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Peradventure there shall lack five of the fifty righteous: wilt thou destroy all the city for lack of five? And he said, If I find there forty and five, I will not destroy it.
He that findeth his life shall lose it: and he that loseth his life for my sake shall find it.
Many of the people therefore, when they heard this saying, said, Of a truth this is the Prophet.
By terrible things in righteousness wilt thou answer us, O God of our salvation; who art the confidence of all the ends of the earth, and of them that are afar off upon the sea:
And Moses sent to call Dathan and Abiram, the sons of Eliab: which said, We will not come up:
And when Shaul was dead, Baal-hanan the son of Achbor reigned in his stead.
And he poured of the anointing oil upon Aaron's head, and anointed him, to sanctify him.
Nevertheless he that standeth stedfast in his heart, having no necessity, but hath power over his own will, and hath so decreed in his heart that he will keep his virgin, doeth well.
He shall abide before God for ever: O prepare mercy and truth, which may preserve him.
Saying to the sixth angel which had the trumpet, Loose the four angels which are bound in the great river Euphrates.
Judges and officers shalt thou make thee in all thy gates, which the LORD thy God giveth thee, throughout thy tribes: and they shall judge the people with just judgment.
For if the word spoken by angels was stedfast, and every transgression and disobedience received a just recompence of reward;
And therefore I have sworn unto the house of Eli, that the iniquity of Eli's house shall not be purged with sacrifice nor offering for ever.
But I know you, that ye have not the love of God in you.
So the armed men left the captives and the spoil before the princes and all the congregation.
He that hath not given forth upon usury, neither hath taken any increase, that hath withdrawn his hand from iniquity, hath executed true judgment between man and man,
Then the band and the captain and officers of the Jews took Jesus, and bound him,
And they were all amazed and marvelled, saying one to another, Behold, are not all these which speak Galilaeans?
And the princes of the children of Ammon said unto Hanun their lord, Thinkest thou that David doth honour thy father, that he hath sent comforters unto thee? hath not David rather sent his servants unto thee, to search the city, and to spy it out, and to overthrow it?
And he said, Bring it near to me, and I will eat of my son's venison, that my soul may bless thee. And he brought it near to him, and he did eat: and he brought him wine, and he drank.
Look not upon me, because I am black, because the sun hath looked upon me: my mother's children were angry with me; they made me the keeper of the vineyards; but mine own vineyard have I not kept.
When they heard these things, they were cut to the heart, and they gnashed on him with their teeth.
Delivering thee from the people, and from the Gentiles, unto whom now I send thee,
My fruit is better than gold, yea, than fine gold; and my revenue than choice silver.
