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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 →

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,

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.

The children! obey your parents in the Lord, for this is righteous;

Hearken to thy father, who begat thee, And despise not thy mother when she hath become old.

Hear, my son, the instruction of thy father, And leave not the law of thy mother,

As a father hath mercy on sons, Jehovah hath mercy on those fearing Him.

`Each his mother and his father ye do fear, and My sabbaths ye do keep; I <FI>am<Fi> Jehovah your God.

therefore doth a man leave his father and his mother, and hath cleaved unto his wife, and they have become one flesh.

The children! obey your parents in the Lord, for this is righteous; — read the full passage →

and God doth commend His own love to us, that, in our being still sinners, Christ did die for us;

And his parents were going yearly to Jerusalem, at the feast of the passover,

Abraham begat Isaac, and Isaac begat Jacob, and Jacob begat Judah and his brethren,

Give instruction to a youth about his way, Even when he is old he turneth not from it.

And there was given to me a reed like to a rod, and the messenger stood, saying, `Rise, and measure the sanctuary of God, and the altar, and those worshipping in it; — read the full passage →

all your care having cast upon Him, because He careth for you.

And the fathers! provoke not your children, but nourish them in the instruction and admonition of the Lord.

honour thy father and mother,

through whom also we have the access by the faith into this grace in which we have stood, and we boast on the hope of the glory of God.

and they said, `Is not this Jesus, the son of Joseph, whose father and mother we have known? how then saith this one--Out of the heaven I have come down?'

and Joseph also went up from Galilee, out of the city of Nazareth, to Judea, to the city of David, that is called Bethlehem, because of his being of the house and family of David,

Is not this the carpenter, the son of Mary, and brother of James, and Joses, and Judas, and Simon? and are not his sisters here with us?' --and they were being stumbled at him.

And on his thinking of these things, lo, a messenger of the Lord in a dream appeared to him, saying, `Joseph, son of David, thou mayest not fear to receive Mary thy wife, for that which in her was begotten <FI>is<Fi> of the Holy Spirit,

and Joseph her husband being righteous, and not willing to make her an example, did wish privately to send her away.

And of Jesus Christ, the birth was thus: For his mother Mary having been betrothed to Joseph, before their coming together she was found to have conceived from the Holy Spirit, — read the full passage →

and Judah begat Pharez and Zarah of Tamar, and Pharez begat Hezron, and Hezron begat Ram,

`Speak unto all the company of the sons of Israel, and thou hast said unto them, Ye are holy, for holy <FI>am<Fi> I, Jehovah, your God.

and God completeth by the seventh day His work which He hath made, and ceaseth by the seventh day from all His work which He hath made.