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Leviticus
26
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1 ¶Ye shall make you no idols nor graven image, neither rear you
up a standing image, neither shall ye set up any image of stone
in your land, to bow down unto it: for I am the LORD your God. 2
Ye shall keep my sabbaths, and reverence my sanctuary: I am the
LORD. 3 If ye walk in my statutes, and keep my commandments, and
do them; 4 Then I will give you rain in due season, and the land
shall yield her increase, and the trees of the field shall yield
their fruit. 5 And your threshing shall reach unto the vintage,
and the vintage shall reach unto the sowing time: and ye shall eat
your bread to the full, and dwell in your land safely. 6 And I will
give peace in the land, and ye shall lie down, and none shall make
you afraid: and I will rid evil beasts out of the land, neither
shall the sword go through your land. 7 And ye shall chase your
enemies, and they shall fall before you by the sword. 8 And five
of you shall chase an hundred, and an hundred of you shall put ten
thousand to flight: and your enemies shall fall before you by the
sword. 9 For I will have respect unto you, and make you fruitful,
and multiply you, and establish my covenant with you. 10 And ye
shall eat old store, and bring forth the old because of the new.
11 And I will set my tabernacle among you: and my soul shall not
abhor you. 12 And I will walk among you, and will be your God, and
ye shall be my people. 13 I am the LORD your God, which brought
you forth out of the land of Egypt, that ye should not be their
bondmen; and I have broken the bands of your yoke, and made you
go upright.
14 ¶But if ye will not hearken unto me, and will not do all these
commandments; 15 And if ye shall despise my statutes, or if your
soul abhor my judgments, so that ye will not do all my commandments,
but that ye break my covenant: 16 I also will do this unto you;
I will even appoint over you terror, consumption, and the burning
ague, that shall consume the eyes, and cause sorrow of heart: and
ye shall sow your seed in vain, for your enemies shall eat it. 17
And I will set my face against you, and ye shall be slain before
your enemies: they that hate you shall reign over you; and ye shall
flee when none pursueth you. 18 And if ye will not yet for all this
hearken unto me, then I will punish you seven times more for your
sins. 19 And I will break the pride of your power; and I will make
your heaven as iron, and your earth as brass: 20 And your strength
shall be spent in vain: for your land shall not yield her increase,
neither shall the trees of the land yield their fruits. 21 And if
ye walk contrary unto me, and will not hearken unto me; I will bring
seven times more plagues upon you according to your sins. 22 I will
also send wild beasts among you, which shall rob you of your children,
and destroy your cattle, and make you few in number; and your high
ways shall be desolate. 23 And if ye will not be reformed by me
by these things, but will walk contrary unto me; 24 Then will I
also walk contrary unto you, and will punish you yet seven times
for your sins. 25 And I will bring a sword upon you, that shall
avenge the quarrel of my covenant: and when ye are gathered together
within your cities, I will send the pestilence among you; and ye
shall be delivered into the hand of the enemy. 26 And when I have
broken the staff of your bread, ten women shall bake your bread
in one oven, and they shall deliver you your bread again by weight:
and ye shall eat, and not be satisfied. 27 And if ye will not for
all this hearken unto me, but walk contrary unto me; 28 Then I will
walk contrary unto you also in fury; and I, even I, will chastise
you seven times for your sins. 29 And ye shall eat the flesh of
your sons, and the flesh of your daughters shall ye eat. 30 And
I will destroy your high places, and cut down your images, and cast
your carcases upon the carcases of your idols, and my soul shall
abhor you. 31 And I will make your cities waste, and bring your
sanctuaries unto desolation, and I will not smell the savour of
your sweet odours. 32 And I will bring the land into desolation:
and your enemies which dwell therein shall be astonished at it.
33 And I will scatter you among the heathen, and will draw out a
sword after you: and your land shall be desolate, and your cities
waste. 34 Then shall the land enjoy her sabbaths, as long as it
lieth desolate, and ye be in your enemies' land; even then shall
the land rest, and enjoy her sabbaths. 35 As long as it lieth desolate
it shall rest; because it did not rest in your sabbaths, when ye
dwelt upon it. 36 And upon them that are left alive of you I will
send a faintness into their hearts in the lands of their enemies;
and the sound of a shaken leaf shall chase them; and they shall
flee, as fleeing from a sword; and they shall fall when none pursueth.
37 And they shall fall one upon another, as it were before a sword,
when none pursueth: and ye shall have no power to stand before your
enemies. 38 And ye shall perish among the heathen, and the land
of your enemies shall eat you up. 39 And they that are left of you
shall pine away in their iniquity in your enemies' lands; and also
in the iniquities of their fathers shall they pine away with them.
40 ¶If they shall confess their iniquity, and the iniquity of their
fathers, with their trespass which they trespassed against me, and
that also they have walked contrary unto me; 41 And that I also
have walked contrary unto them, and have brought them into the land
of their enemies; if then their uncircumcised hearts be humbled,
and they then accept of the punishment of their iniquity: 42 Then
will I remember my covenant with Jacob, and also my covenant with
Isaac, and also my covenant with Abraham will I remember; and I
will remember the land. 43 The land also shall be left of them,
and shall enjoy her sabbaths, while she lieth desolate without them:
and they shall accept of the punishment of their iniquity: because,
even because they despised my judgments, and because their soul
abhorred my statutes. 44 And yet for all that, when they be in the
land of their enemies, I will not cast them away, neither will I
abhor them, to destroy them utterly, and to break my covenant with
them: for I am the LORD their God. 45 But I will for their sakes
remember the covenant of their ancestors, whom I brought forth out
of the land of Egypt in the sight of the heathen, that I might be
their God: I am the LORD. 46 These are the statutes and judgments
and laws, which the LORD made between him and the children of Israel
in mount Sinai by the hand of Moses.
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Psalms
137
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1 ¶By the rivers of Babylon, there we sat down, yea, we wept, when
we remembered Zion. 2 We hanged our harps upon the willows in the
midst thereof. 3 For there they that carried us away captive required
of us a song; and they that wasted us required of us mirth, saying,
Sing us one of the songs of Zion. 4 How shall we sing the LORD'S
song in a strange land? 5 If I forget thee, O Jerusalem, let my
right hand forget her cunning. 6 If I do not remember thee, let
my tongue cleave to the roof of my mouth; if I prefer not Jerusalem
above my chief joy.
7 ¶Remember, O LORD, the children of Edom in the day of Jerusalem;
who said, Rase it, rase it, even to the foundation thereof. 8 O
daughter of Babylon, who art to be destroyed; happy shall he be,
that rewardeth thee as thou hast served us. 9 Happy shall he be,
that taketh and dasheth thy little ones against the stones.
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Psalms
138
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1 ¶ I will praise thee with my whole heart: before
the gods will I sing praise unto thee. 2 I will worship toward thy
holy temple, and praise thy name for thy lovingkindness and for
thy truth: for thou hast magnified thy word above all thy name.
3 In the day when I cried thou answeredst me, and strengthenedst
me with strength in my soul. 4 All the kings of the earth shall
praise thee, O LORD, when they hear the words of thy mouth. 5 Yea,
they shall sing in the ways of the LORD: for great is the glory
of the LORD.
6 ¶Though the LORD be high, yet hath he respect unto the lowly:
but the proud he knoweth afar off. 7 Though I walk in the midst
of trouble, thou wilt revive me: thou shalt stretch forth thine
hand against the wrath of mine enemies, and thy right hand shall
save me. 8 The LORD will perfect that which concerneth me: thy mercy,
O LORD, endureth for ever: forsake not the works of thine own hands.
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Psalms
139
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1 ¶ O LORD, thou hast searched me, and known
me. 2 Thou knowest my downsitting and mine uprising, thou understandest
my thought afar off. 3 Thou compassest my path and my lying down,
and art acquainted with all my ways. 4 For there is not a word in
my tongue, but, lo, O LORD, thou knowest it altogether. 5 Thou hast
beset me behind and before, and laid thine hand upon me. 6 Such
knowledge is too wonderful for me; it is high, I cannot attain unto
it.
7 ¶Whither shall I go from thy spirit? or whither shall I flee from
thy presence? 8 If I ascend up into heaven, thou art there: if I
make my bed in hell, behold, thou art there. 9 If I take the wings
of the morning, and dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea; 10
Even there shall thy hand lead me, and thy right hand shall hold
me. 11 If I say, Surely the darkness shall cover me; even the night
shall be light about me. 12 Yea, the darkness hideth not from thee;
but the night shineth as the day: the darkness and the light are
both alike to thee. 13 For thou hast possessed my reins: thou hast
covered me in my mother's womb. 14 I will praise thee; for I am
fearfully and wonderfully made: marvellous are thy works; and that
my soul knoweth right well. 15 My substance was not hid from thee,
when I was made in secret, and curiously wrought in the lowest parts
of the earth. 16 Thine eyes did see my substance, yet being unperfect;
and in thy book all my members were written, which in continuance
were fashioned, when as yet there was none of them.
17 ¶How precious also are thy thoughts unto me, O God! how great
is the sum of them! 18 If I should count them, they are more in
number than the sand: when I awake, I am still with thee. 19 Surely
thou wilt slay the wicked, O God: depart from me therefore, ye bloody
men. 20 For they speak against thee wickedly, and thine enemies
take thy name in vain. 21 Do not I hate them, O LORD, that hate
thee? and am not I grieved with those that rise up against thee?
22 I hate them with perfect hatred: I count them mine enemies. 23
Search me, O God, and know my heart: try me, and know my thoughts:
24 And see if there be any wicked way in me, and lead me in the
way everlasting.
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Luke
9
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1 ¶Then he called his twelve disciples together, and gave them power
and authority over all devils, and to cure diseases. 2 And he sent
them to preach the kingdom of God, and to heal the sick. 3 And he
said unto them, Take nothing for your journey, neither staves, nor
scrip, neither bread, neither money; neither have two coats apiece.
4 And whatsoever house ye enter into, there abide, and thence depart.
5 And whosoever will not receive you, when ye go out of that city,
shake off the very dust from your feet for a testimony against them.
6 And they departed, and went through the towns, preaching the gospel,
and healing every where. 7 Now Herod the tetrarch heard of all that
was done by him: and he was perplexed, because that it was said
of some, that John was risen from the dead; 8 And of some, that
Elias had appeared; and of others, that one of the old prophets
was risen again. 9 And Herod said, John have I beheaded: but who
is this, of whom I hear such things? And he desired to see him.
10 ¶And the apostles, when they were returned, told him all that
they had done. And he took them, and went aside privately into a
desert place belonging to the city called Bethsaida. 11 And the
people, when they knew it, followed him: and he received them, and
spake unto them of the kingdom of God, and healed them that had
need of healing. 12 And when the day began to wear away, then came
the twelve, and said unto him, Send the multitude away, that they
may go into the towns and country round about, and lodge, and get
victuals: for we are here in a desert place. 13 But he said unto
them, Give ye them to eat. And they said, We have no more but five
loaves and two fishes; except we should go and buy meat for all
this people. 14 For they were about five thousand men. And he said
to his disciples, Make them sit down by fifties in a company. 15
And they did so, and made them all sit down. 16 Then he took the
five loaves and the two fishes, and looking up to heaven, he blessed
them, and brake, and gave to the disciples to set before the multitude.
17 And they did eat, and were all filled: and there was taken up
of fragments that remained to them twelve baskets.
18 ¶And it came to pass, as he was alone praying, his disciples
were with him: and he asked them, saying, Whom say the people that
I am? 19 They answering said, John the Baptist; but some say, Elias;
and others say, that one of the old prophets is risen again. 20
He said unto them, But whom say ye that I am? Peter answering said,
The Christ of God. 21 And he straitly charged them, and commanded
them to tell no man that thing; 22 Saying, The Son of man must suffer
many things, and be rejected of the elders and chief priests and
scribes, and be slain, and be raised the third day. 23 And he said
to them all, If any man will come after me, let him deny himself,
and take up his cross daily, and follow me. 24 For whosoever will
save his life shall lose it: but whosoever will lose his life for
my sake, the same shall save it. 25 For what is a man advantaged,
if he gain the whole world, and lose himself, or be cast away? 26
For whosoever shall be ashamed of me and of my words, of him shall
the Son of man be ashamed, when he shall come in his own glory,
and in his Father's, and of the holy angels. 27 But I tell you of
a truth, there be some standing here, which shall not taste of death,
till they see the kingdom of God.
28 ¶And it came to pass about an eight days after these sayings,
he took Peter and John and James, and went up into a mountain to
pray. 29 And as he prayed, the fashion of his countenance was altered,
and his raiment was white and glistering. 30 And, behold, there
talked with him two men, which were Moses and Elias: 31 Who appeared
in glory, and spake of his decease which he should accomplish at
Jerusalem. 32 But Peter and they that were with him were heavy with
sleep: and when they were awake, they saw his glory, and the two
men that stood with him. 33 And it came to pass, as they departed
from him, Peter said unto Jesus, Master, it is good for us to be
here: and let us make three tabernacles; one for thee, and one for
Moses, and one for Elias: not knowing what he said. 34 While he
thus spake, there came a cloud, and overshadowed them: and they
feared as they entered into the cloud. 35 And there came a voice
out of the cloud, saying, This is my beloved Son: hear him. 36 And
when the voice was past, Jesus was found alone. And they kept it
close, and told no man in those days any of those things which they
had seen.
37 ¶And it came to pass, that on the next day, when they were come
down from the hill, much people met him. 38 And, behold, a man of
the company cried out, saying, Master, I beseech thee, look upon
my son: for he is mine only child. 39 And, lo, a spirit taketh him,
and he suddenly crieth out; and it teareth him that he foameth again,
and bruising him hardly departeth from him. 40 And I besought thy
disciples to cast him out; and they could not. 41 And Jesus answering
said, O faithless and perverse generation, how long shall I be with
you, and suffer you? Bring thy son hither. 42 And as he was yet
a coming, the devil threw him down, and tare him. And Jesus rebuked
the unclean spirit, and healed the child, and delivered him again
to his father.
43 ¶And they were all amazed at the mighty power of God. But while
they wondered every one at all things which Jesus did, he said unto
his disciples, 44 Let these sayings sink down into your ears: for
the Son of man shall be delivered into the hands of men. 45 But
they understood not this saying, and it was hid from them, that
they perceived it not: and they feared to ask him of that saying.
46 Then there arose a reasoning among them, which of them should
be greatest. 47 And Jesus, perceiving the thought of their heart,
took a child, and set him by him, 48 And said unto them, Whosoever
shall receive this child in my name receiveth me: and whosoever
shall receive me receiveth him that sent me: for he that is least
among you all, the same shall be great. 49 And John answered and
said, Master, we saw one casting out devils in thy name; and we
forbad him, because he followeth not with us. 50 And Jesus said
unto him, Forbid him not: for he that is not against us is for us.
51 ¶And it came to pass, when the time was come that he should be
received up, he stedfastly set his face to go to Jerusalem, 52 And
sent messengers before his face: and they went, and entered into
a village of the Samaritans, to make ready for him. 53 And they
did not receive him, because his face was as though he would go
to Jerusalem. 54 And when his disciples James and John saw this,
they said, Lord, wilt thou that we command fire to come down from
heaven, and consume them, even as Elias did? 55 But he turned, and
rebuked them, and said, Ye know not what manner of spirit ye are
of. 56 For the Son of man is not come to destroy men's lives, but
to save them. And they went to another village.
57 ¶And it came to pass, that, as they went in the way, a certain
man said unto him, Lord, I will follow thee whithersoever thou goest.
58 And Jesus said unto him, Foxes have holes, and birds of the air
have nests; but the Son of man hath not where to lay his head. 59
And he said unto another, Follow me. But he said, Lord, suffer me
first to go and bury my father. 60 Jesus said unto him, Let the
dead bury their dead: but go thou and preach the kingdom of God.
61 And another also said, Lord, I will follow thee; but let me first
go bid them farewell, which are at home at my house. 62 And Jesus
said unto him, No man, having put his hand to the plough, and looking
back, is fit for the kingdom of God.
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