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And the third day there was a wedding in Cana of Galilee, and the mother of Jesus was there.

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Now there was a man of the Pharisees named Nicodemus, a ruler of the Jewish people.

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He came as a witness to testify about the light, that all might believe through him.

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"And it shall come to pass afterward, that I will pour out my Spirit on all flesh; and your sons and your daughters will prophesy. Your old men will dream dreams. Your young men will see visions.

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And he made a whip of cords, and threw all out of the temple, both the sheep and the oxen; and he poured out the changers' money, and overthrew their tables.

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God said, "Let the earth put forth grass, herbs yielding seed, and fruit trees bearing fruit after their kind, with its seed in it, on the earth;" and it was so.

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A woman of Samaria came to draw water. Jesus said to her, "Give me a drink."

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The sick man answered him, "Sir, I have no one to put me into the pool when the water is stirred up, but while I'm coming, another steps down before me."

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that you might know the certainty concerning the things in which you were instructed.

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for the truth's sake, which remains in us, and it will be with us forever:

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The same came to him by night, and said to him, "Rabbi, we know that you are a teacher come from God, for no one can do these signs that you do, unless God is with him."

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They, when they heard it, went out one by one, beginning from the oldest, even to the last. Jesus was left alone with the woman where she was, in the middle.

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And just then a certain Law scholar stood up and tested him, saying, "Teacher, what shall I do to inherit eternal life?"

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He was not the light, but was sent that he might testify about the light.

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who also said, "You men of Galilee, why do you stand looking into the sky? This Jesus, who was received up from you into the sky will come back in the same way as you saw him going into the sky."

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Or do you not know that all we who were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death?

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But the hour comes, and now is, when the true worshippers will worship the Father in spirit and truth, for the Father seeks such to be his worshippers.

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Now it happened in those days, that a decree went out from Caesar Augustus that all the world should be enrolled.

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Do not marvel at this, for the hour comes, in which all that are in the tombs will hear his voice,

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They are of the world. Therefore they speak of the world, and the world hears them.

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When therefore it was evening, on that day, the first day of the week, and when the doors were locked where the disciples were, for fear of the Jewish leaders, Jesus came and stood in the midst, and said to them, "Peace be to you."

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After these things, there was a Jewish festival, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem.

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"Enter in by the narrow gate; for wide is the gate and broad is the way that leads to destruction, and many are those who enter in by it.

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He said, "A certain man had two sons.

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For everyone who asks receives. He who seeks finds. To him who knocks it will be opened.

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"You are the salt of the earth, but if the salt has lost its flavor, with what will it be salted? It is then good for nothing, but to be cast out and trodden under the feet of men.

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For his disciples had gone away into the city to buy food.

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Now on the first day of the week, Mary Magdalene went early, while it was still dark, to the tomb, and saw the stone taken away from the tomb.

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Philip answered him, "Two hundred denarii worth of bread is not sufficient for them, that everyone of them may receive a little."

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It happened, when he went into the house of one of the rulers of the Pharisees on a Sabbath to eat bread, that they were watching him.

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He came to Nazareth, where he had been brought up. He entered, as was his custom, into the synagogue on the Sabbath day, and stood up to read.

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Jesus therefore answered them, "Truly, truly, I tell you, the Son can do nothing of himself, but what he sees the Father doing. For whatever things he does, these the Son also does likewise.

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Now when Jesus was born in Bethlehem of Judea in the days of Herod the king, suddenly wise men from the east came to Jerusalem, saying,

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Not for these only do I pray, but for those also who believe in me through their word,

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All the souls who came out of Jacob's body were seventy-five, and Joseph was in Egypt already.

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If it seems evil to you to serve the LORD, choose this day whom you will serve; whether the gods which your fathers served that were beyond the River, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land you dwell: but as for me and my house, we will serve the LORD."

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How you have fallen from heaven, morning star, son of the dawn. How you are cut down to the ground, who laid the nations low.

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The brothers immediately sent Paul and Silas away by night to Beroea. When they arrived, they went into the Jewish synagogue.

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For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor rulers, nor things present, nor things to come, nor powers,

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The first account I wrote, Theophilus, concerned all that Jesus began both to do and to teach,

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Afterward Jesus found him in the temple, and said to him, "See, you are made well. Sin no more, so that nothing worse happens to you."

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Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.

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All went to enroll themselves, everyone to his own city.

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Did you suffer so many things in vain, if it is indeed in vain?

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It happened as they went on their way, he entered into a certain village, and a certain woman named Martha received him.

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and you pay special attention to him who wears the fine clothing, and say, "Sit here in a good place;" but you tell the poor man, "Stand there," or "Sit by my footstool;"

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It happened, that when he finished praying in a certain place, one of his disciples said to him, "Lord, teach us to pray, just as John also taught his disciples."

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Jesus answered them, "Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up."

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Solomon spoke to all Israel, to the captains of thousands and of hundreds, and to the judges, and to every prince in all Israel, the heads of the ancestral houses.

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Now great crowds were going with him. He turned and said to them,

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So when they had eaten their breakfast, Jesus said to Simon Peter, "Simon, son of John, do you love me more than these?" He said to him, "Yes, Lord; you know that I have affection for you." He said to him, "Feed my lambs."

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Surely he has borne our sicknesses, and carried our pains; yet we considered him stricken, smitten by God, and afflicted.

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The Jewish leaders therefore answered him, "What sign do you show us, seeing that you do these things?"

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That which was from the beginning, that which we have heard, that which we have seen with our eyes, that which we saw, and our hands touched, concerning the Word of life

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But Saul, still breathing threats and slaughter against the disciples of the Lord, went to the high priest,

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But he who was healed did not know who it was, for Jesus had withdrawn, a crowd being in the place.

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For this reason, God abandoned them to their degrading passions. For their women changed the natural function into that which is against nature.

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"Men of Israel, hear these words. Jesus of Nazareth, a man approved by God to you by mighty works and wonders and signs which God did by him in the midst of you, even as you yourselves know,

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God spoke all these words, saying,

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Jesus, full of the Holy Spirit, returned from the Jordan, and was led by the Spirit into the wilderness

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Kenan, Mahalalel, Jared,

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Some of his disciples therefore said to one another, "What is this that he says to us, 'A little while, and you won't see me, and again a little while, and you will see me;' and, 'Because I go to the Father?'"

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I saw a great white throne, and him who sat on it, from whose face the earth and the heaven fled away. There was found no place for them.

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He answered them, "He who made me well, the same said to me, 'Take up your mat, and walk.'"

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He needed to pass through Samaria.

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Since many have undertaken to set in order a narrative concerning those matters which have been fulfilled among us,

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Now after these things, the Lord also appointed seventy-two others, and sent them two by two ahead of him into every city and place, where he was about to come.

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And seeing the crowds, he went up onto the mountain, and when he had sat down, his disciples came to him.

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But they had no child, because Elizabeth was barren, and they both were well advanced in years.

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But on the first day of the week, at early dawn, they came to the tomb, bringing the spices which they had prepared.

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and Judah was the father of Perez and Zerah by Tamar, and Perez was the father of Hezron, and Hezron the father of Ram,

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Now I declare to you, brothers, the Good News which I preached to you, which also you received, in which you also stand,

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Now after John was taken into custody, Jesus came into Galilee, proclaiming the Good News of God,

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Jesus said to her, "Go, call your husband, and come here."

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Truly, truly, I tell you, he who believes in me, the works that I do, he will do also; and he will do greater works than these, because I am going to the Father.

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Behold, the days come," says the LORD, "when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel, and with the house of Judah:

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Seventy weeks are decreed on your people and on your holy city, to put an end to the transgression, and to make an end to sin, and to atone for iniquity, and to bring in everlasting righteousness, and to seal up vision and prophecy, and to anoint the most holy place.

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'It will be in the last days, says God, that I will pour out my Spirit on all flesh. Your sons and your daughters will prophesy. Your young men will see visions. Your old men will dream dreams.

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There came a man, sent from God, whose name was John.

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He shall make a firm covenant with many for one week: and in the midst of the week he shall cause the sacrifice and the offering to cease. And on the wing of abominations shall come one who destroys, and even until a complete destruction, until the decreed end is poured out on the one who destroys."

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But now apart from the law, a righteousness of God has been revealed, being testified by the Law and the Prophets;

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"Give, and it will be given to you: good measure, pressed down, shaken together, and running over, will be given to you. For with the same measure you measure it will be measured back to you."

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And the whole crowd of people were praying outside at the hour of incense.

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Being assembled together with them, he commanded them, "Do not depart from Jerusalem, but wait for the promise of the Father, which you heard from me.

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But he said to him, "Man, who made me a judge or an arbitrator over you?"

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Now it happened, while he was performing the priest's office before God in the order of his division,

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Now in the church that was at Antioch there were some prophets and teachers: Barnabas, Simeon who was called Niger, Lucius of Cyrene, Manaen the foster brother of Herod the tetrarch, and Saul.

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Let no man say when he is tempted, "I am tempted by God," for God cannot be tempted by evil, and he himself tempts no one.

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Now it happened on the day when the sons of God came to present themselves before the LORD, that Satan also came among them.

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to Timothy, my beloved child: Grace, mercy, and peace, from God the Father and Christ Jesus our Lord.

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Therefore as many as the stars of the sky in multitude, and as innumerable as the sand which is by the sea shore, were fathered by one man, and him as good as dead.

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When the wine ran out, Jesus' mother said to him, "They have no wine."

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"For it is like a man, going on a journey, who called his own servants, and entrusted his goods to them.

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and Ram the father of Amminadab, and Amminadab the father of Nahshon, and Nahshon the father of Salmon,

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Now it happened, while the crowd pressed on him and heard the word of God, that he was standing by the lake of Gennesaret.

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I tell you, no, but unless you repent, you will all perish in the same way.

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5 A certain man was there, who had been sick for thirty-eight years.

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Zechariah was troubled when he saw him, and fear fell upon him.

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Therefore, when they had come together, they asked him, "Lord, are you now restoring the kingdom to Israel?"

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He was teaching in one of the synagogues on the Sabbath day.

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Jesus answered, "The first is, 'Hear, Israel, the Lord our God, the Lord is one:

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For let that man not think that he will receive anything from the Lord.

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But a certain man named Ananias, with Sappirah, his wife, sold a possession,

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Jesus answered, "My Kingdom is not of this world. If my Kingdom were of this world, then my servants would fight, that I would not be delivered to the Jewish leaders. But now my Kingdom is not from here."

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When the Sabbath was past, Mary Magdalene, and Mary the mother of James, and Salome, bought spices, that they might come and anoint him.

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for you have had five husbands; and he whom you now have is not your husband. This you have said truly."

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One of his disciples, Andrew, Simon Peter's brother, said to him,

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For the sun arises with the scorching wind, and withers the grass, and the flower in it falls, and the beauty of its appearance perishes. So also will the rich man fade away in his pursuits.

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My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge. Because you have rejected knowledge, I will also reject you, that you may be no priest to me. Because you have forgotten your God's law, I will also forget your children.

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And look, two of them were going that very day to a village named Emmaus, which was sixty stadia from Jerusalem.

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Bring the whole tithe into the storehouse, that there may be food in my house, and test me now in this," says the LORD of hosts, "if I will not open you the windows of heaven, and pour you out a blessing, that there shall not be room enough for.

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For our exhortation is not of error, nor of uncleanness, nor in deception.

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The young men arose and wrapped him up, and they carried him out and buried him.

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I testify to everyone who hears the words of the prophecy of this book, if anyone adds to them, God will add to him the plagues which are written in this book.

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And one of the scribes came, and heard them questioning together. Seeing that he had answered them well, asked him, "Which commandment is the greatest of all?"

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which has come to you; even as it is in all the world and is bearing fruit and growing, as it does in you also, since the day you heard and knew the grace of God in truth;

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"Everyone therefore who hears these words of mine, and does them, will be compared to a wise man, who built his house on a rock.

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Now I say this, brothers, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the Kingdom of God; neither does corruption inherit incorruption.

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"Listen to me, you who follow after righteousness, you who seek the LORD: look to the rock you were cut from, and to the hold of the pit you were dug from.

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For I received from the Lord that which also I delivered to you, that the Lord Jesus on the night in which he was betrayed took bread.

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God said, "Behold, I have given you every herb yielding seed, which is on the surface of all the earth, and every tree, which bears fruit yielding seed. It will be your food.

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After these things I looked, and behold, a great multitude, which no man could number, out of every nation and of all tribes, peoples, and languages, standing before the throne and before the Lamb, dressed in white robes, with palm branches in their hands.

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"Truly, truly, I tell you, one who does not enter by the door into the sheep fold, but climbs up some other way, the same is a thief and a robber.

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A fire devours before them, and behind them, a flame burns. The land is as the garden of Eden before them, and behind them, a desolate wilderness. Yes, and no one has escaped them.

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It happened that, while Apollos was at Corinth, Paul, having passed through the upper country, came to Ephesus, and found certain disciples.

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"You have heard that it was said, 'You shall love your neighbor, and hate your enemy.'

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This book of the law shall not depart out of your mouth, but you shall meditate on it day and night, that you may observe to do according to all that is written therein: for then you shall make your way prosperous, and then you shall have good success.

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knowing that you were redeemed, not with corruptible things, with silver or gold, from the useless way of life handed down from your fathers,

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I saw thrones, and they sat on them, and judgment was given to them. I saw the souls of those who had been beheaded for the testimony of Jesus, and for the word of God, and such as did not worship the beast nor his image, and did not receive the mark on their forehead and on their hand. They lived, and reigned with Christ for a thousand years.

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"At that time shall Michael arise, the great prince who watches over the children of your people. And there shall be a time of distress unparalleled since the beginning of the nation until that time. But at that time your people shall be delivered, everyone who shall be found written in the book.

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And do you think this, O man who judges those who practice such things, and do the same, that you will escape the judgment of God?

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according to the custom of the priest's office, his lot was to enter into the temple of the Lord and burn incense.

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No one has ascended into heaven, but he who descended out of heaven, the Son of Man.

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For being not yet born, neither having done anything good or bad, that the purpose of God according to election might stand, not of works, but of him who calls,

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and in this place again, "They will not enter into my rest."

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The Samaritan woman therefore said to him, "How can you, being a Jew, ask for a drink from me, a Samaritan woman?" (For Jews have no dealings with Samaritans.)

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And when he entered again into Capernaum after some days, it was heard that he was in the house.

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Now when Jesus came into the parts of Caesarea Philippi, he asked his disciples, saying, "Who do men say that the Son of Man is?"

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And someone in the crowd said to him, "Teacher, tell my brother to divide the inheritance with me."

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I saw an angel coming down out of heaven, having the key of the abyss and a great chain in his hand.

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Now a certain man was sick, Lazarus from Bethany, of the village of Mary and her sister, Martha.

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by which, when you read, you can perceive my understanding in the mystery of Christ;

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For whoever keeps the whole law, and yet stumbles in one point, he has become guilty of all.

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Do not marvel that I said to you, 'You must be born again.'

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If your hand causes you to stumble, cut it off.[note: idiom meaning to stop doing a sin] It is better for you to enter into life maimed, rather than having your two hands to go into hell, into the unquenchable fire,

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Some men came down from Judea and taught the brothers, "Unless you are circumcised after the custom of Moses, you cannot be saved."

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As he was going out into the way, one ran to him, knelt before him, and asked him, "Good Teacher, what shall I do that I may inherit eternal life?"

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How then will they call on him in whom they have not believed? How will they believe in him whom they have not heard? How will they hear without a proclaimer?

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Now all the tax collectors and sinners were coming close to him to hear him.

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Therefore I tell you, all things whatever you pray and ask for, believe that you have received them, and you shall have them.

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always in my prayers, requesting, if by any means now at last I may succeed by the will of God to come to you.

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Or if he asks for an egg, he won't give him a scorpion, will he?

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"Then the Kingdom of Heaven will be like ten virgins, who took their lamps, and went out to meet the bridegroom.

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Nevertheless you have a few names in Sardis that did not defile their garments. They will walk with me in white, for they are worthy.

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which he made to abound toward us in all wisdom and prudence,

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It happened after these things, that God tested Abraham, and said to him, "Abraham." He said, "Here I am."

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'Even the dust from your city that clings to our feet, we wipe off against you. Nevertheless know this, that the Kingdom of God is near.'

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He entered and was passing through Jericho.

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A shoot will come out of the stock of Jesse, and a branch out of his roots will bear fruit.

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The testimony is this, that God gave to us eternal life, and this life is in his Son.

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The whole earth was of one language and of one speech.

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"You are my witnesses," says the LORD, "With my servant whom I have chosen; that you may know and believe me, and understand that I am he. Before me there was no God formed, neither will there be after me.

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But the eleven disciples went into Galilee, to the mountain where Jesus had sent them.

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And it happened in those days, that Jesus came from Nazareth of Galilee, and was baptized by John in the Jordan.

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For when one says, "I follow Paul," and another, "I follow Apollos," are you not men?

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Jesus himself, when he began to teach, was about thirty years old, being the son (as was supposed) of Joseph, the son of Eli,

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Therefore God also highly exalted him, and gave to him the name which is above every name;

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It happened, when men began to multiply on the surface of the ground, and daughters were born to them,

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Jesus said to her, "Do not touch me, for I have not yet ascended to the Father; but go to my brothers, and tell them, 'I am ascending to my Father and your Father, to my God and your God.'"

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Jesus said these things, and lifting up his eyes to heaven, he said, "Father, the time has come. Glorify your Son, that your Son may also glorify you;

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"Behold, I send my messenger, and he will prepare the way before me; and the Lord, whom you seek, will suddenly come to his temple; and the messenger of the covenant, whom you desire, behold, he comes." says the LORD of hosts.

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Now there were some present at the same time who told him about the Galileans, whose blood Pilate had mixed with their sacrifices.

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"You have heard that it was said to the ancient ones, 'You shall not murder;' and 'Whoever shall murder shall be in danger of the judgment.'

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"When, therefore, you see the abomination of desolation, which was spoken of through Daniel the prophet, standing in the holy place (let the reader understand),

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Hear the word of the LORD, O house of Jacob, and all the families of the house of Israel.

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And everyone who hears these words of mine, and does not do them will be like a foolish man, who built his house on the sand.

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Therefore remember that once you, the Gentiles in the flesh, who are called "uncircumcision" by that which is called "circumcision," (in the flesh, made by hands);

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even as you learned of Epaphras our beloved fellow servant, who is a faithful servant of Christ on your behalf,

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After these things, Jesus revealed himself again to the disciples at the sea of Tiberias. He revealed himself this way.

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In these lay a multitude of those who were sick, blind, lame, or paralyzed.

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Then the offering of Judah and Jerusalem will be pleasant to the LORD, as in the days of old, and as in ancient years.

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Now the word of the LORD came to me, saying,

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I command you therefore before God and of Christ Jesus, who will judge the living and the dead, and by his appearing and his Kingdom:

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For this cause therefore the Jewish leaders sought all the more to kill him, because he not only broke the Sabbath, but also called God his own Father, making himself equal with God.

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"You shall not make for yourselves an idol, nor any image of anything that is in the heavens above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth:

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For the time will come when they will not listen to the sound doctrine, but, having itching ears, will heap up for themselves teachers after their own lusts;

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They kept this saying to themselves, questioning what the "rising from the dead" meant.

700

This is the history of the generations of the heavens and of the earth when they were created, in the day that the LORD God made the earth and the heavens.

702

Now in the fifteenth year of the reign of Tiberius Caesar, Pontius Pilate being governor of Judea, and Herod being tetrarch of Galilee, and his brother Philip tetrarch of the region of Ituraea and Trachonitis, and Lysanias tetrarch of Abilene,

703

The Jewish Passover was near, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem.

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Listen to this word, you cows of Bashan, who are on the mountain of Samaria, who oppress the poor, who crush the needy, who tell their husbands, "Bring us drinks."

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For if these things are yours and abound, they make you to be not idle nor unfruitful to the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.

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But Peter, standing up with the Eleven, lifted up his voice, and spoke out to them, "You men of Judea, and all you who dwell at Jerusalem, let this be known to you, and listen to my words.

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But not even Titus, who was with me, being a Greek, was compelled to be circumcised.

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He lifted up his eyes to his disciples, and said, "Blessed are you who are poor, for yours is the Kingdom of God.

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And just then someone came to him and said, "Teacher, what good thing shall I do, that I may have eternal life?"

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Now if their fall is the riches of the world, and their loss the riches of the Gentiles; how much more their fullness?

752

"Speak to the children of Israel, and tell them, 'When anyone of you offers an offering to the LORD, you shall offer your offering of the livestock, from the herd and from the flock.

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It happened, as we were going to prayer, that a certain girl having a spirit of divination met us, who brought her masters much gain by fortune telling.

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From Miletus he sent to Ephesus, and called to himself the elders of the church.

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Behold, I tell you a mystery. We will not all sleep, but we will all be changed,

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While Peter was still speaking these words, the Holy Spirit fell on all those who heard the word.

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but Jesus went to the Mount of Olives.

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"To the angel of the church in Laodicea write: "The Amen, the Faithful and True Witness, the Head of God's creation, says these things:

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John also was baptizing in Aenon near Salim, because there was much water there. They came, and were baptized.

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"I came to throw fire on the earth. I wish it were already kindled.

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There was in the days of Herod, the king of Judea, a certain priest named Zechariah, of the division of Abijah. He had a wife of the daughters of Aaron, and her name was Elizabeth.

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Then Jesus came from Galilee to the Jordan to John, to be baptized by him.

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Now I do not desire to have you unaware, brothers, that I often planned to come to you, and was hindered so far, that I might have some fruit among you also, even as among the rest of the Gentiles.

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"Why do you call me, 'Lord, Lord,' and do not do the things which I say?

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As they went on the way, they came to some water, and the eunuch said, "Behold, here is water. What is keeping me from being baptized?"

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and Josiah the father of Jechoniah and his brothers, at the time of the exile to Babylon.

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God blessed the seventh day, and made it holy, because he rested in it from all his work which he had created and made.

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He confessed, and did not deny, but he confessed, "I am not the Messiah."

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For the Father has affection for the Son, and shows him all things that he himself does. He will show him greater works than these, that you may marvel.

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Then six days before the Passover, Jesus came to Bethany, where Lazarus was, whom Jesus raised from the dead.

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There was evening and there was morning, a third day.

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To those who sold the doves, he said, "Take these things out of here. Do not make my Father's house a marketplace."

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"Take a census of all the congregation of the children of Israel, by their families, by their fathers' houses, according to the number of the names, every male, one by one;

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circumcised the eighth day, of the stock of Israel, of the tribe of Benjamin, a Hebrew of Hebrews; concerning the law, a Pharisee;

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Behold, the ships also, though they are so big and are driven by fierce winds, are yet guided by a very small rudder, wherever the pilot desires.

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In the days of those kings shall the God of heaven set up a kingdom which shall never be destroyed, nor shall its sovereignty be left to another people; but it shall break in pieces and consume all those kingdoms, and it shall stand forever.

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Jesus returned in the power of the Spirit into Galilee, and news about him spread through all the surrounding area.

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If he called them gods, to whom the word of God came (and the Scripture cannot be broken),

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See my hands and my feet, that it is truly me. Touch me and see, for a spirit does not have flesh and bones, as you see that I have."

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After these things, Jesus went away to the other side of the sea of Galilee, which is also called the Sea of Tiberias.

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And on that day, when evening had come, he said to them, "Let us go over to the other side."

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Behold, the days come," says the Lord GOD, "that I will send a famine in the land, not a famine of bread, nor a thirst for water, but of hearing the words of the LORD.

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Therefore God also abandoned them in the lusts of their hearts to uncleanness, that their bodies should be dishonored among themselves,

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For I rejoiced greatly, when brothers came and testified about your truth, even as you walk in truth.

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Nicodemus answered and said to him, "How can these things be?"

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I tell you, it will be more tolerable in that day for Sodom than for that city.

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Now there was a certain man in Caesarea, Cornelius by name, a centurion of what was called the Italian Regiment,

851

Now Moses was keeping the flock of Jethro, his father-in-law, the priest of Midian, and he led the flock to the back of the wilderness, and came to God's mountain, to Horeb.

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They began to question among themselves, which of them it was who would do this thing.

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Now it happened, when all the people were baptized, Jesus also had been baptized, and was praying. The sky was opened,

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And have not obeyed the voice of the LORD our God, to walk in his laws, which he set before us by his servants the prophets.

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After these things, Jesus came with his disciples into the land of Judea. He stayed there with them, and baptized.

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It came to pass, when the days were near that he should be taken up, he intently set his face to go to Jerusalem,

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This I say therefore, and testify in the Lord, that you no longer walk as the rest of the Gentiles also walk, in the futility of their mind,

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They were bringing to him little children, that he should touch them, but the disciples rebuked them.

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It happened about eight days after these sayings, that he took with him Peter, John, and James, and went up onto the mountain to pray.

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I am a crocus of Sharon, a lily of the valleys.

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to whom be the glory forever and ever. Amen.

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Will a man rob God? Yet you rob me. But you say, 'How have we robbed you?' In tithes and offerings.

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Remain in me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit by itself, unless it remains in the vine, so neither can you, unless you remain in me.

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Not that I have already obtained, or am already made perfect; but I press on, if it is so that I may take hold of that for which also I was taken hold of by Christ Jesus.

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And immediately he made the disciples get into the boat and to go ahead of him to the other side, while he sent the crowds away.

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because what can be known about God is plain to them, because God has shown it to them.

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Then they asked him, "Who is the man who said to you to pick it up and walk?"

891

He also said to his disciples, "There was a certain rich man who had a manager. An accusation was made to him that this man was wasting his possessions.

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Now there were six water pots of stone set there after the Jewish manner of purifying, containing two or three metretes apiece.

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And they came to the other side of the sea, into the country of the Gerasenes.

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or does he say it assuredly for our sake? Yes, it was written for our sake, because he who plows ought to plow in hope, and he who threshes in the hope of having a share.

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There is no memory of the former; neither shall there be any memory of the latter that are to come, among those that shall come after.

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For I do not desire you to be ignorant, brothers, of this mystery, so that you won't be wise in your own conceits, that a partial hardening has happened to Israel, until the fullness of the Gentiles has come in,

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Afterward Moses and Aaron came, and said to Pharaoh, "This is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says, 'Let my people go, that they may hold a feast to me in the wilderness.'"

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"The bricks have fallen, but we will build with cut stone. The sycamore fig trees have been cut down, but we will put cedars in their place."

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Being asked by the Pharisees when the Kingdom of God would come, he answered them, "The Kingdom of God does not come with observation;

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When therefore he was raised from the dead, his disciples remembered that he said this, and they believed the Scripture, and the word which Jesus had said.

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Then the Pharisees, and some of the scribes gathered together to him, having come from Jerusalem.

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so shall my word be that goes forth out of my mouth: it shall not return to me void, but it shall accomplish that which I please, and it shall prosper in the thing I sent it to do.

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"Talk no more so exceeding proudly. Do not let arrogance come out of your mouth, For the LORD is a God of knowledge. By him actions are weighed.

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Saul was consenting to his death. A great persecution arose against the church which was in Jerusalem in that day. They were all scattered abroad throughout the regions of Judea and Samaria, except for the apostles.

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I think it right, as long as I am in this tent, to stir you up by reminding you;

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The LORD God commanded the man, saying, "Of every tree of the garden you may freely eat;

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Our fathers worshiped in this mountain, and you say that in Jerusalem is the place where people ought to worship."

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For if we sin willfully after we have received the knowledge of the truth, there remains no more a sacrifice for sins,

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But do not forget this one thing, beloved, that one day is with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.

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The Jewish leaders therefore said, "Forty-six years was this temple in building, and will you raise it up in three days?"

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Jesus said to her, "Woman, what does that have to do with you and me? My hour has not yet come."

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And I wrote this very thing, so that, when I came, I would not have sorrow from them of whom I ought to rejoice; having confidence in you all, that my joy would be shared by all of you.

952

Then his disciples asked him, "What does this parable mean?"

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There was a man in the land of Uz, whose name was Job. That man was blameless and upright, and one who feared God, and turned away from evil.

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Brothers, I do not regard myself as yet having taken hold, but one thing I do. Forgetting the things which are behind, and reaching forward to the things which are ahead,

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They said therefore, "What is this that he says, 'A little while?' We do not know what he is saying."

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Now therefore fear the LORD, and serve him in sincerity and in truth. Put away the gods which your fathers served beyond the River, in Egypt; and serve the LORD.

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and Asa the father of Jehoshaphat, and Jehoshaphat the father of Joram, and Joram the father of Uzziah,

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Jesus went out, with his disciples, into the villages of Caesarea Philippi. On the way he asked his disciples, "Who do men say that I am?"

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Jesus therefore said to them, "Truly I tell you, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, you do not have life in yourselves.

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Paul stood in the middle of the Areopagus, and said, "You men of Athens, I perceive that you are very religious in all things.

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coming to him, a living stone, rejected indeed by men, but chosen by God, precious.

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He set another parable before them, saying, "The Kingdom of Heaven is like a man who sowed good seed in his field,

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If she herself divorces her husband, and marries another, she commits adultery."

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His parents went every year to Jerusalem at the feast of the Passover.

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Having confidence in your obedience, I write to you, knowing that you will do even beyond what I say.

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Jesus answered her, "Everyone who drinks of this water will thirst again,