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Now these be the last words of David. David the son of Jesse said, and the man who was raised up on high, the anointed of the God of Jacob, and the sweet psalmist of Israel, said,
Servants, obey in all things your masters according to the flesh; not with eyeservice, as menpleasers; but in singleness of heart, fearing God:
Boast not thyself of to morrow; for thou knowest not what a day may bring forth.
Hereby perceive we the love of God, because he laid down his life for us: and we ought to lay down our lives for the brethren.
Then came Jeremiah from Tophet, whither the LORD had sent him to prophesy; and he stood in the court of the LORD'S house; and said to all the people,
The way of a fool is right in his own eyes: but he that hearkeneth unto counsel is wise.
The thief cometh not, but for to steal, and to kill, and to destroy: I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly.
These also shall be unclean unto you among the creeping things that creep upon the earth; the weasel, and the mouse, and the tortoise after his kind,
And the men took of their victuals, and asked not counsel at the mouth of the LORD.
Shall I not, as I have done unto Samaria and her idols, so do to Jerusalem and her idols?
Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Because ye multiplied more than the nations that are round about you, and have not walked in my statutes, neither have kept my judgments, neither have done according to the judgments of the nations that are round about you;
But he shall not defile himself, being a chief man among his people, to profane himself.
Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him that loved us.
The mountains shall bring peace to the people, and the little hills, by righteousness.
These are the commandments and the judgments, which the LORD commanded by the hand of Moses unto the children of Israel in the plains of Moab by Jordan near Jericho.
For this is good and acceptable in the sight of God our Saviour;
Hear me when I call, O God of my righteousness: thou hast enlarged me when I was in distress; have mercy upon me, and hear my prayer.
Let your speech be alway with grace, seasoned with salt, that ye may know how ye ought to answer every man.
And Joseph said unto his father, They are my sons, whom God hath given me in this place. And he said, Bring them, I pray thee, unto me, and I will bless them.
And before him shall be gathered all nations: and he shall separate them one from another, as a shepherd divideth his sheep from the goats:
So the children went in and possessed the land, and thou subduedst before them the inhabitants of the land, the Canaanites, and gavest them into their hands, with their kings, and the people of the land, that they might do with them as they would.
And early in the morning he came again into the temple, and all the people came unto him; and he sat down, and taught them.
And Abraham said unto God, O that Ishmael might live before thee!
But he answered her not a word. And his disciples came and besought him, saying, Send her away; for she crieth after us.
