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For ye, brethren, became followers of the churches of God which in Judaea are in Christ Jesus: for ye also have suffered like things of your own countrymen, even as they have of the Jews:
The hangings of the one side of the gate were fifteen cubits; their pillars three, and their sockets three.
Yet hath he not root in himself, but dureth for a while: for when tribulation or persecution ariseth because of the word, by and by he is offended.
And strangers shall stand and feed your flocks, and the sons of the alien shall be your plowmen and your vinedressers.
Jesus then cometh, and taketh bread, and giveth them, and fish likewise.
And he straitly charged them that they should not make him known.
They sacrificed unto devils, not to God; to gods whom they knew not, to new gods that came newly up, whom your fathers feared not.
And Pathrusim, and Casluhim, (out of whom came Philistim,) and Caphtorim.
So foolish was I, and ignorant: I was as a beast before thee.
For out of much affliction and anguish of heart I wrote unto you with many tears; not that ye should be grieved, but that ye might know the love which I have more abundantly unto you.
For, as the LORD liveth, which saveth Israel, though it be in Jonathan my son, he shall surely die. But there was not a man among all the people that answered him.
And they answered, John the Baptist: but some say, Elias; and others, One of the prophets.
And he spake boldly in the name of the Lord Jesus, and disputed against the Grecians: but they went about to slay him.
They abhor me, they flee far from me, and spare not to spit in my face.
And the LORD said unto Moses, How long will this people provoke me? and how long will it be ere they believe me, for all the signs which I have shewed among them?
But sin, taking occasion by the commandment, wrought in me all manner of concupiscence. For without the law sin was dead.
Speak unto the children of Israel, saying, He that offereth the sacrifice of his peace offerings unto the LORD shall bring his oblation unto the LORD of the sacrifice of his peace offerings.
Let Israel hope in the LORD from henceforth and for ever.
I have set the point of the sword against all their gates, that their heart may faint, and their ruins be multiplied: ah! it is made bright, it is wrapped up for the slaughter.
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.
That they teach you not to do after all their abominations, which they have done unto their gods; so should ye sin against the LORD your God.
They are all adulterers, as an oven heated by the baker, who ceaseth from raising after he hath kneaded the dough, until it be leavened.
Yet have I sent the brethren, lest our boasting of you should be in vain in this behalf; that, as I said, ye may be ready:
And there came against Gibeah ten thousand chosen men out of all Israel, and the battle was sore: but they knew not that evil was near them.
