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Cowards
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and to fearful, and unstedfast, and abominable, and murderers, and whoremongers, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all the liars, their part <FI>is<Fi> in the lake that is burning with fire and brimstone, which is a second death.'
The wicked have fled and there is no pursuer. And the righteous as a young lion is confident.
and without <FI>are<Fi> the dogs, and the sorcerers, and the whoremongers, and the murderers, and the idolaters, and every one who is loving and is doing a lie.
for God did not give us a spirit of fear, but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind;
Fear of man causeth a snare, And the confident in Jehovah is set on high.
He who is having an ear--let him hear what the Spirit saith to the assemblies: He who is overcoming may not be injured of the second death.
have ye not known that the unrighteous the reign of God shall not inherit? be not led astray; neither whoremongers, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor sodomites,
I--I <FI>am<Fi> He--your comforter, Who <FI>art<Fi> thou--and thou art afraid of man? he dieth! And of the son of man--grass he is made!
`And the authorities have added to speak unto the people, and said, Who <FI>is<Fi> the man that is afraid and tender of heart? --let him go and turn back to his house, and the heart of his brethren doth not melt like his heart;
and now, call, I pray thee, in the ears of the people, saying, Whoso <FI>is<Fi> afraid and trembling, let him turn back and go early from mount Gilead;' and there turn back of the people twenty and two thousand, and ten thousand have been left.
Watch ye, stand in the faith; be men, be strong;
A revelation of Jesus Christ, that God gave to him, to shew to his servants what things it behoveth to come to pass quickly; and he did signify <FI>it<Fi> , having sent through his messenger to his servant John,
And having taken him, they led and brought him to the house of the chief priest. And Peter was following afar off, — read the full passage →
And Peter being in the hall beneath, there doth come one of the maids of the chief priest, — read the full passage →
for God did so love the world, that His Son--the only begotten--He gave, that every one who is believing in him may not perish, but may have life age-during. — read the full passage →
And he saith to them, `Why are ye fearful, O ye of little faith?' Then having risen, he rebuked the winds and the sea, and there was a great calm;
one man of you doth pursue a thousand, for Jehovah your God <FI>is<Fi> He who is fighting for you, as He hath spoken to you;
And when Peter came to Antioch, to the face I stood up against him, because he was blameworthy, — read the full passage →
And thus I saw the horses in the vision, and those sitting upon them, having breastplates of fire, and jacinth, and brimstone; and the heads of the horses <FI>are<Fi> as heads of lions, and out of their mouths proceedeth fire, and smoke, and brimstone;
and there may not at all enter into it any thing defiling and doing abomination, and a lie, but--those written in the scroll of the life of the Lamb.
this one came unto him by night, and said to him, `Rabbi, we have known that from God thou hast come--a teacher, for no one these signs is able to do that thou dost, if God may not be with him.'
in my first defence no one stood with me, but all forsook me, (may it not be reckoned to them!)
These things said his parents, because they were afraid of the Jews, for already had the Jews agreed together, that if any one may confess him--Christ, he may be put out of the synagogue;
because nothing shall be impossible with God.'
and have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of the darkness and rather even convict,
as many as are willing to make a good appearance in the flesh, these constrain you to be circumcised--only that for the cross of the Christ they may not be persecuted,
Sons of Ephraim--armed bearers of bow, Have turned in a day of conflict.
and the men of Ai smite of them about thirty and six men, and pursue them before the gate unto Shebarim, and they smite them in Morad; and the heart of the people is melted, and becometh water.
but all this hath come to pass, that the Writings of the prophets may be fulfilled;' then all the disciples, having left him, fled.
having pushed onwards, therefore, about twenty-five or thirty furlongs, they behold Jesus walking on the sea, and coming nigh to the boat, and they were afraid;
`And be not afraid of those killing the body, and are not able to kill the soul, but fear rather Him who is able both soul and body to destroy in gehenna.
for there shall be a season when the sound teaching they will not suffer, but according to their own desires to themselves they shall heap up teachers--itching in the hearing, — read the full passage →
What, then, shall we say unto these things? if God <FI>is<Fi> for us, who <FI>is<Fi> against us?
And I saw a messenger coming down out of the heaven, having the key of the abyss, and a great chain over his hand, — read the full passage →
and all the men of Israel when they see the man flee from his presence, and are greatly afraid.
and the death and the hades were cast to the lake of the fire--this <FI>is<Fi> the second death;
And after these things did Joseph of Arimathea--being a disciple of Jesus, but concealed, through the fear of the Jews--ask of Pilate, that he may take away the body of Jesus, and Pilate gave leave; he came, therefore, and took away the body of Jesus,
Round about terrified him have terrors, And they have scattered him--at his feet.
idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, strifes, emulations, wraths, rivalries, dissensions, sects,
And Peter without was sitting in the court, and there came near to him a certain maid, saying, `And thou wast with Jesus of Galilee!' — read the full passage →
`Happy are ye whenever they may reproach you, and may persecute, and may say any evil thing against you falsely for my sake-- — read the full passage →
And we hear, and melt doth our heart, and there hath not stood any more spirit in <FI>any<Fi> man, from your presence, for Jehovah your God, He <FI>is<Fi> God in the heavens above, and on the earth beneath.
for they all saw him, and were troubled, and immediately he spake with them, and saith to them, `Take courage, I am <FI>he<Fi> , be not afraid.'
And Jacob answereth and saith to Laban, `Because I was afraid, for I said, Lest thou take violently away thy daughters from me;
and men of the place ask him of his wife, and he saith, `She <FI>is<Fi> my sister:' for he hath been afraid to say, `My wife--lest the men of the place kill me for Rebekah, for she <FI>is<Fi> of good appearance.' — read the full passage →
and he said to them, `Where is your faith?' and they being afraid did wonder, saying unto one another, `Who, then, is this, that even the winds he doth command, and the water, and they obey him?'
and he himself was upon the stern, upon the pillow sleeping, and they wake him up, and say to him, `Teacher, art thou not caring that we perish?'
And he who is declaring tidings cometh in unto David, saying, `The heart of the men of Israel hath been after Absalom.' — read the full passage →
And Samuel saith, `How do I go? when Saul hath heard, then he hath slain me.' And Jehovah saith, `A heifer of the herd thou dost take in thy hand, and hast said, To sacrifice to Jehovah I have come;
And these five kings flee, and are hidden in a cave at Makkedah,
And in the fourth watch of the night Jesus went away to them, walking upon the sea,
And it cometh to pass when all the kings of the Amorite which <FI>are<Fi> beyond the Jordan, towards the sea, and all the kings of the Canaanite which <FI>are<Fi> by the sea, hear how that Jehovah hath dried up the waters of the Jordan at the presence of the sons of Israel till their passing over, that their heart is melted, and there hath not been in them any more spirit because of the presence of the sons of Israel.
and Aaron saith, `Let not the anger of my lord burn; thou--thou hast known the people that it <FI>is<Fi> in evil; — read the full passage →
And the men of Israel have seen that they are distressed, that the people hath been oppressed, and the people hide themselves in caves, and in thickets, and in rocks, and in high places, and in pits. — read the full passage →
`And those who are left of you--I have also brought a faintness into their heart in the lands of their enemies, and the sound of a leaf driven away hath pursued them, and they have fled--flight from a sword--and they have fallen, and there is none pursuing.
Still, however, also out of the rulers did many believe in him, but because of the Pharisees they were not confessing, that they might not be put out of the synagogue, — read the full passage →
And they have stumbled one on another, as from the face of a sword, and there is none pursuing, and ye have no standing before your enemies,
Terrify him do adversity and distress, They prevail over him As a king ready for a boaster.
be strong and courageous, fear not, nor be terrified because of them, for Jehovah thy God <FI>is<Fi> He who is going with thee; He doth not fail thee nor forsake thee.'
And the men who have gone up with him said, `We are not able to go up against the people, for it <FI>is<Fi> stronger than we;' — read the full passage →
only, surely the people which is dwelling in the land <FI>is<Fi> strong; and the cities are fenced, very great; and also children of Anak we have seen there.
Who riseth up for me with evil doers? Who stationeth himself for me with workers of iniquity?
and if as a Christian, let him not be ashamed; and let him glorify God in this respect;
if we do endure together--we shall also reign together; if we deny <FI>him<Fi> , he also shall deny us;
and the man saith, `The woman whom Thou didst place with me--she hath given to me of the tree--and I do eat.'
Adulterers and adulteresses! have ye not known that friendship of the world is enmity with God? whoever, then, may counsel to be a friend of the world, an enemy of God he is set.
And thou dost forget Jehovah thy maker, Who is stretching out the heavens, and founding earth, And thou dost fear continually all the day, Because of the fury of the oppressor, As he hath prepared to destroy. And where <FI>is<Fi> the fury of the oppressor?
have ye not known that the unrighteous the reign of God shall not inherit? be not led astray; neither whoremongers, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor sodomites, — read the full passage →
And he shewed me a pure river of water of life, bright as crystal, going forth out of the throne of God and of the Lamb: — read the full passage →
again, therefore, Peter denied, and immediately a cock crew.
And Simon Peter was standing and warming himself, they said then to him, `Art thou also of his disciples?' he denied, and said, `I am not.'
whoremongers, sodomites, men-stealers, liars, perjured persons, and if there be any other thing that to sound doctrine is adverse,
I have known thy works, and thy labour, and thy endurance, and that thou art not able to bear evil ones, and that thou hast tried those saying themselves to be apostles and are not, and hast found them liars,
and the jailor having come out of sleep, and having seen the doors of the prison open, having drawn a sword, was about to kill himself, supposing the prisoners to be fled,
and from the fear of him did the keepers shake, and they became as dead men.
And I saw a new heaven and a new earth, for the first heaven and the first earth did pass away, and the sea is not any more;
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,
A false witness is not acquitted, And whoso breatheth out lies perisheth.
A false witness is not acquitted, Whoso breatheth out lies is not delivered.
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 →
and Abraham saith concerning Sarah his wife, `She is my sister;' and Abimelech king of Gerar sendeth and taketh Sarah. — read the full passage →
And all the company lifteth up and give forth their voice, and the people weep during that night; — read the full passage →
and Peter said unto them, `Reform, and be baptized each of you on the name of Jesus Christ, to remission of sins, and ye shall receive the gift of the Holy Spirit,
and it cometh to pass as he hath drawn near to enter Egypt, that he saith unto Sarai his wife, `Lo, I pray thee, I have known that thou <FI>art<Fi> a woman of beautiful appearance; — read the full passage →
And faith is of things hoped for a confidence, of matters not seen a conviction,
And the sons of Joseph speak with Joshua, saying, `Wherefore hast thou given to me an inheritance--one lot and one portion, and I a numerous people? hitherto hath Jehovah blessed me.' — read the full passage →
and have not root in themselves, but are temporary; afterward tribulation or persecution having come because of the word, immediately they are stumbled.
`The thief doth not come, except that he may steal, and kill, and destroy; I came that they may have life, and may have <FI>it<Fi> abundantly.
Still, however, also out of the rulers did many believe in him, but because of the Pharisees they were not confessing, that they might not be put out of the synagogue,
And the men of Israel have seen that they are distressed, that the people hath been oppressed, and the people hide themselves in caves, and in thickets, and in rocks, and in high places, and in pits.
hath not he himself said to me, She <FI>is<Fi> my sister! and she, even she herself, said, He <FI>is<Fi> my brother; in the integrity of my heart, and in the innocency of my hands, I have done this.'
And Hebrews have passed over the Jordan to the land of Gad and Gilead; and Saul <FI>is<Fi> yet in Gilgal, and all the people have trembled after him.
And they say one unto another, `Let us appoint a head, and turn back to Egypt.'
`Have not I commanded thee? be strong and courageous; be not terrified nor affrighted, for with thee <FI>is<Fi> Jehovah thy God in every <FI>place<Fi> whither thou goest.'
Be not afraid, for with thee I <FI>am<Fi> , Look not around, for I <FI>am<Fi> thy God, I have strengthened thee, Yea, I have helped thee, yea, I upheld thee, With the right hand of My righteousness.
From this <FI>time<Fi> was Pilate seeking to release him, and the Jews were crying out, saying, `If this one thou mayest release, thou art not a friend of Caesar; every one making himself a king, doth speak against Caesar.' — read the full passage →
How doth one pursue a thousand, And two cause a myriad to flee! If not--that their rock hath sold them, And Jehovah hath shut them up?
Whoever may seek to save his life, shall lose it; and whoever may lose it, shall preserve it.
and I, John, saw the holy city--new Jerusalem--coming down from God out of the heaven, made ready as a bride adorned for her husband;
having the glory of God, and her light <FI>is<Fi> like a stone most precious, as a jasper stone clear as crystal,
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