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<f>[16†]</f><J>Most assuredly, I say to you, when you were younger, you girded yourself and walked where you wished; but when you are old, you will stretch out your hands, and another will gird you and carry </J><i><J>you</J></i><J> where you do not wish.”</J>


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This He spoke, signifying <f>[17†]</f>by what death he would glorify God. And when He had spoken this, He said to him, <f>[18†]</f><J>“Follow Me.”</J>


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<pb/>Then Peter, turning around, saw the disciple <f>[19†]</f>whom Jesus loved following, <f>[20†]</f>who also had leaned on His breast at the supper, and said, “Lord, who is the one who betrays You?”


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<pb/>Jesus said to him, <J>“If I </J><J>will that he remain </J> <f>[21†]</f><J>till I come, what </J><i><J>is that</J></i><J> to you? You follow Me.”</J>


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<pb/>Then this saying went out among the brethren that this disciple would not die. Yet Jesus did not say to him that he would not die, but, <J>“If I will that he remain till I come, what </J><i><J>is that</J></i><J> to you?”</J>


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<pb/>This is the disciple who <f>[22†]</f>testifies of these things, and wrote these things; and we know that his testimony is true.


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<pb/> <f>[23†]</f>And there are also many other things that Jesus did, which if they were written one by one, <f>[24†]</f>I suppose that even the world itself could not contain the books that would be written. Amen.


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<pb/>The former account I made, O <f>[1†]</f>Theophilus, of all that Jesus began both to do and teach,


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<f>[2†]</f>until the day in which He was taken up, after He through the Holy Spirit <f>[3†]</f>had given commandments to the apostles whom He had chosen,


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<f>[4†]</f>to whom He also presented Himself alive after His suffering by many infallible proofs, being seen by them during forty days and speaking of the things pertaining to the kingdom of God.


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<pb/> <f>[5†]</f>And being assembled together with <i>them,</i> He commanded them not to depart from Jerusalem, but to wait for the Promise of the Father, <J>“which,”</J> <i>He</i> <i>said,</i> <J>“you have </J> <f>[6†]</f><J>heard from Me;</J>


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<f>[7†]</f><J>for John truly baptized with water, </J> <f>[8†]</f><J>but you shall be baptized with the Holy Spirit not many days from now.”</J>


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Therefore, when they had come together, they asked Him, saying, “Lord, will You at this time restore the kingdom to Israel?”


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And He said to them, <f>[9†]</f><J>“It is not for you to </J> <f>[10†]</f><J>know times or seasons which the Father has put in His own authority.</J>


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<f>[11†]</f><J>But you shall receive power </J> <f>[12†]</f><J>when the Holy Spirit has come upon you; and </J> <f>[13†]</f><J>you shall be </J><J>witnesses to Me</J><J> in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and </J> <f>[14†]</f><J>Samaria, and to the </J> <f>[15†]</f><J>end of the earth.”</J>


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<pb/> <f>[16†]</f>Now when He had spoken these things, while they watched, <f>[17†]</f>He was taken up, and a cloud received Him out of their sight.


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And while they looked steadfastly toward heaven as He went up, behold, two men stood by them <f>[18†]</f>in white apparel,


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who also said, “Men of Galilee, why do you stand gazing up into heaven? This <i>same</i> Jesus, who was taken up from you into heaven, <f>[19†]</f>will so come in like manner as you saw Him go into heaven.”


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<pb/> <f>[20†]</f>Then they returned to Jerusalem from the mount called Olivet, which is near Jerusalem, a Sabbath day’s journey.


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And when they had entered, they went up <f>[21†]</f>into the upper room where they were staying: <f>[22†]</f>Peter, James, John, and Andrew; Philip and Thomas; Bartholomew and Matthew; James <i>the</i> <i>son</i> of Alphaeus and <f>[23†]</f>Simon the Zealot; and <f>[24†]</f>Judas <i>the</i> <i>son</i> of James.


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<f>[25†]</f>These all continued with one accord in prayer and supplication, with <f>[26†]</f>the women and Mary the mother of Jesus, and with <f>[27†]</f>His brothers.


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<pb/>And in those days Peter stood up in the midst of the disciples (altogether the number <f>[28†]</f>of names was about a hundred and twenty), and said,


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“Men <i>and</i> brethren, this Scripture had to be fulfilled, <f>[29†]</f>which the Holy Spirit spoke before by the mouth of David concerning Judas, <f>[30†]</f>who became a guide to those who arrested Jesus;


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<pb/> <f>[33†]</f>(Now this man purchased a field with <f>[34†]</f>the wages of iniquity; and falling headlong, he burst open in the middle and all his entrails gushed out.


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And it became known to all those dwelling in Jerusalem; so that field is called in their own language, Akel Dama, that is, Field of Blood.)


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<pb/>“For it is written in the Book of Psalms: <pb/><t> <f>[35†]</f>‘Let his dwelling place be desolate, </t><t>And let no one live in it’; </t> <pb/>and, <pb/><t> <f>[36†]</f>‘Let another take his office.’</t>


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<pb/>“Therefore, of these men who have accompanied us all the time that the Lord Jesus went in and out among us,


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beginning from the baptism of John to that day when <f>[37†]</f>He was taken up from us, one of these must <f>[38†]</f>become a witness with us of His resurrection.”


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<pb/>And they proposed two: Joseph called <f>[39†]</f>Barsabas, who was surnamed Justus, and Matthias.


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And they prayed and said, “You, O Lord, <f>[40†]</f>who know the hearts of all, show which of these two You have chosen


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<f>[41†]</f>to take part in this ministry and apostleship from which Judas by transgression fell, that he might go to his own place.”


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And they cast their lots, and the lot fell on Matthias. And he was numbered with the eleven apostles.


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<pb/>When <f>[1†]</f>the Day of Pentecost had fully come, <f>[2†]</f>they were all with one accord in one place.


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And suddenly there came a sound from heaven, as of a rushing mighty wind, and it <f>[3†]</f>filled the whole house where they were sitting.


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And <f>[4†]</f>they were all filled with the Holy Spirit and began <f>[5†]</f>to speak with other tongues, as the Spirit gave them utterance.


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<pb/>And there were dwelling in Jerusalem Jews, <f>[6†]</f>devout men, from every nation under heaven.


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And when this sound occurred, the <f>[7†]</f>multitude came together, and were confused, because everyone heard them speak in his own language.


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Then they were all amazed and marveled, saying to one another, “Look, are not all these who speak <f>[8†]</f>Galileans?


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Parthians and Medes and Elamites, those dwelling in Mesopotamia, Judea and <f>[9†]</f>Cappadocia, Pontus and Asia,


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Phrygia and Pamphylia, Egypt and the parts of Libya adjoining Cyrene, visitors from Rome, both Jews and proselytes,


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<pb/>But Peter, standing up with the eleven, raised his voice and said to them, “Men of Judea and all who dwell in Jerusalem, let this be known to you, and heed my words.


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For these are not drunk, as you suppose, <f>[10†]</f>since it is <i>only</i> the third hour of the day.


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<pb/><t>‘And <f>[11†]</f> it shall come to pass in the last days, says God, </t><t> <f>[12†]</f>That I will pour out of My Spirit on all flesh; </t><t>Your sons and <f>[13†]</f>your daughters shall prophesy, </t><t>Your young men shall see visions, </t><t>Your old men shall dream dreams.</t>


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<t>And on My menservants and on My maidservants </t><t>I will pour out My Spirit in those days; </t><t> <f>[14†]</f>And they shall prophesy.</t>


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<t> <f>[15†]</f>I will show wonders in heaven above </t><t>And signs in the earth beneath: </t><t>Blood and fire and vapor of smoke.</t>


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<t> <f>[16†]</f>The sun shall be turned into darkness, </t><t>And the moon into blood, </t><t>Before the coming of the great and awesome day of the <e>LORD</e>.</t>


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<t>And it shall come to pass </t><t><i>That</i> <f>[17†]</f>whoever calls on the name of the <e>LORD</e> </t><t>Shall be saved.’</t>


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<pb/>“Men of Israel, hear these words: Jesus of Nazareth, a Man attested by God to you <f>[18†]</f>by miracles, wonders, and signs which God did through Him in your midst, as you yourselves also know—


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Him, <f>[19†]</f>being delivered by the determined purpose and foreknowledge of God, <f>[20†]</f>you have taken by lawless hands, have crucified, and put to death;


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<f>[21†]</f>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 says concerning Him: <pb/><t> <f>[22†]</f>‘I foresaw the <e>LORD</e> always before my face, </t><t>For He is at my right hand, that I may not be shaken.</t>


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<t>Therefore my heart rejoiced, and my tongue was glad; </t><t>Moreover my flesh also will rest in hope.</t>


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<t>For You will not leave my soul in Hades, </t><t>Nor will You allow Your Holy One to see <f>[23†]</f>corruption.</t>


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<t>You have made known to me the ways of life; </t><t>You will make me full of joy in Your presence.’</t>


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<pb/>“Men <i>and</i> brethren, let <i>me</i> speak freely to you <f>[24†]</f>of 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, <f>[25†]</f>and knowing that God had sworn with an oath to him that of the fruit of his body, according to the flesh, He would raise up the Christ to sit on his throne,


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he, foreseeing this, spoke concerning the resurrection of the Christ, <f>[26†]</f>that His soul was not left in Hades, nor did His flesh see corruption.


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Therefore <f>[29†]</f>being exalted to <f>[30†]</f>the right hand of God, and <f>[31†]</f>having received from the Father the promise of the Holy Spirit, He <f>[32†]</f>poured out this which you now see and hear.


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<pb/>“For David did not ascend into the heavens, but he says himself: <pb/><t> <f>[33†]</f>‘The <e>LORD</e> said to my Lord, </t><t>“Sit at My right hand,</t>


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<pb/>“Therefore let all the house of Israel know assuredly that God has made this Jesus, whom you crucified, both Lord and Christ.”


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<pb/>Now when they heard <i>this,</i> <f>[34†]</f>they were cut to the heart, and said to Peter and the rest of the apostles, “Men <i>and</i> brethren, what shall we do?”


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<pb/>Then Peter said to them, <f>[35†]</f>“Repent, and let every one of you be baptized in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins; and you shall receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.


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For the promise is to you and <f>[36†]</f>to your children, and <f>[37†]</f>to all who are afar off, as many as the Lord our God will call.”


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<pb/>And with many other words he testified and exhorted them, saying, “Be saved from this perverse generation.”


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Then those who gladly received his word were baptized; and that day about three thousand souls were added <i>to</i> <i>them.</i>


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<f>[38†]</f>And they continued steadfastly in the apostles’ doctrine and fellowship, in the breaking of bread, and in prayers.


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Then fear came upon every soul, and <f>[39†]</f>many wonders and signs were done through the apostles.


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<pb/> <f>[42†]</f>So continuing daily with one accord <f>[43†]</f>in the temple, and <f>[44†]</f>breaking bread from house to house, they ate their food with gladness and simplicity of heart,


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praising God and having favor with all the people. And <f>[45†]</f>the Lord added to the church daily those who were being saved.


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<pb/>Now Peter and John went up together <f>[1†]</f>to the temple at the hour of prayer, <f>[2†]</f>the ninth <i>hour.</i>


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And <f>[3†]</f>a certain man lame from his mother’s womb was carried, whom they laid daily at the gate of the temple which is called Beautiful, <f>[4†]</f>to ask alms from those who entered the temple;


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Then Peter said, “Silver and gold I do not have, but what I do have I give you: <f>[5†]</f>In the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, rise up and walk.”


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And he took him by the right hand and lifted <i>him</i> up, and immediately his feet and ankle bones received strength.


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So he, <f>[6†]</f>leaping up, stood and walked and entered the temple with them—walking, leaping, and praising God.


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Then they knew that it was he who <f>[8†]</f>sat begging 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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<pb/>Now as the lame man who was healed held on to Peter and John, all the people ran together to them in the porch <f>[9†]</f>which is called Solomon’s, greatly amazed.


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So when Peter saw <i>it,</i> he responded to the people: “Men of Israel, why do you marvel at this? Or why look so intently at us, as though by our own power or godliness we had made this man walk?


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<f>[10†]</f>The God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, the God of our fathers, <f>[11†]</f>glorified His Servant Jesus, whom you <f>[12†]</f>delivered up and <f>[13†]</f>denied in the presence of Pilate, when he was determined to let <i>Him</i> go.


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But you denied <f>[14†]</f>the Holy One <f>[15†]</f>and the Just, and <f>[16†]</f>asked for a murderer to be granted to you,


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and killed the Prince of life, <f>[17†]</f>whom God raised from the dead, <f>[18†]</f>of which we are witnesses.


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<f>[19†]</f>And His name, through faith in His name, has made this man strong, whom you see and know. Yes, the faith which <i>comes</i> through Him has given him this perfect soundness in the presence of you all.


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<pb/>“Yet now, brethren, I know that <f>[20†]</f>you did <i>it</i> in ignorance, as <i>did</i> also your rulers.


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But <f>[21†]</f>those things which God foretold <f>[22†]</f>by the mouth of all His prophets, that the Christ would suffer, He has thus fulfilled.


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<f>[23†]</f>Repent therefore and be converted, that your sins may be blotted out, so that times of refreshing may come from the presence of the Lord,


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<f>[24†]</f>whom heaven must receive until the times of <f>[25†]</f>restoration of all things, <f>[26†]</f>which God has spoken by the mouth of all His holy prophets since the world began.


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For Moses truly said to the fathers, <f>[27†]</f>‘The <e>LORD</e> your God will raise up for you a Prophet like me from your brethren. Him you shall hear in all things, whatever He says to you.


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And it shall be <i>that</i> every soul who will not hear that Prophet shall be utterly destroyed from among the people.’


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Yes, and <f>[28†]</f>all the prophets, from Samuel and those who follow, as many as have spoken, have also foretold these days.


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<f>[29†]</f>You are sons of the prophets, and of the covenant which God made with our fathers, saying to Abraham, <f>[30†]</f>‘And in your seed all the families of the earth shall be blessed.’


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To you <f>[31†]</f>first, God, having raised up His Servant Jesus, sent Him to bless you, <f>[32†]</f>in turning away every one <i>of</i> <i>you</i> from your iniquities.”


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<pb/>Now as they spoke to the people, the priests, the captain of the temple, and the <f>[1†]</f>Sadducees came upon them,


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being greatly disturbed that they taught the people and preached in Jesus the resurrection from the dead.


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And they laid hands on them, and put <i>them</i> in custody until the next day, for it was already evening.


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However, many of those who heard the word believed; and the number of the men came to be about five thousand.


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as well as <f>[2†]</f>Annas the high priest, Caiaphas, John, and Alexander, and as many as were of the family of the high priest, were gathered together at Jerusalem.


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And when they had set them in the midst, they asked, <f>[3†]</f>“By what power or by what name have you done this?”


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<pb/> <f>[4†]</f>Then Peter, filled with the Holy Spirit, said to them, “Rulers of the people and elders of Israel:


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If we this day are judged for a good deed <i>done</i> to a helpless man, by what means he has been made well,


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let it be known to you all, and to all the people of Israel, <f>[5†]</f>that by the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, whom you crucified, <f>[6†]</f>whom God raised from the dead, by Him this man stands here before you whole.


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This is the <f>[7†]</f>‘stone which was rejected by you builders, which has become the chief cornerstone.’


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<f>[8†]</f>Nor is there salvation in any other, for there is no other name under heaven given among men by which we must be saved.”


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<pb/>Now when they saw the boldness of Peter and John, <f>[9†]</f>and perceived that they were uneducated and untrained men, they marveled. And they realized that they had been with Jesus.


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And seeing the man who had been healed <f>[10†]</f>standing with them, they could say nothing against it.


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saying, <f>[11†]</f>“What shall we do to these men? For, indeed, that a notable miracle has been done through them <i>is</i> <f>[12†]</f>evident to all who dwell in Jerusalem, and we cannot deny <i>it.</i>


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But so that it spreads no further among the people, let us severely threaten them, that from now on they speak to no man in this name.”


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<pb/> <f>[13†]</f>So they called them and commanded them not to speak at all nor teach in the name of Jesus.


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But Peter and John answered and said to them, <f>[14†]</f>“Whether it is right in the sight of God to listen to you more than to God, you judge.


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So when they had further threatened them, they let them go, finding no way of punishing them, <f>[17†]</f>because of the people, since they all <f>[18†]</f>glorified God for <f>[19†]</f>what had been done.


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<pb/>And being let go, <f>[20†]</f>they went to their own <i>companions</i> and reported all that the chief priests and elders had said to them.


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So when they heard that, they raised their voice to God with one accord and said: “Lord, <f>[21†]</f>You <i>are</i> God, who made heaven and earth and the sea, and all that is in them,


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who by the mouth of Your servant David have said: <pb/><t> <f>[22†]</f>‘Why did the nations rage, </t><t>And the people plot vain things?</t>


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<t>The kings of the earth took their stand, </t><t>And the rulers were gathered together </t><t>Against the <e>LORD</e> and against His Christ.’</t>


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<pb/>“For <f>[23†]</f>truly against <f>[24†]</f>Your holy Servant Jesus, <f>[25†]</f>whom You anointed, both Herod and Pontius Pilate, with the Gentiles and the people of Israel, were gathered together


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Now, Lord, look on their threats, and grant to Your servants <f>[27†]</f>that with all boldness they may speak Your word,


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by stretching out Your hand to heal, <f>[28†]</f>and that signs and wonders may be done <f>[29†]</f>through the name of <f>[30†]</f>Your holy Servant Jesus.”


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<pb/>And when they had prayed, <f>[31†]</f>the place where they were assembled together was shaken; and they were all filled with the Holy Spirit, <f>[32†]</f>and they spoke the word of God with boldness.


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<pb/>Now the multitude of those who believed <f>[33†]</f>were of one heart and one soul; <f>[34†]</f>neither did anyone say that any of the things he possessed was his own, but they had all things in common.


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And with <f>[35†]</f>great power the apostles gave <f>[36†]</f>witness to the resurrection of the Lord Jesus. And <f>[37†]</f>great grace was upon them all.


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Nor was there anyone among them who lacked; <f>[38†]</f>for all who were possessors of lands or houses sold them, and brought the proceeds of the things that were sold,


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<f>[39†]</f>and laid <i>them</i> at the apostles’ feet; <f>[40†]</f>and they distributed to each as anyone had need.


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<pb/>And Joses, who was also named Barnabas by the apostles (which is translated Son of Encouragement), a Levite of the country of Cyprus,


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<f>[41†]</f>having land, sold <i>it,</i> and brought the money and laid <i>it</i> at the apostles’ feet.


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And he kept back <i>part</i> of the proceeds, his wife also being aware <i>of</i> <i>it,</i> and brought a certain part and laid <i>it</i> at the apostles’ feet.


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<f>[1†]</f>But Peter said, “Ananias, why has <f>[2†]</f>Satan filled your heart to lie to the Holy Spirit and keep back <i>part</i> of the price of the land for yourself?


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While it remained, was it not your own? And after it was sold, was it not in your own control? Why have you conceived this thing in your heart? You have not lied to men but to God.”


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<pb/>Then Ananias, hearing these words, <f>[3†]</f>fell down and breathed his last. So great fear came upon all those who heard these things.


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And the young men arose and <f>[4†]</f>wrapped him up, carried <i>him</i> out, and buried <i>him.</i>


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And Peter answered her, “Tell me whether you sold the land for so much?” <pb/>She said, “Yes, for so much.”


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<pb/>Then Peter said to her, “How is it that you have agreed together <f>[5†]</f>to test the Spirit of the Lord? Look, the feet of those who have buried your husband <i>are</i> at the door, and they will carry you out.”


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<f>[6†]</f>Then immediately she fell down at his feet and breathed her last. And the young men came in and found her dead, and carrying <i>her</i> out, buried <i>her</i> by her husband.


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<pb/>And <f>[8†]</f>through the hands of the apostles many signs and wonders were done among the people. <f>[9†]</f>And they were all with one accord in Solomon’s Porch.


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so that they brought the sick out into the streets and laid <i>them</i> on beds and couches, <f>[12†]</f>that at least the shadow of Peter passing by might fall on some of them.


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Also a multitude gathered from the surrounding cities to Jerusalem, bringing <f>[13†]</f>sick people and those who were tormented by unclean spirits, and they were all healed.


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<pb/> <f>[14†]</f>Then the high priest rose up, and all those who <i>were</i> with him (which is the sect of the Sadducees), and they were filled with indignation,


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But at night <f>[16†]</f>an angel of the Lord opened the prison doors and brought them out, and said,


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<pb/>And when they heard <i>that,</i> they entered the temple early in the morning and taught. <f>[18†]</f>But the high priest and those with him came and called the council together, with all the elders of the children of Israel, and sent to the prison to have them brought.


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saying, “Indeed we found the prison shut securely, and the guards standing outside before the doors; but when we opened them, we found no one inside!”


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Now when the high priest, <f>[19†]</f>the captain of the temple, and the chief priests heard these things, they wondered what the outcome would be.


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So one came and told them, saying, “Look, the men whom you put in prison are standing in the temple and teaching the people!”


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<pb/>Then the captain went with the officers and brought them without violence, <f>[20†]</f>for they feared the people, lest they should be stoned.


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And when they had brought them, they set <i>them</i> before the council. And the high priest asked them,


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saying, <f>[21†]</f>“Did we not strictly command you not to teach in this name? And look, you have filled Jerusalem with your doctrine, <f>[22†]</f>and intend to bring this Man’s <f>[23†]</f>blood on us!”


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<pb/>But Peter and the <i>other</i> apostles answered and said: <f>[24†]</f>“We ought to obey God rather than men.


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<f>[25†]</f>The God of our fathers raised up Jesus whom you murdered by <f>[26†]</f>hanging on a tree.


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<f>[27†]</f>Him God has exalted to His right hand <i>to</i> <i>be</i> <f>[28†]</f>Prince and <f>[29†]</f>Savior, <f>[30†]</f>to give repentance to Israel and forgiveness of sins.


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And <f>[31†]</f>we are His witnesses to these things, and <i>so</i> also <i>is</i> the Holy Spirit <f>[32†]</f>whom God has given to those who obey Him.”


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Then one in the council stood up, a Pharisee named <f>[34†]</f>Gamaliel, a teacher of the law held in respect by all the people, and commanded them to put the apostles outside for a little while.


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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 some time ago Theudas rose up, claiming to be somebody. A number of men, about four hundred, joined him. He was slain, and all who obeyed him were scattered and came to nothing.


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After this man, Judas of Galilee rose up in the days of the census, and drew away many people after him. He also perished, and all who obeyed him were dispersed.


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And now I say to you, keep away from these men and let them alone; for if this plan or this work is of men, it will come to nothing;


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<f>[35†]</f>but if it is of God, you cannot overthrow it—lest you even be found <f>[36†]</f>to fight against God.”


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<pb/>And they agreed with him, and when they had <f>[37†]</f>called for the apostles <f>[38†]</f>and beaten <i>them,</i> they commanded that they should not speak in the name of Jesus, and let them go.


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So they departed from the presence of the council, <f>[39†]</f>rejoicing that they were counted worthy to suffer shame for His name.


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And daily <f>[40†]</f>in the temple, and in every house, <f>[41†]</f>they did not cease teaching and preaching Jesus <i>as</i> the Christ.


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<pb/>Now in those days, <f>[1†]</f>when <i>the</i> <i>number</i> <i>of</i> the disciples was multiplying, there arose a complaint against the Hebrews by the <f>[2†]</f>Hellenists, because their widows were neglected <f>[3†]</f>in the daily distribution.


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Then the twelve summoned the multitude of the disciples and said, <f>[4†]</f>“It is not desirable that we should leave the word of God and serve tables.


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Therefore, brethren, <f>[5†]</f>seek out from among you seven men of <i>good</i> reputation, full of the Holy Spirit and wisdom, whom we may appoint over this <f>[6†]</f>business;


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<pb/>And the saying pleased the whole multitude. And they chose Stephen, <f>[8†]</f>a man full of faith and the Holy Spirit, and <f>[9†]</f>Philip, Prochorus, Nicanor, Timon, Parmenas, and <f>[10†]</f>Nicolas, a proselyte from Antioch,


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whom they set before the apostles; and <f>[11†]</f>when they had prayed, <f>[12†]</f>they laid hands on them.


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<pb/>Then <f>[13†]</f>the word of God spread, and the number of the disciples multiplied greatly in Jerusalem, and a great many <f>[14†]</f>of the priests were obedient to the faith.


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<pb/>And Stephen, full of faith and power, did great <f>[15†]</f>wonders and signs among the people.


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<f>[17†]</f>Then they secretly induced men to say, “We have heard him speak blasphemous words against Moses and God.”


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And they stirred up the people, the elders, and the scribes; and they came upon <i>him,</i> seized him, and brought <i>him</i> to the council.


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They also set up false witnesses who said, “This man does not cease to speak blasphemous words against this holy place and the law;


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<pb/>And he said, <f>[1†]</f>“Brethren and fathers, listen: The <f>[2†]</f>God of glory appeared to our father Abraham when he was in Mesopotamia, before he dwelt in <f>[3†]</f>Haran,


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and said to him, <f>[4†]</f>‘Get out of your country and from your relatives, and come to a land that I will show you.’


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Then <f>[5†]</f>he came out of the land of the Chaldeans and dwelt in Haran. And from there, when his father was <f>[6†]</f>dead, He moved him to this land in which you now dwell.


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And <i>God</i> gave him no inheritance in it, not even <i>enough</i> to set his foot on. But even when <i>Abraham</i> had no child, <f>[7†]</f>He promised to give it to him for a possession, and to his descendants after him.


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But God spoke in this way: <f>[8†]</f>that his descendants would dwell in a foreign land, and that they would bring them into <f>[9†]</f>bondage and oppress <i>them</i> four hundred years.


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<f>[10†]</f>‘And the nation to whom they will be in bondage I will <f>[11†]</f>judge,’ said God, <f>[12†]</f>‘and after that they shall come out and serve Me in this place.’


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<f>[13†]</f>Then He gave him the covenant of circumcision; <f>[14†]</f>and so <i>Abraham</i> begot Isaac and circumcised him on the eighth day; <f>[15†]</f>and Isaac <i>begot</i> Jacob, and <f>[16†]</f>Jacob <i>begot</i> the twelve patriarchs.


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<pb/> <f>[17†]</f>“And the patriarchs, becoming envious, <f>[18†]</f>sold Joseph into Egypt. <f>[19†]</f>But God was with him


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and delivered him out of all his troubles, <f>[20†]</f>and gave him favor and wisdom in the presence of Pharaoh, king of Egypt; and he made him governor over Egypt and all his house.


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<f>[21†]</f>Now a famine and great trouble came over all the land of Egypt and Canaan, and our fathers found no sustenance.


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And the <f>[23†]</f>second <i>time</i> Joseph was made known to his brothers, and Joseph’s family became known to the Pharaoh.


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<f>[24†]</f>Then Joseph sent and called his father Jacob and <f>[25†]</f>all his relatives to <i>him,</i> seventy-five people.


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And <f>[28†]</f>they were carried back to Shechem and laid in <f>[29†]</f>the tomb that Abraham bought for a sum of money from the sons of Hamor, <i>the</i> <i>father</i> of Shechem.


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<pb/>“But when <f>[30†]</f>the time of the promise drew near which God had sworn to Abraham, <f>[31†]</f>the people grew and multiplied in Egypt


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This man dealt treacherously with our people, and oppressed our forefathers, <f>[33†]</f>making them expose their babies, so that they might not live.


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<f>[34†]</f>At this time Moses was born, and <f>[35†]</f>was well pleasing to God; and he was brought up in his father’s house for three months.


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And Moses was learned in all the wisdom of the Egyptians, and was <f>[38†]</f>mighty in words and deeds.


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<pb/> <f>[39†]</f>“Now when he was forty years old, it came into his heart to visit his brethren, the children of Israel.


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And seeing one of <i>them</i> suffer wrong, he defended and avenged him who was oppressed, and struck down the Egyptian.


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For he supposed that his brethren would have understood that God would deliver them by his hand, but they did not understand.


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And the next day he appeared to <i>two</i> <i>of</i> them as they were fighting, and <i>tried</i> <i>to</i> reconcile them, saying, ‘Men, you are brethren; why do you wrong one another?’


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But he who did his neighbor wrong pushed him away, saying, <f>[40†]</f>‘Who made you a ruler and a judge over us?


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<f>[41†]</f>Then, at this saying, Moses fled and became a dweller in the land of Midian, where he <f>[42†]</f>had two sons.


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<pb/> <f>[43†]</f>“And when forty years had passed, an Angel of the Lord appeared to him in a flame of fire in a bush, in the wilderness of Mount Sinai.


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<i>saying,</i> <f>[44†]</f>‘I <i>am</i> the God of your fathers—the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob.’ And Moses trembled and dared not look.


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<f>[45†]</f>‘Then the <e>LORD</e> said to him, “Take your sandals off your feet, for the place where you stand is holy ground.


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I have surely <f>[46†]</f>seen the oppression of My people who are in Egypt; I have heard their groaning and have come down to deliver them. And now come, I will <f>[47†]</f>send you to Egypt.” ’


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<pb/>“This Moses whom they rejected, saying, <f>[48†]</f>‘Who made you a ruler and a judge?’ is the one God sent <i>to</i> <i>be</i> a ruler and a deliverer <f>[49†]</f>by the hand of the Angel who appeared to him in the bush.


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<f>[50†]</f>He brought them out, after he had <f>[51†]</f>shown wonders and signs in the land of Egypt, <f>[52†]</f>and in the Red Sea, <f>[53†]</f>and in the wilderness forty years.


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<pb/>“This is that Moses who said to the children of Israel, <f>[54†]</f>‘The <e>LORD</e> your God will raise up for you a Prophet like me from your brethren. <f>[55†]</f>Him you shall hear.’


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<pb/> <f>[56†]</f>“This is he who was in the congregation in the wilderness with <f>[57†]</f>the Angel who spoke to him on Mount Sinai, and <i>with</i> our fathers, <f>[58†]</f>the one who received the living <f>[59†]</f>oracles to give to us,


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whom our fathers <f>[60†]</f>would not obey, but rejected. And in their hearts they turned back to Egypt,


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<f>[61†]</f>saying to Aaron, ‘Make us gods to go before us; <i>as</i> <i>for</i> this Moses who brought us out of the land of Egypt, we do not know what has become of him.’


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<f>[62†]</f>And they made a calf in those days, offered sacrifices to the idol, and <f>[63†]</f>rejoiced in the works of their own hands.


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<t>You also took up the tabernacle of Moloch, </t><t>And the star of your god Remphan, </t><t>Images which you made to worship; </t><t>And <f>[67†]</f>I will carry you away beyond Babylon.’</t>


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<pb/>“Our fathers had the tabernacle of witness in the wilderness, as He appointed, instructing Moses <f>[68†]</f>to make it according to the pattern that he had seen,


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<f>[69†]</f>which our fathers, having received it in turn, also brought with Joshua into the land possessed by the Gentiles, <f>[70†]</f>whom God drove out before the face of our fathers until the <f>[71†]</f>days of David,


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<f>[72†]</f>who found favor before God and <f>[73†]</f>asked to find a dwelling for the God of Jacob.


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<pb/><t>‘Heaven <f>[76†]</f> <i>is</i> My throne, </t><t>And earth <i>is</i> My footstool. </t><t>What house will you build for Me? says the <e>LORD</e>, </t><t>Or what <i>is</i> the place of My rest?</t>


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<pb/>“<i>You</i> <f>[78†]</f>stiff-necked and <f>[79†]</f>uncircumcised in heart and ears! You always resist the Holy Spirit; as your fathers <i>did,</i> so <i>do</i> you.


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<f>[80†]</f>Which of the prophets did your fathers not persecute? And they killed those who foretold the coming of <f>[81†]</f>the Just One, of whom you now have become the betrayers and murderers,


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<pb/> <f>[83†]</f>When they heard these things they were cut to the heart, and they gnashed at him with <i>their</i> teeth.


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and said, “Look! <f>[86†]</f>I see the heavens opened and the <f>[87†]</f>Son of Man standing at the right hand of God!”


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and they cast <i>him</i> out of the city and stoned <i>him.</i> And <f>[88†]</f>the witnesses laid down their clothes at the feet of a young man named Saul.


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And they stoned Stephen as he was calling on <i>God</i> and saying, “Lord Jesus, <f>[89†]</f>receive my spirit.”


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Then he knelt down and cried out with a loud voice, <f>[90†]</f>“Lord, do not charge them with this sin.” And when he had said this, he fell asleep.


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<pb/>Now Saul was consenting to his death. <pb/>At that time a great persecution arose against the church which was at Jerusalem; and <f>[1†]</f>they were all scattered throughout the regions of Judea and Samaria, except the apostles.


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And devout men carried Stephen <i>to</i> <i>his</i> <i>burial,</i> and <f>[2†]</f>made great lamentation over him.


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<pb/>As for Saul, <f>[3†]</f>he made havoc of the church, entering every house, and dragging off men and women, committing <i>them</i> to prison.


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And the multitudes with one accord heeded the things spoken by Philip, hearing and seeing the miracles which he did.


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<pb/>But there was a certain man called Simon, who previously <f>[7†]</f>practiced sorcery in the city and <f>[8†]</f>astonished the people of Samaria, claiming that he was someone great,


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to whom they all gave heed, from the least to the greatest, saying, “This man is the great power of God.”


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But when they believed Philip as he preached the things <f>[9†]</f>concerning the kingdom of God and the name of Jesus Christ, both men and women were baptized.


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Then Simon himself also believed; and when he was baptized he continued with Philip, and was amazed, seeing the miracles and signs which were done.


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<pb/>Now when the <f>[10†]</f>apostles who were at Jerusalem heard that Samaria had received the word of God, they sent Peter and John to them,


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For <f>[12†]</f>as yet He had fallen upon none of them. <f>[13†]</f>They had only been baptized in <f>[14†]</f>the name of the Lord Jesus.


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<pb/>And when Simon saw that through the laying on of the apostles’ hands the Holy Spirit was given, he offered them money,


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<pb/>But Peter said to him, “Your money perish with you, because <f>[16†]</f>you thought that <f>[17†]</f>the gift of God could be purchased with money!


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You have neither part nor portion in this matter, for your <f>[18†]</f>heart is not right in the sight of God.


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Repent therefore of this your wickedness, and pray God <f>[19†]</f>if perhaps the thought of your heart may be forgiven you.


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<pb/>Then Simon answered and said, <f>[21†]</f>“Pray to the Lord for me, that none of the things which you have spoken may come upon me.”


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<pb/>So when they had testified and preached the word of the Lord, they returned to Jerusalem, preaching the gospel in many villages of the Samaritans.


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<pb/>Now an angel of the Lord spoke to <f>[22†]</f>Philip, saying, “Arise and go toward the south along the road which goes down from Jerusalem to Gaza.” This is desert.


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So he arose and went. And behold, <f>[23†]</f>a man of Ethiopia, a eunuch of great authority under Candace the queen of the Ethiopians, who had charge of all her treasury, and <f>[24†]</f>had come to Jerusalem to worship,


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<pb/>So Philip ran to him, and heard him reading the prophet Isaiah, and said, “Do you understand what you are reading?”


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<pb/>And he said, “How can I, unless someone guides me?” And he asked Philip to come up and sit with him.


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The place in the Scripture which he read was this: <pb/><t> <f>[25†]</f>“He was led as a sheep to the slaughter; </t><t>And as a lamb before its shearer <i>is</i> silent, </t><t> <f>[26†]</f>So He opened not His mouth.</t>


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<pb/>So the eunuch answered Philip and said, “I ask you, of whom does the prophet say this, of himself or of some other man?”


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Now as they went down the road, they came to some water. And the eunuch said, “See, <i>here</i> <i>is</i> water. <f>[30†]</f>What hinders me from being baptized?”


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<pb/>Then Philip said, <f>[31†]</f>“If you believe with all your heart, you may.” <pb/>And he answered and said, <f>[32†]</f>“I believe that Jesus Christ is the Son of God.”


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<pb/>So he commanded the chariot to stand still. And both Philip and the eunuch went down into the water, and he baptized him.


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Now when they came up out of the water, <f>[33†]</f>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 in all the cities till he came to <f>[34†]</f>Caesarea.


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and asked <f>[2†]</f>letters from him to the synagogues of Damascus, so that if he found any who were of the Way, whether men or women, he might bring them bound to Jerusalem.


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<pb/> <f>[3†]</f>As he journeyed he came near Damascus, and suddenly a light shone around him from heaven.


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Then he fell to the ground, and heard a voice saying to him, <J>“Saul, Saul, </J> <f>[4†]</f><J>why are you persecuting Me?”</J>


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<pb/>And he said, “Who are You, Lord?” <pb/>Then the Lord said, <J>“I am Jesus, whom you are persecuting.</J> <J>It </J><i><J>is</J></i><J> hard for you to kick against the goads.”</J>


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<pb/>So he, trembling and astonished, said, “Lord, what do You want me to do?” <pb/>Then the Lord <i>said</i> to him, <J>“Arise and go into the city, and you will be told what you must do.”</J>


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<pb/>And <f>[5†]</f>the men who journeyed with him stood speechless, hearing a voice but seeing no one.


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Then Saul arose from the ground, and when his eyes were opened he saw no one. But they led him by the hand and brought <i>him</i> into Damascus.


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<pb/>Now there was a certain disciple at Damascus <f>[6†]</f>named Ananias; and to him the Lord said in a vision, <J>“Ananias.”</J> <pb/>And he said, “Here I am, Lord.”


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<pb/>So the Lord <i>said</i> to him, <J>“Arise and go to the street called Straight, and inquire at the house of Judas for </J><i><J>one</J></i><J> called Saul </J> <f>[7†]</f><J>of Tarsus, for behold, he is praying.</J>


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<J>And in a vision he has seen a man named Ananias coming in and putting </J><i><J>his</J></i><J> hand on him, so that he might receive his sight.”</J>


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<pb/>Then Ananias answered, “Lord, I have heard from many about this man, <f>[8†]</f>how much harm he has done to Your saints in Jerusalem.


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<pb/>But the Lord said to him, <J>“Go, for </J> <f>[10†]</f><J>he is a chosen vessel of Mine to bear My name before </J> <f>[11†]</f><J>Gentiles, </J> <f>[12†]</f><J>kings, and the </J> <f>[13†]</f><J>children</J><J> of Israel.</J>


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<pb/> <f>[16†]</f>And Ananias went his way and entered the house; and <f>[17†]</f>laying his hands on him he said, “Brother Saul, the Lord Jesus, who appeared to you on the road as you came, has sent me that you may receive your sight and <f>[18†]</f>be filled with the Holy Spirit.”


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<pb/>So when he had received food, he was strengthened. <f>[19†]</f>Then Saul spent some days with the disciples at Damascus.


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<pb/>Then all who heard were amazed, and said, <f>[20†]</f>“Is this not he who destroyed those who called on this name in Jerusalem, and has come here for that purpose, so that he might bring them bound to the chief priests?”


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<pb/>But Saul increased all the more in strength, <f>[21†]</f>and confounded the Jews who dwelt in Damascus, proving that this <i>Jesus</i> is the Christ.


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<f>[23†]</f>But their plot became known to Saul. And they watched the gates day and night, to kill him.


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<pb/>And <f>[25†]</f>when Saul had come to Jerusalem, he tried to join the disciples; but they were all afraid of him, and did not believe that he was a disciple.


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<f>[26†]</f>But Barnabas took him and brought <i>him</i> to the apostles. And he declared to them how he had seen the Lord on the road, and that He had spoken to him, <f>[27†]</f>and how he had preached boldly at Damascus in the name of Jesus.


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<pb/> <f>[31†]</f>Then the churches throughout all Judea, Galilee, and Samaria had peace and were <f>[32†]</f>edified. And walking in the <f>[33†]</f>fear of the Lord and in the <f>[34†]</f>comfort of the Holy Spirit, they were <f>[35†]</f>multiplied.


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<pb/>Now it came to pass, as Peter went <f>[36†]</f>through all <i>parts</i> <i>of</i> <i>the</i> <i>country,</i> that he also came down to the saints who dwelt in Lydda.


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And Peter said to him, “Aeneas, <f>[37†]</f>Jesus the Christ heals you. Arise and make your bed.” Then he arose immediately.


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<pb/>At Joppa there was a certain disciple named Tabitha, which is translated Dorcas. This woman was full <f>[40†]</f>of good works and charitable deeds which she did.


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Then Peter arose and went with them. When he had come, they brought <i>him</i> to the upper room. And all the widows stood by him weeping, showing the tunics and garments which Dorcas had made while she was with them.


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<pb/>And when he observed him, he was afraid, and said, “What is it, lord?” <pb/>So he said to him, “Your prayers and your alms have come up for a memorial before God.


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He is lodging with <f>[6†]</f>Simon, a tanner, whose house is by the sea. <f>[7†]</f>He will tell you what you must do.”


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and <f>[9†]</f>saw heaven opened and an object like a great sheet bound at the four corners, descending to him and let down to the earth.


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<pb/>And a voice <i>spoke</i> to him again the second time, <f>[11†]</f><J>“What God has </J><J>cleansed you must not call common.”</J>


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<pb/>Now while Peter wondered within himself what this vision which he had seen meant, behold, the men who had been sent from Cornelius had made inquiry for Simon’s house, and stood before the gate.


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<pb/>While Peter thought about the vision, <f>[12†]</f>the Spirit said to him, “Behold, three men are seeking you.


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<pb/>Then Peter went down to the men who had been sent to him from Cornelius, and said, “Yes, I am he whom you seek. For what reason have you come?”


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<pb/>And they said, “Cornelius <i>the</i> centurion, a just man, one who fears God and <f>[14†]</f>has a good reputation among all the nation of the Jews, was divinely instructed by a holy angel to summon you to his house, and to hear words from you.”


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Then he said to them, “You know how <f>[17†]</f>unlawful it is for a Jewish man to keep company with or go to one of another nation. But <f>[18†]</f>God has shown me that I should not call any man common or unclean.


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<pb/>So Cornelius said, “Four days ago I was fasting until this hour; and at the ninth hour I prayed in my house, and behold, <f>[19†]</f>a man stood before me <f>[20†]</f>in bright clothing,


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and said, ‘Cornelius, <f>[21†]</f>your prayer has been heard, and <f>[22†]</f>your alms are remembered in the sight of God.


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Send therefore to Joppa and call Simon here, whose surname is Peter. He is lodging in the house of Simon, a tanner, by the sea. When he comes, he will speak to you.’


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So I sent to you immediately, and you have done well to come. Now therefore, we are all present before God, to hear all the things commanded you by God.”


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<pb/>Then Peter opened <i>his</i> mouth and said: <f>[23†]</f>“In truth I perceive that God shows no partiality.


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But <f>[24†]</f>in every nation whoever fears Him and works righteousness is <f>[25†]</f>accepted by Him.


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The word which <i>God</i> sent to the children of Israel, <f>[26†]</f>preaching peace through Jesus Christ— <f>[27†]</f>He is Lord of all—


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that word you know, which was proclaimed throughout all Judea, and <f>[28†]</f>began from Galilee after the baptism which John preached:


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how <f>[29†]</f>God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Spirit and with power, who <f>[30†]</f>went about doing good and healing all who were oppressed by the devil, <f>[31†]</f>for God was with Him.


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And we are <f>[32†]</f>witnesses of all things which He did both in the land of the Jews and in Jerusalem, whom they <f>[33†]</f>killed by hanging on a tree.


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<f>[35†]</f>not to all the people, but to witnesses chosen before by God, <i>even</i> to us <f>[36†]</f>who ate and drank with Him after He arose from the dead.


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And <f>[37†]</f>He commanded us to preach to the people, and to testify <f>[38†]</f>that it is He who was ordained by God <i>to</i> <i>be</i> Judge <f>[39†]</f>of the living and the dead.


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<f>[40†]</f>To Him all the prophets witness that, through His name, <f>[41†]</f>whoever believes in Him will receive <f>[42†]</f>remission of sins.”


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<pb/>While Peter was still speaking these words, <f>[43†]</f>the Holy Spirit fell upon all those who heard the word.


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<f>[44†]</f>And those of the circumcision who believed were astonished, as many as came with Peter, <f>[45†]</f>because the gift of the Holy Spirit had been poured out on the Gentiles also.


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“Can anyone forbid water, that these should not be baptized who have received the Holy Spirit <f>[46†]</f>just as we <i>have?</i>”


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<f>[47†]</f>And he commanded them to be baptized <f>[48†]</f>in the name of the Lord. Then they asked him to stay a few days.


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<pb/>Now the apostles and brethren who were in Judea heard that the Gentiles had also received the word of God.


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<f>[5†]</f>“I was in the city of Joppa praying; and in a trance I saw a vision, an object descending like a great sheet, let down from heaven by four corners; and it came to me.


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When I observed it intently and considered, I saw four-footed animals of the earth, wild beasts, creeping things, and birds of the air.


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But the voice answered me again from heaven, <J>‘What God has cleansed you must not call common.’</J>


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At that very moment, three men stood before the house where I was, having been sent to me from Caesarea.


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Then <f>[6†]</f>the Spirit told me to go with them, doubting nothing. Moreover <f>[7†]</f>these six brethren accompanied me, and we entered the man’s house.


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<f>[8†]</f>And he told us how he had seen an angel standing in his house, who said to him, ‘Send men to Joppa, and call for Simon whose surname is Peter,


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Then I remembered the word of the Lord, how He said, <f>[10†]</f><J>‘John indeed baptized with water, but </J> <f>[11†]</f><J>you shall be baptized with the Holy Spirit.’</J>


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<f>[12†]</f>If therefore God gave them the same gift as <i>He</i> <i>gave</i> us when we believed on the Lord Jesus Christ, <f>[13†]</f>who was I that I could withstand God?”


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<pb/>When they heard these things they became silent; and they glorified God, saying, <f>[14†]</f>“Then God has also granted to the Gentiles repentance to life.”


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<pb/> <f>[15†]</f>Now those who were scattered after the persecution that arose over Stephen traveled as far as Phoenicia, Cyprus, and Antioch, preaching the word to no one but the Jews only.


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But some of them were men from Cyprus and Cyrene, who, when they had come to Antioch, spoke to <f>[16†]</f>the Hellenists, preaching the Lord Jesus.


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And <f>[17†]</f>the hand of the Lord was with them, and a great number believed and <f>[18†]</f>turned to the Lord.


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<pb/>Then news of these things came to the ears of the church in Jerusalem, and they sent out <f>[19†]</f>Barnabas to go as far as Antioch.


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When he came and had seen the grace of God, he was glad, and <f>[20†]</f>encouraged them all that with purpose of heart they should continue with the Lord.


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For he was a good man, <f>[21†]</f>full of the Holy Spirit and of faith. <f>[22†]</f>And a great many people were added to the Lord.


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And when he had found him, he brought him to Antioch. So it was that for a whole year they assembled with the church and taught a great many people. And the disciples were first called Christians in Antioch.


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Then one of them, named <f>[25†]</f>Agabus, stood up and showed by the Spirit that there was going to be a great famine throughout all the world, which also happened in the days of <f>[26†]</f>Claudius Caesar.


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Then the disciples, each according to his ability, determined to send <f>[27†]</f>relief to the brethren dwelling in Judea.


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<pb/>Now about that time Herod the king stretched out <i>his</i> hand to harass some from the church.


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And because he saw that it pleased the Jews, he proceeded further to seize Peter also. Now it was <i>during</i> <f>[2†]</f>the Days of Unleavened Bread.


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So <f>[3†]</f>when he had arrested him, he put <i>him</i> in prison, and delivered <i>him</i> to four squads of soldiers to keep him, intending to bring him before the people after Passover.


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<pb/>Peter was therefore kept in prison, but constant prayer was offered to God for him by the church.


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And when Herod was about to bring him out, that night Peter was sleeping, bound with two chains between two soldiers; and the guards before the door were keeping the prison.


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Now behold, <f>[4†]</f>an angel of the Lord stood by <i>him,</i> and a light shone in the prison; and he struck Peter on the side and raised him up, saying, “Arise quickly!” And his chains fell off <i>his</i> hands.


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Then the angel said to him, “Gird yourself and tie on your sandals”; and so he did. And he said to him, “Put on your garment and follow me.”


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So he went out and followed him, and <f>[5†]</f>did not know that what was done by the angel was real, but thought <f>[6†]</f>he was seeing a vision.


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When they were past the first and the second guard posts, they came to the iron gate that leads to the city, <f>[7†]</f>which opened to them of its own accord; and they went out and went down one street, and immediately the angel departed from him.


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<pb/>And when Peter had come to himself, he said, “Now I know for certain that <f>[8†]</f>the Lord has sent His angel, and <f>[9†]</f>has delivered me from the hand of Herod and <i>from</i> all the expectation of the Jewish people.”


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<pb/>So, when he had considered <i>this,</i> <f>[10†]</f>he came to the house of Mary, the mother of <f>[11†]</f>John whose surname was Mark, where many were gathered together <f>[12†]</f>praying.


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When she recognized Peter’s voice, because of <i>her</i> gladness she did not open the gate, but ran in and announced that Peter stood before the gate.


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But they said to her, “You are beside yourself!” Yet she kept insisting that it was so. So they said, <f>[13†]</f>“It is his angel.”


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<pb/>Now Peter continued knocking; and when they opened <i>the</i> <i>door</i> and saw him, they were astonished.


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But <f>[14†]</f>motioning to them with his hand to keep silent, 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 brethren.” And he departed and went to another place.


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<pb/>Then, as soon as it was day, there was no small stir among the soldiers about what had become of Peter.


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But when Herod had searched for him and not found him, he examined the guards and commanded that <i>they</i> should be put to death. <pb/>And he went down from Judea to Caesarea, and stayed <i>there.</i>


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<pb/>Now Herod had been very angry with the people of <f>[15†]</f>Tyre and Sidon; but they came to him with one accord, and having made Blastus the king’s personal aide their friend, they asked for peace, because <f>[16†]</f>their country was supplied with food by the king’s <i>country.</i>


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<pb/>So on a set day Herod, arrayed in royal apparel, sat on his throne and gave an oration to them.


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Then immediately an angel of the Lord <f>[17†]</f>struck him, because <f>[18†]</f>he did not give glory to God. And he was eaten by worms and died.


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<pb/>And <f>[20†]</f>Barnabas and Saul returned from Jerusalem when they had <f>[21†]</f>fulfilled <i>their</i> ministry, and they also <f>[22†]</f>took with them <f>[23†]</f>John whose surname was Mark.


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<pb/>Now <f>[1†]</f>in the church that was at Antioch there were certain prophets and teachers: <f>[2†]</f>Barnabas, Simeon who was called Niger, <f>[3†]</f>Lucius of Cyrene, Manaen who had been brought up with Herod the tetrarch, and Saul.


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As they ministered to the Lord and fasted, the Holy Spirit said, <f>[4†]</f>“Now separate to Me Barnabas and Saul for the work <f>[5†]</f>to which I have called them.”


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<pb/>So, being sent out by the Holy Spirit, they went down to Seleucia, and from there they sailed to <f>[7†]</f>Cyprus.


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And when they arrived in Salamis, <f>[8†]</f>they preached the word of God in the synagogues of the Jews. They also had <f>[9†]</f>John as <i>their</i> assistant.


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<pb/>Now when they had gone through the island to Paphos, they found <f>[10†]</f>a certain sorcerer, a false prophet, a Jew whose name <i>was</i> Bar-Jesus,


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who was with the proconsul, Sergius Paulus, an intelligent man. This man called for Barnabas and Saul and sought to hear the word of God.


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But <f>[11†]</f>Elymas the sorcerer (for so his name is translated) withstood them, seeking to turn the proconsul away from the faith.


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Then Saul, who also <i>is</i> <i>called</i> Paul, <f>[12†]</f>filled with the Holy Spirit, looked intently at him


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and said, “O full of all deceit and all fraud, <f>[13†]</f><i>you</i> son of the devil, <i>you</i> enemy of all righteousness, will you not cease perverting the straight ways of the Lord?


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And now, indeed, <f>[14†]</f>the hand of the Lord <i>is</i> upon you, and you shall be blind, not seeing the sun for a time.” <pb/>And immediately a dark mist fell on him, and he went around seeking someone to lead him by the hand.


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Then the proconsul believed, when he saw what had been done, being astonished at the teaching of the Lord.


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<pb/>Now when Paul and his party set sail from Paphos, they came to Perga in Pamphylia; and <f>[15†]</f>John, departing from them, returned to Jerusalem.


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But when they departed from Perga, they came to Antioch in Pisidia, and <f>[16†]</f>went into the synagogue on the Sabbath day and sat down.


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And <f>[17†]</f>after the reading of the Law and the Prophets, the rulers of the synagogue sent to them, saying, “Men <i>and</i> brethren, if you have <f>[18†]</f>any word of exhortation for the people, say on.”


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<pb/>Then Paul stood up, and motioning with <i>his</i> hand said, “Men of Israel, and <f>[19†]</f>you who fear God, listen:


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The God of this people Israel <f>[20†]</f>chose our fathers, and exalted the people <f>[21†]</f>when they dwelt as strangers in the land of Egypt, and with an uplifted arm He <f>[22†]</f>brought them out of it.


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And when He had destroyed <f>[24†]</f>seven nations in the land of Canaan, <f>[25†]</f>He distributed their land to them by allotment.


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<pb/>“After that <f>[26†]</f>He gave <i>them</i> judges for about four hundred and fifty years, <f>[27†]</f>until Samuel the prophet.


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<f>[28†]</f>And afterward they asked for a king; so God gave them <f>[29†]</f>Saul the son of Kish, a man of the tribe of Benjamin, for forty years.


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And <f>[30†]</f>when He had removed him, <f>[31†]</f>He raised up for them David as king, to whom also He gave testimony and said, <f>[32†]</f>‘I have found David the <i>son</i> of Jesse, <f>[33†]</f>a man after My <i>own</i> heart, who will do all My will.’


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<f>[34†]</f>From this man’s seed, according <f>[35†]</f>to <i>the</i> promise, God raised up for Israel <f>[36†]</f>a Savior—Jesus—


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<f>[37†]</f>after John had first preached, before His coming, the baptism of repentance to all the people of Israel.


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And as John was finishing his course, he said, <f>[38†]</f>‘Who do you think I am? I am not <i>He.</i> But behold, <f>[39†]</f>there comes One after me, the sandals of whose feet I am not worthy to loose.’


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<pb/>“Men <i>and</i> brethren, sons of the family of Abraham, and <f>[40†]</f>those among you who fear God, <f>[41†]</f>to you the word of this salvation has been sent.


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For those who dwell in Jerusalem, and their rulers, <f>[42†]</f>because they did not know Him, nor even the voices of the Prophets which are read every Sabbath, have fulfilled <i>them</i> in condemning <i>Him.</i>


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<f>[43†]</f>And though they found no cause for death <i>in</i> <i>Him,</i> they asked Pilate that He should be put to death.


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<f>[44†]</f>Now when they had fulfilled all that was written concerning Him, <f>[45†]</f>they took <i>Him</i> down from the tree and laid <i>Him</i> in a tomb.


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<f>[47†]</f>He was seen 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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God has fulfilled this for us their children, in that He has raised up Jesus. As it is also written in the second Psalm: <pb/><t> <f>[49†]</f>‘You are My Son, </t><t>Today I have begotten You.’</t>


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<pb/>And that He raised Him from the dead, no more to return to corruption, He has spoken thus: <pb/><t> <f>[50†]</f>‘I will give you the sure mercies of David.’</t>


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<pb/>Therefore He also says in another <i>Psalm:</i> <pb/><t> <f>[51†]</f>‘You will not allow Your Holy One to see corruption.’</t>


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<pb/>“For David, after he had served his own generation by the will of God, <f>[52†]</f>fell asleep, was buried with his fathers, and saw corruption;


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Therefore let it be known to you, brethren, that <f>[53†]</f>through this Man is preached to you the forgiveness of sins;


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and <f>[54†]</f>by Him everyone who believes is justified from all things from which you could not be justified by the law of Moses.


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<pb/><t>‘Behold, <f>[55†]</f> you despisers, </t><t>Marvel and perish! </t><t>For I work a work in your days, </t><t>A work which you will by no means believe, </t><t>Though one were to declare it to you.’ ”</t>


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<pb/>So when the Jews went out of the synagogue, the Gentiles begged that these words might be preached to them the next Sabbath.


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Now when the congregation had broken up, many of the Jews and devout proselytes followed Paul and Barnabas, who, speaking to them, <f>[56†]</f>persuaded them to continue in <f>[57†]</f>the grace of God.


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But when the Jews saw the multitudes, they were filled with envy; and contradicting and blaspheming, they <f>[58†]</f>opposed the things spoken by Paul.


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Then Paul and Barnabas grew bold and said, <f>[59†]</f>“It was necessary that the word of God should be spoken to you first; but <f>[60†]</f>since you reject it, and judge yourselves unworthy of everlasting life, behold, <f>[61†]</f>we turn to the Gentiles.


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For so the Lord has commanded us: <pb/><t> <f>[62†]</f>‘I have set you as a light to the Gentiles, </t><t>That you should be for salvation to the ends of the earth.’ ”</t>


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<pb/>Now when the Gentiles heard this, they were glad and glorified the word of the Lord. <f>[63†]</f>And as many as had been appointed to eternal life believed.


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But the Jews stirred up the devout and prominent women and the chief men of the city, <f>[64†]</f>raised up persecution against Paul and Barnabas, and expelled them from their region.


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<pb/>Now it happened in Iconium that they went together to the synagogue of the Jews, and so spoke that a great multitude both of the Jews and of the <f>[1†]</f>Greeks believed.


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Therefore they stayed there a long time, speaking boldly in the Lord, <f>[2†]</f>who was bearing witness to the word of His grace, granting signs and <f>[3†]</f>wonders to be done by their hands.


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<pb/>But the multitude of the city was <f>[4†]</f>divided: part sided with the Jews, and part with the <f>[5†]</f>apostles.


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they became aware of it and <f>[7†]</f>fled to Lystra and Derbe, cities of Lycaonia, and to the surrounding region.


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<pb/> <f>[8†]</f>And in Lystra a certain man without strength in his feet was sitting, a cripple from his mother’s womb, who had never walked.


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Now when the people saw what Paul had done, they raised their voices, saying in the Lycaonian <i>language,</i> <f>[10†]</f>“The gods have come down to us in the likeness of men!”


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Then the priest of Zeus, whose temple was in front of their city, brought oxen and garlands to the gates, <f>[11†]</f>intending to sacrifice with the multitudes.


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and saying, “Men, <f>[13†]</f>why are you doing these things? <f>[14†]</f>We also are men with the same nature as you, and preach to you that you should turn from <f>[15†]</f>these useless things <f>[16†]</f>to the living God, <f>[17†]</f>who made the heaven, the earth, the sea, and all things that are in them,


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<f>[19†]</f>Nevertheless He did not leave Himself without witness, in that He did good, <f>[20†]</f>gave us rain from heaven and fruitful seasons, filling our hearts with <f>[21†]</f>food and gladness.”


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<pb/> <f>[22†]</f>Then Jews from Antioch and Iconium came there; and having persuaded the multitudes, <f>[23†]</f>they stoned Paul <i>and</i> dragged <i>him</i> out of the city, supposing him to be <f>[24†]</f>dead.


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<pb/>And when they had preached the gospel to that city <f>[25†]</f>and made many disciples, they returned to Lystra, Iconium, and Antioch,


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strengthening the souls of the disciples, <f>[26†]</f>exhorting <i>them</i> to continue in the faith, and <i>saying,</i> <f>[27†]</f>“We must through many tribulations enter the kingdom of God.”


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So when they had <f>[28†]</f>appointed elders in every church, and prayed with fasting, they commended them to the Lord in whom they had believed.


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From there they sailed to Antioch, where they had been commended to the grace of God for the work which they had completed.


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<pb/>Now when they had come and gathered the church together, <f>[29†]</f>they reported all that God had done with them, and that He had <f>[30†]</f>opened the door of faith to the Gentiles.


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<pb/>And <f>[1†]</f>certain <i>men</i> came down from Judea and taught the brethren, <f>[2†]</f>“Unless you are circumcised according to the custom of Moses, you cannot be saved.”


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Therefore, when Paul and Barnabas had no small dissension and dispute with them, they determined that <f>[3†]</f>Paul and Barnabas and certain others of them should go up to Jerusalem, to the apostles and elders, about this question.


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<pb/>So, <f>[4†]</f>being sent on their way by the church, they passed through Phoenicia and Samaria, <f>[5†]</f>describing the conversion of the Gentiles; and they caused great joy to all the brethren.


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And when they had come to Jerusalem, they were received by the church and the apostles and the elders; and they reported all things that God had done with them.


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But some of the sect of the Pharisees who believed rose up, saying, “It is necessary to circumcise them, and to command <i>them</i> to keep the law of Moses.”


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And when there had been much dispute, Peter rose up <i>and</i> said to them: <f>[6†]</f>“Men <i>and</i> brethren, you know that a good while ago God chose among us, that by my mouth the Gentiles should hear the word of the gospel and believe.


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So God, <f>[7†]</f>who knows the heart, acknowledged them by <f>[8†]</f>giving them the Holy Spirit, just as <i>He</i> <i>did</i> to us,


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<f>[9†]</f>and made no distinction between us and them, <f>[10†]</f>purifying their hearts by faith.


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Now therefore, why do you test God <f>[11†]</f>by putting a yoke on the neck of the disciples which neither our fathers nor we were able to bear?


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But <f>[12†]</f>we believe that through the grace of the Lord Jesus Christ we shall be saved in the same manner as they.”


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<pb/>Then all the multitude kept silent and listened to Barnabas and Paul declaring how many miracles and wonders God had <f>[13†]</f>worked through them among the Gentiles.


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And after they had become silent, <f>[14†]</f>James answered, saying, “Men <i>and</i> brethren, listen to me:


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<f>[15†]</f>Simon has declared how God at the first visited the Gentiles to take out of them a people for His name.


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<pb/><t>‘After <f>[16†]</f> this I will return </t><t>And will rebuild the tabernacle of David, which has fallen down; </t><t>I will rebuild its ruins, </t><t>And I will set it up;</t>


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<t>So that the rest of mankind may seek the <e>LORD</e>, </t><t>Even all the Gentiles who are called by My name, </t><t>Says the LORD who does all these things.’</t>


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but that we <f>[19†]</f>write to them to abstain <f>[20†]</f>from things polluted by idols, <f>[21†]</f><i>from</i> sexual immorality, <f>[22†]</f><i>from</i> things strangled, and <i>from</i> blood.


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For Moses has had throughout many generations those who preach him in every city, <f>[23†]</f>being read in the synagogues every Sabbath.”


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<pb/>Then it pleased the apostles and elders, with the whole church, to send chosen men of their own company to Antioch with Paul and Barnabas, <i>namely,</i> Judas who was also named <f>[24†]</f>Barsabas, and Silas, leading men among the brethren.


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<pb/>They wrote this <i>letter</i> by them: <pb/><t>The apostles, the elders, and the brethren, </t><t>To the brethren who are of the Gentiles in Antioch, Syria, and Cilicia: </t><t>Greetings.</t>


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<t>Since we have heard that <f>[25†]</f>some who went out from us have troubled you with words, <f>[26†]</f>unsettling your souls, saying, “<i>You</i> <i>must</i> be circumcised and keep the law” —to whom we gave no <i>such</i> commandment— </t>


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<t>it seemed good to us, being assembled with one accord, to send chosen men to you with our beloved Barnabas and Paul, </t>


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<t>We have therefore sent Judas and Silas, who will also report the same things by word of mouth. </t>


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<t>For it seemed good to the Holy Spirit, and to us, to lay upon you no greater burden than these necessary things: </t>


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<t> <f>[28†]</f>that you abstain from things offered to idols, <f>[29†]</f>from blood, from things strangled, and from <f>[30†]</f>sexual immorality. If you keep yourselves from these, you will do well. </t><t>Farewell.</t>


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<pb/>So when they were sent off, they came to Antioch; and when they had gathered the multitude together, they delivered the letter.


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Now Judas and Silas, themselves being <f>[31†]</f>prophets also, <f>[32†]</f>exhorted and strengthened the brethren with many words.


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And after they had stayed <i>there</i> for a time, they were <f>[33†]</f>sent back with greetings from the brethren to the apostles.


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<pb/>Then after some days Paul said to Barnabas, “Let us now go back and visit our brethren in every city where we have preached the word of the Lord, <i>and</i> <i>see</i> how they are doing.”


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But Paul insisted that they should not take with them <f>[36†]</f>the one who had departed from them in Pamphylia, and had not gone with them to the work.


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Then the contention became so sharp that they parted from one another. And so Barnabas took Mark and sailed to <f>[37†]</f>Cyprus;


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<pb/>Then he came to <f>[1†]</f>Derbe and Lystra. And behold, a certain disciple was there, <f>[2†]</f>named Timothy, <f>[3†]</f><i>the</i> son of a certain Jewish woman who believed, but his father <i>was</i> Greek.


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Paul wanted to have him go on with him. And he <f>[4†]</f>took <i>him</i> and circumcised him because of the Jews who were in that region, for they all knew that his father was Greek.


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And as they went through the cities, they delivered to them the <f>[5†]</f>decrees to keep, <f>[6†]</f>which were determined by the apostles and elders at Jerusalem.


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<pb/>Now when they had gone through Phrygia and the region of <f>[8†]</f>Galatia, they were forbidden by the Holy Spirit to preach the word in Asia.


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And a vision appeared to Paul in the night. A <f>[10†]</f>man of Macedonia stood and pleaded with him, saying, “Come over to Macedonia and help us.”


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Now after he had seen the vision, immediately we sought to go <f>[11†]</f>to Macedonia, concluding that the Lord had called us to preach the gospel to them.


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<pb/>Therefore, sailing from Troas, we ran a straight course to Samothrace, and the next <i>day</i> came to Neapolis,


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and from there to <f>[12†]</f>Philippi, which is the foremost city of that part of Macedonia, a colony. And we were staying in that city for some days.


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And on the Sabbath day we went out of the city to the riverside, where prayer was customarily made; and we sat down and spoke to the women who met <i>there.</i>


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Now a certain woman named Lydia heard <i>us.</i> She was a seller of purple from the city of <f>[13†]</f>Thyatira, who worshiped God. <f>[14†]</f>The Lord opened her heart to heed the things spoken by Paul.


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And when she and her household were baptized, she begged <i>us,</i> saying, “If you have judged me to be faithful to the Lord, come to my house and stay.” So <f>[15†]</f>she persuaded us.


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<pb/>Now it happened, as we went to prayer, that a certain slave girl <f>[16†]</f>possessed with a spirit of divination met us, who brought her masters <f>[17†]</f>much profit by fortune-telling.


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This girl followed Paul and us, and cried out, saying, “These men are the servants of the Most High God, who proclaim to us the way of salvation.”


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And this she did for many days. <pb/>But Paul, <f>[18†]</f>greatly annoyed, turned and said to the spirit, “I command you in the name of Jesus Christ to come out of her.” <f>[19†]</f>And he came out that very hour.


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But <f>[20†]</f>when her masters saw that their hope of profit was gone, they seized Paul and Silas and <f>[21†]</f>dragged <i>them</i> into the marketplace to the authorities.


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<pb/>And they brought them to the magistrates, and said, “These men, being Jews, <f>[22†]</f>exceedingly trouble our city;


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Then the multitude rose up together against them; and the magistrates tore off their clothes <f>[23†]</f>and commanded <i>them</i> to be beaten with rods.


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And when they had laid many stripes on them, they threw <i>them</i> into prison, commanding the jailer to keep them securely.


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Having received such a charge, he put them into the inner prison and fastened their feet in the stocks.


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<pb/>But at midnight Paul and Silas were praying and singing hymns to God, and the prisoners were listening to them.


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<f>[24†]</f>Suddenly there was a great earthquake, so that the foundations of the prison were shaken; and immediately <f>[25†]</f>all the doors were opened and everyone’s chains were loosed.


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And the keeper of the prison, awaking from sleep and seeing the prison doors open, supposing the prisoners had fled, drew his sword and was about to kill himself.


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<pb/>So they said, <f>[27†]</f>“Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and you will be saved, you and your household.”


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And he took them the same hour of the night and washed <i>their</i> stripes. And immediately he and all his <i>family</i> were baptized.


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Now when he had brought them into his house, <f>[28†]</f>he set food before them; and he rejoiced, having believed in God with all his household.


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<pb/>So the keeper of the prison reported these words to Paul, saying, “The magistrates have sent to let you go. Now therefore depart, and go in peace.”


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<pb/>But Paul said to them, “They have beaten us openly, uncondemned <f>[29†]</f>Romans, <i>and</i> have thrown <i>us</i> into prison. And now do they put us out secretly? No indeed! Let them come themselves and get us out.”


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<pb/>And the officers told these words to the magistrates, and they were afraid when they heard that they were Romans.


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Then they came and pleaded with them and brought <i>them</i> out, and <f>[30†]</f>asked <i>them</i> to depart from the city.


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So they went out of the prison <f>[31†]</f>and entered <i>the</i> <i>house</i> <i>of</i> Lydia; and when they had seen the brethren, they encouraged them and departed.


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<pb/>Now when they had passed through Amphipolis and Apollonia, they came to <f>[1†]</f>Thessalonica, where there was a synagogue of the Jews.


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Then Paul, as his custom was, <f>[2†]</f>went in to them, and for three Sabbaths <f>[3†]</f>reasoned with them from the Scriptures,


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explaining and demonstrating <f>[4†]</f>that the Christ had to suffer and rise again from the dead, and <i>saying,</i> “This Jesus whom I preach to you is the Christ.”


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<f>[5†]</f>And some of them were persuaded; and a great multitude of the devout Greeks, and not a few of the leading women, joined Paul and <f>[6†]</f>Silas.


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<pb/>But the Jews who were not persuaded, becoming <f>[7†]</f>envious, took some of the evil men from the marketplace, and gathering a mob, set all the city in an uproar and attacked the house of <f>[8†]</f>Jason, and sought to bring them out to the people.


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But when they did not find them, they dragged Jason and some brethren to the rulers of the city, crying out, <f>[9†]</f>“These who have turned the world upside down have come here too.


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Jason has harbored them, and these are all acting contrary to the decrees of Caesar, <f>[10†]</f>saying there is another king—Jesus.”


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<pb/>Then <f>[11†]</f>the brethren immediately sent Paul and Silas away by night to Berea. When they arrived, they went into the synagogue of the Jews.


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These were more fair-minded than those in Thessalonica, in that they received the word with all readiness, and <f>[12†]</f>searched the Scriptures daily <i>to</i> <i>find</i> <i>out</i> whether these things were so.


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But when the Jews from Thessalonica learned that the word of God was preached by Paul at Berea, they came there also and stirred up the crowds.


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<f>[13†]</f>Then immediately the brethren sent Paul away, to go to the sea; but both Silas and Timothy remained there.


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So those who conducted Paul brought him to Athens; and <f>[14†]</f>receiving a command for Silas and Timothy to come to him with all speed, they departed.


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<pb/>Now while Paul waited for them at Athens, <f>[15†]</f>his spirit was provoked within him when he saw that the city was given over to idols.


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Therefore he reasoned in the synagogue with the Jews and with the <i>Gentile</i> worshipers, and in the marketplace daily with those who happened to be there.


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Then certain Epicurean and Stoic philosophers encountered him. And some said, “What does this babbler want to say?” <pb/>Others said, “He seems to be a proclaimer of foreign gods,” because he preached to them <f>[16†]</f>Jesus and the resurrection.


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<pb/>And they took him and brought him to the Areopagus, saying, “May we know what this new doctrine <i>is</i> of which you speak?


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For you are bringing some strange things to our ears. Therefore we want to know what these things mean.”


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For all the Athenians and the foreigners who were there spent their time in nothing else but either to tell or to hear some new thing.


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<pb/>Then Paul stood in the midst of the Areopagus and said, “Men of Athens, I perceive that in all things you are very religious;


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for as I was passing through and considering the objects of your worship, I even found an altar with this inscription: <pb/>TO THE UNKNOWN GOD. <pb/>Therefore, the One whom you worship without knowing, Him I proclaim to you:


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<f>[17†]</f>“God, who made the world and everything in it, since He is <f>[18†]</f>Lord of heaven and earth, <f>[19†]</f>does not dwell in temples made with hands.


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Nor is He worshiped with men’s hands, as though He needed anything, since He <f>[20†]</f>gives to all life, breath, and all things.


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And He has made from one blood every nation of men to dwell on all the face of the earth, and has determined their preappointed times and <f>[21†]</f>the boundaries of their dwellings,


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<f>[22†]</f>so that they should seek the Lord, in the hope that they might grope for Him and find Him, <f>[23†]</f>though He is not far from each one of us;


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for <f>[24†]</f>in Him we live and move and have our being, <f>[25†]</f>as also some of your own poets have said, ‘For we are also His offspring.’


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Therefore, since we are the offspring of God, <f>[26†]</f>we ought not to think that the Divine Nature is like gold or silver or stone, something shaped by art and man’s devising.


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because He has appointed a day on which <f>[29†]</f>He will judge the world in righteousness by the Man whom He has ordained. He has given assurance of this to all by <f>[30†]</f>raising Him from the dead.”


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<pb/>And when they heard of the resurrection of the dead, some mocked, while others said, “We will hear you again on this <i>matter.</i>”


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However, some men joined him and believed, among them Dionysius the Areopagite, a woman named Damaris, and others with them.


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And he found a certain Jew named <f>[1†]</f>Aquila, born in Pontus, who had recently come from Italy with his wife Priscilla (because Claudius had commanded all the Jews to depart from Rome); and he came to them.


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So, because he was of the same trade, he stayed with them <f>[2†]</f>and worked; for by occupation they were tentmakers.


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<pb/> <f>[4†]</f>When Silas and Timothy had come from Macedonia, Paul was <f>[5†]</f>compelled by the Spirit, and testified to the Jews <i>that</i> Jesus <i>is</i> the Christ.


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But <f>[6†]</f>when they opposed him and blasphemed, <f>[7†]</f>he shook <i>his</i> garments and said to them, <f>[8†]</f>“Your blood <i>be</i> upon your <i>own</i> heads; <f>[9†]</f>I <i>am</i> clean. <f>[10†]</f>From now on I will go to the Gentiles.”


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And he departed from there and entered the house of a certain <i>man</i> named Justus, <i>one</i> who worshiped God, whose house was next door to the synagogue.


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<f>[11†]</f>Then Crispus, the ruler of the synagogue, believed on the Lord with all his household. And many of the Corinthians, hearing, believed and were baptized.


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<pb/>Now <f>[12†]</f>the Lord spoke to Paul in the night by a vision, <J>“Do not be afraid, but speak, and do not keep silent;</J>


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<f>[13†]</f><J>for I am with you, and no one will attack you to hurt you; for I have many people in this city.”</J>


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<pb/>When Gallio was proconsul of Achaia, the Jews with one accord rose up against Paul and brought him to the judgment seat,


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<pb/>And when Paul was about to open <i>his</i> mouth, Gallio said to the Jews, “If it were a matter of wrongdoing or wicked crimes, O Jews, there would be reason why I should bear with you.


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But if it is a <f>[14†]</f>question of words and names and your own law, look <i>to</i> <i>it</i> yourselves; for I do not want to be a judge of such <i>matters.</i>”


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Then all the Greeks took <f>[15†]</f>Sosthenes, the ruler of the synagogue, and beat <i>him</i> before the judgment seat. But Gallio took no notice of these things.


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<pb/>So Paul still remained a good while. Then he took leave of the brethren and sailed for Syria, and Priscilla and Aquila <i>were</i> with him. <f>[16†]</f>He had <i>his</i> hair cut off at <f>[17†]</f>Cenchrea, for he had taken a vow.


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And he came to Ephesus, and left them there; but he himself entered the synagogue and reasoned with the Jews.


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but took leave of them, saying, <f>[18†]</f>“I must by all means keep this coming feast in Jerusalem; but I will return again to you, <f>[19†]</f>God willing.” And he sailed from Ephesus.


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<pb/>And when he had landed at <f>[20†]</f>Caesarea, and gone up and greeted the church, he went down to Antioch.


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After he had spent some time <i>there,</i> he departed and went over the region of <f>[21†]</f>Galatia and Phrygia in order, <f>[22†]</f>strengthening all the disciples.


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<pb/> <f>[23†]</f>Now a certain Jew named Apollos, born at Alexandria, an eloquent man <i>and</i> mighty in the Scriptures, came to Ephesus.


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This man had been instructed in the way of the Lord; and being <f>[24†]</f>fervent in spirit, he spoke and taught accurately the things of the Lord, <f>[25†]</f>though he knew only the baptism of John.


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So he began to speak boldly in the synagogue. When Aquila and Priscilla heard him, they took him aside and explained to him the way of God more accurately.


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And when he desired to cross to Achaia, the brethren wrote, exhorting the disciples to receive him; and when he arrived, <f>[26†]</f>he greatly helped those who had believed through grace;


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for he vigorously refuted the Jews publicly, <f>[27†]</f>showing from the Scriptures that Jesus is the Christ.


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<pb/>And it happened, while <f>[1†]</f>Apollos was at Corinth, that Paul, having passed through <f>[2†]</f>the upper regions, came to Ephesus. And finding some disciples


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he said to them, “Did you receive the Holy Spirit when you believed?” <pb/>So they said to him, <f>[3†]</f>“We have not so much as heard whether there is a Holy Spirit.”


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<pb/>And he said to them, “Into what then were you baptized?” <pb/>So they said, <f>[4†]</f>“Into John’s baptism.”


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<pb/>Then Paul said, <f>[5†]</f>“John indeed baptized with a baptism of repentance, saying to the people that they should believe on Him who would come after him, that is, on Christ Jesus.”


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And when Paul had <f>[7†]</f>laid hands on them, the Holy Spirit came upon them, and <f>[8†]</f>they spoke with tongues and prophesied.


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<pb/> <f>[9†]</f>And he went into the synagogue and spoke boldly for three months, reasoning and persuading <f>[10†]</f>concerning the things of the kingdom of God.


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But <f>[11†]</f>when some were hardened and did not believe, but spoke evil <f>[12†]</f>of the Way before the multitude, he departed from them and withdrew the disciples, reasoning daily in the school of Tyrannus.


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And <f>[13†]</f>this continued for two years, so that all who dwelt in Asia heard the word of the Lord Jesus, both Jews and Greeks.


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<f>[15†]</f>so that even handkerchiefs or aprons were brought from his body to the sick, and the diseases left them and the evil spirits went out of them.


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<f>[16†]</f>Then some of the itinerant Jewish exorcists <f>[17†]</f>took it upon themselves to call the name of the Lord Jesus over those who had evil spirits, saying, “We exorcise you by the Jesus whom Paul <f>[18†]</f>preaches.”


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<pb/>Then the man in whom the evil spirit was leaped on them, overpowered them, and prevailed against them, so that they fled out of that house naked and wounded.


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This became known both to all Jews and Greeks dwelling in Ephesus; and <f>[19†]</f>fear fell on them all, and the name of the Lord Jesus was magnified.


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Also, many of those who had practiced magic brought their books together and burned <i>them</i> in the sight of all. And they counted up the value of them, and <i>it</i> totaled fifty thousand <i>pieces</i> of silver.


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<pb/> <f>[22†]</f>When these things were accomplished, Paul <f>[23†]</f>purposed in the Spirit, when he had passed through <f>[24†]</f>Macedonia and Achaia, to go to Jerusalem, saying, “After I have been there, <f>[25†]</f>I must also see Rome.”


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So he sent into Macedonia two of those who ministered to him, <f>[26†]</f>Timothy and <f>[27†]</f>Erastus, but he himself stayed in Asia for a time.


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For a certain man named Demetrius, a silversmith, who made silver shrines of Diana, brought <f>[30†]</f>no small profit to the craftsmen.


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He called them together with the workers of similar occupation, and said: “Men, you know that we have our prosperity by this trade.


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Moreover you see and hear that not only at Ephesus, but throughout almost all Asia, this Paul has persuaded and turned away many people, saying that <f>[31†]</f>they are not gods which are made with hands.


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So not only is this trade of ours in danger of falling into disrepute, but also the temple of the great goddess Diana may be despised and her magnificence destroyed, whom all Asia and the world worship.”


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<pb/>Now when they heard <i>this,</i> they were full of wrath and cried out, saying, “Great <i>is</i> Diana of the Ephesians!”


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So the whole city was filled with confusion, and rushed into the theater with one accord, having seized <f>[32†]</f>Gaius and <f>[33†]</f>Aristarchus, Macedonians, Paul’s travel companions.


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Then some of the officials of Asia, who were his friends, sent to him pleading that he would not venture into the theater.


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Some therefore cried one thing and some another, for the assembly was confused, and most of them did not know why they had come together.


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And they drew Alexander out of the multitude, the Jews putting him forward. And <f>[34†]</f>Alexander <f>[35†]</f>motioned with his hand, and wanted to make his defense to the people.


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But when they found out that he was a Jew, all with one voice cried out for about two hours, “Great <i>is</i> Diana of the Ephesians!”


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<pb/>And when the city clerk had quieted the crowd, he said: “Men of Ephesus, what man is there who does not know that the city of the Ephesians is temple guardian of the great goddess Diana, and of the <i>image</i> which fell down from Zeus?


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For you have brought these men here who are neither robbers of temples nor blasphemers of your goddess.


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Therefore, if Demetrius and his fellow craftsmen have a case against anyone, the courts are open and there are proconsuls. Let them bring charges against one another.


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For we are in danger of being called in question for today’s uproar, there being no reason which we may give to account for this disorderly gathering.”


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<pb/>After the uproar had ceased, Paul called the disciples to <i>himself,</i> embraced <i>them,</i> and <f>[1†]</f>departed to go to Macedonia.


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Now when he had gone over that region and encouraged them with many words, he came to <f>[2†]</f>Greece


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and stayed three months. And <f>[3†]</f>when the Jews plotted against him as he was about to sail to Syria, he decided to return through Macedonia.


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And Sopater of Berea accompanied him to Asia—also <f>[4†]</f>Aristarchus and Secundus of the Thessalonians, and <f>[5†]</f>Gaius of Derbe, and <f>[6†]</f>Timothy, and <f>[7†]</f>Tychicus and <f>[8†]</f>Trophimus of Asia.


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But we sailed away from Philippi after <f>[10†]</f>the Days of Unleavened Bread, and in five days joined them <f>[11†]</f>at Troas, where we stayed seven days.


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<pb/>Now on <f>[12†]</f>the first <i>day</i> of the week, when the disciples came together <f>[13†]</f>to break bread, Paul, ready to depart the next day, spoke to them and continued his message until midnight.


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And in a window sat a certain young man named Eutychus, who was sinking into a deep sleep. He was overcome by sleep; and as Paul continued speaking, he fell down from the third story and was taken up dead.


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But Paul went down, <f>[15†]</f>fell on him, and embracing <i>him</i> said, <f>[16†]</f>“Do not trouble yourselves, for his life is in him.”


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Now when he had come up, had broken bread and eaten, and talked a long while, even till daybreak, he departed.


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<pb/>Then we went ahead to the ship and sailed to Assos, there intending to take Paul on board; for so he had given orders, intending himself to go on foot.


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We sailed from there, and the next <i>day</i> came opposite Chios. The following <i>day</i> we arrived at Samos and stayed at Trogyllium. The next <i>day</i> we came to Miletus.


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For Paul had decided to sail past Ephesus, so that he would not have to spend time in Asia; for <f>[17†]</f>he was hurrying <f>[18†]</f>to be at Jerusalem, if possible, on <f>[19†]</f>the Day of Pentecost.


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And when they had come to him, he said to them: “You know, <f>[20†]</f>from the first day that I came to Asia, in what manner I always lived among you,


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serving the Lord with all humility, with many tears and trials which happened to me <f>[21†]</f>by the plotting of the Jews;


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how <f>[22†]</f>I kept back nothing that was helpful, but proclaimed it to you, and taught you publicly and from house to house,


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<f>[23†]</f>testifying to Jews, and also to Greeks, <f>[24†]</f>repentance toward God and faith toward our Lord Jesus Christ.


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And see, now <f>[25†]</f>I go bound in the spirit to Jerusalem, not knowing the things that will happen to me there,


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except that <f>[26†]</f>the Holy Spirit testifies in every city, saying that chains and tribulations await me.


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But <f>[27†]</f>none of these things move me; nor do I count my life dear to myself, <f>[28†]</f>so that I may finish my race with joy, <f>[29†]</f>and the ministry <f>[30†]</f>which I received from the Lord Jesus, to testify to the gospel of the grace of God.


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<pb/>“And indeed, now I know that you all, among whom I have gone preaching the kingdom of God, will see my face no more.


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Therefore I testify to you this day that I <i>am</i> <f>[31†]</f>innocent of the blood of all <i>men.</i>


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<f>[33†]</f>Therefore take heed to yourselves and to all the flock, among which the Holy Spirit <f>[34†]</f>has made you overseers, to shepherd the church of God <f>[35†]</f>which He purchased <f>[36†]</f>with His own blood.


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For I know this, that after my departure <f>[37†]</f>savage wolves will come in among you, not sparing the flock.


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Also <f>[38†]</f>from among yourselves men will rise up, speaking perverse things, to draw away the disciples after themselves.


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Therefore watch, and remember that <f>[39†]</f>for three years I did not cease to warn everyone night and day with tears.


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<pb/>“So now, brethren, I commend you to God and <f>[40†]</f>to the word of His grace, which is able <f>[41†]</f>to build you up and give you <f>[42†]</f>an inheritance among all those who are sanctified.


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Yes, you yourselves know <f>[43†]</f>that these hands have provided for my necessities, and for those who were with me.


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I have shown you in every way, <f>[44†]</f>by laboring like this, that you must support the weak. And remember the words of the Lord Jesus, that He said, <J>‘It is more blessed to give than to receive.’</J> ”


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sorrowing most of all for the words which he spoke, that they would see his face no more. And they accompanied him to the ship.


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<pb/>Now it came to pass, that when we had departed from them and set sail, running a straight course we came to Cos, the following <i>day</i> to Rhodes, and from there to Patara.


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When we had sighted Cyprus, we passed it on the left, sailed to Syria, and landed at Tyre; for there the ship was to unload her cargo.


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And finding disciples, we stayed there seven days. <f>[1†]</f>They told Paul through the Spirit not to go up to Jerusalem.


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When we had come to the end of those days, we departed and went on our way; and they all accompanied us, with wives and children, till <i>we</i> <i>were</i> out of the city. And <f>[2†]</f>we knelt down on the shore and prayed.


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<pb/>And when we had finished <i>our</i> voyage from Tyre, we came to Ptolemais, greeted the brethren, and stayed with them one day.


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On the next <i>day</i> we who were Paul’s companions departed and came to <f>[4†]</f>Caesarea, and entered the house of Philip <f>[5†]</f>the evangelist, <f>[6†]</f>who was <i>one</i> of the seven, and stayed with him.


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When he had come to us, he took Paul’s belt, bound his <i>own</i> hands and feet, and said, “Thus says the Holy Spirit, <f>[9†]</f>‘So shall the Jews at Jerusalem bind the man who owns this belt, and deliver <i>him</i> into the hands of the Gentiles.’ ”


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<pb/>Now when we heard these things, both we and those from that place pleaded with him not to go up to Jerusalem.


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Then Paul answered, <f>[10†]</f>“What do you mean by 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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<pb/>So when he would not be persuaded, we ceased, saying, <f>[11†]</f>“The will of the Lord be done.”


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Also some of the disciples from Caesarea went with us and brought with them a certain Mnason of Cyprus, an early disciple, with whom we were to lodge.


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On the following <i>day</i> Paul went in with us to <f>[13†]</f>James, and all the elders were present.


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When he had greeted them, <f>[14†]</f>he told in detail those things which God had done among the Gentiles <f>[15†]</f>through his ministry.


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but they have been informed about you that you teach all the Jews who are among the Gentiles to forsake Moses, saying that they ought not to circumcise <i>their</i> children nor to walk according to the customs.


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Take them and be purified with them, and pay their expenses so that they may <f>[17†]</f>shave <i>their</i> heads, and that all may know that those things of which they were informed concerning you are nothing, but <i>that</i> you yourself also walk orderly and keep the law.


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But concerning the Gentiles who believe, <f>[18†]</f>we have written <i>and</i> decided that they should observe no such thing, except that they should keep themselves from <i>things</i> offered to idols, from blood, from things strangled, and from sexual immorality.”


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<pb/>Then Paul took the men, and the next day, having been purified with them, <f>[19†]</f>entered the temple <f>[20†]</f>to announce the expiration of the days of purification, at which time an offering should be made for each one of them.


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<pb/>Now when the seven days were almost ended, <f>[21†]</f>the Jews from Asia, seeing him in the temple, stirred up the whole crowd and <f>[22†]</f>laid hands on him,


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crying out, “Men of Israel, help! This is the man <f>[23†]</f>who teaches all <i>men</i> everywhere against the people, the law, and this place; and furthermore he also brought Greeks into the temple and has defiled this holy place.”


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(For they had previously seen <f>[24†]</f>Trophimus the Ephesian with him in the city, whom they supposed that Paul had brought into the temple.)


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<pb/>And <f>[25†]</f>all the city was disturbed; and the people ran together, seized Paul, and dragged him out of the temple; and immediately the doors were shut.


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Now as they were <f>[26†]</f>seeking to kill him, news came to the commander of the garrison that all Jerusalem was in an uproar.


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<f>[27†]</f>He immediately took soldiers and centurions, and ran down to them. And when they saw the commander and the soldiers, they stopped beating Paul.


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Then the <f>[28†]</f>commander came near and took him, and <f>[29†]</f>commanded <i>him</i> to be bound with two chains; and he asked who he was and what he had done.


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And some among the multitude cried one thing and some another. <pb/>So when he could not ascertain the truth because of the tumult, he commanded him to be taken into the barracks.


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When he reached the stairs, he had to be carried by the soldiers because of the violence of the mob.


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<f>[31†]</f>Are you not the Egyptian who some time ago stirred up a rebellion and led the four thousand assassins out into the wilderness?”


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<pb/>But Paul said, <f>[32†]</f>“I am a Jew from Tarsus, in Cilicia, a citizen of no mean city; and I implore you, permit me to speak to the people.”


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<pb/>So when he had given him permission, Paul stood on the stairs and <f>[33†]</f>motioned with his hand to the people. And when there was a great silence, he spoke to <i>them</i> in the <f>[34†]</f>Hebrew language, saying,


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<f>[3†]</f>“I am indeed a Jew, born in Tarsus of Cilicia, but brought up in this city <f>[4†]</f>at the feet of <f>[5†]</f>Gamaliel, taught <f>[6†]</f>according to the strictness of our fathers’ law, and <f>[7†]</f>was zealous toward God <f>[8†]</f>as you all are today.


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<f>[9†]</f>I persecuted this Way to the death, binding and delivering into prisons both men and women,


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as also the high priest bears me witness, and <f>[10†]</f>all the council of the elders, <f>[11†]</f>from whom I also received letters to the brethren, and went to Damascus <f>[12†]</f>to bring in chains even those who were there to Jerusalem to be punished.


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<pb/>“Now <f>[13†]</f>it happened, as I journeyed and came near Damascus at about noon, suddenly a great light from heaven shone around me.


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And I fell to the ground and heard a voice saying to me, <J>‘Saul, Saul, why are you persecuting Me?’</J>


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So I answered, ‘Who are You, Lord?’ And He said to me, <J>‘I am Jesus of Nazareth, whom you are persecuting.’</J>


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<pb/>“And <f>[14†]</f>those 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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So I said, ‘What shall I do, Lord?’ And the Lord said to me, <J>‘Arise and go into Damascus, and there you will be told all things which are appointed for you to do.’</J>


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came to me; and he stood and said to me, ‘Brother Saul, receive your sight.’ And at that same hour I looked up at him.


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Then he said, <f>[18†]</f>‘The God of our fathers <f>[19†]</f>has chosen you that you should <f>[20†]</f>know His will, and <f>[21†]</f>see the Just One, <f>[22†]</f>and hear the voice of His mouth.


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And now why are you waiting? Arise and be baptized, <f>[25†]</f>and wash away your sins, <f>[26†]</f>calling on the name of the Lord.’


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and <f>[28†]</f>saw Him saying to me, <f>[29†]</f><J>‘Make haste and get out of Jerusalem quickly, for they will not receive your testimony concerning Me.’</J>


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So I said, ‘Lord, <f>[30†]</f>they know that in every synagogue I imprisoned and <f>[31†]</f>beat those who believe on You.


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<f>[32†]</f>And when the blood of Your martyr Stephen was shed, I also was standing by <f>[33†]</f>consenting to his death, and guarding the clothes of those who were killing him.’


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Then He said to me, <J>‘Depart, </J> <f>[34†]</f><J>for I will send you far from here to the Gentiles.’</J> ”


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<pb/>And they listened to him until this word, and <i>then</i> they raised their voices and said, <f>[35†]</f>“Away with such a <i>fellow</i> from the earth, for <f>[36†]</f>he is not fit to live!”


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the commander ordered him to be brought into the barracks, and said that he should be examined under scourging, so that he might know why they shouted so against him.


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And as they bound him with thongs, Paul said to the centurion who stood by, <f>[37†]</f>“Is it lawful for you to scourge a man who is a Roman, and uncondemned?”


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<pb/>When the centurion heard <i>that,</i> he went and told the commander, saying, “Take care what you do, for this man is a Roman.”


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<pb/>The commander answered, “With a large sum I obtained this citizenship.” <pb/>And Paul said, “But I was born <i>a</i> <i>citizen.</i>”


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<pb/>Then immediately those who were about to examine him withdrew from him; and the commander was also afraid after he found out that he was a Roman, and because he had bound him.


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<pb/>The next day, because he wanted to know for certain why he was accused by the Jews, he released him from <i>his</i> bonds, and commanded the chief priests and all their council to appear, and brought Paul down and set him before them.


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<pb/>Then Paul, looking earnestly at the council, said, “Men <i>and</i> brethren, <f>[1†]</f>I have lived in all good conscience before God until this day.”


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Then Paul said to him, “God will strike you, <i>you</i> whitewashed wall! For you sit to judge me according to the law, and <f>[3†]</f>do you command me to be struck contrary to the law?”


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<pb/>Then Paul said, <f>[4†]</f>“I did not know, brethren, that he was the high priest; for it is written, <f>[5†]</f>‘You shall not speak evil of a ruler of your people.’ ”


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<pb/>But when Paul perceived that one part were Sadducees and the other Pharisees, he cried out in the council, “Men <i>and</i> brethren, <f>[6†]</f>I am a Pharisee, the son of a Pharisee; <f>[7†]</f>concerning the hope and resurrection of the dead I am being judged!”


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<pb/>And when he had said this, a dissension arose between the Pharisees and the Sadducees; and the assembly was divided.


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Then there arose a loud outcry. And the scribes of the Pharisees’ party arose and protested, saying, <f>[9†]</f>“We find no evil in this man; but <f>[10†]</f>if a spirit or an angel has spoken to him, <f>[11†]</f>let us not fight against God.”


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<pb/>Now when there arose a great dissension, the commander, fearing lest Paul might be pulled to pieces by them, commanded the soldiers to go down and take him by force from among them, and bring <i>him</i> into the barracks.


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<pb/>But <f>[12†]</f>the following night the Lord stood by him and said, <J>“Be of good cheer, Paul; for as you have testified for Me in </J> <f>[13†]</f><J>Jerusalem, so you must also bear witness at </J> <f>[14†]</f><J>Rome.”</J>


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<pb/>And when it was day, <f>[15†]</f>some of the Jews banded together and bound themselves under an oath, saying that they would neither eat nor drink till they had <f>[16†]</f>killed Paul.


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They came to the chief priests and <f>[17†]</f>elders, and said, “We have bound ourselves under a great oath that we will eat nothing until we have killed Paul.


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Now you, therefore, together with the council, suggest to the commander that he be brought down to you tomorrow, as though you were going to make further inquiries concerning him; but we are ready to kill him before he comes near.”


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<pb/>So when Paul’s sister’s son heard of their ambush, he went and entered the barracks and told Paul.


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Then Paul called one of the centurions to <i>him</i> and said, “Take this young man to the commander, for he has something to tell him.”


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So he took him and brought <i>him</i> to the commander and said, “Paul the prisoner called me to <i>him</i> and asked <i>me</i> to bring this young man to you. He has something to say to you.”


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<pb/>Then the commander took him by the hand, went aside, and asked privately, “What is it that you have to tell me?”


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<pb/>And he said, <f>[18†]</f>“The Jews have agreed to ask that you bring Paul down to the council tomorrow, as though they were going to inquire more fully about him.


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But do not yield to them, for more than forty of them lie in wait for him, men who have bound themselves by an oath that they will neither eat nor drink till they have killed him; and now they are ready, waiting for the promise from you.”


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<pb/>So the commander let the young man depart, and commanded <i>him,</i> “Tell no one that you have revealed these things to me.”


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<pb/>And he called for two centurions, saying, “Prepare two hundred soldiers, seventy horsemen, and two hundred spearmen to go to <f>[19†]</f>Caesarea at the third hour of the night;


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<t> <f>[20†]</f>This man was seized by the Jews and was about to be killed by them. Coming with the troops I rescued him, having learned that he was a Roman. </t>


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<t> <f>[21†]</f>And when I wanted to know the reason they accused him, I brought him before their council. </t>


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<t>I found out that he was accused <f>[22†]</f>concerning questions of their law, <f>[23†]</f>but had nothing charged against him deserving of death or chains. </t>


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<t>And <f>[24†]</f>when it was told me that the Jews lay in wait for the man, I sent him immediately to you, and <f>[25†]</f>also commanded his accusers to state before you the charges against him. </t><t>Farewell.</t>


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<pb/>Then the soldiers, as they were commanded, took Paul and brought <i>him</i> by night to Antipatris.


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When they came to <f>[26†]</f>Caesarea and had delivered the <f>[27†]</f>letter to the governor, they also presented Paul to him.


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And when the governor had read <i>it,</i> he asked what province he was from. And when he understood that <i>he</i> <i>was</i> from <f>[28†]</f>Cilicia,


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he said, <f>[29†]</f>“I will hear you when your accusers also have come.” And he commanded him to be kept in <f>[30†]</f>Herod’s Praetorium.


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<pb/>Now after <f>[1†]</f>five days <f>[2†]</f>Ananias the high priest came down with the elders and a certain orator <i>named</i> Tertullus. These gave evidence to the governor against Paul.


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<pb/>And when he was called upon, Tertullus began his accusation, saying: “Seeing that through you we enjoy great peace, and prosperity is being brought to this nation by your foresight,


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Nevertheless, not to be tedious to you any further, I beg you to hear, by your courtesy, a few words from us.


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<f>[3†]</f>For we have found this man a plague, a creator of dissension among all the Jews throughout the world, and a ringleader of the sect of the Nazarenes.


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<f>[4†]</f>He even tried to profane the temple, and we seized him, and wanted <f>[5†]</f>to judge him according to our law.


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<f>[6†]</f>But the commander Lysias came by and with great violence took <i>him</i> out of our hands,


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<f>[7†]</f>commanding his accusers to come to you. By examining him yourself you may ascertain all these things of which we accuse him.”


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<pb/>Then Paul, after the governor had nodded to him to speak, answered: “Inasmuch as I know that you have been for many years a judge of this nation, I do the more cheerfully answer for myself,


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because you may ascertain that it is no more than twelve days since I went up to Jerusalem <f>[8†]</f>to worship.


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<f>[9†]</f>And they neither found me in the temple disputing with anyone nor inciting the crowd, either in the synagogues or in the city.


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But this I confess to you, that according to <f>[10†]</f>the Way which they call a sect, so I worship the <f>[11†]</f>God of my fathers, believing all things which are written in <f>[12†]</f>the Law and in the Prophets.


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<f>[13†]</f>I have hope in God, which they themselves also accept, <f>[14†]</f>that there will be a resurrection of <i>the</i> dead, both of <i>the</i> just and <i>the</i> unjust.


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<f>[15†]</f>This <i>being</i> so, I myself always strive to have a conscience without offense toward God and men.


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<f>[17†]</f>in the midst of which some Jews from Asia found me <f>[18†]</f>purified in the temple, neither with a mob nor with tumult.


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unless <i>it</i> <i>is</i> for this one statement which I cried out, standing among them, <f>[20†]</f>‘Concerning the resurrection of the dead I am being judged by you this day.’ ”


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<pb/>But when Felix heard these things, having more accurate knowledge of <i>the</i> <f>[21†]</f>Way, he adjourned the proceedings and said, “When <f>[22†]</f>Lysias the commander comes down, I will make a decision on your case.”


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So he commanded the centurion to keep Paul and to let <i>him</i> have liberty, and <f>[23†]</f>told him not to forbid any of his friends to provide for or visit him.


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<pb/>And after some days, when Felix came with his wife Drusilla, who was Jewish, he sent for Paul and heard him concerning the <f>[24†]</f>faith in Christ.


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Now as he reasoned about righteousness, self-control, and the judgment to come, Felix was afraid and answered, “Go away for now; when I have a convenient time I will call for you.”


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Meanwhile he also hoped that <f>[25†]</f>money would be given him by Paul, that he might release him. Therefore he sent for him more often and conversed with him.


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<pb/>But after two years Porcius Festus succeeded Felix; and Felix, <f>[26†]</f>wanting to do the Jews a favor, left Paul bound.


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<pb/>Now when Festus had come to the province, after three days he went up from <f>[1†]</f>Caesarea to Jerusalem.


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asking a favor against him, that he would summon him to Jerusalem— <f>[3†]</f>while <i>they</i> lay in ambush along the road to kill him.


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But Festus answered that Paul should be kept at Caesarea, and that he himself was going <i>there</i> shortly.


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“Therefore,” he said, “let those who have authority among you go down with <i>me</i> and accuse this man, to see <f>[4†]</f>if there is any fault in him.”


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<pb/>And when he had remained among them more than ten days, he went down to Caesarea. And the next day, sitting on the judgment seat, he commanded Paul to be brought.


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while he answered for himself, <f>[6†]</f>“Neither against the law of the Jews, nor against the temple, nor against Caesar have I offended in anything at all.”


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<pb/>But Festus, <f>[7†]</f>wanting to do the Jews a favor, answered Paul and said, <f>[8†]</f>“Are you willing to go up to Jerusalem and there be judged before me concerning these things?”


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<pb/>So Paul said, “I stand at Caesar’s judgment seat, where I ought to be judged. To the Jews I have done no wrong, as you very well know.


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<f>[9†]</f>For if I am an offender, or have committed anything deserving of death, I do not object to dying; but if there is nothing in these things of which these men accuse me, no one can deliver me to them. <f>[10†]</f>I appeal to Caesar.”


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<pb/>Then Festus, when he had conferred with the council, answered, “You have appealed to Caesar? To Caesar you shall go!”


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<f>[12†]</f>about whom the chief priests and the elders of the Jews informed <i>me,</i> when I was in Jerusalem, asking for a judgment against him.


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<f>[13†]</f>To them I answered, ‘It is not the custom of the Romans to deliver any man to destruction before the accused meets the accusers face to face, and has opportunity to answer for himself concerning the charge against him.’


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<f>[15†]</f>but had some questions against him about their own religion and about a certain Jesus, who had died, whom Paul affirmed to be alive.


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And because I was uncertain of such questions, I asked whether he was willing to go to Jerusalem and there be judged concerning these matters.


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But when Paul <f>[16†]</f>appealed to be reserved for the decision of Augustus, I commanded him to be kept till I could send him to Caesar.”


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<pb/>Then <f>[17†]</f>Agrippa said to Festus, “I also would like to hear the man myself.” <pb/>“Tomorrow,” he said, “you shall hear him.”


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<pb/>So the next day, when Agrippa and Bernice had come with great pomp, and had entered the auditorium with the commanders and the prominent men of the city, at Festus’ command <f>[18†]</f>Paul was brought in.


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And Festus said: “King Agrippa and all the men who are here present with us, you see this man about whom <f>[19†]</f>the whole assembly of the Jews petitioned me, both at Jerusalem and here, crying out that he was <f>[20†]</f>not fit to live any longer.


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But when I found that <f>[21†]</f>he had committed nothing deserving of death, <f>[22†]</f>and that he himself had appealed to Augustus, I decided to send him.


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I have nothing certain to write to my lord concerning him. Therefore I have brought him out before you, and especially before you, King Agrippa, so that after the examination has taken place I may have something to write.


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“I think myself <f>[1†]</f>happy, King Agrippa, because today I shall answer <f>[2†]</f>for myself before you concerning all the things of which I am <f>[3†]</f>accused by the Jews,


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especially because you are expert in all customs and questions which have to do with the Jews. Therefore I beg you to hear me patiently.


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<pb/>“My manner of life from my youth, which was spent from the beginning among my own nation at Jerusalem, all the Jews know.


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They knew me from the first, if they were willing to testify, that according to <f>[4†]</f>the strictest sect of our religion I lived a Pharisee.


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<f>[5†]</f>And now I stand and am judged for the hope of <f>[6†]</f>the promise made by God to our fathers.


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To this <i>promise</i> <f>[7†]</f>our twelve tribes, earnestly serving <i>God</i> <f>[8†]</f>night and day, <f>[9†]</f>hope to attain. For this hope’s sake, King Agrippa, I am accused by the Jews.


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<f>[12†]</f>This I also did in Jerusalem, and many of the saints I shut up in prison, having received authority <f>[13†]</f>from the chief priests; and when they were put to death, I cast my vote against <i>them.</i>


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at midday, O king, along the road I saw a light from heaven, brighter than the sun, shining around me and those who journeyed with me.


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And when we all had fallen to the ground, I heard a voice speaking to me and saying in the Hebrew language, <J>‘Saul, Saul, why are you persecuting Me? </J><i><J>It is</J></i><J> hard for you to kick against the goads.’</J>


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<J>But rise and stand on your feet; for I have appeared to you for this purpose, </J> <f>[16†]</f><J>to make you a minister and a witness both of the things which you have seen and of the things which I will yet reveal to you.</J>


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<f>[18†]</f><J>to open their eyes, </J><i><J>in order</J></i> <f>[19†]</f><J>to turn </J><i><J>them</J></i><J> from darkness to light, and </J><i><J>from</J></i><J> the power of Satan to God, </J> <f>[20†]</f><J>that they may receive forgiveness of sins and </J> <f>[21†]</f><J>an inheritance among those who are </J> <f>[22†]</f><J>sanctified</J><J> by faith in Me.’</J>


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but <f>[23†]</f>declared first to those in Damascus and in Jerusalem, and throughout all the region of Judea, and <i>then</i> to the Gentiles, that they should repent, turn to God, and do <f>[24†]</f>works befitting repentance.


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Therefore, having obtained help from God, to this day I stand, witnessing both to small and great, saying no other things than those <f>[25†]</f>which the prophets and <f>[26†]</f>Moses said would come—


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<f>[27†]</f>that the Christ would suffer, <f>[28†]</f>that He would be the first to rise from the dead, and <f>[29†]</f>would proclaim light to the <i>Jewish</i> people and to the Gentiles.”


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<pb/>Now as he thus made his defense, Festus said with a loud voice, “Paul, <f>[30†]</f>you are beside yourself! Much learning is driving you mad!”


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For the king, before whom I also speak freely, <f>[31†]</f>knows these things; for I am convinced that none of these things escapes his attention, since this thing was not done in a corner.


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<pb/>And Paul said, <f>[32†]</f>“I would to God that not only you, but also all who hear me today, might become both almost and altogether such as I am, except for these chains.”


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<pb/>When he had said these things, the king stood up, as well as the governor and Bernice and those who sat with them;


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and when they had gone aside, they talked among themselves, saying, <f>[33†]</f>“This man is doing nothing deserving of death or chains.”


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<pb/>Then Agrippa said to Festus, “This man might have been set <f>[34†]</f>free <f>[35†]</f>if he had not appealed to Caesar.”


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<pb/>And when <f>[1†]</f>it was decided that we should sail to Italy, they delivered Paul and some other prisoners to <i>one</i> named Julius, a centurion of the Augustan Regiment.


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So, entering a ship of Adramyttium, we put to sea, meaning to sail along the coasts of Asia. <f>[2†]</f>Aristarchus, a Macedonian of Thessalonica, was with us.


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And the next <i>day</i> we landed at Sidon. And Julius <f>[3†]</f>treated Paul kindly and gave <i>him</i> liberty to go to his friends and receive care.


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When we had put to sea from there, we sailed under <i>the</i> <i>shelter</i> <i>of</i> Cyprus, because the winds were contrary.


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<pb/>When we had sailed slowly many days, and arrived with difficulty off Cnidus, the wind not permitting us to proceed, we sailed under <i>the</i> <i>shelter</i> <i>of</i> <f>[5†]</f>Crete off Salmone.


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<pb/>Now when much time had been spent, and sailing was now dangerous <f>[6†]</f>because the Fast was already over, Paul advised them,


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saying, “Men, I perceive that this voyage will end with disaster and much loss, not only of the cargo and ship, but also our lives.”


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Nevertheless the centurion was more persuaded by the helmsman and the owner of the ship than by the things spoken by Paul.


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And because the harbor was not suitable to winter in, the majority advised to set sail from there also, if by any means they could reach Phoenix, a harbor of Crete opening toward the southwest and northwest, <i>and</i> winter <i>there.</i>


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<pb/>When the south wind blew softly, supposing that they had obtained <i>their</i> desire, putting out to sea, they sailed close by Crete.


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And running under <i>the</i> <i>shelter</i> <i>of</i> an island called Clauda, we secured the skiff with difficulty.


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When they had taken it on board, they used cables to undergird the ship; and fearing lest they should run aground on the Syrtis <i>Sands,</i> they struck sail and so were driven.


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Now when neither sun nor stars appeared for many days, and no small tempest beat on <i>us,</i> all hope that we would be saved was finally given up.


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<pb/>But after long abstinence from food, then Paul stood in the midst of them and said, “Men, you should have listened to me, and not have sailed from Crete and incurred this disaster and loss.


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saying, ‘Do not be afraid, Paul; you must be brought before Caesar; and indeed God has granted you all those who sail with you.’


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<pb/>Now when the fourteenth night had come, as we were driven up and down in the Adriatic <i>Sea,</i> about midnight the sailors sensed that they were drawing near some land.


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And they took soundings and found <i>it</i> to be twenty fathoms; and when they had gone a little farther, they took soundings again and found <i>it</i> to be fifteen fathoms.


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Then, fearing lest we should run aground on the rocks, they dropped four anchors from the stern, and prayed for day to come.


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And as the sailors were seeking to escape from the ship, when they had let down the skiff into the sea, under pretense of putting out anchors from the prow,


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Paul said to the centurion and the soldiers, “Unless these men stay in the ship, you cannot be saved.”


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<pb/>And as day was about to dawn, Paul implored <i>them</i> all to take food, saying, “Today is the fourteenth day you have waited and continued without food, and eaten nothing.


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Therefore I urge you to take nourishment, for this is for your survival, <f>[12†]</f>since not a hair will fall from the head of any of you.”


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And when he had said these things, he took bread and <f>[13†]</f>gave thanks to God in the presence of them all; and when he had broken <i>it</i> he began to eat.


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<pb/>When it was day, they did not recognize the land; but they observed a bay with a beach, onto which they planned to run the ship if possible.


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And they let go the anchors and left <i>them</i> in the sea, meanwhile loosing the rudder ropes; and they hoisted the mainsail to the wind and made for shore.


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But striking a place where two seas met, <f>[15†]</f>they ran the ship aground; and the prow stuck fast and remained immovable, but the stern was being broken up by the violence of the waves.


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<pb/>And the soldiers’ plan was to kill the prisoners, lest any of them should swim away and escape.


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But the centurion, wanting to save Paul, kept them from <i>their</i> purpose, and commanded that those who could swim should jump <i>overboard</i> first and get to land,


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and the rest, some on boards and some on <i>parts</i> of the ship. And so it was <f>[16†]</f>that they all escaped safely to land.


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And the <f>[2†]</f>natives showed us unusual kindness; for they kindled a fire and made us all welcome, because of the rain that was falling and because of the cold.


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But when Paul had gathered a bundle of sticks and laid <i>them</i> on the fire, a viper came out because of the heat, and fastened on his hand.


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So when the natives saw the creature hanging from his hand, they said to one another, “No doubt this man is a murderer, whom, though he has escaped the sea, yet justice does not allow to live.”


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However, they were expecting that he would swell up or suddenly fall down dead. But after they had looked for a long time and saw no harm come to him, they changed their minds and <f>[4†]</f>said that he was a god.


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<pb/>In that region there was an estate of the leading citizen of the island, whose name was Publius, who received us and entertained us courteously for three days.


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And it happened that the father of Publius lay sick of a fever and dysentery. Paul went in to him and <f>[5†]</f>prayed, and <f>[6†]</f>he laid his hands on him and healed him.


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They also honored us in many <f>[7†]</f>ways; and when we departed, they provided such things as were <f>[8†]</f>necessary.


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<pb/>After three months we sailed in <f>[9†]</f>an Alexandrian ship whose figurehead was the Twin Brothers, which had wintered at the island.


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where we found <f>[10†]</f>brethren, and were invited to stay with them seven days. And so we went toward Rome.


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And from there, when the brethren heard about us, they came to meet us as far as Appii Forum and Three Inns. When Paul saw them, he thanked God and took courage.


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<pb/>Now when we came to Rome, the centurion delivered the prisoners to the captain of the guard; but <f>[11†]</f>Paul was permitted to dwell by himself with the soldier who guarded him.


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<pb/>And it came to pass after three days that Paul called the leaders of the Jews together. So when they had come together, he said to them: “Men <i>and</i> brethren, <f>[12†]</f>though I have done nothing against our people or the customs of our fathers, yet <f>[13†]</f>I was delivered as a prisoner from Jerusalem into the hands of the Romans,


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who, <f>[14†]</f>when they had examined me, wanted to let <i>me</i> go, because there was no cause for putting me to death.


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But when the Jews spoke against <i>it,</i> <f>[15†]</f>I was compelled to appeal to Caesar, not that I had anything of which to accuse my nation.


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For this reason therefore I have called for you, to see <i>you</i> and speak with <i>you,</i> because <f>[16†]</f>for the hope of Israel I am bound with <f>[17†]</f>this chain.”


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<pb/>Then they said to him, “We neither received letters from Judea concerning you, nor have any of the brethren who came reported or spoken any evil of you.


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But we desire to hear from you what you think; for concerning this sect, we know that <f>[18†]</f>it is spoken against everywhere.”


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<pb/>So when they had appointed him a day, many came to him at <i>his</i> lodging, <f>[19†]</f>to whom he explained and solemnly testified of the kingdom of God, persuading them concerning Jesus <f>[20†]</f>from both the Law of Moses and the Prophets, from morning till evening.


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saying, <pb/><t> <f>[22†]</f>‘Go to this people and say: </t><t>“Hearing you will hear, and shall not understand; </t><t>And seeing you will see, and not perceive;</t>


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<t>For the hearts of this people have grown dull. </t><t><i>Their</i> ears are hard of hearing, </t><t>And their eyes they have closed, </t><t>Lest they should see with <i>their</i> eyes and hear with <i>their</i> ears, </t><t>Lest they should understand with <i>their</i> hearts and turn, </t><t>So that I should heal them.” ’</t>


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<pb/>“Therefore let it be known to you that the salvation of God has been sent <f>[23†]</f>to the Gentiles, and they will hear it!”


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<f>[24†]</f>preaching the kingdom of God and teaching the things which concern the Lord Jesus Christ with all confidence, no one forbidding him.


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<pb/>Paul, a bondservant of Jesus Christ, <f>[1†]</f>called <i>to</i> <i>be</i> an apostle, <f>[2†]</f>separated to the gospel of God


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concerning His Son Jesus Christ our Lord, who was <f>[5†]</f>born of the seed of David according to the flesh,


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<i>and</i> <f>[6†]</f>declared <i>to</i> <i>be</i> the Son of God with power according <f>[7†]</f>to the Spirit of holiness, by the resurrection from the dead.


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Through Him <f>[8†]</f>we have received grace and apostleship for <f>[9†]</f>obedience to the faith among all nations <f>[10†]</f>for His name,


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<pb/>To all who are in Rome, beloved of God, <f>[11†]</f>called <i>to</i> <i>be</i> saints: <pb/> <f>[12†]</f>Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.


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<pb/>First, <f>[13†]</f>I thank my God through Jesus Christ for you all, that <f>[14†]</f>your faith is spoken of throughout the whole world.


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For <f>[15†]</f>God is my witness, <f>[16†]</f>whom I serve with my spirit in the gospel of His Son, that <f>[17†]</f>without ceasing I make mention of you always in my prayers,


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For I long to see you, that <f>[18†]</f>I may impart to you some spiritual gift, so that you may be established—


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that is, that I may be encouraged together with you by <f>[19†]</f>the mutual faith both of you and me.


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<pb/>Now I do not want you to be unaware, brethren, that I often planned to come to you (but <f>[20†]</f>was hindered until now), that I might have some <f>[21†]</f>fruit among you also, just as among the other Gentiles.


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<pb/>For <f>[22†]</f>I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ, for <f>[23†]</f>it is the power of God to salvation for everyone who believes, <f>[24†]</f>for the Jew first and also for the Greek.


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For <f>[25†]</f>in it the righteousness of God is revealed from faith to faith; as it is written, <f>[26†]</f>“The just shall live by faith.”


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<pb/> <f>[27†]</f>For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and <f>[28†]</f>unrighteousness of men, who suppress the truth in unrighteousness,


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because <f>[29†]</f>what may be known of God is manifest in them, for <f>[30†]</f>God has shown <i>it</i> to them.


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For since the creation of the world <f>[31†]</f>His invisible <i>attributes</i> are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, <i>even</i> His eternal power and Godhead, so that they are without excuse,


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because, although they knew God, they did not glorify <i>Him</i> as God, nor were thankful, but <f>[32†]</f>became futile in their thoughts, and their foolish hearts were darkened.


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and changed the glory of the <f>[34†]</f>incorruptible <f>[35†]</f>God into an image made like corruptible man—and birds and four-footed animals and creeping things.


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<pb/> <f>[36†]</f>Therefore God also gave them up to uncleanness, in the lusts of their hearts, <f>[37†]</f>to dishonor their bodies <f>[38†]</f>among themselves,


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who exchanged <f>[39†]</f>the truth of God <f>[40†]</f>for the lie, and worshiped and served the creature rather than the Creator, who is blessed forever. Amen.


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<pb/>For this reason God gave them up to <f>[41†]</f>vile passions. For even their women exchanged the natural use for what is against nature.


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Likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust for one another, men with men committing what is shameful, and receiving in themselves the penalty of their error which was due.


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<pb/>And even as they did not like to retain God in <i>their</i> knowledge, God gave them over to a debased mind, to do those things <f>[42†]</f>which are not fitting;


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being filled with all unrighteousness, sexual immorality, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, evil-mindedness; <i>they</i> <i>are</i> whisperers,


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backbiters, haters of God, violent, proud, boasters, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents,


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who, <f>[43†]</f>knowing the righteous judgment of God, that those who practice such things <f>[44†]</f>are deserving of death, not only do the same but also <f>[45†]</f>approve of those who practice them.


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<pb/>Therefore you are <f>[1†]</f>inexcusable, O man, whoever you are who judge, <f>[2†]</f>for in whatever you judge another you condemn yourself; for you who judge practice the same things.


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And do you think this, O man, you who judge those practicing such things, and doing the same, that you will escape the judgment of God?


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Or do you despise <f>[3†]</f>the riches of His goodness, <f>[4†]</f>forbearance, and <f>[5†]</f>longsuffering, <f>[6†]</f>not knowing that the goodness of God leads you to repentance?


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But in accordance with your hardness and your impenitent heart <f>[7†]</f>you are treasuring up for yourself wrath in the day of wrath and revelation of the righteous judgment of God,


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eternal life to those who by patient continuance in doing good seek for glory, honor, and immortality;


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but to those who are self-seeking and <f>[9†]</f>do not obey the truth, but obey unrighteousness—indignation and wrath,


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tribulation and anguish, on every soul of man who does evil, of the Jew <f>[10†]</f>first and also of the Greek;


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<f>[11†]</f>but glory, honor, and peace to everyone who works what is good, to the Jew first and also to the Greek.


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<pb/>For as many as have sinned without law will also perish without law, and as many as have sinned in the law will be judged by the law


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(for <f>[13†]</f>not the hearers of the law <i>are</i> just in the sight of God, but the doers of the law will be justified;


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for when Gentiles, who do not have the law, by nature do the things in the law, these, although not having the law, are a law to themselves,


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who show the <f>[14†]</f>work of the law written in their hearts, their <f>[15†]</f>conscience also bearing witness, and between themselves <i>their</i> thoughts accusing or else excusing <i>them</i>)


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<f>[16†]</f>in the day when God will judge the secrets of men <f>[17†]</f>by Jesus Christ, <f>[18†]</f>according to my gospel.


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<pb/>Indeed <f>[19†]</f>you are called a Jew, and <f>[20†]</f>rest on the law, <f>[21†]</f>and make your boast in God,


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and <f>[22†]</f>know <i>His</i> will, and <f>[23†]</f>approve the things that are excellent, being instructed out of the law,


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and <f>[24†]</f>are confident that you yourself are a guide to the blind, a light to those who are in darkness,


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an instructor of the foolish, a teacher of babes, <f>[25†]</f>having the form of knowledge and truth in the law.


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<f>[26†]</f>You, therefore, who teach another, do you not teach yourself? You who preach that a man should not steal, do you steal?


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<pb/> <f>[31†]</f>For circumcision is indeed profitable if you keep the law; but if you are a breaker of the law, your circumcision has become uncircumcision.


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And will not the physically uncircumcised, if he fulfills the law, <f>[33†]</f>judge you who, <i>even</i> with <i>your</i> written <i>code</i> and circumcision, <i>are</i> a transgressor of the law?


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For what if <f>[2†]</f>some did not believe? <f>[3†]</f>Will their unbelief make the faithfulness of God without effect?


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<pb/>But if our unrighteousness demonstrates the righteousness of God, what shall we say? <i>Is</i> God unjust who inflicts wrath? <f>[8†]</f>(I speak as a man.)


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<pb/>For if the truth of God has increased through my lie to His glory, why am I also still judged as a sinner?


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<pb/>What then? Are we better <i>than</i> <i>they?</i> Not at all. For we have previously charged both Jews and Greeks that <f>[11†]</f>they are all under sin.


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<t>They have all turned aside; </t><t>They have together become unprofitable; </t><t>There is none who does good, no, not one.”</t>


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<pb/>Now we know that whatever <f>[18†]</f>the law says, it says to those who are under the law, that <f>[19†]</f>every mouth may be stopped, and all the world may become guilty before God.


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<pb/>But now <f>[21†]</f>the righteousness of God apart from the law is revealed, <f>[22†]</f>being witnessed by the Law <f>[23†]</f>and the Prophets,


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even the righteousness of God, through faith in Jesus Christ, to all and on all who believe. For <f>[24†]</f>there is no difference;


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being justified freely <f>[26†]</f>by His grace <f>[27†]</f>through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus,


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whom God set forth <f>[28†]</f><i>as</i> a propitiation <f>[29†]</f>by His blood, through faith, to demonstrate His righteousness, because in His forbearance God had passed over <f>[30†]</f>the sins that were previously committed,


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to demonstrate at the present time His righteousness, that He might be just and the justifier of the one who has faith in Jesus.


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<pb/> <f>[31†]</f>Where <i>is</i> boasting then? It is excluded. By what law? Of works? No, but by the law of faith.


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<pb/>What then shall we say that <f>[1†]</f>Abraham our <f>[2†]</f>father has found according to the flesh?


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For if Abraham was <f>[3†]</f>justified by works, he has <i>something</i> to boast about, but not before God.


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For what does the Scripture say? <f>[4†]</f>“Abraham believed God, and it was accounted to him for righteousness.”


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<pb/><t>“Blessed <f>[9†]</f> <i>are</i> <i>those</i> whose lawless deeds are forgiven, </t><t>And whose sins are covered;</t>


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<pb/><i>Does</i> this blessedness then <i>come</i> upon the circumcised <i>only,</i> or upon the uncircumcised also? For we say that faith was accounted to Abraham for righteousness.


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And <f>[10†]</f>he received the sign of circumcision, a seal of the righteousness of the faith which <i>he</i> <i>had</i> <i>while</i> <i>still</i> uncircumcised, that <f>[11†]</f>he might be the father of all those who believe, though they are uncircumcised, that righteousness might be imputed to them also,


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and the father of circumcision to those who not only <i>are</i> of the circumcision, but who also walk in the steps of the faith which our father <f>[12†]</f>Abraham <i>had</i> <i>while</i> <i>still</i> uncircumcised.


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<pb/>For the promise that he would be the <f>[13†]</f>heir of the world <i>was</i> not to Abraham or to his seed through the law, but through the righteousness of faith.


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(as it is written, <f>[19†]</f>“I have made you a father of many nations”) in the presence of Him whom he believed—God, <f>[20†]</f>who gives life to the dead and calls those <f>[21†]</f>things which do not exist as though they did;


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who, contrary to hope, in hope believed, so that he became the father of many nations, according to what was spoken, <f>[22†]</f>“So shall your descendants be.”


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but also for us. It shall be imputed to us who believe <f>[28†]</f>in Him who raised up Jesus our Lord from the dead,


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<f>[29†]</f>who was delivered up because of our offenses, and <f>[30†]</f>was raised because of our justification.


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<pb/>Therefore, <f>[1†]</f>having been justified by faith, we have <f>[2†]</f>peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ,


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<f>[3†]</f>through whom also we have access by faith into this grace <f>[4†]</f>in which we stand, and <f>[5†]</f>rejoice in hope of the glory of God.


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<f>[9†]</f>Now hope does not disappoint, <f>[10†]</f>because the love of God has been poured out in our hearts by the Holy Spirit who was given to us.


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But the free gift <i>is</i> not like the offense. For if by the one man’s offense many died, much more the grace of God and the gift by the grace of the one Man, Jesus Christ, abounded <f>[23†]</f>to many.


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And the gift <i>is</i> not like <i>that</i> <i>which</i> <i>came</i> through the one who sinned. For the judgment <i>which</i> <i>came</i> from one <i>offense</i> <i>resulted</i> in condemnation, but the free gift <i>which</i> <i>came</i> from many offenses <i>resulted</i> in justification.


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For if by the one man’s offense death reigned through the one, much more those who receive abundance of grace and of the gift of righteousness will reign in life through the One, Jesus Christ.)


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<pb/>Therefore, as through one man’s offense <i>judgment</i> <i>came</i> to all men, resulting in condemnation, even so through <f>[24†]</f>one Man’s righteous act <i>the</i> <i>free</i> <i>gift</i> <i>came</i> <f>[25†]</f>to all men, resulting in justification of life.


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For as by one man’s disobedience many were made sinners, so also by <f>[26†]</f>one Man’s obedience many will be made righteous.


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<pb/>Moreover <f>[27†]</f>the law entered that the offense might abound. But where sin abounded, grace <f>[28†]</f>abounded much more,


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


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Or do you not know that <f>[3†]</f>as many of us as were baptized into Christ Jesus <f>[4†]</f>were baptized into His death?


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Therefore we were <f>[5†]</f>buried with Him through baptism into death, that <f>[6†]</f>just as Christ was raised from the dead by <f>[7†]</f>the glory of the Father, <f>[8†]</f>even so we also should walk in newness of life.


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<pb/> <f>[9†]</f>For if we have been united together in the likeness of His death, certainly we also shall be <i>in</i> <i>the</i> <i>likeness</i> of <i>His</i> resurrection,


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knowing this, that <f>[10†]</f>our old man was crucified with <i>Him,</i> that <f>[11†]</f>the body of sin might be done away with, that we should no longer be slaves of sin.


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knowing that <f>[14†]</f>Christ, having been raised from the dead, dies no more. Death no longer has dominion over Him.


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For <i>the</i> <i>death</i> that He died, <f>[15†]</f>He died to sin once for all; but <i>the</i> <i>life</i> that He lives, <f>[16†]</f>He lives to God.


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Likewise you also, reckon yourselves to be <f>[17†]</f>dead indeed to sin, but <f>[18†]</f>alive to God in Christ Jesus our Lord.


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<pb/> <f>[19†]</f>Therefore do not let sin reign in your mortal body, that you should obey it in its lusts.


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And do not present your <f>[20†]</f>members <i>as</i> instruments of unrighteousness to sin, but <f>[21†]</f>present yourselves to God as being alive from the dead, and your members <i>as</i> instruments of righteousness to God.


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<pb/>What then? Shall we sin <f>[23†]</f>because we are not under law but under grace? Certainly not!


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Do you not know that <f>[24†]</f>to whom you present yourselves slaves to obey, you are that one’s slaves whom you obey, whether of sin <i>leading</i> to death, or of obedience <i>leading</i> to righteousness?


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But God be thanked that <i>though</i> you were slaves of sin, yet you obeyed from the heart <f>[25†]</f>that form of doctrine to which you were delivered.


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I speak in human <i>terms</i> because of the weakness of your flesh. For just as you presented your members <i>as</i> slaves of uncleanness, and of lawlessness <i>leading</i> to <i>more</i> lawlessness, so now present your members <i>as</i> slaves <i>of</i> righteousness for holiness.


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<f>[28†]</f>What fruit did you have then in the things of which you are now ashamed? For <f>[29†]</f>the end of those things <i>is</i> death.


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But now <f>[30†]</f>having been set free from sin, and having become slaves of God, you have your fruit to holiness, and the end, everlasting life.


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For <f>[31†]</f>the wages of sin <i>is</i> death, but <f>[32†]</f>the gift of God <i>is</i> eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.


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<pb/>Or do you not know, brethren (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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For <f>[1†]</f>the woman who has a husband is bound by the law to <i>her</i> husband as long as he lives. But if the husband dies, she is released from the law of <i>her</i> husband.


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So then <f>[2†]</f>if, while <i>her</i> husband lives, she marries another man, she will be called an adulteress; but if her husband dies, she is free from that law, so that she is no adulteress, though she has married another man.


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Therefore, my brethren, you also have become <f>[3†]</f>dead to the law through the body of Christ, that you may be married to another—to Him who was raised from the dead, that we should <f>[4†]</f>bear fruit to God.


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For when we were in the flesh, the sinful passions which were aroused by the law <f>[5†]</f>were at work in our members <f>[6†]</f>to bear fruit to death.


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But now we have been delivered from the law, having died to what we were held by, so that we should serve <f>[7†]</f>in the newness of the Spirit and not <i>in</i> the oldness of the letter.


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<pb/>What shall we say then? <i>Is</i> the law sin? Certainly not! On the contrary, <f>[8†]</f>I would not have known sin except through the law. For I would not have known covetousness unless the law had said, <f>[9†]</f>“You shall not covet.”


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But <f>[10†]</f>sin, taking opportunity by the commandment, produced in me all <i>manner</i> <i>of</i> <i>evil</i> desire. For <f>[11†]</f>apart from the law sin <i>was</i> dead.


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And the commandment, <f>[12†]</f>which <i>was</i> to <i>bring</i> life, I found to <i>bring</i> death.


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<pb/>Has then what is good become death to me? Certainly not! But sin, that it might appear sin, was producing death in me through what is good, so that sin through the commandment might become exceedingly sinful.


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For what I am doing, I do not understand. <f>[15†]</f>For what I will to do, that I do not practice; but what I hate, that I do.


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For I know that <f>[16†]</f>in me (that is, in my flesh) nothing good dwells; for to will is present with me, but <i>how</i> to perform what is good I do not find.


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For the good that I will <i>to</i> <i>do,</i> I do not do; but the evil I will not <i>to</i> <i>do,</i> that I practice.


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Now if I do what I will not <i>to</i> <i>do,</i> it is no longer I who do it, but sin that dwells in me.


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But <f>[19†]</f>I see another law in <f>[20†]</f>my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity to the law of sin which is in my members.


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<f>[22†]</f>I thank God—through Jesus Christ our Lord! <pb/>So then, with the mind I myself serve the law of God, but with the flesh the law of sin.


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<pb/><i>There</i> <i>is</i> therefore now no condemnation to those who are in Christ Jesus, <f>[1†]</f>who do not walk according to the flesh, but according to the Spirit.


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For <f>[2†]</f>the law of <f>[3†]</f>the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus has made me free from <f>[4†]</f>the law of sin and death.


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For <f>[5†]</f>what the law could not do in that it was weak through the flesh, <f>[6†]</f>God <i>did</i> by sending His own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, on account of sin: He condemned sin in the flesh,


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that the righteous requirement of the law might be fulfilled in us who <f>[7†]</f>do not walk according to the flesh but according to the Spirit.


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For <f>[8†]</f>those who live according to the flesh set their minds on the things of the flesh, but those <i>who</i> <i>live</i> according to the Spirit, <f>[9†]</f>the things of the Spirit.


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For <f>[10†]</f>to be carnally minded <i>is</i> death, but to be spiritually minded <i>is</i> life and peace.


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Because <f>[11†]</f>the carnal mind <i>is</i> enmity against God; for it is not subject to the law of God, <f>[12†]</f>nor indeed can be.


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<pb/>But you are not in the flesh but in the Spirit, if indeed the Spirit of God dwells in you. Now if anyone does not have the Spirit of Christ, he is not His.


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And if Christ <i>is</i> in you, the body <i>is</i> dead because of sin, but the Spirit <i>is</i> life because of righteousness.


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But if the Spirit of <f>[13†]</f>Him who raised Jesus from the dead dwells in you, <f>[14†]</f>He who raised Christ from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies through His Spirit who dwells in you.


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<pb/> <f>[15†]</f>Therefore, brethren, we are debtors—not to the flesh, to live according to the flesh.


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For <f>[16†]</f>if you live according to the flesh you will die; but if by the Spirit you <f>[17†]</f>put to death the deeds of the body, you will live.


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For <f>[19†]</f>you did not receive the spirit of bondage again <f>[20†]</f>to fear, but you received the <f>[21†]</f>Spirit of adoption by whom we cry out, <f>[22†]</f>“Abba, Father.”


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and if children, then <f>[24†]</f>heirs—heirs of God and joint heirs with Christ, <f>[25†]</f>if indeed we suffer with <i>Him,</i> that we may also be glorified together.


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<pb/>For I consider that <f>[26†]</f>the sufferings of this present time are not worthy <i>to</i> <i>be</i> <i>compared</i> with the glory which shall be revealed in us.


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For <f>[27†]</f>the earnest expectation of the creation eagerly waits for the revealing of the sons of God.


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For <f>[28†]</f>the creation was subjected to futility, not willingly, but because of Him who subjected <i>it</i> in hope;


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because the creation itself also will be delivered from the bondage of corruption into the glorious <f>[29†]</f>liberty of the children of God.


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For we know that the whole creation <f>[30†]</f>groans and labors with birth pangs together until now.


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Not only <i>that,</i> but we also who have <f>[31†]</f>the firstfruits of the Spirit, <f>[32†]</f>even we ourselves groan <f>[33†]</f>within ourselves, eagerly waiting for the adoption, the <f>[34†]</f>redemption of our body.


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For we were saved in this hope, but <f>[35†]</f>hope that is seen is not hope; for why does one still hope for what he sees?


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<pb/>Likewise the Spirit also helps in our weaknesses. For <f>[36†]</f>we do not know what we should pray for as we ought, but <f>[37†]</f>the Spirit Himself makes intercession for us with groanings which cannot be uttered.


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Now <f>[38†]</f>He who searches the hearts knows what the mind of the Spirit <i>is,</i> because He makes intercession for the saints <f>[39†]</f>according to <i>the</i> <i>will</i> <i>of</i> God.


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<pb/>And we know that all things work together for good to those who love God, to those <f>[40†]</f>who are the called according to <i>His</i> purpose.


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For whom <f>[41†]</f>He foreknew, <f>[42†]</f>He also predestined <f>[43†]</f><i>to</i> <i>be</i> conformed to the image of His Son, <f>[44†]</f>that He might be the firstborn among many brethren.


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Moreover whom He predestined, these He also <f>[45†]</f>called; whom He called, these He also <f>[46†]</f>justified; and whom He justified, these He also <f>[47†]</f>glorified.


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<pb/>What then shall we say to these things? <f>[48†]</f>If God <i>is</i> for us, who <i>can</i> <i>be</i> against us?


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<f>[49†]</f>He who did not spare His own Son, but <f>[50†]</f>delivered Him up for us all, how shall He not with Him also freely give us all things?


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<f>[52†]</f>Who <i>is</i> he who condemns? <i>It</i> <i>is</i> Christ who died, and furthermore is also risen, <f>[53†]</f>who is even at the right hand of God, <f>[54†]</f>who also makes intercession for us.


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Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? <i>Shall</i> tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?


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As it is written: <pb/><t> <f>[55†]</f>“For Your sake we are killed all day long; </t><t>We are accounted as sheep for the slaughter.”</t>


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For I am persuaded that neither death nor life, nor angels nor <f>[57†]</f>principalities nor powers, nor things present nor things to come,


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


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<pb/>I <f>[1†]</f>tell the truth in Christ, I am not lying, my conscience also bearing me witness in the Holy Spirit,


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For <f>[3†]</f>I could wish that I myself were accursed from Christ for my brethren, my countrymen according to the flesh,


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who are Israelites, <f>[4†]</f>to whom <i>pertain</i> the adoption, <f>[5†]</f>the glory, <f>[6†]</f>the covenants, <f>[7†]</f>the giving of the law, <f>[8†]</f>the service <i>of</i> <i>God,</i> and <f>[9†]</f>the promises;


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<f>[10†]</f>of whom <i>are</i> the fathers and from <f>[11†]</f>whom, according to the flesh, Christ <i>came,</i> <f>[12†]</f>who is over all, <i>the</i> eternally blessed God. Amen.


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<pb/> <f>[13†]</f>But it is not that the word of God has taken no effect. For <f>[14†]</f>they <i>are</i> not all Israel who <i>are</i> of Israel,


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<f>[15†]</f>nor <i>are</i> <i>they</i> all children because they are the seed of Abraham; but, <f>[16†]</f>“In Isaac your seed shall be called.”


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That is, those who <i>are</i> the children of the flesh, these <i>are</i> not the children of God; but <f>[17†]</f>the children of the promise are counted as the seed.


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For this <i>is</i> the word of promise: <f>[18†]</f>“At this time I will come and Sarah shall have a son.”


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<pb/>And not only <i>this,</i> but when <f>[19†]</f>Rebecca also had conceived by one man, <i>even</i> by our father Isaac


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(for <i>the</i> <i>children</i> not yet being born, nor having done any good or evil, that the purpose of God according to election might stand, not of works but of <f>[20†]</f>Him who calls),


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<pb/>What shall we say then? <f>[23†]</f><i>Is</i> <i>there</i> unrighteousness with God? Certainly not!


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For He says to Moses, <f>[24†]</f>“I will have mercy on whomever I will have mercy, and I will have compassion on whomever I will have compassion.”


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For <f>[25†]</f>the Scripture says to the Pharaoh, <f>[26†]</f>“For this very purpose I have raised you up, that I may show My power in you, and that My name may be declared in all the earth.”


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<pb/>You will say to me then, “Why does He still find fault? For <f>[28†]</f>who has resisted His will?”


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But indeed, O man, who are you to reply against God? <f>[29†]</f>Will the thing formed say to him who formed <i>it</i>, “Why have you made me like this?”


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Does not the <f>[30†]</f>potter have power over the clay, from the same lump to make <f>[31†]</f>one vessel for honor and another for dishonor?


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<pb/><i>What</i> if God, wanting to show <i>His</i> wrath and to make His power known, endured with much longsuffering <f>[32†]</f>the vessels of wrath <f>[33†]</f>prepared for destruction,


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and that He might make known <f>[34†]</f>the riches of His glory on the vessels of mercy, which He had <f>[35†]</f>prepared beforehand for glory,


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<pb/>As He says also in Hosea: <pb/><t> <f>[38†]</f>“I will call them My people, who were not My people, </t><t>And her beloved, who was not beloved.”</t>


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<t>“And <f>[39†]</f> it shall come to pass in the place where it was said to them, </t><t>‘You <i>are</i> not My people,’ </t><t>There they shall be called sons of the living God.”</t>


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<pb/>Isaiah also cries out concerning Israel: <pb/><t> <f>[40†]</f>“Though the number of the children of Israel be as the sand of the sea, </t><t> <f>[41†]</f>The remnant will be saved.</t>


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<t>For He will finish the work and cut <i>it</i> short in righteousness, </t><t> <f>[42†]</f>Because the <e>LORD</e> will make a short work upon the earth.”</t>


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<pb/>And as Isaiah said before: <pb/><t> <f>[43†]</f>“Unless the <e>LORD</e> of Sabaoth had left us a seed, </t><t> <f>[44†]</f>We would have become like Sodom, </t><t>And we would have been made like Gomorrah.”</t>


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<pb/>What shall we say then? <f>[45†]</f>That Gentiles, who did not pursue righteousness, have attained to righteousness, <f>[46†]</f>even the righteousness of faith;


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but Israel, <f>[47†]</f>pursuing the law of righteousness, <f>[48†]</f>has not attained to the law of righteousness.


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Why? Because <i>they</i> <i>did</i> not <i>seek</i> <i>it</i> by faith, but as it were, by the works of the law. For <f>[49†]</f>they stumbled at that stumbling stone.


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As it is written: <pb/><t> <f>[50†]</f>“Behold, I lay in Zion a stumbling stone and rock of offense, </t><t>And <f>[51†]</f>whoever believes on Him will not be put to shame.”</t>


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For they being ignorant of <f>[2†]</f>God’s righteousness, and seeking to establish their own <f>[3†]</f>righteousness, have not submitted to the righteousness of God.


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<pb/>For Moses writes about the righteousness which is of the law, <f>[5†]</f>“The man who does those things shall live by them.”


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But the righteousness of faith speaks in this way, <f>[6†]</f>“Do not say in your heart, ‘Who will ascend into heaven?’ ” (that is, to bring Christ down <i>from</i> <i>above</i>)


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But what does it say? <f>[8†]</f>“The word is near you, in your mouth and in your heart” (that is, the word of faith which we preach):


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that <f>[9†]</f>if you confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus and believe in your heart that God has raised Him from the dead, you will be saved.


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For with the heart one believes unto righteousness, and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation.


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For <f>[11†]</f>there is no distinction between Jew and Greek, for <f>[12†]</f>the same Lord over all <f>[13†]</f>is rich to all who call upon Him.


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<pb/>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 <f>[16†]</f>without a preacher?


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And how shall they preach unless they are sent? As it is written: <pb/><t> <f>[17†]</f>“How beautiful are the feet of those who preach the gospel of peace, </t><t>Who bring glad tidings of good things!”</t>


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<pb/>But they have not all obeyed the gospel. For Isaiah says, <f>[18†]</f>“<e>LORD</e>, who has believed our report?”


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<pb/>But I say, have they not heard? Yes indeed: <pb/><t> <f>[19†]</f>“Their sound has gone out to all the earth, </t><t>And their words to the ends of the world.”</t>


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<pb/>But I say, did Israel not know? First Moses says: <pb/><t> <f>[20†]</f>“I will provoke you to jealousy by <i>those</i> <i>who</i> <i>are</i> not a nation, </t><t>I will move you to anger by a <f>[21†]</f>foolish nation.”</t>


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<pb/>But Isaiah is very bold and says: <pb/><t> <f>[22†]</f>“I was found by those who did not seek Me; </t><t>I was made manifest to those who did not ask for Me.”</t>


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<pb/>But to Israel he says: <pb/><t> <f>[23†]</f>“All day long I have stretched out My hands </t><t>To a disobedient and contrary people.”</t>


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<pb/>I say then, <f>[1†]</f>has God cast away His people? <f>[2†]</f>Certainly not! For <f>[3†]</f>I also am an Israelite, of the seed of Abraham, <i>of</i> the tribe of Benjamin.


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<f>[5†]</f>“<e>LORD</e>, they have killed Your prophets and torn down Your altars, and I alone am left, and they seek my life”?


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But what does the divine response say to him? <f>[6†]</f>“I have reserved for Myself seven thousand men who have not bowed the knee to Baal.”


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<f>[7†]</f>Even so then, at this present time there is a remnant according to the election of grace.


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And <f>[8†]</f>if by grace, then <i>it</i> <i>is</i> no longer of works; otherwise grace is no longer grace. But if <i>it</i> <i>is</i> of works, it is no longer grace; otherwise work is no longer work.


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<pb/>What then? <f>[9†]</f>Israel has not obtained what it seeks; but the elect have obtained it, and the rest were <f>[10†]</f>blinded.


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Just as it is written: <pb/><t> <f>[11†]</f>“God has given them a spirit of stupor, </t><t> <f>[12†]</f>Eyes that they should not see </t><t>And ears that they should not hear, </t><t>To this very day.”</t>


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<pb/>And David says: <pb/><t> <f>[13†]</f>“Let their table become a snare and a trap, </t><t>A stumbling block and a recompense to them.</t>


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<pb/>I say then, have they stumbled that they should fall? Certainly not! But <f>[14†]</f>through their fall, to provoke them to <f>[15†]</f>jealousy, salvation <i>has</i> <i>come</i> to the Gentiles.


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<pb/>For I speak to you Gentiles; inasmuch as <f>[16†]</f>I am an apostle to the Gentiles, I magnify my ministry,


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if by any means I may provoke to jealousy <i>those</i> <i>who</i> <i>are</i> my flesh and <f>[17†]</f>save some of them.


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<pb/>For if <f>[19†]</f>the firstfruit <i>is</i> holy, the lump <i>is</i> also <i>holy;</i> and if the root <i>is</i> holy, so <i>are</i> the branches.


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And if <f>[20†]</f>some of the branches were broken off, <f>[21†]</f>and you, being a wild olive tree, were grafted in among them, and with them became a partaker of the root and fatness of the olive tree,


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<f>[22†]</f>do not boast against the branches. But if you do boast, <i>remember</i> <i>that</i> you do not support the root, but the root <i>supports</i> you.


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Well <i>said.</i> Because of <f>[23†]</f>unbelief they were broken off, and you stand by faith. Do not be haughty, but fear.


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Therefore consider the goodness and severity of God: on those who fell, severity; but toward you, goodness, <f>[24†]</f>if you continue in <i>His</i> goodness. Otherwise <f>[25†]</f>you also will be cut off.


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And they also, <f>[26†]</f>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 olive tree which is wild by nature, and were grafted contrary to nature into a cultivated olive tree, how much more will these, who <i>are</i> natural <i>branches,</i> be grafted into their own olive tree?


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<pb/>For I do not desire, brethren, that you should be ignorant of this mystery, lest you should be <f>[27†]</f>wise in your own opinion, that <f>[28†]</f>blindness in part has happened to Israel <f>[29†]</f>until the fullness of the Gentiles has come in.


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And so all Israel will be saved, as it is written: <pb/><t> <f>[30†]</f>“The Deliverer will come out of Zion, </t><t>And He will turn away ungodliness from Jacob;</t>


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<pb/>Concerning the gospel <i>they</i> <i>are</i> enemies for your sake, but concerning the election <i>they</i> <i>are</i> <f>[32†]</f>beloved for the sake of the fathers.


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


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<pb/>Oh, the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and knowledge of God! How unsearchable <i>are</i> His judgments and His ways past finding out!


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<pb/><t>“For who has known the <f>[36†]</f>mind of the LORD? </t><t>Or <f>[37†]</f>who has become His counselor?”</t>


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<pb/>For <f>[39†]</f>of Him and through Him and to Him <i>are</i> all things, <f>[40†]</f>to whom <i>be</i> glory forever. Amen.


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<pb/>I <f>[1†]</f>beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that you present your bodies <f>[2†]</f>a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, <i>which</i> <i>is</i> your reasonable service.


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And <f>[3†]</f>do not be conformed to this world, but <f>[4†]</f>be transformed by the renewing of your mind, that you may <f>[5†]</f>prove what <i>is</i> that good and acceptable and perfect will of God.


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<pb/>For I say, <f>[6†]</f>through the grace given to me, to everyone who is among you, <f>[7†]</f>not to think <i>of</i> <i>himself</i> more highly than he ought to think, but to think soberly, as God has dealt <f>[8†]</f>to each one a measure of faith.


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so <f>[10†]</f>we, <i>being</i> many, are one body in Christ, and individually members of one another.


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Having then gifts differing according to the grace that is <f>[11†]</f>given to us, <i>let</i> <i>us</i> <i>use</i> <i>them:</i> if prophecy, <i>let</i> <i>us</i> <f>[12†]</f>prophesy in proportion to our faith;


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<f>[14†]</f>he who exhorts, in exhortation; <f>[15†]</f>he who gives, with liberality; <f>[16†]</f>he who leads, with diligence; he who shows mercy, <f>[17†]</f>with cheerfulness.


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<pb/> <f>[18†]</f><i>Let</i> love <i>be</i> without hypocrisy. <f>[19†]</f>Abhor what is evil. Cling to what is good.


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<f>[20†]</f><i>Be</i> kindly affectionate to one another with brotherly love, <f>[21†]</f>in honor giving preference to one another;


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<f>[22†]</f>rejoicing in hope, <f>[23†]</f>patient in tribulation, <f>[24†]</f>continuing steadfastly in prayer;


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<f>[29†]</f>Be of the same mind toward one another. <f>[30†]</f>Do not set your mind on high things, but associate with the humble. Do not be wise in your own opinion.


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<pb/> <f>[31†]</f>Repay no one evil for evil. <f>[32†]</f>Have regard for good things in the sight of all men.


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Beloved, <f>[34†]</f>do not avenge yourselves, but <i>rather</i> give place to wrath; for it is written, <f>[35†]</f>“Vengeance <i>is</i> Mine, I will repay,” says the Lord.


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Therefore <pb/><t> <f>[36†]</f>“If your enemy is hungry, feed him; </t><t>If he is thirsty, give him a drink; </t><t>For in so doing you will heap coals of fire on his head.”</t>


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<pb/>Let every soul be <f>[1†]</f>subject to the governing authorities. For there is no authority except from God, and the authorities that exist are appointed by God.


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Therefore whoever resists <f>[2†]</f>the authority resists the ordinance of God, and those who resist will bring judgment on themselves.


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For rulers are not a terror to good works, but to evil. Do you want to be unafraid of the authority? <f>[3†]</f>Do what is good, and you will have praise from the same.


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For he is God’s minister to you for good. But if you do evil, be afraid; for he does not bear the sword in vain; for he is God’s minister, an avenger to <i>execute</i> wrath on him who practices evil.


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For because of this you also pay taxes, for they are God’s ministers attending continually to this very thing.


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<f>[6†]</f>Render therefore to all their due: taxes to whom taxes <i>are</i> <i>due,</i> customs to whom customs, fear to whom fear, honor to whom honor.


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<pb/>Owe no one anything except to love one another, for <f>[7†]</f>he who loves another has fulfilled the law.


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For the commandments, <f>[8†]</f>“You shall not commit adultery,” “You shall not murder,” “You shall not steal,” “You shall not bear false witness,” “You shall not covet,” and if <i>there</i> <i>is</i> any other commandment, are <i>all</i> summed up in this saying, namely, <f>[9†]</f>“You shall love your neighbor as yourself.”


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<pb/>And <i>do</i> this, knowing the time, that now <i>it</i> <i>is</i> high time <f>[11†]</f>to awake out of sleep; for now our salvation <i>is</i> nearer than when we <i>first</i> believed.


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The night is far spent, the day is at hand. <f>[12†]</f>Therefore let us cast off the works of darkness, and <f>[13†]</f>let us put on the armor of light.


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<f>[14†]</f>Let us walk properly, as in the day, <f>[15†]</f>not in revelry and drunkenness, <f>[16†]</f>not in lewdness and lust, <f>[17†]</f>not in strife and envy.


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But <f>[18†]</f>put on the Lord Jesus Christ, and <f>[19†]</f>make no provision for the flesh, to <i>fulfill</i> <i>its</i> lusts.


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<pb/>Receive <f>[1†]</f> one who is weak in the faith, <i>but</i> not to disputes over doubtful things.


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Let not him who eats despise him who does not eat, and <f>[3†]</f>let not him who does not eat judge him who eats; for God has received him.


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<f>[4†]</f>Who are you to judge another’s servant? To his own master he stands or falls. Indeed, he will be made to stand, for God is able to make him stand.


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<pb/> <f>[5†]</f>One person esteems <i>one</i> day above another; another esteems every day <i>alike.</i> Let each be fully convinced in his own mind.


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He who <f>[6†]</f>observes the day, observes <i>it</i> to the Lord; and he who does not observe the day, to the Lord he does not observe <i>it.</i> He who eats, eats to the Lord, for <f>[7†]</f>he gives God thanks; and he who does not eat, to the Lord he does not eat, and gives God thanks.


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For if we <f>[9†]</f>live, we live to the Lord; and if we die, we die to the Lord. Therefore, whether we live or die, we are the Lord’s.


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But why do you judge your brother? Or why do you show contempt for your brother? For <f>[12†]</f>we shall all stand before the judgment seat of Christ.


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For it is written: <pb/><t> <f>[13†]</f>“<i>As</i> I live, says the <e>LORD</e>, </t><t>Every knee shall bow to Me, </t><t>And every tongue shall confess to God.”</t>


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Therefore let us not judge one another anymore, but rather resolve this, <f>[15†]</f>not to put a stumbling block or a cause to fall in <i>our</i> brother’s way.


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<pb/>I know and am convinced by the Lord Jesus <f>[16†]</f>that <i>there</i> <i>is</i> nothing unclean of itself; but to him who considers anything to be unclean, to him <i>it</i> <i>is</i> unclean.


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Yet if your brother is grieved because of <i>your</i> food, you are no longer walking in love. <f>[17†]</f>Do not destroy with your food the one for whom Christ died.


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<f>[19†]</f>for the kingdom of God is not eating and drinking, but righteousness and <f>[20†]</f>peace and joy in the Holy Spirit.


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For he who serves Christ in these things <f>[21†]</f><i>is</i> acceptable to God and approved by men.


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<pb/> <f>[22†]</f>Therefore let us pursue the things <i>which</i> <i>make</i> for peace and the things by which <f>[23†]</f>one may edify another.


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<f>[24†]</f>Do not destroy the work of God for the sake of food. <f>[25†]</f>All things indeed <i>are</i> pure, <f>[26†]</f>but <i>it</i> <i>is</i> evil for the man who eats with offense.


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<i>It</i> <i>is</i> good neither to eat <f>[27†]</f>meat nor drink wine nor <i>do</i> <i>anything</i> by which your brother stumbles or is offended or is made weak.


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Do you have faith? Have <i>it</i> to yourself before God. <f>[28†]</f>Happy <i>is</i> he who does not condemn himself in what he approves.


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But he who doubts is condemned if he eats, because <i>he</i> <i>does</i> not <i>eat</i> from faith; for <f>[29†]</f>whatever <i>is</i> not from faith is sin.


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<pb/>We <f>[1†]</f>then who are strong ought to bear with the scruples of the weak, and not to please ourselves.


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<f>[6†]</f>Now may the God of patience and comfort grant you to be like-minded toward one another, according to Christ Jesus,


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that you may <f>[7†]</f>with one mind <i>and</i> one mouth glorify the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ.


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<pb/>Therefore <f>[8†]</f>receive one another, just <f>[9†]</f>as Christ also received us, to the glory of God.


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Now I say that <f>[10†]</f>Jesus Christ has become a servant to the circumcision for the truth of God, <f>[11†]</f>to confirm the promises <i>made</i> to the fathers,


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and <f>[12†]</f>that the Gentiles might glorify God for <i>His</i> mercy, as it is written: <pb/><t> <f>[13†]</f>“For this reason I will confess to You among the Gentiles, </t><t>And sing to Your name.”</t>


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<pb/>And again: <pb/><t> <f>[15†]</f>“Praise the <e>LORD</e>, all you Gentiles! </t><t>Laud Him, all you peoples!”</t>


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<pb/>And again, Isaiah says: <pb/><t> <f>[16†]</f>“There shall be a root of Jesse; </t><t>And He who shall rise to reign over the Gentiles, </t><t>In Him the Gentiles shall hope.”</t>


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<pb/>Now may the God of hope fill you with all <f>[17†]</f>joy and peace in believing, that you may abound in hope by the power of the Holy Spirit.


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<pb/>Now <f>[18†]</f>I myself am confident concerning you, my brethren, that you also are full of goodness, <f>[19†]</f>filled with all knowledge, able also to admonish one another.


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Nevertheless, brethren, I have written more boldly to you on <i>some</i> points, as reminding you, <f>[20†]</f>because of the grace given to me by God,


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that <f>[21†]</f>I might be a minister of Jesus Christ to the Gentiles, ministering the gospel of God, that the <f>[22†]</f>offering of the Gentiles might be acceptable, sanctified by the Holy Spirit.


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Therefore I have reason to glory in Christ Jesus <f>[23†]</f>in the things <i>which</i> <i>pertain</i> to God.


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For I will not dare to speak of any of those things <f>[24†]</f>which Christ has not accomplished through me, in word and deed, <f>[25†]</f>to make the Gentiles obedient—


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<f>[26†]</f>in mighty signs and wonders, by the power of the Spirit of God, so that from Jerusalem and round about to Illyricum I have fully preached the gospel of Christ.


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And so I have made it my aim to preach the gospel, not where Christ was named, <f>[27†]</f>lest I should build on another man’s foundation,


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but as it is written: <pb/><t> <f>[28†]</f>“To whom He was not announced, they shall see; </t><t>And those who have not heard shall understand.”</t>


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But now no longer having a place in these parts, and <f>[30†]</f>having a great desire these many years to come to you,


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whenever I journey to Spain, I shall come to you. For I hope to see you on my journey, <f>[31†]</f>and to be helped on my way there by you, if first I may <f>[32†]</f>enjoy your <i>company</i> for a while.


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For <f>[34†]</f>it pleased those from Macedonia and Achaia to make a certain contribution for the poor among the saints who are in Jerusalem.


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It pleased them indeed, and they are their debtors. For <f>[35†]</f>if the Gentiles have been partakers of their spiritual things, <f>[36†]</f>their duty is also to minister to them in material things.


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Therefore, when I have performed this and have sealed to them <f>[37†]</f>this fruit, I shall go by way of you to Spain.


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<f>[38†]</f>But I know that when I come to you, I shall come in the fullness of the blessing of the gospel of Christ.


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<pb/>Now I beg you, brethren, through the Lord Jesus Christ, and <f>[39†]</f>through the love of the Spirit, <f>[40†]</f>that you strive together with me in prayers to God for me,


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<f>[41†]</f>that I may be delivered from those in Judea who do not believe, and that <f>[42†]</f>my service for Jerusalem may be acceptable to the saints,


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<f>[43†]</f>that I may come to you with joy <f>[44†]</f>by the will of God, and may <f>[45†]</f>be refreshed together with you.


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<f>[2†]</f>that you may receive her in the Lord <f>[3†]</f>in a manner worthy of the saints, and assist her in whatever business she has need of you; for indeed she has been a helper of many and of myself also.


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who risked their own necks for my life, to whom not only I give thanks, but also all the churches of the Gentiles.


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Likewise <i>greet</i> <f>[5†]</f>the church that is in their house. <pb/>Greet my beloved Epaenetus, who is <f>[6†]</f>the firstfruits of Achaia to Christ.


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Greet Andronicus and Junia, my countrymen and my fellow prisoners, who are of note among the <f>[7†]</f>apostles, who also <f>[8†]</f>were in Christ before me.


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Greet Herodion, my countryman. Greet those who are of the <i>household</i> of Narcissus who are in the Lord.


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<pb/>Greet Tryphena and Tryphosa, who have labored in the Lord. Greet the beloved Persis, who labored much in the Lord.


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Greet Philologus and Julia, Nereus and his sister, and Olympas, and all the saints who are with them.


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<pb/>Now I urge you, brethren, note those <f>[11†]</f>who cause divisions and offenses, contrary to the doctrine which you learned, and <f>[12†]</f>avoid them.


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For those who are such do not serve our Lord Jesus Christ, but <f>[13†]</f>their own belly, and <f>[14†]</f>by smooth words and flattering speech deceive the hearts of the simple.


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For <f>[15†]</f>your obedience has become known to all. Therefore I am glad on your behalf; but I want you to be <f>[16†]</f>wise in what is good, and simple concerning evil.


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And <f>[17†]</f>the God of peace <f>[18†]</f>will crush Satan under your feet shortly. <pb/> <f>[19†]</f>The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ <i>be</i> with you. Amen.


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<pb/> <f>[20†]</f>Timothy, my fellow worker, and <f>[21†]</f>Lucius, <f>[22†]</f>Jason, and <f>[23†]</f>Sosipater, my countrymen, greet you.


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<pb/> <f>[24†]</f>Gaius, my host and <i>the</i> <i>host</i> of the whole church, greets you. <f>[25†]</f>Erastus, the treasurer of the city, greets you, and Quartus, a brother.


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<pb/>Now <f>[27†]</f>to Him who is able to establish you <f>[28†]</f>according to my gospel and the preaching of Jesus Christ, <f>[29†]</f>according to the revelation of the mystery <f>[30†]</f>kept secret since the world began


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<pb/>To the church of God which is at Corinth, to those who <f>[4†]</f>are sanctified in Christ Jesus, <f>[5†]</f>called <i>to</i> <i>be</i> saints, with all who in every place call on the name of Jesus Christ <f>[6†]</f>our Lord, <f>[7†]</f>both theirs and ours:


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<pb/> <f>[9†]</f>I thank my God always concerning you for the grace of God which was given to you by Christ Jesus,


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so that you come short in no gift, eagerly <f>[12†]</f>waiting for the revelation of our Lord Jesus Christ,


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<f>[13†]</f>who will also confirm you to the end, <f>[14†]</f><i>that</i> <i>you</i> <i>may</i> <i>be</i> blameless in the day of our Lord Jesus Christ.


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<f>[15†]</f>God <i>is</i> faithful, by whom you were called into <f>[16†]</f>the fellowship of His Son, Jesus Christ our Lord.


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<pb/>Now I plead with you, brethren, by the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, <f>[17†]</f>that you all speak the same thing, and <i>that</i> there be no divisions among you, but <i>that</i> 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 brethren, by those of Chloe’s <i>household,</i> that there are contentions among you.


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Now I say this, that <f>[18†]</f>each of you says, “I am of Paul,” or “I am of <f>[19†]</f>Apollos,” or “I am of <f>[20†]</f>Cephas,” or “I am of Christ.”


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<f>[21†]</f>Is Christ divided? Was Paul crucified for you? Or were you baptized in the name of Paul?


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<pb/>I thank God that I baptized <f>[22†]</f>none of you except <f>[23†]</f>Crispus and <f>[24†]</f>Gaius,


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Yes, I also baptized the household of <f>[25†]</f>Stephanas. Besides, I do not know whether I baptized any other.


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For Christ did not send me to baptize, but to preach the gospel, <f>[26†]</f>not with wisdom of words, lest the cross of Christ should be made of no effect.


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<pb/>For the message of the cross is <f>[27†]</f>foolishness to <f>[28†]</f>those who are perishing, but to us <f>[29†]</f>who are being saved it is the <f>[30†]</f>power of God.


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<pb/> <f>[32†]</f>Where <i>is</i> the wise? Where <i>is</i> the scribe? Where <i>is</i> the disputer of this age? <f>[33†]</f>Has not God made foolish the wisdom of this world?


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For since, in the <f>[34†]</f>wisdom of God, the world through wisdom did not know God, it pleased God through the foolishness of the message preached to save those who believe.


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but we preach Christ crucified, <f>[36†]</f>to the Jews a stumbling block and to the Greeks <f>[37†]</f>foolishness,


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but to those who are called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ <f>[38†]</f>the power of God and <f>[39†]</f>the wisdom of God.


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<pb/>For you see your calling, brethren, <f>[40†]</f>that not many wise according to the flesh, not many mighty, not many noble, <i>are</i> <i>called.</i>


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and the base things of the world and the things which are despised God has chosen, and the things which are not, to bring to nothing the things that are,


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But of Him you are in Christ Jesus, who became for us wisdom from God—and <f>[42†]</f>righteousness and sanctification and redemption—


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<pb/>And I, brethren, when I came to you, did not come with excellence of speech or of wisdom declaring to you the testimony of God.


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<pb/>However, we speak wisdom among those who are mature, yet not the wisdom of this age, nor of the rulers of this age, who are coming to nothing.


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which none of the rulers of this age knew; for <f>[7†]</f>had they known, they would not have <f>[8†]</f>crucified the Lord of glory.


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Now we have received, not the spirit of the world, but <f>[13†]</f>the Spirit who is from God, that we might know the things that have been freely given to us by God.


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<pb/>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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<f>[14†]</f>But the natural man does not receive the things of the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him; nor can he know <i>them,</i> because they are spiritually discerned.


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I fed you with <f>[2†]</f>milk and not with solid food; <f>[3†]</f>for until now you were not able <i>to</i> <i>receive</i> <i>it,</i> and even now you are still not able;


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for you are still carnal. For where <i>there</i> <i>are</i> envy, strife, and divisions among you, are you not carnal and behaving like <i>mere</i> men?


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<pb/>Who then is Paul, and who <i>is</i> Apollos, but <f>[4†]</f>ministers through whom you believed, as the Lord gave to each one?


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So then <f>[8†]</f>neither he who plants is anything, nor he who waters, but God who gives the increase.


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<f>[12†]</f>According to the grace of God which was given to me, as a wise master builder I have laid <f>[13†]</f>the foundation, and another builds on it. But let each one take heed how he builds on it.


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each one’s work will become clear; for the Day <f>[16†]</f>will declare it, because <f>[17†]</f>it will be revealed by fire; and the fire will test each one’s work, of what sort it is.


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<pb/> <f>[18†]</f>Do you not know that you are the temple of God and <i>that</i> the Spirit of God dwells in you?


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<pb/> <f>[19†]</f>Let no one deceive himself. If anyone among you seems to be wise in this age, let him become a fool that he may become wise.


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


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<pb/>Let a man so consider us, as <f>[1†]</f>servants of Christ <f>[2†]</f>and stewards of the mysteries of God.


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But with me it is a very small thing that I should be judged by you or by a human court. In fact, I do not even judge myself.


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For I know of nothing against myself, yet I am not justified by this; but He who judges me is the Lord.


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<f>[3†]</f>Therefore judge nothing before the time, until the Lord comes, who will both bring to <f>[4†]</f>light the hidden things of darkness and <f>[5†]</f>reveal the counsels of the hearts. <f>[6†]</f>Then each one’s praise will come from God.


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<pb/>Now these things, brethren, I have figuratively transferred to myself and Apollos for your sakes, that you may learn in us not to think beyond what is written, that none of you may be puffed up on behalf of one against the other.


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For who makes you differ <i>from</i> <i>another?</i> And <f>[7†]</f>what do you have that you did not receive? Now if you did indeed receive <i>it,</i> why do you boast as if you had not received <i>it?</i>


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<pb/>You are already full! <f>[8†]</f>You are already rich! You have reigned as kings without us—and indeed I could wish you did reign, that we also might reign with you!


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For I think that God has displayed us, the apostles, last, as men condemned to death; for we have been made a <f>[9†]</f>spectacle to the world, both to angels and to men.


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We <i>are</i> <f>[10†]</f>fools for Christ’s sake, but you <i>are</i> wise in Christ! <f>[11†]</f>We <i>are</i> weak, but you <i>are</i> strong! You <i>are</i> distinguished, but we <i>are</i> dishonored!


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<f>[12†]</f>And we labor, working with our own hands. <f>[13†]</f>Being reviled, we bless; being persecuted, we endure;


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being defamed, we entreat. <f>[14†]</f>We have been made as the filth of the world, the offscouring of all things until now.


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<pb/>I do not write these things to shame you, but <f>[15†]</f>as my beloved children I warn <i>you.</i>


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For though you might have ten thousand instructors in Christ, yet <i>you</i> <i>do</i> not <i>have</i> many fathers; for <f>[16†]</f>in Christ Jesus I have begotten you through the gospel.


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For this reason I have sent <f>[18†]</f>Timothy to you, <f>[19†]</f>who is my beloved and faithful son in the Lord, who will <f>[20†]</f>remind you of my ways in Christ, as I <f>[21†]</f>teach everywhere <f>[22†]</f>in every church.


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<f>[24†]</f>But I will come to you shortly, <f>[25†]</f>if the Lord wills, and I will know, not the word of those who are puffed up, but the power.


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What do you want? <f>[28†]</f>Shall I come to you with a rod, or in love and a spirit of gentleness?


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<pb/>It is actually reported <i>that</i> <i>there</i> <i>is</i> sexual immorality among you, and such sexual immorality as is not even named among the Gentiles—that a man has his father’s <f>[1†]</f>wife!


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<f>[2†]</f>And you are puffed up, and have not rather <f>[3†]</f>mourned, that he who has done this deed might be taken away from among you.


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<f>[4†]</f>For I indeed, as absent in body but present in spirit, have already judged (as though I were present) him who has so done this deed.


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In the <f>[5†]</f>name of our Lord Jesus Christ, when you are gathered together, along with my spirit, <f>[6†]</f>with the power of our Lord Jesus Christ,


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<f>[7†]</f>deliver such a one to <f>[8†]</f>Satan for the destruction of the flesh, that his spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord Jesus.


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<pb/> <f>[9†]</f>Your glorying <i>is</i> not good. Do you not know that <f>[10†]</f>a little leaven leavens the whole lump?


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Therefore purge out the old leaven, that you may be a new lump, since you truly are unleavened. For indeed <f>[11†]</f>Christ, our <f>[12†]</f>Passover, was sacrificed for us.


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Therefore <f>[13†]</f>let us keep the feast, <f>[14†]</f>not with old leaven, nor <f>[15†]</f>with the leaven of malice and wickedness, but with the unleavened <i>bread</i> of sincerity and truth.


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Yet <i>I</i> certainly <i>did</i> not <i>mean</i> with the sexually immoral people of this world, or with the covetous, or extortioners, or idolaters, since then you would need to go <f>[17†]</f>out of the world.


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But now I have written to you not to keep company <f>[18†]</f>with anyone named a brother, who is sexually immoral, or covetous, or an idolater, or a reviler, or a drunkard, or an extortioner— <f>[19†]</f>not even to eat with such a person.


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<pb/>For what <i>have</i> I <i>to</i> <i>do</i> with judging those also who are outside? Do you not judge those who are inside?


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But those who are outside God judges. Therefore <f>[20†]</f>“put away from yourselves the evil person.”


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<pb/>Dare any of you, having a matter against another, go to law before the unrighteous, and not before the <f>[1†]</f>saints?


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Do you not know that <f>[2†]</f>the saints will judge the world? And if the world will be judged by you, are you unworthy to judge the smallest matters?


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Do you not know that we shall <f>[3†]</f>judge angels? How much more, things that pertain to this life?


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If then you have judgments concerning things pertaining to this life, do you appoint those who are least esteemed by the church to judge?


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I say this to your shame. Is it so, that there is not a wise man among you, not even one, who will be able to judge between his brethren?


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<pb/>Now therefore, it is already an utter failure for you that you go to law against one another. <f>[4†]</f>Why do you not rather accept wrong? Why do you not rather <i>let</i> <i>yourselves</i> be cheated?


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No, you yourselves do wrong and cheat, and <i>you</i> <i>do</i> these things <i>to</i> <i>your</i> brethren!


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Do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived. <f>[5†]</f>Neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor homosexuals, nor sodomites,


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nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners will inherit the kingdom of God.


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And such were <f>[6†]</f>some of you. <f>[7†]</f>But you were washed, but you were sanctified, but you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus and by the Spirit of our God.


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<pb/> <f>[8†]</f>All things are lawful for me, but all things are not helpful. All things are lawful for me, but I will not be brought under the power of any.


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<f>[9†]</f>Foods for the stomach and the stomach for foods, but God will destroy both it and them. Now the body <i>is</i> not for <f>[10†]</f>sexual immorality but <f>[11†]</f>for the Lord, <f>[12†]</f>and the Lord for the body.


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<pb/>Do you not know that <f>[15†]</f>your bodies are members of Christ? Shall I then take the members of Christ and make <i>them</i> members of a harlot? Certainly not!


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<pb/> <f>[18†]</f>Flee sexual immorality. Every sin that a man does is outside the body, but he who commits sexual immorality sins <f>[19†]</f>against his own body.


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Or <f>[20†]</f>do you not know that your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit <i>who</i> <i>is</i> in you, whom you have from God, <f>[21†]</f>and you are not your own?


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For <f>[22†]</f>you were bought at a price; therefore glorify God in your body and in your spirit, which are God’s.


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<pb/>Now concerning the things of which you wrote to me: <pb/> <f>[1†]</f><i>It</i> <i>is</i> good for a man not to touch a woman.


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Nevertheless, because of sexual immorality, let each man have his own wife, and let each woman have her own husband.


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<f>[2†]</f>Let the husband render to his wife the affection due her, and likewise also the wife to her husband.


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The wife does not have authority over her own body, but the husband <i>does.</i> And likewise the husband does not have authority over his own body, but the wife <i>does.</i>


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<f>[3†]</f>Do not deprive one another except with consent for a time, that you may give yourselves to fasting and prayer; and come together again so that <f>[4†]</f>Satan does not tempt you because of your lack of self-control.


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For <f>[6†]</f>I wish that all men were even as I myself. But each one has his own gift from God, one in this manner and another in that.


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<pb/>But I say to the unmarried and to the widows: <f>[7†]</f>It is good for them if they remain even as I am;


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but <f>[8†]</f>if they cannot exercise self-control, let them marry. For it is better to marry than to burn <i>with</i> <i>passion.</i>


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<pb/>Now to the married I command, <i>yet</i> not I but the <f>[9†]</f>Lord: <f>[10†]</f>A wife is not to depart from <i>her</i> husband.


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But even if she does depart, let her remain unmarried or be reconciled to <i>her</i> husband. And a husband is not to divorce <i>his</i> wife.


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<pb/>But to the rest I, not the Lord, say: If any brother has a wife who does not believe, and she is willing to live with him, let him not divorce her.


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And a woman who has a husband who does not believe, if he is willing to live with her, let her not divorce him.


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For the unbelieving husband is sanctified by the wife, and the unbelieving wife is sanctified by the husband; otherwise <f>[11†]</f>your children would be unclean, but now they are holy.


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But if the unbeliever departs, let him depart; a brother or a sister is not under bondage in such <i>cases.</i> But God has called us <f>[12†]</f>to peace.


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For how do you know, O wife, whether you will <f>[13†]</f>save <i>your</i> husband? Or how do you know, O husband, whether you will save <i>your</i> wife?


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<pb/>But as God has distributed to each one, as the Lord has called each one, so let him walk. And <f>[14†]</f>so I ordain in all the churches.


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Was anyone called while circumcised? <f>[15†]</f>Let him not become uncircumcised. Was anyone called while uncircumcised? Let him not be circumcised.


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<f>[16†]</f>Circumcision is nothing and uncircumcision is nothing, but <f>[17†]</f>keeping the commandments of God <i>is</i> <i>what</i> <i>matters.</i>


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Were you called <i>while</i> a slave? Do not be concerned about it; but if you can be made free, rather use <i>it.</i>


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For he who is called in the Lord <i>while</i> a slave is <f>[18†]</f>the Lord’s freedman. Likewise he who is called <i>while</i> free is <f>[19†]</f>Christ’s slave.


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<pb/>Now concerning virgins: <f>[22†]</f>I have no commandment from the Lord; yet I give judgment as one <f>[23†]</f>whom the Lord in His mercy has made <f>[24†]</f>trustworthy.


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I suppose therefore that this is good because of the present distress— <f>[25†]</f>that <i>it</i> <i>is</i> good for a man to remain as he is:


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But even if you do marry, you have not sinned; and if a virgin marries, she has not sinned. Nevertheless such will have trouble in the flesh, but I would spare you.


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<pb/>But <f>[26†]</f>this I say, brethren, the time <i>is</i> short, so that from now on even those who have wives should be as though they had none,


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those who weep as though they did not weep, those who rejoice as though they did not rejoice, those who buy as though they did not possess,


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and those who use this world as not <f>[27†]</f>misusing <i>it.</i> For <f>[28†]</f>the form of this world is passing away.


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<pb/>But I want you to be without care. <f>[29†]</f>He who is unmarried cares for the things of the Lord—how he may please the Lord.


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There is a difference between a wife and a virgin. The unmarried woman <f>[30†]</f>cares about the things of the Lord, that she may be holy both in body and in spirit. But she who is married cares about the things of the world—how she may please <i>her</i> husband.


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And this I say for your own profit, not that I may put a leash on you, but for what is proper, and that you may serve the Lord without distraction.


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<pb/>But if any man thinks he is behaving improperly toward his virgin, if she is past the flower of youth, and thus it must be, let him do what he wishes. He does not sin; let them marry.


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Nevertheless he who stands steadfast in his heart, having no necessity, but has power over his own will, and has so determined in his heart that he will keep his virgin, does well.


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<f>[31†]</f>So then he who gives <i>her</i> in marriage does well, but he who does not give <i>her</i> in marriage does better.


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<pb/> <f>[32†]</f>A wife is bound by law as long as her husband lives; but if her husband dies, she is at liberty to be married to whom she wishes, <f>[33†]</f>only in the Lord.


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But she is happier if she remains as she is, <f>[34†]</f>according to my judgment—and <f>[35†]</f>I think I also have the Spirit of God.


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<pb/>Now <f>[1†]</f>concerning things offered to idols: We know that we all have <f>[2†]</f>knowledge. <f>[3†]</f>Knowledge puffs up, but love edifies.


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<pb/>Therefore concerning the eating of things offered to idols, we know that <f>[5†]</f>an idol <i>is</i> nothing in the world, <f>[6†]</f>and that <i>there</i> <i>is</i> no other God but one.


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<pb/>However, <i>there</i> <i>is</i> not in everyone that knowledge; for some, <f>[13†]</f>with consciousness of the idol, until now eat <i>it</i> as a thing offered to an idol; and their conscience, being weak, is <f>[14†]</f>defiled.


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But <f>[15†]</f>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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<pb/>But <f>[16†]</f>beware lest somehow this liberty of yours become <f>[17†]</f>a stumbling block to those who are weak.


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For if anyone sees you who have knowledge eating in an idol’s temple, will not <f>[18†]</f>the conscience of him who is weak be emboldened to eat those things offered to idols?


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But <f>[20†]</f>when you thus sin against the brethren, and wound their weak conscience, you sin against Christ.


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Therefore, <f>[21†]</f>if food makes my brother stumble, I will never again eat meat, lest I make my brother stumble.


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<pb/>Am <f>[1†]</f>I not an apostle? Am I not free? <f>[2†]</f>Have I not seen Jesus Christ our Lord? <f>[3†]</f>Are you not my work in the Lord?


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If I am not an apostle to others, yet doubtless I am to you. For you are <f>[4†]</f>the seal of my apostleship in the Lord.


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Do we have no right to take along a believing wife, as <i>do</i> also the other apostles, <f>[6†]</f>the brothers of the Lord, and <f>[7†]</f>Cephas?


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Or <i>is</i> <i>it</i> only Barnabas and I <f>[8†]</f><i>who</i> have no right to refrain from working?


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Who ever <f>[9†]</f>goes to war at his own expense? Who <f>[10†]</f>plants a vineyard and does not eat of its fruit? Or who <f>[11†]</f>tends a flock and does not drink of the milk of the flock?


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For it is written in the law of Moses, <f>[12†]</f>“You shall not muzzle an ox while it treads out the grain.” Is it oxen God is concerned about?


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Or does He say <i>it</i> altogether for our sakes? For our sakes, no doubt, <i>this</i> is written, that <f>[13†]</f>he who plows should plow in hope, and he who threshes in hope should be partaker of his hope.


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If others are partakers of <i>this</i> right over you, <i>are</i> we not even more? <pb/> <f>[15†]</f>Nevertheless we have not used this right, but endure all things <f>[16†]</f>lest we hinder the gospel of Christ.


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<f>[17†]</f>Do you not know that those who minister the holy things eat <i>of</i> <i>the</i> <i>things</i> of the <f>[18†]</f>temple, and those who serve at the altar partake of <i>the</i> <i>offerings</i> <i>of</i> the altar?


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Even so <f>[19†]</f>the Lord has commanded <f>[20†]</f>that those who preach the gospel should live from the gospel.


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<pb/>But <f>[21†]</f>I have used none of these things, nor have I written these things that it should be done so to me; for <f>[22†]</f>it <i>would</i> <i>be</i> better for me to die than that anyone should make my boasting void.


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For if I preach the gospel, I have nothing to boast of, for <f>[23†]</f>necessity is laid upon me; yes, woe is me if I do not preach the gospel!


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For if I do this willingly, <f>[24†]</f>I have a reward; but if against my will, <f>[25†]</f>I have been entrusted with a stewardship.


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What is my reward then? That <f>[26†]</f>when I preach the gospel, I may present the gospel of Christ without charge, that I <f>[27†]</f>may not abuse my authority in the gospel.


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<pb/>For though I am <f>[28†]</f>free from all <i>men,</i> <f>[29†]</f>I have made myself a servant to all, <f>[30†]</f>that I might win the more;


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and <f>[31†]</f>to the Jews I became as a Jew, that I might win Jews; to those <i>who</i> <i>are</i> under the law, as under the law, that I might win those <i>who</i> <i>are</i> under the law;


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<f>[32†]</f>to <f>[33†]</f>those <i>who</i> <i>are</i> without law, as without law <f>[34†]</f>(not being without law toward God, but under law toward Christ), that I might win those <i>who</i> <i>are</i> without law;


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<f>[35†]</f>to the weak I became as weak, that I might win the weak. <f>[36†]</f>I have become all things to all <i>men,</i> <f>[37†]</f>that I might by all means save some.


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<pb/>Do you not know that those who run in a race all run, but one receives the prize? <f>[38†]</f>Run in such a way that you may obtain <i>it.</i>


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And everyone who competes <i>for</i> <i>the</i> <i>prize</i> is temperate in all things. Now they <i>do</i> <i>it</i> to obtain a perishable crown, but we <i>for</i> <f>[39†]</f>an imperishable <i>crown.</i>


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<f>[41†]</f>But I discipline my body and <f>[42†]</f>bring <i>it</i> into subjection, lest, when I have preached to others, I myself should become <f>[43†]</f>disqualified.


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<pb/>Moreover, brethren, I do not want you to be unaware that all our fathers were under <f>[1†]</f>the cloud, all passed through <f>[2†]</f>the sea,


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and all drank the same <f>[4†]</f>spiritual drink. For they drank of that spiritual Rock that followed them, and that Rock was Christ.


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But with most of them God was not well pleased, for <i>their</i> <i>bodies</i> <f>[5†]</f>were scattered in the wilderness.


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<pb/>Now these things became our examples, to the intent that we should not lust after evil things as <f>[6†]</f>they also lusted.


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<f>[7†]</f>And do not become idolaters as <i>were</i> some of them. As it is written, <f>[8†]</f>“The people sat down to eat and drink, and rose up to play.”


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<f>[9†]</f>Nor let us commit sexual immorality, as <f>[10†]</f>some of them did, and <f>[11†]</f>in one day twenty-three thousand fell;


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nor let us tempt Christ, as <f>[12†]</f>some of them also tempted, and <f>[13†]</f>were destroyed by serpents;


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nor complain, as <f>[14†]</f>some of them also complained, and <f>[15†]</f>were destroyed by <f>[16†]</f>the destroyer.


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Now all these things happened to them as examples, and <f>[17†]</f>they were written for our admonition, <f>[18†]</f>upon whom the ends of the ages have come.


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No temptation has overtaken you except such as is common to man; but <f>[20†]</f>God <i>is</i> faithful, <f>[21†]</f>who will not allow you to be tempted beyond what you are able, but with the temptation will also make the way of escape, that you may be able to bear <i>it.</i>


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<f>[24†]</f>The cup of blessing which we bless, is it not the communion of the blood of Christ? <f>[25†]</f>The bread which we break, is it not the communion of the body of Christ?


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<pb/>Observe <f>[27†]</f>Israel <f>[28†]</f>after the flesh: <f>[29†]</f>Are not those who eat of the sacrifices partakers of the altar?


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What am I saying then? <f>[30†]</f>That an idol is anything, or what is offered to idols is anything?


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Rather, that the things which the Gentiles <f>[31†]</f>sacrifice <f>[32†]</f>they sacrifice to demons and not to God, and I do not want you to have fellowship with demons.


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<f>[33†]</f>You cannot drink the cup of the Lord and <f>[34†]</f>the cup of demons; you cannot partake of the <f>[35†]</f>Lord’s table and of the table of demons.


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<pb/>All things are lawful for me, but not all things are <f>[38†]</f>helpful; all things are lawful for me, but not all things edify.


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<pb/> <f>[40†]</f>Eat whatever is sold in the meat market, asking no questions for conscience’ sake;


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<pb/>If any of those who do not believe invites you <i>to</i> <i>dinner,</i> and you desire to go, <f>[42†]</f>eat whatever is set before you, asking no question for conscience’ sake.


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But if anyone says to you, “This was offered to idols,” do not eat it <f>[43†]</f>for the sake of the one who told you, and for conscience’ sake; for <f>[44†]</f>“the earth <i>is</i> the <e>LORD</e>’s, and all its fullness.”


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“Conscience,” I say, not your own, but that of the other. For <f>[45†]</f>why is my liberty judged by another <i>man’s</i> conscience?


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But if I partake with thanks, why am I evil spoken of for <i>the</i> <i>food</i> <f>[46†]</f>over which I give thanks?


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<pb/> <f>[47†]</f>Therefore, whether you eat or drink, or whatever you do, do all to the glory of God.


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<pb/>Now I praise you, brethren, that you remember me in all things and keep the traditions just as I delivered <i>them</i> to you.


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But I want you to know that <f>[2†]</f>the head of every man is Christ, <f>[3†]</f>the head of woman <i>is</i> man, and the <f>[4†]</f>head of Christ <i>is</i> God.


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But every woman who prays or prophesies with <i>her</i> head uncovered dishonors her head, for that is one and the same as if her head were <f>[6†]</f>shaved.


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For if a woman is not covered, let her also be shorn. But if it is <f>[7†]</f>shameful for a woman to be shorn or shaved, let her be covered.


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For a man indeed ought not to cover <i>his</i> head, since <f>[8†]</f>he is the image and glory of God; but woman is the glory of man.


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For this reason the woman ought to have <i>a</i> <i>symbol</i> <i>of</i> authority on <i>her</i> head, because of the angels.


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Nevertheless, <f>[11†]</f>neither <i>is</i> man independent of woman, nor woman independent of man, in the Lord.


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For as woman <i>came</i> from man, even so man also <i>comes</i> through woman; but all things are from God.


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But if a woman has long hair, it is a glory to her; for <i>her</i> hair is given to her for a covering.


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But <f>[12†]</f>if anyone seems to be contentious, we have no such custom, <f>[13†]</f>nor <i>do</i> the churches of God.


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<pb/>Now in giving these instructions I do not praise <i>you,</i> since you come together not for the better but for the worse.


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For first of all, when you come together as a church, <f>[14†]</f>I hear that there are divisions among you, and in part I believe it.


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For <f>[15†]</f>there must also be factions among you, <f>[16†]</f>that those who are approved may be recognized among you.


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For in eating, each one takes his own supper ahead of <i>others;</i> and one is hungry and <f>[17†]</f>another is drunk.


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What! Do you not have houses to eat and drink in? Or do you despise <f>[18†]</f>the church of God and <f>[19†]</f>shame those who have nothing? What shall I say to you? Shall I praise you in this? I do not praise <i>you.</i>


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<pb/>For <f>[20†]</f>I received from the Lord that which I also delivered to you: <f>[21†]</f>that the Lord Jesus on the <i>same</i> night in which He was betrayed took bread;


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and when He had given thanks, He broke <i>it</i> and said, <J>“Take, eat;</J><J> this is My body which is </J><J>broken</J><J> for you; do this in remembrance of Me.”</J>


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In the same manner <i>He</i> also <i>took</i> the cup after supper, saying, <J>“This cup is the new covenant in My blood. This do, as often as you drink </J><i><J>it,</J></i><J> in remembrance of Me.”</J>


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<pb/>For as often as you eat this bread and drink this cup, you proclaim the Lord’s death <f>[22†]</f>till He comes.


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<pb/>Therefore whoever eats <f>[23†]</f>this bread or drinks <i>this</i> cup of the Lord in an unworthy manner will be guilty of the body and blood of the Lord.


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For he who eats and drinks in an unworthy manner eats and drinks judgment to himself, not discerning the Lord’s body.


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But when we are judged, <f>[26†]</f>we are chastened by the Lord, that we may not be condemned with the world.


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But if anyone is hungry, let him eat at home, lest you come together for judgment. And the rest I will set in order when I come.


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You know <f>[2†]</f>that you were Gentiles, carried away to these <f>[3†]</f>dumb idols, however you were led.


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Therefore I make known to you that no one speaking by the Spirit of God calls Jesus accursed, and <f>[4†]</f>no one can say that Jesus is Lord except by the Holy Spirit.


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for to one is given <f>[9†]</f>the word of wisdom through the Spirit, to another <f>[10†]</f>the word of knowledge through the same Spirit,


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<f>[11†]</f>to another faith by the same Spirit, to another <f>[12†]</f>gifts of healings by the same Spirit,


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<f>[13†]</f>to another the working of miracles, to another <f>[14†]</f>prophecy, to another <f>[15†]</f>discerning of spirits, to another <f>[16†]</f><i>different</i> kinds of tongues, to another the interpretation of tongues.


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But one and the same Spirit works all these things, <f>[17†]</f>distributing to each one individually <f>[18†]</f>as He wills.


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<pb/>For <f>[19†]</f>as the body is one and has many members, but all the members of that one body, being many, are one body, <f>[20†]</f>so also <i>is</i> Christ.


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For <f>[21†]</f>by one Spirit we were all baptized into one body— <f>[22†]</f>whether Jews or Greeks, whether slaves or free—and <f>[23†]</f>have all been made to drink into one Spirit.


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<pb/>If the foot should say, “Because I am not a hand, I am not of the body,” is it therefore not of the body?


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And if the ear should say, “Because I am not an eye, I am not of the body,” is it therefore not of the body?


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If the whole body <i>were</i> an eye, where <i>would</i> <i>be</i> the hearing? If the whole <i>were</i> hearing, where <i>would</i> <i>be</i> the smelling?


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But now <f>[24†]</f>God has set the members, each one of them, in the body <f>[25†]</f>just as He pleased.


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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 <i>members</i> of the body which we think to be less honorable, on these we bestow greater honor; and our unpresentable <i>parts</i> have greater modesty,


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but our presentable <i>parts</i> have no need. But God composed the body, having given greater honor to that <i>part</i> which lacks it,


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that there should be no schism in the body, but <i>that</i> the members should have the same care for one another.


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And if one member suffers, all the members suffer with <i>it;</i> or if one member is honored, all the members rejoice with <i>it.</i>


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And <f>[28†]</f>God has appointed these in the church: first <f>[29†]</f>apostles, second <f>[30†]</f>prophets, third teachers, after that <f>[31†]</f>miracles, then <f>[32†]</f>gifts of healings, <f>[33†]</f>helps, <f>[34†]</f>administrations, varieties of tongues.


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<i>Are</i> all apostles? <i>Are</i> all prophets? <i>Are</i> all teachers? <i>Are</i> all workers of miracles?


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<pb/>Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I have become sounding brass or a clanging cymbal.


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And though I have <i>the</i> <i>gift</i> <i>of</i> <f>[1†]</f>prophecy, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and though I have all faith, <f>[2†]</f>so that I could remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing.


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And <f>[3†]</f>though I bestow all my goods to feed <i>the</i> <i>poor,</i> and though I give my body to be burned, but have not love, it profits me nothing.


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<pb/> <f>[4†]</f>Love suffers long <i>and</i> is <f>[5†]</f>kind; love <f>[6†]</f>does not envy; love does not parade itself, is not puffed up;


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<pb/>Love never fails. But whether <i>there</i> <i>are</i> prophecies, they will fail; whether <i>there</i> <i>are</i> tongues, they will cease; whether <i>there</i> <i>is</i> knowledge, it will vanish away.


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<pb/>When I was a child, I spoke as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child; but when I became a man, I put away childish things.


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For <f>[12†]</f>now we see in a mirror, dimly, but then <f>[13†]</f>face to face. Now I know in part, but then I shall know just as I also am known.


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<pb/>Pursue love, and <f>[1†]</f>desire spiritual <i>gifts,</i> <f>[2†]</f>but especially that you may prophesy.


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For he who <f>[3†]</f>speaks in a tongue does not speak to men but to God, for no one understands <i>him;</i> however, in the spirit he speaks mysteries.


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I wish you all spoke with tongues, but even more that you prophesied; for he who prophesies <i>is</i> greater than he who speaks with tongues, unless indeed he interprets, that the church may receive edification.


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<pb/>But now, brethren, if I come to you speaking with tongues, what shall I profit you unless I speak to you either by <f>[6†]</f>revelation, by knowledge, by prophesying, or by teaching?


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Even things without life, whether flute or harp, when they make a sound, unless they make a distinction in the sounds, how will it be known what is piped or played?


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So likewise you, unless you utter by the tongue words easy to understand, how will it be known what is spoken? For you will be speaking into the air.


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There are, it may be, so many kinds of languages in the world, and none of them <i>is</i> without significance.


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Therefore, if I do not know the meaning of the language, I shall be a foreigner to him who speaks, and he who speaks <i>will</i> <i>be</i> a foreigner to me.


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Even so you, since you are zealous for spiritual <i>gifts, let it be</i> for the edification of the church <i>that</i> you seek to excel.


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What is <i>the</i> <i>conclusion</i> then? I will pray with the spirit, and I will also pray with the understanding. <f>[8†]</f>I will sing with the spirit, and I will also sing <f>[9†]</f>with the understanding.


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Otherwise, if you bless with the spirit, how will he who occupies the place of the uninformed say “Amen” <f>[10†]</f>at your giving of thanks, since he does not understand what you say?


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yet in the church I would rather speak five words with my understanding, that I may teach others also, than ten thousand words in a tongue.


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<pb/>Brethren, <f>[11†]</f>do not be children in understanding; however, in malice <f>[12†]</f>be babes, but in understanding be mature.


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<pb/> <f>[13†]</f>In the law it is written: <pb/><t> <f>[14†]</f>“With <i>men</i> <i>of</i> other tongues and other lips </t><t>I will speak to this people; </t><t>And yet, for all that, they will not hear Me,” </t> <pb/>says the Lord.


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<pb/>Therefore tongues are for a <f>[15†]</f>sign, not to those who believe but to unbelievers; but prophesying is not for unbelievers but for those who believe.


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Therefore if the whole church comes together in one place, and all speak with tongues, and there come in <i>those</i> <i>who</i> <i>are</i> uninformed or unbelievers, <f>[16†]</f>will they not say that you are out of your mind?


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But if all prophesy, and an unbeliever or an uninformed person comes in, he is convinced by all, he is convicted by all.


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And thus the secrets of his heart are revealed; and so, falling down on <i>his</i> face, he will worship God and report <f>[17†]</f>that God is truly among you.


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<pb/>How is it then, brethren? Whenever you come together, each of you has a psalm, <f>[18†]</f>has a teaching, has a tongue, has a revelation, has an interpretation. <f>[19†]</f>Let all things be done for edification.


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If anyone speaks in a tongue, <i>let</i> <i>there</i> <i>be</i> two or at the most three, <i>each</i> in turn, and let one interpret.


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But if there is no interpreter, let him keep silent in church, and let him speak to himself and to God.


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For God is not <i>the</i> <i>author</i> of confusion but of peace, <f>[23†]</f>as in all the churches of the saints.


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<pb/> <f>[24†]</f>Let your women keep silent in the churches, for they are not permitted to speak; but <i>they</i> <i>are</i> to be submissive, as the <f>[25†]</f>law also says.


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And if they want to learn something, let them ask their own husbands at home; for it is shameful for women to speak in church.


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<pb/>Or did the word of God come <i>originally</i> from you? Or <i>was</i> <i>it</i> you only that it reached?


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<f>[26†]</f>If anyone thinks himself to be a prophet or spiritual, let him acknowledge that the things which I write to you are the commandments of the Lord.


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<pb/>Therefore, brethren, <f>[27†]</f>desire earnestly to prophesy, and do not forbid to speak with tongues.


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<pb/>Moreover, brethren, I declare to you the gospel <f>[1†]</f>which I preached to you, which also you received and <f>[2†]</f>in which you stand,


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<f>[3†]</f>by which also you are saved, if you hold fast that word which I preached to you—unless <f>[4†]</f>you believed in vain.


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<pb/>For <f>[5†]</f>I delivered to you first of all that <f>[6†]</f>which I also received: that Christ died for our sins <f>[7†]</f>according to the Scriptures,


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and that He was buried, and that He rose again the third day <f>[8†]</f>according to the Scriptures,


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After that He was seen by over five hundred brethren at once, of whom the greater part remain to the present, but some have fallen asleep.


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<pb/>For I am <f>[13†]</f>the least of the apostles, who am not worthy to be called an apostle, because <f>[14†]</f>I persecuted the church of God.


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But <f>[15†]</f>by the grace of God I am what I am, and His grace toward me was not in vain; but I labored more abundantly than they all, <f>[16†]</f>yet not I, but the grace of God <i>which</i> <i>was</i> with me.


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<pb/>Now if Christ is preached that He has been raised from the dead, how do some among you say that there is no resurrection of the dead?


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Yes, and we are found false witnesses of God, because <f>[18†]</f>we have testified of God that He raised up Christ, whom He did not raise up—if in fact the dead do not rise.


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<pb/>But now <f>[22†]</f>Christ is risen from the dead, <i>and</i> has become <f>[23†]</f>the firstfruits of those who have fallen asleep.


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For <f>[24†]</f>since by man <i>came</i> death, <f>[25†]</f>by Man also <i>came</i> the resurrection of the dead.


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But <f>[27†]</f>each one in his own order: Christ the firstfruits, afterward those <i>who</i> <i>are</i> Christ’s at His coming.


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Then <i>comes</i> the end, when He delivers <f>[28†]</f>the kingdom to God the Father, when He puts an end to all rule and all authority and power.


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For <f>[31†]</f>“He has put all things under His feet.” But when He says “all things are put under <i>Him,</i>” <i>it</i> <i>is</i> evident that He who put all things under Him is excepted.


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<f>[32†]</f>Now when all things are made subject to Him, then <f>[33†]</f>the Son Himself will also be subject to Him who put all things under Him, that God may be all in all.


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<pb/>Otherwise, what will they do who are baptized for the dead, if the dead do not rise at all? Why then are they baptized for the dead?


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I affirm, by <f>[35†]</f>the boasting in you which I have in Christ Jesus our Lord, <f>[36†]</f>I die daily.


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If, in the manner of men, <f>[37†]</f>I have fought with beasts at Ephesus, what advantage <i>is</i> <i>it</i> to me? If <i>the</i> dead do not rise, <f>[38†]</f>“Let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we die!”


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<f>[40†]</f>Awake to righteousness, and do not sin; <f>[41†]</f>for some do not have the knowledge of God. <f>[42†]</f>I speak <i>this</i> to your shame.


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<pb/>But someone will say, <f>[43†]</f>“How are the dead raised up? And with what body do they come?”


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And what you sow, you do not sow that body that shall be, but mere grain—perhaps wheat or some other <i>grain.</i>


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<pb/>All flesh <i>is</i> not the same flesh, but <i>there</i> <i>is</i> one <i>kind</i> of flesh of men, another flesh of animals, another of fish, <i>and</i> another of birds.


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<pb/><i>There</i> <i>are</i> also celestial bodies and terrestrial bodies; but the glory of the celestial <i>is</i> one, and the <i>glory</i> of the terrestrial <i>is</i> another.


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<i>There</i> <i>is</i> one glory of the sun, another glory of the moon, and another glory of the stars; for <i>one</i> star differs from <i>another</i> star in glory.


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<pb/> <f>[45†]</f>So also <i>is</i> the resurrection of the dead. <i>The</i> <i>body</i> is sown in corruption, it is raised in incorruption.


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<f>[46†]</f>It is sown in dishonor, it is raised in glory. It is sown in weakness, it is raised in power.


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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, <f>[47†]</f>“The first man Adam became a living being.” <f>[48†]</f>The last Adam <i>became</i> <f>[49†]</f>a life-giving spirit.


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<f>[50†]</f>The first man <i>was</i> of the earth, <f>[51†]</f><i>made</i> of dust; the second Man <i>is</i> the Lord <f>[52†]</f>from heaven.


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As <i>was</i> the <i>man</i> of dust, so also <i>are</i> those <i>who</i> <i>are</i> <i>made</i> of dust; <f>[53†]</f>and as <i>is</i> the heavenly <i>Man,</i> so also <i>are</i> those <i>who</i> <i>are</i> heavenly.


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And <f>[54†]</f>as we have borne the image of the <i>man</i> of dust, <f>[55†]</f>we shall also bear the image of the heavenly <i>Man.</i>


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<pb/>Now this I say, brethren, that <f>[56†]</f>flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God; nor does corruption inherit incorruption.


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Behold, I tell you a mystery: <f>[57†]</f>We shall not all sleep, <f>[58†]</f>but we shall all be changed—


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in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet. <f>[59†]</f>For the trumpet will sound, and the dead will be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed.


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For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and <f>[60†]</f>this mortal <i>must</i> put on immortality.


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So when this corruptible has put on incorruption, and this mortal has put on immortality, then shall be brought to pass the saying that is written: <f>[61†]</f>“Death is swallowed up in victory.”


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<pb/><t>“O <f>[62†]</f> Death, where <i>is</i> your sting? </t><t>O Hades, where <i>is</i> your victory?”</t>


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<f>[64†]</f>But thanks <i>be</i> to God, who gives us <f>[65†]</f>the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.


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<pb/> <f>[66†]</f>Therefore, my beloved brethren, be steadfast, immovable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, knowing <f>[67†]</f>that your labor is not in vain in the Lord.


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<pb/>Now concerning <f>[1†]</f>the collection for the saints, as I have given orders to the churches of Galatia, so you must do also:


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<f>[2†]</f>On the first <i>day</i> of the week let each one of you lay something aside, storing up as he may prosper, that there be no collections when I come.


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And when I come, <f>[3†]</f>whomever you approve by <i>your</i> letters I will send to bear your gift to Jerusalem.


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<pb/>Now I will come to you <f>[5†]</f>when I pass through Macedonia (for I am passing through Macedonia).


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And it may be that I will remain, or even spend the winter with you, that you may <f>[6†]</f>send me on my journey, wherever I go.


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For I do not wish to see you now on the way; but I hope to stay a while with you, <f>[7†]</f>if the Lord permits.


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For <f>[9†]</f>a great and effective door has opened to me, and <f>[10†]</f><i>there</i> <i>are</i> many adversaries.


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<pb/>And <f>[11†]</f>if Timothy comes, see that he may be with you without fear; for <f>[12†]</f>he does the work of the Lord, as I also <i>do.</i>


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<f>[13†]</f>Therefore let no one despise him. But send him on his journey <f>[14†]</f>in peace, that he may come to me; for I am waiting for him with the brethren.


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<pb/>Now concerning <i>our</i> brother <f>[15†]</f>Apollos, I strongly urged him to come to you with the brethren, but he was quite unwilling to come at this time; however, he will come when he has a convenient time.


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<pb/>I urge you, brethren—you know <f>[20†]</f>the household of Stephanas, that it is <f>[21†]</f>the firstfruits of Achaia, and <i>that</i> they have devoted themselves to <f>[22†]</f>the ministry of the saints—


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<f>[23†]</f>that you also submit to such, and to everyone who works and <f>[24†]</f>labors with <i>us.</i>


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<pb/>I am glad about the coming of Stephanas, Fortunatus, and Achaicus, <f>[25†]</f>for what was lacking on your part they supplied.


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<pb/>The churches of Asia greet you. Aquila and Priscilla greet you heartily in the Lord, <f>[28†]</f>with the church that is in their house.


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<pb/>If anyone <f>[31†]</f>does not love the Lord Jesus Christ, <f>[32†]</f>let him be accursed. <f>[33†]</f>O Lord, come!


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<pb/>Paul, <f>[1†]</f>an apostle of Jesus Christ by the will of God, and <f>[2†]</f>Timothy <i>our</i> brother, <pb/>To the church of God which is at Corinth, <f>[3†]</f>with all the saints who are in all Achaia:


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<pb/> <f>[5†]</f>Blessed <i>be</i> the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies and God of all comfort,


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who <f>[6†]</f>comforts us in all our tribulation, that we may be able to comfort those who are in any trouble, with the comfort with which we ourselves are comforted by God.


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For as <f>[7†]</f>the sufferings of Christ abound in us, so our consolation also abounds through Christ.


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Now if we are afflicted, <f>[8†]</f><i>it</i> <i>is</i> for your consolation and salvation, which is effective for enduring the same sufferings which we also suffer. Or if we are comforted, it is for your consolation and salvation.


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And our hope for you <i>is</i> steadfast, because we know that <f>[9†]</f>as you are partakers of the sufferings, so also <i>you</i> <i>will</i> <i>partake</i> of the consolation.


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<pb/>For we do not want you to be ignorant, brethren, of <f>[10†]</f>our trouble which came to us in Asia: that we were burdened beyond measure, above strength, so that we despaired even of life.


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Yes, we had the sentence of death in ourselves, that we should <f>[11†]</f>not trust in ourselves but in God who raises the dead,


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<f>[12†]</f>who delivered us from so great a death, and does deliver us; in whom we trust that He will still deliver <i>us,</i>


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you also <f>[13†]</f>helping together in prayer for us, that thanks may be given by many persons on our behalf <f>[14†]</f>for the gift <i>granted</i> to us through many.


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<pb/>For our boasting is this: the testimony of our conscience that we conducted ourselves in the world in simplicity and <f>[15†]</f>godly sincerity, <f>[16†]</f>not with fleshly wisdom but by the grace of God, and more abundantly toward you.


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For we are not writing any other things to you than what you read or understand. Now I trust you will understand, even to the end


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(as also you have understood us in part), <f>[17†]</f>that we are your boast as <f>[18†]</f>you also <i>are</i> ours, in the day of the Lord Jesus.


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<pb/>And in this confidence <f>[19†]</f>I intended to come to you before, that you might have <f>[20†]</f>a second benefit—


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to pass by way of you to Macedonia, <f>[21†]</f>to come again from Macedonia to you, and be helped by you on my way to Judea.


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Therefore, when I was planning this, did I do it lightly? Or the things I plan, do I plan <f>[22†]</f>according to the flesh, that with me there should be Yes, Yes, and No, No?


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For <f>[24†]</f>the Son of God, Jesus Christ, who was preached among you by us—by me, <f>[25†]</f>Silvanus, and <f>[26†]</f>Timothy—was not Yes and No, <f>[27†]</f>but in Him was Yes.


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<f>[28†]</f>For all the promises of God in Him <i>are</i> Yes, and in Him Amen, to the glory of God through us.


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who <f>[30†]</f>also has sealed us and <f>[31†]</f>given us the Spirit in our hearts as a guarantee.


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<pb/>Moreover <f>[32†]</f>I call God as witness against my soul, <f>[33†]</f>that to spare you I came no more to Corinth.


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Not <f>[34†]</f>that we have dominion over your faith, but are fellow workers for your joy; for <f>[35†]</f>by faith you stand.


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For if I make you <f>[2†]</f>sorrowful, then who is he who makes me glad but the one who is made sorrowful by me?


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<pb/>And I wrote this very thing to you, lest, when I came, <f>[3†]</f>I should have sorrow over those from whom I ought to have joy, <f>[4†]</f>having confidence in you all that my joy is <i>the</i> <i>joy</i> of you all.


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For out of much affliction and anguish of heart I wrote to you, with many tears, <f>[5†]</f>not that you should be grieved, but that you might know the love which I have so abundantly for you.


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<pb/>But <f>[6†]</f>if anyone has caused grief, he has not <f>[7†]</f>grieved me, but all of you to some extent—not to be too severe.


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This punishment which <i>was</i> <i>inflicted</i> <f>[8†]</f>by the majority <i>is</i> sufficient for such a man,


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<f>[9†]</f>so that, on the contrary, you <i>ought</i> rather to forgive and comfort <i>him</i>, lest perhaps such a one be swallowed up with too much sorrow.


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For to this end I also wrote, that I might put you to the test, whether you are <f>[10†]</f>obedient in all things.


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Now whom you forgive anything, I also <i>forgive</i>. For if indeed I have forgiven anything, I have forgiven that one for your sakes in the presence of Christ,


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<pb/>Furthermore, <f>[11†]</f>when I came to Troas to <i>preach</i> Christ’s gospel, and <f>[12†]</f>a door was opened to me by the Lord,


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<f>[13†]</f>I had no rest in my spirit, because I did not find Titus my brother; but taking my leave of them, I departed for Macedonia.


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<pb/>Now thanks <i>be</i> to God who always leads us in triumph in Christ, and through us diffuses the fragrance of His knowledge in every place.


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For we are to God the fragrance of Christ <f>[14†]</f>among those who are being saved and <f>[15†]</f>among those who are perishing.


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<f>[16†]</f>To the one <i>we</i> <i>are</i> the aroma of death <i>leading</i> to death, and to the other the aroma of life <i>leading</i> to life. And <f>[17†]</f>who <i>is</i> sufficient for these things?


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For we are not, as so many, <f>[18†]</f>peddling the word of God; but as <f>[19†]</f>of sincerity, but as from God, we speak in the sight of God in Christ.


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<pb/>Do <f>[1†]</f>we begin again to commend ourselves? Or do we need, as some <i>others</i>, <f>[2†]</f>epistles of commendation to you or <i>letters</i> of commendation from you?


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clearly you are an epistle of Christ, <f>[4†]</f>ministered by us, written not with ink but by the Spirit of the living God, not <f>[5†]</f>on tablets of stone but <f>[6†]</f>on tablets of flesh, <i>that</i> <i>is,</i> of the heart.


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<f>[7†]</f>Not that we are sufficient of ourselves to think of anything as <i>being</i> from ourselves, but <f>[8†]</f>our sufficiency <i>is</i> from God,


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who also made us sufficient as <f>[9†]</f>ministers of <f>[10†]</f>the new covenant, not <f>[11†]</f>of the letter but of the Spirit; for <f>[12†]</f>the letter kills, <f>[13†]</f>but the Spirit gives life.


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<pb/>But if <f>[14†]</f>the ministry of death, <f>[15†]</f>written <i>and</i> engraved on stones, was glorious, <f>[16†]</f>so that the children of Israel could not look steadily at the face of Moses because of the glory of his countenance, which <i>glory</i> was passing away,


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For if the ministry of condemnation <i>had</i> glory, the ministry <f>[18†]</f>of righteousness exceeds much more in glory.


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unlike Moses, <f>[20†]</f><i>who</i> put a veil over his face so that the children of Israel could not look steadily at <f>[21†]</f>the end of what was passing away.


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But <f>[22†]</f>their minds were blinded. For until this day the same veil remains unlifted in the reading of the Old Testament, because the <i>veil</i> is taken away in Christ.


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Now <f>[25†]</f>the Lord is the Spirit; and where the Spirit of the Lord <i>is</i>, there <i>is</i> <f>[26†]</f>liberty.


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But we all, with unveiled face, beholding <f>[27†]</f>as in a mirror <f>[28†]</f>the glory of the Lord, <f>[29†]</f>are being transformed into the same image from glory to glory, just as by the Spirit of the Lord.


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<pb/>Therefore, since we have this ministry, <f>[1†]</f>as we have received mercy, we <f>[2†]</f>do not lose heart.


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But we have renounced the hidden things of shame, not walking in craftiness nor handling the word of God deceitfully, but by manifestation of the truth <f>[3†]</f>commending ourselves to every man’s conscience in the sight of God.


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whose minds <f>[5†]</f>the god of this age <f>[6†]</f>has blinded, who do not believe, lest <f>[7†]</f>the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ, <f>[8†]</f>who is the image of God, should shine on them.


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<f>[9†]</f>For we do not preach ourselves, but Christ Jesus the Lord, and <f>[10†]</f>ourselves your bondservants for Jesus’ sake.


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For it is the God <f>[11†]</f>who commanded light to shine out of darkness, who has <f>[12†]</f>shone in our hearts to <i>give</i> the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.


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<pb/>But we have this treasure in earthen vessels, <f>[13†]</f>that the excellence of the power may be of God and not of us.


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<i>We</i> <i>are</i> <f>[14†]</f>hard-pressed on every side, yet not crushed; <i>we</i> <i>are</i> perplexed, but not in despair;


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<f>[17†]</f>always carrying about in the body the dying of the Lord Jesus, <f>[18†]</f>that the life of Jesus also may be manifested in our body.


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For we who live <f>[19†]</f>are always delivered to death for Jesus’ sake, that the life of Jesus also may be manifested in our mortal flesh.


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<pb/>And since we have <f>[20†]</f>the same spirit of faith, according to what is written, <f>[21†]</f>“I believed and therefore I spoke,” we also believe and therefore speak,


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knowing that <f>[22†]</f>He who raised up the Lord Jesus will also raise us up with Jesus, and will present <i>us</i> with you.


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For <f>[23†]</f>all things <i>are</i> for your sakes, that <f>[24†]</f>grace, having spread through the many, may cause thanksgiving to abound to the glory of God.


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<pb/>Therefore we <f>[25†]</f>do not lose heart. Even though our outward <i>man</i> is perishing, yet the inward man is <f>[26†]</f>being renewed day by day.


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For <f>[27†]</f>our light affliction, which is but for a moment, is working for us a far more exceeding <i>and</i> eternal weight of glory,


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<f>[28†]</f>while we do not look at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen. For the things which are seen <i>are</i> temporary, but the things which <i>are</i> not seen are eternal.


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<pb/>For we know that if <f>[1†]</f>our earthly house, <i>this</i> tent, is destroyed, we have a building from God, a house <f>[2†]</f>not made with hands, eternal in the heavens.


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For in this <f>[3†]</f>we groan, earnestly desiring to be clothed with our habitation which is from heaven,


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For we who are in <i>this</i> tent groan, being burdened, not because we want to be unclothed, <f>[5†]</f>but further clothed, that mortality may be swallowed up by life.


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Now He who has prepared us for this very thing <i>is</i> God, who also <f>[6†]</f>has given us the Spirit as a guarantee.


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<pb/>So <i>we</i> <i>are</i> always confident, knowing that while we are at home in the body we are absent from the Lord.


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We are confident, yes, <f>[8†]</f>well pleased rather to be absent from the body and to be present with the Lord.


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<f>[9†]</f>For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ, <f>[10†]</f>that each one may receive the things <i>done</i> in the body, according to what he has done, whether good or bad.


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Knowing, therefore, <f>[11†]</f>the terror of the Lord, we persuade men; but we are well known to God, and I also trust are well known in your consciences.


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<pb/>For <f>[12†]</f>we do not commend ourselves again to you, but give you opportunity <f>[13†]</f>to boast on our behalf, that you may have <i>an</i> <i>answer</i> for those who boast in appearance and not in heart.


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For <f>[14†]</f>if we are beside ourselves, <i>it</i> <i>is</i> for God; or if we are of sound mind, <i>it</i> <i>is</i> for you.


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For the love of Christ compels us, because we judge thus: that <f>[15†]</f>if One died for all, then all died;


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and He died for all, <f>[16†]</f>that those who live should live no longer for themselves, but for Him who died for them and rose again.


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<pb/> <f>[17†]</f>Therefore, from now on, we regard no one according to the flesh. Even though we have known Christ according to the flesh, <f>[18†]</f>yet now we know <i>Him</i> <i>thus</i> no longer.


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Therefore, if anyone <f>[19†]</f><i>is</i> in Christ, <i>he</i> <i>is</i> <f>[20†]</f>a new creation; <f>[21†]</f>old things have passed away; behold, all things have become <f>[22†]</f>new.


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Now all things <i>are</i> of God, <f>[23†]</f>who has reconciled us to Himself through Jesus Christ, and has given us the ministry of reconciliation,


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that is, that <f>[24†]</f>God was in Christ reconciling the world to Himself, not imputing their trespasses to them, and has committed to us the word of reconciliation.


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<pb/>Now then, we are <f>[25†]</f>ambassadors for Christ, as though God were pleading through us: we implore <i>you</i> on Christ’s behalf, be reconciled to God.


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For <f>[26†]</f>He made Him who knew no sin <i>to</i> <i>be</i> sin for us, that we might become <f>[27†]</f>the righteousness of God in Him.


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<pb/>We then, <i>as</i> <f>[1†]</f>workers together <i>with</i> <i>Him</i> also <f>[2†]</f>plead with <i>you</i> not to receive the grace of God in vain.


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For He says: <pb/><t> <f>[3†]</f>“In an acceptable time I have heard you, </t><t>And in the day of salvation I have helped you.” </t> <pb/>Behold, now <i>is</i> the accepted time; behold, now <i>is</i> the day of salvation.


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But in all <i>things</i> we commend ourselves <f>[5†]</f>as ministers of God: in much patience, in tribulations, in needs, in distresses,


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<f>[7†]</f>by the word of truth, by <f>[8†]</f>the power of God, by <f>[9†]</f>the armor of righteousness on the right hand and on the left,


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as unknown, and <f>[10†]</f><i>yet</i> well known; <f>[11†]</f>as dying, and behold we live; <f>[12†]</f>as chastened, and <i>yet</i> not killed;


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as sorrowful, yet always rejoicing; as poor, yet making many <f>[13†]</f>rich; as having nothing, and <i>yet</i> possessing all things.


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<pb/> <f>[17†]</f>Do not be unequally yoked together with unbelievers. For <f>[18†]</f>what fellowship has righteousness with lawlessness? And what communion has light with darkness?


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And what agreement has the temple of God with idols? For <f>[19†]</f>you are the temple of the living God. As God has said: <pb/><t> <f>[20†]</f>“I will dwell in them </t><t>And walk among them. </t><t>I will be their God, </t><t>And they shall be My people.”</t>


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<pb/>Therefore <pb/><t> <f>[21†]</f>“Come out from among them </t><t>And be separate, says the Lord. </t><t>Do not touch what is unclean, </t><t>And I will receive you.”</t>


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<t>“I <f>[22†]</f>will be a Father to you, </t><t>And you shall be My <f>[23†]</f>sons and daughters, </t><t>Says the <e>LORD</e> Almighty.”</t>


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<pb/>Therefore, <f>[1†]</f> having these promises, beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from all filthiness of the flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God.


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<pb/>Open <i>your</i> <i>hearts</i> to us. We have wronged no one, we have corrupted no one, <f>[2†]</f>we have cheated no one.


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I do not say <i>this</i> to condemn; for <f>[3†]</f>I have said before that you are in our hearts, to die together and to live together.


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<f>[4†]</f>Great <i>is</i> my boldness of speech toward you, <f>[5†]</f>great <i>is</i> my boasting on your behalf. <f>[6†]</f>I am filled with comfort. I am exceedingly joyful in all our tribulation.


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<pb/>For indeed, <f>[7†]</f>when we came to Macedonia, our bodies had no rest, but <f>[8†]</f>we were troubled on every side. <f>[9†]</f>Outside <i>were</i> conflicts, inside <i>were</i> fears.


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Nevertheless <f>[10†]</f>God, who comforts the downcast, comforted us by <f>[11†]</f>the coming of Titus,


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and not only by his coming, but also by the consolation with which he was comforted in you, when he told us of your earnest desire, your mourning, your zeal for me, so that I rejoiced even more.


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<pb/>For even if I made you <f>[12†]</f>sorry with my letter, I do not regret it; <f>[13†]</f>though I did regret it. For I perceive that the same epistle made you sorry, though only for a while.


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Now I rejoice, not that you were made sorry, but that your sorrow led to repentance. For you were made sorry in a godly manner, that you might suffer loss from us in nothing.


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For <f>[14†]</f>godly sorrow produces repentance <i>leading</i> to salvation, not to be regretted; <f>[15†]</f>but the sorrow of the world produces death.


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For observe this very thing, that you sorrowed in a godly manner: What diligence it produced in you, <i>what</i> <f>[16†]</f>clearing of yourselves, what indignation, <i>what</i> fear, <i>what</i> vehement desire, <i>what</i> zeal, <i>what</i> vindication! In all <i>things</i> you proved yourselves to be <f>[17†]</f>clear in this matter.


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Therefore, although I wrote to you, <i>I</i> <i>did</i> not <i>do</i> <i>it</i> for the sake of him who had done the wrong, nor for the sake of him who suffered wrong, <f>[18†]</f>but that our care for you in the sight of God might appear to you.


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<pb/>Therefore we have been comforted in your comfort. And we rejoiced exceedingly more for the joy of Titus, because his spirit <f>[19†]</f>has been refreshed by you all.


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For if in anything I have boasted to him about you, I am not ashamed. But as we spoke all things to you in truth, even so our boasting to Titus was found true.


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And his affections are greater for you as he remembers <f>[20†]</f>the obedience of you all, how with fear and trembling you received him.


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<pb/>Moreover, brethren, we make known to you the grace of God bestowed on the churches of Macedonia:


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that in a great trial of affliction the abundance of their joy and <f>[1†]</f>their deep poverty abounded in the riches of their liberality.


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For I bear witness that according to <i>their</i> ability, yes, and beyond <i>their</i> ability, <i>they</i> <i>were</i> freely willing,


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imploring us with much urgency that we would receive the gift and <f>[2†]</f>the fellowship of the ministering to the saints.


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And not <i>only</i> as we had hoped, but they first <f>[3†]</f>gave themselves to the Lord, and <i>then</i> to us by the <f>[4†]</f>will of God.


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So <f>[5†]</f>we urged Titus, that as he had begun, so he would also complete this grace in you as well.


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But as <f>[6†]</f>you abound in everything—in faith, in speech, in knowledge, in all diligence, and in your love for us—<i>see</i> <f>[7†]</f>that you abound in this grace also.


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<pb/> <f>[8†]</f>I speak not by commandment, but I am testing the sincerity of your love by the diligence of others.


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For you know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, <f>[9†]</f>that though He was rich, yet for your sakes He became poor, that you through His poverty might become <f>[10†]</f>rich.


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<pb/>And in this <f>[11†]</f>I give advice: <f>[12†]</f>It is to your advantage not only to be doing what you began and <f>[13†]</f>were desiring to do a year ago;


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but now you also must complete the doing <i>of</i> <i>it;</i> that as <i>there</i> <i>was</i> a readiness to desire <i>it,</i> so <i>there</i> also <i>may</i> <i>be</i> a completion out of what <i>you</i> have.


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For <f>[14†]</f>if there is first a willing mind, <i>it</i> <i>is</i> accepted according to what one has, <i>and</i> not according to what he does not have.


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but by an equality, <i>that</i> now at this time your abundance <i>may</i> <i>supply</i> their lack, that their abundance also may <i>supply</i> your lack—that there may be equality.


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As it is written, <f>[15†]</f>“He who <i>gathered</i> much had nothing left over, and he who <i>gathered</i> little had no lack.”


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For he not only accepted the exhortation, but being more diligent, he went to you of his own accord.


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And we have sent with him <f>[16†]</f>the brother whose praise <i>is</i> in the gospel throughout all the churches,


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and not only <i>that,</i> but who was also <f>[17†]</f>chosen by the churches to travel with us with this gift, which is administered by us <f>[18†]</f>to the glory of the Lord Himself and <i>to</i> <i>show</i> your ready mind,


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<f>[19†]</f>providing honorable things, not only in the sight of the Lord, but also in the sight of men.


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<pb/>And we have sent with them our brother whom we have often proved diligent in many things, but now much more diligent, because of the great confidence which <i>we</i> <i>have</i> in you.


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If <i>anyone</i> <i>inquires</i> about <f>[20†]</f>Titus, <i>he</i> <i>is</i> my partner and fellow worker concerning you. Or if our brethren <i>are</i> <i>inquired</i> <i>about, they are</i> <f>[21†]</f>messengers of the churches, the glory of Christ.


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Therefore show to them, and before the churches, the proof of your love and of our <f>[22†]</f>boasting on your behalf.


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<pb/>Now concerning <f>[1†]</f>the ministering to the saints, it is superfluous for me to write to you;


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for I know your willingness, about which I boast of you to the Macedonians, that Achaia was ready a <f>[2†]</f>year ago; and your zeal has stirred up the majority.


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<f>[3†]</f>Yet I have sent the brethren, lest our boasting of you should be in vain in this respect, that, as I said, you may be ready;


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lest if <i>some</i> Macedonians come with me and find you unprepared, we (not to mention you!) should be ashamed of this confident boasting.


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Therefore I thought it necessary to exhort the brethren to go to you ahead of time, and prepare your generous gift beforehand, which <i>you</i> <i>had</i> previously promised, that it may be ready as <i>a</i> <i>matter</i> <i>of</i> generosity and not as a grudging obligation.


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<i>So</i> <i>let</i> each one <i>give</i> as he purposes in his heart, <f>[5†]</f>not grudgingly or of necessity; for <f>[6†]</f>God loves a cheerful giver.


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<f>[7†]</f>And God <i>is</i> able to make all grace abound toward you, that you, always having all sufficiency in all <i>things,</i> may have an abundance for every good work.


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As it is written: <pb/><t> <f>[8†]</f>“He has dispersed abroad, </t><t>He has given to the poor; </t><t>His righteousness endures forever.”</t>


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<pb/>Now may He who <f>[9†]</f>supplies seed to the sower, and bread for food, supply and multiply the seed you have <i>sown</i> and increase the fruits of your <f>[10†]</f>righteousness,


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while <i>you</i> <i>are</i> enriched in everything for all liberality, <f>[11†]</f>which causes thanksgiving through us to God.


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For the administration of this service not only <f>[12†]</f>supplies the needs of the saints, but also is abounding through many thanksgivings to God,


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while, through the proof of this ministry, they <f>[13†]</f>glorify God for the obedience of your confession to the gospel of Christ, and for <i>your</i> liberal <f>[14†]</f>sharing with them and all <i>men,</i>


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and by their prayer for you, who long for you because of the exceeding <f>[15†]</f>grace of God in you.


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<pb/>Now <f>[1†]</f>I, Paul, myself <i>am</i> pleading with <i>you</i> by the meekness and gentleness of Christ— <f>[2†]</f>who in presence am lowly among you, but being absent am bold toward you.


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But I beg you <f>[3†]</f>that when I am present I may not be bold with that confidence by which I intend to be bold against some, who think of us as if we walked according to the flesh.


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<f>[8†]</f>casting down arguments and every high thing that exalts itself against the knowledge of God, bringing every thought into captivity to the obedience of Christ,


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<pb/> <f>[11†]</f>Do you look at things according to the outward appearance? <f>[12†]</f>If anyone is convinced in himself that he <i>is</i> Christ’s, let him again consider this in himself, that just as he is Christ’s, even so <f>[13†]</f>we <i>are</i> Christ’s.


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For even if I should boast somewhat more <f>[14†]</f>about our authority, which the Lord gave us for edification and not for your destruction, <f>[15†]</f>I shall not be ashamed—


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“For <i>his</i> letters,” they say, “<i>are</i> weighty and powerful, but <f>[16†]</f><i>his</i> bodily presence <i>is</i> weak, and <i>his</i> <f>[17†]</f>speech contemptible.”


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Let such a person consider this, that what we are in word by letters when we are absent, such <i>we</i> <i>will</i> also <i>be</i> in deed when we are present.


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<pb/> <f>[18†]</f>For we dare not class ourselves or compare ourselves with those who commend themselves. But they, measuring themselves by themselves, and comparing themselves among themselves, are not wise.


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<f>[19†]</f>We, however, will not boast beyond measure, but within the limits of the sphere which God appointed us—a sphere which especially includes you.


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For we are not overextending ourselves (as though <i>our</i> <i>authority</i> did not extend to you), <f>[20†]</f>for it was to you that we came with the gospel of Christ;


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not boasting of things beyond measure, <i>that</i> <i>is,</i> <f>[21†]</f>in other men’s labors, but having hope, <i>that</i> as your faith is increased, we shall be greatly enlarged by you in our sphere,


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to preach the gospel in the <i>regions</i> beyond you, <i>and</i> not to boast in another man’s sphere of accomplishment.


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For I am <f>[2†]</f>jealous for you with godly jealousy. For <f>[3†]</f>I have betrothed you to one husband, <f>[4†]</f>that I may present <i>you</i> <f>[5†]</f>as a chaste virgin to Christ.


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But I fear, lest somehow, as <f>[6†]</f>the serpent deceived Eve by his craftiness, so your minds <f>[7†]</f>may be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ.


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For if he who comes preaches another Jesus whom we have not preached, or <i>if</i> you receive a different spirit which you have not received, or a <f>[8†]</f>different gospel which you have not accepted—you may well put up with it!


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Even though <f>[10†]</f><i>I</i> <i>am</i> untrained in speech, yet <i>I</i> <i>am</i> not <f>[11†]</f>in knowledge. But <f>[12†]</f>we have been thoroughly manifested among you in all things.


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<pb/>Did I commit sin in humbling myself that you might be exalted, because I preached the gospel of God to you <f>[13†]</f>free of charge?


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And when I was present with you, and in need, <f>[14†]</f>I was a burden to no one, for what I lacked <f>[15†]</f>the brethren who came from Macedonia supplied. And in everything I kept myself from being burdensome to you, and so I will keep <i>myself</i>.


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<f>[16†]</f>As the truth of Christ is in me, <f>[17†]</f>no one shall stop me from this boasting in the regions of Achaia.


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<pb/>But what I do, I will also continue to do, <f>[19†]</f>that I may cut off the opportunity from those who desire an opportunity to be regarded just as we are in the things of which they boast.


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For such <f>[20†]</f><i>are</i> false apostles, <f>[21†]</f>deceitful workers, transforming themselves into apostles of Christ.


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Therefore it is no great thing if his ministers also transform themselves into ministers of righteousness, <f>[23†]</f>whose end will be according to their works.


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<pb/>I say again, let no one think me a fool. If otherwise, at least receive me as a fool, that I also may boast a little.


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What I speak, <f>[24†]</f>I speak not according to the Lord, but as it were, foolishly, in this confidence of boasting.


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For you put up with it <f>[26†]</f>if one brings you into bondage, if one devours <i>you,</i> if one takes <i>from</i> <i>you,</i> if one exalts himself, if one strikes you on the face.


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To <i>our</i> shame <f>[27†]</f>I say that we were too weak for that! But <f>[28†]</f>in whatever anyone is bold—I speak foolishly—I am bold also.


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<pb/>Are they <f>[29†]</f>Hebrews? So <i>am</i> I. Are they Israelites? So <i>am</i> I. Are they the seed of Abraham? So <i>am</i> I.


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Are they ministers of Christ?—I speak as a fool—I <i>am</i> more: <f>[30†]</f>in labors more abundant, <f>[31†]</f>in stripes above measure, in prisons more frequently, <f>[32†]</f>in deaths often.


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Three times I was <f>[35†]</f>beaten with rods; <f>[36†]</f>once I was stoned; three times I <f>[37†]</f>was shipwrecked; a night and a day I have been in the deep;


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<i>in</i> journeys often, <i>in</i> perils of waters, <i>in</i> perils of robbers, <f>[38†]</f><i>in</i> perils of <i>my</i> <i>own</i> countrymen, <f>[39†]</f><i>in</i> perils of the Gentiles, <i>in</i> perils in the city, <i>in</i> perils in the wilderness, <i>in</i> perils in the sea, <i>in</i> perils among false brethren;


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in weariness and toil, <f>[40†]</f>in sleeplessness often, <f>[41†]</f>in hunger and thirst, in <f>[42†]</f>fastings often, in cold and nakedness—


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besides the other things, what comes upon me daily: <f>[43†]</f>my deep concern for all the churches.


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<f>[44†]</f>Who is weak, and I am not weak? Who is made to stumble, and I do not burn <i>with</i> <i>indignation?</i>


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<f>[46†]</f>The God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, <f>[47†]</f>who is blessed forever, knows that I am not lying.


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<f>[48†]</f>In Damascus the governor, under Aretas the king, was guarding the city of the Damascenes with a garrison, desiring to arrest me;


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<pb/>It is doubtless not profitable for me to boast. I will come to <f>[1†]</f>visions and <f>[2†]</f>revelations of the Lord:


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I know a man <f>[3†]</f>in Christ who fourteen years ago—whether in the body I do not know, or whether out of the body I do not know, God knows—such a one <f>[4†]</f>was caught up to the third heaven.


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how he was caught up into <f>[5†]</f>Paradise and heard inexpressible words, which it is not lawful for a man to utter.


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For though I might desire to boast, I will not be a fool; for I will speak the truth. But I refrain, lest anyone should think of me above what he sees me <i>to</i> <i>be</i> or hears from me.


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<pb/>And lest I should be exalted above measure by the abundance of the revelations, a <f>[7†]</f>thorn in the flesh was given to me, <f>[8†]</f>a messenger of Satan to buffet me, lest I be exalted above measure.


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And He said to me, <J>“My grace is sufficient for you, for My strength is made perfect in weakness.”</J> Therefore most gladly <f>[10†]</f>I will rather boast in my infirmities, <f>[11†]</f>that the power of Christ may rest upon me.


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Therefore <f>[12†]</f>I take pleasure in infirmities, in reproaches, in needs, in persecutions, in distresses, for Christ’s sake. <f>[13†]</f>For when I am weak, then I am strong.


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<pb/>I have become <f>[14†]</f>a fool in boasting; you have compelled me. For I ought to have been commended by you; for <f>[15†]</f>in nothing was I behind the most eminent apostles, though <f>[16†]</f>I am nothing.


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<f>[17†]</f>Truly the signs of an apostle were accomplished among you with all perseverance, in signs and <f>[18†]</f>wonders and mighty <f>[19†]</f>deeds.


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For what is it in which you were inferior to other churches, except that I myself was not burdensome to you? Forgive me this wrong!


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<pb/> <f>[20†]</f>Now <i>for</i> the third time I am ready to come to you. And I will not be burdensome to you; for <f>[21†]</f>I do not seek yours, but you. <f>[22†]</f>For the children ought not to lay up for the parents, but the parents for the children.


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And I will very gladly spend and be spent <f>[23†]</f>for your souls; though <f>[24†]</f>the more abundantly I love you, the less I am loved.


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<pb/>But be that <i>as</i> <i>it</i> <i>may,</i> <f>[25†]</f>I did not burden you. Nevertheless, being crafty, I caught you by cunning!


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I urged Titus, and sent our <f>[26†]</f>brother with <i>him.</i> Did Titus take advantage of you? Did we not walk in the same spirit? Did <i>we</i> not <i>walk</i> in the same steps?


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<pb/> <f>[27†]</f>Again, do you think that we excuse ourselves to you? <f>[28†]</f>We speak before God in Christ. <f>[29†]</f>But <i>we</i> <i>do</i> all things, beloved, for your edification.


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For I fear lest, when I come, I shall not find you such as I wish, and <i>that</i> <f>[30†]</f>I shall be found by you such as you do not wish; lest <i>there</i> <i>be</i> contentions, jealousies, outbursts of wrath, selfish ambitions, backbitings, whisperings, conceits, tumults;


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lest, when I come again, my God <f>[31†]</f>will humble me among you, and I shall mourn for many <f>[32†]</f>who have sinned before and have not repented of the uncleanness, <f>[33†]</f>fornication, and lewdness which they have practiced.


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<pb/>This <i>will</i> <i>be</i> <f>[1†]</f>the third <i>time</i> I am coming to you. <f>[2†]</f>“By the mouth of two or three witnesses every word shall be established.”


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<f>[3†]</f>I have told you before, and foretell as if I were present the second time, and now being absent I write to those <f>[4†]</f>who have sinned before, and to all the rest, that if I come again <f>[5†]</f>I will not spare—


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since you seek a proof of Christ <f>[6†]</f>speaking in me, who is not weak toward you, but mighty <f>[7†]</f>in you.


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<f>[8†]</f>For though He was crucified in weakness, yet <f>[9†]</f>He lives by the power of God. For <f>[10†]</f>we also are weak in Him, but we shall live with Him by the power of God toward you.


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<pb/>Examine yourselves <i>as</i> <i>to</i> whether you are in the faith. Test yourselves. Do you not know yourselves, <f>[11†]</f>that Jesus Christ is in you?—unless indeed you are <f>[12†]</f>disqualified.


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<pb/>Now I pray to God that you do no evil, not that we should appear approved, but that you should do what is honorable, though <f>[13†]</f>we may seem disqualified.


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For we are glad <f>[14†]</f>when we are weak and you are strong. And this also we pray, <f>[15†]</f>that you may be made complete.


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<f>[16†]</f>Therefore I write these things being absent, lest being present I should use sharpness, according to the <f>[17†]</f>authority which the Lord has given me for edification and not for destruction.


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<pb/>Finally, brethren, farewell. Become complete. <f>[18†]</f>Be of good comfort, be of one mind, live in peace; and the God of love <f>[19†]</f>and peace will be with you.


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<pb/> <f>[21†]</f>The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, and the love of God, and <f>[22†]</f>the communion of the Holy Spirit <i>be</i> with you all. Amen.


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<pb/>Paul, an apostle (not from men nor through man, but <f>[1†]</f>through Jesus Christ and God the Father <f>[2†]</f>who raised Him from the dead),


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<f>[3†]</f>who gave Himself for our sins, that He might deliver us <f>[4†]</f>from this present evil age, according to the will of our God and Father,


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<pb/>I marvel that you are turning away so soon <f>[5†]</f>from Him who called you in the grace of Christ, to a different gospel,


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<f>[6†]</f>which is not another; but there are some <f>[7†]</f>who trouble you and want to <f>[8†]</f>pervert the gospel of Christ.


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But even if <f>[9†]</f>we, or an angel from heaven, preach any other gospel to you than what we have preached to you, let him be accursed.


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As we have said before, so now I say again, if anyone preaches any other gospel to you <f>[10†]</f>than what you have received, let him be accursed.


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<pb/>For <f>[11†]</f>do I now <f>[12†]</f>persuade men, or God? Or <f>[13†]</f>do I seek to please men? For if I still pleased men, I would not be a bondservant of Christ.


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<pb/> <f>[14†]</f>But I make known to you, brethren, that the gospel which was preached by me is not according to man.


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For <f>[15†]</f>I neither received it from man, nor was I taught <i>it,</i> but <i>it</i> <i>came</i> <f>[16†]</f>through the revelation of Jesus Christ.


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<pb/>For you have heard of my former conduct in Judaism, how <f>[17†]</f>I persecuted the church of God beyond measure and <f>[18†]</f><i>tried</i> <i>to</i> destroy it.


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And I advanced in Judaism beyond many of my contemporaries in my own nation, <f>[19†]</f>being more exceedingly zealous <f>[20†]</f>for the traditions of my fathers.


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<pb/>But when it pleased God, <f>[21†]</f>who separated me from my mother’s womb and called <i>me</i> through His grace,


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<f>[22†]</f>to reveal His Son in me, that <f>[23†]</f>I might preach Him among the Gentiles, I did not immediately confer with <f>[24†]</f>flesh and blood,


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nor did I go up to Jerusalem to those <i>who</i> <i>were</i> apostles before me; but I went to Arabia, and returned again to Damascus.


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<pb/>Then after three years <f>[25†]</f>I went up to Jerusalem to see Peter, and remained with him fifteen days.


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But they were <f>[30†]</f>hearing only, “He who formerly <f>[31†]</f>persecuted us now preaches the faith which he once <i>tried</i> <i>to</i> destroy.”


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<pb/>Then after fourteen years <f>[1†]</f>I went up again to Jerusalem with Barnabas, and also took Titus with <i>me.</i>


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And I went up by revelation, and communicated to them that gospel which I preach among the Gentiles, but <f>[2†]</f>privately to those who were of reputation, lest by any means <f>[3†]</f>I might run, or had run, in vain.


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And <i>this</i> <i>occurred</i> because of <f>[4†]</f>false brethren secretly brought in (who came in by stealth to spy out our <f>[5†]</f>liberty which we have in Christ Jesus, <f>[6†]</f>that they might bring us into bondage),


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to whom we did not yield submission even for an hour, that <f>[7†]</f>the truth of the gospel might continue with you.


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<pb/>But from those <f>[8†]</f>who seemed to be something—whatever they were, it makes no difference to me; <f>[9†]</f>God shows personal favoritism to no man—for those who seemed <i>to</i> <i>be</i> <i>something</i> <f>[10†]</f>added nothing to me.


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But on the contrary, <f>[11†]</f>when they saw that the gospel for the uncircumcised <f>[12†]</f>had been committed to me, as <i>the</i> <i>gospel</i> for the circumcised <i>was</i> to Peter


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(for He who worked effectively in Peter for the apostleship to the <f>[13†]</f>circumcised <f>[14†]</f>also <f>[15†]</f>worked effectively in me toward the Gentiles),


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and when James, Cephas, and John, who seemed to be <f>[16†]</f>pillars, perceived <f>[17†]</f>the grace that had been given to me, they gave me and Barnabas the right hand of fellowship, <f>[18†]</f>that we <i>should</i> <i>go</i> to the Gentiles and they to the circumcised.


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<i>They</i> <i>desired</i> only that we should remember the poor, <f>[19†]</f>the very thing which I also was eager to do.


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<pb/> <f>[20†]</f>Now when Peter had come to Antioch, I withstood him to his face, because he was to be blamed;


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for before certain men came from James, <f>[21†]</f>he would eat with the Gentiles; but when they came, he withdrew and separated himself, fearing those who were of the circumcision.


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And the rest of the Jews also played the hypocrite with him, so that even Barnabas was carried away with their hypocrisy.


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<pb/>But when I saw that they were not straightforward about <f>[22†]</f>the truth of the gospel, I said to Peter <f>[23†]</f>before <i>them</i> all, <f>[24†]</f>“If you, being a Jew, live in the manner of Gentiles and not as the Jews, why do you compel Gentiles to live as Jews?


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<f>[27†]</f>knowing that a man is not justified by the works of the law but <f>[28†]</f>by faith in Jesus Christ, even we have believed in Christ Jesus, that we might be justified by faith in Christ and not <f>[29†]</f>by the works of the law; for by the works of the law no flesh shall be justified.


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<pb/>“But if, while we seek to be justified by Christ, we ourselves also are found <f>[30†]</f>sinners, <i>is</i> Christ therefore a minister of sin? Certainly not!


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I have been <f>[34†]</f>crucified with Christ; it is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me; and the <i>life</i> which I now live in the flesh <f>[35†]</f>I live by faith in the Son of God, <f>[36†]</f>who loved me and gave Himself for me.


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I do not set aside the grace of God; for <f>[37†]</f>if righteousness <i>comes</i> through the law, then Christ died in vain.”


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<pb/>O foolish Galatians! Who has bewitched you that you should not obey the truth, before whose eyes Jesus Christ was clearly portrayed among you as crucified?


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This only I want to learn from you: Did you receive the Spirit by the works of the law, <f>[1†]</f>or by the hearing of faith?


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Are you so foolish? <f>[2†]</f>Having begun in the Spirit, are you now being made perfect by <f>[3†]</f>the flesh?


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<pb/>Therefore He who supplies the Spirit to you and works miracles among you, <i>does</i> <i>He</i> <i>do</i> <i>it</i> by the works of the law, or by the hearing of faith?—


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And <f>[7†]</f>the Scripture, foreseeing that God would justify the Gentiles by faith, preached the gospel to Abraham beforehand, <i>saying,</i> <f>[8†]</f>“In you all the nations shall be blessed.”


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<pb/>For as many as are of the works of the law are under the curse; for it is written, <f>[9†]</f>“Cursed <i>is</i> 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 <i>is</i> evident, for <f>[10†]</f>“the just shall live by faith.”


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Yet <f>[11†]</f>the law is not of faith, but <f>[12†]</f>“the man who does them shall live by them.”


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<pb/> <f>[13†]</f>Christ has redeemed us from the curse of the law, having become a curse for us (for it is written, <f>[14†]</f>“Cursed <i>is</i> everyone who hangs on a tree”),


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<f>[15†]</f>that the blessing of Abraham might come upon the <f>[16†]</f>Gentiles in Christ Jesus, that we might receive <f>[17†]</f>the promise of the Spirit through faith.


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<pb/>Brethren, I speak in the manner of men: <f>[18†]</f>Though <i>it</i> <i>is</i> only a man’s covenant, yet <i>if</i> <i>it</i> <i>is</i> confirmed, no one annuls or adds to it.


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Now to Abraham and his Seed were the promises made. He does not say, “And to seeds,” as of many, but as of <f>[19†]</f>one, <f>[20†]</f>“And to your Seed,” who is <f>[21†]</f>Christ.


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And this I say, <i>that</i> the law, <f>[22†]</f>which was four hundred and thirty years later, cannot annul the covenant that was confirmed before by God in Christ, <f>[23†]</f>that it should make the promise of no effect.


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For if <f>[24†]</f>the inheritance <i>is</i> of the law, <f>[25†]</f><i>it</i> <i>is</i> no longer of promise; but God gave <i>it</i> to Abraham by promise.


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<pb/>What purpose then <i>does</i> the law <i>serve?</i> <f>[26†]</f>It was added because of transgressions, till the <f>[27†]</f>Seed should come to whom the promise was made; <i>and</i> <i>it</i> <i>was</i> <f>[28†]</f>appointed through angels by the hand <f>[29†]</f>of a mediator.


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<pb/><i>Is</i> the law then against the promises of God? Certainly not! For if there had been a law given which could have given life, truly righteousness would have been by the law.


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But the Scripture has confined <f>[31†]</f>all under sin, <f>[32†]</f>that the promise by faith in Jesus Christ might be given to those who believe.


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But before faith came, we were kept under guard by the law, kept for the faith which would afterward be revealed.


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Therefore <f>[33†]</f>the law was our tutor <i>to</i> <i>bring</i> <i>us</i> to Christ, <f>[34†]</f>that we might be justified by faith.


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<f>[38†]</f>There is neither Jew nor Greek, <f>[39†]</f>there is neither slave nor free, there is neither male nor female; for you are all <f>[40†]</f>one in Christ Jesus.


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And <f>[41†]</f>if you <i>are</i> Christ’s, then you are Abraham’s <f>[42†]</f>seed, and <f>[43†]</f>heirs according to the promise.


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<pb/>Now I say <i>that</i> the heir, as long as he is a child, does not differ at all from a slave, though he is master of all,


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But <f>[2†]</f>when the fullness of the time had come, God sent forth His Son, <f>[3†]</f>born <f>[4†]</f>of a woman, <f>[5†]</f>born under the law,


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<f>[6†]</f>to redeem those who were under the law, <f>[7†]</f>that we might receive the adoption as sons.


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<pb/>And because you are sons, God has sent forth <f>[8†]</f>the Spirit of His Son into your hearts, crying out, “Abba, Father!”


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Therefore you are no longer a slave but a son, <f>[9†]</f>and if a son, then an heir of God through Christ.


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<pb/>But then, indeed, <f>[10†]</f>when you did not know God, <f>[11†]</f>you served those which by nature are not gods.


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But now <f>[12†]</f>after you have known God, or rather are known by God, <f>[13†]</f>how <i>is</i> <i>it</i> <i>that</i> you turn again to <f>[14†]</f>the weak and beggarly elements, to which you desire again to be in bondage?


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<pb/>Brethren, I urge you to become like me, for I <i>became</i> like you. <f>[17†]</f>You have not injured me at all.


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And my trial which was in my flesh you did not despise or reject, but you received me <f>[19†]</f>as an angel of God, <f>[20†]</f><i>even</i> as Christ Jesus.


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What then was the blessing you <i>enjoyed?</i> For I bear you witness that, if possible, you would have plucked out your own eyes and given them to me.


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<pb/>They <f>[21†]</f>zealously court you, <i>but</i> for no good; yes, they want to exclude you, that you may be zealous for them.


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For it is written that Abraham had two sons: <f>[23†]</f>the one by a bondwoman, <f>[24†]</f>the other by a freewoman.


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But he <i>who</i> <i>was</i> of the bondwoman <f>[25†]</f>was born according to the flesh, <f>[26†]</f>and he of the freewoman through promise,


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which things are symbolic. For these are the two covenants: the one from Mount <f>[27†]</f>Sinai which gives birth to bondage, which is Hagar—


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for this Hagar is Mount Sinai in Arabia, and corresponds to Jerusalem which now is, and is in bondage with her children—


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For it is written: <pb/><t> <f>[29†]</f>“Rejoice, O barren, </t><t><i>You</i> who do not bear! </t><t>Break forth and shout, </t><t>You who are not in labor! </t><t>For the desolate has many more children </t><t>Than she who has a husband.”</t>


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But, as <f>[32†]</f>he who was born according to the flesh then persecuted him <i>who</i> <i>was</i> <i>born</i> according to the Spirit, <f>[33†]</f>even so <i>it</i> <i>is</i> now.


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Nevertheless what does <f>[34†]</f>the Scripture say? <f>[35†]</f>“Cast out the bondwoman and her son, for <f>[36†]</f>the son of the bondwoman shall not be heir with the son of the freewoman.”


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<pb/> <f>[1†]</f>Stand fast therefore in the liberty by which Christ has made us free, and do not be entangled again with a <f>[2†]</f>yoke of bondage.


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Indeed I, Paul, say to you that <f>[3†]</f>if you become circumcised, Christ will profit you nothing.


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And I testify again to every man who becomes circumcised <f>[4†]</f>that he is a debtor to keep the whole law.


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<f>[5†]</f>You have become estranged from Christ, you who <i>attempt</i> <i>to</i> be justified by law; <f>[6†]</f>you have fallen from grace.


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For <f>[8†]</f>in Christ Jesus neither circumcision nor uncircumcision avails anything, but <f>[9†]</f>faith working through love.


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I have confidence in you, in the Lord, that you will have no other mind; but he who troubles you shall bear his judgment, whoever he is.


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<pb/>And I, brethren, if I still preach circumcision, <f>[12†]</f>why do I still suffer persecution? Then <f>[13†]</f>the offense of the cross has ceased.


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<pb/>For you, brethren, have been called to liberty; only <f>[16†]</f>do not <i>use</i> liberty as an <f>[17†]</f>opportunity for the flesh, but <f>[18†]</f>through love serve one another.


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For <f>[19†]</f>all the law is fulfilled in one word, <i>even</i> in this: <f>[20†]</f>“You shall love your neighbor as yourself.”


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For <f>[22†]</f>the flesh lusts against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh; and these are contrary to one another, <f>[23†]</f>so that you do not do the things that you wish.


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<pb/>Now <f>[25†]</f>the works of the flesh are evident, which are: adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lewdness,


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idolatry, sorcery, hatred, contentions, jealousies, outbursts of wrath, selfish ambitions, dissensions, heresies,


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envy, murders, drunkenness, revelries, and the like; of which I tell you beforehand, just as I also told <i>you</i> in time past, that <f>[26†]</f>those who practice such things will not inherit the kingdom of God.


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<pb/>But <f>[27†]</f>the fruit of the Spirit is <f>[28†]</f>love, joy, peace, longsuffering, kindness, <f>[29†]</f>goodness, <f>[30†]</f>faithfulness,


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And those <i>who</i> <i>are</i> Christ’s <f>[32†]</f>have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires.


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<pb/>Brethren, if a man is overtaken in any trespass, you who <i>are</i> spiritual restore such a one in a spirit of <f>[1†]</f>gentleness, considering yourself lest you also be tempted.


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For <f>[4†]</f>if anyone thinks himself to be something, when <f>[5†]</f>he is nothing, he deceives himself.


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But <f>[6†]</f>let each one examine his own work, and then he will have rejoicing in himself alone, and <f>[7†]</f>not in another.


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<pb/>Do not be deceived, God is not mocked; for <f>[10†]</f>whatever a man sows, that he will also reap.


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For he who sows to his flesh will of the flesh reap corruption, but he who sows to the Spirit will of the Spirit reap <f>[11†]</f>everlasting life.


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And <f>[12†]</f>let us not grow weary while doing good, for in due season we shall reap <f>[13†]</f>if we do not lose heart.


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<f>[14†]</f>Therefore, as we have opportunity, <f>[15†]</f>let us do good to all, <f>[16†]</f>especially to those who are of the household of faith.


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As many as desire to make a good showing in the flesh, these <i>would</i> compel you to be circumcised, <f>[17†]</f>only that they may not suffer persecution for the cross of Christ.


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For not even those who are circumcised keep the law, but they desire to have you circumcised that they may boast in your flesh.


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But God forbid that I should boast except in the <f>[18†]</f>cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom the world has been crucified to me, and <f>[19†]</f>I to the world.


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For <f>[20†]</f>in Christ Jesus neither circumcision nor uncircumcision avails anything, but a new creation.


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<pb/>And as many as walk according to this rule, peace and mercy <i>be</i> upon them, and upon the Israel of God.


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<pb/>Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ by the will of God, <pb/>To the saints who are in Ephesus, and faithful in Christ Jesus:


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<pb/> <f>[1†]</f>Blessed <i>be</i> the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly <i>places</i> in Christ,


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just as <f>[2†]</f>He chose us in Him <f>[3†]</f>before the foundation of the world, that we should <f>[4†]</f>be holy and without blame before Him in love,


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<f>[5†]</f>having predestined us to <f>[6†]</f>adoption as sons by Jesus Christ to Himself, <f>[7†]</f>according to the good pleasure of His will,


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to the praise of the glory of His grace, <f>[8†]</f>by which He made us accepted in <f>[9†]</f>the Beloved.


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<pb/> <f>[10†]</f>In Him we have redemption through His blood, the forgiveness of sins, according to <f>[11†]</f>the riches of His grace


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<f>[12†]</f>having made known to us the mystery of His will, according to His good pleasure <f>[13†]</f>which He purposed in Himself,


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that in the dispensation of <f>[14†]</f>the fullness of the times <f>[15†]</f>He might gather together in one <f>[16†]</f>all things in Christ, both which are in heaven and which are on earth—in Him.


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<f>[17†]</f>In Him also we have obtained an inheritance, being predestined according to <f>[18†]</f>the purpose of Him who works all things according to the counsel of His will,


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<pb/>In Him you also <i>trusted,</i> after you heard <f>[21†]</f>the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation; in whom also, having believed, <f>[22†]</f>you were sealed with the Holy Spirit of promise,


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<f>[23†]</f>who is the guarantee of our inheritance <f>[24†]</f>until the redemption of <f>[25†]</f>the purchased possession, <f>[26†]</f>to the praise of His glory.


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<pb/>Therefore I also, <f>[27†]</f>after I heard of your faith in the Lord Jesus and your love for all the saints,


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that <f>[29†]</f>the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, <f>[30†]</f>may give to you the spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of Him,


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<f>[31†]</f>the eyes of your understanding being enlightened; that you may know what is <f>[32†]</f>the hope of His calling, what are the riches of the glory of His inheritance in the saints,


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and what <i>is</i> the exceeding greatness of His power toward us who believe, <f>[33†]</f>according to the working of His mighty power


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which He worked in Christ when <f>[34†]</f>He raised Him from the dead and <f>[35†]</f>seated <i>Him</i> at His right hand in the heavenly <i>places,</i>


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<f>[36†]</f>far above all <f>[37†]</f>principality and power and might and dominion, and every name that is named, not only in this age but also in that which is to come.


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<pb/>And <f>[38†]</f>He put all <i>things</i> under His feet, and gave Him <f>[39†]</f><i>to</i> <i>be</i> head over all <i>things</i> to the church,


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<pb/>And <f>[1†]</f>you <i>He</i> <i>made</i> <i>alive,</i> <f>[2†]</f>who were dead in trespasses and sins,


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<f>[3†]</f>in which you once walked according to the course of this world, according to <f>[4†]</f>the prince of the power of the air, the spirit who now works in <f>[5†]</f>the sons of disobedience,


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<f>[6†]</f>among whom also we all once conducted ourselves in <f>[7†]</f>the lusts of our flesh, fulfilling the desires of the flesh and of the mind, and <f>[8†]</f>were by nature children of wrath, just as the others.


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<pb/>But God, <f>[9†]</f>who is rich in mercy, because of His <f>[10†]</f>great love with which He loved us,


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<f>[11†]</f>even when we were dead in trespasses, <f>[12†]</f>made us alive together with Christ (by grace you have been saved),


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and raised <i>us</i> up together, and made <i>us</i> sit together <f>[13†]</f>in the heavenly <i>places</i> in Christ Jesus,


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that in the ages to come He might show the exceeding riches of His grace in <f>[14†]</f><i>His</i> kindness toward us in Christ Jesus.


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<f>[15†]</f>For by grace you have been saved <f>[16†]</f>through faith, and that not of yourselves; <f>[17†]</f><i>it</i> <i>is</i> the gift of God,


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For we are <f>[20†]</f>His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand that we should walk in them.


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<pb/>Therefore remember that you, once Gentiles in the flesh—who are called Uncircumcision by what is called <f>[21†]</f>the Circumcision made in the flesh by hands—


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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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<pb/>For He Himself is our peace, who has made both one, and has broken down the middle wall of separation,


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having abolished in His flesh the enmity, <i>that</i> <i>is,</i> the law of commandments <i>contained</i> in ordinances, so as to create in Himself one <f>[22†]</f>new man <i>from</i> the two, <i>thus</i> making peace,


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and that He might <f>[23†]</f>reconcile them both to God in one body through the cross, thereby <f>[24†]</f>putting to death the enmity.


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<pb/>Now, therefore, you are no longer strangers and foreigners, but fellow citizens with the saints and members of the household of God,


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having been <f>[27†]</f>built <f>[28†]</f>on the foundation of the <f>[29†]</f>apostles and prophets, Jesus Christ Himself being <f>[30†]</f>the chief corner<i>stone,</i>


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in whom the whole building, being fitted together, grows into <f>[31†]</f>a holy temple in the Lord,


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<f>[32†]</f>in whom you also are being built together for a <f>[33†]</f>dwelling place of God in the Spirit.


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if indeed you have heard of the dispensation of the grace of God <f>[1†]</f>which was given to me for you,


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<f>[2†]</f>how that by revelation <f>[3†]</f>He made known to me the mystery (as I have briefly written already,


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which in other ages was not made known to the sons of men, as it has now been revealed by the Spirit to His holy apostles and prophets:


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that the Gentiles <f>[4†]</f>should be fellow heirs, of the same body, and partakers of His promise in Christ through the gospel,


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<f>[5†]</f>of which I became a minister <f>[6†]</f>according to the gift of the grace of God given to me by <f>[7†]</f>the effective working of His power.


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<pb/>To me, <f>[8†]</f>who am less than the least of all the saints, this grace was given, that I should preach among the Gentiles <f>[9†]</f>the unsearchable riches of Christ,


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and to make all see what <i>is</i> the fellowship of the mystery, which from the beginning of the ages has been hidden in God who <f>[10†]</f>created all things through Jesus Christ;


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<f>[11†]</f>to the intent that now <f>[12†]</f>the manifold wisdom of God might be made known by the church <f>[13†]</f>to the principalities and powers in the heavenly <i>places,</i>


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<f>[16†]</f>Therefore I ask that you do not lose heart at my tribulations for you, <f>[17†]</f>which is your glory.


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that He would grant you, <f>[19†]</f>according to the riches of His glory, <f>[20†]</f>to be strengthened with might through His Spirit in <f>[21†]</f>the inner man,


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<f>[22†]</f>that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith; that you, <f>[23†]</f>being rooted and grounded in love,


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<f>[24†]</f>may be able to comprehend with all the saints <f>[25†]</f>what <i>is</i> the width and length and depth and height—


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to know the love of Christ which passes knowledge; that you may be filled <f>[26†]</f>with all the fullness of God.


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<pb/>Now <f>[27†]</f>to Him who is able to do exceedingly abundantly <f>[28†]</f>above all that we ask or think, <f>[29†]</f>according to the power that works in us,


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<f>[30†]</f>to Him <i>be</i> glory in the church by Christ Jesus to all generations, forever and ever. Amen.


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<pb/>I, therefore, the prisoner of the Lord, beseech you to <f>[1†]</f>walk worthy of the calling with which you were called,


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<f>[3†]</f><i>There</i> <i>is</i> one body and one Spirit, just as you were called in one hope of your calling;


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<f>[7†]</f>one God and Father of all, who <i>is</i> above all, and <f>[8†]</f>through all, and in you all.


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Therefore He says: <pb/><t> <f>[10†]</f>“When He ascended on high, </t><t>He led captivity captive, </t><t>And gave gifts to men.”</t>


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<pb/> <f>[11†]</f>(Now this, “He ascended”—what does it mean but that He also first descended into the lower parts of the earth?


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He who descended is also the One <f>[12†]</f>who ascended far above all the heavens, <f>[13†]</f>that He might fill all things.)


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<pb/>And He Himself gave some <i>to</i> <i>be</i> apostles, some prophets, some evangelists, and some pastors and teachers,


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for the equipping of the saints for the work of ministry, <f>[14†]</f>for the edifying of <f>[15†]</f>the body of Christ,


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till we all come to the unity of the faith <f>[16†]</f>and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to <f>[17†]</f>a perfect man, to the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ;


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that we should no longer be <f>[18†]</f>children, tossed to and fro and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the trickery of men, in the cunning craftiness of <f>[19†]</f>deceitful plotting,


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but, speaking the truth in love, may grow up in all things into Him who is the <f>[20†]</f>head—Christ—


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<f>[21†]</f>from whom the whole body, joined and knit together by what every joint supplies, according to the effective working by which every part does its share, causes growth of the body for the edifying of itself in love.


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<pb/>This I say, therefore, and testify in the Lord, that you should <f>[22†]</f>no longer walk as the rest of the Gentiles walk, in the futility of their mind,


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having their understanding darkened, being alienated from the life of God, because of the ignorance that is in them, because of the <f>[23†]</f>blindness of their heart;


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<f>[24†]</f>who, being past feeling, <f>[25†]</f>have given themselves over to lewdness, to work all uncleanness with greediness.


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that you <f>[26†]</f>put off, concerning your former conduct, the old man which grows corrupt according to the deceitful lusts,


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and that you <f>[28†]</f>put on the new man which was created according to God, in true righteousness and holiness.


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<pb/>Therefore, putting away lying, <f>[29†]</f>“<i>Let</i> each one <i>of</i> <i>you</i> speak truth with his neighbor,” for <f>[30†]</f>we are members of one another.


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Let him who stole steal no longer, but rather <f>[33†]</f>let him labor, working with <i>his</i> hands what is good, that he may have something <f>[34†]</f>to give him who has need.


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<f>[35†]</f>Let no corrupt word proceed out of your mouth, but <f>[36†]</f>what is good for necessary edification, <f>[37†]</f>that it may impart grace to the hearers.


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And <f>[38†]</f>do not grieve the Holy Spirit of God, by whom you were sealed for the day of redemption.


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<f>[39†]</f>Let all bitterness, wrath, anger, clamor, and <f>[40†]</f>evil speaking be put away from you, <f>[41†]</f>with all malice.


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And <f>[42†]</f>be kind to one another, tenderhearted, <f>[43†]</f>forgiving one another, even as God in Christ forgave you.


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And <f>[3†]</f>walk in love, <f>[4†]</f>as Christ also has loved us and given Himself for us, an offering and a sacrifice to God <f>[5†]</f>for a sweet-smelling aroma.


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<pb/>But fornication and all <f>[6†]</f>uncleanness or <f>[7†]</f>covetousness, let it not even be named among you, as is fitting for saints;


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<f>[8†]</f>neither filthiness, nor <f>[9†]</f>foolish talking, nor coarse jesting, <f>[10†]</f>which are not fitting, but rather <f>[11†]</f>giving of thanks.


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For this you know, that no fornicator, unclean person, nor covetous man, who is an idolater, has any <f>[12†]</f>inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and God.


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Let no one deceive you with empty words, for because of these things the wrath of God comes upon the sons of disobedience.


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<pb/>For you were once darkness, but now <i>you</i> <i>are</i> <f>[14†]</f>light in the Lord. Walk as children of light


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And have <f>[17†]</f>no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather expose <i>them.</i>


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But <f>[19†]</f>all things that are exposed are made manifest by the light, for whatever makes manifest is light.


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Therefore He says: <pb/><t> <f>[20†]</f>“Awake, you who sleep, </t><t>Arise from the dead, </t><t>And Christ will give you light.”</t>


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<pb/> <f>[24†]</f>Therefore do not be unwise, but <f>[25†]</f>understand <f>[26†]</f>what the will of the Lord <i>is.</i>


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speaking to one another <f>[28†]</f>in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making <f>[29†]</f>melody in your heart to the Lord,


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<f>[30†]</f>giving thanks always for all things to God the Father <f>[31†]</f>in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ,


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For <f>[34†]</f>the husband is head of the wife, as also <f>[35†]</f>Christ is head of the church; and He is the Savior of the body.


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Therefore, just as the church is subject to Christ, so <i>let</i> the wives <i>be</i> to their own husbands <f>[36†]</f>in everything.


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<pb/> <f>[37†]</f>Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ also loved the church and <f>[38†]</f>gave Himself for her,


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that He might sanctify and cleanse her <f>[39†]</f>with the washing of water <f>[40†]</f>by the word,


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<f>[41†]</f>that He might present her to Himself a glorious church, <f>[42†]</f>not having spot or wrinkle or any such thing, but that she should be holy and without blemish.


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For no one ever hated his own flesh, but nourishes and cherishes it, just as the Lord <i>does</i> the church.


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<f>[44†]</f>“For this reason a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and the <f>[45†]</f>two shall become one flesh.”


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<pb/>And <f>[3†]</f>you, fathers, do not provoke your children to wrath, but <f>[4†]</f>bring them up in the training and admonition of the Lord.


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<pb/> <f>[5†]</f>Bondservants, be obedient to those who are your masters according to the flesh, <f>[6†]</f>with fear and trembling, <f>[7†]</f>in sincerity of heart, as to Christ;


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<f>[8†]</f>not with eyeservice, as men-pleasers, but as bondservants of Christ, doing the will of God from the heart,


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<f>[9†]</f>knowing that whatever good anyone does, he will receive the same from the Lord, whether <i>he</i> <i>is</i> a slave or free.


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<pb/>And you, masters, do the same things to them, giving up threatening, knowing that your own <f>[10†]</f>Master also is in heaven, and <f>[11†]</f>there is no partiality with Him.


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<f>[12†]</f>Put on the whole armor of God, that you may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil.


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For we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against <f>[13†]</f>principalities, against powers, against <f>[14†]</f>the rulers of the darkness of this age, against spiritual <i>hosts</i> of wickedness in the heavenly <i>places.</i>


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<f>[15†]</f>Therefore take up the whole armor of God, that you may be able to withstand <f>[16†]</f>in the evil day, and having done all, to stand.


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<pb/>Stand therefore, <f>[17†]</f>having girded your waist with truth, <f>[18†]</f>having put on the breastplate of righteousness,


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above all, taking <f>[20†]</f>the shield of faith with which you will be able to quench all the fiery darts of the wicked one.


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And <f>[21†]</f>take the helmet of salvation, and <f>[22†]</f>the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God;


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<f>[23†]</f>praying always with all prayer and supplication in the Spirit, <f>[24†]</f>being watchful to this end with all perseverance and <f>[25†]</f>supplication for all the saints—


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and for me, that utterance may be given to me, <f>[26†]</f>that I may open my mouth boldly to make known the mystery of the gospel,


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for which <f>[27†]</f>I am an ambassador in chains; that in it I may speak boldly, as I ought to speak.


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<pb/>But that you also may know my affairs <i>and</i> how I am doing, <f>[28†]</f>Tychicus, a beloved brother and <f>[29†]</f>faithful minister in the Lord, will make all things known to you;


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<f>[30†]</f>whom I have sent to you for this very purpose, that you may know our affairs, and <i>that</i> he may <f>[31†]</f>comfort your hearts.


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<pb/>Paul and Timothy, bondservants of Jesus Christ, <pb/>To all the saints in Christ Jesus who are in Philippi, with the bishops and <f>[1†]</f>deacons:


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being confident of this very thing, that He who has begun <f>[5†]</f>a good work in you will complete <i>it</i> until the day of Jesus Christ;


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just as it is right for me to think this of you all, because I have you in my heart, inasmuch as both in my chains and in the defense and confirmation of the gospel, you all are partakers with me of grace.


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<pb/>And this I pray, that your love may abound still more and more in knowledge and all discernment,


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that you may approve the things that are excellent, that you may be sincere and without offense till the day of Christ,


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being filled with the fruits of righteousness <f>[6†]</f>which <i>are</i> by Jesus Christ, <f>[7†]</f>to the glory and praise of God.


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<pb/>But I want you to know, brethren, that the things <i>which</i> <i>happened</i> to me have actually turned out for the furtherance of the gospel,


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so that it has become evident <f>[8†]</f>to the whole palace guard, and to all the rest, that my chains are in Christ;


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and most of the brethren in the Lord, having become confident by my chains, are much more bold to speak the word without fear.


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The former preach Christ from selfish ambition, not sincerely, supposing to add affliction to my chains;


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What then? Only <i>that</i> in every way, whether in pretense or in truth, Christ is preached; and in this I rejoice, yes, and will rejoice.


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<pb/>For I know that <f>[9†]</f>this will turn out for my deliverance through your prayer and the supply of the Spirit of Jesus Christ,


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according to my earnest expectation and hope that in nothing I shall be ashamed, but <f>[10†]</f>with all boldness, as always, so now also Christ will be magnified in my body, whether by life <f>[11†]</f>or by death.


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But if <i>I</i> live on in the flesh, this <i>will</i> <i>mean</i> fruit from <i>my</i> labor; yet what I shall choose I cannot tell.


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For I am hard-pressed between the two, having a <f>[12†]</f>desire to depart and be with Christ, <i>which</i> <i>is</i> <f>[13†]</f>far better.


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And being confident of this, I know that I shall remain and continue with you all for your progress and joy of faith,


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that <f>[14†]</f>your rejoicing for me may be more abundant in Jesus Christ by my coming to you again.


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<pb/>Only <f>[15†]</f>let your conduct be worthy of the gospel of Christ, so that whether I come and see you or am absent, I may hear of your affairs, that you stand fast in one spirit, <f>[16†]</f>with one mind <f>[17†]</f>striving together for the faith of the gospel,


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and not in any way terrified by your adversaries, which is to them a proof of perdition, but to you of salvation, and that from God.


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<f>[2†]</f>fulfill my joy <f>[3†]</f>by being like-minded, having the same love, <i>being</i> of <f>[4†]</f>one accord, of one mind.


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<f>[5†]</f><i>Let</i> nothing <i>be</i> <i>done</i> through selfish ambition or conceit, but <f>[6†]</f>in lowliness of mind let each esteem others better than himself.


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<f>[7†]</f>Let each of you look out not only for his own interests, but also for the interests of <f>[8†]</f>others.


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<f>[11†]</f>but made Himself of no reputation, taking the form <f>[12†]</f>of a bondservant, <i>and</i> <f>[13†]</f>coming in the likeness of men.


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And being found in appearance as a man, He humbled Himself and <f>[14†]</f>became <f>[15†]</f>obedient to <i>the</i> <i>point</i> <i>of</i> death, even the death of the cross.


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<f>[16†]</f>Therefore God also <f>[17†]</f>has highly exalted Him and <f>[18†]</f>given Him the name which is above every name,


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<f>[19†]</f>that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of those in heaven, and of those on earth, and of those under the earth,


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and <f>[20†]</f><i>that</i> every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ <i>is</i> Lord, to the glory of God the Father.


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<pb/>Therefore, my beloved, <f>[21†]</f>as you have always obeyed, not as in my presence only, but now much more in my absence, <f>[22†]</f>work out your own salvation with <f>[23†]</f>fear and trembling;


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for <f>[24†]</f>it is God who works in you both to will and to do <f>[25†]</f>for <i>His</i> good pleasure.


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that you may become blameless and harmless, children of God without fault in the midst of a crooked and perverse generation, among whom you shine as <f>[28†]</f>lights in the world,


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holding fast the word of life, so that <f>[29†]</f>I may rejoice in the day of Christ that <f>[30†]</f>I have not run in vain or labored in <f>[31†]</f>vain.


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<pb/>Yes, and if <f>[32†]</f>I am being poured out <i>as</i> <i>a</i> <i>drink</i> <i>offering</i> on the sacrifice <f>[33†]</f>and service of your faith, <f>[34†]</f>I am glad and rejoice with you all.


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<pb/>But I trust in the Lord Jesus to send <f>[35†]</f>Timothy to you shortly, that I also may be encouraged when I know your state.


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But you know his proven character, <f>[37†]</f>that as a son with <i>his</i> father he served with me in the gospel.


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<pb/>Yet I considered it necessary to send to you <f>[38†]</f>Epaphroditus, my brother, fellow worker, and <f>[39†]</f>fellow soldier, <f>[40†]</f>but your messenger and <f>[41†]</f>the one who ministered to my need;


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<f>[42†]</f>since he was longing for you all, and was distressed because you had heard that he was sick.


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For indeed he was sick almost unto death; but God had mercy on him, and not only on him but on me also, lest I should have sorrow upon sorrow.


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Therefore I sent him the more eagerly, that when you see him again you may rejoice, and I may be less sorrowful.


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because for the work of Christ he came close to death, not regarding his life, <f>[43†]</f>to supply what was lacking in your service toward me.


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<pb/>Finally, my brethren, <f>[1†]</f>rejoice in the Lord. For me to write the same things to you <i>is</i> not tedious, but for you <i>it</i> <i>is</i> safe.


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<pb/> <f>[2†]</f>Beware of dogs, beware of <f>[3†]</f>evil workers, <f>[4†]</f>beware of the mutilation!


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though <f>[7†]</f>I also might have confidence in the flesh. If anyone else thinks he may have confidence in the flesh, I <f>[8†]</f>more so:


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circumcised the eighth day, of the stock of Israel, <f>[9†]</f><i>of</i> the tribe of Benjamin, <f>[10†]</f>a Hebrew of the Hebrews; concerning the law, <f>[11†]</f>a Pharisee;


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concerning zeal, <f>[12†]</f>persecuting the church; concerning the righteousness which is in the law, blameless.


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Yet indeed I also count all things loss <f>[14†]</f>for the excellence of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord, for whom I have suffered the loss of all things, and count them as rubbish, that I may gain Christ


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and be found in Him, not having <f>[15†]</f>my own righteousness, which <i>is</i> from the law, but <f>[16†]</f>that which <i>is</i> through faith in Christ, the righteousness which is from God by faith;


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that I may know Him and the <f>[17†]</f>power of His resurrection, and <f>[18†]</f>the fellowship of His sufferings, being conformed to His death,


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<pb/>Not that I have already <f>[20†]</f>attained, or am already <f>[21†]</f>perfected; but I press on, that I may lay hold of that for which Christ Jesus has also laid hold of me.


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Brethren, I do not count myself to have apprehended; but one thing <i>I</i> <i>do,</i> <f>[22†]</f>forgetting those things which are behind and <f>[23†]</f>reaching forward to those things which are ahead,


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<f>[24†]</f>I press toward the goal for the prize of <f>[25†]</f>the upward call of God in Christ Jesus.


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<pb/>Therefore let us, as many as are <f>[26†]</f>mature, <f>[27†]</f>have this mind; and if in anything you think otherwise, <f>[28†]</f>God will reveal even this to you.


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Nevertheless, to <i>the</i> <i>degree</i> that we have already attained, <f>[29†]</f>let us walk <f>[30†]</f>by the same rule, let us be of the same mind.


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<pb/>Brethren, <f>[31†]</f>join in following my example, and note those who so walk, as <f>[32†]</f>you have us for a pattern.


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For many walk, of whom I have told you often, and now tell you even weeping, <i>that</i> <i>they</i> <i>are</i> <f>[33†]</f>the enemies of the cross of Christ:


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<f>[34†]</f>whose end <i>is</i> destruction, <f>[35†]</f>whose god <i>is</i> <i>their</i> belly, and <f>[36†]</f><i>whose</i> glory <i>is</i> in their shame— <f>[37†]</f>who set their mind on earthly things.


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For <f>[38†]</f>our citizenship is in heaven, <f>[39†]</f>from which we also <f>[40†]</f>eagerly wait for the Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ,


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<f>[41†]</f>who will transform our lowly body that it may be <f>[42†]</f>conformed to His glorious body, <f>[43†]</f>according to the working by which He is able even to <f>[44†]</f>subdue all things to Himself.


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<pb/>Therefore, my beloved and <f>[1†]</f>longed-for brethren, <f>[2†]</f>my joy and crown, so <f>[3†]</f>stand fast in the Lord, beloved.


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And I urge you also, true companion, help these women who <f>[5†]</f>labored with me in the gospel, with Clement also, and the rest of my fellow workers, whose names <i>are</i> in <f>[6†]</f>the Book of Life.


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<pb/> <f>[9†]</f>Be anxious for nothing, but in everything by prayer and supplication, with <f>[10†]</f>thanksgiving, let your requests be made known to God;


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and <f>[11†]</f>the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus.


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<pb/>Finally, brethren, whatever things are <f>[12†]</f>true, whatever things <i>are</i> <f>[13†]</f>noble, whatever things <i>are</i> <f>[14†]</f>just, <f>[15†]</f>whatever things <i>are</i> pure, whatever things <i>are</i> <f>[16†]</f>lovely, whatever things <i>are</i> of good report, if <i>there</i> <i>is</i> any virtue and if <i>there</i> <i>is</i> anything praiseworthy—meditate on these things.


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The things which you learned and received and heard and saw in me, these do, and <f>[17†]</f>the God of peace will be with you.


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<pb/>But I rejoiced in the Lord greatly that now at last <f>[18†]</f>your care for me has flourished again; though you surely did care, but you lacked opportunity.


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Not that I speak in regard to need, for I have learned in whatever state I am, <f>[19†]</f>to be content:


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<f>[20†]</f>I know how to be abased, and I know how to abound. Everywhere and in all things I have learned both to be full and to be hungry, both to abound and to suffer need.


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Now you Philippians know also that in the beginning of the gospel, when I departed from Macedonia, <f>[23†]</f>no church shared with me concerning giving and receiving but you only.


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Indeed I have all and abound. I am full, having received from <f>[25†]</f>Epaphroditus the things <i>sent</i> from you, <f>[26†]</f>a sweet-smelling aroma, <f>[27†]</f>an acceptable sacrifice, well pleasing to God.


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<pb/>To the saints <f>[2†]</f>and faithful brethren in Christ <i>who</i> <i>are</i> in Colosse: <pb/> <f>[3†]</f>Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.


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<pb/> <f>[4†]</f>We give thanks to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, praying always for you,


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<f>[5†]</f>since we heard of your faith in Christ Jesus and of <f>[6†]</f>your love for all the saints;


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because of the hope <f>[7†]</f>which is laid up for you in heaven, of which you heard before in the word of the truth of the gospel,


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which has come to you, <f>[8†]</f>as <i>it</i> <i>has</i> also in all the world, and <f>[9†]</f>is bringing forth fruit, as <i>it</i> <i>is</i> also among you since the day you heard and knew <f>[10†]</f>the grace of God in truth;


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as you also learned from <f>[11†]</f>Epaphras, our dear fellow servant, who is <f>[12†]</f>a faithful minister of Christ on your behalf,


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<pb/> <f>[14†]</f>For this reason we also, since the day we heard it, do not cease to pray for you, and to ask <f>[15†]</f>that you may be filled with <f>[16†]</f>the knowledge of His will <f>[17†]</f>in all wisdom and spiritual understanding;


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<f>[18†]</f>that you may walk worthy of the Lord, <f>[19†]</f>fully pleasing <i>Him,</i> <f>[20†]</f>being fruitful in every good work and increasing in the <f>[21†]</f>knowledge of God;


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<f>[22†]</f>strengthened with all might, according to His glorious power, <f>[23†]</f>for all patience and longsuffering <f>[24†]</f>with joy;


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<f>[25†]</f>giving thanks to the Father who has qualified us to be partakers of <f>[26†]</f>the inheritance of the saints in the light.


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He has delivered us from <f>[27†]</f>the power of darkness <f>[28†]</f>and conveyed <i>us</i> into the kingdom of the Son of His love,


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For <f>[32†]</f>by Him all things were created that are in heaven and that are on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or <f>[33†]</f>dominions or principalities or powers. All things were created <f>[34†]</f>through Him and for Him.


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And <f>[37†]</f>He is the head of the body, the church, who is the beginning, <f>[38†]</f>the firstborn from the dead, that in all things He may have the preeminence.


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<pb/>For it pleased <i>the</i> <i>Father</i> <i>that</i> <f>[39†]</f>in Him all the fullness should dwell,


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and <f>[40†]</f>by Him to reconcile <f>[41†]</f>all things to Himself, by Him, whether things on earth or things in heaven, <f>[42†]</f>having made peace through the blood of His cross.


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<pb/>And you, <f>[43†]</f>who once were alienated and enemies in your mind <f>[44†]</f>by wicked works, yet now He has <f>[45†]</f>reconciled


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<f>[46†]</f>in the body of His flesh through death, <f>[47†]</f>to present you holy, and blameless, and above reproach in His sight—


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if indeed you continue <f>[48†]</f>in the faith, grounded and steadfast, and are <f>[49†]</f>not moved away from the hope of the gospel which you heard, <f>[50†]</f>which was preached to every creature under heaven, <f>[51†]</f>of which I, Paul, became a minister.


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<pb/> <f>[52†]</f>I now rejoice in my sufferings <f>[53†]</f>for you, and fill up in my flesh <f>[54†]</f>what is lacking in the afflictions of Christ, for <f>[55†]</f>the sake of His body, which is the church,


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of which I became a minister according to <f>[56†]</f>the stewardship from God which was given to me for you, to fulfill the word of God,


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<f>[57†]</f>the mystery which has been hidden from ages and from generations, <f>[58†]</f>but now has been revealed to His saints.


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<f>[59†]</f>To them God willed to make known what are <f>[60†]</f>the riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles: which is <f>[61†]</f>Christ in you, <f>[62†]</f>the hope of glory.


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Him we preach, <f>[63†]</f>warning every man and teaching every man in all wisdom, <f>[64†]</f>that we may present every man perfect in Christ Jesus.


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To this <i>end</i> I also labor, striving according to His working which works in me <f>[65†]</f>mightily.


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<pb/>For I want you to know what a great <f>[1†]</f>conflict I have for you and those in Laodicea, and <i>for</i> as many as have not seen my face in the flesh,


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that their hearts may be encouraged, being knit together in love, and <i>attaining</i> to all riches of the full assurance of understanding, to the knowledge of the mystery of God, both of the Father and of Christ,


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For <f>[4†]</f>though I am absent in the flesh, yet I am with you in spirit, rejoicing to see <f>[5†]</f>your <i>good</i> order and the <f>[6†]</f>steadfastness of your faith in Christ.


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<f>[8†]</f>rooted and built up in Him and established in the faith, as you have been taught, abounding in it with thanksgiving.


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<pb/>Beware lest anyone cheat you through philosophy and empty deceit, according to <f>[9†]</f>the tradition of men, according to the <f>[10†]</f>basic principles of the world, and not according to Christ.


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<pb/>In Him you were also <f>[13†]</f>circumcised with the circumcision made without hands, by <f>[14†]</f>putting off the body of the sins of the flesh, by the circumcision of Christ,


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<f>[15†]</f>buried with Him in baptism, in which you also were raised with <i>Him</i> through <f>[16†]</f>faith in the working of God, <f>[17†]</f>who raised Him from the dead.


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


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<f>[18†]</f>having wiped out the handwriting of requirements that was against us, which was contrary to us. And He has taken it out of the way, having nailed it to the cross.


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<f>[19†]</f>Having disarmed <f>[20†]</f>principalities and powers, He made a public spectacle of them, triumphing over them in it.


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<pb/>So let no one <f>[21†]</f>judge you in food or in drink, or regarding a festival or a new moon or sabbaths,


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Let no one cheat you of your reward, taking delight in <i>false</i> humility and worship of angels, intruding into those things which he has not seen, vainly puffed up by his fleshly mind,


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and not holding fast to <f>[23†]</f>the Head, from whom all the body, nourished and knit together by joints and ligaments, <f>[24†]</f>grows with the increase <i>that</i> <i>is</i> from God.


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<pb/>Therefore, if you <f>[25†]</f>died with Christ from the basic principles of the world, <f>[26†]</f>why, as <i>though</i> living in the world, do you subject yourselves to regulations—


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which all concern things which perish with the using— <f>[28†]</f>according to the commandments and doctrines of men?


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<f>[29†]</f>These things indeed have an appearance of wisdom in self-imposed religion, <i>false</i> humility, and neglect of the body, <i>but</i> <i>are</i> of no value against the indulgence of the flesh.


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<pb/>If then you were <f>[1†]</f>raised with Christ, seek those things which are above, <f>[2†]</f>where Christ is, sitting at the right hand of God.


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<f>[6†]</f>When Christ <i>who</i> <i>is</i> <f>[7†]</f>our life appears, then you also will appear with Him in <f>[8†]</f>glory.


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<pb/> <f>[9†]</f>Therefore put to death <f>[10†]</f>your members which are on the earth: <f>[11†]</f>fornication, uncleanness, passion, evil desire, and covetousness, <f>[12†]</f>which is idolatry.


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<f>[13†]</f>Because of these things the wrath of God is coming upon <f>[14†]</f>the sons of disobedience,


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<pb/> <f>[16†]</f>But now you yourselves are to put off all these: anger, wrath, malice, blasphemy, filthy language out of your mouth.


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and have put on the new <i>man</i> who <f>[17†]</f>is renewed in knowledge <f>[18†]</f>according to the image of Him who <f>[19†]</f>created him,


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where there is neither <f>[20†]</f>Greek nor Jew, circumcised nor uncircumcised, barbarian, Scythian, slave <i>nor</i> free, <f>[21†]</f>but Christ <i>is</i> all and in all.


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<pb/>Therefore, <f>[22†]</f>as <i>the</i> elect of God, holy and beloved, <f>[23†]</f>put on tender mercies, kindness, humility, meekness, longsuffering;


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<f>[24†]</f>bearing with one another, and forgiving one another, if anyone has a complaint against another; even as Christ forgave you, so you also <i>must</i> <i>do.</i>


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<f>[25†]</f>But above all these things <f>[26†]</f>put on love, which is the <f>[27†]</f>bond of perfection.


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And let <f>[28†]</f>the peace of God rule in your hearts, <f>[29†]</f>to which also you were called <f>[30†]</f>in one body; and <f>[31†]</f>be thankful.


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Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly in all wisdom, teaching and admonishing one another <f>[32†]</f>in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing with grace in your hearts to the Lord.


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And <f>[33†]</f>whatever you do in word or deed, <i>do</i> all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through Him.


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<pb/> <f>[38†]</f>Children, obey your parents <f>[39†]</f>in all things, for this is well pleasing to the Lord.


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<pb/> <f>[41†]</f>Bondservants, obey in all things your masters according to the flesh, not with eyeservice, as men-pleasers, but in sincerity of heart, fearing God.


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<f>[43†]</f>knowing that from the Lord you will receive the reward of the inheritance; <f>[44†]</f>for you serve the Lord Christ.


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<pb/>Masters, <f>[1†]</f> give your bondservants what is just and fair, knowing that you also have a Master in heaven.


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<f>[4†]</f>meanwhile praying also for us, that God would <f>[5†]</f>open to us a door for the word, to speak <f>[6†]</f>the mystery of Christ, <f>[7†]</f>for which I am also in chains,


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<pb/> <f>[8†]</f>Walk in <f>[9†]</f>wisdom toward those <i>who</i> <i>are</i> outside, <f>[10†]</f>redeeming the time.


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<i>Let</i> your speech always <i>be</i> <f>[11†]</f>with grace, <f>[12†]</f>seasoned with salt, <f>[13†]</f>that you may know how you ought to answer each one.


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<pb/> <f>[14†]</f>Tychicus, a beloved brother, faithful minister, and fellow servant in the Lord, will tell you all the news about me.


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<f>[15†]</f>I am sending him to you for this very purpose, that he may know your circumstances and comfort your hearts,


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with <f>[16†]</f>Onesimus, a faithful and beloved brother, who is <i>one</i> of you. They will make known to you all things which <i>are</i> <i>happening</i> here.


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<pb/> <f>[17†]</f>Aristarchus my fellow prisoner greets you, with <f>[18†]</f>Mark the cousin of Barnabas (about whom you received instructions: if he comes to you, welcome him),


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and Jesus who is called Justus. These <i>are</i> <i>my</i> only fellow workers for the kingdom of God who are of the circumcision; they have proved to be a comfort to me.


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<pb/> <f>[19†]</f>Epaphras, who is <i>one</i> of you, a bondservant of Christ, greets you, always <f>[20†]</f>laboring fervently for you in prayers, that you may stand <f>[21†]</f>perfect and complete in all the will of God.


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For I bear him witness that he has a great zeal for you, and those who are in Laodicea, and those in Hierapolis.


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Greet the brethren who are in Laodicea, and Nymphas and <f>[24†]</f>the church that <i>is</i> in his house.


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<pb/>Now when <f>[25†]</f>this epistle is read among you, see that it is read also in the church of the Laodiceans, and that you likewise read the <i>epistle</i> from Laodicea.


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And say to <f>[26†]</f>Archippus, “Take heed to <f>[27†]</f>the ministry which you have received in the Lord, that you may fulfill it.”


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<pb/> <f>[28†]</f>This salutation by my own hand—Paul. <f>[29†]</f>Remember my chains. Grace <i>be</i> with you. Amen.


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<pb/>Paul, <f>[1†]</f>Silvanus, and Timothy, <pb/>To the church of the <f>[2†]</f>Thessalonians in God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ: <pb/>Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.


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remembering without ceasing <f>[4†]</f>your work of faith, <f>[5†]</f>labor of love, and patience of hope in our Lord Jesus Christ in the sight of our God and Father,


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For <f>[7†]</f>our gospel did not come to you in word only, but also in power, <f>[8†]</f>and in the Holy Spirit <f>[9†]</f>and in much assurance, as you know what kind of men we were among you for your sake.


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<pb/>And <f>[10†]</f>you became followers of us and of the Lord, having received the word in much affliction, <f>[11†]</f>with joy of the Holy Spirit,


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For from you the word of the Lord <f>[12†]</f>has sounded forth, not only in Macedonia and Achaia, but also <f>[13†]</f>in every place. Your faith toward God has gone out, so that we do not need to say anything.


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For they themselves declare concerning us <f>[14†]</f>what manner of entry we had to you, <f>[15†]</f>and how you turned to God from idols to serve the living and true God,


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and <f>[16†]</f>to wait for His Son from heaven, whom He raised from the dead, <i>even</i> Jesus who delivers us <f>[17†]</f>from the wrath to come.


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But even after we had suffered before and were spitefully treated at <f>[1†]</f>Philippi, as you know, we were <f>[2†]</f>bold in our God to speak to you the gospel of God in much conflict.


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<f>[3†]</f>For our exhortation <i>did</i> not <i>come</i> from error or uncleanness, nor <i>was</i> <i>it</i> in deceit.


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<pb/>But as <f>[4†]</f>we have been approved by God <f>[5†]</f>to be entrusted with the gospel, even so we speak, <f>[6†]</f>not as pleasing men, but God <f>[7†]</f>who tests our hearts.


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For <f>[8†]</f>neither at any time did we use flattering words, as you know, nor a cloak for covetousness— <f>[9†]</f>God <i>is</i> witness.


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<f>[10†]</f>Nor did we seek glory from men, either from you or from others, when <f>[11†]</f>we might have <f>[12†]</f>made demands <f>[13†]</f>as apostles of Christ.


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But <f>[14†]</f>we were gentle among you, just as a nursing <i>mother</i> cherishes her own children.


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So, affectionately longing for you, we were well pleased <f>[15†]</f>to impart to you not only the gospel of God, but also <f>[16†]</f>our own lives, because you had become dear to us.


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For you remember, brethren, our <f>[17†]</f>labor and toil; for laboring night and day, <f>[18†]</f>that we might not be a burden to any of you, we preached to you the gospel of God.


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<pb/> <f>[19†]</f>You <i>are</i> witnesses, and God <i>also,</i> <f>[20†]</f>how devoutly and justly and blamelessly we behaved ourselves among you who believe;


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as you know how we exhorted, and comforted, and charged every one of you, as a father <i>does</i> his own children,


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<f>[21†]</f>that you would walk worthy of God <f>[22†]</f>who calls you into His own kingdom and glory.


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<pb/>For this reason we also thank God <f>[23†]</f>without ceasing, because when you <f>[24†]</f>received the word of God which you heard from us, you welcomed <i>it</i> <f>[25†]</f>not <i>as</i> the word of men, but as it is in truth, the word of God, which also effectively <f>[26†]</f>works in you who believe.


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For you, brethren, became imitators <f>[27†]</f>of the churches of God which are in Judea in Christ Jesus. For <f>[28†]</f>you also suffered the same things from your own countrymen, just as they <i>did</i> from the Judeans,


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<f>[29†]</f>who killed both the Lord Jesus and <f>[30†]</f>their own prophets, and have persecuted us; and they do not please God <f>[31†]</f>and are contrary to all men,


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<f>[32†]</f>forbidding us to speak to the Gentiles that they may be saved, so as always <f>[33†]</f>to fill up <i>the</i> <i>measure</i> <i>of</i> their sins; <f>[34†]</f>but wrath has come upon them to the uttermost.


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<pb/>But we, brethren, having been taken away from you for a short time <f>[35†]</f>in presence, not in heart, endeavored more eagerly to see your face with great desire.


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For <f>[37†]</f>what <i>is</i> our hope, or joy, or <f>[38†]</f>crown of rejoicing? <i>Is</i> <i>it</i> not even you in the <f>[39†]</f>presence of our Lord Jesus Christ <f>[40†]</f>at His coming?


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and sent <f>[1†]</f>Timothy, our brother and minister of God, and our fellow laborer in the gospel of Christ, to establish you and encourage you concerning your faith,


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<f>[2†]</f>that no one should be shaken by these afflictions; for you yourselves know that <f>[3†]</f>we are appointed to this.


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<f>[4†]</f>For, in fact, we told you before when we were with you that we would suffer tribulation, just as it happened, and you know.


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<pb/> <f>[7†]</f>But now that Timothy has come to us from you, and brought us good news of your faith and love, and that you always have good remembrance of us, greatly desiring to see us, <f>[8†]</f>as we also <i>to</i> <i>see</i> you—


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therefore, brethren, in all our affliction and distress <f>[9†]</f>we were comforted concerning you by your faith.


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<pb/>For what thanks can we render to God for you, for all the joy with which we rejoice for your sake before our God,


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night and day praying exceedingly that we may see your face <f>[11†]</f>and perfect what is lacking in your faith?


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<pb/>Now may our God and Father Himself, and our Lord Jesus Christ, <f>[12†]</f>direct our way to you.


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And may the Lord make you increase and <f>[13†]</f>abound in love to one another and to all, just as we <i>do</i> to you,


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so that He may establish <f>[14†]</f>your hearts blameless in holiness before our God and Father at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ with all His saints.


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<pb/>Finally then, brethren, we urge and exhort in the Lord Jesus <f>[1†]</f>that you should abound more and more, <f>[2†]</f>just as you received from us how you ought to walk and to please God;


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<pb/>For this is <f>[3†]</f>the will of God, <f>[4†]</f>your sanctification: <f>[5†]</f>that you should abstain from sexual immorality;


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that no one should take advantage of and defraud his brother in this matter, because the Lord <f>[10†]</f><i>is</i> the avenger of all such, as we also forewarned you and testified.


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<f>[12†]</f>Therefore he who rejects <i>this</i> does not reject man, but God, <f>[13†]</f>who has also given us His Holy Spirit.


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<pb/>But concerning brotherly love you have no need that I should write to you, for <f>[14†]</f>you yourselves are taught by God <f>[15†]</f>to love one another;


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and indeed you do so toward all the brethren who are in all Macedonia. But we urge you, brethren, <f>[16†]</f>that you increase more and more;


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that you also aspire to lead a quiet life, <f>[17†]</f>to mind your own business, and <f>[18†]</f>to work with your own hands, as we commanded you,


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<f>[19†]</f>that you may walk properly toward those who are outside, and <i>that</i> you may lack nothing.


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<pb/>But I do not want you to be ignorant, brethren, concerning those who have fallen asleep, lest you sorrow <f>[20†]</f>as others <f>[21†]</f>who have no hope.


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<pb/>For this we say to you <f>[24†]</f>by the word of the Lord, that <f>[25†]</f>we who are alive <i>and</i> remain until the coming of the Lord will by no means precede those who are asleep.


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<f>[29†]</f>Then we who are alive <i>and</i> remain shall be caught up together with them <f>[30†]</f>in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air. And thus <f>[31†]</f>we shall always be with the Lord.


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<pb/>But concerning <f>[1†]</f>the times and the seasons, brethren, you have no need that I should write to you.


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For you yourselves know perfectly that <f>[2†]</f>the day of the Lord so comes as a thief in the night.


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For when they say, “Peace and safety!” then <f>[3†]</f>sudden destruction comes upon them, <f>[4†]</f>as labor pains upon a pregnant woman. And they shall not escape.


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<f>[7†]</f>Therefore let us not sleep, as others <i>do,</i> but <f>[8†]</f>let us watch and be sober.


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But let us who are of the day be sober, <f>[11†]</f>putting on the breastplate of faith and love, and <i>as</i> a helmet the hope of salvation.


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<pb/>And we urge you, brethren, <f>[15†]</f>to recognize those who labor among you, and are over you in the Lord and admonish you,


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and to esteem them very highly in love for their work’s sake. <f>[16†]</f>Be at peace among yourselves.


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<pb/>Now we exhort you, brethren, <f>[17†]</f>warn those who are unruly, <f>[18†]</f>comfort the fainthearted, <f>[19†]</f>uphold the weak, <f>[20†]</f>be patient with all.


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<f>[21†]</f>See that no one renders evil for evil to anyone, but always <f>[22†]</f>pursue what is good both for yourselves and for all.


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<pb/>Now may <f>[29†]</f>the God of peace Himself <f>[30†]</f>sanctify you completely; and may your whole spirit, soul, and body <f>[31†]</f>be preserved blameless at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.


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<pb/>Paul, Silvanus, and Timothy, <pb/>To the church of the Thessalonians in God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ:


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<pb/>We are bound to thank God always for you, brethren, as it is fitting, because your faith grows exceedingly, and the love of every one of you all abounds toward each other,


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so that <f>[2†]</f>we ourselves boast of you among the churches of God <f>[3†]</f>for your patience and faith <f>[4†]</f>in all your persecutions and tribulations that you endure,


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<i>which</i> <i>is</i> <f>[5†]</f>manifest evidence of the righteous judgment of God, that you may be counted worthy of the kingdom of God, <f>[6†]</f>for which you also suffer;


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<f>[7†]</f>since <i>it</i> <i>is</i> a righteous thing with God to repay with tribulation those who trouble you,


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and to <i>give</i> you who are troubled <f>[8†]</f>rest with us when <f>[9†]</f>the Lord Jesus is revealed from heaven with His mighty angels,


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in flaming fire taking vengeance on those who do not know God, and on those who do not obey the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ.


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<f>[10†]</f>These shall be punished with everlasting destruction from the presence of the Lord and <f>[11†]</f>from the glory of His power,


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when He comes, in that Day, <f>[12†]</f>to be <f>[13†]</f>glorified in His saints and to be admired among all those who believe, because our testimony among you was believed.


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<pb/>Therefore we also pray always for you that our God would <f>[14†]</f>count you worthy of <i>this</i> calling, and fulfill all the good pleasure of <i>His</i> goodness and <f>[15†]</f>the work of faith with power,


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<f>[16†]</f>that the name of our Lord Jesus Christ may be glorified in you, and you in Him, according to the grace of our God and the Lord Jesus Christ.


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<pb/>Now, brethren, <f>[1†]</f>concerning the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ <f>[2†]</f>and our gathering together to Him, we ask you,


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<f>[3†]</f>not to be soon shaken in mind or troubled, either by spirit or by word or by letter, as if from us, as though the day of Christ had come.


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who opposes and <f>[7†]</f>exalts himself <f>[8†]</f>above all that is called God or that is worshiped, so that he sits as God in the temple of God, showing himself that he is God.


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And then the lawless one will be revealed, <f>[10†]</f>whom the Lord will consume <f>[11†]</f>with the breath of His mouth and destroy <f>[12†]</f>with the brightness of His coming.


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The coming of the <i>lawless</i> <i>one</i> is <f>[13†]</f>according to the working of Satan, with all power, <f>[14†]</f>signs, and lying wonders,


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and with all unrighteous deception among <f>[15†]</f>those who perish, because they did not receive <f>[16†]</f>the love of the truth, that they might be saved.


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that they all may be condemned who did not believe the truth but <f>[19†]</f>had pleasure in unrighteousness.


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<pb/>But we are bound to give thanks to God always for you, brethren beloved by the Lord, because God <f>[20†]</f>from the beginning <f>[21†]</f>chose you for salvation <f>[22†]</f>through sanctification by the Spirit and belief in the truth,


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to which He called you by our gospel, for <f>[23†]</f>the obtaining of the glory of our Lord Jesus Christ.


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Therefore, brethren, <f>[24†]</f>stand fast and hold <f>[25†]</f>the traditions which you were taught, whether by word or our epistle.


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<pb/>Now may our Lord Jesus Christ Himself, and our God and Father, <f>[26†]</f>who has loved us and given <i>us</i> everlasting consolation and <f>[27†]</f>good hope by grace,


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<pb/>Finally, brethren, <f>[1†]</f>pray for us, that the word of the Lord may run <i>swiftly</i> and be glorified, just as <i>it</i> <i>is</i> with you,


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and <f>[2†]</f>that we may be delivered from unreasonable and wicked men; <f>[3†]</f>for not all have faith.


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<pb/>But <f>[4†]</f>the Lord is faithful, who will establish you and <f>[5†]</f>guard <i>you</i> from the evil one.


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<pb/>Now may <f>[7†]</f>the Lord direct your hearts into the love of God and into the patience of Christ.


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<pb/>But we command you, brethren, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, <f>[8†]</f>that you withdraw <f>[9†]</f>from every brother who walks <f>[10†]</f>disorderly and not according to the tradition which he received from us.


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nor did we eat anyone’s bread free of charge, but worked with <f>[11†]</f>labor and toil night and day, that we might not be a burden to any of you,


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not because we do not have <f>[12†]</f>authority, but to make ourselves an example of how you should follow us.


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<pb/>For even when we were with you, we commanded you this: If anyone will not work, neither shall he eat.


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For we hear that there are some who walk among you in a disorderly manner, not working at all, but are <f>[13†]</f>busybodies.


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Now those who are such we command and exhort through our Lord Jesus Christ <f>[14†]</f>that they work in quietness and eat their own bread.


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And if anyone does not obey our word in this epistle, note that person and <f>[16†]</f>do not keep company with him, that he may be ashamed.


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<f>[17†]</f>Yet do not count <i>him</i> as an enemy, <f>[18†]</f>but admonish <i>him</i> as a brother.


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<pb/>Now may <f>[19†]</f>the Lord of peace Himself give you peace always in every way. The Lord <i>be</i> with you all.


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<pb/> <f>[20†]</f>The salutation of Paul with my own hand, which is a sign in every epistle; so I write.


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<pb/>Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ, by the commandment of God our Savior and the Lord Jesus Christ, our hope,


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<pb/>To Timothy, a <f>[1†]</f>true son in the faith: <pb/> <f>[2†]</f>Grace, mercy, <i>and</i> peace from God our Father and Jesus Christ our Lord.


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<pb/>As I urged you <f>[3†]</f>when I went into Macedonia—remain in Ephesus that you may charge some <f>[4†]</f>that they teach no other doctrine,


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<f>[5†]</f>nor give heed to fables and endless genealogies, which cause disputes rather than godly edification which is in faith.


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desiring to be teachers of the law, understanding neither what they say nor the things which they affirm.


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knowing this: that the law is not made for a righteous person, but for <i>the</i> lawless and insubordinate, for <i>the</i> ungodly and for sinners, for <i>the</i> unholy and profane, for murderers of fathers and murderers of mothers, for manslayers,


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for fornicators, for sodomites, for kidnappers, for liars, for perjurers, and if there is any other thing that is contrary to sound doctrine,


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according to the glorious gospel of the <f>[10†]</f>blessed God which was <f>[11†]</f>committed to my trust.


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<pb/>And I thank Christ Jesus our Lord who has <f>[12†]</f>enabled me, <f>[13†]</f>because He counted me faithful, <f>[14†]</f>putting <i>me</i> into the ministry,


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although <f>[15†]</f>I was formerly a blasphemer, a persecutor, and an insolent man; but I obtained mercy because <f>[16†]</f>I did <i>it</i> ignorantly in unbelief.


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<f>[17†]</f>And the grace of our Lord was exceedingly abundant, <f>[18†]</f>with faith and love which are in Christ Jesus.


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<f>[19†]</f>This <i>is</i> a faithful saying and worthy of all acceptance, that <f>[20†]</f>Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners, of whom I am chief.


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However, for this reason I obtained mercy, that in me first Jesus Christ might show all longsuffering, as a pattern to those who are going to believe on Him for everlasting life.


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Now to <f>[21†]</f>the King eternal, <f>[22†]</f>immortal, <f>[23†]</f>invisible, to God <f>[24†]</f>who alone is wise, <f>[25†]</f><i>be</i> honor and glory forever and ever. Amen.


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<pb/>This charge I commit to you, son Timothy, according to the prophecies previously made concerning you, that by them you may wage the good warfare,


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having faith and a good conscience, which some having rejected, concerning the faith have suffered shipwreck,


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of whom are <f>[26†]</f>Hymenaeus and <f>[27†]</f>Alexander, whom I delivered to Satan that they may learn not to <f>[28†]</f>blaspheme.


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<pb/>Therefore I exhort first of all that supplications, prayers, intercessions, <i>and</i> giving of thanks be made for all men,


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<f>[1†]</f>for kings and <f>[2†]</f>all who are in authority, that we may lead a quiet and peaceable life in all godliness and reverence.


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<f>[7†]</f>For <i>there</i> <i>is</i> one God and <f>[8†]</f>one Mediator between God and men, <i>the</i> Man Christ Jesus,


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<f>[10†]</f>for which I was appointed a preacher and an apostle—I am speaking the truth in Christ <i>and</i> not lying— <f>[11†]</f>a teacher of the Gentiles in faith and truth.


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<pb/>I desire therefore that the men pray <f>[12†]</f>everywhere, <f>[13†]</f>lifting up holy hands, without wrath and doubting;


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in like manner also, that the <f>[14†]</f>women adorn themselves in modest apparel, with propriety and moderation, not with braided hair or gold or pearls or costly clothing,


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Nevertheless she will be saved in childbearing if they continue in faith, love, and holiness, with self-control.


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<pb/>This <i>is</i> a faithful saying: If a man desires the position of a bishop, he desires a good work.


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A bishop then must be blameless, the husband of one wife, temperate, sober-minded, of good behavior, hospitable, able to teach;


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(for if a man does not know how to rule his own house, how will he take care of the church of God?);


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not a novice, lest being puffed up with pride he fall into the <i>same</i> condemnation as the devil.


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Moreover he must have a good testimony among those who are outside, lest he fall into reproach and the <f>[1†]</f>snare of the devil.


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<pb/>Likewise deacons <i>must</i> <i>be</i> reverent, not double-tongued, <f>[2†]</f>not given to much wine, not greedy for money,


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Likewise, <i>their</i> wives <i>must</i> <i>be</i> reverent, not slanderers, temperate, faithful in all things.


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For those who have served well as deacons <f>[3†]</f>obtain for themselves a good standing and great boldness in the faith which is in Christ Jesus.


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but if I am delayed, <i>I</i> <i>write</i> so that you may know how you ought to conduct yourself in the house of God, which is the church of the living God, the pillar and ground of the truth.


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And without controversy great is the mystery of godliness: <pb/><t> <f>[4†]</f>God was manifested in the flesh, </t><t> <f>[5†]</f>Justified in the Spirit, </t><t> <f>[6†]</f>Seen by angels, </t><t> <f>[7†]</f>Preached among the Gentiles, </t><t> <f>[8†]</f>Believed on in the world, </t><t> <f>[9†]</f>Received up in glory.</t>


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<pb/>Now the Spirit expressly says that in latter times some will depart from the faith, giving heed <f>[1†]</f>to deceiving spirits and doctrines of demons,


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<f>[2†]</f>speaking lies in hypocrisy, having their own conscience <f>[3†]</f>seared with a hot iron,


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forbidding to marry, <i>and</i> <i>commanding</i> to abstain from foods which God created to be received with thanksgiving by those who believe and know the truth.


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For every creature of God <i>is</i> good, and nothing is to be refused if it is received with thanksgiving;


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<pb/>If you instruct the brethren in these things, you will be a good minister of Jesus Christ, <f>[4†]</f>nourished in the words of faith and of the good doctrine which you have carefully followed.


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But <f>[5†]</f>reject profane and old wives’ fables, and <f>[6†]</f>exercise yourself toward godliness.


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For <f>[7†]</f>bodily exercise profits a little, but godliness is profitable for all things, <f>[8†]</f>having promise of the life that now is and of that which is to come.


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For to this <i>end</i> we both labor and suffer reproach, because we trust in the living God, <f>[9†]</f>who is <i>the</i> Savior of all men, especially of those who believe.


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<pb/>Let no one despise your youth, but be an <f>[10†]</f>example to the believers in word, in conduct, in love, in spirit, in faith, in purity.


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<f>[11†]</f>Do not neglect the gift that is in you, which was given to you by prophecy <f>[12†]</f>with the laying on of the hands of the eldership.


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Take heed to yourself and to the doctrine. Continue in them, for in doing this you will save both yourself and those who hear you.


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But if any widow has children or grandchildren, let them first learn to show piety at home and <f>[1†]</f>to repay their parents; for this is good and acceptable before God.


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Now she who is really a widow, and left alone, trusts in God and continues in supplications and prayers <f>[2†]</f>night and day.


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But if anyone does not provide for his own, <f>[3†]</f>and especially for those of his household, <f>[4†]</f>he has denied the faith <f>[5†]</f>and is worse than an unbeliever.


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<pb/>Do not let a widow under sixty years old be taken into the number, <i>and</i> <i>not</i> <i>unless</i> she has been the wife of one man,


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well reported for good works: if she has brought up children, if she has lodged strangers, if she has washed the saints’ feet, if she has relieved the afflicted, if she has diligently followed every good work.


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<pb/>But refuse <i>the</i> younger widows; for when they have begun to grow wanton against Christ, they desire to marry,


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And besides they learn <i>to</i> <i>be</i> idle, wandering about from house to house, and not only idle but also gossips and busybodies, saying things which they ought not.


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Therefore I desire that <i>the</i> younger <i>widows</i> marry, bear children, manage the house, give no opportunity to the adversary to speak reproachfully.


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If any believing man or woman has widows, let them relieve them, and do not let the church be burdened, that it may relieve those who are really widows.


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<pb/>Let the elders who rule well be counted worthy of double honor, especially those who labor in the word and doctrine.


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<pb/>I charge <i>you</i> before God and the Lord Jesus Christ and the elect angels that you observe these things without <f>[9†]</f>prejudice, doing nothing with partiality.


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Do not lay hands on anyone hastily, nor <f>[10†]</f>share in other people’s sins; keep yourself pure.


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<pb/>No longer drink only water, but use a little wine for your stomach’s sake and your frequent infirmities.


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<pb/>Some men’s sins are <f>[11†]</f>clearly evident, preceding <i>them</i> to judgment, but those of some <i>men</i> follow later.


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<pb/>Let as many <f>[1†]</f>bondservants as are under the yoke count their own masters worthy of all honor, so that the name of God and <i>His</i> doctrine may not be blasphemed.


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he is proud, knowing nothing, but is obsessed with disputes and arguments over words, from which come envy, strife, reviling, evil suspicions,


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useless wranglings of men of corrupt minds and destitute of the truth, who suppose that godliness is a <i>means</i> <i>of</i> gain. From <f>[4†]</f>such withdraw yourself.


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But those who desire to be rich fall into temptation and a snare, and <i>into</i> many foolish and harmful lusts which drown men in destruction and perdition.


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<pb/>But you, O man of God, flee these things and pursue righteousness, godliness, faith, love, patience, gentleness.


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Fight the good fight of faith, lay hold on eternal life, to which you were also called and have confessed the good confession in the presence of many witnesses.


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that you keep <i>this</i> commandment without spot, blameless until our Lord Jesus Christ’s appearing,


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which He will manifest in His own time, <i>He</i> <i>who</i> <i>is</i> the blessed and only Potentate, the King of kings and Lord of lords,


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who alone has immortality, dwelling in <f>[9†]</f>unapproachable light, <f>[10†]</f>whom no man has seen or can see, to whom <i>be</i> honor and everlasting power. Amen.


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<pb/>Command those who are rich in this present age not to be haughty, nor to trust in uncertain <f>[11†]</f>riches but in the living God, who gives us richly all things <f>[12†]</f>to enjoy.


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<f>[13†]</f>storing up for themselves a good foundation for the time to come, that they may lay hold on eternal life.


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<pb/>O Timothy! <f>[14†]</f>Guard what was committed to your trust, <f>[15†]</f>avoiding the profane <i>and</i> idle babblings and contradictions of what is falsely called knowledge—


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<pb/>Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ by the will of God, according to the <f>[1†]</f>promise of life which is in Christ Jesus,


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<pb/>To Timothy, a <f>[2†]</f>beloved son: <pb/>Grace, mercy, <i>and</i> peace from God the Father and Christ Jesus our Lord.


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<pb/>I thank God, whom I serve with a pure conscience, as <i>my</i> <f>[3†]</f>forefathers <i>did,</i> as without ceasing I remember you in my prayers night and day,


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when I call to remembrance <f>[4†]</f>the genuine faith that is in you, which dwelt first in your grandmother Lois and <f>[5†]</f>your mother Eunice, and I am persuaded is in you also.


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<pb/> <f>[9†]</f>Therefore do not be ashamed of <f>[10†]</f>the testimony of our Lord, nor of me <f>[11†]</f>His prisoner, but share with me in the sufferings for the gospel according to the power of God,


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who has saved us and called <i>us</i> with a holy calling, <f>[12†]</f>not according to our works, but <f>[13†]</f>according to His own purpose and grace which was given to us in Christ Jesus <f>[14†]</f>before time began,


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but <f>[15†]</f>has now been revealed by the appearing of our Savior Jesus Christ, <i>who</i> has abolished death and brought life and immortality to light through the gospel,


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For this reason I also suffer these things; nevertheless I am not ashamed, <f>[17†]</f>for I know whom I have believed and am persuaded that He is able to keep what I have committed to Him until that Day.


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<pb/> <f>[18†]</f>Hold fast <f>[19†]</f>the pattern of <f>[20†]</f>sound words which you have heard from me, in faith and love which are in Christ Jesus.


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<pb/>This you know, that all those in Asia have turned away from me, among whom are Phygellus and Hermogenes.


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The Lord grant mercy to the <f>[21†]</f>household of Onesiphorus, for he often refreshed me, and was not ashamed of my chain;


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The Lord <f>[22†]</f>grant to him that he may find mercy from the Lord <f>[23†]</f>in that Day—and you know very well how many ways he <f>[24†]</f>ministered <i>to</i> <i>me</i> at Ephesus.


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And the things that you have heard from me among many witnesses, commit these to faithful men who will be able to teach others also.


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<f>[5†]</f>No one engaged in warfare entangles himself with the affairs of <i>this</i> life, that he may please him who enlisted him as a soldier.


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<pb/>Remember that Jesus Christ, <f>[8†]</f>of the seed of David, <f>[9†]</f>was raised from the dead <f>[10†]</f>according to my gospel,


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<f>[11†]</f>for which I suffer trouble as an evildoer, <f>[12†]</f><i>even</i> to the point of chains; <f>[13†]</f>but the word of God is not chained.


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Therefore <f>[14†]</f>I endure all things for the sake of the elect, <f>[15†]</f>that they also may obtain the salvation which is in Christ Jesus with eternal glory.


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<pb/><i>This</i> <i>is</i> a faithful saying: <pb/><t>For <f>[16†]</f>if we died with <i>Him,</i> </t><t>We shall also live with <i>Him.</i></t>


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<t> <f>[17†]</f>If we endure, </t><t>We shall also reign with <i>Him.</i> </t><t> <f>[18†]</f>If we deny <i>Him,</i> </t><t>He also will deny us.</t>


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<pb/>Remind <i>them</i> of these things, <f>[20†]</f>charging <i>them</i> before the Lord not to strive about words to no profit, to the ruin of the hearers.


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<f>[21†]</f>Be diligent to present yourself approved to God, a worker who does not need to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth.


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who have strayed concerning the truth, <f>[23†]</f>saying that the resurrection is already past; and they overthrow the faith of some.


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Nevertheless <f>[24†]</f>the solid foundation of God stands, having this seal: “The Lord <f>[25†]</f>knows those who are His,” and, “Let everyone who names the name of Christ depart from iniquity.”


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<pb/>But in a great house there are not only <f>[26†]</f>vessels of gold and silver, but also of wood and clay, some for honor and some for dishonor.


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Therefore if anyone cleanses himself from the latter, he will be a vessel for honor, sanctified and useful for the Master, <f>[27†]</f>prepared for every good work.


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<f>[28†]</f>Flee also youthful lusts; but pursue righteousness, faith, love, peace with those who call on the Lord out of a pure heart.


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And <f>[29†]</f>a servant of the Lord must not quarrel but be gentle to all, <f>[30†]</f>able to teach, <f>[31†]</f>patient,


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<f>[32†]</f>in humility correcting those who are in opposition, <f>[33†]</f>if God perhaps will grant them repentance, <f>[34†]</f>so that they may know the truth,


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and <i>that</i> they may come to their senses <i>and</i> <f>[35†]</f>escape the snare of the devil, having been taken captive by him to <i>do</i> his will.


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For men will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy,


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<f>[3†]</f>having a form of godliness but <f>[4†]</f>denying its power. And <f>[5†]</f>from such people turn away!


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For <f>[6†]</f>of this sort are those who creep into households and make captives of gullible women loaded down with sins, led away by various lusts,


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<f>[8†]</f>Now as Jannes and Jambres resisted Moses, so do these also resist the truth: <f>[9†]</f>men of corrupt minds, <f>[10†]</f>disapproved concerning the faith;


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but they will progress no further, for their folly will be manifest to all, <f>[11†]</f>as theirs also was.


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<pb/> <f>[12†]</f>But you have carefully followed my doctrine, manner of life, purpose, faith, longsuffering, love, perseverance,


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persecutions, afflictions, which happened to me <f>[13†]</f>at Antioch, <f>[14†]</f>at Iconium, <f>[15†]</f>at Lystra—what persecutions I endured. And <f>[16†]</f>out of <i>them</i> all the Lord delivered me.


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But you must <f>[19†]</f>continue in the things which you have learned and been assured of, knowing from whom you have learned <i>them,</i>


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and that from childhood you have known <f>[20†]</f>the Holy Scriptures, which are able to make you wise for salvation through faith which is in Christ Jesus.


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<pb/> <f>[21†]</f>All Scripture <i>is</i> given by inspiration of God, <f>[22†]</f>and <i>is</i> profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness,


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<f>[23†]</f>that the man of God may be complete, <f>[24†]</f>thoroughly equipped for every good work.


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<pb/>I <f>[1†]</f>charge <i>you</i> therefore before God and the Lord Jesus Christ, <f>[2†]</f>who will judge the living and the dead at His appearing and His kingdom:


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Preach the word! Be ready in season <i>and</i> out of season. <f>[3†]</f>Convince, <f>[4†]</f>rebuke, <f>[5†]</f>exhort, with all longsuffering and teaching.


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<f>[6†]</f>For the time will come when they will not endure <f>[7†]</f>sound doctrine, <f>[8†]</f>but according to their own desires, <i>because</i> they have itching ears, they will heap up for themselves teachers;


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But you be watchful in all things, <f>[10†]</f>endure afflictions, do the work of <f>[11†]</f>an evangelist, fulfill your ministry.


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<pb/>For <f>[12†]</f>I am already being poured out as a drink offering, and the time of <f>[13†]</f>my departure is at hand.


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Finally, there is laid up for me <f>[15†]</f>the crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous <f>[16†]</f>Judge, will give to me <f>[17†]</f>on that Day, and not to me only but also to all who have loved His appearing.


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for <f>[18†]</f>Demas has forsaken me, <f>[19†]</f>having loved this present world, and has departed for Thessalonica—Crescens for Galatia, Titus for Dalmatia.


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Only Luke is with me. Get <f>[20†]</f>Mark and bring him with you, for he is useful to me for ministry.


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Bring the cloak that I left with Carpus at Troas when you come—and the books, especially the parchments.


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<pb/> <f>[22†]</f>Alexander the coppersmith did me much harm. May the Lord repay him according to his works.


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<pb/>At my first defense no one stood with me, but all forsook me. <f>[23†]</f>May it not be charged against them.


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<pb/> <f>[24†]</f>But the Lord stood with me and strengthened me, <f>[25†]</f>so that the message might be preached fully through me, and <i>that</i> all the Gentiles might hear. Also I was delivered <f>[26†]</f>out of the mouth of the lion.


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<f>[27†]</f>And the Lord will deliver me from every evil work and preserve <i>me</i> for His heavenly kingdom. <f>[28†]</f>To Him <i>be</i> glory forever and ever. Amen!


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<pb/>Do your utmost to come before winter. <pb/>Eubulus greets you, as well as Pudens, Linus, Claudia, and all the brethren.


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<pb/>Paul, a bondservant of God and an apostle of Jesus Christ, according to the faith of God’s elect and <f>[1†]</f>the acknowledgment of the truth <f>[2†]</f>which accords with godliness,


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but has in due time manifested His word through preaching, which was committed to me according to the commandment of God our Savior;


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<pb/>To <f>[4†]</f>Titus, a true son in <i>our</i> common faith: <pb/>Grace, mercy, <i>and</i> peace from God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ our Savior.


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<pb/>For this reason I left you in Crete, that you should <f>[5†]</f>set in order the things that are lacking, and appoint elders in every city as I commanded you—


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if a man is blameless, the husband of one wife, <f>[6†]</f>having faithful children not accused of dissipation or insubordination.


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For a bishop must be blameless, as a steward of God, not self-willed, not quick-tempered, <f>[7†]</f>not given to wine, not violent, not greedy for money,


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holding fast the faithful word as he has been taught, that he may be able, by sound doctrine, both to exhort and convict those who contradict.


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<pb/>For there are many insubordinate, both idle <f>[8†]</f>talkers and deceivers, especially those of the circumcision,


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whose mouths must be stopped, who subvert whole households, teaching things which they ought not, <f>[9†]</f>for the sake of dishonest gain.


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<f>[10†]</f>One of them, a prophet of their own, said, “Cretans <i>are</i> always liars, evil beasts, lazy gluttons.”


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This testimony is true. <f>[11†]</f>Therefore rebuke them sharply, that they may be sound in the faith,


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<f>[13†]</f>To the pure all things are pure, but to those who are defiled and unbelieving nothing is pure; but even their mind and conscience are defiled.


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They profess to <f>[14†]</f>know God, but <f>[15†]</f>in works they deny <i>Him,</i> being abominable, disobedient, <f>[16†]</f>and disqualified for every good work.


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the older women likewise, that they be reverent in behavior, not slanderers, not given to much wine, teachers of good things—


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<i>to</i> <i>be</i> discreet, chaste, <f>[1†]</f>homemakers, good, <f>[2†]</f>obedient to their own husbands, <f>[3†]</f>that the word of God may not be blasphemed.


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in all things showing yourself <i>to</i> <i>be</i> <f>[4†]</f>a pattern of good works; in doctrine <i>showing</i> integrity, reverence, <f>[5†]</f>incorruptibility,


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sound speech that cannot be condemned, that one who is an opponent may be ashamed, having nothing evil to say of you.


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<pb/><i>Exhort</i> <f>[6†]</f>bondservants to be obedient to their own masters, to be well pleasing in all <i>things,</i> not answering back,


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not pilfering, but showing all good fidelity, that they may adorn the doctrine of God our Savior in all things.


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teaching us that, denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, we should live soberly, righteously, and godly in the present age,


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<f>[8†]</f>looking for the blessed <f>[9†]</f>hope and glorious appearing of our great God and Savior Jesus Christ,


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<f>[10†]</f>who gave Himself for us, that He might redeem us from every lawless deed <f>[11†]</f>and purify for Himself <f>[12†]</f><i>His</i> own special people, zealous for good works.


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<pb/>Remind them <f>[1†]</f>to be subject to rulers and authorities, to obey, <f>[2†]</f>to be ready for every good work,


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For <f>[3†]</f>we ourselves were also once foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving various lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful and hating one another.


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<f>[6†]</f>not by works of righteousness which we have done, but according to His mercy He saved us, through <f>[7†]</f>the washing of regeneration and renewing of the Holy Spirit,


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that having been justified by His grace <f>[9†]</f>we should become heirs according to the hope of eternal life.


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<pb/> <f>[10†]</f>This is a faithful saying, and these things I want you to affirm constantly, that those who have believed in God should be careful to maintain good works. These things are good and profitable to men.


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<pb/>But <f>[11†]</f>avoid foolish disputes, genealogies, contentions, and strivings about the law; for they are unprofitable and useless.


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<pb/>When I send Artemas to you, or <f>[13†]</f>Tychicus, be diligent to come to me at Nicopolis, for I have decided to spend the winter there.


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Send Zenas the lawyer and <f>[14†]</f>Apollos on their journey with haste, that they may lack nothing.


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And let our <i>people</i> also learn to maintain good works, to <i>meet</i> urgent needs, that they may not be unfruitful.


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<pb/>All who <i>are</i> with me greet you. Greet those who love us in the faith. <pb/>Grace <i>be</i> with you all. Amen.


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<pb/>Paul, a <f>[1†]</f>prisoner of Christ Jesus, and Timothy <i>our</i> brother, <pb/>To Philemon our beloved <i>friend</i> and fellow laborer,


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<f>[4†]</f>hearing of your love and faith which you have toward the Lord Jesus and toward all the saints,


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that the sharing of your faith may become effective <f>[5†]</f>by the acknowledgment of <f>[6†]</f>every good thing which is in you in Christ Jesus.


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For we have great joy and consolation in your love, because the hearts of the saints have been refreshed by you, brother.


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<i>yet</i> for love’s sake I rather appeal <i>to</i> <i>you</i>—being such a one as Paul, the aged, and now also a prisoner of Jesus Christ—


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whom I wished to keep with me, that on your behalf he might minister to me in my chains for the gospel.


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But without your consent I wanted to do nothing, <f>[8†]</f>that your good deed might not be by compulsion, as it were, but voluntary.


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<pb/>For perhaps he departed for a while for this <i>purpose,</i> that you might receive him forever,


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no longer as a slave but more than a slave—a beloved brother, especially to me but how much more to you, both in the <f>[9†]</f>flesh and in the Lord.


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I, Paul, am writing with my own <f>[10†]</f>hand. I will repay—not to mention to you that you owe me even your own self besides.


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<pb/> <f>[11†]</f>Having confidence in your obedience, I write to you, knowing that you will do even more than I say.


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But, meanwhile, also prepare a guest room for me, for <f>[12†]</f>I trust that <f>[13†]</f>through your prayers I shall be granted to you.


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<i>as</i> <i>do</i> <f>[15†]</f>Mark, <f>[16†]</f>Aristarchus, <f>[17†]</f>Demas, <f>[18†]</f>Luke, my fellow laborers.


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<pb/>God, who at various times and <f>[1†]</f>in various ways spoke in time past to the fathers by the prophets,


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has in these last days spoken to us by <i>His</i> Son, whom He has appointed heir of all things, through whom also He made the worlds;


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<f>[2†]</f>who being the brightness of <i>His</i> glory and the express <f>[3†]</f>image of His person, and <f>[4†]</f>upholding all things by the word of His power, <f>[5†]</f>when He had by Himself purged our sins, <f>[6†]</f>sat down at the right hand of the Majesty on high,


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having become so much better than the angels, as <f>[7†]</f>He has by inheritance obtained a more excellent name than they.


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<pb/>For to which of the angels did He ever say: <pb/><t> <f>[8†]</f>“You are My Son, </t><t>Today I have begotten You”? </t> <pb/>And again: <pb/><t> <f>[9†]</f>“I will be to Him a Father, </t><t>And He shall be to Me a Son”?</t>


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<pb/>But when He again brings <f>[10†]</f>the firstborn into the world, He says: <pb/><t> <f>[11†]</f>“Let all the angels of God worship Him.”</t>


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<pb/>And of the angels He says: <pb/><t> <f>[12†]</f>“Who makes His angels spirits </t><t>And His ministers a flame of fire.”</t>


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<pb/>But to the Son <i>He</i> <i>says:</i> <pb/><t> <f>[13†]</f>“Your throne, O God, <i>is</i> forever and ever; </t><t>A scepter of righteousness <i>is</i> the scepter of Your kingdom.</t>


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<t>You have loved righteousness and hated lawlessness; </t><t>Therefore God, Your God, <f>[14†]</f>has anointed You </t><t>With the oil of gladness more than Your companions.”</t>


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<pb/>And: <pb/><t> <f>[15†]</f>“You, <e>LORD</e>, in the beginning laid the foundation of the earth, </t><t>And the heavens are the work of Your hands.</t>


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<t> <f>[16†]</f>They will perish, but You remain; </t><t>And <f>[17†]</f>they will all grow old like a garment;</t>


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<t>Like a cloak You will fold them up, </t><t>And they will be changed. </t><t>But You are the <f>[18†]</f>same, </t><t>And Your years will not fail.”</t>


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<pb/>But to which of the angels has He ever said: <pb/><t> <f>[19†]</f>“Sit at My right hand, </t><t>Till I make Your enemies Your footstool”?</t>


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<pb/> <f>[20†]</f>Are they not all ministering spirits sent forth to minister for those who will <f>[21†]</f>inherit salvation?


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<f>[3†]</f>how shall we escape if we neglect so great a salvation, <f>[4†]</f>which at the first began to be spoken by the Lord, and was <f>[5†]</f>confirmed to us by those who heard <i>Him,</i>


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<f>[6†]</f>God also bearing witness <f>[7†]</f>both with signs and wonders, with various miracles, and <f>[8†]</f>gifts of the Holy Spirit, <f>[9†]</f>according to His own will?


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But one testified in a certain place, saying: <pb/><t> <f>[11†]</f>“What is man that You are mindful of him, </t><t>Or the son of man that You take care of him?</t>


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<t>You have made him a little lower than the angels; </t><t>You have crowned him with glory and honor, </t><t>And set him over the works of Your hands.</t>


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<t> <f>[12†]</f>You have put all things in subjection under his feet.” </t> <pb/>For in that He put all in subjection under him, He left nothing <i>that</i> <i>is</i> not put under him. But now <f>[13†]</f>we do not yet see all things put under him.


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But we see Jesus, <f>[14†]</f>who was made a little lower than the angels, for the suffering of death <f>[15†]</f>crowned with glory and honor, that He, by the grace of God, might taste death <f>[16†]</f>for everyone.


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<pb/>For it was fitting for Him, <f>[17†]</f>for whom <i>are</i> all things and by whom <i>are</i> all things, in bringing many sons to glory, to make the captain of their salvation <f>[18†]</f>perfect through sufferings.


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For <f>[19†]</f>both He who sanctifies and those who are being sanctified <f>[20†]</f><i>are</i> all of one, for which reason <f>[21†]</f>He is not ashamed to call them brethren,


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saying: <pb/><t> <f>[22†]</f>“I will declare Your name to My brethren; </t><t>In the midst of the assembly I will sing praise to You.”</t>


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<pb/>And again: <pb/><t> <f>[23†]</f>“I will put My trust in Him.” </t> <pb/>And again: <pb/><t> <f>[24†]</f>“Here am I and the children whom God has given Me.”</t>


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<pb/>Inasmuch then as the children have partaken of flesh and blood, He <f>[25†]</f>Himself likewise shared in the same, <f>[26†]</f>that through death He might destroy him who had the power of <f>[27†]</f>death, that is, the devil,


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Therefore, in all things He had <f>[29†]</f>to be made like <i>His</i> brethren, that He might be <f>[30†]</f>a merciful and faithful High Priest in things <i>pertaining</i> to God, to make propitiation for the sins of the people.


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<f>[31†]</f>For in that He Himself has suffered, being tempted, He is able to aid those who are tempted.


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<pb/>Therefore, holy brethren, partakers of the heavenly calling, consider the Apostle and High Priest of our confession, Christ Jesus,


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who was faithful to Him who appointed Him, as <f>[1†]</f>Moses also <i>was</i> <i>faithful</i> in all His house.


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For this One has been counted worthy of more glory than Moses, inasmuch as <f>[2†]</f>He who built the house has more honor than the house.


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<f>[4†]</f>And Moses indeed <i>was</i> faithful in all His house as <f>[5†]</f>a servant, <f>[6†]</f>for a testimony of those things which would be spoken <i>afterward,</i>


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but Christ as <f>[7†]</f>a Son over His own house, <f>[8†]</f>whose house we are <f>[9†]</f>if we hold fast the confidence and the rejoicing of the hope firm to the end.


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<pb/>Therefore, as <f>[10†]</f>the Holy Spirit says: <pb/><t> <f>[11†]</f>“Today, if you will hear His voice,</t>


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<t>Therefore I was angry with that generation, </t><t>And said, ‘They always go astray in <i>their</i> heart, </t><t>And they have not known My ways.’</t>


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<pb/>Beware, brethren, lest there be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief in departing from the living God;


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but exhort one another daily, while it is called “Today,” lest any of you be hardened through the deceitfulness of sin.


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For we have become partakers of Christ if we hold the beginning of our confidence steadfast to the end,


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while it is said: <pb/><t> <f>[12†]</f>“Today, if you will hear His voice, </t><t>Do not harden your hearts as in the rebellion.”</t>


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<pb/> <f>[13†]</f>For who, having heard, rebelled? Indeed, <i>was</i> <i>it</i> not all who came out of Egypt, <i>led</i> by Moses?


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<pb/>Therefore, since a promise remains of entering His rest, <f>[1†]</f>let us fear lest any of you seem to have come short of it.


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For indeed the gospel was preached to us as well as to them; but the word which they heard did not profit them, not being mixed with faith in those who heard <i>it.</i>


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For we who have believed do enter that rest, as He has said: <pb/><t> <f>[2†]</f>“So I swore in My wrath, </t><t>‘They shall not enter My rest,’ ” </t> <pb/>although the works were finished from the foundation of the world.


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<pb/>Since therefore it remains that some <i>must</i> enter it, and those to whom it was first preached did not enter because of disobedience,


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again He designates a certain day, saying in David, “Today,” after such a long time, as it has been said: <pb/><t> <f>[5†]</f>“Today, if you will hear His voice, </t><t>Do not harden your hearts.”</t>


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<pb/>For if Joshua had <f>[6†]</f>given them rest, then He would not afterward have spoken of another day.


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<pb/> <f>[7†]</f>Let us therefore be diligent to enter that rest, lest anyone fall according to the same example of disobedience.


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For the word of God <i>is</i> <f>[8†]</f>living and powerful, and <f>[9†]</f>sharper than any <f>[10†]</f>two-edged sword, piercing even to the division of soul and spirit, and of joints and marrow, and is <f>[11†]</f>a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart.


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<f>[12†]</f>And there is no creature hidden from His sight, but all things <i>are</i> <f>[13†]</f>naked and open to the eyes of Him to whom we <i>must</i> <i>give</i> account.


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<pb/>Seeing then that we have a great <f>[14†]</f>High Priest who has passed through the heavens, Jesus the Son of God, <f>[15†]</f>let us hold fast <i>our</i> confession.


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For <f>[16†]</f>we do not have a High Priest who cannot sympathize with our weaknesses, but <f>[17†]</f>was in all <i>points</i> tempted as <i>we</i> <i>are, </i> <f>[18†]</f>yet without sin.


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<f>[19†]</f>Let us therefore come boldly to the throne of grace, that we may obtain mercy and find grace to help in time of need.


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<pb/>For every high priest taken from among men <f>[1†]</f>is appointed for men in things <i>pertaining</i> to God, that he may offer both gifts and sacrifices for sins.


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He can have compassion on those who are ignorant and going astray, since he himself is also subject to <f>[2†]</f>weakness.


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Because of this he is required as for the people, so also for <f>[3†]</f>himself, to offer <i>sacrifices</i> for sins.


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And no man takes this honor to himself, but he who is called by God, just as <f>[4†]</f>Aaron <i>was.</i>


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<pb/> <f>[5†]</f>So also Christ did not glorify Himself to become High Priest, but <i>it</i> <i>was</i> He who said to Him: <pb/><t> <f>[6†]</f>“You are My Son, </t><t>Today I have begotten You.”</t>


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<pb/>As <i>He</i> also <i>says</i> in another <i>place:</i> <pb/><t> <f>[7†]</f>“You <i>are</i> a priest forever </t><t>According to the order of Melchizedek”;</t>


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<pb/>who, in the days of His flesh, when He had <f>[8†]</f>offered up prayers and supplications, <f>[9†]</f>with vehement cries and tears to Him <f>[10†]</f>who was able to save Him from death, and was heard <f>[11†]</f>because of His godly fear,


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And <f>[13†]</f>having been perfected, He became the author of eternal salvation to all who obey Him,


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of whom <f>[15†]</f>we have much to say, and hard to explain, since you have become <f>[16†]</f>dull of hearing.


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<pb/>For though by this time you ought to be teachers, you need <i>someone</i> to teach you again the first principles of the oracles of God; and you have come to need <f>[17†]</f>milk and not solid food.


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For everyone who partakes <i>only</i> of milk <i>is</i> unskilled in the word of righteousness, for he is <f>[18†]</f>a babe.


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But solid food belongs to those who are of full age, <i>that</i> <i>is,</i> those who by reason of use have their senses exercised <f>[19†]</f>to discern both good and evil.


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<pb/>Therefore, <f>[1†]</f>leaving the discussion of the elementary <i>principles</i> of Christ, let us go on to perfection, not laying again the foundation of repentance from <f>[2†]</f>dead works and of faith toward God,


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<f>[3†]</f>of the doctrine of baptisms, <f>[4†]</f>of laying on of hands, <f>[5†]</f>of resurrection of the dead, <f>[6†]</f>and of eternal judgment.


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<pb/>For <i>it</i> <i>is</i> impossible for those who were once enlightened, and have tasted <f>[7†]</f>the heavenly gift, and <f>[8†]</f>have become partakers of the Holy Spirit,


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if they fall away, to renew them again to repentance, <f>[9†]</f>since they crucify again for themselves the Son of God, and put <i>Him</i> to an open shame.


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<pb/>For the earth which drinks in the rain that often comes upon it, and bears herbs useful for those by whom it is cultivated, <f>[10†]</f>receives blessing from God;


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<f>[11†]</f>but if it bears thorns and briers, <i>it</i> <i>is</i> rejected and near to being cursed, whose end <i>is</i> to be burned.


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<pb/>But, beloved, we are confident of better things concerning you, yes, things that accompany salvation, though we speak in this manner.


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For <f>[12†]</f>God <i>is</i> not unjust to forget <f>[13†]</f>your work and labor of love which you have shown toward His name, <i>in</i> <i>that</i> you have <f>[14†]</f>ministered to the saints, and do minister.


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And we desire that each one of you show the same diligence <f>[15†]</f>to the full assurance of hope until the end,


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that you do not become sluggish, but imitate those who through faith and patience <f>[16†]</f>inherit the promises.


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<pb/>For when God made a promise to Abraham, because He could swear by no one greater, <f>[17†]</f>He swore by Himself,


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For men indeed swear by the greater, and <f>[20†]</f>an oath for confirmation <i>is</i> for them an end of all dispute.


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Thus God, determining to show more abundantly to <f>[21†]</f>the heirs of promise <f>[22†]</f>the immutability of His counsel, confirmed <i>it</i> by an oath,


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that by two immutable things, in which it <i>is</i> impossible for God to <f>[23†]</f>lie, we might have strong consolation, who have fled for refuge to lay hold of the hope <f>[24†]</f>set before <i>us.</i>


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<pb/>This <i>hope</i> we have as an anchor of the soul, both sure and steadfast, <f>[25†]</f>and which enters the <i>Presence</i> behind the veil,


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<f>[26†]</f>where the forerunner has entered for us, <i>even</i> Jesus, <f>[27†]</f>having become High Priest forever according to the order of Melchizedek.


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<pb/>For this <f>[1†]</f>Melchizedek, king of Salem, priest of the Most High God, who met Abraham returning from the slaughter of the kings and blessed him,


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to whom also Abraham gave a tenth part of all, first being translated “king of righteousness,” and then also king of Salem, meaning “king of peace,”


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without father, without mother, without genealogy, having neither beginning of days nor end of life, but made like the Son of God, remains a priest continually.


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<pb/>Now consider how great this man <i>was,</i> to whom even the patriarch Abraham gave a tenth of the spoils.


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And indeed <f>[2†]</f>those who are of the sons of Levi, who receive the priesthood, have a commandment to receive tithes from the people according to the law, that is, from their brethren, though they have come from the loins of Abraham;


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but he whose genealogy is not derived from them received tithes from Abraham <f>[3†]</f>and blessed <f>[4†]</f>him who had the promises.


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Here mortal men receive tithes, but there he <i>receives</i> <i>them,</i> <f>[5†]</f>of whom it is witnessed that he lives.


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<pb/> <f>[6†]</f>Therefore, if perfection were through the Levitical priesthood (for under it the people received the law), what further need <i>was</i> <i>there</i> that another priest should rise according to the order of Melchizedek, and not be called according to the order of Aaron?


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For He of whom these things are spoken belongs to another tribe, from which no man has officiated at the altar.


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<pb/>For <i>it</i> <i>is</i> evident that <f>[7†]</f>our Lord arose from <f>[8†]</f>Judah, of which tribe Moses spoke nothing concerning priesthood.


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who has come, not according to the law of a fleshly commandment, but according to the power of an endless life.


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For He testifies: <pb/><t> <f>[9†]</f>“You <i>are</i> a priest forever </t><t>According to the order of Melchizedek.”</t>


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<pb/>For on the one hand there is an annulling of the former commandment because of <f>[10†]</f>its weakness and unprofitableness,


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for <f>[11†]</f>the law made nothing perfect; on the other hand, <i>there</i> <i>is</i> <i>the</i> bringing in of <f>[12†]</f>a better hope, through which <f>[13†]</f>we draw near to God.


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(for they have become priests without an oath, but He with an oath by Him who said to Him: <pb/><t> <f>[14†]</f>“The <e>LORD</e> has sworn </t><t>And will not relent, </t><t>‘You <i>are</i> a priest forever </t><t>According to the order of Melchizedek’ ”),</t>


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Therefore He is also <f>[16†]</f>able to save to the uttermost those who come to God through Him, since He always lives <f>[17†]</f>to make intercession for them.


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<pb/>For such a High Priest was fitting for us, <f>[18†]</f><i>who</i> <i>is</i> holy, harmless, undefiled, separate from sinners, <f>[19†]</f>and has become higher than the heavens;


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who does not need daily, as those high priests, to offer up sacrifices, first for His <f>[20†]</f>own sins and then for the people’s, for this He did once for all when He offered up Himself.


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For the law appoints as high priests men who have weakness, but the word of the oath, which came after the law, <i>appoints</i> the Son who has been perfected forever.


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<pb/>Now <i>this</i> <i>is</i> the main point of the things we are saying: We have such a High Priest, <f>[1†]</f>who is seated at the right hand of the throne of the Majesty in the heavens,


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a Minister of <f>[2†]</f>the sanctuary and of <f>[3†]</f>the true tabernacle which the Lord erected, and not man.


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<pb/>For <f>[4†]</f>every high priest is appointed to offer both gifts and sacrifices. Therefore <f>[5†]</f><i>it</i> <i>is</i> necessary that this One also have something to offer.


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For if He were on earth, He would not be a priest, since there are priests who offer the gifts according to the law;


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who serve <f>[6†]</f>the copy and <f>[7†]</f>shadow of the heavenly things, as Moses was divinely instructed when he was about to make the tabernacle. For He said, <f>[8†]</f>“See <i>that</i> you make all things according to the pattern shown you on the mountain.”


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But now <f>[9†]</f>He has obtained a more excellent ministry, inasmuch as He is also Mediator of a <f>[10†]</f>better covenant, which was established on better promises.


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<pb/>For if that <f>[11†]</f>first <i>covenant</i> had been faultless, then no place would have been sought for a second.


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Because finding fault with them, He says: <f>[12†]</f>“Behold, the days are coming, says the <e>LORD</e>, when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah—


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not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day when I took them by the hand to lead them out of the land of Egypt; because they did not continue in My covenant, and I disregarded them, says the <e>LORD</e>.


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For this <i>is</i> the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, says the <f>[13†]</f>LORD: I will put My laws in their mind and write them on their hearts; and <f>[14†]</f>I will be their God, and they shall be My people.


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<f>[15†]</f>None of them shall teach his neighbor, and none his brother, saying, ‘Know the <f>[16†]</f>LORD,’ for all shall know Me, from the least of them to the greatest of them.


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For I will be merciful to their unrighteousness, <f>[17†]</f>and their sins and their lawless deeds I will remember no more.”


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<pb/> <f>[18†]</f>In that He says, “A new <i>covenant</i>,” He has made the first obsolete. Now what is becoming obsolete and growing old is ready to vanish away.


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<pb/>Then indeed, even the first <i>covenant</i> had ordinances of divine service and <f>[1†]</f>the earthly sanctuary.


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For a tabernacle was prepared: the first <i>part,</i> in which <i>was</i> the lampstand, the table, and the showbread, which is called the sanctuary;


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<f>[2†]</f>and behind the second veil, the part of the tabernacle which is called the Holiest of All,


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which had the <f>[3†]</f>golden censer and <f>[4†]</f>the ark of the covenant overlaid on all sides with gold, in which <i>were</i> <f>[5†]</f>the golden pot that had the manna, <f>[6†]</f>Aaron’s rod that budded, and <f>[7†]</f>the tablets of the covenant;


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and <f>[8†]</f>above it were the cherubim of glory overshadowing the mercy seat. Of these things we cannot now speak in detail.


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<pb/>Now when these things had been thus prepared, <f>[9†]</f>the priests always went into the first part of the tabernacle, performing the services.


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But into the second part the high priest <i>went</i> alone <f>[10†]</f>once a year, not without blood, which he offered for <f>[11†]</f>himself and <i>for</i> the people’s sins <i>committed</i> in ignorance;


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the Holy Spirit indicating this, that <f>[12†]</f>the way into the Holiest of All was not yet made manifest while the first tabernacle was still standing.


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It <i>was</i> symbolic for the present time in which both gifts and sacrifices are offered <f>[13†]</f>which cannot make him who performed the service perfect in regard to the conscience—


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<i>concerned</i> only with <f>[14†]</f>foods and drinks, <f>[15†]</f>various washings, <f>[16†]</f>and fleshly ordinances imposed until the time of reformation.


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<pb/>But Christ came <i>as</i> High Priest of <f>[17†]</f>the good things to come, with the greater and more perfect tabernacle not made with hands, that is, not of this creation.


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Not <f>[18†]</f>with the blood of goats and calves, but <f>[19†]</f>with His own blood He entered the Most Holy Place <f>[20†]</f>once for all, <f>[21†]</f>having obtained eternal redemption.


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For if <f>[22†]</f>the blood of bulls and goats and <f>[23†]</f>the ashes of a heifer, sprinkling the unclean, sanctifies for the purifying of the flesh,


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how much more shall the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered Himself without spot to God, <f>[24†]</f>cleanse your conscience from <f>[25†]</f>dead works <f>[26†]</f>to serve the living God?


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And for this reason <f>[27†]</f>He is the Mediator of the new covenant, by means of death, for the redemption of the transgressions under the first covenant, that <f>[28†]</f>those who are called may receive the promise of the eternal inheritance.


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<pb/>For where there <i>is</i> a testament, there must also of necessity be the death of the testator.


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For <f>[29†]</f>a testament <i>is</i> in force after men are dead, since it has no power at all while the testator lives.


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For when Moses had spoken every precept to all the people according to the law, <f>[31†]</f>he took the blood of calves and goats, <f>[32†]</f>with water, scarlet wool, and hyssop, and sprinkled both the book itself and all the people,


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saying, <f>[33†]</f>“This <i>is</i> the <f>[34†]</f>blood of the covenant which God has commanded you.”


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Then likewise <f>[35†]</f>he sprinkled with blood both the tabernacle and all the vessels of the ministry.


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And according to the law almost all things are purified with blood, and <f>[36†]</f>without shedding of blood there is no remission.


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<pb/>Therefore <i>it</i> <i>was</i> necessary that <f>[37†]</f>the copies of the things in the heavens should be purified with these, but the heavenly things themselves with better sacrifices than these.


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For <f>[38†]</f>Christ has not entered the holy places made with hands, <i>which</i> <i>are</i> copies of <f>[39†]</f>the true, but into heaven itself, now <f>[40†]</f>to appear in the presence of God for us;


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not that He should offer Himself often, as <f>[41†]</f>the high priest enters the Most Holy Place every year with blood of another—


