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The like figure whereunto even baptism doth also now save us (not the putting away of the filth of the flesh, but the answer of a good conscience toward God,) by the resurrection of Jesus Christ:
I cried unto thee, O LORD: I said, Thou art my refuge and my portion in the land of the living.
And David sat between the two gates: and the watchman went up to the roof over the gate unto the wall, and lifted up his eyes, and looked, and behold a man running alone.
Then drew near unto him all the publicans and sinners for to hear him.
And now, O God of Israel, let thy word, I pray thee, be verified, which thou spakest unto thy servant David my father.
Fear ye not me? saith the LORD: will ye not tremble at my presence, which have placed the sand for the bound of the sea by a perpetual decree, that it cannot pass it: and though the waves thereof toss themselves, yet can they not prevail; though they roar, yet can they not pass over it?
If there come any unto you, and bring not this doctrine, receive him not into your house, neither bid him God speed:
Whoso mocketh the poor reproacheth his Maker: and he that is glad at calamities shall not be unpunished.
And he straitly charged them, and commanded them to tell no man that thing;
In the twilight, in the evening, in the black and dark night:
And thou, O tower of the flock, the strong hold of the daughter of Zion, unto thee shall it come, even the first dominion; the kingdom shall come to the daughter of Jerusalem.
Is not this it in which my lord drinketh, and whereby indeed he divineth? ye have done evil in so doing.
Thus saith the LORD of hosts, They shall throughly glean the remnant of Israel as a vine: turn back thine hand as a grapegatherer into the baskets.
Who hate the good, and love the evil; who pluck off their skin from off them, and their flesh from off their bones;
Not to many people of a strange speech and of an hard language, whose words thou canst not understand. Surely, had I sent thee to them, they would have hearkened unto thee.
In that day also he shall come even to thee from Assyria, and from the fortified cities, and from the fortress even to the river, and from sea to sea, and from mountain to mountain.
He hath also stablished them for ever and ever: he hath made a decree which shall not pass.
For according to the number of thy cities were thy gods, O Judah; and according to the number of the streets of Jerusalem have ye set up altars to that shameful thing, even altars to burn incense unto Baal.
For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but after their own lusts shall they heap to themselves teachers, having itching ears;
So speak ye, and so do, as they that shall be judged by the law of liberty.
And they sent and called him. So Jeroboam and all Israel came and spake to Rehoboam, saying,
And David said unto his men, Gird ye on every man his sword. And they girded on every man his sword; and David also girded on his sword: and there went up after David about four hundred men; and two hundred abode by the stuff.
A lion which is strongest among beasts, and turneth not away for any;
Then Jephthah gathered together all the men of Gilead, and fought with Ephraim: and the men of Gilead smote Ephraim, because they said, Ye Gileadites are fugitives of Ephraim among the Ephraimites, and among the Manassites.
