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Now they which were scattered abroad upon the persecution that arose about Stephen travelled as far as Phenice, and Cyprus, and Antioch, preaching the word to none but unto the Jews only.
For in the time of trouble he shall hide me in his pavilion: in the secret of his tabernacle shall he hide me; he shall set me up upon a rock.
The place of the scripture which he read was this, He was led as a sheep to the slaughter; and like a lamb dumb before his shearer, so opened he not his mouth:
That, according as it is written, He that glorieth, let him glory in the Lord.
And it came to pass, that, when Jesus was returned, the people gladly received him: for they were all waiting for him.
But speaking the truth in love, may grow up into him in all things, which is the head, even Christ:
My manner of life from my youth, which was at the first among mine own nation at Jerusalem, know all the Jews;
So the people went forth, and brought them, and made themselves booths, every one upon the roof of his house, and in their courts, and in the courts of the house of God, and in the street of the water gate, and in the street of the gate of Ephraim.
And I will stretch over Jerusalem the line of Samaria, and the plummet of the house of Ahab: and I will wipe Jerusalem as a man wipeth a dish, wiping it, and turning it upside down.
Which when they had taken up, they used helps, undergirding the ship; and, fearing lest they should fall into the quicksands, strake sail, and so were driven.
And David took from him a thousand chariots, and seven thousand horsemen, and twenty thousand footmen: David also houghed all the chariot horses, but reserved of them an hundred chariots.
And they began to be sorrowful, and to say unto him one by one, Is it I? and another said, Is it I?
Humble yourselves in the sight of the Lord, and he shall lift you up.
Yet they tempted and provoked the most high God, and kept not his testimonies:
Not rendering evil for evil, or railing for railing: but contrariwise blessing; knowing that ye are thereunto called, that ye should inherit a blessing.
Also he made before the house two pillars of thirty and five cubits high, and the chapiter that was on the top of each of them was five cubits.
Wherefore I was grieved with that generation, and said, They do alway err in their heart; and they have not known my ways.
And the children of Aram; Uz, and Hul, and Gether, and Mash.
To many thou shalt give the more inheritance, and to few thou shalt give the less inheritance: to every one shall his inheritance be given according to those that were numbered of him.
And Saul answered and said, Am not I a Benjamite, of the smallest of the tribes of Israel? and my family the least of all the families of the tribe of Benjamin? wherefore then speakest thou so to me?
For this shall every one that is godly pray unto thee in a time when thou mayest be found: surely in the floods of great waters they shall not come nigh unto him.
But I have understanding as well as you; I am not inferior to you: yea, who knoweth not such things as these?
For the priesthood being changed, there is made of necessity a change also of the law.
My lips shall greatly rejoice when I sing unto thee; and my soul, which thou hast redeemed.
