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Now the sons of Reuben the firstborn of Israel, (for he was the firstborn; but, forasmuch as he defiled his father's bed, his birthright was given unto the sons of Joseph the son of Israel: and the genealogy is not to be reckoned after the birthright.
Wherefore, behold, I send unto you prophets, and wise men, and scribes: and some of them ye shall kill and crucify; and some of them shall ye scourge in your synagogues, and persecute them from city to city:
The discretion of a man deferreth his anger; and it is his glory to pass over a transgression.
Traitors, heady, highminded, lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God;
Wherefore the law is holy, and the commandment holy, and just, and good.
And they rose early in the morning, and went forth into the wilderness of Tekoa: and as they went forth, Jehoshaphat stood and said, Hear me, O Judah, and ye inhabitants of Jerusalem; Believe in the LORD your God, so shall ye be established; believe his prophets, so shall ye prosper.
The LORD possessed me in the beginning of his way, before his works of old.
He winketh with his eyes, he speaketh with his feet, he teacheth with his fingers;
And Hezekiah slept with his fathers, and they buried him in the chiefest of the sepulchres of the sons of David: and all Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem did him honour at his death. And Manasseh his son reigned in his stead.
He hath also stablished them for ever and ever: he hath made a decree which shall not pass.
Because my people hath forgotten me, they have burned incense to vanity, and they have caused them to stumble in their ways from the ancient paths, to walk in paths, in a way not cast up;
For with God nothing shall be impossible.
For their heart studieth destruction, and their lips talk of mischief.
Now will I sing to my wellbeloved a song of my beloved touching his vineyard. My wellbeloved hath a vineyard in a very fruitful hill:
Yet the number of the children of Israel shall be as the sand of the sea, which cannot be measured nor numbered; and it shall come to pass, that in the place where it was said unto them, Ye are not my people, there it shall be said unto them, Ye are the sons of the living God.
Who goeth a warfare any time at his own charges? who planteth a vineyard, and eateth not of the fruit thereof? or who feedeth a flock, and eateth not of the milk of the flock?
For the stuff they had was sufficient for all the work to make it, and too much.
This is the stone which was set at nought of you builders, which is become the head of the corner.
Keep back thy servant also from presumptuous sins; let them not have dominion over me: then shall I be upright, and I shall be innocent from the great transgression.
Then asked he them again, Whom seek ye? And they said, Jesus of Nazareth.
Whereas angels, which are greater in power and might, bring not railing accusation against them before the Lord.
They feared the LORD, and served their own gods, after the manner of the nations whom they carried away from thence.
The wise shall inherit glory: but shame shall be the promotion of fools.
Notwithstanding the land shall be divided by lot: according to the names of the tribes of their fathers they shall inherit.
