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`Take heed your kindness not to do before men, to be seen by them, and if not--reward ye have not from your Father who <FI>is<Fi> in the heavens;

`But thou, doing kindness, let not thy left hand know what thy right hand doth, — read the full passage →

Be confessing to one another the trespasses, and be praying for one another, that ye may be healed; very strong is a working supplication of a righteous man;

Every one who is hating his brother--a man-killer he is, and ye have known that no man-killer hath life age-during in him remaining,

and the fruit of the righteousness in peace is sown to those making peace.

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

for consider again him who endured such gainsaying from the sinners to himself, that ye may not be wearied in your souls--being faint.

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

thus therefore pray ye: `Our Father who <FI>art<Fi> in the heavens! hallowed be Thy name. — read the full passage →

and whoever may have the goods of the world, and may view his brother having need, and may shut up his bowels from him--how doth the love of God remain in him?

To no one owe anything, except to love one another; for he who is loving the other--law he hath fulfilled,

`Two debtors were to a certain creditor; the one was owing five hundred denaries, and the other fifty; — read the full passage →

and He said to me, `It hath been done! I am the Alpha and the Omega, the Beginning and the End; I, to him who is thirsting, will give of the fountain of the water of the life freely;

Wherefore, holy brethren, partakers of a heavenly calling, consider the apostle and chief priest of our profession, Christ Jesus,

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

And the fruit of the Spirit is: Love, joy, peace, long-suffering, kindness, goodness, faith, — read the full passage →

who was delivered up because of our offences, and was raised up because of our being declared righteous.

and he found there a certain man, Aeneas by name--for eight years laid upon a couch--who was paralytic, — read the full passage →

and having seen a certain one suffering injustice, he did defend, and did justice to the oppressed, having smitten the Egyptian; — read the full passage →

Jesus then said unto him, `If signs and wonders ye may not see, ye will not believe.'

There were not found who did turn back to give glory to God, except this alien;' — read the full passage →

and desiring to be filled from the crumbs that are falling from the table of the rich man; yea, also the dogs, coming, were licking his sores.

`What man of you having a hundred sheep, and having lost one out of them, doth not leave behind the ninety-nine in the wilderness, and go on after the lost one, till he may find it? — read the full passage →

At which time the myriads of the multitude having been gathered together, so as to tread upon one another, he began to say unto his disciples, first, `Take heed to yourselves of the leaven of the Pharisees, which is hypocrisy; — read the full passage →

and Jesus said to him, `The foxes have holes, and the fowls of the heaven places of rest, but the Son of Man hath not where he may recline the head.'

`And this is the simile: The seed is the word of God,

they are like to children, to those sitting in a market-place, and calling one to another, and saying, We piped to you, and ye did not dance, we mourned to you, and ye did not weep!

for I also am a man placed under authority, having under myself soldiers, and I say to this <FI>one<Fi> , Go, and he goeth; and to another, Be coming, and he cometh; and to my servant, Do this, and he doth <FI>it<Fi> .'

Another simile he set before them, saying: `The reign of the heavens is like to a grain of mustard, which a man having taken, did sow in his field, — read the full passage →

the Son of Man came eating and drinking, and they say, Lo, a man, a glutton, and a wine-drinker, a friend of tax-gatherers and sinners, and wisdom was justified of her children.'

and saying, We piped unto you, and ye did not dance, we lamented to you, and ye did not smite the breast.

`And mayest Thou not lead us to temptation, but deliver us from the evil, because Thine is the reign, and the power, and the glory--to the ages. Amen.

that ye may be sons of your Father in the heavens, because His sun He doth cause to rise on evil and good, and He doth send rain on righteous and unrighteous.

and another messenger did come forth out from the altar, having authority over the fire, and he called with a great cry to him having the sharp sickle, saying, `Send forth thy sharp sickle, and gather the clusters of the vine of the earth, because come to perfection have her grapes;'

And I saw another messenger flying in mid-heaven, having good news age-during to proclaim to those dwelling upon the earth, and to every nation, and tribe, and tongue, and people,

and there was given to it to give a spirit to the image of the beast, that also the image of the beast may speak, and <FI>that<Fi> it may cause as many as shall not bow before the image of the beast, that they may be killed.

and the kings of the earth, and the great men, and the rich, and the chiefs of thousands, and the mighty, and every servant, and every freeman, hid themselves in the dens, and in the rocks of the mountains,

And I saw upon the right hand of Him who is sitting upon the throne a scroll, written within and on the back, sealed with seven seals; — read the full passage →

`But I have against thee a few things: That thou dost suffer the woman Jezebel, who is calling herself a prophetess, to teach, and to lead astray, my servants to commit whoredom, and idol-sacrifices to eat;

`And to the messenger of the assembly of Thyatira write: These things saith the Son of God, who is having his eyes as a flame of fire, and his feet like to fine brass;

and his feet like to fine brass, as in a furnace having been fired, and his voice as a sound of many waters,

if any one may say--`I love God,' and his brother he may hate, a liar he is; for he who is not loving his brother whom he hath seen, God--whom he hath not seen--how is he able to love? — read the full passage →

and who <FI>is<Fi> he who will be doing you evil, if of Him who is good ye may become imitators?

whether to governors, as to those sent through him, for punishment, indeed, of evil-doers, and a praise of those doing good;

one is the lawgiver, who is able to save and to destroy; thou--who art thou that dost judge the other?

and they shall not teach each his neighbour, and each his brother, saying, Know thou the Lord, because they shall all know Me from the small one of them unto the great one of them,

and one in a certain place did testify fully, saying, `What is man, that Thou art mindful of him, or a son of man, that Thou dost look after him?

who being the brightness of the glory, and the impress of His subsistence, bearing up also the all things by the saying of his might--through himself having made a cleansing of our sins, sat down at the right hand of the greatness in the highest,

Yes, brother, may I have profit of thee in the Lord; refresh my bowels in the Lord;

whom I did send again, and thou him (that is, my own bowels) receive,

for we have much joy and comfort in thy love, because the bowels of the saints have been refreshed through thee, brother.

and Apphia the beloved, and Archippus our fellow-soldier, and the assembly in thy house:

Paul, a prisoner of Christ Jesus, and Timotheus the brother, to Philemon our beloved and fellow-worker,

and foolish questions, and genealogies, and contentions, and strivings about law, stand away from--for they are unprofitable and vain.

and when the kindness and the love to men of God our Saviour did appear — read the full passage →

every Writing <FI>is<Fi> God-breathed, and profitable for teaching, for conviction, for setting aright, for instruction that <FI>is<Fi> in righteousness,

and because from a babe the Holy Writings thou hast known, which are able to make thee wise--to salvation, through faith that <FI>is<Fi> in Christ Jesus; — read the full passage →

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

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

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

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

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

If, then, any exhortation <FI>is<Fi> in Christ, if any comfort of love, if any fellowship of spirit, if any bowels and mercies,

For God is my witness, how I long for you all in the bowels of Jesus Christ,

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

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

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

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

ye are not straitened in us, and ye are straitened in your <FI>own<Fi> bowels,

on every side being in tribulation, but not straitened; perplexed, but not in despair; — read the full passage →

And I decided this to myself, not again to come in sorrow unto you,

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

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

because of this the woman ought to have <FI>a token of<Fi> authority upon the head, because of the messengers;

Have ye not known that your body is a sanctuary of the Holy Spirit in you, which ye have from God? and ye are not your own, — read the full passage →

for, seeing in the wisdom of God the world through the wisdom knew not God, it did please God through the foolishness of the preaching to save those believing.

according as it hath been written, `Jacob I did love, and Esau I did hate.'

for in hope we were saved, and hope beheld is not hope; for what any one doth behold, why also doth he hope for <FI>it<Fi> ?

for scarcely for a righteous man will any one die, for for the good man perhaps some one also doth dare to die;

Swift <FI>are<Fi> their feet to shed blood.

Therefore, thou art inexcusable, O man--every one who is judging--for in that in which thou dost judge the other, thyself thou dost condemn, for the same things thou dost practise who art judging, — read the full passage →

and all the Greeks having taken Sosthenes, the chief man of the synagogue, were beating <FI>him<Fi> before the tribunal, and not even for these things was Gallio caring.

and Crispus, the ruler of the synagogue did believe in the Lord with all his house, and many of the Corinthians hearing were believing, and they were being baptized.

And when both Silas and Timotheus came down from Macedonia, Paul was pressed in the Spirit, testifying fully to the Jews Jesus the Christ;

And the brethren immediately, through the night, sent forth both Paul and Silas to Berea, who having come, went to the synagogue of the Jews; — read the full passage →

though, indeed, without witness He did not leave himself, doing good--from heaven giving rains to us, and fruitful seasons, filling our hearts with food and gladness;'

And Herod was highly displeased with the Tyrians and Sidonians, and with one accord they came unto him, and having made a friend of Blastus, who <FI>is<Fi> over the bed-chambers of the king, they were asking peace, because of their country being nourished from the king's;

and one of them, by name Agabus, having stood up, did signify through the Spirit a great dearth is about to be throughout all the world--which also came to pass in the time of Claudius Caesar--

the word that he sent to the sons of Israel, proclaiming good news--peace through Jesus Christ (this one is Lord of all,)

And the men who are journeying with him stood speechless, hearing indeed the voice but seeing no one,

in his humiliation his judgment was taken away, and his generation--who shall declare? because taken from the earth is his life.'

And having arisen, he went on, and lo, a man of Ethiopia, a eunuch, a man of rank, of Candace the queen of the Ethiopians, who was over all her treasure, who had come to worship to Jerusalem;

for in the gall of bitterness, and bond of unrighteousness, I perceive thee being.'

and of the rest no one was daring to join himself to them, but the people were magnifying them,

and ye the Holy and Righteous One did deny, and desired a man--a murderer--to be granted to you,

whom God did raise up, having loosed the pains of the death, because it was not possible for him to be held by it,

and it became known to all those dwelling in Jerusalem, insomuch that that place is called, in their proper dialect, Aceldama, that is, field of blood,

When, therefore, they dined, Jesus saith to Simon Peter, `Simon, <FI>son<Fi> of Jonas, dost thou love me more than these?' he saith to him, `Yes, Lord; thou hast known that I dearly love thee;' he saith to him, `Feed my lambs.' — read the full passage →

and now it hath come, that ye may be scattered, each to his own things, and me ye may leave alone, and I am not alone, because the Father is with me;

`Ye did not choose out me, but I chose out you, and did appoint you, that ye might go away, and might bear fruit, and your fruit might remain, that whatever ye may ask of the Father in my name, He may give you.