted in amongst them, and hast become a fellow-partaker of the root and of the fatness of the olive tree,


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boast not against the branches; but if thou boast, [it is] not *thou* bearest the root, but the root thee.


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Right: they have been broken out through unbelief, and *thou* standest through faith. Be not high-minded, but fear:


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Behold then [the] goodness and severity of God: upon them who have fallen, severity; upon thee goodness of God, if thou shalt abide in goodness, since [otherwise] *thou* also wilt be cut away.


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And *they* too, if they abide not in unbelief, shall be grafted in; for God is able again to graft them in.


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For if *thou* hast been cut out of the olive tree wild by nature, and, contrary to nature, hast been grafted into the good olive tree, how much rather shall they, who are according to nature be grafted into their own olive tree?


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For I do not wish you to be ignorant, brethren, of this mystery, that ye may not be wise in your own conceits, that blindness in part is happened to Israel, until the fulness of the nations be come in;


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and so all Israel shall be saved. According as it is written, The deliverer shall come out of Zion; he shall turn away ungodliness from Jacob.


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As regards the glad tidings, [they are] enemies on your account; but as regards election, beloved on account of the fathers.


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For as indeed *ye* [also] once have not believed in God, but now have been objects of mercy through the unbelief of *these*;


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so these also have now not believed in your mercy, in order that *they* also may be objects of mercy.


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O depth of riches both of [the] wisdom and knowledge of God! how unsearchable his judgments, and untraceable his ways!


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


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


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For I say, through the grace which has been given to me, to every one that is among you, not to have high thoughts above what he should think; but to think so as to be wise, as God has dealt to each a measure of faith.


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But having different gifts, according to the grace which has been given to us, whether [it be] prophecy, [let us prophesy] according to the proportion of faith;


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or he that exhorts, in exhortation; he that gives, in simplicity; he that leads, with diligence; he that shews mercy, with cheerfulness.


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as to brotherly love, kindly affectioned towards one another: as to honour, each taking the lead in paying it to the other:


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Have the same respect one for another, not minding high things, but going along with the lowly: be not wise in your own eyes:


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not avenging yourselves, beloved, but give place to wrath; for it is written, Vengeance [belongs] to me, *I* will recompense, saith the Lord.


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If therefore thine enemy should hunger, feed him; if he should thirst, give him drink; for, so doing, thou shalt heap coals of fire upon his head.


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Let every soul be subject to the authorities that are above [him]. For there is no authority except from God; and those that exist are set up by God.


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So that he that sets himself in opposition to the authority resists the ordinance of God; and they who [thus] resist shall bring sentence of guilt on themselves.


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For rulers are not a terror to a good work, but to an evil [one]. Dost thou desire then not to be afraid of the authority? practise [what is] good, and thou shalt have praise from it;


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for it is God's minister to thee for good. But if thou practisest evil, fear; for it bears not the sword in vain; for it is God's minister, an avenger for wrath to him that does evil.


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Wherefore it is necessary to be subject, not only on account of wrath, but also on account of conscience.


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For on this account ye pay tribute also; for they are God's officers, attending continually on this very thing.


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


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


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This also, knowing the time, that it is already time that *we* should be aroused out of sleep; for now [is] our salvation nearer than when we believed.


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The night is far spent, and the day is near; let us cast away therefore the works of darkness, and let us put on the armour of light.


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As in the day, let us walk becomingly; not in rioting and drunkenness, not in chambering and lasciviousness, not in strife and emulation.


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Let not him that eats make little of him that eats not; and let not him that eats not judge him that eats: for God has received him.


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Who art *thou* that judgest the servant of another? to his own master he stands or falls. And he shall be made to stand; for the Lord is able to make him stand.


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One man esteems day more than day; another esteems every day [alike]. Let each be fully persuaded in his own mind.


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He that regards the day, regards it to [the] Lord. And he that eats, eats to [the] Lord, for he gives God thanks; and he that does not eat, [it is] to [the] Lord he does not eat, and gives God thanks.


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For both if we should live, [it is] to the Lord we live; and if we should die, [it is] to the Lord we die: both if we should live then, and if we should die, we are the Lord's.


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But thou, why judgest thou thy brother? or again, thou, why dost thou make little of thy brother? for we shall all be placed before the judgment-seat of God.


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


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Let us no longer therefore judge one another; but judge ye this rather, not to put a stumbling-block or a fall-trap before his brother.


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I know, and am persuaded in the Lord Jesus, that nothing is unclean of itself; except to him who reckons anything to be unclean, to that man [it is] unclean.


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For if on account of meat thy brother is grieved, thou walkest no longer according to love. Destroy not him with thy meat for whom Christ has died.


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


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So then let us pursue the things which tend to peace, and things whereby one shall build up another.


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For the sake of meat do not destroy the work of God. All things indeed [are] pure; but [it is] evil to that man who eats while stumbling [in doing so].


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[It is] right not to eat meat, nor drink wine, nor [do anything] in which thy brother stumbles, or is offended, or is weak.


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Hast *thou* faith? have [it] to thyself before God. Blessed [is] he who does not judge himself in what he allows.


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But he that doubts, if he eat, is condemned; because [it is] not of faith; but whatever [is] not of faith is sin.


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But *we* ought, we that are strong, to bear the infirmities of the weak, and not to please ourselves.


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For the Christ also did not please himself; but according as it is written, The reproaches of them that reproach thee have fallen upon me.


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For as many things as have been written before have been written for our instruction, that through endurance and through encouragement of the scriptures we might have hope.


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Now the God of endurance and of encouragement give to you to be like-minded one toward another, according to Christ Jesus;


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Wherefore receive ye one another, according as the Christ also has received you to [the] glory of God.


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For I say that Jesus Christ became a minister of [the] circumcision for [the] truth of God, to confirm the promises of the fathers;


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and that the nations should glorify God for mercy; according as it is written, For this cause I will confess to thee among [the] nations, and will sing to thy name.


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And again, Esaias says, There shall be the root of Jesse, and one that arises, to rule over [the] nations: in him shall [the] nations hope.


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Now the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, so that ye should abound in hope by [the] power of [the] Holy Spirit.


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


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But I have written to you the more boldly, [brethren,] in part, as putting you in mind, because of the grace given to me by God,


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for me to be minister of Christ Jesus to the nations, carrying on as a sacrificial service the [message of] glad tidings of God, in order that the offering up of the nations might be acceptable, sanctified by [the] Holy Spirit.


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For I will not dare to speak anything of the things which Christ has not wrought by me, for [the] obedience of [the] nations, by word and deed,


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in [the] power of signs and wonders, in [the] power of [the] Spirit of God; so that I, from Jerusalem, and in a circuit round to Illyricum, have fully preached the glad tidings of the Christ;


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and so aiming to announce the glad tidings, not where Christ has been named, that I might not build upon another's foundation;


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but according as it is written, To whom there was nothing told concerning him, they shall see; and they that have not heard shall understand.


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But now, having no longer place in these regions, and having great desire to come to you these many years,


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whenever I should go to Spain; (for I hope to see you as I go through, and by you to be set forward thither, if first I shall have been in part filled with your company;)


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for Macedonia and Achaia have been well pleased to make a certain contribution for the poor of the saints who [are] in Jerusalem.


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They have been well pleased indeed, and they are their debtors; for if the nations have participated in their spiritual things, they ought also in fleshly to minister to them.


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Having finished this therefore, and having sealed to them this fruit, I will set off by you into Spain.


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But I beseech you, brethren, by our Lord Jesus Christ, and by the love of the Spirit, that ye strive together with me in prayers for me to God;


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that I may be saved from those that do not believe in Judaea; and that my ministry which [I have] for Jerusalem may be acceptable to the saints;


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that ye may receive her in [the] Lord worthily of saints, and that ye may assist her in whatever matter she has need of you; for *she* also has been a helper of many, and of myself.


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(who for my life staked their own neck; to whom not *I* only am thankful, but also all the assemblies of the nations,)


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and the assembly at their house. Salute Epaenetus, my beloved, who is [the] first-fruits of Asia for Christ.


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


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Salute Tryphaena and Tryphosa, who labour in [the] Lord. Salute Persis, the beloved, who has laboured much in [the] Lord.


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But I beseech you, brethren, to consider those who create divisions and occasions of falling, contrary to the doctrine which *ye* have learnt, and turn away from them.


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For such serve not our Lord Christ, but their own belly, and by good words and fair speeches deceive the hearts of the unsuspecting.


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For your obedience has reached to all. I rejoice therefore as it regards you; but I wish you to be wise [as] to that which is good, and simple [as] to evil.


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


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Gaius, my host and of the whole assembly, salutes you. Erastus, the steward of the city, salutes you, and the brother Quartus.


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Now to him that is able to establish you, according to my glad tidings and the preaching of Jesus Christ, according to [the] revelation of [the] mystery, as to which silence has been kept in [the] times of the ages,


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but [which] has now been made manifest, and by prophetic scriptures, according to commandment of the eternal God, made known for obedience of faith to all the nations --


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to the assembly of God which is in Corinth, to [those] sanctified in Christ Jesus, called saints, with all that in every place call on the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, both theirs and ours:


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God [is] faithful, by whom ye have been called into [the] fellowship of his Son Jesus Christ our Lord.


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Now I exhort you, brethren, by the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that ye all say the same thing, and that there be not among you divisions; but that ye be perfectly united in the same mind and in the same opinion.


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For it has been shewn to me concerning you, my brethren, by those of [the house of] Chloe, that there are strifes among you.


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But I speak of this, that each of you says, *I* am of Paul, and *I* of Apollos, and *I* of Cephas, and *I* of Christ.


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Is the Christ divided? has Paul been crucified for you? or have ye been baptised unto the name of Paul?


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For Christ has not sent me to baptise, but to preach glad tidings; not in wisdom of word, that the cross of the Christ may not be made vain.


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For the word of the cross is to them that perish foolishness, but to us that are saved it is God's power.


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For it is written, I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, and set aside the understanding of the understanding ones.


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


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For since, in the wisdom of God, the world by wisdom has not known God, God has been pleased by the foolishness of the preaching to save those that believe.


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For consider your calling, brethren, that [there are] not many wise according to flesh, not many powerful, not many high-born.


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But God has chosen the foolish things of the world, that he may put to shame the wise; and God has chosen the weak things of the world, that he may put to shame the strong things;


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and the ignoble things of the world, and the despised, has God chosen, [and] things that are not, that he may annul the things that are;


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But of him are *ye* in Christ Jesus, who has been made to us wisdom from God, and righteousness, and holiness, and redemption;


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And *I*, when I came to you, brethren, came not in excellency of word, or wisdom, announcing to you the testimony of God.


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and my word and my preaching, not in persuasive words of wisdom, but in demonstration of [the] Spirit and of power;


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But we speak wisdom among the perfect; but wisdom not of this world, nor of the rulers of this world, who come to nought.


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But we speak God's wisdom in [a] mystery, that hidden [wisdom] which God had predetermined before the ages for our glory:


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which none of the princes of this age knew, (for had they known, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory;)


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but according as it is written, Things which eye has not seen, and ear not heard, and which have not come into man's heart, which God has prepared for them that love him,


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but God has revealed to us by [his] Spirit; for the Spirit searches all things, even the depths of God.


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For who of men hath known the things of a man except the spirit of the man which is in him? thus also the things of God knows no one except the Spirit of God.


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But *we* have received, not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit which [is] of God, that we may know the things which have been freely given to us of God:


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which also we speak, not in words taught by human wisdom, but in those taught by the Spirit, communicating spiritual [things] by spiritual [means].


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But [the] natural man does not receive the things of the Spirit of God, for they are folly to him; and he cannot know [them] because they are spiritually discerned;


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And *I*, brethren, have not been able to speak to you as to spiritual, but as to fleshly; as to babes in Christ.


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I have given you milk to drink, not meat, for ye have not yet been able, nor indeed are ye yet able;


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for ye are yet carnal. For whereas [there are] among you emulation and strife, are ye not carnal, and walk according to man?


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Who then is Apollos, and who Paul? Ministering servants, through whom ye have believed, and as the Lord has given to each.


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But the planter and the waterer are one; but each shall receive his own reward according to his own labour.


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According to the grace of God which has been given to me, as a wise architect, I have laid the foundation, but another builds upon it. But let each see how he builds upon it.


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the work of each shall be made manifest; for the day shall declare [it], because it is revealed in fire; and the fire shall try the work of each what it is.


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If the work of any one which he has built upon [the foundation] shall abide, he shall receive a reward.


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If the work of any one shall be consumed, he shall suffer loss, but *he* shall be saved, but so as through [the] fire.


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If any one corrupt the temple of God, *him* shall God destroy; for the temple of God is holy, and such are *ye*.


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Let no one deceive himself: if any one thinks himself to be wise among you in this world, let him become foolish, that he may be wise.


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For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God; for it is written, He who takes the wise in their craftiness.


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Whether Paul, or Apollos, or Cephas, or [the] world, or life, or death, or things present, or things coming, all are yours;


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But for me it is the very smallest matter that I be examined of you or of man's day. Nor do I even examine myself.


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For I am conscious of nothing in myself; but I am not justified by this: but he that examines me is the Lord.


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So that do not judge anything before [the] time, until the Lord shall come, who shall also both bring to light the hidden things of darkness, and shall make manifest the counsels of hearts; and then shall each have [his] praise from God.


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Now these things, brethren, I have transferred, in their application, to myself and Apollos, for your sakes, that ye may learn in us the [lesson of] not [letting your thoughts go] above what is written, that ye may not be puffed up one for [such a] one against another.


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For who makes thee to differ? and what hast thou which thou hast not received? but if also thou hast received, why boastest thou as not receiving?


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Already ye are filled; already ye have been enriched; ye have reigned without us; and I would that ye reigned, that *we* also might reign with you.


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For I think that God has set us the apostles for the last, as appointed to death. For we have become a spectacle to the world, both to angels and men.


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*We* [are] fools for Christ's sake, but *ye* prudent in Christ: *we* weak, but *ye* strong: *ye* glorious, but *we* in dishonour.


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To the present hour we both hunger and thirst, and are in nakedness, and buffeted, and wander without a home,


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insulted, we entreat: we are become as [the] offscouring of the world, [the] refuse of all, until now.


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For if ye should have ten thousand instructors in Christ, yet not many fathers; for in Christ Jesus *I* have begotten you through the glad tidings.


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For this reason I have sent to you Timotheus, who is my beloved and faithful child in [the] Lord, who shall put you in mind of my ways [as] they [are] in Christ, according as I teach everywhere in every assembly.


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


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It is universally reported [that there is] fornication among you, and such fornication as [is] not even among the nations, so that one should have his father's wife.


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And *ye* are puffed up, and ye have not rather mourned, in order that he that has done this deed might be taken away out of the midst of you.


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[to deliver,] in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ (ye and my spirit being gathered together, with the power of our Lord Jesus Christ), him that has so wrought this:


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to deliver him, [I say,] [being] such, to Satan for destruction of the flesh, that the spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord Jesus.


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Purge out the old leaven, that ye may be a new lump, according as ye are unleavened. For also our passover, Christ, has been sacrificed;


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so that let us celebrate the feast, not with old leaven, nor with leaven of malice and wickedness, but with unleavened [bread] of sincerity and truth.


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not altogether with the fornicators of this world, or with the avaricious and rapacious, or idolaters, since [then] ye should go out of the world.


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But now I have written to you, if any one called brother be fornicator, or avaricious, or idolater, or abusive, or a drunkard, or rapacious, not to mix with [him]; with such a one not even to eat.


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For what have *I* [to do] with judging those outside also? *ye*, do not ye judge them that are within?


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Dare any one of you, having a matter against another, prosecute his suit before the unjust, and not before the saints?


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Do ye not then know that the saints shall judge the world? and if the world is judged by you, are ye unworthy of [the] smallest judgments?


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If then ye have judgments as to things of this life, set those [to judge] who are little esteemed in the assembly.


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I speak to you [to put you] to shame. Thus there is not a wise person among you, not even one, who shall be able to decide between his brethren!


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Already indeed then it is altogether a fault in you that ye have suits between yourselves. Why do ye not rather suffer wrong? why are ye not rather defrauded?


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Do ye not know that unrighteous [persons] shall not inherit [the] kingdom of God? Do not err: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor those who make women of themselves, nor who abuse themselves with men,


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nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor abusive persons, nor [the] rapacious, shall inherit [the] kingdom of God.


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And these things were some of you; but ye have been washed, but ye have been sanctified, but ye have been justified in the name of the Lord Jesus, and by the Spirit of our God.


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All things are lawful to me, but all things do not profit; all things are lawful to me, but *I* will not be brought under the power of any.


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Meats for the belly, and the belly for meats; but God will bring to nothing both it and them: but the body [is] not for fornication, but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body.


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Do ye not know that your bodies are members of Christ? Shall I then, taking the members of the Christ, make [them] members of a harlot? Far be the thought.


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Do ye not know that he [that is] joined to the harlot is one body? for the two, he says, shall be one flesh.


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Flee fornication. Every sin which a man may practise is without the body, but he that commits fornication sins against his own body.


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Do ye not know that your body is [the] temple of the Holy Spirit which [is] in you, which ye have of God; and ye are not your own?


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But concerning the things of which ye have written [to me]: [It is] good for a man not to touch a woman;


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The wife has not authority over her own body, but the husband: in like manner also the husband has not authority over his own body, but the wife.


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Defraud not one another, unless, it may be, by consent for a time, that ye may devote yourselves to prayer, and again be together, that Satan tempt you not because of your incontinency.


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Now I wish all men to be even as myself: but every one has his own gift of God: one man thus, and another thus.


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But if they have not control over themselves, let them marry; for it is better to marry than to burn.


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(but if also she shall have been separated, let her remain unmarried, or be reconciled to her husband;) and let not husband leave wife.


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But as to the rest, *I* say, not the Lord, If any brother have an unbelieving wife, and *she* consent to dwell with him, let him not leave her.


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And a woman who has an unbelieving husband, and he consents to dwell with her, let her not leave [her] husband.


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For the unbelieving husband is sanctified in the wife, and the unbelieving wife is sanctified in the brother; since [otherwise] indeed your children are unclean, but now they are holy.


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But if the unbeliever go away, let them go away; a brother or a sister is not bound in such [cases], but God has called us in peace.


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For what knowest thou, O wife, if thou shalt save thy husband? or what knowest thou, O husband, if thou shalt save thy wife?


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However, as the Lord has divided to each, as God has called each, so let him walk; and thus I ordain in all the assemblies.


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Has any one been called circumcised? let him not become uncircumcised: has any one been called in uncircumcision? let him not be circumcised.


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Hast thou been called [being] a bondman, let it not concern thee; but and if thou canst become free, use [it] rather.


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For the bondman that is called in [the] Lord is the Lord's freedman; in like manner [also] the freeman being called is Christ's bondman.


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But concerning virgins, I have no commandment of [the] Lord; but I give my opinion, as having received mercy of [the] Lord to be faithful.


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I think then that this is good, on account of the present necessity, that [it is] good for a man to remain so as he is.


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But if thou shouldest also marry, thou hast not sinned; and if the virgin marry, they have not sinned: but such shall have tribulation in the flesh; but I spare you.


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But this I say, brethren, the time is straitened. For the rest, that they who have wives, be as not having [any]:


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and they that weep, as not weeping; and they that rejoice, as not rejoicing; and they that buy, as not possessing;


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and they that use the world, as not disposing of it as their own; for the fashion of this world passes.


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But I wish you to be without care. The unmarried cares for the things of the Lord, how he shall please the Lord;


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


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But I say this for your own profit; not that I may set a snare before you, but for what [is] seemly, and waiting on the Lord without distraction.


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But if any one think that he behaves unseemly to his virginity, if he be beyond the flower of his age, and so it must be, let him do what he will, he does not sin: let them marry.


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But he who stands firm in his heart, having no need, but has authority over his own will, and has judged this in his heart to keep his own virginity, he does well.


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A wife is bound for whatever time her husband lives; but if the husband be fallen asleep, she is free to be married to whom she will, only in [the] Lord.


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But she is happier if she so remain, according to my judgment; but I think that *I* also have God's Spirit.


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But concerning things sacrificed to idols, we know, (for we all have knowledge: knowledge puffs up, but love edifies.


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-- concerning then the eating of things sacrificed to idols, we know that an idol [is] nothing in [the] world, and that there [is] no other God save one.


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For and if indeed there are [those] called gods, whether in heaven or on earth, (as there are gods many, and lords many,)


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yet to us [there is] one God, the Father, of whom all things, and *we* for him; and one Lord, Jesus Christ, by whom [are] all things, and *we* by him.


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But knowledge [is] not in all: but some, with conscience of the idol, until now eat as of a thing sacrificed to idols; and their conscience, being weak, is defiled.


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But meat does not commend us to God; neither if we should not eat do we come short; nor if we should eat have we an advantage.


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For if any one see thee, who hast knowledge, sitting at table in an idol-house, shall not his conscience, he being weak, be emboldened to eat the things sacrificed to the idol?


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Wherefore if meat be a fall-trap to my brother, I will eat no flesh for ever, that I may not be a fall-trap to my brother.


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


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If I am not an apostle to others, yet at any rate I am to you: for the seal of mine apostleship are *ye* in [the] Lord.


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have we not a right to take round a sister [as] wife, as also the other apostles, and the brethren of the Lord, and Cephas?


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Who ever carries on war at his own charges? who plants a vineyard and does not eat of its fruit? or who herds a flock and does not eat of the milk of the flock?


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For in the law of Moses it is written, Thou shalt not muzzle the ox that is treading out corn. Is God occupied about the oxen,


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or does he say [it] altogether for our sakes? For for our sakes it has been written, that the plougher should plough in hope, and he that treads out corn, in hope of partaking of [it].


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If we have sown to you spiritual things, [is it a] great [thing] if *we* shall reap your carnal things?


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If others partake of this right over you, should not rather *we*? But we have not used this right, but we bear all things, that we may put no hindrance in the way of the glad tidings of the Christ.


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Do ye not know that they who labour [at] sacred things eat of the [offerings offered in the] temple; they that attend at the altar partake with the altar?


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But *I* have used none of these things. Now I have not written these things that it should be thus in my case; for [it were] good for me rather to die than that any one should make vain my boast.


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For if I announce the glad tidings, I have nothing to boast of; for a necessity is laid upon me; for it is woe to me if I should not announce the glad tidings.


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For if I do this voluntarily, I have a reward; but if not of my own will, I am entrusted with an administration.


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What is the reward then that I have? That in announcing the glad tidings I make the glad tidings costless [to others], so as not to have made use, as belonging to me, of my right in [announcing] the glad tidings.


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And I became to the Jews as a Jew, in order that I might gain the Jews: to those under law, as under law, not being myself under law, in order that I might gain those under law:


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to those without law, as without law, (not as without law to God, but as legitimately subject to Christ,) in order that I might gain [those] without law.


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I became to the weak, [as] weak, in order that I might gain the weak. To all I have become all things, in order that at all events I might save some.


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Know ye not that they who run in [the] race-course run all, but one receives the prize? Thus run in order that ye may obtain.


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But every one that contends [for a prize] is temperate in all things: *they* then indeed that they may receive a corruptible crown, but *we* an incorruptible.


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But I buffet my body, and lead it captive, lest [after] having preached to others I should be myself rejected.


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For I would not have you ignorant, brethren, that all our fathers were under the cloud, and all passed through the sea;


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and all drank the same spiritual drink, for they drank of a spiritual rock which followed [them]: (now the rock was the Christ;)


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But these things happened [as] types of us, that we should not be lusters after evil things, as they also lusted.


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


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


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Now all these things happened to them [as] types, and have been written for our admonition, upon whom the ends of the ages are come.


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No temptation has taken you but such as is according to man's nature; and God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above what ye are able [to bear], but will with the temptation make the issue also, so that [ye] should be able to bear [it].


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


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But that what [the nations] sacrifice they sacrifice to demons, and not to God. Now I do not wish you to be in communion with demons.


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Ye cannot drink [the] Lord's cup, and [the] cup of demons: ye cannot partake of [the] Lord's table, and of [the] table of demons.


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But if any one of the unbelievers invite you, and ye are minded to go, all that is set before you eat, making no inquiry for conscience sake.


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But if any one say to you, This is offered to holy purposes, do not eat, for his sake that pointed it out, and conscience sake;


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but conscience, I mean, not thine own, but that of the other: for why is my liberty judged by another conscience?


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Even as *I* also please all in all things; not seeking my own profit, but that of the many, that they may be saved.


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Now I praise you, that in all things ye are mindful of me; and that as I have directed you, ye keep the directions.


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But I wish you to know that the Christ is the head of every man, but woman's head [is] the man, and the Christ's head God.


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But every woman praying or prophesying with her head uncovered puts her own head to shame; for it is one and the same as a shaved [woman].


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For if a woman be not covered, let her hair also be cut off. But if [it be] shameful to a woman to have her hair cut off or to be shaved, let her be covered.


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For man indeed ought not to have his head covered, being God's image and glory; but woman is man's glory.


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But woman, if she have long hair, [it is] glory to her; for the long hair is given [to her] in lieu of a veil.


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But [in] prescribing [to you on] this [which I now enter on], I do not praise, [namely,] that ye come together, not for the better, but for the worse.


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For first, when ye come together in assembly, I hear there exist divisions among you, and I partly give credit [to it].


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For each one in eating takes his *own* supper before [others], and one is hungry and another drinks to excess.


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Have ye not then houses for eating and drinking? or do ye despise the assembly of God, and put to shame them who have not? What shall I say to you? shall I praise you? In this [point] I do not praise.


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For *I* received from the Lord, that which I also delivered 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 broke [it], and said, This is my body, which [is] for you: this do in remembrance of me.


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


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For as often as ye shall eat this bread, and drink the cup, ye announce the death of the Lord, until he come.


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So that whosoever shall eat the bread, or drink the cup of the Lord, unworthily, shall be guilty in respect of the body and of the blood of the Lord.


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If any one be hungry, let him eat at home, that ye may not come together for judgment. But the other things, whenever I come, I will set in order.


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Ye know that when ye were [of the] nations [ye were] led away to dumb idols, in whatever way ye might be led.


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I give you therefore to know, that no one, speaking in [the power of the] Spirit of God, says, Curse [on] Jesus; and no one can say, Lord Jesus, unless in [the power of the] Holy Spirit.


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For to one, by the Spirit, is given [the] word of wisdom; and to another [the] word of knowledge, according to the same Spirit;


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and to a different one faith, in [the power of] the same Spirit; and to another gifts of healing in [the power of] the same Spirit;


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and to another operations of miracles; and to another prophecy; and to another discerning of spirits; and to a different one kinds of tongues; and to another interpretation of tongues.


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But all these things operates the one and the same Spirit, dividing to each in particular according as he pleases.


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For even as the body is one and has many members, but all the members of the body, being many, are one body, so also [is] the Christ.


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For also in [the power of] one Spirit *we* have all been baptised into one body, whether Jews or Greeks, whether bondmen or free, and have all been given to drink of one Spirit.


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If the foot say, Because I am not a hand I am not of the body, is it on account of this not indeed of the body?


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And if the ear say, Because I am not an eye I am not of the body, is it on account of this not indeed of the body?


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The eye cannot say to the hand, I have not need of thee; or again, the head to the feet, I have not need of you.


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and those [parts] of the body which we esteem to be the more void of honour, these we clothe with more abundant honour; and our uncomely [parts] have more abundant comeliness;


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but our comely [parts] have not need. But God has tempered the body together, having given more abundant honour to [the part] that lacked;


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that there might be no division in the body, but that the members might have the same concern one for another.


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And if one member suffer, all the members suffer with [it]; and if one member be glorified, all the members rejoice with [it].


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And God has set certain in the assembly: first, apostles; secondly, prophets; thirdly, teachers; then miraculous powers; then gifts of healings; helps; governments; kinds of tongues.


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[Are] all apostles? [are] all prophets? [are] all teachers? [are] all [in possession of] miraculous powers?


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But desire earnestly the greater gifts, and yet shew I unto you a way of more surpassing excellence.


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


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And if I have prophecy, and know all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing.


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And if I shall dole out all my goods in food, and if I deliver up my body that I may be burned, but have not love, I profit nothing.


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Love has long patience, is kind; love is not emulous [of others]; love is not insolent and rash, is not puffed up,


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does not behave in an unseemly manner, does not seek what is its own, is not quickly provoked, does not impute evil,


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Love never fails; but whether prophecies, they shall be done away; or tongues, they shall cease; or knowledge, it shall be done away.


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When I was a child, I spoke as a child, I felt as a child, I reasoned as a child; when I became a man, I had done with what belonged to the child.


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For we see now through a dim window obscurely, but then face to face; now I know partially, but then I shall know according as I also have been known.


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For he that speaks with a tongue does not speak to men but to God: for no one hears; but in spirit he speaks mysteries.


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Now I desire that ye should all speak with tongues, but rather that ye should prophesy. But greater is he that prophesies than he that speaks with tongues, unless he interpret, that the assembly may receive edification.


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And now, brethren, if I come to you speaking with tongues, what shall I profit you, unless I shall speak to you either in revelation, or in knowledge, or in prophecy, or in teaching?


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Even lifeless things giving a sound, whether pipe or harp, if they give not distinction to the sounds, how shall it be known what is piped or harped?


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Thus also *ye* with the tongue, unless ye give a distinct speech, how shall it be known what is spoken? for ye will be speaking to the air.


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If therefore I do not know the power of the sound, I shall be to him that speaks a barbarian, and he that speaks a barbarian for me.


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Thus *ye* also, since ye are desirous of spirits, seek that ye may abound for the edification of the assembly.


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


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Since otherwise, if thou blessest with [the] spirit, how shall he who fills the place of the simple [Christian] say Amen, at thy giving of thanks, since he does not know what thou sayest?


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but in [the] assembly I desire to speak five words with my understanding, that I may instruct others also, [rather] than ten thousand words in a tongue.


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Brethren, be not children in [your] minds, but in malice be babes; but in [your] minds be grown [men].


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It is written in the law, By people of other tongues, and by strange lips, will I speak to this people; and neither thus will they hear me, saith the Lord.


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So that tongues are for a sign, not to those who believe, but to unbelievers; but prophecy, not to unbelievers, but to those who believe.


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If therefore the whole assembly come together in one place, and all speak with tongues, and simple [persons] enter in, or unbelievers, will not they say ye are mad?


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But if all prophesy, and some unbeliever or simple [person] come in, he is convicted of all, he is judged of all;


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the secrets of his heart are manifested; and thus, falling upon [his] face, he will do homage to God, reporting that God is indeed amongst you.


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What is it then, brethren? whenever ye come together, each [of you] has a psalm, has a teaching, has a tongue, has a revelation, has an interpretation. Let all things be done to edification.


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If any one speak with a tongue, [let it be] two, or at the most three, and separately, and let one interpret;


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but if there be no interpreter, let him be silent in [the] assembly, and let him speak to himself and to God.


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Let [your] women be silent in the assemblies, for it is not permitted to them to speak; but to be in subjection, as the law also says.


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But if they wish to learn anything, let them ask their own husbands at home; for it is a shame for a woman to speak in assembly.


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If any one thinks himself to be a prophet or spiritual, let him recognise the things that I write to you, that it is [the] Lord's commandment.


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But I make known to you, brethren, the glad tidings which I announced to you, which also ye received, in which also ye stand,


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by which also ye are saved, (if ye hold fast the word which I announced to you as the glad tidings,) unless indeed ye have believed in vain.


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For I delivered to you, in the first place, what also I had received, that Christ died for our sins, according to the scriptures;


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Then he appeared to above five hundred brethren at once, of whom the most remain until now, but some also have fallen asleep.


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For *I* am the least of the apostles, who am not fit to be called apostle, because I have persecuted the assembly of God.


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But by God's grace I am what I am; and his grace, which [was] towards me, has not been vain; but I have laboured more abundantly than they all, but not *I*, but the grace of God which [was] with me.


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Now if Christ is preached that he is raised from among [the] dead, how say some among you that there is not a resurrection of [those that are] dead?


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And we are found also false witnesses of God; for we have witnessed concerning God that he raised the Christ, whom he has not raised if indeed [those that are] dead are not raised.


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But each in his own rank: [the] first-fruits, Christ; then those that are the Christ's at his coming.


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Then the end, when he gives up the kingdom to him [who is] God and Father; when he shall have annulled all rule and all authority and power.


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For he has put all things in subjection under his feet. But when he says that all things are put in subjection, [it is] evident that [it is] except him who put all things in subjection to him.


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But when all things shall have been brought into subjection to him, then the Son also himself shall be placed in subjection to him who put all things in subjection to him, that God may be all in all.)


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Since what shall the baptised for the dead do if [those that are] dead rise not at all? why also are they baptised for them?


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If, [to speak] after the manner of man, I have fought with beasts in Ephesus, what is the profit to me if [those that are] dead do not rise? let us eat and drink; for to-morrow we die.


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Awake up righteously, and sin not; for some are ignorant of God: I speak to you as a matter of shame.


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And what thou sowest, thou sowest not the body that shall be, but a bare grain: it may be of wheat, or some one of the rest:


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


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And [there are] heavenly bodies, and earthly bodies: but different is the glory of the heavenly, different that of the earthly:


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one [the] sun's glory, and another [the] moon's glory, and another [the] stars' glory; for star differs from star in glory.


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Thus also [is] the resurrection of the dead. It is sown in corruption, it is raised in incorruptibility.


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It is sown a natural body, it is raised a spiritual body: if there is a natural body, there is also a spiritual [one].


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Thus also it is written, The first man Adam became a living soul; the last Adam a quickening spirit.


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But that which is spiritual [was] not first, but that which is natural, then that which is spiritual:


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Such as he made of dust, such also those made of dust; and such as the heavenly [one], such also the heavenly [ones].


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And as we have borne the image of the [one] made of dust, we shall bear also the image of the heavenly [one].


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But this I say, brethren, that flesh and blood cannot inherit God's kingdom, nor does corruption inherit incorruptibility.


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in an instant, in [the] twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet; for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and *we* shall be changed.


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But when this corruptible shall have put on incorruptibility, and this mortal shall have put on immortality, then shall come to pass the word written: Death has been swallowed up in victory.


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So then, my beloved brethren, be firm, immovable, abounding always in the work of the Lord, knowing that your toil is not in vain in [the] Lord.


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Now concerning the collection for the saints, as I directed the assemblies of Galatia, so do *ye* do also.


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On [the] first of [the] week let each of you put by at home, laying up [in] whatever [degree] he may have prospered, that there may be no collections when I come.


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And when I am arrived, whomsoever ye shall approve, these I will send with letters to carry your bounty to Jerusalem:


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But perhaps I will stay with you, or even winter with you, that *ye* may set me forward wheresoever I may go.


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For I will not see you now in passing, for I hope to remain a certain time with you, if the Lord permit.


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Now if Timotheus come, see that he may be with you without fear; for he works the work of the Lord, even as I.


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Let not therefore any one despise him; but set him forward in peace, that he may come to me; for I expect him with the brethren.


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Now concerning the brother Apollos, I begged him much that he would go to you with the brethren; but it was not at all [his] will to go now; but he will come when he shall have good opportunity.


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But I beseech you, brethren, (ye know the house of Stephanas, that it is the first-fruits of Achaia, and they have devoted themselves to the saints for service,)


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But I rejoice in the coming of Stephanas and Fortunatus and Achaicus; because *they* have supplied what was lacking on your part.


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The assemblies of Asia salute you. Aquila and Priscilla, with the assembly in their house, salute you much in [the] Lord.


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Paul, apostle of Jesus Christ by God's will, and the brother Timotheus, to the assembly of God which is in Corinth, with all the saints who are in the whole of Achaia.


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


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who encourages us in all our tribulation, that we may be able to encourage those who are in any tribulation whatever, through the encouragement with which we ourselves are encouraged of God.


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Because, even as the sufferings of the Christ abound towards us, so through the Christ does our encouragement also abound.


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But whether we are in tribulation, [it is] for your encouragement and salvation, wrought in the endurance of the same sufferings which *we* also suffer,


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(and our hope for you [is] sure;) or whether we are encouraged, [it is] for your encouragement and salvation: knowing that as ye are partakers of the sufferings, so also of the encouragement.


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For we do not wish you to be ignorant, brethren, as to our tribulation which happened [to us] in Asia, that we were excessively pressed beyond [our] power, so as to despair even of living.


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But we ourselves had the sentence of death in ourselves, that we should not have our trust in ourselves, but in God who raises the dead;


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who has delivered us from so great a death, and does deliver; in whom we confide that he will also yet deliver;


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ye also labouring together by supplication for us that the gift towards us, through means of many persons, may be the subject of the thanksgiving of many for us.


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For our boasting is this, the testimony of our conscience, that in simplicity and sincerity before God, (not in fleshly wisdom but in God's grace,) we have had our conversation in the world, and more abundantly towards you.


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For we do not write other things to you but what ye well know and recognise; and I hope that ye will recognise to the end,


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even as also ye have recognised us in part, that we are your boast, even as *ye* [are] ours in the day of the Lord Jesus.


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and to pass through to Macedonia by you, and again from Macedonia to come to you, and to be set forward by you to Judaea.


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Having therefore this purpose, did I then use lightness? Or what I purpose, do I purpose according to flesh, that there should be with me yea yea, and nay nay?


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For the Son of God, Jesus Christ, he who has been preached by us among you (by me and Silvanus and Timotheus), did not become yea and nay, but yea *is* in him.


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For whatever promises of God [there are], in him is the yea, and in him the amen, for glory to God by us.


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And I have written this very [letter] [to you], that coming I may not have grief from those from whom I ought to have joy; trusting in you all that my joy is [that] of you all.


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For out of much tribulation and distress of heart I wrote to you, with many tears; not that ye may be grieved, but that ye may know the love which I have very abundantly towards you.


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But if any one has grieved, he has grieved, not me, but in part (that I may not overcharge [you]) all of you.


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so that on the contrary ye should rather shew grace and encourage, lest perhaps such a one should be swallowed up with excessive grief.


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For to this end also I have written, that I might know, by putting you to the test, if as to everything ye are obedient.


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


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that we might not have Satan get an advantage against us, for we are not ignorant of *his* thoughts.


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Now when I came to Troas for the [publication of the] glad tidings of the Christ, a door also being opened to me in [the] Lord,


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I had no rest in my spirit at not finding Titus my brother; but bidding them adieu, I came away to Macedonia.


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But thanks [be] to God, who always leads us in triumph in the Christ, and makes manifest the odour of his knowledge through us in every place.


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to the one an odour from death unto death, but to the others an odour from life unto life; and who [is] sufficient for these things?


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For we do not, as the many, make a trade of the word of God; but as of sincerity, but as of God, before God, we speak in Christ.


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Do we begin again to commend ourselves? or do we need, as some, commendatory letters to you, or [commendatory] from you?


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being manifested to be Christ's epistle ministered by us, written, not with ink, but [the] Spirit of [the] living God; not on stone tables, but on fleshy tables of [the] heart.


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not that we are competent of ourselves to think anything as of ourselves, but our competency [is] of God;


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who has also made us competent, [as] ministers of [the] new covenant; not of letter, but of spirit. For the letter kills, but the Spirit quickens.


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(But if the ministry of death, in letters, graven in stones, began with glory, so that the children of Israel could not fix their eyes on the face of Moses, on account of the glory of his face, [a glory] which is annulled;


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For if the ministry of condemnation [be] glory, much rather the ministry of righteousness abounds in glory.


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For also that [which was] glorified is not glorified in this respect, on account of the surpassing glory.


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For if that annulled [was introduced] with glory, much rather that which abides [subsists] in glory.


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and not according as Moses put a veil on his own face, so that the children of Israel should not fix their eyes on the end of that annulled.


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But their thoughts have been darkened, for unto this day the same veil remains in reading the old covenant, unremoved, which in Christ is annulled.


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But *we* all, looking on the glory of the Lord, with unveiled face, are transformed according to the same image from glory to glory, even as by [the] Lord [the] Spirit.


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But we have rejected the hidden things of shame, not walking in deceit, nor falsifying the word of God, but by manifestation of the truth commending ourselves to every conscience of men before God.


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in whom the god of this world has blinded the thoughts of the unbelieving, so that the radiancy of the glad tidings of the glory of the Christ, who is [the] image of God, should not shine forth [for them].


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Because [it is] the God who spoke that out of darkness light should shine who has shone in our hearts for the shining forth of the knowledge of the glory of God in [the] face of [Jesus] Christ.


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But we have this treasure in earthen vessels, that the surpassingness of the power may be of God, and not from us:


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every way afflicted, but not straitened; seeing no apparent issue, but our way not entirely shut up;


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


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for we who live are always delivered unto death on account of Jesus, that the life also of Jesus may be manifested in our mortal flesh;


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And having the same spirit of faith, according to what is written, I have believed, therefore have I spoken; *we* also believe, therefore also we speak;


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knowing that he who has raised the Lord Jesus shall raise us also with Jesus, and shall present [us] with you.


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


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Wherefore we faint not; but if indeed our outward man is consumed, yet the inward is renewed day by day.


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For our momentary [and] light affliction works for us in surpassing measure an eternal weight of glory;


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while we look not at the things that are seen, but at the things that are not seen; for the things that are seen [are] for a time, but those that are not seen eternal.


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For we know that if our earthly tabernacle house be destroyed, we have a building from God, a house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens.


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For indeed we who are in the tabernacle groan, being burdened; while yet we do not wish to be unclothed, but clothed, that [what is] mortal may be swallowed up by life.


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Now he that has wrought us for this very thing [is] God, who also has given to us the earnest of the Spirit.


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Therefore [we are] always confident, and know that while present in the body we are absent from the Lord,


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For we must all be manifested before the judgment-seat of the Christ, that each may receive the things [done] in the body, according to those he has done, whether [it be] good or evil.


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Knowing therefore the terror of the Lord we persuade men, but have been manifested to God, and I hope also that we have been manifested in your consciences.


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[For] we do not again commend ourselves to you, but [we are] giving to you occasion of boast in our behalf, that ye may have [such] with those boasting in countenance, and not in heart.


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For the love of the Christ constrains us, having judged this: that one died for all, then all have died;


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and he died for all, that they who live should no longer live to themselves, but to him who died for them and has been raised.


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So that *we* henceforth know no one according to flesh; but if even we have known Christ according to flesh, yet now we know [him thus] no longer.


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So if any one [be] in Christ, [there is] a new creation; the old things have passed away; behold all things have become new:


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and all things [are] of the God who has reconciled us to himself by [Jesus] Christ, and given to us the ministry of that reconciliation:


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how that God was in Christ, reconciling the world to himself, not reckoning to them their offences; and putting in us the word of that reconciliation.


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We are ambassadors therefore for Christ, God as [it were] beseeching by us, we entreat for Christ, Be reconciled to God.


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(for he says, I have listened to thee in an accepted time, and I have helped thee in a day of salvation: behold, now [is the] well-accepted time; behold, now [the] day of salvation:)


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but in everything commending ourselves as God's ministers, in much endurance, in afflictions, in necessities, in straits,


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in [the] word of truth, in [the] power of God; through the arms of righteousness on the right hand and left,


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as grieved, but always rejoicing; as poor, but enriching many; as having nothing, and possessing all things.


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Be not diversely yoked with unbelievers; for what participation [is there] between righteousness and lawlessness? or what fellowship of light with darkness?


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and what agreement of God's temple with idols? for *ye* are [the] living God's temple; according as God has said, I will dwell among them, and walk among [them]; and I will be their God, and they shall be to me a people.


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Wherefore come out from the midst of them, and be separated, saith [the] Lord, and touch not [what is] unclean, and *I* will receive you;


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and I will be to you for a Father, and ye shall be to me for sons and daughters, saith [the] Lord Almighty.


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Having therefore these promises, beloved, let us purify ourselves from every pollution of flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness in God's fear.


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I do not speak for condemnation, for I have already said that ye are in our hearts, to die together, and live together.


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Great [is] my boldness towards you, great my exulting in respect of you; I am filled with encouragement; I overabound in joy under all our affliction.


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For indeed, when we came into Macedonia, our flesh had no rest, but [we were] afflicted in every way; without combats, within fears.


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But he who encourages those that are [brought] low, [even] God, encouraged us by the coming of Titus;


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and not by his coming only, but also through the encouragement with which he was encouraged as to you; relating to us your ardent desire, your mourning, your zeal for me; so that I the more rejoiced.


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For if also I grieved you in the letter, I do not regret [it], if even I have regretted it; for I see that that letter, if even [it were] only for a time, grieved you.


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Now I rejoice, not that ye have been grieved, but that ye have been grieved to repentance; for ye have been grieved according to God, that in nothing ye might be injured by us.


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For grief according to God works repentance to salvation, never to be regretted; but the grief of the world works death.


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For, behold, this same thing, your being grieved according to God, how much diligence it wrought in *you*, but [what] excusing [of yourselves], but [what] indignation, but [what] fear, but [what] ardent desire, but [what] zeal, but [what] vengeance: in every way ye have proved yourselves to be pure in the matter.


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So then, if also I wrote to you, [it was] not for the sake of him that injured, nor for the sake of him that was injured, but for the sake of our diligent zeal for you being manifested to you before God.


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For this reason we have been encouraged. And we the rather rejoiced in our encouragement more abundantly by reason of the joy of Titus, because his spirit has been refreshed by you all.


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Because if I boasted to him anything about you, I have not been put to shame; but as we have spoken to you all things in truth, so also our boasting to Titus has been [the] truth;


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and his affections are more abundantly towards you, calling to mind the obedience of you all, how with fear and trembling ye received him.


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that in a great trial of affliction the abundance of their joy and their deep poverty has abounded to the riches of their [free-hearted] liberality.


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


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begging of us with much entreaty [to give effect to] the grace and fellowship of the service which [was to be rendered] to the saints.


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So that we begged Titus that, according as he had before begun, so he would also complete as to you this grace also;


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but even as ye abound in every way, in faith, and word, and knowledge, and all diligence, and in love from you to us, that ye may abound in this grace also.


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I do not speak as commanding [it], but through the zeal of others, and proving the genuineness of your love.


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For ye know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that for your sakes he, being rich, became poor, in order that *ye* by *his* poverty might be enriched.


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And I give [my] opinion in this, for this is profitable for you who began before, not only to do, but also to be willing, a year ago.


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But now also complete the doing of it; so that as [there was] the readiness to be willing, so also to complete out of what ye have.


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For if the readiness be there, [a man is] accepted according to what he may have, not according to what he has not.


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but [on the principle] of equality; in the present time your abundance for their lack, that their abundance may be for your lack, so that there should be equality.


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According as it is written, He who [gathered] much had no excess, and he who [gathered] little was nothing short.


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but we have sent with him the brother whose praise [is] in the glad tidings through all the assemblies;


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and not only [so], but [is] also chosen by the assemblies as our fellow-traveller with this grace, ministered by us to the glory of the Lord himself, and [a witness of] our readiness;


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And we have sent with them our brother whom we have often proved to be of diligent zeal in many things, and now more diligently zealous through the great confidence [he has] as to you.


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Whether as regards Titus, [he is] my companion and fellow-labourer in your behalf; or our brethren, [they are] deputed messengers of assemblies, Christ's glory.


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Shew therefore to them, before the assemblies, the proof of your love, and of our boasting about you.


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For I know your readiness, which I boast of as respects you to Macedonians, that Achaia is prepared since a year ago, and the zeal [reported] of you has stimulated the mass [of the brethren].


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But I have sent the brethren, in order that our boasting about you may not be made void in this respect, in order that, as I have said, ye may be prepared;


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lest haply, if Macedonians come with me and find you unprepared, *we*, that we say not *ye*, may be put to shame in this confidence.


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I thought it necessary therefore to beg the brethren that they would come to you, and complete beforehand your fore-announced blessing, that this may be ready thus as blessing, and not as got out of you.


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But this [is true], he that sows sparingly shall reap also sparingly; and he that sows in [the spirit of] blessing shall reap also in blessing:


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each according as he is purposed in his heart; not grievingly, or of necessity; for God loves a cheerful giver.


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But God is able to make every gracious gift abound towards you, that, having in every way always all-sufficiency, ye may abound to every good work:


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according as it is written, He has scattered abroad, he has given to the poor, his righteousness remains for ever.


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Now he that supplies seed to the sower and bread for eating shall supply and make abundant your sowing, and increase the fruits of your righteousness:


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Because the ministration of this service is not only filling up the measure of what is lacking to the saints, but also abounding by many thanksgivings to God;


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they glorifying God through the proof of this ministration, by reason of your subjection, by profession, to the glad tidings of the Christ, and your free-hearted liberality in communicating towards them and towards all;


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and in their supplication for you, full of ardent desire for you, on account of the exceeding grace of God [which is] upon you.


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But I myself, Paul, entreat you by the meekness and gentleness of the Christ, who, as to appearance, [when present] [am] mean among you, but absent am bold towards you;


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but I beseech that present I may not be bold with the confidence with which I think to be daring towards some who think of us as walking according to flesh.


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For the arms of our warfare [are] not fleshly, but powerful according to God to [the] overthrow of strongholds;


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overthrowing reasonings and every high thing that lifts itself up against the knowledge of God, and leading captive every thought into the obedience of the Christ;


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Do ye look at what concerns appearance? If any one has confidence in himself that he is of Christ, let him think this again in himself, that even as he [is] of Christ, so also [are] we.


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For and if I should boast even somewhat more abundantly of our authority, which the Lord has given [to us] for building up and not for your overthrowing, I shall not be put to shame;


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because his letters, he says, [are] weighty and strong, but his presence in the body weak, and his speech naught.


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


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For we dare not class ourselves or compare ourselves with some who commend themselves; but these, measuring themselves by themselves, and comparing themselves with themselves, are not intelligent.


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Now *we* will not boast out of measure, but according to the measure of the rule which the God of measure has apportioned to us, to reach to you also.


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For we do not, as not reaching to you, overstretch ourselves, (for we have come to you also in the glad tidings of the Christ;)


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not boasting out of measure in other people's labours, but having hope, your faith increasing, to be enlarged amongst you, according to our rule, yet more abundantly


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to announce the glad tidings to that [which is] beyond you, not to be boasting in another's rule of things made ready to hand.


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For I am jealous as to you with a jealousy [which is] of God; for I have espoused you unto one man, to present [you] a chaste virgin to Christ.


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But I fear lest by any means, as the serpent deceived Eve by his craft, [so] your thoughts should be corrupted from simplicity as to the Christ.


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For if indeed he that comes preaches another Jesus, whom we have not preached, or ye get a different Spirit, which ye have not got, or a different glad tidings, which ye have not received, ye might well bear with [it].


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But if [I am] a simple person in speech, yet not in knowledge, but in everything making [the truth] manifest in all things to you.


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Have I committed sin, abasing myself in order that *ye* might be exalted, because I gratuitously announced to you the glad tidings of God?


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And being present with you and lacking, I did not lazily burden any one, (for the brethren who came from Macedonia supplied what I lacked,) and in everything I kept myself from being a burden to you, and will keep myself.


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[The] truth of Christ is in me that this boasting shall not be stopped as to me in the regions of Achaia.


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But what I do, I will also do, that I may cut off the opportunity of those wishing [for] an opportunity, that wherein they boast they may be found even as we.


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


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Again I say, Let not any one think me to be a fool; but if otherwise, receive me then even as a fool, that *I* also may boast myself some little.


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What I speak I do not speak according to [the] Lord, but as in folly, in this confidence of boasting.


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For ye bear if any one bring you into bondage, if any one devour [you], if any one get [your money], if any one exalt himself, if any one beat you on the face.


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I speak as to dishonour, as though *we* had been weak; but wherein any one is daring, (I speak in folly,) *I* also am daring.


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Are they ministers of Christ? (I speak as being beside myself) *I* above measure [so]; in labours exceedingly abundant, in stripes to excess, in prisons exceedingly abundant, in deaths oft.


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Thrice have I been scourged, once I have been stoned, three times I have suffered shipwreck, a night and day I passed in the deep:


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in journeyings often, in perils of rivers, in perils of robbers, in perils from [my own] race, in perils from [the] nations, in perils in [the] city, in perils in [the] desert, in perils on [the] sea, in perils among false brethren;


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in labour and toil, in watchings often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, in cold and nakedness.


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Besides those things that are without, the crowd [of cares] pressing on me daily, the burden of all the assemblies.


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In Damascus the ethnarch of Aretas the king kept the city of the Damascenes shut up, wishing to take me;


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


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that he was caught up into paradise, and heard unspeakable things said which it is not allowed to man to utter.


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For if I shall desire to boast, I shall not be a fool; for I will say [the] truth; but I forbear, lest any one should think as to me above what he sees me [to be], or whatever he may hear of me.


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And that I might not be exalted by the exceeding greatness of the revelations, there was given to me a thorn for the flesh, a messenger of Satan that he might buffet me, that I might not be exalted.


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And he said to me, My grace suffices thee; for [my] power is perfected in weakness. Most gladly therefore will I rather boast in my weaknesses, that the power of the Christ may dwell upon me.


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Wherefore I take pleasure in weaknesses, in insults, in necessities, in persecutions, in straits, for Christ: for when I am weak, then I am powerful.


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I have become a fool; *ye* have compelled me; for *I* ought to have been commended by you; for I have been nothing behind those who were in surpassing degree apostles, if also I am nothing.


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The signs indeed of the apostle were wrought among you in all endurance, signs, and wonders, and works of power.


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For in what is it that ye have been inferior to the other assemblies, unless that I myself have not been in laziness a charge upon you? Forgive me this injury.


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


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Now *I* shall most gladly spend and be utterly spent for your souls, if even in abundantly loving you I should be less loved.


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I begged Titus, and sent the brother with [him]: did Titus at all make gain of you? have we not walked in the same spirit? [have we] not in the same steps?


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Ye have long been supposing that we excuse ourselves to you: we speak before God in Christ; and all things, beloved, for your building up.


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For I fear lest perhaps coming I find you not such as I wish, and that *I* be found by you such as ye do not wish: lest [there might be] strifes, jealousies, angers, contentions, evil speakings, whisperings, puffings up, disturbances;


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lest my God should humble me as to you when I come again, and that I shall grieve over many of those who have sinned before, and have not repented as to the uncleanness and fornication and licentiousness which they have practised.


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


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I have declared beforehand, and I say beforehand as present the second time, and now absent, to those that have sinned before, and to all the rest, that if I come again I will not spare.


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Since ye seek a proof of Christ speaking in me, (who is not weak towards you, but is powerful among you,


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for if indeed he has been crucified in weakness, yet he lives by God's power; for indeed *we* are weak in him, but we shall live with him by God's power towards you,)


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examine your own selves if ye be in the faith; prove your own selves: do ye not recognise yourselves, that Jesus Christ is in you, unless indeed ye be reprobates?


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But we pray to God that ye may do nothing evil; not that *we* may appear approved, but that *ye* may do what is right, and *we* be as reprobates.


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For we rejoice when *we* may be weak and *ye* may be powerful. But this also we pray for, your perfecting.


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On this account I write these things being absent, that being present I may not use severity according to the authority which the Lord has given me for building up, and not for overthrowing.


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For the rest, brethren, rejoice; be perfected; be encouraged; be of one mind; be at peace; and the God of love and peace shall be with you.


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The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, and the love of God,  and the communion of the Holy Spirit, [be] with you all.


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Paul, apostle, not from men nor through man, but through Jesus Christ, and God [the] Father who raised him from among [the] dead,


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who gave himself for our sins, so that he should deliver us out of the present evil world, according to the will of our God and Father;


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I wonder that ye thus quickly change, from him that called you in Christ's grace, to a different gospel,


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which is not another [one]; but there are some that trouble you, and desire to pervert the glad tidings of the Christ.


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But if even *we* or an angel out of heaven announce as glad tidings to you [anything] besides what we have announced as glad tidings to you, let him be accursed.


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As we have said before, now also again I say, If any one announce to you as glad tidings [anything] besides what ye have received, let him be accursed.


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For do I now seek to satisfy men or God? or do I seek to please men? If I were yet pleasing men, I were not Christ's bondman.


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But I let you know, brethren, [as to] the glad tidings which were announced by me, that they are not according to man.


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For neither did I receive them from man, neither was I taught [them], but by revelation of Jesus Christ.


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For ye have heard [what was] my conversation formerly in Judaism, that I excessively persecuted the assembly of God, and ravaged it;


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and advanced in Judaism beyond many [my] contemporaries in my nation, being exceedingly zealous of the doctrines of my fathers.


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was pleased to reveal his Son in me, that I may announce him as glad tidings among the nations, immediately I took not counsel with flesh and blood,


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nor went I up to Jerusalem to those [who were] apostles before me; but I went to Arabia, and again returned to Damascus.


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Then after three years I went up to Jerusalem to make acquaintance with Peter, and I remained with him fifteen days;


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only they were hearing that he who persecuted us formerly now announces the glad tidings of the faith which formerly he ravaged:


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Then after a lapse of fourteen years I went up again to Jerusalem with Barnabas, taking Titus also with [me];


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and I went up according to revelation, and I laid before them the glad tidings which I preach among the nations, but privately to those conspicuous [among them], lest in any way I run or had run in vain;


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and [it was] on account of the false brethren brought in surreptitiously, who came in surreptitiously to spy out our liberty which we have in Christ Jesus, that they might bring us into bondage;


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to whom we yielded in subjection not even for an hour, that the truth of the glad tidings might remain with you.


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But from those who were conspicuous as being somewhat -- whatsoever they were, it makes no difference to me: God does not accept man's person; for to me those who were conspicuous communicated nothing;


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but, on the contrary, seeing that the glad tidings of the uncircumcision were confided to me, even as to Peter that of the circumcision,


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(for he that wrought in Peter for [the] apostleship of the circumcision wrought also in me towards the Gentiles,)


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and recognising the grace given to me, James and Cephas and John, who were conspicuous as being pillars, gave to me and Barnabas [the] right hands of fellowship, that *we* [should go] to the nations, and *they* to the circumcision;


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for before that certain came from James, he ate with [those of] the nations; but when they came, he drew back and separated himself, fearing those of [the] circumcision;


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and the rest of the Jews also played the same dissembling part with him; so that even Barnabas was carried away too by their dissimulation.


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But when I saw that they do not walk straightforwardly, according to the truth of the glad tidings, I said to Peter before all, If *thou*, being a Jew, livest as the nations and not as the Jews, how dost thou compel the nations to Judaize?


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but knowing that a man is not justified on the principle of works of law [nor] but by the faith of Jesus Christ, *we* also have believed on Christ Jesus, that we might be justified on the principle of [the] faith of Christ; and not of works of law; because on the principle of works of law no flesh shall be justified.


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Now if in seeking to be justified in Christ we also have been found sinners, then [is] Christ minister of sin? Far be the thought.


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I am crucified with Christ, and no longer live, *I*, but Christ lives in me; but [in] that I now live in flesh, I live by faith, the [faith] of the Son of God, who has loved me and given himself for me.


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I do not set aside the grace of God; for if righteousness [is] by law, then Christ has died for nothing.


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O senseless Galatians, who has bewitched you; to whom, as before your very eyes, Jesus Christ has been portrayed, crucified [among you]?


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This only I wish to learn of you, Have ye received the Spirit on the principle of works of law, or of [the] report of faith?


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He therefore who ministers to you the Spirit, and works miracles among you, [is it] on the principle of works of law, or of [the] report of faith?


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and the scripture, foreseeing that God would justify the nations on the principle of faith, announced beforehand the glad tidings to Abraham: In thee all the nations shall be blessed.


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For as many as are on the principle of works of law are under curse. For it is written, Cursed is every one who does not continue in all things which [are] written in the book of the law to do them;


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but that by law no one is justified with God [is] evident, because The just shall live on the principle of faith;


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but the law is not on the principle of faith; but, He that shall have done these things shall live by them.


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Christ has redeemed us out of the curse of the law, having become a curse for us, (for it is written, Cursed [is] every one hanged upon a tree,)


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


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Brethren, (I speak according to man,) even man's confirmed covenant no one sets aside, or adds other dispositions to.


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But to Abraham were the promises addressed, and to his seed: he does not say, And to seeds, as of many; but as of one, And to thy seed; which is Christ.


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Now I say this, A covenant confirmed beforehand by God, the law, which took place four hundred and thirty years after, does not annul, so as to make the promise of no effect.


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For if the inheritance [be] on the principle of law, [it is] no longer on the principle of promise; but God gave it in grace to Abraham by promise.


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Why then the law? It was added for the sake of transgressions, until the seed came to whom the promise was made, ordained through angels in [the] hand of a mediator.


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[Is] then the law against the promises of God? Far be the thought. For if a law had been given able to quicken, then indeed righteousness were on the principle of law;


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but the scripture has shut up all things under sin, that the promise, on the principle of faith of Jesus Christ, should be given to those that believe.


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But before faith came, we were guarded under law, shut up to faith [which was] about to be revealed.


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So that the law has been our tutor up to Christ, that we might be justified on the principle of faith.


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There is no Jew nor Greek; there is no bondman nor freeman; there is no male and female; for ye are all one in Christ Jesus:


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Now I say, As long as the heir is a child, he differs nothing from a bondman, though he be lord of all;


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But because ye are sons, God has sent out the Spirit of his Son into our hearts, crying, Abba, Father.


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but now, knowing God, but rather being known by God, how do ye turn again to the weak and beggarly principles to which ye desire to be again anew in bondage?


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and my temptation, which [was] in my flesh, ye did not slight nor reject with contempt; but ye received me as an angel of God, as Christ Jesus.


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What then [was] your blessedness? for I bear you witness that, if possible, plucking out your own eyes ye would have given [them] to me.


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They are not rightly zealous after you, but desire to shut you out [from us], that ye may be zealous after them.


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But [it is] right to be zealous at all times in what is right, and not only when I am present with you --


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But he [that was] of the maid servant was born according to flesh, and he [that was] of the free woman through the promise.


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Which things have an allegorical sense; for these are two covenants: one from mount Sinai, gendering to bondage, which is Hagar.


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For Hagar is mount Sinai in Arabia, and corresponds to Jerusalem which [is] now, for she is in bondage with her children;


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For it is written, Rejoice, thou barren that bearest not; break out and cry, thou that travailest not; because the children of the desolate are more numerous than [those] of her that has a husband.


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


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But what says the scripture? Cast out the maid servant and her son; for the son of the maid servant shall not inherit with the son of the free woman.


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Christ has set us free in freedom; stand fast therefore, and be not held again in a yoke of bondage.


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Ye are deprived of all profit from the Christ as separated [from him], as many as are justified by law; ye have fallen from grace.


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For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision has any force, nor uncircumcision; but faith working through love.


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*I* have confidence as to you in [the] Lord, that ye will have no other mind; and he that is troubling you shall bear the guilt [of it], whosoever he may be.


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But *I*, brethren, if I yet preach circumcision, why am I yet persecuted? Then the scandal of the cross has been done away.


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For *ye* have been called to liberty, brethren; only [do] not [turn] liberty into an opportunity to the flesh, but by love serve one another.


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For the flesh lusts against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh: and these things are opposed one to the other, that ye should not do those things which ye desire;


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envyings, murders, drunkennesses, revels, and things like these; as to which I tell you beforehand, even as I also have said before, that they who do such things shall not inherit God's kingdom.


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Brethren, if even a man be taken in some fault, ye who are spiritual restore such a one in a spirit of meekness, considering thyself lest *thou* also be tempted.


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but let each prove his own work, and then he will have his boast in what belongs to himself alone, and not in what belongs to another.


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For he that sows to his own flesh, shall reap corruption from the flesh; but he that sows to the Spirit, from the Spirit shall reap eternal life:


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So then, as we have occasion, let us do good towards all, and specially towards those of the household of faith.


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As many as desire to have a fair appearance in [the] flesh, these compel you to be circumcised, only that they may not be persecuted because of the cross of Christ.


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For neither do they that are circumcised themselves keep the law; but they wish you to be circumcised, that they may boast in your flesh.


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But far be it from me to boast save in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom [the] world is crucified to me, and I to the world.


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Paul, apostle of Jesus Christ by God's will, to the saints and faithful in Christ Jesus who are at Ephesus.


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Blessed [be] the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenlies in Christ;


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according as he has chosen us in him before [the] world's foundation, that we should be holy and blameless before him in love;


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having marked us out beforehand for adoption through Jesus Christ to himself, according to the good pleasure of his will,


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


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having made known to us the mystery of his will, according to his good pleasure which he purposed in himself


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for [the] administration of the fulness of times; to head up all things in the Christ, the things in the heavens and the things upon the earth; in him,


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in whom we have also obtained an inheritance, being marked out beforehand according to the purpose of him who works all things according to the counsel of his own will,


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in whom *ye* also [have trusted], having heard the word of the truth, the glad tidings of your salvation; in whom also, having believed, ye have been sealed with the Holy Spirit of promise,


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who is [the] earnest of our inheritance to the redemption of the acquired possession to [the] praise of his glory.


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Wherefore *I* also, having heard of the faith in the Lord Jesus which [is] in you, and the love which [ye have] towards all the saints,


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that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, would give you [the] spirit of wisdom and revelation in the full knowledge of him,


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being enlightened in the eyes of your heart, so that ye should know what is the hope of his calling, [and] what the riches of the glory of his inheritance in the saints,


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and what the surpassing greatness of his power towards us who believe, according to the working of the might of his strength,


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[in] which he wrought in the Christ [in] raising him from among [the] dead, and he set him down at his right hand in the heavenlies,


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above every principality, and authority, and power, and dominion, and every name named, not only in this age, but also in that to come;


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in which ye once walked according to the age of this world, according to the ruler of the authority of the air, the spirit who now works in the sons of disobedience:


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among whom *we* also all once had our conversation in the lusts of our flesh, doing what the flesh and the thoughts willed to do, and were children, by nature, of wrath, even as the rest:


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and has raised [us] up together, and has made [us] sit down together in the heavenlies in Christ Jesus,


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that he might display in the coming ages the surpassing riches of his grace in kindness towards us in Christ Jesus.


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


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Wherefore remember that *ye*, once nations in [the] flesh, who [are] called uncircumcision by that called circumcision in [the] flesh done with the hand;


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


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having annulled the enmity in his flesh, the law of commandments in ordinances, that he might form the two in himself into one new man, making peace;


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and, coming, he has preached the glad tidings of peace to you who [were] afar off, and [the glad tidings of] peace to those [who were] nigh.


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So then ye are no longer strangers and foreigners, but ye are 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 the corner-stone,


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(if indeed ye have heard of the administration of the grace of God which has been given to me towards you,


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that by revelation the mystery has been made known to me, (according as I have written before briefly,


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which in other generations has not been made known to the sons of men, as it has now been revealed to his holy apostles and prophets in [the power of the] Spirit,


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that [they who are of] the nations should be joint heirs, and a joint body, and joint partakers of [his] promise in Christ Jesus by the glad tidings;


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of which I am become minister according to the gift of the grace of God given to me, according to the working of his power.


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To me, less than the least of all saints, has this grace been given, to announce among the nations the glad tidings of the unsearchable riches of the Christ,


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and to enlighten all [with the knowledge of] what is the administration of the mystery hidden throughout the ages in God, who has created all things,


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in order that now to the principalities and authorities in the heavenlies might be made known through the assembly the all-various wisdom of God,


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in order that he may give you according to the riches of his glory, to be strengthened with power by his Spirit in the inner man;


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in order that ye may be fully able to apprehend with all the saints what [is] the breadth and length and depth and height;


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and to know the love of the Christ which surpasses knowledge; that ye may be filled [even] to all the fulness of God.


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But to him that is able to do far exceedingly above all which we ask or think, according to the power which works in us,


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*I*, the prisoner in [the] Lord, exhort you therefore to walk worthy of the calling wherewith ye have been called,


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Wherefore he says, Having ascended up on high, he has led captivity captive, and has given gifts to men.


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He that descended is the same who has also ascended up above all the heavens, that he might fill all things;


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and *he* has given some apostles, and some prophets, and some evangelists, and some shepherds and teachers,


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for the perfecting of the saints; with a view to [the] work of [the] ministry, with a view to the edifying of the body of Christ;


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until we all arrive at the unity of the faith and of the knowledge of the Son of God, at [the] full-grown man, at [the] measure of the stature of the fulness of the Christ;


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in order that we may be no longer babes, tossed and carried about by every wind of *that* teaching [which is] in the sleight of men, in unprincipled cunning with a view to systematized error;


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from whom the whole body, fitted together, and connected by every joint of supply, according to [the] working in [its] measure of each one part, works for itself the increase of the body to its self-building up in love.


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This I say therefore, and testify in [the] Lord, that ye should no longer walk as [the rest of] the nations walk in [the] vanity of their mind,


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being darkened in understanding, estranged from the life of God by reason of the ignorance which is in them, by reason of the hardness of their hearts,


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who having cast off all feeling, have given themselves up to lasciviousness, to work all uncleanness with greedy unsatisfied lust.


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[namely] your having put off according to the former conversation the old man which corrupts itself according to the deceitful lusts;


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and [your] having put on the new man, which according to God is created in truthful righteousness and holiness.


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Wherefore, having put off falsehood, speak truth every one with his neighbour, because we are members one of another.


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Let the stealer steal no more, but rather let him toil, working what is honest with [his] hands, that he may have to distribute to him that has need.


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Let no corrupt word go out of your mouth, but if [there be] any good one for needful edification, that it may give grace to those that hear [it].


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And do not grieve the Holy Spirit of God, with which ye have been sealed for [the] day of redemption.


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Let all bitterness, and heat of passion, and wrath, and clamour, and injurious language, be removed from you, with all malice;


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and be to one another kind, compassionate, forgiving one another, so as God also in Christ has forgiven you.


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and walk in love, even as the Christ loved us, and delivered himself up for us, an offering and sacrifice to God for a sweet-smelling savour.


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But fornication and all uncleanness or unbridled lust, let it not be even named among you, as it becomes saints;


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For this ye are [well] informed of, knowing that no fornicator, or unclean person, or person of unbridled lust, who is an idolater, has inheritance in the kingdom of the Christ and God.


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Let no one deceive you with vain words, for on account of these things the wrath of God comes upon the sons of disobedience.


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But all things having their true character exposed by the light are made manifest; for that which makes everything manifest is light.


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Wherefore he says, Wake up, [thou] that sleepest, and arise up from among 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 chanting with your heart to the Lord;


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giving thanks at all times for all things to him [who is] God and [the] Father in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ,


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for a husband is head of the wife, as also the Christ [is] head of the assembly. *He* [is] Saviour of the body.


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But even as the assembly is subjected to the Christ, so also wives to their own husbands in everything.


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Husbands, love your own wives, even as the Christ also loved the assembly, and has delivered himself up for it,


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that *he* might present the assembly to himself glorious, having no spot, or wrinkle, or any of such things; but that it might be holy and blameless.


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So ought men also to love their own wives as their own bodies: he that loves his own wife loves himself.


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For no one has ever hated his own flesh, but nourishes and cherishes it, even as also the Christ the assembly:


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Because of this a man shall leave his father and mother, and shall be united to his wife, and the two shall be one flesh.


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But *ye* also, every one of you, let each so love his own wife as himself; but as to the wife [I speak] that she may fear the husband.


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And [ye] fathers, do not provoke your children to anger, but bring them up in [the] discipline and admonition of [the] Lord.


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


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not with eye-service as men-pleasers; but as bondmen of Christ, doing the will of God from [the] soul,


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knowing that whatever good each shall do, this he shall receive of [the] Lord, whether bond or free.


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And, masters, do the same things towards them, giving up threatening, knowing that both their and your Master is in heaven, and there is no acceptance of persons with him.


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because our struggle is not against blood and flesh, but against principalities, against authorities, against the universal lords of this darkness, against spiritual [power] of wickedness in the heavenlies.


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For this reason take [to you] the panoply of God, that ye may be able to withstand in the evil day, and, having accomplished all things, to stand.


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


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besides all [these], having taken the shield of faith with which ye will be able to quench all the inflamed darts of the wicked one.


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praying at all seasons, with all prayer and supplication in [the] Spirit, and watching unto this very thing with all perseverance and supplication for all the saints;


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and for me in order that utterance may be given to me in [the] opening of my mouth to make known with boldness the mystery of the glad tidings,


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But in order that *ye* also may know what concerns me, how I am getting on, Tychicus, the beloved brother and faithful minister in [the] Lord, shall make all things known to you;


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whom I have sent to you for this very thing, that ye may know of our affairs and that he may encourage your hearts.


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Paul and Timotheus, bondmen of Jesus Christ, to all the saints in Christ Jesus who are in Philippi, with [the] overseers and ministers;


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having confidence of this very thing, that he who has begun in you a good work will complete it unto Jesus Christ's day:


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as it is righteous for me to think this as to you all, because ye have *me* in your hearts, and that both in my bonds and in the defence and confirmation of the glad tidings ye are all participators in my grace.


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And this I pray, that your love may abound yet more and more in full knowledge and all intelligence,


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that ye may judge of and approve the things that are more excellent, in order that ye may be pure and without offence for Christ's day,


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being complete as regards the fruit of righteousness, which [is] by Jesus Christ, to God's glory and praise.


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But I would have you know, brethren, that the circumstances in which I am have turned out rather to the furtherance of the glad tidings,


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and that the most of the brethren, trusting in [the] Lord through my bonds, dare more abundantly to speak the word of God fearlessly.


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but those out of contention, announce the Christ, not purely, supposing to arouse tribulation for my bonds.


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What is it then? at any rate, in every way, whether in pretext or in truth, Christ is announced; and in this I rejoice, yea, also I will rejoice;


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for I know that this shall turn out for me to salvation, through your supplication and [the] supply of the Spirit of Jesus Christ;


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


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but if to live in flesh [is my lot], this is for me worth the while: and what I shall choose I cannot tell.


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But I am pressed by both, having the desire for departure and being with Christ, [for] [it is] very much better,


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and having confidence of this, I know that I shall remain and abide along with you all, for your progress and joy in faith;


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Only conduct yourselves worthily of the glad tidings of the Christ, in order that whether coming and seeing you, or absent, I may hear of what concerns you, that ye stand firm in one spirit, with one soul, labouring together in the same conflict with the faith of the glad tidings;


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and not frightened in anything by the opposers, which is to them a demonstration of destruction, but of your salvation, and that from God;


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because to you has been given, as regards Christ, not only the believing on him but the suffering for him also,


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If then [there be] any comfort in Christ, if any consolation of love, if any fellowship of [the] Spirit, if any bowels and compassions,


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fulfil my joy, that ye may think the same thing, having the same love, joined in soul, thinking one thing;


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[let] nothing [be] in the spirit of strife or vain glory, but, in lowliness of mind, each esteeming the other as more excellent than themselves;


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who, subsisting in the form of God, did not esteem it an object of rapine to be on an equality with God;


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and having been found in figure as a man, humbled himself, becoming obedient even unto death, and [that the] death of [the] cross.


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


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that ye may be harmless and simple, irreproachable children of God in the midst of a crooked and perverted generation; among whom ye appear as lights in [the] world,


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holding forth [the] word of life, so as to be a boast for me in Christ's day, that I have not run in vain nor laboured in vain.


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But if also I am poured out as a libation on the sacrifice and ministration of your faith, I rejoice, and rejoice in common with you all.


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But I hope in [the] Lord Jesus to send Timotheus to you shortly, that *I* also may be refreshed, knowing how ye get on.


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But ye know the proof of him, that, as a child a father, he has served with me in the work of the glad tidings.


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but I have thought it necessary to send to you Epaphroditus, my brother and fellow-workman and fellow-soldier, but your messenger and minister to my need,


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since he had a longing desire after you all, and was distressed because ye had heard that he was sick;


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for he was also sick close to death, but God had mercy on him, and not indeed on him alone, but also on me, that I might not have sorrow upon sorrow.


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I have sent him therefore the more diligently, that seeing him ye might again rejoice, and that *I* might be the less sorrowful.


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because for the sake of the work he drew near even to death, venturing his life that he might fill up what lacked in your ministration toward me.


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For the rest, my brethren, rejoice in [the] Lord: to write the same things to you, to me [is] not irksome, and for you safe.


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For *we* are the circumcision, who worship by [the] Spirit of God, and boast in Christ Jesus, and do not trust in flesh.


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as to circumcision, [I received it] the eighth day; of [the] race of Israel, of [the] tribe of Benjamin, Hebrew of Hebrews; as to [the] law, a Pharisee;


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But surely I count also all things to be loss on account of the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord, on account of whom I have suffered the loss of all, and count them to be filth, that I may gain Christ;


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and that I may be found in him, not having my righteousness, which [would be] on the principle of law, but that which is by faith of Christ, the righteousness which [is] of God through faith,


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


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Not that I have already obtained [the prize], or am already perfected; but I pursue, if also I may get possession [of it], seeing that also I have been taken possession of by Christ [Jesus].


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Brethren, *I* do not count to have got possession myself; but one thing -- forgetting the things behind, and stretching out to the things before,


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I pursue, [looking] towards [the] goal, for the prize of the calling on high of God in Christ Jesus.


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As many therefore as [are] perfect, let us be thus minded; and if ye are any otherwise minded, this also God shall reveal to you.


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Be imitators [all] together of me, brethren, and fix your eyes on those walking thus as you have us for a model;


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


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whose end [is] destruction, whose god [is] the belly, and [their] glory in their shame, who mind earthly things:)


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for *our* commonwealth has its existence in [the] heavens, from which also we await the Lord Jesus Christ [as] Saviour,


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who shall transform our body of humiliation into conformity to his body of glory, according to the working of [the] power which he has even to subdue all things to himself.


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So that, my brethren, beloved and longed for, my joy and crown, thus stand fast in [the] Lord, beloved.


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yea, I ask thee also, true yokefellow, assist them, who have contended along with me in the glad tidings, with Clement also, and my other fellow-labourers, whose names [are] in [the] book of life.


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Be careful about nothing; but in everything, by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known to God;


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and the peace of God, which surpasses every understanding, shall guard your hearts and your thoughts by Christ Jesus.


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For the rest, brethren, whatsoever things [are] true, whatsoever things [are] noble, whatsoever things [are] just, whatsoever things [are] pure, whatsoever things [are] amiable, whatsoever things [are] of good report; if [there be] any virtue and if any praise, think on these things.


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What ye have both learned, and received, and heard, and seen in me, these things do; and the God of peace shall be with you.


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But I rejoiced in [the] Lord greatly, that now however at length ye have revived your thinking of me, though surely ye did also think [of me], but lacked opportunity.


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Not that I speak as regards privation, for as to me *I* have learnt in those circumstances in which I am, to be satisfied in myself.


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I know both how to be abased and I know how to abound. In everything and in all things I am initiated both to be full and to be hungry, both to abound and to suffer privation.


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And know also *ye*, O Philippians, that in [the] beginning of the gospel, when I came out of Macedonia, no assembly communicated [anything] to me in [the] way of giving and receiving save *ye* alone;


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But I have all things in full supply and abound; I am full, having received of Epaphroditus the things [sent] from you, an odour of sweet savour, an acceptable sacrifice, agreeable to God.


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to the holy and faithful brethren in Christ which [are] in Colosse. Grace to you and peace from God our Father [and Lord Jesus Christ].


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on account of the hope which [is] laid up for you in the heavens; of which ye heard before in the word of the truth of the glad tidings,


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which are come to you, as [they are] in all the world, [and] are bearing fruit and growing, even as also among you, from the day ye heard [them] and knew indeed the grace of God, in truth:


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even as ye learned from Epaphras our beloved fellow-bondman, who is a faithful minister of Christ for you,


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For this reason *we* also, from the day we heard [of your faith and love], do not cease praying and asking for you, to the end that ye may be filled with the full knowledge of his will, in all wisdom and spiritual understanding,


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[so as] to walk worthily of the Lord unto all well-pleasing, bearing fruit in every good work, and growing by the true knowledge of God;


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


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who has delivered us from the authority of darkness, and translated [us] into the kingdom of the Son of his love:


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because by him were created all things, the things in the heavens and the things upon the earth, the visible and the invisible, whether thrones, or lordships, or principalities, or authorities: all things have been created by him and for him.


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And *he* is the head of the body, the assembly; who is [the] beginning, firstborn from among the dead, that *he* might have the first place in all things:


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and by him to reconcile all things to itself, having made peace by the blood of his cross -- by him, whether the things on the earth or the things in the heavens.


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in the body of his flesh through death; to present you holy and unblamable and irreproachable before it,


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if indeed ye abide in the faith founded and firm, and not moved away from the hope of the glad tidings, which ye have heard, which have been proclaimed in the whole creation which [is] under heaven, of which *I* Paul became minister.


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Now, I rejoice in sufferings for you, and I fill up that which is behind of the tribulations of Christ in my flesh, for his body, which is the assembly;


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of which *I* became minister, according to the dispensation of God which [is] given me towards you to complete the word of God,


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the mystery which [has been] hidden from ages and from generations, but has now been made manifest to his saints;


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to whom God would make known what are the riches of the glory of this mystery among the nations, which is Christ in you the hope of glory:


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whom *we* announce, admonishing every man, and teaching every man, in all wisdom, to the end that we may present every man perfect in Christ.


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For I would have you know what combat I have for you, and those in Laodicea, and as many as have not seen my face in flesh;


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to the end that their hearts may be encouraged, being united together in love, and unto all riches of the full assurance of understanding, to [the] full knowledge of the mystery of God;


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For if indeed in the flesh I am absent, yet I am with you in spirit, rejoicing and seeing your order, and the firmness of your faith in Christ.


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rooted and built up in him, and assured in the faith, even as ye have been taught, abounding in it with thanksgiving.


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See that there be no one who shall lead *you* away as a prey through philosophy and vain deceit, according to the teaching of men, according to the elements of the world, and not according to Christ.


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in whom also ye have been circumcised with circumcision not done by hand, in the putting off of the body of the flesh, in the circumcision of the Christ;


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buried with him in baptism, in which ye have been also raised with [him] through faith of the working of God who raised him from among the dead.


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And you, being dead in offences and in the uncircumcision of your flesh, he has quickened together with him, having forgiven us all the offences;


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having effaced the handwriting in ordinances which [stood out] against us, which was contrary to us, he has taken it also out of the way, having nailed it to the cross;


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having spoiled principalities and authorities, he made a show of them publicly, leading them in triumph by it.


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Let no one fraudulently deprive you of your prize, doing his own will in humility and worship of angels, entering into things which he has not seen, vainly puffed up by the mind of his flesh,


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and not holding fast the head, from whom all the body, ministered to and united together by the joints and bands, increases with the increase of God.


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If ye have died with Christ from the elements of the world, why as [if] alive in [the] world do ye subject yourselves to ordinances?


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(things which are all for destruction in the using [of them]:) according to the injunctions and teachings of men,


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(which have indeed an appearance of wisdom in voluntary worship, and humility, and harsh treatment of the body, not in a certain honour,) to [the] satisfaction of the flesh.


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If therefore ye have been raised with the Christ, seek the things [which are] above, where the Christ is, sitting at [the] right hand of God:


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


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Put to death therefore your members which [are] upon the earth, fornication, uncleanness, vile passions, evil lust, and unbridled desire, which is idolatry.


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But now, put off, *ye* also, all [these] things, wrath, anger, malice, blasphemy, vile language out of your mouth.


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and having put on the new, renewed into full knowledge according to [the] image of him that has created him;


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wherein there is not Greek and Jew, circumcision and uncircumcision, barbarian, Scythian, bondman, freeman; but Christ [is] everything, and in all.


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Put on therefore, as [the] elect of God, holy and beloved, bowels of compassion, kindness, lowliness, meekness, longsuffering;


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forbearing one another, and forgiving one another, if any should have a complaint against any; even as the Christ has forgiven you, so also [do] *ye*.


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And let the peace of Christ preside in your hearts, to which also ye have been called in one body, and be thankful.


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


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And everything, whatever ye may do in word or in deed, [do] all things in [the] name of [the] Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father by him.


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Bondmen, obey in all things your masters according to flesh; not with eye-services, as men-pleasers, but in simplicity of heart, fearing the Lord.


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knowing that of [the] Lord ye shall receive the recompense of the inheritance; ye serve the Lord Christ.


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Masters, give to bondmen what is just and fair, knowing that *ye* also have a Master in [the] heavens.


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praying at the same time for us also, that God may open to us a door of the word to speak the mystery of Christ, on account of which also I am bound,


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[Let] your word [be] always with grace, seasoned with salt, [so as] to know how ye ought to answer each one.


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Tychicus, the beloved brother and faithful minister and fellow-bondman in [the] Lord, will make known to you all that concerns me;


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whom I have sent to you for this very purpose, that he might know your state, and that he might encourage your hearts:


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with Onesimus, the faithful and beloved brother, who is [one] of you. They shall make known to you everything here.


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Aristarchus my fellow-captive salutes you, and Mark, Barnabas's cousin, concerning whom ye have received orders, (if he come to you, receive him,)


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and Jesus called Justus, who are of the circumcision. These [are the] only fellow-workers for the kingdom of God who have been a consolation to me.


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Epaphras, who is [one] of you, [the] bondman of Christ Jesus, salutes you, always combating earnestly for you in prayers, to the end that ye may stand perfect and complete in all [the] will of God.


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And when the letter has been read among you, cause that it be read also in the assembly of Laodiceans, and that *ye* also read that from Laodicea.


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And say to Archippus, Take heed to the ministry which thou hast received in [the] Lord, to the end that thou 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.


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remembering unceasingly your work of faith, and labour of love, and enduring constancy of hope, of our Lord Jesus Christ, before our God and Father;


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For our glad tidings were not with you in word only, but also in power, and in [the] Holy Spirit, and in much assurance; even as ye know what we were among you for your sakes:


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and *ye* became our imitators, and of the Lord, having accepted the word in much tribulation with joy of [the] Holy Spirit,


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for the word of the Lord sounded out from you, not only in Macedonia and Achaia, but in every place your faith which [is] towards God has gone abroad, so that we have no need to say anything;


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for they themselves relate concerning us what entering in we had to you, and how ye turned to God from idols to serve a living and true God,


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and to await his Son from the heavens, whom he raised from among the dead, Jesus, our deliverer from the coming wrath.


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For ye know yourselves, brethren, our entering in which [we had] to you, that it has not been in vain;


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but, having suffered before and been insulted, even as ye know, in Philippi, we were bold in our God to speak unto you the glad tidings of God with much earnest striving.


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but even as we have been approved of God to have the glad tidings entrusted to us, so we speak; not as pleasing men, but God, who proves our hearts.


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For we have not at any time been [among you] with flattering discourse, even as ye know, nor with a pretext for covetousness, God [is] witness;


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nor seeking glory from men, neither from you nor from others, when we might have been a charge as Christ's apostles;


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Thus, yearning over you, we had found our delight in having imparted to you not only the glad tidings of God, but our own lives also, because ye had become beloved of us.


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For ye remember, brethren, our labour and toil: working night and day, not to be chargeable to any one of you, we have preached to you the glad tidings of God.


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*Ye* [are] witnesses, and God, how piously and righteously and blamelessly we have conducted ourselves with you that believe:


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as ye know how, as a father his own children, we used to exhort each one of you, and comfort and testify,


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And for this cause we also give thanks to God unceasingly that, having received [the] word of [the] report of God by us, ye accepted, not men's word, but, even as it is truly, God's word, which also works in you who believe.


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For *ye*, brethren, have become imitators of the assemblies of God which are in Judaea in Christ Jesus; for *ye* also have suffered the same things of your own countrymen as also *they* of the Jews,


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who have both slain the Lord Jesus and the prophets, and have driven us out by persecution, and do not please God, and [are] against all men,


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forbidding us to speak to the nations that they may be saved, that they may fill up their sins always: but wrath has come upon them to the uttermost.


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But we, brethren, having been bereaved of you and separated for a little moment in person, not in heart, have used more abundant diligence to see your face with much desire;


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wherefore we have desired to come to you, even I Paul, both once and twice, and Satan has hindered us.


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For what [is] our hope, or joy, or crown of boasting? [are] not *ye* also before our Lord Jesus at his coming?


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and sent Timotheus, our brother and fellow-workman under God in the glad tidings of Christ, to confirm you and encourage [you] concerning your faith,


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for also, when we were with you, we told you beforehand we are about to be in tribulation, even as also it came to pass, and ye know.)


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For this reason *I* also, no longer able to refrain myself, sent to know your faith, lest perhaps the tempter had tempted you and our labour should be come to nothing.


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But Timotheus having just come to us from you, and brought to us the glad tidings of your faith and love, and that ye have always good remembrance of us, desiring much to see us, even as we also you;


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for this reason we have been comforted in you, brethren, in all our distress and tribulation, through your faith,


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For what thanksgiving can we render to God for you, for all the joy wherewith we rejoice on account of you before our God,


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night and day beseeching exceedingly to the end that we may see your face, and perfect what is lacking in your faith?


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But you, may the Lord make to exceed and abound in love toward one another, and toward all, even as we also towards you,


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in order to the confirming of your hearts unblamable in holiness before our God and Father at the coming of our Lord Jesus with all his saints.


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For the rest, then, brethren, we beg you and exhort you in [the] Lord Jesus, even as ye have received from us how ye ought to walk and please God, even as ye also do walk, that ye would abound still more.


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not overstepping the rights of and wronging his brother in the matter, because the Lord [is] the avenger of all these things, even as we also told you before, and have fully testified.


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He therefore that [in this] disregards [his brother], disregards, not man, but God, who has given also his Holy Spirit to you.


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Now concerning brotherly love ye have no need that we should write to you, for ye yourselves are taught of God to love one another.


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For also ye do this towards all the brethren in the whole of Macedonia; but we exhort you, brethren, to abound still more,


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and to seek earnestly to be quiet and mind your own affairs, and work with your [own] hands, even as we charged you,


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But we do not wish you to be ignorant, brethren, concerning them that are fallen asleep, to the end that ye be not grieved even as also the rest who have no hope.


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For if we believe that Jesus has died and has risen again, so also God will bring with him those who have fallen asleep through Jesus.


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(For this we say to you in [the] word of [the] Lord, that *we*, the living, who remain to the coming of the Lord, are in no way to anticipate those who have fallen asleep;


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for the Lord himself, with an assembling shout, with archangel's voice and with trump of God, shall descend from heaven; and the dead in Christ shall rise first;


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then *we*, the living who remain, shall be caught up together with them in [the] clouds, to meet the Lord in [the] air; and thus we shall be always with [the] Lord.


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When they may say, Peace and safety, then sudden destruction comes upon them, as travail upon her that is with child; and they shall in no wise escape.


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but *we* being of [the] day, let us be sober, putting on [the] breastplate of faith and love, and as helmet [the] hope of salvation;


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But we beg you, brethren, to know those who labour among you, and take the lead among you in [the] Lord, and admonish you,


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But we exhort you, brethren, admonish the disorderly, comfort the faint-hearted, sustain the weak, be patient towards all.


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See that no one render to any evil for evil, but pursue always what is good towards one another and towards all;


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Now the God of peace himself sanctify you wholly: and your whole spirit, and soul, and body be preserved blameless at the coming 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 thank God always for you, brethren, even as it is meet, because your faith increases exceedingly, and the love of each one of you all towards one another abounds;


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so that we ourselves make our boast in you in the assemblies of God for your endurance and faith in all your persecutions and tribulations, which ye are sustaining;


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a manifest token of the righteous judgment of God, to the end that ye should be counted worthy of the kingdom of God, for the sake of which ye also suffer;


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and to you that are troubled repose with us, at the revelation of the Lord Jesus from heaven, with [the] angels of his power,


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in flaming fire taking vengeance on those who know not God, and those who do not obey the glad tidings of our Lord Jesus Christ;


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who shall pay the penalty [of] everlasting destruction from [the] presence of the Lord, and from the glory of his might,


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when he shall have come to be glorified in his saints, and wondered at in all that have believed, (for our testimony to you has been believed,) in that day.


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To which end we also pray always for you, that our God may count you worthy of the calling, and fulfil all [the] good pleasure of [his] goodness and [the] work of faith with power,


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so 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 of [the] Lord Jesus Christ.


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that ye be not soon shaken in mind, nor troubled, neither by spirit, nor by word, nor by letter, as [if it were] by us, as that the day of the Lord is present.


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Let not any one deceive you in any manner, because [it will not be] unless the apostasy have first come, and the man of sin have been revealed, the son of perdition;


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who opposes and exalts himself on high against all called God, or object of veneration; so that he himself sits down in the temple of God, shewing himself that he is God.


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For the mystery of lawlessness already works; only [there is] he who restrains now until he be gone,


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and then the lawless one shall be revealed, whom the Lord Jesus shall consume with the breath of his mouth, and shall annul by the appearing of his coming;


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and in all deceit of unrighteousness to them that perish, because they have not received the love of the truth that they might be saved.


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that all might be judged who have not believed the truth, but have found pleasure in unrighteousness.


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But we ought to give thanks to God always for you, brethren beloved of [the] Lord, that God has chosen you from [the] beginning to salvation in sanctification of [the] Spirit and belief of [the] truth:


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whereto he has called you by our glad tidings, to [the] obtaining of [the] glory of our Lord Jesus Christ.


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So then, brethren, stand firm, and hold fast the instructions which ye have been taught, whether by word or by our letter.


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But our Lord Jesus Christ himself, and our God and Father, who has loved us, and given [us] eternal consolation and good hope by grace,


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For the rest, brethren, pray for us, that the word of the Lord may run and be glorified, even as also with you;


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Now we enjoin you, brethren, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that ye withdraw from every brother walking disorderly and not according to the instruction which he received from us.


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nor have we eaten bread from any one without cost; but in toil and hardship working night and day not to be chargeable to any one of you:


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not that we have not the right, but that we might give ourselves as an example to you, in order to your imitating us.


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For also when we were with you we enjoined you this, that if any man does not like to work, neither let him eat.


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Now such we enjoin and exhort in [the] Lord Jesus Christ, that working quietly they eat their own bread.


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But if any one obey not our word by the letter, mark that man, and do not keep company with him, that he may be ashamed of himself;


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Paul, apostle of Jesus Christ, according to [the] command of God our Saviour, and of Christ Jesus our hope,


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to Timotheus, [my] true child in faith: grace, mercy, peace, from God our Father and Christ Jesus our Lord.


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Even as I begged thee to remain in Ephesus, [when I was] going to Macedonia, that thou mightest enjoin some not to teach other doctrines,


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nor to turn their minds to fables and interminable genealogies, which bring questionings rather than [further] God's dispensation, which [is] in faith.


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But the end of what is enjoined is love out of a pure heart and a good conscience and unfeigned faith;


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desiring to be law-teachers, not understanding either what they say or concerning what they [so] strenuously affirm.


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knowing this, that law has not its application to a righteous person, but to [the] lawless and insubordinate, to [the] impious and sinful, to [the] unholy and profane, to smiters of fathers and smiters of mothers; to murderers,


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fornicators, sodomites, kidnappers, liars, perjurers; and if any other thing is opposed to sound teaching,


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[And] I thank Christ Jesus our Lord, who has given me power, that he has counted me faithful, appointing to ministry him


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who before was a blasphemer and persecutor, and an insolent overbearing [man]: but mercy was shewn me because I did it ignorantly, in unbelief.


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But the grace of our Lord surpassingly over-abounded with faith and love, which [is] in Christ Jesus.


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Faithful [is] the word, and worthy of all acceptation, that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners, of whom *I* am [the] first.


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But for this reason mercy was shewn me, that in me, [the] first, Jesus Christ might display the whole long-suffering, for a delineation of those about to believe on him to life eternal.


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Now to the King of the ages, [the] incorruptible, invisible, only God, honour and glory to the ages of ages. Amen.


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This charge, [my] child Timotheus, I commit to thee, according to the prophecies as to thee preceding, in order that thou mightest war by them the good warfare,


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maintaining faith and a good conscience; which [last] some, having put away, have made shipwreck as to faith;


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of whom is Hymenaeus and Alexander, whom I have delivered to Satan, that they may be taught by discipline not to blaspheme.


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


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for kings and all that are in dignity, that we may lead a quiet and tranquil life in all piety and gravity;


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to which *I* have been appointed a herald and apostle, (I speak [the] truth, I do not lie,) a teacher of [the] nations in faith and truth.


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I will therefore that the men pray in every place, lifting up pious hands, without wrath or reasoning.


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In like manner also that the women in decent deportment and dress adorn themselves with modesty and discretion, not with plaited [hair] and gold, or pearls, or costly clothing,


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But she shall be preserved in childbearing, if they continue in faith and love and holiness with discretion.


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The overseer then must be irreproachable, husband of one wife, sober, discreet, decorous, hospitable, apt to teach;


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not given to excesses from wine, not a striker, but mild, not addicted to contention, not fond of money,


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(but if one does not know how to conduct his own house, how shall he take care of the assembly of God?)


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But it is necessary that he should have also a good testimony from those without, that he may fall not into reproach and [the] snare of the devil.


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Ministers, in like manner, grave, not double-tongued, not given to much wine, not seeking gain by base means,


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for those who shall have ministered well obtain for themselves a good degree, and much boldness in faith which [is] in Christ Jesus.


