Who also hath gone about to profane the temple: whom we took, and would have judged according to our law.

But this I confess unto thee, that after the way which they call heresy, so worship I the God of my fathers, believing all things which are written in the law and in the prophets:

And when the man rose up to depart, his father in law urged him: therefore he lodged there again.

He that diligently seeketh good procureth favour: but he that seeketh mischief, it shall come unto him.

He that trusteth in his riches shall fall: but the righteous shall flourish as a branch.

Until the day in which he was taken up, after that he through the Holy Ghost had given commandments unto the apostles whom he had chosen:

And Pharaoh said unto Joseph, Forasmuch as God hath shewed thee all this, there is none so discreet and wise as thou art:

Better is a poor and a wise child than an old and foolish king, who will no more be admonished.

Give her of the fruit of her hands; and let her own works praise her in the gates.

And I will dwell among the children of Israel, and will not forsake my people Israel.

And he made the court: on the south side southward the hangings of the court were of fine twined linen, an hundred cubits:

And then shall appear the sign of the Son of man in heaven: and then shall all the tribes of the earth mourn, and they shall see the Son of man coming in the clouds of heaven with power and great glory.

Then cometh he to his disciples, and saith unto them, Sleep on now, and take your rest: behold, the hour is at hand, and the Son of man is betrayed into the hands of sinners.

And they told him, and said, We came unto the land whither thou sentest us, and surely it floweth with milk and honey; and this is the fruit of it.

All these men of war, that could keep rank, came with a perfect heart to Hebron, to make David king over all Israel: and all the rest also of Israel were of one heart to make David king.

And certain men which came down from Judea taught the brethren, and said, Except ye be circumcised after the manner of Moses, ye cannot be saved.

For Christ is the end of the law for righteousness to every one that believeth.

Princes also did sit and speak against me: but thy servant did meditate in thy statutes.

And they two made a covenant before the Lord: and David abode in the wood, and Jonathan went to his house.

The princes of the people are gathered together, even the people of the God of Abraham: for the shields of the earth belong unto God: he is greatly exalted.

All that are with me salute thee. Greet them that love us in the faith. Grace be with you all. Amen. It was written to Titus, ordained the first bishop of the church of the Cretians, from Nicopolis of Macedonia.

Grace to you, and peace, from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.

Every day they wrest my words: all their thoughts are against me for evil.

He that saith, I know him, and keepeth not his commandments, is a liar, and the truth is not in him.

I have written unto you, fathers, because ye have known him that is from the beginning. I have written unto you, young men, because ye are strong, and the word of God abideth in you, and ye have overcome the wicked one.

Praise him for his mighty acts: praise him according to his excellent greatness.

Which turned the rock into a standing water, the flint into a fountain of waters.

And the sons of strangers shall build up thy walls, and their kings shall minister unto thee: for in my wrath I smote thee, but in my favour have I had mercy on thee.

Thou shalt also suck the milk of the Gentiles, and shalt suck the breast of kings: and thou shalt know that I the Lord am thy Saviour and thy Redeemer, the mighty One of Jacob.

For thou preventest him with the blessings of goodness: thou settest a crown of pure gold on his head.

Have we not power to lead about a sister, a wife, as well as other apostles, and as the brethren of the Lord, and Cephas?

Or I only and Barnabas, have not we power to forbear working?

Then he called his twelve disciples together, and gave them power and authority over all devils, and to cure diseases.

Where there is no vision, the people perish: but he that keepeth the law, happy is he.

And the Lord hath given me knowledge of it, and I know it: then thou shewedst me their doings.

If thou hast run with the footmen, and they have wearied thee, then how canst thou contend with horses? and if in the land of peace, wherein thou trustedst, they wearied thee, then how wilt thou do in the swelling of Jordan?

Let Pharaoh do this, and let him appoint officers over the land, and take up the fifth part of the land of Egypt in the seven plenteous years.

Grace be to you and peace from God our Father, and from the Lord Jesus Christ.

For we would not, brethren, have you ignorant of our trouble which came to us in Asia, that we were pressed out of measure, above strength, insomuch that we despaired even of life:

O bless our God, ye people, and make the voice of his praise to be heard:

Go thou near, and hear all that the Lord our God shall say: and speak thou unto us all that the Lord our God shall speak unto thee; and we will hear it, and do it.

And it came to pass at the seventh time, that he said, Behold, there ariseth a little cloud out of the sea, like a man’s hand. And he said, Go up, say unto Ahab, Prepare thy chariot, and get thee down, that the rain stop thee not.

Insomuch that we desired Titus, that as he had begun, so he would also finish in you the same grace also.

And he shall live, and to him shall be given of the gold of Sheba: prayer also shall be made for him continually; and daily shall he be praised.

To many thou shalt give the more inheritance, and to few thou shalt give the less inheritance: to every one shall his inheritance be given according to those that were numbered of him.

The prayers of David the son of Jesse are ended.

And the sons of Kohath; Amram, Izhar, and Hebron, and Uzziel.

And they dwelt at Beer–sheba, and Moladah, and Hazar–shual,

Then Naomi her mother in law said unto her, My daughter, shall I not seek rest for thee, that it may be well with thee?

And she went down unto the floor, and did according to all that her mother in law bade her.

There is a man in thy kingdom, in whom is the spirit of the holy gods; and in the days of thy father light and understanding and wisdom, like the wisdom of the gods, was found in him; whom the king Nebuchadnezzar thy father, the king, I say, thy father, made master of the magicians, astrologers, Chaldeans, and soothsayers;

Forasmuch as an excellent spirit, and knowledge, and understanding, interpreting of dreams, and shewing of hard sentences, and dissolving of doubts, were found in the same Daniel, whom the king named Belteshazzar: now let Daniel be called, and he will shew the interpretation.

Cursed be he that setteth light by his father or his mother. And all the people shall say, Amen.

Now Moses in the law commanded us, that such should be stoned: but what sayest thou?

The Pharisees therefore said unto him, Thou bearest record of thyself; thy record is not true.

Our necks are under persecution: we labour, and have no rest.

We gat our bread with the peril of our lives because of the sword of the wilderness.

Lod, and Ono, the valley of craftsmen.

My defence is of God, which saveth the upright in heart.

So that a man shall say, Verily there is a reward for the righteous: verily he is a God that judgeth in the earth.

For that which I do I allow not: for what I would, that do I not; but what I hate, that do I.

If then I do that which I would not, I consent unto the law that it is good.

The steps of a good man are ordered by the Lord: and he delighteth in his way.

And keep the charge of the Lord thy God, to walk in his ways, to keep his statutes, and his commandments, and his judgments, and his testimonies, as it is written in the law of Moses, that thou mayest prosper in all that thou doest, and whithersoever thou turnest thyself:

And now I ask one petition of thee, deny me not. And she said unto him, Say on.

He that hasteth to be rich hath an evil eye, and considereth not that poverty shall come upon him.

Amam, and Shema, and Moladah,

Art thou not it which hath dried the sea, the waters of the great deep; that hath made the depths of the sea a way for the ransomed to pass over?

For this is as the waters of Noah unto me: for as I have sworn that the waters of Noah should no more go over the earth; so have I sworn that I would not be wroth with thee, nor rebuke thee.

Then these men assembled unto the king, and said unto the king, Know, O king, that the law of the Medes and Persians is, That no decree nor statute which the king establisheth may be changed.

Then was the king exceeding glad for him, and commanded that they should take Daniel up out of the den. So Daniel was taken up out of the den, and no manner of hurt was found upon him, because he believed in his God.

For the priests which bare the ark stood in the midst of Jordan, until every thing was finished that the Lord commanded Joshua to speak unto the people, according to all that Moses commanded Joshua: and the people hasted and passed over.

Seest thou a man diligent in his business? he shall stand before kings; he shall not stand before mean men.

Give ear to my prayer, O God; and hide not thyself from my supplication.

Man did eat angels’ food: he sent them meat to the full.

I marvel that ye are so soon removed from him that called you into the grace of Christ unto another gospel:

But when it pleased God, who separated me from my mother’s womb, and called me by his grace,

For now should I have lain still and been quiet, I should have slept: then had I been at rest,

There the wicked cease from troubling; and there the weary be at rest.

And he said, Let me go, for the day breaketh. And he said, I will not let thee go, except thou bless me.

The way of the just is uprightness: thou, most upright, dost weigh the path of the just.

Then cometh he to his disciples, and saith unto them, Sleep on now, and take your rest: behold, the hour is at hand, and the Son of man is betrayed into the hands of sinners.

Cease, my son, to hear the instruction that causeth to err from the words of knowledge.

Produce your cause, saith the Lord; bring forth your strong reasons, saith the King of Jacob.

Teach me to do thy will; for thou art my God: thy spirit is good; lead me into the land of uprightness.

And thou shalt remember that thou wast a bondman in Egypt: and thou shalt observe and do these statutes.

Let thy hand be upon the man of thy right hand, upon the son of man whom thou madest strong for thyself.

Then hear thou from the heavens, even from thy dwelling place, and do according to all that the stranger calleth to thee for; that all people of the earth may know thy name, and fear thee, as doth thy people Israel, and may know that this house which I have built is called by thy name.

I had no rest in my spirit, because I found not Titus my brother: but taking my leave of them, I went from thence into Macedonia.

All things are lawful for me, but all things are not expedient: all things are lawful for me, but all things edify not.

And the Lord said unto Moses, How long refuse ye to keep my commandments and my laws?

So the people rested on the seventh day.

I am verily a man which am a Jew, born in Tarsus, a city in Cilicia, yet brought up in this city at the feet of Gamaliel, and taught according to the perfect manner of the law of the fathers, and was zealous toward God, as ye all are this day.

(For the Lord thy God is a merciful God;) he will not forsake thee, neither destroy thee, nor forget the covenant of thy fathers which he sware unto them.

It is good for me that I have been afflicted; that I might learn thy statutes.

And they received of Moses all the offering, which the children of Israel had brought for the work of the service of the sanctuary, to make it withal. And they brought yet unto him free offerings every morning.

I will freely sacrifice unto thee: I will praise thy name, O Lord; for it is good.

And Jehu said, Proclaim a solemn assembly for Baal. And they proclaimed it.

But Jehu took no heed to walk in the law of the Lord God of Israel with all his heart: for he departed not from the sins of Jeroboam, which made Israel to sin.

But I will forewarn you whom ye shall fear: Fear him, which after he hath killed hath power to cast into hell; yea, I say unto you, Fear him.

When ye be come into the land of Canaan, which I give to you for a possession, and I put the plague of leprosy in a house of the land of your possession;

And the people served the Lord all the days of Joshua, and all the days of the elders that outlived Joshua, who had seen all the great works of the Lord, that he did for Israel.

Jesus saith unto him, Thou hast said: nevertheless I say unto you, Hereafter shall ye see the Son of man sitting on the right hand of power, and coming in the clouds of heaven.

She maketh herself coverings of tapestry; her clothing is silk and purple.

And the rest of the acts of Jeroboam, how he warred, and how he reigned, behold, they are written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel.

Charity suffereth long, and is kind; charity envieth not; charity vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up,

Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him that loved us.

Yea, whiles I was speaking in prayer, even the man Gabriel, whom I had seen in the vision at the beginning, being caused to fly swiftly, touched me about the time of the evening oblation.

By which also ye are saved, if ye keep in memory what I preached unto you, unless ye have believed in vain.

And in the end of years they shall join themselves together; for the king’s daughter of the south shall come to the king of the north to make an agreement: but she shall not retain the power of the arm; neither shall he stand, nor his arm: but she shall be given up, and they that brought her, and he that begat her, and he that strengthened her in these times.

And after the league made with him he shall work deceitfully: for he shall come up, and shall become strong with a small people.

By terrible things in righteousness wilt thou answer us, O God of our salvation; who art the confidence of all the ends of the earth, and of them that are afar off upon the sea:

Whoso is simple, let him turn in hither: as for him that wanteth understanding, she saith to him,

Forsake the foolish, and live; and go in the way of understanding.

And in the vine were three branches: and it was as though it budded, and her blossoms shot forth; and the clusters thereof brought forth ripe grapes:

Therefore his people return hither: and waters of a full cup are wrung out to them.

For the Lord shall judge his people, and repent himself for his servants, when he seeth that their power is gone, and there is none shut up, or left.

And he shall say, Where are their gods, their rock in whom they trusted,

He sent his word, and healed them, and delivered them from their destructions.

But there rose up certain of the sect of the Pharisees which believed, saying, That it was needful to circumcise them, and to command them to keep the law of Moses.

And when there had been much disputing, Peter rose up, and said unto them, Men and brethren, ye know how that a good while ago God made choice among us, that the Gentiles by my mouth should hear the word of the gospel, and believe.

The day is thine, the night also is thine: thou hast prepared the light and the sun.

My mouth shall speak of wisdom; and the meditation of my heart shall be of understanding.

None of them can by any means redeem his brother, nor give to God a ransom for him:

And David sware moreover, and said, Thy father certainly knoweth that I have found grace in thine eyes; and he saith, Let not Jonathan know this, lest he be grieved: but truly as the Lord liveth, and as thy soul liveth, there is but a step between me and death.

For the eyes of the Lord are over the righteous, and his ears are open unto their prayers: but the face of the Lord is against them that do evil.

Which sometime were disobedient, when once the longsuffering of God waited in the days of Noah, while the ark was a preparing, wherein few, that is, eight souls were saved by water.

But there are some of you that believe not. For Jesus knew from the beginning who they were that believed not, and who should betray him.

And they set the altar upon his bases; for fear was upon them because of the people of those countries: and they offered burnt offerings thereon unto the Lord, even burnt offerings morning and evening.

Save Caleb the son of Jephunneh the Kenezite, and Joshua the son of Nun: for they have wholly followed the Lord.

He draweth also the mighty with his power: he riseth up, and no man is sure of life.

And if the righteous scarcely be saved, where shall the ungodly and the sinner appear?

Though it be given him to be in safety, whereon he resteth; yet his eyes are upon their ways.

And he made two cherubims of gold, beaten out of one piece made he them, on the two ends of the mercy seat;

He made him ride on the high places of the earth, that he might eat the increase of the fields; and he made him to suck honey out of the rock, and oil out of the flinty rock;

Hear my prayer, O Lord, give ear to my supplications: in thy faithfulness answer me, and in thy righteousness.

Now if we be dead with Christ, we believe that we shall also live with him:

And the fourth kingdom shall be strong as iron: forasmuch as iron breaketh in pieces and subdueth all things: and as iron that breaketh all these, shall it break in pieces and bruise.

Cause me to hear thy lovingkindness in the morning; for in thee do I trust: cause me to know the way wherein I should walk; for I lift up my soul unto thee.

And David took him more concubines and wives out of Jerusalem, after he was come from Hebron: and there were yet sons and daughters born to David.

And I thought to advertise thee, saying, Buy it before the inhabitants, and before the elders of my people. If thou wilt redeem it, redeem it: but if thou wilt not redeem it, then tell me, that I may know: for there is none to redeem it beside thee; and I am after thee. And he said, I will redeem it.

And the kinsman said, I cannot redeem it for myself, lest I mar mine own inheritance: redeem thou my right to thyself; for I cannot redeem it.

Is not this laid up in store with me, and sealed up among my treasures?

Issachar, Zebulun, and Benjamin,

And out of the basket of unleavened bread, that was before the Lord, he took one unleavened cake, and a cake of oiled bread, and one wafer, and put them on the fat, and upon the right shoulder:

Let the wicked fall into their own nets, whilst that I withal escape.

Ye shall not therefore oppress one another; but thou shalt fear thy God: for I am the Lord your God.

For thy waste and thy desolate places, and the land of thy destruction, shall even now be too narrow by reason of the inhabitants, and they that swallowed thee up shall be far away.

And Tamar his daughter in law bare him Pharez and Zerah. All the sons of Judah were five.

The Pharisee stood and prayed thus with himself, God, I thank thee, that I am not as other men are, extortioners, unjust, adulterers, or even as this publican.

Offer the sacrifices of righteousness, and put your trust in the Lord.

My voice shalt thou hear in the morning, O Lord; in the morning will I direct my prayer unto thee, and will look up.

And upon the top of the pillars was lily work: so was the work of the pillars finished.

Ye shall do no servile work therein: but ye shall offer an offering made by fire unto the Lord.

Remember these, O Jacob and Israel; for thou art my servant: I have formed thee; thou art my servant: O Israel, thou shalt not be forgotten of me.

That they all might be damned who believed not the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness.

Behold, I will make thee a new sharp threshing instrument having teeth: thou shalt thresh the mountains, and beat them small, and shalt make the hills as chaff.

And when they heard it, they glorified the Lord, and said unto him, Thou seest, brother, how many thousands of Jews there are which believe; and they are all zealous of the law:

Them take, and purify thyself with them, and be at charges with them, that they may shave their heads: and all may know that those things, whereof they were informed concerning thee, are nothing; but that thou thyself also walkest orderly, and keepest the law.

Thy testimonies are very sure: holiness becometh thine house, O Lord, for ever.

He shall cover thee with his feathers, and under his wings shalt thou trust: his truth shall be thy shield and buckler.

That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved.

O ye simple, understand wisdom: and, ye fools, be ye of an understanding heart.

By the way that he came, by the same shall he return, and shall not come into this city, saith the Lord.

Then Saul said to David, Blessed be thou, my son David: thou shalt both do great things, and also shalt still prevail. So David went on his way, and Saul returned to his place.

And now I have sent a cunning man, endued with understanding, of Huram my father’s,

So will I sing praise unto thy name for ever, that I may daily perform my vows.

Oh that men would praise the Lord for his goodness, and for his wonderful works to the children of men!

Thus saith thy Lord the Lord, and thy God that pleadeth the cause of his people, Behold, I have taken out of thine hand the cup of trembling, even the dregs of the cup of my fury; thou shalt no more drink it again:

And the Lord visited Hannah, so that she conceived, and bare three sons and two daughters. And the child Samuel grew before the Lord.

Jesus said unto her, I am the resurrection, and the life: he that believeth in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live:

In thee, O Lord, do I put my trust: let me never be put to confusion.

Lo, this is the man that made not God his strength; but trusted in the abundance of his riches, and strengthened himself in his wickedness.

Woe unto them that are wise in their own eyes, and prudent in their own sight!

He shall receive the blessing from the Lord, and righteousness from the God of his salvation.

Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye devour widows’ houses, and for a pretence make long prayer: therefore ye shall receive the greater damnation.

Thou shalt arise, and have mercy upon Zion: for the time to favour her, yea, the set time, is come.

What is it then? I will pray with the spirit, and I will pray with the understanding also: I will sing with the spirit, and I will sing with the understanding also.

Surely he scorneth the scorners: but he giveth grace unto the lowly.

If I have told you earthly things, and ye believe not, how shall ye believe, if I tell you of heavenly things?

For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved.

Ask of me, and I shall give thee the heathen for thine inheritance, and the uttermost parts of the earth for thy possession.

Before I formed thee in the belly I knew thee; and before thou camest forth out of the womb I sanctified thee, and I ordained thee a prophet unto the nations.

And I commanded the Levites that they should cleanse themselves, and that they should come and keep the gates, to sanctify the sabbath day. Remember me, O my God, concerning this also, and spare me according to the greatness of thy mercy.

He will not always chide: neither will he keep his anger for ever.

A word fitly spoken is like apples of gold in pictures of silver.

Therefore also I have lent him to the Lord; as long as he liveth he shall be lent to the Lord. And he worshipped the Lord there.

A prudent man foreseeth the evil, and hideth himself; but the simple pass on, and are punished.

Be not thou envious against evil men, neither desire to be with them.

To him give all the prophets witness, that through his name whosoever believeth in him shall receive remission of sins.

And they of the circumcision which believed were astonished, as many as came with Peter, because that on the Gentiles also was poured out the gift of the Holy Ghost.

And the children of Israel did so as Joshua commanded, and took up twelve stones out of the midst of Jordan, as the Lord spake unto Joshua, according to the number of the tribes of the children of Israel, and carried them over with them unto the place where they lodged, and laid them down there.

And that ye will save alive my father, and my mother, and my brethren, and my sisters, and all that they have, and deliver our lives from death.

For Moses had said, Consecrate yourselves to day to the Lord, even every man upon his son, and upon his brother; that he may bestow upon you a blessing this day.

Be thou exalted, O God, above the heavens: let thy glory be above all the earth.

His flesh shall be fresher than a child’s: he shall return to the days of his youth: