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And the saying pleased the whole multitude: and they chose Stephen, a man full of faith and of the Holy Ghost, and Philip, and Prochorus, and Nicanor, and Timon, and Parmenas, and Nicolas a proselyte of Antioch:
Am I not an apostle? am I not free? have I not seen Jesus Christ our Lord? are not ye my work in the Lord?
Moreover when ye fast, be not, as the hypocrites, of a sad countenance: for they disfigure their faces, that they may appear unto men to fast. Verily I say unto you, They have their reward.
There be three things which go well, yea, four are comely in going:
Now some are puffed up, as though I would not come to you.
For to do whatsoever thy hand and thy counsel determined before to be done.
And he sent messengers unto Abimelech privily, saying, Behold, Gaal the son of Ebed and his brethren be come to Shechem; and, behold, they fortify the city against thee.
And the children of Israel did evil in the sight of the LORD, and served Baalim:
And David comforted Bath-sheba his wife, and went in unto her, and lay with her: and she bare a son, and he called his name Solomon: and the LORD loved him.
I have overthrown some of you, as God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah, and ye were as a firebrand plucked out of the burning: yet have ye not returned unto me, saith the LORD.
And the company shall stone them with stones, and dispatch them with their swords; they shall slay their sons and their daughters, and burn up their houses with fire.
And Delilah said to Samson, Tell me, I pray thee, wherein thy great strength lieth, and wherewith thou mightest be bound to afflict thee.
If he take him another wife; her food, her raiment, and her duty of marriage, shall he not diminish.
Even as Sara obeyed Abraham, calling him lord: whose daughters ye are, as long as ye do well, and are not afraid with any amazement.
There laid they Jesus therefore because of the Jews' preparation day; for the sepulchre was nigh at hand.
Then fourteen years after I went up again to Jerusalem with Barnabas, and took Titus with me also.
Thou hast consulted shame to thy house by cutting off many people, and hast sinned against thy soul.
And they did all eat, and were filled: and they took up of the broken meat that was left seven baskets full.
And again he sent another servant: and they beat him also, and entreated him shamefully, and sent him away empty.
And it shall be, when ye are come nigh unto the battle, that the priest shall approach and speak unto the people,
I gave my back to the smiters, and my cheeks to them that plucked off the hair: I hid not my face from shame and spitting.
And they brought forth the he goats for the sin offering before the king and the congregation; and they laid their hands upon them:
But in all things approving ourselves as the ministers of God, in much patience, in afflictions, in necessities, in distresses,
The gold and the crystal cannot equal it: and the exchange of it shall not be for jewels of fine gold.
