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Nehemiah
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¶Now those that sealed were, Nehemiah, the Tirshatha, the son
of Hachaliah, and Zidkijah,
2 Seraiah, Azariah, Jeremiah,
3 Pashur, Amariah, Malchijah,
4 Hattush, Shebaniah, Malluch,
5 Harim, Meremoth, Obadiah,
6 Daniel, Ginnethon, Baruch,
7 Meshullam, Abijah, Mijamin,
8 Maaziah, Bilgai, Shemaiah: these were the priests.
9 And the Levites: both Jeshua the son of Azaniah, Binnui of the
sons of Henadad, Kadmiel;
10 And their brethren, Shebaniah, Hodijah, Kelita, Pelaiah, Hanan,
11 Micha, Rehob, Hashabiah,
12 Zaccur, Sherebiah, Shebaniah,
13 Hodijah, Bani, Beninu.
14 The chief of the people; Parosh, Pahathmoab, Elam, Zatthu, Bani,
15 Bunni, Azgad, Bebai,
16 Adonijah, Bigvai, Adin,
17 Ater, Hizkijah, Azzur,
18 Hodijah, Hashum, Bezai,
19 Hariph, Anathoth, Nebai,
20 Magpiash, Meshullam, Hezir,
21 Meshezabeel, Zadok, Jaddua,
22 Pelatiah, Hanan, Anaiah,
23 Hoshea, Hananiah, Hashub,
24 Hallohesh, Pileha, Shobek,
25 Rehum, Hashabnah, Maaseiah,
26 And Ahijah, Hanan, Anan,
27 Malluch, Harim, Baanah.
28 And the rest of the people, the priests, the Levites, the porters,
the singers, the Nethinims, and all they that had separated themselves
from the people of the lands unto the law of God, their wives, their
sons, and their daughters, every one having knowledge, and having
understanding;
29 They clave to their brethren, their nobles, and entered into
a curse, and into an oath, to walk in God's law, which was given
by Moses the servant of God, and to observe and do all the commandments
of the LORD our Lord, and his judgments and his statutes;
30 And that we would not give our daughters unto the people of the
land, nor take their daughters for our sons:
31 And if the people of the land bring ware or any victuals on the
sabbath day to sell, that we would not buy it of them on the sabbath,
or on the holy day: and that we would leave the seventh year, and
the exaction of every debt.
32 ¶Also we made ordinances for us, to charge ourselves yearly
with the third part of a shekel for the service of the house of
our God;
33 For the shewbread, and for the continual meat offering, and for
the continual burnt offering, of the sabbaths, of the new moons,
for the set feasts, and for the holy things, and for the sin offerings
to make an atonement for Israel, and for all the work of the house
of our God.
34 And we cast the lots among the priests, the Levites, and the
people, for the wood offering, to bring it into the house of our
God, after the houses of our fathers, at times appointed year by
year, to burn upon the altar of the LORD our God, as it is written
in the law:
35 And to bring the firstfruits of our ground, and the firstfruits
of all fruit of all trees, year by year, unto the house of the LORD:
36 Also the firstborn of our sons, and of our cattle, as it is written
in the law, and the firstlings of our herds and of our flocks, to
bring to the house of our God, unto the priests that minister in
the house of our God:
37 And that we should bring the firstfruits of our dough, and our
offerings, and the fruit of all manner of trees, of wine and of
oil, unto the priests, to the chambers of the house of our God;
and the tithes of our ground unto the Levites, that the same Levites
might have the tithes in all the cities of our tillage.
38 And the priest the son of Aaron shall be with the Levites, when
the Levites take tithes: and the Levites shall bring up the tithe
of the tithes unto the house of our God, to the chambers, into the
treasure house.
39 For the children of Israel and the children of Levi shall bring
the offering of the corn, of the new wine, and the oil, unto the
chambers, where are the vessels of the sanctuary, and the priests
that minister, and the porters, and the singers: and we will not
forsake the house of our God.
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Amos
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1 ¶Thus saith the LORD; For three transgressions of Moab, and
for four, I will not turn away the punishment thereof; because he
burned the bones of the king of Edom into lime:
2 But I will send a fire upon Moab, and it shall devour the palaces
of Kerioth: and Moab shall die with tumult, with shouting, and with
the sound of the trumpet:
3 And I will cut off the judge from the midst thereof, and will
slay all the princes thereof with him, saith the LORD.
4 Thus saith the LORD; For three transgressions of Judah, and for
four, I will not turn away the punishment thereof; because they
have despised the law of the LORD, and have not kept his commandments,
and their lies caused them to err, after the which their fathers
have walked:
5 But I will send a fire upon Judah, and it shall devour the palaces
of Jerusalem.
6 Thus saith the LORD; For three transgressions of Israel, and for
four, I will not turn away the punishment thereof; because they
sold the righteous for silver, and the poor for a pair of shoes;
7 That pant after the dust of the earth on the head of the poor,
and turn aside the way of the meek: and a man and his father will
go in unto the same maid, to profane my holy name:
8 And they lay themselves down upon clothes laid to pledge by every
altar, and they drink the wine of the condemned in the house of
their god.
9 ¶Yet destroyed I the Amorite before them, whose height was
like the height of the cedars, and he was strong as the oaks; yet
I destroyed his fruit from above, and his roots from beneath.
10 Also I brought you up from the land of Egypt, and led you forty
years through the wilderness, to possess the land of the Amorite.
11 And I raised up of your sons for prophets, and of your young
men for Nazarites. Is it not even thus, O ye children of Israel?
saith the LORD.
12 But ye gave the Nazarites wine to drink; and commanded the prophets,
saying, Prophesy not.
13 Behold, I am pressed under you, as a cart is pressed that is
full of sheaves.
14 Therefore the flight shall perish from the swift, and the strong
shall not strengthen his force, neither shall the mighty deliver
himself:
15 Neither shall he stand that handleth the bow; and he that is
swift of foot shall not deliver himself: neither shall he that rideth
the horse deliver himself.
16 And he that is courageous among the mighty shall flee away naked
in that day, saith the LORD.
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Timothy 4
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1 ¶Now the Spirit speaketh expressly, that in the latter times
some shall depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits,
and doctrines of devils;
2 Speaking lies in hypocrisy; having their conscience seared with
a hot iron;
3 Forbidding to marry, and commanding to abstain from meats, which
God hath created to be received with thanksgiving of them which
believe and know the truth.
4 For every creature of God is good, and nothing to be refused,
if it be received with thanksgiving:
5 For it is sanctified by the word of God and prayer.
6 ¶If thou put the brethren in remembrance of these things,
thou shalt be a good minister of Jesus Christ, nourished up in the
words of faith and of good doctrine, whereunto thou hast attained.
7 But refuse profane and old wives' fables, and exercise thyself
rather unto godliness.
8 For bodily exercise profiteth little: but godliness is profitable
unto all things, having promise of the life that now is, and of
that which is to come.
9 This is a faithful saying and worthy of all acceptation.
10 For therefore we both labour and suffer reproach, because we
trust in the living God, who is the Saviour of all men, specially
of those that believe.
11 These things command and teach.
12 Let no man despise thy youth; but be thou an example of the believers,
in word, in conversation, in charity, in spirit, in faith, in purity.
13 Till I come, give attendance to reading, to exhortation, to doctrine.
14 Neglect not the gift that is in thee, which was given thee by
prophecy, with the laying on of the hands of the presbytery.
15 Meditate upon these things; give thyself wholly to them; that
thy profiting may appear to all.
16 Take heed unto thyself, and unto the doctrine; continue in them:
for in doing this thou shalt both save thyself, and them that hear
thee.
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Timothy 5
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1 ¶Rebuke not an elder, but intreat him as a father; and the
younger men as brethren;
2 The elder women as mothers; the younger as sisters, with all purity.
3 ¶Honour widows that are widows indeed.
4 But if any widow have children or nephews, let them learn first
to shew piety at home, and to requite their parents: for that is
good and acceptable before God.
5 Now she that is a widow indeed, and desolate, trusteth in God,
and continueth in supplications and prayers night and day.
6 But she that liveth in pleasure is dead while she liveth.
7 And these things give in charge, that they may be blameless.
8 But if any provide not for his own, and specially for those of
his own house, he hath denied the faith, and is worse than an infidel.
9 Let not a widow be taken into the number under threescore years
old, having been the wife of one man,
10 Well reported of for good works; if she have brought up children,
if she have lodged strangers, if she have washed the saints' feet,
if she have relieved the afflicted, if she have diligently followed
every good work.
11 But the younger widows refuse: for when they have begun to wax
wanton against Christ, they will marry;
12 Having damnation, because they have cast off their first faith.
13 And withal they learn to be idle, wandering about from house
to house; and not only idle, but tattlers also and busybodies, speaking
things which they ought not.
14 I will therefore that the younger women marry, bear children,
guide the house, give none occasion to the adversary to speak reproachfully.
15 For some are already turned aside after Satan.
16 If any man or woman that believeth have widows, let them relieve
them, and let not the church be charged; that it may relieve them
that are widows indeed.
17 ¶Let the elders that rule well be counted worthy of double
honour, especially they who labour in the word and doctrine.
18 For the scripture saith, Thou shalt not muzzle the ox that treadeth
out the corn. And, The labourer is worthy of his reward.
19 Against an elder receive not an accusation, but before two or
three witnesses.
20 Them that sin rebuke before all, that others also may fear.
21 I charge thee before God, and the Lord Jesus Christ, and the
elect angels, that thou observe these things without preferring
one before another, doing nothing by partiality.
22 Lay hands suddenly on no man, neither be partaker of other men's
sins: keep thyself pure.
23 Drink no longer water, but use a little wine for thy stomach's
sake and thine often infirmities.
24 Some men's sins are open beforehand, going before to judgment;
and some men they follow after.
25 Likewise also the good works of some are manifest beforehand;
and they that are otherwise cannot be hid.
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