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But ye are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, an holy nation, a peculiar people; that ye should shew forth the praises of him who hath called you out of darkness into his marvellous light:
About whom, when I was at Jerusalem, the chief priests and the elders of the Jews informed me, desiring to have judgment against him.
The sun ariseth, they gather themselves together, and lay them down in their dens.
I returned, and saw under the sun, that the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, neither yet bread to the wise, nor yet riches to men of understanding, nor yet favour to men of skill; but time and chance happeneth to them all.
He that oppresseth the poor to increase his riches, and he that giveth to the rich, shall surely come to want.
And he said unto them, Verily I say unto you, There is no man that hath left house, or parents, or brethren, or wife, or children, for the kingdom of God's sake,
If ye endure chastening, God dealeth with you as with sons; for what son is he whom the father chasteneth not?
But even after that we had suffered before, and were shamefully entreated, as ye know, at Philippi, we were bold in our God to speak unto you the gospel of God with much contention.
And Samuel said unto the people, It is the LORD that advanced Moses and Aaron, and that brought your fathers up out of the land of Egypt.
So the king of the south shall come into his kingdom, and shall return into his own land.
Then they cry unto the LORD in their trouble, and he saveth them out of their distresses.
Thou shalt ascend and come like a storm, thou shalt be like a cloud to cover the land, thou, and all thy bands, and many people with thee.
And shall say, Cast ye up, cast ye up, prepare the way, take up the stumblingblock out of the way of my people.
Suffer me a little, and I will shew thee that I have yet to speak on God's behalf.
The Son of man came eating and drinking, and they say, Behold a man gluttonous, and a winebibber, a friend of publicans and sinners. But wisdom is justified of her children.
For John said unto him, It is not lawful for thee to have her.
And found a certain Jew named Aquila, born in Pontus, lately come from Italy, with his wife Priscilla; (because that Claudius had commanded all Jews to depart from Rome:) and came unto them.
And the space in which we came from Kadesh-barnea, until we were come over the brook Zered, was thirty and eight years; until all the generation of the men of war were wasted out from among the host, as the LORD sware unto them.
But as for the mighty man, he had the earth; and the honourable man dwelt in it.
No man that warreth entangleth himself with the affairs of this life; that he may please him who hath chosen him to be a soldier.
In that day shall he swear, saying, I will not be an healer; for in my house is neither bread nor clothing: make me not a ruler of the people.
Then there arose and went over by number twelve of Benjamin, which pertained to Ish-bosheth the son of Saul, and twelve of the servants of David.
The Levites: the children of Jeshua, of Kadmiel, and of the children of Hodevah, seventy and four.
Some of them that stood there, when they heard that, said, This man calleth for Elias.
