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when you listen to the voice of the LORD your God, to keep all His commandments which I command you today, to do the right in the eyes of the LORD your God.


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and the sign or the wonder which he foretold to you occurs, saying, Let us go after other gods which you have not known, and let us serve them,


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you shall not listen to the words of that prophet or that dreamer of dreams. For the LORD your God [is] testing you to know whether you love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul.


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You shall walk after the LORD your God and fear Him, and keep His commandments, and obey His voice, and you shall serve Him and hold fast to Him.


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And that prophet or that dreamer of dreams shall be put to death, because he has spoken to turn [you] away from the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt and redeemed you out of the house of slaves, to thrust you out of the way in which the LORD your God commanded you to walk. So you shall put the evil away from the midst of you.


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If your brother, the son of your mother, or your son, or your daughter, or the wife of your bosom, or your friend who [is] like your own soul, lures you secretly, saying, Let us go and serve other gods which you have not known, you nor your fathers,


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that is, of the gods of the people who [are] around you, near you or far off from you, from the one end of the earth even to the other end of the earth,


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you shall not consent to him nor listen to him. Nor shall your eye pity him, nor shall you spare, nor shall you hide him.


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But you shall surely kill him. Your hand shall be first on him to put him to death, and afterwards the hand of all the people.


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You [are] the sons of the LORD your God. You shall not cut yourselves nor make [any] baldness between your eyes for the dead.


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For you [are] a holy people to the LORD your God, and the LORD has chosen you to be a peculiar people to Himself, above all the nations that are on the earth.


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You shall not eat anything that dies of itself. You shall give it to the stranger that [is] in your gates, so that he may eat it. Or you may sell [it] to a stranger. For you [are a holy people to the LORD your God. You shall not boil a kid in its mother's milk.


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And you shall eat before the LORD your God in the place which He shall choose to place His name there, the tithe of your grain, of your wine, and of your oil, and the first-born of your herds and of your flocks, so that you may learn to fear the LORD your God always.


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And if the way is too long for you, so that you are not able to carry it, [or] if the place is too far from you, which the LORD your God shall choose to set His name there, when the LORD your God has blessed you,


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then you shall turn [it] into silver and bind up the silver in your hand, and shall go to the place which the LORD your God shall choose.


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And you shall pay that silver for whatever your soul desires, for oxen, or for sheep, or for wine, or for strong drink, or for whatever your soul desires. And you shall eat there before the LORD your God, and you shall rejoice, you and your household


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and the Levite within your gates, you shall not forsake him, for he has no part nor inheritance with you.


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At the end of three years you shall bring forth all the tithe of your increase the same year, and shall lay [it] up inside your gates.


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And the Levite, because he has no part nor inheritance with you, and the stranger, and the fatherless, and the widow, who [are] inside your gates, shall come, and shall eat and be satisfied, so that the LORD your God may bless you in all the work of your hand which you do.


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the hart, and the gazelle, and the roe deer, and the wild goat, and the mountain goat, and the wild ox, and the mountain-sheep.


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And every animal that divides the hoof, and divides it into two hooves, [and] chews the cud among the animals, that you shall eat.


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But these you shall not eat, of those which chew the cud, or of those that divide the cloven hoof: the camel, and the hare, and the rock badger, for they chew the cud, but do not divide the hoof. They [are] unclean to you.


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And the swine, because it divides the hoof but does not chew the cud; it [is] unclean to you. You shall not eat of their flesh nor touch their dead body.


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You shall surely give to him, and your heart shall not be grieved when you give to him, because for this thing the LORD your God shall bless you in all your works, and in all that you put your hand to.


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For the poor shall never cease out of the land. Therefore, I command you saying, You shall open your hand wide to your brother, to your poor, and to your needy, in your land.


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If your brother, a Hebrew man or a Hebrew woman, is sold to you and serves you six years, then in the seventh year you shall let him go free from you.


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You shall richly bestow on him from your flock, and from your grain floor, and from your winepress; with what the LORD your God has blessed you, you shall give to him.


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And you shall remember that you were a slave in the land of Egypt, and the LORD your God redeemed you. Therefore I command you this thing today.


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And if he says to you, I will not go away from you, because he loves you and your house, because it [has been] good for him with you;


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then you shall take an awl and put [it] through his ear to the door, and he shall be your servant forever. And also to your slave-girl you shall do so.


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It shall not seem hard to you when you send him away from you free, for he has been worth a double hired servant in serving you six years. And the LORD your God shall bless you in all that you do.


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All the first-born males that come from your herd and from your flock, you shall set apart to the LORD your God. You shall do no work with the first-born of your bull, nor shear the first-born of your sheep.


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And this [is] the manner of the release. Every man who has a loan to his neighbor shall release it. He shall not exact [it] from his neighbor, or from his brother, because it is called the LORD's release.


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You shall eat before the LORD your God year by year in the place which the LORD shall choose, you and your household.


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And if there is a blemish in it, lame, or blindness, or any ill blemish, you shall not sacrifice it to the LORD your God.


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You shall eat it inside your gates. The unclean and the clean shall [eat it] alike, as the gazelle, and as the hart.


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You may exact [it] from a foreigner, but your hand shall release that which is yours with your brother,


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except when there shall be no poor among you. For the LORD shall greatly bless you in the land which the LORD your God gives you [for] an inheritance to possess it,


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only if you carefully listen to the voice of the LORD your God to be careful to do all these commandments which I command you today.


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For the LORD your God blesses you as He promised you. And you shall lend to many nations, but you shall not borrow. And you shall reign over many nations, but they shall not reign over you.


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If there is among you a poor man of one of your brothers inside any of your gates in your land which the LORD your God gives you, you shall not harden your heart nor shut your hand from your poor brother.


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But you shall open your hand wide to him, and shall surely lend him enough for his need, that which he lacks.


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Beware that there is not a thought in your wicked heart, saying, The seventh year, the year of release, is at hand, and your eye may be evil against your poor brother, and you give him nothing. And he may cry to the LORD against you, and it is sin to you.


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Observe the month Abib, and keep the Passover to the LORD your God. For in the month of Abib, the LORD your God brought you forth out of Egypt by night.


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And you shall keep the Feast of Weeks to the LORD your God with a measure of a free-will offering of your hand, which you shall give according as the LORD your God has blessed you.


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And you shall rejoice before the LORD your God, you, and your son, and your daughter, and your male servant, and your slave-girl, and the Levite inside your gates, and the stranger, and the fatherless, and the widow, those among you, in the place which the LORD your God has chosen to place His name there.


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And you shall remember that you were a slave in Egypt. And you shall be careful to do these statutes.


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You shall keep the Feast of Tabernacles seven days after you have gathered in your grain floor and your wine press.


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And you shall rejoice in your feast, you, and your son, and your daughter, and your male slave, and your slave-girl, and the Levite, the stranger, and the fatherless, and the widow inside your gates.


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Seven days you shall keep a solemn feast to the LORD your God in the place which the LORD shall choose. Because the LORD your God shall bless you in all your increase, and in all the works of your hands, therefore you shall surely rejoice.


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Three times in a year shall all your males appear before the LORD your God in the place which He shall choose: in the Feast of Unleavened [Bread], and in the Feast of Weeks, and in the Feast of Tabernacles. And they shall not appear before the LORD empty,


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[but] each with his gift in his hand, according to the blessing of the LORD your God, which He has given you.


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You shall appoint judges and officers for yourself in all your gates which the LORD your God gives you, tribe by tribe. And they shall judge the people with righteous judgment.


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You shall not pervert judgment; you shall not respect persons, nor take a gift. For a bribe blinds the eyes of the wise and perverts the words of the righteous.


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And you shall therefore sacrifice the Passover to the LORD your God, of the flock and the herd, in the place which the LORD shall choose to place His name there.


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You shall follow that which is altogether just, that you may live and inherit the land which the LORD your God gives you.


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You shall not set up for yourself pillars of any trees near the altar of the LORD your God which you shall make for yourself.


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You shall eat no leavened [bread] with it. Seven days you shall eat unleavened bread with it, the bread of affliction, for you came forth out of the land of Egypt in haste, so that you may remember the day that you came forth out of the land of Egypt all the days of your life.


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And there shall be no leavened [bread] seen with you in all your borders for seven days. Nor shall [any] of the flesh which you sacrificed in the first day at evening remain all night until the morning.


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but at the place which the LORD your God shall choose to place His name in, there you shall sacrifice the Passover at evening, at the going of the sun, at the time that you came out of Egypt.


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And you shall roast and eat in the place which the LORD your God shall choose. And in the morning you shall turn and go to your tents.


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Six days you shall eat unleavened [bread]. And on the seventh day [shall be] a solemn assembly to the LORD your God. You shall do no work.


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You shall count seven weeks to yourselves. Begin to count the seven weeks from the time you began [to put] the sickle to the grain.


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You shall not sacrifice to the LORD your God [any] bull or sheep in which there is a blemish, any evil thing, for that is an abomination to the LORD your God.


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And you shall do according to the sentence which they declare to you from that place which the LORD shall choose. And you shall be careful to do according to all that they tell you.


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According to the sentence of the law which they shall teach you and according to the judgment which they shall tell you, you shall do. You shall not turn aside from the sentence which they shall show you, to the right hand or the left.


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And the man that acts proudly and will not listen to the priest who stands to minister there before the LORD your God, or to the judge, even that man shall die. And you shall put away the evil from Israel.


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When you come to the land which the LORD your God gives you, and shall possess it and shall live in it and shall say, I will set a king over me, like all the nations around me,


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you shall surely set a king over you, whom the LORD your God shall choose. You shall set a king over you from among your brothers. You may not set a stranger over you, who is not your brother.


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But he shall not multiply horses to himself, nor cause the people to return to Egypt, so as to multiply horses, because the LORD has said to you, You shall return no more that way from now on.


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Nor shall he multiply wives to himself, so that his heart does not turn away. Nor shall he greatly multiply silver and gold to himself.


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And it shall be, when he sits on the throne of his kingdom, he shall write a copy of this law in a book from before the priests the Levites.


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And it shall be with him, and he shall read it all the days of his life, so that he may learn to fear the LORD his God, to keep all the words of this law, and these statutes, to do them,


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If there is found among you, inside any of your gates which the LORD your God gives you, a man or woman who does what is evil in the sight of the LORD your God, in breaking His covenant,


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so that his heart may not be lifted up above his brothers, and that he does not turn aside from the commandment, to the right or the left, so that he may make his days longer in his kingdom, he and his sons, in the midst of Israel.


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and has gone and served other gods and worshiped them, either the sun, or moon, or any [of] the host of heaven, which I have not commanded,


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and if it is told you, and you have heard and inquired carefully, and, behold, it is true and the thing is certain, such abomination is done in Israel;


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then you shall bring forth that man or that woman who has committed that evil thing, to your gates, even that man or that woman, and shall stone them with stones until they die.


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At the mouth of two witnesses or three witnesses shall he that is worthy of death be put to death. At the mouth of one witness he shall not be put to death.


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The hands of the witnesses shall be first on him to put him to death, and afterwards the hands of all the people. So you shall put the evil away from among you.


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If a matter [is] too hard for you in judgment, between blood and blood, between plea and plea, and between stroke and stroke, matters of strife within your gates, then you shall arise and go up to the place which the LORD your God shall choose.


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And [you] shall come to the priests of the Levites, and to the judge that shall be in those days, and ask. And they shall declare to you the sentence of judgment.


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The priests, the Levites, all the tribe of Levi, [shall have] no part nor inheritance with Israel. They shall eat the offerings of the LORD made by fire, and His inheritance.


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There shall not be found among you anyone who makes his son or his daughter to pass through the fire, [or] that uses divination, an observer of clouds, or a fortune-teller, or a witch,


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For all that do these things [are] an abomination to the LORD. And because of these abominations the LORD your God drives them out from before you.


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For these nations whom you shall possess listened to observers of clouds and to diviners. But as for you, the LORD your God has not allowed you [to do] so.


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The LORD your God will raise up to you a Prophet from the midst of you, of your brothers, One like me. To Him you shall listen,


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according to all that you desired of the LORD your God in Horeb in the day of the assembly, saying: Let me not hear again the voice of the LORD my God, neither let me see this great fire any more, so that I do not die.


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I will raise them up a Prophet from among their brothers, [one] like you, and will put My words in His mouth. And He shall speak to them all that I shall command Him.


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And it shall happen, whatever man will not listen to My words which He shall speak in My name, I will require [it] of him.


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Therefore they shall have no inheritance among their brothers. The LORD [is ] their inheritance, as He has said to them.


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But the prophet who shall presume to speak a word in My name which I have not commanded him to speak or who shall speak in the name of other gods, even that prophet shall die.


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When a prophet speaks in the name of the LORD, if the thing does not follow nor come to pass, that [is] the thing which the LORD has not spoken. The prophet has spoken it presumptuously. You shall not be afraid of him.


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And this shall be the priest's due from the people, from those that offer a sacrifice, whether ox or sheep. And they shall give to the priest the shoulder and the two cheeks, and the stomach.


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You shall give him the first-fruit of your grain, of your wine, and of your oil, and the first of the fleece of your sheep.


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For the LORD your God has chosen him out of all your tribes, to stand to minister in the name of the LORD, him and his sons forever.


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And if a Levite comes from any of your gates out of all Israel, where he lived, and come with all the desire of his mind to the place which the LORD shall choose,


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then he shall minister in the name of the LORD his God, as all his brothers and Levites who stand there before the LORD.


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They shall have the same portions to eat, besides that of the sales of [the inheritance from] his father.


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When you come to the land which the LORD your God gives you, you shall not learn to do according to the abominations of those nations.


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When the LORD your God has cut off the nations whose land the LORD your God gives you, and when you take their place and live in their cities and in their houses,


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so that innocent blood may not be shed in your land which the LORD your God gives you [for] an inheritance and blood may not be on you.


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But if a man hates his neighbor and lies in wait for him and rises up against him and strikes his life from him, so that he dies, and flees to one of these cities,


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then the elders of his city shall send and bring him away from there and deliver him into the hand of the avenger of blood so that he may die.


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Your eye shall not pity him, but you shall put away innocent blood from Israel, so that it may go well with you.


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You may not remove your neighbor's landmark, which those in the past have set in your inheritance, which you shall inherit in the land which the LORD your God gives you to possess it.


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One witness shall not rise up against a man for any iniquity, or for any sin, in any sin that he sins. At the mouth of two witnesses, or at the mouth of three witnesses, shall the matter be made sure.


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then both the men who are disagreeing shall stand before the LORD, before the priests and the judges which shall be in those days.


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And the judges shall make careful inquiry. And behold, [if] the witness [is] a false witness [and] has testified falsely against his brother,


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then you shall do to him as he had thought to have done to his brother. So you shall put the evil away from among you.


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you shall separate three cities for you in the middle of your land, which the LORD your God gives you to possess it.


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And your eye shall not pity. Life [shall go] for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot.


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You shall prepare you a way, and divide the borders of your land which the LORD your God gives you to inherit, into three parts, so that every slayer may flee there.


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And this [is] the case of the slayer who shall flee there that he may live: whoever in error kills his neighbor whom he did not hate him before,


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even he who goes into the wood with his neighbor to cut wood, and his hand brings a stroke with the axe to cut down the tree, and the head slips from the wood and lights on his neighbor so that he dies; he shall flee to one of those cities and live,


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so that the avenger of the blood may not pursue the slayer while his heart is hot, and overtake him because the way is long, and kill him, and he had no sentence worthy of death, for he did not hate him in time past.


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And if the LORD your God makes your border larger, as He has sworn to your fathers, and gives you all the land which He promised to give to your fathers;


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if you will keep all these commandments which I command you today, to do them, to love the LORD your God, and to walk always in His ways, then you shall add to yourself three more cities to these three,


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Then we turned and took our journey into the wilderness by the way of the Red Sea, as the LORD spoke to me. And we went around Mount Seir many days.


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The Horim also lived in Seir in times past. But the sons of Esau took their place when they had destroyed them from before them, and lived in their place; as Israel did to the land of his possession, which the LORD gave to them.


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And the days in which we came from Kadesh-barnea, until we had come over the brook Zered [were] thirty-eight years; until the end of all the generation. The men of war [were] destroyed from the midst of the camp, as the LORD swore to them.


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And the hand of the LORD was against them, to destroy them from among the camp, until they were consumed.


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And when you come near, across from the sons of Ammon, do not trouble them nor be stirred up against them. For I will not give you [any] possessions from the land of the sons of Ammon, because I have given it to the sons of Lot [for a possession.


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It also was known to be a land of giants. Giants lived there in past times. And the Ammonites call them Zamzumim,


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a great and plentiful people, and tall, like the sons of Anak, but the LORD destroyed them before them. And they expelled them and lived in their place,


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as He did to the sons of Esau who lived in Seir, when he destroyed the Horim from before them. And they expelled them and lived in their place even to this day.


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And the Avvim who lived in villages as far as Azzah, the Caphtorites, who came forth out of Caphtor destroyed them, and lived in their place.


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Rise up, set out and cross over the river Arnon. Behold! I have given into your hand Sihon the Amorite, king of Heshbon, and his land. Begin to possess, and fight with him in battle.


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Today, I will begin to put your dread and your fear upon the nations under the whole heavens; who shall hear report of you, and shall tremble and be in anguish because of you.


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And I sent messengers out of the wilderness of Kedemoth to Sihon king of Heshbon [with] words of peace, saying,


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Let me pass through your land. I will go along by the highway. I will neither turn [to] the right hand nor to the left.


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You shall sell me food for silver, so that I may eat, and give me water for silver so that I may drink. Only I will pass through on my feet,


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as the sons of Esau who live in Seir, and the Moabites who live in Ar, did to me, until I shall cross over Jordan into the land which the LORD our God gives us.


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But Sihon king of Heshbon would not let us pass by him. For the LORD your God hardened his spirit and made his heart stubborn so that He might deliver him into your hand, as [it is] this day.


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And the LORD said to me, Behold, I have begun to give Sihon and his land before you. Begin to possess it so that you may inherit his land.


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And we took all his cities at that time and completely destroyed the men and the women and the little ones of every city. We left none to remain.


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From Aroer, by the brink of the river of Arnon, and the city by the river, even unto Gilead, there was not one city too strong for us. The LORD our God delivered all to us.


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Only to the land of the sons of Ammon you did not come, to any place of the river Jabbok, nor to the cities in the mountains, nor to whatever the LORD our God denied us.


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And command the people saying, You [are] to pass through the border of your brothers, the sons of Esau, who dwell in Seir. And they shall be afraid of you. Therefore be careful.


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Do not meddle with them, for I will not give you of their land, no, not so much as a foot breadth, because I have given Mount Seir to Esau [for] a possession.


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You shall buy food from them for silver, so that you may eat. And you shall also buy water from them for silver, so that you may drink.


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For the LORD your God has blessed you in all the works of your hand. He knows your walking [through] this great wilderness. The LORD your God [has been] with you these forty years. You have lacked nothing.


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And when we left our brothers the sons of Esau who lived in Seir, through the way of the Arabah from Elath, and from Ezion-geber, we turned and passed by the way of the wilderness of Moab.


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And the LORD said to me, Do not besiege Moab, nor fight with them in battle. For I will not give you any of their land [for] a possession. Because I have given Ar to the sons of Lot [for] a possession.


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When you go out to battle against your enemies and see horses and chariots, a people more than you, do not be afraid of them. For the LORD your God [is] with you, who brought you up out of the land of Egypt.


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And it shall be, if it makes the answer of peace and opens to you, then all the people found in it shall be forced laborers to you, and they shall serve you.


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And when the LORD your God has delivered it into your hands, you shall strike every male of it with the edge of the sword.


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But the women, and the little ones, and the cattle, and all that is in the city, all the spoil of it, you shall take to yourself. And you shall eat the spoil of your enemies, which the LORD your God has given you.


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So you shall do to all the cities [which are] very far off from you, which are not of the cities of these nations.


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But of the cities of these people, which the LORD your God gives you [for] an inheritance, you shall save alive nothing that breathes.


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But you shall utterly destroy them: the Hittites, and the Amorites, the Canaanites, and the Perizzites, the Hivites and the Jebusites; as the LORD your God has commanded you,


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so that they may not teach you to do according to all their abominations which they have done to their gods. So you would sin against the LORD your God.


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When you shall besiege a city a long time in making war against it to take it, you shall not destroy its trees by forcing an axe against them. For you may eat of them, and you shall not cut them down. For [is] the tree of the field a man that it should go before you to lay siege?


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Only the trees which you know that they [are] not trees for food, you shall destroy and cut them down. And you shall build bulwarks against the city that makes war with you, until it is subdued.


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and shall say to them, Hear, O, Israel, today you go up to battle against your enemies. Do not let your hearts faint, do not fear, and do not tremble, neither be terrified before their faces.


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And the officers shall speak to the people saying, Who [is] the man that has built a new house and has not dedicated it? Let him go and return to his house, lest he die in the battle and another man dedicate it.


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And who [is] the man that has planted a vineyard and has not used its fruits? Let him go and return to his house, lest he die in the battle and another man use its fruits.


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And who [is] the man that has become engaged to a wife and has not taken her? Let him go and return to his house, lest he die in the battle and another man take her.


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And the officers shall speak further to the people, and they shall say, Who [is] the man that is fearful and faint-hearted? Let him go and return to his house, lest his brothers' heart faint as well as his heart.


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And it shall be, when the officers have made an end of speaking to the people, they shall make captains of the armies to lead the people.


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If [one] is found dead in the land which the LORD your God gives you to possess it, lying in the field, and it is not known who has killed him,


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When you go forth to war against your enemies, and the LORD your God has delivered them into your hands and you have taken them captive,


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and see among the captives a beautiful woman, and have a desire to her, that you would take [her] for your wife,


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And she shall put off the clothing of her captivity, and shall remain in your house, and shall sorrow for her father and her mother a full month. And after that you shall go in to her and be her husband, and she shall be your wife.


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And it shall be, if you have no delight in her, then you shall let her go where she will. But you shall not sell her at all for silver, you shall not make a slave of her, because you have humbled her.


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If a man has two wives, one beloved and another hated, and they have borne him sons, the beloved and the hated; and [if] the first-born son was of her that was hated,


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then it shall be in the day when he makes his sons to inherit what he has, he may not cause to [inherit] the son of the beloved first-born before the son of the hated one, he who [is truly] the first-born.


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But he shall acknowledge the son of the hated as the first-born by giving him a double portion of all that he has. For he [is] the beginning of his strength. The right of the first-born is his.


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If a man has a son who is stubborn and rebels, who will not obey his father's voice or his mother's voice, even when they have chastened him [he] will not listen to them,


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then his father and his mother shall lay hold on him and bring him out to the elders of his city, and to the gate of his place.


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then your elders and your judges shall come forth. And they shall measure to the cities which [are] around him who is dead.


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And they shall say to the elders of his city, this son of ours [is] stubborn and rebellious. He will not obey our voice. [He is] a glutton and a drunkard.


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And all the men of his city shall stone him with stones so that he dies. So shall you put evil away from you, and all Israel shall hear and fear.


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And if a man has committed a sin worthy of death, and if he is put to death and you hang him on a tree,


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his body shall not remain all night on the tree. But you shall surely bury him that day (for he that [is] hanged is accursed of God), so that your land may not be defiled, which the LORD your God gives you [for] an inheritance.


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And it shall be, the city nearest to the slain one, even the elders of that city shall take a heifer which has not been worked with, which has not drawn in the yoke.


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And the elders of that city shall bring down the heifer to an ever-flowing stream, which is neither plowed nor sown, and shall strike off the heifer's neck there in the stream.


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And the priests, the sons of Levi, shall come near. For the LORD your God has chosen them to minister to him, and to bless in the name of the LORD, and by their word shall every controversy and every stroke be [tried].


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And all the elders of that city nearest to the slain one, shall wash their hands over the heifer that has been beheaded in the stream.


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Be merciful, O LORD, to Your people Israel, whom You have redeemed, and do not lay innocent blood to the charge of Your people Israel. And the blood shall be forgiven them.


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So you shall put away innocent blood from among you, when you do the right in the sight of the LORD.


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You shall not see your brother's ox or his sheep go astray and hide yourself from them. You shall surely bring them again to your brother.


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and makes shameful charges against her, and brings up an evil name on her, and says, I took this woman, and when I came to her, I did not find in her the tokens of virginity,


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then shall the father of the girl, and her mother, take and bring tokens of the girl's virginity to the elders of the city in the gate.


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And the girl's father shall say to the elders, I gave my daughter to this man to wife, and he hates her.


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And, lo, he has made shameful charges [against her], saying, I have not found in your daughter the tokens of virginity. And yet these are the tokens of my daughter's virginity. And they shall spread the cloth before the elders of the city.


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And they shall fine him a hundred [shekels] of silver, and give them to the father of the girl, because he has brought an evil name on a virgin of Israel. And she shall be his wife. He may not put her away all his days.


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And if your brother [is] not near you, or if you do not know him, then you shall bring [it] into your own house, and it shall be with you until your brother seeks after it, and you shall give it back to him again.


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then they shall bring the girl out to the door of her father's house, and the men of her city shall stone her with stones so that she dies because she has done foolishness in Israel to play the harlot in her father's house. So you shall put evil away from among you.


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If a man is found lying with a woman married to a husband, then they shall both of them die, the man that lay with the woman, and the woman. So you shall put away evil from Israel.


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If a girl [who is] a virgin is engaged to a husband, and a man finds her in the city and lies with her,


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then you shall bring them both out to the gate of that city, and you shall stone them with stones that they die; the girl because she did not cry out in the city, and the man because he has humbled his neighbor's wife. So you shall put away evil from among you.


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But if a man finds an engaged girl in the field, and the man forces her and lies with her, then only the man that lay with her shall die.


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But you shall do nothing to the girl. No sin [worthy] of death [is] in the girl; for as when a man rises against his neighbor and slays him, even so is this matter.


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If a man finds a girl, a virgin not engaged, and lays hold on her, and lies with her, and they are found,


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then the man who lay with her shall give to the girl's father fifty [shekels] of silver, and she shall be his wife. Because he has humbled her, he may not put her away all his days.


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In the same way you shall do with his ass. And so shall you do with his clothing. And with any lost thing of your brother's, which he has lost and you have found, you shall do the same. You may not hide yourself.


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You shall not see your brother's ass or his ox fall down by the way, and hide yourself from them. You shall surely [help] him to lift [it] up again.


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There shall not be the thing of a man on a woman, neither shall a man put a woman's garment on. For all that do so [are] abominable to the LORD your God.


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If a bird's nest happens to be before you in the way in any tree, or on the ground, [with] young ones or eggs, and the mother sitting on the young or on the eggs, you shall not take the mother with the young.


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You shall in every case let the mother go and take the young for yourself, so that it may be well with you, and you may make [your] days longer.


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When you build a new house, then you shall make a guard rail for your roof, so that you do not bring blood on your house, if one falls from it.


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You shall not sow your vineyard with different kinds of seeds, lest the fruit of your seed which you have sown and the fruit of your vineyard be defiled.


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He who is wounded, crushed, or who has his male member cut off, shall not enter into the congregation of the LORD.


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If there is among you any man who is not clean because of an accident at night, then he shall go outside the camp. He shall not come inside the camp.


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And it shall be as evening turns, he shall wash with water. And when the sun is down, he shall come into the the middle of the camp.


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And you shall have a paddle on your weapon. And it shall be, when you sit down outside, you shall dig with it, and shall turn back and cover that which comes from you.


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For the LORD your God walks in the middle of your camp, to deliver you and to give up your enemies before you. Therefore your camp shall be holy, so that He may see no unclean thing in you and turn away from you.


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He shall live with you, among you, in that place which he shall choose in one of your gates, where it seems good to him. You shall not oppress him.


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You shall not bring the hire of a harlot, or the price of a dog, into the house of the LORD your God for any vow. For even both these [are] hateful to the LORD your God.


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You shall not lend for interest to your brother, interest of silver, interest of food, interest of anything that is loaned on interest.


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A bastard shall not enter into the congregation of the LORD. Even to his tenth generation he shall not enter into the congregation of the LORD.


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You may lend on interest to a stranger, but you shall not lend on interest to your brother, so that the LORD your God may bless you in all that you set your hand to in the land where you go to possess it.


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When you shall vow a vow to the LORD your God, you shall not wait to pay it, for the LORD your God will surely require it of you, and it would be sin in you.


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That which has gone out of your lips you shall keep and perform, even a free-will offering, according as you have vowed to the LORD your God, which you have promised with your mouth.


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When you come into your neighbor's vineyard, then you may eat grapes to your fill at your own pleasure, but you shall not put [any] in your vessel.


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When you come into the standing grain of your neighbor, then you may pluck the heads with your hand, but you shall not move a sickle into your neighbor's standing grain.


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An Ammonite or Moabite shall not enter into the congregation of the LORD. Even to their tenth generation they shall not enter into the congregation of the LORD forever,


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because they did not meet you with bread and with water in the way when you came forth out of Egypt, and because they hired against you Balaam the son of Beor, of Pethor of Mesopotamia, to curse you.


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But the LORD your God would not listen to Balaam, but the LORD your God turned the curse to a blessing to you, because the LORD your God loved you.


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You shall not despise an Edomite, for he [is] your brother. You shall not despise an Egyptian, because you were a stranger in his land.


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The sons that are born to them shall enter into the congregation of the LORD in their third generation.


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When a man has taken a wife and married her, and it happens that she finds no favor in his eyes, because he has found some uncleanness in her, then let him write her a bill of divorce and put it] in her hand, and send her out of his house.


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When you loan a loan of any kind to your brother, you shall not go into his house to bring forth his pledge.


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You shall certainly give back to him the pledge at sundown, that he may sleep in his own clothing, and bless you. And it shall be righteousness to you before the LORD your God.


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You shall not oppress a hired servant who [is] poor and needy, of your brothers, or of your strangers that [are] in your land within your gates.


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At his day you shall give [him] his hire, neither shall the sun go down on it. For he [is] poor and sets his heart on it; lest he cry against you to the LORD, and it shall be sin to you.


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The fathers shall not be put to death for the sons, neither shall the sons be put to death for the fathers. Every man shall be put to death for his own sin.


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You shall not pervert the rightful judgment of the stranger [nor] of the fatherless; nor take a widow's clothing to pledge.


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But you shall remember that you were a slave in Egypt, and the LORD your God redeemed you from there. Therefore I command you to do this thing.


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When you cut down your harvest in your field, and have forgotten a sheaf in the field, you shall not go again to bring it. It shall be for the stranger, for the fatherless, and for the widow; so that the LORD your God may bless you in all the work of your hand.


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When you beat your olive tree, you shall not go over the boughs again. It shall be for the stranger, for the fatherless, and for the widow.


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When you gather the grapes from your vineyard, you shall not glean afterward. It shall be for the stranger, for the fatherless, and for the widow.


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And you shall remember that you were a slave in the land of Egypt. Therefore I command you to do this thing.


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and the latter husband hates her and writes her a bill of divorce and puts [it] in her hand and sends her out of his house; or if the latter husband dies, he who took her to be his wife


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her former husband, who sent her away, may not take her again to be his wife after she is defiled. For that [is] hateful before the LORD. And you shall not cause the land to sin, which the LORD your God gives you for an inheritance.


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When a man has taken a new wife, he shall not go out to war, neither shall he be charged with any duty. He shall be free at home one year, and shall cheer up his wife whom he has taken.


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No man shall take the lower or the upper millstone to pledge, for he takes [a man's] life to pledge.


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If a man is found stealing a person of his brothers, the sons of Israel, and makes a slave of him, or sells him, then that thief shall die. And you shall put evil away from among you.


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Be careful in the plague of leprosy, that you watch carefully and do according to all that the priests the Levites shall teach you. As I commanded them, you shall be careful to do.


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Remember what the LORD your God did to Miriam by the wayside, after you had come forth out of Egypt.


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If there is a controversy between men, and they come to judgment, and they have been judged, and the righteous one is declared righteous, and the wrongdoer declared guilty,


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When men strive together with one another, and the wife of the one draws near to deliver her husband out of the hand of him who strikes him, and puts forth her hand and takes him by the secret parts,


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You shall have a perfect and just weight, a perfect and just measure you shall have, so that your days may be lengthened in the land which the LORD your God gives you.


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how he met you by the way and struck those of you who were behind, all the feeble behind you, when you [were] faint and weary. And he did not fear God.


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And it shall be when the LORD your God has given you rest from all your enemies all around in the land which the LORD your God gives you [for] an inheritance to possess it, you shall blot out the remembrance of Amalek from under heavens. You shall not forget.


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then it shall be, if the wrongdoer [is] worthy to be beaten, the judge shall cause him to fall down. And one shall strike him in his presence, enough for his wrong, by a certain number.


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He may give him forty stripes, no more, lest he should exceed and beat him above these [with] many stripes, then your brother would be dishonored before your eyes.


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If brothers live together, and one of them dies and has no child, the wife of the dead shall not marry outside to a stranger. Her husband's brother shall go in to her and take her as a wife for himself, and perform the duty of a husband's brother to her.


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And it shall be, the first-born whom she bears shall succeed in the name of his dead brother, so that his name may not be put out of Israel.


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And if the man does not want to take his brother's wife, then let his brother's wife go up to the gate to the elders and say, My husband's brother refuses to raise up a name in Israel to his brother. He will not perform my levirate.


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Then the elders of his city shall call him and speak to him. And [if] he stands and says, I do not desire to take her,


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then his brother's wife shall come to him in the presence of his elders, and take off his shoe from his foot, and spit in his face, and shall answer and say, So shall it be done to that man who will not build up his brother's house.


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And it shall be, when you come into the land which the LORD your God gives you for an inheritance, and possess it, and live in it,


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And now, behold, I have brought the firstfruits of the land which You, O LORD, have given me. And you shall set it before the LORD your God, and worship before the LORD your God.


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And [you shall] rejoice in all the good which the LORD your God has given to you, and to your house; you, and the Levite, and the stranger in your midst.


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When you have made an end of tithing all the tithes of your increase the third year, the year of tithing, and have given [it] to the Levite, the stranger, the fatherless, and the widow (that they may eat inside your gates and be filled),


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then you shall say before the LORD your God, I have brought away the holy things out of my house, and also have given them to the Levite, and to the stranger, to the fatherless, and to the widow, according to all Your commandments which You have commanded me. I have not broken Your commandments, neither have I forgotten.


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I have not eaten of it in my mourning, neither have I put [any] of it away for unclean [use], nor have I given of it for the dead. I have listened to the voice of the LORD my God, and have done according to all that You have commanded me.


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Look down from Your holy dwelling, from Heaven, and bless Your people Israel and the land which You have given us, as You swore to our fathers, a land that flows with milk and honey.


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Today the LORD your God has commanded you to do these statutes and judgments. You therefore shall keep and do them with all your heart and with all your soul.


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You have today said that the LORD is your God, and that you would walk in His ways, and keep His statutes and His commandments and His judgments, and listen to His voice.


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And the LORD has taken you today to be His peculiar people, as He has promised you, and to keep all His commandments,


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and to make you high above all nations which he has made, in praise and in name and in honor, and that you may be a holy people to the LORD your God, even as He has spoken.


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you shall take of the first of all the fruit of the earth which you shall bring of your land that the LORD your God gives you, and you shall put [it] in a basket, and shall go to the place which the LORD your God shall choose to place His name there.


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And you shall go to the priest in those days, and say to him, I profess today to the LORD your God that I have come into the land which the LORD swore to our fathers to give us.


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And the priest shall take the basket out of your hand and set it down before the altar of the LORD your God.


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And you shall speak and say before the LORD your God, My father [was] a Syrian ready to perish. And he went down to Egypt, and stayed there with a few, and became there a nation, great, mighty, and many.


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And when we cried to the LORD God of our fathers, the LORD heard our voice and looked on our afflictions and our labor and our oppression.


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And the LORD brought us forth out of Egypt with a mighty hand, and with an outstretched arm, and with fearful might, and with miracles and with wonders.


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And He has brought us into this place, and has given us this land, a land that flows with milk and honey.


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And Moses with the elders of Israel commanded the people saying, Keep all the commandments which I command you today.


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You shall therefore obey the voice of the LORD your God, and do His commandments and His statutes which I command you today.


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These shall stand on Mount Gerizim to bless the people when you have come over Jordan: Simeon, and Levi, and Judah, and Issachar, and Joseph, and Benjamin.


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And these shall stand on Mount Ebal to curse: Reuben, Gad, and Asher, and Zebulun, Dan, and Naphtali.


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Cursed [is] the man that makes any graven or molten image, an abomination to the LORD, the work of the hands of the craftsman, and puts [it] in a secret place. And all the people shall answer and say, Amen.


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Cursed [is] he who perverts the judgment of the stranger, fatherless, and widow. And all the people shall say, Amen.


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And it will be, on the day when you shall pass over Jordan to the land which the LORD your God gives you, you shall set up great stones and plaster them with plaster.


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Cursed [is] he who lies with his father's wife, because he uncovers his father's skirt. And all the people shall say, Amen.


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Cursed [is] he who lies with his sister, the daughter of his father or the daughter of his mother. And all the people shall say, Amen.


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Cursed [is] he who does not confirm [all] the words of this law, to do them. And all the people shall say, Amen.


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And you shall write on them all the words of the law when you have passed over, so that you may go in to the land which the LORD your God gives you, a land that flows [with] milk and honey, as the LORD God of your fathers has promised you.


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Therefore it shall be when you have gone over Jordan, you shall set up these stones which I command you today, in Mount Ebal. And you shall plaster them with plaster.


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And you shall build an altar there to the LORD your God, an altar of stones. You shall not lift up [any] iron [tool] on them.


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You shall build the altar of the LORD your God [of] uncut stones, and you shall offer burnt offerings on it to the LORD your God.


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And Moses and the priests the Levites spoke to all Israel, saying: Take heed and listen, O Israel. Today you have become the people of the LORD your God.


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And it will be, if you shall listen carefully to the voice of the LORD your God, to observe [and] to do all His commandments which I command you today, the LORD your God will set you on high above all nations of the earth.


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And all the peoples of the earth shall see that you are called by the name of the LORD, and they shall be afraid of you.


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And the LORD shall prosper you in goods, in the fruit of your body, and in the fruit of your cattle, and in the fruit of your ground, in the land which the LORD swore to your fathers to give you.


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The LORD shall open to you His good treasure, the heaven to give the rain to your land in its season, and to bless all the work of your hand. And you shall loan to many nations, and you shall not borrow.


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And the LORD shall make you the head, and not the tail. And you shall be always above, and you shall not be beneath, if you listen to the commandments of the LORD your God, which I command you today, to observe and to do them.


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And you shall not go aside from any of the words which I command you today, to the right hand or the left, to go after other gods to serve them.


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And it shall be, if you will not listen to the voice of the LORD your God, to observe and to do all His commandments and His statutes which I command you today, all these curses shall come on you and overtake you.


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The fruit of your body [shall be] cursed, and the fruit of your land, the increase of your cows, and the flocks of your sheep.


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And all these blessings shall come on you and overtake you, if you will listen to the voice of the LORD your God.


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The LORD shall send on you cursing, vexation, and rebuke, in all that you set your hand to do, until you are destroyed, and until you perish quickly, because of the wickedness of your doings [by] which you have forsaken Me.


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The LORD shall make the plague cling to you until He has consumed you from off the land where you go to possess it.


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The LORD shall strike you with lung disease and with a fever, and with an inflammation, and with an extreme burning, and with the sword, and with blasting, and with mildew. And they shall pursue you until you perish.


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The LORD shall make the rain of your land powder and dust. It shall come down from the heavens on you until you are destroyed.


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The LORD shall cause you to be stricken before your enemies. You shall go out one way against them, and flee seven ways before them. And you shall be a trembling to all the kingdoms of the earth.


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And your body shall be food to all birds of the air, and to the beasts of the earth. And no man shall frighten [them] away.


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The LORD will strike you with the boils of Egypt, and with the hemorrhoids, and with the scab, and with the itch, of which you cannot be healed.


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And you shall grope at noonday, as the blind gropes in darkness, and you shall not prosper in your ways. And you shall always be pressed down and spoiled forever, and no man shall save you.


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You shall become engaged to a wife, and another man shall lie with her. You shall build a house, and you shall not live in it. You shall plant a vineyard, and you shall not gather the grapes of it.


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Your ox [shall be] slain before your eyes, and you shall not eat of it. Your ass [shall be] violently taken away from before your face, and shall not be restored to you, your sheep given to your enemies, and you [shall have none to rescue them.


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Your sons and your daughters [shall be] given to another people, and your eyes shall look and fail for them all the day long. And [there shall be] no power in your hand.


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The fruit of your land, and all your labors, shall be eaten up by a nation which you do not know. And you shall always be oppressed and crushed,


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The LORD shall strike you in the knees and in the legs with an evil ulcer that cannot be healed, from the sole of your foot to the top of your head.


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The LORD shall bring you, and your king which you shall set over you, to a nation which neither you nor your fathers have known. And there you shall serve other gods, wood and stone.


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And you shall become an astonishment, a proverb, and a by-word among all nations where the LORD shall lead you.


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You shall carry much seed out into the field, and shall gather little in, for the locust shall eat it.


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You shall plant vineyards and dress [them], but shall neither drink the wine nor gather, for the worm shall eat them.


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The fruit of your body [shall be] blessed, and the fruit of your ground, and the fruit of your cattle, the increase of your cows, and the flocks of your sheep.


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You shall have olive trees throughout all your coasts, but you shall not anoint [with] the oil, for your olive shall drop off [its fruit].


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You shall father sons and daughters, but you shall not enjoy them, for they shall go into captivity.


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He shall loan to you, and you shall not loan to him. He shall be the head, and you shall be the tail.


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And all these curses shall come on you, and shall pursue you and overtake you, until you are destroyed, because you did not listen to the voice of the LORD your God, to keep His commandments and His statutes which He commanded you.


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Because you did not serve the LORD your God with joyfulness and with gladness of heart for the abundance of all [things];


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therefore you shall serve your enemies which the LORD shall send against you, in hunger, and in thirst, and in nakedness, and in the lack of all [things]. And he shall put a yoke of iron on your neck until he has destroyed you.


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The LORD shall bring a nation against you from far, from the end of the earth, as the eagle flies; a nation whose tongue you shall not understand,


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And he shall eat the fruit of your cattle and the fruit of your land, until you are destroyed. He shall not leave you grain, wine, or oil, the increase of your livestock, or flocks of your sheep, until he has destroyed you.


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And he shall besiege you in all your gates until your high and fortified walls in which you trusted come down, throughout all the land. And he shall besiege you in all your gates throughout all your land which the LORD your God has given you.


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And you shall eat the fruit of your own body, the flesh of your sons and of your daughters, which the LORD your God has given you, in the siege and in the anguish with which your enemies shall distress you.


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The man [that is] tender among you, and very delicate, his eye shall be evil toward his brother and toward the wife of his bosom, and toward the rest of his sons which he has left;


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so that he will not give to any of them of the flesh of his sons whom he shall eat, because he has nothing left to him in the siege and in the anguish with which your enemies shall distress you in all your gates.


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The tender and delicate woman among you, who would not have ventured to set the sole of her foot on the ground for delicateness and tenderness, her eye shall be evil toward the husband of her bosom, and toward her son, and toward her daughter,


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and toward her young one who comes out from between her feet, and toward her sons whom she shall bear. For she shall eat them secretly for lack of all [things], in the siege and anguish with which your enemies shall distress you in your gates.


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If you will not observe to do all the words of this law that are written in this book, that you may fear this glorious and fearful name, JEHOVAH YOUR GOD,


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then Jehovah will make your plagues remarkable, and the plagues of your seed great and persistent plagues; with evil and long-lasting sicknesses.


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Also, He will bring on you all the diseases of Egypt of which you were afraid. And they shall cling to you.


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Also, every sickness and every plague which [is] not written in the book of this law, the LORD will bring them on you until you are destroyed.


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And you shall be left few in number, whereas you were as the stars of the heavens for multitude, because you would not obey the voice of the LORD your God.


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And it shall be, as the LORD rejoiced over you to do you good and to multiply you, so the LORD will rejoice over you to destroy you and to bring you to nothing. And you shall be plucked from off the land where you go to possess it.


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And the LORD shall scatter you among all people, from the [one] end of the earth even to the [other], and you shall serve other gods there, which neither you nor your fathers have known, wood and stone.


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And among these nations you shall find no ease, neither shall the sole of your foot have rest. But the LORD shall give you there a trembling heart and failing of eyes and sorrow of mind.


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And your life shall hang in doubt before you, and you shall fear day and night, and shall have no assurance of your life.


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In the morning you shall say, Oh that it were evening! And at evening you shall say, Oh that it were morning, for the fear of your heart with which you shall fear, and for the sight of your eyes which you shall see.


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And the LORD shall bring you into Egypt again with ships, by the way of which I said to you, You shall see it no more again. And there you shall be sold to your enemies for men-slaves and women-slaves, and no man shall buy [you].


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The LORD shall cause your enemies that rise up against you to be stricken before your face. They shall come out against you one way, and flee before you seven ways.


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The LORD shall command the blessing on you in your storehouses, and all that you set your hand to. And He shall bless you in the land which the LORD your God gives you.


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The LORD shall establish you a holy people to Himself, as He has sworn to you, if you shall keep the commandments of the LORD your God and walk in His ways.


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These [are] the words of the covenant which the LORD commanded Moses to make with the sons of Israel in the land of Moab, besides the covenant which He made with them in Horeb.


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You stand today, all of you, before the LORD your God; your captains of your tribes, your elders, and your officers, all the men of Israel,


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your little ones, your wives, and your stranger that [is] in your camp, from the cutter of your wood to the drawer of your water;


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so that you should enter into covenant with the LORD your God, and into His oath, which the LORD your God makes you today;


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that He may establish you today for a people to Himself, and [that] He may be a God to you, as He has said to you, and as He has sworn to your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob.


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but with [him] who stands here with us today before the LORD our God, and also with him that is not here with us today.


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(For you know how we have lived in the land of Egypt, and how we came through the nations which you passed.


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And you have seen their abominations and their idols, wood and stone, silver and gold, which [were] among them)


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lest there should be among you man, or woman, or family, or tribe, whose heart turns away today from the LORD our God, to go serve the gods of these nations; lest there should be among you a root that bears gall and wormwood,


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and it happens when he hears the words of this curse, that he shall bless himself in his heart, saying, I shall have peace, though I walk in the stubbornness of my heart, to snatch away the drunken with the thirsty.


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And Moses called to all Israel and said to them, You have seen all that the LORD did before your eyes in the land of Egypt to Pharaoh and to all his servants, and to all his land.


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The LORD will not be willing to forgive him, but then the anger of the LORD and His jealousy shall smoke against that man, and all the curses that are written in this book shall lie on him, and the LORD shall blot out his name from under heavens.


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And the LORD shall set him apart to evil out of all the tribes of Israel, according to all the curses of the covenant that are written in this book of the law;


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so that the generation to come of your sons that shall rise up after you, and the stranger that shall come from a far land, shall say (when they see the plagues of that land, and the sicknesses which the LORD has laid on it)


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the whole land shall be burned [with] brimstone, and salt; it shall not be sown; nor shall it sprout; nor shall there be any grass in it. It [shall be] like the overthrow of Sodom and Gomorrah, Admah, and Zeboim, which the LORD overthrew in His anger, and in His wrath,


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even all nations shall say, Why has the LORD done this to this land? [For] what [is] the heat of this great anger?


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Then [men] shall say, Because they have forsaken the covenant of the LORD God of their fathers, which He made with them when He brought them forth out of the land of Egypt.


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For they went and served other gods, and worshiped them, gods whom they did not know, and who had not given to them any portion.


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And the anger of the LORD was kindled against this land, to bring on it all the curses that are written in this book.


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And the LORD rooted them out of their land in anger and wrath, and in great indignation, and cast them into another land, as [it is] today.


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The secret things [belong] to the LORD our God, but the revealed things [belong] to us and to our sons forever, so that we may do all the words of this law.


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And I have led you forty years in the wilderness. Your clothes have not become old on you, and your shoe has not become old on your foot.


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You have not eaten bread, neither have you drunk wine or strong drink, so that you might know that I [am] the LORD your God.


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And when you came to this place, Sihon the king of Heshbon, and Og the king of Bashan, came out against us to battle, and we struck them.


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And we took their land and gave it for an inheritance to the Reubenites and to the Gadites and to the half tribe of Manasseh.


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Therefore, keep the words of this covenant and do them, so that you may act wisely in all that you do.


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And we turned and went up the way to Bashan. And Og the king of Bashan came out against us, he and all his people, to battle [at] Edrei.


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All the cities of the plain, and all Gilead, and all Bashan, and Salecah and Edrei, cities of the kingdom of Og in Bashan [were taken].


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For only Og king of Bashan remained of the rest of the giants. Behold! His bedstead [was] a bedstead of iron. Is it not in Rabbath of the sons of Ammon? Nine cubits [was] its length, and four cubits its width, according to the cubit of a man.


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And this is the land [which] we possessed at that time, from Aroer by the river Arnon, and half of Mount Gilead, and its cities, I gave to the men of Reuben and of Gad.


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And the rest of Gilead, and all Bashan, the kingdom of Og, I gave to the half tribe of Manasseh, all the region of Argob, with all Bashan, which was called the land of giants.


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Jair the son of Manasseh took all the country of Argob, as far as the border of the Geshurites and the Maachathites. And he called them after his own name, Bashan (Towns of Jair) to this day.


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And to the Reubenites and to the Gadites I gave from Gilead even to the river Arnon, half the valley, and the border even to the river Jabbok, the border of the sons of Ammon,


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the plain also, and Jordan, and its border, from Chinnereth even to the sea of the plain, the Salt Sea, under The Slopes of Pisgah eastward.


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And I commanded you at that time saying, The LORD your God has given you this land to possess it. You shall pass over armed before your brothers the sons of Israel, all the sons of might.


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But your wives and your little ones, and your cattle, (I know that you have much cattle), shall stay in your cities which I have given you


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And the LORD said to me, Do not fear him, for I will deliver him and all his people, and his land, into your hand. And you shall do to him as you did to Sihon king of the Amorites, who lived at Heshbon.


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until the LORD has given rest to your brothers, as well as to you, and they also possess the land which the LORD your God [has] given them beyond Jordan. And then you shall each one return to his possessions which I have given you.


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And I commanded Joshua at that time saying, Your eyes have seen all that the LORD your God has done to these two kings. So the LORD shall do to all the kingdoms where you pass.


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O, LORD God, You have begun to show Your servant Your greatness, and Your mighty hand. For what God [is there] in heaven or in earth who can do according to Your works, and according to Your might?


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But the LORD was angry with me because of you and would not hear me. And the LORD said to me, [Let it be] enough for you. Speak no more to Me of this matter.


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Go up into the top of Pisgah and lift up your eyes westward and northward and southward and eastward, and behold [it] with your eyes. For you shall not go over this Jordan.


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But charge Joshua, and encourage him, and strengthen him. For he shall go over before this people, and he shall cause them to inherit the land which you shall see.


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So the LORD our God delivered Og into our hands also, the king of Bashan, and all his people. And we struck him until none [was] left remaining to him.


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And we took all his cities at that time. There was not a city which we did not take from them, sixty cities, all the region of Argob, the kingdom of Og in Bashan.


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All these cities [were] fortified with high walls, gates, and bars; besides a good many unwalled towns.


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And we completely destroyed them, as we did to Sihon king of Heshbon, completely destroying the men, women, and children of every city.


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And we took at that time out of the hand of the two kings of the Amorites the land on this side Jordan, from the river of Arnon to Mount Hermon,


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And it shall be when all these things have come on you, the blessing and the curse which I have set before you, and when you shall call [them] to mind among all the nations where the LORD your God has driven you,


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for you shall listen to the voice of the LORD your God, to keep His commandments and His statutes which are written in this book of the law, [and] if you turn to the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul.


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It [is] not in Heaven, [that you should] say, Who shall go up for us to Heaven, and bring it to us, so that we may hear it and do it?


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Nor [is] it beyond the sea, [that you should] say, Who shall go over the sea for us to the region beyond the sea, and bring it to us, so that we may hear it and do it?


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in that I command you today to love the LORD your God, to walk in His ways, and to keep His commandments and His statutes and His judgments, so that you may live and multiply. And the LORD your God shall bless you in the land where you go to possess it.


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But if you turn away your heart, so that you will not hear, but shall be drawn away and worship other gods and serve them,


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I declare to you today that you shall surely perish; you shall not prolong [your] days on the land where you pass over Jordan to go to possess it.


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I call Heaven and earth to record today against you. I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing. Therefore, choose life, so that both you and your seed may live,


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and shall return to the LORD your God and shall obey His voice according to all that I command you today, you and your sons, with all your heart, and with all your soul,


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so that you may love the LORD your God, [and] that you may obey His voice, and that you may cling to Him. For He is your life and the length of your days, so that you may dwell in the land which the LORD swore to your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give it to them.


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then the LORD your God will turn your captivity. And He will have compassion on you, and will return and gather you from all the nations where the LORD your God has scattered you.


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If you are driven out into the outermost [parts] of the heavens, the LORD your God will gather you from there, and He will bring you from there.


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And the LORD your God will bring you into the land which your fathers possessed, and you shall possess it. And He will do you good, and multiply you above your fathers.


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And the LORD your God will circumcise your heart and the heart of your seed, to love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul, so that you may live.


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And the LORD your God will put all these curses on your enemies, and on those that hate you, who persecuted you.


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And you shall return and obey the voice of the LORD, and do all His commandments which I command you today.


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And the LORD your God will make you have plenty in every work of your hand, in the fruit of your body, and in the fruit of your cattle, and in the fruit of your land, for good. For the LORD will again rejoice over you for good, as He rejoiced over your fathers;


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And Moses commanded them, saying: At the end of seven years, at the set time of the year of release, in the Feast of Tabernacles,


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when all Israel has come to appear before the LORD your God in the place which He shall choose, you shall read this law before all Israel in their hearing.


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Gather the people, men and women and the little ones, and your stranger who [is] within your gates, so that they may hear and that they may learn and fear the LORD your God, and be careful to do all the words of this law,


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and [that] their sons who have not known may hear and learn to fear the LORD your God, as long as you live in the land where you go over Jordan to possess it.


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And the LORD said to Moses, Behold, your days are coming near to die. Call Joshua and present yourselves in the tabernacle of the congregation, and that I shall charge him. And Moses and Joshua went. And they presented themselves in the tabernacle of the congregation.


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And the LORD appeared in the tabernacle in a pillar of a cloud. And the pillar of the cloud stood over the door of the tabernacle.


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And the LORD said to Moses, Behold, you shall sleep with your fathers. And this people shall rise up and go lusting after the gods of the strangers of the land into which they are going, into their midst. And they will forsake Me and break My covenant which I made with them.


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Then My anger shall be kindled against them in that day, and I will forsake them. And I will hide My face from them, and they shall be devoured, and many evils and troubles shall befall them, so that they will say in that day, Have not these evils come on us because our God [is] not among us?


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And I will surely hide My face in that day for all the evils which they have done, for they shall turn to other gods.


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Now, therefore, write this song for you, and teach it to the sons of Israel. Put it in their mouths, so that this song may be a witness for Me against the sons of Israel.


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And he said to them, I [am] a hundred twenty years old today. I can no more go out and come in. Also the LORD has said to me, You shall not go over this Jordan.


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For when I shall have brought them into the land which I swore to their fathers, the land that flows [with] milk and honey, and they shall have eaten and have become satisfied, and become fat, then turn to other gods and serve them, and provoke Me and break My covenant.


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And it shall be when many evils and troubles have found them, this song shall testify against them as a witness. For it shall not be forgotten out of the mouths of their seed. For I know their imagination which they do, even now, before I have brought them into the land which I swore.


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And he commanded Joshua the son of Nun, and said: Be strong and of a good courage. For you shall bring the sons of Israel into the land which I swore to them, and I will be with you.


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And it happened when Moses had made an end of writing the words of this law in a book, until they were finished,


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Take this book of the law, and put it in the side of the ark of the covenant of the LORD your God, so that it may be there for a witness against you.


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For I know your rebellion and your stiff neck. Behold, while I am still alive with you today, you have been rebellious against the LORD. And how much more after my death?


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Gather to me all the elders of your tribes, and your officers, so that I may speak these words in their ears, and call Heaven and earth to record against them.


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For I know that after my death you will become utterly corrupt, and turn aside from the way which I have commanded you. And evil will happen to you in the latter end of the days, because you will do evil in the sight of the LORD, to provoke Him to anger through the work of your hands.


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The LORD your God will go over before you. He will destroy these nations from before you, and you shall possess them. Joshua [is] the one crossing over before you, as the LORD has said.


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And Moses spoke in the ears of all the congregation of Israel the words of this song, until their conclusion.


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And the LORD shall do to them as He did to Sihon and to Og, kings of the Amorites, and to the land of those whom He destroyed.


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And the LORD shall give them up before your face, so that you may do to them according to all the commandments which I have commanded you.


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Be strong and of a good courage. Do not fear nor be afraid of them. For the LORD your God [is] He who goes with you. He will not fail you nor forsake you.


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And Moses called to Joshua and said to him in the sight of all Israel, Be strong and of a good courage. For you must go with this people to the land which the LORD has sworn to their fathers to give it to] them, and you shall cause them to inherit it.


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And Jehovah [is] He who goes before you. He will be with you; He will not fail you nor forsake you. Do not fear; nor be dismayed.


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And Moses wrote this law and delivered it to the priests, the sons of Levi, who carried the ark of the covenant of the LORD, and to all the elders of Israel.


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He found him in a desert land, and in the deserted, howling wilderness. He led him about, He cared for him, He kept him as the pupil of His eye.


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As an eagle stirs up her nest, flutters over her young, spreads abroad her wings, takes them and bears them on her wing,


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He made him ride on the high places of the earth, so that he might eat the increase of the fields. And He made him suck honey out of the rock, and oil out of the flinty rock,


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butter from cows, and milk from sheep, with fat of lambs, and rams of the sons of Bashan, and goats, with the fat of kidneys of wheat. And you drank the blood of the grape.


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But Jeshurun grew fat and kicked. You grew fat, thick, [and] satisfied. Then he forsook God who made him, and lightly esteemed the Rock of his salvation.


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They sacrificed to devils, not to God; to gods whom they knew not, to new ones newly come up, whom your fathers did not fear.


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My doctrine shall drop as the rain; my speech shall drop down as the dew, as the small rain on the tender plant, and as the showers on the grass;


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And He said, I will hide My face from them; I will see what their end [shall be]. For they [are] a very perverse generation, sons in whom [is] no faithfulness.


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They have moved Me to jealousy with a no-god. They have provoked Me to anger with their vanities. And I will move them to jealousy with a no-people. I will provoke them to anger with a foolish nation.


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For a fire is kindled in My anger, and shall burn to the lowest hell, and shall consume the earth with its increase, and set on fire the foundations of the mountains.


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Exhaustion by famine, and consumption by burning heat, and bitter destruction, and the teeth of beasts I will send on them, with the poison of crawling things of the dust.


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The sword outside, and the terror inside, shall destroy both the young man and the virgin, the suckling [also] with the man of grey hairs.


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were it not the provocation of an enemy I feared, lest their enemies should misconstrue; lest they should say, Our hand [is] high and the LORD has not done all this.


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How shall one chase a thousand, and two put ten thousand to flight, unless their Rock had sold them and the LORD had shut them up?


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For their vine [is] of the vine of Sodom, and of the fields of Gomorrah. Their grapes are grapes of gall. Their clusters [are] bitter.


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Vengeance and retribution [belong] to Me. Their foot shall slide in time, for the day of their calamity [is] at hand, and the things that shall come on them make haste.


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For the LORD will bring His people justice; and He shall have compassion on His servants, for He sees that [their] power is gone, and only the imprisoned and abandoned [remain].


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Who ate the fat of their sacrifices [and] drank the wine of their drink offerings? Let them rise up and help you; let it be your hiding place.


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See now that I, I am He, and there is no god with me. I kill, and I make alive; I wound and I heal; and there is no deliverer out of My hand.


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[He is] the Rock; His work [is] perfect. For all His ways [are] just, a God of faithfulness, and without evil; just and upright is He.


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If I sharpen My glittering sword, and if My hand takes hold in judgment, I will give vengeance to My enemies and will reward those that hate Me.


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I will make My arrows drunk with blood, and My sword shall devour flesh, with the blood of the slain and of the captives, from the hairy scalp of the enemy.


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Rejoice, O, nations, [with] His people; for He will avenge the blood of His servants, and will render vengeance to His foes and will be merciful to His land, to His people.


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And Moses came and spoke all the words of this song in the ears of the people, he and Joshua the son of Nun.


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And he said to them, Set your hearts to all the words which I testify among you today, which you shall command your sons to observe and to do, all the words of this law.


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For it [is] not a vain thing for you, because it is your life. And by this word you shall prolong [your] days in the land where you go over Jordan, there to possess it.


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Go up into Mount Abarim, [to] Mount Nebo in the land of Moab, which is opposite Jericho; and behold the land of Canaan which I am giving to the sons of Israel for a possession.


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They have corrupted themselves: [they are] not His sons; [it is] their blemish; [they are] a crooked and perverse generation.


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And die in the mountain where you go up, and be gathered to your people, as Aaron your brother died in Mount Hor and was gathered to his people,


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because you sinned against Me among the sons of Israel at the Waters of Strife in Kadesh, in the wilderness of Zin, because you did not sanctify Me in the midst of the sons of Israel.


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Yet you shall see the land before [you], but you shall not go there to the land which I [am] giving to the sons of Israel.


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Do you thus give back to the LORD, Oh foolish and unwise people? [Is] He not your Father who bought you? [Has] He [not] made you and established you?


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Remember the days of old; consider the years of many generations. Ask your father, and he will show you; your elders, and they will tell you.


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When the Most High divided to the nations their inheritance, when He separated the sons of Adam, He set the bounds of the people according to the number of the sons of Israel.


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And this [is] the blessing [with] which Moses the man of God blessed the sons of Israel before his death.


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Let them teach Jacob Your judgments, and Israel Your law. Let them put incense before You and whole burnt sacrifice on Your altar.


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O, LORD, bless his strength, and accept the work of his hands. Strike through the loins of those who rise against him, and [of those] who hate him, that they should not rise again.


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Of Benjamin he said, The beloved of the LORD shall live in safety beside Him, [and] shall cover him all the day long, yea he shall dwell between His shoulders.


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And of Joseph he said, Blessed of the LORD [be] his land, with the precious things of the heavens, for the dew, and for the deep that crouches beneath,


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and for the precious things of the earth and fullness of it, and [for] the good will of Him who lived in the Bush. Let the blessing come on the head of Joseph, and on the top of the head of him who was separated from his brothers.


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His glory [is like] the first-born of his bull, and his horns are like the horns of the wild ox. With them he shall push the people together to the ends of the earth. And they are the ten thousands of Ephraim, and they are the thousands of Manasseh.


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They shall call the peoples to the mountain. There they shall offer sacrifices of righteousness, for they shall suck the bounty of the seas and treasures hidden in the sand.


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And he said: The LORD came from Sinai and rose up from Seir to them. He shone forth from Mount Paran, and He came with ten thousands of saints. From His right went a fiery law for them.


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And of Gad he said, Blessed [is] he who makes Gad greater. He lives as a lion and tears the arm and the crown of the head.


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And he provided the first part for himself, because there was the portion of the lawgiver hidden. And he came [with] the heads of the people. He executed the justice of the LORD, and His judgments with Israel.


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And of Naphtali he said, O Naphtali, satisfied with favor, and full with the blessing of the LORD, possess the west and the south.


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And of Asher he said, Asher [shall be] blessed with sons, let him be pleasing to his brothers, and let him dip his foot in oil.


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[There is] none like the God of Jeshurun, who rides on the heaven to your help, and in His majesty on the clouds.


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The eternal God [is your] refuge, and underneath [are] the everlasting arms. And He shall throw the enemy out from before you, and shall say, Destroy!


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And Israel shall dwell in safety alone; the fountain of Jacob in a land of grain and wine; and his heavens shall drop down dew.


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Blessed [are] you, O Israel! Who [is] like you, O people saved by the LORD, the shield of your help, and who [is] the sword of your excellency! And your enemies shall be found liars to you, and you shall tread on their high places.


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Yea, He loved the people. All His saints [are] in Your hand, and they sat down at Your feet. Everyone shall receive of Your words.


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And this for Judah: And he said, Hear, LORD, the voice of Judah, and bring him to his people. Let his hands be sufficient for him, and You shall be a help [to him] from his enemies.


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And of Levi he said, [Let] Your Thummim and Your Urim [be] with Your holy one whom You proved at Massah; You strove with him at the Waters of Strife,


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who said to his father and to his mother, I have not seen him; and he has not acknowledged his brothers, nor knew his own son, for they have observed Your word and kept Your covenant.


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And Moses went up from the plains of Moab to the mountain of Nebo, to the top of Pisgah that [is] opposite Jericho. And the LORD showed him all the land of Gilead, to Dan,


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in all the signs and the wonders which the LORD sent him to do in the land of Egypt, to Pharaoh, and to all his servants, and to all his land,


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and in all that mighty hand, and in all the great terror which Moses showed in the eyes of all Israel.


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and all Naphtali, and the land of Ephraim and Manasseh, and all the land of Judah, to the furthest sea,


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And the LORD said to him, This [is] the land which I swore to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, saying, I will give it to your seed. I have caused you to see it with your eyes, but you shall not go over there.


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And Moses the servant of the LORD died there in the land of Moab, according to the word of the LORD.


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And He buried him in a valley in the land of Moab, opposite Beth-peor. But no man knows of his grave to this day.


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And Moses [was] a hundred and twenty years old when he died. His eye was not dim, nor had he lost any of his natural strength.


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And the sons of Israel wept for Moses in the plains of Moab thirty days. And the days of weeping [and] mourning for Moses were ended.


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And Joshua the son of Nun was full of the spirit of wisdom, for Moses had laid his hands on him. And the sons of Israel listened to him, and did as the LORD commanded Moses.


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And now, Israel, listen to the statutes and to the judgments which I teach you, in order to do them, so that you may live and go in and possess the land which the LORD God of your fathers gives you.


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Remember the day that you stood before the LORD your God in Horeb, when the LORD said to me, Gather the people to Me, and I will make them hear My words so that they may learn to fear Me all the days that they shall live upon the earth, and they may teach their sons.


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And you came near and stood under the mountain. And the mountain burned with fire to the midst of heaven, with darkness, clouds, and thick darkness.


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And the LORD spoke to you out of the midst of the fire. You heard the voice of the words, but saw no likeness, only a voice.


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And He declared to you His covenant which He commanded you to perform, ten commandments. And He wrote them on two tablets of stone.


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And the LORD commanded me at that time to teach you statutes and judgments so that you might do them in the land where you go over to possess it.


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Therefore take good heed to yourselves, for you saw no kind of likeness on the day the LORD spoke to you in Horeb out of the midst of the fire,


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lest you act corruptly and make yourselves a graven image, the likeness of any figure, the likeness of male or female,


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the likeness of anything that creeps on the ground, the likeness of any fish in the waters beneath the earth;


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and lest you lift up your eyes to the heavens, and when you see the sun, and the moon, and the stars, all the host of heaven, lest you should be driven to worship them and serve them, which the LORD your God has allotted to all nations under all the heavens.


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You shall not add to the word which I command you, neither shall you take away from it, so that you may keep the commands of the LORD your God which I command you.


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But the LORD has taken you and brought you out from the iron furnace, out of Egypt, to be to Him a people of inheritance, as [you are] today.


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And the LORD was angry with me for your sakes, and swore that I should not go over Jordan, and that I should not go in to that good land which the LORD your God gives you [for] an inheritance.


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But I must die in this land; I must not go over Jordan. But you [shall] go over and possess that good land.


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Take heed to yourselves, lest you forget the covenant of the LORD your God, which He made with you, and make you a graven image, a likeness of anything which the LORD your God has forbidden you.


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When you father sons and sons of sons, and when you shall have remained long in the land and have dealt corruptly by making a graven image, the likeness of anything, and shall do evil in the sight of the LORD your God, to provoke Him to anger,


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I call Heaven and earth to witness against you this day, that you shall soon utterly perish from off the land which you are crossing over Jordan to possess. You shall not prolong [your] days upon it, but shall utterly be destroyed.


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And the LORD shall scatter you among the nations, and you shall be left few in number among the nations where the LORD shall drive you.


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And there you shall serve gods, the work of men's hands, wood and stone, which neither see nor hear nor eat nor smell.


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But if you shall seek the LORD your God from there, you shall find [Him], if you seek Him with all your heart and with all your soul.


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Your eyes have seen what the LORD did because of Baal-peor. For the LORD your God has destroyed from among you all the men that followed Baal-peor.


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When you are in trouble and when all these things have found you in the latter days, then you shall return to the LORD your God and shall be obedient to His voice.


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For the LORD your God [is] a merciful God; He will not forsake you, nor destroy you, nor forget the covenant of your fathers which He swore to them.


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For ask now of the days past which were before you, since the day that God created man upon the earth, and from the one end of the heavens to the other end of the heavens, where there has been a thing as great as this, or has been heard any like it.


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Did people ever hear the voice of God speaking out of the midst of the fire as you have heard and live?


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Or has God gone forth to take a nation for himself from the midst of a nation, by trials, by signs, and by wonders, and by war, and by a mighty hand, and by a stretched out arm, and by great terrors, according to all that the LORD your God did for you in Egypt before your eyes?


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He made you hear His voice out of Heaven so that He might teach you. And He showed you His great fire upon earth. And you heard His words out of the midst of the fire.


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And because He loved your fathers, therefore He chose their seed after them, and brought you out in His sight with His mighty power out of Egypt,


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in order to drive out from before you nations greater and mightier than you, to bring you in, to give you their land for an inheritance, as [it is] this day.


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Therefore, know this day and consider within your heart, that the LORD [is] God in Heaven above and on the earth beneath. There is no other.


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Therefore, you shall keep His statutes and His commandments which I command you this day, so that it may go well with you and with your sons after you, and so that you may make your days longer upon the earth which the LORD your God gives you forever.


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so that the slayer might flee there, he who should kill his neighbor through error and who did not hate him [in] times past, and he fleeing to one of these cities might live.


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They were Bezer in the wilderness, in the plain country, of the Reubenites; and Ramoth in Gilead of the Gadites; and Golan in Bashan, for the Manassites.


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These [are] the testimonies and the statutes and the judgments which Moses spoke to the sons of Israel after they came forth out of Egypt,


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beyond Jordan, in the valley over against Beth-peor, in the land of Sihon king of the Amorites, who lived at Heshbon, whom Moses and the sons of Israel killed, after they had come forth out of Egypt.


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And they possessed his land, and the land of Og king of Bashan, two kings of the Amorites, who [were] on this side Jordan toward the sunrise,


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and all the plain on this side Jordan eastward, even to the sea of the plain, under the Slopes of Pisgah.


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Behold, I have taught you statutes and judgments, even as the LORD my God commanded me, so that you should do so in the land where you go to possess it.


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And you shall keep and do [them], for this is your wisdom and your understanding in the sight of the nations, which shall hear all these statutes and say, Surely this great nation [is] a wise and understanding people.


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For who is a great nation whose God [is] coming near to them, as Jehovah our God [is], in all our calling on him?


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And who is a great nation whose statutes and judgments [are so] righteous as all this law which I set before you today?


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Only take heed to yourself and keep your soul carefully, lest you forget the things which your eyes have seen, and lest they depart from your heart all the days of your life. But teach them to your sons, and your sons' sons.


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And Moses called all Israel and said to them, Hear, O Israel, the statutes and judgments which I speak in your ears this day, so that you may learn them and keep and do them.


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You shall not take the name of the LORD your God in vain, for the LORD will not acquit [the one] who takes His name in vain.


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But the seventh day [shall be] the sabbath of the LORD your God. [In it] you shall not do any work, you, nor your son, nor your daughter, nor your manservant, nor your maidservant, nor your ox, nor your ass, nor any of your cattle, nor your stranger inside your gates, so that your manservant and your maidservant may rest like yourself.


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And remember that you were a slave in the land of Egypt, and the LORD your God brought you out from there with a mighty hand and with a stretched-out arm. Therefore the LORD your God commanded you to keep the sabbath day.


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Honor your father and your mother, as the LORD your God has commanded you, so that your days may be made longer, and that it may go well with you in the land which the LORD your God gives you.


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And you shall not lust after your neighbor's wife, nor shall you covet your neighbor's house, his field, or his manservant, or his maidservant, his ox, or his ass, or any [thing] that is your neighbor's.


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The LORD spoke these words to all your assembly in the mountain out of the midst of the fire of the cloud and of the thick darkness with a great voice. And He added no more. And He wrote them in two tablets of stone and delivered them to me.


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And it happened when you heard the voice out of the midst of the darkness, for the mountain burned with fire, you came near me, all the heads of your tribes and your elders,


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and you said, Behold! The LORD our God has revealed His glory and His greatness, and we have heard His voice out of the midst of the fire. We have seen today that God talks with man yet he [still] lives.


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Now therefore why should we die? For this great fire will consume us. If we hear the voice of the LORD our God any more, then we shall die.


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For who of all flesh has heard the voice of the living God speaking out of the midst of the fire, as we [have], and lived?


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You go near and hear all that the LORD our God shall say. And you speak to us all that the LORD our God shall speak to you, and we will hear and act.


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And the LORD heard the voice of your words when you spoke to me. And the LORD said to me, I have heard the voice of the words of this people, which they have spoken to you. They have well [said] all that they have spoken.


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Oh that there were such a heart in them that they would fear Me and keep all My commandments always, so that it might be well with them and with their sons forever!


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The LORD did not make this covenant with our fathers, but with us, even us, all of us here, alive today.


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But as for you, you stand here by Me, and I will speak to you all the commandments and the statutes and the judgments which you shall teach them, that they may do [them] in the land which I am giving them, to possess it.


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And you shall be careful to do as the LORD your God has commanded you. You shall not turn aside to the right hand or to the left.


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You shall walk in all the ways which the LORD your God has commanded you so that you may live and that good [may be] to you, and you may make [your] days longer in the land which you shall possess.


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(I stood between the LORD and you at that time, to show you the Word of the LORD, for you were afraid because of the fire, and did not go up into the mountain,) saying,


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You shall not make a graven image for you, any likeness [of anything] that is in the heavens above, or in the earth beneath, or in the waters beneath the earth.


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You shall not bow yourself down to them, nor serve them. For I the LORD your God [am] a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the sons to the third and fourth [generation] of those who hate Me,


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And these [are] the commandments, the statutes, and the judgments, which the LORD our God commanded to teach you so that you might do [them] in the land where you go, to possess it,


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And it shall be when the LORD your God has brought you into the land which He swore to your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give you great and good cities which you did not build,


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and houses full of every good [thing] which you did not fill, and wells which are dug, but which you did not dig, vineyards and olive trees which you did not plant, and you shall eat and be full,


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you shall be on guard lest you forget the LORD who brought you forth out of the land of Egypt, from the house of slaves.


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for the LORD your God [is] a jealous God among you, lest the anger of the LORD your God be kindled against you and destroy you from off the face of the earth.


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You shall carefully keep the commandments of the LORD your God, and His testimonies, and His statutes which He has commanded you.


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And you shall do the right and good in the sight of the LORD, so that it may be well with you, and so that you may go in and possess the good land which the LORD swore to your fathers,


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that you might fear the LORD your God, to keep all His statutes and His commandments which I command you, you, and your son, and your son's son, all the days of your life, and so that your days may be prolonged.


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When your son asks you in time to come, saying, What are the testimonies, and the statutes and the judgments which the LORD our God has commanded you?


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Then you shall say to your son, We were Pharaoh's slaves in Egypt, and the LORD brought us out of Egypt with a mighty hand.


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And the LORD gave signs and wonders, great and evil signs, upon Egypt, upon Pharaoh and upon all his household, before our eyes.


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And He brought us out from there so that He might bring us in to give us the land which He swore to our fathers.


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And the LORD commanded us to do all these statutes, to fear the LORD our God, for our good always, so that He might preserve us alive, as [it is] today.


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And if we are careful to do all this commandment before the LORD our God, as He has commanded us, it shall be our righteousness.


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Then hear, O, Israel, and be careful to [do] it, so that it may be well with you, and that you may greatly multiply, as the LORD God of our fathers has promised you, in the land that flows with milk and honey.


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And you shall love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your might.


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And you shall carefully teach them to your sons, and shall talk of them when you sit in your house and when you walk by the way, and when you lie down, and when you rise up.


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And you shall bind them for a sign upon your hand, and they shall be as frontlets between your eyes.


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When the LORD your God shall bring you into the land where you go to possess it, and has cast out many nations before you, the Hittites, and the Girgashites, and the Amorites, and the Canaanites, and the Perizzites, and the Hivites, and the Jebusites, seven nations greater and mightier than you,


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And he repays those who hate Him to their face, to destroy them. He will not be slow to repay him who hates Him. He will repay him to his face.


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And you shall keep the commandments and the statutes and the judgments which I command you today, to do them.


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And it shall be, because you listen to these judgments and keep and do them, the LORD your God shall keep to you the covenant and the mercy which He swore to your fathers.


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And He will love you and bless you and multiply you. He will also bless the fruit of your womb, and the fruit of your land, your grain, and your wine, and your oil, the increase of your cattle, and the flocks of your sheep, in the land which He swore to your fathers to give you.


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You shall be blessed above all people. There shall not be male or female barren among you or among your cattle.


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And the LORD will take away from you all sickness, and will put none of the evil diseases of Egypt which you know upon you. But He will lay them upon all who hate you.


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And you shall destroy all the people which the LORD your God shall deliver you. Your eye shall have no pity upon them, neither shall you serve their gods, for [they will be] a snare to you.


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You shall not be afraid of them, [but] shall well remember what the LORD your God did to Pharaoh and to all Egypt.


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[Remember] the great temptations which your eyes saw, and the signs, and the wonders, and the mighty hand, and the stretched-out arm by which the Lord your God brought you out. So shall the LORD your God do to all the people of whom you are afraid.


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and the LORD your God shall deliver them before you, you shall crush them, completely destroy them. You shall make no covenant with them nor show mercy to them.


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And the LORD your God will send the hornet among them, until the ones who are left, and who hide themselves from you, are destroyed.


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And the LORD your God will put out those nations before you by little and little. You may not destroy them at once, lest the beasts of the field increase upon you.


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And the LORD your God shall deliver them to you, and shall destroy them with a mighty ruin until they are destroyed.


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And He shall deliver their kings into your hand, and you shall destroy their name from under the heavens. No man shall be able to stand before you until you have destroyed them.


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You shall burn the graven images of their gods with fire. You shall not desire the silver or gold on them, nor take [it] for yourself, so that you may not be snared in it. For it is an abomination to the LORD your God.


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And you shall not bring an abomination into your house, lest you be a cursed thing like it. You shall utterly hate it, and you shall utterly despise it. For it [is] a cursed thing.


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Nor shall you make marriages with them. You shall not give your daughter to his son, nor shall you take his daughter to your son.


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For they will turn away your son from following Me, so that they may serve other gods. So the anger of the LORD will be kindled against you and will destroy you suddenly.


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But you shall deal with them in this way: you shall destroy their altars and break down their images, and cut down their groves and burn their graven images with fire.


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For you [are] a holy people to the LORD your God. The LORD your God has chosen you to be a special people to Himself above all people that are upon the face of the earth.


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The LORD did not set His love upon you, nor choose you, because you were more in number than any people, for you [were] the fewest of all people.


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But because the LORD loved you, and because He would keep the oath which He had sworn to your fathers, the LORD has brought you out with a mighty hand and redeemed you out of the house of slaves, from the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt.


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Therefore, know that the LORD your God, He [is] God, the faithful God who keeps covenant and mercy with them that love Him and keep His commandments, to a thousand generations.


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All the commandments which I command you this day shall you be careful to do, that you may live and multiply and go in and possess the land which the LORD swore to your fathers.


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And you shall eat and be satisfied, then you shall bless the LORD your God for the good land which He has given you.


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Beware that you do not forget the LORD your God, in not keeping His commandments, and His judgments, and His statutes, which I command you today,


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and [when] your herds and your flocks multiply, and your silver and your gold is multiplied, and all that you have is multiplied,


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then your heart might be lifted up, and you might forget the LORD your God who brought you forth out of the land of Egypt, from the house of slaves.


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He led you through the great and terrible wilderness, [with] fiery serpents and scorpions and thirsty ground, where [there was] no water, who brought you forth water out of the rock of flint,


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who fed you in the wilderness with manna which your fathers did not know, so that He might humble you and so that He might prove you, to do you good in your latter end,


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and so that you might not say in your heart, My power and the might of [my] hand has gotten me this wealth.


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But you shall remember the LORD your God, for [it is] He who gives you power to get wealth, so that He may confirm His covenant which He has sworn to your fathers, as it is today.


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And it shall be if you do at all forget the LORD your God and walk after other gods and serve them and worship them, I testify against you today that you shall surely perish.


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And you shall remember all the way which the LORD your God led you these forty years in the wilderness in order to humble you, to prove you, to know what is in your heart, whether you would keep His commandments or not.


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As the nations whom the LORD destroys before your face, so you shall perish because you would not listen to the voice of the LORD your God.


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And He humbled you and allowed you to hunger, and then He fed you with manna, which you did not know, neither did your fathers know [it], so that He might make you know that man shall not live by bread alone, but by every [word] that comes out of the mouth of the LORD man shall live.


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And you have known with your heart that as a man chastens his son, [so] the LORD your God chastens you.


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For the LORD your God brings you into a good land, a land of brooks of water, of fountains and depths that spring out of valleys and hills,


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a land in which you shall eat bread without want. You shall not lack any [thing] in it. [It is] a land whose stones are iron, and out of whose hills you may dig copper.


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Hear, O, Israel! You [are] to pass over Jordan today, to go in to expel nations greater and mightier than you, cities great and fenced up to heaven,


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And the LORD delivered to me two tablets of stone written with the finger of God, and on them according to all the words which the LORD spoke with you in the mountain out of the midst of the fire in the day of the assembly.


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And it happened, at the end of forty days and forty nights the LORD gave me the two tables of stone, the tablets of the covenant.


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And the LORD said to me, Arise! Get down quickly from here, for your people whom you have brought forth out of Egypt have corrupted. They have quickly turned aside out of the way which I commanded them. They have made them a molten image.


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And the LORD spoke to me saying: I have seen this people, and, behold, it [is] a stiff-necked people.


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Let Me alone, so that I may destroy them and blot out their name from under the heavens. And I will make of you a nation mightier and greater than they.


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So I turned and came down from the mountain, and the mountain burned with fire. And the two tables of the covenant [were] in my two hands.


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And I looked, and behold! You had sinned against the LORD your God, and had made you a molten calf. You had turned aside quickly out of the way which the LORD had commanded you.


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And I fell down before the LORD, as at the first, forty days and forty nights. I neither ate bread nor drank water, because of all your sins which you sinned in doing wickedly in the sight of the LORD to provoke Him to anger.


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For I was afraid of the anger and fury with which the LORD was angry against you to destroy you. But the LORD listened to me at that time also.


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a people great and tall, the sons of the giants, whom you know and have heard it said, Who can stand before the sons of Anak!


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And the LORD was very angry with Aaron to have destroyed him. And I prayed for Aaron also at the same time.


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And I took your sin, the calf which you had made, and burned it with fire, and stamped it, grinding [it] very small, until it was as small as dust. And I threw the dust of it into the torrent that descended out of the mountain.


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And when the LORD sent you from Kadesh-barnea, saying: Go up and possess the land which I have given you, then you rebelled against the commandment of the LORD your God, and you did not believe Him, nor listened to His voice.


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And I fell down before the LORD forty days and forty nights, that I had thrown myself down, for Jehovah had said to destroy you.


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I prayed therefore to the LORD and said, O, Lord God, do not destroy Your people and Your inheritance which You have redeemed through Your greatness, which You have brought forth out of Egypt with a mighty hand.


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Remember Your servants, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. Do not look to the stubbornness of this people, nor to their wickedness, nor to their sin,


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lest the land from where You bring us out say, Because the LORD was not able to bring them into the land which He promised them, and because He hated them, He has brought them out to kill them in the wilderness.


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Yet they [are] Your people and Your inheritance which You brought out by Your mighty power and by Your stretched-out arm.


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Therefore, understand today that the LORD your God [is] He who goes over before you. [Like] a consuming fire, He shall destroy them, and He shall bring them down before your face. So you shall drive them out and destroy them quickly, as the LORD has said to you.


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Do not speak in your heart, after the LORD your God has cast them out from before you, saying: For my righteousness, the LORD has brought me in to possess this land. But for the wickedness of these nations, the LORD your God drives them out from before you.


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Not for your righteousness, or for the uprightness of your heart, do you go to possess their land. But for the wickedness of these nations the LORD your God drives them out from before you, so that He may perform the word which the LORD swore to your fathers, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.


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Therefore, understand that the LORD your God does not give you this good land, to possess it, for your righteousness. For you [are] a stiff-necked people.


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Remember, [and] do not forget, how you provoked the LORD your God to wrath in the wilderness. From the day you departed out of the land of Egypt, until you came to this place, you have been rebellious against the LORD.


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Also in Horeb you provoked the LORD to wrath, so that the LORD was angry with you to have destroyed you.


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When I had gone up into the mountain to receive the tablets of stone, the tablets of the covenant which the LORD made with you, then I stayed in the mountain forty days and forty nights. I neither ate bread nor drank water.


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But as many as received Him, He gave to them authority to become the children of God, to those who believe on His name,


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who were born, not of bloods, nor of [the] will of [the] flesh, nor of [the] will of man, but [were born] of God.


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And the Word became flesh, and tabernacled among us. And we beheld His glory, the glory as of the only begotten of [the] Father, full of grace and of truth.


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John bore witness of Him and cried out, saying, This was [He] of whom I spoke: He who comes after me has been before me, for He was preceding 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 has declared [Him].


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And this is the witness of John, when the Jews sent priests and Levites from Jerusalem to ask him, Who are you?


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And they asked him, What then? Are you Elijah? And he says, I am not. Are you that prophet? And he answered, No.


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Then they said to him, Who are you so that we may give an answer to those who sent us? What do you say of yourself?


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


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And they asked him and said, Why then do you baptize, if you are not the Christ, nor Elijah, nor that Prophet?


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He it is who, coming after me, who has been before me; of whom I am not worthy to loosen the thong of His sandal.


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The next day John sees Jesus coming to him and says, Behold the Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world!


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All things came into being through Him, and without Him not even one [thing] came into being that has come into being.


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And I did not know Him, but that He be revealed to Israel, therefore I have come baptizing with water.


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And John bore record, saying, I saw the Spirit descending from Heaven like a dove, and He abode on Him.


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And I did not know Him, but He who sent me to baptize with water, that One said to me, Upon whom you shall see the Spirit descending, and remaining upon Him, He is the One who baptizes with the Holy Spirit.


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He first found [his] own brother Simon and said to him, We have found the Messiah (which is, being translated, the Christ).


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Philip found Nathanael and said to him, We have found Him of whom Moses wrote in the law and the prophets, Jesus of Nazareth, the son of Joseph.


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And Nathanael said to him, Can there be any good thing come out of Nazareth? Philip said to him, Come and see.


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Jesus answered and said to him, <J>Because I said to you, I saw you under the fig tree, do you believe? You shall see greater [things] than these.</J>


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This one came as a witness, to bear witness concerning the Light, so that all might believe through him.


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<J>Truly, truly, I say to you, he who does not enter into the sheepfold by the door, but going up by another way, that one is a thief and a robber.</J>


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<J>The thief does not come except to steal and to kill and to destroy. I have come so that they might have life, and that they might have [it] more abundantly.</J>


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<J>But he who is a hireling and not the shepherd, who does not own the sheep, sees the wolf coming and leaves the sheep and runs away. And the wolf catches them and scatters the sheep.</J>


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<J>I am the Good Shepherd, and I know those that [are] Mine, and I am known by those who are Mine.</J>


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<J>And I have other sheep who are not of this fold. I must also lead those, and they shall hear My voice, and there shall be one flock, one Shepherd.</J>


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<J>No one takes it from Me, but I lay it down from Myself. I have authority to lay it down, and I have authority to take it again. I have received this commandment from My Father.</J>


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Others said, These are not words of one who has been possessed by a demon. A demon is not able to open [the] eyes of blind ones.


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Then the Jews encircled Him and said to Him, How long do you make us doubt? If you are the Christ, tell us plainly.


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<J>And I give to them eternal life, and they shall never ever perish, and not anyone shall pluck them out of My hand.</J>


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<J>My Father who gave [them] to me is greater than all, and no one is able to pluck [them] out of My Father's hand.</J>


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<J>The doorkeeper opens to him, and the sheep hear his voice, and he calls [his] own sheep by name and leads them out.</J>


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The Jews answered Him, saying, We do not stone you for a good work, but for blasphemy, and because you, being a man, make yourself God.


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<J>do you say [of Him] whom the Father has sanctified and sent into the world, You blaspheme, because I said, I am the Son of God?</J>


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<J>But if I do, though you do not believe Me, believe the works so that you may know and believe that the Father [is] in Me, and I in Him.</J>


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<J>And when he puts forth his own sheep, he goes before them, and the sheep follow him. For they know his voice.</J>


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And He went away again beyond Jordan into the place where John baptized at the first, and He stayed there.


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And many came to Him and said, John indeed did no miracle, but all things that John said concerning this One were true.


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<J>And they will not follow a stranger, but will flee from him, for they do not know the voice of strangers.</J>


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<J>I am the door. If anyone enters in by Me, he shall be saved and shall go in and out and find pasture.</J>


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<J>And I am glad for your sakes that I was not there, in order that you may believe. But let us go to him.</J>


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Then Thomas (he being called Twin) said to his fellow disciples, Let us also go, that we may die with Him.


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(And it was [that] Mary who anointed the Lord with ointment and wiped His feet with her hair, whose brother Lazarus was sick.)


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She said to Him, Yes, Lord, I have believed that You are the Christ, the Son of God, who has come into the world.


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And saying these things, she went away and called Mary her sister secretly, saying, The Teacher has come and calls you.


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Then the Jews who were with her in the house, and comforted her, when they saw that Mary rose up hastily and went out, [they] followed her, saying, She is going to the tomb to weep there.


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Then when Mary had come where Jesus was, seeing Him, Mary fell down at His feet, saying to Him, Lord, if You had been here, my brother would not have died.


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Then when He saw her weeping, and also the Jews who came with her weeping, Jesus groaned in the spirit and troubled Himself.


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And some of them said, Was not this Man who opened the eyes of the blind able also to cause that even this one should not have died?


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Then Jesus, groaning in Himself again, came to the tomb. And it was a cave, and a stone lay upon it.


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<J>And I know that You hear Me always, but because of the people who stand by I said [it], so that they may believe that You have sent Me.</J>


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Then the chief priests and Pharisees gathered a sanhedrin, and said, What can we do? For this man does many miracles.


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


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And one of them, Caiaphas, being the high priest of that year, said to them, You do not know anything at all,


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nor do you consider that it is expedient for us that one man should die for the people, and not that the whole nation perish.


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And he did not speak this of himself, but being high priest that year, he prophesied that Jesus should die for the nation;


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


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Therefore Jesus walked no more openly among the Jews; but He went away from there to a country near the wilderness, into a city called Ephraim, and continued there with His disciples.


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And the Jews' Passover was near. And many went out of the country up to Jerusalem before the Passover in order to purify themselves.


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Then they sought Jesus, and spoke with one another as they stood in the temple, What does it seem to you, that He will not at all come to the feast?


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And all the chief priests and the Pharisees had given commands, that if anyone knew where He was, he should make [it] known so that they might seize Him.


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Therefore, when He had heard that he was sick, then indeed He remained two days in the place where He was.


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The disciples said to Him, Rabbi, the Jews lately have sought to stone You, and do You go there again?


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Then, six days before the Passover, Jesus came to Bethany, where Lazarus was (who had died, whom He raised from [the] dead).


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On the next day, when they heard that Jesus was coming to Jerusalem, a great crowd who had come to the Feast


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took branches of palm trees and went out to meet Him. And [they] cried, Hosanna! Blessed [is] the King of Israel who comes in [the] name of [the] Lord!


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But His disciples did not know 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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Then the crowd witnessed, those who were with Him when He called Lazarus out of the tomb and raised him from [the] dead.


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Then the Pharisees said among themselves, Do you see how you gain nothing? Behold, the world has gone after Him.


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Then they made a supper there for Him. And Martha served, but Lazarus was one of those reclining with Him.


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Then these came to Philip, who was from Bethsaida of Galilee, and asked him, saying, Sir, we want to see Jesus.


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<J>Truly, truly, I say to you, Unless a grain of wheat falls into the ground and dies, it abides alone; but if it dies, it brings forth much fruit.</J>


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<J>He who loves his life shall lose it. And he who hates his life in this world shall keep it to life eternal.</J>


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<J>If anyone serves Me, let him follow Me; and where I am, there also My servant shall be. If anyone serves Me, the Father will honor him.</J>


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<J>And My soul is troubled, and what shall I say? Father, save Me from this hour? But for this cause I came to this hour.</J>


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Then Mary took a pound of ointment of pure spikenard, very costly, and anointed the feet of Jesus, and wiped His feet with her hair. And the house was filled with the odor of the ointment.


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The crowd answered Him, We have heard out of the law that Christ lives forever. How do you say, The Son of man must be lifted up? Who is this Son of man?


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so that the saying of Isaiah the prophet might be fulfilled, which he spoke, Lord, who has believed our report? And to whom has the arm of the Lord been revealed?


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He has blinded their eyes and hardened their heart, so that they should not see with [their] eyes nor understand with [their] heart, and be converted, and I should heal them.


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Still, however, even out of the rulers, many did believe on Him. But because of the Pharisees they did not confess, lest they should be put out of the synagogue;


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<J>I have come [as] a Light into the world, so that whoever believes on Me should not remain in darkness.</J>


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<J>And if any one hears My words and does not believe, I do not judge him, for I do not come to judge the world, but to save the world.</J>


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<J>He who rejects Me and does not receive My words has one who judges him; the Word that I have spoken, the same shall judge him in the last day.</J>


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<J>For I have not spoken of Myself, but [the] Father who sent Me gave Me a command, what I should say, and what I should speak.</J>


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<J>And I know that His command is life everlasting. Therefore whatever I speak, even as the Father said to Me, so I speak.</J>


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He said this, not that he cared for the poor, but because he was a thief and held the moneybag and carried the things put [in].


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Then a great crowd of the Jews learned that He was there. And they did not come for Jesus' sake only, but also that they might see Lazarus, whom He had raised from [the] dead.


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And before the feast of the Passover, when Jesus knew that His hour had come when He should depart out of this world to the Father, having loved [His] own in the world, He loved them to [the] end.


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<J>If then I, the Lord and the Teacher, have washed your feet, you also ought to wash one another's feet.</J>


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<J>Truly, truly, I say to you, A servant is not greater than his master, neither is he who is sent greater than he who sent him.</J>


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<J>I do not speak of you all; I know whom I have chosen; but that the Scripture might be fulfilled, He who eats bread with me has lifted up his heel against me.</J>


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And when supper had ended, the Devil now having put into the heart of Judas Iscariot [the son] of Simon to betray Him,


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<J>Truly, truly, I say to you, He who receives whomever I send receives Me. And he who receives Me receives Him who sent Me.</J>


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For some thought, because Judas had the moneybag, that Jesus had said to him, Buy what we have need [of] for the feast; or that he should give something to the poor.


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Jesus knowing that the Father had given all things into [His] hands, and that He had come from God and went to God,


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<J>If God is glorified in Him, God shall also glorify Him in Himself, and shall immediately glorify Him.</J>


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<J>Little children, I am with you yet a little while. You shall seek Me; and as I said to the Jews, Where I go, you cannot come, so I now say to you.</J>


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<J>I give you a new commandment, that you love one another. As I have loved you, you should also love one another.</J>


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After that He poured water into a basin and began to wash the disciples' feet, and to wipe [them] with the towel with which He was girded.


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<J>Do you not believe that I [am] in the Father and the Father in Me? The words that I speak to you I do not speak of Myself, but the Father who dwells in Me, He does the works.</J>


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<J>Believe Me that I [am] in the Father and the Father in Me, or else believe Me for the very works themselves.</J>


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<J>Truly, truly, I say to you, He who believes on Me, the works that I do he shall do also, and greater [works] than these he shall do, because I go to My Father.</J>


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<J>And whatever you may ask in My name, that I will do, so that the Father may be glorified in the Son.</J>


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<J>And I will pray the Father, and He shall give you another Comforter, so that He may be with you forever,</J>


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<J>the Spirit of Truth, whom the world cannot receive because it does not see Him nor know Him. But you know Him, for He dwells with you and shall be in you.</J>


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<J>Yet a little [while] and the world does not see Me any more. But you see Me. Because I live, you shall live also.</J>


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<J>In My Father's house are many mansions; if [it were] not [so], I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you.</J>


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<J>He who has My commandments and keeps them, he it is who loves Me. And he who loves Me shall be loved by My Father, and I will love him and will reveal Myself to him.</J>


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Judas (not Iscariot) said to Him, Lord, how is it that You will reveal Yourself to us and not to the world?


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<J>He who does not love Me does not keep My words, and the Word which you hear is not Mine, but the Father's who sent Me.</J>


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<J>But the Comforter, the Holy Spirit whom the Father will send in My name, He shall teach you all things and bring all things to your remembrance, whatever I have said to you.</J>


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<J>Peace I leave with you, My peace I give to you. Not as the world gives do I give to you. Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid.</J>


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<J>You have heard how I said to you, I go away and I am coming to you [again]. If you loved Me, you would rejoice because I said, I go to the Father, for My Father is greater than I.</J>


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<J>And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and receive you to Myself, so that where I am, you may be also.</J>


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<J>I shall no longer speak many things with you, for the ruler of this world comes, and he has nothing in Me.</J>


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<J>But that the world may know that I love the Father, and as the Father has given Me commandment, even so I do. Arise, let us go away from here.</J>


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<J>If you had known Me, you would have known My Father also. And from now on you know Him and have seen Him.</J>


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<J>If you keep My commandments, you shall abide in My love, even as I have kept My Father's commandments and abide in His love.</J>


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<J>I have spoken these things to you so that My joy might remain in you and your joy might be full.</J>


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<J>No longer do I call you servants, for the servant does not know what his master does. But I have called you friends, for all things that I have heard from My Father I have made known to you.</J>


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<J>You have not chosen Me, but I have chosen you and ordained you that you should go and bring forth fruit, and [that] your fruit should remain; that whatever you shall ask of the Father in My name, He may give it to you.</J>


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<J>If you were of the world, the world would love its own. But because you are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world, therefore the world hates you.</J>


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<J>Every branch in Me that does not bear fruit, He takes away. And every one that bears fruit, He prunes it so that it may bring forth more fruit.</J>


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<J>Remember the word that I said to you, The servant is not greater than his master. If they have persecuted Me, they will also persecute you. If they have kept My saying, they will also keep yours.</J>


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<J>But all these things they will do to you for My name's sake, because they do not know Him who sent Me.</J>


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


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<J>If I had not done among them the works which no other did, they would not have had sin. But now they have both seen and hated Me and My Father.</J>


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<J>But that the Word might be fulfilled that is written in their law, They hated Me without a cause.</J>


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<J>And when the Comforter has come, whom I will send to you from the Father, the Spirit of truth who proceeds from the Father, He shall testify of Me.</J>


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<J>Abide in Me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself unless it remains in the vine, so neither [can] you unless you abide in Me.</J>


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<J>I am the Vine, you [are] the branches. He who abides in Me, and I in him, the same brings forth much fruit; for without Me you can do nothing.</J>


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<J>If anyone does not abide in Me, he is cast out as a branch and is withered. And they gather and cast [them] into the fire, and they are burned.</J>


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<J>If you abide in Me, and My words abide in you, you shall ask what you will, and it shall be done to you.</J>


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<J>However, when He, the Spirit of Truth, has come, He will guide you into all truth. For He shall not speak of Himself, but whatever He hears, He shall speak. And He will announce to you things to come.</J>


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<J>All things that the Father has are Mine. Therefore I said that He will take of Mine and will announce [it] to you.</J>


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<J>A little [while] and you will not see Me; and again a little [while], and you will see Me, because I go to the Father.</J>


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<J>They shall put you out of [the] synagogue. But an hour is coming that everyone who kills you will think that he bears God service.</J>


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<J>Truly, truly, I say to you that you will weep and lament, but the world will rejoice. And you will be sorrowful, but your sorrow shall be turned into joy.</J>


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<J>The woman has grief when she bears, because her hour has come. But when she brings forth the child, she no longer remembers the anguish, because of the joy that a man is born into the world.</J>


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<J>And therefore you now have sorrow. But I will see you again, and your heart will rejoice, and no one will take your joy from you.</J>


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<J>And in that day you shall ask Me nothing. Truly, truly, I say to you, Whatever you shall ask the Father in My name, He will give you.</J>


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<J>Before now you have asked nothing in My name; ask and you shall receive, that your joy may be full.</J>


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<J>I have spoken these things to you in parables, but the time is coming when I shall no more speak to you in parables, but I will show you plainly of the Father.</J>


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<J>At that day you will ask in My name; and I do not say to you that I will pray to the Father for you,</J>


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<J>for the Father Himself loves you, because you have loved Me and have believed that I came out from God.</J>


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<J>I came forth from the Father, and have come into the world. Again I leave the world and go to the Father.</J>


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Now we know that You know all things and do not need that anyone should ask You. By this we believe that You have come forth from God.


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<J>Behold, the hour comes, yea, has now come, that you will be scattered, each man to [his] own things, and you will leave Me alone. And yet I am not alone, because the Father is with Me.</J>


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<J>I have spoken these things to you so that you might have peace in Me. In the world you shall have tribulation, but be of good cheer. I have overcome the world.</J>


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<J>But I have told you these things so that when the hour shall come you may remember that I told you of them. And I did not say these things to you at the beginning because I was with you.</J>


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<J>But I tell you the truth, it is expedient for you that I go away; for if I do not go away, the Comforter will not come to you. But if I depart, I will send Him to you.</J>


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<J>And when that One comes, He will convict the world concerning sin, and concerning righteousness, and concerning judgment.</J>


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<J>And now I am in the world no longer, but these are in the world, and I come to You, Holy Father. Keep them in Your name, those whom You have given Me, so that [they] may be one as We [are].</J>


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<J>While I was with them in the world, I kept them in Your name. Those that You have given Me I have kept, and none of them is lost, but the son of perdition, that the Scripture might be fulfilled.</J>


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<J>And now I come to You, and these things I speak in the world that they might have My joy fulfilled in them.</J>


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<J>I have given them Your Word, and the world has hated them because they are not of the world, even as I am not of the world.</J>


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<J>even as You have given Him authority over all flesh so that He should give eternal life to all You have given Him.</J>


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<J>And I do not pray for these alone, but for those also who shall believe on Me through their word,</J>


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<J>that they all may be one, as You, Father, [are] in Me, and I in You, that they also may be one in Us, so that the world may believe that You have sent Me.</J>


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<J>And I have given them the glory which You have given Me, that they may be one, even as We are one,</J>


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<J>I in them, and You in Me, that they may be made perfect in one; and that the world may know that You have sent Me and have loved them as You have loved Me.</J>


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<J>Father, I desire that [those] whom You have given Me, that they may be with Me where I am, that they may behold My glory which You have given Me, for You have loved Me before [the] foundation of [the] world.</J>


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<J>O righteous Father, indeed the world has not known You; but I have known You, and these have known that You have sent me.</J>


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<J>And I made known to them Your name, and will make [it] known, so that the love [with] which You have loved Me may be in them, and I in them.</J>


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<J>And this is life eternal, that they might know You, the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom You have sent.</J>


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<J>And now Father, glorify Me with Yourself with the glory which I had with You before the world was.</J>


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<J>I have revealed Your name to the men whom You gave to Me out of the world. They were Yours, and You gave them to Me, and they have kept Your word.</J>


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<J>For I have given to them the words which You gave Me, and they have received [them] and have known surely that I came out from You. And they have believed that You sent Me.</J>


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<J>I pray for them. I do not pray for the world, but for those whom You have given Me, for they are Yours.</J>


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Having spoken these words, Jesus went out with His disciples over the winter stream Kidron, where there was a garden. He and His disciples entered into it.


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Then Simon Peter, having a sword, drew it and struck the high priest's servant and cut off his right ear. And the servant's name [was] Malchus.


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Then the band, and the chiliarch, and under-officers of the Jews together seized Jesus and bound Him.


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And they led Him away to Annas first, for he was father-in-law to Caiaphas, who was the high priest that year.


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And Caiaphas was he who gave counsel to the Jews, that it was expedient that one man should die for the people.


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And Simon Peter and another disciple followed Jesus. That disciple was known to the high priest, and he went in with Jesus into the court of the high priest.


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But Peter stood at the door outside. Then the other disciple went out, the one who was known to the high priest, and spoke to her who kept the door and brought Peter in.


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Then the girl who kept the door said to Peter, Are you not also [one] of this man's disciples? He said, I am not.


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And the servants and officers who had made a fire of coals stood there, for it was cold. And they warmed [themselves]. And Peter stood with them and warmed himself.


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<J>Why do you ask Me? Ask those who heard me what I have said to them. Behold, they know what I said.</J>


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And when He had spoken this way, one of the officers who stood by struck Jesus with the palm of his hand, saying, Do you answer the high priest so?


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And Simon Peter stood and warmed himself. Then they said to him, Are you not also [one] of his disciples? He denied and said, I am not.


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One of the servants of the high priest, being kinsman to him whose ear Peter cut off, said, Did I not see you in the garden with him?


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Then they led Jesus from Caiaphas into the praetorium. And it was early. And they did not go into the praetorium, that they should not be defiled, and that they might eat the Passover.


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Then Judas, having received a band and officers from the chief priests and Pharisees, came there with lanterns and torches and weapons.


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They answered and said to him, If he were not an evildoer, then we would not have delivered him up to you.


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Then Pilate said to them, You take him and judge him according to your law. Then the Jews said to him, It is not lawful for us to put anyone to death


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(that the word of Jesus might be fulfilled, which He spoke signifying what death He was about to die).


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Then Pilate entered into the praetorium again and called Jesus and said to him, Are you the king of the Jews?


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Pilate answered, Am I a Jew? Your own nation and the chief priests have delivered you to me. What have you done?


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Pilate said to Him, What is truth? And when he had said this, he went out again to the Jews and said to them, I find no fault in him.


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But you have a custom that I should release one to you at the Passover. Then do you desire that I release to you the king of the Jews?


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Then Pilate said to him, Do you not speak to me? Do you not know that I have authority to crucify you, and I have authority to release you?


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From this [time], Pilate sought to release Him. But the Jews cried out, saying, If you let this man go, you are not Caesar's friend. Whoever makes himself a king speaks against Caesar.


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Then when Pilate heard that saying, he brought Jesus out and sat down in the judgment seat at a place called the Pavement (but in the Hebrew, Gabbatha).


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And it was [the] preparation of the Passover, and about [the] sixth hour. And he said to the Jews, Behold your king!


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But they cried out, Away with [him]! Away with [him]! Crucify him! Pilate said to them, Shall I crucify your king? The chief priests answered, We have no king but Caesar.


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Then he delivered Him up to them that He might be crucified. And they took Jesus and led [Him] away.


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And bearing His cross, He went out to a place called, [The Place] of a Skull (which is called in the Hebrew, Golgotha)


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And Pilate wrote a title and put [it] on the cross. And the writing was, JESUS OF NAZARETH, THE KING OF THE JEWS.


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And the soldiers plaited a crown of thorns and put [it] on His head. And they put a purple robe on Him,


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Then many of the Jews read this title, for the place where Jesus was crucified was near the city, and it was written in Hebrew, Greek, and Latin.


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Then the chief priests of the Jews 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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Then when they had crucified Jesus, the soldiers took His garments and made four parts, one part to each soldier; and also [His] tunic. And the tunic was without seam, woven from the top throughout.


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Therefore they said among themselves, Let us not tear it, but cast lots for it to find whose it shall be (that the Scripture might be fulfilled which says, They parted my garments among them, and for] my garment they cast lots). Therefore the soldiers did these things.


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And His mother stood by the cross of Jesus, and His mother's sister, Mary the [wife] of Clopas, and Mary Magdalene.


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Then a vessel full of vinegar was set. And they filled a sponge with sour wine and put [it] upon hyssop, and put [it] to His mouth.


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Then the Jews, because it was Preparation, begged Pilate that their legs might be broken, and [that] they might be taken away, so that the bodies should not remain on the cross on the sabbath. For that sabbath was a high day.


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Then the soldiers came and broke the legs of the first, and of the other who was crucified with Him.


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But one of the soldiers pierced His side [with] a lance, and instantly there came out blood and water.


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And he who saw bore record, and his record is true. And he knows that he speaks true, so that you might believe.


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For these things were done so that the Scripture might be fulfilled, Not a bone of Him shall be broken.


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And after these things, Joseph of Arimathea, being a disciple of Jesus (but secretly for fear of the Jews) begged of Pilate that he might take away the body of Jesus. And Pilate gave permission. Then he came and took the body of Jesus.


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And Nicodemus also came, who at the first came to Jesus by night, and brought a mixture of myrrh and aloes, about a hundred pounds.


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Then Pilate went out again and said to them, Behold, I bring him out to you so that you may know that I find no fault in him.


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Then they took the body of Jesus and wound it with linens with the spices, as is the custom of the Jews to bury.


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And in the place where He was crucified there was a garden, and in the garden a new tomb in which no one yet had been placed.


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Then Jesus came out wearing the crown of thorns and the purple robe. And [Pilate] said to them, Behold the man!


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Then when the chief priests and under-officers saw Him, they cried out, saying, Crucify! Crucify [Him]! Pilate said to them, You take Him and crucify Him, for I find no fault in him.


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The Jews answered him, We have a law, and by our law he ought to die, because he made himself the Son of God.


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And [he] went again into the praetorium and said to Jesus, Where are you from? But Jesus gave him no answer.


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And [he] said to him, Every man at the beginning sets forth good wine, and when men have drunk well, then that which is worse. You have kept the good wine until now.


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This beginning of miracles Jesus did in Cana of Galilee. And [it] revealed His glory. And His disciples believed on Him.


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After this He went down to Capernaum, He and His mother and His brothers and His disciples. And they did not stay there many days.


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And when He had made a scourge of small cords, He drove them all out of the temple, also the sheep and the oxen. And He poured out the money-changers' money and overthrew the tables.


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Then the Jews said, This temple was forty-six years building, and will you rear it up in three days?


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Therefore when He had risen from the dead, His disciples remembered that He had said this to them, and they believed the Scripture and the word which Jesus had said.


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And as He was in Jerusalem at the Passover, at the feast, many believed in His name when they saw the miracles which He did.


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And there were six stone waterpots there, according to the purification of the Jews, each containing two or three measures.


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When the ruler of the feast had tasted the water which was made wine (and did not know where it was from, but the servants who drew the water knew), the master of the feast called the bridegroom.


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The first of the sabbaths Mary Magdalene came early to the tomb, darkness still being [on it], and [she] saw the stone taken away from the tomb.


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And [she] saw two angels in white sitting there, the one at the head and the other at the feet, where the body of Jesus had lain.


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And they said to her, Woman, why do you weep? She said to them, Because they have taken away my Lord, and I do not know where they have laid Him.


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And when she had said this, she turned backward and saw Jesus standing, but she did not know that it was Jesus.


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Mary Magdalene came and told the disciples that she had seen the Lord and that He had spoken these things to her.


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Then she ran and came to Simon Peter, and to the other disciple whom Jesus loved, and said to them, They have taken away the Lord out of the tomb, and we do not know where they have laid Him.


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And when He had said this, He showed them [His] hands and His side. Then the disciples were glad when they saw the Lord.


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<J>Of whomever sins you remit, they are remitted to them. Of whomever [sins] you retain, they are retained.</J>


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The other disciples therefore said to him, We have seen the Lord. But he said to them, Unless I shall see the print of the nails in His hands, and put my finger into the print of the nails, and thrust my hand into His side, I will not believe.


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And truly Jesus did many other signs in the presence of His disciples, which are not written in this book.


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But these are written so that you might believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and that believing you might have life in His name.


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And the grave-cloth that was on His head [was] not lying with the linens, but was wrapped up in one place by itself.


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Therefore, then, that other disciple also went in, the [one] who came first to the tomb. And he saw and believed.


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After these things Jesus revealed Himself again to the disciples at the Sea of Tiberias. And He revealed [Himself] this way:


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Simon Peter went up and drew the net to land, full of big fish, a hundred and fifty-three. And [though] there were so many, the net was not torn.


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This [is] now the three times Jesus was revealed to His disciples, [He] being risen from [the] dead.


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<J>Truly, truly, I say to you, When you were young, you girded yourself and walked where you wished. But when you grow old, you shall stretch forth your hands and another shall gird you and carry [you] where [you] do not wish.</J>


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Simon Peter, and Thomas called [the] Twin, and Nathanael from Cana in Galilee, and the [sons] of Zebedee, and two others of His disciples were together.


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Then Peter, turning around, saw the disciple whom Jesus loved following (the one who also leaned on His breast at supper, and said, Lord, who is he who betrays You?)


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This is the disciple who testifies of these things and wrote these things. And we know that his testimony is true.


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And there are also many things, whatever Jesus did, which, if they should be written singly, I suppose the world itself [could] not contain the books that would be written. Amen.


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Simon Peter said to them, I am going out to fish. They said to him, We will go with you also. They went out and entered into a boat immediately. And that night they caught nothing.


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But when the morning had come, Jesus stood on the shore. But the disciples did not know that it was Jesus.


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Then that disciple whom Jesus loves said to Peter, It is the Lord! Then hearing that it is the Lord, Simon Peter girded on [his] coat (for he was naked), and cast himself into the sea.


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And the other disciples came in a little boat (for they were not far from land, only about two hundred cubits), dragging the net of fish.


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Then when they went up on the land, they saw a fire of coals there, and a fish lying on [it], and bread.


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<J>Truly, truly, I say to you, We speak what we know and testify what we have seen. And you do not receive our witness.</J>


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<J>If I have told you earthly things and you do not believe, how shall you believe if I tell you heavenly things?</J>


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<J>And no one has ascended up to Heaven except He who came down from Heaven, the Son of man who is in Heaven.</J>


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<J>But even as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of man be lifted up,</J>


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<J>For God so loved the world that He gave His only-begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life.</J>


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<J>For God did not send His Son into the world to condemn the world, but so that the world might be saved through Him.</J>


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<J>He who believes on Him is not condemned, but he who does not believe is condemned already, because he has not believed in the name of the only-begotten Son of God.</J>


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<J>And this is the condemnation, that the Light has come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than the Light, because their deeds were evil.</J>


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He came to Jesus by night and said to Him, Rabbi, we know that you are a teacher come from God; for no [man] can do these miracles which you do unless God is with him.


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<J>For everyone who does evil hates the Light, and does not come to the Light, lest his deeds should be exposed.</J>


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<J>But he who practices truth comes to the Light so that his works may be revealed, that they exist, having been worked in God.</J>


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After these things Jesus and His disciples came into the land of Judea. And [He] stayed there with them and baptized.


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And John was also baptizing in Enon near Salim, because there was much water there. And they came and were baptized.


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And they came to John and said to him, Rabbi, He who was with you beyond Jordan, to whom you bore witness, behold, He baptizes, and all come to Him!


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He who has the bride is [the] bridegroom, but the friend of the bridegroom who stands and hears him rejoices greatly because of the bridegroom's voice. Then my joy is fulfilled.


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He who comes from above is above all; he who is from the earth is earthly and speaks from the earth. He who comes from Heaven is above all,


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He who believes on the Son has everlasting life, and he who does not believe the Son shall not see life, but the wrath of God abides upon him.


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Nicodemus said to Him, How can a man be born when he is old? Can he enter the second [time] into his mother's womb and be born?


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<J>The Spirit breathes where He desires, and you hear His voice, but you do not know from where He comes, and where He goes; so is everyone who is born of the Spirit.</J>


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Therefore when the Lord knew how the Pharisees had heard that Jesus made and baptized more disciples than John


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The woman said to Him, Sir, you have no vessel, and the well is deep. From where then do you have that living water?


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Are you greater than our father Jacob, who gave us the well, and drank of it himself, and his children and his cattle?


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<J>but whoever drinks of the water that I shall give him shall never thirst, but the water that I shall give him shall be in him a well of water springing up into everlasting life.</J>


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<J>for you have had five husbands, and [he] whom you now have is not your husband. In that you spoke truly.</J>


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Our fathers worshiped in this mountain, and you say that in Jerusalem is the place where men ought to worship.


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<J>But the hour is coming, and now is, when the true worshipers shall worship the Father in spirit and truth, for the Father seeks such to worship Him.</J>


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The woman said to Him, I know that Messiah is coming, who is called Christ. When He has come, He will tell us all things.


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And upon this His disciples came and marveled that He talked with the woman. However, no one said, What do You seek, or why do You talk with her?


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<J>Do you not say, It is] yet four months, and the harvest comes? Behold, I say to you, Lift up your eyes and look on the fields, for they are white to harvest already.</J>


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<J>And he who reaps receives wages and gathers fruit to life eternal, so that both he who sows and he who reaps may rejoice together.</J>


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<J>I sent you to reap that on which you bestowed no labor. Other men labored, and you have entered into their labor.</J>


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And many of the Samaritans of that city believed upon Him because of the saying of the woman, who testified, He told me all that I ever did.


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Then as the Samaritans had come to Him, they begged Him that He would stay with them. And He stayed there two days.


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And they said to the woman, Now we believe, not because of your saying, for we have heard [Him] ourselves and know that this is truly the Christ, the Savior of the world.


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Then when He had come into Galilee, the Galileans received Him, having seen all the things that He did at Jerusalem at the feast; for they also went to the feast.


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Then Jesus came again to Cana of Galilee, where He made the water wine. And there was a certain nobleman whose son was sick at Capernaum.


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When He heard that Jesus had come out of Judea into Galilee, he went to Him and begged Him that He would come down and heal his son, for he was at the point of death.


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Then He came to a city of Samaria, called Sychar, near the parcel of ground that Jacob gave to his son Joseph.


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Then he asked of them the hour when he began to get better. And they said to him, Yesterday [at the] seventh hour the fever left him.


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And Jacob's well was there. Jesus, therefore, being wearied with [His] journey, sat thus upon the well. [It] was about [the] sixth hour.


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Then the woman of Samaria said to Him, How do you, being a Jew, ask a drink of me, who am a woman of Samaria? For the Jews do not associate with Samaritans.


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Therefore the Jews said to him who had been healed, It is the sabbath. It is not lawful for you to take up the bed.


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And therefore the Jews persecuted Jesus and sought to kill Him, because He had done these things on the sabbath day.


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Then, because of this, the Jews sought the more to kill Him, because He not only had broken the sabbath, but also said that God was His father, making Himself equal with God.


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Now there is a pool at the Sheep Gate at Jerusalem, which [is] called in Hebrew Bethesda, having five porches.


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<J>For the Father loves the Son and shows Him all the things that He Himself does. And He will show Him greater works than these, so that you may marvel.</J>


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<J>For as the Father raises the dead and makes alive, even so the Son of man makes alive whomever He wills.</J>


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<J>so that all should honor the Son, even as they honor the Father. He who does not honor the Son does not honor the Father who sent Him.</J>


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<J>Truly, truly, I say to you, he who hears My word and believes on Him who sent Me has everlasting life and shall not come into condemnation, but has passed from death to life.</J>


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<J>Truly, truly, I say to you, the hour is coming and now is, when the dead shall hear the voice of the Son of God, and they who hear shall live.</J>


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<J>For as the Father has life in Himself, so He has given to the Son to have life within Himself,</J>


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<J>Do not marvel at this, for the hour is coming in which all who are in the graves shall hear His voice,</J>


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<J>and shall come forth, those who have done good to the resurrection of life, and those who have practiced evil to the resurrection of condemnation.</J>


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In these lay a great multitude of those who were sick, of blind, lame, withered, waiting for the moving of the water.


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<J>I can do nothing of My own self. As I hear, I judge, and My judgment is just, because I do not seek My own will, but the will of [the] Father who has sent Me.</J>


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<J>There is another who bears witness of Me, and I know that the witness which He witnesses of Me is true.</J>


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<J>But I have greater witness than that of John, for the works which the Father has given Me that I should finish them, the works which I do themselves witness of Me, that the Father has sent Me.</J>


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<J>And He sending Me, the Father Himself, has borne witness of Me. Neither have you heard His voice at any time nor seen His shape.</J>


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<J>You search the Scriptures, for in them you think you have eternal life. And they are the ones witnessing of Me,</J>


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For an angel went down at a certain time into the pool and troubled the water. Then whoever first stepped in after the troubling of the water was made whole of whatever disease he had.


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<J>I have come in My Father's name, and you do not receive Me. If another shall come in [his] own name, him you will receive.</J>


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<J>How can you believe, [you who] receive honor from one another and do not seek the honor that [comes] from God only?</J>


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<J>Do not think that I will accuse you to the Father; there is [one] who accuses you, Moses, in whom you trust.</J>


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The infirm man answered Him, Sir, when the water is troubled, I have no one to put me into the pool. But while I am coming, another steps down before me.


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And immediately the man was made whole and took up his bed and walked. And it was a sabbath on that day.


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And Jesus took the loaves, and when He had given thanks, He distributed to the disciples, and the disciples to those who had reclined; and likewise of the fish, as much as they wanted.


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Therefore they gathered and filled twelve handbaskets with fragments of the five barley loaves which were left over to those who had eaten.


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Then seeing the miracle that Jesus did, those men said, This is truly the Prophet, the [One] coming into the world.


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Therefore when Jesus perceived that they would come and take Him by force, that they might make Him a king, Jesus withdrew again to the mountain alone [by] Himself.


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and entered into a boat, and went over the sea toward Capernaum. And it was now dark, and Jesus had not come to them.


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Then having rowed about twenty-five or thirty furlongs, they saw Jesus walking on the sea and drawing near the ship. And they were afraid.


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Then they willingly received Him into the boat. And immediately the boat was at the land where they were going.


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The following day, the crowd standing on the other side of the sea had seen that there was no other little boat there except that one into which His disciples had entered, and when they saw that Jesus did not go with His disciples into the little boat, but [that] His disciples had gone away alone,


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(however, other boats from Tiberias came near the place where they ate the loaves, the Lord having given thanks),


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therefore, when the crowd saw that Jesus was not there, nor His disciples, they themselves also entered into the boats and came to Capernaum seeking Jesus.


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And when they had found Him on the other side of the sea, they said to Him, Rabbi, when did you come here?


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<J>Do not labor [for] the food that perishes, but for that food which endures to everlasting life, which the Son of man will give you. For God the Father sealed Him.</J>


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Therefore they said to Him, What sign do you show then, so that we may see and believe you? What do you work?


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<J>All that the Father gives Me shall come to Me, and the [one] who comes to Me I will in no way cast out.</J>


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<J>And this is the will of the Father who sent Me, that of all which He has given Me I should lose nothing but should raise it up again at the last day.</J>


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<J>And this is the will of Him who sent Me, that everyone who sees the Son and believes on Him should have everlasting life. And I will raise him up at the last day.</J>


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<J>No one can come to Me unless the Father who has sent Me draw him, and I will raise him up at the last day.</J>


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<J>It is written in the prophets, And they shall all be taught of God. Therefore everyone who hears and learns from the Father comes to Me.</J>


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<J>I am the Living Bread which came down from Heaven. If anyone eats of this Bread, he shall live forever. And truly the bread that I will give is My flesh, which I will give for the life of the world.</J>


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<J>Whoever partakes of My flesh and drinks My blood has eternal life, and I will raise him up at the last day.</J>


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<J>As the living Father has sent Me, and I live through the Father, so he who partakes of Me, even he shall live by Me.</J>


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<J>This is the Bread which came down from Heaven, not as your fathers ate the manna, and died; he who partakes of this Bread shall live forever.</J>


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<J>It is the Spirit that makes alive, the flesh profits nothing. The words that I speak to you are spirit and are life.</J>


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From this [time] many of His disciples went back into the things behind, and walked no more with Him.


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Philip answered Him, Loaves for two hundred denarii are not enough for them, that every one may take a little.


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But he spoke [of] Judas Iscariot, [the son] of Simon; for it was he who was about to betray Him, being one of the Twelve.


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There is a boy here who has five barley loaves and two small fish, but what are these among so many?


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After these things Jesus walked in Galilee, for He did not desire to walk in Judea, because the Jews sought to kill Him.


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And there was much murmuring among the crowd concerning Him, for some said, He is a good man; others said, No, but he deceives the crowd.


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<J>If anyone desires to do His will, he shall know of the doctrine, whether it is of God, or I speak from Myself.</J>


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<J>He who speaks of himself seeks his own glory, but he who seeks the glory of Him who sent Him is true, and no unrighteousness is in Him.</J>


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<J>Did not Moses give you the law? And [yet] not one of you keeps the law! Why do you seek to kill Me?</J>


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<J>Because of this Moses gave you circumcision (not because it is of Moses, but of the fathers,) and you circumcise a man on the sabbath day.</J>


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<J>If a man receives circumcision on the sabbath day so that the law of Moses should not be broken, are you angry at Me because I have made a man entirely sound on the sabbath day?</J>


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But lo, he speaks publicly, and they say nothing to him. Perhaps the rulers truly know that this is the Christ indeed?


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Therefore His brothers said to Him, Move away from here and go into Judea, so that Your disciples also may see the works that You do.


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And many of the crowd believed on Him, and said, When the Christ comes, will He do more miracles than these which this One has done?


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The Pharisees heard that the crowd murmured such things concerning Him. And the Pharisees and the chief priests sent officers to seize Him.


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Then the Jews said among themselves, Where is he about to go that we shall not find him? Is he about to go to the Dispersion of the Greeks, and to teach the Greeks?


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<J>He who believes on Me, as the Scripture has said, Out of his belly shall flow rivers of living water.</J>


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(But He spoke this about the Spirit, which they who believed on Him should receive; for [the] Holy Spirit was not yet [given], because Jesus was not yet glorified.)


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For no one does anything in secret, while he himself seeks to be in public. If you do these things, reveal yourself to the world.


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Has the Scripture not said that Christ comes from the seed of David and out of the town of Bethlehem, where David was?


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Then the officers came to the chief priests and Pharisees. And they said to them, Why have you not brought him?


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They answered and said to him, Are you also from Galilee? Search the scriptures and see that a prophet has not been raised out of Galilee.


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<J>You go up to this feast; I am not yet going up to this feast; for My time is not yet fulfilled.</J>


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<J>And yet if I do judge, My judgment is true; for I am not alone, but I and [the] Father who sent Me.</J>


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<J>I am one who bears witness of Myself, and the Father who sent Me bears witness concerning Me.</J>


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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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Jesus spoke these words in the treasury, as He taught in the temple. And no man laid hands upon Him, for His hour had not yet come.


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<J>Therefore I said to you that you shall die in your sins, for if you do not believe that I AM, you shall die in your sins.</J>


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<J>I have many things to say and to judge of you, but He who sent Me is true, and I speak to the world those things what I heard of Him.</J>


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<J>And He who sent Me is with Me. The Father has not left Me alone, for I always do those things which please Him.</J>


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And the scribes and Pharisees brought to Him a woman taken in adultery. And standing her in the midst,


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<J>I know that you are Abraham's seed, but you seek to kill Me because My Word has no place in you.</J>


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<J>I speak what I have seen with My Father, and you, then, do what you have seen with your father.</J>


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<J>But now you seek to kill Me, a man who has told you the truth which I have heard beside God; this Abraham did not do.</J>


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<J>You are of the Devil as father, and the lusts of your father you will do. He was a murderer from [the] beginning, and did not abide in the truth because there is no truth in him. When he speaks a lie, he speaks of his own, for he is a liar and the father of it.</J>


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<J>He who is of God hears God's words. Therefore you do not hear [them] because you are not of God.</J>


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Then the Jews answered and said to Him, Do we not say well that you are a Samaritan and have a demon?


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Are you greater than our father Abraham, who died? And the prophets are dead; whom do you make yourself?


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<J>Yet you have not known Him, but I know Him. And if I should say I do not know Him, I would be a liar like you. But I know Him and I keep His Word.</J>


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Then they took up stones to throw at Him. But Jesus hid Himself and went forth out of the temple, going through [the] midst of them, and passed on by.


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They said this, tempting Him so that they might have [reason] to accuse Him. But bending down, Jesus wrote on the ground with [His] finger, not appearing [to hear].


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And hearing, and being convicted by conscience, they went out one by one, beginning at the oldest, until the last. And Jesus was left alone, and the woman standing in the midst.


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Then again the Pharisees also asked him how he had received his sight. He said to them, He put clay upon my eyes, and I washed, and I see.


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Therefore some of the Pharisees said, This man is not from God, because he does not keep the sabbath. Others said, How can a man, a sinner, do such miracles? And there was a division among them.


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They said to the blind man again, What do you say about him, for he has opened your eyes? He said, He is a prophet.


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But the Jews did not believe concerning him, that he had been blind and had received his sight, until they called the parents of him having received sight.


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And they asked them, saying, Is this your son, whom you say was born blind? How then does he now see?


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And His disciples asked Him, saying, Master, who sinned, this man or his parents, that he was born blind?


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But by what means 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 for himself.


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His parents spoke these things because they feared the Jews, for the Jews had already agreed that if anyone confessed that He was Christ, he should be put out of the synagogue.


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Then a second time they called the man who was blind and said to him, Give glory to God. We know that this man is a sinner.


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He answered and said, Whether He is a sinner, I do not know; one thing I do know, that being blind, now I see.


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He answered them, I have told you already, and you did not hear. Why do you want to hear [it] again? Do you also desire to be His disciples?


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The man answered and said to them, Why, this is a marvelous thing, that you do not know from where He is, and He has opened my eyes.


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But we know that God does not hear sinners, but if anyone is God-fearing and does His will, He hears him.


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They answered and said to him, You were altogether born in sins, and do you teach us? And they cast him out.


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And [those] of the Pharisees who were with Him heard these words, and said to Him, Are we also blind?


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And when He had spoken these things, He spat on the ground and made clay from the spittle. And He anointed the eyes of the blind man with the clay.


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Then the neighbors and those who had seen him before, that he was blind, said, Is this not he who was sitting and begging?


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And while they were looking intently into the heaven, He having gone, even behold, two men in white clothing stood beside them,


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who also said, Men of Galilee, why do you stand gazing up into the heaven? This same Jesus who is taken up from you into Heaven, will come in the way you have seen Him going into Heaven.


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Then they returned to Jerusalem from [the] mount Of Olive Grove, which is a sabbath day's [journey] from Jerusalem.


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And when they had come in, they went up into an upper room, where Peter and James, and John and Andrew, Philip and Thomas, Bartholomew and Matthew, James [the son] of Alpheus and Simon Zelotes, and Judas [the brother] of James;


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these all were continuing with one accord in prayer and supplication, with [the] women and Mary the mother of Jesus, and with His brothers.


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And in those days Peter stood up in [the] midst of the disciples and said, ( the] number of names together [was] about a hundred and twenty,)


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Men, brothers, this Scripture must have been fulfilled, which the Holy Spirit by the mouth of David spoke before concerning Judas, who became guide to those who seized Jesus.


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Indeed, then, this one purchased a field with the reward of unrighteousness. And falling headlong, he burst apart in [the] middle, and all his bowels gushed out.


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And it was known to all the dwellers at Jerusalem, so much so that that field is called in their own dialect, Akeldama, that is to say, Field of Blood.


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until the day He was taken up, having given directions to the apostles whom He chose, through [the] Holy Spirit;


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For it is written in [the] Book of Psalms, Let his estate become forsaken, and he not be living in it. And, Let another take his overseership.


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Therefore, it is right that one of these men who have companied with us all [the] time that the Lord Jesus came in and went out among us,


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beginning from the baptism of John to that same day that He was taken up from us, to become a witness with us of His resurrection.


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And they gave forth their lots. And the lot fell upon Matthias. And he was numbered with the eleven apostles.


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to whom He also presented Himself living after His suffering by many infallible proofs, being seen by them through forty days, and speaking of the things pertaining to the kingdom of God.


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<J>For John truly baptized with water, but you shall be baptized in [the] Holy Spirit not many days from now.</J>


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Then, indeed, these coming together, they asked Him, saying, Lord, do You at this time restore the kingdom to Israel?


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<J>But you shall receive power, the Holy Spirit coming upon you. And you shall be witnesses to Me both in Jerusalem and in all Judea, and in Samaria, and to [the] end of the earth.</J>


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And saying these things, [as] they watched, He was taken up. And a cloud received Him out of their sight.


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And he saw the heaven opened and a certain vessel like a sheet coming down to him, being bound at the four corners and let down to the earth;


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in which were all the four-footed animals of the earth, and the wild beasts, and the reptiles, and the birds of the heaven.


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And while Peter doubted within himself what the vision which he had seen might be, even behold, the men who were sent from Cornelius had asked for Simon's house and stood on the porch.


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And [while] Peter thought on the vision, the Spirit said to him, Behold, three men are looking for you.


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[one] devout and fearing God, with all his household, both doing many merciful deeds to the people, and praying continually to God.


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And going down to the men, those sent to him from Cornelius, Peter said, Behold, I am [the one] you are seeking. For what reason have you come?


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And they said, Cornelius the centurion, a just man and [one] who fears God, and one of good report among all the nation of the Jews, was warned from God by a holy angel to send for you to come to his house and to hear words from you.


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Then he called them in and lodged [them]. And on the next day Peter went away with them, and certain brothers from Joppa went with him.


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And the next day they entered into Caesarea. And Cornelius was waiting for them, and had called together his kinsmen and near friends.


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And he said to them, You know that it is an unlawful thing for a man, a Jew to keep company with or to come near to one of another nation. But God has shown me not to call any man common or unclean.


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Therefore I came without complaint, being sent for. I ask, then, for what reason have you sent for me.


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About the ninth hour of the day he saw plainly in a vision an angel of God coming to him and saying to him, Cornelius!


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And Cornelius said, Four days ago I was fasting until this hour. And at the ninth hour I prayed in my house, and behold, a man stood before me in bright clothing.


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And he said, Cornelius, your prayer is heard, and your merciful deeds have been remembered before God.


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Therefore send to Joppa and call here Simon whose last name is Peter, he is staying in [the] house of Simon, a tanner by the seaside; who, when he comes, shall speak to you.


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Therefore I immediately sent to you, and you have done well [to] come. Now therefore we are all here present before God to hear all things that are commanded you by God.


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You know the word which [God] sent to the sons of Israel, preaching the gospel of peace by Jesus Christ (He is Lord of all!);


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that word which was published throughout all Judea, and began from Galilee, after the baptism which John proclaimed;


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how God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with [the] Holy Spirit and with power, and He went about doing good, and healing all those who were oppressed by the Devil, for God was with Him.


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And we are witnesses of all things which He did, both in the land of the Jews and in Jerusalem. They killed [Him] and hanged [Him] on a tree;


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And he was gazing at him, and becoming terrified, he said, What is it, lord? And he said to him, Your prayers and your merciful deeds have come up for a memorial before God.


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not to all the people, but to witnesses hand-picked before by God, [even] to us who ate and drank with Him after He rose from [the] dead.


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And He commanded us to preach to the people, and to testify that it is He who was ordained of God [to be] the Judge of [the] living and [the] dead.


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All the prophets give witness to Him, [that] through His name whoever believes in Him [shall] receive remission of sins.


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And those of the circumcision, who believed (as many as came with Peter), were astonished because the gift of the Holy Spirit was poured out on the nations also.


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Can anyone forbid water that these, who have received the Holy Ghost as well as we, should not be baptized?


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And he commanded them to be baptized in the name of the Lord. Then they begged him to stay certain days.


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He is staying with one Simon a tanner, whose house is by [the] seaside. He will tell you what you must do.


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And when the angel who spoke to Cornelius departed, he called two of his servants and a devout soldier from those who waited on him continually.


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On the next day, as these went on [the] road, and drawing near the city, Peter went up on the housetop to pray, about [the] sixth hour.


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And the apostles and brothers who were in Judea heard that the nations had also received the Word of God.


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And the Spirit told me to go with them, not discriminating. And these six brothers [went] with me, and we entered the man's house.


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And he declared to us how he had seen an angel in his house, who stood and said to him, Send men to Joppa and call for Simon whose last name is Peter,


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If God gave to them the same gift as to us, they] having believed on the Lord Jesus Christ, who was I to be able to prevent God?


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When they heard these things, they were silent and glorified God, saying, Then God has also granted repentance to life to the nations.


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Then, indeed, they who were scattered abroad by the persecution that rose about Stephen traveled as far as Phoenicia and Cyprus and Antioch, preaching the Word to no one except the Jews.


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And some of them were men of Cyprus and Cyrene; who, when they had come to Antioch, spoke to the Hellenists, preaching the gospel of the Lord Jesus.


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And the Word was heard in the ears of the church in Jerusalem. And they sent out Barnabas, that he should go as far as Antioch;


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who was glad when he had come and had seen the grace of God. And he exhorted all with purpose of heart to remain near to the Lord.


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For he was a good man and full of [the] Holy Spirit and faith. And many people were added to the Lord.


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And finding him, he brought him to Antioch. And it happened to them a whole year they] were assembled in the church. And they] taught a considerable crowd. And the disciples were first called Christian in Antioch.


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And one of them named Agabus stood up and signified by the Spirit that there should be great famine over the world (which also happened in the [days] of Claudius Caesar).


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And the disciples, as any were prospered, determined each of them to send for ministry to those brothers who lived in Judea,


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I was in [the] city of Joppa praying. And in an ecstasy I saw a vision, a certain vessel like a sheet coming down, let down from the sky by four corners. And it came even to me.


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When I had fastened my eyes on [it], I looked and saw four-footed animals of the earth, and wild beasts, and reptiles, and birds of the heaven.


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When they were past the first and second guard, they came to the iron gate that leads to the city, which opened to them of its own accord. And they went out and passed on through one street. And immediately the angel departed from him.


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And having come to himself, Peter said, Now I know surely that [the] Lord has sent His angel and has delivered me out of the hand of Herod, and [from] all the expectation of the people of the Jews.


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And thinking [about it], he came to the house of Mary the mother of John, whose last name was Mark; where many had gathered together to pray.


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And when she knew Peter's voice, she did not open the porch because of gladness, but running in she reported Peter [was] standing before the porch.


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And they said to her, You are mad. But she kept on saying that it was so. And they said, It is his angel.


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But, waving to them with his hand to be quiet, he declared to them how the Lord had brought him out of the prison. And he said, Go tell these things to James and to the brothers. And he departed and went into another place.


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And day coming, there was not a little stir among the soldiers, saying, What, then, became of Peter.


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And searching for him, and not finding [him], examining the guards, Herod commanded them to be led away to death. And he went down from Judea to Caesarea and stayed.


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And Herod was in bitter hostility with the men of Tyre and Sidon. But they came to him with one accord and, having made Blastus (who had charge of the king's bedroom) their friend, desired peace, because their country was fed by the king's [country].


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And on a certain day, Herod sat on his throne, dressed in royal clothing, and made a speech to them.


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And immediately the angel of [the] Lord struck him, because he did not give God the glory. And he was eaten by worms and gave up the spirit.


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And Barnabas and Saul returned from Jerusalem when they had fulfilled the ministry, having taken with [them] John, whose last name was Mark.


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And because he saw it pleased the Jews, he went further to seize Peter also. (And they were days of Unleavened [Bread].)


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And capturing [him], he put [him] in prison, and delivered [him] to four sets of four soldiers to keep him; intending to bring him out to the people after the Passover.


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And when Herod was about to bring him out, the same night Peter was sleeping between two soldiers, bound with two chains. Also guards were keeping the prison before the door.


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And behold! An angel of [the] Lord stood by, and a light shone in the building. And striking Peter's side, he raised him up, saying, Rise up quickly! And his chains fell off his hands.


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And the angel said to him, Gird yourself and put on your sandals. And he did so. And he says to him, Throw your robe around you and follow me.


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And he went out and followed him. And he did not know that this happening through the angel was true, but thought he saw a vision.


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And in Antioch some among the existing church were prophets and teachers. (such as Barnabas, and Simeon who was called Niger, and Lucius of Cyrene, and Manaen, the foster-brother of Herod the tetrarch) and Saul.


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and said, O son of the Devil, full of all deceit and all craftiness, enemy of all righteousness, will you not stop perverting the right ways of [the] Lord?


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And now, behold, [the] hand of the Lord [is] on you. And you shall be blind, not seeing the sun for a while. And immediately a mist and a darkness fell on him, and he went about seeking [some to] lead him by the hand.


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Then, seeing the thing happening, the proconsul believed, being astonished at the doctrine of the Lord.


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And Paul and those around [him] sailed from Paphos and came to Perga of Pamphylia. And John left them and returned to Jerusalem.


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But going through from Perga, they came to Antioch in Pisidia and went into the synagogue on the sabbath day and 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, Men, brothers, if you have any word of comfort for the people, speak.


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And rising up and signaling with his hand, Paul said, Men, Israelites, and those fearing God, listen.


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The God of this people Israel chose our fathers and exalted the people in their residency in [the] land [of] Egypt, and He brought them out of it with a high arm.


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And when He had destroyed seven nations in the land of Canaan, he gave their land to them as an inheritance.


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[As] they ministered to the Lord and fasted, the Holy Spirit said, So, then, separate Barnabas and Saul to Me for the work to which I have called them.


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And after that He gave [them] judges for about four hundred and fifty years, until Samuel the prophet.


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And afterward they asked [for] a king. And God gave them Saul the son of Kish, a man of [the] tribe of Benjamin, [for] forty years.


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And when He had removed him, He raised up David to them to be their king; to whom He also witnessed and said, I have found David the [son] of Jesse [to be] a man after My own heart, who shall fulfill all My will.


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John having before proclaimed the baptism of repentance to all the people of Israel, before His coming.


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And as John fulfilled his course, he said, Who do you think that I am? I am not [He]. But behold, One comes after me, the sandals of whose feet I am not worthy to loose.


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Men, brothers, sons of [the] race of Abraham, and whoever among you fears God, the word of this salvation is sent to you.


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For those living in Jerusalem, and their rulers, not having known this One, and the voices of the prophets being read throughout every sabbath, condemning [Him], they fulfilled [the Scriptures].


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And when they had fulfilled all that was written concerning Him, taking [Him] down from the tree, they laid [Him] in a tomb.


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who appeared for many days by those who came up with Him from Galilee to Jerusalem, who are His witnesses to the people.


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this God has fulfilled to us their children, raising up Jesus, as also it is written in the second Psalm, You are My Son, this day I have begotten You.


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And that He raised Him up from [the] dead, no more to return to corruption, He spoke in this way: I will give you the holy promises of David.


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For after he had served [his] own generation by the will of God, David fell asleep and was added to his fathers and saw corruption.


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Therefore be it known to you, men, brothers, that through this One the forgiveness of sins is announced to you.


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And by Him all who believe are justified from all things, from which you could not be justified by the law of Moses.


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Then these indeed sent out by the Holy Spirit went down to Seleucia. And from there they sailed to Cyprus.


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Behold, you despisers, and marvel, and perish; for I work a work in your days, a work which you shall in no way believe, though a man declare [it] to you.


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And the Jews having gone out of the synagogue, the nations begged that these words might be preached to them the next sabbath.


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And the synagogue being broken up, many of the Jews and of the devout proselytes followed Paul and Barnabas; who, speaking to them, persuaded them to continue in the grace of God.


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But when the Jews saw the multitudes, they were filled with envy and contradicted those things which were spoken by Paul, contradicting and blaspheming.


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But speaking boldly, Paul and Barnabas said, It was necessary [for] the word of God to be spoken to you first. But since indeed you put it far from you and judge yourselves unworthy of everlasting life, lo, we turn to the nations.


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For so the Lord has commanded us, [saying], I have set You to be a light of the nations, for salvation to the end of the earth.


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And hearing, the nations rejoiced and glorified the Word of the Lord. And as many as were ordained to eternal life believed.


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And when they were at Salamis, they announced the Word of God in the synagogues of the Jews. And they also had John as an assistant.


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But the Jews stirred up the devout and honorable women, and the chief ones of the city, and raised a persecution against Paul and Barnabas. And they threw them out of their borders.


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And when they had gone through the island to Paphos, they found a certain conjurer, a false prophet, a Jew whose name [was] Bar-jesus;


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who was with the proconsul of the country, Sergius Paulus, a prudent man. He called for Barnabas and Saul and asked to hear the Word of God.


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But Elymas the conjurer (for so his name is, if translated) withstood them, seeking to turn the proconsul away from the faith.


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And it happened in Iconium, they both went together into the synagogue of the Jews, and spoke so as a great multitude both of the Jews and also of the Greeks believed.


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And seeing what Paul did, the crowd lifted up their voice, saying in Lycaonian, The gods have come down to us, becoming like men.


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And the priest of Jupiter, being before their city, brought oxen and garlands to the gates, wishing to sacrifice with the crowds.


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But hearing [this], the apostles Barnabas and Paul tore their clothes and ran in among the people, crying out


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and saying, Men, why do you do these things? We also are men of like passions with you, and preaching the gospel to you to turn [you] 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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And yet He did not leave Himself without witness, doing good, giving rain and fruitful season to us from heaven, filling our hearts with food and gladness.


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And Jews from Antioch and Iconium came there, who, having persuaded the people, and having stoned Paul, they drew [him] out of the city, supposing him to have died.


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But the disciples surrounding him, he rose up and came into the city. And the next day he departed with Barnabas to Derbe.


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And preaching the gospel to that city, and having made many disciples, they returned to Lystra and Iconium and Antioch,


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confirming the souls of the disciples, calling on them to continue in the faith and that through much tribulation we must enter into the kingdom of God.


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And having hand-picked elders for them in every church, and had prayed with fastings, they commended them to the Lord into whom they believed.


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And from there they sailed to Antioch, from where they had been recommended to the grace of God for the work which they fulfilled.


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And having arrived, and gathering the church they related all that God had done with them, and how He had opened the door of faith to the nations.


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Therefore they stayed a long time, speaking boldly in the Lord, who bore witness to the word of His grace, giving miracles and wonders to be done by their hands.


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And when there was an assault made by both the nations and the Jews, with their rulers, in order to insult and to stone them,


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they were aware of [it] and fled to Lystra and Derbe, cities of Lycaonia, and to the country around them.


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And a certain man was sitting in Lystra, without strength in the feet, being lame from his mother's womb, who never had walked.


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This one heard Paul speaking; [and Paul], looking intently at him, and seeing that he had faith to be healed,


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And certain ones who came down from Judea taught the brothers, [saying], Unless you are circumcised according to the custom of Moses, you cannot be saved.


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Now therefore why do you tempt God by putting a yoke on the neck of the disciples, a yoke which neither our fathers nor we were able to bear?


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But we believe that through the grace of [the] Lord Jesus Christ we shall be saved, according to which manner they also believed.


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And all the multitude kept silent and listened to Barnabas and Paul declaring what miracles and wonders God had worked among the nations through them.


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Even as Simon has declared [how] God [at] the first visited the nations to take out of them a people for His name.


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After this I will return and will build again the tabernacle of David [which] has fallen down; and I will build again its ruins, and I will set it up,


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so those men who are left might seek after the Lord, and all the nations on whom My name has been called, says the Lord, who does all these things.


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Therefore my judgment is that we do not trouble those who have turned to God from among the nations,


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Therefore dissension and not a little disputation occurring by Paul and Barnabas, they appointed Paul and Barnabas and certain others of them to go up to Jerusalem to the apostles and elders about this question.


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but that we write to them that they should abstain from pollutions of idols, and [from] fornication, and [from] things strangled, and from blood.


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For Moses from ages past has those in every city proclaiming him, being read in the synagogues every sabbath day.


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Then it pleased the apostles and elders, with the whole church, to send chosen men from them to Antioch with Paul and Barnabas; Judas, whose last name was Barsabas; and Silas, chief men among the brothers.


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And they wrote these things by their hand: The apostles and elders and brothers [send] greeting to the brothers, from [the] nations in Antioch and Syria and Cilicia.


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Because we have heard that certain ones who went out from us have troubled you with words, unsettling your souls, saying, Be circumcised and keep the law! (to whom we gave no such command);


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it seemed [good] to us, being assembled with one accord, to send chosen men to you with our beloved Barnabas and Paul,


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For it seemed [good] to the Holy Spirit and to us to lay on you no greater burden than these necessary things:


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that you abstain from meats offered to idols, and [from] blood, and from things strangled, and from fornication; from which, if you keep yourselves, you shall do well. Be prospered.


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And indeed being set forward by the church, they passed through Phoenicia and Samaria, declaring the conversion of the nations. And they caused great joy to all the brothers.


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Then indeed they being let go, they came to Antioch. And gathering the multitude, [they] delivered the letter.


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And Judas and Silas, also being prophets themselves, exhorted the brothers with many words and confirmed [them].


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Also Paul and Barnabas continued in Antioch, teaching and preaching the gospel, the Word of the Lord, with many others also.


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And some days afterward, Paul said to Barnabas, Let us go again and visit our brothers in every city where we have announced the Word of the Lord, to see] how they are holding to it.


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But Paul thought it well not to take that one with [them], he having withdrawn from them from Pamphylia, and did not go with them to the work.


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Then there was sharp feeling, so as to separate them from each other. And taking Mark, Barnabas sailed to Cyprus.


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And arriving in Jerusalem, they were received by the church, and [by] the apostles and elders. And [they] declared all things that God had done with them.


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But some of those from the sect of the Pharisees, having believed, rose up, saying, It was necessary to circumcise them and to command [them] to keep the law of Moses.


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And after much disputing, Peter rose up and said to them, Men, brothers, you recognize that from ancient days God chose among us [that] through my mouth the nations [should] hear the word of the gospel, and believe.


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And he came to Derbe and Lystra. And behold, a certain disciple named Timothy was there, [the] son of a woman who was a Jewess and who believed. But [his] father [was] a Greek.


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And after he saw the vision, we immediately tried to go into Macedonia, gathering that the Lord had called us in order to preach the gospel [to] them.


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Then having set sail from Troas, we came with a straight course to Samothracia, and the next [day] to Neapolis;


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and from there to Philippi, which is the chief city of that part of Macedonia, a colony. And we continued spending time in that city some days.


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And on the sabbath we went out of the city by a river side, where prayer was usually made. And we sat down and spoke to the women who came together [there].


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And a certain woman named Lydia heard us, a seller of purple of the city of Thyatira, who worshiped God; whose heart the Lord opened, so that she attended to the things which were spoken by Paul.


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And when she was baptized, she and her household, she begged us, saying, If you have judged me to be faithful to the Lord, come into my house and stay. And she constrained us.


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And as we went to prayer, it happened that a certain girl possessed with a spirit of divination met us, who brought her masters much gain by divining.


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The same followed Paul and us and cried, saying, These men are the servants of the Most High God, who are announcing to us the way of salvation.


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And she did this many days. But being distressed, and turning to the [demonic] spirit, Paul said, I command you in the name of Jesus Christ to come out of her! And it came out in that hour.


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And when her masters saw that the hope of their gain went out, having seized Paul and Silas, they dragged [them] to the market before the rulers.


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And bringing them near to the judges, they said, These men, being Jews, are exceedingly troubling our city.


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And the crowd rose up against them. And tearing off their clothes, the judges ordered [them] to be flogged.


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And after laying on them many stripes, they threw [them] into prison, commanding the jailor to keep them safely;


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who, having received such a command, thrust them into the inner prison and made their feet fast in the stocks.


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And toward midnight Paul and Silas prayed and praised God in a hymn. And the prisoners listened to them.


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And suddenly there was a great earthquake, so that the foundations of the prison were shaken. And immediately all the doors were opened and all the bonds were loosened.


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And being awakened, and seeing the doors of the prison being open, drawing a sword, the jailer was about to kill himself, supposing that the prisoners had escaped.


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Paul wanted him to go with him, and taking [him he] circumcised him, because of the Jews who were in those places; for they all knew that his father was a Greek.


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And taking them in that hour of the night, he washed from [their] stripes. And he was baptized, he and all his, immediately.


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And bringing them up to the house, he set a table before [them] and rejoiced, believing in God with all his household.


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And the jailer spoke these words to Paul: The judges have sent to let you go. Now therefore depart, and go in peace.


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But Paul said to them, Having beaten us publicly, men who are Romans and uncondemned, they threw [us] into prison. And now do they put us out secretly? No indeed! But coming themselves, let them bring us out.


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And the floggers reported these words to the judges. And hearing that they were Romans, they were afraid.


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And coming they begged [them]. And bringing [them] out, [they] asked [them] to depart out of the city.


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And as they passed through the cities, they delivered to them the commandments to keep, the ones that were ordained by the apostles and elders in Jerusalem.


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And going out from the prison, [they] entered into [the house of] Lydia. And seeing the brothers, they comforted them and departed.


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And coming through the Phrygian and the Galatian region; and by the Holy Spirit being forbidden to speak the Word in Asia;


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And a vision appeared to Paul in the night. A certain man of Macedonia stood, begging him, saying, Come over into Macedonia and help us!


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And traveling through Amphipolis and Apollonia, they came to Thessalonica, where there was a synagogue of the Jews.


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And the brothers immediately sent Paul and Silas away by night to Berea. They, when they arrived, went into the synagogue of the Jews.


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And these were more noble than those of Thessalonica, in that [they received] the Word with all readiness of mind and searched the Scriptures daily [to see] if those things [were so].


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But when the Jews from Thessalonica knew that the Word of God was preached by Paul at Berea, they came there also and stirred up the people.


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And then immediately the brothers sent Paul away to go towards the sea, but both Silas and Timothy stayed there.


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And those conducting Paul brought him to Athens. And receiving a command to Silas and Timothy to come to him with all speed, they departed.


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Then indeed he addressed the Jews in the synagogue, and those worshiping, and daily in the market, to those happening to be [there].


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And certain philosophers from the Epicureans and from the Stoics met him. And some said, What will this babbler say? And others said, He seems to be an announcer of foreign demons (because he preached Jesus and the resurrection to them).


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And taking hold of him, they led [him] to the Areopagus, saying, Are we able to know what [is] this new doctrine of which you speak?


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And according to Paul's custom, he went in to them and reasoned with them out of the Scriptures on three sabbaths,


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For you bring certain strange things to our ears, therefore we are minded to know what these things mean.


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(For all the Athenians and strangers who were [there] spent their time in nothing else except to tell or to hear something newer.)


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And standing in [the] middle of the Areopagus, Paul said, Men, Athenians, I see that you [are] fearful of gods in everything.


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For [as I] passed by and saw the things you worship, I also found an altar with this inscription: TO THE UNKNOWN GOD. Not knowing then whom you worship, I make Him known to you.


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The God who made the world and all things in it, since He is Lord of Heaven and earth, does not dwell in temples made with hands,


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nor is served with men's hands, [as though] He needed anything, [since] He gives life and breath and all things to all.


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And He has made all nations of men of one blood to dwell on all the face of the earth, ordaining fore-appointed seasons and boundaries of their dwelling,


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to seek the Lord, if perhaps they might feel after Him and find Him, though indeed [He] is not far from each one of us.


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For in Him we live and move and have our being, as also certain of your own poets have said, For we are also His offspring.


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Then being offspring of God, we ought not to think that the Godhead is like gold or silver or stone, engraved by art and man's imagination.


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opening and setting forth that Christ must have suffered, and to have risen again from [the] dead; and that this Jesus whom I preach to you is Christ.


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Truly, then, God overlooking the times of ignorance, now He strictly commands all men everywhere to repent,


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because He has appointed a day in which He is going to judge the world in righteousness by a Man whom He appointed, having given proof to all [by] raising Him from [the] dead.


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And hearing [of] a resurrection of [the] dead, some indeed mocked; and others said, We will hear you again concerning this.


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But certain men joined themselves to him and believed; among whom [were] Dionysius the Areopagite, and a woman named Damaris, and others with them.


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And some of them believed and joined themselves to Paul and Silas, both a great multitude of the worshiping Greeks, and not a few of the chief women.


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But the disobeying Jews becoming jealous, and having taken aside some wicked men of the market-loafers, and gathering a crowd, they set all the city in an uproar. And coming on the house of Jason, [they] sought to bring them out to the mob.


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And not finding them, they drew Jason and certain brothers before the city judges, crying, These who have turned the world upside down have come here too,


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whom Jason has received. And these all act contrary to the decrees of Caesar, saying that there is another king, Jesus.


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<J>For I am with you, and no one shall set on you to hurt you, for I have many people in this city.</J>


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But Gallio [being] pro-consul of Achaia, the Jews with one accord rushed against Paul and brought him to the judgment seat,


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And Paul being about to open [his] mouth, Gallio said to the Jews, If indeed then, it was anything wrong or wicked criminality, O Jews, according to reason I would endure you.


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But if it is a question of a word and names, and [of] your law, you look [to it]. For I do not wish to be a judge of such things.


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And all the Greeks seized Sosthenes, the chief ruler of the synagogue, and beat [him] before the judgment seat. And Gallio did not care for any of these things.


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And Paul having remained many days more, taking leave of the brothers, he sailed from there into Syria. And Priscilla and Aquila were with him. And Paul had shorn his head in Cenchrea, for he had a vow.


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And he came to Ephesus and left them there. But he himself entered into the synagogue and reasoned with the Jews.


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And finding a certain Jew named Aquila, born in Pontus, lately come from Italy [with] his wife Priscilla (because Claudius had commanded all Jews to depart from Rome) Paul came to them.


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but took leave of them, saying, I must by all means keep this feast that is coming in Jerusalem, but I will return again to you, God willing. And he sailed from Ephesus.


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And after he had spent some time [there], he departed and went over the country of Galatia and Phrygia in order, strengthening all the disciples.


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And a certain Jew named Apollos, an Alexandrian by birth, an eloquent man mighty in the Scriptures, came to Ephesus.


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This man was instructed in the way of the Lord. And [being] fervent in the spirit, he spoke and taught the things of the Lord diligently, knowing only the baptism of John.


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And he began to speak boldly in the synagogue. And Aquila and Priscilla heard him, and they took him and expounded to him the way of God more perfectly.


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And intending to pass into Achaia, being encouraged, the brothers wrote to the disciples to welcome him; who, having arrived, very much helped those who had believed through grace.


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And because [he] was of the same trade, he stayed and worked with them; for they were tentmakers by occupation.


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And when Silas and Timothy had come from Macedonia, Paul was pressed in the spirit and testified to the Jews [that] Jesus [is] the Christ.


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And they resisting and blaspheming, shaking [his] garment, he said to them, Your blood [is] on your own heads. I [am] pure from [it]. From now on I will go to the nations.


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And he departed from there and entered into [the] house of one named Justus, [one] worshiping God, whose house was next to the synagogue.


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And Crispus, the chief ruler of the synagogue, believed on the Lord with all his house. And hearing this, many of the Corinthians believed and were baptized.


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And it happened in the [time] Apollos was at Corinth, Paul [was] passing through the higher parts to Ephesus. And finding certain disciples,


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And this happened over two years, so that all those living in Asia heard the Word of the Lord Jesus, both Jews and Greeks.


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so that even handkerchiefs or aprons from his skin being brought onto the sick, the diseases were released, and the evil spirits went out of them.


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And certain from the strolling Jews, exorcists, undertook to name the name of the Lord Jesus over those having evil spirits, saying, We adjure you [by] Jesus whom Paul preaches.


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And the man in whom the evil spirit resided leaped on them, and overcoming them he was strong against them, so that they fled out of the house naked and wounded.


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And this was known to all the Jews and Greeks who lived at Ephesus, and fear fell on all of them, and the name of the Lord Jesus was magnified.


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Also many of those practicing the curious arts, bringing together the books, burned [them] before all. And they counted the prices of them and found [it to be] fifty thousand [pieces] of silver.


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he said to them, Have you received [the] Holy Spirit since you believed? And they said to him, We did not so much as hear whether [the] Holy Spirit is.


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After these things were ended, passing through Macedonia and Achaia, Paul purposed in the spirit to go to Jerusalem, saying, After I have come there, I must also see Rome.


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And sending into Macedonia two who ministered to him, Timothy and Erastus, he stayed in Asia for a time.


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For a certain silversmith named Demetrius was making silver temples of Artemis, providing not a little trade [for] the craftsmen.


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And assembling the workmen about such things, he said, Men, you know that from this trade is our wealth.


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And you see and hear that, not only at Ephesus, but almost all Asia, this Paul having persuaded, he has perverted a huge crowd, saying that those which are made with hands are no gods.


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And not only is this dangerous to us, our share coming into dispute, but also the temple of the great goddess Artemis will be counted for nothing, and her magnificence is also about to be destroyed, whom all Asia and the world worships.


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And hearing, and becoming full of anger, they cried out, saying, Great [is] Artemis of [the] Ephesians.


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And all the city was filled with confusion. And they rushed with one accord to the theater, keeping a firm grip on Gaius and Aristarchus, Macedonians, traveling companions of Paul.


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And some of the chief men of Asia, being his friends, sent to him, begging [him] not to give himself into the theater.


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Then indeed others cried out, some other things; for the assembly was confused, and most of them did not know why they had come together.


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And they dragged Alexander forward out of the crowd, the Jews thrusting him forward. And waving [his] hand Alexander desired to defend himself to the mob.


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But when they knew that he was a Jew, all with one voice cried out for two hours' [time], Great [is] Artemis of [the] Ephesians!


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And quieting the crowd, the town clerk said, Men, Ephesians! What one of you does not know that the city of the Ephesians is a worshiper of the great goddess Artemis, and of That Fallen from the Sky?


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For you have brought these men, who are neither robbers of churches nor blasphemers of your goddess.


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Therefore if Demetrius and those craftsmen with him truly have a matter against anyone, the court days are [kept], and there are proconsuls. Let them plead against one another.


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And Paul said, John truly baptized [with] the baptism of repentance, saying to the people that they should believe into Him coming after him, that is, into Jesus Christ.


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For we are in danger to be accused of revolt concerning today; there being no cause by which we may give an account of this crowding together.


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And as Paul laid [his] hands on them, the Holy Spirit came on them, and they spoke with tongues and prophesied.


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And going into the synagogue, he spoke boldly for three months, reasoning and persuading the things concerning the kingdom of God.


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But when some were hardened and did not believe, speaking evil of the Way before the multitude, he departed from them and separated the disciples, reasoning daily in the school of one Tyrannus.


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Phrygia, and Pamphylia, in Egypt, and in the parts of Libya around Cyrene, and strangers of Rome, Jews and proselytes,


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But Peter, standing up with the Eleven, lifted up his voice and said to them, Men, Jews, and all who dwell at Jerusalem, let this be known to you, and listen to my words.


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And it shall be in the last days, says God, I will pour out of My Spirit upon all flesh. And your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, and your young men shall see visions, and your old men shall dream dreams.


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And in those days I will pour out My Spirit upon My slaves and My slave women, and they shall prophesy.


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And I will give wonders in the heaven above, and miracles on the earth below, blood and fire and vapor of smoke.


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And suddenly a sound came out of the heaven as borne along by the rushing of a mighty wind, and it filled all the house where they were sitting.


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The sun shall be turned into darkness and the moon into blood, before that great and glorious Day of the Lord.


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Men, Israelites, hear these words. Jesus of Nazareth, a man approved of God among you by powerful works, and wonders and miracles, which God did through Him in your midst, as you yourselves also know,


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this One given [to you] by the before-determined counsel and foreknowledge of God, [you] have taken and by lawless hands, crucifying [Him], you put Him to death;


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whom God raised up, having loosed the pains of death, because it was not possible that He should be held by it.


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For David speaks concerning Him, I foresaw the Lord always before me, because He is at my right hand, that I should not be moved.


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Men, brothers, it is permitted to say to you with plainness as to the patriarch David, that he is both dead and buried, and his tomb is with us to this day.


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Therefore being a prophet, and knowing that God had sworn with an oath to him that of [the] fruit of his loins, according to the flesh, He would raise up Christ to sit upon his throne,


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seeing this beforehand, he spoke of the resurrection of Christ, that His soul was not left in Hades, nor would His flesh see corruption,


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Therefore being exalted to the right of God, and having received from the Father the promise of the Holy Spirit, He has poured out this which you now see and hear.


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For David has not ascended into the heavens, but he says himself, The LORD said to my Lord, Sit at My right [hand]


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Therefore let all the house of Israel know assuredly that God made this same Jesus, whom you crucified, both Lord and Christ.


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And hearing [this], they were stabbed in the heart, and said to Peter and to the other apostles, Men, brothers, what shall we do?


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Then Peter said to them, Repent and be baptized, every one of you, in the name of Jesus Christ to remission of sins, and you shall receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.


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For the promise is to you and to your children, and to all those afar off, as many as [the] Lord our God shall call.


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And they were all filled of the Holy Spirit, and began to speak in other languages, as the Spirit gave them utterance.


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And with many other words he earnestly testified and exhorted, saying, Be saved from this perverse generation.


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Then those who gladly received his word were baptized. And the same day there were added about three thousand souls.


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And they were continuing steadfastly in the apostles' doctrine, and in fellowship and in the breaking of the loaves, and in prayers.


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And they sold their possessions and goods and distributed them to all, according as anyone had need.


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And continuing with one accord in the temple, and breaking bread from house to house, they shared food with gladness and simplicity of heart,


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praising God and having favor with all the people. And the Lord added to the church daily those who were being saved.


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But this sound occurring, the multitude came together and were confounded, because they each heard them speaking in his own dialect.


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And they were all amazed and marveled, saying to one another, Behold, are not these who speak all Galileans?


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Parthians, and Medes, and Elamites, and the dwellers in Mesopotamia, and in Judea, and Cappadocia, in Pontus, and Asia,


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And after the uproar had ceased, calling the disciples and greeting [them], Paul left to go into Macedonia.


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And Paul went down and fell on him, and embracing [him] said, Do not be terrified, for his soul is in him.


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And going up, and breaking bread, and tasting, and conversing over a long [time], until daybreak, he went out thus.


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And going ahead onto the ship, we sailed to Assos, there intending to take in Paul; for so he had appointed, intending himself to go on foot.


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And we sailed from there and came the next [day] across from Chios. And the next [day] we arrived at Samos, and we stayed at Trogyllium. And the next [day] we came to Miletus.


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For Paul had determined to sail past Ephesus, so that he might not lose time in Asia; for, if it were possible for him, he hastened to be at Jerusalem on the day of Pentecost.


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And when they had come to him, he said to them, You know how I was with you at all times, from [the] first day I arrived in Asia,


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serving the Lord with all humility of mind, and many tears and temptations happening to me through the plots of the Jews;


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[and] how I kept back nothing that was profitable, but have shown you and have taught you publicly, and from house to house,


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testifying both to the Jews, and also to the Greeks, repentance toward God and faith toward our Lord Jesus Christ.


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And now, behold, I am going bound by the Spirit to Jerusalem, not knowing the things that shall happen to me there,


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But none of these things move me, neither do I count my life dear to myself, so that I might finish my course with joy, and the ministry which I received from the Lord Jesus [Christ], to testify fully the gospel of the grace of God.


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And now, behold, I know that you all will see my face no more, among whom I went proclaiming the kingdom of God.


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Therefore take heed to yourselves, and to all the flock over which the Holy Spirit has made you overseers, to feed the church of God which He has purchased with [His] own blood.


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For I know this, that after my departure grievous wolves shall enter in among you, not sparing the flock.


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And spending three months [there], there [being] a plot against him by the Jews, being about to sail into Syria, he proposed to return through Macedonia.


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Also men shall arise from your own selves, speaking perverse things in order to draw disciples away after them.


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Therefore watch and remember that [for the time] of three years I did not cease to warn everyone night and day with tears.


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And now, brothers, I commend you to God, and to the word of His grace, which is able to build you up and to give you an inheritance among all those who are sanctified.


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Yea, you yourselves know that these hands have ministered to my needs, and to those who were with me.


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grieving most of all over the word which he had spoken, that they should see his face no more. And they went with him to the ship.


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And Sopater of Berea accompanied him into Asia, and Aristarchus and Secundus of the Thessalonians, and Gaius of Derbe, and Timothy, and Tychicus and Trophimus as far as Asia.


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And after the days of Unleavened [Bread], we sailed away from Philippi and came to them at Troas [in] five days, where we stayed seven days.


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And on the first of the sabbaths, the disciples having been assembled to break bread, being about to depart on the morrow, Paul reasoned to them. And he continued his speech until midnight.


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And a certain young man named Eutychus [was] sitting on the window sill, Paul reasoning for a longer time, being overborne by sleep, he fell down from the third floor, and was taken up dead.


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And it happened when it was time to sail, we having been torn away from them, running direct we came to Cos; and on the next [day] to Rhodes, and from there to Patara.


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And coming to us, and taking Paul's belt, and binding his hands and feet, he said, The Holy Spirit says these [things]: So shall the Jews at Jerusalem bind the man whose belt this is, and will deliver [him] into the hands of the] nations.


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And when we heard these things, both we and those of [the] place begged him not to go up to Jerusalem.


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Then Paul answered, What are you doing, 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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Also [some] of the disciples from Caesarea went with us, bringing Mnason, a certain Cypriot, an old disciple with whom we were to lodge.


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And having greeted them, he related one by one what things God had done among the nations by his ministry.


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And hearing, they glorified the Lord, and said to him, You see, brother, how many thousands of Jews there are who believe, and they are all zealous of the law.


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And they are informed concerning you, that you teach all the Jews who are among the nations to forsake Moses, saying that they ought not to circumcise [their] children, nor to walk after the customs.


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What is it therefore? At all events a multitude will come together, for they will hear that you have come.


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taking them, be purified with them, and be at expense for them, so that they may shave [their] heads. And all may know that what they have been told about you is nothing, but you yourself also walk orderly and keep the Law.


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And as to the nations who believe, we joined in writing, judging them to observe no such things, except only that they keep themselves from both idol sacrifice, and blood, and a thing strangled, and [from] fornication.


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Then taking the men on the next day, being purified with them, Paul went into the temple, declaring the fulfillment of the days of the purification, until an offering should be offered for each of them.


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And when the seven days were about to be completed, the Jews who were from Asia, having seen him in the temple, stirred up all the crowd and laid hands on him,


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crying out, Men, Israelites, help! This is the man who teaches all everywhere against the people and the Law and this place. And even he brought Greeks into the temple and has polluted this holy place.


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(For they had seen Trophimus the Ephesian with him in the city before, whom they supposed that Paul had brought into the temple.)


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And sighting Cyprus, and leaving it on the left, we sailed into Syria, and came down to Tyre. For the ship was to unload its cargo there.


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And all the city was moved, and the people ran together. And laying hands on Paul, they drew him outside of the temple. And immediately the doors were shut.


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And as they [were] seeking to kill him, the news came to the chiliarch of the cohort, that all Jerusalem was in an uproar.


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[He] immediately took soldiers and centurions, and ran down to them. And seeing the chiliarch and the soldiers, they quit beating Paul.


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Then going near, the chiliarch laid hold on him, and commanded [him] to be bound with two chains. And [he] demanded who he was and what he had done.


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And others cried something else in the crowd, and not being able to know the certainty on account of the uproar, he commanded him to be carried into the fortress.


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And when he came on the stairs, it happened that he was carried by the soldiers, because of the violence of the crowd.


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And as Paul was about to be led into the fortress, he said to the chiliarch, Is it lawful for me to say a thing to you? And he said, Do you know Greek?


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Then are you not the Egyptian who before these days caused a riot, and led four thousand men of the assassins out into the wilderness?


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But Paul said, I am a man, a Jew of Tarsus in Cilicia, a citizen [of] no small city. And I beseech you, allow me to speak to the people.


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And finding disciples, we stayed there seven days; who said to Paul through the Spirit that he should not go up to Jerusalem.


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And he allowing him, standing on the stairs, Paul signaled with [his] hand to the people. And much silence taking place, he spoke in the Hebrew dialect, saying:


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But when it was [time to] finish the days, going out, we traveled on. [And they] with all [the] women and children went with us as far as outside the city. And we kneeled down on the shore and prayed.


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And giving parting greetings to one another, we went up into the ship; and they returned to their own things.


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And finishing the voyage from Tyre, we came to Ptolemais. And greeting the brothers, we stayed with them one day.


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And the next [day] those around [him] going out, Paul came to Caesarea. And entering the house of Philip the evangelist, [he] being of the seven, we stayed with him.


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And I did not see, because of the glory of that light; being led by the hand of those who were with me, I came into Damascus.


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coming to me and standing by, said to me, Brother Saul, look up! And the same hour I looked up on him.


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And he said, The God of our fathers has chosen you 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 what do you intend? Arise and be baptized and wash away your sins, calling on the name of the Lord.


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And I said, Lord, they know that I was imprisoning and beating those who believed on You throughout the synagogues.


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And hearing that he spoke to them in the Hebrew dialect, they all the more kept silence. And he said,


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And when the blood of Your martyr Stephen was poured out, I also was standing by and consenting to his death, and holding the garments of those who killed him.


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And they listened to him until this word, and [then] they lifted up their voice, saying, Take such a one from the earth! For it is not fitting that he should live.


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the chiliarch commanded him to be brought into the fortress, saying for him to be examined by scourging, so that he might know why they cried out so against him.


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And as they stretched him with 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 hearing, coming near the centurion reported to the chiliarch, saying, Watch what you are about to do, for this man is a Roman.


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And the chiliarch answered, With a great sum I bought this citizenship. And Paul said, But I was even born [free].


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Then immediately, those being about to examine him stood away from him. And the chiliarch also was afraid, fully knowing that he was a Roman, and that he had bound him.


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I am truly a man, a Jew born in Tarsus in Cilicia, yet brought up in this city at the feet of Gamaliel, taught according to the exactness of the law of the fathers, being a zealous one of God, as you all are today.


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On the next day, he desiring to know with certainty why he was accused by the Jews, he freed him from [his] bonds, and commanded the chief priests and all their sanhedrin to appear. And bringing Paul down, [he] set [him among them.


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as also the high priest bears witness to me, and all the elderhood. And receiving letters from [them] to the brothers, I traveled into Damascus indeed to lead those being bound to Jerusalem, in order that they might be punished.


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And it happened to me, traveling and drawing near to Damascus: suddenly, about midday, a great light out of the heaven shone around me.


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And they who were with me indeed saw the light and were afraid. But they did not hear the voice of Him who spoke to me.


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And looking earnestly on the sanhedrin, Paul said, Men, brothers, I have lived in all good conscience before God until this day.


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And dissension arising, the chiliarch, fearing lest Paul should have been pulled in pieces by them, commanded the soldiers to go down and to take him from among them by force, and to bring [him] into the fortress.


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And when [it] became day, some of the Jews banded together and bound themselves under a curse, saying that they would neither eat nor drink until they had killed Paul.


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And they came to the chief priests and elders and said, We have bound ourselves under a great curse that we will eat nothing until we have killed Paul.


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Now therefore you, with the sanhedrin, inform the chiliarch that he bring him down to you tomorrow, as though you would inquire something more perfectly regarding him. And we are ready to put him to death before he comes near.


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And hearing of the ambush, Paul's sister's son, having come near, and entering into the fortress, he reported to Paul.


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And calling one of the centurions, Paul said, Bring this young man to the chiliarch, for he has a certain thing to tell him.


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So he took him and brought [him] to the chiliarch and said, Paul the prisoner called me and asked me to bring this young man to you, who has something to say to you.


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And laying hold of his hand, and drawing aside privately, the chiliarch asked [him], What is [it] that you have to tell me?


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And he said, The Jews have agreed to ask you to bring Paul down to the sanhedrin tomorrow, as though they would inquire something more exactly about him.


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But do not yield to them, for there are more than forty men of them lying in wait for him, who have bound themselves with an oath that they will neither eat nor drink until they have killed him. And now they are ready, looking for a promise from you.


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So the chiliarch sent away the young man commanding, Tell no one that you have shown these things to me.


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And he called two centurions, saying, Make ready two hundred soldiers to go to Caesarea, and seventy horsemen, and two hundred spearmen, at the third hour of the night.


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This man was taken by the Jews and would have been killed by them. Then I came with an army and rescued him, having understood that he was a Roman.


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And being minded to know the charge for which they accused him, I brought him down to their sanhedrin;


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whom I found be accused of questions of their law, and having no charge worthy of death or of bonds.


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Then Paul said to him, God shall strike you, whitened wall! For do you sit judging me according to the Law, and against law command me to be stricken?


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And it being revealed to me that a plot against the man was about to be [executed] by the Jews, I immediately sent him to you, commanding his accusers also to say before you what [they had] against him. Farewell.


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Then, indeed, taking up Paul, as it was commanded them, the soldiers brought [him] by night to Antipatris.


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And when they had come to Caesarea and had delivered the letter to the governor, [they] presented Paul before him also.


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And when the governor had read [the letter], he asked what province he was from. And when he understood that [he was] from Cilicia,


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he said, I will hear you when your accusers have also come. And [he] commanded him to be kept in Herod's Praetorium.


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Then Paul said, I did not know, brothers, that he was the high priest; for it is written, You shall not speak evil of the ruler of your people.


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But when Paul saw that the one part were Sadducees and the other part Pharisees, he cried out in the sanhedrin, Men! Brothers! I am a Pharisee, the son of a Pharisee! I am being judged because of the hope and resurrection of [the] dead.


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And when he had said this, there arose a dissension between the Pharisees and the Sadducees; and the multitude was divided.


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For the Sadducees say that there is no resurrection, neither angel, nor spirit; but the Pharisees confess both.


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And there arose a great cry. And the scribes [who were] on the Pharisees' side arose and strove, saying, We find no evil in this man. But if a spirit or an angel has spoken to him, let us not fight against God.


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And after five days Ananias the high priest descended with the elders and [with] a certain orator, Tertullus, who made a statement to the governor against Paul.


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But the governor motioning to him to speak, Paul answered; Understanding you as being a judge of this nation many years, I cheerfully defend myself [as to] the things concerning myself.


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And they neither found me in the temple disputing with any man, nor making a gathering of a crowd; not even in the synagogues, nor throughout the city.


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But I confess this to you, that after the Way which they call heresy, so I worship the God of my fathers, believing all things that are written in the Law and in the Prophets.


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And I have hope toward God, which they themselves also allow, that there shall be a resurrection of [the] dead, both of the just and unjust.


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Among which certain Jews from Asia found me purified in the temple, not with a crowd nor with tumult.


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Or else let these themselves say if they have found anything unjust in me while I stood before the sanhedrin,


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unless it may be for this one voice that I cried out standing among them, that concerning a resurrection of [the] dead I am being judged by you today.


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And having heard these things, Felix put them off, knowing more accurately of the Way, saying, When Lysias the chiliarch has come down, I will examine the things concerning you.


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And he commanded a centurion to keep Paul and to let [him] have liberty, and not to forbid anyone of his own to minister or come to him.


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Then after certain days, when Felix came with his wife Drusilla, who was a Jewess, he sent for Paul and heard him concerning the faith in Christ.


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And as he reasoned of righteousness, temperance, and the Judgment to come, Felix trembled and answered, Go for this time, but taking time later, I will call for you.


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He also hoped that silver would be given him by Paul, that he might free him. Therefore [he] also frequently sent for him [and] talked with him.


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But after two years Felix welcomed a successor, Porcius Festus. And wishing to show a favor to the Jews, Felix left Paul bound.


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Since we enjoy great quietness by you, and very worthy deeds are done to this nation due to your forethought, in everything and everywhere, most noble Felix, we accept with all thankfulness.


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For we have found this man pestilent, and moving rebellion among all the Jews throughout the world, and a ringleader of the sect of the Nazarenes,


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commanding his accusers to come to you. By examining him, you yourself may know about all these things of which we accuse him.


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But Paul said, I stand at Caesar's judgment seat, where I ought to be judged. I have done no wrong to the Jews, as you very well know.


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For if I am an offender or have committed anything worthy of death, I do not refuse to die. But if there is nothing of which these accuse me, no one can deliver me to them. I appeal to Caesar.


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Then conferring with the sanhedrin, Festus answered, You have appealed to Caesar? To Caesar you shall go.


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And when they had been there many days, Festus declared Paul's cause to the king, saying, A certain man has been left in bonds by Felix,


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about whom, when I was in Jerusalem, the chief priests and the elders of the Jews informed [me], desiring judgment against him.


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To them I answered, It is not the custom of the Romans to deliver any man to destruction before he being accused may have the accusers face to face, and have had freedom to answer for himself concerning the accusation.


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Therefore, when they had come here, without any delay I sat on the judgment seat the next [day] and commanded the man to be brought,


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but they had certain questions about [their] own demon-worship, and about a certain Jesus dying, whom Paul affirmed to be alive.


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And because I was perplexed about this question, I asked whether he would go to Jerusalem and be judged there about these matters.


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But Paul having appealed to be reserved to the hearing of Augustus, I commanded him to be held until I might send him to Caesar.


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And Agrippa said to Festus, I also would like to hear the man myself. And he said, Tomorrow you shall hear him.


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And on the next day, when Agrippa and Bernice had come with great pomp and had entered into the auditorium with both the chiliarchs and principal men of the city, also Festus commanding, Paul was brought out.


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And Festus said, King Agrippa, and all those men present with us, you see this one about whom all the multitude of the Jews pleaded with me, both at Jerusalem and here, crying that he ought not to live any longer.


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But I had perceived nothing he had committed worthy of death, and that he himself has appealed to Augustus, I determined to send him,


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about whom I have no certain thing to write of him to [my] lord. Therefore I brought him before you, and especially before you, O king Agrippa, so that, after examination is made, I might have something to write.


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asking a favor against him that he would send for him to Jerusalem, making a plot to kill him on way.


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Then he said, those having power among you may go down with [me]. If there is a thing amiss in this man, let them accuse him.


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And staying among them more than ten days, going down to Caesarea, on the next day sitting on the judgment seat, he commanded Paul to be brought.


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And he having come, the Jews who came down from Jerusalem stood around and brought many charges against Paul, which they could not prove.


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Defending himself, [Paul] said, 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, wanting to please the Jews, answered Paul and said, Will you go up to Jerusalem and be judged there before me about these things?


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And Agrippa said to Paul, You are permitted to speak for yourself. Then stretching out his hand, Paul made a defense:


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which I also did in Jerusalem. And I shut up many of the saints in prisons, having received authority from the chief priests. And they being put to death, I cast a vote.


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And I punished them often in every synagogue; I compelled [them] to blaspheme; and [being] exceedingly furious against them, I persecuted them even to the outside cities.


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at midday, along the highway, O king, I and those with me saw a light from heaven, brighter than the sun; shining around me.


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<J>But rise and stand on your feet, for I have appeared to you for this purpose, to make you a minister and a witness both of what you saw, and in what I shall appear to you;</J>


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<J>in order to open their eyes so that they may turn from darkness to light, and from the authority of Satan to God, so that they may receive remission of sins and an inheritance among those who are sanctified by faith in Me.</J>


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Concerning all of which I am accused by Jews, king Agrippa, I think myself happy being about to make defense before you today,


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But to those first in Damascus, and Jerusalem, and to all the country of Judea, and to the nations, I made known [the command] to repent and to turn to God, doing works worthy of repentance


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Then having obtained help from God, I stand until this day, witnessing both to small and great, saying no other things than those which the prophets and Moses said was going to happen;


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whether the Christ was] liable to suffer, whether first by a resurrection of the] dead He was going to proclaim light to the people and to the nations.


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And he defending himself [with] these things, Festus said with a loud voice, Paul, you rave! Your many letters turn [you] to insanity.


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For the king understands about these things, to whom I speak, even being bold of speech. For I am persuaded that not any of these things are hidden [from] him, nothing. For the doing of this was not in a corner.


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And Paul said, I would pray to God, both in a little and in much, that not only you, but also all hearing me today to become as I also am, except for these bonds.


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you being especially expert in all customs and questions among the Jews. Therefore I beseech you to hear me patiently.


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And he having spoken this, the king and the governor and Bernice and those who sat with them rose up.


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And withdrawing, they spoke with one another, saying, This man does nothing worthy of death or of bonds.


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And Agrippa said to Festus, This man might have been set at liberty if he had not appealed to Caesar.


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Truly, then, all the Jews know my manner of life from my youth, which was at first among my own nation at Jerusalem,


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who knew me from the first, if they would testify, that according to the strictest sect of our religion I lived a Pharisee.


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to which [promise] our twelve tribes hope to attain, serving God fervently night and day. For the sake of this hope, king Agrippa, I am accused by the Jews.


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I truly thought within myself that I ought to do many things contrary to the name of Jesus of Nazareth,


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And when it was determined that we should sail to Italy, they delivered Paul and certain other prisoners to [one] named Julius, a centurion of Augustus' cohort.


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saying, Men, I perceive that this voyage is about to be with much harm and loss, and not only much cargo and of the ship, but also of our souls.


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But the centurion was rather persuaded by the helmsman and the shipmaster, than by the things spoken by Paul.


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And the port not being fit to winter in, the most of them advised to set sail from there, if by any means they might be able to get to Phoenix to winter; [which is] a port of Crete, looking toward [the] southwest and northwest.


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And a south wind blowing softly, thinking to have obtained [their] purpose, lifting [anchor], they sailed along close beside Crete.


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And the ship being seized, and not being able to beat against the wind, giving way we were borne along.


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which taking, they used helps, undergirding the ship. And fearing lest they should fall into the sandbanks of Syrtis, lowering the tackle, so they were borne along.


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And boarding a ship of Adramyttium, which was about to sail alongside Asian places, we set sail, Aristarchus, a Macedonian from Thessalonica, being with us.


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And neither sun nor stars appearing in many days, and no small tempest pressing hard, now all hope that we would be saved was taken away.


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But there being much fasting, then standing up in their midst, Paul said, O men, being obedient to me [you] ought not to have set sail from Crete, and to have come by this harm and loss.


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And now I exhort you to be of good cheer, for there will be no casting away of life among you, only of the ship.


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saying, Fear not, Paul! You must stand before Caesar. And behold! God has given you all those who sail with you.


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Therefore, men, be of good cheer, for I believe God, that it will be so, according to the way it was told me.


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But when [the] fourteenth night came, we being carried about in the Adriatic Sea, about midnight the sailors thought that they drew near some country.


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And sounding they found it twenty fathoms; and moving a little further, and sounding again, they found [it] fifteen fathoms.


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And fearing that we would fall on rocks, and casting four anchors out of [the] stern, they wished day to come.


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And on the next [day] we were landed at Sidon. And Julius treated Paul courteously and gave [him] liberty to go to his friends to receive care.


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But the sailors seeking to flee out of the ship, and lowering the boat into the sea, pretending to be about to cast out anchors from [the] prow,


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Paul said to the centurion and to the soldiers, Unless these remain in the ship, you cannot be saved.


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And until day was about to come, Paul begged all to take food, saying, This [is] the fourteenth day that you continued waiting without food, having taken nothing.


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Therefore I beg you to take [some] food, for this is for your deliverance. For not a hair of your head shall perish.


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And saying these things, and taking bread, he gave thanks to God before all, and breaking, he began to eat.


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And when day came, they did not recognize the land. But they discovered a certain bay with a beach, into which they were minded, if they were able, to drive the ship.


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And casting off the anchors, they left [them] in the sea; at the same time they loosened the rudder bands and hoisted up the foresail to the wind and held to the shore.


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And coming on a place between two seas, they drove the vessel. And indeed the prow sticking fast, [it] remained unmovable. But the stern was broken with the violence of the waves.


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And the mind of the soldiers was to kill the prisoners, lest any of them should swim out and escape.


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But the centurion, desiring to save Paul, kept them from [their] purpose and commanded those who could swim, to throw [themselves] overboard, to go out on the land.


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And the rest [went], some on boards and others on some of the things from the ship. And so it happened that all were saved on the land.


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And sailing slowly many days and with difficulty, coming abreast of Cnidus; the wind not allowing us; we sailed close to Crete, across from Salmone.


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And coasting along with difficulty, we came to a place named Fair Havens, near which was a city, Lasea.


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And much time having been used up, and the voyage already being dangerous, because the Fast was now already past, Paul warned [them],


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[They] also honored us with many honors. And on [our] setting sail, they laid on the things of [our] needs.


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And after three months we sailed in a ship of Alexandria which had wintered in the island, an Alexandrian with an ensign, The Twin Brothers.


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Going around from there we arrived at Rhegium. And after one day a south wind coming on, we came to Puteoli on the second,


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And the brothers from there hearing of us, [they] came to meet us as far as [the] market-place of Appius, and Three Taverns. Seeing them, thanking God, Paul took courage.


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And when we came into Rome, the centurion delivered the prisoners to the camp commander. But Paul was allowed to dwell by himself, with a soldier guarding him.


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And after three days it happened that Paul called together those being chief of the Jews. And they coming together, he said to them, Men, brothers, I did nothing against the people or customs of our fathers. I was delivered a prisoner from Jerusalem into the hands of the Romans


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But the Jews speaking against [it], I was constrained to appeal to Caesar; not as having anything to accuse my nation.


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And the foreigners showed us not the common kindness. For they kindled a fire and welcomed all of us, because of the rain coming on, and because of the cold.


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For this cause, then, I called for you, to see and to speak with [you]. For I have this chain around me for the hope of Israel.


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And they said to him, We neither received letters out of Judea concerning you, nor have any of the brothers who came declared or spoke anything evil of you.


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But we think [it] right to hear from you what you think. For truly as concerning this sect, it is known to us that it is spoken against everywhere.


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And they having appointed him a day, many came to him in [his] lodging; to whom he expounded, testifying the kingdom of God, and persuading them the things concerning Jesus, both out of the law of Moses and out of the prophets, from morning until evening.


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And disagreeing with one another, they were let go, Paul saying one word: Well did the Holy Spirit speak through Isaiah the prophet to our fathers,


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saying, Go to this people and say: Hearing you shall hear and shall not understand; and seeing you shall see and not perceive.


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For the heart of this people was fattened, and they have heard with their ears dully; and they closed their eyes; lest at any time they should see with [their] eyes, and hear with [their] ears, and understand with [their heart, and should be converted, and I should heal them.


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And Paul had gathered a bundle of sticks, and laying [them] on the fire, a viper came out of the heat and fastened on his hand.


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proclaiming the kingdom of God, and teaching those things concerning the Lord Jesus Christ, with all freedom, [and] without hindrance.


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And when the foreigners saw the creature hanging from his hand, they said to one another, No doubt this man is a murderer, whom, being saved from the sea, Justice has not allowed to live.


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But they expected him to be about to become inflamed, or to fall down dead suddenly, But over much [time] expecting and seeing nothing amiss happening to him, they changed their minds and said that he was a god.


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In the [quarters] about that place were lands to the chief of the island, whose name was Publius. Welcoming us, [he] lodged us courteously three days.


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And it happened the father of Publius was lying down, suffering fevers and dysentery; to whom Paul entered in, and praying and laying on his hands, he healed him.


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Then this taking place, the rest who were having infirmities in the island also came, and were healed.


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And on the same [day] Peter and John went up into the temple at the hour of prayer, the ninth [hour].


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And they recognized him, that it was him 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 the lame one who was healed held Peter and John, all the people ran together to them in the porch that is called Solomon's, greatly wondering.


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And seeing [this], Peter answered the people, Men, Israelites, why do you marvel at this? Or why do you stare at us, as [though] we had made this man to walk by our own power or holiness?


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The God of Abraham and of Isaac and of Jacob, the God of our fathers, has glorified His son Jesus, whom you delivered up, denying Him in the presence of Pilate, when he had decided to let [Him] go.


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And His name, through faith in His name, has made this man strong, this one whom you see and know, His name made firm. And the faith which came through Him has given him this perfect soundness before you.


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But those things which God before had shown by the mouth of all His prophets, [that] Christ should suffer, He fulfilled in this manner.


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Therefore repent and convert so that your sins may be blotted out, when the times of refreshing shall come from [the] presence of the Lord.


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And a certain man, who was lame from his mother's womb, was being carried. And they laid him daily at that temple gate which is called Beautiful, to ask alms from those who entered into the temple.


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whom Heaven truly needs to receive until the times of restoration of all things, which God has spoken by [the] mouth of His holy prophets since the world began.


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For Moses truly said to the fathers, The] Lord your God shall raise up a Prophet to you from your brothers, [One] like me. You shall hear Him in all things, whatever He may say to you.


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And it shall be [that] every soul who will not hear that Prophet shall be destroyed from among the people.


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And also all the prophets from Samuel and those following after, as many as spoke, have likewise foretold of these days.


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You are the sons of the prophets and of the covenant which God made with our fathers, saying to Abraham, And in your Seed shall all the kindreds of the earth be blessed.


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Having raised up His son Jesus, God sent Him to you first, to bless you in turning every one of you away from his iniquities.


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But Peter said, Silver and gold have I none, but what I have I give you. In the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, rise up and walk!


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And taking him by the right hand, he lifted [him] up. And immediately his feet and ankle-bones received strength.


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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 [as] they spoke to the people, the priests, and the temple commander, and the Sadducees came on them,


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be it known to you all, and to all the people of Israel, that by the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, whom you crucified, whom God raised from [the] dead, in this [name] does this man stand before you whole.


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This is the Stone which you builders have counted worthless, and He has become the Head of [the] Corner.


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And there is salvation in no other One; for there is no other name under Heaven 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 unlearned and uneducated men, they marveled. And they recognized them, that they had been with Jesus.


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saying, What shall we do to these men? For that indeed a notable miracle has been done by them is plain to all those dwelling in Jerusalem. And we cannot deny [it].


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But, so that it spread no further among the people, let us strictly threaten them, [that] they speak to no man in this name from now on.


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But Peter and John answered and said to them, Whether it is right before God to listen to you more than to God, you judge.


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being grieved that they taught the people, even to announce through Jesus the resurrection from [the] dead.


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So when they had further threatened them, they let them go, finding no way [as to] how they might punish them, because of the people. For all glorified God for that which was done.


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And being let go, they went to their own company and reported what the chief priests and elders had said [to them].


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And having heard, they lifted up their voice to God with one accord and said, Lord, You [are] the God who made the heaven and earth, and the sea, and all that is in them;


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who by the mouth of Your servant David has said, Why did the nations rage and the people imagine vain things?


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The kings of the earth stood up, and the rulers were gathered together against the Lord and against His Christ.


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For truly, against Your holy child Jesus, whom You have anointed, both Herod and Pontius Pilate, with the nations, and [the] people of Israel, were gathered together


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And now, Lord, behold their threatenings, and grant to Your servants that with all boldness they may speak Your Word,


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[And they] laid hands on [them] and put [them] under guard until the next day, for it was already evening.


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by stretching forth of Your hand for healing, and miracles, and wonders may be done by the name of Your holy child Jesus.


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And when they had prayed, the place where they were assembled was shaken. And they were all filled with [the] Holy Spirit, and they spoke the Word of God with boldness.


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And the multitude of those who believed were of one heart and one soul. And not one said that any of the things which he possessed was his own. But they had all things common.


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And the apostles gave witness of the resurrection of the Lord Jesus with great power. And great grace was on them all.


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For neither was anyone needy among them, for as many as were owners of lands or houses sold [them] and brought the prices of the [things] that were sold,


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and they laid [them] down at the apostles' feet. And distribution was made to every man according as he had need.


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And Joses, who was surnamed Barnabas by the apostles (which is, being translated, The son of consolation), a Levite, a Cypriot by race,


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and Annas the high priest, and Caiaphas, and John, and Alexander, and as many as were of the kindred of the high priest.


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And when they had set them in the midst, they asked, By what power, or by what name have you done this?


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Then at once she fell down at his feet and expired. And the younger ones found her dead, and, carrying [her] out, buried her beside her husband.


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And many miracles and wonders were done among the people by the hands of the apostles; and they were all with one accord in Solomon's Porch.


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So as to carry out the sick into the streets and place [them] on cots and mattresses, so that at least the shadow of Peter passing by might overshadow some of them.


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And also a multitude came [from] the cities around Jerusalem, bringing sick ones, and those being tormented by unclean spirits, who were all healed.


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And rising up, the high priest, and all those who were with him (which is the [sect] of the Sadducees) were filled with anger,


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And he kept back [part] of the price, his wife also knowing, and brought a certain part and laid [it] at the apostles' feet.


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And hearing, they went into the temple about dawn, and taught. But the high priest came, and those with him. And they called the sanhedrin together, and all the elderhood of the sons of Israel, and sent to the prison to have them brought.


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saying, We indeed found the prison shut with all safety, and the keepers standing outside in front of the doors. But having opened it, we found no one inside.


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And when the high priest and the temple commander and the chief priests heard these things, they were bewildered about them, what this might be.


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But one came, reporting to them, saying, Behold, the men whom you put in prison are standing in the temple and teaching the people.


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Then the commander went with the officers [and] brought them, not with force, for they feared the people, lest they should be stoned.


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saying, Did we not strictly command you [that] you not teach in this name? And behold, you have filled Jerusalem with your doctrine and intend to bring this man's blood on us.


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But Peter said, Ananias, why has Satan filled your heart [for] you to lie to the Holy Spirit, and to keep back [part] of the price of the land?


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This One God [has] exalted [to be] a Ruler and Savior to His right [hand] in order to give repentance and remission of sins to Israel.


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And we are His witnesses of these things. And [so] also [is] the Holy Spirit, whom God has given to those who obey Him.


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Then there stood up one in the sanhedrin, a Pharisee named Gamaliel, a doctor of the law honored among all the people. And he commanded the apostles to be put outside a little space.


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And he said to them, Men of Israel, take heed to yourselves what you intend to do [regarding] these men.


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For before these days Theudas rose up, boasting himself to be somebody; a number of men, about four hundred, joined themselves to him; who was slain. And all, as many as obeyed him, were scattered and brought to nothing.


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After this one, Judas of Galilee rose up in the days of the Registration, and drew away considerable people after him. Yet that one perished; and all, as many as obeyed him, were scattered.


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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 is of men, it will come to nothing.


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While it remained, was it not your own? And after it was sold, was it [not] in your own authority? Why have you conceived this thing in your heart? You have not lied to men, but to God.


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And they obeyed him. And calling the apostles, beating [them], they commanded not to speak in the name of Jesus, and let them go.


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Then indeed they departed from [the] presence of the sanhedrin, rejoicing that they were counted worthy to be shamed for His name.


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And every day in the temple, and from house to house, they did not cease teaching and preaching the gospel: Jesus Christ.


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And hearing these words, Ananias fell down [and] expired. And great fear came on all those who heard these things.


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And it was about the space of three hours afterward, when his wife (not knowing what was done) came in.


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And Peter answered her, Tell me whether you sold the land [for] so much? And she said, Yes, [for] so much.


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Then Peter said to her, How [is it] that you have agreed together to tempt the Spirit of [the] Lord? Behold, the feet of those who have buried your husband [are] at the door and they will carry you out.


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And in those days, the disciples having multiplied, a murmuring of the Hellenists against the Hebrews occurred, because their widows were overlooked in the daily serving.


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And they induced men [to be] saying, We have heard him speak blasphemous words against Moses and God.


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And they stirred up the people and the elders and the scribes. And coming on, they seized him and brought him to the sanhedrin.


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And they set up false witnesses, who said, This man does not cease speaking blasphemous words against this holy place and the Law.


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For we have heard him say that this Jesus of Nazareth shall destroy this place, and shall change the customs which Moses delivered to us.


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And looking intently at him. all those sitting in the sanhedrin saw his face as if [it were the] face of an angel.


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And the Twelve called near the multitude of the disciples and said, It is not pleasing to us, leaving the Word of God, to serve tables.


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Therefore, brothers, look out among you seven [men] being witnessed to, full of the Holy Spirit and wisdom, whom we may appoint over this duty.


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And the saying pleased all the multitude. And they chose Stephen, a man full of faith and of [the] Holy Spirit, and Philip, and Prochorus, and Nicanor, and Timon, and Parmenas, and Nicholas, a proselyte of Antioch.


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And the word of God was increasing. And the number of the disciples in Jerusalem was multiplying exceedingly; even a great crowd of the priests obeyed the faith.


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Then there arose certain of the synagogue which is called [the synagogue] of the Libertines, and Cyrenians, and Alexandrians, and of those from Cilicia and from Asia, disputing with Stephen.


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and plucked him out from all his afflictions, and He gave him favor and wisdom over against Pharaoh king of Egypt. And he appointed him governor over Egypt and all his household.


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But a famine came over all the land of Egypt and Canaan, and a great affliction. And our fathers found no food.


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And at the second [time] Joseph was made known to his brothers, and Joseph's race was made known to Pharaoh.


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and were carried over into Shechem. And they were laid in the tomb that Abraham bought for a price of silver from the sons of Emmor [the father] of Shechem.


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But as the time was drawing near, of the promise which God had sworn to Abraham, the people grew and multiplied in Egypt,


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Dealing subtly with our race, this one oppressed our fathers, causing their infants [to be] exposed, [so as] not to be left alive.


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And he said, Men, brothers, and fathers, listen: The God of glory appeared to our father Abraham when he was in Mesopotamia, before he lived in Haran.


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In this time Moses was born, and was beautiful to God, who was brought up three months in his father's house.


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And when a period of forty years was fulfilled to him, it arose in his heart to look upon his brothers, the sons of Israel.


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And seeing one being wronged, he defended [him]. and avenged him who was oppressed and struck the Egyptian.


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For he thought his brothers [would] understand that God would give them deliverance by his hand. But they did not understand.


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And the next day he appeared to them [while] fighting. And he urged them to peace, saying, Men, you are brothers, why do you wrong one another?


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And Moses fled at this word, and became a temporary resident in the land of Midian, where he fathered two sons.


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And He said to him, Go out from your land and from your kindred, and come into a land which I shall show you.


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And forty years being fulfilled to him, [the] Angel of [the] Lord appeared to him in the desert of Mount Sinai in a flame of fire in a bush.


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And seeing [it], Moses marveled at the sight. And as he drew near to see, the voice of [the] Lord came to him:


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[saying], I [am] the God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob. But Moses trembled and dared not look.


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Then the Lord said to him, Loosen the sandal on your feet, for the place where you stand is holy ground.


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I have seen, the affliction of My people in Egypt, and I have heard their groan; and I came down to pluck them out. And now come, I will send you into Egypt.


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This Moses whom they refused, saying, Who made you a ruler and a judge? God has sent this one [to be] a ruler and a redeemer by [the] hand of [the] Angel who appeared to him in the Bush.


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He brought them out after he had worked wonders and miracles in [the] land of Egypt and in [the] Red Sea and in the wilderness forty years.


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This is that Moses who said to the sons of Israel, The] Lord your God shall raise up a Prophet to you from your brothers, [One] like me; you shall hear Him.


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This is he who was in the congregation in the wilderness with the Angel who spoke to him in Mount Sinai, and [with] our fathers, who received the living words to give to us,


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to whom our fathers would not be obedient, but thrust [him] away and turned back again to Egypt in their hearts,


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Then he came out of [the] land of the Chaldeans and lived in Haran. And from there, when his father was dead, he moved into this land in which you now dwell.


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saying to Aaron, Make us gods to go before us, for [as for] this Moses who brought us out of [the] land of Egypt, we do not know what has become of him.


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And they made a calf in those days and offered sacrifice to the idol and rejoiced in the work of their own hands.


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Then God turned and gave them over to serve the host of the heavens, as it is written in [the] book of the Prophets: O house of Israel, have you offered to Me slain beasts and sacrifices forty years in the wilderness?


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Yea, you took up the tabernacle of Moloch, and the star of your god Remphan, images which you made in order to worship them; and I will remove you beyond Babylon.


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The tabernacle of witness was among our fathers in the wilderness, as commanded [by God], speaking to Moses to make it according to the pattern that he had seen.


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Which also having received it by inheritance with Joshua, our fathers, with Joshua, in taking possession of the nations whom God drove out before the face of our fathers until the days of David,


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Heaven [is] My throne and earth [is] My footstool. What house will you build Me, says [the] Lord, or what [is] the place of My rest?


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And He gave him no inheritance in it, no, not [even] a foot-breadth. And [He] promised that He would give it to him for a possession, and to his seed after him, there being no child to him.


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O stiff-necked and uncircumcised in heart and ears! You always resist the Holy Spirit. As your fathers [did], so you do.


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Which of the prophets did your fathers not persecute? And they killed those who foretold the coming of the Just One, of whom you have now been the betrayers and murderers;


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And hearing these things, they were cut to their hearts. And they gnashed on him with [their] teeth.


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But being full of [the] Holy Spirit, looking up intently into Heaven, he saw the glory of God, and Jesus standing at the right hand of God.


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And throwing [him] outside the city, they stoned [him]. And the witnesses laid their clothes down at the feet of a young man named Saul.


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And God spoke in this way, that his seed would be a tenant in another land, and that they would enslave it and oppress [it] four hundred years.


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And God said, I will judge the nation to whom they shall be in bondage, and after these things they will come out and will serve Me in this place.


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And He gave him the covenant of circumcision. And so [Abraham] fathered Isaac and circumcised him the eighth day. And Isaac [fathered] Jacob, and Jacob the twelve patriarchs.


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And Saul was consenting to his death. And in that day there was a great persecution on the church at Jerusalem, and all were scattered throughout the regions of Judea and Samaria, except the apostles.


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But when they believed Philip preaching the gospel, the things concerning the kingdom of God and the name of Jesus Christ, they were baptized, both men and women.


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Then Simon himself believed also, and being baptized, he continued with Philip. And seeing miracles and mighty works happening, he was amazed.


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And the apostles in Jerusalem hearing that Samaria had received the Word of God, they sent Peter and John to them;


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And when Simon saw that the Holy Spirit was given through laying on of the apostles' hands, he offered them money,


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But Peter said to him, May your silver perish with you, because you have thought that the gift of God may be purchased with money.


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Therefore repent of this wickedness of yours, and pray God if perhaps the thought of your heart may be forgiven you.


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And answering Simon said, You pray to the Lord for me that none of these things which you have spoken may come on me.


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Then, indeed, having earnestly testified and having spoken the Word of the Lord also having preached the gospel [to] many villages of the Samaritans, they returned to Jerusalem.


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And the angel of [the] Lord spoke to Philip, saying, Arise and go toward the south, on the way that goes down from Jerusalem to Gaza, which is a deserted [place].


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And he arose and went. And behold, a man of Ethiopia, a eunuch of great authority under Candace queen of the Ethiopians, who had charge of all her treasure and had come to Jerusalem to worship,


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But Saul ravaged the church, entering into every house. And dragging men and women, he delivered [them] up to prison.


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And Philip ran there to [him] and heard him read the prophet Isaiah, and said, Do you indeed understand what you are reading?


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And he said, How can I unless some man should guide me? And he asked Philip to come up and sit with him.


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And the content of the Scripture which he read was this: He was led as a sheep to the slaughter, and like a lamb dumb before his shearer, so He opened not His mouth.


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In His humiliation His judgment was taken away, and who shall declare His generation? For His life is taken from the earth.


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And the eunuch answered Philip and said, I beg you, of whom does the prophet speak this? Of himself or of some other man?


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Then Philip opened his mouth and began at the same Scripture and preached the gospel of Jesus to him.


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And as they passed along the way, they came on some water. And the eunuch said, See, here is water, what hinders me [from] being baptized?


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Philip said, If you believe with all your heart, it is lawful. And he answered and said, I believe that Jesus Christ is the Son of God.


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And he commanded the chariot to stand still. And they both went down into the water, both Philip and the eunuch. And he baptized him.


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And when they had come up out of the water, [the] Spirit of [the] Lord caught Philip away, so that the eunuch saw him no more. And he went on his way rejoicing.


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But Philip was found at Azotus. And passing through, he preached the gospel in all the cities until he came to Caesarea.


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And the people with one accord gave heed to those things which Philip spoke, hearing and seeing the many miracles which he did.


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For out of those having unclean spirits, many came out, crying with loud voice. And many who had been paralyzed and lame were healed.


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But a certain man called Simon had long been conjuring in the city, and amazing the nation of Samaria, claiming himself to be some great one.


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And Saul, still breathing out threatenings and slaughter against the disciples of the Lord, went to the high priest


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And there was a certain disciple in Damascus named Ananias. And the Lord said to him in a vision, <J>Ananias!</J> And he said, Behold me, Lord.


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<J>and has seen in a vision a man named Ananias coming in and putting [his] hand on him so that he might receive his sight.</J>


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And Ananias answered, Lord, I have heard from many of this man, how many evil things he has done to Your saints at Jerusalem.


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And Ananias went and entered into the house. And putting his hands on him, [he] said, Brother Saul, the Lord, Jesus, who appeared to you in the way in which you came, has sent me to you that you might see and be filled with [the Holy Spirit.


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And instantly scales as it were fell from his eyes, and he instantly saw again. And rising up, he was baptized.


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and asked letters from him to Damascus to the synagogues; so that if he found any of the Way, whether they were men or women, he might bring [them] bound to Jerusalem.


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But all who heard [him] were amazed and said, Is this not he who destroyed those who called on this name in Jerusalem and came here for that reason, that he might bring them bound to the chief priests?


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But Saul increased the more in strength and confounded the Jews who lived at Damascus, proving that this One is the Christ.


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And arriving in Jerusalem, Saul attempted to join himself to the disciples. But they were all afraid of him, and did not believe that he was a disciple.


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But Barnabas took him and brought [him] to the apostles and told them how he had seen the Lord in the way, and that He had spoken to him, and how he had spoken boldly in Damascus in the name of Jesus.


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And he spoke boldly in the name of the Lord Jesus, and argued with the Hellenists. But they seized him in order to kill him.


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But in going, it happened as he drew near to Damascus, even suddenly a light from the heaven shone around him.


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Then, indeed, the churches had rest throughout all Judea and Galilee and Samaria, and having been built up. And having gone on in the fear of the Lord and in the comfort of the Holy Spirit, they [were] increased.


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And Peter said to him, Aeneas, Jesus the Christ heals you; rise up and spread for yourself! And he arose immediately.


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And in Joppa was a certain disciple named Tabitha (which translated is called Dorcas). She was full of good works and kind deeds which she did.


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And it happened in those days, becoming sick, she died. And washing her, they laid [her] in an upper room.


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And, because Lydda was near Joppa, hearing that Peter is in it, the disciples sent two men to him, begging [him] not to delay to come to them.


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And rising up, Peter went with them. When he had come, they brought him into the upper room. And all the widows stood beside him, weeping and showing the coats and garments which Dorcas made [while] she was with them.


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And putting them all out, Peter knelt down and prayed. And turning to the body he said, Tabitha, arise! And she opened her eyes. And when she saw Peter, she sat up.


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And he gave her [his] hand and lifted her up. And when he had called the saints and widows, he presented her alive.


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<J>And trembling and astonished, he said, Lord, what will You have me to do? And the Lord [said] to him, Arise and go into the city, and you shall be told what you must do.</J>


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And Saul was lifted up from the earth, his eyes were opened, but he saw no one. But they led him by the hand and brought [him] into Damascus.


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always in my prayers, making request if by any means now at length I might have a prosperous journey by the will of God to come to you.


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For I long to see you, so that I may impart to you some spiritual gift, to you for the establishing of you.


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But I would not have you ignorant, brothers, that oftentimes I purposed to come to you, and was kept back until the present; that I might have some fruit among you also, even as among other nations.


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For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ, for it is [the] power of God unto salvation to everyone who believes, to the Jew first and also to the Greek.


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For in it the righteousness of God is revealed from faith to faith, as it is written, The just shall live by faith.


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For the wrath of God is revealed from Heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who hold the truth in unrighteousness,


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because the thing which may be known of God is clearly revealed within them, for God revealed [it] to them.


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For the unseen things of Him from [the] creation of [the] world [are] clearly seen, being realized by the things that are made, [even] His eternal power and Godhead, for them to be without excuse.


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Because, knowing God, they did not glorify Him as God, neither were thankful. But [they] became vain in their imaginations, and their foolish heart was darkened.


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and changed the glory of the incorruptible God into an image made like corruptible man, and birds, and four-footed animals, and creeping things.


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Therefore God also gave them up to uncleanness through the lusts of [their] hearts, to dishonor their own bodies between themselves.


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For they changed the truth of God into a lie, and they worshiped and served the created thing more than the Creator, who is blessed forever. Amen.


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For this cause, God gave them up to dishonorable affections. For even their women changed the natural use into that which is against nature.


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And likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust toward one another; males with males working out shamefulness, and receiving in themselves the recompense which was fitting for their error.


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And even as they did not think fit to have God in [their] knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind, to do the things not right,


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being filled with all unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; [being] full of envy, murder, quarrels, deceit, evil habits, [becoming] whisperers,


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backbiters, haters of God, insolent, proud, braggarts, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents,


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who, knowing the righteous order of God, that those practicing such things are worthy of death, not only do them, but have pleasure in those practicing [them].


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who was marked out the Son of God in power, according to [the] Spirit of holiness, by the resurrection from [the] dead;


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by whom we have received grace and apostleship, to obedience to the faith among all nations, for His name;


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to all those who are in Rome, beloved of God, called to be] saints. Grace to you and peace from God our Father and [the] Lord Jesus Christ.


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First, I thank my God through Jesus Christ for you all, that your faith is spoken of throughout the whole world.


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For God is my witness, whom I serve with my spirit in the gospel of His Son, that without ceasing I make mention of you


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For with [the] heart [one] believes unto righteousness, and with [the] mouth [one] confesses unto salvation.


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For there is no difference both of Jew and of Greek, for the same Lord over all is rich to all who call on Him.


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How then shall they call on Him in whom they have not believed? And how shall they believe in Him of whom they have not heard? And how shall they hear without preaching?


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And how shall they preach unless they are sent? As it is written, How beautiful [are] the feet of those who preach the gospel of peace and bring glad tidings of good things!


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But I say, Have they not heard? Yes indeed, their voice went out into all the earth, and their words to the end of the world.


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But I say, Did not Israel know? First Moses says, I will provoke you to jealousy by [those who are] no people, and by a foolish nation I will anger you.


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But Isaiah [is] very bold and says, I was found by those who did not seek Me, I became known to those who did not ask after Me.


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But to Israel He says, All day long I have stretched forth My hands to a disobeying and gainsaying people.


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For they, being ignorant of God's righteousness and going about to establish their own righteousness, have not submitted themselves to the righteousness of God.


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For Moses writes [of] the righteousness [which] is of the Law, The man who does those things shall live by them.


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But the righteousness of faith says this: Do not say in your heart, Who shall ascend into Heaven? that is, to bring Christ down;


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But what does it say? The word is near you, [even] in your mouth and in your heart; that is, the word of faith which we proclaim;


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Because if you confess the Lord Jesus, and believe in your heart that God has raised Him from [the] dead, you shall be saved.


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I say then, Did not God put away His people? Let it not be [said]! For I also am an Israelite, of the seed of Abraham, of [the] tribe of Benjamin.


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I say then, Did they not stumble that they fall? Let it not be! But by their slipping away came salvation to the nations, to provoke them to jealousy.


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But if their slipping away [is] the riches of [the] world, and their default is [the] riches of [the] nations, how much more their fullness?


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For if their casting away [is the] reconciling of [the] world, what [is] the reception except life from [the] dead?


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For if the firstfruit [is] holy, the lump [is] also [holy]; and if the root [is] holy, also the branches.


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And if some of the branches were broken off, and you, being a wild olive tree, were grafted in among them, and became a sharer of the root and the fatness of the olive tree with them,


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do not boast against the branches. But if you boast, [it is] not you [that] bears the root, but the root bears you.


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God did not thrust out His people whom He foreknew. Or do you not know what the Scripture said in Elijah, how he pleaded with God against Israel, saying,


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Well, because of unbelief they were broken off, and you stand by faith. Do not [be] high-minded, but fear.


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Behold then [the] kindness, and [the] severity of God; on those having fallen, severity; but on you, kindness, if you continue in the kindness. Otherwise you also will be cut off.


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And those also, if they do not continue in unbelief, will be grafted in. For God is able to graft them in again.


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For if you were cut out of the natural wild olive [tree], and were grafted contrary to nature into a good olive [tree]; how much more these [being] according to nature will be grafted into [their] own olive-tree?


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For I do not want you to be ignorant of this mystery, brothers, lest you should be wise within yourselves; that blindness in part has happened to Israel, until the fullness of the nations has comes in.


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


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Indeed as regards the gospel, [they are] enemies for your sakes. But as regards the election, [they are] beloved for the fathers' sakes.


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Lord, they killed Your prophets and dug down Your altars, and I am left alone, and they seek my life.


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O [the] depth of [the] riches both of [the] wisdom and knowledge of God! How unsearchable [are] His judgments, and His ways past finding out!


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But what does the Divine answer say to him? I have reserved to Myself seven thousand men who have not bowed the knee to Baal.


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Even so then, also in this present time a remnant according to the election of grace has come into being.


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But if by grace, then [it is] no more of works; otherwise grace is no more grace. But if [it is] of works, then it is no more of grace; otherwise work is no more work.


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What then? Israel has not obtained that which it seeks, but the election obtained [it], and the rest were hardened


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even as it is written, God gave to them a spirit of slumber, eyes not seeing, and ears not hearing until this day.


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And David said, Let their table become for a snare and a trap and a stumbling block and a recompense to them.


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


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minding the same thing toward one another, not minding high things, but yielding to the lowly. Do not be wise within yourselves.


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not avenging yourselves, beloved, but giving place to wrath; for it is written, Vengeance [is] Mine, I will repay, says [the] Lord.


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And do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, in order to prove by you what [is] that good and pleasing and perfect will of God.


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Therefore if your enemy hungers, feed him. If he thirsts, give him drink. For [in so] doing you shall heap coals of fire on his head.


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For I say, through the grace given to me, to every one who is among you, not to think [of himself] more highly than he ought to think. But set your mind to be right-minded, even as God has dealt to every man the measure of faith.


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Then having gifts differing according to the grace that is given to us, if prophecy, according to the proportion of faith;


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or he who exhorts, in the encouragement; or he who shares, in simplicity; or he who takes the lead, in diligence; or he who shows mercy, in cheerfulness.


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Let every soul be subject to the higher authorities. For there is no authority but of God; the authorities that exist are ordained by God.


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This also, knowing the time, that [it is] already time to awake out of sleep; for now our salvation [is] nearer than when we believed.


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


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Let us walk becomingly, as in [the] day; not in carousings and drinking; not in co-habitation and lustful acts; not in strife and envy.


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So that the one resisting the authority resists the ordinance of God; and the ones who resist will receive judgment to themselves.


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For the rulers are not a terror to good works, but to the bad. And do you desire to be not afraid of the authority? Do the good, and you shall have praise from it.


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For it is a servant of God to you for good. For if you practice evil, be afraid, for it does not bear the sword in vain; for it is a servant of God, a revenger for wrath on him who does evil.


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For because of this you also pay taxes. For they are God's servants, always giving attention to this very thing.


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Therefore give to all [their] dues; to the [one due] tax, the tax; tribute to whom tribute [is due], fear to whom fear [is due], and honor to whom honor [is due].


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For: Do not commit adultery; do not murder; do not steal; do not bear false witness; do not lust; and if [there is] any other commandment, it is summed up in this word, You shall love your neighbor as yourself.


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But why do you judge your brother? Or also why do you despise your brother? For all shall stand before the judgment seat of Christ.


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


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Then let us not judge one another any more, but rather judge this, not to put a stumbling-block or an offense toward his brother.


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I know and am persuaded in [the] Lord Jesus, that nothing by itself [is] common; except to him who esteems anything to be common, [it is] common.


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But if your brother is grieved with [your] food, you no longer walk according to love. Do not with your food destroy him for whom Christ died.


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


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Do not undo the work of God for food. Truly, all things indeed [are] clean, but [it is] bad to the man eating because of a stumbling-block.


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[It is] good neither to eat flesh, nor to drink wine, nor [anything] by which your brother stumbles, or is offended, or is made weak.


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Do you have faith? Have [it] to yourself before God. Blessed [is] he who does not condemn himself in what he approves.


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But, the one doubting, if he eats, [he] has been condemned, because it is not of faith; and all that [is] not of faith is sin.


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Do not let him who eats despise him who does not eat; and do not let him who does not eat judge him who eats, for God has received him.


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Who are you that judges another's servant? To his own master he stands or falls. But he will stand, for God is able to make him stand.


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One indeed esteems a day above [another] day; and [another] esteems every day [alike]. Let each one be fully assured in his own mind.


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He who regards the day regards [it] to the Lord; and he not regarding the day, does not regard [it] to the Lord. He who eats, eats to [the] Lord, for he gives God thanks; and he who does not eat, does not eat to [the Lord, and gives God thanks.


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For both if we live, we live to [the] Lord; and if we die, we die to [the] Lord. Therefore both if we live, and if we die, we are the Lord's.


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For this Christ both died and rose and lived again, that He might be Lord both of [the] dead and living.


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And again Isaiah says, There shall be a root of Jesse, and He who shall rise to reign over the nations, in Him shall the nations trust.


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And may the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, that you may abound in hope through the power of [the] Holy Spirit.


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


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But, brothers, I wrote to you boldly, as reminding you in part, because of the grace that is given to me by God,


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that I should be the minister of Jesus Christ to the nations, ministering the gospel of God, so that the offering up of the nations might be acceptable, being sanctified by [the] Holy Spirit.


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For I will not dare to speak of any of those things which Christ did not work out by me for [the] obedience of the nations in word and deed,


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in power of miracles and wonders, in power of [the] Spirit of God, so that from Jerusalem, and all around to Illyricum, I have fully preached the gospel of Christ.


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Yea, so I have been eager to preach the gospel, not where Christ was named, lest I should build on another man's foundation;


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but as it is written, To whom nothing was said about Him, they shall see. And they who have not heard shall understand.


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


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whenever I may go into Spain, I will come to you. For [in] traveling through I hope to see you, and to be set forward there by you, if first I may be filled of you in part.


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For it has pleased those of Macedonia and Achaia to make a certain contribution for the poor saints in Jerusalem.


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Truly it has pleased them, and they are their debtors. For if the nations have been made partakers of their spiritual things, their duty is also to minister to them in fleshly things.


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Therefore when I have completed this, and have sealed this fruit to them, I will come by you into Spain.


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And I am sure that when I come to you, I shall come in the fullness of [the] blessing of the gospel of Christ.


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For even Christ did not please Himself; but as it is written, The reproaches of those who reproached You fell on Me.


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But I exhort you, brothers, for the sake of the Lord Jesus Christ and for the love of the Spirit, that you strive together with me in [your] prayers to God for me,


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that I may be delivered from those disbelieving in Judea, and that my service which [I have] for Jerusalem may be accepted by the saints;


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For whatever things were written before were written for our learning, so that we through patience and comfort of the Scriptures might have hope.


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And may the God of patience and consolation grant you to be like minded toward one another according to Christ Jesus,


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so that with one mind [and] one mouth you may glorify God, even the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ.


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And I say, Jesus Christ has become a minister of the circumcision for the truth of God, to confirm the promises [made] to the fathers,


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and that the nations might glorify God for [His] mercy, as it is written, For this cause I will confess to You in the nations, and I will praise Your name.


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Greet Herodion my kinsman. Greet those who are of the [household] of Narcissus, who are in [the] Lord.


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Greet Tryphena and Tryphosa, who labor in [the] Lord. Greet the beloved Persis, who labored much in [the] Lord.


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And I exhort you, brothers, to watch those making divisions and offenses contrary to the doctrine which you have learned, and avoid them.


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For they who are such do not serve our Lord Jesus Christ, but their own belly; and by good words and fair speeches [they] deceive the hearts of the simple.


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For your obedience reached to all. Therefore I am glad on your behalf, But I would have you truly wise [as] to good, and simple toward evil.


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that you receive her in [the] Lord, [as] becomes saints, and that you may assist her in whatever business she has need of you. For she has been a helper of many, and of myself also.


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


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Gaius my host, and the host of me and the whole church, greets you. Erastus the steward of the city greets you, and Quartus a brother.


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Now to Him who is able to establish you according to my gospel, and the preaching of Jesus Christ according to the revelation of [the] mystery, having been unvoiced during eternal times;


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but now has been made plain, and by the prophetic Scriptures, according to the commandment of the everlasting God, made known to all nations for the obedience of faith;


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who have laid down their own necks for my life; to whom not only I give thanks, but also the churches of the nations.


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Likewise [greet] the church that is in their house. Greet my beloved Epenetus, who is the first-fruits of Achaia to Christ.


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


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Therefore you are without excuse, O man, everyone who judges; for in that in which you judge another, you condemn yourself, for you who judge do the same things.


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But He [will give] glory, honor and peace to every man who works good, to [the] Jew first and also to [the] Greek.


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For as many as sinned without Law will also perish without Law. And as many as have sinned within Law shall be judged through Law.


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For it is not the hearers of the Law who [are] just before God, but the doers of the Law will be justified.


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For when the nations, who do not have the Law, do by nature the things of the Law, these, not having the Law, are a law unto themselves;


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who show the work of the law written in their hearts, their conscience also bearing witness, and the thoughts between one another accusing or even excusing one another,


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an instructor of the foolish, a teacher of babes, who have the form of knowledge and of the truth in the Law.


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Therefore the [one] teaching another, do you not teach yourself? The [one] preaching not to steal, do you steal?


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The [one] saying not to commit adultery, do you commit adultery? The [one] detesting idols, do you rob temples?


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For circumcision truly profits if you keep [the] Law, but if you are a transgressor of the Law, circumcision becomes uncircumcision.


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If then the uncircumcision keeps the ordinances of the Law, shall not his uncircumcision be counted for circumcision?


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And the uncircumcision which is by nature, if it fulfills the Law, shall it not judge you, who through letter and circumcision [become] transgressors of the Law?


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but he [is] a Jew who [is one] inwardly, and circumcision [is] of the heart; in spirit and not in letter; whose praise [is] not from men, but from God.


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And, O man, the [one] judging those who do such things, and practice them, do you think this, that you shall escape the judgment of God?


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Or do you despise the riches of His kindness, and the forbearance and long-suffering, not knowing that the kindness of God leads you to repentance?


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But according to your hardness and your impenitent heart, do you treasure up wrath for yourself in a day of wrath and revelation of the righteous judgment of God,


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indeed to those who with patience [in] good work [are] seeking for glory, and honor, and incorruptibility, everlasting life.


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But to those who indeed disobeying the truth out] of self-seeking, and obeying unrighteousness, will be] anger and wrath,


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tribulation and anguish upon every soul of man who has worked out evil; of the Jew first, and also of the Greek.


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They are all gone out of the way, [they] have together become unprofitable, there is none that does good, no, not one.


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Their throat [is] an open grave, with their tongues they have used deceit, [the] poison of asps [is] under their lips;


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But we know that whatever things the Law says, it says to those who are under the Law; so that every mouth may be stopped and all the world may be under judgment before God,


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because by the works of the Law none of all flesh will be justified in His sight; for through the Law [is] the knowledge of sin.


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But now a righteousness of God has been revealed apart from Law, being witnessed by the Law and the Prophets;


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even the righteousness of God through the faith of Jesus Christ, toward all and upon all those who believe. For there is no difference,


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whom God has set forth [to be] a propitiation through faith in His blood, to declare His righteousness through the passing by of the sins that had taken place before, in the forbearance of God;


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for the display of His righteousness at this time, for Him to be just and, forgiving the [one] being of the faith of Jesus.


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Then where [is] the boasting? It is excluded. Through what law? Of works? No, but through the law of faith.


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Let it not be! But let God be true, and every man a liar; as it is written, That You might be justified in Your sayings, and will overcome when You are judged.


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But if our unrighteousness commends the righteousness of God, what shall we say? [Is] God unrighteous who lays on wrath? (I speak as a man.)


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And not [rather], (as we are wrongly accused, and as some affirm that we say), Let us do bad things that good may come? [Their] condemnation is just.


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What then? Do we excel? No, in no way; for we have before charged both Jews and Greeks all [with] being under sin,


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How then was it reckoned? Being in circumcision or in uncircumcision? Not in circumcision, but in uncircumcision.


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And he received a sign of circumcision, a seal of the righteousness of the faith [while still] uncircumcised; so that he might be [the] father of all those believing through uncircumcision, for righteousness to be imputed to them also;


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and a father of circumcision to those not of the circumcision only, but also to those walking by the steps of the faith of our father Abraham during uncircumcision.


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For the promise that he should be the heir of the world [was] not to Abraham or to his seed through the Law, but through the righteousness of faith.


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Therefore [it is] of faith so that [it might be] according to grace; for the promise to be made sure to all the seed, not only to that which is of the Law, but to that also which is of the] faith of Abraham, who is the father of us all


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(as it has been written, I have made you a father of many nations) --before God, whom he believed, who makes the dead live, and calls the things [which] do not exist as [though they] do exist.


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[For he] who beyond hope believed on hope for him to become the father of many nations (according to that which was spoken, So your seed shall be).


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And not being weak in faith, he did not consider his own body already dead (being about a hundred years old) or the deadening of Sarah's womb.


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He did not stagger at the promise of God through unbelief, but was strong in faith, giving glory to God,


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but for us also to whom it is to be imputed, to the ones believing on Him who has raised up Jesus our Lord from the dead;


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But to him not working, but believing on Him justifying the ungodly, his faith is counted for righteousness.


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Even as David also says of the blessedness of the man to whom God imputes righteousness without works,


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[Is] this blessedness then on the circumcision only, or on the uncircumcision also? For we say that faith was reckoned to Abraham for righteousness.


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For if [when] we were enemies, we were reconciled to God through the death of His Son, much more, being reconciled, we shall be saved by His life.


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And not only [so], but we also rejoice in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom we have now received the reconciliation.


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Therefore, even as through one man sin entered into the world, and death by sin, and so death passed on all men inasmuch as all sinned:


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But death reigned from Adam to Moses, even over those who had not sinned in the likeness of the transgression of Adam, who is the type of Him who was to come;


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but the free gift [shall] not [be] also like the offense. For if by the offense of the one many died, much more the grace of God, and the gift in grace; which [is] of the one Man, Jesus Christ, abounded to many.


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And the free gift [shall] not [be] as by one having sinned; (for indeed the judgment [was] of one to condemnation, but the free gift [is] of many offenses to justification.


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For if by one man's offense death reigned by one, much more they who receive abundance of grace and the gift of righteousness shall reign in life by One, Jesus Christ.)


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Therefore as by one offense [sentence came] on all men to condemnation, even so by the righteousness of One the free gift [came] to all men to justification of life.


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For as by one man's disobedience many were made sinners, so by the obedience of One shall many be made righteous.


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Through Him we also have access by faith into this grace in which we stand, and we rejoice on the hope of the glory of God.


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But the Law entered so that the offense might abound. But where sin abounded, grace did much more abound,


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


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And hope does not make [us] ashamed, because the love of God has been poured out in our hearts through [the] Holy Spirit given to us.


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For one will with difficulty die for a righteous one, yet perhaps one would even dare to die for a good one.


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Likewise count yourselves also to be truly dead to sin, but alive to God through Jesus Christ our Lord.


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Do not yield your members [as] instruments of unrighteousness to sin, but yield yourselves to God, as [one] alive from [the] dead, and your members [as] instruments of righteousness to God.


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Do you not know that to whom you yield yourselves [as] slaves for obedience, you are slaves to him whom you obey; whether it is of sin to death, or of obedience to righteousness.


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But thanks [be] to our God that you were the slaves of sin, but you have obeyed from [the] heart that form of doctrine to which you were delivered.


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I speak in the manner of men because of the weakness of your flesh; for as you have yielded your members [as] slaves to uncleanness, and to lawless act unto lawless act, even so now yield your members as slaves to righteousness unto holiness.


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What fruit did you have then [in those things] of which you are now ashamed? For the end of those things [is] death.


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But now, being made free from sin, and having become slaves to God, you have your fruit to holiness, and the end everlasting life.


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For the wages of sin [is] death, but the gift of God [is] eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.


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Therefore we were buried with Him by baptism into death, so that as Christ was raised up from [the] dead by the glory of the Father; even so we also should walk in newness of life.


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For if we have been joined together in the likeness of His death, we shall also be [in the likeness] of His resurrection;


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knowing this, that our old man is crucified with [Him] in order that the body of sin might be destroyed, that from now on we should not serve sin.


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knowing that when Christ was raised from [the] dead, He dies no more; death no longer has dominion over Him.


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Or are you ignorant, brothers; for I speak to those who know the Law; that the law has dominion over a man as long as he lives?


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Then has that [which is] good become death to me? Let it not be! But sin, that it might appear [to be] sin, working death in me by [that which is] good; in order that sin might become exceedingly sinful by the commandment.


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For I know that in me (that is, in my flesh) dwells no good thing. For to will is present with me, but [how] to perform [that which is] good I do not find.


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For the married woman was bound by law to the living husband. But if the husband is dead, she is set free from the law of [her] husband.


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but I see another law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity to the law of sin being in my members.


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


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So then [if], while [her] husband lives, she is married to another man, she shall be called an adulteress. But if the husband dies, she is free from the law, [so that] she is no adulteress by becoming another man's wife.


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So, my brothers, you also have become dead to the law by the body of Christ so that you should be married to Another, [even] to Him raised from [the] dead, that we should bring forth fruit to God.


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For when we were in the flesh, the passions of sin worked in our members through the law to bring forth fruit to death.


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But now we having been set free from the Law, having died [to that] in which we were held, so that we serve in newness of spirit and not [in] oldness of the letter.


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What shall we say then? [Is] the law sin? Let it not be said! But I did not know sin except through the law. For also I did not know lust except the law said, You shall not lust.


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But sin, taking occasion by the commandment, worked in me all kinds of lust. For apart from law sin [was] dead.


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[There is] therefore now no condemnation to those [who are] in Christ Jesus, who walk not according to the flesh but according to the Spirit.


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And if Christ [is] in you, indeed the body [is] dead because of sin, but the Spirit [is] life because of righteousness.


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But if the Spirit of the [One] who raised up Jesus from [the] dead dwells in you, the [One] who raised up Christ from [the] dead shall also make your mortal bodies alive by His Spirit who dwells in you.


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For if you live according to the flesh, you shall die. But if you through [the] Spirit mortify the deeds of the body, you shall live.


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For you have not received the spirit of bondage again to fear, but you have received the Spirit of adoption by which we cry, Abba, Father!


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


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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 in us.


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For the creation was not willingly subjected to vanity, but because of Him who subjected [it] on hope


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


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And not only [so], but ourselves also, who have the firstfruit of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, awaiting adoption, the redemption of our body.


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For we are saved by hope. But hope that is seen is not hope; for what anyone sees, why does he also hope [for it] ?


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Likewise the Spirit also helps our infirmities. For we do not know what we should pray for as we ought, but the Spirit Himself makes intercession for us with groanings which cannot be uttered.


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And He searching the hearts knows what [is] the mind of the Spirit, because He makes intercession for the saints according to [the will of] God.


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And we know that all things work together for good to those who love God, to those who are called according to [His] purpose.


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For whom He foreknew, He also predestinated [to be] conformed to the image of His Son, for Him to be [the] First-born among many brothers.


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


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But whom He predestinated, these He also called; and whom He called, those He also justified. And whom He justified, these He also glorified.


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Truly [He] who did not spare His own Son, but delivered Him up for us all, how shall He not with Him also freely give us all things?


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Who [is] he condemning? [It is] Christ who has died, but rather also [who is] raised, 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? [Shall] tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?


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As it is written, For Your sake we are killed all the day long. We are counted as sheep of slaughter.


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


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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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so that the righteousness of the Law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not according to the flesh but according to the Spirit.


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For they who are according to the flesh mind the things of flesh, but they who are according to the Spirit the things of the Spirit.


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because the carnal mind [is] enmity against God, for it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can [it be].


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But you are not in the flesh, but in [the] Spirit, if [the] Spirit of God dwells in you. But if anyone has not [the] Spirit of Christ, he is none of His.


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I tell [the] truth in Christ, I do not lie, my conscience also bearing me witness in [the] Holy Spirit,


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(for [the children] had not yet been born, neither had done any good or evil; but that the purpose of God according to election might stand, not of works but of Him who called,)


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For He said to Moses, I will have mercy on whom I will have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I will have compassion.


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So then [it is] not of the [one] willing, nor of the [one] running, but of God, the [One] showing mercy.


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For the Scripture says to Pharaoh, Even for this same purpose I have raised you up, that I might show My power in you, and that My name might be declared throughout all the earth.


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No, but, O man, who are you who replies against God? Shall the thing formed say to Him who formed [it], Why have you made me this way?


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Does not the potter have power over the clay, from the same lump to make one vessel to honor and another to dishonor?


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[What] if God, willing to show His wrath and to make His power known, endured with much long-suffering the vessels of wrath fitted to destruction;


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and that He might make known the riches of His glory on the vessels of mercy which He had before prepared to glory;


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As He also says in Hosea, I will call those not My people, My people; and those not beloved, Beloved.


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And it shall be, in the place where it was said to them. You [are] not My people; there they shall be called sons of the living God.


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Isaiah also cries concerning Israel, Though the number of the sons of Israel is as the sands of the sea, a remnant shall be saved.


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For [He is] bringing [the] matter to an end, and cutting short in righteousness, because [the] Lord will make a short work on the earth.


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And as Isaiah said before, Unless the Lord of hosts had left us a seed, we would have been as Sodom, and would have been like Gomorrah.


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For I myself was wishing to be accursed from Christ for my brothers, my kinsmen according to the flesh,


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What shall we say then? That the nations, who did not follow after righteousness have taken on righteousness, but a righteousness of faith.


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Why? Because [it was] not of faith, but as it were by the works of the Law. For they stumbled at that Stumbling-stone;


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as it is written, Behold, I lay in Zion a Stumbling-stone and a Rock-of-offense, and everyone believing on Him shall not be put to shame.


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who are Israelites; to whom [belong] the adoption, and the glory, and the covenants, and the giving of the Law, and the service [of God], and the promises;


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whose [are] the fathers, and of whom [is] the Christ according to flesh, He being God over all, blessed forever. Amen.


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nor because they are the seed of Abraham [are they] all children. But, In Isaac shall your Seed be called.


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That is, not the children of the flesh [are] children of God; but the children of the promise [are] counted for a seed.


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But I exhort you, brothers, by the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, [that] you all speak the same thing and that there be no divisions among you; but that you be perfectly joined together in the same mind and in the same judgment.


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For it has been declared to me concerning you, my brothers, by those of Chloe, that there are contentions among you.


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But I say this, that every one of you says, I am of Paul, and I of Apollos, and I of Cephas, and I of Christ.


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And I also baptized the household of Stephanas. Besides these, I do not know if I baptized any other.


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For Christ did not send me to baptize, but to preach the gospel; not in wisdom of words, lest the cross of Christ should be made of no effect.


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For the preaching of the cross is foolishness to those being lost, but to us being saved, [it is] the power of God.


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For it is written, I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, and I will set aside the understanding of the perceiving ones.


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to the church of God which is in Corinth, to those who are sanctified in Christ Jesus, called out with all those in every place who call on the name of Jesus Christ our Lord, both theirs and ours.


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Where [is the] wise? Where [is the] scribe? Where [is the] lawyer of this world? Has not God made foolish the wisdom of this world?


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For since, in the wisdom of God, the world [by] wisdom did not know God, it pleased God by the foolishness of preaching to save those who believe.


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But to them, the called-out ones, both Jews and Greeks, Christ is] the power of God and the wisdom of God.


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For you see your calling, brothers, that not many wise men according to the flesh [are called], not many mighty, not many noble.


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But God has chosen the foolish things of the world to confound the wise; and God has chosen the weak things of the world to confound the things which are mighty;


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and God has chosen the base things of the world, and things which are despised, and things which are not, in order to bring to nothing things that are;


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But of Him you are in Christ Jesus, who of God is made to us wisdom and righteousness and sanctification and redemption;


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He shall also confirm you to [the] end, [that you may be] blameless in the day of our Lord Jesus Christ.


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


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And all these things happened to them [as] examples; and [it] is written for our warning on whom the ends of the world have come.


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No temptation has taken you but [what is] common to man; but God [is] faithful, who will not allow you to be tempted above what you are able, but with the temptation also will make a way to escape, so that you may be able to bear [it].


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


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But [I say] that the things which the nations sacrifice, [they] sacrifice to demons and not to God. And I do not desire that you should have fellowship with demons.


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You cannot drink [the] cup of the Lord and the cup of demons; you cannot be partakers of [the] Lord's table and of a table of demons.


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All things are lawful to me, but not all things profit. All things are lawful to me, but not all things build up.


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If any of those who do not believe invite you [to a feast], and if you are disposed to go, eat whatever is set before you, asking no questions for conscience' sake.


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But if anyone says to you, This is slain in sacrifice to idols, do not eat for the sake of him who showed [it], and for conscience' sake; for the earth [is] the Lord's, and the fullness of it;


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conscience, I say, not your own, but the other's. For why is my liberty judged by another's conscience?


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


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and all drank the same spiritual drink; for they drank of the spiritual Rock that followed them, and that Rock was Christ.


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Nor should we be idolaters, even as some of them, as it is written: The people sat down to eat and drink, and rose up to play.


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Nor let us commit fornication, as some of them fornicated, and twenty-three thousand fell in one day.


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For as the woman [is] of the man, even so the man [is] also through the woman; but all things of God.


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But if a woman should have long hair, it is a glory to her; for her hair is given to her in place of a veil.


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But in enjoining this, I do not praise [you], because you come together not for the better, but for the worse.


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


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But I praise you, brothers, that you remember me in all things, and you keep the doctrines as I delivered [them] to you.


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For do you not have houses [in which] to eat and drink? Or do you despise the church of God, and shame those who do not have? What shall I say to you? Shall I praise you for this? I do not praise [you]!


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For I received from the Lord what I also delivered to you, that the Lord Jesus in the night in which he was betrayed took bread;


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For as often as you eat this bread and drink this cup, you show the Lord's death until He shall come.


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So that whoever shall eat this bread and drink [this] cup of the Lord unworthily, he will be guilty of the body and blood of the Lord.


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For he who eats and drinks unworthily eats and drinks condemnation to himself, not discerning the Lord's body.


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


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


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But if anyone hungers, let him eat at home, so that you do not come together to condemnation. And the rest I will set in order when I come.


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But every woman who prays or prophesies with [her] head unveiled dishonors her head; for that is even the same as if she were shaved.


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For if the woman is not veiled, let her also be shorn. But [if it] is a shame for a woman to be shorn or shaven, let her be veiled.


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For a man indeed ought not to have [his] head covered, because he is the image and glory of God. But the woman is [the] glory of [the] man.


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and to another workings of powers, to another prophecy; and to another discerning of spirits; and to another kinds of tongues; and to another the interpretation of tongues.


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But the one and the same Spirit works all these things, distributing separately to each one as He desires.


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For as the body is one and has many members, and all the members of that one body, being many, [are] one body; so also [is] Christ.


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For also by one Spirit we are all baptized into one body, whether Jews or Greeks, whether bond or free, even all were made to drink into one Spirit.


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


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


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If all the body [were] an eye, where [would be] the hearing? If all hearing, where [would be] the smelling?


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


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And those [members] of the body which we think to be less honorable, on these we put more abundant honor around [them]. And our unpresentable [members] have more abundant propriety.


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For our presentable [members] have no need, but God tempered the body together, giving more abundant honor to the [member] having need;


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that there not be division in the body, but [that] the members should have the same care for one another.


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And if one member suffers, all the members suffer with [it]; if one member is glorified, all the members rejoice with [it].


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And God set some in the church, firstly, apostles; secondly, prophets; thirdly, teachers, then works of power, then gifts of healings, helps, governments, kinds of languages.


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Therefore I make known to you that no one speaking by [the] Spirit of God says Jesus [is] a curse, and [that] no one can say that Jesus [is] Lord, but by the Holy Spirit.


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


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


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When I was an infant, I spoke as an infant, I thought as an infant, I reasoned as an infant. But when I became a man, I did away with the things of an infant.


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For now we see in a mirror dimly, but then face to face. Now I know in part, but then I shall fully know even as I also am fully known.


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And though I have prophecies, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge; and though I have all faith, so as to move mountains, and do not have charity, I am nothing.


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And though I give out all my goods to feed the poor], and though I deliver my body to be burned, and have not charity, I am profited nothing.


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Charity never fails. But if [there are] prophecies, they will be abolished; if tongues, they shall cease; if knowledge, it will be abolished.


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Therefore if I do not know the power of the sound, I will be a foreigner to him speaking, and he speaking [will be] a foreigner to me.


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Even so you, since you are zealots of spiritual [things], seek to build up the church, in order that you may abound


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


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Else, if you bless in the spirit, he occupying the place of the unlearned, how will he say the amen at your giving of thanks, since he does not know what you say?


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yet in a church I desire to speak five words with my mind, so that I might also teach others, than ten thousand words in a tongue.


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For he who speaks in a tongue does not speak to men but to God. For no one hears, but in spirit he speaks mysteries.


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Brothers, do not be children in your minds, but in malice be like infants, and in your minds be mature.


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In the law it is written, By other tongues and other lips I will speak to this people, and even so they will not hear Me, says the Lord.


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So that tongues are not a sign to those who believe, but to those who do not believe. But prophesying [is] not to those who do not believe, but to those who believe.


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Therefore if the whole church has come together, and all speak in languages, and if uninstructed ones or unbelievers come in, will they not say that you rave?


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But if all prophesy, and some unbeliever or one not instructed comes, he is convicted by all, he is judged by all.


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And so the secrets of his heart become revealed. And so, falling down on [his] face, he will worship God and report that God is truly among you.


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Then how is it, brothers? When you come together, each one of you has a psalm, has a teaching, has a tongue, has a revelation, has an interpretation. Let all things be for building up.


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If one speaks in a language, [let it be] by two, or [at] the most three, and in succession. And let one interpret.


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But if there is no interpreter, let him be silent in a church; and let him speak to himself and to God.


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Let your women be silent in the churches; for it is not permitted to them to speak, but to be in subjection, as the Law also says.


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And if they desire to learn anything, let them ask their husbands at home; for it is a shame for a woman to speak in a church.


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If anyone thinks to be a prophet, or a spiritual one, let him recognize the things I write to you, that they are a commandment of the Lord.


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I wish all of you to speak in languages, but rather that you may prophesy; for greater [is] he prophesying than he speaking in tongues, unless he interpret so that the church may receive building up.


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But now, brothers, if I come to you speaking in tongues, what will I profit you, except I speak to you either in revelation, or in knowledge, or in prophecy, or in teaching?


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Yet lifeless things giving a sound, whether flute or harp, if they do not give a distinction in the sound, how will it be known what is being piped or harped?


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So also you, if you do not give a clear word through the language, how will it be known what [is] being said? For you will be speaking into the air.


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And, brothers, I declare to you the gospel which I preached to you, which also you have received, and in which you stand;


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But by the grace of God I am what I am, and His grace which [was] toward me has not been without fruit, but I labored more abundantly than all of them; yet not I, but the grace of God with me.


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But if Christ is proclaimed, that He was raised from [the] dead, how do some among you say that there is no resurrection of the dead?


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And if Christ has not been raised, then our proclamation [is] worthless, and your faith [is] also worthless.


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And we are also found [to be] false witnesses of God, because we testified of God that He raised Christ; whom He did not raise if the dead are not raised.


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by which you also are being kept safe, if you hold fast the word which I preached to you, unless you believed in vain.


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But each in [his] own order: Christ the first-fruit, and afterward they who are Christ's at His coming;


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then [is] the end, when He delivers the kingdom to God, even the Father; when He makes to cease all rule and all authority and power.


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For He put all things under His feet. But when He says that all things have been put under [His feet], it is plain that [it] excepts Him who has put all things under Him.


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But when all things are subjected to Him, then the Son Himself also will be subject to Him who has subjected all things to Him, so that God may be all things in all.


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Otherwise, what will they do, those being baptized on behalf of [the] dead? If the dead are not at all raised, why indeed are they baptized on behalf of [the] dead?


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


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If according to man I fought with beasts in Ephesus, what advantage is to me if [the] dead are not raised? Let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we die!


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And what you sow, you do not sow the body that [is] going to be, but a bare grain (perhaps of wheat or of some of the rest).


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All flesh [is] not the same flesh; but one [kind of] flesh of men, and another flesh of beasts, and another of fish, and another of birds.


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[There are] also heavenly bodies and earthly bodies. But the glory of the heavenly [is] truly different, and that of the earthly different;


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one glory of [the] sun, and another glory of [the] moon, and another glory of [the] stars; for [one] star differs from [another] star in glory.


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


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And so it is written, The first man, Adam, became a living soul, the last Adam was a life-giving Spirit.


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Such the earthy [man], such also the earthy ones. And such the heavenly [Man], such also the heavenly ones.


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And according as we bore the image of the earthy [man], we shall also bear the image of the heavenly [Man].


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And I say this, brothers, that flesh and blood cannot inherit [the] kingdom of God, nor does corruption inherit incorruption.


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in a moment, in a glance of an eye, at the last trumpet. For a trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall all be changed.


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But when this corruptible shall put on incorruption, and when this mortal shall put on immortality, then will take place the word that is written, Death is swallowed up in victory.


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So that, my beloved brothers, be steadfast, immovable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, knowing that your labor is not without fruit in the Lord.


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Afterward He was seen by over five hundred brothers at once, of whom the greater part remain until this present day, but also some fell asleep.


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


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But if Timothy comes, see that he is with you without fear, for he works the work of the Lord, even as I [do].


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Therefore let not any despise him, but set him forward in peace, so that he may come to me; for I am waiting for him with the brothers.


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As regards [our] brother Apollos, I greatly desired him to come to you with the brothers, but it was not altogether [his] will that he come now. But he will come when he has opportunity.


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But I exhort you, brothers. You know the house of Stephanas, that it is the firstfruit of Achaia, and they appointed themselves to ministry to the saints.


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


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On the first of the sabbaths let each of you put by himself, storing up what ever he is prospered, so that there may be no collections when I come.


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And when I come, whomever you shall approve by [your] letters, I will send them to bring your gift to Jerusalem.


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And it may be that I will stay with you, and even spend the winter with you, so that you may set me forward wherever I go.


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For I do not desire to see you now in passage, but I am hoping to stay some time with you, if the Lord permits.


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And I, brothers, when I came to you, did not come with excellency of speech or of wisdom, declaring to you the testimony of God.


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But God has revealed [them] to us by His Spirit; for the Spirit searches all things, yea, the deep things of God.


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For who among men knows the things of a man except the spirit of man within him? So also no one knows the things of God except the Spirit of God.


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But we have not received the spirit of the world, but the Spirit from God, so that we might know the things that are freely given to us by God.


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These things we also speak, not in words which man's wisdom teaches, but which the] Holy Spirit teaches, comparing spiritual things with spiritual.


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But the natural man does not receive the things of [the] Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him; neither can he know [them], because they are spiritually discerned.


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


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But, we speak wisdom among those who are perfect; yet not the wisdom of this world, nor of the rulers of this world, that come to nothing.


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But we speak [the] wisdom of God in a mystery, which God has hidden, predetermining it before the world for our glory;


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which none of the rulers of this world knew (for if they had known, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory).


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But as it is written, Eye has not seen, nor ear heard, nor has it entered into the heart of man, the things which God has prepared for those who love Him.


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And I, brothers, could not speak to you as to spiritual ones, but as to fleshly, as to babes in Christ.


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According to the grace of God which is given to me, as a wise master builder, I have laid the foundation, and another builds [on it]. But let every man be careful how he builds [on it].


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each one's work shall be revealed. For the Day shall declare [it], because it shall be revealed by fire; and the fire shall try each one's work as to what kind it is.


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If anyone's work shall be burned up, he shall suffer loss. But he shall be saved, yet so as by fire.


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If anyone defiles the temple of God, God shall destroy him. For the temple of God is holy, which you are.


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Let no one deceive himself. If anyone among you seems to be wise in this world, let him become a fool so that he may be wise.


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


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I have fed you with milk and not with solid food, for you were not yet able [to bear it]; nor are you able even now.


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


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For you are yet carnal. For in that [there is] among you envyings and strife and divisions, are you not carnal, and [do you not] walk according to men?


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Who then is Paul, and who [is] Apollos, but ministers by whom you believed, even as the Lord gave to each?


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So he planting, and he watering, are one, and each one shall receive [his] own reward according to [his] own labor.


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We [are] fools for Christ's sake, but you [are] wise in Christ. We [are] weak, but you [are] strong. You [are] honorable, but we [are] despised.


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Even until this present hour we both hunger and thirst and are naked and are buffeted and have no certain dwelling place.


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being defamed, we entreat. We are made as the filth of the world, the offscouring of all [things] until now.


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For though you have ten thousand instructors in Christ, yet [you do] not [have] many fathers; for I have begotten you in Christ Jesus through the gospel.


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For this cause I have sent Timothy to you, who is my beloved son and faithful in [the] Lord, who shall remind you [of] my ways which are] in Christ, as I teach everywhere in every church.


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But I will come to you shortly, if the Lord wills. And I will not know the speech of those who are puffed up, but the power.


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But to me it is a very small thing that I should be judged by you, or by a man's day; but I do not judge my own self,


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for I know nothing by myself. Yet I have not been justified by this, but He who judges me is [the] Lord.


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Therefore judge nothing before the time, until the Lord comes, who both will bring to light the hidden things of darkness and will make manifest the counsels of the hearts. And then shall each one have praise of God.


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


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For who makes you to differ [from another]? And what do you have that you did not receive? And if you did receive [it], why do you boast as [if you] had not received it?


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Already you are full! Already you are rich! You have reigned [as kings] without us! And oh that indeed you did reign, that we also might reign with you.


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For I think that God has set forth us last, the apostles, as it were appointed to death; for we have become a spectacle to the world and to angels and to men.


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On the whole it is reported [that there is] fornication among you, and such fornication as is not even named among the nations, so as one to have [his] father's wife.


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


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But now I have written to you not to associate intimately, if any man called a brother [and is] either a fornicator, or covetous, or an idolater, or a reviler, or a drunkard, or an extortioner; with such a one not to eat.


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And you are puffed up, and have not rather mourned, so that he who has done this deed may be taken from your midst.


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For as being absent in body but present in spirit, I indeed have judged already [as though I were] present [concerning] him who worked out this thing;


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in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, when you are gathered together, with my spirit; also, with the power of our Lord Jesus Christ;


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to deliver such a one to Satan for the destruction of the flesh, so that the spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord Jesus.


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Therefore purge out the old leaven so that you may be a new lump, as you are unleavened. For also Christ our Passover is sacrificed for us.


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Therefore let us keep [the] feast; not with old leaven, nor with the leaven of malice and wickedness, but with the unleavened [bread] of sincerity and truth.


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Do any of you dare, when you have a matter against another, to go to law before the unjust, and not before the saints?


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


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


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


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


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Do you not know that your bodies are the members of Christ? Shall I then take the members of Christ and make [them] the members of a harlot? Let it not be!


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Or do you not know that he being joined to a harlot is one body? For He says, The two shall be one flesh.


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Flee fornication. Every sin that a man does is outside the body, but he who commits fornication sins against [his] own body.


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Or do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit in you, whom you have of God? And you are not your own,


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


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for you are bought with a price. Therefore glorify God in your body and in your spirit, which are God's.


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If, then, you truly have judgments of [the things] of this] life, set those who are least esteemed in the church [to judge].


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For I speak to your shame. [Is it] so [that] there is not a wise one among you, not even one in your midst who shall be able to judge between his brother?


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Indeed then there is already on the whole a failure among you, that you have lawsuits with yourselves. Why not instead be wronged? Why not instead be defrauded?


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Do you not know that the unrighteous shall not inherit [the] kingdom of God? Do not be deceived; neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor abusers, nor homosexuals,


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But if she is indeed separated, let her remain unmarried, or be reconciled to [her] husband. And a husband is not to leave [his] wife.


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But to the rest I speak, not the Lord, If any brother has a wife who does not believe, and she is pleased to dwell with him, do not let him put her away.


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And the woman who has a husband who does not believe, if he is pleased to dwell with her, do not let her leave him.


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


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But if the unbelieving one separates, let [him] be separated. A brother or a sister is not in bondage in such [cases], but God has called us in peace.


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For what do you know, O wife, whether you shall save [your] husband? Or what do you know, O man, whether you shall save [your] wife?


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


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[Was] any called having been circumcised? Do not be uncircumcised. Was anyone called in uncircumcision? Do not be circumcised.


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Were you called as a slave? It does not matter to you, but if you are able to become free, use [it] rather.


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For he who is called a slave in [the] Lord is a freed man of [the] Lord. And likewise, he who is called a free man is a slave of Christ.


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But concerning virgins, I have no commandment from [the] Lord. Yet I give my judgment, as one who has obtained mercy from the Lord to be faithful.


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But if you do marry, you did not sin; and if a virgin marries, she has not sinned. But such shall have trouble in the flesh, but I spare you.


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But this I say, brothers, The time [is] short. It remains that both those who have wives should be as not having one.


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And they who weep are as [though they did] not weep. And they who rejoice are as [though they did] not rejoice. And they who buy are as though they did] not possess.


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And they who use this world are] as not abusing [it], for the fashion of this world is passing away.


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But I desire you to be without anxiety. The [one] who is unmarried cares for the things that belong to [the] Lord, how to please the Lord.


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The wife and the virgin [are] different. The unmarried woman cares for the things of the Lord, that she may be holy both in body and in spirit. But she who is married cares for the things of the world, how she may please [her husband.


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


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But if anyone thinks [it] behaving himself indecently toward his virgin (if she is past [her] prime, and so it ought to be) let him do what he will; he does not sin; let them marry.


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But [he] who stands steadfast in his heart, having no necessity, but who has authority over [his] own will (and has so judged in his heart that he will keep his virginity) he does well.


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The wife is bound by the law as long as her husband lives, but if her husband sleeps in death, she is at liberty to be remarried to whom she will, only in the Lord.


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The wife does not have authority over [her] own body, but the husband. And likewise also the husband does not have authority [over his] own body, but the wife.


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But she is happier if she so remains, according to my judgment. And I also think that I have [the] Spirit of God.


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Do not deprive one another, unless [it is] with consent for a time, so that you may give yourselves to fasting and prayer. And come together again so that Satan does not tempt you for your incontinence.


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For I would that all men were even as I myself am. But each has his proper gift from God, one according to this manner and another according to that.


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But concerning the sacrifices to idols, we know that we all have knowledge. Knowledge puffs up, but love edifies.


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For if anyone sees you who have knowledge sitting in an idol temple, will not the weak one's conscience be lifted up so as to eat things sacrificed to idols?


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And sinning in this way against [your] brothers, and wounding their conscience, being weak, you sin against Christ.


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Therefore, if food offends my brother, I will eat no flesh forever, that I do not offend my brother.


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Then concerning the eating of the things sacrificed to idols, we know that an idol [is] nothing in [the] world, and that [there] is no other God except one.


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For though there are those who are called gods, whether in Heaven or in earth (as there are many gods and many lords),


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but [there is] to us [only] one God, the Father, of whom are all things, and we in Him; and one Lord Jesus Christ, through whom are all things, and we by Him.


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But this knowledge [is] not in all. But some being aware of the idol eat as an idolatrous sacrifice until now, and their conscience being weak is defiled.


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But food does not commend us to God. For neither if we eat are we the better, nor if we do not eat are we the worse.


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But take heed lest by any means this liberty of yours becomes a stumbling block to those who are weak.


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Am I not an apostle? Am I not free? Have I not seen Jesus Christ our Lord? Are you not my work in [the] Lord?


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Or does He say [it] altogether for our sakes? It was written for us, so that he who plows should plow [in] hope, and so that he who threshes [in] hope should be partaker of his hope.


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If others have a share of [this] authority [over] you, rather [should] not we? But we have not used this authority, but we endured all things lest we should hinder the gospel of Christ.


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Do you not know that those who minister about holy things live [of the things] of the temple? And those attending the altar are partakers with the altar.


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But I have used none of these things, nor have I written these things that it should be done so to me; for [it is] good for me rather to die than that anyone nullify my glorying.


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For though I preach the gospel, no glory is to me. For necessity is laid on me; yea, woe is to me if I do not preach the gospel!


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For if I do this thing willingly, I have a reward; but if against my will, I am entrusted with a stewardship.


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What then is my reward? That when I preach the gospel I may make the gospel of Christ without charge, that I may not abuse my authority in the gospel.


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For though I am free from all, yet I have made myself servant to all, so that I might gain the more.


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If I am not an apostle to others, yet doubtless I am to you, for you are the seal of my apostleship in [the] Lord.


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And to the Jews I became as a Jew, so that I might gain the Jews. To those who are under the Law, [I became] as under the Law, so that I might gain those who are under the Law.


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To those who are outside Law, [I became] as outside Law (not being outside law to God, but under [the] law to Christ), so that I might gain those who are outside Law.


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To the weak I became as the weak, so that I might gain the weak. I am made all things to all [men], so that I might by all means save some.


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Do you not know that those running in a race all run, but one receives the prize? So run, that you may obtain.


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And everyone who strives for the mastery is temperate in all things. Then those truly that they may receive a corruptible crown, but we an incorruptible.


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Do we not have authority to lead about a sister, a wife, as well as other apostles, and [as] the brothers of the Lord do, and Cephas?


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Who serves as a soldier at his own wages at any time? Who plants a vineyard and does not eat of its fruit? Or who feeds a flock and does not partake of the milk of the flock?


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For it is written in the law of Moses, You shall not muzzle an ox threshing grain. Does God take care for oxen?


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Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ by the will of God, and Timothy [our] brother, to the church of God which is at Corinth, with all the saints who are in all Achaia.


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who delivered us from so great a death, and does deliver; in whom we trust that He will yet deliver [us],


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with you also helping together by prayer for us, so that the gracious gift by many persons be [the cause of] thanksgiving through many for us.


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For our rejoicing is this, the testimony of our conscience, that in simplicity and godly sincerity; not with fleshly wisdom, but by the grace of God; we have had our conduct in the world, and more abundantly toward you.


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For we write no other things to you than what you read or recognize, and I trust you shall recognize them even to the end,


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even as you have recognized us [in] part, that we are your rejoicing, even as you also [are] ours in the day of the Lord Jesus.


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


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Then purposing this, did I indeed use lightness? Or the things that I purpose, do I purpose them according to the flesh, so that with me there should be yes, yes, and no, no?


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For the Son of God, Jesus Christ, who was preached among you by us; by me and Silas and Timothy; was not yes and no, but in Him was, yes!


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


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He comforting us in all our trouble, so that we may be able to comfort those who are in every trouble, through the comfort with which we ourselves are comforted by God.


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And if we are troubled, [it is] for your consolation and salvation, being worked out in [the] endurance of the same sufferings which we also suffer; if we are comforted, [it is] for your consolation and salvation.


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And our hope of you [is] certain, knowing that as you are partakers of the sufferings, so also of the consolation.


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For, brothers, we would not have you ignorant of our trouble which came to us in Asia, that we were pressed out of measure, above strength; so much so that we despaired even of life.


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But we had the sentence of death in ourselves, so that we should not trust in ourselves, but in God who raises the dead;


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And I myself, Paul, beseech you by the meekness and gentleness of Christ; I, who indeed to look upon [am] lowly among you, but being absent am bold toward you.


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For indeed they say, the letters [are] weighty and powerful, but the bodily presence [is] weak, and his speech is contemptible.


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


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For we do not dare to rank or compare ourselves with some of the ones commending themselves. But they, measuring themselves among themselves, and comparing themselves to themselves, are not perceptive.


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But we will not boast beyond measure, but according to the measure of the rule which the God of measure distributed to us, to reach even to you.


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For we do not overstretch ourselves as [though] not reaching to you. For we also came to you in the gospel of Christ;


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not boasting beyond measure in the labors of others, but having hope that the growing faith among you will be increased according to our rule, to overflowing;


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But I ask, not being present, that I may be bold with the confidence which I think to be daring against some, who thought [of] us as walking according to flesh.


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For the weapons of our warfare [are] not fleshly, but mighty through God to the pulling down of strongholds,


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


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Do you look at things according to appearance? If anyone has persuaded himself that he [is] Christ's, let him think this again as to himself, that as he [is] Christ's, even so we [are] Christ's.


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For even if I also should boast somewhat more fully of our authority (which the Lord has given us for building up, and not for pulling you down) I will not be put to shame;


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The truth of Christ is in me that this boasting shall not be silenced in me in the regions of Achaia.


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But what I do, that I will do, so that I may cut off occasion from those who desire occasion; so that in the thing in which they boast, they may be found even as we.


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


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Therefore [it is] no great thing if his ministers also transform themselves as ministers of righteousness, whose end shall be according to their works.


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Again I say, Let no one think me foolish. If otherwise, yet receive me as foolish, so that I may also boast a little.


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What I speak, I do not speak according to the Lord, but as in foolishness, in this boldness of boasting.


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For I am jealous [over] you with godly jealousy. For I have espoused you to one Man, to present [you as] a pure virgin to Christ.


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For you endure if anyone enslaves you, if anyone devours, if anyone takes [from you], if anyone exalts himself, if anyone strikes you in the face.


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I speak according to dishonor, as though we have been weak. But in whatever anyone dares (I speak foolishly), I also dare.


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Are they ministers of Christ? (I speak as beside myself,) I [am] more! [I have been] in labors more abundantly, in stripes above measure, in prisons more, in deaths many times.


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Three times I was beaten with rods, once I was stoned, three times I was shipwrecked. I have spent a night and a day in the deep.


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I have been in travels often; in dangers from waters; in dangers from robbers; in dangers from [my] race; in dangers from [the] heathen; in dangers in [the] city; in dangers in [ the] wilderness; in dangers on [the sea; in dangers among false brothers.


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[I have been] in hardship and toil; often in watchings; in hunger and thirst; often in fastings; in cold and nakedness;


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But I fear lest by any means, as the serpent beguiled Eve in his craftiness, so your thoughts should be corrupted from the simplicity due to Christ.


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In Damascus the governor under Aretas the king guarded the city of [the] Damascenes, desiring to lay hold of me.


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For if, indeed, the [one] coming proclaims another Jesus, whom we have not proclaimed, or [if] you receive another spirit, which you did not receive, or another gospel, which you never accepted, you might well endure [these.


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But even if [I am] unskilled in speech, yet not in knowledge; but in every way [I] have been clearly revealed to you in all things.


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Or did I commit sin in humbling myself that you might be exalted, because I preached the gospel of God to you without charge?


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And being present with you, and in need, I was not a burden to anyone. For the brothers from Macedonia made up completely my need. And in every way I have kept myself from being burdensome [to you], and I will keep myself.


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Indeed, it is not profitable for me to boast. For I will come to visions and revelations of [the] Lord.


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Therefore I am pleased in weaknesses, in insults, in necessities, in persecutions, in distresses for Christ's sake; for when I am weak, then I am powerful.


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I have become foolish boasting. You compelled me. For I ought to be commended by you. For I lacked nothing of the highest apostles, if even I am nothing.


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Truly the signs of the apostle were worked out among you in all patience, in miracles and in wonders, and by works of power.


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For what is it in which you were inferior to the rest of the churches, except that I myself did not burden you? Forgive me this wrong.


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Behold, a third [time] I am ready to come to you. And I will not burden you, for I do not seek your things, but you. For the children ought not to lay up treasure for the parents, but the parents for the children.


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And I will very gladly spend and be spent for your souls, even if loving you more and more, I am loved [the] less.


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I begged Titus and sent with [him] the brother. Did Titus overreach you? Did we not walk in the same spirit? Did we] not walk] in the same steps?


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Again, do you think we are defending ourselves to you? We speak before God in Christ, but [we do] all things, dearly beloved, for your building up.


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I know a man in Christ fourteen years before (whether in [the] body, I do not know; or outside of [the] body, I do not know; God knows) such a one [was] caught up to [the] third Heaven.


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For I fear, lest somehow coming I might not find you as I wish, and [that] I shall be found by you such as you might not wish; lest somehow [there be] strifes, envyings, angers, contentions, backbitings, whisperings, proud thoughts, tumults;


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lest in my coming again my God will humble me with you; and I shall mourn many who have already sinned, and not repenting over the uncleanness, and fornication, and lustfulness which they have practiced.


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


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For if I desire to boast, I shall not be foolish. For I will speak the truth. But I spare, lest anyone should think of me as [being] beyond what he sees me, or hears of me;


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and by the surpassing revelations, lest I be made haughty, a thorn in the flesh was given to me, a messenger of Satan to buffet me, lest I be made haughty.


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


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Therefore I write these things while absent, lest being present I may not deal sharply [with you] according to the authority which the Lord gave me for building up, and not for pulling down.


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Finally, brothers, rejoice. Perfect yourselves; encourage yourselves; mind the same thing; be at peace. And the God of love and peace will be with you.


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I told you before, and I say beforehand, as being present the second [time] and being absent now. I write to those who sinned before, and to all the rest, that if I come again, I will not spare.


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Since you seek a proof of Christ speaking in me (who is not weak toward you, but is powerful in you;


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for even if He was crucified out of weakness, yet He lives by [the] power of God. For indeed even we are weak in Him, but we shall live with Him by [the] power of God toward you),


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examine yourselves, whether you are in the faith, prove your own selves. Do you not know your own selves, that Jesus Christ is in you, unless you are reprobates?


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But I pray to God [for] you not to do evil, none. And not that we may appear approved, but that you should do the good things, though we are deemed to be reprobates.


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But to whom you forgive anything, I also [forgive]. For if I forgave anything, for your sakes I forgave [it] to him in the person of Christ;


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I had no rest in my spirit because I did not find Titus my brother. But taking my leave of them, I went from there into Macedonia.


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Now thanks [be] to God, who always causes us to triumph in Christ, and He revealing through us the odor of the knowledge of Him in every place.


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to the one [we are] the savor of death to death, and to the other we are the savor of life to life. And who is sufficient for these things?


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For we are not as many, hawking the Word of God; but as of sincerity, but as of God, we speak in Christ in the sight of God.


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For if I make you sorry, who then is he who makes me glad, but the same who has been made sorry by me?


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


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


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But if anyone has caused grief, he has not grieved me, except in part; so that I not overbear all of you.


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so that, on the contrary, you should rather forgive and comfort [him], lest perhaps such a one should be swallowed up with overwhelming sorrow.


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


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Do we begin again to commend ourselves? Or do we need, like some, epistles of commendation to you, or [letters] of commendation from you?


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For even that which was made glorious had no glory in this respect, because of the glory that excels.


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And we are not like Moses, [who] put a veil over his face so that the sons of Israel could not steadfastly look to the end of the thing being done away.


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(But their thoughts were blinded; for until the present the same veil remains on the reading of the old covenant, not taken away.) But this veil has been done away in Christ.


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But we all, with [our] face having been unveiled, having beheld the glory of the Lord as in a mirror, are being changed into the same image from glory to glory, even as by the Lord Spirit.


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[it] having been made plain that you are the epistle of Christ, ministered by us, not having been written with ink, but with the Spirit of the living God; not on tablets of stone, but in fleshly tablets of [the] heart.


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not that we are sufficient of ourselves to think anything as of ourselves, but our sufficiency [is] of God;


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who also has made us able ministers of the new covenant; not of the letter, but of the spirit; for the letter kills, but the Spirit makes alive.


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But if the ministry of death, having been engraved in letters in stone was with glory (so that the sons of Israel could not steadfastly behold the face of Moses because of the glory of his face), which was being done away;


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For if the ministry of condemnation [is] glorious, much more does the ministry of righteousness exceed in glory.


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always bearing about the dying of the Lord Jesus in the body, so that the life of Jesus also might be revealed in our body.


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For we who live are always being delivered to death for Jesus' sake, so that the life of Jesus might also be revealed in our body.


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


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knowing that He who raised up the Lord Jesus shall also raise us up by Jesus, and shall present [us] with you.


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For all things [are] for your sake, so that the superabounding grace might be made to abound through the thanksgiving of the greater number, to the glory of God.


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For this cause we do not faint; but though our outward man perishes, yet the inward [man] is being renewed day by day.


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For the lightness of our present affliction works out for us a far more excellent eternal weight of glory,


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we not considering the things which are seen, but the things which are not seen; for the things which [are] seen [are] not lasting, but the things which [are] not seen [are] everlasting.


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But we have renounced the hidden things of shame, not walking in craftiness, nor adulterating the Word of God, but [by] the revelation of the truth commending ourselves to every man's conscience in the sight of God.


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in whom the god of this world has blinded the minds of the unbelieving ones, so that the light of the glorious gospel of Christ (who is the image of God) should not dawn on them.


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


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For [it is] God who said, Out of darkness Light shall shine; who shone in our hearts to [give] the brightness 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, so that the excellence of the power may be of God and not of us;


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in every [way] having been troubled, but not having been hemmed in; having been perplexed, but not utterly at a loss;


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having been persecuted, but not having been forsaken; having been thrown down, but not having been destroyed;


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For we know that if our earthly house of [this] tabernacle were dissolved, we have a building from God, a house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens.


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For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ, so that each one may receive the things done] through the body, according to that which he has done, whether good or bad.


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Therefore, knowing the fear of the Lord, we persuade men. But we are revealed to God, and I trust also that we are revealed in your consciences.


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For we do not commend ourselves again to you, but are giving you occasion to glory on our behalf, so that you may have [it] to [answer] those boasting in appearance, and not in heart.


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and He died for all, that the living ones may live no more to themselves, but to Him who died for them and having been raised.


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So as we now know no one according to flesh, but even if we have known Christ according to flesh, yet now we no longer know [Him so.


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So that if any one [is] in Christ, [that one is] a new creature; old things have passed away; behold, all things have become new.


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And all things [are] of God, who has reconciled us to Himself through Jesus Christ, and has given to us the ministry of reconciliation;


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whereas God was in Christ reconciling [the] world to Himself, not imputing their trespasses to them, and putting the word of reconciliation in us.


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For indeed in this we groan, earnestly desiring to be clothed with our dwelling-place out of Heaven;


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Then we are ambassadors on behalf of Christ, as God exhorting through us, we beseech [you] on behalf of Christ, be reconciled to God.


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For He has made Him who knew no sin, [to be] sin for us, that we might become [the] righteousness of God in Him.


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For we who are in [this] tabernacle groan, being burdened; inasmuch as we do not wish to be unclothed, but to be clothed, so that the mortal might be swallowed up by the life.


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And He who has worked in us for this same thing [is] God, who also [is] giving to us the earnest of the Spirit.


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Then being always confident, knowing that while we are at home in the body, we are away from home from the Lord;


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then we are confident and we are pleased rather to go away from home out of the body, and to come home to the Lord.


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


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Do not be unequally yoked together [with] unbelievers; for what fellowship does righteousness [have] with lawlessness? And what partnership does light [have] with darkness?


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And what agreement does Christ [have] with Belial? Or what part does a believer [have] with an unbeliever?


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And what agreement does a temple of God [have] with idols? For you are the temple of [the] living God, as God has said, I will dwell in them and walk among [them]; and I will be their God, and they shall be My people.


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Therefore come out from among them and be separated, says the Lord, and do not touch the unclean [thing]. And I will receive you


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(For He says, In an acceptable time I heard you, and in a day of salvation, I helped you; Behold, now [is] the accepted time. Behold, now [is] the day of salvation.)


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but in everything commending ourselves as God's servants, in much patience, in troubles, in emergencies, in distresses,


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in [the] word of truth, in [the] power of God, through the weapons of righteousness on the right [hand] and on the left,


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Then having these promises, dearly beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from all defilements of flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God.


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For the grief according to God works repentance to salvation, not to be regretted, but the grief of the world works out death.


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For behold this same thing (you being grieved according to God); how much it worked out earnestness in you; but [also] defense; but [also] indignation; but [also] fear; but [also desire; but [also] zeal; but also] vengeance! In everything you approved yourselves to be clear in the matter.


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Then, though I wrote to you, [it was] not on account of the one who did wrong, nor on account of the one who suffered wrong, but for the sake of revealing our earnestness on your behalf, for you before God.


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Therefore we have been comforted in your comfort, and we rather rejoiced more abundantly over the joy of Titus, because his spirit was refreshed by you all.


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For if I have boasted anything about you to him, I was not ashamed. But as we spoke all things to you in truth, even so our boasting as to Titus became truth.


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And his tender feelings are more abundant toward you, remembering the obedience of you all, as you received him with fear and trembling.


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I do not speak [this] to condemn you, for I have said before that you are in our hearts for [us] to die together, and to live together.


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My boldness of speech [is] great toward you; my glorying on your behalf [is] much. I have been filled with comfort, I am overflowing with joy on all our trouble.


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For, indeed, coming into Macedonia, our flesh had no rest, but being troubled in every way, [with] fightings [on the] outside, and fears [on the] inside.


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And not only by his coming, but by the comfort with which he was comforted over you, telling us your longing, your mourning, your zeal for me; so that I rejoiced the more.


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For even if I grieved you in the letter, I do not regret; if indeed I did regret; for I see that that letter grieved you for an hour.


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Now I rejoice, not that you were grieved, but that you grieved to repentance. For you were grieved according to God, so that you might suffer loss by nothing in us.


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And, brothers, we make known to you the grace of God which has been given among the churches of Macedonia;


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And in this I give [my] judgment; 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 finish the doing [of it], so that, as [there was] a readiness to will, so also the finishing, [giving] out of [what] you have.


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For if the eagerness is present, [it is] acceptable according to [what] one has, [and] not according to [what] one does not have.


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but by equality in the present time; your abundance for their need, that their abundance also may be for your need; so that there may be equality;


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as it is written, He [gathering] much, he had nothing left over; and he [gathering] little did not have less.


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and not only [so], but also he having been chosen by the churches to travel with us with this gift, which is administered by us to the glory of the Lord Himself, and [as a witness of] your eager mind;


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that in much testing of trouble, the overflowing of their joy, and the depth of their poverty, abounded to the riches of their generosity.


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And we have sent with them our brother whom we have often proved earnest in many things, but now much more earnest by the great confidence which [I have] in you.


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If anyone inquires of Titus, [he is] my partner and fellow-worker for you, or [of] our brothers, [they are] the messengers of the churches, [the] glory of Christ.


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Therefore show them a proof of your love and of our boasting toward you in the presence of the churches.


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with much beseeching, begging us [that they might] receive of us the grace and the fellowship of the ministry to the saints.


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And not as we hoped, but first [they] gave themselves to the Lord, and to us through [the] will of God,


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for us to call on Titus, that even as he began before, so he would also complete this grace to you also.


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But even as you abound in everything, in faith, and in word, and in knowledge, and in all earnestness, and in your love to us; you should abound in this grace also.


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I do not speak according to command, but through the eagerness of others, and testing the trueness of your love.


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For you know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that, though He was rich, for your sakes He became poor, in order that you might be made rich through His poverty.


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Now He who supplies seed to the sower, and bread for eating, may He supply and multiply your seed, and increase the fruits of your righteousness


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For the ministry of this service not only supplies the things lacking of the saints, but also multiplying through many thanksgivings to God,


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through the proof of this ministry [they] glorify God for your freely expressed submission to the gospel of Christ, and the generosity of the fellowship toward them and toward all,


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For I know your eagerness, of which I boast to Macedonia on your behalf, that Achaia was ready a year ago; and your zeal has aroused the greater number.


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Yet I sent the brothers, lest our boasting (which [is] on your behalf) should not be in vain, that, as I said, you may be ready.


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[I say this] lest perhaps Macedonians should come with me and find you unprepared. We (not to say you) would then be put to shame in this confident boasting.


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Therefore I thought [it] necessary to exhort the brothers that they would go forward to you, and make up beforehand your blessing, it having been promised that this would be ready, thus as a matter of] blessing, and not as of covetousness.


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But [I say] this, He who sows sparingly shall also reap sparingly, and he who sows bountifully shall also reap bountifully.


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Each one, as he purposes in his heart, [let him give]; not of grief, or of necessity, for God loves a cheerful giver.


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And God [is] able to make all grace abound toward you, that in everything, always having all self-sufficiency, you may abound to every good work;


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Paul, an apostle (not from men, nor through man, but through Jesus Christ and God the Father, who raised Him from the dead),


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For now do I persuade men, or God? Or do I seek to please men? For if I yet pleased men, I would not be a servant of Christ.


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And, brothers, I make known to you the gospel which was preached by me, that it is not according to man.


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For you heard my manner of life when [I was] in Judaism, that I persecuted the church of God with surpassing [zeal], and ravaged it.


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And I progressed in Judaism beyond many contemporaries in my race, being much more a zealot of the traditions of my fathers.


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But when it pleased God, who separated me from my mother's womb, and having called [me] by His grace,


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to reveal His Son in me so that I might preach Him among the nations, immediately I did not confer with flesh and blood;


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Nor did I go up to Jerusalem to those apostles before me, but I went into Arabia and returned again to Damascus.


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But only they were hearing that he who then persecuted us, now preaches the faith which he once ravaged.


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who gave Himself for our sins, that He might deliver us from this present evil world according to the will of God and our Father,


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I marvel that you so soon are being moved away from Him who called you into [the] grace of Christ, to another gospel,


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But even if we or an angel from Heaven preach a gospel to you beside what we preached to you, let him be accursed.


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As we said before, and now I say again, If anyone preaches a gospel to you beside what you have received, let him be accursed.


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Then through fourteen years, I went up again to Jerusalem with Barnabas, and took Titus with [me] also.


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For before some came from James, he ate with the nations. But when they came, he withdrew and separated himself, fearing those of the circumcision.


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And the rest of the Jews also dissembled with him, so as even Barnabas was led away with their dissembling.


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But when I saw that they did not walk uprightly with the truth of the gospel, I said to Peter before all, If you, being a Jew, live as a Gentile, and not as the Jews, why do you compel [the] nations to judaize?


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knowing that a man is not justified by works of the Law, but through faith [in] Jesus Christ; even we believed in Jesus Christ, that we might be justified by the faith in Christ, and not by works of the Law. For all flesh will not be justified by works of law.


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But if, while we seek to be justified in Christ, we also were found [to be] sinners, [is] Christ therefore a minister of sin? Let it not be [said]!


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And I went up by revelation. And I put before them the gospel which I proclaim in the nations, but privately to those [seeming to be] pillars, lest I run, or I ran, into vanity.


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I have been crucified with Christ, and I live; [yet] no longer I, but Christ lives in me. And [that] life I now live in the flesh, I live by faith toward the Son of God, who loved me and gave Himself on my behalf.


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I do not set aside the grace of God, for if righteousness [is] through law, then Christ died without cause.


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But because of those false brothers stealing in, who stole in to spy out our liberty which we have in Christ Jesus; they desiring to enslave us;


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to whom not even for an hour did we yield in subjection, that the truth of the gospel might continue with you.


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But from those who seemed to be something (what kind they were then does not matter to me; God does not accept the face of man), for those seeming [important] conferred nothing to me.


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But on the contrary, seeing that I have been entrusted [with] the gospel of the uncircumcision, as Peter to the circumcision;


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and knowing the grace given to me, James, and Cephas, and John, who seemed to be pillars, gave right hands of fellowship to Barnabas and me, that we [go] to the nations, but they to the circumcision.


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O foolish Galatians, who bewitched you not to obey the truth, to whom before [your] eyes Jesus Christ was written among you crucified?


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For as many as are out of works of the Law, these are under a curse; for it is written, Cursed [is] everyone 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 no one is justified by the Law in the sight of God [is] clear, for, The just shall live by faith.


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Christ redeemed us from the curse of the Law, being made a curse for us (for it is written, Cursed [is] everyone having been hanged on a tree);


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so that the blessing of Abraham might be to the nations in Jesus Christ, and that we might receive the promise of the Spirit through faith.


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Brothers, I speak according to man, a covenant having been ratified, even [among] mankind, no one sets aside or adds to [it].


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And to Abraham and to his Seed the promises were spoken. It does not say, And to seeds, as of many; but as of one, And to your Seed, which is Christ.


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And I say this, A covenant having been ratified by God in Christ, the Law (coming into being four hundred and thirty years after) does not annul the promise, so as to abolish it.


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For if the inheritance [is] of Law, [it is] no more of promise; but God gave [it] to Abraham by way of promise.


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Why then the Law? It was added because of transgressions, until the Seed should come [to those] to whom it had been promised, being ordained through angels in the Mediator's hand.


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This only I would learn from you: Did you receive the Spirit by works of [the] law, or by hearing of faith?


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[Is] the Law then against the promises of God? Let it not be [said]! For if a law had been given which could have given life, indeed righteousness would have been out of Law.


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But the Scripture shut up all under sin, so that the promise by faith of Jesus Christ might be given to those who believe.


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But before faith came, we were kept under Law, having been shut up to the faith about to be revealed.


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There cannot be Jew nor Greek, there is neither bond nor free, there is no male nor female; for you are all one in Christ Jesus.


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Then He supplying the Spirit to you and working powerful works in you, [is it] by works of [the] law, or by hearing of faith?


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And the Scripture, foreseeing that God would justify the nations through faith, preached the gospel before to Abraham, [saying], In you shall all nations be blessed.


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But I say, Over so long a time the heir is an infant, he does not differ from a slave, though being lord of all;


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and you did not despise my temptation in my flesh, nor did you spurn [it]. But you received me as an angel of God, as Christ Jesus.


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What then was your blessedness? For I bear you record that, if you were able, plucking out your eyes, [you] would have given [them] to me.


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They are zealous for you, [but] not well. But they [only] desire to shut you out, that you be zealous to them.


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But [it is] good to be zealous always in [a] good [thing], and not only in my being present with you.


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For it is written: Abraham had two sons, the one out of the slave-woman, and one out of the free woman.


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But, indeed, he out of the slave-woman has been born according to flesh, and he out of the free woman through the promise;


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which things are being allegorized; for these are the two covenants, one indeed from Mount Sinai bringing forth to slavery, which is Hagar.


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For Hagar is Mount Sinai in Arabia, and answers to Jerusalem which now is, and is in slavery with her children.


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For it is written, Rejoice, barren one not bearing; break forth and shout, you not travailing; for more are the children of the desolate than she having the husband.


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But then even as he born according to flesh persecuted him [born] according to the Spirit, so it is] also now.


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But what does the Scripture say? Cast out the slave-woman and her son; for in no way shall the son of the slave-woman inherit with the son of the free woman.


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But when the fullness of the time came, God sent forth His Son, coming into being out of a woman, having come under Law,


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And because you are sons, God has sent forth the Spirit of His Son into your hearts, crying, Abba, Father.


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But now, knowing God, but rather are known by God, how do you turn again to the weak and beggarly elements to which you again desire to slave anew?


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Stand fast therefore in the liberty with which Christ has made us free, and do not again be held with the yoke of bondage.


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I have confidence in you in the Lord, that you will think nothing else, but that he troubling you shall bear the judgment, whoever he may be.


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And I, brothers, if I yet proclaim circumcision, why am I still persecuted? Then the offense of the Cross has ceased.


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For, brothers, you were called to liberty. Only do not [use] the liberty for [an] opening 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 are contrary to one another; lest whatever you may will, these things you do.


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Now the works of the flesh are clearly revealed, which are: adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lustfulness,


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envyings, murders, drunkennesses, revelings, and things like these; of which I tell you before, as I also said before, that they who do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God.


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For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision nor uncircumcision has any strength, but faith working through love.


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Brothers, if a man is overtaken in a fault, you the spiritual ones restore such a one in the spirit of meekness, considering yourself, lest you also be tempted.


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So then as we have time, let us work good toward all, especially toward those of the household of faith.


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As many as desire to look well in [the] flesh, these compel you to be circumcised; only lest they should suffer persecution for the cross of Christ.


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For they themselves, having been circumcised, do not even keep the Law, but they desire you to be circumcised so that they may boast in your flesh.


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But may it never be for me to boast, except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom the world is crucified to me, and I to the world.


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For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision [has] any strength, nor uncircumcision, but a new creation.


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


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But let each one prove his own work, and then he alone will have a boast in himself, and not in another.


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For he sowing to his flesh will reap corruption from the flesh. But he sowing to the Spirit will reap life everlasting from the Spirit.


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


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for an administration of the fullness of times, to head up all things in Christ, both the things in Heaven, and the things on earth, [even] in Him,


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in whom also we have been chosen to an inheritance, being predestinated according to the purpose of Him who works all things according to the counsel of His own will,


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in whom also you, hearing the word of truth, the gospel of our salvation, in whom also believing, you were sealed with the Holy Spirit of promise,


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who is the earnest of our inheritance, to [the] redemption of the purchased possession, to [the] praise of His glory.


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that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give to you the spirit of wisdom and revelation in [the] knowledge of Him,


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the eyes of your understanding being enlightened, that you may know what is the hope of His calling, and what is the riches of the glory of His inheritance in the saints,


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and what [is] the surpassing greatness of His power toward us, the ones believing according to the working of His mighty strength


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which He worked [in] Christ in raising Him from [the] dead, and He seated [Him] at His right hand in the heavenlies,


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far above all principality and authority and power and dominion, and every name being named, not only in this world, but also in the coming age.


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And He has put all [things] under His feet and gave Him [to be] Head over all [things] to the church,


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Blessed [be] the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenlies in Christ;


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according as He chose us in Him before [the] foundation of [the] world, that we should be holy and without blame before Him in love,


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having predestined us to the adoption of children by Jesus Christ to Himself, according to the good pleasure of His will,


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to [the] praise of [the] glory of His grace, in which He has made us accepted in the [One] having been loved.


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In Him we have redemption through His blood, the forgiveness of sins, 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 we are [His] workmanship, created in Christ Jesus to good works, which God has before ordained that we should walk in them.


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Therefore remember that you, the nations, in time past [were] in [the] flesh, who are called Uncircumcision by that which is called the Circumcision in the flesh made by hands;


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


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For He is our peace, He making us both one, and [He] has broken down the middle wall of partition [between us],


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having abolished in His flesh the enmity (the Law of commandments [contained] in ordinances) so that in Himself He might make the two into one new man, making peace [between them];


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and so that He might reconcile both to God in one body by the cross, having slain the enmity in Himself.


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Now therefore you are no longer strangers and foreigners, but fellow citizens with the saints, and of the household of God,


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in which you once walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that now works in the children of disobedience;


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and are built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Jesus Christ Himself being [the] chief cornerstone,


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among whom we also had our way of life in times past, in the lusts of our flesh, fulfilling the desires of the flesh and of the thoughts, and were by nature the children of wrath, even as others.


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so that in the ages to come He might show the exceeding riches of His grace in [His] kindness toward us through Christ Jesus.


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so that now to the rulers and powers in the heavenlies might be known by the church the manifold wisdom of God,


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that He would grant you, according to the riches of His glory, to be strengthened with might by His Spirit in the inner man;


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and to know the love of Christ which passes knowledge, that you might be filled with all the fullness of God.


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Now to Him who is able to do exceeding abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that works in us,


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


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that the nations should be fellow heirs, and of the same body, and partaker of His promise in Christ through the gospel.


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Of this [gospel] I was made a minister, according to the gift of the grace of God given to me by the effectual working of His power.


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This grace is given to me ( who am] less than the least of all saints) to preach the gospel of the unsearchable riches of Christ among the nations,


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and to bring to light what [is] the fellowship of the mystery which from eternity has been hidden in God, who created all things by Jesus Christ;


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I therefore, the prisoner in [the] Lord, beseech you that you walk worthy of the calling with which you are called,


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


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And truly He gave some [to be] apostles, and some [to be] prophets, and some [to be] evangelists, and some [to be] pastors and teachers,


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for the perfecting of the saints, for the work of the ministry, for the edifying of the body of Christ.


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And this until we all come into the unity of the faith and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to a full-grown man, to [the] measure of [the] stature of the fullness of Christ;


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so that we no longer may be infants, tossed to and fro and carried about by every wind of doctrine, in the dishonesty of men, in cunning craftiness, to the wiles of deceit.


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But that you, speaking the truth in love, may in all things grow up to Him who is the Head, [even] Christ;


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from whom the whole body, fitted together and compacted by that which every joint supplies, according to [the] effectual working in the measure of each part, producing the growth of the body to the edifying of itself in love.


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This I say therefore, and testify in [the] Lord, that you should not walk from now on as other nations walk, in [the] vanity of their mind,


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having the understanding darkened, being alienated [from] the life of God through the ignorance that is in them, because of the blindness of their heart.


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For they, being past feeling, have given themselves up to lust, to work all uncleanness with greediness.


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For you ought to put off the old man (according to your way of living before) who is corrupt according to the deceitful lusts,


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And you should put on the new man, who according to God [was] created in righteousness and true holiness.


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Therefore putting away lying, let each man speak truth with his neighbor, for we are members of one another.


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Let him who stole steal no more, but rather let him labor, working with [his] hands the thing which [is] good, so that he may have [something] to give to him who needs.


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Let not any filthy word go out of your mouth, but if any [is] good to building up [in respect of] need, that it may give grace to the ones hearing.


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


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


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


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But all things that are reproved are made manifest by the light, for whatever makes manifest [is] light.


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


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And walk in love, as Christ also has loved us, and has given Himself for us as an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweet smelling savor.


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For the husband is the head of the wife, even as Christ [is] the head of the church; and He is the Savior of the body.


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


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that He might present it to Himself [as] the glorious church, without spot or wrinkle or any such things, but that it should be holy and without blemish.


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For no man ever yet hated his [own] flesh, but nourishes and cherishes it, even as the Lord loves the church.


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For let fornication and all uncleanness or covetousness not be once named among you, as becomes saints,


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For this cause a man shall leave his father and mother and shall be joined to his wife, and the two of them shall be one flesh.


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But also let everyone of you in particular so love his wife even as himself, and the wife that she defers to her husband.


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For you know this, that no fornicator, or unclean person, or covetous [one] (who is an idolater), has any inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and of God.


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


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For we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the world's rulers, of the darkness of this age, against spiritual wickedness in high [places].


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Therefore take to yourselves the whole armor of God, that you may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all, to stand.


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Therefore stand, having your loins girded about with truth, and having on the breastplate of righteousness


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Above all, take the shield of faith, with which you shall be able to quench all the fiery darts of the wicked.


