First Fruit

And now, Christ hath risen out of the dead--the first-fruits of those sleeping he became,

for by grace ye are having been saved, through faith, and this not of you--of God the gift, — read the full passage →

because whom He did foreknow, He also did fore-appoint, conformed to the image of His Son, that he might be first-born among many brethren;

the Lord is not slow in regard to the promise, as certain count slowness, but is long-suffering to us, not counselling any to be lost but all to pass on to reformation,

for of Him we are workmanship, created in Christ Jesus to good works, which God did before prepare, that in them we may walk.

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 →

for as the body apart from the spirit is dead, so also the faith apart from the works is dead.

whoso is stealing let him no more steal, but rather let him labour, working the thing that is good with the hands, that he may have to impart to him having need.

(not by works that <FI>are<Fi> in righteousness that we did but according to His kindness,) He did save us, through a bathing of regeneration, and a renewing of the Holy Spirit,

who doth will all men to be saved, and to come to the full knowledge of the truth;

If, then, ye did die with the Christ from the rudiments of the world, why, as living in the world, are ye subject to ordinances?

Followers of me become ye, as I also <FI>am<Fi> of Christ. — read the full passage →

let it not be! we who died to the sin--how shall we still live in it?

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,

then, therefore, entered also the other disciple who came first unto the tomb, and he saw, and did believe;

these things I have spoken to you, that in me ye may have peace, in the world ye shall have tribulation, but take courage--I have overcome the world.'

Jesus answered them, `Is it not having been written in your law: I said, ye are gods?

`Ye are of a father--the devil, and the desires of your father ye will to do; he was a man-slayer from the beginning, and in the truth he hath not stood, because there is no truth in him; when one may speak the falsehood, of his own he speaketh, because he is a liar--also his father.

for, lo, days do come, in which they shall say, Happy the barren, and wombs that did not bare, and paps that did not give suck;

And he said, `A certain man had two sons, — read the full passage →

And Jesus said to them, `Verily I say to you, that ye who did follow me, in the regeneration, when the Son of Man may sit upon a throne of his glory, shall sit--ye also--upon twelve thrones, judging the twelve tribes of Israel;

and I say to you, that many from east and west shall come and recline (at meat) with Abraham, and Isaac, and Jacob, in the reign of the heavens,

From the hand of Sheol I do ransom them, From death I redeem them, Where <FI>is<Fi> thy plague, O death? Where thy destruction, O Sheol? Repentance is hid from Mine eyes.

And bows dash young men to pieces, And the fruit of the womb they pity not, On sons their eye hath no pity.

And their sucklings are dashed to pieces before their eyes, Spoiled are their houses, and their wives lain with.

Lo, in iniquity I have been brought forth, And in sin doth my mother conceive me.

Then doth Menahem smite Tiphsah, and all who <FI>are<Fi> in it, and its borders from Tirzah, for it opened not <FI>to him<Fi> , and he smiteth <FI>it<Fi> , all its pregnant women he hath ripped up.

And Hazael saith, `Wherefore is my lord weeping?' and he saith, `Because I have known the evil that thou dost to the sons of Israel--their fenced places thou dost send into fire, and their young men with sword thou dost slay, and their sucklings thou dost dash to pieces, and their pregnant women thou dost rip up.'

And he goeth up thence to Beth-El, and he is going up in the way, and little youths have come out from the city, and scoff at him, and say to him, `Go up, bald-head! go up, bald-head!' — read the full passage →

Now, go, and thou hast smitten Amalek, and devoted all that it hath, and thou hast no pity on it, and hast put to death from man unto woman, from infant unto suckling, from ox unto sheep, from camel unto ass.'

and thou hast eaten the fruit of thy body, flesh of thy sons and thy daughters (whom Jehovah thy God hath given to thee), in the siege, and in the straitness with which thine enemies do straiten thee.

and we capture all his cities at that time, and devote the whole city, men, and the women, and the infants--we have not left a remnant;

`And now, slay ye every male among the infants, yea, every woman known of man by the lying of a male ye have slain;

And Jehovah saith unto Moses, `Take all the chiefs of the people, and hang them before Jehovah--over-against the sun; and the fierceness of the anger of Jehovah doth turn back from Israel.' — read the full passage →