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And it came to pass, that, as Jesus sat at meat in his house, many publicans and sinners sat also together with Jesus and his disciples: for there were many, and they followed him.
Great men are not always wise: neither do the aged understand judgment.
And he took up his parable, and said, Balak the king of Moab hath brought me from Aram, out of the mountains of the east, saying, Come, curse me Jacob, and come, defy Israel.
And said, O sir, we came indeed down at the first time to buy food:
I will arise and go to my father, and will say unto him, Father, I have sinned against heaven, and before thee,
They shall also bring up a company against thee, and they shall stone thee with stones, and thrust thee through with their swords.
Why was not this ointment sold for three hundred pence, and given to the poor?
Then shalt thou say unto them, Thus saith the LORD, Behold, I will fill all the inhabitants of this land, even the kings that sit upon David's throne, and the priests, and the prophets, and all the inhabitants of Jerusalem, with drunkenness.
Then said I, Whither goest thou? And he said unto me, To measure Jerusalem, to see what is the breadth thereof, and what is the length thereof.
They shall cast their silver in the streets, and their gold shall be removed: their silver and their gold shall not be able to deliver them in the day of the wrath of the LORD: they shall not satisfy their souls, neither fill their bowels: because it is the stumblingblock of their iniquity.
By reason of the voice of my groaning my bones cleave to my skin.
And immediately the king sent an executioner, and commanded his head to be brought: and he went and beheaded him in the prison,
And Esther answered, If it seem good unto the king, let the king and Haman come this day unto the banquet that I have prepared for him.
Because the spoiler is come upon her, even upon Babylon, and her mighty men are taken, every one of their bows is broken: for the LORD God of recompences shall surely requite.
And the servant that was set over the reapers answered and said, It is the Moabitish damsel that came back with Naomi out of the country of Moab:
O GOD the Lord, the strength of my salvation, thou hast covered my head in the day of battle.
Give strong drink unto him that is ready to perish, and wine unto those that be of heavy hearts.
As long as I am in the world, I am the light of the world.
And I brought them into the house of the LORD, into the chamber of the sons of Hanan, the son of Igdaliah, a man of God, which was by the chamber of the princes, which was above the chamber of Maaseiah the son of Shallum, the keeper of the door:
Moreover the law entered, that the offence might abound. But where sin abounded, grace did much more abound:
And after him Abdon the son of Hillel, a Pirathonite, judged Israel.
For their vine is of the vine of Sodom, and of the fields of Gomorrah: their grapes are grapes of gall, their clusters are bitter:
Cursed be he that confirmeth not all the words of this law to do them. And all the people shall say, Amen.
But if thy brother be grieved with thy meat, now walkest thou not charitably. Destroy not him with thy meat, for whom Christ died.
