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16003

We have to pay for our drinking water,
Our wood comes to us at a price.

16005

What is this coming up from the wilderness
Like columns of smoke,
Perfumed with myrrh and frankincense,
With all scented powders of the merchant?

16006

Now it came about after these things that Naboth the Jezreelite had a vineyard which was in Jezreel beside the palace of Ahab king of Samaria.

16007

You shall answer and say before the Lord your God, ‘My father was a wandering Aramean, and he went down to Egypt and sojourned there, few in number; but there he became a great, mighty and populous nation.

16008

She has sent out her maidens, she calls
From the tops of the heights of the city:

16009

If a man lies with a woman so that there is a seminal emission, they shall both bathe in water and be unclean until evening.

16010

So David hid in the field; and when the new moon came, the king sat down to eat food.

16011

For they themselves report about us what kind of a reception we had with you, and how you turned to God from idols to serve a living and true God,

16012

Agrippa said to Paul, “You are permitted to speak for yourself.” Then Paul stretched out his hand and proceeded to make his defense:

16014

Then Joseph could not control himself before all those who stood by him, and he cried, “Have everyone go out from me.” So there was no man with him when Joseph made himself known to his brothers.

16015

But Jesus said, “Let her alone; why do you bother her? She has done a good deed to Me.

16016

But it happened that as I was on my way, approaching Damascus about noontime, a very bright light suddenly flashed from heaven all around me,

16017

When they had crossed over they came to land at Gennesaret, and moored to the shore.

16018

Next he shall slaughter the male lamb in the place where they slaughter the sin offering and the burnt offering, at the place of the sanctuary—for the guilt offering, like the sin offering, belongs to the priest; it is most holy.

16019

Jesus answered them, “I showed you many good works from the Father; for which of them are you stoning Me?”

16021

You shall make no covenant with them or with their gods.

16022

But you shall serve the Lord your God, and He will bless your bread and your water; and I will remove sickness from your midst.

16023

And Adonijah was afraid of Solomon, and he arose, went and took hold of the horns of the altar.

16024

When His own people heard of this, they went out to take custody of Him; for they were saying, “He has lost His senses.”

16025

“He will revive us after two days;
He will raise us up on the third day,
That we may live before Him.

16026

Then the iron, the clay, the bronze, the silver and the gold were crushed all at the same time and became like chaff from the summer threshing floors; and the wind carried them away so that not a trace of them was found. But the stone that struck the statue became a great mountain and filled the whole earth.

16027

Then He *poured water into the basin, and began to wash the disciples’ feet and to wipe them with the towel with which He was girded.

16028

Jesus answered them, I told you, and you do not believe; the works that I do in My Father’s name, these testify of Me.

16029

The angel said to the women, “Do not be afraid; for I know that you are looking for Jesus who has been crucified.

16030

They will not remain in the Lord’s land,
But Ephraim will return to Egypt,
And in Assyria they will eat unclean food.

16031

“Come, eat of my food
And drink of the wine I have mixed.

16032

What then is Apollos? And what is Paul? Servants through whom you believed, even as the Lord gave opportunity to each one.

16033

If, then, I am a wrongdoer and have committed anything worthy of death, I do not refuse to die; but if none of those things is true of which these men accuse me, no one can hand me over to them. I appeal to Caesar.”

16034

He was twenty-five years old when he became king, and he reigned twenty-nine years in Jerusalem; and his mother’s name was Abi the daughter of Zechariah.

16035

The sons of Israel went up and wept before the Lord until evening, and inquired of the Lord, saying, “Shall we again draw near for battle against the sons of my brother Benjamin?” And the Lord said, “Go up against him.”

16036

And He was teaching daily in the temple; but the chief priests and the scribes and the leading men among the people were trying to destroy Him,

16037

Moses and Aaron went into the tent of meeting. When they came out and blessed the people, the glory of the Lord appeared to all the people.

16038

Then everyone who trembled at the words of the God of Israel on account of the unfaithfulness of the exiles gathered to me, and I sat appalled until the evening offering.

16039

When they have finished their testimony, the beast that comes up out of the abyss will make war with them, and overcome them and kill them.

16040

It is eleven days’ journey from Horeb by the way of Mount Seir to Kadesh-barnea.

16041

The Lord said to him, “Go, return on your way to the wilderness of Damascus, and when you have arrived, you shall anoint Hazael king over Aram;

16042

Pilate summoned the chief priests and the rulers and the people,

16043

The wicked will return to Sheol,
Even all the nations who forget God.

16044

But he *said, ‘No; for while you are gathering up the tares, you may uproot the wheat with them.

16045

even though these three men, Noah, Daniel and Job were in its midst, by their own righteousness they could only deliver themselves,” declares the Lord God.

16046

Whether it was two days or a month or a year that the cloud lingered over the tabernacle, staying above it, the sons of Israel remained camped and did not set out; but when it was lifted, they did set out.

16047

Now these things, brethren, I have figuratively applied to myself and Apollos for your sakes, so that in us you may learn not to exceed what is written, so that no one of you will become arrogant in behalf of one against the other.

16048

And they began calling Barnabas, Zeus, and Paul, Hermes, because he was the chief speaker.

16049

they also acted craftily and set out as envoys, and took worn-out sacks on their donkeys, and wineskins worn-out and torn and mended,

16050

I speak the things which I have seen with My Father; therefore you also do the things which you heard from your father.”

16051

After Paul had been summoned, Tertullus began to accuse him, saying to the governor,“Since we have through you attained much peace, and since by your providence reforms are being carried out for this nation,

16053

I will stand on my guard post
And station myself on the rampart;
And I will keep watch to see what He will speak to me,
And how I may reply when I am reproved.

16054

I kept looking, and that horn was waging war with the saints and overpowering them

16055

So when the tabernacle is to set out, the Levites shall take it down; and when the tabernacle encamps, the Levites shall set it up. But the layman who comes near shall be put to death.

16056

But turning around and seeing His disciples, He rebuked Peter and *said, “Get behind Me, Satan; for you are not setting your mind on God’s interests, but man’s.”

16057

They divide my garments among them,
And for my clothing they cast lots.

16058

“Judah, your brothers shall praise you;
Your hand shall be on the neck of your enemies;
Your father’s sons shall bow down to you.

16059

but when this son of yours came, who has devoured your wealth with prostitutes, you killed the fattened calf for him.’

16060

Then he shall offer from it all its fat: the fat tail and the fat that covers the entrails,

16062

For Haman the son of Hammedatha, the Agagite, the adversary of all the Jews, had schemed against the Jews to destroy them and had cast Pur, that is the lot, to disturb them and destroy them.

16063

these then came to Philip, who was from Bethsaida of Galilee, and began to ask him, saying, “Sir, we wish to see Jesus.”

16064

Three times in a year all your males shall appear before the Lord your God in the place which He chooses, at the Feast of Unleavened Bread and at the Feast of Weeks and at the Feast of Booths, and they shall not appear before the Lord empty-handed.

16066

I searched for a man among them who would build up the wall and stand in the gap before Me for the land, so that I would not destroy it; but I found no one.

16067

And Jesus answered and said to them, It is not those who are well who need a physician, but those who are sick.

16068

When Jesus came to the place, He looked up and said to him, “Zaccheus, hurry and come down, for today I must stay at your house.”

16069

So when the chief priests and the officers saw Him, they cried out saying, “Crucify, crucify!” Pilate *said to them, “Take Him yourselves and crucify Him, for I find no guilt in Him.”

16070

To grant us that we, being rescued from the hand of our enemies,
Might serve Him without fear,

16071

From His mouth comes a sharp sword, so that with it He may strike down the nations, and He will rule them with a rod of iron; and He treads the wine press of the fierce wrath of God, the Almighty.

16072

“The patriarchs became jealous of Joseph and sold him into Egypt. Yet God was with him,

16074

You continued looking until a stone was cut out without hands, and it struck the statue on its feet of iron and clay and crushed them.

16075

But now that you have come to know God, or rather to be known by God, how is it that you turn back again to the weak and worthless elemental things, to which you desire to be enslaved all over again?

16076

And how is it that we each hear them in our own language to which we were born?

16078

Now when the Pharisee who had invited Him saw this, he said to himself, “If this man were a prophet He would know who and what sort of person this woman is who is touching Him, that she is a sinner.”

16079

Would, therefore, that this people were under my authority! Then I would remove Abimelech.” And he said to Abimelech, “Increase your army and come out.”

16080

John answered and said, “A man can receive nothing unless it has been given him from heaven.

16082

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;

16083

they now placed the portions of fat on the breasts; and he offered them up in smoke on the altar.

16085

For thus says the Lord of hosts, ‘Once more in a little while, I am going to shake the heavens and the earth, the sea also and the dry land.

16086

But no one can tame the tongue; it is a restless evil and full of deadly poison.

16087

In pointing out these things to the brethren, you will be a good servant of Christ Jesus, constantly nourished on the words of the faith and of the sound doctrine which you have been following.

16091

In the same way then, there has also come to be at the present time a remnant according to God’s gracious choice.

16093

“Then they will go forth and look
On the corpses of the men
Who have transgressed against Me.
For their worm will not die
And their fire will not be quenched;
And they will be an abhorrence to all mankind.”

16094

But Martha was distracted with all her preparations; and she came up to Him and said, “Lord, do You not care that my sister has left me to do all the serving alone? Then tell her to help me.”

16095

Yet I will leave 7,000 in Israel, all the knees that have not bowed to Baal and every mouth that has not kissed him.”

16096

Declare and set forth your case;
Indeed, let them consult together.
Who has announced this from of old?
Who has long since declared it?
Is it not I, the Lord?
And there is no other God besides Me,
A righteous God and a Savior;
There is none except Me.

16098

In the seventh month, on the seventeenth day of the month, the ark rested upon the mountains of Ararat.

16099

I say this to your shame. Is it so, that there is not among you one wise man who will be able to decide between his brethren,

16100

For the tithe of the sons of Israel, which they offer as an offering to the Lord, I have given to the Levites for an inheritance; therefore I have said concerning them, ‘They shall have no inheritance among the sons of Israel.’”

16101

On the fourteenth day of this month, at twilight, you shall observe it at its appointed time; you shall observe it according to all its statutes and according to all its ordinances.”

16103

But God said to Abraham, “Do not be distressed because of the lad and your maid; whatever Sarah tells you, listen to her, for through Isaac your descendants shall be named.

16105

They answered Him, “Jesus the Nazarene.” He *said to them, “I am He.” And Judas also, who was betraying Him, was standing with them.

16106

Those who had seized Jesus led Him away to Caiaphas, the high priest, where the scribes and the elders were gathered together.

16107

Now in the ninth year of his reign, on the tenth day of the tenth month, Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came, he and all his army, against Jerusalem, camped against it and built a siege wall all around it.

16108

He will show no regard for the gods of his fathers or for the desire of women, nor will he show regard for any other god; for he will magnify himself above them all.

16109

And He took the five loaves and the two fish, and looking up toward heaven, He blessed the food and broke the loaves and He kept giving them to the disciples to set before them; and He divided up the two fish among them all.

16111

Now it came about in the thirtieth year, on the fifth day of the fourth month, while I was by the river Chebar among the exiles, the heavens were opened and I saw visions of God.

16114

Then the word of the Lord came to me saying,

16116

Surely you shall not come into the land in which I swore to settle you, except Caleb the son of Jephunneh and Joshua the son of Nun.

16119

In those days there was no king in Israel; every man did what was right in his own eyes.

16120

Others fell on the rocky places, where they did not have much soil; and immediately they sprang up, because they had no depth of soil.

16121

He exercises all the authority of the first beast in his presence. And he makes the earth and those who dwell in it to worship the first beast, whose fatal wound was healed.

16122

‘I will ascend above the heights of the clouds;
I will make myself like the Most High.’

16123

Oh give thanks to the Lord, call upon His name;
Make known His deeds among the peoples.

16124

None of the daughters of Israel shall be a cult prostitute, nor shall any of the sons of Israel be a cult prostitute.

16125

Now in the eighteenth year of King Josiah, the king sent Shaphan, the son of Azaliah the son of Meshullam the scribe, to the house of the Lord saying,

16126

Now therefore, kill every male among the little ones, and kill every woman who has known man intimately.

16127

For he who is not against us is for us.

16128

Another angel came and stood at the altar, holding a golden censer; and much incense was given to him, so that he might add it to the prayers of all the saints on the golden altar which was before the throne.

16129

The priest shall offer up the fat in smoke on the altar, but the breast shall belong to Aaron and his sons.

16131

Now in case a countryman of yours becomes poor and his means with regard to you falter, then you are to sustain him, like a stranger or a sojourner, that he may live with you.

16132

Or do you think that the Scripture speaks to no purpose: “He jealously desires the Spirit which He has made to dwell in us”?

16133

But that the dead are raised, even Moses showed, in the passage about the burning bush, where he calls the Lord the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob.

16134

For the sons of Israel will remain for many days without king or prince, without sacrifice or sacred pillar and without ephod or household idols.

16135

But if you are without discipline, of which all have become partakers, then you are illegitimate children and not sons.

16136

And Pilate pronounced sentence that their demand be granted.

16138

And I saw another angel ascending from the rising of the sun, having the seal of the living God; and he cried out with a loud voice to the four angels to whom it was granted to harm the earth and the sea,

16139

Do not fear, O land, rejoice and be glad,
For the Lord has done great things.

16140

She continued doing this for many days. But Paul was greatly annoyed, and turned and said to the spirit, “I command you in the name of Jesus Christ to come out of her!” And it came out at that very moment.

16141

but brother goes to law with brother, and that before unbelievers?

16142

Utterly slay old men, young men, maidens, little children, and women, but do not touch any man on whom is the mark; and you shall start from My sanctuary.” So they started with the elders who were before the temple.

16143

who devour widows’ houses, and for appearance’s sake offer long prayers. These will receive greater condemnation.”

16144

The border reached to Tabor and Shahazumah and Beth-shemesh, and their border ended at the Jordan; sixteen cities with their villages.

16145

and their talk will spread like gangrene. Among them are Hymenaeus and Philetus,

16146

Then Rezin king of Aram and Pekah son of Remaliah, king of Israel, came up to Jerusalem to wage war; and they besieged Ahaz, but could not overcome him.

16147

Those beside the road are those who have heard; then the devil comes and takes away the word from their heart, so that they will not believe and be saved.

16148

Thus says the Lord,
Do not learn the way of the nations,
And do not be terrified by the signs of the heavens
Although the nations are terrified by them;

16149

So Jacob named the place Peniel, for he said, “I have seen God face to face, yet my life has been preserved.”

16150

Then Moses came and recounted to the people all the words of the Lord and all the ordinances; and all the people answered with one voice and said, “All the words which the Lord has spoken we will do!”

16151

Tell your sons about it,
And let your sons tell their sons,
And their sons the next generation.

16152

For each tree is known by its own fruit. For men do not gather figs from thorns, nor do they pick grapes from a briar bush.

16153

Therefore we also have as our ambition, whether at home or absent, to be pleasing to Him.

16154

[Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites, because you devour widows’ houses, and for a pretense you make long prayers; therefore you will receive greater condemnation.]

16155

And you, O slain, wicked one, the prince of Israel, whose day has come, in the time of the punishment of the end,’

16156

and He who searches the hearts knows what the mind of the Spirit is, because He intercedes for the saints according to the will of God.

16157

But Joshua made them that day hewers of wood and drawers of water for the congregation and for the altar of the Lord, to this day, in the place which He would choose.

16158

and the pig, for though it divides the hoof, thus making a split hoof, it does not chew cud, it is unclean to you.

16159

And in the morning, ‘There will be a storm today, for the sky is red and threatening.’ Do you know how to discern the appearance of the sky, but cannot discern the signs of the times?

16160

your corpses will fall in this wilderness, even all your numbered men, according to your complete number from twenty years old and upward, who have grumbled against Me.

16161

seeking to know what person or time the Spirit of Christ within them was indicating as He predicted the sufferings of Christ and the glories to follow.

16162

Now Nadab the son of Jeroboam became king over Israel in the second year of Asa king of Judah, and he reigned over Israel two years.

16163

Now the Lord said to Moses, “Come up to Me on the mountain and remain there, and I will give you the stone tablets with the law and the commandment which I have written for their instruction.”

16164

‘For I will restore you to health
And I will heal you of your wounds,’ declares the Lord,
‘Because they have called you an outcast, saying:
“It is Zion; no one cares for her.”’

16165

But I did not see any other of the apostles except James, the Lord’s brother.

16166

Of the sons of Issachar, men who understood the times, with knowledge of what Israel should do, their chiefs were two hundred; and all their kinsmen were at their command.

16167

Moreover you shall make the tabernacle with ten curtains of fine twisted linen and blue and purple and scarlet material; you shall make them with cherubim, the work of a skillful workman.

16168

This became known to all, both Jews and Greeks, who lived in Ephesus; and fear fell upon them all and the name of the Lord Jesus was being magnified.

16169

For Jesus Himself testified that a prophet has no honor in his own country.

16170

Now he made the sea of cast metal ten cubits from brim to brim, circular in form, and its height was five cubits, and thirty cubits in circumference.

16172

And coming to us, he took Paul’s belt and bound his own feet and hands, and said, “This is what the Holy Spirit says: ‘In this way the Jews at Jerusalem will bind the man who owns this belt and deliver him into the hands of the Gentiles.’”

16173

Then the glory of the God of Israel went up from the cherub on which it had been, to the threshold of the temple. And He called to the man clothed in linen at whose loins was the writing case.

16174

“In regard to all the things of which I am accused by the Jews, I consider myself fortunate, King Agrippa, that I am about to make my defense before you today;

16177

Therefore they picked up stones to throw at Him, but Jesus hid Himself and went out of the temple.

16178

Then they *brought Him to the place Golgotha, which is translated, Place of a Skull.

16179

They were saying, “Is not this Jesus, the son of Joseph, whose father and mother we know? How does He now say, I have come down out of heaven’?”

16180

from the blood of Abel to the blood of Zechariah, who was killed between the altar and the house of God; yes, I tell you, it shall be charged against this generation.’

16181

For He is our God,
And we are the people of His pasture and the sheep of His hand.
Today, if you would hear His voice,

16182

Who has measured the waters in the hollow of His hand,
And marked off the heavens by the span,
And calculated the dust of the earth by the measure,
And weighed the mountains in a balance
And the hills in a pair of scales?

16184

and they will level you to the ground and your children within you, and they will not leave in you one stone upon another, because you did not recognize the time of your visitation.”

16185

It is like a mustard seed, which, when sown upon the soil, though it is smaller than all the seeds that are upon the soil,

16186

Then his wife said to him, “Do you still hold fast your integrity? Curse God and die!”

16187

The son of Anah was Dishon. And the sons of Dishon were Hamran, Eshban, Ithran and Cheran.

16188

So Moses listened to his father-in-law and did all that he had said.

16189

But My servant Caleb, because he has had a different spirit and has followed Me fully, I will bring into the land which he entered, and his descendants shall take possession of it.

16190

He who separates himself seeks his own desire,
He quarrels against all sound wisdom.

16192

Then comes the tribe of Zebulun, and the leader of the sons of Zebulun: Eliab the son of Helon,

16193

‘You are also to count off seven sabbaths of years for yourself, seven times seven years, so that you have the time of the seven sabbaths of years, namely, forty-nine years.

16196

This is the covenant that I will make with them
After those days, says the Lord:
I will put My laws upon their heart,
And on their mind I will write them,”
He then says,

16197

Now Abraham took another wife, whose name was Keturah.

16199

Then Cain went out from the presence of the Lord, and settled in the land of Nod, east of Eden.

16200

But He said to him, “Allow the dead to bury their own dead; but as for you, go and proclaim everywhere the kingdom of God.”

16201

Then a champion came out from the armies of the Philistines named Goliath, from Gath, whose height was six cubits and a span.

16202

In that day Israel will be the third party with Egypt and Assyria, a blessing in the midst of the earth,

16204

The two were running together; and the other disciple ran ahead faster than Peter and came to the tomb first;

16206

Then Elisha prayed and said, “O Lord, I pray, open his eyes that he may see.” And the Lord opened the servant’s eyes and he saw; and behold, the mountain was full of horses and chariots of fire all around Elisha.

16207

When they came up out of the water, the Spirit of the Lord snatched Philip away; and the eunuch no longer saw him, but went on his way rejoicing.

16208

I have decided to deliver such a one to Satan for the destruction of his flesh, so that his spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord Jesus.

16209

and said, “What are you willing to give me to betray Him to you?” And they weighed out thirty pieces of silver to him.

16210

And he left for Tarsus to look for Saul;

16211

For you yourselves know, brethren, that our coming to you was not in vain,

16212

So when they got out on the land, they *saw a charcoal fire already laid and fish placed on it, and bread.

16215

For behold, you shall conceive and give birth to a son, and no razor shall come upon his head, for the boy shall be a Nazirite to God from the womb; and he shall begin to deliver Israel from the hands of the Philistines.”

16217

If you have nothing with which to pay,
Why should he take your bed from under you?

16218

Then Samuel took the horn of oil and anointed him in the midst of his brothers; and the Spirit of the Lord came mightily upon David from that day forward. And Samuel arose and went to Ramah.

16219

“Woe to the world because of its stumbling blocks! For it is inevitable that stumbling blocks come; but woe to that man through whom the stumbling block comes!

16220

The Lord said to Satan, “Have you considered My servant Job? For there is no one like him on the earth, a blameless and upright man fearing God and turning away from evil. And he still holds fast his integrity, although you incited Me against him to ruin him without cause.”

16221

Blow a trumpet in Zion,
Consecrate a fast, proclaim a solemn assembly,

16222

When anguish comes, they will seek peace, but there will be none.

16223

Finally, brethren, pray for us that the word of the Lord will spread rapidly and be glorified, just as it did also with you;

16224

For this perfume might have been sold for over three hundred denarii, and the money given to the poor.” And they were scolding her.

16225

Luke, the beloved physician, sends you his greetings, and also Demas.

16226

Give to everyone who asks of you, and whoever takes away what is yours, do not demand it back.

16227

And Jesus called His disciples to Him, and said, I feel compassion for the people, because they have remained with Me now three days and have nothing to eat; and I do not want to send them away hungry, for they might faint on the way.”

16228

So he was there with the Lord forty days and forty nights; he did not eat bread or drink water. And he wrote on the tablets the words of the covenant, the Ten Commandments.

16229

As for the mystery of the seven stars which you saw in My right hand, and the seven golden lampstands: the seven stars are the angels of the seven churches, and the seven lampstands are the seven churches.

16230

A voice says, “Call out.”
Then he answered, “What shall I call out?”
All flesh is grass, and all its loveliness is like the flower of the field.

16232

But sin, taking opportunity through the commandment, produced in me coveting of every kind; for apart from the Law sin is dead.

16234

And all His acquaintances and the women who accompanied Him from Galilee were standing at a distance, seeing these things.

16235

I will hurl you and your mother who bore you into another country where you were not born, and there you will die.

16237

Then the Lord spoke to Moses, saying,

16238

When she had said this, she turned around and *saw Jesus standing there, and did not know that it was Jesus.

16240

From that city many of the Samaritans believed in Him because of the word of the woman who testified, “He told me all the things that I have done.”

16241

because His judgments are true and righteous; for He has judged the great harlot who was corrupting the earth with her immorality, and He has avenged the blood of His bond-servants on her.”

16242

But there are some of you who do not believe.” For Jesus knew from the beginning who they were who did not believe, and who it was that would betray Him.

16243

So Moses stretched out his hand over the sea, and the sea returned to its normal state at daybreak, while the Egyptians were fleeing right into it; then the Lord overthrew the Egyptians in the midst of the sea.

16244

I set My bow in the cloud, and it shall be for a sign of a covenant between Me and the earth.

16245

Even at Horeb you provoked the Lord to wrath, and the Lord was so angry with you that He would have destroyed you.

16246

Then he *said to Him, “Which ones?” And Jesus said, You shall not commit murder; You shall not commit adultery; You shall not steal; You shall not bear false witness;

16247

Come near to Me, listen to this:
From the first I have not spoken in secret,
From the time it took place, I was there.
And now the Lord God has sent Me, and His Spirit.”

16249

Then when he arrived and witnessed the grace of God, he rejoiced and began to encourage them all with resolute heart to remain true to the Lord;

16250

For behold, they will go because of destruction;
Egypt will gather them up, Memphis will bury them.
Weeds will take over their treasures of silver;
Thorns will be in their tents.

16253

Jesus answered and said to him, “What I do you do not realize now, but you will understand hereafter.”

16255

And when He became twelve, they went up there according to the custom of the Feast;

16256

“Indeed, ask now concerning the former days which were before you, since the day that God created man on the earth, and inquire from one end of the heavens to the other. Has anything been done like this great thing, or has anything been heard like it?

16257

But I want you to be free from concern. One who is unmarried is concerned about the things of the Lord, how he may please the Lord;

16258

For what purpose does frankincense come to Me from Sheba
And the sweet cane from a distant land?
Your burnt offerings are not acceptable
And your sacrifices are not pleasing to Me.”

16260

Then Jezebel sent a messenger to Elijah, saying, “So may the gods do to me and even more, if I do not make your life as the life of one of them by tomorrow about this time.”

16261

But He said, “Woe to you lawyers as well! For you weigh men down with burdens hard to bear, while you yourselves will not even touch the burdens with one of your fingers.

16262

After saying above, “Sacrifices and offerings and whole burnt offerings and sacrifices for sin You have not desired, nor have You taken pleasure in them” (which are offered according to the Law),

16263

On behalf of such a man I will boast; but on my own behalf I will not boast, except in regard to my weaknesses.

16265

Oh, that You would rend the heavens and come down,
That the mountains might quake at Your presence—

16266

And His disciples asked Him, “Rabbi, who sinned, this man or his parents, that he would be born blind?”

16267

The crowds going ahead of Him, and those who followed, were shouting,
“Hosanna to the Son of David;
Blessed is He who comes in the name of the Lord;
Hosanna in the highest!”

16268

“Thus says the Lord of hosts, ‘This people says, “The time has not come, even the time for the house of the Lord to be rebuilt.”’”

16269

Shout for joy, O daughter of Zion!
Shout in triumph, O Israel!
Rejoice and exult with all your heart,
O daughter of Jerusalem!

16270

Give thanks to the Lord, for He is good,
For His lovingkindness is everlasting.

16273

For the choir director. A Song. A Psalm.
Shout joyfully to God, all the earth;

16274

“Again, the kingdom of heaven is like a merchant seeking fine pearls,

16275

“And I will bring the third part through the fire,
Refine them as silver is refined,
And test them as gold is tested.
They will call on My name,
And I will answer them;
I will say, ‘They are My people,’
And they will say, ‘The Lord is my God.’”

16276

This precious value, then, is for you who believe; but for those who disbelieve,
The stone which the builders rejected,
This became the very corner stone,”

16277

As they were going out, a mute, demon-possessed man was brought to Him.

16278

Moses then said to Aaron, “Come near to the altar and offer your sin offering and your burnt offering, that you may make atonement for yourself and for the people; then make the offering for the people, that you may make atonement for them, just as the Lord has commanded.”

16280

What I say to you I say to all, ‘Be on the alert!’”

16281

but for Cain and for his offering He had no regard. So Cain became very angry and his countenance fell.

16282

But if I say, “I will not remember Him
Or speak anymore in His name,”
Then in my heart it becomes like a burning fire
Shut up in my bones;
And I am weary of holding it in,
And I cannot endure it.

16283

one male goat for a sin offering;

16285

The angel of the Lord went further, and stood in a narrow place where there was no way to turn to the right hand or the left.

16286

who testified to the word of God and to the testimony of Jesus Christ, even to all that he saw.

16291

and James, the son of Zebedee, and John the brother of James (to them He gave the name Boanerges, which means, “Sons of Thunder”);

16292

The angel of God, who had been going before the camp of Israel, moved and went behind them; and the pillar of cloud moved from before them and stood behind them.

16293

And He was saying, “For this reason I have said to you, that no one can come to Me unless it has been granted him from the Father.”

16294

Sing for joy in the Lord, O you righteous ones;
Praise is becoming to the upright.

16296

And having received it in their turn, our fathers brought it in with Joshua upon dispossessing the nations whom God drove out before our fathers, until the time of David.

16297

and to every beast of the earth and to every bird of the sky and to every thing that moves on the earth which has life, I have given every green plant for food”; and it was so.

16298

Then the Lord spoke to Moses, saying,

16299

But when the fourteenth night came, as we were being driven about in the Adriatic Sea, about midnight the sailors began to surmise that they were approaching some land.

16300

For as in those days before the flood they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day that Noah entered the ark,

16301

Then Eliakim the son of Hilkiah, who was over the household, and Shebna the scribe and Joah the son of Asaph, the recorder, came to Hezekiah with their clothes torn and told him the words of Rabshakeh.

16302

But if it is not bought back for him within the space of a full year, then the house that is in the walled city passes permanently to its purchaser throughout his generations; it does not revert in the jubilee.

16303

“But now ask the beasts, and let them teach you;
And the birds of the heavens, and let them tell you.

16304

Sheol from beneath is excited over you to meet you when you come;
It arouses for you the spirits of the dead, all the leaders of the earth;
It raises all the kings of the nations from their thrones.

16305

And He said, “Who told you that you were naked? Have you eaten from the tree of which I commanded you not to eat?”

16306

even though these three men were in its midst, as I live,” declares the Lord God, “they could not deliver either their sons or their daughters, but they alone would be delivered.

16310

See, the Lord has given you the sabbath; therefore He gives you bread for two days on the sixth day. Remain every man in his place; let no man go out of his place on the seventh day.”

16314

Now those who camp on the east side toward the sunrise shall be of the standard of the camp of Judah, by their armies, and the leader of the sons of Judah: Nahshon the son of Amminadab,

16317

Give ear, O heavens, and let me speak;
And let the earth hear the words of my mouth.

16319

When Pilate saw that he was accomplishing nothing, but rather that a riot was starting, he took water and washed his hands in front of the crowd, saying, “I am innocent of this Man’s blood; see to that yourselves.”

16321

Now Herod was very glad when he saw Jesus; for he had wanted to see Him for a long time, because he had been hearing about Him and was hoping to see some sign performed by Him.

16323

But the things that proceed out of the mouth come from the heart, and those defile the man.

16325

“Everyone deceives his neighbor
And does not speak the truth,
They have taught their tongue to speak lies;
They weary themselves committing iniquity.

16326

But in those sacrifices there is a reminder of sins year by year.

16328

Whenever a woman is in labor she has pain, because her hour has come; but when she gives birth to the child, she no longer remembers the anguish because of the joy that a child has been born into the world.

16330

Surely she lurks as a robber,
And increases the faithless among men.

16331

Beloved, I pray that in all respects you may prosper and be in good health, just as your soul prospers.

16332

“Their tongue is a deadly arrow;
It speaks deceit;
With his mouth one speaks peace to his neighbor,
But inwardly he sets an ambush for him.

16335

Answer me, O Lord, answer me, that this people may know that You, O Lord, are God, and that You have turned their heart back again.”

16338

Pharaoh said to Joseph, “See, I have set you over all the land of Egypt.”

16339

They observed the Passover in the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month, at twilight, in the wilderness of Sinai; according to all that the Lord had commanded Moses, so the sons of Israel did.

16340

If we say that we have not sinned, we make Him a liar and His word is not in us. Cross references: 1 John 1:1 : John 1:1f; 1 John 2:13, 14 1 John 1:1 : Acts 4:20; 1 John 1:3 1 John 1:1 : John 19:35; 2 Pet 1:16; 1 John 1:2 1 John 1:1 : John 1:14; 1 John 4:14 1 John 1:1 : Luke 24:39; John 20:27 1 John 1:1 : John 1:1, 4 1 John 1:2 : John 1:4; 1 John 3:5, 8; 5:20 1 John 1:2 : John 19:35; 1 John 1:1 1 John 1:2 : John 15:27; 1 John 4:14 1 John 1:2 : John 10:28; 17:3; 1 John 2:25; 5:11, 13, 20 1 John 1:2 : John 1:1 1 John 1:2 : John 1:4; 1 John 3:5, 8; 5:20 1 John 1:3 : John 19:35; 2 Pet 1:16; 1 John 1:1 1 John 1:3 : Acts 4:20; 1 John 1:1 1 John 1:3 : John 17:3, 21; 1 Cor 1:9 1 John 1:4 : 1 John 2:1 1 John 1:4 : John 3:29 1 John 1:5 : John 1:19; 1 John 3:11 1 John 1:5 : 1 Tim 6:16; James 1:17 1 John 1:6 : John 8:12; 1 John 2:11 1 John 1:6 : John 8:55; 1 John 2:4; 4:20 1 John 1:6 : John 3:21 1 John 1:7 : Is 2:5 1 John 1:7 : 1 Tim 6:16 1 John 1:7 : Titus 2:14 1 John 1:8 : Job 15:14; Prov 20:9; Rom 3:10ff; James 3:2 1 John 1:8 : John 8:44; 1 John 2:4 1 John 1:9 : Ps 32:5; Prov 28:13 1 John 1:9 : Titus 2:14 1 John 1:10 : Job 15:14 1 John 1:10 : John 3:33; 1 John 5:10 1 John 1:10 : 1 John 2:14 end of crossrefs

16341

This testimony is true. For this reason reprove them severely so that they may be sound in the faith,

16342

The earth is full of Your lovingkindness, O Lord;
Teach me Your statutes.

16343

where their worm does not die, and the fire is not quenched.

16344

Then the Lord will go forth and fight against those nations, as when He fights on a day of battle.

16346

And there in front of Him was a man suffering from dropsy.

16347

Besides the continual burnt offering and its grain offering, you shall present them with their drink offerings. They shall be without defect.

16348

Having said these things to them, He stayed in Galilee.

16349

Now John himself had a garment of camel’s hair and a leather belt around his waist; and his food was locusts and wild honey.

16350

Noah was five hundred years old, and Noah became the father of Shem, Ham, and Japheth.

16351

And immediately there fell from his eyes something like scales, and he regained his sight, and he got up and was baptized;

16352

But some days later Felix arrived with Drusilla, his wife who was a Jewess, and sent for Paul and heard him speak about faith in Christ Jesus.

16354

Then He said, “Do not come near here; remove your sandals from your feet, for the place on which you are standing is holy ground.”

16355

You shall therefore impress these words of mine on your heart and on your soul; and you shall bind them as a sign on your hand, and they shall be as frontals on your forehead.

16358

and He did not speak to them without a parable; but He was explaining everything privately to His own disciples.

16359

Then immediately the brethren sent Paul out to go as far as the sea; and Silas and Timothy remained there.

16360

“So it shall be when all of these things have come upon you, the blessing and the curse which I have set before you, and you call them to mind in all nations where the Lord your God has banished you,

16361

“Speak to the sons of Israel, saying, ‘On the fifteenth of this seventh month is the Feast of Booths for seven days to the Lord.

16362

and they bound Him, and led Him away and delivered Him to Pilate the governor.

16364

The men of Israel said to the Hivites, “Perhaps you are living within our land; how then shall we make a covenant with you?”

16365

But the olive tree said to them, ‘Shall I leave my fatness with which God and men are honored, and go to wave over the trees?’

16367

Now the names of the twelve apostles are these: The first, Simon, who is called Peter, and Andrew his brother; and James the son of Zebedee, and John his brother;

16368

They went out into the field and gathered the grapes of their vineyards and trod them, and held a festival; and they went into the house of their god, and ate and drank and cursed Abimelech.

16369

Here is the mind which has wisdom. The seven heads are seven mountains on which the woman sits,

16371

So the first angel went and poured out his bowl on the earth; and it became a loathsome and malignant sore on the people who had the mark of the beast and who worshiped his image.

16372

I, John, am the one who heard and saw these things. And when I heard and saw, I fell down to worship at the feet of the angel who showed me these things.

16373

“It shall come about, if you listen obediently to my commandments which I am commanding you today, to love the Lord your God and to serve Him with all your heart and all your soul,

16374

As they were leaving Jericho, a large crowd followed Him.

16375

He will again have compassion on us;
He will tread our iniquities under foot.
Yes, You will cast all their sins
Into the depths of the sea.

16376

Judas (not Iscariot) *said to Him, “Lord, what then has happened that You are going to disclose Yourself to us and not to the world?”

16377

“Therefore you shall prophesy against them all these words, and you shall say to them,
‘The Lord will roar from on high
And utter His voice from His holy habitation;
He will roar mightily against His fold.
He will shout like those who tread the grapes,
Against all the inhabitants of the earth.

16378

“Moses My servant is dead; now therefore arise, cross this Jordan, you and all this people, to the land which I am giving to them, to the sons of Israel.

16379

but when they entered, they did not find the body of the Lord Jesus.

16380

He killed of Edom in the Valley of Salt 10,000 and took Sela by war, and named it Joktheel to this day.

16381

Then the Lord spoke to Moses saying,

16382

Abraham said, “God will provide for Himself the lamb for the burnt offering, my son.” So the two of them walked on together.

16383

But with righteousness He will judge the poor,
And decide with fairness for the afflicted of the earth;
And He will strike the earth with the rod of His mouth,
And with the breath of His lips He will slay the wicked.

16384

He took this from their hand, and fashioned it with a graving tool and made it into a molten calf; and they said, “This is your god, O Israel, who brought you up from the land of Egypt.”

16385

And Eleazar the son of Aaron died; and they buried him at Gibeah of Phinehas his son, which was given him in the hill country of Ephraim.

16386

And she cried out with a loud voice and said, “Blessed are you among women, and blessed is the fruit of your womb!

16387

This command I entrust to you, Timothy, my son, in accordance with the prophecies previously made concerning you, that by them you fight the good fight,

16388

And He *came the third time, and *said to them, Are you still sleeping and resting? It is enough; the hour has come; behold, the Son of Man is being betrayed into the hands of sinners.

16389

And He answered and said, “Elijah is coming and will restore all things;

16390

‘Is not their tent-cord plucked up within them?
They die, yet without wisdom.’

16391

They went to Joshua to the camp at Gilgal and said to him and to the men of Israel, “We have come from a far country; now therefore, make a covenant with us.”

16392

“His mouth is full of sweetness.
And he is wholly desirable.
This is my beloved and this is my friend,
O daughters of Jerusalem.”

16393

So Balak took Balaam to the top of Peor which overlooks the wasteland.

16394

Then they set out from Elim, and all the congregation of the sons of Israel came to the wilderness of Sin, which is between Elim and Sinai, on the fifteenth day of the second month after their departure from the land of Egypt.

16395

and for the Gentiles to glorify God for His mercy; as it is written,
Therefore I will give praise to You among the Gentiles,
And I will sing to Your name.”

16397

Abijah pursued Jeroboam and captured from him several cities, Bethel with its villages, Jeshanah with its villages and Ephron with its villages.

16398

that they gathered themselves together with one accord to fight with Joshua and with Israel.

16399

and were continually in the temple praising God.

16400

At that time Berodach-baladan a son of Baladan, king of Babylon, sent letters and a present to Hezekiah, for he heard that Hezekiah had been sick.

16401

and will come out to deceive the nations which are in the four corners of the earth, Gog and Magog, to gather them together for the war; the number of them is like the sand of the seashore.

16402

All the circumcised believers who came with Peter were amazed, because the gift of the Holy Spirit had been poured out on the Gentiles also.

16403

and the priest shall look at him, and behold, if the infection has turned to white, then the priest shall pronounce clean him who has the infection; he is clean.

16404

“Speak to the sons of Israel, saying, ‘In the seventh month on the first of the month you shall have a rest, a reminder by blowing of trumpets, a holy convocation.

16405

and said to Him, “Do You hear what these children are saying?” And Jesus *said to them, “Yes; have you never read, ‘Out of the mouth of infants and nursing babies You have prepared praise for Yourself’?”

16406

“Your words have helped the tottering to stand,
And you have strengthened feeble knees.

16407

Now Rachel had taken the household idols and put them in the camel’s saddle, and she sat on them. And Laban felt through all the tent but did not find them.

16408

When they set out from Rephidim, they came to the wilderness of Sinai and camped in the wilderness; and there Israel camped in front of the mountain.

16409

“But as soon as they had rest, they did evil again before You;
Therefore You abandoned them to the hand of their enemies, so that they ruled over them.
When they cried again to You, You heard from heaven,
And many times You rescued them according to Your compassion,

16410

And the temple of God which is in heaven was opened; and the ark of His covenant appeared in His temple, and there were flashes of lightning and sounds and peals of thunder and an earthquake and a great hailstorm.

16411

And Jesus sent Peter and John, saying, “Go and prepare the Passover for us, so that we may eat it.”

16414

But some were indignantly remarking to one another, “Why has this perfume been wasted?

16416

When they heard that He was alive and had been seen by her, they refused to believe it.

16417

It will never be inhabited or lived in from generation to generation;
Nor will the Arab pitch his tent there,
Nor will shepherds make their flocks lie down there.

16419

Since the days of our fathers to this day we have been in great guilt, and on account of our iniquities we, our kings and our priests have been given into the hand of the kings of the lands, to the sword, to captivity and to plunder and to open shame, as it is this day.

16420

“A river of fire was flowing
And coming out from before Him;
Thousands upon thousands were attending Him,
And myriads upon myriads were standing before Him;
The court sat,
And the books were opened.

16421

and others experienced mockings and scourgings, yes, also chains and imprisonment.

16422

Each day you shall offer a bull as a sin offering for atonement, and you shall purify the altar when you make atonement for it, and you shall anoint it to consecrate it.

16426

Seeing them straining at the oars, for the wind was against them, at about the fourth watch of the night He *came to them, walking on the sea; and He intended to pass by them.

16427

A people whom you do not know shall eat up the produce of your ground and all your labors, and you will never be anything but oppressed and crushed continually.

16428

Then God said to Abraham, “As for Sarai your wife, you shall not call her name Sarai, but Sarah shall be her name.

16430

saying, “Do not harm the earth or the sea or the trees until we have sealed the bond-servants of our God on their foreheads.”

16432

Do not think that I will accuse you before the Father; the one who accuses you is Moses, in whom you have set your hope.

16434

Then Abraham fell on his face and laughed, and said in his heart, “Will a child be born to a man one hundred years old? And will Sarah, who is ninety years old, bear a child?”

16435

“We heard Him say, ‘I will destroy this temple made with hands, and in three days I will build another made without hands.’”

16436

far above all rule and authority and power and dominion, and every name that is named, not only in this age but also in the one to come.

16437

When you have completed these, you shall lie down a second time, but on your right side and bear the iniquity of the house of Judah; I have assigned it to you for forty days, a day for each year.

16438

Now the women who had come with Him out of Galilee followed, and saw the tomb and how His body was laid.

16439

The people spent all day and all night and all the next day, and gathered the quail (he who gathered least gathered ten homers) and they spread them out for themselves all around the camp.

16440

Yours, O Lord, is the greatness and the power and the glory and the victory and the majesty, indeed everything that is in the heavens and the earth; Yours is the dominion, O Lord, and You exalt Yourself as head over all.

16441

Say, therefore, to the sons of Israel, ‘I am the Lord, and I will bring you out from under the burdens of the Egyptians, and I will deliver you from their bondage. I will also redeem you with an outstretched arm and with great judgments.

16442

If his offering is a burnt offering from the herd, he shall offer it, a male without defect; he shall offer it at the doorway of the tent of meeting, that he may be accepted before the Lord.

16443

We are witnesses of all the things He did both in the land of the Jews and in Jerusalem. They also put Him to death by hanging Him on a cross.

16444

The one to be cleansed shall then wash his clothes and shave off all his hair and bathe in water and be clean. Now afterward, he may enter the camp, but he shall stay outside his tent for seven days.

16445

Parmashta, Arisai, Aridai and Vaizatha,

16446

The Lord was angry with me also on your account, saying, ‘Not even you shall enter there.

16447

and he will speak words to you by which you will be saved, you and all your household.’

16449

As the truth of Christ is in me, this boasting of mine will not be stopped in the regions of Achaia.

16450

We also inform you that it is not allowed to impose tax, tribute or toll on any of the priests, Levites, singers, doorkeepers, Nethinim or servants of this house of God.

16451

Then the king of Assyria sent Tartan and Rab-saris and Rabshakeh from Lachish to King Hezekiah with a large army to Jerusalem. So they went up and came to Jerusalem. And when they went up, they came and stood by the conduit of the upper pool, which is on the highway of the fuller’s field.

16452

Then Moses said to the Lord, “See, You say to me, ‘Bring up this people!’ But You Yourself have not let me know whom You will send with me. Moreover, You have said, ‘I have known you by name, and you have also found favor in My sight.’

16453

Heaven is My throne,
And earth is the footstool of My feet;
What kind of house will you build for Me?’ says the Lord,
Or what place is there for My repose?

16455

As Jesus was about to go up to Jerusalem, He took the twelve disciples aside by themselves, and on the way He said to them,

16456

I am speaking in human terms because of the weakness of your flesh. For just as you presented your members as slaves to impurity and to lawlessness, resulting in further lawlessness, so now present your members as slaves to righteousness, resulting in sanctification.

16457

Then all his brothers and all his sisters and all who had known him before came to him, and they ate bread with him in his house; and they consoled him and comforted him for all the adversities that the Lord had brought on him. And each one gave him one piece of money, and each a ring of gold.

16460

This is what the Lord has commanded, ‘Gather of it every man as much as he should eat; you shall take an omer apiece according to the number of persons each of you has in his tent.’”

16461

The sons of Israel were mustered and were provisioned and went to meet them; and the sons of Israel camped before them like two little flocks of goats, but the Arameans filled the country.

16462

And He was stating the matter plainly. And Peter took Him aside and began to rebuke Him.

16463

Now on the seventh day of the fifth month, which was the nineteenth year of King Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon, Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard, a servant of the king of Babylon, came to Jerusalem.

16464

“For I am the Lord your God,
The Holy One of Israel, your Savior;
I have given Egypt as your ransom,
Cush and Seba in your place.

16465

“Your dwelling is in the midst of deceit;
Through deceit they refuse to know Me,” declares the Lord.

16467

Now the sons of the prophets said to Elisha, “Behold now, the place before you where we are living is too limited for us.

16468

Behold I, Paul, say to you that if you receive circumcision, Christ will be of no benefit to you.

16470

I will give to you and to your descendants after you, the land of your sojournings, all the land of Canaan, for an everlasting possession; and I will be their God.”

16471

Then the Spirit of the Lord came upon him mightily, and he went down to Ashkelon and killed thirty of them and took their spoil and gave the changes of clothes to those who told the riddle. And his anger burned, and he went up to his father’s house.

16473

or a hunchback or a dwarf, or one who has a defect in his eye or eczema or scabs or crushed testicles.

16474

But they kept on insisting, saying, “He stirs up the people, teaching all over Judea, starting from Galilee even as far as this place.”

16475

He said,
The Lord came from Sinai,
And dawned on them from Seir;
He shone forth from Mount Paran,
And He came from the midst of ten thousand holy ones;
At His right hand there was flashing lightning for them.

16477

And the Lord said to him, “Get up and go to the street called Straight, and inquire at the house of Judas for a man from Tarsus named Saul, for he is praying,

16478

The Jews assembled in their cities throughout all the provinces of King Ahasuerus to lay hands on those who sought their harm; and no one could stand before them, for the dread of them had fallen on all the peoples.

16480

After singing a hymn, they went out to the Mount of Olives.

16481

Chenaniah, chief of the Levites, was in charge of the singing; he gave instruction in singing because he was skillful.

16482

For this reason God will send upon them a deluding influence so that they will believe what is false,

16483

They shall not live in your land, because they will make you sin against Me; for if you serve their gods, it will surely be a snare to you.”

16484

Then he left there and went to the house of a man named Titius Justus, a worshiper of God, whose house was next to the synagogue.

16485

In the fourteenth year Chedorlaomer and the kings that were with him, came and defeated the Rephaim in Ashteroth-karnaim and the Zuzim in Ham and the Emim in Shaveh-kiriathaim,

16486

You will say to me then, “Why does He still find fault? For who resists His will?”

16487

and He sent messengers on ahead of Him, and they went and entered a village of the Samaritans to make arrangements for Him.

16488

and muster an army like the army that you have lost, horse for horse, and chariot for chariot. Then we will fight against them in the plain, and surely we will be stronger than they.” And he listened to their voice and did so.

16493

But I will camp around My house because of an army,
Because of him who passes by and returns;
And no oppressor will pass over them anymore,
For now I have seen with My eyes.

16494

For they did not have courage to question Him any longer about anything.

16495

Now Abraham was one hundred years old when his son Isaac was born to him.

16496

But they cried out all together, saying, “Away with this man, and release for us Barabbas!”

16497

He said, “I will surely return to you at this time next year; and behold, Sarah your wife will have a son.” And Sarah was listening at the tent door, which was behind him.

16499

With many such parables He was speaking the word to them, so far as they were able to hear it;

16501

“Even after my skin is destroyed,
Yet from my flesh I shall see God;

16502

Then He said to me, “The iniquity of the house of Israel and Judah is very, very great, and the land is filled with blood and the city is full of perversion; for they say, ‘The Lord has forsaken the land, and the Lord does not see!’

16504

When Jesus had finished all these words, He said to His disciples,

16505

But the sons of Israel walked on dry land through the midst of the sea, and the waters were like a wall to them on their right hand and on their left.

16506

You saw the affliction of our fathers in Egypt,
And heard their cry by the Red Sea.

16507

Now these are the last words of David.
David the son of Jesse declares,
The man who was raised on high declares,
The anointed of the God of Jacob,
And the sweet psalmist of Israel,

16508

And He went away again beyond the Jordan to the place where John was first baptizing, and He was staying there.

16509

And he deceives those who dwell on the earth because of the signs which it was given him to perform in the presence of the beast, telling those who dwell on the earth to make an image to the beast who *had the wound of the sword and has come to life.

16510

Then to the sons of Israel you shall speak, saying, ‘Take a male goat for a sin offering, and a calf and a lamb, both one year old, without defect, for a burnt offering,

16511

Then Moses led Israel from the Red Sea, and they went out into the wilderness of Shur; and they went three days in the wilderness and found no water.

16512

Who may ascend into the hill of the Lord?
And who may stand in His holy place?

16513

since Abraham will surely become a great and mighty nation, and in him all the nations of the earth will be blessed?

16514

Jesus said to them, “Is this not the reason you are mistaken, that you do not understand the Scriptures or the power of God?

16515

envying, drunkenness, carousing, and things like these, of which I forewarn you, just as I have forewarned you, that those who practice such things will not inherit the kingdom of God.

16516

“Moreover, you shall make an altar as a place for burning incense; you shall make it of acacia wood.

16517

A Psalm, a Song for the Sabbath day.
It is good to give thanks to the Lord
And to sing praises to Your name, O Most High;

16518

They questioned Him, saying, “Teacher, when therefore will these things happen? And what will be the sign when these things are about to take place?”

16519

When Esau heard the words of his father, he cried out with an exceedingly great and bitter cry, and said to his father, “Bless me, even me also, O my father!”

16520

When Ahab saw Elijah, Ahab said to him, “Is this you, you troubler of Israel?”

16521

“Of old You founded the earth,
And the heavens are the work of Your hands.

16523

Truly I say to you, all these things will come upon this generation.

16525

You shall not set up for yourself a sacred pillar which the Lord your God hates.

16527

And I will remove their blood from their mouth
And their detestable things from between their teeth.
Then they also will be a remnant for our God,
And be like a clan in Judah,
And Ekron like a Jebusite.

16528

It came about that just as it grew dark at the gates of Jerusalem before the sabbath, I commanded that the doors should be shut and that they should not open them until after the sabbath. Then I stationed some of my servants at the gates so that no load would enter on the sabbath day.

16529

As Pharaoh drew near, the sons of Israel looked, and behold, the Egyptians were marching after them, and they became very frightened; so the sons of Israel cried out to the Lord.

16530

For whoever has, to him more shall be given, and he will have an abundance; but whoever does not have, even what he has shall be taken away from him.

16531

The Lord said, “Shall I hide from Abraham what I am about to do,

16532

The words of Jeremiah the son of Hilkiah, of the priests who were in Anathoth in the land of Benjamin,

16533

“You shall bring the choice first fruits of your soil into the house of the Lord your God.You are not to boil a young goat in the milk of its mother.

16534

Furthermore, you shall select out of all the people able men who fear God, men of truth, those who hate dishonest gain; and you shall place these over them as leaders of thousands, of hundreds, of fifties and of tens.

16536

Then all the tribes of Israel came to David at Hebron and said, “Behold, we are your bone and your flesh.

16537

Then David numbered the people who were with him and set over them commanders of thousands and commanders of hundreds.

16538

“For then I will give to the peoples purified lips,
That all of them may call on the name of the Lord,
To serve Him shoulder to shoulder.

16539

Out of one of them came forth a rather small horn which grew exceedingly great toward the south, toward the east, and toward the Beautiful Land.

16540

then the man who lay with her shall give to the girl’s father fifty shekels of silver, and she shall become his wife because he has violated her; he cannot divorce her all his days.

16542

And He allowed no one to accompany Him, except Peter and James and John the brother of James.

16543

“As for Me, behold, My covenant is with you,
And you will be the father of a multitude of nations.

16544

No one who is emasculated or has his male organ cut off shall enter the assembly of the Lord.

16545

Turning toward the woman, He said to Simon, “Do you see this woman? I entered your house; you gave Me no water for My feet, but she has wet My feet with her tears and wiped them with her hair.

16546

Now Abraham arose early in the morning and went to the place where he had stood before the Lord;

16547

“Together they lie down in the dust,
And worms cover them.

16548

But when you are invited, go and recline at the last place, so that when the one who has invited you comes, he may say to you, ‘Friend, move up higher’; then you will have honor in the sight of all who are at the table with you.

16549

Then they told David, saying, “Behold, the Philistines are fighting against Keilah and are plundering the threshing floors.”

16550

The Lord spoke to Moses and Aaron, saying,

16551

They were saying to one another, “Who will roll away the stone for us from the entrance of the tomb?”

16553

God said, “This is the sign of the covenant which I am making between Me and you and every living creature that is with you, for all successive generations;

16554

Adam had relations with his wife again; and she gave birth to a son, and named him Seth, for, she said, “God has appointed me another offspring in place of Abel, for Cain killed him.”

16555

And answering him, Jesus said, “What do you want Me to do for you?” And the blind man said to Him, “Rabboni, I want to regain my sight!”

16556

Now Abraham journeyed from there toward the land of the Negev, and settled between Kadesh and Shur; then he sojourned in Gerar.

16558

men who have gone astray from the truth saying that the resurrection has already taken place, and they upset the faith of some.

16559

Ephraim was a watchman with my God, a prophet;
Yet the snare of a bird catcher is in all his ways,
And there is only hostility in the house of his God.

16560

And she gave birth to a son, a male child, who is to rule all the nations with a rod of iron; and her child was caught up to God and to His throne.

16563

and *said to Him, “If You are the Son of God, throw Yourself down; for it is written,
He will command His angels concerning You’;
andOn their hands they will bear You up,
So that You will not strike Your foot against a stone.’”

16564

“You have made my heart beat faster, my sister, my bride;
You have made my heart beat faster with a single glance of your eyes,
With a single strand of your necklace.

16565

Then I looked, and behold, a white cloud, and sitting on the cloud was one like a son of man, having a golden crown on His head and a sharp sickle in His hand.

16566

Having said this, he took bread and gave thanks to God in the presence of all, and he broke it and began to eat.

16567

If the thief is caught while breaking in and is struck so that he dies, there will be no bloodguiltiness on his account.

16568

but if it is of God, you will not be able to overthrow them; or else you may even be found fighting against God.”

16569

Not to us, O Lord, not to us,
But to Your name give glory
Because of Your lovingkindness, because of Your truth.

16570

And she conceived again and bore a son and said, “This time I will praise the Lord.” Therefore she named him Judah. Then she stopped bearing.

16573

For He has put all things in subjection under His feet. But when He says, “All things are put in subjection,” it is evident that He is excepted who put all things in subjection to Him.

16575

Now when Jesus saw a crowd around Him, He gave orders to depart to the other side of the sea.

16576

so that the blood of all the prophets, shed since the foundation of the world, may be charged against this generation,

16577

Thus he did to them, and delivered them from the hands of the sons of Israel, and they did not kill them.

16578

One who speaks in a tongue edifies himself; but one who prophesies edifies the church.

16580

I myself have seen, and have testified that this is the Son of God.”

16582

who by faith conquered kingdoms, performed acts of righteousness, obtained promises, shut the mouths of lions,

16583

The Lord also spoke to Moses, saying,

16584

I tell you, on that night there will be two in one bed; one will be taken and the other will be left.

16586

“You shall appoint for yourself judges and officers in all your towns which the Lord your God is giving you, according to your tribes, and they shall judge the people with righteous judgment.

16587

When he found her in the field, the engaged girl cried out, but there was no one to save her.

16588

Then the Lord said to Moses, “Speak to the priests, the sons of Aaron, and say to them:No one shall defile himself for a dead person among his people,

16590

An end is coming; the end has come! It has awakened against you; behold, it has come!

16591

“When you are cast down, you will speak with confidence,
And the humble person He will save.

16593

When a woman has a discharge, if her discharge in her body is blood, she shall continue in her menstrual impurity for seven days; and whoever touches her shall be unclean until evening.

16594

When it was already quite late, His disciples came to Him and said, “This place is desolate and it is already quite late;

16595

For by the last words of David the sons of Levi were numbered from twenty years old and upward.

16597

“I will also break the gate bar of Damascus,
And cut off the inhabitant from the valley of Aven,
And him who holds the scepter, from Beth-eden;
So the people of Aram will go exiled to Kir,”
Says the Lord.

16598

I establish My covenant with you; and all flesh shall never again be cut off by the water of the flood, neither shall there again be a flood to destroy the earth.”

16600

But the very hairs of your head are all numbered.

16602

So he said, “You know that the kingdom was mine and that all Israel expected me to be king; however, the kingdom has turned about and become my brother’s, for it was his from the Lord.

16603

Then he also made savory food, and brought it to his father; and he said to his father, “Let my father arise and eat of his son’s game, that you may bless me.”

16604

do you say of Him, whom the Father sanctified and sent into the world, ‘You are blaspheming,’ because I said, ‘I am the Son of God’?

16605

But God was angry because he was going, and the angel of the Lord took his stand in the way as an adversary against him. Now he was riding on his donkey and his two servants were with him.

16606

Then the fire of the Lord fell and consumed the burnt offering and the wood and the stones and the dust, and licked up the water that was in the trench.

16607

So then, does He who provides you with the Spirit and works miracles among you, do it by the works of the Law, or by hearing with faith?

16608

But God turned away and delivered them up to serve the host of heaven; as it is written in the book of the prophets, ‘It was not to Me that you offered victims and sacrifices forty years in the wilderness, was it, O house of Israel?

16609

One of them, a lawyer, asked Him a question, testing Him,

16610

Simon the Zealot, and Judas Iscariot, the one who betrayed Him.

16611

Then you shall make a lampstand of pure gold. The lampstand and its base and its shaft are to be made of hammered work; its cups, its bulbs and its flowers shall be of one piece with it.

16613

But when it was now the midst of the feast Jesus went up into the temple, and began to teach.

16614

But Jeshurun grew fat and kicked—
You are grown fat, thick, and sleek—
Then he forsook God who made him,
And scorned the Rock of his salvation.

16617

Jesus said to them, If you were blind, you would have no sin; but since you say, ‘We see,’ your sin remains.

16618

So when He said to them, “I am He,” they drew back and fell to the ground.

16619

Threshing floor and wine press will not feed them,
And the new wine will fail them.

16620

But Peter, along with John, fixed his gaze on him and said, “Look at us!”

16621

Jesus answered him, “I have spoken openly to the world; I always taught in synagogues and in the temple, where all the Jews come together; and I spoke nothing in secret.

16622

I am going the way of all the earth. Be strong, therefore, and show yourself a man.

16624

and Adoram was over the forced labor, and Jehoshaphat the son of Ahilud was the recorder;

16626

And they got up that very hour and returned to Jerusalem, and found gathered together the eleven and those who were with them,

16627

Now the Spirit of the Lord came upon Jephthah, so that he passed through Gilead and Manasseh; then he passed through Mizpah of Gilead, and from Mizpah of Gilead he went on to the sons of Ammon.

16628

with whom the kings of the earth committed acts of immorality, and those who dwell on the earth were made drunk with the wine of her immorality.”

16629

And a Canaanite woman from that region came out and began to cry out, saying, “Have mercy on me, Lord, Son of David; my daughter is cruelly demon-possessed.”

16631

So he called it Shibah; therefore the name of the city is Beersheba to this day.

16632

Then he sent Eliakim who was over the household with Shebna the scribe and the elders of the priests, covered with sackcloth, to Isaiah the prophet the son of Amoz.

16633

“If, however, the mark breaks out again in the house after he has torn out the stones and scraped the house, and after it has been replastered,

16634

“When you are invited by someone to a wedding feast, do not take the place of honor, for someone more distinguished than you may have been invited by him,

16635

When he heard that it was Jesus the Nazarene, he began to cry out and say, “Jesus, Son of David, have mercy on me!”

16637

But not one has done so who has a remnant of the Spirit. And what did that one do while he was seeking a godly offspring? Take heed then to your spirit, and let no one deal treacherously against the wife of your youth.

16638

The scribes and the chief priests tried to lay hands on Him that very hour, and they feared the people; for they understood that He spoke this parable against them.

16639

and they were amazed at His teaching, for His message was with authority.

16640

If your kinsman, a Hebrew man or woman, is sold to you, then he shall serve you six years, but in the seventh year you shall set him free.

16643

“For He has had regard for the humble state of His bondslave;
For behold, from this time on all generations will count me blessed.

16644

For one will hardly die for a righteous man; though perhaps for the good man someone would dare even to die.

16645

A Psalm of David.
Ascribe to the Lord, O sons of the mighty,
Ascribe to the Lord glory and strength.

16648

So the king of Israel and Jehoshaphat king of Judah went up against Ramoth-gilead.

16649

And he called out, saying, “Jesus, Son of David, have mercy on me!”

16650

He trusts in God; let God rescue Him now, if He delights in Him; for He said, ‘I am the Son of God.’”

16653

And He *said to them, “It is written, ‘My house shall be called a house of prayer’; but you are making it a robbersden.”

16654

and worn-out and patched sandals on their feet, and worn-out clothes on themselves; and all the bread of their provision was dry and had become crumbled.

16655

Moses therefore said to them, “Wait, and I will listen to what the Lord will command concerning you.”

16656

She lusted after their paramours, whose flesh is like the flesh of donkeys and whose issue is like the issue of horses.

16657

I have sworn by Myself,
The word has gone forth from My mouth in righteousness
And will not turn back,
That to Me every knee will bow, every tongue will swear allegiance.

16658

“Can you bind the chains of the Pleiades,
Or loose the cords of Orion?

16659

Those men said to him, “Though we are unclean because of the dead person, why are we restrained from presenting the offering of the Lord at its appointed time among the sons of Israel?”

16660

Then I proclaimed a fast there at the river of Ahava, that we might humble ourselves before our God to seek from Him a safe journey for us, our little ones, and all our possessions.

16661

The high places which were before Jerusalem, which were on the right of the mount of destruction which Solomon the king of Israel had built for Ashtoreth the abomination of the Sidonians, and for Chemosh the abomination of Moab, and for Milcom the abomination of the sons of Ammon, the king defiled.

16662

But get up and stand on your feet; for this purpose I have appeared to you, to appoint you a minister and a witness not only to the things which you have seen, but also to the things in which I will appear to you;

16663

He *said to them, “Because of your hardness of heart Moses permitted you to divorce your wives; but from the beginning it has not been this way.

16664

As they were striking the people and I alone was left, I fell on my face and cried out saying, “Alas, Lord God! Are You destroying the whole remnant of Israel by pouring out Your wrath on Jerusalem?”

16665

Then the Lord spoke to Moses, saying:

16666

Have you not heard?
Long ago I did it;
From ancient times I planned it.
Now I have brought it to pass,
That you should turn fortified cities into ruinous heaps.

16667

“Woe to you, blind guides, who say, ‘Whoever swears by the temple, that is nothing; but whoever swears by the gold of the temple is obligated.’

16668

For when Herod had John arrested, he bound him and put him in prison because of Herodias, the wife of his brother Philip.

16670

Now it came about when the sons of Israel cried to the Lord on account of Midian,

16671

For from days of old they have not heard or perceived by ear,
Nor has the eye seen a God besides You,
Who acts in behalf of the one who waits for Him.

16672

The Lord gave Jehoiakim king of Judah into his hand, along with some of the vessels of the house of God; and he brought them to the land of Shinar, to the house of his god, and he brought the vessels into the treasury of his god.

16673

This wisdom is not that which comes down from above, but is earthly, natural, demonic.

16675

So Abraham rose early in the morning and took bread and a skin of water and gave them to Hagar, putting them on her shoulder, and gave her the boy, and sent her away. And she departed and wandered about in the wilderness of Beersheba.

16676

Therefore, being always of good courage, and knowing that while we are at home in the body we are absent from the Lord—

16679

By the river on its bank, on one side and on the other, will grow all kinds of trees for food. Their leaves will not wither and their fruit will not fail. They will bear every month because their water flows from the sanctuary, and their fruit will be for food and their leaves for healing.”

16680

Where is the wise man? Where is the scribe? Where is the debater of this age? Has not God made foolish the wisdom of the world?

16682

and he said to Aaron, “Take for yourself a calf, a bull, for a sin offering and a ram for a burnt offering, both without defect, and offer them before the Lord.

16683

And He will lift up a standard for the nations
And assemble the banished ones of Israel,
And will gather the dispersed of Judah
From the four corners of the earth.

16684

In the same way He took the cup also after supper, saying, “This cup is the new covenant in My blood; do this, as often as you drink it, in remembrance of Me.”

16685

Behold, I will stand before you there on the rock at Horeb; and you shall strike the rock, and water will come out of it, that the people may drink.” And Moses did so in the sight of the elders of Israel.

16686

Now it came about at midnight that the Lord struck all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, from the firstborn of Pharaoh who sat on his throne to the firstborn of the captive who was in the dungeon, and all the firstborn of cattle.

16687

Then they came to Elim where there were twelve springs of water and seventy date palms, and they camped there beside the waters.

16688

A Prayer of Moses, the man of God.
Lord, You have been our dwelling place in all generations.

16690

They will not pour out drink offerings of wine to the Lord,
Their sacrifices will not please Him.
Their bread will be like mourners’ bread;
All who eat of it will be defiled,
For their bread will be for themselves alone;
It will not enter the house of the Lord.

16691

Are they servants of Christ?—I speak as if insane—I more so; in far more labors, in far more imprisonments, beaten times without number, often in danger of death.

16692

Behold then the kindness and severity of God; to those who fell, severity, but to you, God’s kindness, if you continue in His kindness; otherwise you also will be cut off.

16693

If there is a girl who is a virgin engaged to a man, and another man finds her in the city and lies with her,

16694

A wicked man receives a bribe from the bosom
To pervert the ways of justice.

16695

Then you returned and wept before the Lord; but the Lord did not listen to your voice nor give ear to you.

16696

but coming to Jesus, when they saw that He was already dead, they did not break His legs.

16697

I am my beloved’s,
And his desire is for me.

16698

The Lord said to her,
Two nations are in your womb;
And two peoples will be separated from your body;
And one people shall be stronger than the other;
And the older shall serve the younger.”

16699

“Do you see how Ahab has humbled himself before Me? Because he has humbled himself before Me, I will not bring the evil in his days, but I will bring the evil upon his house in his son’s days.”

16700

And He said to them, “Do you not see all these things? Truly I say to you, not one stone here will be left upon another, which will not be torn down.”

16701

The angel of the Lord said to him, “Why have you struck your donkey these three times? Behold, I have come out as an adversary, because your way was contrary to me.

16702

But now I come to You; and these things I speak in the world so that they may have My joy made full in themselves.

16703

And all the crowds who came together for this spectacle, when they observed what had happened, began to return, beating their breasts.

16704

And the twelve gates were twelve pearls; each one of the gates was a single pearl. And the street of the city was pure gold, like transparent glass.

16705

Look among the nations! Observe!
Be astonished! Wonder!
Because I am doing something in your days—
You would not believe if you were told.

16706

And he said to the vineyard-keeper, ‘Behold, for three years I have come looking for fruit on this fig tree without finding any. Cut it down! Why does it even use up the ground?’

16707

Whoever there is among you of all His people, may his God be with him! Let him go up to Jerusalem which is in Judah and rebuild the house of the Lord, the God of Israel; He is the God who is in Jerusalem.

16709

In the third year of Cyrus king of Persia a message was revealed to Daniel, who was named Belteshazzar; and the message was true and one of great conflict, but he understood the message and had an understanding of the vision.

16710

“Can you hunt the prey for the lion,
Or satisfy the appetite of the young lions,

16711

so that upon you may fall the guilt of all the righteous blood shed on earth, from the blood of righteous Abel to the blood of Zechariah, the son of Berechiah, whom you murdered between the temple and the altar.

16712

But a Samaritan, who was on a journey, came upon him; and when he saw him, he felt compassion,

16713

When they saw Him, they were astonished; and His mother said to Him, “Son, why have You treated us this way? Behold, Your father and I have been anxiously looking for You.”

16714

Then Satan went out from the presence of the Lord and smote Job with sore boils from the sole of his foot to the crown of his head.

16716

Jesus then took the loaves, and having given thanks, He distributed to those who were seated; likewise also of the fish as much as they wanted.

16717

And those who were with me saw the light, to be sure, but did not understand the voice of the One who was speaking to me.

16718

For the choir director; with stringed instruments. A Psalm. A Song.
God be gracious to us and bless us,
And cause His face to shine upon us— Selah.

16720

Jesus answered, If I glorify Myself, My glory is nothing; it is My Father who glorifies Me, of whom you say, ‘He is our God’;

16721

Elijah said to Elisha, “Stay here please, for the Lord has sent me as far as Bethel.” But Elisha said, “As the Lord lives and as you yourself live, I will not leave you.” So they went down to Bethel.

16722

God blessed them, saying, “Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the waters in the seas, and let birds multiply on the earth.”

16723

In their case the prophecy of Isaiah is being fulfilled, which says,
You will keep on hearing, but will not understand;
You will keep on seeing, but will not perceive;

16724

“Go, assemble all the Jews who are found in Susa, and fast for me; do not eat or drink for three days, night or day. I and my maidens also will fast in the same way. And thus I will go in to the king, which is not according to the law; and if I perish, I perish.”

16725

Then Pekah son of Remaliah, his officer, conspired against him and struck him in Samaria, in the castle of the king’s house with Argob and Arieh; and with him were fifty men of the Gileadites, and he killed him and became king in his place.

16726

The Lord descended in the cloud and stood there with him as he called upon the name of the Lord.

16727

After this it came about that he loved a woman in the valley of Sorek, whose name was Delilah.

16730

When Jesus had finished these words, the crowds were amazed at His teaching;

16732

And of the angels He says,
Who makes His angels winds,
And His ministers a flame of fire.”

16733

And there occurred a great uproar; and some of the scribes of the Pharisaic party stood up and began to argue heatedly, saying, “We find nothing wrong with this man; suppose a spirit or an angel has spoken to him?”

16736

Now while the bridegroom was delaying, they all got drowsy and began to sleep.

16737

The Jews answered him, “We have a law, and by that law He ought to die because He made Himself out to be the Son of God.”

16739

Then the cloud covered the tent of meeting, and the glory of the Lord filled the tabernacle.

16740

For indeed we have had good news preached to us, just as they also; but the word they heard did not profit them, because it was not united by faith in those who heard.

16741

“It will come about in all the land,”
Declares the Lord,
“That two parts in it will be cut off and perish;
But the third will be left in it.

16742

The sacrifice of the wicked is an abomination,
How much more when he brings it with evil intent!

16743

but from the fruit of the tree which is in the middle of the garden, God has said, You shall not eat from it or touch it, or you will die.

16744

Then the Lord spoke to Moses, saying,

16745

On the following day, the firstborn said to the younger, “Behold, I lay last night with my father; let us make him drink wine tonight also; then you go in and lie with him, that we may preserve our family through our father.”

16746

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

16748

At that very moment she came up and began giving thanks to God, and continued to speak of Him to all those who were looking for the redemption of Jerusalem.

16750

But what did you go out to see? A prophet? Yes, I tell you, and one who is more than a prophet.

16751

Now this will be the plague with which the Lord will strike all the peoples who have gone to war against Jerusalem; their flesh will rot while they stand on their feet, and their eyes will rot in their sockets, and their tongue will rot in their mouth.

16752

I would have despaired unless I had believed that I would see the goodness of the Lord
In the land of the living.

16754

“Then I will draw near to you for judgment; and I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers and against the adulterers and against those who swear falsely, and against those who oppress the wage earner in his wages, the widow and the orphan, and those who turn aside the alien and do not fear Me,” says the Lord of hosts.

16755

Seeing their faith, He said, Friend, your sins are forgiven you.”

16756

But to which of the angels has He ever said,
Sit at My right hand,
Until I make Your enemies
A footstool for Your feet”?

16759

Moses said, “This is the thing which the Lord has commanded you to do, that the glory of the Lord may appear to you.”

16760

And I saw the beast and the kings of the earth and their armies assembled to make war against Him who sat on the horse and against His army.

16761

While he was sitting on the judgment seat, his wife sent him a message, saying, “Have nothing to do with that righteous Man; for last night I suffered greatly in a dream because of Him.”

16762

and because he was of the same trade, he stayed with them and they were working, for by trade they were tent-makers.

16763

For these things came to pass to fulfill the Scripture, “Not a bone of Him shall be broken.”

16764

You shall not go about as a slanderer among your people, and you are not to act against the life of your neighbor; I am the Lord.

16767

This is the inheritance of the tribe of the sons of Judah according to their families.

16768

But the sons of Israel acted unfaithfully in regard to the things under the ban, for Achan, the son of Carmi, the son of Zabdi, the son of Zerah, from the tribe of Judah, took some of the things under the ban, therefore the anger of the Lord burned against the sons of Israel.

16769

So they cried out, “Away with Him, away with Him, crucify Him!” Pilate *said to them, “Shall I crucify your King?” The chief priests answered, “We have no king but Caesar.”

16771

Shall I not punish them for these things?” declares the Lord.
“On a nation such as this
Shall I not avenge Myself?

16772

Because the harbor was not suitable for wintering, the majority reached a decision to put out to sea from there, if somehow they could reach Phoenix, a harbor of Crete, facing southwest and northwest, and spend the winter there.

16775

The priest shall next offer the sin offering and make atonement for the one to be cleansed from his uncleanness. Then afterward, he shall slaughter the burnt offering.

16776

Awake, awake, put on strength, O arm of the Lord;
Awake as in the days of old, the generations of long ago.
Was it not You who cut Rahab in pieces,
Who pierced the dragon?

16777

Then He continued by saying to them, “Nation will rise against nation and kingdom against kingdom,

16778

Now Mount Sinai was all in smoke because the Lord descended upon it in fire; and its smoke ascended like the smoke of a furnace, and the whole mountain quaked violently.

16779

“Son of man, set your face toward Gog of the land of Magog, the prince of Rosh, Meshech and Tubal, and prophesy against him

16780

Immediately a rooster crowed a second time. And Peter remembered how Jesus had made the remark to him, “Before a rooster crows twice, you will deny Me three times.” And he began to weep.

16781

It is a sign between Me and the sons of Israel forever; for in six days the Lord made heaven and earth, but on the seventh day He ceased from labor, and was refreshed.”

16782

does not act unbecomingly; it does not seek its own, is not provoked, does not take into account a wrong suffered,

16783

Then the Lord said to Moses, “Write this in a book as a memorial and recite it to Joshua, that I will utterly blot out the memory of Amalek from under heaven.”

16785

But the breasts and the right thigh Aaron presented as a wave offering before the Lord, just as Moses had commanded.

16787

At the end of every third year you shall bring out all the tithe of your produce in that year, and shall deposit it in your town.

16788

The Queen of the South will rise up with this generation at the judgment and will condemn it, because she came from the ends of the earth to hear the wisdom of Solomon; and behold, something greater than Solomon is here.

16789

“It stood still, but I could not discern its appearance;
A form was before my eyes;
There was silence, then I heard a voice:

16790

And when she heard it, she *got up quickly and was coming to Him.

16791

You hypocrite, first take the log out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to take the speck out of your brother’s eye.

16792

So all the generations from Abraham to David are fourteen generations; from David to the deportation to Babylon, fourteen generations; and from the deportation to Babylon to the Messiah, fourteen generations.

16795

Behold, the Lord will dispossess her
And cast her wealth into the sea;
And she will be consumed with fire.

16796

See, I am setting before you today a blessing and a curse:

16797

If the foundations are destroyed,
What can the righteous do?”

16798

If you meet your enemy’s ox or his donkey wandering away, you shall surely return it to him.

16799

Jesus said to him, On the other hand, it is written, ‘You shall not put the Lord your God to the test.’”

16800

He made his son pass through the fire, practiced witchcraft and used divination, and dealt with mediums and spiritists. He did much evil in the sight of the Lord provoking Him to anger.

16802

Just as it is written,
For Your sake we are being put to death all day long;
We were considered as sheep to be slaughtered.”

16803

Then the Lord said to Job,

16804

From that land he went forth into Assyria, and built Nineveh and Rehoboth-Ir and Calah,

16806

Take Aaron and his son Eleazar and bring them up to Mount Hor;

16807

And they left the tomb quickly with fear and great joy and ran to report it to His disciples.

16808

Say to them, ‘Thus says the Lord God, “Behold, I will take the sons of Israel from among the nations where they have gone, and I will gather them from every side and bring them into their own land;

16810

For who has known the mind of the Lord, or who became His counselor?

16811

for this son of mine was dead and has come to life again; he was lost and has been found.’ And they began to celebrate.

16813

After the earthquake a fire, but the Lord was not in the fire; and after the fire a sound of a gentle blowing.

16814

that by revelation there was made known to me the mystery, as I wrote before in brief.

16815

Which of these three do you think proved to be a neighbor to the man who fell into the robbers’ hands?”

16816

When Jehoshaphat and his people came to take their spoil, they found much among them, including goods, garments and valuable things which they took for themselves, more than they could carry. And they were three days taking the spoil because there was so much.

16818

Then the sons of Israel again did evil in the sight of the Lord, after Ehud died.

16819

“Moreover, you shall speak to the Levites and say to them, ‘When you take from the sons of Israel the tithe which I have given you from them for your inheritance, then you shall present an offering from it to the Lord, a tithe of the tithe.

16820

David went up from there and stayed in the strongholds of Engedi.

16821

for the Law brings about wrath, but where there is no law, there also is no violation.

16823

You have made known to me the ways of life;
You will make me full of gladness with Your presence.’

16824

Then the seventh angel poured out his bowl upon the air, and a loud voice came out of the temple from the throne, saying, “It is done.”

16825

The rest of mankind, who were not killed by these plagues, did not repent of the works of their hands, so as not to worship demons, and the idols of gold and of silver and of brass and of stone and of wood, which can neither see nor hear nor walk;

16826

Therefore if you have not been faithful in the use of unrighteous wealth, who will entrust the true riches to you?

16828

The disciples then said to Him, “Lord, if he has fallen asleep, he will recover.”

16829

Even in your law it has been written that the testimony of two men is true.

16830

But He turned and rebuked them, [and said, “You do not know what kind of spirit you are of;

16831

So Abram went forth as the Lord had spoken to him; and Lot went with him. Now Abram was seventy-five years old when he departed from Haran.

16833

But at midnight there was a shout, ‘Behold, the bridegroom! Come out to meet him.’

16834

But I say to you, I will not drink of this fruit of the vine from now on until that day when I drink it new with you in My Father’s kingdom.”

16836

And again He came and found them sleeping, for their eyes were very heavy; and they did not know what to answer Him.

16837

“Oh that I had one to hear me!
Behold, here is my signature;
Let the Almighty answer me!
And the indictment which my adversary has written,

16838

They shall construct an ark of acacia wood two and a half cubits long, and one and a half cubits wide, and one and a half cubits high.

16839

You see that faith was working with his works, and as a result of the works, faith was perfected;

16840

When Jesus saw that he had answered intelligently, He said to him, “You are not far from the kingdom of God.” After that, no one would venture to ask Him any more questions.

16842

No, but I say that the things which the Gentiles sacrifice, they sacrifice to demons and not to God; and I do not want you to become sharers in demons.

16843

When Jephthah came to his house at Mizpah, behold, his daughter was coming out to meet him with tambourines and with dancing. Now she was his one and only child; besides her he had no son or daughter.

16844

Now they have come to know that everything You have given Me is from You;

16846

For thus says the Lord God, “Behold, I Myself will search for My sheep and seek them out.

16848

They went away in the boat to a secluded place by themselves.

16849

While they were celebrating, behold, the men of the city, certain worthless fellows, surrounded the house, pounding the door; and they spoke to the owner of the house, the old man, saying, “Bring out the man who came into your house that we may have relations with him.”

16852

“What do you think? If any man has a hundred sheep, and one of them has gone astray, does he not leave the ninety-nine on the mountains and go and search for the one that is straying?

16853

Just as many were astonished at you, My people,
So His appearance was marred more than any man
And His form more than the sons of men.

16854

Then the Lord opened the eyes of Balaam, and he saw the angel of the Lord standing in the way with his drawn sword in his hand; and he bowed all the way to the ground.

16855

And you, Bethlehem, land of Judah,
Are by no means least among the leaders of Judah;
For out of you shall come forth a Ruler
Who will shepherd My people Israel.’”

16856

Let the one who does wrong, still do wrong; and the one who is filthy, still be filthy; and let the one who is righteous, still practice righteousness; and the one who is holy, still keep himself holy.”

16858

Great in every respect. First of all, that they were entrusted with the oracles of God.

16859

Now Joshua was old and advanced in years when the Lord said to him, “You are old and advanced in years, and very much of the land remains to be possessed.

16860

“Let these words sink into your ears; for the Son of Man is going to be delivered into the hands of men.”

16861

Thus I will make your lewdness and your harlotry brought from the land of Egypt to cease from you, so that you will not lift up your eyes to them or remember Egypt anymore.’

16862

He has blinded their eyes and He hardened their heart, so that they would not see with their eyes and perceive with their heart, and be converted and I heal them.”

16863

for when Jezebel destroyed the prophets of the Lord, Obadiah took a hundred prophets and hid them by fifties in a cave, and provided them with bread and water.)

16864

And I heard a voice from heaven, like the sound of many waters and like the sound of loud thunder, and the voice which I heard was like the sound of harpists playing on their harps.

16865

Then the Lord spoke to Moses and Aaron, saying,

16866

O Lord, You have deceived me and I was deceived;
You have overcome me and prevailed.
I have become a laughingstock all day long;
Everyone mocks me.

16868

Again the Lord spoke to Moses, saying,

16869

Who has ascended into heaven and descended?
Who has gathered the wind in His fists?
Who has wrapped the waters in His garment?
Who has established all the ends of the earth?
What is His name or His son’s name?
Surely you know!

16870

So Sarai said to Abram, “Now behold, the Lord has prevented me from bearing children. Please go in to my maid; perhaps I will obtain children through her.” And Abram listened to the voice of Sarai.

16872

but in the days of the voice of the seventh angel, when he is about to sound, then the mystery of God is finished, as He preached to His servants the prophets.

16873

Six days you are to do your work, but on the seventh day you shall cease from labor so that your ox and your donkey may rest, and the son of your female slave, as well as your stranger, may refresh themselves.

16874

And He said to them, “When you have entered the city, a man will meet you carrying a pitcher of water; follow him into the house that he enters.

16875

Then He said to Moses, “Come up to the Lord, you and Aaron, Nadab and Abihu and seventy of the elders of Israel, and you shall worship at a distance.

16876

“You shall also say to the sons of Israel:‘Any man from the sons of Israel or from the aliens sojourning in Israel who gives any of his offspring to Molech, shall surely be put to death; the people of the land shall stone him with stones.

16878

The Jews then gathered around Him, and were saying to Him, “How long will You keep us in suspense? If You are the Christ, tell us plainly.”

16879

For the Lord your God is a compassionate God; He will not fail you nor destroy you nor forget the covenant with your fathers which He swore to them.

16880

For I have kept the ways of the Lord,
And have not acted wickedly against my God.

16882

The Jews picked up stones again to stone Him.

16883

They said to him, “Your servants have come from a very far country because of the fame of the Lord your God; for we have heard the report of Him and all that He did in Egypt,

16885

And he took them that very hour of the night and washed their wounds, and immediately he was baptized, he and all his household.

16886

Then the Lord said to Moses, “Make a fiery serpent, and set it on a standard; and it shall come about, that everyone who is bitten, when he looks at it, he will live.”

16887

And while He was being accused by the chief priests and elders, He did not answer.

16889

The one who eats is not to regard with contempt the one who does not eat, and the one who does not eat is not to judge the one who eats, for God has accepted him.

16890

Is anything too difficult for the Lord? At the appointed time I will return to you, at this time next year, and Sarah will have a son.”

16891

“The heavens will reveal his iniquity,
And the earth will rise up against him.

16893

And they *sang a new song before the throne and before the four living creatures and the elders; and no one could learn the song except the one hundred and forty-four thousand who had been purchased from the earth.

16895

Now while I was speaking and praying, and confessing my sin and the sin of my people Israel, and presenting my supplication before the Lord my God in behalf of the holy mountain of my God,

16896

What I am saying is this: the Law, which came four hundred and thirty years later, does not invalidate a covenant previously ratified by God, so as to nullify the promise.

16897

Now Dinah the daughter of Leah, whom she had borne to Jacob, went out to visit the daughters of the land.

16898

Only Luke is with me. Pick up Mark and bring him with you, for he is useful to me for service.

16899

The Lord said, “Behold, they are one people, and they all have the same language. And this is what they began to do, and now nothing which they purpose to do will be impossible for them.

16900

Then Zedekiah the son of Chenaanah came near and struck Micaiah on the cheek and said, “How did the Spirit of the Lord pass from me to speak to you?”

16902

Therefore I am well content with weaknesses, with insults, with distresses, with persecutions, with difficulties, for Christ’s sake; for when I am weak, then I am strong.

16903

and Parshandatha, Dalphon, Aspatha,

16904

But as for Israel He says, “All the day long I have stretched out My hands to a disobedient and obstinate people.”

16905

Near is the great day of the Lord,
Near and coming very quickly;
Listen, the day of the Lord!
In it the warrior cries out bitterly.

16907

It came about the next day that Moses sat to judge the people, and the people stood about Moses from the morning until the evening.

16908

and they called to Lot and said to him, “Where are the men who came to you tonight? Bring them out to us that we may have relations with them.”

16910

For if I do wish to boast I will not be foolish, for I will be speaking the truth; but I refrain from this, so that no one will credit me with more than he sees in me or hears from me.

16912

“Therefore do not fear them, for there is nothing concealed that will not be revealed, or hidden that will not be known.

16914

For the Scripture says to Pharaoh, “For this very purpose I raised you up, to demonstrate My power in you, and that My name might be proclaimed throughout the whole earth.”

16915

saying to them, “Go into the village opposite you, and immediately you will find a donkey tied there and a colt with her; untie them and bring them to Me.

16916

Jesus *said, “Remove the stone.” Martha, the sister of the deceased, *said to Him, “Lord, by this time there will be a stench, for he has been dead four days.”

16917

Now the Lord said to Moses, “Cut out for yourself two stone tablets like the former ones, and I will write on the tablets the words that were on the former tablets which you shattered.

16918

And He said to them, “Why are you afraid? Do you still have no faith?”

16919

Woe to the shepherds who are destroying and scattering the sheep of My pasture!” declares the Lord.

16920

All the choice men in all his troops will fall by the sword, and the survivors will be scattered to every wind; and you will know that I, the Lord, have spoken.”

16921

[But it seemed good to Silas to remain there.]

16922

Therefore Jesus no longer continued to walk publicly among the Jews, but went away from there to the country near the wilderness, into a city called Ephraim; and there He stayed with the disciples.

16924

When our days there were ended, we left and started on our journey, while they all, with wives and children, escorted us until we were out of the city. After kneeling down on the beach and praying, we said farewell to one another.

16925

You shall eat it within your gates; the unclean and the clean alike may eat it, as a gazelle or a deer.

16926

Also the daughter of any priest, if she profanes herself by harlotry, she profanes her father; she shall be burned with fire.

16927

You shall do the same with your oxen and with your sheep. It shall be with its mother seven days; on the eighth day you shall give it to Me.

16928

After these days we got ready and started on our way up to Jerusalem.

16929

Whoever is wise, let him understand these things;
Whoever is discerning, let him know them.
For the ways of the Lord are right,
And the righteous will walk in them,
But transgressors will stumble in them.

16930

There also we saw the Nephilim (the sons of Anak are part of the Nephilim); and we became like grasshoppers in our own sight, and so we were in their sight.”

16931

Therefore I speak to them in parables; because while seeing they do not see, and while hearing they do not hear, nor do they understand.

16932

The Jews then said to one another, “Where does this man intend to go that we will not find Him? He is not intending to go to the Dispersion among the Greeks, and teach the Greeks, is He?

16933

When Jacob had cooked stew, Esau came in from the field and he was famished;

16934

But these had gone on ahead and were waiting for us at Troas.

16935

Early in the morning He came again into the temple, and all the people were coming to Him; and He sat down and began to teach them.

16936

Then the king sent, and they gathered to him all the elders of Judah and of Jerusalem.

16937

knowing that Christ, having been raised from the dead, is never to die again; death no longer is master over Him.

16938

And the brethren, when they heard about us, came from there as far as the Market of Appius and Three Inns to meet us; and when Paul saw them, he thanked God and took courage.

16939

But if that slave says in his heart, ‘My master will be a long time in coming,’ and begins to beat the slaves, both men and women, and to eat and drink and get drunk;

16940

“The whole earth is at rest and is quiet;
They break forth into shouts of joy.

16941

then those who are in Judea must flee to the mountains.

16942

Thus says the Lord of hosts,
“Behold, evil is going forth
From nation to nation,
And a great storm is being stirred up
From the remotest parts of the earth.

16943

For they were hearing them speaking with tongues and exalting God. Then Peter answered,

16944

and they began to come up to Him and say, “Hail, King of the Jews!” and to give Him slaps in the face.

16945

Stop depriving one another, except by agreement for a time, so that you may devote yourselves to prayer, and come together again so that Satan will not tempt you because of your lack of self-control.

16948

Thus says the Lord,
Who makes a way through the sea
And a path through the mighty waters,

16949

They stripped Him and put a scarlet robe on Him.

16950

“He will be a wild donkey of a man,
His hand will be against everyone,
And everyone’s hand will be against him;
And he will live to the east of all his brothers.”

16952

‘Then this shall be the sign for you: you will eat this year what grows of itself, in the second year what springs from the same, and in the third year sow, reap, plant vineyards, and eat their fruit.

16953

at midday, O King, I saw on the way a light from heaven, brighter than the sun, shining all around me and those who were journeying with me.

16955

For you are a holy people to the Lord your God, and the Lord has chosen you to be a people for His own possession out of all the peoples who are on the face of the earth.

16956

At the citadel in Susa the Jews killed and destroyed five hundred men,

16957

And blessed is she who believed that there would be a fulfillment of what had been spoken to her by the Lord.”

16958

his corpse shall not hang all night on the tree, but you shall surely bury him on the same day (for he who is hanged is accursed of God), so that you do not defile your land which the Lord your God gives you as an inheritance.

16961

the master of that slave will come on a day when he does not expect him and at an hour he does not know, and will cut him in pieces, and assign him a place with the unbelievers.

16962

And when they heard that he was addressing them in the Hebrew dialect, they became even more quiet; and he *said,

16964

and she *saw two angels in white sitting, one at the head and one at the feet, where the body of Jesus had been lying.

16965

By oppression and judgment He was taken away;
And as for His generation, who considered
That He was cut off out of the land of the living
For the transgression of my people, to whom the stroke was due?

16967

So King Solomon sent, and they brought him down from the altar. And he came and prostrated himself before King Solomon, and Solomon said to him, “Go to your house.”

16968

They rose early in the morning and went out to the wilderness of Tekoa; and when they went out, Jehoshaphat stood and said, “Listen to me, O Judah and inhabitants of Jerusalem, put your trust in the Lord your God and you will be established. Put your trust in His prophets and succeed.”

16969

It happened as they were coming, when David returned from killing the Philistine, that the women came out of all the cities of Israel, singing and dancing, to meet King Saul, with tambourines, with joy and with musical instruments.

16970

Do not complain, brethren, against one another, so that you yourselves may not be judged; behold, the Judge is standing right at the door.

16971

But because I have said these things to you, sorrow has filled your heart.

16972

In whole burnt offerings and sacrifices for sin You have taken no pleasure.

16973

This will be a sign for you: you will find a baby wrapped in cloths and lying in a manger.”

16974

If it be so, our God whom we serve is able to deliver us from the furnace of blazing fire; and He will deliver us out of your hand, O king.

16975

So Moses told the sons of Israel to observe the Passover.

16976

For I consider myself not in the least inferior to the most eminent apostles.

16977

Therefore thus says the Lord of hosts,
“Behold, I will refine them and assay them;
For what else can I do, because of the daughter of My people?

16979

When they had gone a long time without food, then Paul stood up in their midst and said, “Men, you ought to have followed my advice and not to have set sail from Crete and incurred this damage and loss.

16980

Now a man came from Baal-shalishah, and brought the man of God bread of the first fruits, twenty loaves of barley and fresh ears of grain in his sack. And he said, “Give them to the people that they may eat.”

16983

“But He is unique and who can turn Him?
And what His soul desires, that He does.

16984

Then the Lord spoke to Moses, saying,

16985

What will you do on the day of the appointed festival
And on the day of the feast of the Lord?

16987

Therefore it is said in the Book of the Wars of the Lord,
“Waheb in Suphah,
And the wadis of the Arnon,

16988

And as I punished them often in all the synagogues, I tried to force them to blaspheme; and being furiously enraged at them, I kept pursuing them even to foreign cities.

16989

For this reason, therefore, I requested to see you and to speak with you, for I am wearing this chain for the sake of the hope of Israel.”

16991

After looking up the disciples, we stayed there seven days; and they kept telling Paul through the Spirit not to set foot in Jerusalem.

16992

Then the Lord God said to the woman, “What is this you have done?” And the woman said, “The serpent deceived me, and I ate.”

16993

Do you not know that your bodies are members of Christ? Shall I then take away the members of Christ and make them members of a prostitute? May it never be!

16994

So Pilate said to them, “Take Him yourselves, and judge Him according to your law.” The Jews said to him, “We are not permitted to put anyone to death,”

16996

Sarah laughed to herself, saying, “After I have become old, shall I have pleasure, my lord being old also?”

16997

Anyone who touches her bed shall wash his clothes and bathe in water and be unclean until evening.

16998

Thus the Lord God showed me, and behold, He was forming a locust-swarm when the spring crop began to sprout. And behold, the spring crop was after the king’s mowing.

16999

Heleb the son of Baanah the Netophathite, Ittai the son of Ribai of Gibeah of the sons of Benjamin,

17000

The Lord turned and looked at Peter. And Peter remembered the word of the Lord, how He had told him, Before a rooster crows today, you will deny Me three times.”

17001

and an ox and a ram for peace offerings, to sacrifice before the Lord, and a grain offering mixed with oil; for today the Lord will appear to you.’”