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 and terrified in nothing by your adversaries. For this is to them an evident token of perdition, but to you of salvation, and that of God. 


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 For to you it is given on behalf of Christ not only to believe on Him, but also to suffer for His sake, 


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 If there is therefore any encouragement in Christ, if any comfort of love, if any fellowship of the Spirit, if any tendernesses and mercies, 


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 then fulfill my joy, that you may be like-minded, having the same love, being of one accord and of one mind. 


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 Let nothing be done through strife or vainglory, but in lowliness of mind let each esteem others better than themselves. 


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 but made Himself of no reputation, and took upon Himself the form of a servant, and was made in the likeness of men. 


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 And being found in fashion as a man, He humbled Himself and became obedient unto death, even the death of the cross. 


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 that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of heavenly ones, and of earthly ones, and of ones under the earth; 


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 Therefore, my beloved, as you have always obeyed, not as in my presence only, but now much more in my absence, cultivate your own salvation with fear and trembling. 


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 so that you may be blameless and harmless, the sons of God, without rebuke, in the midst of a crooked and perverse nation. Among these you shine as lights in the world, 


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 holding forth the Word of Life, so that I may rejoice with you in the day of Christ, that I have not run in vain nor labored in vain. 


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 Yea, and if I am offered upon the sacrifice and service of your faith, I joy and rejoice with you all. 


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 But I trust in the Lord Jesus to send Timothy shortly to you, so that I also may be of good comfort when I know your state. 


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 But you know the proof of him, that, as a son with the father, he has served with me in the gospel. 


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 Yet I thought it necessary to send to you Epaphroditus, my brother and fellow-worker, and fellow-soldier, but your messenger and he who ministered to my wants. 


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 For he longed after you all and was full of heaviness, because you had heard that he had been sick. 


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 For indeed he was sick, coming near death, but God had mercy on him, and not on him only, but on me also, lest I should have sorrow upon sorrow. 


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 Therefore I sent him the more eagerly, so that you may rejoice when you see him again, and that I may be the less sorrowful. 


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 because for the work of Christ he was near death, not regarding his life, to supply your lack of service toward me. 


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 Finally, my brothers, rejoice in the Lord. To write the same things to you is indeed not grievous to me, but for you it is safe. 


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 For we are the circumcision who worship God in the spirit and rejoice in Christ Jesus and have no confidence in the flesh; 


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 though I might also have confidence in the flesh. If any other thinks that he has reason to trust in the flesh, I more. 


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 I was circumcised the eighth day, of the stock of Israel, of the tribe of Benjamin, a Hebrew of the Hebrews. As regards the Law, I was a Pharisee; 


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 But no, rather, I also count all things to be loss for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord, for whose sake I have suffered the loss of all things, and count them to be dung, so that I may win Christ 


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 and be found in Him; not having my own righteousness, which is of the Law, but through the faith of Christ, the righteousness of God by faith, 


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 that I may know Him and the power of His resurrection and the fellowship of His sufferings, being made conformable to His death; 


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 Not as though I had already attained, either were already perfect, but I am pressing on, if I may lay hold of that for which I also was taken hold of by Christ Jesus. 


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 My brothers, I do not count myself to have taken possession, but one thing I do, forgetting the things behind and reaching forward to the things before, 


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 Let us therefore, as many as are perfect, be of this mind. And if in anything you are otherwise minded, God shall reveal even this to you. 


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 Yet, as to what we have already attained, let us walk in the same rule, let us mind the same thing. 


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 Brothers, be imitators together of me, and mark those who walk this way, for you have us for a pattern. 


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 (For many are walking, of whom I have told you often and now tell you even weeping, as the enemies of the cross of Christ; 


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 whose end is destruction, whose god is their belly, and whose glory is in their shame, those who mind earthly things.) 


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 For our citizenship is in Heaven, from which also we are looking for the Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ, 


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 who shall change our body of humiliation so that it may be fashioned like His glorious body, according to the working of His power, even to subdue all things to Himself. 


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 Therefore, my brothers, ones loved and longed for, my joy and crown, stand fast in this way in the Lord, beloved ones. 


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 And I also beg you, true yoke-fellow, help those women who labored in the gospel with me and with Clement, and others of my fellow-laborers, whose names are in the Book of Life. 


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 Do not be anxious about anything, but in everything by prayer and supplication, with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known to God. 


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 And the peace of God which passes all understanding shall keep your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus. 


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 Finally, my brothers, whatever things are true, whatever things are honest, whatever things are right, whatever things are pure, whatever things are lovely, whatever things are of good report; if there is any virtue and if there is any praise, think on these things. 


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 Do those things which you have also learned and received and heard and seen in me. And the God of peace shall be with you. 


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 But I rejoiced in the Lord greatly, that now at the last your care of me has flourished again. Although you indeed did think, but you lacked opportunity. 


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 I know both how to be abased, and I know how to abound. In everything and in all things I am instructed both to be full and to be hungry, both to abound and to suffer need. 


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 Now you Philippians know also that in the beginning of the gospel, when I departed from Macedonia, no church communicated with me as regards giving and receiving, except you alone. 


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 But I have all, and abound. I have been filled, having received from Epaphroditus the things which you sent, an odor of a sweet smell, a sacrifice acceptable and well-pleasing to God. 


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 to the saints and faithful brothers in Christ at Colosse. Grace to you, and peace from God our Father and from the Lord Jesus Christ. 


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 for the hope which is laid up for you in Heaven, of which you heard before in the Word of the truth of the gospel, 


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


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 even as you learned from Epaphras our beloved fellow-servant, who is a faithful minister of Christ for you, 


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 For this cause we also, since the day we heard, do not cease to pray for you, and to desire that you might be filled with the knowledge of His will in all wisdom and spiritual understanding, 


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 that you might walk worthy of the Lord to all pleasing, being fruitful in every work and increasing in the knowledge of God, 


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 being empowered with all power, according to the might of His glory, to all patience and long-suffering with joyfulness, 


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 giving thanks to the Father, who has made us meet to be partakers of the inheritance of the saints in light. 


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 For He has delivered us from the power of darkness and has translated us into the kingdom of His dear Son; 


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 For all things were created in Him, the things in the heavens, and the things on the earth, the visible and the invisible, whether thrones or dominions or principalities or powers, all things were created through Him and for Him. 


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 And He is the Head of the body, the church, who is the Beginning, the First-born from the dead, that He may be pre-eminent in all things. 


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 And through Him having made peace through the blood of His cross, it pleased the Father to reconcile all things to Himself through Him, whether the things on earth or the things in Heaven. 


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 And you, who were once alienated and enemies in your mind by wicked works, yet now He has reconciled 


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 in the body of His flesh through death, to present you holy and without blemish, and without charge in His sight, 


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 if indeed you continue in the faith grounded and settled, and are not moved away from the hope of the gospel, which you have heard and which was proclaimed in all the creation under Heaven, of which I, Paul, became a minister, 


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 who now rejoice in my sufferings on your behalf, and I fill up the things lacking of the afflictions of Christ in my flesh, on behalf of His body, which is the church; 


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 of which I became a minister, according to the administration of God given to me for you, to fulfill the Word of God; 


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 the mystery which has been hidden from ages and from generations, but now has been revealed to His saints. 


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 For to them God would make known what are the riches of the glory of this mystery among the nations, which is Christ in you, the hope of glory, 


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 whom we preach, warning every man and teaching every man in all wisdom, so that we may present every man perfect in Christ Jesus. 


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 For I want you to know what a great conflict I have for you and those at Laodicea, and for as many as have not seen my face in the flesh, 


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 that their hearts might be comforted, being knit together in love, and to all riches of the full assurance of the understanding, to the full knowledge of the mystery of God, and of the Father, and of Christ; 


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 For though I am absent in the flesh, yet I am with you in the spirit, rejoicing and beholding your order and the steadfastness of your faith in Christ. 


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 rooted and built up in Him, and established in the faith, as you have been taught, abounding in it with thanksgiving. 


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 Beware lest anyone rob you through philosophy and vain deceit, according to the tradition of men, according to the elements of the world, and not according to Christ. 


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 in whom also you are circumcised with the circumcision made without hands, in putting off the body of the sins of the flesh by the circumcision of Christ, 


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 buried with Him in baptism, in whom also you were raised through the faith of the working of God, raising Him from the dead. 


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 And you, being dead in your sins and the uncircumcision of your flesh, He has made alive together with Him, having forgiven you all trespasses, 


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 blotting out the handwriting of ordinances that was against us, which was contrary to us, and has taken it out of the way, nailing it to the cross. 


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 Having stripped rulers and authorities, He made a show of them publicly, triumphing over them in it. 


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 Therefore let no one judge you in food or in drink, or in respect of a feast, or of the new moon, or of the sabbaths. 


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 Let no one defraud you, delighting in humility and worship of the angels, intruding into things which he has not seen, without a cause being vainly puffed up by his fleshly mind, 


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 and not holding the Head, from whom all the body, having been supplied through the joints and bands, and having been joined together, will grow with the growth of God. 


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 If then you died with Christ from the elements of the world, why, as though living in the world, are you subject to its ordinances: 


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 These things indeed have a reputation of wisdom in self-imposed worship and humility, and unsparing severity of the body, but are not of any value for the satisfying of the flesh. 


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 If then you were raised with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ is sitting at the right hand of God. 


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 Therefore put to death your members which are on the earth: fornication, uncleanness, passion, evil desire, and covetousness (which is idolatry), 


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 But now also put off all these things: anger, wrath, malice, blasphemy, shameful speech out of your mouth. 


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 and having put on the new, having been renewed in knowledge according to the image of Him who created him, 


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 where there is neither Greek nor Jew, circumcision and uncircumcision, foreigner, Scythian, slave or freeman, but Christ is all things in all. 


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 Therefore, as the elect of God, holy and beloved, put on tender feelings of mercy, kindness, humbleness of mind, meekness, long-suffering, 


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 forbearing one another and forgiving yourselves, if anyone has a complaint against any. As Christ forgave you, so also you do. 


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 And let the peace of God rule in your hearts, to which you also are called in one body, and be thankful. 


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 Let the Word of Christ dwell in you richly in all wisdom, teaching and admonishing one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing with grace in your hearts to the Lord. 


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 And everything, whatever you do in word or deed, do all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God and the Father by Him. 


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 Slaves, obey your masters according to the flesh in all things; not with eye-service, as men-pleasers, but in singleness of heart, fearing God. 


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 knowing that from the Lord you shall receive the reward of the inheritance. For you serve the Lord Christ. 


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 But he who does wrong shall receive justice for the wrong which he did, and there is no respect of persons. 


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 Masters, give to your slaves what is just and equal, knowing that you also have a Master in Heaven. 


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 praying together about us also, that God may open to us a door of the Word, to speak the mystery of Christ, for which I also have been bound, 


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 Let your speech be always with grace, having been seasoned with salt, that you may know how you ought to answer each one. 


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 Tychicus, the beloved brother and faithful minister and fellow-servant in the Lord, will make known to you all things about me. 


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 I sent him to you for this very purpose, that he might know the things about you, and that he might comfort your hearts, 


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 along with Onesimus, a faithful and beloved brother, who is one of you. They shall make known to you all things here. 


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 Aristarchus my fellow prisoner greets you, and Mark, the cousin of Barnabas (regarding whom you received commandments; if he comes to you, receive him), 


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 and greetings from Jesus, who is called Justus, those being of the circumcision. These alone are my fellow-workers for the kingdom of God, who became a comfort to me. 


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 Epaphras greets you, he being of you, a servant of Christ, always laboring fervently for you in prayers, that you may stand perfect and complete in all the will of God. 


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 For I bear him record that he has a great zeal for you and for those who are in Laodicea and those in Hierapolis. 


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 And when this letter is read before you, cause that it be read also in the church of the Laodiceans, and that you also read the letter of Laodicea. 


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 And say to Archippus, Take heed to the ministry which you have received in the Lord, that you fulfill it. 


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 Paul and Silvanus and Timothy to the church of the Thessalonians, in God the Father and in the Lord Jesus Christ. Grace to you, and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. 


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 remembering without ceasing your work of faith and labor of love and patience of hope in our Lord Jesus Christ, in the sight of God and our Father, 


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 For our gospel did not come to you in word only, but also in power and in the Holy Spirit, and in much assurance, as you know what kind of men we were among you for your sake. 


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 And you became imitators of us and of the Lord, welcoming the Word in much affliction, with joy of the Holy Spirit, 


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 For from you the Word of the Lord sounded out, not only in Macedonia and Achaia, but also in every place your faith toward God has gone out, so that we do not need to speak anything. 


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 For they themselves witness what kind of entrance we had to you, even how you turned from idols to God in order to serve the living and true God, 


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 and to wait for His Son from Heaven (whom He raised from the dead), Jesus, who delivered us from the wrath to come. 


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 But also suffering before, being insulted in Philippi, as you know, we were bold in our God to speak to you the gospel of God in much agony. 


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 but as we have been approved by God to be entrusted with the gospel, even so we speak, not as pleasing men, but God, who tries our hearts. 


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 For neither at any time did we use flattering words, as you know, nor with pretense of covetousness; God is witness. 


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 Nor did we seek glory from men, neither from you nor from others, being able to be so with heaviness, as apostles of Christ. 


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 So affectionately longing for you, we were willing to have imparted to you, not only the gospel of God, but also our own souls, because you have become beloved to us. 


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 For, brothers, you remember our labor and toil. For laboring night and day in order not to put a burden on any one of you, we preached the gospel of God to you. 


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 even as you know how we exhorted and comforted and testified to each one of you, as a father to his children, 


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 And for this cause we thank God without ceasing, that when you received the Word of hearing, of God, you welcomed it as the Word of God, not as a word of men, but as it is, truly the Word of God, which also effectually works in you who believe. 


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 For you, brothers, became imitators of the churches of God which are in Judea in Christ Jesus. For you also have suffered these things by your own countrymen, even as they also by the Jews; 


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 who both killed the Lord Jesus and their own prophets, also driving us out and they do not please God and being contrary to all men, 


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 forbidding us to speak to the nations that they might be saved, to fill up their sins always; but the wrath has come upon them to the uttermost. 


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 But, my brothers, when we were taken away from you for an hour's time (in presence, not in heart), more abundantly we were eager with much desire to see your face. 


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 For what is our hope or joy, or crown of rejoicing? Are you not even to be in the presence of our Lord Jesus Christ at His coming? 


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 And we sent Timothy, our brother and minister of God, and our fellow laborer in the gospel of Christ, to establish you and to comfort you concerning your faith, 


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 so that no one should be drawn aside by these afflictions. For you yourselves know that we are appointed to them. 


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 For truly, when we were with you, we told you before that we were going to suffer affliction, as it also happened, even you know. 


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 For this cause, when I could no longer endure, I also sent to know your faith, lest by some means the tempter may have tempted you and our labor may have been in vain. 


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 But now when Timothy came from you to us and brought us good news of your faith and love, and that you have good remembrance of us always, desiring to see us (as we also you), 


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 then, my brothers, we were comforted over you, through your faith, even in all our affliction and needs; 


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 For what thanks can we render to God again for you, for all the joy with which we rejoice for your sakes before our God, 


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 night and day praying exceedingly for me to see your face and to perfect the things lacking in your faith? 


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 And may the Lord make you to increase and abound in love toward one another and toward all, even as we also toward you, 


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 in order to establish your hearts blameless in holiness before God, even our Father, at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ with all His saints. 


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 For the rest, then, my brothers, we beseech you and exhort you in the Lord Jesus, that, as you have received from us how you ought to walk and to please God, so you would abound more and more. 


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 not to go beyond and defraud his brother in this matter (because the Lord is the avenger concerning all these, as we also have forewarned you and testified). 


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 But regarding brotherly love, you do not need that I write to you, for you yourselves are taught by God to love one another. 


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 And indeed you do it toward all the brothers who are in all Macedonia. But we beseech you, brothers, that you abound more and more, 


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 and that you try earnestly to be quiet and to do your own business, and to work with your own hands, as we commanded you, 


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 But I would not have you ignorant, brothers, concerning those who are asleep, that you be not grieved, even as others who have no hope. 


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 For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so God will also bring with Him all those who have fallen asleep through Jesus. 


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 For we say this to you by the Word of the Lord, that we who are alive and remain until the coming of the Lord shall not go before those who are asleep. 


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 For the Lord Himself shall descend from Heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel and with the trumpet of God. And the dead in Christ shall rise first. 


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 Then we who are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air. And so we shall ever be with the Lord. 


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 For when they shall say, Peace and safety! Then sudden destruction comes on them, as travail upon a woman with child. And they shall not escape. 


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 But let us, who are of the day, be calm, having put on the breastplate of faith and love and the hope of salvation for a helmet. 


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 And, brothers, we beseech you to know those who labor among you, and are over you in the Lord, and who admonish you, 


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 Now we exhort you, brothers, warn those who are unruly, comfort the faint-hearted, support the weak, be patient toward all. 


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 See that none gives evil for evil to anyone, but always pursue the good, both towards one another and towards all. 


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 And may the God of peace Himself sanctify you, and may your whole spirit and soul and body be preserved blamelessly at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ. 


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 Paul and Silvanus and Timothy to the church of the Thessalonians in God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. 


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 We are bound to thank God always for you, my brothers, as it is right, because your faith grows exceedingly, and the love of each one of you abounds toward one another; 


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 so much so that we ourselves glory in you in the churches of God, for your patience and faith in all your persecutions and tribulations which you endure. 


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 For this is a manifest token of the righteous judgment of God, that you may be counted worthy of the kingdom of God for which you also suffer, 


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 and to give rest with us to you who are troubled, at the revealing of the Lord Jesus from Heaven with the angels of His power, 


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 in flaming fire taking vengeance on those who do not know God and who do not obey the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ, 


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 who shall be punished with everlasting destruction from the presence of the Lord and from the glory of His power, 


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 when He shall come to be glorified in His saints and to be admired in all those who believe (because our testimony among you was believed) in that Day. 


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 Therefore we also pray always for you that our God would count you worthy of the calling and fulfill all the good pleasure of His goodness and the work of faith with power, 


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 that the name of our Lord Jesus Christ may be glorified in you, and you in Him, according to the grace of our God and the Lord Jesus Christ. 


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 Now we beseech you, my brothers, with regard to the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ and our gathering together to Him, 


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 that you should not be soon shaken in mind or troubled, neither by spirit, nor by word or letter, as through us, as if the Day of Christ is at hand. 


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 Let not anyone deceive you by any means. For that Day shall not come unless there first comes a falling away, and the man of sin shall be revealed, the son of perdition, 


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 who opposes and exalts himself above all that is called God, or that is worshiped, so that he sits as God in the temple of God, setting himself forth, that he is God. 


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 For the mystery of lawlessness is already working, only he is now holding back until it comes out of the midst. 


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 And then the lawless one will be revealed, whom the Lord shall consume with the breath of His mouth and shall destroy with the brightness of His coming, 


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 and with all deceit of unrighteousness in those who perish, because they did not receive the love of the truth, so that they might be saved. 


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 so that all those who do not believe the truth, but delight in unrighteousness, might be condemned. 


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 But we are bound to give thanks always to God for you, brothers beloved of the Lord, because God has from the beginning chosen you to salvation through sanctification of the Spirit and belief of the truth, 


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 Therefore, my brothers, stand fast and hold the teachings which you have been taught, whether by word or by our letter. 


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 Now may our Lord Jesus Christ Himself, and God, even our Father, who has loved us and has given us everlasting consolation and good hope through grace, 


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 Finally, my brothers, pray for us, that the Word of the Lord may have free course and be glorified, even as it also is with you. 


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 And pray that we may be delivered from unreasonable and wicked men; for all do not have the faith. 


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 And we have confidence in the Lord regarding you, that you both do and will do the things which we command you. 


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 Now we command you, brothers, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that you withdraw yourselves from every brother who walks disorderly, and not after the teaching which he received from us. 


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 For you yourselves know how you ought to follow us. For we did not behave ourselves disorderly among you, 


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 neither did we eat any man's bread freely, but we worked with labor and travail night and day, so that we might not be heavy on any of you 


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 For even when we were with you, we commanded you this, that if anyone would not work, neither should he eat. 


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 For we hear that there are some who walk disorderly among you, not working at all, but being busybodies. 


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 Now we command and exhort those who are such, by our Lord Jesus Christ, that they work with quietness and eat their own bread. 


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 And if anyone does not obey our word by this letter, mark that one and have no company with him, that he may be ashamed. 


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 Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ according to the command of God our Savior, and of the Lord Jesus Christ, our hope, 


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 to Timothy, my own son in the faith. Grace, mercy and peace from God our Father and Jesus Christ our Lord. 


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 Even as I begged you to remain at Ephesus, when I was going to Macedonia, that you might charge some that they teach no other doctrine, 


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 nor to give heed to fables and endless genealogies (which provide doubts rather than the nurture of God in faith). 


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 But the end of the commandment is love out of a pure heart, and a good conscience, and faith unfeigned, 


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 desiring to be teachers of the law, neither understanding what they say nor that which they affirm. 


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 knowing this, that the law is not made for a righteous one, but for the lawless and disobedient, for the ungodly and for sinners, for unholy and profane, for murderers of fathers and murderers of mothers, for manslayers, 


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 for fornicators, for homosexuals, for slave-traders, for liars, for perjurers, and anything else that is contrary to sound doctrine, 


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 And I thank Christ Jesus our Lord, who strengthened me, because He counted me faithful, putting me into the ministry-- 


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 the one who before was a blasphemer and a persecutor and insolent. But I obtained mercy, because being ignorant, I did it in unbelief. 


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 Faithful is the Word and worthy of all acceptance, that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners, of whom I am chief. 


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 But for this cause I obtained mercy, that in me first Jesus Christ might show forth all long-suffering, as a pattern to those being about to believe on Him to life everlasting. 


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 Now to the King eternal, immortal, invisible, the only wise God, be honor and glory forever and ever. Amen. 


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 This charge I commit to you, my son Timothy, according to the prophecies which went before about you, in order that you might war a good warfare by them, 


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 Among these are Hymeneus and Alexander, whom I have delivered to Satan so that they may learn not to blaspheme. 


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 First of all, then, I exhort that supplications, prayers, intercessions, and giving of thanks be made for all men, 


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 for kings and all who are in authority, so that we may lead a quiet and peaceable life in all godliness and reverence. 


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 To this I am ordained a preacher and an apostle (I speak the truth in Christ, I do not lie), a teacher of the nations, in faith and truth. 


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 In the same way also, I desire that women adorn themselves in decent clothing, with modesty and sensibleness, not adorned with braiding, or gold, or pearls, or costly clothing, 


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 But she will be kept safe through childbearing, if they continue in faith and love and holiness with sensibleness. 


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 Then it behooves the overseer to be without reproach, husband of one wife, temperate, sensible, well-ordered, hospitable, apt at teaching, 


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 not a drunkard, not contentious, not greedy of ill gain, but gentle, not quarrelsome, not covetous, 


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 But he must also have a good report from those on the outside, lest he fall into reproach and the snare of the Devil. 


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 Likewise the deacons are to be reverent, not double-tongued, not given to much wine, not greedy of ill gain, 


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 For they having served well gain a good grade for themselves, and much boldness in the faith, those in Christ Jesus. 


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 But if I should delay, that you may know how you ought to behave in the house of God, which is the church of the living God, the pillar and foundation of the truth. 


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 And without controversy great is the mystery of godliness: God was manifested in the flesh, justified in the Spirit, seen by angels, preached among nations, believed on in the world, and received up into glory. 


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 But the Spirit expressly says that in the latter times some shall depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits and teachings of demons, 


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 forbidding to marry, saying to abstain from foods which God has created to be received with thanksgiving by those who believe and know the truth. 


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 Having suggested these things to the brothers, you shall be a good minister of Jesus Christ, nourished up in the Words of Faith and by the good doctrine which you have followed. 


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 For bodily exercise profits a little, but godliness is profitable to all things, having promise of the present life, and of that which is to come. 


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 For to this we both labor and suffer reproach, because we trust in the living God, who is the preserver of all men, especially of those who believe. 


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 Let no one despise your youth, but be an example of the believers, in word, in conduct, in love, in spirit, in faith, in purity. 


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 Do not neglect the gift in you, which was given you by prophecy, with the laying on of the hands of the body of elders. 


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 Hold on to yourself and to the doctrine; continue in them, for doing this you shall both save yourself and those who hear you. 


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 But if any widow has children or grandchildren, let them first learn to be godly to their own house, and give back to their forebears what is due them; for that is good and pleasing before God. 


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 But she being really a widow, and having been left alone, has set her hope on God and continues in supplications and prayers night and day. 


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 But if anyone does not provide for his own, and especially his family, he has denied the faith and is worse than an infidel. 


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 well reported of for good works: if she brought up children, if she lodged strangers, if she washed the feet of saints, if she relieved the afflicted, if she followed after every good work. 


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 And with it all they also learn to be idle, going around the houses; and not only idle, but tattlers also and busybodies, speaking things they ought not. 


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 If any believing man or believing woman has widows, let them relieve them, and do not let the church be charged, so that it may relieve those who are widows indeed. 


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 Let the elders who rule well be counted worthy of double honor, especially those who labor in Word and doctrine. 


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 I charge you before God and the Lord Jesus Christ, and the elect angels, that you guard these things without prejudice, doing nothing by partiality. 


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 Do not lay hands quickly on anyone, neither be partaker of the sins of others. Keep yourself pure. 


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 Drink water no longer, but use a little wine for your stomach's sake, and for your frequent infirmities. 


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 Likewise also the good works of some are manifest beforehand, and those who are otherwise cannot be hidden. 


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 Let as many slaves as are under the yoke count their own masters worthy of all honor, so that the name and doctrine of God may not be blasphemed. 


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 And those who have believing masters, let them not despise them because they are brothers. But rather let them serve, because they are faithful and beloved, those of the good service receiving in return. Teach and exhort these things. 


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 he is proud, knowing nothing. He is sick concerning doubts and arguments, from which comes envy, strife, evil speakings, evil suspicions, 


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 meddling, of men whose minds have been corrupted and deprived of the truth, supposing that gain is godliness. Withdraw from such. 


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 But they who will be rich fall into temptation and a snare, and into many foolish and hurtful lusts which plunge men into destruction and perdition. 


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 For the love of money is a root of all evils, of which some having lusted after, they were seduced from the faith and pierced themselves through with many sorrows. 


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 But you, O man of God, flee these things and follow after righteousness, godliness, faith, love, patience, and meekness. 


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 Fight the good fight of faith. Lay hold on eternal life, to which you are also called and have professed a good profession before many witnesses. 


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 I charge you before God (who makes all things alive) and in the sight of Christ Jesus (who witnessed the good confession to Pontius Pilate), 


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 that you keep the commandment without spot and without blame until the appearing of our Lord Jesus Christ. 


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 who alone has immortality, dwelling in light which cannot be approached, whom no one of men have seen, nor can see; to whom be honor and power everlasting. Amen. 


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 laying up in store for themselves a good foundation against the time to come, that they may lay hold on eternal life. 


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 O Timothy, guard the Deposit, avoiding profane and vain babblings, and oppositions of falsely-named science, 


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 Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ by the will of God, according to the promise of life which is in Christ Jesus, 


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


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 I thank God, whom I serve from my forefathers with pure conscience, that without ceasing I remember you in my prayers night and day, 


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 taking recollection of the unfeigned faith that is in you, which first dwelt in your grandmother Lois, and in your mother Eunice. And I am persuaded that it is in you also. 


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 who has saved us and called us with a holy calling, not according to our works, but according to His own purpose and grace which was given us in Christ Jesus before the eternal times. 


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 But it is now having been manifested by the appearing of our Savior Jesus Christ, who has made death of no effect, bringing life and immortality to light through the gospel; 


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 For this cause I also suffer these things; but I am not ashamed, for I know whom I have believed, and I am persuaded that He is able to guard My deposit unto that Day. 


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 Hold fast the pattern of sound words which you have heard from me, in faith and love which is in Christ Jesus. 


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 This you know, that all those in Asia have turned away from me, of whom are Phygellus and Hermogenes. 


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 May the Lord give mercy to the house of Onesiphorus, for he often refreshed me and was not ashamed of my chain. 


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 May the Lord grant to him that he may find mercy from the Lord in that Day. And in what things he ministered to me at Ephesus, you know very well. 


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 And the things that you have heard from me among many witnesses, commit the same to faithful men who will be able to teach others also. 


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 No one who wars tangles with the affairs of this life, that he may please him who chose him to be a soldier. 


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 Therefore I endure all things for the sake of the elect, that they may also obtain the salvation which is in Christ Jesus with eternal glory. 


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 Put them in memory of these things, charging them before the Lord not to dispute about words to no profit, to the subverting of the hearers. 


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 who have erred concerning the truth, saying that the resurrection is already past, and who overthrow the faith of some. 


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 Nevertheless the foundation of God stands sure, having this seal: "The Lord knew those who are His." And, "Let everyone who names the name of Christ depart from iniquity!" 


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 But in a great house there are not only vessels of gold and of silver, but also of wood and of earth; and some to honor, and some to dishonor. 


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 Therefore if anyone purges himself from these, he shall be a vessel to honor, sanctified and useful to the Master, prepared for every good work. 


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 But flee youthful lusts, and follow righteousness, faith, love, peace, with those who call on the Lord out of a pure heart. 


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 in meekness instructing those who oppose, if perhaps God will give them repentance to the acknowledging of the truth, 


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 and that they awake out of the snare of the Devil, having been taken captive by him, so as to do the will of that one. 


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 For men will be self-lovers, money-lovers, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, 


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 without natural affection, unyielding, false accusers, without self-control, savage, despisers of good, 


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 For of these are those who creep into houses and lead captive silly women loaded with sins, led away with different kinds of lusts, 


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 But as Jannes and Jambres withstood Moses, so these also resist the truth, men of corrupt mind, reprobate concerning the faith. 


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 But they shall proceed no further. For their foolishness shall be plain to all, as theirs also became. 


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 But you have fully known my doctrine, manner of life, purpose, faith, long-suffering, love, patience, 


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 persecutions, afflictions, such as happened to me at Antioch, at Iconium, at Lystra. What persecutions I endured! But the Lord delivered me out of all. 


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 But continue in the things that you have learned and have been assured of, knowing from whom you have learned them, 


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 and that from a babe you have known the Holy Scriptures, which are able to make you wise to salvation through faith in Christ Jesus. 


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 All Scripture is God-breathed, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness, 


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 preach the Word, be instant in season and out of season, reprove, rebuke, exhort with all long-suffering and doctrine. 


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 But you watch in all things, endure afflictions, do the work of an evangelist, fully carry out your ministry. 


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 Now there is laid up for me the crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous Judge, shall give me at that Day; and not to me only, but also to all those who love His appearing. 


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 For Demas has forsaken me, having loved this present world, and he has departed to Thessalonica. Crescens went to Galatia, Titus to Dalmatia. 


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 Only Luke is with me. Take Mark and bring him with you, for he is profitable to me for the ministry. 


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 When you come, bring the cloak that I left at Troas with Carpus, and the books, especially the parchments. 


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 Alexander the coppersmith showed many evil things to me. The Lord will give back to him according to his works. 


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 But the Lord stood with me and strengthened me, that through me the preaching might be fulfilled, and that all the nations might hear. And I was delivered out of the mouth of the lion. 


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 Try to come before winter. Eubulus greets you, and Pudens, and Linus, and Claudia, and all the brothers. 


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 Paul, a servant of God and an apostle of Jesus Christ (according to the faith of God's elect, in the acknowledging of the truth which is according to godliness 


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 but revealed His Word in its own times in a proclamation, with which I was entrusted by the command of God our Savior,) 


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 to Titus, a true child according to our common faith. Grace mercy and peace from God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ our Savior. 


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 For this cause I left you in Crete, that you should set in order the things that are lacking and ordain elders in every city, as I had appointed you, 


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 if anyone is blameless, husband of one wife, having believing children, not accused of loose behavior, or disobedient. 


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 holding fast the faithful Word according to the doctrine, that he may be able, by sound doctrine, both to exhort and to convict the gainsayers. 


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 whose mouth you must stop, who subvert whole houses, teaching things not right for the sake of ill gain. 


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 This witness is true; for which cause convict them sharply, so that they may be sound in the faith, 


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 To the pure all things are pure. But to those who are defiled and unbelieving nothing is pure, but even their mind and conscience is defiled. 


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 They profess that they know God, but in their works they deny Him, being abominable and disobedient and reprobate to every good work. 


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 Let the aged women likewise be in reverent behavior, not slanderers, not enslaved by much wine, teachers of good; 


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 to be discreet, chaste, keepers at home, good, subject to their own husbands, that the Word of God may not be blasphemed. 


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 In all things having shown yourself a pattern of good works: in the doctrine, purity, sensibleness, without corruption, 


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 in sound speech that cannot be condemned, that he who is opposed may be ashamed, having no evil thing to say of you. 


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 Slaves are to be obedient to their masters, to please them well in all things, not talking against, 


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 not stealing, but showing all good faith, so that they may adorn the doctrine of God our Savior in all things. 


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 teaching us that having denied ungodliness and worldly lusts, we should live discreetly, righteously and godly, in this present world, 


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 looking for the blessed hope, and the appearance of the glory of our great God and Savior Jesus Christ, 


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 who gave Himself for us that He might redeem us from all iniquity and purify to Himself a special people, zealous of good works. 


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 Put them in mind to be subject to rulers and authorities, to be obedient, to be ready to every good work, 


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 not by works of righteousness which we have done, but according to His mercy He saved us, through the washing of regeneration and renewal of the Holy Spirit, 


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 Faithful is the Word, and as to these things, I desire that you strongly affirm that those believing God might be careful to maintain good works. These things are good and profitable to men. 


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 But avoid foolish questions and genealogies and contentions, and strivings about the Law, for they are unprofitable and vain. 


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 When I send Artemas to you, or Tychicus, hasten to come to me at Nicopolis, for I have determined to winter there. 


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 All those with me greet you. Greet those who love us in the faith. May grace be with you all. Amen. 


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 Paul, a prisoner of Jesus Christ, and Timothy our brother, to Philemon the beloved and fellow laborer, 


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 that the fellowship of your faith may operate in a full knowledge of every good thing in you in Christ Jesus. 


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 For we have great joy and consolation over your love, because the hearts of the saints have been refreshed by you, brother. 


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 rather through love I entreat, being such a one as Paul the aged, and now also a prisoner of Jesus Christ. 


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 whom I resolved to retain with myself, so that for you he might have ministered to me in the bonds of the gospel. 


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 not now as a slave, but beyond a slave, a beloved brother, especially to me, but how much more to you, both in the flesh and in the Lord. 


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 I, Paul, wrote it with my own hand; I will repay, that I do not say to you that you owe even yourself to me also. 


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 who being the shining splendor of His glory, and the express image of His essence, and upholding all things by the word of His power, through Himself cleansing of our sins, He sat down on the right of the Majesty on high, 


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 being made so much better than the angels, as He has by inheritance obtained a more excellent name than they. 


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 You have loved righteousness and hated iniquity, therefore God, Your God, has anointed You with the oil of gladness above Your fellows." 


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 And, "You, Lord, have laid the foundation of the earth in the beginning, and the heavens are the works of Your hands. 


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 and as a covering You shall fold them up, and they shall be changed. But You are the same, and Your years shall not fail." 


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 Are they not all ministering spirits, sent forth to minister for those who shall be heirs of salvation? 


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 Therefore we ought to give the more earnest heed to the things which we have heard, lest at any time we should let them slip. 


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 how shall we escape if we neglect so great a salvation, which at the first began to be spoken by the Lord, and was confirmed unto us by those who heard Him; 


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 God also bearing them witness, both with signs and wonders, and with different kinds of miracles and gifts of the Holy Spirit, according to His own will? 


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 But one testified in a certain place, saying, "What is man, that You are mindful of him; or the son of man, that You visit him? 


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 You have made him a little lower than the angels. You crowned him with glory and honor and set him over the works of Your hands. 


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 You subjected all things under his feet." For in subjecting all things to Him, He did not leave anything not subjected to Him. But now we do not see all things having been subjected to him. 


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 saying, "I will declare Your name to My brothers; in the midst of the assembly I will sing praise to You." 


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 And again, "I will put My trust in Him." And again, "Behold Me and the children whom God has given Me." 


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 And Moses truly was faithful in all his house, as a servant, for a testimony of those things which were to be spoken afterward. 


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 Take heed, brothers, lest there be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief, in departing from the living God. 


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 while it is said, "Today if you will hear His voice, harden not your hearts, as in the provocation." 


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 He again marks out a certain day, saying in David, "Today," (after so long a time). Even as it is said, "Today, if you will hear His voice, harden not your hearts." 


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 Neither is there any creature that is not manifest in His sight, but all things are naked and opened to the eyes of Him with whom we have to do. 


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 who can have compassion on the ignorant and on those who are out of the way. For he himself also is compassed with weakness. 


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 of the baptisms, of doctrine, and of laying on of hands, and of resurrection of the dead, and of eternal judgment. 


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 and who have fallen away; it is impossible, I say, to renew them again to repentance, since they crucify the Son of God afresh to themselves and put Him to an open shame. 


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 (For the earth which drinks in the rain that comes often upon it, and brings forth plants fit for those by whom it is dressed, receives blessing from God. 


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 that you be not slothful, but imitators of those who through faith and patience inherit the promises. 


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 so that by two immutable things, in which it was impossible for God to lie, we might have a strong consolation, who have fled for refuge to lay hold upon the hope set before us, 


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 which hope we have as an anchor of the soul, both sure and steadfast, and which enters into that within the veil, 


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 where the Forerunner has entered for us, even Jesus, having become a high priest forever after the order of Melchizedek. 


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


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 who is made, not according to the law of a fleshly commandment, but according to the power of an endless life. 


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 who does not need, as those high priests, to offer up sacrifice daily, first for his own sins and then for the people's sins. For He did this once for all, when He offered up Himself. 


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 who serve the example and shadow of heavenly things, as Moses was warned of God when he was about to make the tabernacle. For, He says "See that you make all things according to the pattern shown to you in the mountain." 


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 having a golden altar of incense, and the ark of the covenant overlaid all around with gold, in which was the golden pot that had manna, and Aaron's rod that budded, and the tablets of the covenant. 


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 But once in the year into the second the high priest goes alone, not without blood, which he offered for himself and for the errors of the people) 


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 which stood only in meats and drinks, and different kinds of washings and fleshly ordinances, imposed on them until the time of reformation. 


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 how much more shall the blood of Christ (who through the eternal Spirit offered Himself without spot to God) purge your conscience from dead works to serve the living God? 


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 And for this cause He is the Mediator of the new covenant, so that by means of death, for the redemption of the transgressions that were under the first covenant, those who are called might receive the promise of eternal inheritance. 


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 And almost all things are by the law purged with blood, and without shedding of blood is no remission. 


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 (for then He must have suffered often since the foundation of the world), but now once in the end of the world He has appeared to put away sin by the sacrifice of Himself. 


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 so Christ was once offered to bear the sins of many. And to those who look for Him He shall appear the second time without sin to salvation. 


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 then He said, "Lo, I come to do Your will, O God." He takes away the first so that He may establish the second. 


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 "This is the covenant that I will make with them after those days, says the Lord; I will put My Laws into their hearts, and in their minds I will write them," 


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 by a new and living way which He has consecrated for us through the veil, that is to say, His flesh; 


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 let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience and our bodies having been washed with pure water. 


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 but a certain fearful looking for judgment and fiery indignation, which shall devour the adversaries. 


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 indeed being exposed both by reproaches and afflictions, and while you became companions of those who lived so. 


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 But we are not of those withdrawing to destruction, but of those who believe to the preserving of the soul. 


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 By faith we understand that the ages were framed by a word of God, so that the things being seen not to have come into being out of the things that appear. 


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 By faith Abel offered to God a more excellent sacrifice than Cain, by which he obtained witness that he was righteous, God testifying of his gifts. And by it he, being dead, yet speaks. 


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 By faith Enoch was translated so as not to see death, and he was not found, because God had translated him; for before his translation he had this testimony, that he pleased God. 


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 But without faith it is impossible to please Him, for he who comes to God must believe that He is and that He is a rewarder of those who diligently seek Him. 


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 By faith Noah, having been warned by God of things not yet seen, moved with fear, prepared an ark to the saving of his house, by which he condemned the world and became heir of the righteousness which is according to faith. 


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 By faith Abraham obeyed when he was called to go out into a place which he was afterward going to receive for an inheritance. And he went out, not knowing where he went. 


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 By faith he lived in the land of promise as a stranger, dwelling in tents with Isaac and Jacob, the heirs of the same promise with him. 


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 By faith also Sarah herself received strength to conceive seed and was delivered of a child when she was past age, because she judged Him who had promised to be faithful. 


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 Because of this came into being from one, and that of one having died, even as the stars of the sky in multitude, and as innumerable as the sand which is by the seashore. 


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 These all died by way of faith, not having received the promises, but having seen them afar off. And they were persuaded of them and embraced them and confessed that they were strangers and pilgrims on the earth. 


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 But now they stretch forth to a better fatherland, that is, a heavenly one. Therefore God is not ashamed to be called their God, for He has prepared a city for them. 


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 concluding that God was able to raise him up, even from the dead, from where he even received him, in a figure. 


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 By faith Jacob, when he was dying, blessed each of the sons of Joseph and worshiped, leaning upon the top of his staff. 


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 By faith, Joseph dying remembered concerning the Exodus of the sons of Israel and gave orders concerning his bones. 


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 By faith Moses, having been born, was hidden three months by his parents, because they saw he was a beautiful child. And they were not afraid of the king's commandments. 


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 choosing rather to suffer affliction with the people of God than to enjoy the pleasures of sin for a time, 


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 esteeming the reproach of Christ greater riches than the treasures in Egypt, for he was looking to the reward. 


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 By faith he left Egypt, not fearing the wrath of the king, for he endured as seeing Him who is invisible. 


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 Through faith he kept the Passover and the sprinkling of blood, lest He who destroyed the first-born should touch them. 


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 By faith they passed through the Red Sea as by dry land, which the Egyptians attempting to do were drowned. 


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 By faith the harlot Rahab did not perish with those who did not believe, when she had received the spies with peace. 


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 who through faith subdued kingdoms, wrought righteousness, obtained promises, stopped the mouths of lions, 


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 quenched the violence of fire, escaped the edge of the sword, out of weakness were made strong, became valiant in fight, turned to flight the armies of the strangers. 


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 Women received their dead raised to life again, and others were tortured, not accepting deliverance, that they might obtain a better resurrection. 


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 They were stoned, they were sawed in two, were tempted, were slain with the sword. They wandered about in sheepskins and goatskins, being destitute, afflicted, tormented. 


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 The world was not worthy of them. They wandered in deserts and mountains and dens and caves of the earth. 


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 looking to Jesus the Author and Finisher of our faith, who for the joy that was set before Him endured the cross, despising the shame, and sat down at the right of the throne of God. 


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 And you have forgotten the exhortation which speaks to you as to sons, "My son, despise not the chastening of the Lord, nor faint when you are rebuked by Him; 


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 If you endure chastening, God deals with you as with sons, for what son is he whom the father does not chasten? 


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 But if you are without chastisement, of which all are partakers, then you are bastards and not sons. 


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 Furthermore we have had fathers of our flesh who corrected us, and we gave them reverence. Shall we not much rather be in subjection to the Father of spirits and live? 


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 And make straight paths for your feet, lest that which is lame be turned out of the way, but let it rather be healed. 


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 looking diligently lest any fail of the grace of God, or lest any root of bitterness springing up disturb you, and by it many are defiled, 


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 (lest there be any fornicator, or profane person like Esau, who for one morsel of food sold his birthright. 


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 For you know that afterward, when he desired to inherit the blessing, he was rejected; for he did not find any place of repentance, though he sought it carefully with tears). 


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 For you have not come to the mountain that might be touched and that burned with fire, nor to blackness and darkness and tempest, 


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 and the sound of a trumpet, and the voice of words (which voice they who heard begged that a word should not be spoken to them any more, 


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 for they could not endure the thing commanded, "And if so much as a beast should touch the mountain, it shall be stoned or thrust through with a dart," 


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 But you have come to Mount Zion and to the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to an innumerable company of angels, 


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 to the general assembly and church of the first-born who are written in Heaven, and to God the judge of all, and to the spirits of just men made perfect, 


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 and to Jesus the Mediator of the new covenant, and to blood of sprinkling that speaks better things than that of Abel. 


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 whose voice then shook the earth; but now He has promised, saying, "Yet once more I will not only shake the earth, but also the heavens." 


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 And this word, "Yet once more," signifies the removing of those things that are shaken, as of things that have been made, so that the things which cannot be shaken may remain. 


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 Remember those who are in bonds, as bound with them, those who suffer adversity, as being yourselves also in the body. 


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 Marriage is honorable in all, and the bed undefiled, but fornicators and adulterers God will judge. 


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 Let your way of life be without the love of money, and be content with such things as you have, for He has said, "Not at all will I leave you, not at all will I forsake you, never!" 


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 Remember those leading you, who have spoken to you the Word of God, whose faith follow, considering the end of their conduct: 


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 Do not be carried about with different and strange doctrines, for it is good for the heart to be established with grace, not with foods, in which those who have walked in them were not helped. 


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 For the bodies of those animals, whose blood is brought into the Holy of Holies by the high priest for sin, are burned outside the camp. 


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 Therefore Jesus also, so that He might sanctify the people through His own blood, suffered outside the gate. 


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 By Him, then, let us offer the sacrifice of praise to God continually, that is, the fruit of our lips, confessing His name. 


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 Yield to those leading you, and be submissive, for they watch for your souls, as those who must give account, that they may do it with joy and not with grief; for that is unprofitable for you. 


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 make you perfect in every good work to do His will, working in you that which is well pleasing in His sight through Jesus Christ, to whom be glory forever and ever. Amen. 


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 And I beseech you, brothers, allow the word of exhortation. For I have written a letter to you in few words. 


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 James, a servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ, to the twelve tribes in the Dispersion, greeting: 


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 But if any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask of God, who gives to all liberally and with no reproach, and it shall be given to him. 


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 But let him ask in faith, doubting nothing. For he who doubts is like a wave of the sea, driven by the wind and tossed. 


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 and the rich one rejoice in his humiliation, because he shall pass away as the flower of the grass. 


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 For the sun rose with the hot wind and dried up the grass, and its flower fell out, and the beauty of its appearance perished; so also the rich one will fade away in his ways. 


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 Blessed is the man who endures temptation, because having been approved, he will receive the crown of life which the Lord has promised to those who love Him. 


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 Let no one being tempted say, I am tempted from God. For God is not tempted by evils, and He tempts no one. 


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 Then when lust has conceived, it brings forth sin. And sin, when it is fully formed, brings forth death. 


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 Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above and comes down from the Father of lights, with whom is no variableness nor shadow of turning. 


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 Of His own will He brought us forth with the Word of truth, for us to be a certain firstfruit of His creatures. 


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 Therefore putting aside all filthiness and overflowing of evil, receive in meekness the implanted Word, which is able to save your souls. 


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 But whoever looks into the perfect Law of liberty and continues in it, he is not a forgetful hearer, but a doer of the work. This one shall be blessed in his doing. 


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 If anyone thinks to be religious among you, yet does not bridle his tongue, but deceives his own heart, this one's religion is vain. 


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 Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this, to visit orphans and widows in their afflictions, and to keep oneself unspotted from the world. 


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 My brothers, do not have the faith of our Lord Christ, the Lord of glory, with respecter of faces. 


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 and if you have respect to him who has the fancy clothing and say to him, You sit here in a good place, and say to the poor, You stand there, or sit here under my footstool; 


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 But you dishonored the poor one. Do not rich men oppress you and draw you before the judgment seats? 


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 If you fulfill the royal Law according to the Scripture, "You shall love your neighbor as yourself," you do well. 


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 My brothers, what profit is it if a man says he has faith and does not have works? Can faith save him? 


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 and if one of you says to them, Go in peace, be warmed and filled, but you do not give them those things which are needful to the body, what good is it? 


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 But someone will say, You have faith, and I have works. Show me your faith without your works, and I will show you my faith from my works. 


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 And the Scripture was fulfilled which says, "Abraham believed God, and it was imputed to him for righteousness, and he was called the friend of God." 


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


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 Behold, we put bits in the horses' mouths, so that they may obey us, and we turn about their whole body. 


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 Behold also the ships being so great, and driven by fierce winds, yet they are turned about with a very small rudder, where the impulse of him steering desires. 


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 Even so the tongue is a little member and boasts great things. Behold how little a fire kindles how large a forest! 


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 And the tongue is a fire, a world of iniquity. So the tongue is set among our members, spotting all the body and inflaming the course of nature, and being inflamed by hell. 


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 For every kind of animals, and of birds, and of reptiles, and of sea-animals, is tamed, and has been tamed by mankind. 


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 By this we bless God, even the Father. And by this we curse men, who have come into being according to the image of God. 


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 Out of the same mouth proceeds blessing and cursing. My brothers, these things ought not to be so. 


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 Can the fig tree, my brothers, bear olive berries; or a vine, figs? So no fountain can yield both salt water and fresh. 


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 Who is wise and knowing among you? Let him show his works by his good conduct with meekness of wisdom. 


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 But if you have bitter jealousy and strife in your hearts, do not glory and lie against the truth. 


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 But the wisdom that is from above is first truly pure, then peaceable, gentle, easy to be entreated, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality and without hypocrisy. 


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 From where do wars and fightings among you come? Is it not from this, from your lusts which war in your members? 


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 You desire, and do not have. You murder, and are jealous, and cannot obtain. You fight and war, yet you have not because you ask not. 


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 Adulterers and adulteresses! Do you not know that the friendship of the world is enmity with God? Therefore whoever desires to be a friend of the world is the enemy of God. 


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 Draw near to God, and He will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, sinners; and purify your hearts, double-minded ones. 


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 Be afflicted, and mourn and weep. Let your laughter be turned to mourning and your joy to heaviness. 


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 Do not speak against one another, brothers. He who speaks against his brother, and who judges his brother, speaks against the Law and judges the Law. But if you judge the Law, you are not a doer of the Law, but a judge. 


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 Come now, those saying, Today or tomorrow we will go into such a city and spend a year there, and we will trade and will make a profit, 


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 who do not know of the morrow. For what is your life? For it is a vapor, which appears for a little time, and then disappears. 


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 Your gold and silver have corroded, and their poison will be a witness against you, and will eat your flesh as fire. You heaped treasure in the last days. 


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 Behold, the hire of the laborers reaping your fields cry out, being kept back by you. And the cries of those who have reaped have entered into the ears of the Lord of hosts. 


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 You have lived luxuriously on the earth, and lived wantonly. You have nourished your hearts, as in a day of slaughter. 


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 Therefore be patient, brothers, until the coming of the Lord. Behold, the farmer waits for the precious fruit of the earth and has long patience for it, until he receives the early and the latter rain. 


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 Do not grudge against one another, brothers, lest you be condemned. Behold, the Judge stands before the door. 


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 My brothers, take the prophets who have spoken in the name of the Lord, for an example of suffering ill, and of patience. 


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 Behold, we count blessed those who endure. You have heard of the patience of Job, and you have seen the end of the Lord, that the Lord is full of pity and of tender mercy. 


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 But before all things, my brothers, do not swear; neither by the heaven nor by the earth, nor any other oath. But let your yes be yes, and your no, no, lest you fall into condemnation. 


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 Is any sick among you? Let him call for the elders of the church, and let them pray over him, anointing him with oil in the name of the Lord. 


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 Confess faults to one another, and pray for one another, that you may be healed. The effectual fervent prayer of a righteous one avails much. 


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 Elijah was a man of like passion as we are. And he prayed earnestly that it might not rain, and it did not rain on the earth for the time of three years and six months. 


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 know that he who turns back the sinner from the error of his way shall save a soul from death, and shall hide a multitude of sins. 


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 Peter, an apostle of Jesus Christ, to the elect sojourners of the Dispersion of Pontus, of Galatia, of Cappadocia, of Asia, and of Bithynia, 


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 according to the foreknowledge of God the Father, in sanctification of the Spirit, to obedience and sprinkling of the blood of Jesus Christ. May grace and peace be multiplied to you. 


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 Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who according to His great mercy has regenerated us again to a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, 


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 by the power of God, having been kept through faith to a salvation ready to be revealed in the last time; 


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 so that the trial of your faith (being much more precious than that of gold that perishes, but being proven through fire) might be found to praise and honor and glory at the revelation of Jesus Christ, 


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 whom having not seen, you love; in whom not yet seeing, but believing in Him you exult with unspeakable joy, and having been glorified, 


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 About which salvation the prophets sought out and searched out, prophesying concerning the grace for you; 


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 searching for what, or what manner of time, the Spirit of Christ made clear within them, testifying beforehand of the sufferings of Christ, and the glories that should follow. 


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 To them it was revealed that not to themselves, but to us, they ministered the things which are now reported to you by those who have preached the gospel to you in the Holy Spirit sent from Heaven; which things the angels desire to look into. 


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


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 those believing in God through Him, He who raised Him up from the dead and gave Him glory, so that your faith and hope might be in God. 


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 Purifying your souls in the obedience of the truth through the Spirit to unfeigned love of the brothers, love one another fervently out of a pure heart, 


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 having been born again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, through the living Word of God, and abiding forever. 


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 Therefore laying aside all malice and all guile and hypocrisies and envyings, and all evil speakings, 


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 and a Stone-of-stumbling and a Rock-of-offense to those disobeying, who stumble at the Word, to which they also were appointed. 


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 But you are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for possession, so that you might speak of the praises of Him who has called you out of darkness into His marvelous light; 


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 Dearly beloved, I exhort you as temporary residents and pilgrims to abstain from fleshly lusts which war against the soul, 


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 having your conduct honest among the nations, in that which they speak against you as evildoers, they may glorify God in a day of His visitation, seeing your good works. 


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 Then be in obedience to every ordinance of men, because of the Lord, whether to a king as supreme, 


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 Servants, be subject to your masters with all fear, not only to those good and forbearing, but also to the perverse ones. 


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 For what glory is it if you patiently endure while sinning and being buffeted? But if you suffer while doing good, and patiently endure, this is a grace from God. 


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 who when He was reviled did not revile in return. When He suffered, He did not threaten, but gave Himself up to Him who judges righteously. 


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 He Himself bore our sins in His own body on the tree, that dying to sins, we might live to righteousness; by whose stripes you were healed. 


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 For you were as sheep going astray, but now you are turned to the Shepherd and Overseer of your souls. 


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 Likewise, wives, be in subjection to your own husbands, so that if any do not obey the Word, they may also be won without the Word by the conduct of the wives, 


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 but let it be the hidden man of the heart, in that which is not corruptible, the meek and quiet spirit, which is of great price in the sight of God. 


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 as Sarah obeyed Abraham, calling him lord; whose children you became, doing good and fearing no terror. 


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 Likewise, husbands, live together according to knowledge, giving honor to the wife as to the weaker vessel, the female, as truly being co-heirs together of the grace of life, not cutting off your prayers. 


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 And finally, all be of one mind, having compassion on one another, loving the brothers, tenderhearted, friendly. 


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 Never give back evil for evil, or reviling for reviling, but on the contrary, giving blessing, knowing that you are called to this so that you might inherit blessing. 


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 For he that wants to love life and to see good days, let him restrain his tongue from evil, and his lips from speaking guile. 


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 But if you also suffer for righteousness' sake, you are blessed. And do not fear their fear, nor be troubled, 


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 but sanctify the Lord God in your hearts, and be ready always to give an answer to everyone who asks you a reason of the hope in you, with meekness and fear; 


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 having a good conscience, that while they speak against you as evildoers they may be shamed, those falsely accusing your good behavior in Christ. 


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 For Christ also once suffered for sins, the just for the unjust, that He might bring us to God, indeed being put to death in the flesh, but made alive in the Spirit; 


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 to disobeying ones, when once the long-suffering of God waited in the days of Noah, while the ark was being prepared (in which a few, that is, eight souls were saved through water); 


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 which figure now also saves us, baptism; not a putting away of the filth of the flesh, but the answer of a good conscience toward God, by the resurrection of Jesus Christ; 


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 who is at the right hand of God, having gone into Heaven, where the angels and authorities and powers are being subjected to Him. 


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 in order no longer to live in the lusts of men, but in the will of God the remaining time in the flesh. 


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 For the time of life which is past is enough for us to have worked out the will of the nations, having gone on in lasciviousness, lusts, excess of wine, parties, carousings, and abominable idolatries. 


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 In these things they are surprised, that you are not running with them into the same excess of riot, blaspheming. 


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 For to this end the gospel was preached also to the dead, that they might be judged according to men in the flesh, but live according to God in the Spirit. 


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 each one as he received a gift, ministering it to yourselves as good stewards of the manifold grace of God. 


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 Beloved, do not be astonished at the fiery trial which is to try you, as though a strange thing happened to you, 


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 but rejoice according as you are partakers of Christ's suffering, so that when His glory shall be revealed, you may be glad also with exceeding joy. 


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 If you are reviled for the name of Christ, you are blessed, because the Spirit of God and of glory rests on you. Truly according to them, He is blasphemed, but according to you He is glorified. 


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 But let none of you suffer as a murderer, or a thief, or an evildoer, or a meddler in the affairs of others. 


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 For the time has come for the judgment to begin from the house of God. And if it first begins from us, what will be the end of those disobeying the gospel of God? 


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 Therefore let those who suffer according to the will of God commit their souls in well-doing, as to a faithful Creator. 


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 I exhort the elders who are among you, I being also an elder and a witness of the sufferings of Christ, and also a partaker of the glory that shall be revealed. 


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 Feed the flock of God among you, taking the oversight, not by compulsion, but willingly; nor for base gain, but readily; 


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 Likewise, younger ones, be subject to older ones, and all being subject to one another. Put on humility. For God resists proud ones, but He gives grace to the humble. 


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 Be sensible and vigilant, because your adversary the Devil walks about like a roaring lion, seeking someone he may devour; 


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 whom firmly resist in the faith, knowing that the same afflictions in the world are being completed in your brotherhood. 


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 But the God of all grace, He calling us to His eternal glory by Christ Jesus, after you have suffered a little, He will perfect, confirm, strengthen, and establish you. 


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 I wrote to you through a few words, by Silvanus, a faithful brother to you, as I suppose, exhorting and testifying this to be the true grace of God in which you stand. 


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 Simon Peter, a servant and an apostle of Jesus Christ, to those who have obtained like precious faith with us through the righteousness of our God and our Savior Jesus Christ, 


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 according as His divine power has given to us all things that pertain to life and godliness, through the knowledge of Him who has called us to glory and virtue, 


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 through which He has given to us exceedingly great and precious promises, so that by these you might be partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust. 


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 But also in this very thing, bringing in all diligence, filling out your faith with virtue, and with virtue, knowledge; 


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 For if these things are in you and abound, they make you to be neither idle nor unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ. 


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 For he in whom these things are not present is blind and cannot see afar off and has forgotten that he was purged from his sins in the past. 


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 Therefore, brothers, rather be diligent to make your calling and election sure, for if you do these things, you shall never fall. 


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 For so an entrance shall be ministered to you abundantly into the everlasting kingdom of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. 


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 Therefore I will not neglect to put you always in remembrance of these things, though you know them and are established in the present truth. 


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 knowing that the putting off of my tabernacle is soon, as indeed our Lord Jesus Christ made clear to me. 


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 And I will also be diligent to cause you to always have memory of these things after my departure. 


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 For not having followed fables having been cunningly devised, but becoming eyewitnesses of the majesty of Jesus Christ, we made known to you the power and coming of our Lord. 


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 For He received honor and glory from God the Father, when was borne to Him a voice from the excellent glory, "This is My beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased." 


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 We also have a more sure Word of prophecy, to which you do well to take heed, as to a light that shines in a dark place, until the day dawns and the Daystar arises in your hearts, 


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 knowing this first, that no prophecy of the Scripture came into being of its own private interpretation. 


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 For prophecy was not borne at any time by the will of man, but holy men of God spoke being borne along by the Holy Spirit. 


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 And through covetousness they will use you for gain with well-turned words; for whom judgment from of old does not linger, and their destruction does not sleep. 


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 And He did not spare the old world, but saved Noah the eighth one, a preacher of righteousness, bringing in the flood upon the world of the ungodly. 


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 And turning the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah into ashes, He condemned them with an overthrow, setting an example to men intending to live ungodly. 


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 The Lord knows how to deliver the godly out of temptation, and to reserve the unjust for a day of judgment, to be punished, 


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 and especially those who walk after the flesh in the lust of uncleanness, and despise dominion. They are darers, self-pleasing; not trembling at glories, speaking evil. 


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 Where angels, who are greater in power and might, do not bring a reproaching accusation against them before the Lord. 


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 But these, as unreasoning natural brute animals having been born for capture and corruption, speak evil of the things that they do not understand. And they will utterly perish in their own corruption, 


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 being about to receive the wages of unrighteousness, deeming indulgence as pleasure in the daytime, and reveling in spots and blemishes, feasting along with you in their deceits, 


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 having eyes full of adultery and never ceasing from sin, alluring unstable souls, having a heart exercised with covetousness. They are cursed children 


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 who have forsaken the right way and have gone astray, following the way of Balaam the son of Beor, who loved the wages of unrighteousness, 


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 but had reproof of his lawbreaking, a dumb ass speaking in a man's voice, held back the madness of the prophet. 


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 These are wells without water, clouds driven with a tempest, for whom the blackness of darkness is reserved forever. 


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 promising them liberty, they themselves are the slaves of corruption. For by whom anyone has been overcome, even to this one he has been enslaved. 


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 For it would have been better for them not to have fully known the way of righteousness, than fully knowing it, to turn from the holy commandment delivered to them. 


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 But the word of the true proverb has happened to them: The dog turning to his own vomit; and, The washed sow to wallowing in the mire. 


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 to remember the words which were spoken before by the holy prophets, and of the commandment of the Lord and Savior by us, the apostles. 


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 and saying, Where is the promise of His coming? For since the fathers fell asleep, all things continue as they were from the beginning of creation. 


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 For this is hidden from them by their willing it, that the heavens were of old, and the earth out of the water, and through water, being held together by the Word of God, 


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 But the present heavens and the earth being kept in store by the same Word, are being kept for fire until the day of judgment and destruction of ungodly men. 


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 But, beloved, let not this one thing be hidden from you, that one day is with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day. 


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 The Lord is not slow concerning His promise, as some count slowness, but is long-suffering toward us, not purposing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance. 


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 But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night, in which the heavens will pass away with a rushing noise, and the elements will melt with fervent heat. And the earth and the works in it will be burned up. 


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 looking for and rushing the coming of the Day of God, on account of which the heavens, being on fire, will melt away, and the elements will melt, burning with heat? 


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 But according to His promise, we look for new heavens and a new earth in which righteousness dwells. 


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 as also in all his letters, speaking in them of these things; in which are some things hard to be understood, which the unlearned and unstable pervert, as also they do the rest of the Scriptures, to their own destruction). 


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 Therefore, beloved, knowing beforehand, beware lest being led away with the error of the lawless, you fall from your own steadfastness. 


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 But grow in grace and in knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. To Him be the glory, both now and to the day of eternity. Amen. 


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 That which was from the beginning, which we have heard, which we have seen with our eyes, which we have looked upon, and our hands have handled, concerning the Word of Life, 


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 (for the Life was revealed, and we have seen it and bear witness, and show to you the everlasting Life, who was with the Father and was revealed to us), 


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 that which we have seen and heard we declare unto you, so that you also may have fellowship with us. And truly our fellowship is with the Father and with His Son Jesus Christ. 


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 And this is the message which we have heard from Him and declare to you, that God is light, and in Him is no darkness at all. 


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 If we say that we have fellowship with Him and walk in darkness, we lie and do not practice the truth. 


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 But if we walk in the light, as He is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus Christ His Son cleanses us from all sin. 


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 If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. 


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 My little children, I write these things to you so that you may not sin. And if anyone sins, we have an Advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous. 


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 And He is the propitiation concerning our sins, and not concerning ours only, but also concerning the sins of all the world. 


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 He who says, I have known Him, and does not keep His commandments, is a liar, and the truth is not in him. 


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 But whoever keeps His Word, truly in this one the love of God is perfected. By this we know that we are in Him. 


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 Brothers, I do not write a new commandment to you, but an old commandment which you had from the beginning. The old commandment is the Word which you have heard from the beginning. 


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 But he who hates his brother is in darkness, and walks in darkness, and does not know where he is going, because darkness has blinded his eyes. 


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 I write to you, fathers, because you have known Him who is from the beginning. I write to you, young men, because you have overcome the evil one. I write to you, little children, because you have known the Father. 


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 I write to you, fathers, because you have known Him who is from the beginning. I have written to you, young men, because you are strong, and the Word of God abides in you, and you have overcome the evil one. 


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 Do not love the world, nor the things in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him, 


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 because all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world. 


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 Little children, it is the last time. And just as you have heard that antichrist is coming, even now many antichrists have risen up, from which we know that it is the last hour. 


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 They went out from us, but they were not of us; for if they were of us, they would have continued with us. But they went out so that it might be revealed that they were not all of us. 


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 I have not written to you because you do not know the truth, but because you know it, and know that no lie is of the truth. 


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 Who is a liar but he who denies that Jesus is the Christ? He who denies the Father and the Son is antichrist. 


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 Everyone who denies the Son neither has the Father. The one confessing the Son also has the Father. 


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 Therefore what you heard from the beginning, let it abide in you. If what you heard from the beginning remains in you, you will abide in both the Son and in the Father. 


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 But the anointing which you received from Him abides in you, and you do not need anyone to teach you. But as His anointing teaches you concerning all things, and is true and no lie, and as He has taught you, abide in Him. 


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 And now, little children, abide in Him, so that when He is revealed, we may have confidence and not be ashamed before Him in His coming. 


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 If you know that He is righteous, you know that everyone who does righteousness has been born of Him. 


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 Behold what manner of love the Father has given us, that we should be called children of God. Therefore the world does not know us, because it did not know Him. 


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 Beloved, now we are children of God, and it has not yet been revealed what we shall be. But we know that when He shall be revealed, we shall be like Him, for we shall see Him as He is. 


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 Little children, let no one deceive you. He who does righteousness is righteous, even as that One is righteous. 


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 He who practices sin is of the Devil, for the Devil sins from the beginning. For this purpose the Son of God was revealed, that He might undo the works of the Devil. 


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 Everyone who has been born of God does not commit sin, because His seed remains in him, and he cannot sin, because he has been born of God. 


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 In this the children of God are revealed, and the children of the Devil: everyone not practicing righteousness is not of God, also he who does not love his brother. 


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 not as Cain who was of the evil one, and killed his brother. And for what did he kill him? Because his own works were evil, and his brother's things were righteous. 


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 We know that we have passed from death to life, because we love the brothers. He who does not love his brother abides in death. 


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 Everyone hating his brother is a murderer. And you know that no murderer has everlasting life abiding in him. 


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 By this we have known the love of God, because He laid down His life for us. And we ought to lay down our lives for the brothers. 


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 But whoever has this world's goods and sees his brother having need, and shuts up his bowels from him, how does the love of God dwell in him? 


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 And whatever we ask, we receive from Him, because we keep His commandments and do those things that are pleasing in His sight. 


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 And this is His commandment, that we should believe on the name of His Son Jesus Christ, and love one another, as He gave us commandment. 


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 And he who keeps His commandment dwells in Him, and He in him. And by this we know that He abides in us, by the Spirit which He gave to us. 


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 Beloved, do not believe every spirit, but try the spirits to see if they are of God, because many false prophets have gone out into the world. 


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 By this you know the Spirit of God: every spirit that confesses that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is of God; 


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 and every spirit that does not confess that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is not of God. And this is the antichrist you heard is coming, and even now is already in the world. 


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 You are of God, little children, and you have overcome them, because He who is in you is greater than he who is in the world. 


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 We are of God. He who knows God hears us. The one who is not of God does not hear us. From this we know the spirit of truth and the spirit of error. 


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 Beloved, let us love one another, for love is of God, and everyone who loves has been born of God, and knows God. 


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 In this the love of God was revealed in us, because God sent His only begotten Son into the world that we might live through Him. 


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 In this is love, not that we loved God, but that He loved us and sent His Son to be the propitiation concerning our sins. 


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 No one has seen God at any time. If we love one another, God dwells in us, and His love is perfected in us. 


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 And we have known and believed the love that God has in us. God is love, and he who abides in love abides in God, and God in him. 


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 In this is our love made perfect, that we may have boldness in the day of judgment, that as He is, so also we are in this world. 


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 There is no fear in love, but perfect love casts out fear, because fear has torment. He who fears has not been perfected in love. 


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 If anyone says, I love God, and hates his brother, he is a liar. For if he does not love his brother whom he has seen, how can he love God whom he has not seen? 


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 Everyone who believes that Jesus is the Christ has been born of God. And everyone who loves Him who begets also loves him who has been born of Him. 


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 For this is the love of God, that we keep His commandments, and His commandments are not burdensome. 


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 For everything that has been born of God overcomes the world. And this is the victory that overcomes the world, our faith. 


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 This is He who came through water and blood, Jesus Christ, not by water only, but by the water and blood. And the Spirit is He who bears witness, because the Spirit is the truth. 


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 For there are three that bear witness in heaven: the Father, the Word, and the Holy Spirit, and these three are one. 


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 If we receive the witness of men, the witness of God is greater. For this is the witness of God which He has testified about His Son. 


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 He who believes on the Son of God has the witness in himself. He who does not believe God has made Him a liar, because he does not believe the record that God gave of His Son. 


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 I have written these things to you who believe on the name of the Son of God, that you may know that you have everlasting life, and that you may believe on the name of the Son of God. 


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 And this is the confidence that we have toward Him, that if we ask anything according to His will, He hears us. 


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 And if we know that He hears us, whatever we ask, we know that we have the petitions that we desired of Him. 


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 If anyone sees his brother sin a sin not to death, he shall ask, and He shall give him life for those that do not sin to death. There is a sin to death, I do not say that he shall pray for it. 


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 We know that everyone who has been born of God does not continue to sin, but the one born of God guards himself, and the evil one does not touch him. 


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 And we know that the Son of God has come, and He has given us an understanding so that we may know Him who is true. And we are in Him that is true, in His Son Jesus Christ. This is the true God, and the everlasting life. 


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 The elder to the elect lady and her children, whom I love in the truth and not only I, but also all those who have known the truth, 


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 Grace will be with you, mercy and peace from God the Father and from the Lord Jesus Christ, the Son of the Father, in truth and love. 


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 I rejoiced greatly that I found your children walking in truth, as we have received command from the Father. 


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 And now I beseech you, lady, not as though I wrote a new commandment to you, but that which we had from the beginning, that we love one another. 


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 And this is love, that we walk according to His commandments. This is the commandment, as you heard from the beginning, that you should walk in it. 


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 For many deceivers have entered into the world, who do not confess Jesus Christ coming in the flesh. This is the deceiver and the anti-christ. 


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 Look to yourselves, so that we may not lose those things which we worked out, but that we may receive a full reward. 


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 Everyone transgressing and not abiding in the doctrine of Christ does not have God. He who abides in the doctrine of Christ, he has both the Father and the Son. 


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 If anyone comes to you and does not bring this doctrine, do not receive him into your house, nor speak a greeting to him. 


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 Having many things to write to you, I do not want to say with paper and ink. But I trust to come to you and speak face to face, so that our joy may be full. 


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 Beloved, in regard to all things I pray that you prosper and be in health, even as your soul prospers. 


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 who in love bore witness of you before the church, whom you will do well to send forward worthily of God; 


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 I wrote to the church, but Diotrephes, who loves to have the preeminence among them, did not receive us. 


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 Therefore if I come, I will remember his deeds which he does, ranting against us with evil words. And not content with these, neither does he himself receive the brothers. And he forbids those who would, and casts them out of the church. 


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 Beloved, do not imitate the bad, but the good. He who does good is from God, but he who does evil has not seen God. 


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 Demetrius has good report by all, and by the truth itself. And we also bear witness, and you know that our witness is true. 


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 but I trust I shall shortly see you, and we shall speak face to face. Peace be to you. The friends greet you. Greet the friends by name. 


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 Jude, a servant of Jesus Christ, and brother of James, to the ones called in God the Father, having been set apart, and having been kept by Jesus Christ: 


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 Having made all haste to write to you about the common salvation, beloved, I had need to write to you to exhort you to contend earnestly for the faith once delivered to the saints. 


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 For certain men crept in secretly, those having been of old previously written into this condemnation, ungodly ones perverting the grace of our God for unbridled lust, and denying the only Master, God, even our Lord Jesus Christ. 


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 But I intend to remind you, you once knowing these things, that the Lord having delivered a people out of the land of Egypt, in the second place destroyed the ones not believing. 


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 And those angels not having kept their first place, but having deserted their dwelling-place, He has kept in everlasting chains under darkness for the judgment of a great Day; 


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 as Sodom and Gomorrah, and the cities around them, in like manner to these, committing fornication, and going away after other flesh, laid down an example before-times, undergoing vengeance of everlasting fire. 


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 Likewise, indeed, also these dreaming ones even defile flesh, and despise rulership, and speak evil of glories. 


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 But Michael, the archangel, when contending with the Devil, he argued about the body of Moses, he dared not bring a judgment of blasphemy, but said, Let the Lord rebuke you! 


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 But what things they do not know, they speak evil of. And what things they understand naturally, like the animals without reason, they are corrupted by these. 


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 Woe to them! For they went the way of Cain, and gave themselves up to the error of Balaam for reward, and perished in the gainsaying of Korah. 


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 These are sunken rocks in your love feasts, feasting together with you; feeding themselves without fear; waterless clouds being carried about by winds; fruitless autumn trees, having died twice, having been plucked up by the roots; 


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 wild waves of the sea foaming up their shames; wandering stars for whom blackness of darkness has been kept forever. 


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 And Enoch, the seventh from Adam, also prophesied to these, saying, Behold, the Lord came with myriads of His saints, 


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 to do judgment against all, and to rebuke all the ungodly of them concerning all their ungodly works which they ungodly did, and concerning all the hard things ungodly sinners spoke against Him. 


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 These are murmurers, complainers, leading lives according to their lusts. And their mouth speaks proud things, admiring faces for the sake of gain. 


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 because they told you that at the last time there will be mockers according to their lusts, leading ungodly lives. 


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 keep yourselves in the love of God, eagerly awaiting the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ to everlasting life. 


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 But save others with fear, snatching them out of the fire; hating even the garment having been stained from the flesh. 


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 Now to Him being able to keep you without stumbling, and to set you before His glory without blemish, with unspeakable joy; 


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 to the only wise God, our Savior, be glory and majesty and might and authority, even now and forever. Amen. 


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 A Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave to Him to declare to His servants things which must shortly come to pass. And He signified it by sending His angel to His servant John, 


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 who bore record of the Word of God and of the testimony of Jesus Christ and of all the things that he saw. 


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 Blessed is the one who reads and hears the Words of this prophecy, and the ones keeping the things written in it, for the time is near. 


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 John to the seven churches which are in Asia. Grace to you and peace from Him who is and who was and who is coming; and from the seven spirits which are before His throne; 


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 even from Jesus Christ the faithful Witness, the First-born from the dead and the Ruler of the kings of the earth. To Him who loved us and washed us from our sins in His own blood, 


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 and made us kings and priests to God and His Father, to Him be glory and dominion forever and ever. Amen. 


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 Behold, He comes with the clouds, and every eye will see Him, and those who pierced Him will see Him, and all the kindreds of the earth will wail because of Him. Even so, Amen. 


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 I am the Alpha and Omega, the Beginning and the Ending, says the Lord, who is and who was and who is to come, the Almighty. 


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 I, John, who also am your brother and companion in the affliction, and in the kingdom and patience of Jesus Christ, was in the island that is called Patmos, for the Word of God and for the testimony of Jesus Christ. 


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 saying, I am the Alpha and Omega, the First and the Last. Also, What you see, write in a book and send it to the seven churches which are in Asia: to Ephesus, and to Smyrna, and to Pergamos, and to Thyatira, and to Sardis, and to Philadelphia, and to Laodicea. 


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 And having turned, I saw seven golden lampstands. And in the midst of the seven lampstands I saw One like the Son of man, clothed with a garment down to the feet, and tied around the breast with a golden band. 


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 And His feet were like burnished brass having been fired in a furnace. And His voice was like the sound of many waters. 


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 And He had seven stars in His right hand, and out of His mouth went a sharp two-edged sword. And His face was like the sun shining in its strength. 


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 And when I saw Him, I fell at His feet as dead. And He laid His right hand upon me, saying to me, Do not fear, I am the First and the Last, 


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 and the Living One, and I became dead, and behold, I am alive for ever and ever, Amen. And I have the keys of hell and of death. 


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 Write the things which you have seen, and the things which are, and the things which shall be after this, 


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 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 which you saw are the seven churches. 


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 To the angel of the church of Ephesus write: He who holds the seven stars in His right hand, who walks in the midst of the seven golden lampstands, says these things. 


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 I know your works and your labor and your patience, and how you cannot bear those who are evil. And you tried those pretending to be apostles, and are not, and have found them liars. 


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 And you have borne, and have patience, and for My name's sake you have labored and have not fainted. 


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 Therefore remember from where you have fallen, and repent, and do the first works, or else I will come to you quickly and will remove your lampstand out of its place unless you repent. 


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 He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches. To him who overcomes I will give to eat of the Tree of Life, which is in the midst of the paradise of God. 


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 And to the angel of the church in Smyrna write: The First and the Last, who became dead and lived, says these things: 


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 I know your works and tribulation and poverty (but you are rich), and I know the blasphemy of those saying themselves to be Jews, and are not, but are the synagogue of Satan. 


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 Do not at all fear what you are about to suffer. Behold, the Devil will cast some of you into prison, so that you may be tried. And you will have tribulation ten days. Be faithful to death, and I will give you the crown of life. 


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 He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches. He who overcomes will not be hurt by the second death. 


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 And to the angel of the church in Pergamos write: He who has the sharp sword with two edges says these things. 


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 I know your works, and where you live, even where Satan's seat is . And you hold fast My name and have not denied My faith, even in those days in which Antipas was My faithful martyr, who was slain among you, where Satan dwells. 


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 But I have a few things against you, because you have there those who hold the teachings of Balaam, who taught Balak to cast a stumbling-block before the sons of Israel, to eat things sacrificed to idols and to commit fornication. 


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 He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches. To him who overcomes I will give to eat of the hidden manna, and will give to him a white stone, and in the stone a new name written, which no man knows except he who receives it . 


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 And to the angel of the church in Thyatira write: The Son of God, He who has His eyes like a flame of fire and His feet like burnished metal, says these things: 


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 I know your works and love and service and faith and your patience, and your works; and the last to be more than the first. 


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 But I have a few things against you because you allow that woman Jezebel to teach, she saying herself to be a prophetess, and to cause My servants to go astray, and to commit fornication, and to eat idol-sacrifices. 


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 Behold, I am throwing her into a bed, and those who commit adultery with her into great affliction, unless they repent of their deeds. 


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 And I will kill her children with death. And all the churches will know that I am He who searches the reins and hearts, and I will give to every one of you according to your works. 


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 But to you I say, and to the rest in Thyatira, as many as do not have this doctrine, and who have not known the depths of Satan, as they speak, I will put on you no other burden. 


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 And he will rule them with a rod of iron, as the vessels of a potter they will be broken to pieces, even as I received from My Father. 


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 And to the angel of the church in Sardis write: He who has the seven Spirits of God and the seven stars says these things. I know your works, that you have a name that you live, and are dead. 


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 Be watchful and strengthen the things which remain, that are ready to die. For I have not found your works being fulfilled before God. 


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 Remember then how you have received and heard, and hold fast, and repent. Therefore if you will not watch, I will come upon you as a thief, and you will not know what hour I will come upon you. 


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 You have a few names even in Sardis who have not defiled their garments. And they will walk with Me in white, for they are worthy. 


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 The one who overcomes, this one will be clothed in white clothing. And I will not blot out his name out of the Book of Life, but I will confess his name before My Father and before His angels. 


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 And to the angel of the church in Philadelphia write: He who is holy, He who is true, He who has the key of David, He who opens and no one shuts; and shuts and no one opens, says these things: 


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 I know your works. Behold, I have given before you an open door, and no one can shut it. For you have a little strength and have kept My Word and have not denied My name. 


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 Behold, I give out of those of the synagogue of Satan, those saying themselves to be Jews and are not, but lie; behold, I will make them to come and worship before your feet, and to know that I have loved you. 


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 Because you have kept the Word of My patience, I also will keep you from the hour of temptation which will come upon all the habitable world, to try those who dwell upon the earth. 


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 Him who overcomes I will make him a pillar in the temple of My God, and he will go out no more. And I will write upon him the name of My God, and the name of the city of My God, the New Jerusalem, which comes down out of Heaven from My God, and My new name. 


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 And to the angel of the church of the Laodicea write: The Amen, the faithful and true Witness, the Head of the creation of God, says these things: 


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 Because you say, I am rich and increased with goods and have need of nothing, and do not know that you are wretched and miserable and poor and blind and naked, 


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 I counsel you to buy from Me gold purified by fire, so that you may be rich; and white clothing, so that you may be clothed, and so that the shame of your nakedness does not appear. And anoint your eyes with eye salve, so that you may see. 


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 Behold, I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears My voice and opens the door, I will come in to him and will dine with him and he with Me. 


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 To him who overcomes I will grant to sit with Me in My throne, even as I also overcame and have sat down with My Father in His throne. 


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 After these things I looked, and behold, a door was opened in Heaven. And the first voice which I heard was as it were of a trumpet talking with me, saying, Come up here, and I will show you what must occur after these things. 


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 And immediately I became in spirit. And behold, a throne was set in Heaven, and One sat upon the throne. 


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 And He who sat there looked like a jasper stone and a sardius. And a rainbow was around the throne, looking like an emerald. 


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 And around the throne I saw twenty-four thrones. And on the thrones I saw twenty-four elders sitting, clothed in white clothing. And they had crowns of gold on their heads. 


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 And out of the throne came lightnings and thunderings and voices. And seven lamps of fire were burning in front of the throne, which are the seven spirits of God. 


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 And a sea of glass was in front of the throne, like crystal. And in the midst of the throne, and around the throne, were four living creatures, full of eyes in front and behind. 


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 And the first living creature was like a lion, and the second living creature like a calf, and the third living creature had the face of a man, and the fourth living creature like a flying eagle. 


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 And each one of the four living creatures had six wings about him, and within being full of eyes. And they had no rest day and night, saying, Holy, holy, holy, Lord God, the Almighty, who was and is and is to come. 


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 And whenever the living creatures gave glory and honor and thanks to Him who sat on the throne, who lives forever and ever, 


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 the twenty-four elders fell down before the One sitting on the throne. And they worshiped Him who lives for ever and ever, and threw their crowns before the throne, saying, 


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 O Lord, You are worthy to receive glory and honor and power, because You created all things, and for Your will they are and were created. 


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 And I saw a book on the right of Him sitting on the throne, written inside and on the back, sealed with seven seals. 


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 And I saw a mighty angel proclaiming with a loud voice, Who is worthy to open the book and to loosen its seals? 


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 And no one in Heaven, nor on the earth, nor under the earth, was able to open the book or to look at it. 


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 And I wept very much, because no one was found worthy to open and to read the book, nor to look at it. 


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 And one of the elders said to me, Do not weep. Behold, the Lion of the tribe of Judah, the Root of David, has prevailed to open the book and to loose the seven seals of it. 


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 And I looked, and lo, in the midst of the throne and of the four living creatures, amidst the elders, a Lamb stood, as if it had been slain, having seven horns and seven eyes, which are the seven Spirits of God sent forth into all the earth. 


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 And when He had taken the book, the four living creatures and the twenty-four elders fell down before the Lamb, each one having harps and golden vials full of incense, which are the prayers of the saints. 


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 And they sang a new song, saying, You are worthy to take the book and to open its seals, for You were slain and have redeemed us to God by Your blood out of every kindred and tongue and people and nation. 


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 And I looked, and I heard the voice of many angels around the throne, and the living creatures and the elders. And the number of them was myriads and myriads, and thousands of thousands, 


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 saying with a great voice, Worthy is the Lamb who was slain, to receive power and riches and wisdom and strength and honor and glory and blessing. 


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 And I heard every creature which is in the Heaven and on the earth, and under the earth, and those that are in the sea, and all who are in them, saying, Blessing and honor and glory and power be to Him sitting on the throne, and to the Lamb forever and ever. 


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 And the four living creatures said, Amen. And the twenty-four elders fell down and worshiped the One living forever and ever. 


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 And I saw when the Lamb opened one of the seals, and I heard one of the four living creatures like a sound of thunder, saying, Come and see. 


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 And I saw. And behold a white horse! And he sitting on it had a bow. And a crown was given to him, and he went forth conquering and to conquer. 


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 And another, a red horse, went out. And power was given to him sitting on it, to take peace from the earth, and that they should kill one another. And there was given to him a great sword. 


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 And when He had opened the third seal, I heard the third living creature say, Come and see. And I looked, and lo, a black horse. And he sitting on it had a balance in his hand. 


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 And I heard a voice in the midst of the four living creatures say, A choenix of wheat for a denarius, and three choenixes of barley for a denarius. And do not hurt the oil and the wine. 


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 And when He had opened the fourth seal, I heard the voice of the fourth living creature say, Come and see. 


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 And I looked, and behold, a pale horse. And the name of him sitting on it was Death, and Hell followed with him. And authority was given to them over the fourth part of the earth, to kill with the sword and with hunger and with death and by the beasts of the earth. 


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 And when He had opened the fifth seal, I saw under the altar the souls of those who had been slain for the Word of God, and for the testimony which they held. 


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 And they cried with a loud voice, saying, Until when, Master, holy and true, do You not judge and avenge our blood on those who dwell on the earth? 


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 And white robes were given to each one of them. And it was said to them that they should rest yet for a little time, until both their fellow servants and their brothers (those about to be killed as they were ) should have their number made complete. 


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 And when He had opened the sixth seal, I looked, and behold, there was a great earthquake. And the sun became black as sackcloth of hair, and the moon became like blood. 


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 And the stars of heaven fell to the earth, even as a fig tree casts her untimely figs when she is shaken by a mighty wind. 


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 And the heaven departed like a scroll when it is rolled together. And every mountain and island were moved out of their places. 


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 And the kings of the earth, and the great men, and the rich, and the chief captains, and the mighty men, and every bondman, and every freeman, hid themselves in the dens and in the rocks of the mountains. 


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 And they said to the mountains and rocks, Fall on us and hide us from the face of Him sitting on the throne, and from the wrath of the Lamb; 


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 And after these things I saw four angels standing on the four corners of the earth, holding the four winds of the earth so that the wind should not blow on the earth, nor on the sea, nor on any tree. 


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 And I saw another angel ascending from the east, having the seal of the living God. And he cried with a loud voice to the four angels, to whom it was given to hurt the earth and the sea, 


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 saying, Do not hurt the earth or the sea or the trees until we have sealed the servants of our God in their foreheads. 


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 And I heard the number of those who were sealed, one hundred and forty-four thousands, having been sealed out of every tribe of the sons of Israel. 


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 Out of the tribe of Judah, twelve thousand had been sealed. Out of the tribe of Reuben, twelve thousand had been sealed. Out of the tribe of Gad, twelve thousand had been sealed. 


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 Out of the tribe of Asher, twelve thousand had been sealed. Out of the tribe of Naphtali, twelve thousand had been sealed. Out of the tribe of Manasseh, twelve thousand had been sealed. 


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 Out of the tribe of Simeon, twelve thousand had been sealed. Out of the tribe of Levi, twelve thousand had been sealed. Out of the tribe of Issachar, twelve thousand had been sealed. 


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 Out of the tribe of Zebulun, twelve thousand had been sealed. Out of the tribe of Joseph, twelve thousand had been sealed. Out of the tribe of Benjamin, twelve thousand had been sealed. 


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 After these things I looked, and lo, a great multitude, which no man could number, out of all nations and kindreds and people and tongues, stood before the throne and before the Lamb, clothed with white robes, with palms in their hands. 


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 And they cried with a loud voice, saying, Salvation to our God sitting on the throne, and to the Lamb. 


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 And all the angels stood around the throne, and the elders, and the four living creatures, and they fell before the throne on their faces and worshiped God, 


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 saying, Amen! Blessing and glory and wisdom and thanksgiving and honor and power and might be to our God forever and ever. Amen. 


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 And one of the elders answered, saying to me, Who are these who are arrayed in white robes, and from where do they come? 


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 And I said to him, Sir, you know. And he said to me, These are the ones who came out of the great tribulation and have washed their robes, and have whitened them in the blood of the Lamb. 


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 Therefore they are before the throne of God, and they serve Him day and night in His temple. And He sitting on the throne will dwell among them. 


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 For the Lamb who is in the midst of the throne will feed them and will lead them to the fountains of living waters. And God will wipe away all tears from their eyes. 


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 And another angel came and stood at the altar, having a golden censer. And many incenses were given to him, so that he should offer it with the prayers of all saints on the golden altar before the throne. 


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 And the smoke of the incense which came with the prayers of the saints, ascended up before God from the angel's hand. 


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 And the angel took the censer and filled it with fire from the altar, and cast it into the earth. And voices and thunderings and lightnings and an earthquake occurred. 


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 The first angel sounded, and there followed hail and fire mixed with blood, and they were cast on the earth. And the third part of trees was burned up, and all green grass was burned up. 


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 And the second angel sounded, and as it were a great mountain burning with fire was cast into the sea. And the third part of the sea became blood. 


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 And the third part of the creatures in the sea, those having souls, died; and the third part of the ships was destroyed. 


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 And the third angel sounded, and a great star burning like a lamp fell from the heaven, and it fell on the third part of the rivers and on the fountains of waters. 


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 And the name of the star is called Wormwood, and a third part of the waters became wormwood. And many men died from the waters, because they were made bitter. 


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 And the fourth angel sounded, and the third part of the sun was stricken, and the third part of the moon, and the third part of the stars, so that the third part of them was darkened, and the day did not appear for a third part of it, and the night also. 


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 And I saw and I heard one angel flying in mid-heaven, saying with a loud voice, Woe! Woe! Woe to the inhabitants of the earth, from the rest of the voices of the trumpet of the three angels being about to sound! 


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 And the fifth angel sounded. And I saw a star fall from the heaven to the earth, and it was given the key of the abyss. 


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 And it opened the bottomless pit. And there arose a smoke out of the pit, like the smoke of a great furnace. And the sun and air were darkened because of the smoke of the pit. 


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 And out of the smoke came forth locusts onto the earth. And authority was given to them, as the scorpions of the earth have authority. 


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 And they were commanded not to hurt the grass of the earth, or any green thing, or any tree, but only those men who do not have the seal of God in their foreheads. 


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 And to them it was given that they should not kill them, but that they should be tormented five months. And their torment was like a scorpion's torment when he stings a man. 


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 And in those days men will seek death and will not find it. And they will long to die, and death will flee from them. 


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 And the shapes of the locusts were like horses prepared for battle. And on their heads were as it were crowns like gold, and their faces were like the faces of men. 


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 And they had breastplates like breastplates of iron. And the sound of their wings was like the sound of chariots of many horses running to battle. 


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 And they had tails like scorpions, and there were stings in their tails. And their authority was to hurt men five months. 


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 And they had a king over them, the angel of the bottomless pit, whose name in the Hebrew tongue is Abaddon, but in Greek his name is Apollyon. 


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 And the sixth angel sounded his trumpet. And I heard a voice from the four horns of the golden altar before God, 


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 saying to the sixth angel who had the trumpet, Loose the four angels who are bound at the great river Euphrates. 


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 And the four angels were loosed, who were prepared for an hour, and a day, and a month, and a year, in order to slay the third part of men. 


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 And the number of the armies of the horsemen was two myriads of myriads. And I heard their number. 


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 And so I saw the horses in the vision, and those sitting on them, having breastplates of fire, even dusky red and brimstone. And the heads of the horses were like the heads of lions. And out of their mouths issued fire and smoke and brimstone. 


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 By these three the third part of men was killed, by the fire, and by the smoke, and by the brimstone which issued out of their mouths. 


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 For their authority is in their mouth and in their tails. For their tails were like serpents with heads, and with them they do harm. 


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 And the rest of the men who were not killed by these plagues still did not repent of the works of their hands, that they should not worship demons, and golden, and silver, and bronze, and stone, and wooden idols (which neither can see, nor hear, nor walk). 


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 And they did not repent of their murders, nor of their sorceries, nor of their fornication, nor of their thefts. 


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 And I saw another mighty angel coming down out of the heaven, clothed with a cloud. And a rainbow was on his head, and his face was as the sun, and his feet like pillars of fire. 


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 And he had a little book open in his hand. And he set his right foot on the sea and his left foot on the earth. 


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 And he cried with a loud voice, like a lion roaring. And when he had cried, seven thunders spoke their sounds. 


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 And when the seven thunders spoke their sounds, I was about to write. And I heard a voice from Heaven saying to me, Seal up what things the seven thunders spoke, and do not write these things. 


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 and swore by Him who lives forever and ever, who created the heaven and the things in it, and the earth and the things in it, and the sea and the things in it, that there should no longer be time. 


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 But in the days of the voice of the seventh angel, when he will begin to sound, the mystery of God should be finished, as He has declared to His servants the prophets. 


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 And the voice which I heard from Heaven spoke to me again, and said, Go, take the little book which is open in the hand of the angel who stands on the sea and on the earth. 


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 And I went to the angel and said to him, Give me the little book. And he said to me, Take it and eat it up, and it will make your belly bitter, but it will be sweet as honey in your mouth. 


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 And I took the little book out of the angel's hand and ate it up. And it was sweet as honey in my mouth, and as soon as I had eaten it, my belly was made bitter. 


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 And a reed like a rod was given to me. And the angel stood, saying, Rise up and measure the temple of God, and the altar, and those who worship in it. 


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 But leave out the court which is outside the temple, and do not measure it, for it was given to the nations. And they will trample the holy city forty-two months. 


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 And I will give power to My two witnesses, and they will prophesy a thousand, two hundred and sixty days, clothed in sackcloth. 


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 And if anyone will hurt them, fire proceeds out of their mouth and devours their enemies. And if anyone will hurt them, so it is right for him to be killed. 


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 These have authority to shut up the heaven, that it may not rain in the days of their prophecy. And they have authority over waters to turn them to blood, and to strike the earth with every plague, as often as they desire. 


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 And when they complete their testimony, the beast coming up out of the abyss will make war against them and will overcome them and kill them. 


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 And their bodies will lie in the street of the great city, which spiritually is called Sodom and Egypt, where also our Lord was crucified. 


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 And many of the peoples and tribes and tongues and nations will see their dead bodies three days and a half, and they will not allow their dead bodies to be put in tombs. 


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 And the ones who dwell on the earth will rejoice over them, and will make merry, and will send one another gifts, because these two prophets tormented those living on the earth. 


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 And after three days and a half, a spirit of life from God entered into them, and they stood on their feet. And great fear fell on those seeing them. 


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 And they heard a great voice from Heaven saying to them, Come up here. And they went up to Heaven in a cloud, and their enemies watched them. 


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 And in that hour a great earthquake occurred, and the tenth part of the city fell. And seven thousand names of men were slain in the earthquake. And the rest were frightened and gave glory to the God of Heaven. 


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 And the seventh angel sounded. And there were great voices in Heaven, saying, The kingdoms of this world have become the kingdoms of our Lord, and of His Christ. And He will reign forever and ever. 


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 And the twenty-four elders sitting before God on their thrones, fell on their faces and worshiped God, 


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 saying, We thank You, O Lord God Almighty, who are, and who was, and who is coming, because You took Your great power and reigned. 


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 And the nations were full of wrath, and Your wrath came, and the time of the judging of the dead, and to give the reward to Your servants the prophets, and to the saints, and to the ones fearing Your name, to the small and to the great, and to destroy those destroying the earth. 


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 And the temple of God was opened in Heaven, and there was seen in His temple the ark of His covenant, and there occurred lightnings and voices, and thunders and an earthquake, and a great hail. 


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 And there appeared a great sign in the heavens, a woman clothed with the sun, and the moon was under her feet, and a crown of twelve stars on her head, 


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 And another sign was seen in the heavens. And behold a great red dragon, having seven heads and ten horns and seven crowns on his heads! 


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 And his tail drew the third part of the stars of heaven, and cast them onto the earth. And the dragon stood before the woman being about to bear, so that when she bears he might devour her child. 


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


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 And the woman fled into the wilderness, where she had a place prepared by God, so that they might nourish her there a thousand, two hundred and sixty days. 


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 And there was war in Heaven. Michael and his angels warring against the dragon. And the dragon and his angels warred, 


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 And the great dragon was cast out, the old serpent called Devil, and Satan, who deceives the whole world. He was cast out into the earth, and his angels were cast out with him. 


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 And I heard a great voice saying in Heaven, Now has come the salvation and power and the kingdom of our God, and the authority of His Christ. For the accuser of our brothers is cast down, who accused them before our God day and night. 


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 And they overcame him because of the blood of the Lamb, and because of the word of their testimony. And they did not love their soul until death. 


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 Therefore rejoice, O heavens, and those tabernacling in them. Woe to the inhabitants of the earth and in the sea! For the Devil came down to you, having great wrath, knowing that he has but a little time. 


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 And when the dragon saw that he was cast to the earth, he persecuted the woman who bore the man child . 


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 And two wings of a great eagle were given to the woman, so that she might fly into the wilderness, into her place, where she is nourished for a time and times and half a time, from the serpent's face. 


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 And the serpent cast out of his mouth water like a flood after the woman, so that he might cause her to be carried away by the river. 


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 And the earth helped the woman. And the earth opened its mouth and swallowed up the river which the dragon cast out of his mouth. 


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 And the dragon was enraged over the woman, and went to make war with the rest of her seed, who keep the commandments of God and have the testimony of Jesus Christ. 


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 And I stood on the sand of the sea, and I saw a beast coming up out of the sea, having seven heads and ten horns. And on its horns were ten crowns, and on its heads was the name of blasphemy. 


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 And the beast which I saw was like a leopard, and its feet like those of a bear, and its mouth like the mouth of a lion. And the dragon gave him its power and its seat and great authority. 


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 And I saw one of its heads as having been slain to death, and its deadly wound was healed. And all the earth marveled after the beast. 


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 And they worshiped the dragon who gave authority to the beast. And they worshiped the beast, saying, Who is like the beast? Who is able to make war with it? 


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 And a mouth speaking great things was given to it, and blasphemies. And authority was given to it to continue forty-two months. 


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 And it opened its mouth in blasphemy toward God, to blaspheme His name and His tabernacle, and those dwelling in Heaven. 


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 And it was given to it to war with the saints and to overcome them. And authority was given to it over every tribe and tongue and nation. 


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 And all dwelling on the earth will worship it, those whose names have not been written in the Book of Life of the Lamb slain, from the foundation of the world. 


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 He who leads into captivity will go into captivity. If anyone will kill with the sword, he must be killed by a sword. Here is the patience and the faith of the saints. 


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 And I saw another beast coming up out of the earth. And it had two horns like a lamb, and he spoke like a dragon. 


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 And it exercises all the authority of the first beast before him, and causes the earth and those dwelling in it to worship the first beast, whose deadly wound was healed. 


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 And it does great wonders, so that it makes fire come down from the heaven onto the earth in the sight of men. 


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 And it deceives those dwelling on the earth, because of the miracles which were given to it to do before the beast, saying to those dwelling on the earth that they should make an image to the beast who had the wound by a sword and lived. 


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 And there was given to it to give a spirit to the image of the beast, so that the image of the beast might both speak, and might cause as many as would not worship the image of the beast to be killed. 


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 And it causes all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark on their right hand, or in their foreheads, 


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 even that not any might buy or sell except those having the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of its name. 


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 Here is the wisdom. Let him having reason count the number of the beast, for it is the number of a man. And its number is six hundred and sixty-six. 


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 And I looked, and lo, the Lamb stood on Mount Zion. And with Him were a hundred and forty-four thousands, having His Father's name written in their foreheads. 


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 And I heard a voice from Heaven, like the voice of many waters and like the voice of a great thunder. And I heard the voice of harpers harping with their harps. 


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 And they sang as it were a new song before the throne and before the four living creatures and the elders. And no one could learn that song except the hundred and forty-four thousands who were redeemed from the earth. 


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 These are those who were not defiled with women; for they are virgins. These are those who follow the Lamb wherever He goes. These were redeemed from among men, as a firstfruit to God and to the Lamb. 


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 And I saw another angel flying in mid-heaven, having the everlasting gospel to preach to those dwelling on the earth, even to every nation and kindred and tongue and people, 


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 saying with a great voice, Fear God and give glory to Him! For the hour of His judgment has come. And worship Him who made the heaven and the earth, and the sea, and the fountains of waters. 


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 And another angel followed, saying, The great city, Babylon, has fallen, has fallen; because of the wine of the anger of her fornication; she has made all nations to drink. 


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 And a third angel followed them, saying with a great voice, If anyone worships the beast and its image, and receives a mark in his forehead or in his hand, 


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 he also will drink of the wine of the anger of God, having been mixed undiluted in the cup of His wrath. And he will be tormented by fire and brimstone before the holy angels, and in the presence of the Lamb. 


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 And the smoke of their torment goes up forever and ever. And they have no rest day or night, those who worship the beast and its image, and whoever receives the mark of its name. 


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 Here is the patience of the saints. Here are the ones who keep the commandments of God and the faith of Jesus. 


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 And I heard a voice from Heaven saying to me, Write, Blessed are the dead who die in the Lord from now on. Yes, says the Spirit, they shall rest from their labors, and their works follow them. 


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 And I looked, and behold, a white cloud. And on the cloud sat one like the Son of man, having a golden crown on His head, and a sharp sickle in His hand. 


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 And another angel came out of the temple, crying in a great voice to Him sitting on the cloud, Thrust in Your sickle and reap, for the time has come for You to reap, for the harvest of the earth was dried. 


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 And another angel came out from the altar, who had authority over fire. And he spoke with a great cry to him who had the sharp sickle, saying, Thrust in your sharp sickle, and gather the clusters of the vine of the earth, for her grapes are fully ripe. 


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 And the angel thrust in his sickle into the earth and gathered the vine of the earth, and cast it into the great winepress of the anger of God. 


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 And the winepress was trodden outside the city, and blood came out of the winepress, even to the bridles of the horses, for the space of a thousand, six hundred stadia. 


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 And I saw another sign in Heaven, great and marvelous: seven angels with the seven last plagues; for in them is filled up the wrath of God. 


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 And I saw as it were a sea of glass mingled with fire. And those who had gotten the victory over the beast, and over his image, and over his mark, and over the number of his name, stand on the sea of glass, having the harps of God. 


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 And they sing the song of Moses the servant of God, and the song of the Lamb, saying, Great and marvelous are Your works, Lord God Almighty, just and true are Your ways, O King of saints. 


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 Who shall not fear You, O Lord, and glorify Your name? For You only are holy. For all nations shall come and worship before You, for Your righteousnesses were made known. 


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 And after these things I looked, and behold, the temple of the tabernacle of the testimony was opened in Heaven. 


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 And the seven angels came out of the temple, having the seven plagues, clothed in pure and white linen, and were tied at the breasts with golden bands. 


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 And one of the four living creatures gave to the seven angels seven golden vials full of the wrath of God, who lives forever and ever. 


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 And the temple was filled with smoke from the glory of God, and from His authority. And no one was able to enter into the temple until the seven plagues of the seven angels were completed. 


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 And I heard a great voice out of the temple saying to the seven angels, Go and pour out the vials of the anger of God on the earth. 


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 And the first went and poured out his vial on the earth. And a bad and grievous sore fell on the men who had the mark of the beast, and on those who worshiped his image. 


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 And the second angel poured out his vial on the sea. And it became like the blood of a dead one, and every living soul died in the sea. 


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 And the third angel poured out his vial on the rivers and fountains of waters, and they became blood. 


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 And I heard the angel of the waters say, Righteous is the Lord, who is, and was, and who will be, because You have judged these things, 


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 since they have poured out the blood of the saints and prophets; and You gave them blood to drink, for they were deserving. 


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 And I heard another out of the altar saying, Even so, Lord God Almighty, true and righteous are Your judgments. 


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 And the fourth angel poured out his vial onto the sun. And it was given to him to burn men with fire. 


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 And men were burned with great heat. And they blasphemed the name of God, He having authority over these plagues. And they did not repent in order to give Him glory. 


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 And the fifth angel poured out his vial on the throne of the beast, and its kingdom became darkened. And they gnawed their tongues from the pain. 


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 And they blasphemed the God of Heaven because of their pains and their sores. And they did not repent of their deeds. 


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 And the sixth angel poured out his vial on the great river Euphrates. And its water was dried up, so that the way of the kings from the rising of the sun might be prepared. 


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 And I saw three unclean spirits like frogs come out of the mouth of the dragon, and out of the mouth of the beast, and out of the mouth of the false prophet. 


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 For they are spirits of demons, working miracles, which go forth to the kings of the earth and of the whole world, to gather them to the battle of that day, the great day of God Almighty. 


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 Behold, I am coming as a thief. Blessed is the one who watches and keeps his garments, lest he walk naked and they see his shame. 


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 And the seventh angel poured out his vial into the air. And a great voice came out of the temple of Heaven, from the throne, saying, It is done! 


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 And voices and thunders and lightnings occurred. And there was a great earthquake, such as has not been since men were on the earth, so mighty and so great an earthquake. 


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 And the great city came to be into three parts, and the cities of the nations fell. And great Babylon was remembered before God, to give to her the cup of the wine of the anger of His wrath. 


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 And a great hail, as the size of a talent, came down out of the heaven on men. And men blasphemed God because of the plague of the hail; for the plague of it was exceedingly great. 


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 And one of the seven angels who had the seven vials came and talked with me, saying to me, Come here, I will show you the judgment of the great harlot sitting on many waters, 


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 with whom the kings of the earth committed fornication, and became drunk with the wine of her fornication, those inhabiting the earth. 


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 And he carried me away into a desert by the Spirit. And I saw a woman sitting on a scarlet-colored beast, filled with names of blasphemy, having seven heads and ten horns. 


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 And the woman was arrayed in purple and scarlet. And she was gilded with gold and precious stones and pearls, having a golden cup in her hand full of abominations and filthiness of her fornication. 


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 And on her forehead was a name written, MYSTERY, BABYLON THE GREAT, THE MOTHER OF HARLOTS AND OF THE ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH. 


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 And I saw the woman drunk with the blood of the saints and with the blood of the martyrs of Jesus. And when I saw her, I marveled with a great marveling. 


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 And the angel said to me, Why did you marvel? I will tell you the mystery of the woman and of the beast that carries her, that has the seven heads and ten horns. 


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 The beast that you saw was, and is not, and is about to ascend out of the abyss and go into perdition. And those dwelling on the earth will marvel, those whose names were not written in the Book of Life from the foundation of the world, when they behold the beast that was, and is not, and yet is. 


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


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 And there are seven kings; five have fallen, and one is, and the other has not yet come. And when he comes, he must continue a short time. 


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 And the beast that was, and is not, even he is the eighth, and is of the seven, and goes into perdition. 


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 And the ten horns which you saw are ten kings, who have received no kingdom yet, but will receive authority as kings one hour with the beast. 


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 These will make war with the Lamb, and the Lamb will overcome them. For He is Lord of lords and King of kings. And those with Him are the called and elect and faithful ones. 


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


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 and the ten horns which you saw on the beast, these will hate the harlot and will make her desolate and naked. And they will eat her flesh and burn her with fire. 


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 For God gave into their hearts to do His mind, and to act with one mind, and to give their kingdom to the beast until the Words of God will be fulfilled. 


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 And after these things I saw another angel come down from Heaven, having great authority. And the earth was lighted up from his glory. 


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 And he cried mightily with a strong voice, saying, Babylon the great has fallen, has fallen! And it has become the dwelling-place of demons, and a prison of every unclean spirit, and a cage of every unclean bird which has been hated, 


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 because of the wine of the anger of her fornication which all the nations have drunk. And the kings of the earth have committed fornication with her. And the merchants of the earth became rich from the power of her luxury. 


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 And I heard another voice from Heaven, saying, Come out of her, My people, that you may not be partakers of her sins, and that you may not receive of her plagues. 


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 Reward her as she has rewarded you, and double to her double, according to her works. In the cup which she mixed, mix double to her. 


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 As much as she has glorified herself and has lived in luxury, so much torment and sorrow give her. For she says in her heart, I sit as a queen, and I am not a widow; and I do not see mourning at all. 


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 Therefore her plagues will come in one day, death and mourning and famine. And she will be consumed with fire, for the Lord God who judges her is strong. 


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 And the kings of the earth who have committed fornication and lived in luxury with her will weep for her, and will wail over her when they see the smoke of her burning; 


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 standing afar off for fear of her torment, saying, Woe! Woe to the great city, Babylon, that strong city! For in one hour your judgment came. 


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 And the merchants of the earth will weep and mourn over her, for no one buys their cargo any more; 


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 the cargo of gold, and silver, and precious stones, and of pearls, and fine linen, and purple, and silk, and scarlet, and all thyine wood, and every ivory vessel, and every vessel of very precious wood, and of bronze, and of iron, and of marble, 


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 and cinnamon, and incenses, and ointment, and frankincense, and wine, and oil, and fine flour and wheat, and beasts, and sheep, and horses, and chariots, and slaves, and souls of men. 


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 And the fruits of the lust of your soul have departed from you, and all the fat things and the bright things departed from you, and you will find them no more, not at all. 


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 The merchants of these things, who were made rich by her, will stand afar off because of the fear of her torment, weeping and mourning 


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 and saying, Woe! Woe to the great city which was clothed in fine linen and purple and scarlet, and adorned with gold and precious stones and pearls! 


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 For in one hour such great riches was desolated. And every ship-pilot, and all the company on the ships, and sailors, and as many as work the sea, stood afar off. 


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 And they threw dust on their heads, and cried, weeping and mourning, saying, Woe! Woe to the great city, by which all who had ships in the sea were rich out of her costliness! For in one hour she was ruined. 


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 Rejoice over her, Heaven, and the holy apostles, and the prophets, since God judged your judgment on her. 


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 And one strong angel took up a stone like a great millstone and threw it into the sea, saying, So on an impulse the great city, Babylon, will be thrown down and not at all will be found any more. 


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 And the voice of harpers, and of musicians. and flutists, and of trumpeters will be heard no more at all in you. And every craftsman of any craft will not be found any more in you. And the sound of a mill will never more be heard at all in you. 


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 And the light of a lamp will never more shine at all in you. And the voice of the bridegroom and of the bride will never more be heard at all in you. For your merchants were the great ones of the earth; for by your sorceries all nations were deceived. 


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 And in her was found the blood of prophets, and of saints, and of all those who were slain on the earth. 


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 And after these things I heard a great sound of a numerous crowd in Heaven, saying, Hallelujah! Salvation and glory and honor and the power to the Lord our God! 


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 For true and righteous are His judgments. For He has judged the great harlot who defiled the earth with her fornication, and He has avenged the blood of His servants out of her hand. 


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 And the twenty-four elders and the four living creatures fell down and worshiped God sitting on the throne, saying, Amen! Hallelujah! 


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 And a voice came out of the throne, saying, Praise our God, all His servants, and the ones fearing Him, the small and great. 


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 And I heard as the sound of a great multitude, and as the sound of many waters, and as the sound of strong thunders, saying, Hallelujah! For the Lord God omnipotent reigns! 


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 Let us be glad and rejoice and we will give glory to Him. For the marriage of the Lamb has come, and His wife has prepared herself. 


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 And to her was granted that she should be arrayed in fine linen, clean and white. For the fine linen is the righteousness of the saints. 


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 And he said to me, Write, Blessed are those who have been called to the marriage supper of the Lamb. And he said to me, These are the true sayings of God. 


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 And I fell at his feet to worship him. And he said to me, See, do not do it! I am your fellow servant, and of your brothers who have the testimony of Jesus. Worship God, for the testimony of Jesus is the spirit of prophecy. 


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 And I saw Heaven opened. And behold, a white horse! And He sitting on him was called Faithful and True. And in righteousness He judges and makes war. 


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 And His eyes were like a flame of fire, and on His head many crowns. And He had a name written, one that no one knew except Himself. 


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 And out of His mouth goes a sharp sword, so that with it He should strike the nations. And He will shepherd them with a rod of iron. And He treads the winepress of the wine of the anger and of the wrath of Almighty God. 


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 And I saw one angel standing in the sun. And he cried with a great voice, saying to all the birds that fly in mid-heaven, Come and gather together to the supper of the great God, 


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 so that you may eat the flesh of kings, and the flesh of commanders, and the flesh of strong ones, and the flesh of horses, and those sitting on them, and the flesh of all, both free and slave, both small and great. 


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


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 And the beast was taken, and with him the false prophet doing signs before it, (by which he deceived those who had received the mark of the beast), and those who had worshiped his image. The two were thrown alive into the Lake of Fire burning with brimstone. 


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 And the rest were slain by the sword of Him who sat on the horse, it proceeding out of His mouth. And all the birds were filled from their flesh. 


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 And I saw an angel come down from Heaven, having the key of the abyss and a great chain in his hand. 


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 And he laid hold on the dragon, that old serpent, who is the Devil and Satan, and bound him a thousand years. 


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 And he cast him into the abyss and shut him up and set a seal on him, that he should deceive the nations no more until the thousand years should be fulfilled. And after that he must be loosed a little time. 


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 And I saw thrones, and they sat on them, and judgment was given to them. And I saw the souls of those who had been beheaded for the witness of Jesus and for the Word of God, and who had not worshiped the beast nor his image, nor had received his mark on their foreheads, nor in their hands. And they lived and reigned with Christ a thousand years. 


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 But the rest of the dead did not live again until the thousand years were finished. This is the first resurrection. 


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 Blessed and holy is he who has part in the first resurrection. The second death has no authority over these, but they will be priests of God and of Christ, and will reign with Him a thousand years. 


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 And he will go out to deceive the nations which are in the four quarters of the earth, Gog and Magog, to gather them together to battle. The number of them is as the sand of the sea. 


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 And they went up over the breadth of the earth and circled around the camp of the saints, and the beloved city. And fire came down from God out of Heaven and devoured them. 


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 And the Devil who deceived them was cast into the Lake of Fire and Brimstone, where the beast and the false prophet were . And he will be tormented day and night forever and ever. 


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 And I saw a great white throne, and Him sitting on it, from whose face the earth and the heaven fled away. And a place was not found for them. 


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 And I saw the dead, the small and the great, stand before God. And books were opened, and another book was opened, which is the Book of Life. And the dead were judged out of those things which were written in the books, according to their works. 


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 And the sea gave up the dead in it. And death and hell delivered up the dead in them. And each one of them was judged according to their works. 


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 And if anyone was not found having been written in the Book of Life, he was cast into the Lake of Fire. 


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 And I saw a new heaven and a new earth. For the first heaven and the first earth had passed away. And the sea no longer is. 


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 And I, John, saw the holy city, New Jerusalem, coming down from God out of Heaven, prepared as a bride adorned for her Husband. 


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 And I heard a great voice out of Heaven saying, Behold, the tabernacle of God is with men, and He will dwell with them, and they will be His people, and God Himself will be with them and be their God. 


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 And God will wipe away all tears from their eyes. And there will be no more death, nor mourning, nor crying out, nor will there be any more pain; for the first things passed away. 


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 And He sitting on the throne said, Behold, I make all things new. And He said to me, Write, for these words are true and faithful. 


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 And He said to me, It is done. I am the Alpha and Omega, the Beginning and the End. To him who thirsts I will give of the fountain of the Water of Life freely. 


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 But the fearful, and the unbelieving, and the abominable, and murderers, and whoremongers, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all liars, will have their part in the Lake burning with fire and brimstone, which is the second death. 


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 And one of the seven angels who had the seven vials full of the seven last plagues came to me and talked with me, saying, Come here, I will show you the bride, the Lamb's wife. 


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 And he carried me away in the Spirit to a great and high mountain and showed me that great city, the holy Jerusalem, descending out of Heaven from God, 


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 having the glory of God. And its light was like a stone most precious, even like a jasper stone, clear as crystal. 


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 And it had a great and high wall, with twelve gates. And on the gates were twelve angels, and having names inscribed, which are the names of the twelve tribes of the sons of Israel: 


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 From the east three gates, from the north three gates, from the south three gates, and from the west three gates. 


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 And the wall of the city had twelve foundations, and in them were the names of the twelve apostles of the Lamb. 


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 And the city lies four-square, and the length is as large as the breadth. And he measured the city with the reed, twelve thousand stadia. The length and the breadth and the height of it are equal. 


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 And he measured its wall, a hundred and forty-four cubits, according to the measure of a man, that is, of an angel. 


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 And the foundations of the wall of the city had been adorned with every precious stone. The first foundation, jasper; the second, sapphire; the third, chalcedony; the fourth, emerald; 


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 the fifth, sardonyx; the sixth, sardius; the seventh, chrysolite; the eighth, beryl; the ninth, topaz; the tenth, chrysoprasus; the eleventh, hyacinth; the twelfth, amethyst. 


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 And the twelve gates were twelve pearls. Respectively, each one of the gates was one pearl. And the street of the city was pure gold, as transparent glass. 


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 And the city had no need of the sun, nor of the moon, that they might shine in it, for the glory of God illuminated it, and its lamp is the Lamb. 


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 And the nations of those who are saved will walk in the light of it; and the kings of the earth bring their glory and honor into it. 


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 And there shall in no way enter into it anything that defiles, or any making an abomination or a lie; but only those who are written in the Lamb's Book of Life. 


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 And he showed me a pure river of Water of Life, clear as crystal, proceeding out of the throne of God and of the Lamb. 


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 In the midst of its street, and of the river, from here and from there, was the Tree of Life, which bore twelve fruits, each yielding its fruit according to one month. And the leaves of the tree were for the healing of the nations. 


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 And every curse will no longer be; but the throne of God and of the Lamb will be in it, and His servants will serve Him. 


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 And there will be no night there. And they need no lamp, or light of the sun; for the Lord God gives them light. And they will reign forever and ever. 


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 And he said to me, These sayings are faithful and true. And the Lord God of the holy prophets sent His angel to show to His servants the things which must shortly be done. 


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 And I, John, saw and heard these things. And when I heard and saw, I fell down to worship before the feet of the angel showing me these things. 


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 Then he said to me, Behold! See, do not do it! For I am your fellow-servant, and of your brothers the prophets, and of those who keep the Words of this Book. Do worship to God. 


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 He acting unjustly, let him still act unjustly. And the filthy, let him be filthy still. And the righteous, let him be righteous still. And the holy, let him be holy still. 


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 And behold, I am coming quickly, and My reward is with Me, to give to each according as his work is. 


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 Blessed are they who do His commandments, that their authority will be over the Tree of Life, and they may enter in by the gates into the city. 


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 But outside are the dogs, and the sorcerers, and the fornicators, and the murderers, and the idolaters, and everyone who loves and makes a lie. 


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 I, Jesus, have sent My angel to testify these things to you over the churches. I am the Root and the Offspring of David, the bright and Morning Star. 


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 And the Spirit and the bride say, Come! And let the one hearing say, Come! And let the one who is thirsty come. And he willing, let him take of the Water of Life freely. 


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 For I testify together to everyone who hears the Words of the prophecy of this Book: If anyone adds to these things, God will add on him the plagues that have been written in this Book. 


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 And if anyone takes away from the Words of the Book of this prophecy, God will take away his part out of the Book of Life, and out of the holy city, and from the things which have been written in this Book. 


