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For the time past of our life may suffice us to have wrought the will of the Gentiles, when we walked in lasciviousness, lusts, excess of wine, revellings, banquetings, and abominable idolatries:
Moreover the word of the LORD came unto Jeremiah the second time, while he was yet shut up in the court of the prison, saying,
And they all with one consent began to make excuse. The first said unto him, I have bought a piece of ground, and I must needs go and see it: I pray thee have me excused.
The hand of the LORD was upon me, and carried me out in the spirit of the LORD, and set me down in the midst of the valley which was full of bones,
Now Hannah, she spake in her heart; only her lips moved, but her voice was not heard: therefore Eli thought she had been drunken.
When Jesus came into the coasts of Caesarea Philippi, he asked his disciples, saying, Whom do men say that I the Son of man am?
Let death seize upon them, and let them go down quick into hell: for wickedness is in their dwellings, and among them.
O God, why hast thou cast us off for ever? why doth thine anger smoke against the sheep of thy pasture?
And I will scatter thee among the heathen, and disperse thee in the countries, and will consume thy filthiness out of thee.
And when the Syrians saw that they were smitten before Israel, they gathered themselves together.
But fear not thou, O my servant Jacob, and be not dismayed, O Israel: for, behold, I will save thee from afar off, and thy seed from the land of their captivity; and Jacob shall return, and be in rest and at ease, and none shall make him afraid.
Therefore he said unto Judah, Let us build these cities, and make about them walls, and towers, gates, and bars, while the land is yet before us; because we have sought the LORD our God, we have sought him, and he hath given us rest on every side. So they built and prospered.
Wherefore be ye not unwise, but understanding what the will of the Lord is.
Until I find out a place for the LORD, an habitation for the mighty God of Jacob.
In the LORD put I my trust: how say ye to my soul, Flee as a bird to your mountain?
To whom I answered, It is not the manner of the Romans to deliver any man to die, before that he which is accused have the accusers face to face, and have licence to answer for himself concerning the crime laid against him.
Which thou hast commanded by thy servants the prophets, saying, The land, unto which ye go to possess it, is an unclean land with the filthiness of the people of the lands, with their abominations, which have filled it from one end to another with their uncleanness.
And he went on his journeys from the south even to Beth-el, unto the place where his tent had been at the beginning, between Beth-el and Hai;
But God hath revealed them unto us by his Spirit: for the Spirit searcheth all things, yea, the deep things of God.
And when they saw him, they were amazed: and his mother said unto him, Son, why hast thou thus dealt with us? behold, thy father and I have sought thee sorrowing.
Man that is in honour, and understandeth not, is like the beasts that perish.
Even as I please all men in all things, not seeking mine own profit, but the profit of many, that they may be saved.
How are the mighty fallen in the midst of the battle! O Jonathan, thou wast slain in thine high places.
And they brought seven bullocks, and seven rams, and seven lambs, and seven he goats, for a sin offering for the kingdom, and for the sanctuary, and for Judah. And he commanded the priests the sons of Aaron to offer them on the altar of the LORD.
