and he brought him unto Jesus: and having looked upon him, Jesus saith, 'Thou art Simon, the son of Jonas, thou shalt be called Cephas,' (which is interpreted, A rock.)

and having known the grace that was given to me, James, and Cephas, and John, who were esteemed to be pillars, a right hand of fellowship they did give to me, and to Barnabas, that we to the nations, and they to the circumcision may go,

Upon

Therefore, thus said the Lord Jehovah: 'Lo, I am laying a foundation in Zion, A stone -- a tried stone, a corner stone precious, a settled foundation, He who is believing doth not make haste.

According to the grace of God that was given to me, as a wise master-builder, a foundation I have laid, and another doth build on it,

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

and the wall of the city had twelve foundations, and in them names of the twelve apostles of the Lamb.

I will

and hast spoken unto him, saying: Thus spake Jehovah of Hosts, saying: Lo, a man! A Shoot -- is his name, And from his place he doth shoot up, And he hath built the temple of Jehovah.

for of God we are fellow-workmen; God's tillage, God's building ye are.

for of more glory than Moses hath this one been counted worthy, inasmuch as more honour than the house hath he who doth build it,

My

And if he may not hear them, say it to the assembly, and if also the assembly he may not hear, let him be to thee as the heathen man and the tax-gatherer.

praising God, and having favour with all the people, and the Lord was adding those being saved every day to the assembly.

And Saul was assenting to his death, and there came in that day a great persecution upon the assembly in Jerusalem, all also were scattered abroad in the regions of Judea and Samaria, except the apostles;

that there might be made known now to the principalities and the authorities in the heavenly places, through the assembly, the manifold wisdom of God,

The husbands! love your own wives, as also the Christ did love the assembly, and did give himself for it,

And himself is the head of the body -- the assembly -- who is a beginning, a first-born out of the dead, that he might become in all things -- himself -- first,

(and if any one his own house how to lead hath not known, how an assembly of God shall he take care of?)

Shall not

A Song of the Ascents. Those trusting in Jehovah are as Mount Zion, It is not moved -- to the age it abideth.

No weapon formed against thee prospereth, And every tongue rising against thee, In judgment thou condemnest. This is the inheritance of the servants of Jehovah, And their righteousness from me, an affirmation of Jehovah!

according as I said to you: My sheep my voice do hear, and I know them, and they follow me,

Who shall lay a charge against the choice ones of God? God is He that is declaring righteous,

wherefore, a kingdom that cannot be shaken receiving, may we have grace, through which we may serve God well-pleasingly, with reverence and religious fear;

And the seventh messenger did sound, and there came great voices in the heaven, saying, 'The kingdoms of the world did become those of our Lord and of His Christ, and he shall reign to the ages of the ages!'

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;

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and stedfast is thy house and thy kingdom unto the age before thee, thy throne is established unto the age.'

and he saith: 'Jehovah is my rock, And my bulwark, and a deliverer to me,

And the word of God did grow and did multiply,

for other foundation no one is able to lay except that which is laid, which is Jesus the Christ;