And when they led him away, they laid hold upon one Simon of Cyrene, coming from the country, and laid on him the cross, to bear it after Jesus.
for there is no respect of persons with God.
Now there were at Antioch, in the church that wasthere, prophets and teachers, Barnabas, and Symeon that was called Niger, and Lucius of Cyrene, and Manaen the foster-brother of Herod the tetrarch, and Saul.
And Peter opened his mouth, and said, Of a truth I perceive that God is no respecter of persons:
There can be neither Jew nor Greek, there can be neither bond nor free, there can be no male and female; for ye all are one man in Christ Jesus.
and his feet like unto burnished brass, as if it had been refined in a furnace; and his voice as the voice of many waters.
wild waves of the sea, foaming out their own shame; wandering stars, for whom the blackness of darkness hath been reserved for ever.
But God commendeth his own love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.
and he that sat was to look upon like a jasper stone and a sardius: and there was a rainbow round about the throne, like an emerald to look upon.
and he made of one every nation of men to dwell on all the face of the earth, having determined their appointed seasons, and the bounds of their habitation;
Or know ye not that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit which is in you, which ye have from God? and ye are not your own;
Let as many as are servants under the yoke count their own masters worthy of all honor, that the name of God and the doctrine be not blasphemed.
For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth on him should not perish, but have eternal life.
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Every one that doeth sin doeth also lawlessness; and sin is lawlessness.
For as in Adam all die, so also in Christ shall all be made alive.
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