God hath not cast off his people, which he foreknew. Do ye not know what the Scripture saith in the passage concerning Elijah? how he pleadeth to God against Israel:

Moreover, brethren, we make known to you the grace of God which hath been bestowed in the churches of Macedonia;

for it is God who worketh in you both to will and to work for his good pleasure.

make you perfect in every good work, to do his will, doing in you that which is wellpleasing in his sight, through Jesus Christ; to whom be the glory for ever. Amen.

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But ye will receive power when the Holy Spirit hath come upon you; and ye will be my witnesses, both in Jerusalem and in all Judaea, and in Samaria, and to the end of the earth.

Being therefore exalted by the right hand of God, and having received from the Father the promised Holy Spirit, he hath poured forth this, which ye both see and hear.

while thou stretchest forth thy hand to heal, and signs and wonders are wrought through the name of thy holy servant Jesus.

So the word of the Lord grew and prevailed mightily.

For though he was crucified through weakness, yet he liveth through the power of God; for we also are weak in him, but we shall live together with him by the power of God toward you.

But when it pleased him who set me apart from my very birth, and called me through his grace,

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according as he chose us in him, before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and blameless before him;

For God did not call us to live in uncleanness, but in purity.

who gave himself for us, that he might redeem us from all iniquity, and purify to himself a people to be his own, zealous in good works.

From the womb, etc

After these things I saw, and lo! a great multitude, which no one could number, out of every nation and all tribes and peoples and tongues, standing before the throne and before the Lamb, clothed in white robes, and palms in their hands.

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So then it dependeth not on him that willeth, nor on him that runneth, but on God who showeth mercy.