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And when thou prayest, thou shalt not be as the hypocrites are: for they love to pray standing in the synagogues and in the corners of the streets, that they may be seen of men. Verily I say unto you, They have their reward.
If ye know that he is righteous, ye know that every one that doeth righteousness is born of him.
For I will lay the land most desolate, and the pomp of her strength shall cease; and the mountains of Israel shall be desolate, that none shall pass through.
And the sons of Jonathan; Peleth, and Zaza. These were the sons of Jerahmeel.
And it came to pass, as he had made an end of speaking all these words, that the ground clave asunder that was under them:
My lips shall not speak wickedness, nor my tongue utter deceit.
(And this taxing was first made when Cyrenius was governor of Syria.)
And that they should publish and proclaim in all their cities, and in Jerusalem, saying, Go forth unto the mount, and fetch olive branches, and pine branches, and myrtle branches, and palm branches, and branches of thick trees, to make booths, as it is written.
For whosoever shall do the will of God, the same is my brother, and my sister, and mother.
Then they returned, every man of Judah and Jerusalem, and Jehoshaphat in the forefront of them, to go again to Jerusalem with joy; for the LORD had made them to rejoice over their enemies.
Is Ephraim my dear son? is he a pleasant child? for since I spake against him, I do earnestly remember him still: therefore my bowels are troubled for him; I will surely have mercy upon him, saith the LORD.
And take not the word of truth utterly out of my mouth; for I have hoped in thy judgments.
For they that dwell at Jerusalem, and their rulers, because they knew him not, nor yet the voices of the prophets which are read every sabbath day, they have fulfilled them in condemning him.
And of thy sons that shall issue from thee, which thou shalt beget, shall they take away; and they shall be eunuchs in the palace of the king of Babylon.
And the children of Israel did evil in the sight of the LORD, and forgat the LORD their God, and served Baalim and the groves.
And they took counsel, and bought with them the potter's field, to bury strangers in.
And in all that mighty hand, and in all the great terror which Moses shewed in the sight of all Israel.
And they compel one Simon a Cyrenian, who passed by, coming out of the country, the father of Alexander and Rufus, to bear his cross.
For many shall come in my name, saying, I am Christ; and shall deceive many.
Uthai the son of Ammihud, the son of Omri, the son of Imri, the son of Bani, of the children of Pharez the son of Judah.
Why doth this man thus speak blasphemies? who can forgive sins but God only?
There was a man of the Pharisees, named Nicodemus, a ruler of the Jews:
And in the seventh day the priest shall look on the scall: and, behold, if the scall be not spread in the skin, nor be in sight deeper than the skin; then the priest shall pronounce him clean: and he shall wash his clothes, and be clean.
Then will I leave thee upon the land, I will cast thee forth upon the open field, and will cause all the fowls of the heaven to remain upon thee, and I will fill the beasts of the whole earth with thee.
