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15003

The high priest Ananias commanded those standing beside him to strike him on the mouth.

15004

The Jews answered and said to Him, “Do we not say rightly that You are a Samaritan and have a demon?”

15006

But Jesus answering said to him, “Permit it at this time; for in this way it is fitting for us to fulfill all righteousness.” Then he *permitted Him.

15007

For I could wish that I myself were accursed, separated from Christ for the sake of my brethren, my kinsmen according to the flesh,

15010

The high priest then questioned Jesus about His disciples, and about His teaching.

15013

So Saul returned from pursuing David and went to meet the Philistines; therefore they called that place the Rock of Escape.

15014

For the choir director; on the Gittith. A Psalm of David.
O Lord, our Lord,
How majestic is Your name in all the earth,
Who have displayed Your splendor above the heavens!

15016

and for the sacrifice of peace offerings, two oxen, five rams, five male goats, five male lambs one year old. This was the offering of Nethanel the son of Zuar.

15017

“Speak to Aaron and to his sons, saying, ‘This is the law of the sin offering: in the place where the burnt offering is slain the sin offering shall be slain before the Lord; it is most holy.

15018

But the Lord will make a distinction between the livestock of Israel and the livestock of Egypt, so that nothing will die of all that belongs to the sons of Israel.”’”

15020

Make supplication to the Lord, for there has been enough of God’s thunder and hail; and I will let you go, and you shall stay no longer.”

15021

For I will gather all the nations against Jerusalem to battle, and the city will be captured, the houses plundered, the women ravished and half of the city exiled, but the rest of the people will not be cut off from the city.

15023

So if you have law courts dealing with matters of this life, do you appoint them as judges who are of no account in the church?

15024

Jesus Himself was in the stern, asleep on the cushion; and they *woke Him and *said to Him, “Teacher, do You not care that we are perishing?”

15029

Now it came about after the death of Joshua that the sons of Israel inquired of the Lord, saying, “Who shall go up first for us against the Canaanites, to fight against them?”

15030

And when they had come to him, he said to them,“You yourselves know, from the first day that I set foot in Asia, how I was with you the whole time,

15031

These are the people of the province who came up from the captivity of the exiles whom Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon had carried away, and who returned to Jerusalem and Judah, each to his city,

15033

The angel replied to me, “These are the four spirits of heaven, going forth after standing before the Lord of all the earth,

15034

Therefore those who use proverbs say,
“Come to Heshbon! Let it be built!
So let the city of Sihon be established.

15035

While you have the Light, believe in the Light, so that you may become sons of Light.”These things Jesus spoke, and He went away and hid Himself from them.

15038

Indeed, true companion, I ask you also to help these women who have shared my struggle in the cause of the gospel, together with Clement also and the rest of my fellow workers, whose names are in the book of life.

15039

By Mahli: Eleazar, who had no sons.

15040

The chief priests and the scribes were seeking how they might put Him to death; for they were afraid of the people.

15041

and Jehu the son of Nimshi you shall anoint king over Israel; and Elisha the son of Shaphat of Abel-meholah you shall anoint as prophet in your place.

15046

When they had performed everything according to the Law of the Lord, they returned to Galilee, to their own city of Nazareth.

15047

You shall also count for yourselves from the day after the sabbath, from the day when you brought in the sheaf of the wave offering; there shall be seven complete sabbaths.

15048

For when God made the promise to Abraham, since He could swear by no one greater, He swore by Himself,

15049

You know that after two days the Passover is coming, and the Son of Man is to be handed over for crucifixion.”

15050

and for the sacrifice of peace offerings, two oxen, five rams, five male goats, five male lambs one year old. This was the offering of Eliab the son of Helon.

15051

Who can make the clean out of the unclean?
No one!

15052

The sons of Israel shall camp, each by his own standard, with the banners of their fathers’ households; they shall camp around the tent of meeting at a distance.

15053

And Menahem slept with his fathers, and Pekahiah his son became king in his place.

15054

And I saw among the naive,
And discerned among the youths
A young man lacking sense,

15055

He said, “I am a voice of one crying in the wilderness, ‘Make straight the way of the Lord,’ as Isaiah the prophet said.”

15056

So he departed from there and found Elisha the son of Shaphat, while he was plowing with twelve pairs of oxen before him, and he with the twelfth. And Elijah passed over to him and threw his mantle on him.

15058

After He called the crowd to Him again, He began saying to them, “Listen to Me, all of you, and understand:

15060

I tell you, no, but unless you repent, you will all likewise perish.”

15061

Moreover, the word of the Lord came to me saying,

15063

And the king said to Esther on the second day also as they drank their wine at the banquet, “What is your petition, Queen Esther? It shall be granted you. And what is your request? Even to half of the kingdom it shall be done.”

15064

“Why was this perfume not sold for three hundred denarii and given to poor people?”

15065

So Moses went out from Pharaoh and made supplication to the Lord.

15066

You, however, I will scatter among the nations and will draw out a sword after you, as your land becomes desolate and your cities become waste.

15067

Again there was a day when the sons of God came to present themselves before the Lord, and Satan also came among them to present himself before the Lord.

15068

Then the Lord said to Satan, “Behold, all that he has is in your power, only do not put forth your hand on him.” So Satan departed from the presence of the Lord.

15069

When the donkey saw the angel of the Lord, she lay down under Balaam; so Balaam was angry and struck the donkey with his stick.

15070

indeed I will greatly bless you, and I will greatly multiply your seed as the stars of the heavens and as the sand which is on the seashore; and your seed shall possess the gate of their enemies.

15071

Then you will call upon Me and come and pray to Me, and I will listen to you.

15072

For David, after he had served the purpose of God in his own generation, fell asleep, and was laid among his fathers and underwent decay;

15073

Speak, “Thus says the Lord,
‘The corpses of men will fall like dung on the open field,
And like the sheaf after the reaper,
But no one will gather them.’”

15074

If a man fathers a hundred children and lives many years, however many they be, but his soul is not satisfied with good things and he does not even have a proper burial, then I say, “Better the miscarriage than he,

15076

So then do not be foolish, but understand what the will of the Lord is.

15077

Jesus *said to her, “Mary!” She turned and *said to Him in Hebrew, “Rabboni!” (which means, Teacher).

15081

Also let the gold and silver utensils of the house of God, which Nebuchadnezzar took from the temple in Jerusalem and brought to Babylon, be returned and brought to their places in the temple in Jerusalem; and you shall put them in the house of God.’

15082

Many nations will come and say,
Come and let us go up to the mountain of the Lord
And to the house of the God of Jacob,
That He may teach us about His ways
And that we may walk in His paths.”
For from Zion will go forth the law,
Even the word of the Lord from Jerusalem.

15083

Our pursuers were swifter
Than the eagles of the sky;
They chased us on the mountains,
They waited in ambush for us in the wilderness.

15084

Now Korah the son of Izhar, the son of Kohath, the son of Levi, with Dathan and Abiram, the sons of Eliab, and On the son of Peleth, sons of Reuben, took action,

15085

The blood shall be a sign for you on the houses where you live; and when I see the blood I will pass over you, and no plague will befall you to destroy you when I strike the land of Egypt.

15086

In the place where they slay the burnt offering they are to slay the guilt offering, and he shall sprinkle its blood around on the altar.

15087

Now it came about in those days, when there was no king in Israel, that there was a certain Levite staying in the remote part of the hill country of Ephraim, who took a concubine for himself from Bethlehem in Judah.

15089

“For this reason the kingdom of heaven may be compared to a king who wished to settle accounts with his slaves.

15090

So David departed from there and escaped to the cave of Adullam; and when his brothers and all his father’s household heard of it, they went down there to him.

15091

Let the assembly of the peoples encompass You,
And over them return on high.

15093

But a messenger came to Saul, saying, “Hurry and come, for the Philistines have made a raid on the land.”

15094

saying,
Go to this people and say,
You will keep on hearing, but will not understand;
And you will keep on seeing, but will not perceive;

15095

The priest who offers it for sin shall eat it. It shall be eaten in a holy place, in the court of the tent of meeting.

15096

So there was hail, and fire flashing continually in the midst of the hail, very severe, such as had not been in all the land of Egypt since it became a nation.

15097

Then Judas Iscariot, who was one of the twelve, went off to the chief priests in order to betray Him to them.

15098

Some began to spit at Him, and to blindfold Him, and to beat Him with their fists, and to say to Him, “Prophesy!” And the officers received Him with slaps in the face.

15099

Now Cush became the father of Nimrod; he became a mighty one on the earth.

15100

they worshiped the dragon because he gave his authority to the beast; and they worshiped the beast, saying, “Who is like the beast, and who is able to wage war with him?”

15101

but rather go to the lost sheep of the house of Israel.

15102

“You shall speak all these words to them, but they will not listen to you; and you shall call to them, but they will not answer you.

15103

Or he will tear my soul like a lion,
Dragging me away, while there is none to deliver.

15105

You are doing the deeds of your father.” They said to Him, “We were not born of fornication; we have one Father: God.”

15106

because it does not go into his heart, but into his stomach, and is eliminated?” (Thus He declared all foods clean.)

15107

in whatever our heart condemns us; for God is greater than our heart and knows all things.

15110

for we have been sold, I and my people, to be destroyed, to be killed and to be annihilated. Now if we had only been sold as slaves, men and women, I would have remained silent, for the trouble would not be commensurate with the annoyance to the king.”

15111

But when they heard this, they were cut to the quick and intended to kill them.

15112

“Now it shall come about when he sits on the throne of his kingdom, he shall write for himself a copy of this law on a scroll in the presence of the Levitical priests.

15113

Also in those days many letters went from the nobles of Judah to Tobiah, and Tobiah’s letters came to them.

15114

The Lord changed His mind about this.
“This too shall not be,” said the Lord God.

15115

But some of the sect of the Pharisees who had believed stood up, saying, “It is necessary to circumcise them and to direct them to observe the Law of Moses.”

15116

If a man steals an ox or a sheep and slaughters it or sells it, he shall pay five oxen for the ox and four sheep for the sheep.

15117

When Peter entered, Cornelius met him, and fell at his feet and worshiped him.

15118

The crown has fallen from our head;
Woe to us, for we have sinned!

15119

whether Paul or Apollos or Cephas or the world or life or death or things present or things to come; all things belong to you,

15120

And He said to them, “The kings of the Gentiles lord it over them; and those who have authority over them are called ‘Benefactors.’

15121

And this woman, a daughter of Abraham as she is, whom Satan has bound for eighteen long years, should she not have been released from this bond on the Sabbath day?”

15122

Then the Lord said to Moses, “See, I make you as God to Pharaoh, and your brother Aaron shall be your prophet.

15123

When the days of feasting had completed their cycle, Job would send and consecrate them, rising up early in the morning and offering burnt offerings according to the number of them all; for Job said, “Perhaps my sons have sinned and cursed God in their hearts.” Thus Job did continually.

15124

In the morning they arose early and exchanged oaths; then Isaac sent them away and they departed from him in peace.

15125

For rulers are not a cause of fear for good behavior, but for evil. Do you want to have no fear of authority? Do what is good and you will have praise from the same;

15126

the son of Cainan, the son of Arphaxad, the son of Shem, the son of Noah, the son of Lamech,

15127

Also the earthenware vessel in which it was boiled shall be broken; and if it was boiled in a bronze vessel, then it shall be scoured and rinsed in water.

15128

and I will give you over into the hand of those who are seeking your life, yes, into the hand of those whom you dread, even into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon and into the hand of the Chaldeans.

15129

When you hear of wars and disturbances, do not be terrified; for these things must take place first, but the end does not follow immediately.”

15130

Peter began to say to Him, “Behold, we have left everything and followed You.”

15131

Now it came about at the lodging place on the way that the Lord met him and sought to put him to death.

15132

They took his advice; and after calling the apostles in, they flogged them and ordered them not to speak in the name of Jesus, and then released them.

15133

“When you enter the land which the Lord your God gives you, and you possess it and live in it, and you say, ‘I will set a king over me like all the nations who are around me,’

15134

Simon Peter went up and drew the net to land, full of large fish, a hundred and fifty-three; and although there were so many, the net was not torn.

15137

Jesus, knowing that the Father had given all things into His hands, and that He had come forth from God and was going back to God,

15138

And he would answer and say to them, “The man who has two tunics is to share with him who has none; and he who has food is to do likewise.”

15139

After the two days He went forth from there into Galilee.

15141

Immediately he regained his sight and began following Him, glorifying God; and when all the people saw it, they gave praise to God.

15142

Then they turned and departed, and put the little ones and the livestock and the valuables in front of them.

15143

Now Ben-hadad king of Aram gathered all his army, and there were thirty-two kings with him, and horses and chariots. And he went up and besieged Samaria and fought against it.

15144

But when the apostles Barnabas and Paul heard of it, they tore their robes and rushed out into the crowd, crying out

15146

Brethren, I speak in terms of human relations: even though it is only a man’s covenant, yet when it has been ratified, no one sets it aside or adds conditions to it.

15148

Now it came about after these things that the son of the woman, the mistress of the house, became sick; and his sickness was so severe that there was no breath left in him.

15149

So Moses spoke to Aaron and to his sons and to all the sons of Israel.

15150

Moses went up to God, and the Lord called to him from the mountain, saying, “Thus you shall say to the house of Jacob and tell the sons of Israel:

15151

Whoever speaks a word against the Son of Man, it shall be forgiven him; but whoever speaks against the Holy Spirit, it shall not be forgiven him, either in this age or in the age to come.

15152

The burden of the word of the Lord concerning Israel.Thus declares the Lord who stretches out the heavens, lays the foundation of the earth, and forms the spirit of man within him,

15153

Now in a large house there are not only gold and silver vessels, but also vessels of wood and of earthenware, and some to honor and some to dishonor.

15154

“These things I have spoken to you while abiding with you.

15155

As for their appearance, all four of them had the same likeness, as if one wheel were within another wheel.

15158

“You, O king, were looking and behold, there was a single great statue; that statue, which was large and of extraordinary splendor, was standing in front of you, and its appearance was awesome.

15159

Now the number of those who lapped, putting their hand to their mouth, was 300 men; but all the rest of the people kneeled to drink water.

15162

For He says to Moses, “I will have mercy on whom I have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I have compassion.”

15166

“In the latter period of their rule,
When the transgressors have run their course,
A king will arise,
Insolent and skilled in intrigue.

15167

Then He brought me to the entrance of the court, and when I looked, behold, a hole in the wall.

15168

These are the records of the generations of Shem. Shem was one hundred years old, and became the father of Arpachshad two years after the flood;

15169

The Lord helps them and delivers them;
He delivers them from the wicked and saves them,
Because they take refuge in Him.

15170

While the sun was setting, all those who had any who were sick with various diseases brought them to Him; and laying His hands on each one of them, He was healing them.

15173

Go up to the feast yourselves; I do not go up to this feast because My time has not yet fully come.”

15174

It was revealed to them that they were not serving themselves, but you, in these things which now have been announced to you through those who preached the gospel to you by the Holy Spirit sent from heaven—things into which angels long to look.

15175

Then Moses said to the Lord, “Please, Lord, I have never been eloquent, neither recently nor in time past, nor since You have spoken to Your servant; for I am slow of speech and slow of tongue.”

15176

In it was written, “It is reported among the nations, and Gashmu says, that you and the Jews are planning to rebel; therefore you are rebuilding the wall. And you are to be their king, according to these reports.

15177

The soldiers also mocked Him, coming up to Him, offering Him sour wine,

15178

And He said to me, “Son of man, do you see what they are doing, the great abominations which the house of Israel are committing here, so that I would be far from My sanctuary? But yet you will see still greater abominations.”

15179

Does not wisdom call,
And understanding lift up her voice?

15180

So when they were sent away, they went down to Antioch; and having gathered the congregation together, they delivered the letter.

15181

Therefore it is necessary to be in subjection, not only because of wrath, but also for conscience’ sake.

15182

because on those days the Jews rid themselves of their enemies, and it was a month which was turned for them from sorrow into gladness and from mourning into a holiday; that they should make them days of feasting and rejoicing and sending portions of food to one another and gifts to the poor.

15183

Esther said, “A foe and an enemy is this wicked Haman!” Then Haman became terrified before the king and queen.

15184

Then Caleb quieted the people before Moses and said, “We should by all means go up and take possession of it, for we will surely overcome it.”

15185

All of them are hot like an oven,
And they consume their rulers;
All their kings have fallen.
None of them calls on Me.

15186

But having the same spirit of faith, according to what is written, “I believed, therefore I spoke,” we also believe, therefore we also speak,

15187

I will also turn My face from them, and they will profane My secret place; then robbers will enter and profane it.

15188

But the brother of humble circumstances is to glory in his high position;

15194

that I will not take a thread or a sandal thong or anything that is yours, for fear you would say, ‘I have made Abram rich.’

15195

Therefore, I testify to you this day that I am innocent of the blood of all men.

15196

But now for a brief moment grace has been shown from the Lord our God, to leave us an escaped remnant and to give us a peg in His holy place, that our God may enlighten our eyes and grant us a little reviving in our bondage.

15197

For whoever wishes to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for My sake, he is the one who will save it.

15198

Open my eyes, that I may behold
Wonderful things from Your law.

15200

But on the night immediately following, the Lord stood at his side and said, Take courage; for as you have solemnly witnessed to My cause at Jerusalem, so you must witness at Rome also.”

15201

The apostles and the elders came together to look into this matter.

15202

For the choir director; set to El Shoshannim; Eduth. A Psalm of Asaph.
Oh, give ear, Shepherd of Israel,
You who lead Joseph like a flock;
You who are enthroned above the cherubim, shine forth!

15203

Then King Ahasuerus asked Queen Esther, “Who is he, and where is he, who would presume to do thus?”

15204

Now hearing a crowd going by, he began to inquire what this was.

15205

Then it will come about that any who are left of all the nations that went against Jerusalem will go up from year to year to worship the King, the Lord of hosts, and to celebrate the Feast of Booths.

15207

So when He had washed their feet, and taken His garments and reclined at the table again, He said to them, “Do you know what I have done to you?

15210

Say to the king and the queen mother,
Take a lowly seat,
For your beautiful crown
Has come down from your head.”

15212

When they had gone up into the Negev, they came to Hebron where Ahiman, Sheshai and Talmai, the descendants of Anak were. (Now Hebron was built seven years before Zoan in Egypt.)

15213

For if you love those who love you, what reward do you have? Do not even the tax collectors do the same?

15214

Surely I will require your lifeblood; from every beast I will require it. And from every man, from every man’s brother I will require the life of man.

15215

they proceeded to come to Moses and Aaron and to all the congregation of the sons of Israel in the wilderness of Paran, at Kadesh; and they brought back word to them and to all the congregation and showed them the fruit of the land.

15216

And if he knocks out a tooth of his male or female slave, he shall let him go free on account of his tooth.

15217

And He withdrew from them about a stone’s throw, and He knelt down and began to pray,

15218

And Herod with his soldiers, after treating Him with contempt and mocking Him, dressed Him in a gorgeous robe and sent Him back to Pilate.

15219

For I want you to know how great a struggle I have on your behalf and for those who are at Laodicea, and for all those who have not personally seen my face,

15220

And when He had said this, He showed them both His hands and His side. The disciples then rejoiced when they saw the Lord.

15221

“Also I will restore the captivity of My people Israel,
And they will rebuild the ruined cities and live in them;
They will also plant vineyards and drink their wine,
And make gardens and eat their fruit.

15222

They were all amazed, so that they debated among themselves, saying, “What is this? A new teaching with authority! He commands even the unclean spirits, and they obey Him.”

15223

Then I said to them, “Do not let the gates of Jerusalem be opened until the sun is hot, and while they are standing guard, let them shut and bolt the doors. Also appoint guards from the inhabitants of Jerusalem, each at his post, and each in front of his own house.”

15224

The crowd rose up together against them, and the chief magistrates tore their robes off them and proceeded to order them to be beaten with rods.

15225

Our fathers ate the manna in the wilderness; as it is written, ‘He gave them bread out of heaven to eat.’”

15226

He acted very abominably in following idols, according to all that the Amorites had done, whom the Lord cast out before the sons of Israel.

15229

in the first year of his reign, I, Daniel, observed in the books the number of the years which was revealed as the word of the Lord to Jeremiah the prophet for the completion of the desolations of Jerusalem, namely, seventy years.

15231

He shall also take away its crop with its feathers and cast it beside the altar eastward, to the place of the ashes.

15232

Indeed their love, their hate and their zeal have already perished, and they will no longer have a share in all that is done under the sun.

15233

The priest shall offer up the burnt offering and the grain offering on the altar. Thus the priest shall make atonement for him, and he will be clean.

15234

Seek good and not evil, that you may live;
And thus may the Lord God of hosts be with you,
Just as you have said!

15235

When they arrived at Jerusalem, they were received by the church and the apostles and the elders, and they reported all that God had done with them.

15236

“Take also for yourself the finest of spices: of flowing myrrh five hundred shekels, and of fragrant cinnamon half as much, two hundred and fifty, and of fragrant cane two hundred and fifty,

15237

and he provides that no one will be able to buy or to sell, except the one who has the mark, either the name of the beast or the number of his name.

15238

Indeed, He will speak to this people
Through stammering lips and a foreign tongue,

15239

Return, O Israel, to the Lord your God,
For you have stumbled because of your iniquity.

15241

But the Lord answered and said to her, Martha, Martha, you are worried and bothered about so many things;

15243

“For everyone will be salted with fire.

15244

And above His head they put up the charge against Him which read, “THIS IS JESUS THE KING OF THE JEWS.”

15245

Then David said to Uriah, “Stay here today also, and tomorrow I will let you go.” So Uriah remained in Jerusalem that day and the next.

15246

Then the soldiers of the governor took Jesus into the Praetorium and gathered the whole Roman cohort around Him.

15249

Thus says the Lord of hosts, ‘I will punish Amalek for what he did to Israel, how he set himself against him on the way while he was coming up from Egypt.

15250

He was the lamp that was burning and was shining and you were willing to rejoice for a while in his light.

15252

And though they found no ground for putting Him to death, they asked Pilate that He be executed.

15253

We sailed from Philippi after the days of Unleavened Bread, and came to them at Troas within five days; and there we stayed seven days.

15255

And they do not consider in their hearts
That I remember all their wickedness.
Now their deeds are all around them;
They are before My face.

15256

Now it came about after the death of Saul, when David had returned from the slaughter of the Amalekites, that David remained two days in Ziklag.

15259

of the sons of Zattu, Shecaniah, the son of Jahaziel and 300 males with him;

15263

Sailing from there, we arrived the following day opposite Chios; and the next day we crossed over to Samos; and the day following we came to Miletus.

15264

“Thus he said: ‘The fourth beast will be a fourth kingdom on the earth, which will be different from all the other kingdoms and will devour the whole earth and tread it down and crush it.

15265

Let the enemy pursue my soul and overtake it;
And let him trample my life down to the ground
And lay my glory in the dust. Selah.

15266

And Barnabas and Saul returned from Jerusalem when they had fulfilled their mission, taking along with them John, who was also called Mark.

15267

‘How much more those who dwell in houses of clay,
Whose foundation is in the dust,
Who are crushed before the moth!

15269

And He said to them, Which one of you will have a son or an ox fall into a well, and will not immediately pull him out on a Sabbath day?”

15270

When the boys grew up, Esau became a skillful hunter, a man of the field, but Jacob was a peaceful man, living in tents.

15271

But actually, I wrote to you not to associate with any so-called brother if he is an immoral person, or covetous, or an idolater, or a reviler, or a drunkard, or a swindler—not even to eat with such a one.

15273

To show mercy toward our fathers,
And to remember His holy covenant,

15274

Cast away from you all your transgressions which you have committed and make yourselves a new heart and a new spirit! For why will you die, O house of Israel?

15276

with the third chariot white horses, and with the fourth chariot strong dappled horses.

15279

And he called to him two of the centurions and said, “Get two hundred soldiers ready by the third hour of the night to proceed to Caesarea, with seventy horsemen and two hundred spearmen.”

15280

since they have known about me for a long time, if they are willing to testify, that I lived as a Pharisee according to the strictest sect of our religion.

15281

Blessed are those slaves whom the master will find on the alert when he comes; truly I say to you, that he will gird himself to serve, and have them recline at the table, and will come up and wait on them.

15282

Moses wrote down all the words of the Lord. Then he arose early in the morning, and built an altar at the foot of the mountain with twelve pillars for the twelve tribes of Israel.

15283

For consider Him who has endured such hostility by sinners against Himself, so that you will not grow weary and lose heart.

15284

“After forty years had passed, an angel appeared to him in the wilderness of Mount Sinai, in the flame of a burning thorn bush.

15285

Do not let your heart turn aside to her ways,
Do not stray into her paths.

15287

In Iconium they entered the synagogue of the Jews together, and spoke in such a manner that a large number of people believed, both of Jews and of Greeks.

15290

He said, “I have been very zealous for the Lord, the God of hosts; for the sons of Israel have forsaken Your covenant, torn down Your altars and killed Your prophets with the sword. And I alone am left; and they seek my life, to take it away.”

15291

And behold, an angel of the Lord suddenly appeared and a light shone in the cell; and he struck Peter’s side and woke him up, saying, “Get up quickly.” And his chains fell off his hands.

15292

And He took with Him Peter and the two sons of Zebedee, and began to be grieved and distressed.

15293

With this the words of the Prophets agree, just as it is written,

15295

“Behold, the days are coming,” declares the Lord, “that I will punish all who are circumcised and yet uncircumcised—

15296

And when the dragon saw that he was thrown down to the earth, he persecuted the woman who gave birth to the male child.

15297

“But whenever they persecute you in one city, flee to the next; for truly I say to you, you will not finish going through the cities of Israel until the Son of Man comes.

15300

“Know, then, it is not because of your righteousness that the Lord your God is giving you this good land to possess, for you are a stubborn people.

15302

So their sons entered and possessed the land.
And You subdued before them the inhabitants of the land, the Canaanites,
And You gave them into their hand, with their kings and the peoples of the land,
To do with them as they desired.

15303

And all the teeming life with wings are unclean to you; they shall not be eaten.

15304

So the king said, “Who is in the court?” Now Haman had just entered the outer court of the king’s palace in order to speak to the king about hanging Mordecai on the gallows which he had prepared for him.

15305

But if the Lord brings about an entirely new thing and the ground opens its mouth and swallows them up with all that is theirs, and they descend alive into Sheol, then you will understand that these men have spurned the Lord.”

15306

It was the third hour when they crucified Him.

15307

Now the angel of the Lord came up from Gilgal to Bochim. And he said, “I brought you up out of Egypt and led you into the land which I have sworn to your fathers; and I said, ‘I will never break My covenant with you,

15308

Tell of His glory among the nations,
His wonderful deeds among all the peoples.

15310

Our inheritance has been turned over to strangers,
Our houses to aliens.

15311

“Am I a God who is near,” declares the Lord,
“And not a God far off?

15312

When they brought their offering before the Lord, six covered carts and twelve oxen, a cart for every two of the leaders and an ox for each one, then they presented them before the tabernacle.

15313

But Abraham *said, ‘They have Moses and the Prophets; let them hear them.’

15314

Also there were those who said, “We have borrowed money for the king’s tax on our fields and our vineyards.

15316

As for the ten horns, out of this kingdom ten kings will arise; and another will arise after them, and he will be different from the previous ones and will subdue three kings.

15317

Wisdom has built her house,
She has hewn out her seven pillars;

15318

The leaders said to them, “Let them live.” So they became hewers of wood and drawers of water for the whole congregation, just as the leaders had spoken to them.

15319

And he said, ‘The God of our fathers has appointed you to know His will and to see the Righteous One and to hear an utterance from His mouth.

15320

But as for you, you are to keep My statutes and My judgments and shall not do any of these abominations, neither the native, nor the alien who sojourns among you

15321

Know therefore today that it is the Lord your God who is crossing over before you as a consuming fire. He will destroy them and He will subdue them before you, so that you may drive them out and destroy them quickly, just as the Lord has spoken to you.

15323

Watch and keep them until you weigh them before the leading priests, the Levites and the heads of the fathers’ households of Israel at Jerusalem, in the chambers of the house of the Lord.”

15324

If anyone is destined for captivity, to captivity he goes; if anyone kills with the sword, with the sword he must be killed. Here is the perseverance and the faith of the saints.

15327

In the twenty-seventh year of Jeroboam king of Israel, Azariah son of Amaziah king of Judah became king.

15328

At the time of the offering of the evening sacrifice, Elijah the prophet came near and said, “O Lord, the God of Abraham, Isaac and Israel, today let it be known that You are God in Israel and that I am Your servant and I have done all these things at Your word.

15329

for they are spirits of demons, performing signs, which go out to the kings of the whole world, to gather them together for the war of the great day of God, the Almighty.

15330

Now in the place where He was crucified there was a garden, and in the garden a new tomb in which no one had yet been laid.

15331

Then that which was spoken through Jeremiah the prophet was fulfilled: “And they took the thirty pieces of silver, the price of the one whose price had been set by the sons of Israel;

15332

Who are you to judge the servant of another? To his own master he stands or falls; and he will stand, for the Lord is able to make him stand.

15333

We have an altar from which those who serve the tabernacle have no right to eat.

15334

Then he cried out to the Lord, and the Lord showed him a tree; and he threw it into the waters, and the waters became sweet.There He made for them a statute and regulation, and there He tested them.

15335

The Lord said to Satan, “From where do you come?” Then Satan answered the Lord and said, “From roaming about on the earth and walking around on it.”

15337

as it is written in the book of the words of Isaiah the prophet,
The voice of one crying in the wilderness,
Make ready the way of the Lord,
Make His paths straight.

15338

At that time Abijah the son of Jeroboam became sick.

15339

There was a certain man of Zorah, of the family of the Danites, whose name was Manoah; and his wife was barren and had borne no children.

15340

But he is a Jew who is one inwardly; and circumcision is that which is of the heart, by the Spirit, not by the letter; and his praise is not from men, but from God.

15341

In that day the Lord will punish Leviathan the fleeing serpent,
With His fierce and great and mighty sword,
Even Leviathan the twisted serpent;
And He will kill the dragon who lives in the sea.

15342

Then the sons of Israel did evil in the sight of the Lord and served the Baals,

15343

Then Shaul died, and Baal-hanan the son of Achbor became king in his place.

15344

But I have this against you, that you tolerate the woman Jezebel, who calls herself a prophetess, and she teaches and leads My bond-servants astray so that they commit acts of immorality and eat things sacrificed to idols.

15345

The king will mourn, the prince will be clothed with horror, and the hands of the people of the land will tremble. According to their conduct I will deal with them, and by their judgments I will judge them. And they will know that I am the Lord.’”

15346

Should I not have compassion on Nineveh, the great city in which there are more than 120,000 persons who do not know the difference between their right and left hand, as well as many animals?”

15347

And the whole valley of the dead bodies and of the ashes, and all the fields as far as the brook Kidron, to the corner of the Horse Gate toward the east, shall be holy to the Lord; it will not be plucked up or overthrown anymore forever.”

15348

“The sower went out to sow his seed; and as he sowed, some fell beside the road, and it was trampled under foot and the birds of the air ate it up.

15349

While he was clinging to Peter and John, all the people ran together to them at the so-called portico of Solomon, full of amazement.

15350

“Speak to the congregation, saying, ‘Get back from around the dwellings of Korah, Dathan and Abiram.’”

15351

And he said, “The one who showed mercy toward him.” Then Jesus said to him, “Go and do the same.”

15353

For many are the victims she has cast down,
And numerous are all her slain.

15354

They had breastplates like breastplates of iron; and the sound of their wings was like the sound of chariots, of many horses rushing to battle.

15356

Now it came about after this that Absalom provided for himself a chariot and horses and fifty men as runners before him.

15357

and before the throne there was something like a sea of glass, like crystal; and in the center and around the throne, four living creatures full of eyes in front and behind.

15359

When He had reclined at the table with them, He took the bread and blessed it, and breaking it, He began giving it to them.

15361

You have been rebellious against the Lord from the day I knew you.

15362

Forsake your folly and live,
And proceed in the way of understanding.”

15363

“A moneylender had two debtors: one owed five hundred denarii, and the other fifty.

15365

“Our fathers had the tabernacle of testimony in the wilderness, just as He who spoke to Moses directed him to make it according to the pattern which he had seen.

15366

I will make the land desolate so that your enemies who settle in it will be appalled over it.

15368

Elijah came near to all the people and said, “How long will you hesitate between two opinions? If the Lord is God, follow Him; but if Baal, follow him.” But the people did not answer him a word.

15369

These are the families of the sons of Noah, according to their genealogies, by their nations; and out of these the nations were separated on the earth after the flood.

15370

All the inhabitants of the earth are accounted as nothing,
But He does according to His will in the host of heaven
And among the inhabitants of earth;
And no one can ward off His hand
Or say to Him, ‘What have You done?’

15371

The king of Assyria brought men from Babylon and from Cuthah and from Avva and from Hamath and Sepharvaim, and settled them in the cities of Samaria in place of the sons of Israel. So they possessed Samaria and lived in its cities.

15372

In the same way, was not Rahab the harlot also justified by works when she received the messengers and sent them out by another way?

15374

Therefore let it be known to you that this salvation of God has been sent to the Gentiles; they will also listen.”

15375

And they *crucified Him, and *divided up His garments among themselves, casting lots for them to decide what each man should take.

15376

And blessed is he who does not take offense at Me.”

15379

It is like a man away on a journey, who upon leaving his house and putting his slaves in charge, assigning to each one his task, also commanded the doorkeeper to stay on the alert.

15380

And knowing their thoughts Jesus said to them, Any kingdom divided against itself is laid waste; and any city or house divided against itself will not stand.

15381

All day long he is craving,
While the righteous gives and does not hold back.

15382

And these they brought before the apostles; and after praying, they laid their hands on them.

15383

“If a man dies, will he live again?
All the days of my struggle I will wait
Until my change comes.

15385

a people great and tall, the sons of the Anakim, whom you know and of whom you have heard it said, ‘Who can stand before the sons of Anak?’

15387

Now there came a day when Elisha passed over to Shunem, where there was a prominent woman, and she persuaded him to eat food. And so it was, as often as he passed by, he turned in there to eat food.

15388

Then he came there to a cave and lodged there; and behold, the word of the Lord came to him, and He said to him, “What are you doing here, Elijah?”

15389

But one has testified somewhere, saying,
What is man, that You remember him?
Or the son of man, that You are concerned about him?

15390

They became very much afraid and said to one another, “Who then is this, that even the wind and the sea obey Him?”

15391

Many also of those who had believed kept coming, confessing and disclosing their practices.

15392

And I remembered the word of the Lord, how He used to say, John baptized with water, but you will be baptized with the Holy Spirit.’

15394

Therefore, I will bring the worst of the nations, and they will possess their houses. I will also make the pride of the strong ones cease, and their holy places will be profaned.

15395

They gave him seventy pieces of silver from the house of Baal-berith with which Abimelech hired worthless and reckless fellows, and they followed him.

15396

They said, “Lord, look, here are two swords.” And He said to them, “It is enough.”

15397

“Therefore, thus says the Lord God, ‘Because you have made your iniquity to be remembered, in that your transgressions are uncovered, so that in all your deeds your sins appear—because you have come to remembrance, you will be seized with the hand.

15398

Then the Lord said to Moses, “Stretch out your hand over the sea so that the waters may come back over the Egyptians, over their chariots and their horsemen.”

15400

They listened to him up to this statement, and then they raised their voices and said, “Away with such a fellow from the earth, for he should not be allowed to live!”

15402

And those who will walk by this rule, peace and mercy be upon them, and upon the Israel of God.

15404

Then the Lord spoke to Moses, saying,

15405

Then Sanballat sent his servant to me in the same manner a fifth time with an open letter in his hand.

15406

And his tail *swept away a third of the stars of heaven and threw them to the earth. And the dragon stood before the woman who was about to give birth, so that when she gave birth he might devour her child.

15407

so these also now have been disobedient, that because of the mercy shown to you they also may now be shown mercy.

15409

Simon Peter *said to them, “I am going fishing.” They *said to him, “We will also come with you.” They went out and got into the boat; and that night they caught nothing.

15410

The Lord set a definite time, saying, “Tomorrow the Lord will do this thing in the land.”

15411

But from now on the Son of Man will be seated at the right hand of the power of God.”

15412

And his father Zacharias was filled with the Holy Spirit, and prophesied, saying:

15414

Then he brought me back to the door of the house; and behold, water was flowing from under the threshold of the house toward the east, for the house faced east. And the water was flowing down from under, from the right side of the house, from south of the altar.

15415

Now David was sitting between the two gates; and the watchman went up to the roof of the gate by the wall, and raised his eyes and looked, and behold, a man running by himself.

15416

Moreover, the one who blasphemes the name of the Lord shall surely be put to death; all the congregation shall certainly stone him. The alien as well as the native, when he blasphemes the Name, shall be put to death.

15418

and you will be blessed, since they do not have the means to repay you; for you will be repaid at the resurrection of the righteous.”

15419

And behold, a severe earthquake had occurred, for an angel of the Lord descended from heaven and came and rolled away the stone and sat upon it.

15421

A Maskil of Asaph.
Listen, O my people, to my instruction;
Incline your ears to the words of my mouth.

15422

Arise, O Lord, in Your anger;
Lift up Yourself against the rage of my adversaries,
And arouse Yourself for me; You have appointed judgment.

15424

that I may be rescued from those who are disobedient in Judea, and that my service for Jerusalem may prove acceptable to the saints;

15426

Now in the eighteenth year of King Jeroboam, the son of Nebat, Abijam became king over Judah.

15427

and as he sowed, some seeds fell beside the road, and the birds came and ate them up.

15429

So Hilkiah the priest, Ahikam, Achbor, Shaphan, and Asaiah went to Huldah the prophetess, the wife of Shallum the son of Tikvah, the son of Harhas, keeper of the wardrobe (now she lived in Jerusalem in the Second Quarter); and they spoke to her.

15430

“Therefore thus I will do to you, O Israel;
Because I will do this to you,
Prepare to meet your God, O Israel.”

15431

But just as you abound in everything, in faith and utterance and knowledge and in all earnestness and in the love we inspired in you, see that you abound in this gracious work also.

15432

Therefore the Lord God of Israel declares, ‘I did indeed say that your house and the house of your father should walk before Me forever’; but now the Lord declares, ‘Far be it from Me—for those who honor Me I will honor, and those who despise Me will be lightly esteemed.

15433

They shall not take a woman who is profaned by harlotry, nor shall they take a woman divorced from her husband; for he is holy to his God.

15434

Behold, I am against the prophets,” declares the Lord, “who use their tongues and declare, ‘The Lord declares.’

15435

O Lord my God, if I have done this,
If there is injustice in my hands,

15439

Now therefore, you are cursed, and you shall never cease being slaves, both hewers of wood and drawers of water for the house of my God.”

15442

But Jesus, overhearing what was being spoken, *said to the synagogue official, Do not be afraid any longer, only believe.”

15443

And again another Scripture says, “They shall look on Him whom they pierced.”

15444

having become as much better than the angels, as He has inherited a more excellent name than they.

15445

Now when Jesus was in Bethany, at the home of Simon the leper,

15446

Lot went up from Zoar, and stayed in the mountains, and his two daughters with him; for he was afraid to stay in Zoar; and he stayed in a cave, he and his two daughters.

15447

But we had to celebrate and rejoice, for this brother of yours was dead and has begun to live, and was lost and has been found.’”

15448

He will swallow up death for all time,
And the Lord God will wipe tears away from all faces,
And He will remove the reproach of His people from all the earth;
For the Lord has spoken.

15450

and they are seven kings; five have fallen, one is, the other has not yet come; and when he comes, he must remain a little while.

15451

If a man makes a vow to the Lord, or takes an oath to bind himself with a binding obligation, he shall not violate his word; he shall do according to all that proceeds out of his mouth.

15453

but Peter was standing at the door outside. So the other disciple, who was known to the high priest, went out and spoke to the doorkeeper, and brought Peter in.

15454

The king arose in his anger from drinking wine and went into the palace garden; but Haman stayed to beg for his life from Queen Esther, for he saw that harm had been determined against him by the king.

15455

“For both prophet and priest are polluted;
Even in My house I have found their wickedness,” declares the Lord.

15456

Rejoice, O nations, with His people;
For He will avenge the blood of His servants,
And will render vengeance on His adversaries,
And will atone for His land and His people.”

15457

Or what man is there among you who, when his son asks for a loaf, will give him a stone?

15458

He is not here, but He has risen. Remember how He spoke to you while He was still in Galilee,

15459

He was buried in his grave in the garden of Uzza, and Josiah his son became king in his place.

15460

Then the king commanded Hilkiah the high priest and the priests of the second order and the doorkeepers, to bring out of the temple of the Lord all the vessels that were made for Baal, for Asherah, and for all the host of heaven; and he burned them outside Jerusalem in the fields of the Kidron, and carried their ashes to Bethel.

15461

Now the city was large and spacious, but the people in it were few and the houses were not built.

15462

Then Moses arose and went to Dathan and Abiram, with the elders of Israel following him,

15463

After five days the high priest Ananias came down with some elders, with an attorney named Tertullus, and they brought charges to the governor against Paul.

15465

An evil and adulterous generation seeks after a sign; and a sign will not be given it, except the sign of Jonah.” And He left them and went away.

15466

Jesus answered and said to them, “Go and report to John what you hear and see:

15467

Behold, the Lord lays the earth waste, devastates it, distorts its surface and scatters its inhabitants.

15468

Then two women who were harlots came to the king and stood before him.

15469

speaking to the priests who belong to the house of the Lord of hosts, and to the prophets, saying, “Shall I weep in the fifth month and abstain, as I have done these many years?”

15470

Then the Lord spoke to Moses, saying,

15473

Then Aaron lifted up his hands toward the people and blessed them, and he stepped down after making the sin offering and the burnt offering and the peace offerings.

15475

You shall not follow the masses in doing evil, nor shall you testify in a dispute so as to turn aside after a multitude in order to pervert justice;

15476

So Moses took the carts and the oxen and gave them to the Levites.

15478

And they *sent their disciples to Him, along with the Herodians, saying, “Teacher, we know that You are truthful and teach the way of God in truth, and defer to no one; for You are not partial to any.

15480

“Therefore You delivered them into the hand of their oppressors who oppressed them,
But when they cried to You in the time of their distress,
You heard from heaven, and according to Your great compassion
You gave them deliverers who delivered them from the hand of their oppressors.

15481

“If a man strikes his male or female slave with a rod and he dies at his hand, he shall be punished.

15482

Then the Lord said to Moses, “Why are you crying out to Me? Tell the sons of Israel to go forward.

15483

and as the women were terrified and bowed their faces to the ground, the men said to them, “Why do you seek the living One among the dead?

15484

and returned from the tomb and reported all these things to the eleven and to all the rest.

15485

nor do you take into account that it is expedient for you that one man die for the people, and that the whole nation not perish.”

15487

Every priest stands daily ministering and offering time after time the same sacrifices, which can never take away sins;

15488

So the crowd of people who stood by and heard it were saying that it had thundered; others were saying, “An angel has spoken to Him.”

15489

Fathers shall not be put to death for their sons, nor shall sons be put to death for their fathers; everyone shall be put to death for his own sin.

15490

When Esau was forty years old he married Judith the daughter of Beeri the Hittite, and Basemath the daughter of Elon the Hittite;

15491

Your doom has come to you, O inhabitant of the land. The time has come, the day is near—tumult rather than joyful shouting on the mountains.

15492

And it came about in the days of Amraphel king of Shinar, Arioch king of Ellasar, Chedorlaomer king of Elam, and Tidal king of Goiim,

15493

Then the Lord spoke to Moses, saying,

15494

Therefore Jesus said, “Let her alone, so that she may keep it for the day of My burial.

15495

For I say that Christ has become a servant to the circumcision on behalf of the truth of God to confirm the promises given to the fathers,

15496

Then the eyes of the blind will be opened
And the ears of the deaf will be unstopped.

15498

Truly I say to you, this generation will not pass away until all these things take place.

15501

And they *said to her, “Woman, why are you weeping?” She *said to them, “Because they have taken away my Lord, and I do not know where they have laid Him.”

15502

But he himself went a day’s journey into the wilderness, and came and sat down under a juniper tree; and he requested for himself that he might die, and said, “It is enough; now, O Lord, take my life, for I am not better than my fathers.”

15503

“Speak to the sons of Israel, saying, ‘He who offers the sacrifice of his peace offerings to the Lord shall bring his offering to the Lord from the sacrifice of his peace offerings.

15505

They were stoned, they were sawn in two, they were tempted, they were put to death with the sword; they went about in sheepskins, in goatskins, being destitute, afflicted, ill-treated

15506

In that day,” declares the Lord of hosts, “the peg driven in a firm place will give way; it will even break off and fall, and the load hanging on it will be cut off, for the Lord has spoken.”

15507

But these words appeared to them as nonsense, and they would not believe them.

15508

“And now, behold, I know that all of you, among whom I went about preaching the kingdom, will no longer see my face.

15510

one young bull, one ram, one male lamb one year old, for a burnt offering;

15511

Then the word of the Lord of hosts came to me, saying,

15512

The oracle concerning Babylon which Isaiah the son of Amoz saw.

15514

Even if the other man lives a thousand years twice and does not enjoy good things—do not all go to one place?”

15516

“Behold, I know your thoughts,
And the plans by which you would wrong me.

15517

Every male among the priests may eat of it; it is most holy.

15518

Are not these the words which the Lord proclaimed by the former prophets, when Jerusalem was inhabited and prosperous along with its cities around it, and the Negev and the foothills were inhabited?’”

15519

Peter said, “Lord, are You addressing this parable to us, or to everyone else as well?”

15520

The descendants of Israel separated themselves from all foreigners, and stood and confessed their sins and the iniquities of their fathers.

15523

For My eye will have no pity on you, nor will I spare you, but I will bring your ways upon you, and your abominations will be among you; then you will know that I am the Lord!’

15524

Yet You have made him a little lower than God,
And You crown him with glory and majesty!

15525

For whoever eats the fat of the animal from which an offering by fire is offered to the Lord, even the person who eats shall be cut off from his people.

15526

Now when day came, the chief magistrates sent their policemen, saying, “Release those men.”

15527

On the fourth day it was Elizur the son of Shedeur, leader of the sons of Reuben;

15528

They answered and said to Him, “Abraham is our father.” Jesus *said to them, If you are Abraham’s children, do the deeds of Abraham.

15529

And then if anyone says to you, ‘Behold, here is the Christ’; or, ‘Behold, He is there’; do not believe him;

15530

On your walls, O Jerusalem, I have appointed watchmen;
All day and all night they will never keep silent.
You who remind the Lord, take no rest for yourselves;

15531

When it was day, the Jews formed a conspiracy and bound themselves under an oath, saying that they would neither eat nor drink until they had killed Paul.

15532

She had a sister called Mary, who was seated at the Lord’s feet, listening to His word.

15533

“Brethren, sons of Abraham’s family, and those among you who fear God, to us the message of this salvation has been sent.

15534

Her neighbors and her relatives heard that the Lord had displayed His great mercy toward her; and they were rejoicing with her.

15535

But He said to them, “I have food to eat that you do not know about.”

15536

but in every nation the man who fears Him and does what is right is welcome to Him.

15537

shall by no means see the land which I swore to their fathers, nor shall any of those who spurned Me see it.

15540

Then Samuel died; and all Israel gathered together and mourned for him, and buried him at his house in Ramah. And David arose and went down to the wilderness of Paran.

15541

But these things I have spoken to you, so that when their hour comes, you may remember that I told you of them. These things I did not say to you at the beginning, because I was with you.

15542

so that the violence done to the seventy sons of Jerubbaal might come, and their blood might be laid on Abimelech their brother, who killed them, and on the men of Shechem, who strengthened his hands to kill his brothers.

15543

“Speak, now, in the hearing of all the leaders of Shechem, ‘Which is better for you, that seventy men, all the sons of Jerubbaal, rule over you, or that one man rule over you?’ Also, remember that I am your bone and your flesh.”

15544

After Jesus called the crowd to Him, He said to them, “Hear and understand.

15545

Bind them on your fingers;
Write them on the tablet of your heart.

15546

He also defiled Topheth, which is in the valley of the son of Hinnom, that no man might make his son or his daughter pass through the fire for Molech.

15547

At the morning watch, the Lord looked down on the army of the Egyptians through the pillar of fire and cloud and brought the army of the Egyptians into confusion.

15548

But no sin offering of which any of the blood is brought into the tent of meeting to make atonement in the holy place shall be eaten; it shall be burned with fire.

15549

It came about as he was worshiping in the house of Nisroch his god, that Adrammelech and Sharezer killed him with the sword; and they escaped into the land of Ararat. And Esarhaddon his son became king in his place.

15550

Then Joshua called for them and spoke to them, saying, “Why have you deceived us, saying, ‘We are very far from you,’ when you are living within our land?

15551

“He does not believe that he will return from darkness,
And he is destined for the sword.

15552

And he ordered them to be baptized in the name of Jesus Christ. Then they asked him to stay on for a few days.

15553

They tried to give Him wine mixed with myrrh; but He did not take it.

15554

Cretans and Arabs—we hear them in our own tongues speaking of the mighty deeds of God.”

15556

and he made its five pillars with their hooks, and he overlaid their tops and their bands with gold; but their five sockets were of bronze.

15557

And He continued by questioning them, “But who do you say that I am?” Peter *answered and *said to Him, “You are the Christ.”

15558

For while you are going with your opponent to appear before the magistrate, on your way there make an effort to settle with him, so that he may not drag you before the judge, and the judge turn you over to the officer, and the officer throw you into prison.

15560

In the eighth month of the second year of Darius, the word of the Lord came to Zechariah the prophet, the son of Berechiah, the son of Iddo saying,

15563

I have come into my garden, my sister, my bride;
I have gathered my myrrh along with my balsam.
I have eaten my honeycomb and my honey;
I have drunk my wine and my milk.
Eat, friends;
Drink and imbibe deeply, O lovers.”

15564

and *said to him, “Every man serves the good wine first, and when the people have drunk freely, then he serves the poorer wine; but you have kept the good wine until now.”

15565

the men of Bethlehem and Netophah, 188;

15566

Now Adonijah the son of Haggith came to Bathsheba the mother of Solomon. And she said, “Do you come peacefully?” And he said, “Peacefully.”

15568

For their sakes I sanctify Myself, that they themselves also may be sanctified in truth.

15571

For we are slaves; yet in our bondage our God has not forsaken us, but has extended lovingkindness to us in the sight of the kings of Persia, to give us reviving to raise up the house of our God, to restore its ruins and to give us a wall in Judah and Jerusalem.

15574

even all the numbered men were 603,550.

15576

And when an attempt was made by both the Gentiles and the Jews with their rulers, to mistreat and to stone them,

15578

Now Gaal the son of Ebed came with his relatives, and crossed over into Shechem; and the men of Shechem put their trust in him.

15579

‘You shall not hate your fellow countryman in your heart; you may surely reprove your neighbor, but shall not incur sin because of him.

15580

She has prepared her food, she has mixed her wine;
She has also set her table;

15581

Without father, without mother, without genealogy, having neither beginning of days nor end of life, but made like the Son of God, he remains a priest perpetually.

15582

and said to them, Whoever receives this child in My name receives Me, and whoever receives Me receives Him who sent Me; for the one who is least among all of you, this is the one who is great.”

15583

And He said to him, “I am the Lord who brought you out of Ur of the Chaldeans, to give you this land to possess it.”

15584

And Hamath also, which borders on it;
Tyre and Sidon, though they are very wise.

15585

Then the fame of David went out into all the lands; and the Lord brought the fear of him on all the nations.

15587

So Jesus, again being deeply moved within, *came to the tomb. Now it was a cave, and a stone was lying against it.

15588

for I say to you, I will not drink of the fruit of the vine from now on until the kingdom of God comes.”

15589

In the second year of Joash son of Joahaz king of Israel, Amaziah the son of Joash king of Judah became king.

15590

And I heard the number of those who were sealed, one hundred and forty-four thousand sealed from every tribe of the sons of Israel:

15591

The large crowd of the Jews then learned that He was there; and they came, not for Jesus’ sake only, but that they might also see Lazarus, whom He raised from the dead.

15592

Seeing a lone fig tree by the road, He came to it and found nothing on it except leaves only; and He *said to it, “No longer shall there ever be any fruit from you.” And at once the fig tree withered.

15593

When they came to Capernaum, those who collected the two-drachma tax came to Peter and said, “Does your teacher not pay the two-drachma tax?”

15594

And Paul said, “I was not aware, brethren, that he was high priest; for it is written, ‘You shall not speak evil of a ruler of your people.’”

15595

So Jesus said to Peter, “Put the sword into the sheath; the cup which the Father has given Me, shall I not drink it?”

15596

and looking up to heaven with a deep sigh, He *said to him, “Ephphatha!” that is, “Be opened!”

15597

Nevertheless many even of the rulers believed in Him, but because of the Pharisees they were not confessing Him, for fear that they would be put out of the synagogue;

15598

and say, ‘If we had been living in the days of our fathers, we would not have been partners with them in shedding the blood of the prophets.’

15599

“On exactly the tenth day of this seventh month is the day of atonement; it shall be a holy convocation for you, and you shall humble your souls and present an offering by fire to the Lord.

15600

As I looked, behold, a storm wind was coming from the north, a great cloud with fire flashing forth continually and a bright light around it, and in its midst something like glowing metal in the midst of the fire.

15601

Jesus then came out, wearing the crown of thorns and the purple robe. Pilate *said to them, “Behold, the Man!”

15602

“Son of man, set your face toward the mountains of Israel, and prophesy against them

15603

Now I am making one request of you; do not refuse me.” And she said to him, “Speak.”

15604

Oh that I had in the desert
A wayfarers’ lodging place;
That I might leave my people
And go from them!
For all of them are adulterers,
An assembly of treacherous men.

15607

With their wickedness they make the king glad,
And the princes with their lies.

15609

But Abraham said, ‘Child, remember that during your life you received your good things, and likewise Lazarus bad things; but now he is being comforted here, and you are in agony.

15610

But to the others He said in my hearing, “Go through the city after him and strike; do not let your eye have pity and do not spare.

15611

But if you will not do so, behold, you have sinned against the Lord, and be sure your sin will find you out.

15612

and one male goat for a sin offering, besides the continual burnt offering, its grain offering and its drink offerings.

15614

The priest shall offer them up in smoke on the altar as an offering by fire to the Lord; it is a guilt offering.

15615

Now this man would go up from his city yearly to worship and to sacrifice to the Lord of hosts in Shiloh. And the two sons of Eli, Hophni and Phinehas, were priests to the Lord there.

15616

For many deceivers have gone out into the world, those who do not acknowledge Jesus Christ as coming in the flesh. This is the deceiver and the antichrist.

15617

Furthermore, Ahithophel said to Absalom, “Please let me choose 12,000 men that I may arise and pursue David tonight.

15618

Then a fugitive came and told Abram the Hebrew. Now he was living by the oaks of Mamre the Amorite, brother of Eshcol and brother of Aner, and these were allies with Abram.

15620

Now on the next day, the day after the preparation, the chief priests and the Pharisees gathered together with Pilate,

15622

Then the Lord spoke to Moses, saying,

15623

Disaster will come upon disaster and rumor will be added to rumor; then they will seek a vision from a prophet, but the law will be lost from the priest and counsel from the elders.

15624

At the command of the Lord they camped, and at the command of the Lord they set out; they kept the Lord’s charge, according to the command of the Lord through Moses.

15626

And while they were going away to make the purchase, the bridegroom came, and those who were ready went in with him to the wedding feast; and the door was shut.

15627

one gold pan of ten shekels, full of incense;

15628

Among them was Mary Magdalene, and Mary the mother of James and Joseph, and the mother of the sons of Zebedee.

15629

“You made their sons numerous as the stars of heaven,
And You brought them into the land
Which You had told their fathers to enter and possess.

15630

But if it has any defect, such as lameness or blindness, or any serious defect, you shall not sacrifice it to the Lord your God.

15631

Salmon was the father of Boaz by Rahab, Boaz was the father of Obed by Ruth, and Obed the father of Jesse.

15632

If you love those who love you, what credit is that to you? For even sinners love those who love them.

15633

If we receive the testimony of men, the testimony of God is greater; for the testimony of God is this, that He has testified concerning His Son.

15634

For a thousand years in Your sight
Are like yesterday when it passes by,
Or as a watch in the night.

15635

Then all the congregation lifted up their voices and cried, and the people wept that night.

15636

Then Jacob summoned his sons and said, “Assemble yourselves that I may tell you what will befall you in the days to come.

15637

Ashkelon will see it and be afraid.
Gaza too will writhe in great pain;
Also Ekron, for her expectation has been confounded.
Moreover, the king will perish from Gaza,
And Ashkelon will not be inhabited.

15638

For if you refuse to let them go and continue to hold them,

15639

and he received the sign of circumcision, a seal of the righteousness of the faith which he had while uncircumcised, so that he might be the father of all who believe without being circumcised, that righteousness might be credited to them,

15640

And He said to them, “Why are you troubled, and why do doubts arise in your hearts?

15641

Martha then said to Jesus, “Lord, if You had been here, my brother would not have died.

15643

So your altars will become desolate and your incense altars will be smashed; and I will make your slain fall in front of your idols.

15644

the men of Kiriath-jearim, Chephirah and Beeroth, 743;

15646

and Andrew, and Philip, and Bartholomew, and Matthew, and Thomas, and James the son of Alphaeus, and Thaddaeus, and Simon the Zealot;

15647

“Then a spirit passed by my face;
The hair of my flesh bristled up.

15648

Then the sons of Israel did what was evil in the sight of the Lord; and the Lord gave them into the hands of Midian seven years.

15650

Demons also were coming out of many, shouting, “You are the Son of God!” But rebuking them, He would not allow them to speak, because they knew Him to be the Christ.

15651

For you have heard of my former manner of life in Judaism, how I used to persecute the church of God beyond measure and tried to destroy it;

15652

Now when He had spoken, a Pharisee *asked Him to have lunch with him; and He went in, and reclined at the table.

15654

The words of King Lemuel, the oracle which his mother taught him:

15656

When the Lord saw that he turned aside to look, God called to him from the midst of the bush and said, “Moses, Moses!” And he said, “Here I am.”

15657

And he carried me away in the Spirit into a wilderness; and I saw a woman sitting on a scarlet beast, full of blasphemous names, having seven heads and ten horns.

15658

But we were hoping that it was He who was going to redeem Israel. Indeed, besides all this, it is the third day since these things happened.

15659

But one and the same Spirit works all these things, distributing to each one individually just as He wills.

15660

For as yet they did not understand the Scripture, that He must rise again from the dead.

15661

Now Peter was sitting outside in the courtyard, and a servant-girl came to him and said, “You too were with Jesus the Galilean.”

15663

While it remained unsold, did it not remain your own? And after it was sold, was it not under your control? Why is it that you have conceived this deed in your heart? You have not lied to men but to God.”

15664

Shalmaneser king of Assyria came up against him, and Hoshea became his servant and paid him tribute.

15665

In the fifth year you are to eat of its fruit, that its yield may increase for you; I am the Lord your God.

15666

In the generations gone by He permitted all the nations to go their own ways;

15667

Or did I commit a sin in humbling myself so that you might be exalted, because I preached the gospel of God to you without charge?

15668

Behold, six men came from the direction of the upper gate which faces north, each with his shattering weapon in his hand; and among them was a certain man clothed in linen with a writing case at his loins. And they went in and stood beside the bronze altar.

15669

Then the Lord said to Moses, “Behold, I will rain bread from heaven for you; and the people shall go out and gather a day’s portion every day, that I may test them, whether or not they will walk in My instruction.

15670

In hope against hope he believed, so that he might become a father of many nations according to that which had been spoken, “So shall your descendants be.”

15671

But I say to you truthfully, there are some of those standing here who will not taste death until they see the kingdom of God.”

15672

Make me know Your ways, O Lord;
Teach me Your paths.

15673

Even Simon himself believed; and after being baptized, he continued on with Philip, and as he observed signs and great miracles taking place, he was constantly amazed.

15674

“If a man has two wives, the one loved and the other unloved, and both the loved and the unloved have borne him sons, if the firstborn son belongs to the unloved,

15675

They tie up heavy burdens and lay them on men’s shoulders, but they themselves are unwilling to move them with so much as a finger.

15677

and that every tongue will confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.

15678

So in the present case, I say to you, stay away from these men and let them alone, for if this plan or action is of men, it will be overthrown;

15679

and his army, even their numbered men, 54,400.

15681

These are the ones who have not been defiled with women, for they have kept themselves chaste. These are the ones who follow the Lamb wherever He goes. These have been purchased from among men as first fruits to God and to the Lamb.

15683

their numbered men of the tribe of Benjamin were 35,400.

15685

And every created thing which is in heaven and on the earth and under the earth and on the sea, and all things in them, I heard saying,“To Him who sits on the throne, and to the Lamb, be blessing and honor and glory and dominion forever and ever.”

15687

Take also a few in number from them and bind them in the edges of your robes.

15688

He took the mantle of Elijah that fell from him and struck the waters and said, “Where is the Lord, the God of Elijah?” And when he also had struck the waters, they were divided here and there; and Elisha crossed over.

15690

God made the beasts of the earth after their kind, and the cattle after their kind, and everything that creeps on the ground after its kind; and God saw that it was good.

15692

Every male among the priests may eat of it. It shall be eaten in a holy place; it is most holy.

15695

The king’s servants said to him, “Behold, Haman is standing in the court.” And the king said, “Let him come in.”

15696

Now on the Levites’ platform stood Jeshua, Bani, Kadmiel, Shebaniah, Bunni, Sherebiah, Bani and Chenani, and they cried with a loud voice to the Lord their God.

15697

The guilt offering is like the sin offering, there is one law for them; the priest who makes atonement with it shall have it.

15698

It is not this way among you, but whoever wishes to become great among you shall be your servant,

15699

But as for you and your servants, I know that you do not yet fear the Lord God.”

15700

But the person who does anything defiantly, whether he is native or an alien, that one is blaspheming the Lord; and that person shall be cut off from among his people.

15701

So speak and so act as those who are to be judged by the law of liberty.

15702

Pilate came out again and *said to them, “Behold, I am bringing Him out to you so that you may know that I find no guilt in Him.”

15703

But Jesus looked at them and said, “What then is this that is written:
The stone which the builders rejected,
This became the chief corner stone’?

15704

Now the Philistines gathered their armies for battle; and they were gathered at Socoh which belongs to Judah, and they camped between Socoh and Azekah, in Ephes-dammim.

15706

Abraham called the name of that place The Lord Will Provide, as it is said to this day, “In the mount of the Lord it will be provided.”

15707

And he *said to me, “The waters which you saw where the harlot sits, are peoples and multitudes and nations and tongues.

15708

Now the men who were holding Jesus in custody were mocking Him and beating Him,

15709

that the Christ was to suffer, and that by reason of His resurrection from the dead He would be the first to proclaim light both to the Jewish people and to the Gentiles.”

15710

Now Jesus stood before the governor, and the governor questioned Him, saying, “Are You the King of the Jews?” And Jesus said to him, It is as you say.”

15711

And a leper came to Him and bowed down before Him, and said, “Lord, if You are willing, You can make me clean.”

15712

In the synagogue there was a man possessed by the spirit of an unclean demon, and he cried out with a loud voice,

15714

the men of Anathoth, 128;

15715

When the Canaanite, the king of Arad, who lived in the Negev, heard that Israel was coming by the way of Atharim, then he fought against Israel and took some of them captive.

15718

And it came about in the month Nisan, in the twentieth year of King Artaxerxes, that wine was before him, and I took up the wine and gave it to the king. Now I had not been sad in his presence.

15719

And His disciples asked Him, “Why then do the scribes say that Elijah must come first?”

15720

For it will be a unique day which is known to the Lord, neither day nor night, but it will come about that at evening time there will be light.

15721

For we do not want you to be unaware, brethren, of our affliction which came to us in Asia, that we were burdened excessively, beyond our strength, so that we despaired even of life;

15722

He said to me, “Son of man, now dig through the wall.” So I dug through the wall, and behold, an entrance.

15723

You shall take with you of every clean animal by sevens, a male and his female; and of the animals that are not clean two, a male and his female;

15724

Take again some of them and throw them into the fire and burn them in the fire; from it a fire will spread to all the house of Israel.

15725

Then Moses said, “What if they will not believe me or listen to what I say? For they may say, ‘The Lord has not appeared to you.’”

15726

The Lord then spoke to Moses at Mount Sinai, saying,

15728

“For what I fear comes upon me,
And what I dread befalls me.

15729

Paul said, “John baptized with the baptism of repentance, telling the people to believe in Him who was coming after him, that is, in Jesus.”

15730

and the two kidneys with the fat that is on them, which is on the loins, and the lobe on the liver he shall remove with the kidneys.

15731

“You were the anointed cherub who covers,
And I placed you there.
You were on the holy mountain of God;
You walked in the midst of the stones of fire.

15733

And a mongrel race will dwell in Ashdod,
And I will cut off the pride of the Philistines.

15734

The oracle of Nineveh. The book of the vision of Nahum the Elkoshite.

15735

So Moses went down to the people and told them.

15736

Then God said to Jacob, “Arise, go up to Bethel and live there, and make an altar there to God, who appeared to you when you fled from your brother Esau.”

15737

Then the word of the Lord came to me, saying,

15738

I saw another strong angel coming down out of heaven, clothed with a cloud; and the rainbow was upon his head, and his face was like the sun, and his feet like pillars of fire;

15739

For if because of food your brother is hurt, you are no longer walking according to love. Do not destroy with your food him for whom Christ died.

15740

So the crowd marveled as they saw the mute speaking, the crippled restored, and the lame walking, and the blind seeing; and they glorified the God of Israel.

15741

And whoever in the name of a disciple gives to one of these little ones even a cup of cold water to drink, truly I say to you, he shall not lose his reward.”

15742

“But who can endure the day of His coming? And who can stand when He appears? For He is like a refiner’s fire and like fullers’ soap.

15743

The king said, “What honor or dignity has been bestowed on Mordecai for this?” Then the king’s servants who attended him said, “Nothing has been done for him.”

15744

one male goat for a sin offering;

15745

And they, after worshiping Him, returned to Jerusalem with great joy,

15746

When Jesus therefore saw her weeping, and the Jews who came with her also weeping, He was deeply moved in spirit and was troubled,

15749

In all your dwellings, cities will become waste and the high places will be desolate, that your altars may become waste and desolate, your idols may be broken and brought to an end, your incense altars may be cut down, and your works may be blotted out.

15750

Daniel said, “I was looking in my vision by night, and behold, the four winds of heaven were stirring up the great sea.

15751

Whoever is naive, let him turn in here!”
To him who lacks understanding she says,

15752

Yet they are Your people, even Your inheritance, whom You have brought out by Your great power and Your outstretched arm.’

15753

Remember Your servants, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob; do not look at the stubbornness of this people or at their wickedness or their sin.

15754

Then the Lord spoke to Moses, saying,

15756

Any place that does not receive you or listen to you, as you go out from there, shake the dust off the soles of your feet for a testimony against them.”

15759

He had him ride in his second chariot; and they proclaimed before him, “Bow the knee!” And he set him over all the land of Egypt.

15760

We have become orphans without a father,
Our mothers are like widows.

15761

They sent messages to me four times in this manner, and I answered them in the same way.

15763

But I have a few things against you, because you have there some who hold the teaching of Balaam, who kept teaching Balak to put a stumbling block before the sons of Israel, to eat things sacrificed to idols and to commit acts of immorality.

15764

Only in the cities of these peoples that the Lord your God is giving you as an inheritance, you shall not leave alive anything that breathes.

15765

Between morning and evening they are broken in pieces;
Unobserved, they perish forever.

15768

“Now his older son was in the field, and when he came and approached the house, he heard music and dancing.

15771

“Let everyone be on guard against his neighbor,
And do not trust any brother;
Because every brother deals craftily,
And every neighbor goes about as a slanderer.

15773

And He said to another, Follow Me.” But he said, “Lord, permit me first to go and bury my father.”

15774

The priest of Zeus, whose temple was just outside the city, brought oxen and garlands to the gates, and wanted to offer sacrifice with the crowds.

15775

For their hearts are like an oven
As they approach their plotting;
Their anger smolders all night,
In the morning it burns like a flaming fire.

15776

The words of Nehemiah the son of Hacaliah.Now it happened in the month Chislev, in the twentieth year, while I was in Susa the capitol,

15777

Blessed are those whose lawless deeds have been forgiven,
And whose sins have been covered.

15778

and exchanged the glory of the incorruptible God for an image in the form of corruptible man and of birds and four-footed animals and crawling creatures.

15779

“And you, child, will be called the prophet of the Most High;
For you will go on before the Lord to prepare His ways;

15781

And we preach to you the good news of the promise made to the fathers,

15782

Therefore many of the Jews who came to Mary, and saw what He had done, believed in Him.

15783

“From the days of your fathers you have turned aside from My statutes and have not kept them. Return to Me, and I will return to you,” says the Lord of hosts. “But you say, ‘How shall we return?’

15784

Then Solomon formed a marriage alliance with Pharaoh king of Egypt, and took Pharaoh’s daughter and brought her to the city of David until he had finished building his own house and the house of the Lord and the wall around Jerusalem.

15785

And besides all this, between us and you there is a great chasm fixed, so that those who wish to come over from here to you will not be able, and that none may cross over from there to us.’

15786

Many women were there looking on from a distance, who had followed Jesus from Galilee while ministering to Him.

15788

And He went a little beyond them, and fell to the ground and began to pray that if it were possible, the hour might pass Him by.

15790

nor height, nor depth, nor any other created thing, will be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.

15792

with one of which the black horses are going forth to the north country; and the white ones go forth after them, while the dappled ones go forth to the south country.

15794

For I testify about them that they have a zeal for God, but not in accordance with knowledge.

15795

Then I spoke and said to the angel who was speaking with me, “What are these, my lord?”

15796

“Thus says the Lord God, ‘A disaster, unique disaster, behold it is coming!

15798

You blind guides, who strain out a gnat and swallow a camel!

15799

He said, “What have you done? The voice of your brother’s blood is crying to Me from the ground.

15800

Jesus said to him, Truly I say to you that this very night, before a rooster crows, you will deny Me three times.”

15801

and the face-cloth which had been on His head, not lying with the linen wrappings, but rolled up in a place by itself.

15802

So they said to Him, “What then do You do for a sign, so that we may see, and believe You? What work do You perform?

15803

He will sit as a smelter and purifier of silver, and He will purify the sons of Levi and refine them like gold and silver, so that they may present to the Lord offerings in righteousness.

15804

Our pursuers are at our necks;
We are worn out, there is no rest for us.

15807

As for the portions of fat from the ox and from the ram, the fat tail, and the fat covering, and the kidneys and the lobe of the liver,

15809

For all the nations have drunk of the wine of the passion of her immorality, and the kings of the earth have committed acts of immorality with her, and the merchants of the earth have become rich by the wealth of her sensuality.”

15810

“And why do you not even on your own initiative judge what is right?

15811

At that time Herod the tetrarch heard the news about Jesus,

15812

Lift up your eyes on high
And see who has created these stars,
The One who leads forth their host by number,
He calls them all by name;
Because of the greatness of His might and the strength of His power,
Not one of them is missing.

15813

And a woman who had been suffering from a hemorrhage for twelve years, came up behind Him and touched the fringe of His cloak;

15814

Now in the morning, when He was returning to the city, He became hungry.

15815

And admonished them in order to turn them back to Your law.
Yet they acted arrogantly and did not listen to Your commandments but sinned against Your ordinances,
By which if a man observes them he shall live.
And they turned a stubborn shoulder and stiffened their neck, and would not listen.

15817

These are the things which you should do: speak the truth to one another; judge with truth and judgment for peace in your gates.

15818

But Moses’ hands were heavy. Then they took a stone and put it under him, and he sat on it; and Aaron and Hur supported his hands, one on one side and one on the other. Thus his hands were steady until the sun set.

15819

While they stood in their place, they read from the book of the law of the Lord their God for a fourth of the day; and for another fourth they confessed and worshiped the Lord their God.

15820

“Put me like a seal over your heart,
Like a seal on your arm.
For love is as strong as death,
Jealousy is as severe as Sheol;
Its flashes are flashes of fire,
The very flame of the Lord.

15821

Make every effort to come before winter. Eubulus greets you, also Pudens and Linus and Claudia and all the brethren.

15822

Therefore Thomas, who is called Didymus, said to his fellow disciples, “Let us also go, so that we may die with Him.”

15825

But there were some men who were unclean because of the dead person, so that they could not observe Passover on that day; so they came before Moses and Aaron on that day.

15827

The eye is the lamp of your body; when your eye is clear, your whole body also is full of light; but when it is bad, your body also is full of darkness.

15828

To Seth, to him also a son was born; and he called his name Enosh. Then men began to call upon the name of the Lord.

15830

And it came about at that time, that Judah departed from his brothers and visited a certain Adullamite, whose name was Hirah.

15831

And David spoke the words of this song to the Lord in the day that the Lord delivered him from the hand of all his enemies and from the hand of Saul.

15832

“Speak to the sons of Israel, and tell them that they shall make for themselves tassels on the corners of their garments throughout their generations, and that they shall put on the tassel of each corner a cord of blue.

15833

I will get up and go to my father, and will say to him, “Father, I have sinned against heaven, and in your sight;

15834

Now Joab the son of Zeruiah perceived that the king’s heart was inclined toward Absalom.

15836

But if you do not listen to Me to keep the sabbath day holy by not carrying a load and coming in through the gates of Jerusalem on the sabbath day, then I will kindle a fire in its gates and it will devour the palaces of Jerusalem and not be quenched.”’”

15837

I will fix your boundary from the Red Sea to the sea of the Philistines, and from the wilderness to the River Euphrates; for I will deliver the inhabitants of the land into your hand, and you will drive them out before you.

15838

Then it will happen on that day that the Lord
Will again recover the second time with His hand
The remnant of His people, who will remain,
From Assyria, Egypt, Pathros, Cush, Elam, Shinar, Hamath,
And from the islands of the sea.

15839

And everyone who speaks a word against the Son of Man, it will be forgiven him; but he who blasphemes against the Holy Spirit, it will not be forgiven him.

15841

But Paul said to them, “They have beaten us in public without trial, men who are Romans, and have thrown us into prison; and now are they sending us away secretly? No indeed! But let them come themselves and bring us out.”

15842

*got up from supper, and *laid aside His garments; and taking a towel, He girded Himself.

15845

And there *arose a fierce gale of wind, and the waves were breaking over the boat so much that the boat was already filling up.

15846

his offering was one silver dish whose weight was one hundred and thirty shekels, one silver bowl of seventy shekels, according to the shekel of the sanctuary, both of them full of fine flour mixed with oil for a grain offering;

15847

Then the Lord spoke to Moses, saying,

15848

But if you do not obey Me and do not carry out all these commandments,

15851

If you walk in My statutes and keep My commandments so as to carry them out,

15852

Again the word of the Lord came to me saying,

15853

“Now, let the sons of Israel observe the Passover at its appointed time.

15854

Then Paul said to him, “God is going to strike you, you whitewashed wall! Do you sit to try me according to the Law, and in violation of the Law order me to be struck?”

15855

who keeps lovingkindness for thousands, who forgives iniquity, transgression and sin; yet He will by no means leave the guilty unpunished, visiting the iniquity of fathers on the children and on the grandchildren to the third and fourth generations.”

15856

And He did not let him, but He *said to him, Go home to your people and report to them what great things the Lord has done for you, and how He had mercy on you.”

15858

What kind of beloved is your beloved,
O most beautiful among women?
What kind of beloved is your beloved,
That thus you adjure us?”

15861

While Paul was saying this in his defense, Festus *said in a loud voice, “Paul, you are out of your mind! Your great learning is driving you mad.”

15862

just as it is written,
Behold, I lay in Zion a stone of stumbling and a rock of offense,
And he who believes in Him will not be disappointed.”

15863

And he cried out with a mighty voice, saying, “Fallen, fallen is Babylon the great! She has become a dwelling place of demons and a prison of every unclean spirit, and a prison of every unclean and hateful bird.

15864

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

15865

“But to what shall I compare this generation? It is like children sitting in the market places, who call out to the other children,

15867

It never sees the sun and it never knows anything; it is better off than he.

15868

Then Gaal the son of Ebed said, “Who is Abimelech, and who is Shechem, that we should serve him? Is he not the son of Jerubbaal, and is Zebul not his lieutenant? Serve the men of Hamor the father of Shechem; but why should we serve him?

15869

For I will take you from the nations, gather you from all the lands and bring you into your own land.

15872

John *testified about Him and cried out, saying, “This was He of whom I said, ‘He who comes after me has a higher rank than I, for He existed before me.’”

15874

On the next day he took out two denarii and gave them to the innkeeper and said, ‘Take care of him; and whatever more you spend, when I return I will repay you.’

15875

Now the end is upon you, and I will send My anger against you; I will judge you according to your ways and bring all your abominations upon you.

15877

When considerable time had passed and the voyage was now dangerous, since even the fast was already over, Paul began to admonish them,

15879

For Tyre built herself a fortress
And piled up silver like dust,
And gold like the mire of the streets.

15880

I looked, and behold, a white horse, and he who sat on it had a bow; and a crown was given to him, and he went out conquering and to conquer.

15882

Then the sovereignty, the dominion and the greatness of all the kingdoms under the whole heaven will be given to the people of the saints of the Highest One; His kingdom will be an everlasting kingdom, and all the dominions will serve and obey Him.’

15884

The angel of the Lord said to her further,
“Behold, you are with child,
And you will bear a son;
And you shall call his name Ishmael,
Because the Lord has given heed to your affliction.

15885

So, let us go out to Him outside the camp, bearing His reproach.

15887

Aristarchus, my fellow prisoner, sends you his greetings; and also Barnabas’s cousin Mark (about whom you received instructions; if he comes to you, welcome him);

15888

So, having obtained help from God, I stand to this day testifying both to small and great, stating nothing but what the Prophets and Moses said was going to take place;

15889

And when King Hezekiah heard it, he tore his clothes, covered himself with sackcloth and entered the house of the Lord.

15890

But I hope in the Lord Jesus to send Timothy to you shortly, so that I also may be encouraged when I learn of your condition.

15892

But when the day was now breaking, Jesus stood on the beach; yet the disciples did not know that it was Jesus.

15893

Then God said to Noah, “The end of all flesh has come before Me; for the earth is filled with violence because of them; and behold, I am about to destroy them with the earth.

15894

the men of Beth-azmaveth, 42;

15895

and passing by Mysia, they came down to Troas.

15896

Before they lay down, the men of the city, the men of Sodom, surrounded the house, both young and old, all the people from every quarter;

15897

For through the Law I died to the Law, so that I might live to God.

15898

For a while he was unwilling; but afterward he said to himself, ‘Even though I do not fear God nor respect man,

15899

“Why do Your disciples break the tradition of the elders? For they do not wash their hands when they eat bread.”

15900

So they appointed taskmasters over them to afflict them with hard labor. And they built for Pharaoh storage cities, Pithom and Raamses.

15901

And He said to them, “What things?” And they said to Him, “The things about Jesus the Nazarene, who was a prophet mighty in deed and word in the sight of God and all the people,

15902

You may spend the money for whatever your heart desires: for oxen, or sheep, or wine, or strong drink, or whatever your heart desires; and there you shall eat in the presence of the Lord your God and rejoice, you and your household.

15903

Then He said to them, “How is it that they say the Christ is David’s son?

15904

I say to you, among those born of women there is no one greater than John; yet he who is least in the kingdom of God is greater than he.”

15905

“Let us alone! What business do we have with each other, Jesus of Nazareth? Have You come to destroy us? I know who You are—the Holy One of God!”

15906

I will also lay the dead bodies of the sons of Israel in front of their idols; and I will scatter your bones around your altars.

15908

“No longer shall your name be called Abram,
But your name shall be Abraham;
For I have made you the father of a multitude of nations.

15910

Am I not free? Am I not an apostle? Have I not seen Jesus our Lord? Are you not my work in the Lord?

15911

But now your kingdom shall not endure. The Lord has sought out for Himself a man after His own heart, and the Lord has appointed him as ruler over His people, because you have not kept what the Lord commanded you.”

15913

Then after this He *said to the disciples, Let us go to Judea again.”

15914

A Psalm of David.
To You, O Lord, I lift up my soul.

15915

“You found his heart faithful before You,
And made a covenant with him
To give him the land of the Canaanite,
Of the Hittite and the Amorite,
Of the Perizzite, the Jebusite and the Girgashite—
To give it to his descendants.
And You have fulfilled Your promise,
For You are righteous.

15916

And not many days later, the younger son gathered everything together and went on a journey into a distant country, and there he squandered his estate with loose living.

15917

Now it happened at the end of two full years that Pharaoh had a dream, and behold, he was standing by the Nile.

15918

The man who acts presumptuously by not listening to the priest who stands there to serve the Lord your God, nor to the judge, that man shall die; thus you shall purge the evil from Israel.

15919

Jesus *said to them, “Come and have breakfast.” None of the disciples ventured to question Him, “Who are You?” knowing that it was the Lord.

15920

This is the only thing I want to find out from you: did you receive the Spirit by the works of the Law, or by hearing with faith?

15921

Then he took the book of the covenant and read it in the hearing of the people; and they said, “All that the Lord has spoken we will do, and we will be obedient!”

15924

idolatry, sorcery, enmities, strife, jealousy, outbursts of anger, disputes, dissensions, factions,

15927

“Now when this people or the prophet or a priest asks you saying, ‘What is the oracle of the Lord?’ then you shall say to them, ‘What oracle?’ The Lord declares, ‘I will abandon you.’

15928

And He answered and said to them, “Why do you yourselves transgress the commandment of God for the sake of your tradition?

15929

not to all the people, but to witnesses who were chosen beforehand by God, that is, to us who ate and drank with Him after He arose from the dead.

15930

And when he wanted to go across to Achaia, the brethren encouraged him and wrote to the disciples to welcome him; and when he had arrived, he greatly helped those who had believed through grace,

15931

They have gone deep in depravity
As in the days of Gibeah;
He will remember their iniquity,
He will punish their sins.

15932

The words of Agur the son of Jakeh, the oracle.The man declares to Ithiel, to Ithiel and Ucal:

15933

But the Jews who were in Susa assembled on the thirteenth and the fourteenth of the same month, and they rested on the fifteenth day and made it a day of feasting and rejoicing.

15934

the men of Michmas, 122;

15935

Then the sons of Israel journeyed, and camped in the plains of Moab beyond the Jordan opposite Jericho.

15936

Now when several days had elapsed, King Agrippa and Bernice arrived at Caesarea and paid their respects to Festus.

15938

Seek the Lord that you may live,
Or He will break forth like a fire, O house of Joseph,
And it will consume with none to quench it for Bethel,

15939

Do not profane your daughter by making her a harlot, so that the land will not fall to harlotry and the land become full of lewdness.

15940

and if He condemned the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah to destruction by reducing them to ashes, having made them an example to those who would live ungodly lives thereafter;

15943

Otherwise the land from which You brought us may say, “Because the Lord was not able to bring them into the land which He had promised them and because He hated them He has brought them out to slay them in the wilderness.”

15944

Beloved, I am not writing a new commandment to you, but an old commandment which you have had from the beginning; the old commandment is the word which you have heard.

15945

‘As for the person who turns to mediums and to spiritists, to play the harlot after them, I will also set My face against that person and will cut him off from among his people.

15946

But God said, “No, but Sarah your wife will bear you a son, and you shall call his name Isaac; and I will establish My covenant with him for an everlasting covenant for his descendants after him.

15947

When the angel who was speaking to him had left, he summoned two of his servants and a devout soldier of those who were his personal attendants,

15948

Please say that you are my sister so that it may go well with me because of you, and that I may live on account of you.”

15949

for it comes in futility and goes into obscurity; and its name is covered in obscurity.

15950

Now King Ahaz went to Damascus to meet Tiglath-pileser king of Assyria, and saw the altar which was at Damascus; and King Ahaz sent to Urijah the priest the pattern of the altar and its model, according to all its workmanship.

15951

“For there is hope for a tree,
When it is cut down, that it will sprout again,
And its shoots will not fail.

15952

The earth brought forth vegetation, plants yielding seed after their kind, and trees bearing fruit with seed in them, after their kind; and God saw that it was good.

15954

saying, “We gave you strict orders not to continue teaching in this name, and yet, you have filled Jerusalem with your teaching and intend to bring this man’s blood upon us.”

15955

There was a widow in that city, and she kept coming to him, saying, ‘Give me legal protection from my opponent.’

15956

Zalmon the Ahohite, Maharai the Netophathite,

15957

Now behold, we are in your hands; do as it seems good and right in your sight to do to us.”

15958

So he arose and ate and drank, and went in the strength of that food forty days and forty nights to Horeb, the mountain of God.

15959

And one of them struck the slave of the high priest and cut off his right ear.

15960

So they cried out again, saying, “Not this Man, but Barabbas.” Now Barabbas was a robber.

15961

They will mock Him and spit on Him, and scourge Him and kill Him, and three days later He will rise again.”

15963

therefore all that they tell you, do and observe, but do not do according to their deeds; for they say things and do not do them.

15964

Everyone who is called by My name,
And whom I have created for My glory,
Whom I have formed, even whom I have made.”

15965

Why do you look at the speck that is in your brother’s eye, but do not notice the log that is in your own eye?

15966

The Lord said, “I have surely seen the affliction of My people who are in Egypt, and have given heed to their cry because of their taskmasters, for I am aware of their sufferings.

15967

After that, He appeared in a different form to two of them while they were walking along on their way to the country.

15968

After three days Paul called together those who were the leading men of the Jews, and when they came together, he began saying to them, “Brethren, though I had done nothing against our people or the customs of our fathers, yet I was delivered as a prisoner from Jerusalem into the hands of the Romans.

15969

Be strong and courageous, for you shall give this people possession of the land which I swore to their fathers to give them.

15970

Now Saul told Jonathan his son and all his servants to put David to death. But Jonathan, Saul’s son, greatly delighted in David.

15971

Jehoahaz was twenty-three years old when he became king, and he reigned three months in Jerusalem; and his mother’s name was Hamutal the daughter of Jeremiah of Libnah.

15974

But Jonathan replied to Adonijah, “No! Our lord King David has made Solomon king.

15976

“For this commandment which I command you today is not too difficult for you, nor is it out of reach.

15977

And He *sent two of His disciples and *said to them, “Go into the city, and a man will meet you carrying a pitcher of water; follow him;

15978

And they all took hold of Sosthenes, the leader of the synagogue, and began beating him in front of the judgment seat. But Gallio was not concerned about any of these things.

15979

for I say to you, I shall never again eat it until it is fulfilled in the kingdom of God.”

15980

If you lend money to My people, to the poor among you, you are not to act as a creditor to him; you shall not charge him interest.

15983

No Ammonite or Moabite shall enter the assembly of the Lord; none of their descendants, even to the tenth generation, shall ever enter the assembly of the Lord,

15984

Jesus *said to him, “He who has bathed needs only to wash his feet, but is completely clean; and you are clean, but not all of you.”

15986

A wise man’s heart directs him toward the right, but the foolish man’s heart directs him toward the left.

15987

Let your clothes be white all the time, and let not oil be lacking on your head.

15988

So David blessed the Lord in the sight of all the assembly; and David said, “Blessed are You, O Lord God of Israel our father, forever and ever.

15989

Terah took Abram his son, and Lot the son of Haran, his grandson, and Sarai his daughter-in-law, his son Abram’s wife; and they went out together from Ur of the Chaldeans in order to enter the land of Canaan; and they went as far as Haran, and settled there.

15991

and all things that are Mine are Yours, and Yours are Mine; and I have been glorified in them.

15992

So the Roman cohort and the commander and the officers of the Jews, arrested Jesus and bound Him,

15993

Again he sent out other slaves saying, ‘Tell those who have been invited, “Behold, I have prepared my dinner; my oxen and my fattened livestock are all butchered and everything is ready; come to the wedding feast.”’

15995

“Again, the kingdom of heaven is like a dragnet cast into the sea, and gathering fish of every kind;

15996

When he looked behind him and saw them, he cursed them in the name of the Lord. Then two female bears came out of the woods and tore up forty-two lads of their number.

15997

He who is not with Me is against Me; and he who does not gather with Me, scatters.

15998

When Jesus had finished giving instructions to His twelve disciples, He departed from there to teach and preach in their cities.

15999

He opened His mouth and began to teach them, saying,

16000

who serve a copy and shadow of the heavenly things, just as Moses was warned by God when he was about to erect the tabernacle; for, “See,” He says, “that you make all things according to the pattern which was shown you on the mountain.”

16001

For if one comes and preaches another Jesus whom we have not preached, or you receive a different spirit which you have not received, or a different gospel which you have not accepted, you bear this beautifully.

16002

Yet I have been the Lord your God
Since the land of Egypt;
And you were not to know any god except Me,
For there is no savior besides Me.