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Then there arose certain of the synagogue, which is called the synagogue of the Libertines, and Cyrenians, and Alexandrians, and of them of Cilicia and of Asia, disputing with Stephen.
For he took away the altars of the strange gods, and the high places, and brake down the images, and cut down the groves:
Make a joyful noise unto the LORD, all ye lands.
The mountains skipped like rams, and the little hills like lambs.
Wherefore he is able also to save them to the uttermost that come unto God by him, seeing he ever liveth to make intercession for them.
Be ye angry, and sin not: let not the sun go down upon your wrath:
And he shall offer the ram for a sacrifice of peace offerings unto the LORD, with the basket of unleavened bread: the priest shall offer also his meat offering, and his drink offering.
And the whole earth was of one language, and of one speech.
The righteous see it, and are glad: and the innocent laugh them to scorn.
The young and the old lie on the ground in the streets: my virgins and my young men are fallen by the sword; thou hast slain them in the day of thine anger; thou hast killed, and not pitied.
And he said unto them, This is that which the LORD hath said, To morrow is the rest of the holy sabbath unto the LORD: bake that which ye will bake to day, and seethe that ye will seethe; and that which remaineth over lay up for you to be kept until the morning.
And the anointing oil, and sweet incense for the holy place: according to all that I have commanded thee shall they do.
Verily I say unto thee, Thou shalt by no means come out thence, till thou hast paid the uttermost farthing.
Fifteen cubits upward did the waters prevail; and the mountains were covered.
Wherefore shew ye to them, and before the churches, the proof of your love, and of our boasting on your behalf.
Therefore also said the wisdom of God, I will send them prophets and apostles, and some of them they shall slay and persecute:
And when the cloud was taken up from over the tabernacle, the children of Israel went onward in all their journeys:
The earth also was corrupt before God, and the earth was filled with violence.
But Balaam answered and said unto Balak, Told not I thee, saying, All that the LORD speaketh, that I must do?
If ye continue in the faith grounded and settled, and be not moved away from the hope of the gospel, which ye have heard, and which was preached to every creature which is under heaven; whereof I Paul am made a minister;
And above all these things put on charity, which is the bond of perfectness.
And from Heshbon unto Ramath-mizpeh, and Betonim; and from Mahanaim unto the border of Debir;
He that is surety for a stranger shall smart for it: and he that hateth suretiship is sure.
But if the watchman see the sword come, and blow not the trumpet, and the people be not warned; if the sword come, and take any person from among them, he is taken away in his iniquity; but his blood will I require at the watchman's hand.
