{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 1, "verse": "1", "text": "The History of the life of Jesus Christ, the son of David, the son of Abraham."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 1, "verse": "2", "text": "Abraham was the father of Isaac, Isaac the father of Jacob, Jacob the father of Judas and his brethren."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 1, "verse": "3", "text": "And Judas the father of Phares and Zara by Thamar, and Phares the father of Esrom, Esrom the father of Aram."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 1, "verse": "4", "text": "Aram the father of Aminadab, Aminadab the father of Naasson, Naasson the father of Salmon."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 1, "verse": "5", "text": "Salmon the father of Booz by Rachab, and Booz the father of Obed by Ruth, and Obed the father of Jesse."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 1, "verse": "6", "text": "And Jesse the father of David the king, and David had Solomon by her that had been the wife of Urias."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 1, "verse": "7", "text": "Solomon was the father of Roboam, Roboam the father of Abia, Abia the father of Asa."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 1, "verse": "8", "text": "Asa the father of Josaphat, Josaphat the father of Joram, Joram the father of Ozias."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 1, "verse": "9", "text": "Ozias the father of Joatham, Joatham the father of Achaz, Achaz the father of Ezekias."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 1, "verse": "10", "text": "Ezekias the father of Manasses, Manasses the father of Amon, Amon the father of Josias."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 1, "verse": "11", "text": "Josias the father of Jechonias and his brethren, about the time when the Jews were carried away to Babylon."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 1, "verse": "12", "text": "and after their transmigration to Babylon, Jechonias was father of Salathiel, Salathiel father of Zorobabel."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 1, "verse": "13", "text": "Zorobabel father of Abiud, Abiud father of Eliakim, Eliakim father of Azor."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 1, "verse": "14", "text": "And Azor father of Sadoc, Sadoc father of Achim, Achim father of Eliud."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 1, "verse": "15", "text": "Eliud father of Eleazar, Eleazar father of Matthan, Matthan father of Jacob."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 1, "verse": "16", "text": "Jacob father of Joseph the husband of Mary of whom was born Jesus, who is called Christ."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 1, "verse": "17", "text": "So all the generations from Abraham to David, are fourteen generations: and from David to the Babylonian transmigration, are fourteen generations: and from the Babylonian transmigration unto Christ, are fourteen generations. The Birth of Jesus ( Luke 2:1–7 )"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 1, "verse": "18", "text": "Now the manner of Christ's birth was this: his mother Mary being promised in marriage to Joseph, before they came together, she became pregnant by the holy Spirit."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 1, "verse": "19", "text": "but Joseph her husband, being a good-natur'd man, and unwilling to expose her to publick shame, he designed to put her away privately."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 1, "verse": "20", "text": "but while he was revolving this in his mind, an angel of the Lord appeared to him in a dream, saying, Joseph, the off-spring of David, don't make any difficulty of taking Mary for thy wife: for her pregnancy is from the holy Spirit."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 1, "verse": "21", "text": "and she shall be deliver'd of a son, to whom you shall give the name Jesus: for he shall save his people from their sins."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 1, "verse": "22", "text": "now by these events, that divine prediction of the Prophet had its full accomplishment, when he said, \"Behold,"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 1, "verse": "23", "text": "a virgin shall be with child, and shall bring forth a son, and they shall call his name Emmanuel,\" that is to say, God our Saviour."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 1, "verse": "24", "text": "Then Joseph being awak'd out of sleep, did as the angel of the Lord directed, and took his wife home,"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 1, "verse": "25", "text": "but did not cohabit with her as a wife, before she had-brought forth her first-born son; whom he named JESUS."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 2, "verse": "1", "text": "When Jesus was born in Bethlehem of Judea, in the reign of king Herod, certain eastern Magi came to Jerusalem, with this enquiry,"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 2, "verse": "2", "text": "Where is this king of the Jews who is now born? for we have seen his rising star, and are come to pay him homage."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 2, "verse": "3", "text": "when king Herod heard these things, he was alarm'd, and all Jerusalem with him."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 2, "verse": "4", "text": "and having assembled all the chief priests and scribes of the people, he enquired of them where Christ was to be born."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 2, "verse": "5", "text": "they answered him, in Bethlehem of Judea: for these are the words of the prophet;"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 2, "verse": "6", "text": "\"And thou Bethlehem in the land of Juda, art not the least among the princes of Juda: for out of thee shall come a Governor that shall rule my people Israel.\""}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 2, "verse": "7", "text": "Then Herod having privately sent for the Magi, enquired of them the exact time when the star appeared."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 2, "verse": "8", "text": "and he sent them to Bethlehem, go, said he, make an exact enquiry about the young child, and when ye have found him, let me know it, that I too may come and pay my adorations to him."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 2, "verse": "9", "text": "in obedience to the king, they departed, and immediately the star which they saw in the east, moved on before them, till it came to the place where the infant was, and then stood still."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 2, "verse": "10", "text": "when they observ'd this of the star, they were extreamly well pleas'd."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 2, "verse": "11", "text": "and entring into the house, they saw the infant with Mary his mother, and prostrating themselves, they worshipped him: then opening their treasures, they presented him with gold, and frankincense, and myrrh."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 2, "verse": "12", "text": "but being divinely warn'd in a dream, not to go back to Herod, they returned into their own country another way. The Flight to Egypt"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 2, "verse": "13", "text": "When they were gone, an angel of the Lord appeareth to Joseph in a dream, saying, Arise, take the infant and his mother, flee into Egypt, and don't stir thence till I order you, for Herod will endeavour to have the child destroy'd. Joseph therefore arose,"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 2, "verse": "14", "text": "took the infant and his mother by night, and fled into Egypt:"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 2, "verse": "15", "text": "where he stay'd till the death of Herod: so that what the Lord had spoken by the prophet, saying, \"Out of Egypt have I called my son,\" was then fulfill'd. Weeping and Great Mourning"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 2, "verse": "16", "text": "Then Herod perceiving he was abused by the Magi, was full of indignation, and sent a detachment who slew all the children that were in Bethlehem and its territory, being under the age of two years, according to the limited time he had learnt of the Magi."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 2, "verse": "17", "text": "Then was fulfilled that passage of Jeremy the prophet,"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 2, "verse": "18", "text": "\"In Rama was a cry heard, weeping, and great mourning, Rachel weeping for her children, and would not be comforted, because they are not.\" The Return to Nazareth ( Luke 2:39–40 )"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 2, "verse": "19", "text": "But after the death of Herod, an angel of the Lord appeareth in a dream to Joseph in Egypt,"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 2, "verse": "20", "text": "saying, arise, take the young child and his mother, and go into the land of Israel: for they who attempted the life of the infant are dead."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 2, "verse": "21", "text": "then he arose, and took the child and his mother, and came into the land of Israel."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 2, "verse": "22", "text": "but when he heard that Archelaus reigned in Judea, in the room of his father Herod, he was apprehensive of going thither, till having had a divine warning in a dream, he retired into the district of Galilee:"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 2, "verse": "23", "text": "and went to dwell in a town called Nazareth, so that those words of one of the prophets were fulfill'd, \"He shall be called a Nazarene.\""}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 3, "verse": "1", "text": "At that time appeared John the Baptist, preaching in the wilderness of Judea,"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 3, "verse": "2", "text": "and saying, \"Repent ye: for the kingdom of the Messiah draws nigh.\""}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 3, "verse": "3", "text": "for it is of John the prophet Esaias spoke, when he said, \"The voice of one crying in the wilderness, Prepare ye the way of the Lord, make his paths clear.\""}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 3, "verse": "4", "text": "now John wore a coat made of camels hair, with a leathern girdle about his waist; and his food was locusts and wild hony."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 3, "verse": "5", "text": "Then the inhabitants of Jerusalem, of all Judea, and the whole country about Jordan, came to him:"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 3, "verse": "6", "text": "and having confess'd their sins, they were baptized by him in Jordan."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 3, "verse": "7", "text": "but when he saw many of the Pharisees and Sadduces come to his baptism, he said to them, \"Ye brood of vipers, who has warned you to fly from the wrath to come?"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 3, "verse": "8", "text": "Let your actions then show your repentance:"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 3, "verse": "9", "text": "and don't pretend to say within your selves, We have Abraham for our father: for I tell you, that God is able out of these stones to raise up children unto Abraham:"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 3, "verse": "10", "text": "the ax is already laid to the root of the trees: every tree then which does not produce good fruit, will be hewn down, and cast into the fire."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 3, "verse": "11", "text": "I indeed baptize you with water to lead you to repentance; but he that cometh after me, is my superiour, whose shoes I am not worthy to carry: he shall baptize you with the effusion of the holy Ghost, in the appearance of fire:"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 3, "verse": "12", "text": "and with the fan in his hand, he will throughly cleanse his floor, and gather the wheat into his grainery, but the chaff will he burn with unquenchable fire.\" The Baptism of Jesus ( Mark 1:9–11 ; Luke 3:21–22 ; John 1:29–34 )"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 3, "verse": "13", "text": "Then went Jesus from Galilee to Jordan to be baptized by John."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 3, "verse": "14", "text": "but John opposed him, I have need, said he, to be baptized by you, and do you come to me?"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 3, "verse": "15", "text": "and Jesus answer'd, Let it be so for the present, for it becometh us to do whatever is right, then John consented."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 3, "verse": "16", "text": "and when Jesus was baptized, he came out of the water: and immediately the heavens seem'd to be parted asunder before him, and he saw the Spirit"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 3, "verse": "17", "text": "of God descending like a dove, and lighting upon him: at the same time a voice was heard from heaven, saying, \"This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased.\""}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 4, "verse": "1", "text": "Then was Jesus led up by the Spirit into the wilderness, to be tempted by the devil:"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 4, "verse": "2", "text": "there having fasted forty days and forty nights, he at length grew hungry."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 4, "verse": "3", "text": "whereupon the tempter came to him, and said, \"If thou be the Son of God, command these stones to become bread.\""}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 4, "verse": "4", "text": "but Jesus answered him, It is written, \"Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every thing that God shall prescribe.\""}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 4, "verse": "5", "text": "then the devil took Jesus with him to Jerusalem, and having set him on the wing of the temple, he said to him,"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 4, "verse": "6", "text": "if you are the Son of God, throw your self down: for it is written, \"he will charge his angels to take care of you, and in their hands they shall bear thee up, lest you bruise your foot against a stone.\""}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 4, "verse": "7", "text": "Jesus replied, it is likewise written, \"Thou shalt not tempt the Lord thy God.\""}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 4, "verse": "8", "text": "Again, the devil accompanyed him up a very high mountain, and representing to him all the kingdoms of the world, and the glory of them: all these things,"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 4, "verse": "9", "text": "said he, will I give you, if you will prostrate your self and worship me."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 4, "verse": "10", "text": "Then said Jesus to him, get thee hence Satan: for it it written, \"Thou shalt worship the Lord thy God, and him only shalt thou serve.\""}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 4, "verse": "11", "text": "whereupon the devil left him, and immediately angels came and ministred unto him. Jesus Begins His Ministry ( Mark 1:14–15 ; Luke 4:14–15 )"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 4, "verse": "12", "text": "After this, Jesus having heard that John was confined in prison, retired into Galilee."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 4, "verse": "13", "text": "and leaving Nazareth, he came and dwelt in Capernaum, a maritime town upon the confines of Zabulon and Nepthalim:"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 4, "verse": "14", "text": "whereby those words of Esaias the prophet, had their full effect, \"the land of Zabulon,"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 4, "verse": "15", "text": "and the land of Nephthalim, lying upon the sea, and about Jordan, Galilee of the Gentiles:"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 4, "verse": "16", "text": "the people which sat in darkness, saw a great light: and to those who sat in the region and shadow of death, light is sprung up.\""}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 4, "verse": "17", "text": "from that time Jesus began to preach, \"Repent, said he, for the kingdom of the Messiah draws nigh.\" The First Disciples ( Mark 1:16–20 ; Luke 5:1–11 ; John 1:35–42 )"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 4, "verse": "18", "text": "Now as Jesus was walking by the sea of Galilee, he saw two brethren, Simon, called Peter, and Andrew his brother, casting their net into the sea: for they were fishermen."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 4, "verse": "19", "text": "and he said to them, follow me, and I will make you fishers of men:"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 4, "verse": "20", "text": "so they immediately left their nets, and followed him."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 4, "verse": "21", "text": "Going on from thence, he saw other two brethren, James the son of Zebedee, and John his brother, who were in a bark with Zebedee their father, mending their nets: and Jesus having called them,"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 4, "verse": "22", "text": "they immediately left the bark with their father, and followed him. Jesus Heals the Multitudes ( Mark 3:7–12 ; Luke 6:17–19 )"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 4, "verse": "23", "text": "Thus went Jesus about all Galilee, teaching in their synagogues, preaching the gospel of the kingdom, and healing all sorts of diseases and infirmities among the people:"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 4, "verse": "24", "text": "so that his fame was spread over all Syria: and they brought unto him all sick people that were afflicted with any diseases or pains, demoniacs, lunatics, and paralytics; and he healed them."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 4, "verse": "25", "text": "and a great multitude of people followed him from Galilee, from Decapolis, from Jerusalem, from Judea, and from about Jordan."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 5, "verse": "1", "text": "Jesus, to avoid this crowd of people, went to a mountain: and when he was set down, his disciples came to him."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 5, "verse": "2", "text": "and he addressed himself to them in these instructions. The Beatitudes ( Luke 6:20–23 )"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 5, "verse": "3", "text": "Blessed are they, that are of an humble spirit, for of such is the kingdom of the Messias."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 5, "verse": "4", "text": "Blessed are they that mourn: for they shall be comforted."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 5, "verse": "5", "text": "Blessed are the meek: for they shall inherit the earth."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 5, "verse": "6", "text": "Blessed are they who hunger and thirst after righteousness: for they shall be satisfied."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 5, "verse": "7", "text": "Blessed are the merciful: for they shall obtain mercy."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 5, "verse": "8", "text": "Blessed are the pure in heart: for they shall see God."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 5, "verse": "9", "text": "Blessed are the pacific: for they shall be the children of God."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 5, "verse": "10", "text": "Blessed are they who are persecuted upon the account of righteousness: for their's is the kingdom of heaven."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 5, "verse": "11", "text": "Blessed shall you be when men shall revile and persecute you, and falsely charge you with all manner of evil for your attachment to me."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 5, "verse": "12", "text": "Rejoice, and be exceeding glad: for great will be your reward in heaven: for so they persecuted the prophets who were before you. Salt and Light ( Mark 9:49–50 ; Luke 14:34–35 ; Philippians 2:12–18 )"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 5, "verse": "13", "text": "Ye are the salt of the earth; but if the salt become insipid, how shall it recover its savour? it is no longer fit for any thing, but to be cast out and trod under foot."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 5, "verse": "14", "text": "ye are the light of the world, a city that is situated on an hill, cannot be hid;"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 5, "verse": "15", "text": "and when men light a lamp, they do not put it under a bushel: but on the stand, to give light to all the family."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 5, "verse": "16", "text": "even so let your light shine before men, that they may see your good works, and glorify your father who is in heaven. The Fulfillment of the Law"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 5, "verse": "17", "text": "Don't think that I am come to abolish the law or the prophets: I am not come to abolish, but to complete them."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 5, "verse": "18", "text": "I assure you, heaven and earth may as well cease to be, as that one jot or one tittle of the law should fail of its completion."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 5, "verse": "19", "text": "whoever therefore shall break any commandment, tho' of the least importance, and shall teach men so to do, shall not have the least admittance into the kingdom of the Messias: but whoever shall do and teach them, he shall be great in the kingdom of the Messias."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 5, "verse": "20", "text": "for I declare to you, that except your righteousness shall exceed that of the Scribes and Pharisees, ye shall not enter into the heavenly kingdom. Anger and Reconciliation ( Luke 12:57–59 )"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 5, "verse": "21", "text": "Ye have heard that it has been said to the antients, \"Thou shalt not kill: and whosoever shall kill, shall be punish'd by the tribunal.\""}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 5, "verse": "22", "text": "but I say unto you, that whosoever is angry with his brother without a cause, shall be punish'd by the tribunal: and whosoever shall say to his brother, Raca, shall be punish'd by the Sanhedrim: but whosoever shall say, thou fool, shall be punish'd by the fire of Gehenna."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 5, "verse": "23", "text": "When therefore you bring your gift to the altar, and there remember that your brother has reason to be displeas'd with you:"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 5, "verse": "24", "text": "leave your gift before the altar, go, and first of all reconcile yourself to your brother; then come to offer your gift."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 5, "verse": "25", "text": "endeavour to win your adversary, even whilst you are in the way: left the adversary deliver you to the judge, and the judge deliver you to the officer, and you be thrown into jayl."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 5, "verse": "26", "text": "I assure you, you will not be discharged till you have paid to the very last farthing. Adultery"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 5, "verse": "27", "text": "Ye have heard that it was said, \"Thou shalt not commit adultery,\""}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 5, "verse": "28", "text": "but I tell you, that whosoever looks on a woman with impure desires is already guilty of approving the fact."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 5, "verse": "29", "text": "If your right eye insnare you, it is better to pull it out, and to suffer the loss of that single part, than that thy whole body should be cast into Gehenna."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 5, "verse": "30", "text": "and if thy right hand insnare thee, it is better to saw it off, and to suffer the loss of that single part, than that thy whole body should be thrown into Gehenna. Divorce ( Luke 16:18 )"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 5, "verse": "31", "text": "It hath been said, whoever shall put away his wife, let him give her a bill of divorce."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 5, "verse": "32", "text": "but I say unto you, whoever shall put away his wife, except in the case of adultery, is the occasion of her being an adulteress, and he that shall marry her is an adulterer. Oaths and Vows"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 5, "verse": "33", "text": "Again, ye have heard that it hath been said to the antients, \"Thou shalt not for swear thy self, but shalt perform unto the Lord thine oaths.\""}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 5, "verse": "34", "text": "but I say unto you, swear not at all; neither by heaven, for it is God's throne:"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 5, "verse": "35", "text": "nor by the earth, for it is his footstool: nor by Jerusalem, for it is the city of the great King."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 5, "verse": "36", "text": "neither shalt thou swear by thy head, because thou canst not make one hair white or black."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 5, "verse": "37", "text": "but let your communication be, yes, yes; no, no: for whatever goes beyond this, is evil. Love Your Enemies ( Luke 6:27–36 )"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 5, "verse": "38", "text": "Ye have heard that it hath been said, \"An eye for an eye, and a tooth for a tooth.\""}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 5, "verse": "39", "text": "but I say unto you, don't return evil for evil; on the contrary, if any one strike thee on thy right cheek, turn to him the other likewise."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 5, "verse": "40", "text": "and if any man will go to law with you, to have your coat, let him have your cloke too."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 5, "verse": "41", "text": "and if any one will press you to go a mile with him, go with him the other two."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 5, "verse": "42", "text": "give to him that asks you, and from him that would borrow of you turn not away."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 5, "verse": "43", "text": "You have heard that it hath been said, \"you shall love your neighbour, and hate your enemy:\""}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 5, "verse": "44", "text": "but I say unto you, Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them who traduce you, and persecute you:"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 5, "verse": "45", "text": "that ye may be the children of your father who is in heaven, for he causes his sun to rise on the evil and on the good, and sendeth rain on the just and on the unjust."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 5, "verse": "46", "text": "but if you love only them who love you, what reward can ye have? do not the heathens themselves do as much?"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 5, "verse": "47", "text": "and if ye salute your brethren only, what mighty matter is that? do not even the heathens do the same?"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 5, "verse": "48", "text": "be ye therefore perfect, even as your father who is in heaven is perfect."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 6, "verse": "1", "text": "Take care not to perform any religious act in order to be observed by men: otherwise you will have no reward from your father who is in heaven."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 6, "verse": "2", "text": "therefore, when you give alms, do not make a proclamation of it as the hypocrites do, in their publick assemblies by sound of trumpet, that they may have the applause of men, for I assure you, they have their reward."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 6, "verse": "3", "text": "but when you give alms, \"let not thy left hand know what thy right hand doth:\""}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 6, "verse": "4", "text": "that your alms may be secret: and your father who sees your secret actions, shall reward you. The Lord’s Prayer ( Luke 11:1–4 )"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 6, "verse": "5", "text": "And when you pray, be not as the hypocrites are: for they chuse to stand praying in publick places, and at the corners of the streets, to be observ'd by men. I assure you, they have their reward."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 6, "verse": "6", "text": "but you, when you pray, enter into your closet, and when you have shut the door, pray to your father who is with you in your retirement, and your father who observeth the actions of your retirement shall reward you."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 6, "verse": "7", "text": "When you pray, be not verbose, as the heathen are: for they think they shall be heard for their loquaciousness."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 6, "verse": "8", "text": "don't therefore imitate them: for your father knows what you want, before you ask him."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 6, "verse": "9", "text": "After this manner do you therefore pray: \"Our Father who art in heaven, hallowed be thy name, thy kingdom come."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 6, "verse": "10", "text": "thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 6, "verse": "11", "text": "give us this day our daily bread."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 6, "verse": "12", "text": "and forgive us our debts, as we forgive our debtors."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 6, "verse": "13", "text": "and let us not be left under temptation, but deliver us from the evil one.\""}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 6, "verse": "14", "text": "for if ye forgive men their trespasses, your heavenly father will also forgive you."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 6, "verse": "15", "text": "but if ye forgive not men their trespasses, neither will your father forgive your trespasses. Proper Fasting"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 6, "verse": "16", "text": "When ye fast, don't put on a dismal air, as the hypocrites do, who look dejected, that men may take notice of their fasting: I assure you, they have their reward."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 6, "verse": "17", "text": "but whenever you fast, anoint your head, and wash your face:"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 6, "verse": "18", "text": "that your fasting may not be observed by men, but by your father, who is with you in your retirement, and your father who observes what you do in private, shall give you a reward. Treasures in Heaven ( Luke 12:32–34 )"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 6, "verse": "19", "text": "Lay not up for your selves treasures upon earth, where moth and rust corrupt, and where thieves break through and steal."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 6, "verse": "20", "text": "but lay up for your selves treasures in heaven, where there is neither moth, nor rust, nor corruption, nor thieves, nor violence to molest you."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 6, "verse": "21", "text": "for where your treasure is, there will your heart be also. The Lamp of the Body ( Luke 11:33–36 )"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 6, "verse": "22", "text": "the eye is the light of the body: now if your eye be clear, your whole body will be enlightned."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 6, "verse": "23", "text": "but if your eye be bad, your whole body will be dark: if therefore that, which should be light to you, be dark; how great is that darkness?"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 6, "verse": "24", "text": "no man can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or he will be attach'd to the one, and neglectful of the other, ye cannot serve God and Mamon. Do Not Worry ( Luke 12:22–31 )"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 6, "verse": "25", "text": "I therefore direct you, not to be sollicitous, with regard to life, what ye shall eat, or what ye shall drink; nor with regard to the body, what clothes ye shall wear: Is not life it self a greater gift than food; and the body a greater gift than rayment?"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 6, "verse": "26", "text": "consider the fowls of the air: for they sow not, neither do they reap, nor lay up any stores; yet your heavenly Father feedeth them. Are not ye of much greater value than they?"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 6, "verse": "27", "text": "who by all his sollicitude can add one moment to his age?"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 6, "verse": "28", "text": "And as for rayment, why should that give you pain? consider the lillies of the field how they grow; they toil not, neither do they spin."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 6, "verse": "29", "text": "and yet I tell you, even Solomon with all his magnificence, was not arrayed like one of these."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 6, "verse": "30", "text": "now if God thus adorns the flower of the field, which thriving to day, is to morrow thrown into the oven, how much more shall he provide for you, if you have any degree of faith?"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 6, "verse": "31", "text": "therefore make no such sollicitous enquiries, as what shall we eat? or what shall we drink? or how shall we be clothed?"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 6, "verse": "32", "text": "things which the Gentiles are so thoughtful about, and which your heavenly Father knows that you want."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 6, "verse": "33", "text": "but first seek the kingdom of God, and that righteousness which leads to it, and all these things shall be superadded, be not"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 6, "verse": "34", "text": "therefore sollicitous about the morrow: for the morrow shall be taken up with the cares of the morrow, the trouble of the day is sufficient for one day."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 7, "verse": "1", "text": "Judge not, that ye be not judged."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 7, "verse": "2", "text": "for according as ye judge others, ye shall be judged yourselves: the measure you mete, shall be measured to you again."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 7, "verse": "3", "text": "why do you observe the mote that is in your brother's eye, and not consider the beam that is in your own eye?"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 7, "verse": "4", "text": "with what assurance can you say, brother, let me take that mote out of your eye; when there is such an apparent beam in your own eye?"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 7, "verse": "5", "text": "thou hypocrite, first get rid of the beam in your own eye; and then see how to remove the mote out of thy brother's eye."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 7, "verse": "6", "text": "Give not that which is holy to the dogs, neither cast ye your pearls before swine, lest these trample them under foot, and those turn upon you and tear you. Ask, Seek, Knock ( Luke 11:5–13 )"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 7, "verse": "7", "text": "Ask, and it shall be given you: seek, and ye shall find: knock, and the door shall be opened."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 7, "verse": "8", "text": "for every one that asks, does receive: he that seeks, does find: and he that knocks at the door, is admitted."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 7, "verse": "9", "text": "is there any of you that would offer his son a stone when he ask'd for bread?"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 7, "verse": "10", "text": "or instead of a fish, would he give him a serpent?"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 7, "verse": "11", "text": "if ye then, as wicked as ye are, know how to bestow proper gifts upon your children; how much more shall your heavenly father give good things to them that ask him?"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 7, "verse": "12", "text": "Let your actions be such, with regard to others, as you should think reasonable with regard to yourselves, for this is the substance of the law and the prophets. The Narrow Gate ( Luke 13:22–30 )"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 7, "verse": "13", "text": "Enter ye in at the strait gate; the gate that leadeth to destruction is broad, and the way is open, and they who pass through are numerous."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 7, "verse": "14", "text": "but the gate which leads to life is narrow, and the way is difficult, and few there be that find it. A Tree and Its Fruit ( Luke 6:43–45 )"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 7, "verse": "15", "text": "Beware of false prophets, who to outward appearance are sheep, but inwardly they are ravenous wolves."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 7, "verse": "16", "text": "you will know them by their fruits: do men gather grapes of thorns,"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 7, "verse": "17", "text": "or figs of thistles? so every good tree yields good fruit: but a corrupt tree yields bad fruit."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 7, "verse": "18", "text": "a good tree cannot produce bad fruit: neither can a corrupt tree produce good fruit."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 7, "verse": "19", "text": "every tree that doth not yield good fruit, is hewn down and cast into the fire."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 7, "verse": "20", "text": "by their fruits then shall ye know them."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 7, "verse": "21", "text": "Not every one that says to me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven: but only they who do the will of my Father who is in heaven."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 7, "verse": "22", "text": "many will cry out to me in that day, Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in thy name? have we not cast out devils in thy name? and in thy name have we not wrought many miracles?"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 7, "verse": "23", "text": "and then will I make this declaration to them: I never knew you: depart from me ye that have practised iniquity. The House on the Rock ( Luke 6:46–49 )"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 7, "verse": "24", "text": "therefore, whoever heareth these instructions of mine, and puts them in practice, I will compare him to the prudent man, who built his house upon a rock:"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 7, "verse": "25", "text": "the rain descended, the floods came, the winds blew, and beat upon that house: but it fell not, for it was founded upon a rock."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 7, "verse": "26", "text": "but every one that heareth these instructions of mine, and practiseth them not, shall be compared to a fool who built his house upon the sand:"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 7, "verse": "27", "text": "the rain descends, the flood rushes on, the winds blow, and beat upon the house: down it falls, and wide are its ruins. The Authority of Jesus"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 7, "verse": "28", "text": "At length Jesus finished his discourse, and the people were fill'd with astonishment at his doctrine."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 7, "verse": "29", "text": "for he taught them, as one having authority, and not as the scribes."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 8, "verse": "1", "text": "When Jesus was come down from the mountain, a great multitude followed him."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 8, "verse": "2", "text": "and there came a leper who threw himself at his feet, saying, Lord, if thou wilt, thou canst make me clean."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 8, "verse": "3", "text": "and Jesus held out his hand and touched him, saying, I will, be thou clean, and immediately he was cured of his leprosy."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 8, "verse": "4", "text": "and Jesus said to him, take care not to tell any man, but go thy way, shew thy self to the priest, and offer the gift that Moses commanded, that it may be a testimony against them. The Faith of the Centurion ( Luke 7:1–10 ; John 4:43–54 )"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 8, "verse": "5", "text": "When Jesus was entred into Capernaum, a centurion came and addressed himself to him,"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 8, "verse": "6", "text": "saying, Lord, my servant lies sick at home grievously afflicted with the palsy,"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 8, "verse": "7", "text": "and Jesus said to him, I will come and heal him."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 8, "verse": "8", "text": "the centurion answered, Lord, I am not worthy the honour of such a visit: do but give the word, and my servant is sav'd."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 8, "verse": "9", "text": "for I am a man under authority, having soldiers under my command: I bid this man, go, and he's gone: another, come, and he's here: and to my servant, do this, and it is done."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 8, "verse": "10", "text": "when Jesus heard it, he was surpriz'd, and said to his followers, I profess I have not met with such an instance of faith, no not in Israel."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 8, "verse": "11", "text": "and I declare unto you, that many shall come from the east and from the west, and shall sit at table with Abraham, and Isaac, and Jacob in the heavenly kingdom."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 8, "verse": "12", "text": "but the heirs to the kingdom shall be cast into the darkness without: there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 8, "verse": "13", "text": "and Jesus said to the centurion, go thy way, what you believed could be done, is effected for you, and his servant was healed in that very hour. Jesus Heals at Peter’s House ( Mark 1:29–34 ; Luke 4:38–41 )"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 8, "verse": "14", "text": "After this Jesus went to Peter's house, where seeing his wife's mother lying sick of a fever,"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 8, "verse": "15", "text": "he touched her hand, and the fever left her: and she arose and gave him entertainment."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 8, "verse": "16", "text": "in the evening they brought him several demoniacs: and he cast out the spirits with a word, and healed all that were sick:"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 8, "verse": "17", "text": "whereby was fulfilled what Esaias the prophet said, \"Himself took our infirmities, and bare, our diseases.\" The Cost of Discipleship ( Luke 9:57–62 ; Luke 14:25–33 ; John 6:59–66 )"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 8, "verse": "18", "text": "Now Jesus perceiving the crowd about him, gave orders to pass over to the other side of the lake."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 8, "verse": "19", "text": "when a certain scribe came to him, and said, Master, I will follow you where-ever you go."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 8, "verse": "20", "text": "Jesus replyed, the foxes have kennels, and the birds of the air have nests; but the son of man hath not where to lay his head."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 8, "verse": "21", "text": "another of his disciples said to him, Lord, suffer me first to go and bury my father."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 8, "verse": "22", "text": "but Jesus said to him, follow me, and let the dead bury their dead. Jesus Calms the Storm ( Mark 4:35–41 ; Luke 8:22–25 )"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 8, "verse": "23", "text": "When he went aboard the vessel, his disciples followed him."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 8, "verse": "24", "text": "and on a sudden so great a storm arose at sea, that the ship was covered with the waves: but he was asleep."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 8, "verse": "25", "text": "and his disciples came and awaked him, saying, Lord, save us: we are sinking."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 8, "verse": "26", "text": "and he answer'd, why are you afraid, o incredulous people? then he arose and rebuked the winds and the sea, and there was a great calm."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 8, "verse": "27", "text": "but the crew were all amaz'd; what is this man, said they, that even the winds and the sea obey him? The Demons and the Pigs ( Mark 5:1–20 ; Luke 8:26–39 )"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 8, "verse": "28", "text": "When he was arrived on the other side, in the country of the Gergesenes, two demoniacs met him starting out of the tombs with such fury, it was not safe for any body to pass that way."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 8, "verse": "29", "text": "and they roar'd out, Jesus, thou son of God, what injury have we done you? are you come here to torment us before the time?"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 8, "verse": "30", "text": "and there was a considerable herd of swine feeding, at some distance from them."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 8, "verse": "31", "text": "So the devils entreated him, saying, if you force us out, suffer us to retire into the herd of swine."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 8, "verse": "32", "text": "and Jesus bad them go, accordingly they came out, and went into the herd of swine: and immediately the herd of swine ran furiously down a precipice into the sea, where they were all drown'd."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 8, "verse": "33", "text": "and they that kept them fled away into the town, and told the whole story of what had happen'd to the devils and their demoniacs."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 8, "verse": "34", "text": "whereupon the city went in a body to meet Jesus, and when they saw him they desir'd him to withdraw out of their country."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 9, "verse": "1", "text": "Being imbark'd, he pass'd over, and came to his own town,"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 9, "verse": "2", "text": "where they brought a man on a bed, lying sick of the palsy: and Jesus perceiving their faith, said to the paralytic, take courage, my son, thy sins are forgiven."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 9, "verse": "3", "text": "whereupon certain of the scribes said within themselves, this man blasphemes."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 9, "verse": "4", "text": "and Jesus perceiving their reflections, said, why do you entertain so bad an opinion?"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 9, "verse": "5", "text": "for is it not as easy to say, thy sins are forgiven? as to say, arise, and walk?"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 9, "verse": "6", "text": "only it was fit you should know that the son of man hath power on earth to forgive sins: arise, then, said he, to the paralytic, take up thy bed, and march home."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 9, "verse": "7", "text": "and he arose, and returned to his family."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 9, "verse": "8", "text": "at this the multitude were amazed, and glorified God, for having communicated such power to men. Jesus Calls Matthew ( Mark 2:13–17 ; Luke 5:27–32 )"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 9, "verse": "9", "text": "As Jesus left that place, he saw one Matthew by name, sitting at the customhouse: and said to him, follow me, and he rose and followed him."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 9, "verse": "10", "text": "and while Jesus was at table in Matthew's house, several publicans and loose people happen'd to come in, who sat down with him and his disciples."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 9, "verse": "11", "text": "which the Pharisees observing, why, said they to his disciples, is your master so familiar with publicans and such loose people?"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 9, "verse": "12", "text": "Jesus hearing that, said to them, they that are in health don't want a physician, but they that are sick."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 9, "verse": "13", "text": "go then and learn the meaning of that expression, \"I will have mercy and not sacrifice:\" for I am not come to call saints, but sinners. Questions about Fasting ( Mark 2:18–20 ; Luke 5:33–35 )"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 9, "verse": "14", "text": "Then John's disciples came to him and said, why do the Pharisees, as well as we, observe so many fasts, and your disciples keep none?"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 9, "verse": "15", "text": "Jesus answer'd them, can the bride-men mourn, while the bridegroom is with them? the day indeed will come, when the bridegroom shall be taken from them, and then will be the time to fast. The Patches and the Wineskins ( Mark 2:21–22 ; Luke 5:36–39 )"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 9, "verse": "16", "text": "new cloth is never patch'd upon an old garment: for the patch will draw the garment, and rend it still worse."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 9, "verse": "17", "text": "neither do men put new wine into old skins: if they should, the bottles will burst, so that the wine will be lost and the skins be spoil'd: but they put new wine into new skins, whereby both are preserved. The Healing Touch of Jesus ( Mark 5:21–43 ; Luke 8:40–56 )"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 9, "verse": "18", "text": "Whilst he thus entertain'd them, the ruler of the synagogue came and made his address to him, saying, my daughter is upon the point of death: but come and lay thy hand upon her, and she shall live."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 9, "verse": "19", "text": "so Jesus arose, together with his disciples, and follow'd him."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 9, "verse": "20", "text": "When a woman, who had been troubled with an hemorrhage twelve years, came behind him, and touch'd the hem of his garment."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 9, "verse": "21", "text": "for she said within her self, if I do but touch his garment, I shall be cured:"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 9, "verse": "22", "text": "but Jesus turned about, and looking upon her, said, daughter lay aside your fears, thy faith hath cured thee: and the woman was cured from that instant."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 9, "verse": "23", "text": "When Jesus came to the ruler's house, he found a set of flute-players and a crowd of people making a lamentable cry,"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 9, "verse": "24", "text": "and he said to them, withdraw, for the maid is not dead, but asleep, and they treated him with contemptuous laughter."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 9, "verse": "25", "text": "but when the company were turn'd out, he went in, and grasping her hand, the maid rose up."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 9, "verse": "26", "text": "the fame whereof was spread over all the country. Jesus Heals the Blind and Mute ( Mark 7:31–37 )"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 9, "verse": "27", "text": "As Jesus departed thence, two blind men followed him, crying out, son of David, have mercy on us."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 9, "verse": "28", "text": "and when he was got into the house, the blind men advanc'd: and Jesus said to them, do ye think I am able to effect this cure? they answer'd, yes, Lord."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 9, "verse": "29", "text": "then he touched their eyes, saying, according to your faith, be it unto you."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 9, "verse": "30", "text": "and they had their sight: but Jesus gave them a strict charge, saying, take care not to let any man know it:"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 9, "verse": "31", "text": "however when they were gone, they spread abroad his fame thro' all that country."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 9, "verse": "32", "text": "At their going out, a demoniac was brought in, who was dumb."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 9, "verse": "33", "text": "and when the devil was cast out, the dumb man came to his speech; at which the people were amazed, saying, nothing like this was ever seen in Israel."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 9, "verse": "34", "text": "but the Pharisees said, he casteth out devils by the authority of the prince of the devils. The Lord of the Harvest ( Luke 10:1–12 )"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 9, "verse": "35", "text": "And Jesus went about all the towns and villages, teaching in their synagogues, preaching the gospel of the kingdom, and healing diseases and disorders of every kind."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 9, "verse": "36", "text": "but when he saw how the multitude were fatigued and dispers'd like so many sheep without their Pastors, he was moved with compassion, and said to his disciples,"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 9, "verse": "37", "text": "the harvest indeed is plentiful, but the labourers are few:"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 9, "verse": "38", "text": "entreat therefore the Lord of the harvest, to send forth labourers into his harvest."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 10, "verse": "1", "text": "Jesus having called his twelve disciples, he gave them power to cast out unclean spirits, and to heal diseases and disorders of every kind."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 10, "verse": "2", "text": "Now the names of the twelve apostles are these; the first is Simon, who is called Peter, then Andrew his brother,"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 10, "verse": "3", "text": "James the son of Zebedee, and John his brother, Philip and Bartholomew, Thomas, and Matthew the publican, James the son of Alpheus, and Labbeus, whose sirname was Thaddeus, Simon the zelot,"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 10, "verse": "4", "text": "and Judas Iscariot, who also betrayed him. The Ministry of the Twelve ( Mark 6:7–13 ; Luke 9:1–6 )"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 10, "verse": "5", "text": "Jesus made these twelve his missionaries, and gave them these instructions, don't go any where among the Gentiles, nor enter into any city of the Samaritans."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 10, "verse": "6", "text": "but go rather to the lost sheep of the house of Israel."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 10, "verse": "7", "text": "and wherever ye go, make this proclamation: the kingdom of heaven is nigh."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 10, "verse": "8", "text": "heal the sick, cleanse the lepers, raise the dead, cast out devils: what ye have received gratis, give gratis."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 10, "verse": "9", "text": "Provide neither gold nor silver, nor brass in your purses:"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 10, "verse": "10", "text": "nor scrip for your journey, neither two coats, nor shoes, nor staves: for the workman deserves his maintenance."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 10, "verse": "11", "text": "whatever city or town ye enter into, find out some house of repute, and there lodge till ye leave that place."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 10, "verse": "12", "text": "As soon as ye enter into any house, salute the family."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 10, "verse": "13", "text": "if the family be worthy, your benediction shall have its effect; but if it be not worthy, it shall only redound to your own advantage."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 10, "verse": "14", "text": "if they should not receive you, nor mind your instructions: when ye depart out of that house, or city, shake off the pagan dust from your feet."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 10, "verse": "15", "text": "I declare unto you, the people of Sodom and Gomorrha shall find less severity in the day of judgment, than that city. Sheep among Wolves ( 2 Timothy 1:3–12 )"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 10, "verse": "16", "text": "By your mission you will be expos'd like sheep in the midst of wolves: be then as circumspect as serpents, and as inoffensive as doves:"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 10, "verse": "17", "text": "be upon your guard with such men, for they will deliver you up to their tribunals, and scourge you in their synagogues."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 10, "verse": "18", "text": "and ye shall be brought before governors and kings upon my account, to bear testimony of me to them and the rest of the Gentiles."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 10, "verse": "19", "text": "but when they take you, into custody, be not sollicitous, how or what ye shall speak, for at the very instant you shall be inspir'd what to say."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 10, "verse": "20", "text": "for it is not properly you that speak, but the spirit of your father that speaketh by you."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 10, "verse": "21", "text": "then the brother shall betray his brother to death, and the father his child: and children shall rise up against their parents, and be the instruments of their death."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 10, "verse": "22", "text": "and ye shall be hated by all the world for professing my name: but he that perseveres unto the end, shall escape."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 10, "verse": "23", "text": "Then if they persecute you in one city, fly to another: for I assure you, before you have preach'd thro' all the cities of the Jews, the son of man will come."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 10, "verse": "24", "text": "the disciple is not above his master, nor the servant above his lord."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 10, "verse": "25", "text": "if the disciple fare as well as his master, and the servant as his lord, is not that sufficient? if they style the master of the house Beelzebub, much more will they call his domestics so. Fear God Alone ( Luke 12:4–7 )"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 10, "verse": "26", "text": "fear them not therefore: for there is nothing hid that shall not be revealed; or secret that shall not be made known."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 10, "verse": "27", "text": "what I tell you in private, declare it in publick: and what is whisper'd in the ear, proclaim from the battlements of the house."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 10, "verse": "28", "text": "fear not those who can only kill the body, but cannot hurt the soul: rather fear him who is able to destroy both soul and body in Gehenna."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 10, "verse": "29", "text": "are not two sparrows sold for a farthing? yet not one of them shall lose its life independently of your father,"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 10, "verse": "30", "text": "by whom the very hairs of your head are all numbred:"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 10, "verse": "31", "text": "lay aside then your fears, ye are of a superior rank to those animals. Confessing Christ ( Luke 12:8–12 )"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 10, "verse": "32", "text": "Whosoever therefore shall own me before men, him will I own likewise before my father who is in heaven."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 10, "verse": "33", "text": "but whosoever shall renounce me before men, him will I also renounce before my father who is in heaven. Not Peace but a Sword ( Micah 7:1–6 ; Luke 12:49–53 )"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 10, "verse": "34", "text": "don't imagine that I am come to bring peace upon the earth: I came not to bring peace, but war."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 10, "verse": "35", "text": "my coming will occasion discord between the son and his father, between the daughter and her mother, between the daughter in law and her mother in law:"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 10, "verse": "36", "text": "even a man's own domestics shall prove his foes."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 10, "verse": "37", "text": "he that loveth father or mother more than me, is unworthy of me: he that loveth son or daughter more than me, is unworthy of me."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 10, "verse": "38", "text": "and he that does not take his cross, and so follow after me, is unworthy of me."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 10, "verse": "39", "text": "he that would preserve his life, shall lose it: and he that exposeth his life for my sake, shall save it. The Reward of Service"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 10, "verse": "40", "text": "He that receives you, receives me; and he that receives me, receives him that sent me."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 10, "verse": "41", "text": "he that receives a prophet in quality of a prophet, shall receive a prophet's reward; and he that receives a just man, as such, shall receive the reward of the just."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 10, "verse": "42", "text": "and whoever shall give only a cup of cold water to the meanest of you, considering him as my disciple, shall most assuredly be far from losing his reward."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 11, "verse": "1", "text": "When Jesus had made an end of giving his twelve disciples their instructions, he departed thence to go and preach to the Jews in their cities:"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 11, "verse": "2", "text": "in the mean time John having heard in his confinement of the actions of Christ, he sent two of his disciples to ask him,"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 11, "verse": "3", "text": "art thou he that was to come, or must we expect another?"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 11, "verse": "4", "text": "Jesus answered them, go and relate to John, what you hear and what you see:"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 11, "verse": "5", "text": "the blind recover their sight, the lame walk, the lepers are cleansed, the deaf hear, the dead are raised, and the poor have the gospel preached to them."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 11, "verse": "6", "text": "and happy is he who does not stumble at my appearance. Jesus Testifies about John ( Luke 7:24–35 )"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 11, "verse": "7", "text": "As they departed, Jesus said to the people, speaking of John, what did ye go to see in the desert? a reed shaken with the wind?"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 11, "verse": "8", "text": "what did ye go to see? a man dress'd in rich apparel? why, they that are so array'd belong to the court:"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 11, "verse": "9", "text": "or did you go to see a prophet? yes, and be assured, one superiour to a prophet."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 11, "verse": "10", "text": "for it is he that is meant in that passage, \"behold, I send my messenger before thy face, who shall prepare thy way before thee.\""}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 11, "verse": "11", "text": "I declare unto you, among the whole race of prophets, there never appear'd a greater than John the Baptist: (notwithstanding, he that is least in the kingdom of the"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 11, "verse": "12", "text": "Messiah is greater than he.) for ever since the appearance of John the Baptist the gospel kingdom is as it were invaded, and people of the most violent passions enter into it with zeal."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 11, "verse": "13", "text": "for all the prophets and the law were your guides, till the coming of John."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 11, "verse": "14", "text": "and if ye will believe me, he is the Elias that was to come."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 11, "verse": "15", "text": "he that hath ears to hear, let him hear."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 11, "verse": "16", "text": "but to what shall I compare this generation? they are like children sitting in the markets, and calling out to their fellows,"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 11, "verse": "17", "text": "\"if we play a merry tune, you are not for dancing; if we act a mournful part, you are not in the humour.\""}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 11, "verse": "18", "text": "so John came with fasting and abstinence, and they say, he is mad."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 11, "verse": "19", "text": "the son of man does not abstain from eating and drinking, and they cry there's a glutton, and a sot, a friend of publicans and sinners: \"but wisdom is justified by her children.\" Woe to the Unrepentant ( Luke 10:13–16 )"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 11, "verse": "20", "text": "Then he began to upbraid the towns where most of his miracles were wrought, for their not being converts."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 11, "verse": "21", "text": "wo unto thee, Chorazin, wo unto thee, Bethsaida: for if the miracles which were done among you, had been done in Tyre and Sidon, they would have repented long ago in sackcloth and ashes."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 11, "verse": "22", "text": "I declare unto you, Tyre and Sidon shall be treated with less severity at the day of judgment than you."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 11, "verse": "23", "text": "and thou, Capernaum, which art exalted to heaven, shalt be brought to destruction: for if the miracles which have been done in thee, had been done in Sodom, it would have subsisted even to this day."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 11, "verse": "24", "text": "I tell you likewise, that in the day of judgment, Sodom shall be treated with less severity than you. Rest for the Weary ( Luke 10:21–24 )"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 11, "verse": "25", "text": "At the same time Jesus, continuing his discourses, said, \"I thank thee, O father, Lord of heaven and earth, for having revealed unto babes what thou hast hid from the wise and prudent."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 11, "verse": "26", "text": "even so it is, father, for such has been thy will."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 11, "verse": "27", "text": "my father has instructed me in every thing: and no one knoweth the son, except the father: nor does any one know the father, except the son, and he to whom the son is pleased to reveal him.\""}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 11, "verse": "28", "text": "Believe in me, all ye that labour under oppression, and I will give you relief."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 11, "verse": "29", "text": "take my yoke upon you, and learn to be meek like me, and of an humble temper: and ye shall enjoy tranquillity of mind."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 11, "verse": "30", "text": "for my yoke is easy, and my burden is light."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 12, "verse": "1", "text": "At that time as Jesus pass'd through the corn on the sabbath day, his disciples being hungry, pluck'd the ears of corn, and fell to eating."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 12, "verse": "2", "text": "the Pharisees seeing that, said to him, see, your disciples are doing what is unlawful to do on the sabbath-day."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 12, "verse": "3", "text": "he answer'd them, have ye not read what David and the rest of the company did when they were hungry,"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 12, "verse": "4", "text": "how he entred into the house of God, and did eat the shewbread, which it was not lawful either for him or his company to eat, but only for the priests?"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 12, "verse": "5", "text": "or have ye not observed in the law, what a work the priests made in the temple on the sabbath-day, without being blamed?"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 12, "verse": "6", "text": "now I tell you, that the work now in hand, is of greater consequence than that of the temple."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 12, "verse": "7", "text": "if ye had known the meaning of that expression, \"I will have mercy and not sacrifice,\" ye would not have condemned the guiltless."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 12, "verse": "8", "text": "for the sabbath is subservient to men. Jesus Heals on the Sabbath ( Mark 3:1–6 ; Luke 6:6–11 )"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 12, "verse": "9", "text": "At his departure thence, he went into their synagogue."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 12, "verse": "10", "text": "where they brought a man with a withered hand: and asked him this insnaring question, is it lawful to heal on the sabbath-day?"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 12, "verse": "11", "text": "and he answer'd, which of you all that should have one of his sheep fall into a pit on the sabbath-day, would not bestir himself, and lift it out?"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 12, "verse": "12", "text": "is not a man of much greater consequence than a sheep? how lawful then is it to do good offices on the sabbath-day?"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 12, "verse": "13", "text": "then saith he to the man, stretch out thy hand: and be stretched it out; and it was made as sound as the other."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 12, "verse": "14", "text": "Upon this the Pharisees went out of the synagogue, and form'd a conspiracy against his life. God’s Chosen Servant"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 12, "verse": "15", "text": "but Jesus perceiving their design, withdrew himself thence, accompany'd by great multitudes, and he healed all their sick,"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 12, "verse": "16", "text": "charging them not to discover him."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 12, "verse": "17", "text": "so that what was said by Esaias the prophet, was fulfill'd;"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 12, "verse": "18", "text": "\"behold, my servant whom I have chosen, my beloved in whom my soul is well pleased: I will put my spirit upon him, and he shall shew justice to the nations."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 12, "verse": "19", "text": "he shall not strive, nor cry, neither shall any man hear his voice in the streets."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 12, "verse": "20", "text": "a bruised reed shall he not break, and smoaking flax shall he not quench, till he hath made justice victorious."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 12, "verse": "21", "text": "and in his name shall the Gentiles trust.\" A House Divided ( Mark 3:20–27 ; Luke 11:14–23 )"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 12, "verse": "22", "text": "Then they brought to him a demoniac, who was both blind and dumb: and he cured him so effectually, that he recovered both his speech and his sight;"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 12, "verse": "23", "text": "which made the people cry out with amazement, \"Is not this the son of David?\""}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 12, "verse": "24", "text": "but the Pharisees upon hearing this said, he exorcizes devils, by virtue only of Beelzebub the prince of the devils."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 12, "verse": "25", "text": "Jesus perceiving what they surmized, said to them, any kingdom once divided against itself will soon be desolate: nor can any city or house divided against itself, long subsist."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 12, "verse": "26", "text": "if satan expels satan, he is divided against himself; how then shall his kingdom last?"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 12, "verse": "27", "text": "and if I by Beelzebub exorcize devils, by whom do your children exorcize them? wherefore even they shall be your judges."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 12, "verse": "28", "text": "but if I exorcize devils by the spirit of God, then the kingdom of God is set up among you."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 12, "verse": "29", "text": "besides, how could any one enter into the house of a man of might to rob him of his goods, except he first master the strong man? and then indeed he might plunder his house."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 12, "verse": "30", "text": "\"He that is not for me, is against me: and he that is not active for me, is a Deserter.\" The Unpardonable Sin ( Mark 3:28–30 )"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 12, "verse": "31", "text": "wherefore I declare to you, all manner of sin and blasphemy shall be forgiven men; but blaspheming the holy Spirit"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 12, "verse": "32", "text": "shall not be forgiven them, and if any one speaks against the son of man, it may be forgiven him: but if any one speaks against the holy spirit, it shall not be forgiven him, neither in this age, nor in that to come. Good and Bad Fruit ( Luke 6:43–45 )"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 12, "verse": "33", "text": "Either allow the tree to be good, and its fruit good; or else say the tree is corrupt, and its fruit corrupt: for a tree is distinguished by its fruit."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 12, "verse": "34", "text": "O degenerate race, how can ye, wicked as ye are, utter any thing that is good? for \"'tis the overflowing of the heart that the mouth dischargeth.\""}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 12, "verse": "35", "text": "a good man out of the good treasure produces good things: and an evil man, out of the evil treasure, produces evil things."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 12, "verse": "36", "text": "but I declare unto you, that men shall give an account at the day of judgment, of every scandalous expression they utter."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 12, "verse": "37", "text": "for by thy words thou shalt be justified, and by thy words thou shalt be condemned. The Sign of Jonah ( Luke 11:29–32 )"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 12, "verse": "38", "text": "Then certain of the Scribes and of the Pharisees said, master, we should be glad you would shew us some miracle."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 12, "verse": "39", "text": "but he answered them, this wicked degenerate race demand a miracle; but no other miracle shall they have, except that of the prophet Jonas."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 12, "verse": "40", "text": "for as Jonas was three days and three nights in the whale's belly: so shall the son of man be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 12, "verse": "41", "text": "the men of Nineveh shall rise in judgment against this generation, and shall condemn it, because they were converted at the preaching of Jonas, and now there is one superiour to Jonas here."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 12, "verse": "42", "text": "the queen of the south shall rise up at the day of judgement against this generation, and shall condemn it: for she came from the remote parts of the earth to hear the wisdom of Solomon, and now a greater than Solomon is here. An Unclean Spirit Returns ( Luke 11:24–26 )"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 12, "verse": "43", "text": "When an unclean spirit is gone out of a man, he roams about the deserts, seeking rest, and findeth none."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 12, "verse": "44", "text": "I will return then, says he, into my house, which I have quitted; and when he is come, he findeth it empty, swept, and garnished."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 12, "verse": "45", "text": "then he goes and takes seven other spirits besides himself, but more mischievous than himself, and they all enter in and lodge there: so that the last state of that man is worse than the first, just so shall it likewise fare with this wicked generation. Jesus’ Mother and Brothers ( Mark 3:31–35 ; Luke 8:19–21 )"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 12, "verse": "46", "text": "Now while he was talking to the people, his mother and his brothers stood without, desiring to speak with him."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 12, "verse": "47", "text": "then some body said to him, your mother and your brothers are without, and desire to speak with you."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 12, "verse": "48", "text": "but Jesus answered the man that told him, who is my mother? and who are my brothers?"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 12, "verse": "49", "text": "and holding out his hand towards his disciples, see there, said he, my mother, and my brothers."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 12, "verse": "50", "text": "for whosoever shall do the will of my father, who is in heaven, he is my brother, and sister, and mother."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 13, "verse": "1", "text": "The same day went Jesus out of the house, and sat by the sea-side."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 13, "verse": "2", "text": "and there was so great a croud of people got about him, that he was oblig'd to go into a bark, where he sat, while the people all stood on the shore."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 13, "verse": "3", "text": "Then he talk'd to them much in parables, and said, a sower went out to sow."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 13, "verse": "4", "text": "and in sowing, part of the grain fell in the high-way, and the fowls light and peck'd them up:"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 13, "verse": "5", "text": "another part fell upon stony places, where it had not much earth: and it soon sprung up, because the soil was shallow:"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 13, "verse": "6", "text": "so that as the sun arose it was scorched, and for want of root, withered away."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 13, "verse": "7", "text": "another part fell among thorns: and the thorns grew up and choked it."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 13, "verse": "8", "text": "but another part falling upon good soil, became fruitful, some grains yielding an hundred, some sixty, and some thirty."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 13, "verse": "9", "text": "he that hath ears to hear, let him hear. The Purpose of Jesus’ Parables ( Mark 4:10–12 ; Luke 8:9–10 )"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 13, "verse": "10", "text": "And the disciples came, and said to him, why do you speak to them in parables?"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 13, "verse": "11", "text": "to whom he answered, because you are allowed to know the mysteries of the gospel-dispensation, but to them it is not allowed."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 13, "verse": "12", "text": "for to him that uses what he has, shall be given, and he shall have abundantly: but from him that uses it not, shall be taken away, even what he hath."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 13, "verse": "13", "text": "therefore speak I to them in parables: because they over-look what they see: and are inattentive to what they hear, neither will they comprehend."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 13, "verse": "14", "text": "and in them is fulfilled that prophecy of Esaias, \"by hearing ye shall hear, and shall not understand: and seeing ye shall see, and shall not perceive."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 13, "verse": "15", "text": "for the heart of this people is waxed gross, and their ears are dull of hearing, and their eyes they have closed; lest at any time they should see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and understand with their heart, and should be converted, and I should heal them.\""}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 13, "verse": "16", "text": "but happy are you that your eyes have sight; and that your ears have their hearing."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 13, "verse": "17", "text": "for I declare unto you, that many prophets and just men have desired to see what ye see, and have not seen it: and to hear what ye hear, and have not heard it. The Parable of the Sower Explained ( Mark 4:13–20 ; Luke 8:11–15 )"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 13, "verse": "18", "text": "Hear then the meaning of this parable of the sower."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 13, "verse": "19", "text": "when any one heareth the doctrine of the gospel, and considers it not, then comes the wicked one, and catches away what was sown in his heart: he is the person meant by the high-way, where some of the seed was sown: but the stony ground,"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 13, "verse": "20", "text": "where other seed fell, denotes the man that heareth the word, and at first receives it with pleasure:"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 13, "verse": "21", "text": "but having no root in him he has only an occasional faith: for as soon as any oppression or persecution arises upon account of the gospel, he presently relapses."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 13, "verse": "22", "text": "he that is meant by the thorny ground, where other seed fell, is one that heareth the word: which by cares of this life, and the deceitful love of riches, is soon stifled, and becomes unfruitful:"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 13, "verse": "23", "text": "but the ground that received the grain, represents those, who hear the word, and consider it, who all become fruitful, some in one degree, and some in another. The Parable of the Weeds"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 13, "verse": "24", "text": "Another parable he propos'd to them in these words, the state of the gospel in this world may be compar'd to a man who sowed good grain in his field:"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 13, "verse": "25", "text": "but while the people slept, his enemy came and sowed tares among the wheat, and went his way."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 13, "verse": "26", "text": "but when the blade was sprung up, and bore grain, the tares appeared too."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 13, "verse": "27", "text": "so the servants of the yeoman came and said, Sir, did not you sow your field with good grain: how comes it then to have tares?"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 13, "verse": "28", "text": "'tis some enemy, said he, has done this, the servants replied, shall we go then and pull them up?"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 13, "verse": "29", "text": "no, said he, lest in pulling up the tares, you should root"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 13, "verse": "30", "text": "up the wheat with them, let both grow together till the harvest: and in the time of harvest I will thus direct the reapers, first of all gather the tares, and bind them in bundles to burn them: then lodge the wheat in my barn. The Parable of the Mustard Seed ( Mark 4:30–34 ; Luke 13:18–19 )"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 13, "verse": "31", "text": "He propos'd another parable to them, which was this; the gospel-state is like a grain of mustard-seed which a man took to sow in his field."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 13, "verse": "32", "text": "'tis one indeed of the smallest grains: but when it is grown, it is the largest of the pulse kind, and becomes a tree: so that the birds of the air come and lodge in its branches. The Parable of the Leaven ( Luke 13:20–21 )"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 13, "verse": "33", "text": "Another of his parables was this; the gospel-state is like unto leaven, which a woman took and mixt with three measures of meal, till the whole was leavened. I Will Open My Mouth in Parables"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 13, "verse": "34", "text": "All these things spake Jesus to the multitude in parables, and did not discourse to them without some parable."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 13, "verse": "35", "text": "so that this saying of the prophet was fulfilled, \"I will talk in parables, I will utter what has been kept secret from the foundation of the world.\" The Parable of the Weeds Explained"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 13, "verse": "36", "text": "Then Jesus leaving the multitude, went into the house: and his disciples coming to him, said, explain to us the parable of the tares of the field."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 13, "verse": "37", "text": "he answered them, he that soweth the good seed, is the son of man:"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 13, "verse": "38", "text": "the field is the world: the good seed are the children of the kingdom: but the tares are the children of the wicked one:"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 13, "verse": "39", "text": "the enemy that sowed them is the devil: the harvest is the conclusion of the age: and the reapers are the angels."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 13, "verse": "40", "text": "as then the tares are gathered and burnt in the fire; so shall it be at the conclusion of the age."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 13, "verse": "41", "text": "the son of man shall send forth his angels, and they shall gather out of his kingdom all that make others offend, and those who do iniquity;"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 13, "verse": "42", "text": "and shall cast them into a furnace of fire: there shall be wailing and gnashing of teeth."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 13, "verse": "43", "text": "then shall the just shine out like the sun, in the kingdom of their father, he that hath ears to hear, let him hear. The Parables of the Treasure and the Pearl"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 13, "verse": "44", "text": "Again, the kingdom of heaven is like a treasure hid in a field: a man finds this treasure and buries it again, then goes in great joy, sells all that he hath, and purchases that field."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 13, "verse": "45", "text": "Again, the heavenly kingdom is like a merchant-man, who is in quest of curious pearls:"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 13, "verse": "46", "text": "and meeting with one of great value, presently sells all that he has to make the purchase. The Parable of the Net"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 13, "verse": "47", "text": "Again, the gospel-kingdom is like a net that is cast into the sea, and draws all sorts of fish:"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 13, "verse": "48", "text": "when it is full, they drag it to shore, then sit down, and pick out the good to lay by, but throw the bad away."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 13, "verse": "49", "text": "so it shall be at the end of the world: the angels shall come forth, and after they have separated the wicked from the just,"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 13, "verse": "50", "text": "they shall cast the wicked into the furnace of fire: there shall be wailing and gnashing of teeth."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 13, "verse": "51", "text": "Then Jesus said to them, have ye understood all this?"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 13, "verse": "52", "text": "they reply'd, yes, Lord, then said he to them, thus every teacher who is instructed in the doctrine of the gospel, is like the master of a family, who taketh out of his treasure things new and old. The Rejection at Nazareth ( Mark 6:1–6 ; Luke 4:16–30 )"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 13, "verse": "53", "text": "When Jesus had finished these parables, he departed thence."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 13, "verse": "54", "text": "and when he was come into his native country, he taught them in their synagogue, in such a manner that they cry'd out with astonishment, how came this man by all this wisdom, and extraordinary power?"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 13, "verse": "55", "text": "is not this the carpenter's son? is not Mary his mother? and James, and Joses, and Simon, and Judas, are they not his brothers?"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 13, "verse": "56", "text": "and his sisters, don't they live just by us? how came he then by all this?"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 13, "verse": "57", "text": "and they were scandaliz'd at him, but Jesus said to them, a prophet is not without honour, except in his own country and in his own family."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 13, "verse": "58", "text": "and he did not many miracles there, because of their incredulity."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 14, "verse": "1", "text": "At that time Herod the tetrarch heard of the fame of Jesus,"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 14, "verse": "2", "text": "and said to his servants, this is John the baptist, he is risen from the dead, and consequently is invested with miraculous power."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 14, "verse": "3", "text": "for Herod having secur'd John, bound him, and put him in prison to please Herodias, his brother Philip's wife."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 14, "verse": "4", "text": "for John had said to him, it is not lawful for thee to have her."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 14, "verse": "5", "text": "he would have put him to death, but for fear of the people, who reckoned him a prophet."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 14, "verse": "6", "text": "but when Herod's birth-day was kept, the daughter of Herodias danced in publick, and made such an impression upon Herod,"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 14, "verse": "7", "text": "that he promised her upon oath, to give whatever she should ask;"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 14, "verse": "8", "text": "who being before instructed by her mother, pray, said she, order John Baptist's head to be brought here in a charger."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 14, "verse": "9", "text": "and the king relented: nevertheless out of regard to the oath, and to those who sat with him at table, he commanded it to be brought to her."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 14, "verse": "10", "text": "and pursuant to order, John was beheaded in the prison,"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 14, "verse": "11", "text": "whence his head was brought in a charger, and given to the young lady, who carried it to her mother."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 14, "verse": "12", "text": "upon which, his disciples came to take away the body, and having buried it, they went to tell Jesus what had happened. The Feeding of the Five Thousand ( Mark 6:30–44 ; Luke 9:10–17 ; John 6:1–15 )"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 14, "verse": "13", "text": "When Jesus heard that, he embark'd, to retire privately to a desert place: of which the people being inform'd, they followed him on foot out of the cities."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 14, "verse": "14", "text": "as Jesus landed, he saw a great multitude, and was touch'd with compassion towards them, and healed their sick."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 14, "verse": "15", "text": "At evening his disciples came to him, saying, this is a desert place, and dinner-time is now past; send the multitude away, that they may go to buy themselves provisions in the villages."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 14, "verse": "16", "text": "but Jesus said to them, that's needless, let them eat what you have."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 14, "verse": "17", "text": "we have nothing here, said they, but five loaves, and two fishes."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 14, "verse": "18", "text": "bring them hither, said he."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 14, "verse": "19", "text": "then giving orders for the company to sit down on the grass, he took the five loaves, and the two fishes, and looking up to heaven, he gave thanks; then breaking the loaves into pieces, he gave them to his disciples, and the disciples to the company: who all of them eat,"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 14, "verse": "20", "text": "and were filled: and they carried away twelve baskets full of fragments that were left."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 14, "verse": "21", "text": "now they that had eaten, were about five thousand men, beside women and children. Jesus Walks on Water ( Mark 6:45–52 ; John 6:16–21 )"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 14, "verse": "22", "text": "Presently after Jesus obliged his disciples to embark, and cross over to the other side before him, whilst he dismiss'd the people."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 14, "verse": "23", "text": "and when he had dismiss'd them, he retired by himself to a mountain to pray: where he stay'd all alone till the latter part of the evening."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 14, "verse": "24", "text": "by this time the vessel was half sea over, violently toss'd with the waves, for the wind was contrary."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 14, "verse": "25", "text": "at the dawn of day, Jesus came to them walking on the sea."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 14, "verse": "26", "text": "the disciples seeing him walking on the sea, cry'd out in a fright, an apparition; and they scream'd for fear."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 14, "verse": "27", "text": "but Jesus immediately call'd to them, take courage, said he, it is I, don't be afraid."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 14, "verse": "28", "text": "Peter answered, Lord, said he, if it be you, bid me come upon the water to you."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 14, "verse": "29", "text": "Jesus said, come, and Peter getting out of the ship, walk'd on the water to go to Jesus."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 14, "verse": "30", "text": "but finding the wind boisterous, he was afraid: and beginning to sink, cried out, Lord, save me."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 14, "verse": "31", "text": "immediately Jesus stretched out his hand, and caught him, diffident man, said he, why were you in suspence?"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 14, "verse": "32", "text": "and when they were come into the ship, the wind ceased."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 14, "verse": "33", "text": "then they that were in the ship, came and worshipped him, saying, of a truth thou art the son of God. Jesus Heals at Gennesaret ( Mark 6:53–56 )"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 14, "verse": "34", "text": "When they were over, they came into the territory of Gennesaret."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 14, "verse": "35", "text": "where being known by the people of that place, they sent about all that country, and presented to him all that were diseased,"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 14, "verse": "36", "text": "praying him to let them only touch the hem of his garment: and as many as touch'd it were made perfectly whole."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 15, "verse": "1", "text": "Then the Scribes and Pharisees, who were of Jerusalem, came to him and said,"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 15, "verse": "2", "text": "why do your disciples violate the tradition of our ancestors, in not washing their hands when they eat bread?"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 15, "verse": "3", "text": "but he answered them, why do you violate the law of God to follow your tradition?"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 15, "verse": "4", "text": "for this is a commandment of God, \"honour thy father and mother; and, he that curses father or mother, let him be punish'd with death.\""}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 15, "verse": "5", "text": "but your doctrine is this, if any man declares to his father or mother, that whatever he has to give for their relief is dedicated to the temple; he is not oblig'd to regard his father or his mother."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 15, "verse": "6", "text": "thus have ye disannull'd the commandment of God by your tradition."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 15, "verse": "7", "text": "the prophecy of Esaias exactly suits such hypocrites as you;"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 15, "verse": "8", "text": "\"this people, says he, draw nigh to me, they honour me with their lips: while their hearts are far from me."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 15, "verse": "9", "text": "but in vain they worship me, teaching for doctrines the institutions of men.\" What Defiles a Man ( Mark 7:14–23 )"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 15, "verse": "10", "text": "Then he called the multitude and said to them, hear and understand."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 15, "verse": "11", "text": "that which entereth by the mouth is not what defiles a man: but what defiles the man is that which is discharged by the mouth."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 15, "verse": "12", "text": "Thereupon his disciples drawing nigh, said, did you observe, how the Pharisees were scandalized at your discourse?"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 15, "verse": "13", "text": "but he answered, every plantation which my heavenly father hath not planted shall be rooted up."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 15, "verse": "14", "text": "let them alone: they are blind leaders of the blind, now if the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 15, "verse": "15", "text": "then Peter said to him, tell us the meaning of that expression."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 15, "verse": "16", "text": "and Jesus said, are ye also yet without understanding?"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 15, "verse": "17", "text": "do not ye yet conceive, that whatever enters at the mouth, passes to the belly, and is discharged downwards?"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 15, "verse": "18", "text": "but what proceeds out of the mouth, is deriv'd from the heart, and that defiles the man."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 15, "verse": "19", "text": "out of the heart proceed evil designs, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false testimony, slanders."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 15, "verse": "20", "text": "these are the things which defile a man: but to eat without washing one's hands, that does not defile a man. The Faith of the Canaanite Woman ( Mark 7:24–30 )"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 15, "verse": "21", "text": "Then Jesus went thence, and retir'd towards the district of Tyre and Sidon."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 15, "verse": "22", "text": "and there came a woman of Canaan from those quarters, and cried out to him, have mercy on me, O Lord, thou son of David; my daughter is grievously tormented by a demon."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 15, "verse": "23", "text": "but Jesus not making her any answer, his disciples came and entreated him to grant her request; for, said they, she is very importunate with us."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 15, "verse": "24", "text": "but he answered, my commission was only to the lost sheep of the house of Israel."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 15, "verse": "25", "text": "however she advanc'd, and throwing her self at his feet, cried, O Lord, assist me."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 15, "verse": "26", "text": "but he answered, it is not just to take the childrens bread, and throw it to puppies."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 15, "verse": "27", "text": "'tis true, Lord, said she: yet even puppies eat of the crumbs which fall from their master's table."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 15, "verse": "28", "text": "then Jesus answered her, O woman, great is thy faith: as you desire, be it done, and her daughter was healed from that very hour. The Feeding of the Four Thousand ( Mark 8:1–10 )"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 15, "verse": "29", "text": "Jesus having left that place, drew nigh to the sea of Galilee, and went up a mountain, where he sat down."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 15, "verse": "30", "text": "there a great crowd of people came to him, bringing with them the lame, blind, dumb, maimed, and many others, and laid them down at Jesus feet, and he healed them:"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 15, "verse": "31", "text": "insomuch that the people wondred when they perceived the dumb to speak, the maimed to be heal'd, the lame to walk, and the blind to see: and they glorified the God of Israel."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 15, "verse": "32", "text": "Then Jesus called his disciples, and said to them, I am concern'd for this people; they have attended me now three days, without eating: I will not send them away fasting, lest they saint by the way, but his disciples said to him,"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 15, "verse": "33", "text": "how can we get bread enough in the desert to satisfy such a multitude?"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 15, "verse": "34", "text": "Jesus asked, how many loaves have ye? they reply'd, seven, and a few small fish."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 15, "verse": "35", "text": "and he bid the people sit down on the ground."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 15, "verse": "36", "text": "then taking the seven loaves, and the fish, he gave thanks, and distributed them, by pieces, to his disciples, and the disciples to the multitude."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 15, "verse": "37", "text": "so that they all eat, and were satiated: the superfluous fragments they carried off, amounting to seven baskets full:"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 15, "verse": "38", "text": "though the guests were to the number of four thousand men, beside women and children."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 15, "verse": "39", "text": "then dismissing the multitude, he embark'd, and came to the coast of Magada."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 16, "verse": "1", "text": "Then the Pharisees and the Sadducees came, with a captious design, and desired him to show them some miracle in the sky."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 16, "verse": "2", "text": "but he answered them, in the evening you foretel fair weather: when the sky is of a bright red."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 16, "verse": "3", "text": "and in the morning, a foul day: when the sky is of a dusky red, hypocrites, can ye judge of the appearance of the sky, and yet not discern the signs of these times?"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 16, "verse": "4", "text": "a wicked degenerate race demand a miracle; but no miracle shall they have beside that of the prophet Jonas, and so leaving them, he went away. The Leaven of the Pharisees and Sadducees ( Mark 8:14–21 ; Luke 12:1–3 )"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 16, "verse": "5", "text": "Now at their departure to go to the other side, his disciples had forgot to take bread."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 16, "verse": "6", "text": "and Jesus said to them, have a care of the leaven of the Pharisees, and of the Sadducees."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 16, "verse": "7", "text": "upon which they said to one another, this comes from our not taking any bread."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 16, "verse": "8", "text": "which Jesus perceiving, he said, distrustful men, why do ye trouble your heads about forgetting the bread?"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 16, "verse": "9", "text": "where's your understanding? don't you remember the five loaves among five thousand and how many baskets ye took away?"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 16, "verse": "10", "text": "nor the seven loaves among the four thousand, and how many baskets ye carried away?"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 16, "verse": "11", "text": "why, can't you perceive, that in cautioning you to beware of the leaven of the Pharisees, and of the Sadducees, I did not speak of bread?"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 16, "verse": "12", "text": "then they perceived, he did not caution them against the leaven of bread, but against the Pharisaick and Sadducean doctrine. Peter’s Confession of Christ ( Mark 8:27–30 ; Luke 9:18–20 ; John 6:67–71 )"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 16, "verse": "13", "text": "As Jesus was going to the district of Cesarea-Philippi, he asked his disciples, what do people say of me? that I am a common man?"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 16, "verse": "14", "text": "they replied, some think you are John the Baptist, some Elias, and others Jeremias, or one of the prophets."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 16, "verse": "15", "text": "but what, said he, do you take me to be?"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 16, "verse": "16", "text": "Simon Peter made answer, thou art Christ the son of the living God."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 16, "verse": "17", "text": "to whom Jesus reply'd, blessed art thou Simon, son of Jona: for 'tis not man that hath revealed this unto thee, but my father who is in heaven."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 16, "verse": "18", "text": "and I tell thee likewise, that thou art Peter, and upon this rock I will hereafter build my church: and death shall not prevail against it."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 16, "verse": "19", "text": "and I will give you the keys of the gospel-kingdom: and whatsoever thou shalt bind on earth, shall be bound in heaven: and whatsoever thou shalt loose on earth, shall be loosed in heaven."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 16, "verse": "20", "text": "Then he charged his disciples not to tell any man that he was the Christ. Christ’s Passion Foretold ( Mark 8:31–33 ; Luke 9:21–22 )"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 16, "verse": "21", "text": "from that time began Jesus to let his disciples know that he should go to Jerusalem, there suffer many indignities from the senators, chief priests, and scribes, be put to death, and be raised again the third day."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 16, "verse": "22", "text": "then Peter taking him aside, began to expostulate with him, saying, God forbid, Sir, this should ever happen to you."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 16, "verse": "23", "text": "but he frown'd upon Peter, and said, out of my sight pernicious obstacle to my designs; your views are all worldly, regardless of what is divine. Take Up Your Cross ( Mark 8:34–38 ; Luke 9:23–27 )"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 16, "verse": "24", "text": "Then addressing himself to his disciples, if any man, said he, would follow me, let him renounce himself, take up his cross, and so follow me."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 16, "verse": "25", "text": "for whosoever will save himself, shall be a looser: and whosoever shall suffer loss for my sake, shall be a gainer."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 16, "verse": "26", "text": "what advantage is it to a man to gain the whole world at the price of his life? or what would not a man pay down to preserve his life?"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 16, "verse": "27", "text": "for the son of man shall come in the glory of his father, with his angels; and then shall be make retribution to every man according to his works."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 16, "verse": "28", "text": "I declare unto you, some are here present, who shall not die, till they have seen the son of man enter into his kingdom."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 17, "verse": "1", "text": "After six days, Jesus took Peter, James, and John his brother, in private to the top of a high mountain."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 17, "verse": "2", "text": "and was transfigured before them; his face did shine as the sun, and his raiment was white as the light."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 17, "verse": "3", "text": "and presently they saw Moses and Elias conversing with him."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 17, "verse": "4", "text": "then Peter address'd himself to Jesus, Lord, said he, it is good for us to stay here: if you please, let us make three tabernacles here; one for you, one for Moses, and one for Elias."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 17, "verse": "5", "text": "while he was speaking, a bright cloud surrounded them: and suddenly a voice broke out of the cloud, saying, \"this is my beloved son, in whom I am well pleased; hear ye him.\""}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 17, "verse": "6", "text": "and when the disciples heard it, they fell on their face, and were in a terrible fright."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 17, "verse": "7", "text": "but Jesus came and touched them, and said, arise, be not afraid."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 17, "verse": "8", "text": "and when they had lift up their eyes, they saw Jesus all alone."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 17, "verse": "9", "text": "As they went down the mountain, Jesus gave them this charge, don't speak of the vision, said he, to any body, till the son of man be risen again from the dead: but his disciples asked him,"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 17, "verse": "10", "text": "why then do the Scribes say, that Elias must first come?"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 17, "verse": "11", "text": "Jesus answered, 'tis true, Elias was to come first and set all things right."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 17, "verse": "12", "text": "but I tell you, that Elias is already come, tho' they knew him not, but treated him in an arbitrary manner; with such usage as the son of man shall likewise suffer at their hands."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 17, "verse": "13", "text": "then the disciples perceiv'd, that what he said was meant of John the Baptist. The Boy with a Demon ( Mark 9:14–29 ; Luke 9:37–42 )"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 17, "verse": "14", "text": "And when they were come to the multitude, a man came kneeling to him, and cry'd,"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 17, "verse": "15", "text": "Lord, have mercy on my son, for he is grievously afflicted with the epilepsy; he often falls into the fire, and frequently into the water."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 17, "verse": "16", "text": "I presented him to your disciples, but they could not cure him."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 17, "verse": "17", "text": "upon which Jesus answered, incredulous and perverse generation, how long shall I be with you? how long shall I suffer you?"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 17, "verse": "18", "text": "bring him hither to me, and Jesus rebuked the demon, and he departed out of him: so that the child was cured from that very hour. The Power of Faith ( Luke 17:5–10 )"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 17, "verse": "19", "text": "then came the disciples to Jesus in private, and said, why could not we cast him out?"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 17, "verse": "20", "text": "because of your incredulity, said Jesus: for I tell you truly, if ye had ever so little faith, ye might say to this mountain, remove hence to yonder place, and it should remove; and nothing would be too difficult for you."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 17, "verse": "21", "text": "however, such a distemper is not to be removed but by prayer and fasting. The Second Prediction of the Passion ( Mark 9:30–32 ; Luke 9:43–45 )"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 17, "verse": "22", "text": "Some time after, while they were in Galilee, Jesus said to them, the son of man will be betrayed into the hands of men:"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 17, "verse": "23", "text": "they will kill him, but the third day he shall be raised again, at which they were exceeding sorry. The Temple Tax"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 17, "verse": "24", "text": "And when they were come to Capernaum, they that received tribute for the temple came to Peter, and said, does not your master pay tribute?"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 17, "verse": "25", "text": "he said, yes, and when he was come into the house, Jesus prevented him, saying, what think you Simon? of whom do the kings of the earth take custom or tribute? of their own children, or of others?"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 17, "verse": "26", "text": "Peter said, of others. Jesus answered, then are the children free."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 17, "verse": "27", "text": "however, lest we should give offence, go you to the sea, throw in a book, and take the first fish that strikes: then open its jaws, and you will find a piece of money: that take, and give it to them for me and thee."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 18, "verse": "1", "text": "At the same time came the disciples to Jesus, saying, who is to be the greatest in the kingdom of the Messiah?"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 18, "verse": "2", "text": "and Jesus called a child to him, set him in the midst of them,"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 18, "verse": "3", "text": "and said, I declare to you, except ye lay aside your ambition, and become as children, ye shall not enter into the kingdom of the Messias."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 18, "verse": "4", "text": "he therefore who shall become as void of ambition as this child, he shall be greatest in the kingdom of the Messiah."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 18, "verse": "5", "text": "and whoever shall receive one that is like such a child, in my name, receiveth me. Temptations and Trespasses ( Mark 9:42–48 ; Luke 17:1–4 )"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 18, "verse": "6", "text": "But whoever shall occasion such an humble believer to fall off from the faith, it were better for him that a mill-stone were hang'd about his neck, and that he were plung'd to the bottom of the sea."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 18, "verse": "7", "text": "wo unto the world, because of such scandals: tho' it cannot be, but that such occasions of relapsing should happen: yet wo to that man by whom the scandal cometh."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 18, "verse": "8", "text": "wherefore if thy hand or thy foot occasions thee to relapse, lop them off, and cast them away: it is better for thee to enter into life halt or maimed, rather than having two hands or two feet, to be cast into everlasting fire."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 18, "verse": "9", "text": "and if thine eye occasions thee to relapse, pluck it out, and cast it from thee: it is better for thee to enter into life with one eye, rather than having two to be cast into hell-fire. The Parable of the Lost Sheep ( Luke 15:1–7 )"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 18, "verse": "10", "text": "take care not to despise one of such an humble disposition: for I tell you, that in heaven their angels are continually attending the presence of my father who is in heaven:"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 18, "verse": "11", "text": "from whence the son of man is come, in order to save those that were lost."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 18, "verse": "12", "text": "If a man has an hundred sheep, and one of them should go astray, do you think he would not leave the ninety and nine in the mountains, and go in search for that which was gone astray?"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 18, "verse": "13", "text": "and if he happen to find it, you may be sure he is more affected with that one, than with the ninety and nine which went not astray."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 18, "verse": "14", "text": "in like manner your heavenly father would not that any person of such humility should be lost. A Brother Who Sins"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 18, "verse": "15", "text": "Now in case such a brother do you an injury, go and expostulate with him in private: if he repents, thou hast saved thy brother."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 18, "verse": "16", "text": "but if he will not hear thee, then take with thee one or two more, that the remonstrances of two or three persons may have its effect."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 18, "verse": "17", "text": "if he does not relent, tell it to the church: but if he is not moved by the church, show him no more regard than you would to a pagan or a publican."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 18, "verse": "18", "text": "I declare unto you, \"whatever things ye disallow on earth, are disallow'd by heaven: and whatever ye authorize on earth, are authoriz'd by heaven.\" Ask in My Name ( John 16:23–33 )"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 18, "verse": "19", "text": "I assure you, that if two of you shall live in agreement together, whatever they ask shall be granted to them by my heavenly father."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 18, "verse": "20", "text": "for where two or three are assembled in my name, there am I in the midst of them. The Unforgiving Servant ( Romans 12:14–21 )"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 18, "verse": "21", "text": "Then Peter advancing to him, said, Lord, if my brother injures me, how many injuries must I forgive him? must I forgive him seven?"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 18, "verse": "22", "text": "Jesus answered, I tell thee not only seven: but seventy times seven."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 18, "verse": "23", "text": "In this respect the gospel-kingdom may be represented by that of a temporal prince, who had a mind to call his servants to account."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 18, "verse": "24", "text": "when he had begun to reckon, one was brought to him indebted the sum of ten thousand talents."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 18, "verse": "25", "text": "but being insolvent, his lord gave orders that he, with his wife, and children, and all that he had, should be sold for payment."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 18, "verse": "26", "text": "the servant therefore fell prostrate before him, and cry'd out, Lord, allow me but time and I will pay the whole."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 18, "verse": "27", "text": "upon which the lord of that vassal, touch'd with compassion, gave him his liberty, and discharged him of the debt."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 18, "verse": "28", "text": "but this very servant presently after met with one of his fellow-servants, who owed him an hundred pence: and violently seizing him, said, pay me the debt."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 18, "verse": "29", "text": "and his fellow-servant fell at his feet, and embraced him, saying, allow me time, and I will pay thee all."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 18, "verse": "30", "text": "which he would not allow: but immediately threw him into prison, till he should pay the debt."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 18, "verse": "31", "text": "his fellow-servants upon seeing this were very much concern'd, and went to acquaint their master with what had pass'd."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 18, "verse": "32", "text": "then his lord order'd him to be call'd, and said to him, O thou wicked slave, I forgave thee all thy debt, upon your request:"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 18, "verse": "33", "text": "should not you then have had the like compassion for thy fellow servant as I had for thee?"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 18, "verse": "34", "text": "so that his lord in great displeasure delivered him to the jayler till he should pay the whole debt."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 18, "verse": "35", "text": "in the same manner will my heavenly father likewise treat you, if ye do not sincerely forgive every one the trespasses of his brother."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 19, "verse": "1", "text": "When Jesus had finished these discourses, he departed from Galilee, and came into the confines of Judea, on the other side Jordan:"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 19, "verse": "2", "text": "where multitudes of people followed him, and he healed their sick."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 19, "verse": "3", "text": "The Pharisees likewise came to him, and maliciously propos'd this question, may a man lawfully put away his wife at discretion?"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 19, "verse": "4", "text": "and he answered them, have ye not read, that when the creator, at the beginning, made male and female,"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 19, "verse": "5", "text": "he said, \"for this cause shall a man leave father and mother, and be attach'd to his wife: and they two shall be one flesh?\""}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 19, "verse": "6", "text": "so that they are not now two, but one, what therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 19, "verse": "7", "text": "why then, said they, did Moses permit to give a writ of divorce to repudiate the wife?"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 19, "verse": "8", "text": "he answer'd them, 'twas because of your perverse temper that Moses suffered you to repudiate your wives: but from the beginning this was not in practice."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 19, "verse": "9", "text": "and I tell you, that whoever shall put away his wife, except it be for adultery, and shall marry another, he committeth adultery: and whoso marrieth her that is put away, causeth her to commit adultery."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 19, "verse": "10", "text": "thereupon his disciples said, if the case between man and wife be such, it is best not to marry."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 19, "verse": "11", "text": "but he reply'd, 'tis not everyman can live single, but only such as have the gift of continency."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 19, "verse": "12", "text": "as there are some eunuchs, who were such from their very birth: and others who were made such by men: so there are some who have made themselves eunuchs for the sake of religion, he that can bear the state of celibacy, let him bear it. Jesus Blesses the Children ( Mark 10:13–16 ; Luke 18:15–17 )"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 19, "verse": "13", "text": "Then they brought children to him in order to have his blessing: and the disciples rebuked them."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 19, "verse": "14", "text": "but Jesus said, let the children alone, and don't hinder them from coming to me: for of such does the gospel-kingdom consist."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 19, "verse": "15", "text": "and he laid his hands upon them, and departed thence. The Rich Young Man ( Mark 10:17–31 ; Luke 18:18–30 )"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 19, "verse": "16", "text": "Immediately one came near him, saying, good master, what good shall I do, to obtain eternal life?"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 19, "verse": "17", "text": "and he said to him, why do you stile me good? there is but one that is good, that is God, but if you would enter into life, keep the commandments."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 19, "verse": "18", "text": "he reply'd, which? Jesus said, \"thou shalt do no murder, thou shalt not commit adultery, thou shalt not steal, thou shalt not bear false witness,"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 19, "verse": "19", "text": "honour thy father and thy mother: and, thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.\""}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 19, "verse": "20", "text": "the young man answer'd, all these things have I practis'd from my youth: what is it that is further required?"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 19, "verse": "21", "text": "Jesus said, if thou wilt be perfect, go sell your estate, give the value to the poor, and you shall have treasure in heaven: then come and follow me."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 19, "verse": "22", "text": "but when the young man heard that, he went away dejected: for he had great possessions."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 19, "verse": "23", "text": "then said Jesus to his disciples, I declare unto you, it will be difficult for a rich man to enter into the gospel kingdom."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 19, "verse": "24", "text": "I tell you again, it is easier for a cable to go through the eye of a needle, than for a rich man to enter into the divine kingdom."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 19, "verse": "25", "text": "when his disciples heard this, they were exceedingly amazed, saying, who then can be saved?"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 19, "verse": "26", "text": "but Jesus looking at them, said, however impracticable this is to men, all things are possible to God."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 19, "verse": "27", "text": "Then said Peter, but we, who have left every thing to follow thee; what advantage shall we get by it?"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 19, "verse": "28", "text": "Jesus reply'd, I declare unto you, that in the new age, when the son of man shall sit in the throne of his glory, ye that have followed me shall likewise sit upon twelve thrones, judging the twelve tribes of Israel."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 19, "verse": "29", "text": "and every one that abandons his family, his brothers, or sisters, or father, or mother, or wife, or children, or lands for my sake, shall receive in that age an hundred times the value, and shall inherit hereafter everlasting life."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 19, "verse": "30", "text": "but many that are first shall be last; and the last shall be first."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 20, "verse": "1", "text": "For the kingdom of the Messiah is like a family, the master whereof went out early in the morning to hire labourers for his vineyard."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 20, "verse": "2", "text": "having agreed with them for a penny a day, he sent them to his vineyard."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 20, "verse": "3", "text": "he went out about the third hour, and saw others standing idle in the market-place, and said to them,"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 20, "verse": "4", "text": "go ye likewise to my vineyard, and I will give you what is reasonable: accordingly they went thither."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 20, "verse": "5", "text": "about the sixth and ninth hour he went out again, and gave the like directions."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 20, "verse": "6", "text": "at last, about the eleventh hour he went out, and found others standing idle, and said to them, why do you stand idling thus all day long?"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 20, "verse": "7", "text": "they answer'd him, because we are not hired; go work then, said he, in my vineyard, and I will give you what's reasonable."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 20, "verse": "8", "text": "so when even was come, the master of the vineyard said to his steward, call the labourers, and give them their hire, beginning from the last to the first."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 20, "verse": "9", "text": "they then that were hired about the eleventh hour, came and received every man his penny."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 20, "verse": "10", "text": "last of all they came who were hired first, expecting to have received more, but they had only a penny a man,"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 20, "verse": "11", "text": "who upon the receipt of it fell a murmuring against the master, and cry'd,"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 20, "verse": "12", "text": "these last have work'd but an hour, and you put them upon the level with us, who have born the whole fatigue and heat of the day."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 20, "verse": "13", "text": "but he answered one of them, friend, I do thee no wrong: did not you agree for a penny a day?"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 20, "verse": "14", "text": "take your due, and be gone: I will give the last the same I give you."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 20, "verse": "15", "text": "can't I do what I will with my own? because I am bountiful, are you invidious?"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 20, "verse": "16", "text": "thus the last shall be first, and the first last: for though many are invited, few have precedence. The Third Prediction of the Passion ( Mark 10:32–34 ; Luke 18:31–34 )"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 20, "verse": "17", "text": "As Jesus was on the way to Jerusalem, he took the twelve disciples in private, and said to them,"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 20, "verse": "18", "text": "we are now going to Jerusalem, where the son of man will be betrayed to the chief priests, and to the Scribes, who will condemn him to die,"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 20, "verse": "19", "text": "and deliver him up to the Gentiles, to be insulted, scourged, and crucified: but the third day he shall rise again. A Mother’s Request ( Mark 10:35–45 )"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 20, "verse": "20", "text": "Then the mother of Zebedee's children, with her two sons, came and threw herself at his feet, desiring a favour of him."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 20, "verse": "21", "text": "and he said to her, what would you have? grant, said she, when you are upon the throne, that these my two sons may sit, the one on thy right hand, and the other on the left."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 20, "verse": "22", "text": "but Jesus answered them, ye know not what ye ask, can ye bear to drink of the cup that I shall drink of, and to be baptized with the baptism that I am baptized with? they said to him, we can."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 20, "verse": "23", "text": "he replied, ye shall indeed drink of my cup, and be baptized with the baptism that I am baptized with: but to sit on my right hand, and on my left, I cannot grant to any but those whom my father has destin'd thereto."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 20, "verse": "24", "text": "upon hearing this, the other ten disciples were moved with indignation against the two brothers."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 20, "verse": "25", "text": "but Jesus calling them to him, said, ye know that the princes of the Gentiles exercise arbitrary dominion over them, and they that are great exercise their authority."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 20, "verse": "26", "text": "but it must not be so among you: on the contrary, whoever would rise among you, let him be your minister."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 20, "verse": "27", "text": "and whoever would be chief among you, let him be your servant."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 20, "verse": "28", "text": "as the son of man came not to be ministred unto, but to minister, and to give his life a ransom for all. The Blind Men by the Road ( Mark 10:46–52 ; Luke 18:35–43 )"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 20, "verse": "29", "text": "At their departure from Jericho, a great multitude followed him."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 20, "verse": "30", "text": "and there were two blind men sitting by the way-side, who hearing that Jesus was passing by, cried out, \"have mercy on us, O Lord, thou son of David.\""}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 20, "verse": "31", "text": "and the people reprimanded them, to make them hold their tongue: but they bawl'd out the more, have mercy on us, O Lord, thou son of David."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 20, "verse": "32", "text": "then Jesus stood still, and calling them, said, what would ye have me do for you?"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 20, "verse": "33", "text": "they said to him, grant Lord that we may have sight."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 20, "verse": "34", "text": "Jesus then having compassion on them, touched their eyes: and immediately they had their sight, and they followed him."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 21, "verse": "1", "text": "When they drew nigh to Jerusalem, and were come to Bepthphage, to the mount of Olives, Jesus dispatched two disciples,"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 21, "verse": "2", "text": "saying, go to yonder village, and you will immediately find an ass tied, and a colt with her: loose them, and bring them to me."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 21, "verse": "3", "text": "if any man oppose you, say, the Lord wants them; and then he will send them."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 21, "verse": "4", "text": "all this was done, that it might be fulfilled which was spoken by the prophet,"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 21, "verse": "5", "text": "saying, \" tell ye the daughter of Sion, behold, thy king cometh unto thee, meek, and sitting on an ass, even a colt, the fole of an ass.\""}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 21, "verse": "6", "text": "and the disciples went, and having done as Jesus commanded them,"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 21, "verse": "7", "text": "they brought the ass with the colt, threw their clothes on them, and mounted him thereon:"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 21, "verse": "8", "text": "abundance of people spread their garments upon the ground; others lop'd down branches from the trees, and strewed them in the way:"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 21, "verse": "9", "text": "while the crowd that were marching before, and behind, cried out, \"Hosanna to the son of David: blessed is he that cometh in the name of the Lord, Hosanna, Hosanna.\""}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 21, "verse": "10", "text": "and when he was come into Jerusalem, all the city was in an uproar, saying, who is this?"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 21, "verse": "11", "text": "and the crowd said, 'tis Jesus the prophet of Nazareth in Galilee. Jesus Cleanses the Temple ( Mark 11:15–19 ; Luke 19:45–48 ; John 2:12–25 )"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 21, "verse": "12", "text": "Then Jesus entered into the temple of God, drove out all those that sold and bought in the temple, overthrew the tables of the money-changers, and the stalls of those that sold doves,"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 21, "verse": "13", "text": "and said to them, it is written, \" my house shall be the house of prayer, but ye have made it a den of thieves.\""}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 21, "verse": "14", "text": "Then the blind and the lame came to him in the temple, and he healed them:"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 21, "verse": "15", "text": "but when the chief priests and Scribes saw the wonders that he did, and the young people crying in the temple, \"Hosanna to the son of David;\" they were full of indignation."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 21, "verse": "16", "text": "and said to him, do you hear what they say? yes, said Jesus; have ye never read, \"out of the mouth of babes and sucklings I will make a consort of praise?\""}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 21, "verse": "17", "text": "then leaving them, he went out of the city to Bethany, where he stay'd that night. The Barren Fig Tree ( Mark 11:12–14 ; Mark 11:20–25 )"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 21, "verse": "18", "text": "In the morning as he returned into the city, he was a hungry."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 21, "verse": "19", "text": "when seeing a fig-tree by the way, he came to it, and finding nothing thereon, but bare leaves, said to it, may you never more bear fruit, and presently the fig-tree withered away."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 21, "verse": "20", "text": "upon which the disciples said to one another, much surpriz'd, how came the fig-tree to wither away so suddenly?"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 21, "verse": "21", "text": "Jesus answered them, I declare to you, if ye have a full assurance of faith, ye shall not only be able to do this to a fig-tree, but if ye should even say to this mountain, be thou removed, and cast into the sea; it should be done."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 21, "verse": "22", "text": "and whatever ye shall ask in prayer, with faith, ye shall receive. Jesus’ Authority Challenged ( Mark 11:27–33 ; Luke 20:1–8 )"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 21, "verse": "23", "text": "When he was come into the temple, the chief priests and the magistrates came to him as he was teaching, and said, by what authority dost thou these things? and who gave thee this authority?"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 21, "verse": "24", "text": "and Jesus answered them, let me ask you one question, if ye answer me that, I shall likewise satisfy you by what authority I do these things."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 21, "verse": "25", "text": "the baptism of John, whence was it? was it a divine or a human Institution? and they reasoned thus with themselves, if we say, it was divine; he will say, then, why did ye not believe him?"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 21, "verse": "26", "text": "but if we say, it was merely human, we are obnoxious to the people; for all hold John as a prophet."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 21, "verse": "27", "text": "so they made answer, we cannot tell, and Jesus said, neither shall I tell you, by what authority I do these things. The Parable of the Two Sons"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 21, "verse": "28", "text": "But what do you think of this? a man had two sons, and coming to the first, he said, son, go, work to-day in my vineyard."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 21, "verse": "29", "text": "I won't, said he: but afterward be chang'd his mind, and went."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 21, "verse": "30", "text": "then he came to the other, and bid him do the same, and he answered, yes, sir; but went not."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 21, "verse": "31", "text": "which of the two obey'd his father? they said, the first. Jesus reply'd, I declare to you, that the publicans and licentious people enter into the gospel kingdom before you."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 21, "verse": "32", "text": "for John instructed you in the way of righteousness, and ye believed him not: but the publicans and the licentious believed him, and tho' you saw that, you did not yet repent, so as to believe him. The Parable of the Wicked Tenants ( Mark 12:1–12 ; Luke 20:9–18 )"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 21, "verse": "33", "text": "Hear another parable: a certain landlord planted a vineyard, hedged it round, set up a wine-press in it, and built a tower, then lett it out to tenants, and went into a foreign country."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 21, "verse": "34", "text": "and when the fruit-season came on, he sent his servants to the tenants, to receive the fruits of it."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 21, "verse": "35", "text": "but they seiz'd his servants, beat some, killed one, and stoned another."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 21, "verse": "36", "text": "then he sent a greater number of servants, than at first: who met with the same treatment."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 21, "verse": "37", "text": "but last of all, he sent his son, saying, they will reverence my son."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 21, "verse": "38", "text": "but when the tenants saw the son, they said among themselves, this is the heir, come, let us kill him, and then seize on his inheritance."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 21, "verse": "39", "text": "so seizing upon him, they turn'd him out of the vineyard, and slew him."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 21, "verse": "40", "text": "when the master therefore of the vineyard comes, what will he do to those tenants?"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 21, "verse": "41", "text": "they answered, he will give those wretches no quarter, and will let out his vineyard to such as shall duly account for the profits thereof."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 21, "verse": "42", "text": "Jesus reply'd, did ye never read in the scriptures, \" that very stone which the builders rejected, is become the principal stone of the angle, this the Lord effected, and it is marvellous in our eyes.\""}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 21, "verse": "43", "text": "wherefore I declare to you, the gospel dispensation shall be taken from you, and given to a nation that shall make a proper use thereof."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 21, "verse": "44", "text": "and whosoever shall stumble at this stone, shall be broken: but on whomsoever it shall fall, he shall be entirely crush'd."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 21, "verse": "45", "text": "When the chief priests and Pharisees had heard his parables, they perceived that he meant them."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 21, "verse": "46", "text": "and they endeavoured to seize him, but were afraid of the multitude, because they took him for a prophet."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 22, "verse": "1", "text": "And Jesus continued to speak to them in parables, and said,"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 22, "verse": "2", "text": "the kingdom of the Messiah is such, as when a certain king made a wedding-feast for his son."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 22, "verse": "3", "text": "he sent out his servants to call those that were invited to the wedding: but they would not come."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 22, "verse": "4", "text": "then he sent out other servants, saying, tell those who are invited, I have prepared my dinner: my oxen and my fatlings are killed, and every thing is ready: come to the entertainment."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 22, "verse": "5", "text": "but instead of showing any regard, they went their ways, one to his farm, another to his traffick."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 22, "verse": "6", "text": "others seiz'd his servants, outrageously abused them, and slew them."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 22, "verse": "7", "text": "when the king was informed of this, he was greatly incensed, and having order'd his forces to march, he put those murderers to death, and laid their city in ashes."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 22, "verse": "8", "text": "then he said to his servants, the feast is ready, but they who were invited were very unworthy."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 22, "verse": "9", "text": "go therefore into the high streets, and as many as ye find, invite to the marriage:"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 22, "verse": "10", "text": "accordingly they went about the streets, and assembled all they met indifferently, both good and bad: so that the hall was furnished with guests."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 22, "verse": "11", "text": "but upon the king's coming in to see the guests, he observ'd one there without a wedding garment: and he said to him,"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 22, "verse": "12", "text": "friend, how came you in hither, without a wedding garment? and he was speechless."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 22, "verse": "13", "text": "then said the king to the servants, bind him hand and foot, take him away, and turn him out in the dark: there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 22, "verse": "14", "text": "thus many are called, but few are converted. Paying Taxes to Caesar ( Mark 12:13–17 ; Luke 20:19–26 )"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 22, "verse": "15", "text": "Upon this the Pharisees withdrew, and consulted how they might insnare him in his discourse."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 22, "verse": "16", "text": "they dispatch'd therefore some of their disciples, together with the Herodians, who thus address'd themselves to him; master, we know that you are sincere, and faithfully teach the divine law without fear or flattery: for you have no regard to the outward quality of men."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 22, "verse": "17", "text": "tell us therefore, what is your opinion? is it lawful to pay tribute to Cesar, or no?"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 22, "verse": "18", "text": "but Jesus perceiving their malice, said, why, hypocrites, would you insnare me?"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 22, "verse": "19", "text": "shew me the tribute money, and they brought him a penny."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 22, "verse": "20", "text": "and he said unto them, whose image and inscription is this?"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 22, "verse": "21", "text": "they answer'd, Cesar's, then said he to them, render therefore unto Cesar, the things which are Cesar's: and unto God, the things that are God's."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 22, "verse": "22", "text": "on hearing this, they were filled with admiration, and so leaving him, they went their way. The Sadducees and the Resurrection ( Mark 12:18–27 ; Luke 20:27–40 )"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 22, "verse": "23", "text": "About that time the Sadducees, who say there is no future life, came and propos'd this question,"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 22, "verse": "24", "text": "master, said they, by the law of Moses, in case a man die without children, his brother is oblig'd to marry his wife, in order to perpetuate his brother's name."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 22, "verse": "25", "text": "now there happen'd among us seven brothers, the first married but died without issue, leaving his wife to his brother:"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 22, "verse": "26", "text": "the same happen'd to the second, and the third, and so on to the seventh."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 22, "verse": "27", "text": "last of all the woman died too:"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 22, "verse": "28", "text": "now if there be another life after this, whose wife shall she be of the seven? for they all married her."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 22, "verse": "29", "text": "Jesus answered them, you are mistaken, for want of a true notion of the scriptures, and of the divine power."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 22, "verse": "30", "text": "for in the other life after this, there will be no such thing as marriage; but they will be as the angels of God in heaven."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 22, "verse": "31", "text": "now as to the state of life after death, have ye not read that expression of God himself,"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 22, "verse": "32", "text": "\" I am the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob?\" God is not a benefactor to the dead, but to the living."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 22, "verse": "33", "text": "when the people heard this, they were astonished at his doctrine. The Greatest Commandment ( Mark 12:28–34 )"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 22, "verse": "34", "text": "but the Pharisees hearing that he had dumb-founded the Sadducees, they met together in council."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 22, "verse": "35", "text": "In the mean time one of them, a Doctor of the law, to try him, started this question, master,"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 22, "verse": "36", "text": "which is the most important commandment of the law?"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 22, "verse": "37", "text": "Jesus said to him, \"thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind.\""}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 22, "verse": "38", "text": "this is the first and most important precept,"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 22, "verse": "39", "text": "and the second has an affinity with it, \"thou shalt love thy neighbour as thy self.\""}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 22, "verse": "40", "text": "these two precepts comprehend the substance of all the law and the prophets. Whose Son Is the Christ? ( Mark 12:35–37 ; Luke 20:41–44 )"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 22, "verse": "41", "text": "While the Pharisees were still assembled, Jesus asked them,"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 22, "verse": "42", "text": "what think ye of Christ? whose son is he to be? they answered, David's."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 22, "verse": "43", "text": "how comes it then, said he, that David by inspiration calls him Lord, in these words,"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 22, "verse": "44", "text": "\" the Lord said unto my Lord, sit thou on my right hand, till I make thine enemies thy footstool?\""}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 22, "verse": "45", "text": "why then does David call him Lord, if He be David's son?"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 22, "verse": "46", "text": "but not a man was able to answer him a word, and from that time there was no body so hardy as to ask him any more questions."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 23, "verse": "1", "text": "Then Jesus addressing himself to the people, and to his disciples,"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 23, "verse": "2", "text": "said, the Scribes and the Pharisees sit in Moses's chair."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 23, "verse": "3", "text": "therefore whatever moral precepts they bid you observe, those observe and practise; but don't follow their example: for they preach one thing, and practise another."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 23, "verse": "4", "text": "for they load men with intolerable impositions, and will not take the least pains to ease them of the burthen: they do nothing but out of ostentation,"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 23, "verse": "5", "text": "their phylacterys are broader, and the fringes of their garments are larger than those of others:"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 23, "verse": "6", "text": "they affect the uppermost place at feasts, the principal chair in the synagogues,"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 23, "verse": "7", "text": "to be saluted in publick places, and to have men address to them with the title of Doctor Doctor."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 23, "verse": "8", "text": "But don't you assume that title, for you have but one doctor, who is the Christ; as for you, you are all brethren alike."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 23, "verse": "9", "text": "don't stile any one among you, Father upon earth; for he alone is your father, who is in heaven."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 23, "verse": "10", "text": "neither take the title of masters, for you have but one master, who is the Messias."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 23, "verse": "11", "text": "he that is greatest among you shall be your servant."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 23, "verse": "12", "text": "for whosoever exalts himself, shall be abased; and he that humbles himself, shall be exalted."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 23, "verse": "13", "text": "Wo unto you, Scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites, who prey upon the estates of widows, under the pretext of making long prayers; therefore ye shall be punish'd with the greater severity."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 23, "verse": "14", "text": "wo unto you, Scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites, who shut up the kingdom of heaven against men: for ye not only refuse to go in your selves, but hinder those that would."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 23, "verse": "15", "text": "wo unto you, Scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites, who ransack sea and land to make one proselyte, and when he is gain'd, ye make him deserve Gehenna much more than your selves."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 23, "verse": "16", "text": "wo unto you, ye blind guides, who say, if any man swear by the temple he is under no obligation: but if he swear by the gold of the temple, he is bound by his oath."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 23, "verse": "17", "text": "ye blind fools, which is most sacred, the treasure of the temple, or the temple that makes the treasure sacred?"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 23, "verse": "18", "text": "again, if any one swear by the altar he is under no engagement but if he swear by the gift that is upon it, he is bound thereby."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 23, "verse": "19", "text": "ye blind fools, which is most sacred, the gift, or the altar that makes the gift sacred?"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 23, "verse": "20", "text": "whoever swears by the altar, swears not only by the altar, but by every thing upon it."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 23, "verse": "21", "text": "and whoever swears by the temple, swears by it, and by him that dwelleth therein."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 23, "verse": "22", "text": "and he that swears by heaven, swears by the throne of God, and by him that sitteth thereon."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 23, "verse": "23", "text": "wo unto you, Scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites, who pay tithe of mint, anise, and cummin, but neglect those more important matters of the law, justice, mercy, and fidelity: these were the things ye ought to have practis'd, without neglecting however the other matters."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 23, "verse": "24", "text": "ye blind guides, who strain your liquor for a gnat, and swallow a beetle."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 23, "verse": "25", "text": "wo unto you, Scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites; for ye clean the outside of the cup, and of the plate, but within they are full of rapine and impurity."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 23, "verse": "26", "text": "thou blind Pharisee, cleanse first the inside of the cup and plate, that the outside may be likewise clean."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 23, "verse": "27", "text": "wo unto you, Scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites; for ye are like whited sepulchres, which to outward appearance are fine, but within are full of dead mens bones, and all sort of filth."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 23, "verse": "28", "text": "just so ye put on an air of probity in the sight of men, but within are full of hypocrisy and iniquity."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 23, "verse": "29", "text": "wo unto you, Scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites; because ye build the tombs of the prophets, and garnish the sepulchres of the just,"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 23, "verse": "30", "text": "and say, if we had liv'd in the time of our forefathers, we would not have been accessory with them in shedding the blood of the prophets."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 23, "verse": "31", "text": "whereby you yourselves own that ye are indeed the children of those who killed the prophets,"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 23, "verse": "32", "text": "children that can't fail to fill up the measure of your fathers iniquities."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 23, "verse": "33", "text": "ye serpents, ye brood of vipers, how can ye escape the punishment of Gehenna?"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 23, "verse": "34", "text": "wherefore I shall send you prophets, and wise men, and Scribes; you will kill some, and crucify others, many will ye scourge in your synagogues, and persecute them from city to city."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 23, "verse": "35", "text": "so that you maybe charg'd with all the innocent blood shed upon earth, from the blood of Abel the just, unto the blood of Zacharias, the son of Barachias, whom ye slew between the temple and the altar."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 23, "verse": "36", "text": "I declare unto you, all these things shall befall this generation. Lament over Jerusalem ( Luke 13:31–35 )"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 23, "verse": "37", "text": "O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, who killest the prophets, and stonest them that are sent unto thee, how often would I have gathered thy children together, even as a hen gathereth her chickens under her wings, but ye would not!"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 23, "verse": "38", "text": "know, that your habitation shall be soon turned into a desert."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 23, "verse": "39", "text": "for I tell you, after a while, ye shall not see me again, till ye shall cry out, \"Blessed is he that cometh in the name of the Lord.\""}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 24, "verse": "1", "text": "As Jesus was going from the temple, his disciples came and desired him to take a view of the buildings."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 24, "verse": "2", "text": "Jesus said to them, observe this vast structure, I tell you for certain, there shall not be any part of it left standing, but it shall be all thrown into ruins."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 24, "verse": "3", "text": "And when he was upon the mount of Olives, the disciples came to him in private, and said, tell us when shall these things be? and what shall be the sign of thy coming, and of the end of this age?"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 24, "verse": "4", "text": "Jesus answered them, take care not to be deceived by any one:"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 24, "verse": "5", "text": "for many shall come in my name, saying, I am the Christ: and shall deceive many."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 24, "verse": "6", "text": "ye shall hear likewise of wars, and rumours of wars: take care not to be disturb'd: for these things must happen, but the end of the Jewish age is not yet."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 24, "verse": "7", "text": "for nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be famines, and pestilences, and earthquakes in divers places."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 24, "verse": "8", "text": "yet all this is but the beginning of sorrow. Witnessing to All Nations ( Mark 13:9–13 ; Luke 21:10–19 )"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 24, "verse": "9", "text": "then shall they deliver you up to torments, and to death: and ye shall be hated by all nations upon my account."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 24, "verse": "10", "text": "then shall many relapse, and shall pursue one another with mutual treachery and hatred."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 24, "verse": "11", "text": "many false prophets shall rise, and shall deceive many."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 24, "verse": "12", "text": "and as iniquity becomes more flagrant, the zeal of many will grow cool."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 24, "verse": "13", "text": "but he that shall persevere unto the end, shall be preserved."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 24, "verse": "14", "text": "and this gospel of the kingdom shall be preached in all the world, to testify to all nations, that the end will then come. The Abomination of Desolation ( Mark 13:14–23 ; Luke 21:20–24 )"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 24, "verse": "15", "text": "When ye therefore shall see the abomination of desolation, mention'd by Daniel the prophet, stand about the holy place, (let him that readeth,"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 24, "verse": "16", "text": "consider it well) let those who are then in Judea, flee into the mountains,"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 24, "verse": "17", "text": "he that is on the battlements, let him not venture to go in to take any thing out of his house."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 24, "verse": "18", "text": "if any man be in the field, let him not return back to take his coat."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 24, "verse": "19", "text": "unhappy will they be that are with child, and they that give suck in those days."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 24, "verse": "20", "text": "be sure to pray that your flight be not in the winter, nor on the sabbath-day:"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 24, "verse": "21", "text": "for the desolation will be so dreadful, the like was never seen since the beginning of the world, no, nor ever shall be again."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 24, "verse": "22", "text": "for unless the time was to be short, very few could escape, but for the sake of the converts the time shall be short."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 24, "verse": "23", "text": "Then if any shall cry, the Messiah is here, or he is there: give no credit to it."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 24, "verse": "24", "text": "for there shall arise false Messiahs, and false prophets, and shall shew such astonishing miracles and prodigies, as to deceive, if that can do it, the very converts themselves."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 24, "verse": "25", "text": "remember, I have forewarn'd you. The Return of the Son of Man ( Mark 13:24–27 ; Luke 21:25–28 )"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 24, "verse": "26", "text": "wherefore, if they shall say to you, now he is in the desert, do not stir: or now, he is in the secret chambers, believe them not."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 24, "verse": "27", "text": "for as the lightning darts from the east in an instant to the west: such shall the advent of the son of man be."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 24, "verse": "28", "text": "for whereever the carcase is, there will the eagles be assembled."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 24, "verse": "29", "text": "Immediately after the tribulation of those days, the sun shall be darkned, and the moon shall not give her light, and the stars shall fall from heaven, and the powers of the heavens shall be shaken."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 24, "verse": "30", "text": "then shall that sign, the son of man in the clouds of heaven, appear: and all the tribes of the land shall mourn, and they shall see the son of man coming in the clouds of heaven, with power and great glory."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 24, "verse": "31", "text": "and he shall send his messengers, who with the shrill sound of a trumpet, shall gather together his select from the four winds, from one end of the heaven to the other. The Lesson of the Fig Tree ( Mark 13:28–31 ; Luke 21:29–33 )"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 24, "verse": "32", "text": "this may be illustrated by a comparison taken from a fig-tree: when the branches become tender, and push out their leaves, ye know that summer is nigh:"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 24, "verse": "33", "text": "in like manner, when ye shall see all these things happen, know that he is come to your very doors."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 24, "verse": "34", "text": "I declare unto you, the present generation shall not cease, till all these things are pass'd."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 24, "verse": "35", "text": "heaven and earth may fail, but my words shall never fail. Readiness at Any Hour ( Mark 13:32–37 ; Luke 12:35–48 )"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 24, "verse": "36", "text": "As to the day and hour, that no one knows, not even the angels of heaven, but the father only."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 24, "verse": "37", "text": "as the days of Noe were, so shall also the advent of the son of man be."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 24, "verse": "38", "text": "for as at the time that usher'd in the deluge, they were eating and drinking, marrying themselves and their children, till the day that Noe entred into the ark,"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 24, "verse": "39", "text": "having no thoughts of the flood till it came, and swept them all away; so shall also the advent of the son of man be."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 24, "verse": "40", "text": "of two persons, who shall be then in the field, one shall be taken, and the other left."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 24, "verse": "41", "text": "two women shall be grinding at the mill, the one shall be taken, and the other left."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 24, "verse": "42", "text": "watch therefore, for ye know not at what hour your Lord shall come."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 24, "verse": "43", "text": "but this you conceive, that if a man knew at what hour of the night the thief would come, he would set a watch, and not suffer his house to be broke open."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 24, "verse": "44", "text": "therefore be ye also prepar'd: for the son of man may come at an hour you least expect."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 24, "verse": "45", "text": "If then there be a servant, appointed by his master to take care of his family, who faithfully and prudently distributes their allowance according to the establishment: happy is the servant,"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 24, "verse": "46", "text": "who shall be found so employed, at his master's return."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 24, "verse": "47", "text": "I tell you, he shall make him steward of all his estate."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 24, "verse": "48", "text": "but if he be dishonest, and says to himself, my Lord delays coming,"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 24, "verse": "49", "text": "and shall pretend to assault his fellow-servants, and spend his time with sots:"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 24, "verse": "50", "text": "the master of that servant will come in a day when he least expects it, and at an hour he is not aware of;"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 24, "verse": "51", "text": "and shall turn him out of the family, and give him the reward due to such behaviour: there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 25, "verse": "1", "text": "The kingdom of the Messiah will then be such, as when ten virgins took their lamps, and went out to meet the bridegroom."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 25, "verse": "2", "text": "five of them were wise, and five were foolish."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 25, "verse": "3", "text": "they that were foolish took their lamps, and took no oil with them:"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 25, "verse": "4", "text": "but the wise took oil in their vessels with their lamps."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 25, "verse": "5", "text": "while the bridegroom tarried, they were drowsy and slept."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 25, "verse": "6", "text": "and at midnight there was a sudden cry, see the bridegroom comes; go and meet him."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 25, "verse": "7", "text": "then the virgins all arose, and trimmed their lamps."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 25, "verse": "8", "text": "and the foolish said to the wise, give us of your oil, for our lamps are going out."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 25, "verse": "9", "text": "but the wise answered, for fear there should not be enough for us and you, go rather to those that sell; and buy for your selves."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 25, "verse": "10", "text": "and while they were gone to buy, the bridegroom came, and they that were ready, entred with him into the hall, and the door was shut."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 25, "verse": "11", "text": "afterwards came the other virgins likewise, and cry'd,"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 25, "verse": "12", "text": "Lord, Lord, pray let us in, but he answered, I assure you, I know you not."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 25, "verse": "13", "text": "watch therefore, for ye know neither the day nor the hour. The Parable of the Talents ( Luke 19:11–27 )"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 25, "verse": "14", "text": "So it was when a man was going to travel into a foreign country, he called his servants, and delivered to them his stock:"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 25, "verse": "15", "text": "to one he gave five talents, to another two, and to another one, to every man according to his respective ability, and then set out on his journey."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 25, "verse": "16", "text": "now he that had received five talents, immediately employed them in trade, and gain'd five talents more."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 25, "verse": "17", "text": "so he that had received two, gained likewise other two."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 25, "verse": "18", "text": "but he that had received one, went to dig a hole in the ground, and hid his lord's money."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 25, "verse": "19", "text": "after a long time the lord of those servants came, and reckoned with them."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 25, "verse": "20", "text": "accordingly he that had received five talents, came and brought other five talents, saying, Lord, you delivered to me five talents: besides those, there's five talents more, which I have gain'd."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 25, "verse": "21", "text": "his lord said to him, well done, thou art an honest faithful servant; thou hast been faithful in a small trust, I will give thee a much larger trust; go in and partake of thy master's diversions."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 25, "verse": "22", "text": "he also that had received two talents, came and said, Lord, you delivered to me two talents: here are two other talents which I have gain'd besides them."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 25, "verse": "23", "text": "his lord said to him, well done, good and faithful servant; thou hast been faithful in a small trust, I will give thee a much larger trust: go in and partake of your master's joy."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 25, "verse": "24", "text": "then came he who had received the one talent, and said, Lord, I knew that you were a hard man, reaping where you have not sown, and gathering where you have not scattered:"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 25, "verse": "25", "text": "fear made me hide the talent under ground: but there you have what is your own."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 25, "verse": "26", "text": "his lord answered and said unto him, thou vile slothful wretch, you knew that I reap where I sowed not, and gather where I have not scatter'd:"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 25, "verse": "27", "text": "should not you then have lodged my money at the banker's, and so at my return I should have received my own with interest."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 25, "verse": "28", "text": "here, take the talent from him, and give it to him that has the ten."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 25, "verse": "29", "text": "for he that makes use of what he has, shall have more; but if he makes no improvement thereof, it shall be taken from him."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 25, "verse": "30", "text": "take then that worthless fellow, turn him out in the dark, there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth. The Sheep and the Goats"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 25, "verse": "31", "text": "When the son of man shall come in his majesty, accompanied with all his holy angels, he shall sit upon the throne of his glory."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 25, "verse": "32", "text": "then all nations shall be assembled before him, and he shall separate them one from another, as a shepherd separates his sheep from the goats."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 25, "verse": "33", "text": "and he shall set the sheep on his right hand, but the goats on the left."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 25, "verse": "34", "text": "the king shall say to those on his right hand, come, ye blessed of my father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 25, "verse": "35", "text": "for I was prest with hunger, and ye gave me meat: I was thirsty, and ye gave me drink: I was a stranger, and ye took me in:"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 25, "verse": "36", "text": "naked, and ye clothed me: I was sick, and ye took care of me: I was in prison, and ye visited me."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 25, "verse": "37", "text": "then will the righteous answer him, saying, Lord, when did we see thee in hunger, and fed thee? or thirsty, and gave thee drink?"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 25, "verse": "38", "text": "when did we see thee a stranger, and took thee in? or naked, and clothed thee?"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 25, "verse": "39", "text": "or when did we see thee sick, or in prison, and visited thee?"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 25, "verse": "40", "text": "and the king will reply, I declare unto you, your having done this for one of the least of these my brethren, is the same thing as doing it for me."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 25, "verse": "41", "text": "then will he say to those on the left, depart from me ye cursed, into everlasting fire, prepared for the devil and his angels."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 25, "verse": "42", "text": "for I was prest with hunger, and ye gave me no meat: I was thirsty, and ye gave me no drink:"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 25, "verse": "43", "text": "I was a stranger, and ye took me not in: naked, and ye clothed me not: sick, and in prison, and ye visited me not."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 25, "verse": "44", "text": "then will they answer, Lord, when did we see thee in hunger, or athirst, or a stranger, or naked, or sick, or in prison, and did not minister unto thee?"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 25, "verse": "45", "text": "to this he will reply, I declare unto you, your not doing this for one of the least of these, is the same thing as not doing it for me."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 25, "verse": "46", "text": "and these shall go away into everlasting punishment: but the righteous into life eternal."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 26, "verse": "1", "text": "Now when Jesus had finished these discourses, he said to his disciples,"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 26, "verse": "2", "text": "ye know that in two days the feast of the passover will begin, and the son of man be delivered up to be crucified."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 26, "verse": "3", "text": "About this time the chief priests, and the elders of the people, assembled in the palace of the high priest, whose name was Caiaphas,"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 26, "verse": "4", "text": "and consulted how to seize Jesus by surprize, and take away his life."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 26, "verse": "5", "text": "but they said, this must not be done on the feastday, for fear the people rise. Jesus Anointed at Bethany ( Mark 14:3–9 ; Luke 7:36–50 ; John 12:1–8 )"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 26, "verse": "6", "text": "Now when Jesus was in Bethany, in the house of Simon who had been a leper,"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 26, "verse": "7", "text": "there came to him a woman with an alabaster-box of very precious ointment, and poured it on his head, while he was at table."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 26, "verse": "8", "text": "one of his disciples seeing this, with indignation said, to what purpose is this waste?"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 26, "verse": "9", "text": "for this could have been sold for a great price, which might have been given to the poor."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 26, "verse": "10", "text": "Jesus perceiving this, said to them, why do you trouble the woman? for what she has done is out of regard to me."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 26, "verse": "11", "text": "ye have the poor always with you, but me ye have not always."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 26, "verse": "12", "text": "for her pouring this ointment on my body, is preparative to my burial."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 26, "verse": "13", "text": "I declare unto you, in whatever quarter of the world, this part of the gospel-history shall be related, what this woman has now done shall be there mentioned to her praise. Judas Agrees to Betray Jesus ( Mark 14:10–11 ; Luke 22:3–6 )"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 26, "verse": "14", "text": "Then one of the twelve, Judas Iscariot by name, went to the chief priests,"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 26, "verse": "15", "text": "and said, what will ye give me, and I will deliver him to you? and they promised him thirty pieces of silver."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 26, "verse": "16", "text": "from which time he watched a favourable opportunity to deliver him. Preparing the Passover ( Mark 14:12–16 ; Luke 22:7–13 )"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 26, "verse": "17", "text": "Now the first day of the feast of unleavened bread, the disciples came to Jesus, and said, where would you have us make the preparations for the paschal-supper?"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 26, "verse": "18", "text": "and he said, go into the city to such a man, and say to him, the master sends you word that his time is at hand, and he designs to keep the passover now at your house with his disciples."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 26, "verse": "19", "text": "the disciples then did as Jesus appointed, and made ready the passover. The Last Supper ( Mark 14:17–26 ; Luke 22:14–23 ; 1 Corinthians 11:17–34 )"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 26, "verse": "20", "text": "The even being now come, he sat down with the twelve."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 26, "verse": "21", "text": "and as they were eating, he said, 'tis indeed true that one of this company shall betray me."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 26, "verse": "22", "text": "at which they were exceedingly concern'd, and began every one of them to ask, Lord, is it I?"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 26, "verse": "23", "text": "to this he answered, he that has his hand in the dish with mine, he it is that will betray me."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 26, "verse": "24", "text": "the son of man is going to die, pursuant to the scripture: but wo to that man by whom the son of man is betrayed: it had been better for that man, if he had never been born."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 26, "verse": "25", "text": "then Judas, he who was to betray him, said, master, is it I? Jesus replied, yes."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 26, "verse": "26", "text": "While they were yet eating, Jesus took bread, and having given thanks, he brake it, and gave it to the disciples, saying, take, eat; this represents my body."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 26, "verse": "27", "text": "and he took the cup, and having given thanks, he gave it to them, saying, drink ye all of it:"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 26, "verse": "28", "text": "for this represents my blood, the blood of the new covenant which is shed for mankind for the remission of sins."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 26, "verse": "29", "text": "but this I tell you, I shall not drink any more wine with you from this time forth to the day, when I shall drink with you, of the spiritual wine, in my father's kingdom."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 26, "verse": "30", "text": "And when they had sung an hymn, they went to the mount of Olives. Jesus Predicts Peter’s Denial ( Mark 14:27–31 ; Luke 22:31–38 ; John 13:36–38 )"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 26, "verse": "31", "text": "then said Jesus to them, I shall be the occasion of your revolting all from me this night: for it is written, \"I will smite the shepherd, and the sheep of the flock shall be scattered.\""}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 26, "verse": "32", "text": "but after I am risen again, I will go before you into Galilee."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 26, "verse": "33", "text": "Peter thereupon said, tho' all the rest should abandon you, I never will."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 26, "verse": "34", "text": "Jesus replied, I tell you for certain, that this night before the time of cock-crowing, thou shalt abjure me thrice."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 26, "verse": "35", "text": "but Peter said, though it should cost me my life, I never will disown you, and so said all the disciples. Jesus Prays at Gethsemane ( Mark 14:32–42 ; Luke 22:39–46 )"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 26, "verse": "36", "text": "After this, Jesus went with them to a place called Gethsemani, and said to the disciples, stay here, while I go there and pray."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 26, "verse": "37", "text": "but he took with him Peter, and the two sons of Zebedee, and began to be in a very great agony of grief."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 26, "verse": "38", "text": "and he said to them, \"my soul is exceeding sorrowful, even unto death:\" stay here and watch by me."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 26, "verse": "39", "text": "Then advancing a little further, he fell prostrate in prayer, and said, \"O my father, if it be possible, let this cup pass from me: nevertheless not mine, but thy will be done.\""}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 26, "verse": "40", "text": "then returning to the disciples, and finding them asleep, he said to Peter, what, could ye not watch by me one hour?"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 26, "verse": "41", "text": "watch and pray that ye may not sink under the trial: the mind indeed is vigorous, but the flesh is weak."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 26, "verse": "42", "text": "again, he went away the second time, and prayed thus, \"O my father, if I cannot avoid drinking this cup, thy will be done.\""}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 26, "verse": "43", "text": "then returning, he found them asleep again: for their eyes were heavy."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 26, "verse": "44", "text": "then he left them once more, and went to prayers the third time, using the same words."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 26, "verse": "45", "text": "and at his return, he said to his disciples, is this a time to sleep and take your rest? the hour draws nigh, and the son of man is betrayed into the hands of the gentiles."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 26, "verse": "46", "text": "rise, let us be gone, there he is, the traytor is just upon us. The Betrayal of Jesus ( Mark 14:43–52 ; Luke 22:47–53 ; John 18:1–14 )"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 26, "verse": "47", "text": "And before he had done speaking, Judas one of the twelve appear'd, with a numerous retinue, arm'd with swords and staves, being sent by the chief priests and elders of the people."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 26, "verse": "48", "text": "now he that was to betray him, gave them this signal, the person I shall kiss, is the very man, be sure to secure him."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 26, "verse": "49", "text": "and immediately advancing to Jesus, he said, master, I salute you, and kissed him."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 26, "verse": "50", "text": "Jesus said to him, friend, what are you come about? when the others advancing, seized upon Jesus, and secur'd him."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 26, "verse": "51", "text": "At which, one of Jesus's company laying his hand upon his sword, drew it, and striking at a servant of the high priest's, took off his ear."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 26, "verse": "52", "text": "but Jesus said to him, put up your sword in its place: for all that take to the sword, shall perish by the sword."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 26, "verse": "53", "text": "do you think my father, if I should now desire it of him, would not instantly send me more than twelve legions of angels?"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 26, "verse": "54", "text": "but how then shall the scriptures be fulfilled, which say, that thus it must happen?"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 26, "verse": "55", "text": "At the same time Jesus said to the company, you come to apprehend me with swords and clubs, as if in pursuit of a robber; I was every day with you teaching in the temple, and ye did not then seize upon me."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 26, "verse": "56", "text": "but all this was to be done, in pursuance of what the prophets had predicted, then all the disciples abandon'd him, and fled. Jesus before the Sanhedrin ( Mark 14:53–65 ; Luke 22:66–71 ; John 18:19–24 )"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 26, "verse": "57", "text": "And they that had apprehended Jesus, led him away to Caiaphas the high priest, where the Scribes and the senators were assembled."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 26, "verse": "58", "text": "but Peter followed him at a distance to the high priest's palace, and going in, he sat with the officers to see the event."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 26, "verse": "59", "text": "Now the chief priests, the senators and the whole council, endeavour'd to get false evidence against Jesus, that he might be condemn'd to die."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 26, "verse": "60", "text": "but they found none: and though many false witnesses came, it was not found sufficient, at last there came two false witnesses, who charg'd him with saying,"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 26, "verse": "61", "text": "\"I am able to destroy the temple of God, and to build it in three days.\""}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 26, "verse": "62", "text": "and the high priest arose, and said to him, have you nothing in answer to that charge they bring against you?"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 26, "verse": "63", "text": "but Jesus made no reply, and the high priest said to him, I conjure thee by the living God, to tell us, are you the Christ the son of God?"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 26, "verse": "64", "text": "Jesus reply'd, I am: moreover I declare to you, within a while ye shall see the son of man sitting on the right hand of God, and coming on the clouds of heaven."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 26, "verse": "65", "text": "then the high priest rent his clothes, saying, he has spoke blasphemy; what further need have we of witnesses? you yourselves have now heard his blasphemy."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 26, "verse": "66", "text": "what is your opinion? they reply'd, he deserves to die."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 26, "verse": "67", "text": "then they spit in his face, some beat him on the head, others slapt him on the cheeks,"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 26, "verse": "68", "text": "crying now Christ divine, who 't is that struck you? Peter Denies Jesus ( Mark 14:66–72 ; Luke 22:54–62 ; John 18:15–18 )"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 26, "verse": "69", "text": "In the mean time Peter was sitting without in the court: and a servant maid came to him, and said, you likewise was one of Jesus the Galilean's comrades."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 26, "verse": "70", "text": "but he denied it before them all, saying, I know nothing of the matter."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 26, "verse": "71", "text": "and when he was going out at the porch, another maid saw him, and said to those that were by, this fellow was also with Jesus of Nazareth."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 26, "verse": "72", "text": "but he denied it again, and swore I don't know the man."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 26, "verse": "73", "text": "soon after they that stood by coming up, said to Peter, certainly you are one of them, for thy speech bewrays thee."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 26, "verse": "74", "text": "then he fell to solemn imprecations, and swore, \"I don't know the man.\" and immediately the cock crew:"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 26, "verse": "75", "text": "when Peter remembred what Jesus had said to him, \"before the cock crow, thou shalt deny me thrice.\" and he went out, and wept bitterly."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 27, "verse": "1", "text": "As soon as it was day, all the chief priests and senators of the people consulted measures against Jesus how they might put him to death."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 27, "verse": "2", "text": "and when they had bound him, they led him away, and delivered him to Pontius Pilate the governor of Judea. Judas Hangs Himself"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 27, "verse": "3", "text": "At the same time, Judas who had betrayed him, finding that he was condemned, repented, and carried back the thirty pieces of silver to the chief priests and senators, saying,"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 27, "verse": "4", "text": "I have sinned in betraying the blood of the innocent: and they said, what is it to us? you must look to that."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 27, "verse": "5", "text": "then throwing down the pieces of silver in the temple, he departed, and went and hanged himself."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 27, "verse": "6", "text": "but the chief priests took the silver pieces, and said, it is not lawful to put them into the treasury, because it is the price of blood."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 27, "verse": "7", "text": "and having consulted together, they laid out the money in buying the potter's field, to serve for a burying place for strangers."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 27, "verse": "8", "text": "for this reason the field is called the field of blood to this day."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 27, "verse": "9", "text": "then was fulfilled what Jeremy the prophet said, \"and they took the thirty pieces of silver, the price at which he was valued, by the children of Israel,"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 27, "verse": "10", "text": "and gave them for the potter's field, as the Lord appointed me.\" Jesus before Pilate ( Luke 23:1–5 ; John 18:28–40 )"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 27, "verse": "11", "text": "When Jesus appear'd before the governor, the governor asked him, art thou the king of the Jews? and Jesus answer'd yes."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 27, "verse": "12", "text": "but when he was accused by the chief priests and elders, he return'd no answer."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 27, "verse": "13", "text": "whereupon Pilate said to him, don't you hear how many things they lay to your charge?"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 27, "verse": "14", "text": "but he made no answer to any thing he said, so that the governor was very much surpriz'd. The Crowd Chooses Barabbas ( Mark 15:6–11 ; Luke 23:13–25 )"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 27, "verse": "15", "text": "Now it was customary at that feast for the governor to release a prisoner, such as the people should nominate."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 27, "verse": "16", "text": "there happen'd to be then in custody a notorious criminal, nam'd Barabbas."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 27, "verse": "17", "text": "therefore when they were assembled, Pilate said to them, who would you have releas'd? Barabbas, or Jesus, who is called Christ?"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 27, "verse": "18", "text": "for he was sensible that they had delivered him up out of meer envy."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 27, "verse": "19", "text": "Whilst he was sitting on the tribunal, his wife sent this message to him, pray, have nothing to do with that just man: for to-day I have suffered very much on his account in a dream."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 27, "verse": "20", "text": "but the chief priests and senators persuaded the people to demand Barabbas, and put to death Jesus."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 27, "verse": "21", "text": "the governor therefore having asked, which of the two would you have me release? they said, Barabbas."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 27, "verse": "22", "text": "Pilate replied, what shall I do then with Jesus, who is called Christ? they all cried out, let him be crucified."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 27, "verse": "23", "text": "the governor said, why, what mischief has he done? but they cried out the more, let him be crucified. Pilate Washes His Hands ( Mark 15:12–15 )"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 27, "verse": "24", "text": "Pilate perceiving he was so far from prevailing, that they were more tumultuous, he took water, and washed his hands before all the people, saying, I am innocent of the blood of this just person: you are answerable for it."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 27, "verse": "25", "text": "at this all the people cry'd out, \"his blood be on us, and on our children.\""}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 27, "verse": "26", "text": "Then he released to them Barabbas: but he order'd Jesus to be scourged, and delivered up to be crucified. The Soldiers Mock Jesus ( Mark 15:16–20 ; Luke 22:63–65 ; John 19:1–15 )"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 27, "verse": "27", "text": "after this the soldiers of the governor took Jesus into the common hall, and gathered all the foot-guards about him."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 27, "verse": "28", "text": "and having stripp'd him, they put on him a scarlet robe."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 27, "verse": "29", "text": "then pleating a crown of thorns, they set it on his head, and a reed in his right hand: and they bowed the knee before him, in mockery, saying, hail king of the Jews."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 27, "verse": "30", "text": "and they spit upon him, and took the reed, and smote him on the head."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 27, "verse": "31", "text": "and after they had thus insulted him, they took the robe off, and put his own raiment on him, and led him away to crucify him. The Crucifixion ( Mark 15:21–32 ; Luke 23:26–43 ; John 19:16–27 )"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 27, "verse": "32", "text": "As they were going along, they met a man of Cyrene, Simon by name: and compelled him to carry the cross."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 27, "verse": "33", "text": "when they were come to a place called Golgotha, a word which signifies a skull,"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 27, "verse": "34", "text": "they gave him a mixture of wine and gall: but when he had tasted it, he refused to drink."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 27, "verse": "35", "text": "after they had crucified him, they shared his clothes among them by casting losts:"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 27, "verse": "36", "text": "and they took their post to watch him there."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 27, "verse": "37", "text": "and they set an Inscription over his head, denoting the reason of his execution, THIS IS JESUS THE KING OF THE JEWS."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 27, "verse": "38", "text": "At the same time, two robbers were crucified with him: one on his right hand, the other on his left."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 27, "verse": "39", "text": "the passengers all the while reviling him, shook their heads at him,"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 27, "verse": "40", "text": "and cry'd, you that could destroy the temple, and rebuild it in three days, now save thy self: if thou art the son of God, come down from the cross."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 27, "verse": "41", "text": "the chief priests, with the scribes and senators, derided him in like manner."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 27, "verse": "42", "text": "he saved others, said they, but cannot save himself: if he be the king of Israel, let him now come down from the cross, and we will believe him."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 27, "verse": "43", "text": "he relied upon God; if he be such a favourite, let God then deliver him: for he us'd to say he was the son of God."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 27, "verse": "44", "text": "one of the robbers too, who were crucified with him, treated him with the same reproach. The Death of Jesus ( Mark 15:33–41 ; Luke 23:44–49 ; John 19:28–30 )"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 27, "verse": "45", "text": "Now from the sixth hour to the ninth, the whole land was cover'd with darkness."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 27, "verse": "46", "text": "and about the ninth hour Jesus cried out with a loud voice, ELI, ELI, LAMA SABACHTHANI? that is to say, \"my God! my God! why hast thou forsaken me?\""}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 27, "verse": "47", "text": "some of the standers by, when they heard that, said, he calls upon Elias."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 27, "verse": "48", "text": "immediately one of them ran to fetch a spunge, which they steep'd in vinegar, and fastning it to the end of a stick, they presented it to him, to drink:"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 27, "verse": "49", "text": "while the rest cry'd, now let us see whether Elias will come to save him."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 27, "verse": "50", "text": "but Jesus cried out again with a loud voice, and then expir'd."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 27, "verse": "51", "text": "Immediately the vail of the temple was rent in two, from the top to the bottom; the earth trembled, the rocks split,"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 27, "verse": "52", "text": "the graves opened, and the bodies of many saints who slept arose,"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 27, "verse": "53", "text": "and came out of the graves after his resurrection, and went into the holy city, and appeared to many."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 27, "verse": "54", "text": "now the centurion, and they that were with him, to guard Jesus, having observ'd the earthquake, and all that had happened, were under great apprehensions, and said, certainly this was the son of God."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 27, "verse": "55", "text": "And several women were there who look'd on at a distance, and had followed Jesus from Galilee, to assist him with their service."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 27, "verse": "56", "text": "among whom was Mary Magdalene, and Mary the mother of James and of Joses, and the mother of Zebedee's children. The Burial of Jesus ( Mark 15:42–47 ; Luke 23:50–56 ; John 19:38–42 )"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 27, "verse": "57", "text": "In the evening a rich man of Arimathea, named Joseph, who himself was Jesus's disciple,"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 27, "verse": "58", "text": "went to Pilate, and begged the body of Jesus; which Pilate ordered to be delivered to him."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 27, "verse": "59", "text": "Joseph then having taken the body, wrapped it in a clean linen cloth,"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 27, "verse": "60", "text": "and laid it in a monument which he had lately caused to be hewn out in the rock: and having rolled a large stone to the door of the sepulchre, he went away."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 27, "verse": "61", "text": "in the mean time Mary Magdalene, and the other Mary were sitting over against the sepulchre. The Guards at the Tomb"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 27, "verse": "62", "text": "Now the next day after the preparation of the sabbath, the chief priests and Pharisees went together to Pilate,"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 27, "verse": "63", "text": "saying, sir, we remember that this impostor, when he was alive, said, \"after three days I will rise again.\""}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 27, "verse": "64", "text": "pray therefore order a guard to be posted at the sepulchre till the third day, for fear his disciples should come and steal him away, and then tell the people, \"he is risen from the dead:\" for this last imposture would be of worse consequence than the first."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 27, "verse": "65", "text": "to whom Pilate replied, you have a guard, go then, and make it as secure as you can."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 27, "verse": "66", "text": "accordingly they went, and having clapt a seal upon the stone, they posted a guard to secure the sepulchre."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 28, "verse": "1", "text": "The sabbath being over, and the first day of the week beginning to dawn, Mary Magdalene, and the other Mary, came to see the sepulchre."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 28, "verse": "2", "text": "now there had been a great earthquake; for an angel of the lord descending from heaven, was come, and had rolled away the stone from the door, and was sitting upon it."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 28, "verse": "3", "text": "his aspect was like lightning, and his raiment white as snow."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 28, "verse": "4", "text": "for fear of whom the keepers shook, and were almost struck dead."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 28, "verse": "5", "text": "but the angel spoke to the woman, and said, don't be frighted, I know you are seeking Jesus, who was crucified."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 28, "verse": "6", "text": "he is not here: he is risen according to his word: come, see the place where the Lord was laid."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 28, "verse": "7", "text": "then go immediately to tell his disciples that he is risen from the dead; and that, he goes before you into Galilee, there shall ye see it is him; 'tis I that say it."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 28, "verse": "8", "text": "And they instantly left the sepulchre, with fear and joy, and ran to carry his disciples this good news."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 28, "verse": "9", "text": "as they were making the way to his disciples, Jesus himself met them, and said, I salute you, and they came, and embraced his feet, and worshipped him."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 28, "verse": "10", "text": "then said Jesus to them, be not afraid: go bid my brethren repair to Galilee, and there shall they see me. The Report of the Guards"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 28, "verse": "11", "text": "Now when they were gone, some of the guards went into the city, and informed the chief priests of all that had happened."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 28, "verse": "12", "text": "and when they were assembled with the senators, and had consulted together, they gave a large sum of money to the soldiers, thus instructing them;"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 28, "verse": "13", "text": "do you say \"his disciples came by night, and stole him away while we slept."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 28, "verse": "14", "text": "if this come to the governor's ears, we will appease him, and secure you.\""}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 28, "verse": "15", "text": "so they took the money, and did as they were directed: and this report is still current among the Jews at this day. The Great Commission ( Mark 16:14–18 )"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 28, "verse": "16", "text": "In the mean time the eleven disciples went into Galilee, to a mountain where Jesus had appointed them."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 28, "verse": "17", "text": "and when they saw him, they worshipped him: but some doubted."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 28, "verse": "18", "text": "and Jesus came, and said to them, all power has been given me in heaven and in earth."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 28, "verse": "19", "text": "go and instruct all nations, baptizing them in the name of the father, and of the son, and of the holy ghost:"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 28, "verse": "20", "text": "teaching them to observe every thing which I have enjoin'd you: and be assured I shall be always with you to the end of the world."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 1, "verse": "1", "text": "The beginning of the gospel of Jesus Christ the son of God."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 1, "verse": "2", "text": "It is written in the prophet, \"behold, I send my messenger before thy face, who shall prepare thy way before thee."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 1, "verse": "3", "text": "The voice of one crying in the wilderness, prepare ye the way of the Lord, make his paths straight.\""}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 1, "verse": "4", "text": "accordingly, John baptized in the desart, and preach'd the baptism of repentance, for the remission of sins."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 1, "verse": "5", "text": "all Judea, and the inhabitants of Jerusalem, went out to meet him, and having confess'd their sins, he baptized them in the river Jordan."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 1, "verse": "6", "text": "now John was clothed with camels hair, with a leathern girdle about his waist: and his food was locusts and wild honey."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 1, "verse": "7", "text": "among other things he said, there comes one after me, who is superiour to me, I am not worthy to stoop down and untie his shoes."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 1, "verse": "8", "text": "I indeed have baptized you with water, but he shall baptize you with the effusion of the holy Ghost."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 1, "verse": "9", "text": "At that time Jesus came from Nazareth of Galilee, and was baptized by John in Jordan."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 1, "verse": "10", "text": "and as soon as he was got out of the water, he saw the heavens open, and the spirit lighting upon him, like a dove."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 1, "verse": "11", "text": "when this voice from heaven was heard, \"thou art my beloved son, in whom I am well pleased.\" The Temptation and Preaching of Jesus ( Matthew 4:1–17 ; Luke 4:1–15 )"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 1, "verse": "12", "text": "presently after the spirit convey'd him into the desart."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 1, "verse": "13", "text": "where he continued forty days, being tempted by Satan: and when he was among the wild beasts, angels ministred unto him."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 1, "verse": "14", "text": "But after John was put in prison, Jesus came into Galilee, spreading the good news of the kingdom of the Messiah."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 1, "verse": "15", "text": "\"the time, said he, is accomplish'd, and the kingdom of God is at hand: repent ye, and believe the gospel.\" The First Disciples ( Matthew 4:18–22 ; Luke 5:1–11 ; John 1:35–42 )"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 1, "verse": "16", "text": "Now as he walked by the sea of Galilee, he saw Simon, and Andrew his brother, casting their net into the sea:"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 1, "verse": "17", "text": "(for they were fishers) and Jesus said to them, follow me, and I will make you fishers of men."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 1, "verse": "18", "text": "immediately they quitted their nets, and followed him."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 1, "verse": "19", "text": "when he had gone a little further, he saw James the son of Zebedee, and John his brother, in the bark mending their nets, whereupon he called them:"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 1, "verse": "20", "text": "and they left their father Zebedee in the ship with the people he had hired, and went after him. Jesus Expels an Unclean Spirit ( Luke 4:31–37 )"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 1, "verse": "21", "text": "As soon as they were come to Capernaum, he entred into the synagogue, and it being the sabbath, instructed them."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 1, "verse": "22", "text": "and they were astonished at his manner of preaching: for he spoke with an air of authority, and not as the Scribes."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 1, "verse": "23", "text": "now there was in their synagogue a demoniack, who cried out, ah,"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 1, "verse": "24", "text": "what have we to do with thee, Jesus of Nazareth? art thou come to torment us? I know thee who thou art, the holy one of God."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 1, "verse": "25", "text": "and Jesus threatned him, be mute, said he, and come out."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 1, "verse": "26", "text": "and when the unclean spirit had thrown him into convulsions, with a loud cry, he came out of him."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 1, "verse": "27", "text": "at which they were all so amazed, that they ask'd one another, what's the meaning of all this? what new doctrine is here? for he commands with authority even the unclean spirits, and they obey him."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 1, "verse": "28", "text": "upon this his fame immediately spread abroad over all the region of Galilee. Jesus Heals at Peter’s House ( Matthew 8:14–17 ; Luke 4:38–41 )"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 1, "verse": "29", "text": "As soon as they were come out of the synagogue, they went with James and John into the house of Simon and Andrew,"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 1, "verse": "30", "text": "where Simon's wife's mother lay sick of a fever, who presently acquainted Jesus with it."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 1, "verse": "31", "text": "and he came, and taking her by the hand, lift her up; upon which the fever immediately left her, and she served them at table."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 1, "verse": "32", "text": "In the evening, when the sun was set, they brought to him many diseased, and several demoniacks."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 1, "verse": "33", "text": "the whole town being assembled before the door."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 1, "verse": "34", "text": "and he healed many that were variously affected with diseases, and cast out many demons, not allowing them to say that they knew him. Jesus Prays and Preaches ( Luke 4:42–44 )"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 1, "verse": "35", "text": "On the morrow rising up, while it was yet dark, he went out, and retired into a solitary place, where he prayed."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 1, "verse": "36", "text": "Simon, and the rest of his company, followed after him."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 1, "verse": "37", "text": "and when they had found him, they said, the people are seeking for you."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 1, "verse": "38", "text": "and he said unto them, let us go into the neighbouring villages, that I may preach there likewise, for that was the design of my coming."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 1, "verse": "39", "text": "and he preached in their synagogues throughout all Galilee, and cast out demons. The Leper’s Prayer ( Matthew 8:1–4 ; Luke 5:12–16 )"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 1, "verse": "40", "text": "And there came a leper to him, who fell on his knees, and thus address'd him, \"if you will, you can heal me.\""}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 1, "verse": "41", "text": "Jesus then mov'd with compassion, held out his hand, and touching him, said, I will, be thou healed."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 1, "verse": "42", "text": "and while he was speaking, the leprosy left him in an instant, and he was cur'd."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 1, "verse": "43", "text": "immediately Jesus sent him away, severely charging him, have a care,"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 1, "verse": "44", "text": "said he, how you take the least notice of this to any man: but go, show your self to the priest, and offer for your cure what Moses commanded, that this may serve as a testimony against them."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 1, "verse": "45", "text": "but as soon as he was gone, he began freely to talk of it, and blazed it about every where, so that Jesus could not go publickly into the city any more, but stay'd in the out parts, which were not much frequented, where people came to him from every quarter."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 2, "verse": "1", "text": "Some time after he returned to Capernaum; upon the rumour that he was there,"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 2, "verse": "2", "text": "so great a company assembled, that there was no room for them in the house, nor even about the door: and he preached the word unto them."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 2, "verse": "3", "text": "then they came and presented to him a paralytic, who had four men to carry him."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 2, "verse": "4", "text": "who finding it impossible to come nigh Him because of the press, uncovered the roof where He was: and when they had broken it up, they let down the cradle wherein the paralytic lay."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 2, "verse": "5", "text": "Jesus perceiving their faith, said to the sick of the palsy, son, thy sins are forgiven."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 2, "verse": "6", "text": "but there were certain of the Scribes sitting there, who were dissatisfied in their own minds, and said to themselves,"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 2, "verse": "7", "text": "why doth this man speak such blasphemies? who can forgive sins but God?"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 2, "verse": "8", "text": "and immediately Jesus perceiving by his spirit, that they made these secret reflections, said, why do you entertain such suggestions?"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 2, "verse": "9", "text": "is it not as easy to say to the paralytic, thy sins are forgiven: as to say, arise, and take up your bed and walk?"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 2, "verse": "10", "text": "however, to let you see that the son of man has power on earth to forgive sins, rise, said he, to the sick of the palsy,"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 2, "verse": "11", "text": "'tis I command you, take up thy bed, and go to your home."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 2, "verse": "12", "text": "instantly he arose, took up the bed, and went out in the presence of them all; insomuch that they were all amazed, and glorified God, saying, we never saw any thing like this. Jesus Calls Levi ( Matthew 9:9–13 ; Luke 5:27–32 )"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 2, "verse": "13", "text": "Another time as he was by the sea-side, the people came all crowding to him, and he instructed them."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 2, "verse": "14", "text": "as he passed along, he saw Levi the son of Alpheus, sitting at the custom-house, and said to him, follow me, accordingly he arose and followed him."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 2, "verse": "15", "text": "at length as Jesus sat at table in Levi's house, several publicans and loose people sat down likewise in company with Jesus, and his disciples: for a good number of them had followed him."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 2, "verse": "16", "text": "when the Scribes and Pharisees saw him eating with such a crew, they ask'd his disciples, what's the meaning that he is so familiar with people of such a wretched character?"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 2, "verse": "17", "text": "Jesus hearing this, said to them, they that are in health, have no need of a physician, but they that are sick: I did not come to call the righteous, but sinners. Questions about Fasting ( Matthew 9:14–15 ; Luke 5:33–35 )"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 2, "verse": "18", "text": "It was customary for the Pharisees, and the disciples of John, to fast; they came therefore and ask'd him, why do John's disciples, and the Pharisees fast so frequently, and not your disciples?"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 2, "verse": "19", "text": "Jesus answered, can the bridemen fast, while the bridegroom is with them? as long as they have the bridegroom with them, they cannot fast."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 2, "verse": "20", "text": "but the time will come, when the bridegroom shall be taken away from them, and then shall they fast. The Patches and the Wineskins ( Matthew 9:16–17 ; Luke 5:36–39 )"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 2, "verse": "21", "text": "indeed no man ever sews a piece of new cloth on an old garment: because the new piece that is patch'd on, draws the old, and rends it still worse."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 2, "verse": "22", "text": "so no man pours new wine into old skins, for that would burst them, and then both would be lost: but new wine must be put into new skins. The Lord of the Sabbath ( Matthew 12:1–8 ; Luke 6:1–5 )"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 2, "verse": "23", "text": "Another time, as he was going through the corn-fields on the sabbath-day, his disciples as they pass'd along began to pluck the ears of corn."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 2, "verse": "24", "text": "upon which the Pharisees said to him, pray observe how they trespass on the sabbath-day."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 2, "verse": "25", "text": "but he replied, have ye never read what David, and the rest of the company did, when they were press'd with hunger?"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 2, "verse": "26", "text": "how he went into the house of God in the days of Abiathar, who was afterwards high-priest, and did eat the shew-bread, giving some of it likewise to the company, though the law allow'd no body to eat of it but the priests."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 2, "verse": "27", "text": "adding this observation, \"the sabbath was made for man, and not man for the sabbath.\""}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 2, "verse": "28", "text": "therefore the son of man has a power of dispensing with the law of the sabbath."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 3, "verse": "1", "text": "Another time he entred into the synagogue, when a man was there who had a withered hand."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 3, "verse": "2", "text": "the Pharisees watched Jesus, to see if he would heal him on the sabbath-day, that so they might accuse him."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 3, "verse": "3", "text": "he said then to the man who had the withered hand, rise and stand there in the midst."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 3, "verse": "4", "text": "and he ask'd them, is it allowed to do good, or to do mischief on the sabbath-days? to save life, or to kill? but they were very silent."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 3, "verse": "5", "text": "then he looking with indignation at those about him, being concern'd at their disingenuous perverse temper, he said to the man, stretch out your hand, which he did, and his hand become sound."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 3, "verse": "6", "text": "upon this the Pharisees withdrew, and immediately enter'd into a conspiracy with the Herodians to take away his life. Jesus Heals the Multitudes ( Matthew 4:23–25 ; Luke 6:17–19 )"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 3, "verse": "7", "text": "But Jesus retired with his disciples towards the sea: where a great multitude followed him from Galilee, from Judea,"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 3, "verse": "8", "text": "from Jerusalem, and from Idumea, and the territory about Jordan, a considerable number of the inhabitants about Tyre and Sidon having heard of his great actions, came likewise to meet him."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 3, "verse": "9", "text": "wherefore, to avoid the inconveniences of the crowd, he order'd his disciples to get a small vessel ready to attend him."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 3, "verse": "10", "text": "for having healed abundance of people, all that were afflicted with any grievous distemper pressed upon him to touch him."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 3, "verse": "11", "text": "and when the impure spirits saw him, they threw themselves at his feet, crying out, \"thou art the son of God.\""}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 3, "verse": "12", "text": "but he strictly charged them, not to make him known. The Twelve Apostles ( Matthew 10:1–4 ; Luke 6:12–16 )"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 3, "verse": "13", "text": "At length he went up a mountain, and having appointed a select company to attend him, they came to him."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 3, "verse": "14", "text": "then he chose twelve of them to be near his person, and afterwards to be gospel-missionaries."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 3, "verse": "15", "text": "with full power to heal diseases, and dispossess demons."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 3, "verse": "16", "text": "these were Simon, whom he sirnam'd Peter, James the son of Zebedee,"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 3, "verse": "17", "text": "and John the brother of James, (whom he had named Boanerges, that is to say, sons of thunder.)"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 3, "verse": "18", "text": "Andrew, Philip, Bartholomew, Matthew, Thomas, James the son of Alpheus, Thaddeus, Simon the Canaanite,"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 3, "verse": "19", "text": "and Judas Iscariot, who betrayed him. A House Divided ( Matthew 12:22–30 ; Luke 11:14–23 )"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 3, "verse": "20", "text": "After this they went into an house, and the crowd press'd again upon them, so as to hinder them from taking their meal."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 3, "verse": "21", "text": "when his relations heard of this, they went to his relief, for it was said, he fainted away."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 3, "verse": "22", "text": "Some Scribes, who were come from Jerusalem, said, he is confederate with Beelzebub, the prince of the demons enables him to dispossess demons."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 3, "verse": "23", "text": "but calling them to him, he said by way of similitude, how can satan dispossess satan?"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 3, "verse": "24", "text": "if a kingdom be divided against it self, that kingdom cannot last."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 3, "verse": "25", "text": "if a family be divided against it self, it is impossible for it to subsist."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 3, "verse": "26", "text": "so if satan rise up in opposition to his own interest, his power cannot subsist, but must entirely cease."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 3, "verse": "27", "text": "no one can enter into a strong man's house, and plunder his goods, unless the man be first secur'd. The Unpardonable Sin ( Matthew 12:31–32 )"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 3, "verse": "28", "text": "I declare unto you, all the sins which men may commit, and whatsoever blasphemies they may utter, may be forgiven them."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 3, "verse": "29", "text": "but he that shall blaspheme against the holy Ghost, shall never be pardoned, but shall be obnoxious to eternal punishment."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 3, "verse": "30", "text": "this was in answer to their saying, he was influenc'd by an impure spirit. Jesus’ Mother and Brothers ( Matthew 12:46–50 ; Luke 8:19–21 )"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 3, "verse": "31", "text": "In the mean time his brothers and his mother came there, and not being able to get within hearing,"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 3, "verse": "32", "text": "for the crowd about him, they sent him word to come to them, and when they told him, your mother and brothers and sisters are here without enquiring for you,"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 3, "verse": "33", "text": "He answer'd, who is my mother? who are my brothers?"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 3, "verse": "34", "text": "and casting his eyes round the company, there, said he, are my mother and my brothers."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 3, "verse": "35", "text": "for he that does the will of God, he is my brother and sister and mother."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 4, "verse": "1", "text": "He began again to teach by the sea-side: but there was so great a crowd gathered about him, that he was oblig'd to go into a ship, where he sat down, and stay'd on board while the people stood on the shore."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 4, "verse": "2", "text": "then he addressed himself to them in many parables, and thus began his instructions."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 4, "verse": "3", "text": "give your attention to what I say, a sower went out to sow: as he sowed,"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 4, "verse": "4", "text": "some of the seed happened to fall by the wayside, which the birds light upon, and devoured."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 4, "verse": "5", "text": "some fell on stony ground, where it had not much earth, and it soon sprang up, for want of a sufficient depth of earth."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 4, "verse": "6", "text": "but when the sun was up, it was scorched, and for want of root, withered away."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 4, "verse": "7", "text": "some fell among thorns, and the thorns grew up, and choaked it, so that it yielded no fruit."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 4, "verse": "8", "text": "but part of it fell on good ground, which sprang up, and grew so fruitful, that some grains produced thirty, others sixty, and some an hundred."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 4, "verse": "9", "text": "he that hath ears to hear, said he, let him hear. The Purpose of Jesus’ Parables ( Matthew 13:10–17 ; Luke 8:9–10 )"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 4, "verse": "10", "text": "And when he was in private, the twelve, and some of his disciples asked him the meaning of the parable."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 4, "verse": "11", "text": "he answered, you are admitted into the secret of the gospel-dispensation: but to unbelievers every thing is couch'd in parables; because,"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 4, "verse": "12", "text": "tho' they see, they will not perceive, and tho' they hear they will not understand: as if they were afraid of parting with their vices, in order to be pardoned. The Parable of the Sower Explained ( Matthew 13:18–23 ; Luke 8:11–15 )"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 4, "verse": "13", "text": "but if, said he, you don't comprehend this easy parable, how can ye understand any of the rest?"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 4, "verse": "14", "text": "the sower is he that soweth the word."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 4, "verse": "15", "text": "they who receiv'd seed by the wayside, are those in whom the word is sown, who no sooner have heard it, but satan comes and takes away the word that was sown in their hearts."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 4, "verse": "16", "text": "in like manner, they who receive seed on stony-ground, are such as upon hearing the word, do immediately receive it with joy."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 4, "verse": "17", "text": "but having no root at the bottom, they are only occasional professors, for if they meet with any trouble or persecution upon account of the word, immediately they revolt."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 4, "verse": "18", "text": "as for those, who receive seed as among thorns: they are such as hear the word."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 4, "verse": "19", "text": "but the cares of this life, the deceitful love of riches, and a crowd of different passions, stifle the word, and it becomes unfruitful."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 4, "verse": "20", "text": "they who receive seed as on good ground, are such as hear the word and entertain it, and bring forth fruit, some in one degree, and some in another. The Lesson of the Lamp ( Luke 8:16–18 )"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 4, "verse": "21", "text": "Again he said, is a lamp ever brought to be put under a bushel, or under a bed? or to be set on a stand?"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 4, "verse": "22", "text": "for there is nothing conceal'd but what shall be made manifest: nor was any thing kept secret, but in order to be divulged."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 4, "verse": "23", "text": "if any man have ears to hear, let him hear."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 4, "verse": "24", "text": "And consider, said he, how you hear; for in proportion as you weigh what is communicated to you, new light shall be given:"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 4, "verse": "25", "text": "for he that makes use of what he has shall have more, but he that does not, shall be stript of what he has. The Seed Growing Secretly"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 4, "verse": "26", "text": "Again, he said, the state of the gospel is like that of the grain, which a man sows in his land:"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 4, "verse": "27", "text": "however he takes his repose by night, or is employ'd by day, the grain shoots up and grows without his inspection."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 4, "verse": "28", "text": "for the earth spontaneously produces, first the blade, then the ear, after that the grain of corn in the ear."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 4, "verse": "29", "text": "but as soon as the fruit is ripe, the sickle is applied, because the harvest is come. The Parable of the Mustard Seed ( Matthew 13:31–32 ; Luke 13:18–19 )"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 4, "verse": "30", "text": "Again he said, to what shall we compare the state of the gospel? or by what parable shall we represent it?"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 4, "verse": "31", "text": "it is like a grain of mustard-seed, which when sown in the earth, is less than any other grain that is sown there."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 4, "verse": "32", "text": "but after it is sown, it grows up, and becometh larger than other plants of the pulse kind, and shooteth out its branches so high, that the fowls of the air may lodge under its shadow."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 4, "verse": "33", "text": "Thus he instructed them by such a variety of parables as were adapted to their capacity."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 4, "verse": "34", "text": "his stile in publick was figurative, but he explain'd every thing to his disciples in private. Jesus Calms the Storm ( Matthew 8:23–27 ; Luke 8:22–25 )"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 4, "verse": "35", "text": "The same day in the evening, he said to them, let us cross over to the other side of the lake."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 4, "verse": "36", "text": "when they had dismiss'd the people, the bark he was in, set sail, in company with other small barks."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 4, "verse": "37", "text": "at length a violent storm ensued, and the waves beat into the ship, that it began to fill,"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 4, "verse": "38", "text": "whilst Jesus was at the stern, asleep on a pillow: upon which they awak'd him, crying out, master, have you so little concern to let us sink? then he rose,"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 4, "verse": "39", "text": "and rebuked the wind, hush, said he, and be still, immediately the wind subsides, and a settled calm ensued."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 4, "verse": "40", "text": "why, said he, are ye so frighted? are ye still so void of faith?"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 4, "verse": "41", "text": "and they were exceedingly afraid, and said to one another, who can this be, that even the wind and the sea obey him?"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 5, "verse": "1", "text": "They arrived then to the other side of the sea, in the country of the Gadarenes."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 5, "verse": "2", "text": "and as soon as Jesus was come out of the ship, he met a demoniack, who came from among the tombs, where he haunted,"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 5, "verse": "3", "text": "no man being able to confine him, no not with chains:"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 5, "verse": "4", "text": "for having been often bound with fetters and chains, he had wrench'd his chains, and broke his fetters, so that no body could tame him."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 5, "verse": "5", "text": "night and day he was in the mountains, howling among the tombs, and hacking his flesh with flints."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 5, "verse": "6", "text": "but when he saw Jesus afar off, he ran and prostrated himself before him."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 5, "verse": "7", "text": "and crying with a loud voice, said, \"what injury have I done you, Jesus, thou son of the most high God? I adjure thee by God, not to torment me.\""}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 5, "verse": "8", "text": "(for Jesus had said to him, \"come out of the man, thou impure spirit.\")"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 5, "verse": "9", "text": "and Jesus asked him, what is thy name? my name is legion, answered he: for we are many."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 5, "verse": "10", "text": "and he was very importunate with Jesus not to drive them away from that country."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 5, "verse": "11", "text": "now there was a great herd of swine feeding upon the mountain;"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 5, "verse": "12", "text": "and all the demons intreated him, saying, \"send us to the swine, that we may enter into them.\""}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 5, "verse": "13", "text": "Jesus immediately gave them leave, and the impure spirits quitting the possessed, entred into the swine, and the whole herd, which were about two thousand, ran down a precipice into the sea, and were there stifled."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 5, "verse": "14", "text": "then they that fed the swine fled, and told the news to town and country, and they went out to see what had been done."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 5, "verse": "15", "text": "when they were come to Jesus, and saw him that had been possessed with the legion of demons, sitting in his clothes, and in his right mind, they were afraid."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 5, "verse": "16", "text": "and when the eye-witnesses had related what had pass'd with respect to the demoniack, and to the swine:"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 5, "verse": "17", "text": "they intreated him to withdraw from their territories."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 5, "verse": "18", "text": "as he was embarking, the late demoniack desired, that he might be with Jesus."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 5, "verse": "19", "text": "however, Jesus refused him, and said, go home to thy friends, and tell them what great things the Lord hath done for thee, and how he hath had compassion on thee."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 5, "verse": "20", "text": "and he departed, and published in Decapolis, what Jesus had done for him: and all were filled with admiration. The Healing Touch of Jesus ( Matthew 9:18–26 ; Luke 8:40–56 )"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 5, "verse": "21", "text": "When Jesus had repassed in the vessel to the other side, a crowd of people gathered about him, while he was nigh the sea."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 5, "verse": "22", "text": "when one of the rulers of the synagogue, Jairus by name, came, and as soon as he saw him, fell at his feet,"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 5, "verse": "23", "text": "and earnestly intreated him, saying, \"my little daughter is at the last extremity, pray come and lay thy hands on her, that she may be healed, and live.\""}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 5, "verse": "24", "text": "so Jesus went with him, attended by a great crowd, that press'd about him."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 5, "verse": "25", "text": "Now there was a woman, who had been affected with an hemorrhage twelve years:"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 5, "verse": "26", "text": "having suffered much from several physicians, she had spent all her fortune, and instead of being any thing the better, she rather grew worse."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 5, "verse": "27", "text": "but having heard of Jesus; she came behind him in the crowd, and touched his garment."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 5, "verse": "28", "text": "for said she, if I do but touch his clothes, I shall be cured."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 5, "verse": "29", "text": "and immediately the source of her disorder was dried up: and she sensibly perceived she was healed of that indisposition."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 5, "verse": "30", "text": "Jesus conscious of the influence he had exerted, immediately turned towards the crowd, and said, who touched my clothes?"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 5, "verse": "31", "text": "his disciples replied, you see the multitude press about you, and do you ask, who touched you?"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 5, "verse": "32", "text": "however, he looked about to see who it was."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 5, "verse": "33", "text": "then the woman, conscious of what had been effected in her, came trembling with fear, and falling down before him, confess'd the whole truth."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 5, "verse": "34", "text": "and he said to her, daughter, thy faith hath saved thee; go in peace, entirely freed from your indisposition."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 5, "verse": "35", "text": "Before he had done speaking, messengers came from the ruler of the synagogue's house, who said, \"your daughter is dead, why do you give the master any further trouble?\""}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 5, "verse": "36", "text": "Jesus, upon hearing that, immediately said to the ruler of the synagogue, \"be not afraid, only believe.\""}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 5, "verse": "37", "text": "and he suffered no man to follow him, except Peter, and James, and John the brother of James:"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 5, "verse": "38", "text": "being come to the house of the ruler of the synagogue, and seeing a tumultuous crowd of people weeping and howling,"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 5, "verse": "39", "text": "at his going in he said to them, what's the meaning of this uproar, what do you weep for? the damsel is not dead, but asleep."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 5, "verse": "40", "text": "upon which they fell a laughing: however, having turned them all out, and taking with him the father and the mother of the damsel, and those that had accompany'd him, he entred in where the damsel was lying."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 5, "verse": "41", "text": "then taking her hand, he said to her, Talitha cumi, that is to say, damsel, arise, 'tis I command you."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 5, "verse": "42", "text": "immediately the damsel arose, and walked, for she was twelve years of age: and they were struck with astonishment."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 5, "verse": "43", "text": "but he strictly charged them not to mention it to any one, and order'd something should be given her to eat."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 6, "verse": "1", "text": "Jesus leaving that place, went into his own country, attended by his disciples."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 6, "verse": "2", "text": "when the sabbath was come, he preach'd in the synagogue, to the great astonishment of many, who upon hearing his discourse, said, how came he by all this? what strange endowment of knowledge is this, that he should work such miracles?"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 6, "verse": "3", "text": "is not he the carpenter, the son of Mary, the brother of James and Joses, of Juda and Simon? are not these his sisters, who are here with us? and they were scandalized at him."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 6, "verse": "4", "text": "but Jesus said to him, a prophet is never despis'd, except in his own country, among his own kindred, and in his own family:"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 6, "verse": "5", "text": "so that excepting the cure of a few sick by the imposition of hands, he would not work any miracle there,"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 6, "verse": "6", "text": "they were so marvellously incredulous, so that He went all about to teach in the neighbouring villages. The Ministry of the Twelve ( Matthew 10:5–15 ; Luke 9:1–6 )"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 6, "verse": "7", "text": "Now having called the twelve, he sent them out by two and two, giving them power to exorcize spirits:"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 6, "verse": "8", "text": "he order'd them to take nothing for their journey, but a single staff, no scrip, no bread, nor money in their purse:"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 6, "verse": "9", "text": "to have but one pair of shoes, and but one coat."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 6, "verse": "10", "text": "whatever house you enter into, said he, there abide, till you leave the place."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 6, "verse": "11", "text": "wherever they shall refuse to entertain you, or to hear you, at your departure shake off the dust of your feet, as a testimonial against them. I assure you, the people of Sodom and Gomorrha shall be treated with less severity in the day of judgment, than that city."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 6, "verse": "12", "text": "then they departed, and call'd upon all to repent."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 6, "verse": "13", "text": "they dispossess'd a great number of demons, many, that were sick, they anointed with oil, and restor'd their health. The Beheading of John ( Matthew 14:1–12 ; Luke 9:7–9 )"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 6, "verse": "14", "text": "In the mean time king Herod heard of Jesus, whose name was now celebrated, and he said, John the Baptist is risen from the dead, no wonder then that he works miracles."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 6, "verse": "15", "text": "others said, 'tis Elias, others, 'tis a prophet, or one equal to a prophet."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 6, "verse": "16", "text": "but Herod, from what he had heard, said, 'tis John himself, whom I caused to be beheaded, who is risen from the dead."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 6, "verse": "17", "text": "for Herod had given orders to seize John, and had confin'd him in prison, to gratify Herodias, his brother Philip's wife, whom he had married;"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 6, "verse": "18", "text": "upon which John told him, \"it is not lawful for you to have your brother's wife.\""}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 6, "verse": "19", "text": "which Herodias resented, and form'd a design against his life, but could not execute it;"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 6, "verse": "20", "text": "because Herod had a respect for John, knowing him to be a very honest good man, and therefore protected him; having reform'd many things upon his remonstrances, which he us'd to receive very graciously."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 6, "verse": "21", "text": "however, a favourable opportunity happen'd for her, upon Herod's making an entertainment the birth-night, for all the great officers of the court, and army, and persons of the first distinction in Galilee."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 6, "verse": "22", "text": "for Herodias made her appearance there, and danc'd with such an engaging air in the eye of Herod, as well as of all the company, that the king thus addrest himself to the young lady, \"ask of me whatever you please, and it shall be granted.\""}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 6, "verse": "23", "text": "nay, he ratified his promise with an oath, \"I will give you whatever you require, said he, tho' it be even the half of my kingdom.\""}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 6, "verse": "24", "text": "then she withdrew, and said to her mother, what shall I ask? the head of John the Baptist, said she."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 6, "verse": "25", "text": "upon which she instantly fled to the king, and said, I desire to have John the Baptist's head brought hither immediately in a charger."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 6, "verse": "26", "text": "at this the king was exceedingly concern'd; however, in regard to his oath, and to those who were at table with him, he would not refuse her;"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 6, "verse": "27", "text": "but immediately dispatch'd the proper officer with orders to bring the head of John the Baptist."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 6, "verse": "28", "text": "accordingly he went, and beheaded him in the prison, and bringing the head in a charger, he presented it to the young lady, who gave it to her mother:"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 6, "verse": "29", "text": "of which John's disciples being inform'd, they came to fetch his corps, which they laid in a sepulchre. The Feeding of the Five Thousand ( Matthew 14:13–21 ; Luke 9:10–17 ; John 6:1–15 )"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 6, "verse": "30", "text": "Now the apostles met together in a body before Jesus, and gave him a full account, both of what they had done, and what they had taught."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 6, "verse": "31", "text": "then Jesus said to them, come, let us retire privately to some place of solitude, to repose your selves a while, for such a crowd of people were continually coming and going, that they had not even time to eat."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 6, "verse": "32", "text": "so they privately set sail for the desart (of Bethsaida.)"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 6, "verse": "33", "text": "but the people saw them embark, and many perceiving where they were bound, they ran thither a foot from all parts: and arrived at the place, before the passengers were come."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 6, "verse": "34", "text": "so that when Jesus landed, he found there a numerous assembly: which rais'd his compassion, because they were like so many sheep straggling without a pastor, whereupon he gave them various instructions."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 6, "verse": "35", "text": "but as the day was far advanc'd, his disciples came to him, and said, this is a desart place, and it is now late."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 6, "verse": "36", "text": "dismiss the company, that they may go to the neighbouring farms and villages to buy provisions, for they have nothing to eat."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 6, "verse": "37", "text": "Jesus replied, do you your selves give them something to eat, shall we go then, said they, to purchase bread, to the value of two hundred denarii, for them to eat?"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 6, "verse": "38", "text": "go see, said he, how many loaves you have: and having examin'd, they told him, five, and two fishes."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 6, "verse": "39", "text": "then he order'd the people to sit down in distinct companies upon the green grass."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 6, "verse": "40", "text": "and they sat down in several divisions, some consisting of an hundred, and some of fifty."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 6, "verse": "41", "text": "Jesus then having taken the five loaves and the two fishes, look'd up to heaven and gave thanks; then breaking the loaves, he gave them to his disciples to distribute among the people: for whom he likewise divided the two fishes."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 6, "verse": "42", "text": "so that they all eat a sufficient share,"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 6, "verse": "43", "text": "though the fragments of bread they took up, with what remain'd of the fishes, amounted to twelve baskets full;"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 6, "verse": "44", "text": "the company that were entertain'd being about five thousand men. Jesus Walks on Water ( Matthew 14:22–33 ; John 6:16–21 )"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 6, "verse": "45", "text": "Soon after Jesus obliged his disciples to embark for Bethsaida, on the opposite shore, while he was dismissing the people."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 6, "verse": "46", "text": "and when they had taken their leave, he retired to a mountain to pray."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 6, "verse": "47", "text": "It was now late in the evening, and the bark in full sea, when Jesus, who was ashore all alone,"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 6, "verse": "48", "text": "perceived his disciples had much ado to bear up against the wind, which was contrary; about the fourth watch of the night, he came up, and would have pass'd by them."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 6, "verse": "49", "text": "when they saw him walking upon the sea, they thought it was an apparition,"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 6, "verse": "50", "text": "for they all saw him, and were greatly terrified, but at the instant Jesus spoke to them, and said, take courage, it is I, don't be afraid."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 6, "verse": "51", "text": "and as soon as he was got aboard, the wind ceased; which still encreas'd their astonishment and admiration:"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 6, "verse": "52", "text": "for they were so stupid, they did not comprehend the miracle of the loaves. Jesus Heals at Gennesaret ( Matthew 14:34–36 )"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 6, "verse": "53", "text": "Being got to the other side of the lake, they came to the country of Gennasereth, where they landed."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 6, "verse": "54", "text": "no sooner were they ashore, but the people, who presently perceiv'd it was Jesus,"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 6, "verse": "55", "text": "came flocking from all quarters, carrying their sick on their beds to the places where they heard he was:"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 6, "verse": "56", "text": "and to whatever cities, towns, or villages he went, they expos'd the sick in the publick streets, entreating him, they might but touch the border of his garment; for as many as did so, were recover'd."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 7, "verse": "1", "text": "The Pharisees, and certain Scribes from Jerusalem, came in a body to Jesus;"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 7, "verse": "2", "text": "when observing that some of his disciples were eating with profane hands, that is, without having wash'd them, they found fault."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 7, "verse": "3", "text": "for the Pharisees, and the Jews in general, in pursuance of their antient traditions, never eat till they have wash'd their hands up to their elbows."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 7, "verse": "4", "text": "nay, when they have been at any publick place, they never eat till they have washed, they observe besides several traditions, such as the washing of cups, pots, brass vessels, and beds."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 7, "verse": "5", "text": "the Pharisees, and Scribes therefore ask'd Jesus, why don't your disciples observe the tradition of the antients? why do they take their meals without washing their hands?"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 7, "verse": "6", "text": "Jesus answered, to such hypocrites as you may well be applied those words of the prophet Esaias, \"this people honour me with their lips, but their heart is far from me."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 7, "verse": "7", "text": "in vain do they worship me, teaching for doctrines the institutions of men.\""}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 7, "verse": "8", "text": "for laying aside what is of divine appointment, you stick to their human traditions, about the washing of pots, and cups, and many other the like practices."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 7, "verse": "9", "text": "You are in the right, said he, to abolish the laws of God, to make way for such traditions."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 7, "verse": "10", "text": "Moses said, \"honour thy father and thy mother;\" and, if any one speak contemptibly of his father, or his mother, let him be put to death."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 7, "verse": "11", "text": "but your doctrine is this, if any one shall tell his father or his mother, that what he could bestow for their relief, is corban, that is, to be given to the temple;"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 7, "verse": "12", "text": "you discharge him from the obligation of doing any thing for his father or his mother."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 7, "verse": "13", "text": "by such traditions, and such a number of practices, as you have settled, the word of God is stript of all its authority. What Defiles a Man ( Matthew 15:10–20 )"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 7, "verse": "14", "text": "Then Jesus having called all the people to him, said, attend every one of you, and understand."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 7, "verse": "15", "text": "there is nothing from without, that entring into a man can defile him: but that which originally proceeds from the man, is what defiles him."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 7, "verse": "16", "text": "he that hath ears to hear, let him hear."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 7, "verse": "17", "text": "When he withdrew from the people into the house, his disciples ask'd him the meaning of that maxim."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 7, "verse": "18", "text": "and he said, are you likewise so void of understanding? don't you perceive that what passes from without into a man cannot defile him?"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 7, "verse": "19", "text": "because that does not enter into his heart, but into the belly, whence it is discharg'd, the purest part of the food being left for nutrition."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 7, "verse": "20", "text": "but, said he, that which proceeds from a man, is what defiles him:"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 7, "verse": "21", "text": "for from within, from the heart of man proceed wicked designs, adulteries, fornications, murders; thefts,"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 7, "verse": "22", "text": "avarice, malice, fraud, impudence, envy, scandal, pride, vanity."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 7, "verse": "23", "text": "all these vices come from within, and are what defile the man. The Faith of the Gentile Woman ( Matthew 15:21–28 )"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 7, "verse": "24", "text": "Jesus leaving that place, went towards the frontiers of Tyre and Sidon; and entring into a house, desired to let nobody know it; but he could not be conceal'd."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 7, "verse": "25", "text": "for a woman, whose child was possess'd with an impure spirit, having heard of him, found him out, and throwing herself at his feet,"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 7, "verse": "26", "text": "entreated him to force the demon out of her daughter; now the woman was a Greek, a Syrophenician by nation."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 7, "verse": "27", "text": "Jesus therefore said to her, let the children first be satisfy'd; for it would not be decent to take the children's bread, and throw it to puppys."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 7, "verse": "28", "text": "she answer'd, true, Lord, yet puppys eat of the crumbs, which children drop under the table."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 7, "verse": "29", "text": "then said Jesus to her, for this expression, go thy way, the demon has left your daughter."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 7, "verse": "30", "text": "accordingly she went home, where she found that the demon was indeed gone out of her daughter, and she was lying on the bed. The Deaf and Mute Man ( Matthew 9:27–34 )"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 7, "verse": "31", "text": "Jesus then quitting the confines of Tyre and Sidon, and passing to the confines of Decapolis, came back to the sea of Gallilee."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 7, "verse": "32", "text": "and they presented to him a deaf man, that had an impediment in his speech, desiring he would lay his hands upon him."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 7, "verse": "33", "text": "Jesus taking him aside from the crowd, spit upon his fingers, and applied them to the ears and to the tongue of the deaf man."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 7, "verse": "34", "text": "then looking up to heaven, with a sigh, he said, Ephphata, that is, be open:"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 7, "verse": "35", "text": "and his Ears were instantly opened, his tongue was loosen'd, and he spoke freely."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 7, "verse": "36", "text": "and Jesus charg'd them not to mention it to any one; but the more be enjoin'd them, the more they publish'd it."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 7, "verse": "37", "text": "for they were transported with admiration, and said, all his actions are beneficent! he gives hearing to the deaf, and speech to the dumb."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 8, "verse": "1", "text": "At that time, as the company were very numerous, and had nothing to eat, Jesus called his disciples, and said,"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 8, "verse": "2", "text": "I am concern'd for this people, they have been with me now three days without having had any thing to eat."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 8, "verse": "3", "text": "if I send them home fasting, they will faint by the way: for some of them are come very far."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 8, "verse": "4", "text": "his disciples answer'd, how is it possible here in the desart to furnish bread enough for all this company?"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 8, "verse": "5", "text": "he ask'd them, how many loaves have ye?"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 8, "verse": "6", "text": "seven, said they, then he order'd the people to sit down on the ground: and taking the seven loaves, he gave thanks, then broke them and gave them to his disciples to distribute among the people, which they accordingly did."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 8, "verse": "7", "text": "and there being a few small fishes, he gave thanks, and order'd them to be distributed."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 8, "verse": "8", "text": "so they all eat and were satisfied, the broken meat that was left amounting to seven baskets."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 8, "verse": "9", "text": "now they that had eaten were four thousand: and then he dismissed them."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 8, "verse": "10", "text": "Soon after he and his disciples embark'd, and arrived in the district of Dalmanutha. The Demand for a Sign ( Matthew 16:1–4 ; Luke 12:54–56 )"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 8, "verse": "11", "text": "there the Pharisees being come, they began to dispute with him, and to try him, desir'd he would work some miracle in the sky."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 8, "verse": "12", "text": "but Jesus fetching a deep sigh, said, why does this generation require a sign? I assure you, they shall have none."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 8, "verse": "13", "text": "then leaving them he went aboard again, and pass'd to the other side. The Leaven of the Pharisees and of Herod ( Matthew 16:5–12 ; Luke 12:1–3 )"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 8, "verse": "14", "text": "Now the disciples had forgot to take bread, and had but one loaf aboard with them."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 8, "verse": "15", "text": "as he was then directing them diligently to beware of the leaven of the Pharisees, and of the leaven of Herod,"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 8, "verse": "16", "text": "they said to one another, this is because we did not take bread: which Jesus perceiving,"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 8, "verse": "17", "text": "said, why do you trouble your heads about your having no bread? are you yet so void of sense, and understanding? are your minds so blinded?"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 8, "verse": "18", "text": "have you eyes, and yet don't see? have you ears, and yet not hear? have you lost your memory too?"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 8, "verse": "19", "text": "when I divided the five loaves among five thousand people, how many baskets full of fragments did you take away? they answer'd, twelve."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 8, "verse": "20", "text": "and when I divided the seven loaves among four thousand, how many baskets full of fragments did you carry away? they answered, seven."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 8, "verse": "21", "text": "don't you yet, said he, comprehend my meaning? The Blind Man at Bethsaida"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 8, "verse": "22", "text": "Afterwards Jesus went to Bethsaida, where they presented to him a blind man, whom they entreated Jesus to touch."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 8, "verse": "23", "text": "then taking the blind man by the hand, he led him out of town, when applying his spittle to the man's eyes, and laying his hands upon him, he ask'd if he saw any thing."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 8, "verse": "24", "text": "so looking up, he said, I see men; for by their walking I distinguish them from trees."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 8, "verse": "25", "text": "then he put his hands upon his eyes, and made him look again, and his sight was so well recovered, he could see distinctly."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 8, "verse": "26", "text": "so he sent him home, with a charge not to go into the town, nor mention it to any body belonging to that place. Peter’s Confession of Christ ( Matthew 16:13–20 ; Luke 9:18–20 ; John 6:67–71 )"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 8, "verse": "27", "text": "From thence Jesus went attended with his disciples to the villages of Cesarea Philippi, and ask'd them by the way, who do they say I am?"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 8, "verse": "28", "text": "they answered, some say you are John the Baptist; others, Elias; and others, one of the prophets."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 8, "verse": "29", "text": "but who, said he, do you take me to be? Peter answered, you are the Messiah:"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 8, "verse": "30", "text": "upon which he gave them a severe charge, not to say that of him to any man. Christ’s Passion Foretold ( Matthew 16:21–23 ; Luke 9:21–22 )"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 8, "verse": "31", "text": "At length he began to inform them, that the son of man should suffer many indignities, be rejected by the chief priests, Scribes, and senators, be even put to death, and after three days should rise again."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 8, "verse": "32", "text": "and this he said in such an undisguised manner, that Peter took him aside, and pretended to reprimand him."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 8, "verse": "33", "text": "but Jesus return'd, and looking upon his disciples, he gave Peter this rebuke, be gone, thou adversary, your views are all worldly, regardless of what is divine. Take Up Your Cross ( Matthew 16:24–28 ; Luke 9:23–27 )"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 8, "verse": "34", "text": "Then addressing himself to the people, and his disciples, he said, he that desires to be under my conduct, let him renounce himself, and follow me."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 8, "verse": "35", "text": "for he that would save his life, shall lose it; and he that would lose his life out of love to me and the gospel, he shall save it."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 8, "verse": "36", "text": "what advantage is it for a man to gain the whole world with the loss of his life?"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 8, "verse": "37", "text": "or what would not a man bestow to preserve himself?"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 8, "verse": "38", "text": "whosoever therefore shall be asham'd of me, and of my doctrine in this degenerate and corrupted age, of him likewise shall the son of man be asham'd, when he shall come with the glory of his father, accompanied with holy angels."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 9, "verse": "1", "text": "I declare unto you, said he, that some of you here present shall not die, till they see the kingdom of the Messiah usher'd in with power."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 9, "verse": "2", "text": "Six days after Jesus took Peter, James and John, and accompanied them up a high mountain in private; and was transfigured in their presence."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 9, "verse": "3", "text": "his raiment was of an exceeding bright whiteness, like that of snow, and such as no fuller upon earth could imitate."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 9, "verse": "4", "text": "Moses and Elias likewise appear'd, and were in conference with Jesus."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 9, "verse": "5", "text": "then Peter thus address'd himself to Jesus, master, it is proper for us to be here: let us make therefore three tabernacles, one for you, one for Moses, and one for Elias."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 9, "verse": "6", "text": "for he knew not what he said, they were all so frightned."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 9, "verse": "7", "text": "then a cloud surrounded them, and a voice from the cloud, said, \"this is my beloved son, hear him.\""}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 9, "verse": "8", "text": "and instantly looking round about, they did not see any other person but Jesus with them."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 9, "verse": "9", "text": "as they were going down the mountain, he order'd them not to tell any body what they had seen, till the son of man was raised from the dead:"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 9, "verse": "10", "text": "an expression which they dwelt upon, asking one another the meaning of \"till he was raised from the dead.\""}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 9, "verse": "11", "text": "At length they started this question, why do the Scribes say, that Elias must first come?"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 9, "verse": "12", "text": "it is true, said he, that Elias must come beforehand to establish every thing, and that it was predicted of him, as well as of the son of man, that he should suffer very much, and be treated with contempt."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 9, "verse": "13", "text": "but I tell you, that Elias is already come, as it was foretold; and they have treated him at their discretion. The Boy with an Evil Spirit ( Matthew 17:14–18 ; Luke 9:37–42 )"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 9, "verse": "14", "text": "When he was come to the other disciples, he found a great crowd about them, and the Pharisees disputing with them."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 9, "verse": "15", "text": "as soon as they saw him, they were over-joyed, and ran to salute him."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 9, "verse": "16", "text": "then he ask'd the Scribes, what were you debating with them?"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 9, "verse": "17", "text": "and one of the crowd answer'd, master, I have brought to you my son, who is possess'd with a dumb spirit,"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 9, "verse": "18", "text": "which no sooner comes on him, but it throws him down: then the child foams, gnashes his teeth, and grows meager."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 9, "verse": "19", "text": "then said Jesus, incredulous people, how long shall I be with you? must I be always assisting you? bring him before me."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 9, "verse": "20", "text": "so he was brought to him, and as soon as he saw him, the spirit threw him into convulsions, and he fell upon the ground, where he wallowed foaming."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 9, "verse": "21", "text": "Jesus then asked the father, how long is it since this befel him? from his infancy, said the father."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 9, "verse": "22", "text": "it has frequently thrown him into the fire, and into the water, to the hazard of his life; if therefore you can do any thing, have compassion on us, and help us."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 9, "verse": "23", "text": "Jesus said to him, provided you can believe, there is nothing but what may be effected for those that believe."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 9, "verse": "24", "text": "immediately the child's father cryed out with tears, I do believe, oh supply the defect of my faith."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 9, "verse": "25", "text": "Jesus observing the people came crowding to him, rebuked the evil spirit, saying, thou dumb and deaf spirit come out of the child, never to enter more, it is I command it."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 9, "verse": "26", "text": "and the spirit came out of him, having made him roar, and thrown him into such agonies, that he became like one that was dead, and many were of opinion he actually was so."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 9, "verse": "27", "text": "but Jesus taking him by the hand, raised him up, and he was perfectly recovered."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 9, "verse": "28", "text": "now when Jesus was retired to his own house, his disciples asked him in private, why could not we cast this spirit out?"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 9, "verse": "29", "text": "Jesus answered, such a miracle is not effected but by prayer and fasting. The Second Prediction of the Passion ( Matthew 17:22–23 ; Luke 9:43–45 )"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 9, "verse": "30", "text": "Having left that place, they went a private way through Galilee: for he was willing to be conceal'd."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 9, "verse": "31", "text": "in the mean time he gave his disciples this intimation, \"the son of man is going to be delivered up into the hands of men, who will put him to death, and three days after he is put to death he shall rise again.\""}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 9, "verse": "32", "text": "but they did not comprehend the meaning, and were ashamed to ask him about it. The Greatest in the Kingdom ( Matthew 18:1–5 ; Luke 9:46–50 )"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 9, "verse": "33", "text": "At length, he arrived at Capernaum, where being in his own house, he asked his disciples, what were you disputing about by the way?"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 9, "verse": "34", "text": "at which they were silent, for upon the road they had disputed about precedency."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 9, "verse": "35", "text": "then sitting down, he address'd himself to the twelve, saying, he that would be the first, must be the last of all, and the servant of all."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 9, "verse": "36", "text": "then taking a little child, he set him down before them; and embracing him in his arms, he said to them,"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 9, "verse": "37", "text": "whoever receives such a child as this upon my account, receives me; and he that receiveth me, does not so properly receive me, as the commands of him that sent me."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 9, "verse": "38", "text": "Upon this occasion John address'd himself to Jesus, saying, master, we saw a man casting out demons in your name, tho' he did not belong to us, for which reason we opposed him."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 9, "verse": "39", "text": "but Jesus said, do not oppose him: for no man can speak evil of me, at the same time he works a miracle by virtue of my name."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 9, "verse": "40", "text": "such a one is not against us, but for us."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 9, "verse": "41", "text": "and whoever he be that shall give you a cup of water, as being the disciples of Christ, I assure you, he shall not lose his reward. Temptations and Trespasses ( Matthew 18:6–9 ; Luke 17:1–4 )"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 9, "verse": "42", "text": "but if any one shall cause the meanest of those, who believe in me, to transgress, it had been better for him that a milstone were hanged about his neck, and he were thrown into the sea."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 9, "verse": "43", "text": "if even thy hand should make thee transgress, saw it off, and cast it away, it is better for thee to enter into life maimed, than to have both hands and go into Gehenna, the unextinguishable fire:"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 9, "verse": "44", "text": "where their worm does not die, and the fire is not extinguished."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 9, "verse": "45", "text": "and if thy foot make thee transgress, saw it off, it is better for you to enter into life, tho' lame, than to have both feet, and be thrown into Gehenna, the unextinguishable fire:"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 9, "verse": "46", "text": "where their worm does not die, and the fire is not extinguished."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 9, "verse": "47", "text": "and if your eye make you transgress, pull it out; it is better for you to enter into the kingdom of God, with but one eye, than to have two, and be thrown into the Gehenna of fire: where the worm does not die,"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 9, "verse": "48", "text": "and the fire is not extinguished. Good Salt ( Matthew 5:13–16 ; Luke 14:34–35 )"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 9, "verse": "49", "text": "such a one shall be consumed by fire, but the offering that is salted shall be preserv'd from corruption."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 9, "verse": "50", "text": "salt is good, but if the salt become insipid, how shall it recover its savour? don't lose your seasoning, nor your peaceable behaviour to one another."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 10, "verse": "1", "text": "Jesus departed from thence, and went towards the confines of Judea, thro' the country beyond Jordan: where the people resorting to him again, he renewed his instructions to them as usual."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 10, "verse": "2", "text": "then the Pharisees came and propos'd to him this insnaring question, is it lawful for a man to repudiate his wife?"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 10, "verse": "3", "text": "to which he answered, what direction did Moses give you?"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 10, "verse": "4", "text": "Moses, said they, allowed a bill of divorce, and so to dismiss her."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 10, "verse": "5", "text": "but Jesus answered them, it was out of regard to your untractable temper, that Moses gave you this permission."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 10, "verse": "6", "text": "for in the beginning of the world God formed them male and female."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 10, "verse": "7", "text": "\"wherefore, 'tis said, a man shall leave his father and mother, and cleave to his wife, and they two shall be one flesh.\""}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 10, "verse": "8", "text": "consequently they are no longer two, but one person."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 10, "verse": "9", "text": "let no man therefore separate what God has designed to be one."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 10, "verse": "10", "text": "When they were in the house, the disciples asked him again concerning this matter, and he said to them,"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 10, "verse": "11", "text": "whoever repudiates his wife and marries another, commits adultery against her:"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 10, "verse": "12", "text": "and if a woman quits her husband and is married to another, she committeth adultery. Jesus Blesses the Children ( Matthew 19:13–15 ; Luke 18:15–17 )"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 10, "verse": "13", "text": "Then they brought young children to him, that he might lay his hands upon them: but his disciples rebuked those that presented them."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 10, "verse": "14", "text": "which Jesus observing was much displeas'd with them, and said, suffer little children to come unto me, do not hinder them: for of such is the kingdom of God."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 10, "verse": "15", "text": "I declare unto you, he that shall pretend to be admitted into the kingdom of God, and has not the temper of a little child, shall not enter therein."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 10, "verse": "16", "text": "then he embraced them, and laying his hand upon them, he gave them his blessing. The Rich Young Man ( Matthew 19:16–30 ; Luke 18:18–30 )"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 10, "verse": "17", "text": "When he was set out upon his journey, there met him one, who kneeling down before him, said, good master, what must I do to inherit eternal life?"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 10, "verse": "18", "text": "Jesus said to him, why do you call me good? there is but one, who is good, that is God."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 10, "verse": "19", "text": "you know the commandments, \"do not commit adultery, do not kill, do not steal, do not bear false witness, defraud not, honour your father, and mother.\""}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 10, "verse": "20", "text": "to which he answered, master, said he, all these precepts have I observed from my youth."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 10, "verse": "21", "text": "then Jesus looking upon him with a favourable eye, said, there is one thing still to be done; go, sell all your estate, and give it to the poor, and you shall have treasure in heaven; then come, take up the cross, and follow me."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 10, "verse": "22", "text": "but he was troubled at this answer, and went away very sorrowful, for he had a great estate."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 10, "verse": "23", "text": "then Jesus looking round about, said to his disciples, how difficult a thing is it for those who have riches to enter into the gospel kingdom!"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 10, "verse": "24", "text": "at this expression the disciples were much surpriz'd, but Jesus reassum'd the discourse, and said, how difficult a thing is it for those, who place their trust in riches, to enter into the divine kingdom?"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 10, "verse": "25", "text": "it is easier for a cable to pass thro' the eye of a needle, than for such a rich man to enter into the divine kingdom."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 10, "verse": "26", "text": "at this they were more amazed than before, and said to one another, how then can such a man be saved?"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 10, "verse": "27", "text": "but Jesus casting his eye upon them, said, what is impossible to men, is not so to God; for to God all things are possible."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 10, "verse": "28", "text": "Then Peter thus address'd himself to Jesus, you see we have left every thing to follow you."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 10, "verse": "29", "text": "Jesus answered him, I declare unto you, there is not a man who has forsaken his house, or brethren, or sisters, or father, or mother, or wife, or children, or lands, out of love to me and to the gospel,"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 10, "verse": "30", "text": "but shall receive at present in this age, what will be a hundred times better to him, than houses, and brethren, and sisters, and mothers, and children, and lands, tho' with persecution: and in the age to come eternal life."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 10, "verse": "31", "text": "but they that are first shall be last, and the last shall be first. The Third Prediction of the Passion ( Matthew 20:17–19 ; Luke 18:31–34 )"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 10, "verse": "32", "text": "When they were on the road to Jerusalem, Jesus led the way, and they followed behind full of apprehension and fear, then Jesus calling the twelve apostles to him again, acquainted them with what should befal him."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 10, "verse": "33", "text": "now, said he, we are going to Jerusalem, where the son of man will be delivered up to the chief priests, and to the Scribes, who will condemn him to die, and deliver him to the Gentiles."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 10, "verse": "34", "text": "they will treat him with ignominy, subject him to the lash, spit upon him, and at last put him to death, but on the third day he will rise again. The Request of James and John ( Matthew 20:20–28 )"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 10, "verse": "35", "text": "Then James and John, the sons of Zebedee, came to him, and said, we desire you would grant us what we request."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 10, "verse": "36", "text": "what, said he, would you have me do for you?"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 10, "verse": "37", "text": "they replied, when you are in your glory, grant that we may sit, the one on your right hand, and the other on your left."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 10, "verse": "38", "text": "but Jesus said to them, you know not what you ask, can you drink the cup, that I must drink, and be baptized with the baptism with which I must be baptized?"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 10, "verse": "39", "text": "and they said, we can, but Jesus replied, you shall indeed drink of the cup, that I must drink of, and be baptized with the baptism, with which I must be baptized; but to sit on my right hand,"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 10, "verse": "40", "text": "or on my left, is not in my power to grant, except to those for whom it was designed."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 10, "verse": "41", "text": "but the other ten, when they heard this, were fill'd with indignation against James and John."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 10, "verse": "42", "text": "So that Jesus called them to him, and said, you know that the rulers of the Gentiles domineer over them, and their great ones treat them in an imperious manner;"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 10, "verse": "43", "text": "but it shall not be so among young you: on the contrary, whoever would be great among you, he must be your servant;"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 10, "verse": "44", "text": "and whoever would be the chief, he must be the slave of all the rest."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 10, "verse": "45", "text": "for the son of man himself is not come to receive the services of men, but to do them service, and to lay down his life a ransom for many. Jesus Heals Bartimaeus ( Matthew 20:29–34 ; Luke 18:35–43 )"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 10, "verse": "46", "text": "At length they came to Jericho, and as he was leaving Jericho, accompanied by his disciples, and a great number of people, a blind man called Bartimeus sat begging in the high-way."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 10, "verse": "47", "text": "when he heard that it was Jesus of Nazareth, he cried out, and said, Jesus, son of David, have pity on me."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 10, "verse": "48", "text": "but many of the company rebuk'd him, in order to silence him, at which he cry'd out with more earnestness, son of David have pity on me."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 10, "verse": "49", "text": "Jesus therefore stood still, and ordered him to be called; so they called to the blind man, and said, take courage, rise, he calls you."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 10, "verse": "50", "text": "upon which he threw off his loose coat, and went to Jesus;"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 10, "verse": "51", "text": "who thereupon spoke to him, and said, what would you have me do for you? the blind man replied, Lord, I desire to have my sight."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 10, "verse": "52", "text": "and Jesus said to him, go your way, your faith has cur'd you, and immediately he had sight, and followed Jesus in the road."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 11, "verse": "1", "text": "As they came near to Jerusalem, about Bethphage and Bethany, by the mount of Olives, Jesus sent two of his disciples, and said to them:"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 11, "verse": "2", "text": "go to yonder village that faces you, and upon your entrance into it, you will find a colt tied, that never was yet backed; loose him, and bring him to me."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 11, "verse": "3", "text": "if any one should ask you, why you do so? tell him, the Lord has occasion for it, and immediately he will send it hither."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 11, "verse": "4", "text": "accordingly they went, and finding the colt tied before a door, where two ways met, they untied it."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 11, "verse": "5", "text": "upon which some people there said to them, what do you mean by untying the colt?"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 11, "verse": "6", "text": "and they answered as Jesus had directed, so they let them go."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 11, "verse": "7", "text": "then they brought the colt to Jesus, and throwing their garments upon it, he mounted thereon."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 11, "verse": "8", "text": "many spread their clothes in the way, others lopt down the branches of trees to strew them in the road."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 11, "verse": "9", "text": "the crowd that march'd before and behind crying out, Hosanna, blessed be he that comes in the name of the Lord;"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 11, "verse": "10", "text": "blessed be the kingdom of our father David, which is now come, Hosanna in the highest heavens."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 11, "verse": "11", "text": "Jesus having made his entrance into Jerusalem, went into the temple, and after he had survey'd the whole, it being then late, he departed with the twelve to Bethany. Jesus Curses the Fig Tree ( Matthew 21:18–22 ; Mark 11:20–25 )"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 11, "verse": "12", "text": "On the morrow when they had left Bethany, he was press'd with hunger."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 11, "verse": "13", "text": "and observing at a distance a fig-tree full of leaves, he went up to it to see if he could find any fruit upon it, but when he came to it, he found it had nothing but leaves, (for it was not the season for that sort of fig.)"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 11, "verse": "14", "text": "thereupon Jesus said to the fig-tree, \"no one shall ever eat any fruit of yours.\" and his disciples took notice of it. Jesus Cleanses the Temple ( Matthew 21:12–17 ; Luke 19:45–48 ; John 2:12–25 )"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 11, "verse": "15", "text": "Being arrived at Jerusalem, Jesus went into the temple, and began to turn out those that bought and sold there; he overthrew the table of Money-changers, and the stalls of those that sold doves."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 11, "verse": "16", "text": "nor would he suffer any baggage to be carried thro' the temple."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 11, "verse": "17", "text": "at the same time he explained himself to them in these words, is it not written, \"my house shall be called a house of prayer to all nations?\" but ye have made it a harbour for thieves."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 11, "verse": "18", "text": "the Scribes and Pharisees upon hearing this consulted together how to destroy him; but they stood in awe of him, because all the people were strangely affected with his doctrine."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 11, "verse": "19", "text": "but at night Jesus withdrew from the city. The Withered Fig Tree ( Matthew 21:18–22 ; Mark 11:12–14 )"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 11, "verse": "20", "text": "In the morning as they were coming back, they saw the fig-tree withered away to the very roots."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 11, "verse": "21", "text": "Peter remembring the tree, said, master, see the fig-tree, which you cursed, is quite withered."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 11, "verse": "22", "text": "but Jesus replied, and said to them, rely upon God."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 11, "verse": "23", "text": "for I assuredly tell you, that whoever shall say to this mountain, be removed, and cast into the sea, having no doubt in his mind, but believing what he says shall be effected, what he pronounces shall actually be accomplished."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 11, "verse": "24", "text": "therefore whenever you pray, be fully persuaded of obtaining your request, and I assure you it shall be granted, whatever it be."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 11, "verse": "25", "text": "only when you are dispos'd to prayer, if you have any cause of complaint against any one, forgive him, that your heavenly father may forgive you your offences."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 11, "verse": "26", "text": "but if you do not forgive others, neither will your heavenly father forgive you. Jesus’ Authority Challenged ( Matthew 21:23–27 ; Luke 20:1–8 )"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 11, "verse": "27", "text": "Then they entred again into Jerusalem: and as he was walking in the temple, the chief priests, the Scribes, and rulers of the Jews came about him,"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 11, "verse": "28", "text": "and asked him, by what authority do you behave thus? and who gave you that authority?"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 11, "verse": "29", "text": "Jesus replied to them, if you will answer one question, that I shall propose to you, then I will tell you by what authority I act thus."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 11, "verse": "30", "text": "the baptism of John, was it of divine, or of human institution?"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 11, "verse": "31", "text": "answer me that, upon this they reasoned thus with themselves; if we should say, it was divine, he will urge, why then did you not believe him?"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 11, "verse": "32", "text": "if we should say, it was a human institution, we run a risk from the people. (for they all believed John was a true prophet.)"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 11, "verse": "33", "text": "they therefore gave Jesus this answer, we cannot tell, neither do I, said Jesus, acquaint you by what authority I act thus."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 12, "verse": "1", "text": "Then Jesus address'd himself to them in this parabolical manner, a certain person planted a vineyard, made a fence about it, clear'd the way for a wine-press, built a tower, and committed it to the care of vine-dressers, while he was travelling abroad."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 12, "verse": "2", "text": "at the time of vintage he sent his servant to the vine-dressers to receive the profits of his vineyard."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 12, "verse": "3", "text": "but they seized on him, and beat him, and sent him home empty."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 12, "verse": "4", "text": "after this he sent another servant to them, him they assaulted with stones and cudgels, and sent him back with contempt."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 12, "verse": "5", "text": "then he sent another, whom they killed: and of several more, some they beat, some they killed."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 12, "verse": "6", "text": "at last, having one only son, whom he loved, he sent him to them; surely, said he, they will reverence my son."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 12, "verse": "7", "text": "but these husbandmen said to one another, this is the heir, come, let us kill him, and the inheritance will be our own."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 12, "verse": "8", "text": "so they seized upon him, and dragg'd him out of the vineyard, and killed him."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 12, "verse": "9", "text": "now what will the master of the vineyard do? on his return, said they, he will destroy those vine-dressers, and give his vineyard to others."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 12, "verse": "10", "text": "have you not read, said he, this passage of scripture, \"the stone which the builders rejected, is become the principal stone of the angle."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 12, "verse": "11", "text": "it is the Lord, that has done this, and it is marvellous in our eyes.\""}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 12, "verse": "12", "text": "then they contriv'd how they might seize him, for they perceived, that he applied the parable to them; but for fear of the people they left him, and went away. Paying Taxes to Caesar ( Matthew 22:15–22 ; Luke 20:19–26 )"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 12, "verse": "13", "text": "Then they sent some of the Pharisees, and of the Herodians to insnare him in his discourse."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 12, "verse": "14", "text": "when they were come, they said to him, master, we know that you are sincere, that you are not influenced by any one, for you have no regard to the person of men: but teach us the way of God according to truth, now should we pay tribute to Cesar, or no? shall we pay, or shall we not pay?"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 12, "verse": "15", "text": "but he, perceiving their hypocrisy, said to them, why do you lay snares for me?"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 12, "verse": "16", "text": "let me see a penny, and when they brought it, he asked them, whose image and inscription is this? they said, Cesar's."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 12, "verse": "17", "text": "to which Jesus reply'd, render to Cesar what belongs to Cesar, and to God what belongs to God, and they were surprized at the answer. The Sadducees and the Resurrection ( Matthew 22:23–33 ; Luke 20:27–40 )"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 12, "verse": "18", "text": "Then the Saducees, who deny the resurrection, came and asked him,"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 12, "verse": "19", "text": "saying, master, Moses has left it us in writing, that if a man dies, and leaves his wife without any children, his brother should marry his widow, in order to perpetuate his name."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 12, "verse": "20", "text": "now there were seven brothers: the first married a wife and died, leaving her without any children."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 12, "verse": "21", "text": "the second married her, and he died too without leaving her any children: the third did the same."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 12, "verse": "22", "text": "so that all the seven married her, but left no children, last of all she died."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 12, "verse": "23", "text": "at the time therefore of the resurrection, when they shall rise, whose wife shall she be of the seven?"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 12, "verse": "24", "text": "for they all married her. Jesus answered them, don't you see you are in a mistake, by being unacquainted with the scriptures, as well as with the power of God?"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 12, "verse": "25", "text": "for when they shall rise from the dead, they neither will marry, nor be given in marriage, but be immortal like the angels in heaven."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 12, "verse": "26", "text": "and as for the dead, that they will actually rise, have you not read in the book of Moses those words, which God pronounc'd out of the bush to him, \"I am the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob?\""}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 12, "verse": "27", "text": "he is not the God of the dead, but the God of the living: and therefore you greatly mistake the meaning. The Greatest Commandment ( Matthew 22:34–40 )"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 12, "verse": "28", "text": "One of the Scribes, that had heard their dispute, observing the propriety of his answers, propos'd this question to him, which is the principal commandment of all?"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 12, "verse": "29", "text": "Jesus answer'd him, the first of all the commandments is thus deliver'd, \"hear, o Israel, the lord our God is the only lord."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 12, "verse": "30", "text": "you shall therefore love the lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, to the utmost of your understanding, and all your faculties.\" this is the first commandment."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 12, "verse": "31", "text": "and the second, which has an affinity to it, is this: \"you shall love your neighbour as yourself.\" there is no other commandment greater than these."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 12, "verse": "32", "text": "the Scribe replied, what you have said, master, is very true, there is one God, and no other but he."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 12, "verse": "33", "text": "and to love him with all the heart, with all the understanding, with all the soul, with all its faculties, and to love one's neighbour as one's self is more acceptable than all the offerings and sacrifices in the world."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 12, "verse": "34", "text": "Jesus observing he answer'd so discreetly, said to him, you are not far from the kingdom of God, and no man after that was so hardy as to ask him any question. Whose Son Is the Christ? ( Matthew 22:41–46 ; Luke 20:41–44 )"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 12, "verse": "35", "text": "As Jesus was teaching in the temple, he address'd himself to them, saying, why do the Scribes maintain that Christ is the son of David?"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 12, "verse": "36", "text": "for David himself, who was inspired by the holy spirit, has this expression, \"the Lord said to my Lord, sit thou at my right hand till I make thy enemies thy foot-stool.\""}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 12, "verse": "37", "text": "now since David himself calls him Lord, how can he be David's son? and the common people heard him with pleasure. Beware of the Scribes ( Luke 20:45–47 )"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 12, "verse": "38", "text": "in the sequel of the discourse, he said to them, beware of the Scribes, who affect to walk about in their long robes, to be saluted in publick places,"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 12, "verse": "39", "text": "and to have the first seats in their synagogues, and at their feasts:"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 12, "verse": "40", "text": "who yet devour widows estates under the shew of making long prayers, such shall receive greater condemnation. The Widow’s Offering ( Luke 21:1–4 )"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 12, "verse": "41", "text": "At length, as Jesus was sitting over-against the treasury, he observed the peoples throwing money into the chest; when many of the rich gave large sums."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 12, "verse": "42", "text": "and there came a certain poor widow, who threw in two mites, to the value of a farthing."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 12, "verse": "43", "text": "upon which he call'd to his disciples, and said to them, I declare unto you, that this poor widow has given more than any of those, who have given to the treasury."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 12, "verse": "44", "text": "for all the rest contributed out of their superfluous substance; but she has contributed what she wanted for her bare subsistence."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 13, "verse": "1", "text": "As Jesus was going out of the temple, one of his disciples said to him, see, master, what stone-work, and buildings are here."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 13, "verse": "2", "text": "but Jesus answer'd him, you see this magnificent structure, which shall not be left till it be all demolished, one stone after another."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 13, "verse": "3", "text": "and when he was sitting upon the mount of Olives over-against the temple, Peter, James, John, and Andrew said to him in private, tell us,"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 13, "verse": "4", "text": "when shall this happen? and what will be the sign that this is going to be accomplished?"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 13, "verse": "5", "text": "Jesus answer'd by saying, take care not to let any one impose upon you;"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 13, "verse": "6", "text": "for many shall come in my name, and say, I am the Messiah; and deceive many."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 13, "verse": "7", "text": "but when ye shall hear the talk of wars, and the noise of wars, be not alarm'd; for that must happen; but the end is not yet."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 13, "verse": "8", "text": "for nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: there shall be earthquakes in divers places, famines and commotions. Witnessing to All Nations ( Matthew 24:9–14 ; Luke 21:10–19 )"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 13, "verse": "9", "text": "these are the beginning of sorrows, then look to your selves: for they will deliver you up to the tribunals, and scourge you in the synagogues: you will be brought before governours, and princes upon my account, to be my witnesses against them."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 13, "verse": "10", "text": "but the gospel must first be published among all nations."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 13, "verse": "11", "text": "now when they shall lead you to deliver you up, be not sollicitous about your defence, don't premeditate upon it; but what shall be suggested to you at the very occasion, that deliver: for it is not you that will plead, but the holy spirit."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 13, "verse": "12", "text": "then the brother shall betray his brother to death, and the father his son: children shall prosecute their parents, and be the instruments to take away their lives:"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 13, "verse": "13", "text": "you will be the object of universal hatred upon my account; but he that shall persevere unto the end, shall be saved. The Abomination of Desolation ( Matthew 24:15–25 ; Luke 21:20–24 )"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 13, "verse": "14", "text": "Now when you shall see the-abomination of desolation, mentioned by the prophet Daniel, establish'd where it ought not to be (let the reader observe) then let those, who are in Judea, flee to the mountains:"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 13, "verse": "15", "text": "he that is upon the battlements let him not descend into the house, nor enter therein to take any thing away: let"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 13, "verse": "16", "text": "not him that is in the field return back to fetch his garment."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 13, "verse": "17", "text": "unhappy the women who are pregnant, and those who nurse children at such a time."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 13, "verse": "18", "text": "pray that your flight be not in the winter."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 13, "verse": "19", "text": "for the distress of that time will be such as never happen'd since the beginning of the world, which God created, to this present, nor ever shall be."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 13, "verse": "20", "text": "so that if the Lord should suffer it to last, no man could escape: but he will not suffer the time to last long, out of regard to his elect."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 13, "verse": "21", "text": "Then if any one shall say to you, Christ is here, or, he is there, don't believe it."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 13, "verse": "22", "text": "for false Christs, and false prophets shall rise, and shall shew signs and prodigies, so as to seduce, if it were possible, even the very elect."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 13, "verse": "23", "text": "be you therefore upon your guard: remember I have forewarned you against all events. The Return of the Son of Man ( Matthew 24:26–31 ; Luke 21:25–28 )"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 13, "verse": "24", "text": "Now after the time of that distress, the sun shall be dark, and the moon shall give no light:"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 13, "verse": "25", "text": "the stars of heaven shall fall, and the powers that are in heaven shall be shaken."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 13, "verse": "26", "text": "then shall they see the son of man coming in the clouds with power and great glory."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 13, "verse": "27", "text": "then will he send his angels, and gather his elect from the four winds, from the remotest part of the earth, to the remotest part of heaven. The Lesson of the Fig Tree ( Matthew 24:32–35 ; Luke 21:29–33 )"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 13, "verse": "28", "text": "Consider this similitude taken from a fig-tree: when its branch is yet tender, and pushes out its leaves, you know that summer is near:"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 13, "verse": "29", "text": "so when you shall see these things happen, know that he is nigh, even at your doors."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 13, "verse": "30", "text": "I declare unto you, this generation shall not be extinct, till all these things be transacted."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 13, "verse": "31", "text": "heaven and earth shall fail, but my words shall never fail. Readiness at Any Hour ( Matthew 24:36–51 ; Luke 12:35–48 )"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 13, "verse": "32", "text": "as to the day and hour, that no one knows, neither the angels in heaven, nor even the son; but the father only."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 13, "verse": "33", "text": "be circumspect, be vigilant, and devout: because you are uncertain when that time will be."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 13, "verse": "34", "text": "when a man travels into foreign parts, he leaves his goods in charge to his servants, he appoints to every one his task, and orders the porter to be vigilant,"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 13, "verse": "35", "text": "watch ye therefore (for you don't know when the master of the house will return; whether at evening, or at midnight, or at the cock-crowing, or in the morning)"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 13, "verse": "36", "text": "for fear by his sudden return he should surprize you sleeping."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 13, "verse": "37", "text": "what I say to you, I say to all, be vigilant."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 14, "verse": "1", "text": "Within two days was the feast of the passover, and of unleavened bread, and the chief priests, with the Scribes, contriv'd how they might seize Jesus by surprize, and put him to death."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 14, "verse": "2", "text": "but they objected, it could not be during the festival, for fear of a popular insurrection. Jesus Anointed at Bethany ( Matthew 26:6–13 ; Luke 7:36–50 ; John 12:1–8 )"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 14, "verse": "3", "text": "now being at Bethany, in the house of Simon the leper, while he was at table, there came a woman with a viol full of the perfume of spikenard, which was very costly; and she opened the viol, and poured it upon his head."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 14, "verse": "4", "text": "but some had a secret indignation, and said, why must the perfume be so wasted?"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 14, "verse": "5", "text": "for we could have sold it for above two hundred denarys, and given them to the poor: and they inveighed against her."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 14, "verse": "6", "text": "but Jesus said, let her alone, why do you disquiet her? it is commendable, what she has done out of respect to me."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 14, "verse": "7", "text": "the poor you have always with you, and you may relieve them whenever you please: but me you will not always have."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 14, "verse": "8", "text": "she has done what she could: she has perfum'd my body previously to my burial."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 14, "verse": "9", "text": "I declare unto you, in whatever quarter of the world this part of the gospel-history shall be related, this action of hers shall be mention'd to her praise. Judas Agrees to Betray Jesus ( Matthew 26:14–16 ; Luke 22:3–6 )"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 14, "verse": "10", "text": "Then Judas Iscariot, one of the twelve, went to the chief priests, in order to betray him to them."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 14, "verse": "11", "text": "they were glad to hear him, and promis'd to give him money, upon which he contriv'd the most favourable occasion to betray him. Preparing the Passover ( Matthew 26:17–19 ; Luke 22:7–13 )"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 14, "verse": "12", "text": "On the first day of unleavened bread, when the paschal lamb is kill'd, his disciples said to him, where would you have us go and prepare for your eating the paschal lamb?"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 14, "verse": "13", "text": "upon which he dispatch'd two of his disciples, and said to them: go into the city, and you will meet a man carrying a pitcher of water; follow him."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 14, "verse": "14", "text": "and wherever he enters, say to the master of the house: \"thus saith our master; where is the chamber, where I shall eat the passover with my disciples?\""}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 14, "verse": "15", "text": "and he will shew you a large upper room ready furnished: there make preparation for us."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 14, "verse": "16", "text": "his disciples therefore went away, and being come into the city, they found every thing, as he had told them; and they prepared the paschal lamb. The Last Supper ( Matthew 26:20–30 ; Luke 22:14–23 ; 1 Corinthians 11:17–34 )"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 14, "verse": "17", "text": "There he came in the evening with the twelve."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 14, "verse": "18", "text": "and as they sat eating, Jesus said, verily I say unto you, one of you that is eating with me, will betray me."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 14, "verse": "19", "text": "and they were seized with sorrow, all successively asking him, is it I?"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 14, "verse": "20", "text": "but he answered them, saying, it is one of the twelve, he that eats of the same mess with me."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 14, "verse": "21", "text": "the son of man is going indeed, according to what is written of him: but wo to that man, by whom the son of man is betrayed: it would be better for that man, if he had never been born."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 14, "verse": "22", "text": "When they had been eating, Jesus took bread, and having given thanks, he brake it, and gave it to them, and said, take it, this represents my body."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 14, "verse": "23", "text": "and he took the cup, and when he had given thanks, he gave it to them, and they all drank of it."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 14, "verse": "24", "text": "and he said to them, this represents the effusion of my blood (the sanction of the new covenant) for mankind."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 14, "verse": "25", "text": "but this I tell you, I will never more drink of this fruit of the vine, from this time forth to that day, when I shall drink with you of the spiritual wine in the kingdom of God."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 14, "verse": "26", "text": "Then, having sung an hymn, they went out towards the mount of Olives. Jesus Predicts Peter’s Denial ( Matthew 26:31–35 ; Luke 22:31–38 ; John 13:36–38 )"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 14, "verse": "27", "text": "and Jesus said to them, this night you will all be staggered upon my account: for it is written, \"I will smite the shepherd, and the sheep shall be scattered.\""}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 14, "verse": "28", "text": "but after I am risen, I will go before you into Galilee."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 14, "verse": "29", "text": "upon which Peter said to him, tho' all should stagger, yet I will not."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 14, "verse": "30", "text": "Jesus said to him, verily I tell thee, to-day, even this night, before the cock crow twice, you will renounce me thrice."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 14, "verse": "31", "text": "but he urg'd it with more vehemence, tho' I should die with you, I will not renounce you, and all the rest affirm'd the same. Jesus Prays at Gethsemane ( Matthew 26:36–46 ; Luke 22:39–46 )"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 14, "verse": "32", "text": "At length they came to a place call'd Gethsemane, and he said to his disciples, stay here, whilst I shall be at prayer."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 14, "verse": "33", "text": "but he took with him Peter, James, and John, then he began to be in a great consternation and anguish of mind, and he said to them; my soul is exceeding sorrowful,"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 14, "verse": "34", "text": "even unto death: tarry ye here, and watch."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 14, "verse": "35", "text": "then advancing a little further, he fell on the ground, and prayed, that this anxiety might pass from him."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 14, "verse": "36", "text": "saying, father, all things are possible to thee, take away this cup from me: nevertheless, not my will, but thine be done."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 14, "verse": "37", "text": "Then he return'd, and having found them sleeping, he said to Peter, Simon, are you asleep? could you not watch one hour?"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 14, "verse": "38", "text": "watch and pray, that you may not yield to temptation: the mind indeed is vigorous, but the body is weak."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 14, "verse": "39", "text": "Again he retired, and prayed, uttering the same words."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 14, "verse": "40", "text": "then he return'd and found them still sleeping, for their eyes were heavy, and they did not know how to give an answer."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 14, "verse": "41", "text": "after that he came a third time, and said to them, sleep on now and take your rest. 'tis done, the time is come, and the son of man is to be betrayed into the hands of sinners."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 14, "verse": "42", "text": "rise, let us be going: see, the traitor is just upon us. The Betrayal of Jesus ( Matthew 26:47–56 ; Luke 22:47–53 ; John 18:1–14 )"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 14, "verse": "43", "text": "All of a sudden, while he was yet speaking, appear'd Judas, one of the twelve, attended by a great number of people with swords and clubs, who were sent by the chief priests, the Scribes, and rulers."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 14, "verse": "44", "text": "now he that betrayed him, had given them this signal, you will see me salute one with a kiss, that's he: seize him, and don't let him escape."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 14, "verse": "45", "text": "then advancing, he went directly up to him, saying, master, master, and kissed him."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 14, "verse": "46", "text": "and they violently laid hands on him and secured him."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 14, "verse": "47", "text": "but one of those that stood by, drew his sword against a servant of the high priest, and struck off his ear."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 14, "verse": "48", "text": "but Jesus addressing himself to them, said, why do you come with swords and clubs against me, as if you were to apprehend some robber?"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 14, "verse": "49", "text": "I was daily among you, teaching in the temple, and you did not then seize upon me, but the scriptures are thereby accomplished."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 14, "verse": "50", "text": "then all his disciples abandon'd him and fled."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 14, "verse": "51", "text": "But a certain youth, that was stript to his inmost vest, followed him, and was seized by the soldiers."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 14, "verse": "52", "text": "but he slipt from his vest, and fled away naked. Jesus before the Sanhedrin ( Matthew 26:57–68 ; Luke 22:66–71 ; John 18:19–24 )"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 14, "verse": "53", "text": "Jesus they led away to the high priest's, where all the chief priests, the rulers and Scribes, were assembled."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 14, "verse": "54", "text": "Peter followed at a distance, even into the palace of the high priest: where he sat down among the servants to warm himself at the fire."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 14, "verse": "55", "text": "Now the chief priests, and the whole council endeavour'd to get evidence against Jesus, to condemn him to die; but they found none."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 14, "verse": "56", "text": "there were indeed several, who depos'd what was false against him: besides, what they deposed was insufficient."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 14, "verse": "57", "text": "at last there appear'd some, who gave in false evidence against him,"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 14, "verse": "58", "text": "saying, we heard him say, \"I will pull down this temple that is made with hands, and within three days I will build another made without hands.\""}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 14, "verse": "59", "text": "but neither did this evidence appear sufficient."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 14, "verse": "60", "text": "then the high priest rising up in the midst of the assembly, ask'd Jesus, saying, have you nothing to plead for your self? what say you to the evidence they give against you?"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 14, "verse": "61", "text": "but Jesus remain'd silent, and gave no answer, then the high priest asked him again, and said to him, art thou the Christ, the son of the most High?"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 14, "verse": "62", "text": "and Jesus answered, I AM, and ye shall see the son of man sitting on the right hand of power, and coming in the clouds of heaven."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 14, "verse": "63", "text": "then the high priest rent his robes, and said to the council, what occasion is there for any more witnesses?"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 14, "verse": "64", "text": "you have heard the blasphemy, what is your opinion? and they all pronounc'd, that he deserved to die."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 14, "verse": "65", "text": "then some began to spit on him, others cover'd his face and struck him on the head, crying out, divine, who it is, and the domestics slapt him on the cheeks. Peter Denies Jesus ( Matthew 26:69–75 ; Luke 22:54–62 ; John 18:15–18 )"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 14, "verse": "66", "text": "In the mean time Peter was in the entry of the hall, where one of the maids belonging to the high priest came:"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 14, "verse": "67", "text": "and seeing Peter warming himself, she looked earnestly upon him, and said, you too was with Jesus the Nazarene."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 14, "verse": "68", "text": "but he denied it, saying, I don't know him, neither am I acquainted with any such you mention, and he went out into the porch, when the cock crow'd."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 14, "verse": "69", "text": "the maid saw him a second time, and said to the standers-by, this is one of them:"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 14, "verse": "70", "text": "but he denied it again, a little time after, they that stood by, still urg'd Peter, saying, you are certainly one of his disciples, for your speech shows you to be a Galilean."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 14, "verse": "71", "text": "but he fell a cursing, and swore, I don't know the man you mention,"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 14, "verse": "72", "text": "and the cock crowed for the second time, then Peter calling to mind that expression of Jesus, \"before the cock crow twice, thou shalt deny me thrice,\" he cover'd his head and wept."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 15, "verse": "1", "text": "Early in the morning the chief priests, the rulers, and Scribes, even the whole council, after having deliberated together, caus'd Jesus to be bound, then led him away and deliver'd him to Pilate."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 15, "verse": "2", "text": "Pilate therefore ask'd him, art thou the king of the Jews? and he made answer, yes."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 15, "verse": "3", "text": "the chief priests continuing to accuse him with much clamour,"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 15, "verse": "4", "text": "Pilate spake to him again, and said, will you make no defence for your self? don't you hear what they urge against you?"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 15, "verse": "5", "text": "but Jesus still made no answer; so that Pilate was much amaz'd. The Crowd Chooses Barabbas ( Matthew 27:15–23 ; Luke 23:13–25 )"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 15, "verse": "6", "text": "Now during the feast, it was customary to release a prisoner, to be nominated by the people."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 15, "verse": "7", "text": "Barabbas lay then confin'd with other seditious, who had committed murder in an insurrection."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 15, "verse": "8", "text": "the populace therefore fell a roaring, and desired him to do as was always practis'd."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 15, "verse": "9", "text": "but Pilate answered them, saying, do you chuse to have Jesus releas'd, the king of the Jews?"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 15, "verse": "10", "text": "for he perceived plainly, it was out of malice, that the chief priests had prosecuted him."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 15, "verse": "11", "text": "but the chief priests incited the people to demand, that he would rather release Barabbas. Pilate Delivers Up Jesus ( Matthew 27:24–26 )"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 15, "verse": "12", "text": "Pilate still urg'd them again, and said, what then would you have me do with him, that you stile king of the Jews?"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 15, "verse": "13", "text": "and they cried out again, crucify him."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 15, "verse": "14", "text": "Pilate replied, why, what harm has he done? but they cried out more furiously, crucify him."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 15, "verse": "15", "text": "Pilate therefore willing to humour the people, released to them Barabbas, and having caused Jesus to be scourg'd, he deliver'd him to be crucified. The Soldiers Mock Jesus ( Matthew 27:27–31 ; Luke 22:63–65 ; John 19:1–15 )"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 15, "verse": "16", "text": "Then the soldiers took Jesus away into the hall, call'd Pretorium; and summon'd their whole company together."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 15, "verse": "17", "text": "and they put on him a purple cloth, and set a wreath of thorns upon his head for a crown;"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 15, "verse": "18", "text": "then they began to salute him, saying, \"Hail king of the Jews!\""}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 15, "verse": "19", "text": "and they struck him on the head with a cane, spit upon him, and bowing their knees, made a show of reverence."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 15, "verse": "20", "text": "Their mockery ended, they stript him of his purple, and put his own cloaths on him; then led him away to be crucified. The Crucifixion ( Matthew 27:32–44 ; Luke 23:26–43 ; John 19:16–27 )"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 15, "verse": "21", "text": "one Simon of Cyrene, the father of Alexander and Rufus, as he pass'd by in his return out of the country, was compell'd to carry the cross."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 15, "verse": "22", "text": "so they brought him to a place called Golgotha, that is, the place of a skull."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 15, "verse": "23", "text": "there they offered him myrrhed wine to drink, but he did not take it."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 15, "verse": "24", "text": "after they had crucified him, they shared his garments, by casting lots for them: to determine what each of them should take."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 15, "verse": "25", "text": "now it was the third hour of the day, when they crucified him,"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 15, "verse": "26", "text": "and the inscription of the charge against him was thus express'd, THE KING OF THE JEWS."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 15, "verse": "27", "text": "at the same time they crucified two robbers, one on his right hand, the other on his left."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 15, "verse": "28", "text": "so that this passage of scripture was fulfill'd, \"and he was numbred with the transgressors.\""}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 15, "verse": "29", "text": "besides the people that pass'd by, shook their heads, and impiously said: ah, you that can destroy the temple, and rebuild it in three days,"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 15, "verse": "30", "text": "save your self, and come down from the cross."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 15, "verse": "31", "text": "in like manner the chief priests and the Scribes in derision said to one another: he pretended to save others, himself he cannot save."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 15, "verse": "32", "text": "let the Messiah, the king of Israel, descend now from the cross: let us see that, and we will believe on him, and they that were crucified with him, threw their reproaches at him. The Death of Jesus ( Matthew 27:45–56 ; Luke 23:44–49 ; John 19:28–30 )"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 15, "verse": "33", "text": "Now from the sixth hour the whole land was cover'd with darkness until the ninth hour."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 15, "verse": "34", "text": "and at the ninth hour Jesus cry'd out with a loud voice, saying, ELOI, ELOI, LAMA SABACHTANI, that is, MY GOD, MY GOD, WHY HAST THOU FORSAKEN ME?"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 15, "verse": "35", "text": "some there present upon hearing that, said: observe, he calls upon Elias."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 15, "verse": "36", "text": "then one of the soldiers ran and dipp'd a spunge in vinegar, which he fastned to a stick, and offered him to drink, now let us, said they, see whether Elias will come to take him down."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 15, "verse": "37", "text": "then Jesus cry'd with a loud voice, and expired."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 15, "verse": "38", "text": "Immediately the veil of the temple was rent in two, from the top to the bottom."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 15, "verse": "39", "text": "and the Centurion who stood over-against him, observing that he expired with so great a cry, said, certainly this man was the son of God."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 15, "verse": "40", "text": "there were likewise several women, who were spectators at a distance: among whom was Mary Magdalene, and Mary the mother of James the minor, and of Joses and Salome:"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 15, "verse": "41", "text": "who had attended Jesus, and supply'd him with necessaries when he was in Galilee: besides many other women, who came up with him to Jerusalem. The Burial of Jesus ( Matthew 27:57–61 ; Luke 23:50–56 ; John 19:38–42 )"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 15, "verse": "42", "text": "Now, as soon as the evening was come; because it was then the preparation, that is, the day before the sabbath,"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 15, "verse": "43", "text": "one Joseph of Arimathea, an honourable senator, who was himself in expectation of the kingdom of God, ventur'd to come and wait upon Pilate, and begged the body of Jesus."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 15, "verse": "44", "text": "Pilate surpriz'd that he should be dead so soon, sent for the Centurion, and ask'd him, if he had been dead any time."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 15, "verse": "45", "text": "and being satisfied of it, he granted the body to Joseph;"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 15, "verse": "46", "text": "who taking down the body, wrapped it in a fine linnen cloth, which he had bought, and laid it in a sepulchre, which was hewn out of a rock, and roll'd a stone for a door to the sepulchre: and Mary Magdalene,"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 15, "verse": "47", "text": "and Mary the mother of Joses, took notice where he was laid."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 16, "verse": "1", "text": "When the sabbath was past, Mary Magdalene, Mary the mother of James, and Salome, after having bought aromatic drugs to embalm him,"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 16, "verse": "2", "text": "went to the sepulchre very early in the morning, the first day of the week, at sun-rising."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 16, "verse": "3", "text": "and they said to one another, who will remove the stone from the mouth of the sepulchre for us?"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 16, "verse": "4", "text": "(for it was very great.) but when they were near in view, they perceiv'd that the stone was roll'd away."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 16, "verse": "5", "text": "upon their entring into the sepulchre, they saw a young man sitting towards the right, cloathed in a long white garment: at which they were frighted."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 16, "verse": "6", "text": "but he said to them, don't be frightned: you look for Jesus the Nazarene: he is risen, he is not here: see the place where he lay."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 16, "verse": "7", "text": "go, tell Peter and the rest of his disciples, that he is gone before you into Galilee: there you will see him, as he foretold you."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 16, "verse": "8", "text": "at this they started out, and fled from the sepulchre in a violent consternation, without speaking a word to any by the way: they were so frighted. Jesus Appears to Mary Magdalene ( John 20:10–18 )"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 16, "verse": "9", "text": "Now Jesus being risen early on the first day of the week, he appear'd first to Mary Magdalene, whom he had dispossess'd of seven demons."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 16, "verse": "10", "text": "immediately she went to those who frequented Jesus, and were then bemoaning themselves in tears, and acquainted them with it."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 16, "verse": "11", "text": "but though they heard that he was alive, and had appear'd to her, they did not believe. Jesus Appears to Two Disciples ( Luke 24:13–35 )"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 16, "verse": "12", "text": "after that, he appear'd under another form to two of them, as they were taking a walk into the country."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 16, "verse": "13", "text": "and they went and acquainted the rest: but neither did they believe them. The Great Commission ( Matthew 28:16–20 )"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 16, "verse": "14", "text": "afterwards he appear'd to the eleven, as they were all sitting at table, and he reproved them for their incredulity and obstinacy in not giving credit to those, who had seen him after his resurrection."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 16, "verse": "15", "text": "Then he said to them, go ye into all parts of the world, and preach the gospel to all mankind."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 16, "verse": "16", "text": "he that believeth, and is baptized, shall be saved; but he that disbelieves, shall be condemned."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 16, "verse": "17", "text": "they that believe shall be endued with these miraculous gifts: in my name they shall cast out demons: they shall speak new languages:"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 16, "verse": "18", "text": "they shall handle serpents, and if they drink any mortal poison, it shall do them no hurt: they shall lay hands on the sick, and the sick shall recover. The Ascension ( Luke 24:50–53 ; Acts 1:6–11 )"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 16, "verse": "19", "text": "Now after the Lord had convers'd with them, he was assum'd up to heaven, where he sat on the right hand of God."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 16, "verse": "20", "text": "as for the disciples, they went and preached the gospel in all parts: the Lord co-operating with them, and confirming their doctrine by the miracles that accompany'd it."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 1, "verse": "1", "text": "Whereas several have undertaken to draw up a narrative of those transactions, which pass'd among us;"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 1, "verse": "2", "text": "according as they were delivered to us by persons, who were all along eye-witnesses, and had a share in the transactions themselves:"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 1, "verse": "3", "text": "I have likewise thought proper; most excellent Theophilus, to write to you a particular account; having made a very diligent inquiry into the whole matter,"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 1, "verse": "4", "text": "that you may have a distinct view of those things about which you have been inform'd. Gabriel Foretells John’s Birth"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 1, "verse": "5", "text": "In the time of Herod, the king of Judea, there was a certain priest, named Zacharias, of the family of Abia, whose wife; nam'd Elizabeth, was of the race of Aaron:"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 1, "verse": "6", "text": "they were both of them sincerely pious; observing all the commandments and ordinances of the Lord; with unspotted reputation."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 1, "verse": "7", "text": "they had no children, because Elizabeth was steril, and they were both advanced in years."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 1, "verse": "8", "text": "now Zachary was to officiate in divine service, in the order of his family,"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 1, "verse": "9", "text": "and according to the custom of distributing the parts, it fell to his lot to burn incense in the sanctuary."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 1, "verse": "10", "text": "and all the congregation of the people stood praying without, at the time of offering incense,"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 1, "verse": "11", "text": "when there appear'd to him an angel of the Lord standing on the right side of the incense-altar."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 1, "verse": "12", "text": "Zacharias startled at the sight and was seized with fear."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 1, "verse": "13", "text": "but the angel said to Zacharias, don't be afraid, Zacharias, for your prayer is heard: and your wife Elizabeth shall bear you a son, whom you shall name John:"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 1, "verse": "14", "text": "he shall be your joy and transport, and numbers shall rejoice at his birth."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 1, "verse": "15", "text": "he shall appear as a divine messenger, he shall drink neither wine, nor any other strong liquor: he shall be filled with the holy spirit, even from his infancy:"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 1, "verse": "16", "text": "he shall convert many of the children of Israel to the Lord their God."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 1, "verse": "17", "text": "and he shall march before him, in the spirit and power of Elias, to reconcile parents and children together, and the unruly to the practice of justice, that the people may be duly dispos'd to receive the Lord."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 1, "verse": "18", "text": "But Zacharias said to the angel, by what sign shall I know this? for I am old, and my wife is of a great age."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 1, "verse": "19", "text": "the angel replied, I am Gabriel, who attend in the presence of God, and am sent to communicate to you this agreeable message."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 1, "verse": "20", "text": "you shall now become dumb and not recover your speech, till the very day when these things shall happen; because you distrusted my words, which in due time shall have their effect."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 1, "verse": "21", "text": "In the mean time the people were waiting for Zacharias, and wonder'd at his tarrying so long in the temple."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 1, "verse": "22", "text": "but when he came out, he could not speak to them: and they perceived that he had seen a vision in the temple; for he intimated it to them by signs, and continued dumb."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 1, "verse": "23", "text": "and the time of his officiating being ended, he departed to his own house."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 1, "verse": "24", "text": "Some time after, Elizabeth his wife was pregnant, and went into retirement for five months."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 1, "verse": "25", "text": "it is the Lord, said she, who has thus favour'd me, at the time when he took care to remove the reproach I was under among men. Gabriel Foretells Jesus’ Birth"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 1, "verse": "26", "text": "In the sixth month the angel Gabriel was sent from God to a city of Galilee, named Nazareth,"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 1, "verse": "27", "text": "to a virgin contracted to a man; whose name was Joseph, of the house of David, and the virgin's name was Mary."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 1, "verse": "28", "text": "the angel, upon his arrival, said to her; \"Hail, favorite of heaven, the Lord is with thee: thou happiest of thy sex.\""}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 1, "verse": "29", "text": "Mary was surpriz'd at the voice of such an appearance, and wonder'd what the meaning of this salutation should be."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 1, "verse": "30", "text": "but the angel said to her, \"Mary, be not afraid: for you are the object of divine favour."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 1, "verse": "31", "text": "you shall be now pregnant, and be delivered of a son, whom you shall name JESUS."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 1, "verse": "32", "text": "he shall be great, he shall be the son of the most high, the Lord God shall give him the throne of his father David."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 1, "verse": "33", "text": "he shall reign over the house of Jacob, and of his kingdom there shall be no end.\""}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 1, "verse": "34", "text": "Then said Mary to the angel, what shall this be without any intercourse with man?"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 1, "verse": "35", "text": "the angel answered her, \"the holy spirit shall descend upon thee, and the power of the most high shall over-shadow thee: wherefore thy holy offspring shall be called the son of God."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 1, "verse": "36", "text": "even your cousin Elizabeth, as old as she is, is become pregnant with a son: she, who was stiled barren, is now in her sixth month;"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 1, "verse": "37", "text": "for nothing is impossible to God.\""}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 1, "verse": "38", "text": "then said Mary, \"behold the servant of the Lord, be it unto me according to thy word.\" upon which the angel disappeared. Mary Visits Elizabeth"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 1, "verse": "39", "text": "Soon after this, Mary departed, and made an expeditious journey to a city of Juda, in the mountains:"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 1, "verse": "40", "text": "where entring into the house of Zacharias, she saluted Elizabeth."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 1, "verse": "41", "text": "no sooner had Elizabeth heard the salutation of Mary, but the babe leap'd within her:"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 1, "verse": "42", "text": "and Elizabeth divinely inspired, broke out into this acclamation."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 1, "verse": "43", "text": "\"Blessed mother of the most blessed offspring! what an honour is this, that I should be visited by the mother of our Lord!"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 1, "verse": "44", "text": "no sooner did the sound of your salutation strike mine ear, than the babe leap'd within me for joy."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 1, "verse": "45", "text": "blessed is she that has believed; for what she has heard from the Lord, shall be accomplished.\" Mary’s Song"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 1, "verse": "46", "text": "Then Mary said, \"my soul doth magnify the Lord,"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 1, "verse": "47", "text": "and my spirit hath rejoiced in God my saviour,"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 1, "verse": "48", "text": "for he hath regarded the low estate of his servant: and future ages shall proclaim me blessed."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 1, "verse": "49", "text": "the almighty hath distinguish'd me by the greatest marks of favour: his name be for ever reverenc'd."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 1, "verse": "50", "text": "his mercy is on them that fear him, from generation to generation."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 1, "verse": "51", "text": "he hath displayed the strength of his arm, and has confounded the proud by the devices of their hearts."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 1, "verse": "52", "text": "he has cast down princes from their thrones, and exalted those of low degree,"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 1, "verse": "53", "text": "the needy he has furnished with plentiful enjoyments, and the rich he has reduced to poverty."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 1, "verse": "54", "text": "he has taken Israel his servant into his protection, in pursuance of the mercy,"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 1, "verse": "55", "text": "which he promised to our forefathers, to Abraham, and to his posterity for ever.\""}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 1, "verse": "56", "text": "Now Mary stay'd about three months with Elizabeth, and then return'd to her own house. The Birth of John the Baptist"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 1, "verse": "57", "text": "When Elizabeth had gone her full time, she was delivered of a son."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 1, "verse": "58", "text": "her neighbours and her relations having heard how the Lord had heap'd his favours upon her, they congratulated with her:"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 1, "verse": "59", "text": "and on the eighth day were present at the circumcision of the child, but upon their proposing to call him by his father's name, Zacharias: his mother objected to it,"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 1, "verse": "60", "text": "and said, no, he shall be called John."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 1, "verse": "61", "text": "they answered her, there is not any of your family of that name."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 1, "verse": "62", "text": "they therefore ask'd his father to signify how he would have him call'd."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 1, "verse": "63", "text": "then he made signs for a writing-book, and writ these words, \"his name is John:\" at which they were all surprized."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 1, "verse": "64", "text": "immediately he had the use of his speech: and he uttered himself in praises to God."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 1, "verse": "65", "text": "All the neighbourhood were struck with reverence, and the rumour of these events ran thro' all the mountains of Judea,"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 1, "verse": "66", "text": "and made an impression upon all that heard of them, what a child will this be? said they, for the divine influence does attend him. Zechariah’s Song"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 1, "verse": "67", "text": "Then Zacharias his father, inspired by the holy spirit, vented his divine enthusiasm in these words."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 1, "verse": "68", "text": "\"blessed be the Lord, the God of Israel, for he hath regarded and wrought a deliverance for his people:"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 1, "verse": "69", "text": "he hath rais'd up a powerful saviour for us, in the family of his servant David,"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 1, "verse": "70", "text": "according to the antient promise he made by the mouth of the holy prophets,"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 1, "verse": "71", "text": "to deliver us from our enemies, and from the power of all that hate us:"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 1, "verse": "72", "text": "to show regard to our forefathers, in performing his holy covenant,"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 1, "verse": "73", "text": "the oath which he made to our father Abraham, to grant us this favour,"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 1, "verse": "74", "text": "that we should be delivered from the power of our enemies, and serve him with security,"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 1, "verse": "75", "text": "in the sincere practice of holiness and justice, all our days."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 1, "verse": "76", "text": "and you, dear babe, you shall be the prophet of the most high: for you shall go before the Lord, in order to prepare his way,"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 1, "verse": "77", "text": "by acquainting his people how they may be saved by the remission of their sins,"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 1, "verse": "78", "text": "through the tender mercy of our God, by which the rising sun has visited us from on high,"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 1, "verse": "79", "text": "to enlighten those, who are in darkness, and in the shadow of death, and to direct our steps into the ways of peace.\""}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 1, "verse": "80", "text": "Now the child continued to grow, and greatly improv'd in sense; and was in the desarts till the time, when he was to be manifested to Israel."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 2, "verse": "1", "text": "At that time, Cesar Augustus published an edict, to make a register of the Roman empire."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 2, "verse": "2", "text": "(this register was made before Quirinus was prefect of Syria.)"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 2, "verse": "3", "text": "all went to be registred, every one to his native city."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 2, "verse": "4", "text": "so Joseph departed from Nazareth in Galilee, and went into Judea to the city of David, called Bethlehem, because he was of the house and linage of David,"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 2, "verse": "5", "text": "in order to be registred with Mary, his espoused wife, who was then big with child."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 2, "verse": "6", "text": "now while they were there, the time came for her to be delivered."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 2, "verse": "7", "text": "and being brought to bed of her first born, she swathed him, and laid him in a manger, because there was no room for them in the inn. The Shepherds and the Angels"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 2, "verse": "8", "text": "In that country there were shepherds lying in the open fields, taking their turns to watch the stock in the night;"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 2, "verse": "9", "text": "when all of a sudden an angel of the Lord appear'd to them, and a heavenly light shone about them, at which they were greatly affrighted."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 2, "verse": "10", "text": "but the angel said to them, be not afraid, I am only come to bring you great news, which will be matter of joy to you and to the whole world."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 2, "verse": "11", "text": "for the Lord Messiah your saviour is this day born, in the city of David:"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 2, "verse": "12", "text": "and by this sign shall you know him; you will find the babe swathed, lying in a manger."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 2, "verse": "13", "text": "All of a sudden an army of celestial beings join'd the angel, singing praises to God, and saying,"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 2, "verse": "14", "text": "\"glory to God in the heavens, and to men on earth felicity in the divine favour.\""}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 2, "verse": "15", "text": "As soon as the angels retired back to heaven, the shepherds said to one another, let us go to Bethlehem, to see the fact, of which the Lord inform'd us."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 2, "verse": "16", "text": "accordingly they hasted thither, and found Mary and Joseph with the babe lying in the manger."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 2, "verse": "17", "text": "when they had seen him, they divulged what the angel had told them concerning this child."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 2, "verse": "18", "text": "and all that heard of it, were surprized at what the shepherds related."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 2, "verse": "19", "text": "but Mary considered these things very attentively, and weigh'd every circumstance in her mind, while the shepherds return'd,"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 2, "verse": "20", "text": "glorifying and praising God, for having heard and seen every thing exactly as the angel inform'd them. Jesus Presented at the Temple"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 2, "verse": "21", "text": "The eighth day, when the child was to be circumcised, being come, he was named Jesus, the name, which the angel had given before his conception."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 2, "verse": "22", "text": "At length the time appointed by the law of Moses for the purification of women being accomplish'd, they carried the infant to Jerusalem to present him to the Lord, according as his law directs,"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 2, "verse": "23", "text": "\"every first born male-child shall be consecrated to the Lord.\""}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 2, "verse": "24", "text": "and to offer the sacrifice prescrib'd by the law, which was a pair of turtle-doves, or two young pidgeons. The Prophecy of Simeon"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 2, "verse": "25", "text": "At that time there dwelt at Jerusalem one Simeon, an honest, religious man, one who expected the appearance of the Messiah, and was endued with the spirit of prophecy."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 2, "verse": "26", "text": "to him it was revealed by the holy spirit, that he should not die till he had seen the Messiah of the Lord."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 2, "verse": "27", "text": "by the divine direction he came into the temple, just as the parents of Jesus were bringing in the child to perform what the law required in his behalf."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 2, "verse": "28", "text": "then he took him up in his arms, and returned thanks to God in these words, \"now,"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 2, "verse": "29", "text": "Lord, thou wilt grant thy servant a happy death, according to thy promise."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 2, "verse": "30", "text": "for mine eyes have beheld the saviour,"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 2, "verse": "31", "text": "whom thou hast provided for all mankind, a light to lighten the Gentiles,"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 2, "verse": "32", "text": "and the glory of thy people Israel.\""}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 2, "verse": "33", "text": "Joseph and the mother of Jesus were surprized to hear such things pronounc'd concerning him."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 2, "verse": "34", "text": "then Simeon gave them his benediction, and said to Mary his mother, \"the child you now see, shall occasion many in Israel to fall and rise again; he will be the Object of calumny,"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 2, "verse": "35", "text": "which like a dart will pierce even thro' your own soul, that thereby the sincerity of many may be revealed.\" The Prophecy of Anna"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 2, "verse": "36", "text": "There was likewise one Anna a prophetess, the daughter of Phanuel, of the tribe of Aser; she was of a great age, and had liv'd in a married state but seven years ever since she was a virgin:"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 2, "verse": "37", "text": "being then a widow of about fourscore and four years old: she was assiduously in the temple, night and day religiously employ'd in fastings and prayers:"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 2, "verse": "38", "text": "and happening to come in just at the same time, she likewise express'd her thanks to the lord, and spoke of Jesus to all those, who expected deliverance in Jerusalem. The Return to Nazareth ( Matthew 2:19–23 )"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 2, "verse": "39", "text": "and when they had performed every thing required by the divine law, they returned into Galilee, to Nazareth their city."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 2, "verse": "40", "text": "and the child grew in stature and in all the improvements of the mind; he was stor'd with wisdom, and was the object of divine favour. The Boy Jesus at the Temple"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 2, "verse": "41", "text": "Now his parents went every year to Jerusalem at the paschal feast."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 2, "verse": "42", "text": "when Jesus therefore was twelve years old they went thither, as was customary at the time of that festival."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 2, "verse": "43", "text": "when that was expired, they returned, but the young Jesus staid behind in Jerusalem, without being miss'd either by Joseph or his Mother."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 2, "verse": "44", "text": "so that they went a whole day's journey, imagining he was somewhere among the company, and then they look'd for him among their relations and acquaintance; but not finding him,"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 2, "verse": "45", "text": "they turn'd back to Jerusalem to enquire for him there."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 2, "verse": "46", "text": "three days after they found him in the temple, sitting near the doctors, attending to them and asking them questions."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 2, "verse": "47", "text": "and all that heard him were astonish'd at his understanding and answers."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 2, "verse": "48", "text": "when Joseph and his mother saw him, great was their surprize: and his mother said to him, son, why did you leave us thus? your father and I have been looking for you with great concern."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 2, "verse": "49", "text": "Jesus replied, why were ye so sollicitous about me? don't you know that 'tis my business to be in my father's house?"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 2, "verse": "50", "text": "but they did not comprehend the meaning of that expression."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 2, "verse": "51", "text": "However Jesus went down with them to Nazareth, and was subject to them: and his mother kept all these things in her heart."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 2, "verse": "52", "text": "in the mean time Jesus increas'd in wisdom and stature, and in favour with God and man."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 3, "verse": "1", "text": "In the fifteenth year of the emperor Tiberius, when Pontius Pilate was governor of Judea; Herod tetrarch of Gallilee: Philip his brother tetrarch of Iturea and Trachonitis: and Lysanias the tetrarch of Abilene:"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 3, "verse": "2", "text": "under the pontificate of Annas and Caiaphas, JOHN, the son of Zacharias, received his divine commission in the wilderness."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 3, "verse": "3", "text": "in pursuance of which, he went into all the country about Jordan, exhorting all to repent and be baptized, in order to obtain the remission of their sins."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 3, "verse": "4", "text": "as it is written in the book of the prophecies of Esaias, \"the voice of one crying in the desart, prepare ye the way of the Lord, make his paths clear."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 3, "verse": "5", "text": "every valley shall be filled, and every mountain and hill shall be level'd: the crooked shall be made strait, and the rough ways shall be made smooth,"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 3, "verse": "6", "text": "and all men shall behold the divine saviour.\""}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 3, "verse": "7", "text": "he said therefore to the people that crowded to be baptized by him, ye brood of vipers, who has prompted you to flee from approaching wrath?"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 3, "verse": "8", "text": "let your actions therefore show your repentance, and don't pretend to say within yourselves, \"we have Abraham for our father:\" for I tell you that God is able of these stones to raise up children to Abraham."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 3, "verse": "9", "text": "the ax is already laid to the root of the trees: every tree then, which does not produce good fruit, shall be hewn down, and cast into the fire."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 3, "verse": "10", "text": "Upon which the people asked him, what then shall we do?"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 3, "verse": "11", "text": "he answer'd them, let him that hath two coats give one to him that hath none; and let him that has plenty of provisions act in like manner."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 3, "verse": "12", "text": "the Publicans likewise came to be baptized, and said to him, master, how are we to act?"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 3, "verse": "13", "text": "exact, said he, no more than what the law requires."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 3, "verse": "14", "text": "the soldiers too made the same demand, how are we to act? he answer'd them, injure no man either by violence or by fraud, and be content with your pay."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 3, "verse": "15", "text": "As the people were in suspence, every man imagining in his own mind that John might be the Messiah;"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 3, "verse": "16", "text": "he address'd himself to them all, saying, I indeed baptize you with water; but there is one coming, who is superiour to me, whose shoes I am unworthy to untie: he shall baptize you with the holy spirit, under the appearance of fire."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 3, "verse": "17", "text": "and with the fan in his hand he will thoroughly cleanse his floor, and will lay up the wheat in his grainery: but the chaff he will burn with inextinguishable fire."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 3, "verse": "18", "text": "many other things he delivered to the people in his exhortations."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 3, "verse": "19", "text": "but having reproved Herod the tetrarch upon account of Herodias, the wife of his brother Philip, and for all the mischiefs that Herod had done;"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 3, "verse": "20", "text": "to compleat all the rest, Herod confin'd John in prison. The Baptism of Jesus ( Matthew 3:13–17 ; Mark 1:9–11 ; John 1:29–34 )"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 3, "verse": "21", "text": "When all the people were baptizing, Jesus was likewise baptized, and whilst he was praying, the clouds opened,"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 3, "verse": "22", "text": "and the holy spirit descended upon him in a corporeal form like a dove, and a voice came from heaven, which said, thou art my beloved son, in thee I am well pleased. The Genealogy of Jesus ( Matthew 1:1–17 )"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 3, "verse": "23", "text": "Jesus was then about thirty years of age, being, as was suppos'd, the son of Joseph,"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 3, "verse": "24", "text": "son of Heli, son of Matthat, son of Levi, son of Melchi, son of Janna, son of Joseph,"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 3, "verse": "25", "text": "son of Mattathias, son of Amos, son of Naum, son of Esli, son of Nagge,"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 3, "verse": "26", "text": "son of Maath, son of Mattathias, son of Semi, son of Joseph, son of Juda, son of Joanna,"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 3, "verse": "27", "text": "son of Rhesa, son of Zorobabel, son of Salathiel,"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 3, "verse": "28", "text": "son of Neri, son of Melchi, son of Addi, son of Cosam, son of Elmodam, son of Er,"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 3, "verse": "29", "text": "son of Jose, son of Eliezer, son of Jorim, son of Matthat, son of Levi, son of Simeon,"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 3, "verse": "30", "text": "son of Juda, son of Joseph, son of Jonan, son of Eliakim,"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 3, "verse": "31", "text": "son of Melea, son of Menan, son of Mattatha, son of Nathan, son of David,"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 3, "verse": "32", "text": "son of Jesse, son of Obed, son of Booz, son of Salmon,"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 3, "verse": "33", "text": "son of Naasson, son of Aminadab, son of Aram, son of Esrom, son of Phares, son of Juda,"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 3, "verse": "34", "text": "son of Jacob, son of Isaac, son of Abraham, son of Thara, son of Nachor, son of Saruch,"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 3, "verse": "35", "text": "son of Ragau, son of Phalec, son of Heber, son of Sala,"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 3, "verse": "36", "text": "son of Cainan, son of Arphaxad, son of Sem, son of Noe, son of Lamech, son of Mathusala,"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 3, "verse": "37", "text": "son of Enoch, son of Jared, son of Maleleel,"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 3, "verse": "38", "text": "son of Cainan, son of Enos, son of Seth, son of Adam, the son of God."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 4, "verse": "1", "text": "Now Jesus being full of the holy spirit, return'd from Jordan, and was led by the spirit into the desart,"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 4, "verse": "2", "text": "being forty days tempted by the devil, without eating any thing all that while: but that time expired, he at last was seiz'd with hunger."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 4, "verse": "3", "text": "then the devil said to him; if you are the son of God, command this stone to become bread."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 4, "verse": "4", "text": "but Jesus answered him, it is written, \"man shall not live by bread alone, but by every thing that God appoints.\""}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 4, "verse": "5", "text": "then the devil took him to the top of a high mountain, and in an instant represented to him all the kingdoms of the world."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 4, "verse": "6", "text": "all this power, said he, will I give thee, and the glory of them: for they are at my disposal, and where I please, I bestow them."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 4, "verse": "7", "text": "if therefore you will worship me, they shall be all your own."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 4, "verse": "8", "text": "but Jesus answered him, avant, satan, for it is written, \"thou shalt worship the Lord thy God, and him only shalt thou serve.\""}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 4, "verse": "9", "text": "next, the devil brought him to Jerusalem, and setting him on the battlements of the temple, said to him, if you be the son of God, throw your self down from this height,"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 4, "verse": "10", "text": "for it is written, \"he shall charge his angels to watch for your preservation:"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 4, "verse": "11", "text": "and they shall bear you up in their hands, for fear your foot should hit against a stone.\""}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 4, "verse": "12", "text": "but Jesus replied, it is said, \"thou shalt not tempt the Lord thy God.\""}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 4, "verse": "13", "text": "and when the whole temptation was ended, the devil left him for a time. Jesus Begins His Ministry ( Matthew 4:12–17 ; Mark 1:14–15 )"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 4, "verse": "14", "text": "Jesus return'd by the influence of the spirit into Galilee, where his same quickly spread over all the country;"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 4, "verse": "15", "text": "for he preach'd in their synagogues with universal applause. The Rejection at Nazareth ( Matthew 13:53–58 ; Mark 6:1–6 )"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 4, "verse": "16", "text": "being come to Nazareth, where he had been brought up; according to his custom, he went into the synagogue on the sabbath-day, and standing up to read,"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 4, "verse": "17", "text": "they delivered to him the book of the prophet Esaias, and upon opening the book, that passage occurr'd, where it is written,"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 4, "verse": "18", "text": "\"the spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he hath anointed me to preach the gospel to the poor, he hath sent me to heal the broken hearted, to preach deliverance to the captives, and recovery of sight to the blind, to set at liberty them that are bruised,"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 4, "verse": "19", "text": "to proclaim the favourable year of the Lord.\""}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 4, "verse": "20", "text": "then he closed the book, and returning it to the minister, he sat down: and as the eyes of the whole synagogue were fix'd with attention upon him,"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 4, "verse": "21", "text": "he undertook to show them, how the passage they had heard, was actually then accomplished."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 4, "verse": "22", "text": "They all applauded him, and were surprized, that what he said, was delivered with so much grace, but they objected, is not this the son of Joseph?"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 4, "verse": "23", "text": "upon which he said, no doubt you will urge me with this proverb, \"physician heal thy self, what we have heard you perform'd in Capernaum, do likewise here in your own country.\""}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 4, "verse": "24", "text": "but in truth, added he, no prophet was ever well received in his own country."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 4, "verse": "25", "text": "I assure you, though there were many widows in Israel, when the heaven had furnished no rain for three years and a half, and a great famine spread through all the land:"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 4, "verse": "26", "text": "yet to none of them was Elias sent, except to one widow in Sarepta, a city of Sidon."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 4, "verse": "27", "text": "and there were many lepers in the time of Elisha the prophet: yet none of them obtain'd a cure, except Naaman the Syrian."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 4, "verse": "28", "text": "upon hearing this, the whole synagogue were incensed against him."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 4, "verse": "29", "text": "and breaking up the assembly, they drove him out of the city, to the precipice of the hill, upon which it was built, in order to throw him headlong down."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 4, "verse": "30", "text": "but he pass'd thro' the midst of them and went away. Jesus Expels an Unclean Spirit ( Mark 1:21–28 )"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 4, "verse": "31", "text": "At length he went to Capernaum, a city of Galilee, and taught them on the sabbath-days."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 4, "verse": "32", "text": "and they were astonished at his doctrine, for he spoke with authority."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 4, "verse": "33", "text": "now there was in the synagogue a man possess'd with the spirit of an impure demon, who roar'd out, in these words, let us alone;"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 4, "verse": "34", "text": "what business have you with us, Jesus of Nazareth? are you come to destroy us? I know who you are; the saint of God."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 4, "verse": "35", "text": "but Jesus rebuk'd him, saying, be dumb, and come out of him, upon which the demon threw him down in the midst of the assembly, and came out, without doing him any harm."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 4, "verse": "36", "text": "and they were all amazed, and said to one another, what's the meaning of this? with authority and power he commands the impure spirits, and they come out!"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 4, "verse": "37", "text": "and his fame spread through all the neighbouring country. Jesus Heals at Peter’s House ( Matthew 8:14–17 ; Mark 1:29–34 )"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 4, "verse": "38", "text": "When Jesus came out of the synagogue, he went to Simon's house, whose mother-in-law was seized with a violent fever, and they desired him to relieve her."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 4, "verse": "39", "text": "so approaching near her, he order'd the fever to leave her, and it left her, upon which she immediately arose, and waited upon them at table."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 4, "verse": "40", "text": "As soon as the sun was set, all sorts of diseased persons were brought before him by their friends, and he healed them all, by laying his hands upon them."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 4, "verse": "41", "text": "many were dispossess'd of the demons, who cried aloud, you are the Messiah, the son of God, but he rebuked them, and would not suffer them to declare, that they knew him to be the Messiah. Jesus Preaches in Judea ( Mark 1:35–39 )"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 4, "verse": "42", "text": "When it was day, he retired into a desart place, where the people searching for him, found him out, and as they earnestly press'd him not to leave them,"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 4, "verse": "43", "text": "he said to them, I must likewise proclaim the kingdom of God in other cities; for to that end am I sent."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 4, "verse": "44", "text": "accordingly he went preaching in the synagogues through all Galilee."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 5, "verse": "1", "text": "One day, as the people press'd after him to hear his divine preaching, he came near the lake of Gennesereth,"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 5, "verse": "2", "text": "where he saw two vessels lying near shore: but the fishermen were gone out of them, and were washing their nets."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 5, "verse": "3", "text": "he went therefore aboard one of the vessels, which was Simon's, and desired him to bear away a little from land, then he sat down, and preached to the people from the ship."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 5, "verse": "4", "text": "having finished his sermon, he said to Simon, row into deep water, and throw out your nets for a draught."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 5, "verse": "5", "text": "master, said Simon, we have toil'd all the night, without any prize: however, since you give the word, I will throw the net."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 5, "verse": "6", "text": "which being done, they enclosed such a multitude of fish, the net began to break:"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 5, "verse": "7", "text": "so they made a signal to their partners in the other ship to come and help them, accordingly they came, and loaded both the boats so with fish that they began to sink."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 5, "verse": "8", "text": "at sight of this, Simon Peter fell on his knees before Jesus, and said, Lord, withdraw from such a sinful man as I:"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 5, "verse": "9", "text": "for he, and all the company were frightned at the draught of fish they had taken:"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 5, "verse": "10", "text": "so was James too, and John, the sons of Zebedee, both partners with Simon, but Jesus said to Simon, be not afraid; for the future you shall fish for men."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 5, "verse": "11", "text": "then having brought their boats to shore, they left every thing, and followed him. The Leper’s Prayer ( Matthew 8:1–4 ; Mark 1:40–45 )"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 5, "verse": "12", "text": "As he was going to one of the cities in that country, a man cover'd all over with leprosy happen'd to meet Jesus, and prostrating himself before him, thus address'd him, Lord, if you will, you can cure me."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 5, "verse": "13", "text": "then Jesus stretch'd out his hand, and touched him, saying, I will; be thou cured, and immediately the leprosy disappear'd:"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 5, "verse": "14", "text": "and he charg'd him not to tell any man: but go, said he, present your self to the priest, and offer what the law requires for your purification, that it may be an evidence to them."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 5, "verse": "15", "text": "in the mean time his fame spread so much the more, and a vast multitude flock'd to hear him, and to be cured of their diseases,"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 5, "verse": "16", "text": "so that he retired into places of solitude, for the convenience of prayer. Jesus Heals a Paralytic ( Matthew 9:1–8 ; Mark 2:1–12 )"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 5, "verse": "17", "text": "At another time, as he was teaching, it happened that some Pharisees, and doctors of the law were sitting by, who came from the several towns of Galilee and Judea, and from Jerusalem: when the power of the Lord appear'd in their relief."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 5, "verse": "18", "text": "for instance, they brought a man in his bed lying sick of the palsy: and try'd to, bring him directly into his presence."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 5, "verse": "19", "text": "but when they found it impracticable to bring him in through the crowd, they went up the gallery to the leads, and let him down through the ceiling in his bed among the company, where Jesus was,"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 5, "verse": "20", "text": "who perceiving their faith, said to him, O! man, your sins are forgiven you."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 5, "verse": "21", "text": "upon which the Scribes and Pharisees objected among themselves, saying, what a man is this to blaspheme thus? who can forgive sins but God alone?"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 5, "verse": "22", "text": "but Jesus perceiving their reflexions, said to them, what do you mean by such insinuations?"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 5, "verse": "23", "text": "which is easier, to say, your sins are forgiven you, or to say, rise up, and walk?"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 5, "verse": "24", "text": "but that ye may know, that the son of man hath power to forgive sins, rise, said he, to the paralytick, 'tis I command you, take up your bed, and go home."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 5, "verse": "25", "text": "immediately he started up before them all, took up the bed, where he lay, and went home, glorifying God."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 5, "verse": "26", "text": "at this they were all seized with astonishment, and gave thanks to God, crying out with great reverence, what a wonderful instance of power have we seen this day! Jesus Calls Levi ( Matthew 9:9–13 ; Mark 2:13–17 )"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 5, "verse": "27", "text": "After this Jesus left the place, and seeing a publican named Levi, sitting at the custom-house, he said to him, follow me."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 5, "verse": "28", "text": "immediately he rose up, left all his affairs, and became his disciple."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 5, "verse": "29", "text": "Levi having prepared a handsom entertainment in his own house for him, a great number of publicans, and others, were likewise at table."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 5, "verse": "30", "text": "but the Scribes and Pharisees of that place reproach'd his disciples, and said, why do ye eat and drink with publicans and scandalous people?"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 5, "verse": "31", "text": "but Jesus replied, they that are in health don't want a physician: but they that are sick."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 5, "verse": "32", "text": "I came not to call saints, but sinners to repentance. Then they ask'd him, how comes it that John's disciples, Questions about Fasting ( Matthew 9:14–15 ; Mark 2:18–20 )"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 5, "verse": "33", "text": "and likewise those of the Pharisees, are frequently fasting and praying, while yours are employed in eating and drinking?"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 5, "verse": "34", "text": "to which he answered, would you have the bridemen fast, while the bridegroom is with them?"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 5, "verse": "35", "text": "however, the time will come, when the bridegroom shall be taken away from them, and then they will have occasions enow of fasting. The Patches and the Wineskins ( Matthew 9:16–17 ; Mark 2:21–22 )"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 5, "verse": "36", "text": "Besides, he applied this similitude to them, no man, said he, puts a piece of new cloth upon an old coat: if he does, the new will strain the old, and they will by no means suit one another."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 5, "verse": "37", "text": "nor will any one put new wine into old skins: if they do, the new wine will burst the skins, and wine and skins be all lost."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 5, "verse": "38", "text": "but new wine must be put into new skins, and both will be preserv'd."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 5, "verse": "39", "text": "so no-body that has been drinking old wine, will immediately call for new: for 'tis his maxim, \"the old is best.\""}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 6, "verse": "1", "text": "On the second-prime sabbath, as Jesus was passing through the corn-fields, his disciples happen'd to pluck the ears, and rubbing out the corn with their hands began to eat."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 6, "verse": "2", "text": "upon which some of the Pharisees said to them, why do you do what is not allowed to be done on the sabbath-day?"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 6, "verse": "3", "text": "but Jesus replied, have you never read what David did, when he and his company were press'd with hunger?"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 6, "verse": "4", "text": "how he went into the court of the tabernacle, took and eat the shew-bread, and distributed it likewise to the company, which the law allowed the priests only to eat?"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 6, "verse": "5", "text": "the son of man, said he, may dispense even with the sabbath. Jesus Heals on the Sabbath ( Matthew 12:9–14 ; Mark 3:1–6 )"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 6, "verse": "6", "text": "On another sabbath-day it happen'd, that he went into the synagogue to preach, where a man was present, who had the palsy in his right hand."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 6, "verse": "7", "text": "now the Scribes and Pharisees were upon the watch to see if he would work a cure upon the sabbath-day, and so have matter of accusation against him."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 6, "verse": "8", "text": "but as he knew their thoughts, he said to the man, whose hand was paralytic, rise up, and stand there in the middle, and he arose, and stood before him."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 6, "verse": "9", "text": "then said Jesus to them, I will ask you one question, which is the most allowable on the sabbath-day, to do good, or to neglect it? to save a man's life, or to let him perish?"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 6, "verse": "10", "text": "then casting his eyes round the company, he said to the man, stretch out your hand, and he did so: and that hand was as sound as the other."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 6, "verse": "11", "text": "whereupon they fell into a rage, and consulted together, what measures to take against Jesus. The Twelve Apostles ( Matthew 10:1–4 ; Mark 3:13–19 )"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 6, "verse": "12", "text": "About that time, Jesus retired to a mountain to pray, and spent the whole night in an oratory."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 6, "verse": "13", "text": "when it was day, he called his disciples: and of them he chose twelve, whom he stiled missionarys: Simon,"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 6, "verse": "14", "text": "(to whom he gave the name of Peter) and Andrew his brother, James and John, Philip and Bartholomew,"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 6, "verse": "15", "text": "Matthew and Thomas, James the son of Alpheus, and Simon surnamed the Zelot,"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 6, "verse": "16", "text": "Jude the brother of James, and Judas Iscariot, who prov'd the traitor. Jesus Heals the Multitudes ( Matthew 4:23–25 ; Mark 3:7–12 )"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 6, "verse": "17", "text": "At length he came down the hill with them, and stayed with the rest of his disciples in the plain, where a great multitude of people from all Judea, from Jerusalem, and the maritime country of Tyre and Sidon, came to hear him, and to have their diseases cured."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 6, "verse": "18", "text": "many that were tormented by evil spirits came likewise, and were cured."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 6, "verse": "19", "text": "so that all the people strove to touch him: for a divine virtue flowed from him, which healed them all. The Beatitudes ( Matthew 5:3–12 )"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 6, "verse": "20", "text": "Then directing himself to his disciples, he said, blessed are ye, that are poor: for the divine kingdom is yours."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 6, "verse": "21", "text": "blessed are ye that hunger now: for ye shall be satisfied, blessed are ye that weep now: for ye shall find matter of mirth."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 6, "verse": "22", "text": "blessed are you, when men shall hate you, discard you, reproach you, and treat you as infamous, for your attachment to the son of man."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 6, "verse": "23", "text": "then you may triumph with joy; secure of being greatly rewarded in heaven: for such was the treatment the prophets received from their forefathers. Woes to the Satisfied"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 6, "verse": "24", "text": "But wo unto you that are rich: for you have received your consolation."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 6, "verse": "25", "text": "wo unto you that are full: for you shall be in want, wo unto you that indulge in present pleasure: for mourning and sorrow shall attend you."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 6, "verse": "26", "text": "wo unto you when the generality of men shall applaud you: for so did their forefathers behave to the false prophets. Love Your Enemies ( Matthew 5:38–48 )"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 6, "verse": "27", "text": "But as for you, who hear me, love your enemies: do good to those, who hate you: bless those, who curse you:"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 6, "verse": "28", "text": "and pray for those, who maliciously abuse you."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 6, "verse": "29", "text": "if any one strike you on one cheek, present to him the other likewise: or if any one seize your cloak, surrender your coat also."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 6, "verse": "30", "text": "give to all that ask: and if a man takes away your goods, don't demand them again."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 6, "verse": "31", "text": "behave to others in the same manner, as you desire they would behave to you."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 6, "verse": "32", "text": "for if you only love those, who love you, where's the obligation? the very heathen return love for love."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 6, "verse": "33", "text": "if you return one kind office by another, where's the obligation? the heathen themselves do as much."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 6, "verse": "34", "text": "if you lend with the expectation of gaining by it, where's the obligation? for the heathen lend to one another, for the prospect of an equivalent."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 6, "verse": "35", "text": "but as for you, love your enemies, do good, and lend without expecting any advantage from it: so shall your reward be great, in acting like the children of the most high: for he is kind to the most ungrateful wretches."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 6, "verse": "36", "text": "be ye therefore merciful, as your father is merciful. Judging Others ( Matthew 7:1–6 ; Romans 14:1–12 )"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 6, "verse": "37", "text": "don't judge others, and you shall not be judged: condemn not, and you shall not be condemned: forgive, and you shall be forgiven."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 6, "verse": "38", "text": "give and you shall receive: they shall pour into your lap good measure, well pressed, heap'd up, and running over, for in the measure you deal with others, you shall be dealt with yourselves."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 6, "verse": "39", "text": "And by way of comparison he said to them, can the blind lead the blind without tumbling both into the ditch?"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 6, "verse": "40", "text": "The disciple is not above his master: but every one that is perfect shall be as his master."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 6, "verse": "41", "text": "How comes it, that you can see the mote in your brother's eye, and not see the beam that is in your own eye?"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 6, "verse": "42", "text": "or how can you say to your brother, brother, let me take out the mote, that is in your eye, when you your self don't discern the beam that is in your own eye? hypocrite, first remove the beam out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to take the mote out of your brother's eye. A Tree and Its Fruit ( Matthew 7:15–23 ; Matthew 12:33–37 )"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 6, "verse": "43", "text": "Certainly a good tree does not produce bad fruit: nor does a bad tree produce good fruit."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 6, "verse": "44", "text": "for every tree is known by its fruit: it is not on thorns that men gather figs, nor do they gather grapes on a bramble bush."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 6, "verse": "45", "text": "a good man out of the good treasure of his heart produces what is good: and an evil man out of the evil treasure of his heart produces what is evil: for 'tis from the abundance of the heart, that the mouth speaketh. The House on the Rock ( Matthew 7:24–27 )"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 6, "verse": "46", "text": "Why do you call me Lord, Lord, and do not observe what I say?"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 6, "verse": "47", "text": "I will show you, who that man is like, who comes to me, and practises what I prescribe."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 6, "verse": "48", "text": "he is like a man who in building a house, digg'd deep, and laid the foundation on a rock: an inundation came, the current beat impetuously upon that house, but could not shake it: for it was founded upon a rock."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 6, "verse": "49", "text": "but he that does not practise what he hears, is like a man who built his house upon the loose earth without any foundation: the current beat impetuously against it: in the instant down it fell, and great were its ruins."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 7, "verse": "1", "text": "When he had finished this discourse to the populous audience, he entred into Capernaum,"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 7, "verse": "2", "text": "where a certain centurion had a servant whom he greatly valued, lying sick and ready to die."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 7, "verse": "3", "text": "this centurion having heard of Jesus's fame, sent several elders of the Jews to intreat him to come, and recover his servant."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 7, "verse": "4", "text": "accordingly they came to Jesus and earnestly pressed him, saying, he very well deserves you should do him this favour; for he loves our nation,"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 7, "verse": "5", "text": "and hath built us a synagogue at his own charge."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 7, "verse": "6", "text": "then Jesus went with him, and when he was advanced near the house, the centurion sent some of his friends to him, saying, \"Lord, don't give yourself the trouble of coming, I don't deserve you should honour my house with your presence."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 7, "verse": "7", "text": "nor did I think myself worthy to attend you: speak but the word, and my servant shall be cured."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 7, "verse": "8", "text": "for though I am subject to authority, I have soldiers under me: I bid one go, and he goes: I bid another come, and he comes: I bid my servant do this, and he does it.\""}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 7, "verse": "9", "text": "when Jesus heard this, he admired the man, and turning about, he said to the people, that followed him, I assure you, I have not met with such an instance of faith even among the Jews themselves."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 7, "verse": "10", "text": "and they that were sent, being return'd to the house, they found the servant, who had been sick, in good health. Jesus Raises a Widow’s Son"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 7, "verse": "11", "text": "The day following, he went into a city called Nain, accompanied by many of his disciples, and a great crowd of people."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 7, "verse": "12", "text": "as he drew near the gate of the city, there was a dead man just then carrying out to be buried, who was his mother's only son, and she a widow: and many people of the town came with her."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 7, "verse": "13", "text": "when the Lord saw her, he was moved with compassion for her, and said to her, don't weep."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 7, "verse": "14", "text": "then advancing, he touch'd the bier, and the bearers standing still, he said, young man, arise, I command you."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 7, "verse": "15", "text": "and the deceased sat up, and began to speak, and Jesus delivered him to his mother."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 7, "verse": "16", "text": "all that were present were seized with dread, and glorified God, saying, a great prophet is risen up among us, and God has visited his people."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 7, "verse": "17", "text": "and his fame spread over all Judea and the neighbouring countrys. John’s Inquiry ( Matthew 11:1–6 )"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 7, "verse": "18", "text": "John was soon inform'd of these transactions by his disciples,"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 7, "verse": "19", "text": "and sent two of them to Jesus, with this question, are you the Messiah, or must we yet wait for some other?"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 7, "verse": "20", "text": "accordingly they came to Jesus, and said, John the Baptist sent us to enquire, if you are he that was to come, or must we look for another?"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 7, "verse": "21", "text": "at that very time, he cured several of their diseases and distempers, dispossessing evil spirits, and restoring sight to many that were blind."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 7, "verse": "22", "text": "then he gave them this answer, go, and tell John what you have seen, and heard: that the blind see, the lame walk, the lepers are healed, the deaf hear, the dead are raised, the gospel is proclaim'd to the poor."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 7, "verse": "23", "text": "and blessed is he, who does not make me the occasion of his fall. Jesus Testifies about John ( Matthew 11:7–19 )"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 7, "verse": "24", "text": "When the messengers of John were departed, he address'd himself to the people, and said with relation to John, what did you go to see in the desart? a reed shaken with the wind?"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 7, "verse": "25", "text": "or did you go to see a man richly apparelled? for magnificent dress and splendid living, you must look into the courts of princes."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 7, "verse": "26", "text": "what then did you go to see? a prophet? yes, I say it, and more than a prophet."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 7, "verse": "27", "text": "he it is, of whom it is written, \"behold, I send my messenger before you, who shall prepare the way for you.\""}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 7, "verse": "28", "text": "I declare unto you, among the whole race of mankind, there is not a prophet, who is superiour to John the Baptist: yet he that is most inferiour in the kingdom of the Messiah, is greater than he."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 7, "verse": "29", "text": "all the people, even the publicans, upon hearing him, gave glory to God, by receiving the baptism of John;"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 7, "verse": "30", "text": "but the Pharisees and the doctors of the law rejected the divine offers made to them, refusing to be baptized by John."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 7, "verse": "31", "text": "To what therefore shall I compare the men of this generation? who are they like?"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 7, "verse": "32", "text": "they are like children playing together in the street, who cry, we have play'd to you on the flute, but you have not danced: we have sung mournful dittys, but you have not lamented."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 7, "verse": "33", "text": "for John the Baptist, when he came, abstain'd from bread and wine; yet you say, he is possess'd with a demon."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 7, "verse": "34", "text": "the son of man appears indifferent to any kind of meat or drink: yet you say, he is a glutton and a tipler, a friend of publicans and loose people."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 7, "verse": "35", "text": "\"but wisdom is justified by all her different followers.\" A Sinful Woman Anoints Jesus ( Matthew 26:6–13 ; Mark 14:3–9 ; John 12:1–8 )"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 7, "verse": "36", "text": "Jesus being invited to dinner at a certain Pharisee's house, he went home with him, and sat down to table."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 7, "verse": "37", "text": "when a woman of that city, one that had led a loose life, knowing that Jesus was at table in the Pharisee's house, came in with a vial of odoriferous liquor,"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 7, "verse": "38", "text": "and stood behind at his feet weeping, bath'd them with her tears, wiped them with her hair, kissed his feet, and poured the perfume upon them."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 7, "verse": "39", "text": "which the Pharisee, who had invited him, observing, he thus argued with himself, if this man were a prophet, he could not but know that the woman, who is so busy with him, is a person of a loose character."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 7, "verse": "40", "text": "in answer to his doubts, Jesus said, Simon, I have something to say to you, master, said he, lets hear it."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 7, "verse": "41", "text": "A certain creditor had two debtors, the one owed five hundred denarys, and the other fifty."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 7, "verse": "42", "text": "having not wherewithal to pay it, he freely discharged them both of the debt, tell me now, which of the two will love him most?"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 7, "verse": "43", "text": "I think, said Simon, he that had the greatest debt remitted to him, you are in the right, said Jesus."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 7, "verse": "44", "text": "and turning to the woman, he said to Simon, do you observe this woman? though I am a guest in your house, you never offer'd me any water for my feet: but she has bath'd my feet with tears, and wiped them with the hair of her head."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 7, "verse": "45", "text": "you did not salute me, but this woman, since she came in, has been continually kissing my feet."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 7, "verse": "46", "text": "you did not bestow any oil upon my head; but she has poured her rich perfume upon my feet."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 7, "verse": "47", "text": "wherefore, I tell you, her sins, which are numerous, are forgiven; and that is the reason of all this love: but his love is less, to whom less is forgiven."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 7, "verse": "48", "text": "then he said to her, your sins are forgiven."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 7, "verse": "49", "text": "but they who sat at table with him, began to ask one another, who is this, that pretends even to forgive sins?"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 7, "verse": "50", "text": "but he said to the woman, your faith hath saved you: go in peace."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 8, "verse": "1", "text": "After this Jesus went about, preaching to every city and village, proclaiming the reign of the Messias, attended by his twelve apostles,"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 8, "verse": "2", "text": "and several women, who had been delivered from evil spirits and cured of their diseases: particularly Mary Magdalene, who had been dispossess'd of seven demons:"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 8, "verse": "3", "text": "Joanna the wife of Chuza Herod's high-steward: Susanna, and several others, who assisted him with their fortunes. The Parable of the Sower ( Matthew 13:1–23 ; Mark 4:1–20 )"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 8, "verse": "4", "text": "A vast number of people being assembled, and crowding to him from all quarters, he thus address'd himself to them by way of parable."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 8, "verse": "5", "text": "a husbandman went out to sow his corn: and as he was sowing, some fell upon the beaten road, which was crush'd under foot, or devoured by the birds."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 8, "verse": "6", "text": "some fell upon very stony ground, which no sooner sprung up, but it wither'd away, for want of moisture:"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 8, "verse": "7", "text": "some fell among thorns; but the thorns over-grew it, and starv'd it."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 8, "verse": "8", "text": "but some of the corn fell into good soil, and grew up, yielding a hundred grains for one, then raising his voice he concluded with these words, he that hath ears to hear, let him hear."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 8, "verse": "9", "text": "But his disciples having ask'd him the meaning of this parable;"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 8, "verse": "10", "text": "he answered, the secret circumstances of the divine dispensation may be clearly revealed to you, but to others only in parables, so that they don't observe what they see, nor comprehend what they hear."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 8, "verse": "11", "text": "now the meaning of the parable is this: the seed sown signifies the word of God."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 8, "verse": "12", "text": "by the beaten road is meant, they who only hear: the word, by the lurking wiles of the devil, being hinder'd from taking root in their hearts, lest they should believe and be saved."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 8, "verse": "13", "text": "by the stony ground is understood such persons as receive indeed the doctrines they hear, with joy: but for want of resolution, believe only occasionally, and desert when the trial comes."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 8, "verse": "14", "text": "the ground over-run with thorns denotes such as have embraced the doctrine, but are so immerst in the business, enjoyments, and pleasures of life, as not to improve it to any real advantage."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 8, "verse": "15", "text": "but by the good ground is meant such persons as have received the doctrine with simplicity and sincerity, abide by it, and practise it with perseverance. The Lesson of the Lamp ( Mark 4:21–25 )"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 8, "verse": "16", "text": "Now, no one lights a lamp to hide it under a vessel, or under a bed: but sets it on a stand, to give light to all the company."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 8, "verse": "17", "text": "whatever is now obscure, shall hereafter be made clear; whatever is now conceal'd, shall then be publickly known."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 8, "verse": "18", "text": "improve therefore what you hear: for he that improves what he has, shall have more; but he that does not, shall lose even that, which he thinks he possesses. Jesus’ Mother and Brothers ( Matthew 12:46–50 ; Mark 3:31–35 )"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 8, "verse": "19", "text": "One day the mother of Jesus, and his brethren came to speak with him, but could not get near by reason of the crowd."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 8, "verse": "20", "text": "so some of the company said to him, your mother and brethren are waiting without, desiring to see you."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 8, "verse": "21", "text": "but he answered them, my mother and brethren are these, who attend to the word of God, and practise it. Jesus Calms the Storm ( Matthew 8:23–27 ; Mark 4:35–41 )"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 8, "verse": "22", "text": "The same day Jesus went on board a vessel with his disciples, and said to them, let us pass over to the other side of the lake: and so they put off to sea."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 8, "verse": "23", "text": "while they were rowing, Jesus fell asleep: when there blew such a storm of wind upon the lake, as fill'd the boat with water, and endanger'd their lives."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 8, "verse": "24", "text": "then they came to wake him, crying, master, master, we are sinking, then he rose up, and rebuked the wind, and the waves: and both subside to a calm."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 8, "verse": "25", "text": "but to his disciples he said, where is your faith? while they, seiz'd with fear and admiration, said to one another, who can this man be, that he commands even the winds, and the waves, and they obey? The Demons and the Pigs ( Matthew 8:28–34 ; Mark 5:1–20 )"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 8, "verse": "26", "text": "Then they arrived at the country of the Gadarenes, which lies opposite to Galilee."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 8, "verse": "27", "text": "when he was landed, there met him a man, who belong'd to the city Gadara, and had been for a long time possessed by demons, he did not wear any cloaths, nor dwell in any house, but among the tombs."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 8, "verse": "28", "text": "upon seeing Jesus, he set up a great cry, fell down before him, and roar'd out, what business have you with me, Jesus son of the most high God? I beseech you torment me not."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 8, "verse": "29", "text": "for he had commanded the impure spirit to quit the man, he had so long possessed: who, tho' bound in chains, and fastned with fetters, broke thro' all restraints, and was hurry'd by the demon into the desarts."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 8, "verse": "30", "text": "upon Jesus's saying to him, what is your name? he answer'd, legion, (for many demons were enter'd into him.)"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 8, "verse": "31", "text": "and they entreated him not to condemn them to the abyss."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 8, "verse": "32", "text": "but there being a numerous herd of swine feeding on the mountain, they desired he would permit them to enter into the swine, which he granted."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 8, "verse": "33", "text": "accordingly the demons quitted the man, and enter'd into the swine: immediately the herd ran headlong down a precipice into the lake, and were drowned."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 8, "verse": "34", "text": "the keepers seeing this, ran about and spread it, both in town,"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 8, "verse": "35", "text": "and country, whence numbers went to see the fact: being come to Jesus, they found the man, who had been dispossess'd of the demons, sitting at Jesus's feet, cloathed, and in his right senses: at which they were much surpriz'd,"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 8, "verse": "36", "text": "being inform'd by those that were present, by what means the demoniac had been cured."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 8, "verse": "37", "text": "then the Gadarenes of the adjacent parts unanimously desired him to leave their country: for they were greatly allarm'd, so he embark'd to cross over the lake."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 8, "verse": "38", "text": "now the man, who had been dispossess'd, begg'd to take him with him, but Jesus dismissed him,"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 8, "verse": "39", "text": "saying, go home, and relate, what great things God hath done for you, whereupon he departed, and published through all the city, what a wonderful deliverance Jesus had wrought for him. The Healing Touch of Jesus ( Matthew 9:18–26 ; Mark 5:21–43 )"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 8, "verse": "40", "text": "Jesus upon his return was received by a great number of people, who expected him."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 8, "verse": "41", "text": "Some time after, a person nam'd Jairus, a ruler of the synagogue, came to Jesus, and upon his knees desired him to come to his house:"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 8, "verse": "42", "text": "for he had an only daughter, about twelve years of age, who lay a dying, as he was on the way, the crowd press'd after him,"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 8, "verse": "43", "text": "and among the rest a woman, who had been troubled with an hemorrhage twelve years, having consum'd her whole fortune upon physicians, who could none of them cure her; she getting behind him,"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 8, "verse": "44", "text": "touched the border of his garment: and immediately her indisposition was removed."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 8, "verse": "45", "text": "upon which Jesus said, who was it that touch'd me? they being all at a loss, what to answer, at length Peter, and the others with him, said, master, the crowd are squeezing and pressing about you, and yet you cry, \"who touch'd me?\""}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 8, "verse": "46", "text": "but Jesus said, somebody has touched me: for I know what influence my power has had."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 8, "verse": "47", "text": "then the woman finding she could not conceal herself, came trembling, and kneeling down before him, confess'd before all the people, why she had touch'd him, and how she was instantly cured."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 8, "verse": "48", "text": "but he said to her, daughter, don't be under any concern: your faith has sav'd you, go in peace."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 8, "verse": "49", "text": "While he was speaking, somebody came from the ruler of the synagogue's house, who said to him, your daughter is dead; 'tis in vain to importune the master any farther."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 8, "verse": "50", "text": "but when Jesus heard that, he said to Jairus, be not afraid: only believe, and she shall recover."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 8, "verse": "51", "text": "being come to the house, he suffer'd nobody to go into the room with him, except Peter, John and James, and the young woman's father and mother."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 8, "verse": "52", "text": "the company there were all in tears lamenting for her: but he said don't weep; she is not dead, but asleep."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 8, "verse": "53", "text": "upon which, they knowing she was really dead, treated him with derision."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 8, "verse": "54", "text": "but Jesus oblig'd them to withdraw; then grasping her hand, he said, my child, arise."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 8, "verse": "55", "text": "immediately she came to life, and rose up: and he order'd, that something should be given her to eat."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 8, "verse": "56", "text": "and her parents were seized with astonishment: but he charg'd them not to let the fact be known to any one."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 9, "verse": "1", "text": "After this he assembled the twelve apostles, and gave them authority over all sorts of demons, and the power of curing all diseases:"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 9, "verse": "2", "text": "then sent them to proclaim the reign of the Messiah, and to heal the sick."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 9, "verse": "3", "text": "and he said to them make no provision for your journey: take neither staff, nor sack, nor bread, nor money; and but one coat for each."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 9, "verse": "4", "text": "when you are lodg'd in any house, there stay, till you leave the place."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 9, "verse": "5", "text": "if any refuse to entertain you, when you leave that city, shake off the dust from your feet, as a sign of their being abandon'd."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 9, "verse": "6", "text": "accordingly they departed, and travell'd thro' the towns, preaching the gospel, and performing cures every where. Herod Tries to See Jesus ( Matthew 14:1–12 ; Mark 6:14–29 )"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 9, "verse": "7", "text": "Now Herod the tetrarch was inform'd of all his transactions: and was perplex'd at the relation of some, that John was risen from the dead: whilst others said, Elias appear'd:"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 9, "verse": "8", "text": "and others, that one of the old prophets was come to life again."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 9, "verse": "9", "text": "but Herod said, John was beheaded by my order, who then can this be, who, they say, performs such strange things? and he desired to have a sight of Jesus. The Feeding of the Five Thousand ( Matthew 14:13–21 ; Mark 6:30–44 ; John 6:1–15 )"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 9, "verse": "10", "text": "The Apostles, upon their return to Jesus, acquainted him with what they had done, and taking them with him, he retired into a desart place over-against the city of Bethsaida:"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 9, "verse": "11", "text": "where the people, who were inform'd of it, followed him: which he did not discountenance, but explained to them the reign of the Messiah, and relieved those, who wanted to be cured."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 9, "verse": "12", "text": "As the day began to decline, the twelve came to him, and said, dismiss the multitude, that they may go to the nearest towns and villages for lodging and provisions: for here we are in a desart place."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 9, "verse": "13", "text": "and he said to them, do you yourselves give them something to eat, they replied, we can furnish only five loaves and two fishes, unless we go and buy provisions for all this people:"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 9, "verse": "14", "text": "for they were about five thousand, but Jesus said to his disciples, make them sit down by fifties in a company."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 9, "verse": "15", "text": "accordingly they ranged them, and made them all sit down."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 9, "verse": "16", "text": "then he took the five loaves, and the two fishes, and looking up to heaven, he ask'd blessing: then divided them, and gave them to his disciples to be distributed among the people:"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 9, "verse": "17", "text": "and tho' they all eat sufficiently, there was a surplusage of twelve baskets full of fragments carried away. Peter’s Confession of Christ ( Matthew 16:13–20 ; Mark 8:27–30 ; John 6:67–71 )"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 9, "verse": "18", "text": "One day having retired alone to prayer, he came to his disciples, and ask'd them, saying, whom do the people judge me to be?"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 9, "verse": "19", "text": "they answered, some say you are John the Baptist: others, Elias: and others, that you are one of the old prophets appearing again."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 9, "verse": "20", "text": "but who, said he, do you think I am? Peter answered, you are the Messiah of God. Christ’s Passion Foretold ( Matthew 16:21–23 ; Mark 8:31–33 )"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 9, "verse": "21", "text": "however, Jesus strictly charged them not to say so much to any body; adding,"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 9, "verse": "22", "text": "the son of man must suffer many indignities: be rejected by the rulers, the chief priests, and Scribes: be put to death: and the third day be raised again. Take Up Your Cross ( Matthew 16:24–28 ; Mark 8:34–38 )"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 9, "verse": "23", "text": "Then he said to the whole company, if any one will be my follower, let him renounce himself, take up his cross daily, and follow me."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 9, "verse": "24", "text": "for whoever would save his life, shall lose it: and he that would lose his life, out of love to me, shall save it."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 9, "verse": "25", "text": "what advantage is it for a man to have gain'd the whole world, if he himself runs into utter loss and ruin?"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 9, "verse": "26", "text": "for whoever shall be ashamed of me, and of my doctrine, of him shall the son of man be ashamed, when he shall come in his own glory, and in the glory of his father, and of the holy angels."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 9, "verse": "27", "text": "I declare unto you, there are some here present, who shall not die, till they see the Messiah reign. The Transfiguration ( Matthew 17:1–13 ; Mark 9:1–13 ; 2 Peter 1:16–21 )"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 9, "verse": "28", "text": "About eight days after this discourse, he took with him Peter, John, and James, and went up a mountain to pray."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 9, "verse": "29", "text": "as he was praying, the appearance of his countenance was quite chang'd, and his raiment was of a splendid white:"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 9, "verse": "30", "text": "two persons of a glorious form were seen talking with him; they were Moses, and Elias,"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 9, "verse": "31", "text": "who discours'd about the exit, he was to make at Jerusalem;"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 9, "verse": "32", "text": "while Peter, and the others with him, were overwhelm'd with sleep: but when they wak'd, they observed his glory, and the two persons present with him,"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 9, "verse": "33", "text": "who were just departing from him, when Peter said to Jesus, master, it is best for us to stay here: let us build three apartments, one for you, one for Moses, and one for Elias: not knowing well what he said."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 9, "verse": "34", "text": "while he was speaking, there came a cloud and over-shadowed them, who were seized with fear, at their vanishing in the cloud,"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 9, "verse": "35", "text": "from whence a voice issued out, saying, \"this is my beloved son, obey him.\""}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 9, "verse": "36", "text": "and before the sound was gone, Jesus was left alone: this they kept secret, and for some time did not acquaint any one in the least with what they had seen. The Boy with an Evil Spirit ( Matthew 17:14–18 ; Mark 9:14–29 )"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 9, "verse": "37", "text": "The next day, when they were come down from the mountain, a multitude of people happen'd to meet him:"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 9, "verse": "38", "text": "when one of the company cry'd out, master, I beseech you, cast your eyes upon my son, for he is my only child:"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 9, "verse": "39", "text": "he is frequently seized by a spirit, which makes him immediately roar, then throws him into convulsions with foaming, and never leaves him, but with difficulty and bruises."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 9, "verse": "40", "text": "I desired your disciples to cast out this spirit; but they were not able."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 9, "verse": "41", "text": "then said Jesus, O incredulous, and perverse generation, how long shall I be with you, and suffer you? bring hither your son."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 9, "verse": "42", "text": "as the child was advancing, the demon threw him down, into convulsions: but Jesus rebuked the impure spirit, cured the child, and delivered him to his father. The Second Prediction of the Passion ( Matthew 17:22–23 ; Mark 9:30–32 )"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 9, "verse": "43", "text": "and all the people were astonished at such an instance of divine power: and as they were admiring whatever Jesus did, he said to his disciples,"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 9, "verse": "44", "text": "give attention to what I now say, namely, that the son of man is to be delivered into the hands of men."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 9, "verse": "45", "text": "but they did not comprehend that expression: it was as a riddle, which they could not understand, and they were afraid to desire him to explain the meaning of that expression. The Greatest in the Kingdom ( Matthew 18:1–5 ; Mark 9:33–41 )"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 9, "verse": "46", "text": "At length they enter'd into a debate, which of them should be the greatest."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 9, "verse": "47", "text": "but Jesus perceiving what they thought, took a child and set him before him: then said to them,"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 9, "verse": "48", "text": "whoever receives such a child in my name, receives me: and he that receives me, receives him that sent me, for he that is least among you all, he shall be greatest."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 9, "verse": "49", "text": "Then said John to Jesus, master, we saw one casting out demons in your name, and we oppos'd it, because he does not follow you with us."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 9, "verse": "50", "text": "but Jesus said to him, don't oppose it: for he that is not against us, is for us. The Samaritans Reject Jesus"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 9, "verse": "51", "text": "Now the time of his assumption drawing nigh, he was fix'd in his resolution to go to Jerusalem:"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 9, "verse": "52", "text": "and he sent messengers before, who went to a town of the Samaritans, to prepare a lodging for him."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 9, "verse": "53", "text": "but they would not entertain him, because he appear'd to them, as if he was going to Jerusalem."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 9, "verse": "54", "text": "his disciples James and John observing this, said, Lord, shall we command fire to descend from heaven, as Elias did, in order to consume them?"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 9, "verse": "55", "text": "but Jesus turn'd, and rebuked them, saying, you don't know by what spirit you are moved."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 9, "verse": "56", "text": "for the son of man is not come to destroy men's lives, but to save them, and they went to another village. The Cost of Discipleship ( Matthew 8:18–22 ; Luke 14:25–33 ; John 6:59–66 )"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 9, "verse": "57", "text": "At another time, as they were walking in the road, a man said to him, I will be your follower, wherever you go."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 9, "verse": "58", "text": "Jesus answered him, foxes have their kennels, and birds of the air their nests, but the son of man hath not where to lay his head."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 9, "verse": "59", "text": "Then he said to another, follow me: but he replied, Lord, let me stay first, till I bury my father."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 9, "verse": "60", "text": "Jesus said to him, let the dead bury their dead; but do you go and preach the kingdom of God."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 9, "verse": "61", "text": "another likewise said, I will be your follower; but let me first go home, and settle the affairs of my family."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 9, "verse": "62", "text": "Jesus answered him, whoever puts his hand to the plough, and looks back, is not fit to be employ'd in the kingdom of God."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 10, "verse": "1", "text": "After this the Lord nominated seventy disciples more, and sent them before by two and two, into all the cities, and towns, where he himself design'd to go."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 10, "verse": "2", "text": "and he said to them, the harvest indeed is great, but the labourers are few: intreat therefore the Lord of the harvest to send forth labourers into his harvest."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 10, "verse": "3", "text": "go then: I send you as lambs among wolves."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 10, "verse": "4", "text": "carry neither purse, nor bag, nor shoes; neither salute any man by the way."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 10, "verse": "5", "text": "at your entrance into any house, first say, prosperity be to this family."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 10, "verse": "6", "text": "if any be there, who deserve your benediction, it shall have its effect upon them; otherwise, it shall redound to your own advantage."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 10, "verse": "7", "text": "continue in the same house, and eat and drink whatever it affords: for a labourer deserves his wages: therefore don't shift from family to family."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 10, "verse": "8", "text": "when you come to any city, where they receive you, eat without scruple, whatever food is set before you,"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 10, "verse": "9", "text": "and heal the sick you find there, tell the inhabitants the kingdom of God is drawing nigh unto them."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 10, "verse": "10", "text": "but when you enter into any city, and they refuse to entertain you, go through the streets,"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 10, "verse": "11", "text": "and cry, \"we shake off the dust, that sticks to our feet, against you: but take notice, the kingdom of God has been near you.\""}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 10, "verse": "12", "text": "I declare unto you, that the people of Sodom shall be treated with less severity in the day of judgment, than that city. Woe to the Unrepentant ( Matthew 11:20–24 )"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 10, "verse": "13", "text": "wo unto thee Chorazin; wo unto thee Bethsaida: for if the miracles, which have been wrought among you, had been wrought in Tyre and Sidon, they would long since have lain repenting in sackcloth and ashes."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 10, "verse": "14", "text": "therefore Tyre and Sidon shall be treated with less severity in the day of judgment, than you."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 10, "verse": "15", "text": "and thou, Capernaum, which art exalted to the sky, shall be plung'd into an abyss."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 10, "verse": "16", "text": "he that adheres to you, adheres to me; he that rejects you, rejects me: and he that rejects me, rejecteth him that sent me. The Joyful Return"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 10, "verse": "17", "text": "At length the seventy return'd with great joy, saying, Lord, even the demons have been made subject to us by virtue of your name."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 10, "verse": "18", "text": "upon which he said to them, I beheld satan falling, like lightning, from heaven."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 10, "verse": "19", "text": "I have authoriz'd you to trample upon serpents and scorpions, and triumph over all the power of the enemy; so that nothing shall be capable of doing you any mischief."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 10, "verse": "20", "text": "however, let not this be the matter of your rejoicing, that the spirits are subject to you: but rejoice, that you have a title to the joys of heaven. Jesus’ Prayer of Thanksgiving ( Matthew 11:25–30 )"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 10, "verse": "21", "text": "At that very time Jesus fell into a divine transport, and said, \"I magnify thee, O father, the Lord of heaven and earth, for having conceal'd these things from the artful and the crafty, whilst thou hast reveal'd them to the unskilful, justly, O father, hast thou thus dispens'd thy favour.\""}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 10, "verse": "22", "text": "the management of every thing is committed to me by my father: no one knows what character the son is invested with, except the father; nor who the father is, except the son, and he to whom the son shall please to reveal it."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 10, "verse": "23", "text": "then addressing himself to his disciples in particular, he said, happy are they, who see what you see:"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 10, "verse": "24", "text": "for I assure you, that many prophets and princes have desired to see what you now behold, but they never saw it; and to hear what you have heard, which they never did. The Parable of the Good Samaritan"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 10, "verse": "25", "text": "Then a doctor of the law stood up to try him, saying, master, what shall I do to inherit eternal life?"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 10, "verse": "26", "text": "to whom he answered, how does the law run in that case? what do you find?"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 10, "verse": "27", "text": "he replied, 'tis thus, \"thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, with all thy soul, with all thy strength, and with all thy understanding; and thy neighbour as thy self.\""}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 10, "verse": "28", "text": "you have answered well, replied Jesus, do this, and you shall live."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 10, "verse": "29", "text": "but he being desirous to clear himself, said to Jesus, but what is meant by our neighbour?"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 10, "verse": "30", "text": "to which Jesus answered, a certain man, as he was going from Jerusalem to Jericho, fell among thieves, who stripp'd him, and beat him, then march'd off leaving him half dead."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 10, "verse": "31", "text": "a certain priest happen'd to be travelling that way, who look'd upon him, and then pass'd on."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 10, "verse": "32", "text": "a Levite too came to the same place, gave him a look, and pass'd on."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 10, "verse": "33", "text": "but a certain Samaritan being on the road, came where he was, and when he saw him, he took compassion on him,"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 10, "verse": "34", "text": "went up to him, dress'd his wounds by applying oil and wine, then set him upon his own mule, and brought him to an inn, where he took care of him."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 10, "verse": "35", "text": "upon his departure the next day, he took out two denarii, and gave them to the master of the house, take care of him, said he, and I will repay you all the charges you are at, upon my return."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 10, "verse": "36", "text": "which now of the three do you think was neighbour to the man that was robb'd."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 10, "verse": "37", "text": "he, reply'd the doctor, who took pity on him, then said Jesus to him, go then, and imitate his example. Martha and Mary"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 10, "verse": "38", "text": "Another time, as they were on a journey, Jesus enter'd into a village, where a woman, named Martha, entertain'd him at her house."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 10, "verse": "39", "text": "now she had a sister, named Mary, who placed herself at the feet of Jesus, to attend to his discourse."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 10, "verse": "40", "text": "but Martha perplex'd with the hurry of her affairs, came to him, and said, Lord, don't you observe my sister has left me to serve all alone: direct her therefore to give me some assistance."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 10, "verse": "41", "text": "but Jesus replied to her, Martha, Martha, you trouble yourself about a world of cares:"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 10, "verse": "42", "text": "but the best and the most necessary concern is, what Mary has pitch'd upon, of which she shall never be deprived."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 11, "verse": "1", "text": "One day Jesus had been praying in a certain place, and as soon as he had done, one of his disciples said to him, instruct us about prayer, as John the baptist instructed his disciples."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 11, "verse": "2", "text": "he said therefore to them, when ye pray, say, \"our father, which art in heaven, hallowed be thy name, thy kingdom come, thy will be done, on earth, as in heaven."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 11, "verse": "3", "text": "give us every day our portion of bread."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 11, "verse": "4", "text": "and forgive us our sins: since we forgive every one that has offended us, and leave us not under temptation, but deliver us from the evil one.\" Ask, Seek, Knock ( Matthew 7:7–12 )"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 11, "verse": "5", "text": "Then he said to them, suppose any of you should go to his friend at midnight; and say to him, friend, lend me three loaves:"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 11, "verse": "6", "text": "for a friend of mine, a traveller, is come to my house, and I have nothing to entertain him with."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 11, "verse": "7", "text": "and he within should give this answer, don't trouble me now: the door is made fast, and my family are all in bed: I can't get up to supply you."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 11, "verse": "8", "text": "I tell you, tho' he will not rise, to supply him, out of friendship: yet out of regard to his importunity, he will rise, and lend him whatever he has occasion for."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 11, "verse": "9", "text": "I tell you likewise, ask, and it shall be given: seek, and ye shall find: knock, and the door shall be opened."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 11, "verse": "10", "text": "for every one that asketh, receives: he that seeketh, finds: and he that knocks has admittance."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 11, "verse": "11", "text": "what father among you would give his son a stone, when he asketh for bread? or if for a fish, instead of a fish would he give him a serpent?"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 11, "verse": "12", "text": "or instead of an egg will he offer him a scorpion?"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 11, "verse": "13", "text": "if ye then, wicked as ye are, know how to give what is proper to your children: how much more shall your heavenly father give the holy spirit to them that ask him? A House Divided ( Matthew 12:22–30 ; Mark 3:20–27 )"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 11, "verse": "14", "text": "At another time Jesus was casting out a demon, that was dumb: and as soon as the demon was gone out, the dumb man spoke: and the people wondred."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 11, "verse": "15", "text": "but some of them said, he casteth out demons by Beelzebub the prince of the demons."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 11, "verse": "16", "text": "others, to try him, desir'd he would show some miraculous sign in the heaven."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 11, "verse": "17", "text": "but Jesus perceiving their suspicions, said to them, every kingdom divided against itself will soon be desolate: one family divided against another, falls to ruin."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 11, "verse": "18", "text": "so if satan be divided against himself, how can his kingdom subsist?"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 11, "verse": "19", "text": "for you assert, that I cast out demons by Beelzebub, but if I cast out demons by Beelzebub, by whom do your sons cast them out? wherefore they shall be your judges."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 11, "verse": "20", "text": "but if I cast out demons by the finger of God, it follows, that the reign of the Messiah is now begun among you."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 11, "verse": "21", "text": "when a man that is stout and well arm'd guards his palace, his possessions are safe."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 11, "verse": "22", "text": "but if a stronger than he should assault, and overcome him, he will strip him of all his furniture on which he relyed, and divide the plunder."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 11, "verse": "23", "text": "He that does not join with me, is against me: and he that is not active for me, is a deserter. An Unclean Spirit Returns ( Matthew 12:43–45 )"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 11, "verse": "24", "text": "When the impure spirit is gone out of a man, he wanders about the wilds in quest of some repose: but finding none, I will return, says he, to the abode I have quitted."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 11, "verse": "25", "text": "and at his return he findeth it swept and garnished."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 11, "verse": "26", "text": "then he goes and takes with him seven other spirits more wicked than himself: they all enter in and dwell there, and the last state of that man becomes worse than the first. True Blessedness"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 11, "verse": "27", "text": "As he was discoursing thus, a certain woman in the middle of the crowd lift up her voice, and said to him, happy the mother, who bare thee: happy the nurse, who gave thee milk."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 11, "verse": "28", "text": "but rather, said he, happy are they who hear the word of God, and put it in practice. The Sign of Jonah ( Matthew 12:38–42 )"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 11, "verse": "29", "text": "and as the crowd grew more numerous, he thus began, this is a degenerate race of men: they demand a miracle: but no miracle shall be exhibited, but such as happen'd in the person of Jonas the prophet."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 11, "verse": "30", "text": "for as the case of Jonas was a miraculous instance to the Ninevites, so shall the son of man be to this generation."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 11, "verse": "31", "text": "the queen of the south shall rise up in the day of judgment against this generation, and condemn it: for she came from the remote parts of the earth to hear the wisdom of Solomon; but now, a greater than Solomon is here."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 11, "verse": "32", "text": "the people of Nineve shall rise up in the day of Judgment, and shall condemn it: for they repented at the preaching of Jonas; but now, a greater than Jonas is here. The Lamp of the Body ( Matthew 6:22–24 )"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 11, "verse": "33", "text": "However, when a man has once lighted his lamp, he does not hide it in a by-place, or under a bushel; but sets it on a stand, that all who come in may have light."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 11, "verse": "34", "text": "the eye is the light of the body: if therefore your eye be clear, every member of your body will have the benefit of the light: but if it be spoil'd, they must all rest in darkness."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 11, "verse": "35", "text": "take care therefore, that the light which is in thee do not become darkness."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 11, "verse": "36", "text": "for if thy whole body be enlightned, and no part dark, your whole conduct will be regulated, just as the light of a lamp directs all your motions. Woes to Pharisees and Experts in the Law ( Matthew 23:1–36 )"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 11, "verse": "37", "text": "While he was speaking, a Pharisee invited him to dine his house, where he went, and sat down at table."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 11, "verse": "38", "text": "but the Pharisee was surprized to see that he did not wash before dinner."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 11, "verse": "39", "text": "upon which the Lord said to him, you Pharisees won't leave any filth upon the outside of a cup or a platter: while your consciences are abandon'd to rapine, and sensuality."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 11, "verse": "40", "text": "do you stupidly imagine that he, who made the outward man, did not make the inward too?"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 11, "verse": "41", "text": "be but charitable to the utmost of your ability, and every thing will be pure to you."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 11, "verse": "42", "text": "but wo unto you Pharisees: for you will pay the tythes of mint, and rue, and all sorts of herbs, but as for justice and true piety, those you neglect, these you ought to have practised, without omitting however the other."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 11, "verse": "43", "text": "wo unto you Pharisees, for you affect to have the first rank in the synagogue, and to be complimented in publick places."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 11, "verse": "44", "text": "wo unto you: for you resemble subterraneous monuments, which men walk over, without perceiving them."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 11, "verse": "45", "text": "Then a doctor of the law objected to him, saying, master, your discourse is an insult upon us also."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 11, "verse": "46", "text": "but Jesus said, wo unto you likewise, doctors of the law; for you load men with insupportable burthens, the least part of which you will not yourselves bear:"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 11, "verse": "47", "text": "wo unto you, for you rebuild the sepulchres of those prophets, whom your fathers put to death:"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 11, "verse": "48", "text": "they were guilty of slaughter, and you raise monuments to their memory."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 11, "verse": "49", "text": "agreeably to this, in the Wisdom of God 'tis said, \"I will send them prophets and apostles: some they will kill, and others they will persecute:"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 11, "verse": "50", "text": "\" so that the blood of all the prophets, which has been shed since the creation of the world, may be required of this generation,"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 11, "verse": "51", "text": "from the blood of Abel to that of Zacharias, who perished between the altar and the temple: yes, I assure you, this generation shall be responsible for it all."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 11, "verse": "52", "text": "wo unto you, doctors of the law; for after having taken the key of knowledge, you remain still in the dark, and hinder others, who desire to have light."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 11, "verse": "53", "text": "As he was pursuing his discourse, the Scribes and Pharisees passionately urg'd him with many captious questions, in order to ensnare him,"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 11, "verse": "54", "text": "and draw something from his own mouth, that might be brought as evidence against him."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 12, "verse": "1", "text": "In the mean time thousands of people being gather'd about him, so as to trample upon one another, he first address'd himself thus to his disciples, beware of the corrupt doctrine of the Pharisees, which is hypocrisy."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 12, "verse": "2", "text": "for there is nothing conceal'd, which shall not be disclos'd; nothing secret, which shall not be made publick."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 12, "verse": "3", "text": "whatever you have utter'd in the dark, shall be brought to light: and what you have whisper'd in a closet, shall be proclaim'd upon the house top. Fear God Alone ( Matthew 10:26–31 )"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 12, "verse": "4", "text": "As for you, my friends, be not afraid of those, who can kill the body, and after that can effect nothing more."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 12, "verse": "5", "text": "but I will inform you whom you should fear: fear him, who after he has kill'd, has power to precipitate into hell; yes, I advise you, fear him."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 12, "verse": "6", "text": "are not five sparrows sold for two pence? however the divine providence extends to each of them."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 12, "verse": "7", "text": "nay, the very hairs of your head can't fall without being number'd: be not then afraid; there is no comparison between you and sparrows. Confessing Christ ( Matthew 10:32–33 )"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 12, "verse": "8", "text": "moreover I declare unto you, whoever shall acknowledge me before men, him shall the son of man also own before the angels of God."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 12, "verse": "9", "text": "but whoever shall renounce me before men, he shall be renounc'd before the angels of God."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 12, "verse": "10", "text": "and whoever shall cast a reflection upon the son of man, it shall be forgiven him; but as for him, that shall blaspheme the holy spirit, it shall not be forgiven."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 12, "verse": "11", "text": "when you are brought into the synagogues, and before magistrates and rulers, be not sollicitous what to say in your own defence;"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 12, "verse": "12", "text": "for the holy spirit shall instruct you on the very occasion, what is proper to be said. The Parable of the Rich Fool"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 12, "verse": "13", "text": "Then one of the company said to him, order my brother to give me my share of our inheritance."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 12, "verse": "14", "text": "but Jesus answer'd him, who made me a judge, or an arbitrator between you?"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 12, "verse": "15", "text": "then he said to them, take care to be clear of all avarice: for the enjoyment of life does not depend upon the having large possessions."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 12, "verse": "16", "text": "to which purpose he propos'd to them this parable: a rich man had some land that was very fruitful."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 12, "verse": "17", "text": "and thus he reason'd with himself, what shall I do for want of room to store up my crop?"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 12, "verse": "18", "text": "this will I do, said he, I will pull down my barns, and build greater: and there I will bestow all my rich product."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 12, "verse": "19", "text": "then I will say to my soul, soul, you have many enjoyments in reserve for a number of years; take your ease, eat, drink, and be merry."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 12, "verse": "20", "text": "but God said to him, thou fool, this night shall thy soul be required of thee: who then shall enjoy what thou hast provided?"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 12, "verse": "21", "text": "such is he, who heaps up his treasure here, and makes no provision for another world. Do Not Worry ( Matthew 6:25–34 )"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 12, "verse": "22", "text": "Wherefore (said he to his disciples,) be not sollicitous for your life, what ye shall eat; nor for the body, what ye shall put on."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 12, "verse": "23", "text": "the life is more than meat, and the body is more than raiment."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 12, "verse": "24", "text": "consider the ravens: for they neither sow nor reap: nor have cellar or barn: are not you of much greater value than the fowls?"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 12, "verse": "25", "text": "but which of you, with all his disquietude, can add one moment to the period of his life?"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 12, "verse": "26", "text": "if then you can't effect so small a matter, why are you disquieted about a much longer time?"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 12, "verse": "27", "text": "consider the lillys how they grow: they neither toil nor spin: and yet, I tell you, that Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 12, "verse": "28", "text": "now if God thus cloaths the flowers, which exist to-day in the field, and to-morrow are thrown into the oven: how much more will he cloath you, O distrustful men?"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 12, "verse": "29", "text": "therefore don't be concern'd about what ye shall eat, or what ye shall drink; but lay aside all your anxiety:"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 12, "verse": "30", "text": "for it is enough that the Gentiles are so concern'd about these things: as for you, your father is acquainted with all your wants."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 12, "verse": "31", "text": "therefore do you rather seek the kingdom of God, and then all your necessities will be fully supply'd. Treasures in Heaven ( Matthew 6:19–21 )"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 12, "verse": "32", "text": "fear not, ye little flock, for it is your father's good pleasure to grant you the kingdom."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 12, "verse": "33", "text": "sell your possessions and give alms, lay up for yourselves a stock not subject to decay, a treasure in the heavens that will never fail, where no thief can approach, nor moth can spoil."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 12, "verse": "34", "text": "for where your treasure is, there likewise will your affections be. Readiness at Any Hour ( Matthew 24:36–51 ; Mark 13:32–37 )"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 12, "verse": "35", "text": "Let your loins be girt, and your lamps burning:"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 12, "verse": "36", "text": "imitate those servants who stand waiting for their master's return from the wedding, to let him in as soon as he comes to the door."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 12, "verse": "37", "text": "happy those servants, whom the master at his arrival shall find thus watching: I assure you, he shall gird himself, and make them sit at table, and will come to serve them."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 12, "verse": "38", "text": "happy are the servants he finds in such a state, whether it be at the second or at the third watch of the night, when he comes."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 12, "verse": "39", "text": "if the master of a house knew at what hour the thief would come, no doubt he would be on his guard, and not suffer him to break into his house."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 12, "verse": "40", "text": "be ye therefore likewise prepar'd; for the son of man will come, when you least expect him."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 12, "verse": "41", "text": "then Peter said to him, Lord, do you apply this similitude to us, or to all in general?"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 12, "verse": "42", "text": "Jesus answered, if there be a faithful prudent steward, appointed by his master to give his domesticks their stated allowance; happy is such a servant,"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 12, "verse": "43", "text": "whom his master at his return shall find so employ'd."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 12, "verse": "44", "text": "I assure you, he will intrust him with the management of his whole estate."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 12, "verse": "45", "text": "but if the servant should say within himself, my master delays his return; and fall a beating his fellow-servants, indulging himself in eating and drinking to excess."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 12, "verse": "46", "text": "his master will return on a day he does not expect him, and a an hour he is ignorant of; he will separate him from the rest, and give him a treatment answerable to his infidelity."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 12, "verse": "47", "text": "but the servant, who knows his master's will, and prepares not himself, nor executes his orders, shall receive many stripes."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 12, "verse": "48", "text": "whereas he that does not know it, and does things worthy of chastisement, shall receive fewer stripes, for to whom much is given, of him shall much be required, and the more a man has been trusted, the greater will be the demand. Not Peace but Division ( Micah 7:1–6 ; Matthew 10:34–39 )"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 12, "verse": "49", "text": "I am come to purify the earth with fire, and how do I wish it were already kindled?"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 12, "verse": "50", "text": "the baptism, which I am to undergo, how do I long till it be accomplished?"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 12, "verse": "51", "text": "do you imagine that my coming will produce peace on the earth? I tell you, no; but rather division."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 12, "verse": "52", "text": "for the future, if there are five persons in one family, they will be divided; three against two, and two against three."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 12, "verse": "53", "text": "the father will be at variance with his son, and the son with the father: the mother with the daughter, and the daughter with the mother: the mother-in-law with the daughter-in-law, and the daughter-in-law with the mother-in-law. Interpreting the Present Time ( Matthew 16:1–4 ; Mark 8:11–13 )"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 12, "verse": "54", "text": "Then he said to the people, when you see a cloud rise out of the west, you say, it is just going to rain; and so it happens."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 12, "verse": "55", "text": "and when the south wind blows, you say, there will be heat; and so it happens."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 12, "verse": "56", "text": "Hypocrites, you can judge of the phoenomena of the earth, and of the sky, but why can't you discern the present times? Reconciling with an Adversary ( Matthew 5:21–26 )"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 12, "verse": "57", "text": "why can't you judge what is proper to be done in your own affairs."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 12, "verse": "58", "text": "When you are going with your adversary before the magistrate, pay the interest, and get your discharge, while you are on the way; for fear he should bring you before the judge, and the judge deliver you to the officer, and the officer throw you into jail."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 12, "verse": "59", "text": "I tell you, you will not get out, till you have paid to the last farthing."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 13, "verse": "1", "text": "At the same time, there were some present, who gave Jesus an account of the Galileans, whose blood Pilate had mingled with their sacrifices."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 13, "verse": "2", "text": "upon which Jesus thus address'd himself to them, do you imagine that those Galileans were greater sinners than the rest of the nation, because they suffer'd in such a manner?"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 13, "verse": "3", "text": "I tell you, no: and except you repent, you shall all likewise perish."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 13, "verse": "4", "text": "or those eighteen, upon whom the tower of Siloam fell, and slew them, do you think they were greater criminals than the other inhabitants of Jerusalem?"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 13, "verse": "5", "text": "I tell you, no: and except you repent, you shall all likewise perish. The Parable of the Barren Fig Tree"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 13, "verse": "6", "text": "He proposed likewise this parable: a certain man had a fig-tree planted in his vineyard, and he came expecting it should have had fruit, but he found none."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 13, "verse": "7", "text": "then he said to the vine-dresser, you see, I have been looking these three years for fruit from this fig-tree, but find none: hew it down, why should it cumber my ground?"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 13, "verse": "8", "text": "to which he made answer, sir, let it alone one year longer, till I shall dig about it, and dung it."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 13, "verse": "9", "text": "perhaps it may bear fruit: if not, you may after that hew it down. Jesus Heals a Disabled Woman"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 13, "verse": "10", "text": "As he was teaching in a synagogue on the sabbath-day, a woman was present,"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 13, "verse": "11", "text": "who had been kept infirm by a spirit eighteen years: and stooped in such a manner, she was not able to hold up her head strait."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 13, "verse": "12", "text": "Jesus seeing her, called her to him, and said, woman you are freed from your disorder."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 13, "verse": "13", "text": "then he laid his hands upon her: and instantly she stood upright, and glorified God."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 13, "verse": "14", "text": "but the ruler of the synagogue being highly incensed at Jesus's healing on the sabbath-day, said to the people, there are six days for work, you should come therefore for cure on those days, and not on the sabbath."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 13, "verse": "15", "text": "to which Jesus replied, thou hypocrite, who is there among you that scruples to untie his ox or his ass, and lead him from the stall to water on the sabbath-day?"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 13, "verse": "16", "text": "and must not this daughter of Abraham, whom satan has held bound these eighteen years, be disengag'd from this bond, on a sabbath-day?"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 13, "verse": "17", "text": "at which all his adversaries were confounded, but the people were highly pleased, at the glorious actions which he perform'd. The Parable of the Mustard Seed ( Matthew 13:31–32 ; Mark 4:30–34 )"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 13, "verse": "18", "text": "Then he said, what does the kingdom of God resemble? to what shall I compare it?"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 13, "verse": "19", "text": "it is like a grain of mustard-seed, which a man took, and sowed in his garden: it grew, and became so large, that the birds of the air built their nests in its boughs. The Parable of the Leaven ( Matthew 13:33 )"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 13, "verse": "20", "text": "again he said, to what shall I compare the kingdom of God?"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 13, "verse": "21", "text": "it is like leaven, which a woman took and hid in three measures of meal, till the whole was leaven'd. The Narrow Door ( Matthew 7:13–14 )"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 13, "verse": "22", "text": "Afterwards he pass'd thro' several citys and villages, where he taught the people, on his journey to Jerusalem."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 13, "verse": "23", "text": "and somebody ask'd him, Lord, will there be but few people saved? to which he answered,"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 13, "verse": "24", "text": "strive to enter in at the narrow gate: for I declare unto you, that many shall try to get in, and shall not be able."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 13, "verse": "25", "text": "when once the master of the family is enter'd in, and has fastned the door, you will stand without beating at the door, and cry, Lord, Lord, let us in: but he will answer, you are strangers to me."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 13, "verse": "26", "text": "then you will say, we have eat, and drank with you, and you have taught in our streets."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 13, "verse": "27", "text": "but he will answer, I tell you, you are strangers to me: depart from me, ye workers of iniquity."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 13, "verse": "28", "text": "there will be weeping, and gnashing of teeth, when ye shall see Abraham, and Isaac, and Jacob, and all the prophets in the kingdom of God, and you yourselves thrust out."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 13, "verse": "29", "text": "yet some shall come from the east, and from the west, from the north, and from the south, and shall be entertain'd in the kingdom of God."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 13, "verse": "30", "text": "then you will see those, who were last, become first: and those who were first, become last. Lament over Jerusalem ( Matthew 23:37–39 )"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 13, "verse": "31", "text": "At the same time, some of the Pharisees came to him, and said, get away, retire from hence, for Herod designs to take away your life."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 13, "verse": "32", "text": "but he answered them, go, tell that fox, that to-day and to-morrow I am casting out demons, and performing cures, and the third day my course will be finished:"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 13, "verse": "33", "text": "till then I must be stirring about, to-day, and to-morrow, and the next day: for a prophet cannot be put to death any where, but at Jerusalem."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 13, "verse": "34", "text": "\"O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, that killest the prophets, and stonest those, who are sent unto thee: how often would I have gather'd thy children together, as a hen gathers her brood under her wings, and ye would not?\""}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 13, "verse": "35", "text": "you will soon find your aboad become desolate. I declare unto you, you shall not see me till the time, when you will say, \"blessed is he that comes in the name of the Lord.\""}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 14, "verse": "1", "text": "One sabbath-day, Jesus went to dine with a Pharisee of the first distinction, where he was strictly observ'd."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 14, "verse": "2", "text": "now there happen'd to be a man just by him, who had a dropsy."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 14, "verse": "3", "text": "Jesus therefore addressing himself to the doctors of the law, and to the Pharisees, said, is it allowable to perform a cure on the sabbath-day? to which they made no answer."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 14, "verse": "4", "text": "but he laid his hand upon the man, cured him, and dismissed him."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 14, "verse": "5", "text": "Then continuing his discourse, which of you, said he, if his child or his ox fell into a pit, would not immediately draw him out, though it were on the sabbath-day?"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 14, "verse": "6", "text": "and they could not tell what to reply to it. The Parable of the Guests"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 14, "verse": "7", "text": "Afterwards observing how eager the guests were for the first places, he gave them this instruction:"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 14, "verse": "8", "text": "when any one invites you to a wedding, don't put yourself in the highest seat: for fear some person of greater distinction should be a guest,"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 14, "verse": "9", "text": "and he that invited you both, should come and bid you give place to him; and you should have the disgrace of taking the lowest seat."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 14, "verse": "10", "text": "but when you are invited, go place your self last; that he, who invited you, when he comes, may say to you, friend, go up higher: and that will do you honour before all the company at table."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 14, "verse": "11", "text": "for he that exalteth himself, shall be humbled, and he that humbleth himself, shall be exalted."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 14, "verse": "12", "text": "Then he said to the Pharisee, that had invited him, when you give a dinner, or a supper, don't call your friends, or your brethren, or kinsmen, or wealthy neighbours; lest they invite you again, and make you a requital."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 14, "verse": "13", "text": "but when you make a feast call the poor, and maimed, the lame and blind:"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 14, "verse": "14", "text": "and you shall be happy in not receiving a requital: for you shall be recompenc'd at the resurrection of the just. The Parable of the Banquet ( Matthew 22:1–14 )"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 14, "verse": "15", "text": "One of the company hearing that, said to him, happy is he that shall be entertain'd in the kingdom of God."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 14, "verse": "16", "text": "upon which Jesus said, a certain man made a great entertainment; where many were invited."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 14, "verse": "17", "text": "at supper-time he sent his servant to tell the guests to come, because every thing was ready."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 14, "verse": "18", "text": "but they were all of a mind in making some excuse: the first said to him, I have bought a piece of ground, which I must needs go and see: therefore pray excuse me."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 14, "verse": "19", "text": "another said, I have bought five yoke of oxen, which I am going to prove: I beg you to excuse me."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 14, "verse": "20", "text": "another said, I have married a wife: 'tis therefore impossible for me to come."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 14, "verse": "21", "text": "so the servant return'd, and related the whole matter to his master, who in resentment said to his servant, go immediately into the streets and lanes of the city, and bring hither the poor, the maimed, the halt, and the blind."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 14, "verse": "22", "text": "at length the servant said, sir, your orders have been executed, and still there is room."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 14, "verse": "23", "text": "the master reply'd, go then to the high-ways and by-paths, and compel them to come in, that my house may be full."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 14, "verse": "24", "text": "for I tell you that not one of those, who were invited, shall taste of my supper. The Cost of Discipleship ( Matthew 8:18–22 ; Luke 9:57–62 ; John 6:59–66 )"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 14, "verse": "25", "text": "After this a great multitude being gather'd about him, he address'd himself to them,"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 14, "verse": "26", "text": "and said, he that can't abandon his father, and mother, and wife, and children, and brethren, and sisters, nay, even his own life, cannot be my disciple."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 14, "verse": "27", "text": "and he that does not bear his cross, and tread in my steps, cannot be my disciple."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 14, "verse": "28", "text": "for who of you would resolve to build a tower, without taking the trouble first of all to compute the expence, and whether he is able to finish it?"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 14, "verse": "29", "text": "for fear he should be made the jest of every spectator, for laying the foundation, without being able to carry it on."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 14, "verse": "30", "text": "this man, will they say, began to build, but wanted stock to finish."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 14, "verse": "31", "text": "or where is the king, that will march to give battle to another king, without setting himself first to deliberate, whether he is strong enough with ten thousand to withstand an army of twenty thousand?"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 14, "verse": "32", "text": "that in case he is not, he may send an embassy, and desire conditions of peace, before the other approaches."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 14, "verse": "33", "text": "in like manner every one of you must count upon renouncing all that he has, otherwise he cannot be my disciple. Good Salt ( Matthew 5:13–16 ; Mark 9:49–50 )"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 14, "verse": "34", "text": "salt is good, but if the salt has lost its savour, with what shall it be recovered?"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 14, "verse": "35", "text": "it would be fit neither for the land, nor for the dunghil, but only to be thrown away, he that hath ears to hear, let him hear."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 15, "verse": "1", "text": "Then many of the Publicans, and people of a bad reputation gather'd about Jesus to hear him;"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 15, "verse": "2", "text": "at which the Pharisees and Scribes murmured, saying, this man gives access to men of bad character, and eats with them."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 15, "verse": "3", "text": "but he propos'd to them this parable."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 15, "verse": "4", "text": "who of you that has an hundred sheep, will not, upon losing one, leave the ninety nine in the desart, to go after that which is lost, till he finds it?"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 15, "verse": "5", "text": "and when he hath found it, joyfully lay it upon his shoulders?"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 15, "verse": "6", "text": "and when he comes home, call his friends and neighbours together, and say to them, rejoice with me, for I have found my sheep, that was lost?"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 15, "verse": "7", "text": "I tell you, that there shall likewise be greater joy in heaven for one sinner that repents, than for ninety nine just persons, that need no repentance. The Parable of the Lost Coin"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 15, "verse": "8", "text": "or if a woman, that has ten pieces of money, should lose one of them, will she not light a lamp, sweep the house, and carefully search, till she find it?"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 15, "verse": "9", "text": "and when 'tis found, will she not call her friends aud neighbours together, and say, rejoice with me, for I have found the piece, I had lost?"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 15, "verse": "10", "text": "even so, I assure you, the angels in heaven rejoice, when any one sinner becomes a penitent. The Parable of the Prodigal Son"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 15, "verse": "11", "text": "Again he said: a certain man had two sons;"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 15, "verse": "12", "text": "the younger of which said to his father, father, give me that portion of the estate which falls to my share, accordingly he divided his estate among them."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 15, "verse": "13", "text": "a little while after the younger son turn'd all he had into money, and travell'd into a foreign country, where he squander'd away his fortune in luxurious living."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 15, "verse": "14", "text": "when he had spent all, there happen'd to be a severe famine in that country;"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 15, "verse": "15", "text": "and he was reduced to want, which forc'd him to make his application to one of the inhabitants there, who sent him to his farm to look after his swine."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 15, "verse": "16", "text": "for he would have been contented to have liv'd upon the carruways, with which they usually fed the swine: but nobody would supply him."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 15, "verse": "17", "text": "at length coming to himself, how many, said he, does my father keep in pay, who have bread in abundance, whilst I am dying here with hunger?"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 15, "verse": "18", "text": "I will depart, and go to my father, and say to him, father, I have sinned against heaven, and against thee;"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 15, "verse": "19", "text": "I am no longer worthy to be called your son: treat me as one of your hir'd servants."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 15, "verse": "20", "text": "so he departed and went to his father, but while he was yet at a distance, his father saw him, and mov'd with compassion, ran and threw himself upon his neck, and kissed him."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 15, "verse": "21", "text": "then the son said to him, father, I have sinned against heaven, and against you, I am no longer worthy to be called your son."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 15, "verse": "22", "text": "but the father said to his servants, bring hither the finest robe, and put it on him: put a ring on his finger, and shoes on his feet."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 15, "verse": "23", "text": "take the fatted calf, and kill it: let us eat and be merry:"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 15, "verse": "24", "text": "for this son of mine was dead, and is come to life: he was lost, and is found again, and then they began their feast."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 15, "verse": "25", "text": "In the mean time his elder son was in the country, at his return, when he came near home, he heard the musick and dancing:"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 15, "verse": "26", "text": "and calling one of the servants, he ask'd what was the occasion of it,"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 15, "verse": "27", "text": "who reply'd, your brother is return'd, and your father has killed the fatted calf, because he has received him in good health."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 15, "verse": "28", "text": "upon this he was full of resentment, and refused to go in: and when his father came out to persuade him, he replied to his father,"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 15, "verse": "29", "text": "how many years have I serv'd you, without having ever disobey'd your orders? and yet you never bestow'd a kid upon me, to make merry with my friends:"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 15, "verse": "30", "text": "whereas this son of yours, who has eat up his fortune among a pack of loose creatures, is no sooner come but you must kill the fatted calf for him."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 15, "verse": "31", "text": "son, said he to him, you shall continue to be with me, and all that I have shall be thine."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 15, "verse": "32", "text": "but it was necessary to feast and rejoice, because your brother here was dead, and is again alive: he was lost and is now found."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 16, "verse": "1", "text": "Jesus said likewise to his disciples, a certain rich man had an information against his steward, for making havock of his estate."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 16, "verse": "2", "text": "upon making him appear, he said to him, what information is this, I hear against thee? give an account of your administration, for you must not be my steward any longer."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 16, "verse": "3", "text": "upon which the steward said in himself, what shall I do, now my master strips me of my employment? dig I cannot: and 'tis shameful to beg: I see it now,"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 16, "verse": "4", "text": "I must do something that will secure me a reception in other families, when I have lost my place in this."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 16, "verse": "5", "text": "so he sent for every one of his master's debtors in private, he ask'd the first, how much do you owe my master?"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 16, "verse": "6", "text": "a hundred measures of oil, said he, take your bill, said the steward, sit down there, and write out one immediately for fifty."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 16, "verse": "7", "text": "then he said to another, how much do you owe? a hundred measures of wheat, said he, take your bill, says the steward, and write out one for fourscore."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 16, "verse": "8", "text": "and this unfaithful steward was commended by his master for being so provident, for they who look to this world, manage their affairs with more prudence, than those who have a prospect of a better."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 16, "verse": "9", "text": "I advise you in like manner to lay out your fallacious treasure in acts of charity, that when you die, they may secure to you everlasting habitations."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 16, "verse": "10", "text": "He that is faithful in a small trust, will be faithful in a greater: and he that is unfaithful in a little, will be unfaithful in much."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 16, "verse": "11", "text": "if therefore your fidelity has not appear'd in the use of these transitory enjoyments, how can you be trusted with what is more lasting?"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 16, "verse": "12", "text": "if you have imbezel'd what another gave you in trust, how can he give you an estate in perpetuity?"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 16, "verse": "13", "text": "a servant cannot serve two masters: for either he will neglect the one, and attend the other; or he will be attached to the first, and misbehave to the last, you cannot serve God and mammon. The Law and the Prophets"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 16, "verse": "14", "text": "The Pharisees too, who were noted for avarice, heard all this discourse, and treated him with derision."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 16, "verse": "15", "text": "but he said to them, you pretend to piety before men, which, however they may admire, is an abomination to God, who knows your real temper."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 16, "verse": "16", "text": "the law and the prophets were the only rule till John's time: since when, the kingdom of God has been proclaim'd, and all sorts of people strive to be members."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 16, "verse": "17", "text": "yet heaven and earth may sooner pass away, than any part of the law be unaccomplish'd."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 16, "verse": "18", "text": "whoever repudiates his wife, and marries another, is an adulterer, and he that marries her, that is repudiated by her husband, is an adulterer. The Rich Man and Lazarus ( John 5:39–47 )"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 16, "verse": "19", "text": "There was a rich man, who used to dress in purple and fine linnen, and pass his days in pomp and luxury."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 16, "verse": "20", "text": "a certain beggar named Lazarus, was lying at his gate, and tho' cover'd with ulcers, the very dogs came and fawned upon him."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 16, "verse": "21", "text": "but he wanted to be fed with the crumbs, that fell from the rich man's table."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 16, "verse": "22", "text": "at length the beggar died: and was conveyed by the angels to Abraham's bower, the rich man died too, and was buried."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 16, "verse": "23", "text": "and being in the infernal regions of torments, he lift up his eyes, and saw Abraham afar off, and Lazarus in his bower."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 16, "verse": "24", "text": "and he cry'd out, saying, father Abraham, take pity on me, and send Lazarus to dip the tip of his finger in water to cool my tongue; for I am tormented in this flame."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 16, "verse": "25", "text": "but Abraham said, son, remember you had your enjoyments, when you were alive, and Lazarus his misfortunes: but now he has his consolation, and you your torments."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 16, "verse": "26", "text": "besides this, there is an unalterable chasm between us and you, so that the passage from one place to the other is impracticable to those who should attempt it."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 16, "verse": "27", "text": "upon which he said, father, I beg it of you, that you would send him to my father's family, where I have five brothers,"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 16, "verse": "28", "text": "to give them warning, lest they also come into this place of torment."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 16, "verse": "29", "text": "but Abraham replied, they have Moses and the prophets, let them mind them."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 16, "verse": "30", "text": "no, father Abraham, said he, they will not: but if any of the dead went to them, they will certainly repent."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 16, "verse": "31", "text": "Abraham replied, if they disregard Moses and the prophets, they will not believe any one, though he rose from the dead."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 17, "verse": "1", "text": "Then said Jesus to his disciples, it is impossible but that discouragements should come: but wo to him, who is the occasion of them."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 17, "verse": "2", "text": "it were better for him that a milstone were hang'd about his neck, and he were thrown into the sea, than that he should occasion any innocent person to relapse."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 17, "verse": "3", "text": "take care of your conduct, if your brother offend you, rebuke him, and if he repent, forgive him."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 17, "verse": "4", "text": "tho' he should offend you seven times in a day, and seven times in the day return to you, saying, I repent, you must forgive him. The Power of Faith ( Matthew 17:19–20 )"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 17, "verse": "5", "text": "The Apostles having said to the Lord, increase our faith, he answer'd them,"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 17, "verse": "6", "text": "if your faith improv'd like a grain of mustard-seed, you might say to this sycamine-tree, be thou rooted up, and planted in the sea; and it should obey you."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 17, "verse": "7", "text": "Who of you having a servant, that plows, or feeds your cattle, will immediately upon his coming from field, say to him, come and sit at table?"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 17, "verse": "8", "text": "won't he rather say, get ready my supper, dress yourself, and wait upon me, till I have done eating and drinking; after that, take your meal?"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 17, "verse": "9", "text": "will he think himself oblig'd to that servant for doing what he was order'd? I believe not."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 17, "verse": "10", "text": "so when you have done all that you were commanded to do, say, we are unprofitable servants; we have only done what was our duty to do. The Ten Lepers"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 17, "verse": "11", "text": "As Jesus was going to Jerusalem, he happen'd to pass between Samaria and Galilee."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 17, "verse": "12", "text": "and as he entered into a certain village, there met him ten lepers, who stood at a distance, and cry'd out aloud,"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 17, "verse": "13", "text": "Jesus our master, take pity on us."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 17, "verse": "14", "text": "as soon as he perceiv'd them, he said to them, go shew yourselves to the priests, and on the way they found themselves cured."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 17, "verse": "15", "text": "one of them perceiving he was healed, turn'd back, praising God aloud."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 17, "verse": "16", "text": "then prostrating himself at the feet of Jesus, he gave him thanks, now this man was a Samaritan."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 17, "verse": "17", "text": "and Jesus said to him, were not all the ten healed? where then are the other nine?"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 17, "verse": "18", "text": "is no body return'd to glorify God, but this alien only?"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 17, "verse": "19", "text": "and he said to him, rise, go your way, your faith has sav'd you. The Coming of the Kingdom"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 17, "verse": "20", "text": "Upon the Pharisees asking him, when the kingdom of God should come, he answer'd them, the kingdom of God is not usher'd in with pomp and exclamations,"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 17, "verse": "21", "text": "as see here! or see there! for even now the kingdom of God is commenc'd among you."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 17, "verse": "22", "text": "At length he said to his disciples, the time will come, when ye will wish to see the son of man appear, and shall not see him."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 17, "verse": "23", "text": "they will tell you, here he is, or, he is there: but don't go out to follow them;"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 17, "verse": "24", "text": "for as the lightning flashes from one extremity of the sky to the other, so shall the appearance of the son of man be."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 17, "verse": "25", "text": "but before this, he must undergo many sufferings, and be rejected by this generation:"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 17, "verse": "26", "text": "the same thing shall happen in the son of man's time as did in Noah's days."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 17, "verse": "27", "text": "eating and drinking, marriages and matches was the business till the very day that Noah entred into the ark, when the flood came and overwhelm'd them all."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 17, "verse": "28", "text": "and as it was in the days of Lot, they were eating and drinking, buying and selling, planting and building:"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 17, "verse": "29", "text": "but the very day that Lot went out of Sodom, a storm of lightning and thunder fell from heaven and destroy'd them all."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 17, "verse": "30", "text": "even thus shall it be in the day when the son of man shall appear."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 17, "verse": "31", "text": "then let not him that is on the house-top venture down to secure his furniture: and he that is in the field, let him not return back."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 17, "verse": "32", "text": "remember Lot's wife."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 17, "verse": "33", "text": "he that seeks to save his life, will expose it; and he that exposes his life, will preserve it."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 17, "verse": "34", "text": "I tell you, that of two persons lying in the same bed that night, the one shall be taken, and the other left."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 17, "verse": "35", "text": "two women shall be grinding together, the one shall be taken, and the other left:"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 17, "verse": "36", "text": "two men shall be in the field, the one shall be taken, and the other left."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 17, "verse": "37", "text": "then they ask'd him, where, Lord, will this happen? he reply'd, wherever the carcase is, there will the eagles hover together."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 18, "verse": "1", "text": "Jesus propos'd likewise this parable to them, to show that they should persevere in prayer, and not be discouraged."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 18, "verse": "2", "text": "saying, in a certain city there was a judge, who neither feared God, nor regarded man."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 18, "verse": "3", "text": "a widow was likewise there, who frequently came to him, saying, do me justice against my adversary."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 18, "verse": "4", "text": "for some time he refus'd to do it: but at length he said in himself; tho' I neither fear God, nor regard man;"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 18, "verse": "5", "text": "yet, because this widow importunes me, I will do her justice, that she may'nt be continually coming to teaze me."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 18, "verse": "6", "text": "observe, said Jesus, that language of this unrighteous judge."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 18, "verse": "7", "text": "and will not God avenge his own elect, who cry to him night and day? will he delay their cause?"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 18, "verse": "8", "text": "I tell you, he will speedily avenge them, however, when the son of man comes, how few of the faithful will he find in the land? The Pharisee and the Tax Collector"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 18, "verse": "9", "text": "Then he propos'd this parable, concerning those who had a great opinion of their own justice, and look'd with contempt upon others."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 18, "verse": "10", "text": "two men went to the temple to pray; the one a Pharisee, the other a Publican."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 18, "verse": "11", "text": "the Pharisee in a standing posture pray'd thus by himself, O God, I thank thee, that I am not as other men, a robber, a cheat, an adulterer, or like that Publican."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 18, "verse": "12", "text": "I fast twice a week, and I pay the tythe of all I possess."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 18, "verse": "13", "text": "but the Publican, who stood a good way lower, not daring to lift up even his eyes to heaven, only smote his breast, and said, O God, be merciful to me, who am a sinner."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 18, "verse": "14", "text": "I tell you this man went home approv'd as just, and not the other, for whoever exalteth himself shall be humbled, and he that humbleth himself shall be exalted. Jesus Blesses the Children ( Matthew 19:13–15 ; Mark 10:13–16 )"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 18, "verse": "15", "text": "And as they were presenting children to him, for the imposition of hands, his disciples observing it, rebuk'd those that brought them."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 18, "verse": "16", "text": "but Jesus called the children to him, and said to his disciples, let the children come to me, without any hindrance, for they who belong to the kingdom of God, must be like them."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 18, "verse": "17", "text": "I declare unto you, he that does not come with the disposition of a child shall not enter into the kingdom of God. The Rich Young Ruler ( Matthew 19:16–30 ; Mark 10:17–31 )"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 18, "verse": "18", "text": "Then a person of distinction ask'd him this question, good master, what must I do to inherit eternal life?"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 18, "verse": "19", "text": "Jesus replied, why do you call me good? there is but one who is good, that is God."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 18, "verse": "20", "text": "you know the commandments, \"do not commit adultery, do not kill, do not steal, do not bear false witness, honour thy father and mother.\""}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 18, "verse": "21", "text": "all these, said he, have I observ'd from my youth."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 18, "verse": "22", "text": "upon hearing that, Jesus said to him, one thing you have yet to do: sell all you have, and give it to the poor, and you shall have treasure in heaven: then come, and follow me."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 18, "verse": "23", "text": "upon hearing this he was very sad: for he had a large estate."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 18, "verse": "24", "text": "Jesus perceiving him so very dejected, said, how difficult is it for those, who have riches, to enter into the kingdom of God!"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 18, "verse": "25", "text": "it is easier for a cable to pass through the eye of a needle, than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 18, "verse": "26", "text": "upon which the audience said, who then can be saved?"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 18, "verse": "27", "text": "Jesus answer'd, by divine assistance men may do that which would be otherwise impossible."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 18, "verse": "28", "text": "Then said Peter, you see that we have left every thing to follow you."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 18, "verse": "29", "text": "Jesus answer'd, I declare unto you, no one has ever quitted house or parents, or brethren, or wife, or children, upon account of the gospel-dispensation,"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 18, "verse": "30", "text": "who shall not receive abundantly more even in this age, and everlasting life in the age to come. The Third Prediction of the Passion ( Matthew 20:17–19 ; Mark 10:32–34 )"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 18, "verse": "31", "text": "Afterwards Jesus took the twelve aside, and said to them, now we are going to Jerusalem where all that the prophets have writ concerning the son of man shall be accomplished."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 18, "verse": "32", "text": "for he shall be delivered to the Gentiles by the Jews, who will treat him with mockery,"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 18, "verse": "33", "text": "insult him, spit in his face, scourge him, and put him to death; and the third day he shall rise again."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 18, "verse": "34", "text": "but they comprehended nothing of all this: his discourse was a riddle to them, and they could not find out the meaning. Jesus Heals a Blind Beggar ( Matthew 20:29–34 ; Mark 10:46–52 )"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 18, "verse": "35", "text": "As they were near Jericho, a blind man happen'd to sit begging by the road,"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 18, "verse": "36", "text": "who hearing the noise of a crowd passing by, ask'd what the matter was."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 18, "verse": "37", "text": "they told him, Jesus the Nazarene is passing by."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 18, "verse": "38", "text": "then he cry'd out, Jesus son of David, have pity on me."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 18, "verse": "39", "text": "those who led the way bid him hold his tongue, but he bawl'd out the louder, son of David have pity on me."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 18, "verse": "40", "text": "then Jesus stopp'd, and order'd them to bring the man to him, who being come nigh, he ask'd him,"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 18, "verse": "41", "text": "what would you have me do for you? he said, Lord, I desire to have sight."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 18, "verse": "42", "text": "have sight, said Jesus, your faith has obtain'd you a cure."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 18, "verse": "43", "text": "and immediately he saw: and followed Jesus, glorifying God: and all the people, who were eye-witnesses, gave praise unto God."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 19, "verse": "1", "text": "As Jesus was pursuing his journey from Jericho,"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 19, "verse": "2", "text": "one Zaccheus, a rich man, and collector-general of the customs,"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 19, "verse": "3", "text": "was very desirous to see the person of Jesus, but could not for the crowd, he being of a low stature."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 19, "verse": "4", "text": "so he ran before, and climb'd up a mulberry-tree to view him; for he was to pass that way."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 19, "verse": "5", "text": "as soon as Jesus came at the place, he look'd up, and seeing him, Zaccheus, said he, make haste down; for I intend to dine at your house to-day."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 19, "verse": "6", "text": "so down he came in great haste, and gave Jesus a joyful reception."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 19, "verse": "7", "text": "upon seeing this, they all murmur'd, saying, he is going to be treated by a dissolute person."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 19, "verse": "8", "text": "but Zaccheus address'd himself to Jesus, and said, Lord, half my estate I give to the poor; and if I have wrong'd any man, I will give him four times the value."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 19, "verse": "9", "text": "then said Jesus, speaking of him, this day is salvation come to this family, since he is now become a true son of Abraham."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 19, "verse": "10", "text": "for the son of man is come to seek, and to save that which was lost. The Parable of the Ten Minas ( Matthew 25:14–30 )"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 19, "verse": "11", "text": "Their attention being raised by this, Jesus pursued his discourse with a parable, occasion'd by their thinking, that, because he was advanc'd so nigh to Jerusalem, the kingdom of God would immediately commence."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 19, "verse": "12", "text": "a nobleman, said he, was going to travel to a foreign country, in order to have his kingdom confirm'd to him at his return."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 19, "verse": "13", "text": "and he called ten of his servants, to whom he deliver'd ten pounds: improve that, said he, till I return."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 19, "verse": "14", "text": "but he being hated by the citizens, after he was gone, they sent a deputation to court, to make this protest, \"we will not have him for our king.\""}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 19, "verse": "15", "text": "upon his return, being confirm'd king, he order'd the servants, he had trusted with the money, to appear, and inform him, what improvement each of them had made."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 19, "verse": "16", "text": "the first came and said, Lord, your one pound has gained ten more."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 19, "verse": "17", "text": "he answer'd, honest servant, that's well: since your industry has made so much of so little, I give you the government of ten cities."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 19, "verse": "18", "text": "then the second came, and said, Lord, your pound has produc'd five more."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 19, "verse": "19", "text": "his master replied, you shall be governor of five cities."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 19, "verse": "20", "text": "but another came and said, Lord, here's your money, which I laid up safe in a napkin."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 19, "verse": "21", "text": "for I was in fear of you, knowing you to be a hard master, who exact what you never gave, and reap where you have never sown."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 19, "verse": "22", "text": "wicked slave, said he, from your own mouth will I convict thee. \"you knew I was a hard master, exacting what I never gave, and reaping where I never sowed:"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 19, "verse": "23", "text": "\" why then did you not lodge my money in the bank, that on my return I might have drawn it out with interest?"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 19, "verse": "24", "text": "then he said to his attendants, take the one pound from him, and give it him, that gain'd ten."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 19, "verse": "25", "text": "but they objected, Lord, he has already ten pounds:"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 19, "verse": "26", "text": "I tell you, said he, that to every one who improves, more shall be given: and he that makes no improvement, shall be stript of what he has."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 19, "verse": "27", "text": "as for those enemies of mine, who would not have me for their king, bring them here, and slay them in my presence. The Triumphal Entry ( Matthew 21:1–11 ; Mark 11:1–11 ; John 12:12–19 )"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 19, "verse": "28", "text": "After this discourse, Jesus pursued his journey towards Jerusalem."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 19, "verse": "29", "text": "when he was advanc'd near Bethphage, and Bethany, to the mountain call'd the Olives, he sent two of his disciples,"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 19, "verse": "30", "text": "saying to them, go to the village opposite to you: at your entrance there, you will find a colt ty'd, that was never yet back'd: untie it and bring it here."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 19, "verse": "31", "text": "if any one should ask you, why you untie it, let this be your answer, because the Lord has occasion for it."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 19, "verse": "32", "text": "Accordingly the messengers went, and found the colt, as Jesus had told them."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 19, "verse": "33", "text": "as they were untying the colt, the owners said, why do you untie the colt?"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 19, "verse": "34", "text": "they answer'd, because the Lord has occasion for it."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 19, "verse": "35", "text": "so they brought it to Jesus, and throwing their garments upon the colt, they mounted Jesus thereon."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 19, "verse": "36", "text": "and all the way, as he marched, they strewed with their clothes."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 19, "verse": "37", "text": "Just as he advanc'd to the declivity of the mountain of Olives, the whole troop of disciples began to express their joy in loud acclamations, praising God, for the many miracles they had seen."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 19, "verse": "38", "text": "\"blessed be he, said they, whom the Lord hath sent to be our king, prosperity from heaven, and glory from the most high.\""}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 19, "verse": "39", "text": "upon this some of the Pharisees, who were in the crowd, said to him, master, rebuke your disciples."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 19, "verse": "40", "text": "but he answer'd them, if they should be silent, the stones would exclaim. Jesus Weeps over Jerusalem"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 19, "verse": "41", "text": "as he drew nigh, he beheld the city, and bewail'd its fate,"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 19, "verse": "42", "text": "in these words, \"O that thou hadst consider'd, at least in this very day, the opportunity you had of being happy! but now alas! it is vanish'd from your eyes.\""}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 19, "verse": "43", "text": "for the time will shortly come, when your enemies shall open their trenches before thee, hem you in, and closely besiege you:"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 19, "verse": "44", "text": "they will level you to the ground, extirpate your inhabitants, and bury your buildings in ruins: because you have not consider'd the overtures I made you. Jesus Cleanses the Temple ( Matthew 21:12–17 ; Mark 11:15–19 ; John 2:12–25 )"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 19, "verse": "45", "text": "As soon as he entred into the temple, he drove out the sellers and buyers there: telling them it is written,"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 19, "verse": "46", "text": "\"my house is a house of prayer: but ye have made it a den of thieves.\""}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 19, "verse": "47", "text": "and he instructed the people daily in the temple, while the chief priests, the Scribes, and the rulers of the people, were contriving to take away his life."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 19, "verse": "48", "text": "but they could not find the means of effecting it; for all the populace were strongly attach'd to his doctrine."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 20, "verse": "1", "text": "One day, as he was instructing the people in the temple, and preaching the gospel, the chief priests, and the Scribes, with the rulers came up to him,"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 20, "verse": "2", "text": "and thus accosted him, tell us by what authority do you act thus? and whence do you derive that authority?"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 20, "verse": "3", "text": "Jesus answer'd, I will ask you one question;"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 20, "verse": "4", "text": "tell me, the baptism of John, was it a divine or a human institution?"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 20, "verse": "5", "text": "but they reason'd thus with themselves, if we should say, it was divine, he will reply, why then did not you believe him?"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 20, "verse": "6", "text": "if we should assert, it was a human contrivance, the populace would stone us; for they are persuaded that John was a prophet."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 20, "verse": "7", "text": "they answer'd then, they did not know which it was."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 20, "verse": "8", "text": "Jesus replied, neither will I tell you by what authority I act thus. The Parable of the Wicked Tenants ( Matthew 21:33–46 ; Mark 12:1–12 )"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 20, "verse": "9", "text": "Then he propos'd this parable to the people, a man planted a vineyard, let it out to husbandmen, and then went a travelling for some time."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 20, "verse": "10", "text": "at vintage, he sent a servant to the husbandmen, to demand the profits of the vineyard, but they beat him and sent him away empty."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 20, "verse": "11", "text": "again he sent another servant, him they likewise beat, insulted, and sent away empty."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 20, "verse": "12", "text": "he still sent a third, whom they wounded and drove away."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 20, "verse": "13", "text": "upon which the master of the vineyard said, what shall I do? I will send my beloved son: perhaps his presence will engage their respect."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 20, "verse": "14", "text": "but when the husbandmen saw him, they said to one another, this is the heir: come, let us kill him, that the inheritance may be our own."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 20, "verse": "15", "text": "so they kill'd him, and threw him out of the vineyard, what punishment now will the master inflict upon them?"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 20, "verse": "16", "text": "he will come and destroy these husbandmen, and give his vineyard to others, but they, taking the hint, cried out, God forbid."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 20, "verse": "17", "text": "then Jesus looking upon them, said, what is the meaning then of that expression, \"the stone, which the builders rejected, is become the chief stone of the angle.\""}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 20, "verse": "18", "text": "whoever falls upon that stone shall be bruised, but on whom it falls, it will crush him to pieces. Paying Taxes to Caesar ( Matthew 22:15–22 ; Mark 12:13–17 )"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 20, "verse": "19", "text": "The chief priests, and the Scribes perceiving that he had applied this parable to them, were eager to seize upon him at that very time; but they were afraid of the people."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 20, "verse": "20", "text": "they watch'd then, and suborn'd spies, who under pretence of their tender consciences, might ensnare him in his discourse, and so betray him to the civil power and jurisdiction of the governor."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 20, "verse": "21", "text": "they address'd him therefore in this manner; master, we know that what you say and teach is all right, you are not influenc'd by the quality of men, but explain the divine law with sincerity:"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 20, "verse": "22", "text": "should we pay tribute to Cesar, or no?"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 20, "verse": "23", "text": "but Jesus perceiving their malicious design, said to them, why do you practise upon me?"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 20, "verse": "24", "text": "show me a penny: whose image and inscription is this? they answer'd, Cesar's."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 20, "verse": "25", "text": "render then, said he, to Cesar, what belongs to Cesar, and to God, what belongs to God."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 20, "verse": "26", "text": "so not being able to take any advantage from his words, before the people, they said no more, being surpriz'd at his answer. The Sadducees and the Resurrection ( Matthew 22:23–33 ; Mark 12:18–27 )"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 20, "verse": "27", "text": "Afterwards some of the Pharisees, who deny there is any resurrection, accosted him with this question,"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 20, "verse": "28", "text": "master, said they, Moses left it in writing, if any man has a brother, who dies in marriage without leaving children, he is obliged to take the widow, to perpetuate his brother's line."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 20, "verse": "29", "text": "now there were seven brothers, the first of which marry'd, and died without children."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 20, "verse": "30", "text": "the second after marrying the widow, died likewise without children."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 20, "verse": "31", "text": "then the third took her, and so she was married to all seven, who all died without leaving any children."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 20, "verse": "32", "text": "at last the woman died too."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 20, "verse": "33", "text": "at the resurrection therefore, to which of them will she be wife? for she had been married to all the seven."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 20, "verse": "34", "text": "Jesus answered, in this life men and women marry."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 20, "verse": "35", "text": "but they, who shall be accounted worthy to obtain the resurrection to an eternal life, shall have no concern in marriage, as being immortal:"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 20, "verse": "36", "text": "for by the resurrection they will inherit a nature truely angelical and divine."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 20, "verse": "37", "text": "now that the dead are raised, may be inferr'd from Moses's relation concerning the bush, where he stiles the Lord, the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 20, "verse": "38", "text": "for he is not the God of the dead, but of the living, they are all then alive with respect to him."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 20, "verse": "39", "text": "which some of the Scribes approving, said to him, master, what you maintain is very just:"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 20, "verse": "40", "text": "and after that they did not venture to ask him another question. Whose Son Is the Christ? ( Matthew 22:41–46 ; Mark 12:35–37 )"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 20, "verse": "41", "text": "But Jesus said to them, you affirm the Messiah must be descended from David, how can that be?"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 20, "verse": "42", "text": "for in the book of Psalms David himself says, \"the Lord said to my Lord, sit on my right hand,"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 20, "verse": "43", "text": "till I make thine enemies thy footstool.\""}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 20, "verse": "44", "text": "if then David stiles the Messiah his Lord, how can he be descended from David? Beware of the Scribes ( Mark 12:38–40 )"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 20, "verse": "45", "text": "then in the audience of all the people, he said to his disciples,"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 20, "verse": "46", "text": "beware of the Scribes, who are fond of appearing in their long robes, affect to be saluted in publick, to have the upper hand in the synagogues, and at all entertainments."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 20, "verse": "47", "text": "who under the pretext of their long prayers devour the fortunes of widows, wherefore they shall be punish'd with greater severity."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 21, "verse": "1", "text": "As Jesus was observing the rich casting their offerings into the treasury,"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 21, "verse": "2", "text": "he saw a poor widow throwing in the value of a farthing."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 21, "verse": "3", "text": "and he said, I declare unto you, that this poor widow has thrown in more than they all."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 21, "verse": "4", "text": "for they have offer'd only part of their superfluous wealth; but she has given all that was then left for her subsistence. Temple Destruction and Other Signs ( Matthew 24:1–8 ; Mark 13:1–8 )"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 21, "verse": "5", "text": "Some having said of the temple, that the stone-work was fine, and the furniture magnificent:"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 21, "verse": "6", "text": "the time is coming, said he, when these buildings, which you now view, shall be all thrown down and lost in ruins."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 21, "verse": "7", "text": "thereupon they said to him, master, when shall this happen? and by what sign shall we know that the event is coming?"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 21, "verse": "8", "text": "he answered, take care, that you be not seduced: for many shall come in my name, saying, I am the Christ, it won't be long e'er this happens, therefore do not follow them."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 21, "verse": "9", "text": "And when ye shall hear of wars, and seditions, be not alarm'd, for these must first happen: but the end will not be so soon. Witnessing to All Nations ( Matthew 24:9–14 ; Mark 13:9–13 )"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 21, "verse": "10", "text": "then nation, said he, shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 21, "verse": "11", "text": "great earthquakes, and famines, and pestilences shall happen in divers places: terrible appearances and surprizing prodigies shall be in the heavens."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 21, "verse": "12", "text": "but before all these events, they will seize upon you and persecute you, drag you to the synagogues and to prisons, being accused before kings and governours, for professing my name."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 21, "verse": "13", "text": "and that shall be one proof of the truth of your profession."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 21, "verse": "14", "text": "fix it therefore in your mind, not to think beforehand about your defence."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 21, "verse": "15", "text": "for I will make you speak with such strength of argument, as all your adversaries shall not be able to contradict or withstand."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 21, "verse": "16", "text": "you will be betrayed even by your very parents, and brethren, and kindred, and friends, nay, some of you they will prosecute even to death."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 21, "verse": "17", "text": "you will be hated by all mankind for professing my name,"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 21, "verse": "18", "text": "however a single hair of your head shall not be lost."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 21, "verse": "19", "text": "by your perseverance you will save your souls. The Destruction of Jerusalem ( Matthew 24:15–25 ; Mark 13:14–23 )"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 21, "verse": "20", "text": "Now when you shall see Jerusalem invested by an army, then be assured that the desolation of it is nigh."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 21, "verse": "21", "text": "then let those, who are in Judea, fly to the mountains: let those, who are in the city, march out, and those, who are without not venture in."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 21, "verse": "22", "text": "for this is the time of vengeance, when all that is writ, shall be accomplished."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 21, "verse": "23", "text": "wo to them that are with child, or to them that give suck in those days: for this will be a region of great distress, and wrath will pour down upon this people."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 21, "verse": "24", "text": "by the destructive sword shall they fall, and be led into captivity among all nations: and Jerusalem shall be kept waste by the nations, as long as those nations shall subsist. The Return of the Son of Man ( Matthew 24:26–31 ; Mark 13:24–27 )"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 21, "verse": "25", "text": "there shall be signs in the sun, and in the moon, and in the stars: and upon the earth distress of nations under confusion, the sea and the waves roaring."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 21, "verse": "26", "text": "men dying with fear under the apprehension of those calamities, which are coming upon the earth: for the powers of heaven shall be shaken."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 21, "verse": "27", "text": "and then shall they see the son of man come on a cloud, with power and great glory."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 21, "verse": "28", "text": "now when these things begin to appear, then lift up your heads, and behold your redemption drawing nigh. The Lesson of the Fig Tree ( Matthew 24:32–35 ; Mark 13:28–31 )"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 21, "verse": "29", "text": "Then by way of similitude, consider, said he, the fig-tree, and all the other trees;"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 21, "verse": "30", "text": "when they shoot out their buds, you know for certain that summer is coming on:"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 21, "verse": "31", "text": "in like manner, when you shall see these events, be assur'd that the kingdom of God is nigh."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 21, "verse": "32", "text": "I tell it you for certain, this generation shall not pass away, till all these things are accomplished."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 21, "verse": "33", "text": "heaven and earth shall fail sooner than my predictions shall fail. Be Watchful for the Day"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 21, "verse": "34", "text": "set a guard upon yourselves, that ye be not stupified by surfeiting and drunkenness, or by the disquietudes of this life, and so that day come upon you with a surprize."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 21, "verse": "35", "text": "for like a snare, it shall surprize all the inhabitants of the earth."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 21, "verse": "36", "text": "be therefore upon your guard, be constant in prayer, that you may be accounted worthy to escape all those future ills, and be able to stand in the presence of the son of God."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 21, "verse": "37", "text": "Thus Jesus used to teach in the temple by day, and retir'd to the mountain of Olives by night."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 21, "verse": "38", "text": "and every morning the people went to the temple to hear him."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 22, "verse": "1", "text": "Now the feast of unleaven'd bread, which is call'd the passover,"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 22, "verse": "2", "text": "being nigh, the chief priests consulted with the Scribes, how they might put Jesus to death; for they were afraid of the people. Judas Agrees to Betray Jesus ( Matthew 26:14–16 ; Mark 14:10–11 )"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 22, "verse": "3", "text": "now satan had inspired Judas surnam'd Iscariot, one of the twelve, what to do."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 22, "verse": "4", "text": "accordingly he went and conferr'd with the chief priests and officers of the temple, about the method of seizing him."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 22, "verse": "5", "text": "they were pleas'd with his proposal, and agreed to give him a certain sum."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 22, "verse": "6", "text": "Judas accepted the bargain, and sought an opportunity to secure him, without alarming the people. Preparing the Passover ( Matthew 26:17–19 ; Mark 14:12–16 )"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 22, "verse": "7", "text": "The day of unleaven'd bread being come, when the paschal-lamb was to be sacrific'd,"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 22, "verse": "8", "text": "Jesus sent Peter and John, saying, go, and make provision for our eating the paschal-lamb."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 22, "verse": "9", "text": "they ask'd him, where would you have us prepare it?"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 22, "verse": "10", "text": "he answered, when you are in the city, you will meet a man with a pitcher of water; follow him to the house, where he goes in:"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 22, "verse": "11", "text": "and say to the man of the house, our master sent to ask for a room, where he may eat the passover with his disciples."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 22, "verse": "12", "text": "and he will show you a large upper room ready fitted: there prepare the supper."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 22, "verse": "13", "text": "so they went, and having found every thing as Jesus had said, they made ready the passover. The Last Supper ( Matthew 26:20–30 ; Mark 14:17–26 ; 1 Corinthians 11:17–34 )"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 22, "verse": "14", "text": "The hour of eating being come, he, and the twelve apostles sat down to table."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 22, "verse": "15", "text": "and he said to them, I have ardently desired to eat this passover with you, before I suffer."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 22, "verse": "16", "text": "for I declare unto you, I shall not celebrate this passover with you any more, to the time, when it shall have its accomplishment in the kingdom of the messiah."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 22, "verse": "17", "text": "having then taken the cup, and given thanks, he said, take this, and distribute it to one another."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 22, "verse": "18", "text": "for I tell you, I will not drink of the fruit of the vine to the time when the kingdom of God shall come."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 22, "verse": "19", "text": "then he took bread, and having given thanks, he brake it, and gave it to them, saying, this represents my body which is given for you: do this in remembrance of me."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 22, "verse": "20", "text": "and after supper he likewise gave the cup, saying, this cup is the new testament sealed by my blood, which is shed for you."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 22, "verse": "21", "text": "yet there's the hand that is to seize me, now upon the table."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 22, "verse": "22", "text": "the son of man indeed must die, as it was decreed: but wo to that man by whom he is betrayed."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 22, "verse": "23", "text": "upon this they began to enquire of one another, which of them it was that should do such an action. Who Is the Greatest?"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 22, "verse": "24", "text": "Now there had been a dispute among the disciples, which of them should be accounted the greatest."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 22, "verse": "25", "text": "Jesus therefore told them, the kings of the Gentiles lord it over them; and they, who are invested with their authority, take the title of benefactors."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 22, "verse": "26", "text": "but you must not be such: the greatest of you must be as the junior, and he that governs as he that serves."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 22, "verse": "27", "text": "for who is greatest, he that sits at table, or he that waits? is it not the person at table? yet I am among you as one that serves."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 22, "verse": "28", "text": "but since you did not abandon me in my trials,"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 22, "verse": "29", "text": "I commit the kingdom to you, as my father committed it to me;"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 22, "verse": "30", "text": "that you may eat and drink at my table, in my kingdom, and seated on thrones may judge the twelve tribes of Israel. Jesus Predicts Peter’s Denial ( Matthew 26:31–35 ; Mark 14:27–31 ; John 13:36–38 )"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 22, "verse": "31", "text": "Then said Jesus, Simon, Simon, satan has demanded to shake you, and my disciples, like wheat in a sieve."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 22, "verse": "32", "text": "but as for thee, I have pray'd that you faith may not fail, do you in return establish thy brethren."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 22, "verse": "33", "text": "Peter answer'd, Lord, I am ready to accompany you both to prison, and to death."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 22, "verse": "34", "text": "but Jesus said, before the cock proclaims the day, you will thrice deny that ever you knew me."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 22, "verse": "35", "text": "When I sent you, added Jesus, without either purse, or bag, or shoes, was you in any want? not at all, answer'd they."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 22, "verse": "36", "text": "but now, said he, let him that hath a purse, and a bag, take them both; and he that has no sword, let him sell his garment to buy one."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 22, "verse": "37", "text": "for take notice, that scripture, \"and he was number'd among the transgressors,\" is yet to be accomplished in my person: and all that relates to me is going to be consummated."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 22, "verse": "38", "text": "Lord, said they, you see, we have two swords, he reply'd, that's enough. Jesus Prays on the Mount of Olives ( Matthew 26:36–46 ; Mark 14:32–42 )"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 22, "verse": "39", "text": "Then he went out, and retired as usual to the mountain of olives, where his disciples followed him."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 22, "verse": "40", "text": "at his arrival there, he said to them, pray that you may withstand the trial."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 22, "verse": "41", "text": "At length he withdrew from them about a stone's cast, where falling upon his knees,"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 22, "verse": "42", "text": "he pray'd in these words, father, \"O that you would divert this cup from me! nevertheless not my will, but thine be done.\""}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 22, "verse": "43", "text": "then an angel from heaven appear'd to him, and comforted him."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 22, "verse": "44", "text": "and being in an agony he prayed more earnestly: and his sweat was like grumes of blood falling to the ground."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 22, "verse": "45", "text": "then rising from prayer, he came to his disciples, and finding them asleep, oppress'd with grief, why do you sleep?"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 22, "verse": "46", "text": "said he, rise, and pray that you may withstand the trial. The Betrayal of Jesus ( Matthew 26:47–56 ; Mark 14:43–52 ; John 18:1–14 )"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 22, "verse": "47", "text": "Before he had done speaking, the company appears, Judas one of the twelve marching in front, who advanc'd to Jesus to give him a kiss."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 22, "verse": "48", "text": "but Jesus said to him, Judas is it thus you betray the son of man, with a kiss?"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 22, "verse": "49", "text": "they who were about him seeing what would happen, said to him, shall we smite with the sword?"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 22, "verse": "50", "text": "and one of them struck a servant of the high priest, and slash'd off his right ear."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 22, "verse": "51", "text": "but Jesus oppos'd, and said, forbear, stop there, and having touch'd his ear, he healed him."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 22, "verse": "52", "text": "then said Jesus to the chief priests, the officers of the temple, and the rulers, who were come to take him, are you come here with swords and staves as in pursuit of a robber?"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 22, "verse": "53", "text": "I was daily with you in the temple, and you never offer'd to seize me: but now you have your hour, and the prince of darkness his day. Peter Denies Jesus ( Matthew 26:69–75 ; Mark 14:66–72 ; John 18:15–18 )"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 22, "verse": "54", "text": "Then they seized him and carried him away to the high priest's house, and Peter followed at a distance."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 22, "verse": "55", "text": "now as they had made a fire in the middle of the hall, and people were sitting all round it, Peter too sat down among them."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 22, "verse": "56", "text": "but one of the servants seeing him by the fire, star'd him in the face, and said, this man was with him too."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 22, "verse": "57", "text": "but he renounc'd Jesus, saying, woman, I don't know him."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 22, "verse": "58", "text": "a little while after another seeing him, said, you are even one of them, but Peter said to him, man, I am not."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 22, "verse": "59", "text": "about an hour after another confidently affirm'd, saying, this fellow was certainly with him; for he too is a Galilean."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 22, "verse": "60", "text": "Peter reply'd, man, I don't know what you would say, and immediately while he was yet speaking, the cock crew."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 22, "verse": "61", "text": "whereupon the Lord turned about, and look'd upon Peter, then Peter remembred what the Lord had said to him, \"before the cock-crowing you shall deny me thrice.\""}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 22, "verse": "62", "text": "and Peter went out, and wept bitterly. The Soldiers Mock Jesus ( Matthew 27:27–31 ; Mark 15:16–20 ; John 19:1–15 )"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 22, "verse": "63", "text": "In the mean time, they who held Jesus, treated him with insults and buffoonry."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 22, "verse": "64", "text": "they made him blind-fold, they slapt him on the face, and cry'd out, divine who it was that smote thee."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 22, "verse": "65", "text": "and besides all this, they loaded him with the most impious invectives. Jesus before the Sanhedrin ( Matthew 26:57–68 ; Mark 14:53–65 ; John 18:19–24 )"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 22, "verse": "66", "text": "As soon as it was day, the rulers of the people, the chief priests and the Scribes being assembled, they order'd him to be brought before their council,"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 22, "verse": "67", "text": "and said to him, if you are the Christ, say so, but he answer'd, if I should tell you so, you will not believe it."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 22, "verse": "68", "text": "and if I should argue it with you, you will neither answer me, nor let me go."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 22, "verse": "69", "text": "but in a little time the son of man shall be seated on the powerful right hand of God."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 22, "verse": "70", "text": "then said they all, art thou then the son of God? you are in the right, answer'd he, for I am so."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 22, "verse": "71", "text": "upon this they cry'd, what occasion have we for further evidence? for we ourselves have heard enough from his own mouth."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 23, "verse": "1", "text": "At length the whole assembly broke up, and Jesus was conducted to Pilate:"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 23, "verse": "2", "text": "and thus they began their charge, we found this man subverting our nation, opposing the giving tribute to Cesar, asserting that he himself is Christ the king."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 23, "verse": "3", "text": "then Pilate ask'd him, art thou the king of the Jews? Jesus answer'd him, 'tis as you say."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 23, "verse": "4", "text": "at last Pilate said to the chief priests, and to the people, I don't find any crime in this man."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 23, "verse": "5", "text": "but they were the more vehement, saying, he promotes sedition by speading such doctrine thro' all Judea, from Galilee to this place. Jesus before Herod"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 23, "verse": "6", "text": "when Pilate heard of Galilee, he ask'd whether the man were a Galilean."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 23, "verse": "7", "text": "and finding that he belong'd to Herod's jurisdiction, he sent him to Herod, who was then likewise at Jerusalem."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 23, "verse": "8", "text": "When Herod saw Jesus he was extremely pleased; for he had long desired to see him, having heard much of him, and hoped to see him perform some miracle."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 23, "verse": "9", "text": "he plyed him therefore with many interrogatories,"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 23, "verse": "10", "text": "but Jesus made him no answer, tho' the chief priests and Scribes maintain'd their charge with vehemence."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 23, "verse": "11", "text": "then Herod and his retinue treated him with contempt, and in derision sent him back magnificently dress'd to Pilate."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 23, "verse": "12", "text": "and from that day the enmity that had been between Pilate and Herod ended in friendship. The Crowd Chooses Barabbas ( Matthew 27:15–23 ; Mark 15:6–11 )"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 23, "verse": "13", "text": "Pilate having order'd the chief priests, the senators, and people to appear, he said to them,"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 23, "verse": "14", "text": "you have represented this man to me as one that was stirring up the people to a revolt: you see I have examin'd him in your presence; yet I don't find he is guilty of the crimes you have laid to his charge: no, nor even Herod;"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 23, "verse": "15", "text": "for I referr'd you to him, and you see nothing that is capital, has been made out against him."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 23, "verse": "16", "text": "I will therefore order him to be whipp'd, and then release him."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 23, "verse": "17", "text": "now as it was customary for the governor to release one of the prisoners at the feast;"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 23, "verse": "18", "text": "all the people cry'd out, let this man die, and release to us Barabbas."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 23, "verse": "19", "text": "Barabbas had been imprison'd for murder in a riot he had rais'd in the city."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 23, "verse": "20", "text": "Pilate therefore, desirous to release Jesus, expostulated with them again."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 23, "verse": "21", "text": "but they cry'd out, crucify him, crucify him."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 23, "verse": "22", "text": "however he urg'd it a third time, why, what crime has he done? I don't find he has done any thing that deserves death: I will therefore order him to be whipp'd, and so dismiss him."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 23, "verse": "23", "text": "but they persisted with great clamour in their demands, to have him crucified: and as the people and chief priests redoubled their clamours,"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 23, "verse": "24", "text": "Pilate determin'd to grant their request."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 23, "verse": "25", "text": "accordingly he discharg'd the prisoner they desired, him that was committed for riot and murder; but he abandon'd Jesus to their discretion. The Crucifixion ( Matthew 27:32–44 ; Mark 15:21–32 ; John 19:16–27 )"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 23, "verse": "26", "text": "As they were conducting him to execution, they seiz'd upon one Simon of Cyrene, who was coming to town, and oblig'd him to carry the cross after Jesus,"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 23, "verse": "27", "text": "who was followed by a great crowd of people, and several women, who beat their breasts and lamented him."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 23, "verse": "28", "text": "but Jesus turn'd about and said to them, daughters of Jerusalem, weep not for me, but weep for your selves, and for your children."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 23, "verse": "29", "text": "for now the time is coming, when it will be said, happy are the barren, and they who never bare, happy the breast, that never gave suck."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 23, "verse": "30", "text": "then shall they cry to the mountains, fall on us; and to the hills, cover us."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 23, "verse": "31", "text": "for if the green wood burn thus, how will the dry wood flame?"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 23, "verse": "32", "text": "At the same time, two malefactors were led along to be crucified with Jesus."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 23, "verse": "33", "text": "accordingly, when they came to the place call'd Calvary, they crucified him there, and the two malefactors; the one at his right, the other at his left."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 23, "verse": "34", "text": "and Jesus said, \"father, forgive them; for they know not what they do.\" then they divided his raiment among them by throwing lots,"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 23, "verse": "35", "text": "while the people who stood looking on, and the senators themselves contemptuously said, he sav'd others; if he be Christ, the elect of God, let him save himself."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 23, "verse": "36", "text": "the soldiers too, who came to bring him vinegar, insulted him,"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 23, "verse": "37", "text": "saying, if thou art the king of the Jews, save thy self."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 23, "verse": "38", "text": "they likewise put the following inscription over his head, in Greek, in Latin, and in Hebrew, THIS IS THE KING OF THE JEWS."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 23, "verse": "39", "text": "Now one of the malefactors, that was crucified with him, impiously said, if thou art the Christ, save thy self, and us."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 23, "verse": "40", "text": "but the other answered, and thus reprov'd him, art thou under no awe of God, thou that art condemned to the same punishment?"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 23, "verse": "41", "text": "as for us, it is with justice, that we suffer the penalty due to our crimes: but as for him, what misdemeanour has he been guilty of?"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 23, "verse": "42", "text": "then said he to Jesus, Lord, remember me when you enter into your kingdom."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 23, "verse": "43", "text": "Jesus answer'd, verily I tell you, this day thou shalt be with me in paradise. The Death of Jesus ( Matthew 27:45–56 ; Mark 15:33–41 ; John 19:28–30 )"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 23, "verse": "44", "text": "About the sixth hour, it was dark all over the land till the ninth hour."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 23, "verse": "45", "text": "the sun was obscured, and the veil of the temple was rent in two."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 23, "verse": "46", "text": "and Jesus cryed with a loud voice, saying, father, into thy hands I commend my spirit; and in pronouncing these words, he expired."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 23, "verse": "47", "text": "The centurion upon seeing what had happen'd, gave glory to God, and said, certainly this was a righteous man."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 23, "verse": "48", "text": "and all the people that had crowded to that sight, went home striking their breasts at the thoughts of those events."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 23, "verse": "49", "text": "As for his acquaintance, they all stood at a distance, with the women that followed him from Galilee, and were spectators during the whole transaction. The Burial of Jesus ( Matthew 27:57–61 ; Mark 15:42–47 ; John 19:38–42 )"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 23, "verse": "50", "text": "There was likewise present a counsellor, named Joseph, a man of probity and justice, one who had never abetted the contrivances and proceedings of the Jews."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 23, "verse": "51", "text": "he was of Arimathea, a city of Judea, and one of those, who were in expectation of the Messiah's reign."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 23, "verse": "52", "text": "this very man went to Pilate, and begg'd the body of Jesus."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 23, "verse": "53", "text": "and he took it down, and wrapp'd it in linnen, and laid it in a sepulchre, hewn out of a rock, wherein nobody had ever yet been deposited."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 23, "verse": "54", "text": "now that day was the preparation, and the sabbath then drew on."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 23, "verse": "55", "text": "the women therefore, who had accompanied Jesus from Galilee, followed Joseph, to the sepulchre, to see how the body was disposed of."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 23, "verse": "56", "text": "then they went home, and provided spices and perfumes: after which they rested the sabbath-day, as the law appointed."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 24, "verse": "1", "text": "On the first day of the week, very early in the morning, they went to the sepulchre with the spices they had provided, accompanied by several others."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 24, "verse": "2", "text": "and having found that the stone had been remov'd from the sepulchre, they entred in,"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 24, "verse": "3", "text": "but did not find the body of the Lord Jesus."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 24, "verse": "4", "text": "whilst they were in great perplexity about it, all of a sudden, two men appear'd before them in robes of light."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 24, "verse": "5", "text": "upon which they were frightned, and bowed themselves to the very ground: but the men said to them, why do you look among the dead for one that is alive?"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 24, "verse": "6", "text": "he is not here, but is risen: remember what he told you, when he was yet in Galilee,"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 24, "verse": "7", "text": "that the son of man must be deliver'd into the hands of sinful men; be crucified; and the third day rise again."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 24, "verse": "8", "text": "then they remembred his words;"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 24, "verse": "9", "text": "and upon their return from the sepulchre, they related the whole matter to the eleven, and all the other disciples."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 24, "verse": "10", "text": "it was Mary Magdalene and Joanna, Mary the mother of James, and others with them, who gave the apostles this relation:"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 24, "verse": "11", "text": "which however appear'd to them such a delirious tale, they could not give credit to any of them."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 24, "verse": "12", "text": "yet Peter got up, and ran to the sepulchre, where stooping down he saw nothing but the linnen lying there: upon which he went away wondring with himself at such an event. The Road to Emmaus ( Mark 16:12–13 )"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 24, "verse": "13", "text": "The same day two of them went to a village named Emmaus, which was distant about threescore furlongs from Jerusalem:"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 24, "verse": "14", "text": "and their conversation ran upon all that had lately happened."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 24, "verse": "15", "text": "now while they were conferring and debating together, Jesus himself join'd them and walk'd along with them."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 24, "verse": "16", "text": "but their eyes were affected so as not to discern who he was."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 24, "verse": "17", "text": "and he said to them, what is the subject of your debate in the way, and why do you look so sad?"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 24, "verse": "18", "text": "one of them, Cleopas by name, reply'd, are you such a stranger in Jerusalem as not to know what has so lately happen'd there?"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 24, "verse": "19", "text": "what about? said he, why, about Jesus the Nazarean, said they, who was a prophet, eminently recommended, by his doctrine and his works, to the approbation of God and of all the people;"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 24, "verse": "20", "text": "and of his being deliver'd up by our chief priests and magistrates to be condemn'd to die, whom they actually crucified:"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 24, "verse": "21", "text": "though we expected he would have been the Messiah, that was to deliver Israel: and besides all this, it is now three days since these things were done."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 24, "verse": "22", "text": "'tis true, some women of our company threw us into a surprize: for going to the sepulchre early in the morning,"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 24, "verse": "23", "text": "and not finding his body there, they came to tell us, that they had seen a vision of angels, who said that he was alive."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 24, "verse": "24", "text": "whereupon some of us went to the sepulchre, and found matters just as the women had related; but him they did not see."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 24, "verse": "25", "text": "then Jesus said to them, how stupidly incredulous are you not to believe things that have been all predicted by the prophets!"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 24, "verse": "26", "text": "was not the Messiah to have suffer'd thus, and after that enter into his glory?"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 24, "verse": "27", "text": "then beginning at Moses he explain'd all the passages there, and in all the prophets, which related to himself."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 24, "verse": "28", "text": "and they drew nigh the village where they were going: and he seemed as if he would have pass'd on further."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 24, "verse": "29", "text": "but they press'd him, saying, stay with us, for it is late and begins to be dark, so he went in to tarry with them."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 24, "verse": "30", "text": "and as he was at table with them, he took bread, and gave thanks, then brake it and gave it to them;"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 24, "verse": "31", "text": "when looking upon him more intently, they perceiv'd that it was Jesus, but he vanish'd out of sight."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 24, "verse": "32", "text": "Upon this, they said to one another, to what ardor did not our affections rise, while he talk'd with us by the way, and while he expounded to us the scriptures?"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 24, "verse": "33", "text": "and immediately they set out, and return'd to Jerusalem, where they found the eleven, and the rest of their company, all assembled, who said,"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 24, "verse": "34", "text": "the Lord is actually risen, and hath appeared to Simon."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 24, "verse": "35", "text": "Thereupon the two disciples related what had hapned on the road, and how they first discover'd who Jesus was at his breaking of bread. Jesus Appears to the Disciples ( John 20:19–23 ; 1 John 1:1–4 )"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 24, "verse": "36", "text": "While they were thus talking, Jesus himself appear'd in the midst of them, and said to them, peace be with you."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 24, "verse": "37", "text": "but they were in a consternation and fright, imagining, that they saw a spirit."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 24, "verse": "38", "text": "upon which he said to them, why are you in this confusion? what is it, that your minds are so perplex'd?"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 24, "verse": "39", "text": "behold my hands, and my feet, for I am bodily present, touch me and consider me; for a spirit has not flesh and bones, as you see me have:"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 24, "verse": "40", "text": "all the while holding out his hands and his feet, as he was speaking."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 24, "verse": "41", "text": "but as they were diffident of so joyful an event, and still in amaze, he said to them, have you any thing here to eat?"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 24, "verse": "42", "text": "and they gave him a piece of broil'd fish, and of a honey-comb;"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 24, "verse": "43", "text": "which he took, and did eat in their presence."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 24, "verse": "44", "text": "then he said, this is what I told you, while I was yet with you, that what has been written concerning me in the law of Moses, in the prophets, and in the psalms, must be all accomplished."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 24, "verse": "45", "text": "then he open'd their minds to make them understand the scriptures, and said to them,"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 24, "verse": "46", "text": "thus it is written, and thus it behov'd Christ to suffer, and to rise from the dead the third day:"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 24, "verse": "47", "text": "and that repentance and remission of sins should be preach'd in his name, among all nations, beginning at Jerusalem."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 24, "verse": "48", "text": "you are witnesses of these things."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 24, "verse": "49", "text": "and I am going to send you what my father has promis'd you, but continue in the city of Jerusalem, until you shall be endued with power from on high. The Ascension ( Mark 16:19–20 ; Acts 1:6–11 )"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 24, "verse": "50", "text": "At length he led them out as far as Bethany; and stretching out his hands, he gave them his benediction."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 24, "verse": "51", "text": "and while he was blessing them, he was taken from them, and carried up into heaven."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 24, "verse": "52", "text": "and they worship'd him, and with great joy return'd to Jerusalem,"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 24, "verse": "53", "text": "where they daily praised and blessed God in the temple."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 1, "verse": "1", "text": "In the beginning was the Logos, and the Logos was with God, and the Logos was God."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 1, "verse": "2", "text": "the same was in the beginning with God."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 1, "verse": "3", "text": "all things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 1, "verse": "4", "text": "the Life was produc'd in him, and the Life was the Light of men."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 1, "verse": "5", "text": "and the Light shineth in darkness, but the darkness did not receive it. The Witness of John"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 1, "verse": "6", "text": "There was a man sent from God, whose name was John."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 1, "verse": "7", "text": "he came as a witness, to represent what he knew of the light, that by his means all might be convinc'd."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 1, "verse": "8", "text": "he was not that Light, but was sent to testify of that light."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 1, "verse": "9", "text": "HE was the true Light who came into the world, to enlighten every man."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 1, "verse": "10", "text": "he was in the world, even the world that had been made by him, but the world knew him not."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 1, "verse": "11", "text": "he came unto his own, and his own received him not."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 1, "verse": "12", "text": "but to as many as received him, and believed on him, he granted the privilege of being the sons of God."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 1, "verse": "13", "text": "a birth which they had not from circumcision, nor from the constitution of the body, nor the institution of man, but from God. The Word Became Flesh"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 1, "verse": "14", "text": "The Logos became incarnate, and had his tabernacle among us, being full of grace and truth; and we contemplated his glory, such glory as the Monogenes derived from the father."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 1, "verse": "15", "text": "it was of him that John bare witness, when he made this declaration, \"this was he of whom I said, he that cometh after me, was before me; for he did indeed exist before me.\""}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 1, "verse": "16", "text": "and of his Plenitude have we all received, even abundant grace."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 1, "verse": "17", "text": "the law indeed was delivered by Moses, but grace and truth was the dispensation of Jesus Christ."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 1, "verse": "18", "text": "no man hath seen God at any time; the only begotten son, who is intimate with the father, hath made him known. The Mission of John the Baptist ( Matthew 3:1–12 ; Mark 1:1–8 ; Luke 3:1–20 )"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 1, "verse": "19", "text": "This is the testimony of John, when the Jews sent priests and Levites from Jerusalem, to ask him, who he was."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 1, "verse": "20", "text": "he own'd it, and did not deny it; but made this protestation, I am not the Christ."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 1, "verse": "21", "text": "art thou then Elias? said they; and he answer'd, I am not, art thou a prophet? and he answer'd, no."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 1, "verse": "22", "text": "said they to him, who then art thou? that we may give an answer to those that sent us: what sayst thou of thy self?"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 1, "verse": "23", "text": "\"I am, said he, the voice of one crying in the wilderness, clear the way of the Lord,\" as said the prophet Esaias."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 1, "verse": "24", "text": "Now the messengers were of the sect of the Pharisees, and they asked him,"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 1, "verse": "25", "text": "\"why then do you baptize, if you are not the Christ, nor Elias, nor any other prophet?\""}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 1, "verse": "26", "text": "John answered them, I baptize with water: but there is one among you, whom ye know not; he it is who coming after me,"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 1, "verse": "27", "text": "is preferred before me, the latchet of whose sandals I am not worthy to unloose."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 1, "verse": "28", "text": "these things were transacted at Bethabara, near Jordan, where John used to baptize. Jesus the Lamb of God ( Matthew 3:13–17 ; Mark 1:9–11 ; Luke 3:21–22 )"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 1, "verse": "29", "text": "The next day John saw Jesus coming to him, and said, \"behold the lamb of God, who taketh away the sin of the world.\""}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 1, "verse": "30", "text": "this is he of whom I said, after me cometh a man, who was before me: for he did indeed exist before me."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 1, "verse": "31", "text": "I knew him not: but therefore am I come baptizing with water, that he might be manifest to Israel."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 1, "verse": "32", "text": "and John testified, saying, I saw the spirit descending from heaven like a dove, and it abode upon him."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 1, "verse": "33", "text": "I had not known him: but he that sent me to baptize with water, had told me, \"upon whom thou shalt see the spirit descending and remaining on him, the same is he who baptizeth with the holy spirit.\""}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 1, "verse": "34", "text": "this I saw, and testify'd, that he is the son of God. The First Disciples ( Matthew 4:18–22 ; Mark 1:16–20 ; Luke 5:1–11 )"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 1, "verse": "35", "text": "The next day after, John was again there with two of his disciples:"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 1, "verse": "36", "text": "and seeing Jesus as he walked, he said, \"behold the lamb of God.\""}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 1, "verse": "37", "text": "the two disciples hearing this, followed Jesus."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 1, "verse": "38", "text": "then Jesus turned about, and seeing them following, said, what do you seek? they answered him, rabbi, that is to say master, where do you dwell?"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 1, "verse": "39", "text": "come, said he, and see, so they went and saw where he lodged, and abode with him that day: for it was about the tenth hour."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 1, "verse": "40", "text": "Andrew, Simon Peter's brother, was one of the two disciples, who had followed Jesus, after they had heard what John had said."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 1, "verse": "41", "text": "the first he met was his own brother Simon, to whom he said, \"we have found the Messias,\" that is to say, the Christ."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 1, "verse": "42", "text": "and he brought him to Jesus, and when Jesus beheld him, he said, \"thou art Simon the son of Jona: thou shalt be called Cephas,\" which is by interpretation, a stone. Jesus Calls Philip and Nathanael"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 1, "verse": "43", "text": "The day following Jesus having a mind to go into Galilee, met with Philip, and said to him, follow me."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 1, "verse": "44", "text": "now Philip was of Bethsaida, the city of Andrew and Peter."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 1, "verse": "45", "text": "Philip meeting with Nathanael, said to him, we have found him of whom Moses in the law, and the prophets did write, Jesus of Nazareth, the son of Joseph."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 1, "verse": "46", "text": "but Nathanael said to him, can there any good thing come out of Nazareth? come and see, said Philip."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 1, "verse": "47", "text": "Jesus seeing Nathanael coming, said of him, there's a true Israelite, in whom is no guile, how do you know me?"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 1, "verse": "48", "text": "said Nathanael to him, before Philip called you, replied Jesus, I saw you under the fig-tree."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 1, "verse": "49", "text": "Nathanael answered, rabbi, thou art the son of God, thou art the king of Israel."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 1, "verse": "50", "text": "Jesus answered him, because thou believest what I said, that I saw thee under the fig-tree, thou shalt see greater things than these."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 1, "verse": "51", "text": "and he said to him, I declare unto you, hereafter you shall see heaven open, and the angels of God ascending, and descending upon the son of man."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 2, "verse": "1", "text": "Three days after, there was a wedding at Cana in Galilee; where the mother of Jesus was present."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 2, "verse": "2", "text": "as likewise Jesus and his disciples, who were all invited to the feast."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 2, "verse": "3", "text": "now when the wine was out, the mother of Jesus said to him, they have no wine."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 2, "verse": "4", "text": "Jesus answer'd her, woman, leave that affair to me, is not that my concern?"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 2, "verse": "5", "text": "upon which his mother bid the servants do whatever he should order."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 2, "verse": "6", "text": "now there were six cisterns of stone plac'd there for the use of the Jews in their purifications, containing two or three firkins a-piece."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 2, "verse": "7", "text": "these Jesus order'd the waiters to fill with water, so they filled them up to the brim."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 2, "verse": "8", "text": "now fill out, said he, and carry it to the steward of the feast, which accordingly they did."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 2, "verse": "9", "text": "as soon as the steward had tasted the water that was made wine, (for he did not know whence it came, but the servants who drew the water knew it,) he called the bridegroom,"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 2, "verse": "10", "text": "and said to him, 'tis usual to present the best wine first, and afterwards the worse, when the guests have drank pretty freely: but you have reserved the best wine to the last."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 2, "verse": "11", "text": "thus was the first miracle of Jesus wrought at Cana in Galilee, by which he displayed his power; and his disciples believed on him. Jesus Cleanses the Temple ( Matthew 21:12–17 ; Mark 11:15–19 ; Luke 19:45–48 )"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 2, "verse": "12", "text": "After this he went down to Capernaum, in company with his mother, his brethren, and his disciples: but they stay'd there only a few days."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 2, "verse": "13", "text": "for the Jews passover being nigh, Jesus went up to Jerusalem,"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 2, "verse": "14", "text": "where he found in the temple those that sold oxen, sheep, and doves, besides the changers of money, who were sitting there."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 2, "verse": "15", "text": "upon which he made a whip of small cords, and drove them all out of the temple, with their sheep, and oxen; and threw about the changers money, and over-set the tables; and said to the dove-sellers,"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 2, "verse": "16", "text": "away with these things; make not my father's house a market-house."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 2, "verse": "17", "text": "which put his disciples in mind of that passage, \"my zeal for thine house does prey upon me.\""}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 2, "verse": "18", "text": "whereupon the Jews said, what miracle can you show to justify your behaviour?"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 2, "verse": "19", "text": "Jesus answered them, saying, destroy this temple, and within three days I will raise it up."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 2, "verse": "20", "text": "to this said the Jews, forty and six years was this temple in building, and wilt thou rear it up in three days?"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 2, "verse": "21", "text": "but by the temple he meant his body."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 2, "verse": "22", "text": "and when he was risen from the dead, his disciples remembred that expression of his: and they believed the scripture, and what Jesus had said."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 2, "verse": "23", "text": "Now whilst he was in Jerusalem at the feast of the passover, many believed in him when they saw the miracles which he did."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 2, "verse": "24", "text": "but Jesus did not trust his person with them, because he knew them all."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 2, "verse": "25", "text": "and he did not want any information concerning man: for he knew of himself the secret of their hearts."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 3, "verse": "1", "text": "Now one of the Pharisees, named Nicodemus, was there, a ruler of the Jews:"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 3, "verse": "2", "text": "who came to Jesus by night, and said to him, rabbi, we know that thou art a teacher sent from God: for no man can perform the miracles that you do, except God be with him."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 3, "verse": "3", "text": "Jesus answered him, I declare unto thee, except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 3, "verse": "4", "text": "Nicodemus replied, how can a man be born when he is old? can he enter into his mother, and be born a second time?"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 3, "verse": "5", "text": "Jesus answered, I tell thee, except a man be renewed by the spiritual baptism, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 3, "verse": "6", "text": "the cleansing of the body is only external, but the purification of the spirit is spiritual."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 3, "verse": "7", "text": "be not surprized that I said to thee, you must be born again."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 3, "verse": "8", "text": "the wind bloweth where it listeth, and you hear the sound thereof, but cannot tell whence it comes, or whither it goes: such is the change in every one that is renewed by the spirit."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 3, "verse": "9", "text": "Nicodemus answered, how can that be?"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 3, "verse": "10", "text": "Jesus answered him, are you a doctor in Israel, and not know these things?"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 3, "verse": "11", "text": "I declare unto thee, we speak what we know, and testify what we have seen; but you do not receive our testimony."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 3, "verse": "12", "text": "if you don't believe when I tell you what is plain, how should you believe, if I tell you of things more sublime?"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 3, "verse": "13", "text": "for no man hath penetrated into the secrets of heaven, but he that came down from heaven, even the son of man, who is in heaven."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 3, "verse": "14", "text": "but as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the son of man be lifted up:"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 3, "verse": "15", "text": "that whosoever believeth in him, should not perish, but have eternal life."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 3, "verse": "16", "text": "for God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten son, that whosoever believeth in him, should not perish, but have eternal life."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 3, "verse": "17", "text": "for God sent not his son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 3, "verse": "18", "text": "he that believeth on him, shall not be condemned: but he that believeth not, is condemned already, because he hath not believed in the only begotten son of God."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 3, "verse": "19", "text": "and this is the subject of their condemnation, that light is come into the world, and men have loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 3, "verse": "20", "text": "for every one that doth evil, hateth the light, and shunneth the light, lest his deeds should be reproved."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 3, "verse": "21", "text": "but he that doth right, cometh to the light, that his deeds may be made manifest, because they are agreeable to the will of God. John’s Testimony about Jesus"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 3, "verse": "22", "text": "After this Jesus went with his disciples into Judea, where he stay'd with them for some time,"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 3, "verse": "23", "text": "and baptized, while John was likewise baptizing in Enon, near Salim, it being a place abounding with water: so that people came to be baptized there."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 3, "verse": "24", "text": "for John was not yet cast into prison."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 3, "verse": "25", "text": "Now there happen'd to be a dispute about baptism between a Jews, and some of John's disciples:"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 3, "verse": "26", "text": "who thereupon went to John, and said, master, he that was with you beyond Jordan, to whom you bore testimony, he himself does now baptize likewise, and the people flock to him."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 3, "verse": "27", "text": "but John made them this answer, a man can have no authority, but what he derives from heaven."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 3, "verse": "28", "text": "you yourselves can bear me witness, that I said, I am not the Christ, but was only sent before him:"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 3, "verse": "29", "text": "the bridegroom is he that hath a right to the bride: as for the friend of the bridegroom, who is nigh his person and heareth him, he greatly rejoyces at the voice of the bridegroom: upon this account my joy is compleat."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 3, "verse": "30", "text": "he must advance,"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 3, "verse": "31", "text": "but I must decline, he that cometh from above, is above all: he that is from the earth, is earthly, and his language is likewise earthly: he that cometh from heaven is above all."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 3, "verse": "32", "text": "and what he hath seen and heard, that he testifieth; but his testimony doth no man receive."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 3, "verse": "33", "text": "he that hath received his testimony, hath set his seal to this, that God is true."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 3, "verse": "34", "text": "for he whom God hath sent, saith nothing but what is divine: for God hath given him the spirit without restriction."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 3, "verse": "35", "text": "the father loveth the son, and hath given all things into his hand."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 3, "verse": "36", "text": "he that believeth on the son, hath a right to everlasting life: and he that disobeys the son, shall not enjoy life; but be expos'd to divine wrath."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 4, "verse": "1", "text": "Jesus therefore knowing the Pharisees had heard that he made more disciples, and baptized more than John,"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 4, "verse": "2", "text": "(though Jesus himself did not baptize, but only his disciples) he left Judea,"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 4, "verse": "3", "text": "and returned into Galilee."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 4, "verse": "4", "text": "but being obliged to pass through Samaria,"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 4, "verse": "5", "text": "he came to a city of Samaria, called Sychar, near the piece of ground that Jacob gave to his son Joseph."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 4, "verse": "6", "text": "now Jacob's well was there. Jesus therefore being wearied with his journey, sat him down by the well: it being about the sixth hour."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 4, "verse": "7", "text": "where a woman of Samaria being come to draw water, Jesus said to her, give me to drink."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 4, "verse": "8", "text": "for his disciples were gone away to the city to buy provisions."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 4, "verse": "9", "text": "but the woman of Samaria said to him, how is it that you who are a Jew, ask drink of me, who am a Samaritan? (for the Jews have no friendly intercourse with the Samaritans.)"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 4, "verse": "10", "text": "Jesus answered her, if you knew the dispensation of God, and who it is that says to you, give me to drink; you would have asked of him, and he would have given you living water."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 4, "verse": "11", "text": "sir, said the woman, you have nothing to draw with, and the well is deep: whence then can you get that living water?"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 4, "verse": "12", "text": "are you wiser than our father Jacob, who gave us the well, and drank thereof himself, as well as his children, and cattle?"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 4, "verse": "13", "text": "Jesus answered her, they that drink of this water, will be thirsty again:"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 4, "verse": "14", "text": "but whosoever drinketh of the water that I shall give him, shall never thirst: for the water that I shall give him, shall be in him a fountain springing up to everlasting life."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 4, "verse": "15", "text": "sir, replied the woman, give me this water, that I may never be adry, nor come hither to draw more."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 4, "verse": "16", "text": "go, call your husband, said Jesus, and come again."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 4, "verse": "17", "text": "the woman answered, I have no husband. Jesus replied, you were in the right to say you have no husband:"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 4, "verse": "18", "text": "for you have had five husbands, and he whom you now have, is not your husband: in that you said true."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 4, "verse": "19", "text": "the woman said to him, sir, I perceive that you are a prophet."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 4, "verse": "20", "text": "our fathers worshipped upon this mountain; and you say, that Jerusalem is the place where we ought to perform our worship."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 4, "verse": "21", "text": "Jesus said to her, woman, believe me, the time is coming when it shall be neither on this mountain, nor yet at Jerusalem that ye shall worship the father."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 4, "verse": "22", "text": "ye worship ye know not what: we know what we worship: for salvation is from the Jews."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 4, "verse": "23", "text": "but the time is coming, nay, is very nigh, when the true worshippers shall worship the father in spirit and in truth: for they are the worshippers which he requires."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 4, "verse": "24", "text": "God is a spirit, and they that worship him, must worship him in spirit and in truth."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 4, "verse": "25", "text": "then said the woman to him, I know that the Messias (that is to say the Christ) is to come, and when he is come, he will tell us all things."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 4, "verse": "26", "text": "Jesus said to her, I that am talking with you am he. The Disciples Return and Marvel"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 4, "verse": "27", "text": "Upon this his disciples came, and were surpriz'd at his conversing with the woman: yet none of them said, what did you ask her? or, why do you talk with her?"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 4, "verse": "28", "text": "the woman then left her water-pot, and went away into the city, and said to the people, come,"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 4, "verse": "29", "text": "see a man who told me all that ever I have done: is not this the Christ?"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 4, "verse": "30", "text": "so they went out of the city, and came to him."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 4, "verse": "31", "text": "In the mean while his disciples invited him, saying, pray master, eat."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 4, "verse": "32", "text": "but he answered them, I have meat to eat that ye know not of:"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 4, "verse": "33", "text": "upon which the disciples said one to another, hath any man brought him any thing to eat?"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 4, "verse": "34", "text": "Jesus said to them, my meat is to do the will of him that sent me, and to finish his work."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 4, "verse": "35", "text": "is it not a common saying, \"t'other four months, and then comes harvest?\" lift up your eyes now, I say, and look on the fields; for they are white already to harvest."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 4, "verse": "36", "text": "he that reapeth, receiveth wages, by gathering fruit unto life eternal: that the sower, and the reaper, may both rejoice together."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 4, "verse": "37", "text": "upon this occasion, that saying is verified, \"one soweth, and another reapeth.\""}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 4, "verse": "38", "text": "I sent you to reap where you bestowed no labour: other men laboured, and you are entred into their labours. Many Samaritans Believe"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 4, "verse": "39", "text": "Now many of the Samaritans of that city believed on him, for that testimony which the woman gave him, \"he told me all that ever I did.\""}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 4, "verse": "40", "text": "so that when the Samaritans were come to him, they desired him to stay with them: and he stay'd there two days."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 4, "verse": "41", "text": "and many more believed, for having heard him speak himself: and said to the woman,"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 4, "verse": "42", "text": "now it is not for what you have said, that we believe: for we have heard him ourselves, and know that this is indeed the saviour of the world, the Christ. Jesus Heals the Official’s Son ( Matthew 8:5–13 ; Luke 7:1–10 )"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 4, "verse": "43", "text": "Two days after, he departed thence, and went into Galilee:"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 4, "verse": "44", "text": "(tho' Jesus himself had declared, that a prophet is not honoured in his own country.)"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 4, "verse": "45", "text": "when he was come into Galilee, he was well received by the Galileans, who had seen all that he did at Jerusalem during the feast: for they likewise went to the feast."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 4, "verse": "46", "text": "Jesus went therefore a second time to Cana in Galilee, where he had changed the water into wine, now a certain nobleman was there, whose son was sick at Capernaum."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 4, "verse": "47", "text": "who having heard that Jesus was come out of Judea into Galilee, he went there to desire him to come down, and heal his son: for he was at the point of death."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 4, "verse": "48", "text": "but Jesus said to him, except you see signs and miracles, you will not believe."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 4, "verse": "49", "text": "the nobleman said to him, sir, pray come down before my child be dead."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 4, "verse": "50", "text": "go thy way, said Jesus: thy son is well, and the man believed what Jesus had said to him, and went his way."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 4, "verse": "51", "text": "as he was upon the road, his servants met him, and acquainted him, that his son was well."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 4, "verse": "52", "text": "then he enquired of them the hour when he began to mend: and they answered, yesterday at the seventh hour the fever left him."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 4, "verse": "53", "text": "so the father knew that it was at the very same hour, at which Jesus said to him, thy son is well, and he himself believed, and all his family."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 4, "verse": "54", "text": "Jesus did this second miracle when he return'd from Judea to Galilee."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 5, "verse": "1", "text": "Some time after this the feast of the Jews being come, Jesus went up to Jerusalem."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 5, "verse": "2", "text": "now there was at Jerusalem by the sheep-gate a bath, called in Hebrew, Bethesda, which had five portico's."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 5, "verse": "3", "text": "where a great number of infirm, blind, lame, and paralytic people lay waiting for the moving of the water:"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 5, "verse": "4", "text": "(for a messenger went down at certain times into the pool, and agitated the water: the first then that stepped in after this commotion of the water, was cured of whatever disease he had.)"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 5, "verse": "5", "text": "now a certain man was there, who had been sick eight and thirty years."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 5, "verse": "6", "text": "Jesus seeing him lie there, and knowing that he had been sick a long time, said to him, will you be cured?"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 5, "verse": "7", "text": "the sick man answered him, sir, I have nobody to put me into the pool when the water has been agitated: but while I am coming, another steppeth down before me."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 5, "verse": "8", "text": "rise, said Jesus to him, take up thy bed, and go your way."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 5, "verse": "9", "text": "and immediately the man was healed, and took up his bed, and went his way: but that day being the sabbath,"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 5, "verse": "10", "text": "the Jews said to him that was cured, it is the sabbath-day; it is not lawful for you to carry your bed."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 5, "verse": "11", "text": "he answered them, he that cured me said to me, take up your bed and walk."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 5, "verse": "12", "text": "then they asked him, who is he that said to you take up your bed and walk?"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 5, "verse": "13", "text": "and he that was healed, did not know who it was: for Jesus had slip'd away, by favour of the crowd that was there."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 5, "verse": "14", "text": "sometime after Jesus met him in the temple, and said to him, you see you were cured: sin no more, lest you suffer something worse."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 5, "verse": "15", "text": "then the man departed to acquaint the Jews, that it was Jesus who had cured him. The Father and the Son"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 5, "verse": "16", "text": "upon which occasion the Jews persecuted Jesus, and sought to slay him, because he did such things on the sabbath-day."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 5, "verse": "17", "text": "But Jesus answered them, my father works without intermission, and so do I."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 5, "verse": "18", "text": "therefore the Jews were the more eager to kill him, because he had not only violated the sabbath, but likewise, because he had said that God was his proper father, making himself equal with God."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 5, "verse": "19", "text": "upon which Jesus said to them, verily, verily I say unto you, the son can do nothing of himself, except he sees the father do it: for whatever he doth, that the son does likewise."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 5, "verse": "20", "text": "for the father loveth the son, and sheweth him all that he himself doth: and he will shew him greater works than these, so that you will be surprized."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 5, "verse": "21", "text": "for as the father raiseth up the dead, and restores them to life: even so the son gives life to whom he will."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 5, "verse": "22", "text": "besides, the father judgeth no man; but hath committed the full power of judging unto the son:"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 5, "verse": "23", "text": "that all men should honour the son, even as they honour the father, he that honoureth not the son, honoureth not the father who hath sent him."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 5, "verse": "24", "text": "I declare unto you, he that heareth my doctrine, and believeth on him that sent me, hath everlasting life, and shall not come under condemnation; but is passed from death unto life."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 5, "verse": "25", "text": "I declare unto you, the time is coming, and now is, when the dead shall hear the voice of the son of God: and they that hear shall live."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 5, "verse": "26", "text": "for as the father hath life in himself; so hath he given to the son, to have life in himself;"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 5, "verse": "27", "text": "and hath given him authority to execute judgment also, because he is the son of man."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 5, "verse": "28", "text": "let not this surprize you: for the time is coming, when all that are in the graves shall hear his voice, and they that have done good,"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 5, "verse": "29", "text": "shall rise to the possession of life; and they that have done evil, shall rise to their condemnation."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 5, "verse": "30", "text": "Of my self I can do nothing: according to my instructions I judge: and my judgment is just; because I do not consult my own will, but the will of the father who hath sent me. Testimonies about Jesus"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 5, "verse": "31", "text": "if I testified of my self, my testimony would be suspected."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 5, "verse": "32", "text": "there is another who testifies of me, and I know that the testimony which he gives of me, is true."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 5, "verse": "33", "text": "you yourselves sent to John, and he bore witness to the truth."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 5, "verse": "34", "text": "not that I need the testimony of men: but this I tell you, for your own security."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 5, "verse": "35", "text": "he was a burning and a shining light: and you were willing to be entertain'd for a while with his light."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 5, "verse": "36", "text": "but I have a better witness than that of John: for the works which my father hath order'd me to finish, those very works that I do, bear me witness, that 'tis the father who sent me."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 5, "verse": "37", "text": "and the father who sent me, hath himself born witness of me, his voice you have never heard, nor ever seen his appearance,"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 5, "verse": "38", "text": "nor will his Logos abide among you: for tho' he hath sent him, you do not believe him. The Witness of Scripture ( Luke 16:19–31 )"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 5, "verse": "39", "text": "You search the scriptures, for you think by their means to have eternal life, and they are the very writings which do testify of me."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 5, "verse": "40", "text": "yet you will not come to me, that ye may have life."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 5, "verse": "41", "text": "I do not by this seek your applause."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 5, "verse": "42", "text": "for this I know of you, that you are not possess'd with any love for God."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 5, "verse": "43", "text": "I am come in my father's name, and you receive me not: if another should come in his own name, him you will receive."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 5, "verse": "44", "text": "how can you believe, who are catching at honour one from another, regardless of that glory that comes from God only?"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 5, "verse": "45", "text": "don't imagine that I shall accuse you to my father: even Moses himself in whom you confide, will be your accuser."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 5, "verse": "46", "text": "for had you believed Moses, you would have believed me: since he has spoke of me in his writings."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 5, "verse": "47", "text": "but if you don't believe what he has writ, how should you believe what I say?"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 6, "verse": "1", "text": "At length Jesus passed over the sea of Galilee, which is the sea of Tiberias;"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 6, "verse": "2", "text": "where a great multitude followed him, invited by the miraculous cures which they saw him perform."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 6, "verse": "3", "text": "Jesus therefore went up a mountain, where he sat down with his disciples."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 6, "verse": "4", "text": "for it was just before the passover, which is a feast of the Jews."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 6, "verse": "5", "text": "Jesus then lifting up his eyes, and seeing a great company coming to him, said to Philip, where can we buy bread to feed this people?"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 6, "verse": "6", "text": "(this he said to prove Philip: for he himself knew what he had to do.)"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 6, "verse": "7", "text": "Philip answered him, two hundred penny-worth of bread is not sufficient to furnish every one of them a little."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 6, "verse": "8", "text": "one of his disciples, Andrew, Simon Peter's brother, said to him,"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 6, "verse": "9", "text": "there is a lad here, who hath five barley-loaves, and two small fishes: but what are they among so many?"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 6, "verse": "10", "text": "but Jesus said, make the men sit down, and as there was much grass in the place, they sat down to the number of about five thousand."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 6, "verse": "11", "text": "then Jesus took the loaves, and when he had given thanks, he distributed to them that were sate down; and likewise of the fishes, as much as they would."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 6, "verse": "12", "text": "when they were filled, he said to his disciples, gather up the fragments that remain, that nothing be lost."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 6, "verse": "13", "text": "they gathered them therefore, and filled twelve baskets with the fragments of the five barley-loaves, which remained after they all had been eating."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 6, "verse": "14", "text": "The people, when they had seen the miracle that Jesus did, cry'd out, this is of a truth that prophet who was to come into the world."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 6, "verse": "15", "text": "but Jesus perceiving they designed to come and take him by force to make him a king, retired again upon a mountain all alone. Jesus Walks on Water ( Matthew 14:22–33 ; Mark 6:45–52 )"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 6, "verse": "16", "text": "When even was come, his disciples went to the sea, and going on board a ship,"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 6, "verse": "17", "text": "they cross'd the sea to Capernaum: now when it was dark, Jesus was not come to them:"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 6, "verse": "18", "text": "but the sea ran high, by reason of the wind that blew hard."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 6, "verse": "19", "text": "so when they had rowed about five and twenty, or thirty furlongs, seeing Jesus walking on the sea, and drawing nigh to the ship, they were frightned."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 6, "verse": "20", "text": "but he said to them, it is I, be not afraid."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 6, "verse": "21", "text": "then they readily received him into the ship: and immediately the ship was at the land whither they were bound. Jesus the Bread of Life"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 6, "verse": "22", "text": "The day following, the people who stay'd on the other side of the sea, perceiving that there had been only that single vessel in which his disciples were embark'd, that Jesus did not embark with his disciples, but that his disciples were gone away alone: (however,"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 6, "verse": "23", "text": "there came other barks from Tiberias, nigh the place where they had eaten bread, after the Lord had given thanks.)"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 6, "verse": "24", "text": "the people likewise seeing that Jesus was not in those barks, nor his disciples, went on board them, and cross'd to Capernaum in quest of Jesus."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 6, "verse": "25", "text": "And when they had found him on the other side of the sea, they said unto him, master, when did you arrive here?"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 6, "verse": "26", "text": "Jesus answered them, I declare unto you, you seek me, not because ye saw the miracles, but because ye had loaves to eat, and were filled."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 6, "verse": "27", "text": "work not for the food which perisheth, but for that which endureth unto everlasting life, and which the son of man shall give unto you, for to him it is that the father, that is God, has given his credentials."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 6, "verse": "28", "text": "then said they to him, what shall we do, that our works may he agreeable to God?"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 6, "verse": "29", "text": "Jesus answered them, the work which God requires is to believe on him whom he hath sent."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 6, "verse": "30", "text": "but said they, what miracle then will you let us see to make us believe you? what strange work will you perform?"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 6, "verse": "31", "text": "our fathers did eat manna in the desert; as it is written, \"he gave them bread from heaven to eat.\""}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 6, "verse": "32", "text": "Jesus answer'd, I assure you, Moses did not give you the celestial bread; but my father gives you the true celestial bread."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 6, "verse": "33", "text": "for he who is descended from heaven, and gives life to the world, is the bread that is truely divine."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 6, "verse": "34", "text": "then said they, Lord, evermore give us this bread."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 6, "verse": "35", "text": "Jesus answer'd, I am the bread of life: he that cometh to me, shall never hunger; and he that believeth on me, shall never thirst."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 6, "verse": "36", "text": "but I have already told you, that tho' you have seen me, you do not believe."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 6, "verse": "37", "text": "all those whom my father gives me, shall come to me; and I will not reject any that come to me."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 6, "verse": "38", "text": "for I came down from heaven, not to do my own will, but the will of him that sent me."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 6, "verse": "39", "text": "and the will of him who sent me is this, that I should not lose any one of those he has given me, but should raise them again at the last day: this,"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 6, "verse": "40", "text": "I say, is the will of him that sent me, that every one who observes the son, and believeth on him, should have everlasting life: and I will raise him up at the last day."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 6, "verse": "41", "text": "The Jews then murmured against him, for having said, \"I am the bread which came down from heaven.\""}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 6, "verse": "42", "text": "is not this, said they, Jesus, the son of Joseph, whose father and mother we know? how comes he then to say, I came down from heaven?"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 6, "verse": "43", "text": "Jesus therefore replied, murmur not among your selves."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 6, "verse": "44", "text": "no man can come to me, except the father who hath sent me, conduct him: and I will raise him up at the last day."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 6, "verse": "45", "text": "it is written in the prophets, \"they shall be all taught of God.\" every man therefore that hath heard the father, and been instructed by him, cometh unto me."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 6, "verse": "46", "text": "not that any man hath seen the father, except him who is come from God, he hath seen the father."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 6, "verse": "47", "text": "I declare unto you, he that believeth on me hath everlasting life."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 6, "verse": "48", "text": "I am the bread of life,"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 6, "verse": "49", "text": "your fathers did eat manna in the wilderness, and there they died."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 6, "verse": "50", "text": "but this is the bread which came down from heaven, that he who eats thereof should not die."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 6, "verse": "51", "text": "I am the living bread, that is come down from heaven: whosoever shall eat of this bread, shall live for ever: and the bread that I will give, is my flesh, which I will give for the life of the world."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 6, "verse": "52", "text": "Upon this the Jews disputed among themselves, saying, how can this man give us his flesh to eat?"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 6, "verse": "53", "text": "but Jesus answer'd, I assure you, except ye eat the flesh of the son of man, and drink his blood, ye will have no life in you."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 6, "verse": "54", "text": "he that eateth my flesh, and drinketh my blood, hath eternal life, and I will raise him up at the last day."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 6, "verse": "55", "text": "for my flesh is meat indeed, and my blood is drink indeed."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 6, "verse": "56", "text": "he that eateth my flesh, and drinketh my blood, dwelleth in me, and I in him."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 6, "verse": "57", "text": "as the father who is the source of life hath sent me, and I live by the father: so he that eateth me, even he shall live by me."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 6, "verse": "58", "text": "this is that bread which came down from heaven: very different from that manna, which your fathers did eat but died nevertheless: he that eateth of this bread, shall live for ever. Many Disciples Turn Back ( Matthew 8:18–22 ; Luke 9:57–62 ; Luke 14:25–33 )"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 6, "verse": "59", "text": "These things said Jesus in the synagogue, as he taught in Capernaum."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 6, "verse": "60", "text": "when many of his disciples, who heard him, said, this is strange doctrine, who can hear it?"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 6, "verse": "61", "text": "Jesus perceiving in himself, that his disciples murmured at it, said to them, doth this offend you?"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 6, "verse": "62", "text": "what if you should see the son of man ascend up where he was before?"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 6, "verse": "63", "text": "it is the action of the mind that vivifies, that of the body profits nothing: the words that I have delivered to you, spiritually understood, give life."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 6, "verse": "64", "text": "but there are some of you who do not believe. (for Jesus knew from the beginning, who they were that did not believe, and who should betray him.)"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 6, "verse": "65", "text": "and he said, therefore said I unto you, that no man can come unto me, except it were given unto him of my father."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 6, "verse": "66", "text": "From that time many of his disciples withdrew, and associated no longer with him. Peter’s Confession of Faith ( Matthew 16:13–20 ; Mark 8:27–30 ; Luke 9:18–20 )"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 6, "verse": "67", "text": "upon which Jesus said to the twelve, will not ye likewise go away?"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 6, "verse": "68", "text": "but Simon Peter answered, Lord, to whom shall we go? you have the words of eternal life."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 6, "verse": "69", "text": "and we have believed and we have acknowledged that you are the Christ, the son of God."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 6, "verse": "70", "text": "Jesus answered them, have I not chosen you all twelve, and yet one of you is an avowed enemy?"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 6, "verse": "71", "text": "meaning Judas Iscariot the son of Simon: for he it was that would betray him, altho' he was one of the twelve."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 7, "verse": "1", "text": "After this Jesus resided in Galilee: for he would not be in Judea, because the Jews sought to kill him, now the"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 7, "verse": "2", "text": "Jews feast of the tabernacles drawing nigh,"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 7, "verse": "3", "text": "his relations said to him, retire hence, and go into Judea, that your disciples there may also see the works that you do."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 7, "verse": "4", "text": "for no body acts in private, that designs to distinguish himself: since you do such things, shew yourself to the world."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 7, "verse": "5", "text": "for even his brethren did not believe in him."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 7, "verse": "6", "text": "but Jesus said to them, my time is not yet come: but any time is equally proper for you."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 7, "verse": "7", "text": "the world cannot hate you; but me it hateth, because I plainly show, that their works are evil."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 7, "verse": "8", "text": "do you go up to this feast, as for me I do not go with you to it, because my time is not yet accomplished."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 7, "verse": "9", "text": "thus he delivered his mind, and stay'd himself in Galilee."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 7, "verse": "10", "text": "but when his brethren were gone, he went likewise to the feast, not openly, but in secret."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 7, "verse": "11", "text": "during the feast the Jews were in search of him, and said, where can he be?"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 7, "verse": "12", "text": "and the people were much divided about him: for some said, he is a good man: others said, not at all; but he seduces the people."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 7, "verse": "13", "text": "However, no body talk'd openly in favour of him, for fear of the Jews."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 7, "verse": "14", "text": "but about the middle of the feast, Jesus went publickly into the temple, and taught."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 7, "verse": "15", "text": "at which the Jews were surprized, saying, how came be acquainted with the scriptures, a man of no education?"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 7, "verse": "16", "text": "Jesus answered them, the doctrine I deliver is not my own, but his that sent me."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 7, "verse": "17", "text": "if any man is inclin'd to do his will, he shall know whether the doctrine be from God, or whether I speak from my self."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 7, "verse": "18", "text": "he that speaks from himself, has a view to his own glory: but he that has a view to his glory that sent him, deserves credit, and is a stranger to all imposture."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 7, "verse": "19", "text": "was it not Moses who gave you the law, and yet none of you observe that law?"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 7, "verse": "20", "text": "for what do ye attempt to kill me? the people answered, saying, you are mad: who attempts to kill you?"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 7, "verse": "21", "text": "Jesus answered them, I perform'd one single miracle on the sabbath, and does that alarm you?"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 7, "verse": "22", "text": "Moses enjoin'd you circumcision (or rather not Moses, but the patriarchs) accordingly you circumcise a man on the sabbath-day."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 7, "verse": "23", "text": "if to avoid the violation of the Mosaic law, a man be exposed to circumcision on the sabbath-day, are ye angry at me, because I cured a man, whose whole body was indisposed on the sabbath-day?"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 7, "verse": "24", "text": "judge not according to appearances, but judge according to equity. Is Jesus the Christ?"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 7, "verse": "25", "text": "Then some that belong'd to Jerusalem, said, is not this he whom they seek to kill?"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 7, "verse": "26", "text": "yet there he is talking publickly without any opposition: are not the rulers convinc'd that he is the Messiah?"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 7, "verse": "27", "text": "however, we know from what quarter this man comes: but when Christ comes it will be unknown whence he came."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 7, "verse": "28", "text": "Jesus then pursuing his discourse in the temple, rais'd his voice, and said, you know both who I am, and whence I am: however, I am not come of my self, but he that sent me is worthy of belief, him you are unacquainted with."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 7, "verse": "29", "text": "but I know him, for I am from him, and he hath sent me."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 7, "verse": "30", "text": "then they design'd to seize him: but no man laid hands on him, because his hour was not yet come."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 7, "verse": "31", "text": "besides many of the people believed on him, and said, when Christ comes, will he do more miracles than this man hath done?"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 7, "verse": "32", "text": "(the Pharisees being inform'd what the people rumour'd concerning him, they and the chief priests sent their officers to seize him.)"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 7, "verse": "33", "text": "then said Jesus, I shall be with you but for a little time, and then I shall go to him that sent me."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 7, "verse": "34", "text": "ye shall seek me, but shall not find me: and where I shall go, thither ye cannot come."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 7, "verse": "35", "text": "upon which the Jews said among themselves, whither will he go, that we cannot find him? will he go to the dispersed Jews among the Greeks, and instruct the Greeks?"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 7, "verse": "36", "text": "what does he mean by saying, \"ye shall seek me, and shall not find me: and where I go, thither ye cannot come?\" Living Water"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 7, "verse": "37", "text": "In the last day, the most solemn day of the feast, Jesus being there, raised his voice, and said, if any man thirst, let him come to me, and drink."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 7, "verse": "38", "text": "he that believeth on me, as the scripture hath said, out of his heart shall flow rivers of living water."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 7, "verse": "39", "text": "(but this he meant of the spirit, which they that believed on him, should receive: for the spirit was not yet given, because Jesus was not yet glorified.) Division over Jesus"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 7, "verse": "40", "text": "many of the people therefore, who heard this discourse, said, this man is certainly a prophet."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 7, "verse": "41", "text": "some said, this is the Messias, but said others, shall the Messias come out of Galilee?"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 7, "verse": "42", "text": "hath not the scripture said, that the Messiah is to rise out of the family of David, and out of Bethlehem, the village where David was born?"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 7, "verse": "43", "text": "so that the people were divided in their opinions about him."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 7, "verse": "44", "text": "and some of them had a mind to seize him; but nobody laid hands on him. The Unbelief of the Jewish Leaders"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 7, "verse": "45", "text": "when the officers return'd to the chief priests and Pharisees, they asked them, why have ye not brought him?"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 7, "verse": "46", "text": "the officers answered, never did man speak like this man."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 7, "verse": "47", "text": "upon which the Pharisees answered, are ye also seduced?"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 7, "verse": "48", "text": "have any of the rulers, or of the Pharisees believed on him?"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 7, "verse": "49", "text": "but the populace, who are ignorant of the law, are such wretches."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 7, "verse": "50", "text": "thereupon Nicodemus, he that came to Jesus by night, and was then present,"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 7, "verse": "51", "text": "said to them, said to them, doth our law condemn any man before he is heard, without knowing the fact?"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 7, "verse": "52", "text": "they answered him, are you also of Galilee? search the scriptures, and you will not find that a prophet did ever arise out of Galilee."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 7, "verse": "53", "text": "and every man went to his own house."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 8, "verse": "1", "text": "Then Jesus went to the mount of olives."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 8, "verse": "2", "text": "but early in the morning he return'd to the temple, where all the people came to him; and being sat down, he instructed them."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 8, "verse": "3", "text": "then the Scribes and Pharisees brought a woman surprized in adultery; and when they had set her in the middle of the assembly,"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 8, "verse": "4", "text": "they said to him, master, this woman was actually taken in adultery."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 8, "verse": "5", "text": "now Moses has ordain'd in the law, that such criminals should be stoned: but what is your opinion?"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 8, "verse": "6", "text": "they said this only to ensnare him, that they might have some accusation against him, but Jesus stooped down, and with his finger wrote on the ground."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 8, "verse": "7", "text": "and as they pressed him to answer, he rais'd himself, and said to them, he that is without sin among you, let him be the first that throws a stone at her."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 8, "verse": "8", "text": "then stooping down again, he wrote on the ground."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 8, "verse": "9", "text": "but they who heard that, being convicted by their own conscience, they all went old and young one after another, so that Jesus was left alone with the woman, who still kept her place."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 8, "verse": "10", "text": "then Jesus raising himself, and seeing none but the woman there, he said to her, woman, where are your accusers? hath no man condemned thee?"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 8, "verse": "11", "text": "Lord, said she, no man, and Jesus said to her, neither do I condemn thee: go, and sin no more. Jesus the Light of the World ( 1 John 1:5–10 )"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 8, "verse": "12", "text": "Jesus then having reassumed his discourse, said to them, I am the light of the world: he that followeth me, shall not walk in darkness, but shall have the light of life."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 8, "verse": "13", "text": "the Pharisees therefore said to him, you give a testimony of your self, your testimony is not valid."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 8, "verse": "14", "text": "Jesus answered them, though I give testimony of my self, yet my testimony is valid: for I know whence I came, and whither I go; but you do not know whence I came, nor whither I go."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 8, "verse": "15", "text": "you pass sentence according to your passions: I pass sentence on no man;"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 8, "verse": "16", "text": "and yet if I did judge, my judgment is true: for I am not alone, but I am with the father who has sent me."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 8, "verse": "17", "text": "now it is written in your law, that the testimony of two men is valid."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 8, "verse": "18", "text": "I indeed do bear testimony of my self, but the father, who has sent me, beareth witness of me likewise."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 8, "verse": "19", "text": "then said they to him, where is thy father: Jesus answered, ye neither know me, nor my father: if ye knew me, ye would have known my father also."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 8, "verse": "20", "text": "Jesus delivered this discourse in the treasury, when he taught in the temple: and no man laid hands on him, for his hour was not yet come."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 8, "verse": "21", "text": "Jesus therefore repeated what he had said, \"I go my way, and ye shall seek me, and shall die in your incredulity, so that whither I go, ye cannot come.\""}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 8, "verse": "22", "text": "then said the Jews, what, will he kill himself? that he says, \"whither I go, you cannot come.\""}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 8, "verse": "23", "text": "and he said to them, ye are from beneath, I am from above: ye are of this world, I am not of this world."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 8, "verse": "24", "text": "therefore I said to you, that ye shall die in your sins: for if you don't believe me to be what I am, ye shall die in your sins."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 8, "verse": "25", "text": "then said they to him, what art thou? and Jesus answered them, I am what I just now told you."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 8, "verse": "26", "text": "I have many things to say against you: but I only say He that sent me is worthy of belief; and what I have heard of Him, that only I publish to the world."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 8, "verse": "27", "text": "but they did not perceive that he meant the father."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 8, "verse": "28", "text": "Jesus said therefore to them, when ye have lift up the son of man, then shall ye know what I am, and that I do nothing of my self, but speak as my father hath instructed me."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 8, "verse": "29", "text": "he that sent me, is with me: the father hath not left me alone, for I always do what is agreeable to him. The Truth Will Set You Free ( 2 John 1:4–6 )"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 8, "verse": "30", "text": "upon this discourse many believed on him."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 8, "verse": "31", "text": "Jesus said therefore to those Jews who believed on him, if you adhere to my doctrine, then will you be my disciples indeed; and ye shall know the truth,"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 8, "verse": "32", "text": "and the truth shall make you free."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 8, "verse": "33", "text": "they answered him, we are Abraham's offspring, and were never slaves to any man: why then do you say, \"ye shall be made free?\""}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 8, "verse": "34", "text": "Jesus answered them, I declare unto you, whosoever committeth sin, is a slave to sin."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 8, "verse": "35", "text": "a slave has no right to be in the house for life: but the son is settled there."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 8, "verse": "36", "text": "if the son therefore shall make you free, you will be free indeed."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 8, "verse": "37", "text": "I know you are Abraham's offspring; but ye seek to kill me, because my doctrine doth not penetrate into you."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 8, "verse": "38", "text": "what I have learnt from my father, that I tell: and what you have learnt from your father, that you do."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 8, "verse": "39", "text": "they answered him, Abraham is our father, if you were Abraham's children, said Jesus, you would act like Abraham."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 8, "verse": "40", "text": "but now ye seek to kill me, the man who has told you the truth, such as I have learnt it of God: Abraham did not act thus."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 8, "verse": "41", "text": "your actions are like your father, at this they reply'd, we are no bastards; we have but one father, even God."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 8, "verse": "42", "text": "Jesus said to them, if God were your father, ye would love me: for I was commissioned by God to come; I did not come of my self, but he sent me."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 8, "verse": "43", "text": "why do not you understand my language? unless because ye cannot bear my doctrine?"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 8, "verse": "44", "text": "you, who have the devil for your father, will execute the designs of your father: he was a murderer from the beginning, and deserted the truth, since he has no love for the truth: when he lyes, he speaks like himself: for he is a lyar, and the father of a lyar."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 8, "verse": "45", "text": "but as to me, because I tell you the truth, you do not believe me."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 8, "verse": "46", "text": "which of you can convict me of sin? if then I say the truth, why don't you believe me?"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 8, "verse": "47", "text": "he that is of God, does therefore observe what God says: which you do not observe, because ye are not of God. Before Abraham Was Born, I Am"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 8, "verse": "48", "text": "The Jews answered, and said to him, are we not in the right to say, that you are a Samaritan, and are really mad?"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 8, "verse": "49", "text": "Jesus answered, I am not mad; but I honour my father, and you dishonour me."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 8, "verse": "50", "text": "I do not consult my own glory: there is one that will consult that, and judge accordingly."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 8, "verse": "51", "text": "verily, verily, I say unto you, whoever observes my doctrine, shall never die."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 8, "verse": "52", "text": "upon this said the Jews to him, now we plainly perceive you are mad. Abraham is dead, and the prophets too; and yet you say, if a man observes your doctrine, he shall never die."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 8, "verse": "53", "text": "are you greater than our father Abraham, who is dead? the prophets likewise are dead: pray, what do you then pretend to be?"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 8, "verse": "54", "text": "Jesus answered, if I honour'd my self, my honour would be vain: it is my father that honoureth me, of whom ye say, that he is your God."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 8, "verse": "55", "text": "yet ye have not known him, but I know him: and if I should say, I know him not, I should be a lyar like you: but I know him, and observe his commands."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 8, "verse": "56", "text": "your father Abraham long'd to see my day: and he saw it, and was glad."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 8, "verse": "57", "text": "then said the Jews to him, you are not yet fifty years old, and have you seen Abraham?"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 8, "verse": "58", "text": "Jesus said to them, verily, verily I say unto you, before Abraham was I AM."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 8, "verse": "59", "text": "then took they up stones to cast at him: but Jesus was conceal'd by the crowd which he pass'd thro', and so got out of the temple."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 9, "verse": "1", "text": "As Jesus passed by, he saw a man that was born blind."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 9, "verse": "2", "text": "and his disciples propos'd to him this question, master, was it for his own sins, or for the sins of his parents, that he was born blind?"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 9, "verse": "3", "text": "it was not for any sin of his, said Jesus, or of his parents: but that the works of God might be displayed thro' him."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 9, "verse": "4", "text": "I must perform the works of him that sent me, while it is day: the night is coming, when no man can work."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 9, "verse": "5", "text": "while I am in the world, I am the light of the world."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 9, "verse": "6", "text": "having said this, he spit on the ground, which by means of his saliva he made into clay, wherewith he anointed the eyes of the blind man,"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 9, "verse": "7", "text": "and said to him, go wash in the pool of Siloam (a word which signifies sent.) so he went and washed, and came seeing."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 9, "verse": "8", "text": "the neighbours therefore, and they who before had seen him begging, said, is not this he that used to sit begging?"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 9, "verse": "9", "text": "this is he, said some; he is like him, said others: but he said, I am the man."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 9, "verse": "10", "text": "thereupon they said to him, how did you come to your sight?"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 9, "verse": "11", "text": "he answered, a man call'd Jesus made clay, and anointed my eyes, and said to me, go to the pool of Siloam, and wash: I went, and washed, and so I saw."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 9, "verse": "12", "text": "then said they to him, where is he? I don't know, said he. The Pharisees Investigate the Healing"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 9, "verse": "13", "text": "This very man that had been blind, was at length brought to the Pharisees."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 9, "verse": "14", "text": "now it was the sabbath-day when Jesus made the clay, and gave him his sight."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 9, "verse": "15", "text": "the Pharisees therefore ask'd him likewise, how he had received his sight, he told them, he put clay upon mine eyes, and I washed, and now see."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 9, "verse": "16", "text": "thereupon some of the Pharisees said, this man has no divine mission, because he does not observe the sabbath, but said others, if he be an impostor, how can he do such miracles? and there was a schism among them."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 9, "verse": "17", "text": "they therefore question'd the blind man again, what do you say of the man that made you see? he is a prophet, said he."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 9, "verse": "18", "text": "but the Jews were so incredulous about his having been blind, and obtain'd sight, that they sent for his parents,"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 9, "verse": "19", "text": "and ask'd them, is this your son, who you say was born blind? how came it then that he now sees?"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 9, "verse": "20", "text": "his parents answered, that this is our son, and that he was born blind: we are very certain."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 9, "verse": "21", "text": "but by what means it was that he now sees, that we know not; or who made him see, we know not: he is of age, ask him, he will answer for himself."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 9, "verse": "22", "text": "his parents said this, because they were afraid of the Jews: for the Jews had agreed in this, that if any man did own him for the Messias, he should be excommunicated."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 9, "verse": "23", "text": "it was this made his parents say, \"he is of age, ask him.\""}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 9, "verse": "24", "text": "They therefore again call'd the man that had been blind, and said to him, in the name of God tell the truth: for we know that this man is an impostor."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 9, "verse": "25", "text": "whether he be so or not, said he, I don't know: one thing I very well know, that once I was blind, and now I see."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 9, "verse": "26", "text": "they still urg'd the same question, what did he do to thee? how did he make you see?"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 9, "verse": "27", "text": "I have already told you that, said he, and did you not hear it? why would ye hear it over again? have you likewise a mind to be his disciples?"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 9, "verse": "28", "text": "then they reviled him, and said, thou art his disciple; but we are Moses disciples."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 9, "verse": "29", "text": "we know that God commission'd Moses: as for this fellow, we don't know who sent him."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 9, "verse": "30", "text": "the man replied, that's very strange that he should make me see, and you should not know who sent him."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 9, "verse": "31", "text": "now 'tis certain, that God does not countenance impostors: but regards him only that is religious, and executes his commands."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 9, "verse": "32", "text": "It was never heard since the world began, that any man gave sight to one that was born blind."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 9, "verse": "33", "text": "if this man had not his mission from God, he could do nothing."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 9, "verse": "34", "text": "they answered, you were a vicious fellow from your very birth, and do you pretend to preach to us? and then they excommunicated him. Spiritual Blindness"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 9, "verse": "35", "text": "Jesus having heard that they had excommunicated him; and meeting with the man, he said to him, do you believe on the son of God?"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 9, "verse": "36", "text": "he answered and said, who is he, Lord, that I may believe on him?"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 9, "verse": "37", "text": "Jesus said to him, not only thou hast seen him, but it is he himself that is talking with thee."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 9, "verse": "38", "text": "then said he to Jesus, Lord, I believe: and prostrated himself before him."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 9, "verse": "39", "text": "and Jesus said, to execute justice am I come into this world: that they who see not, may see; and that they who do see, may become blind."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 9, "verse": "40", "text": "some of the Pharisees who were then present hearing this, said to him, are we likewise blind?"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 9, "verse": "41", "text": "Jesus said to them, if you were blind, you would be excusable; but since you own that you see, you stand convicted."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 10, "verse": "1", "text": "I assure you, he that entreth not by the door into the sheep-fold, but climbeth up some other way, is a thief and a robber."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 10, "verse": "2", "text": "but he that enters in by the door, is the pastor of the sheep."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 10, "verse": "3", "text": "the porter lets him in, and the sheep know his voice: he calls his own sheep by name, and leads them out to pasture."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 10, "verse": "4", "text": "when he lets out his own sheep, he goes before them, and the sheep follow him: because they know his voice."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 10, "verse": "5", "text": "a stranger they will not follow, but flee from him: for they know not the voice of strangers."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 10, "verse": "6", "text": "Jesus talk'd to them in this figurative way: but they did not understand the meaning of his discourse."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 10, "verse": "7", "text": "Jesus therefore subjoin'd, I declare unto you, I am the door of the sheep-fold."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 10, "verse": "8", "text": "they who have personated me, are all thieves and robbers: but the sheep did not follow them."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 10, "verse": "9", "text": "I am the door: by me if any man enter in, he shall be saved; he shall go in and out, and find pasture."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 10, "verse": "10", "text": "the thief comes only to steal, to kill, and destroy: but I am come that they might have life, and have it with all its advantages."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 10, "verse": "11", "text": "I am the true pastor: the true pastor exposes his life for the sheep."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 10, "verse": "12", "text": "but the hireling, who is not the pastor, nor has the property of the sheep, seeing the wolf come, leaves the sheep, and flies away: so the wolf seizes some, and disperses the flock."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 10, "verse": "13", "text": "the hireling flies, because he is an hireling, and is under no concern for the sheep."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 10, "verse": "14", "text": "I am the true pastor, I know my sheep, and my sheep know me,"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 10, "verse": "15", "text": "(as the father and I are known to one another:) and I lay down my life for them."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 10, "verse": "16", "text": "other sheep I have, which are not of this fold: them also I must bring; they will hear my voice; and so there shall be but one fold, and one pastor."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 10, "verse": "17", "text": "therefore doth my father love me, because I lay down my life, but I shall reassume it."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 10, "verse": "18", "text": "no man can take it from me, but I voluntarily lay it down: I have power to lay it down, and I have power to take it again, this is the order I have received from my father."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 10, "verse": "19", "text": "There was another schism therefore among the Jews, occasion'd by this discourse."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 10, "verse": "20", "text": "for many of them said, he is possess'd with a demon, and is mad; why do you mind him?"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 10, "verse": "21", "text": "others said, this is not the language of one possess'd: can a demon give sight to the blind? Jesus at the Feast of Dedication"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 10, "verse": "22", "text": "At length the feast of the dedication was kept at Jerusalem, when the weather happen'd to be foul."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 10, "verse": "23", "text": "as Jesus therefore was walking in the temple in Solomon's portico,"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 10, "verse": "24", "text": "the Jews came about him, and said, how long will you keep us in suspense? if you are the Messiah, tell us plainly."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 10, "verse": "25", "text": "Jesus answered them, I told you, and ye did not believe me: the works that I do in my father's name, they testify of me."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 10, "verse": "26", "text": "but, as I said before, you do not believe; because ye are not of my sheep."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 10, "verse": "27", "text": "my sheep hear my voice, I know them, and they follow me."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 10, "verse": "28", "text": "it is I that give them eternal life, and they shall never perish, neither shall any one force them out of my hand."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 10, "verse": "29", "text": "my father who gave them me, is greater than all: so that no one is able to force them out of my father's hand."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 10, "verse": "30", "text": "I and my father are one."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 10, "verse": "31", "text": "then the Jews took up stones again to stone him."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 10, "verse": "32", "text": "Jesus answered them, many good works have I shewed you from my father; for which of those works would you stone me?"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 10, "verse": "33", "text": "the Jews answered him, saying, it is not for any good work that we stone thee; but for blasphemy, inasmuch as you, being a man, pretend to be a God."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 10, "verse": "34", "text": "Jesus answered them, is it not written in your law, \"I said ye are Gods?\""}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 10, "verse": "35", "text": "if the law stiles them Gods, who received the orders of God, and if the scripture is of any authortiy,"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 10, "verse": "36", "text": "how can you say that I blaspheme, I whom the father hath sanctified, and sent into the world, because I said I am the son of God?"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 10, "verse": "37", "text": "if I do not the works of my father, believe me not."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 10, "verse": "38", "text": "but if I do, though ye believe not me, believe the works: that ye may know and believe that the father is in me, and I in him."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 10, "verse": "39", "text": "Thereupon they again endeavour'd to seize him: but he escaped out of their hands, and retir'd beyond Jordan, John’s Testimony Confirmed"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 10, "verse": "40", "text": "to the place where John at first baptized; and there he abode."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 10, "verse": "41", "text": "and many resorted unto him, and said, John did no miracle: but every thing that he said concerning this man, was true."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 10, "verse": "42", "text": "so that many people there believed on him."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 11, "verse": "1", "text": "Now a certain man was sick, named Lazarus, who was of Bethany, the town of Mary, and of Martha her sister."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 11, "verse": "2", "text": "(it was that Mary who perfum'd the Lord with ointment, after having wiped his feet with her hair, whose brother Lazarus was sick.)"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 11, "verse": "3", "text": "his two sisters therefore sent this message to Jesus; he, Lord, whom you love, is sick."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 11, "verse": "4", "text": "when Jesus heard that, he said, the disease is not to be mortal, but is design'd for the glory of God, that the son of God might be glorified thereby."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 11, "verse": "5", "text": "now Jesus loved Martha, and her sister, and Lazarus."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 11, "verse": "6", "text": "however, he stay'd in the place where he was, even two days after he had heard that Lazarus was sick."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 11, "verse": "7", "text": "and then he said to his disciples, let us return to Judea."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 11, "verse": "8", "text": "upon which his disciples said, master, it is not long since the Jews attempted to stone you; and are you for going thither again?"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 11, "verse": "9", "text": "Jesus answered, are there not twelve hours in the day? he that travels by day does not stumble, because he has the light of this world to see by."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 11, "verse": "10", "text": "but if a man travels by night he stumbles, because there is no light for him."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 11, "verse": "11", "text": "thus he entertain'd them: and after that, he said to them, our friend Lazarus is asleep; but I am going to awake him."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 11, "verse": "12", "text": "then said his disciples, Lord, if he sleep, he will recover;"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 11, "verse": "13", "text": "though Jesus meant it of Lazarus's death: but they understood it of the natural rest in sleep."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 11, "verse": "14", "text": "then Jesus told them plainly, Lazarus is dead."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 11, "verse": "15", "text": "and I am glad for your sakes that I was not there (to the intent you may believe) but now, let us go to him."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 11, "verse": "16", "text": "then said Thomas, that is, Didymus, to his fellow-disciples, let us also go, that we may die with him. Jesus Comforts Martha and Mary"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 11, "verse": "17", "text": "When Jesus was arriv'd, he found that Lazarus had been then four days in the grave."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 11, "verse": "18", "text": "now Bethany being distant from Jerusalem but about fifteen furlongs,"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 11, "verse": "19", "text": "many of the Jews came to Martha and Mary, to condole with them upon the loss of their brother."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 11, "verse": "20", "text": "Martha, as soon as she heard that Jesus was coming, went to meet him: but Mary stay'd at home."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 11, "verse": "21", "text": "Lord, said Martha to Jesus, if you had been here, my brother had not been dead."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 11, "verse": "22", "text": "but yet even now whatever you shall ask of God, I know God will grant it to you."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 11, "verse": "23", "text": "Jesus said to her, your brother shall rise again."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 11, "verse": "24", "text": "Martha said to him, I know that he shall rise again at the resurrection of the last day."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 11, "verse": "25", "text": "Jesus said to her, I am the resurrection, and the life: he that believeth in me shall live even though he were dead:"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 11, "verse": "26", "text": "and no man living that believeth in me, shall ever die."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 11, "verse": "27", "text": "do you believe this? yes, Lord, said Martha, I believe that thou art the Messiah the son of God, who was to come into the world."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 11, "verse": "28", "text": "When she had said this, she went privately to call Mary her sister, saying, the master is come, and calls for you."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 11, "verse": "29", "text": "no sooner she heard that, but she arose with all speed, and came to him."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 11, "verse": "30", "text": "for Jesus was not yet arrived in the town, but staid at the place were Martha met him."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 11, "verse": "31", "text": "the Jews then who were with Mary in the house to comfort her, when they saw that she rose in such haste, and went out, followed her, saying, she is going to the grave to weep there."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 11, "verse": "32", "text": "Mary being come to the place where Jesus was, as soon as she saw him, she fell down at his feet, saying, Lord, if you had been here, my brother had not been dead."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 11, "verse": "33", "text": "when Jesus therefore saw her weeping, and the Jews also weeping who came with her, he sighed from his heart, and was troubled,"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 11, "verse": "34", "text": "and said, where have ye laid him? they said to him, Lord, come and see."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 11, "verse": "35", "text": "then Jesus wept."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 11, "verse": "36", "text": "upon which the Jews said, see how he loved him."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 11, "verse": "37", "text": "but some of them said, this man who has given sight to the blind, could not he have prevented Lazarus's death? Jesus Raises Lazarus ( Acts 9:36–43 )"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 11, "verse": "38", "text": "Jesus then again sighing, came to the sepulchre which was a cave, shut up by a stone."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 11, "verse": "39", "text": "Jesus said, take away the stone. Martha, sister to the deceas'd, said to him, Lord, by this time he is offensive: for he hath been dead four days."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 11, "verse": "40", "text": "Jesus said to her, did I not tell you, that if you would believe, you should see the glory of God?"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 11, "verse": "41", "text": "then they took away the stone from the place where the corps was laid, and Jesus lifting up his eyes to heaven said, \"father, I thank thee that thou hast heard me."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 11, "verse": "42", "text": "I know that thou hearest me always: but I say this, because of the people here present, that they may believe that thou hast sent me.\""}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 11, "verse": "43", "text": "when he had spoke this, he cried with a loud voice, Lazarus, come forth."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 11, "verse": "44", "text": "and he that was dead came forth, his body wrapt in a winding sheet: and his face bound about with a napkin, loose him, said Jesus, and let him go. The Plot to Kill Jesus ( Matthew 26:1–5 ; Mark 14:1–2 ; Luke 22:1–2 )"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 11, "verse": "45", "text": "many therefore of the Jews who came to see Mary, and had seen what Jesus had done, believed on him."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 11, "verse": "46", "text": "But some of them went to the Pharisees, and told them what Jesus had done."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 11, "verse": "47", "text": "upon this the chief priests and the Pharisees being assembled in council, said, what shall we do? for this man performs many miracles."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 11, "verse": "48", "text": "if we let him go on at this rate, all will believe on him; and the Romans will come, and destroy both our temple and nation."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 11, "verse": "49", "text": "but one of them named Caiaphas, being the high priest at that time, said to them, ye don't know what you are about."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 11, "verse": "50", "text": "you little consider it is our interest, that one man should die for the people, to prevent the destruction of the whole nation."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 11, "verse": "51", "text": "now this he did not say from his own motion: but being high priest that year, he prophesied that Jesus should die for the nation:"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 11, "verse": "52", "text": "and not for that nation only, but likewise to reassemble the dispersed children of God into one body."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 11, "verse": "53", "text": "from that day therefore, they consulted together to put Jesus to death."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 11, "verse": "54", "text": "For which reason he did not afterwards appear publickly among the Jews; but retir'd into the country near the desart, to a city called Ephraim, and there continued with his disciples."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 11, "verse": "55", "text": "now the passover of the Jews being nigh: the people of that country went in great numbers to Jerusalem before the passover, in order to purify themselves."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 11, "verse": "56", "text": "when they were in the temple, they enquired for Jesus, and said to one another, do you think he will not be at the feast?"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 11, "verse": "57", "text": "now both the chief priests and the Pharisees had publish'd an order, that if any man knew where he was, he should give information in order to have him seized."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 12, "verse": "1", "text": "Six days before the passover Jesus came to Bethany, where Lazarus was, who had been dead, and raised to life again."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 12, "verse": "2", "text": "there a supper was provided for him; Martha was in waiting: but Lazarus was one of the guests that sat at table with him."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 12, "verse": "3", "text": "but Mary taking a pound of the oil of spikenard which was very costly, anointed the feet of Jesus, and wiped them with her hair: so that the house was filled with the odour of the perfume."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 12, "verse": "4", "text": "whereupon one of his disciples, Judas Iscariot, Simon's son, who was to betray him,"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 12, "verse": "5", "text": "said, why was not this ointment sold for three hundred pence, to be given to the poor?"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 12, "verse": "6", "text": "this he said, not out of any concern for the poor; but because being purse-bearer he used to pilfer what was in bank."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 12, "verse": "7", "text": "then said Jesus, let her alone: against the day of my burial hath she kept this."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 12, "verse": "8", "text": "the poor you will always have with you; but me you will not always have. The Plot to Kill Lazarus"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 12, "verse": "9", "text": "a great multitude of Jews knowing that Jesus was there, went thither, not for his sake only, but likewise to see Lazarus, whom he had raised from the dead."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 12, "verse": "10", "text": "for the chief priests had resolved to put even Lazarus to death;"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 12, "verse": "11", "text": "because he was the occasion that many of the Jews left them, and believed on Jesus. The Triumphal Entry ( Matthew 21:1–11 ; Mark 11:1–11 ; Luke 19:28–40 )"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 12, "verse": "12", "text": "The next day, a crowd of people that were come to the feast, hearing that Jesus was on the road to Jerusalem, took branches of palm-trees,"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 12, "verse": "13", "text": "and went to meet him, crying, \"Hosanna, blessed is the king of Israel that comes in the name of the Lord.\""}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 12, "verse": "14", "text": "now Jesus was riding upon a young ass, which he got by the way; as it is written,"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 12, "verse": "15", "text": "\"fear not, daughter of Sion: behold, thy king comes sitting on an ass's colt.\""}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 12, "verse": "16", "text": "this passage his disciples did not understand at the first: but when Jesus was glorified, they remembred how they had mounted him, and perceiv'd that those words related to him."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 12, "verse": "17", "text": "the people that were present testified, that he called Lazarus out of his grave, and raised him from the dead."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 12, "verse": "18", "text": "and it was upon the rumour of this miracle, that the people crowded to him."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 12, "verse": "19", "text": "the Pharisees therefore said among themselves, don't you perceive we lose ground? you see what a world of followers attend him. Jesus Predicts His Death"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 12, "verse": "20", "text": "In the mean time, among the rest that came to worship at the feast,"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 12, "verse": "21", "text": "there were certain Greeks, who address'd themselves to Philip, who was of Bethsaida in Galilee, saying, sir, we would fain see Jesus."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 12, "verse": "22", "text": "Philip went to tell Andrew: and then both of them mention'd it to Jesus."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 12, "verse": "23", "text": "but Jesus answered them, saying, the time is come, when the son of man is to be glorified."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 12, "verse": "24", "text": "verily, verily I say unto you, when a corn of wheat is thrown into the ground, there it lies a single grain unless it dies: but if it die, it becomes very fruitful."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 12, "verse": "25", "text": "he that loveth his life, shall lose it: but he that sacrifices his life in this world, shall preserve it to eternity."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 12, "verse": "26", "text": "if any man would serve me, let him follow me; and where I am, there also shall my servant be: whoever serves me, him will my father reward."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 12, "verse": "27", "text": "\"Now is my soul troubled; what! shall I say, father, save me from this concern? but for this cause am I come, even for this very concern."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 12, "verse": "28", "text": "father, glorify thy name.\" then there came this voice from heaven, \"I have glorified it, and will glorify it again.\""}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 12, "verse": "29", "text": "the people therefore present who heard the noise, said it was thunder: others said, an angel spake to him."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 12, "verse": "30", "text": "Jesus said, this voice came not for my sake, but for yours."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 12, "verse": "31", "text": "now is this world condemn'd: now shall the prince of this world be cast out."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 12, "verse": "32", "text": "as for me, when I shall be lifted up from the earth, I will draw all men unto me."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 12, "verse": "33", "text": "(this he said to signify what death he should die.)"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 12, "verse": "34", "text": "Upon which the people said to him, we have learnt from the law, that the Messiah is to live for ever: why do you say then, the son of man must be lift up? who is this son of man?"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 12, "verse": "35", "text": "Jesus answer'd them, yet a little while is the light with you: walk while ye have the light, lest darkness surprize you: for he that walketh in darkness, does not know whither he goes."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 12, "verse": "36", "text": "while ye have the light, believe in the light, that ye may be the children of light, after having said these things, Jesus retir'd, and conceal'd himself from them. Belief and Unbelief"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 12, "verse": "37", "text": "But though he had done so many miracles in their presence, yet they did not believe on him:"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 12, "verse": "38", "text": "so that the passage of Esaias the prophet was fulfilled, where he says, \"Lord, who hath believed our report? and to whom hath the arm of the Lord been revealed?"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 12, "verse": "39", "text": "therefore they could not believe, according to what Esaias said in another place, \"he hath blinded their eyes,"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 12, "verse": "40", "text": "and hardned their heart; that they should not see with their eyes, nor understand with their heart, and be converted, and I should heal them.\""}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 12, "verse": "41", "text": "these things said Esaias, when he saw his glory, and spake of him."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 12, "verse": "42", "text": "nevertheless there were many even among the chief rulers, who believed on him; but they did not own it publickly for fear the Pharisees should excommunicate them."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 12, "verse": "43", "text": "for they preferr'd their own reputation to the glory of God."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 12, "verse": "44", "text": "Then Jesus rais'd his voice, and said, he that believeth on me, does not so much believe on me, as on him that sent me."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 12, "verse": "45", "text": "and he that contemplates me, contemplates him that sent me."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 12, "verse": "46", "text": "I am come a light into the world, that whosoever believeth on me, might not abide in darkness."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 12, "verse": "47", "text": "but if any man hear my words, and does not believe them, it is not I that condemn him: for I came not to condemn the world, but to save the world."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 12, "verse": "48", "text": "he that rejecteth me, and does not embrace my doctrine, hath one that condemns him: the doctrine that I have delivered, that shall condemn him in the last day."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 12, "verse": "49", "text": "for I have not spoken for my self; but the father who sent me, he commission'd me, what I should teach, and what I should speak."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 12, "verse": "50", "text": "and I know that it is a commission of eternal life: whatever therefore I say, I deliver just as the father directed me."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 13, "verse": "1", "text": "Now before the feast of the passover, Jesus perceiving that his hour was come, when he was to pass out of this world, and go to the father, having loved his own which were in the world, he loved them unto the end."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 13, "verse": "2", "text": "while they were at supper, (the devil having now put it into the heart of Judas Iscariot, Simon's son, to betray him) Jesus,"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 13, "verse": "3", "text": "though he knew that the father had given all things into his hands, and that he was come from God, and was going to God,"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 13, "verse": "4", "text": "rose from supper, laid aside his garment, and took a towel to wrap about him."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 13, "verse": "5", "text": "after that, he poured water into a bason, and began to wash the disciples feet, and to wipe them with the towel wherewith he was girded."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 13, "verse": "6", "text": "then coming to Simon Peter, Peter said to him, Lord, what! would you wash my feet?"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 13, "verse": "7", "text": "Jesus answered him, you don't at present comprehend what I am about: but hereafter you shall."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 13, "verse": "8", "text": "Peter said to him, you shall never wash my feet. Jesus answered, if I do not cleanse thee, you cannot partake with me."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 13, "verse": "9", "text": "Simon Peter said to him, Lord, not my feet only, but also my hands and my head."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 13, "verse": "10", "text": "Jesus said to him, he that comes out from bathing has occasion only to wash his feet, the rest of his body being clean: so you are clean, but not every one of you."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 13, "verse": "11", "text": "for he knew who would betray him; therefore, said he, you are not every one of you clean."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 13, "verse": "12", "text": "after he had washed their feet, he took his garment, and setting down again, he said to them, do you comprehend what I have been doing?"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 13, "verse": "13", "text": "you call me master, and lord: and you are in the right; for so I am."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 13, "verse": "14", "text": "if I then, tho' lord and master, have washed your feet, you also ought to wash one another's feet."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 13, "verse": "15", "text": "for I have given you example, that you might behave to one another, as I have to you."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 13, "verse": "16", "text": "I declare unto you, the servant is not greater than his lord, neither he that is sent, greater than he that sent him."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 13, "verse": "17", "text": "if ye comprehend these things, happy are ye if ye put them in practice. Jesus Predicts His Betrayal"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 13, "verse": "18", "text": "I say not this of you all; for I know whom I have chosen: and that passage of the scripture must be fulfilled, \"He that eateth bread with me, hath lift up his heel against me.\""}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 13, "verse": "19", "text": "I tell it you now before it happens, that when it is come to pass, you may believe that I am the Messias."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 13, "verse": "20", "text": "I declare unto you, he that receiveth him that I send, receiveth me: and he that receiveth me, receiveth him that sent me."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 13, "verse": "21", "text": "When Jesus utter'd these words, he was troubled in spirit, and said without disguise, I assure you, that one of you shall betray me."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 13, "verse": "22", "text": "then the disciples looked one on another, being in pain to know who he meant."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 13, "verse": "23", "text": "now the favourite disciple of Jesus sat next to him at table."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 13, "verse": "24", "text": "Simon Peter therefore beckoned to him, to ask who it was he meant."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 13, "verse": "25", "text": "then accordingly bending his head to Jesus's ear, he whisper'd, Lord, who is it?"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 13, "verse": "26", "text": "Jesus answered, he it is, to whom I shall give a sop, when I have made it, and when he had made the sop, he gave it to Judas Iscariot, the son of Simon."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 13, "verse": "27", "text": "and after he had taken the sop, Satan entred into him, then said Jesus to him, what you do, do quickly."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 13, "verse": "28", "text": "but the company at table did not know what he meant by saying so."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 13, "verse": "29", "text": "for as Judas had the purse, some of them thought, that Jesus had ordered him to buy what was necessary against the feast: or give something to the poor."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 13, "verse": "30", "text": "Judas then having received the sop, immediately went out: and it was night. Love One Another ( Romans 12:9–13 ; 1 John 3:11–24 )"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 13, "verse": "31", "text": "When he was gone, Jesus said, now is the son of man glorified, and God is glorified by him."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 13, "verse": "32", "text": "as God is glorified by him, so God will glorify him in himself, and will immediately glorify him."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 13, "verse": "33", "text": "my dear children, I am with you but for a little while, you shall seek me: but as I said to the Jews, so now I say to you, \"where I am going you cannot come.\""}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 13, "verse": "34", "text": "a new commandment I give unto you, \"that ye love one another; that you would have the same love for one another as I have had for you.\""}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 13, "verse": "35", "text": "by this mutual love shall all men know that you are my disciples. Jesus Predicts Peter’s Denial ( Matthew 26:31–35 ; Mark 14:27–31 ; Luke 22:31–38 )"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 13, "verse": "36", "text": "Simon Peter said to him, Lord, where are you going? Jesus answered him, you cannot at present follow me, where I am going; but hereafter you shall."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 13, "verse": "37", "text": "Peter said to him, Lord, why can't I follow you now? I will lay down my life for your sake."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 13, "verse": "38", "text": "Jesus answered him, you lay down your life for my sake! Verily, verily I say unto thee, the cock shall not crow, till thou hast denied me thrice."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 14, "verse": "1", "text": "Let not your heart be troubled: you trust in God, trust also in me."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 14, "verse": "2", "text": "in my father's house are many mansions; however, I have told you, I am going to prepare a place for you:"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 14, "verse": "3", "text": "and when I am gone, and have prepar'd a place for you, I will come again, to take you with me, that where I am there ye may be also."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 14, "verse": "4", "text": "and where I am going you know, and the way ye know. The Way, the Truth, and the Life"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 14, "verse": "5", "text": "Thomas said to him, Lord, we know not whither you are going, how then can we know the way?"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 14, "verse": "6", "text": "Jesus said to him, I am the way, and the truth, and the life: no man can come to the father, but by me."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 14, "verse": "7", "text": "if you had known me, you would likewise have known my father: and from henceforth you shall know him, nay, you have seen him."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 14, "verse": "8", "text": "Philip said to him, Lord shew us the father, and we are satisfied."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 14, "verse": "9", "text": "Jesus said to him, have I been with you so long, and don't you know me yet? Philip, he that hath seen me, hath seen the father; why then do you say, shew us the father?"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 14, "verse": "10", "text": "don't you believe that I am in the father, and the father in me? the words that I speak unto you, I speak indeed, tho' not from my self; but as to the works, the father, who dwells in me, he is the agent."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 14, "verse": "11", "text": "believe me, I am in the father, and the father in me: at least believe me upon account of the very works."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 14, "verse": "12", "text": "I assure you, he that believeth on me, shall likewise perform the works that I do; nay, greater works than these shall he do; because for that end am I going to my father."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 14, "verse": "13", "text": "and if in my name ye shall ask any thing of the father, whereby he may be glorified by the son, I will effect it."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 14, "verse": "14", "text": "when ye shall ask any thing in my name, I will do it. Jesus Promises the Holy Spirit ( John 16:5–16 )"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 14, "verse": "15", "text": "if ye love me, keep my commandments."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 14, "verse": "16", "text": "and I will pray the father, and he shall give you another advocate, to abide with you for ever;"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 14, "verse": "17", "text": "even the spirit of truth, whom the world cannot receive, because it neither sees nor knows him: but ye shall know him, for he shall dwell with you, and shall be in you."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 14, "verse": "18", "text": "I will not leave you orphans; I will come again to you."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 14, "verse": "19", "text": "yet a little while, and the world shall see me no more: but ye shall see me: because I shall live again, and ye shall live also."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 14, "verse": "20", "text": "then shall you know, that I am in my father, and you in me, and I in you."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 14, "verse": "21", "text": "he that hath received my commandments, and keeps them, he it is that loves me: and he that loves me, shall be beloved by my father, and I will love him, and shew my self unto him."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 14, "verse": "22", "text": "Judas (not Iscariot) said to him, why Lord, will you show your self to us, and not to the world?"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 14, "verse": "23", "text": "Jesus answered him, he that loves me, will observe my precepts: and my father will love him, and we will come unto him, and make our abode with him."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 14, "verse": "24", "text": "he does not love me, who does not observe my precepts: for the doctrine which you have heard, is not mine, but the father's who sent me."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 14, "verse": "25", "text": "this is what I have to tell you, for the little time that I am with you."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 14, "verse": "26", "text": "but the advocate, the holy spirit, whom the father will send for my sake, he will explain every thing to you, and make you remember, all that I have told you. Peace I Leave with You"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 14, "verse": "27", "text": "I bid you farewell! I give you my last farewell; but I do not give it out of common formality: don't be concern'd for me, or apprehensive for your selves."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 14, "verse": "28", "text": "ye have heard me say, \"I am going away, and shall come again unto you.\" if ye loved me, ye would rejoice at my going to the father: for the father is greater than I."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 14, "verse": "29", "text": "this I have told you now, before it come to pass, that when it is come to pass, ye may believe, my conversation will now be but short with you,"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 14, "verse": "30", "text": "for the prince of the world is coming:"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 14, "verse": "31", "text": "not that he has any thing against me, but that the world may know that I love the father, by my executing the commands which my father gave me: arise, let us go hence."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 15, "verse": "1", "text": "I am the genuine vine, and my father is the vintager."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 15, "verse": "2", "text": "every branch in me that beareth not fruit, he takes away: as for the branch that bears fruit, he prunes it clean, to make it more fruitful."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 15, "verse": "3", "text": "you are already clean by the instructions I have given you."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 15, "verse": "4", "text": "be attach'd to me, and I shall be so to you, as the branch cannot bear fruit of it self, except it be attach'd to the vine: so neither can you, except you continue attach'd to me."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 15, "verse": "5", "text": "I am the vine, you are the branches: he that abideth in me, and I in him, the same bringeth forth much fruit: for independent of me ye can do nothing."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 15, "verse": "6", "text": "if a man abide not in me, he is cast away as withered branches that are gather'd up to be thrown into the fire, where they are burned."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 15, "verse": "7", "text": "if ye abide in me, and my words abide in you, ask what ye will, and you shall obtain it."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 15, "verse": "8", "text": "my father will be honour'd by your bearing much fruit, and you will have the honour of being my disciples. No Greater Love"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 15, "verse": "9", "text": "as the father has loved me, and I have loved you: so do you persevere in your love to me."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 15, "verse": "10", "text": "your love to me will be in keeping my commandments: even as I love my father by keeping his commandments."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 15, "verse": "11", "text": "These things have I spoken to you, that you might have some present comfort, and that hereafter your joy might be compleat."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 15, "verse": "12", "text": "this is my commandment, that ye love one another, as I have loved you."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 15, "verse": "13", "text": "there cannot be greater love than that of a man, who lays down his life for his friends."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 15, "verse": "14", "text": "you will be my friends, if you do what I have commanded you."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 15, "verse": "15", "text": "henceforth I do not treat you as servants; for the servant is unacquainted with his master's affairs: but I have treated you as friends; for what I have learnt of my father, I have communicated to you."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 15, "verse": "16", "text": "it was not you that chose me, but I that chose you, and establish'd you, that your travels may be fruitful, and your fruit be lasting: so that whatever ye shall ask of the father for my sake, he will give it you."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 15, "verse": "17", "text": "Above all I enjoin you, to love one another. The Hatred of the World"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 15, "verse": "18", "text": "if the world hate you, consider that it hated me before it hated you."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 15, "verse": "19", "text": "if you were of the world, the world would love its own: but because you are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world, therefore the world does hate you."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 15, "verse": "20", "text": "remember what I told you, \"the servant is not greater than his master.\" if they have persecuted me, they will also persecute you: if they have been spies upon my discourse, they will be so upon yours."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 15, "verse": "21", "text": "but all these things will they do unto you, out of hatred to my name, because they know not him that sent me."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 15, "verse": "22", "text": "if I had not appear'd, and inform'd them, they would have been innocent: but now they have no excuse for their sin."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 15, "verse": "23", "text": "he that hateth me, hateth my father also."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 15, "verse": "24", "text": "if I had not done among them such works as no other ever did, they had been innocent: but though they have seen them, yet they hate both me and my father."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 15, "verse": "25", "text": "so that the passage is fulfilled that is written in their law, \"they hated me without a cause.\""}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 15, "verse": "26", "text": "but when the advocate is come, whom I will send to you from the father, even the spirit of truth, which proceedeth from the father, he shall testify of me."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 15, "verse": "27", "text": "and ye also shall bear witness, because ye have been with me from the beginning."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 16, "verse": "1", "text": "I have told you these things that ye may not be discouraged."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 16, "verse": "2", "text": "they shall expel you out of the synagogues: yea, the time is coming, when it will be thought an agreeable sacrifice to God for any one to take away your lives."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 16, "verse": "3", "text": "and thus will they treat you, because they have not known the father, nor me."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 16, "verse": "4", "text": "but these things have I told you, that when the time shall come, ye may remember what I now tell you. I did not tell you so much at the beginning, because, I was then to be with you. The Promise of the Holy Spirit ( John 14:15–26 )"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 16, "verse": "5", "text": "but now I am going to him that sent me; yet none of you ask me now, whither are you going?"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 16, "verse": "6", "text": "are your minds so overwhelm'd with sorrow at what I told you?"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 16, "verse": "7", "text": "nevertheless, I tell you the truth; it is expedient for you that I go away: for if I do not go away, the advocate will not come unto you; but if I depart, I will send him to you."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 16, "verse": "8", "text": "and when he is come, he will convince the world of sin, of justice, of judgment:"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 16, "verse": "9", "text": "of sin, because they believ'd not on me;"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 16, "verse": "10", "text": "of justice, because I shall be with my father, and ye shall see me no more expos'd:"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 16, "verse": "11", "text": "of judgment, because the prince of this world is condemn'd."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 16, "verse": "12", "text": "I have yet many things to tell you, but ye cannot bear them now;"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 16, "verse": "13", "text": "but when he, the spirit of truth shall come, he will inform you of all those truths: for he will not speak from himself; but the information he shall receive will he communicate: and acquaint you with what is to come."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 16, "verse": "14", "text": "he shall glorify me: for he will commuincate to you, the information, which I shall give him."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 16, "verse": "15", "text": "all that the father has is mine: that is the reason of my saying, \"he shall communicate to you the information that I shall give him.\""}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 16, "verse": "16", "text": "Within a little while ye shall not see me: but within a little while ye shall see me again, because I am going to the father. Grief Will Turn to Joy"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 16, "verse": "17", "text": "then said some of his disciples among themselves, what is the meaning of his saying, \"within a little while ye shall not see me: but within a little while ye shall see me again, because I am going to the father?\""}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 16, "verse": "18", "text": "for, said they, we cannot comprehend the meaning of that expression, \"within a little while?\""}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 16, "verse": "19", "text": "now Jesus perceiving that they had a mind to ask him, said to them, are you sollicitous about what I said, \"within a little while ye shall not see me: but within a little while ye shall see me again?\""}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 16, "verse": "20", "text": "verily, verily I say unto you, that ye shall weep and lament, but the world shall rejoice: ye shall be sorrowful, but your sorrow shall be turned into joy."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 16, "verse": "21", "text": "a woman when she is in travail, is afflicted at the approach of her pains: but as soon as she is delivered of the child, the remembrance of her anguish, is lost in her joy, that a man is born into the world."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 16, "verse": "22", "text": "so you are afflicted at present: but I will see you again, and then shall your hearts be affected with joy, and your joy shall no one wrest from you. Ask in My Name ( Matthew 18:19–20 )"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 16, "verse": "23", "text": "tho' then you cannot ask any thing of me in person, whatever ye shall ask the father in my name, I assure you he will grant it."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 16, "verse": "24", "text": "hitherto have ye asked nothing in my name: ask, and ye shall receive, that your joy may be compleat."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 16, "verse": "25", "text": "These things have I express'd in a figurative way: the time is coming when my language will be no longer enigmatical, but I shall give you a plain account relating to my father."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 16, "verse": "26", "text": "though then ye shall ask in my name: I need not promise, that I will pray the father for you;"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 16, "verse": "27", "text": "for the father himself loveth you, because ye have loved me, and have believed that I had my mission from God."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 16, "verse": "28", "text": "I was sent by the father, and am come into the world: but now I leave the world, and am going to my father."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 16, "verse": "29", "text": "His disciples said to him, what you say now is plain, and not enigmatical."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 16, "verse": "30", "text": "now we are convinc'd that you know all our difficulties, and have no occasion that any man should propose them to you: by this we believe that you were sent from God."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 16, "verse": "31", "text": "Jesus answered them, you now believe."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 16, "verse": "32", "text": "but, alas, the time is coming, yea, is already come, when ye shall be dispers'd every one to his own retreat, and shall leave me alone: and yet I am not alone, because the father is with me."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 16, "verse": "33", "text": "these things I have appriz'd you of, that ye might repose your confidence in me, the world shall give you trouble: but take courage, I have overcome the world."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 17, "verse": "1", "text": "Jesus having said this, lift up his eyes to heaven, and said, \"father, the hour is come; glorify thy son, that thy son also may glorify thee."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 17, "verse": "2", "text": "for thou hast given him power over all men, that he might give eternal life to as many as thou hast given him."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 17, "verse": "3", "text": "and this is life eternal, to acknowledge thee to be the only true God, and Jesus to be the Messiah whom thou hast sent."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 17, "verse": "4", "text": "I have glorified thee on the earth: I have finished the work which thou gavest me to do."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 17, "verse": "5", "text": "and now, O father, glorify me in heaven, with the glory which I had before the creation of the world. Prayer for the Disciples"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 17, "verse": "6", "text": "I have displayed thy name among those whom you have chosen out of the world for me: thine they were, and you gave them me; and they have kept thy word."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 17, "verse": "7", "text": "now they believe that the instructions you gave me came from thee."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 17, "verse": "8", "text": "for I have given to them the instructions which you gave me; and they have received them; and have sincerely believ'd that I came from thee, and are persuaded that thou didst send me."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 17, "verse": "9", "text": "\"It is for them I pray: I pray not for the world, but for them which thou hast given me, because they are thine."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 17, "verse": "10", "text": "for every thing that is mine is thine, and what is thine is mine, and I am glorified by them."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 17, "verse": "11", "text": "and now I shall be no more in the world, but they will be in the world, when I am come to thee, holy father keep them by that authority, with which thou hast invested me, that they may be one, as we are."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 17, "verse": "12", "text": "by your authority I have kept them, during my being with them in the world: those that you gave me I have kept, and not one of them is lost, except the son of perdition: according as the scripture foretold."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 17, "verse": "13", "text": "now that I am coming to thee, while I am here, I make these requests for them, that their joy in me may be compleat."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 17, "verse": "14", "text": "I have given them thy word; and the world hath hated them, because they are not of the world, even as I am not of the world."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 17, "verse": "15", "text": "I do not pray you to take them out of the world, but to keep them from the malignity of it."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 17, "verse": "16", "text": "they are not of the world, even as I am not of the world."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 17, "verse": "17", "text": "sanctify them by the truth: thy word is truth."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 17, "verse": "18", "text": "as thou hast sent me into the world, even so have I also sent them into the world."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 17, "verse": "19", "text": "and for their sakes I consecrate myself, that they also might be consecrated by the truth. Prayer for All Believers"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 17, "verse": "20", "text": "neither pray I for these alone, but for those also who shall believe on me through their preaching."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 17, "verse": "21", "text": "that they all may be one, as thou, father, art in me, and I in thee; that they also may be one in us: that the world may believe that thou hast sent me."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 17, "verse": "22", "text": "and the glory which thou gavest me, I have given them: that they may be one, even as we are one."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 17, "verse": "23", "text": "I in them, and thou in me, that they may have a perfect union, and that the world may know that thou hast sent me, and hast loved them, as thou hast loved me."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 17, "verse": "24", "text": "father, I desire that they also whom thou hast given me, may be with me where I am going; that they may behold my glory which thou hast given me: for thou didst love me before the foundation of the world; yet,"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 17, "verse": "25", "text": "O righteous father, the world hath not known thee; but I have known thee, and these have known that thou hast sent me."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 17, "verse": "26", "text": "to them I have declared thy name, and will declare it: that thou mayst love them as thou hast loved me, and I have loved them.\""}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 18, "verse": "1", "text": "When Jesus had spoken these words, he pass'd with his disciples over the brook Cedron, where was a garden, into which he entred with them."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 18, "verse": "2", "text": "now Judas, who was to betray him, knew the place: for Jesus and his disciples had frequently assembled there."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 18, "verse": "3", "text": "Judas then having got a company of soldiers, and officers, by order of the chief priests and Pharisees, came thither with lanterns, torches, and with arms."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 18, "verse": "4", "text": "but Jesus who knew every thing that should happen to him, advanc'd, and said to them, who do you look for?"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 18, "verse": "5", "text": "they answered him, Jesus of Nazareth. I am he, said Jesus, and Judas who was to betray him, was also with them."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 18, "verse": "6", "text": "upon Jesus his saying to them, I am he, they fell backward to the ground."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 18, "verse": "7", "text": "then he asked them again, who do you look for? and they said, Jesus of Nazareth."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 18, "verse": "8", "text": "Jesus answered, I have told you that I am he. \"if therefore it is me you look for, let these go their way.\""}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 18, "verse": "9", "text": "so that what he said was accomplished, \"of those which thou gavest me, have I lost none.\""}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 18, "verse": "10", "text": "but Simon Peter drew his sword, and struck off the right ear of Malchus, a servant belonging to the high priest."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 18, "verse": "11", "text": "then said Jesus to Peter, sheath thy sword: the cup which my father hath given me, shall I not drink it?"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 18, "verse": "12", "text": "Then the soldiers, the captain, and the officers of the Jews seized on Jesus, and having bound him,"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 18, "verse": "13", "text": "they brought him first to Annas; for he was father-in-law to Caiaphas, who was the high priest at that time:"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 18, "verse": "14", "text": "the same Caiaphas, who in council told the Jews, \"it was expedient that one man should die for the people.\" Peter’s First Denial ( Matthew 26:69–70 ; Mark 14:66–68 ; Luke 22:54–57 )"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 18, "verse": "15", "text": "Simon Peter followed Jesus, with another disciple, who being known to the high priest, was admitted into his palace at the same time with Jesus,"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 18, "verse": "16", "text": "whilst Peter stood without at the door, but that other disciple, who was known to the high priest went out, and spoke to her that kept the door, who let Peter in."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 18, "verse": "17", "text": "then said the damsel, that kept the door, to Peter, are you also one of this man's disciples? I am not, said he."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 18, "verse": "18", "text": "now the servants and officers that were there, had made a coal-fire, for it was cold, to warm themselves: and Peter stood warming himself among them. Jesus before the High Priest ( Matthew 26:57–68 ; Mark 14:53–65 ; Luke 22:66–71 )"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 18, "verse": "19", "text": "In the mean time, the high priest having question'd Jesus about his disciples, and his doctrine."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 18, "verse": "20", "text": "Jesus answered him, I spoke openly to the world; I was continually teaching in the synagogue, and in the temple, whither all the Jews resort, and in secret have I said nothing."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 18, "verse": "21", "text": "why do you question me? ask those who heard me, what discourse I had with them: they know very well what I said."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 18, "verse": "22", "text": "Upon his expressing himself thus, one of the officers there present, struck Jesus on the face, saying, answerest thou the high priest so?"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 18, "verse": "23", "text": "Jesus replied, if I have said any thing injurious, show then wherein; but if I said right, why do you smite me?"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 18, "verse": "24", "text": "now Annas had sent him bound to Caiaphas the high priest. Peter’s Second and Third Denials ( Matthew 26:71–75 ; Mark 14:69–72 ; Luke 22:58–62 )"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 18, "verse": "25", "text": "as Simon Peter then stood there warming himself: they said to him, art not thou also one of his disciples? which he denied, and said, I am not."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 18, "verse": "26", "text": "one of the servants of the high priest, kinsman to him whose ear Peter struck off, said, did not I see thee in the garden with him?"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 18, "verse": "27", "text": "but Peter denied this too, and immediately the cock crew. Jesus before Pilate ( Matthew 27:11–14 ; Luke 23:1–5 )"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 18, "verse": "28", "text": "Then they led Jesus early in the morning from Caiaphas, to the Pretorium: but the Jews themselves did not enter into the Pretorium, lest they should be defiled: and so not be in a condition to eat the passover."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 18, "verse": "29", "text": "Pilate therefore went out to them, and said, what crime do you object to this man?"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 18, "verse": "30", "text": "they answered him, if he were not a malefactor, we would not have delivered him to you."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 18, "verse": "31", "text": "Pilate then said to them, take him your selves, and judge him according to your law, but the Jews said to him, it is not lawful for us to put any man to death."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 18, "verse": "32", "text": "so that what Jesus had said, to signify the death he should die, was actually accomplished."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 18, "verse": "33", "text": "Then Pilate entred into the Pretorium, and addressing himself to Jesus, said to him, are not you the king of the Jews?"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 18, "verse": "34", "text": "Jesus answered him, is it your opinion that I am, or did others give it you as theirs?"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 18, "verse": "35", "text": "Pilate answered, am I a Jew? your own nation, and the chief priests have delivered thee up to me: what hast thou done?"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 18, "verse": "36", "text": "Jesus answered, my kingdom is not of this world: if my kingdom were of this world, I should have had my guards to prevent my falling into the hands of the Jews: whereas my kingdom is of another nature."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 18, "verse": "37", "text": "upon this Pilate said to him, you are then a king? Jesus answered, you say right, for I am a king, to this end was I born, and for this cause came I into the world, to persuade mankind of the truth, every one that loves truth is observant of my directions."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 18, "verse": "38", "text": "what is truth? said Pilate, and upon saying this, he went out again to the Jews, and said to them, I don't find he is guilty of any crime."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 18, "verse": "39", "text": "but as it is customary with you to get me to discharge some prisoner at the time of the passover, would you have me release the king of the Jews?"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 18, "verse": "40", "text": "upon which they all cried out again: not him, but Barabbas, now Barabbas was a robber."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 19, "verse": "1", "text": "Then Pilate order'd Jesus to be scourged."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 19, "verse": "2", "text": "and the soldiers having made a crown of thorns, they put it on his head, and threw a purple robe about him."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 19, "verse": "3", "text": "hail king of the Jews! said they, and struck him on the cheeks."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 19, "verse": "4", "text": "Pilate therefore went out again, and said to them, observe, I bring him out to you, to acquaint you that I find no fault in him."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 19, "verse": "5", "text": "so Jesus marched out wearing the crown of thorns, and the purple robe, and Pilate said to them, here's the man."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 19, "verse": "6", "text": "as soon as the chief priests and officers saw him, they cried out, \"crucify him, crucify him.\" Pilate said to them, take him yourselves, and crucify him: for I find no fault in him."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 19, "verse": "7", "text": "the Jews answered him, we have a law, and by our law he ought to die, because he pretended to be the son of God."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 19, "verse": "8", "text": "Pilate upon hearing that, was still more apprehensive."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 19, "verse": "9", "text": "and went again into the Pretorium, and said to Jesus, who was your father? but Jesus gave him no answer."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 19, "verse": "10", "text": "then said Pilate to him, won't you give me an answer? don't you know that it is in my power to crucify you, or to release you?"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 19, "verse": "11", "text": "Jesus answered, you could not have any power over me, except you deriv'd it from above: therefore they who delivered me into your hands are the most culpable."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 19, "verse": "12", "text": "upon this, Pilate propos'd to release him: but the Jews cried out, if you let this man go, you are not Cesar's friend: he that sets up for king, opposes Cesar."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 19, "verse": "13", "text": "Pilate therefore hearing them talk at this rate, order'd Jesus to be brought forth, and then sat down in a place of Mosaic work on his tribunal, in Syriac call'd Gabbatha."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 19, "verse": "14", "text": "it was then about the sixth hour of the day before the sabbath of the passover: and he said to the Jews, behold your king."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 19, "verse": "15", "text": "but they cried out, away with him, away with him, crucify him. Pilate said to them, shall I crucify your king? the chief priests answered, we have no king but Cesar. The Crucifixion ( Matthew 27:32–44 ; Mark 15:21–32 ; Luke 23:26–43 )"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 19, "verse": "16", "text": "upon which he delivered him up to them to be crucified. So the soldiers took Jesus and led him away."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 19, "verse": "17", "text": "and he bearing his cross, marched out to a place called the skull, which is in the Syriac, Golgotha: where they crucified him,"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 19, "verse": "18", "text": "and two others with him, one on each side, and Jesus in the middle."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 19, "verse": "19", "text": "and Pilate caused an inscription to be put over the cross, in these words, JESUS OF NAZARETH THE KING OF THE JEWS."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 19, "verse": "20", "text": "now this inscription was read by many of the Jews: for Jesus was crucified nigh the city: and it was written in Syriac, Greek, and Latin."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 19, "verse": "21", "text": "thereupon the chief priests of the Jews went to Pilate, saying, don't write, \"The king of the Jews;\" but that he said, I am king of the Jews."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 19, "verse": "22", "text": "Pilate answered, what I have writ, I have writ."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 19, "verse": "23", "text": "The soldiers, after they had crucified Jesus, took his garments (and made four parts, to every soldier a part) and also his coat: now the coat was without seam, woven from the top throughout."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 19, "verse": "24", "text": "they said therefore among themselves, let us not rent it, but cast lots for it, whose it shall be: so that the scripture was fulfilled, which said, \"they parted my raiment among them, and for my vesture they did cast lots.\" this was what the soldiers actually did."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 19, "verse": "25", "text": "In the mean time the mother of Jesus, and her sister Mary, the wife of Cleophas, and Mary Magdalene, were standing by the cross."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 19, "verse": "26", "text": "when Jesus therefore saw his mother, and the disciple whom he loved standing by, he said to his mother, woman, behold thy son."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 19, "verse": "27", "text": "then he said to the disciple, behold thy mother, and from that time the disciple took her to his own home. The Death of Jesus ( Matthew 27:45–56 ; Mark 15:33–41 ; Luke 23:44–49 )"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 19, "verse": "28", "text": "after this, Jesus knowing that all things were now accomplished, that the scripture might be be fulfilled, said, I thirst."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 19, "verse": "29", "text": "now there was set a vessel full of vinegar: and they filled a spunge with vinegar, and put it upon a stick of hyssop, and held it to his mouth."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 19, "verse": "30", "text": "when Jesus therefore had received the vinegar, he said, it is finished: and bowing his head, he expir'd. Jesus’ Side Is Pierced"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 19, "verse": "31", "text": "Now for fear the bodies should remain upon the cross on the sabbath-day, for it was then the eve of the pascal-sabbath, a day of high solemnity, the Jews desired Pilate that their legs might be broke, and that they might be taken away."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 19, "verse": "32", "text": "accordingly the soldiers came, and broke the legs of the first, and of the other who was crucified with him."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 19, "verse": "33", "text": "then they came to Jesus, and finding that he was already dead, they did not break his legs."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 19, "verse": "34", "text": "but one of the soldiers with a spear pierced his side, and immediately blood and water issued out."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 19, "verse": "35", "text": "he that relates this, was an eye-witness of it, and his relation is true: and he is so assured, what he says is true, that you may rely upon it."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 19, "verse": "36", "text": "for these things were done, that the scripture should be fulfilled, \"a bone of him shall not be broken.\""}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 19, "verse": "37", "text": "and again the scripture saith elsewhere, \"they shall look on him whom they pierced.\" The Burial of Jesus ( Matthew 27:57–61 ; Mark 15:42–47 ; Luke 23:50–56 )"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 19, "verse": "38", "text": "after this, Joseph of Arimathea, who was a disciple of Jesus, but for fear of the Jews a conceal'd one, pray'd Pilate to let him take away the body of Jesus: and Pilate gave him leave: so he went and took the body of Jesus."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 19, "verse": "39", "text": "Nicodemus, who formerly went to Jesus by night, came likewise and brought a mixture of myrrh and aloes, about an hundred pound weight."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 19, "verse": "40", "text": "they took therefore the body of Jesus, and wound it in linen clothes with the spices, according to the manner of burial among the Jews."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 19, "verse": "41", "text": "now near the place where he was crucified, there was a garden; and in the garden a new sepulchre, in which no body had ever yet been laid."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 19, "verse": "42", "text": "as this sepulchre was nigh at hand, they laid Jesus therein, because the time of the preparation of the Jews was expiring."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 20, "verse": "1", "text": "The first day of the week early in morning Mary Magdalene, when it was yet dusky, came to the sepulchre, and found the stone was taken away from the sepulchre."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 20, "verse": "2", "text": "upon this she went in great haste to Simon Peter, and to the other disciple whom Jesus loved, and said to them, they have taken away the Lord out of the sepulchre, and we know not where they have laid him."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 20, "verse": "3", "text": "Peter immediately departed, and that other disciple, to go to the sepulchre."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 20, "verse": "4", "text": "they both set out together: but the other disciple out-ran Peter, and came first to the cave,"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 20, "verse": "5", "text": "where stooping down he saw the linen clothes lying; but did not go in."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 20, "verse": "6", "text": "Simon Peter who followed him, being come, went into the cave, and saw the linen clothes lying there;"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 20, "verse": "7", "text": "as for the napkin that had been put about his head, it was not in the same place as the linen clothes, but lay folded up by it self."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 20, "verse": "8", "text": "then the other disciple, who arriv'd first, went into the cave likewise, and he saw, and believed what Mary had said."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 20, "verse": "9", "text": "for as yet they did not understand from the scripture, that he was to rise again from the dead. Jesus Appears to Mary Magdalene ( Mark 16:9–11 )"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 20, "verse": "10", "text": "After this the disciples return'd to their own home."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 20, "verse": "11", "text": "but Mary stood at the entrance of the cave weeping: and as she wept, she stooped down to look into the sepulchre,"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 20, "verse": "12", "text": "and saw two angels in white, sitting where the body of Jesus had lain, the one at the head, the other at the feet."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 20, "verse": "13", "text": "and they said to her, woman, why do you weep? \"because, said she, they have taken away my Lord, and I know not where they have laid him.\""}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 20, "verse": "14", "text": "having thus said, she turned about, and saw Jesus standing, but knew not that it was Jesus."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 20, "verse": "15", "text": "Jesus said to her, woman, why do you weep? who do you look for? she supposing him to be the gardener, said to him, sir, if it be you that have convey'd him away; tell me where you have laid him, and I will take care to have him remov'd."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 20, "verse": "16", "text": "Jesus said to her, Mary! she bowing her self, cry'd rabboni!"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 20, "verse": "17", "text": "that is to say, master! Jesus said to her, touch me not: for I am not yet ascended to my father: but go to my brethren, and say to them, \"I ascend unto my father and your father, even my God and your God.\""}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 20, "verse": "18", "text": "so Mary Magdalene went and told the disciples, that she had seen the Lord, and that he had said these things to her. Jesus Appears to the Disciples ( Luke 24:36–49 ; 1 John 1:1–4 )"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 20, "verse": "19", "text": "The same day at evening, being the first day of the week, the doors of the house where the disciples were, being shut, for fear of the Jews, Jesus came and stood in the midst, and said to them, peace be with you."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 20, "verse": "20", "text": "and when he had so said, he show'd them his hands and his side, the disciples were therefore extremely glad when they saw it was the Lord."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 20, "verse": "21", "text": "then said Jesus to them again, \"peace be with you: as my father hath sent me, even so send I you.\""}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 20, "verse": "22", "text": "and when he had said this, he breathed on them, and said to them, \"receive ye the holy spirit."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 20, "verse": "23", "text": "whose soever sins ye remit, they are remitted unto them; and whose soever sins ye leave unpardoned, they are lest unpardoned.\" Jesus Appears to Thomas"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 20, "verse": "24", "text": "But Thomas, that is, Didymus, one of the twelve, was not with them when Jesus came."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 20, "verse": "25", "text": "the other disciples therefore said to him, we have seen the Lord, but he said to them, except I shall see in his hands the print of the nails, and put my finger into the place of the nails, and thrust my hand into his side, I will not believe."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 20, "verse": "26", "text": "Eight days after, when his disciples were again in private, and Thomas with them: Jesus came, the doors being shut, and stood in the midst, and said, peace be with you."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 20, "verse": "27", "text": "then said he to Thomas, reach hither thy finger, and examine my hands; and reach hither thy hand, and thrust it into my side: and be not faithless, but believing."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 20, "verse": "28", "text": "Thomas answered, and said to him, my Lord and my God!"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 20, "verse": "29", "text": "Jesus said to him, because thou hast seen me, thou hast believed: blessed are they who have not seen, and yet have believed. The Purpose of John’s Book"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 20, "verse": "30", "text": "Jesus perform'd many other miracles in the presence of his disciples, which are not written in this book."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 20, "verse": "31", "text": "but these are written, that ye might believe that Jesus is the Messias, the son of God, and that believing ye might have life through his name."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 21, "verse": "1", "text": "At length Jesus shewed himself again to the disciples upon the sea-coast of Tiberias; and the manner of his appearance was thus."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 21, "verse": "2", "text": "Simon Peter, Thomas, otherwise Didymus, Nathanael of Cana in Galilee, the sons of Zebedee, and two other disciples of Jesus were all together."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 21, "verse": "3", "text": "when Simon Peter said to them, I am going a fishing, they reply'd, we likewise will go with you, so they departed and went on board a vessel,; but that night they caught nothing."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 21, "verse": "4", "text": "as soon as it was morning, Jesus stood on the shore: but the disciples did not know that it was Jesus."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 21, "verse": "5", "text": "then said Jesus, my lads, have ye any fish?"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 21, "verse": "6", "text": "they answered him, no, and he said to them, cast the net on the right side of the vessel, and ye shall find, so they cast it, and it was so full of fish they were not able to draw it."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 21, "verse": "7", "text": "thereupon the favourite disciple of Jesus said to Peter, \"it is the Lord.\" as soon as Simon Peter heard that it was the Lord, he girt on his coat, (for he was stript) and threw himself into the sea."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 21, "verse": "8", "text": "as for the other disciples, they came in the bark dragging the net full of fish, for they were but about two hundred cubits distant from land."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 21, "verse": "9", "text": "assoon as they were come to land, they saw fish frying upon a fire of coals there, and bread."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 21, "verse": "10", "text": "Jesus said to them, bring some of the fish you have now caught."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 21, "verse": "11", "text": "Simon Peter therefore went aboard, and drew the net to land loaded with an hundred and fifty three great fish: and notwithstanding the number, the net did not break."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 21, "verse": "12", "text": "come, said Jesus, let us dine, but none of the disciples offer'd to ask him, who he was; for they saw well enough that it was the Lord."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 21, "verse": "13", "text": "Jesus then advanc'd, and taking bread, he gave them some, and fish likewise."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 21, "verse": "14", "text": "this was the third time that Jesus appear'd to his disciples, after he was risen from the dead. Jesus and Peter"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 21, "verse": "15", "text": "So when they had dined, Jesus said to Simon Peter, Simon son of Jonas, do you love me more than these do? yes, Lord, said he, you know that I love you. Jesus reply'd, feed my lambs."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 21, "verse": "16", "text": "then he ask'd him the second time, Simon son of Jonas do you love me? yes, Lord, said he; you know that I love you. Jesus reply'd, feed my sheep."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 21, "verse": "17", "text": "Jesus said to him the third time, Simon son of Jonas, do you love me? Peter was grieved at his asking him the third time, \"do you love me?\" and he said to him, Lord, you know all things; you know that I love you. Jesus said to him, feed my sheep."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 21, "verse": "18", "text": "I tell you for certain, tho' when you was a youth you girded your self, and rambled where you had a mind: yet when you are old, your hands shall be stretch'd out, and another shall gird thee, and lead thee where you will be unwilling to go."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 21, "verse": "19", "text": "this he said to signify to Peter by what death he should glorify God, and when he had spoken this, he said to him, follow me. Jesus and the Beloved Disciple"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 21, "verse": "20", "text": "Then Peter turning about, saw the favourite disciple of Jesus was behind; the same who leaned next to Jesus at supper, and said, Lord, which is he that is to betray you?"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 21, "verse": "21", "text": "upon seeing him, Peter said to Jesus, Lord, and what shall become of him?"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 21, "verse": "22", "text": "Jesus said, if I will have him stay till I come, what have you to do with that? do you follow me."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 21, "verse": "23", "text": "which occasion'd a flying rumour among the brethren, that John should not die: tho' Jesus had not said, he shall not die: but, if I will have him stay till I come, what have you to do with that?"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 21, "verse": "24", "text": "This is the disciple who testifieth of these things, and wrote these things: and we know that his testimony is true."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 21, "verse": "25", "text": "the other transactions of Jesus are so numerous, that if these were to be particularly descried, I imagine the world would be overwhelm'd with the books that should be written."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 1, "verse": "1", "text": "In my former treatise, I gave an account, O Theophilus, of all the actions and doctrine of Jesus, to the time of his assumption,"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 1, "verse": "2", "text": "after he had given the apostles he had chosen, the orders they were to execute by the holy spirit."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 1, "verse": "3", "text": "to whom also he shewed himself alive after his passion, of which they had many proofs, during the forty days he appear'd to them, and inform'd them about the reign of the Messias:"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 1, "verse": "4", "text": "being with them when they were assembled, he order'd they should not depart from Jerusalem, but wait for what the father had promis'd, which, said he, I mention'd."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 1, "verse": "5", "text": "\" for John indeed baptized with water; but ye shall be baptized with the holy ghost, not many days hence.\" The Ascension ( Mark 16:19–20 ; Luke 24:50–53 )"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 1, "verse": "6", "text": "Being therefore in his presence, they asked him, saying, Lord, is this the time when you will restore again the kingdom to Israel?"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 1, "verse": "7", "text": "and he said to them, it is not for you, to know the times or the seasons, which the father hath reserv'd in his own disposal."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 1, "verse": "8", "text": "but ye shall receive the influence of the holy spirit, which will descend upon you: and ye shall be witnesses for me, in Jerusalem, in all Judea, and in Samaria, and to the remotest part of the earth."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 1, "verse": "9", "text": "After this discourse, while they beheld, he was taken up, and a cloud received him out of their sight."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 1, "verse": "10", "text": "and as they were looking stedfastly toward heaven, as he mounted up, on a sudden, two men appear'd before them robed in white, who said,"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 1, "verse": "11", "text": "\"ye men of Galilee, why stand ye gazing up to heaven? this same Jesus who is taken up from you into heaven, shall descend in the same manner as ye have seen him ascend thither.\" Matthias Replaces Judas"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 1, "verse": "12", "text": "then they returned to Jerusalem, from the mountain of olives, which is a sabbath-day's journey from it."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 1, "verse": "13", "text": "When they were arrived there, they went up into an upper room, where Peter, John, James, Andrew, Philip, Thomas, Bartholomew, Matthew, James the son of Alpheus, Simon the Zelot, and Judas the brother of James used to resort,"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 1, "verse": "14", "text": "and unanimously persevere in prayer with the women, Mary the mother of Jesus, and his brethren being present."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 1, "verse": "15", "text": "At that time the disciples being assembled, to the number of about an hundred and twenty, Peter rose up in the midst of them,"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 1, "verse": "16", "text": "and said, men and brethren, the prediction which the holy ghost made, by the mouth of David, concerning Judas, who was guide to those that seiz'd Jesus, must have been accomplished."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 1, "verse": "17", "text": "he was of our number, and shared in the functions of this ministry."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 1, "verse": "18", "text": "but after he had purchased a field with the reward of his iniquity, he fell down, his belly burst, and all his bowels gushed out:"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 1, "verse": "19", "text": "a fact so generally known to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, that they called the field in their tongue, Aceldema, that is to say, the field of blood."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 1, "verse": "20", "text": "for it is written in the book of psalms, \"let his habitation be desolate, and let no man dwell therein:\" and \"let another take possession of his charge.\""}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 1, "verse": "21", "text": "wherefore of those who have accompanied us all the time that the Lord Jesus convers'd among us,"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 1, "verse": "22", "text": "from his baptism by John, to the day of his assumption, we should chuse one to be a witness with us of his resurrection."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 1, "verse": "23", "text": "accordingly they presented two, Joseph called Barsabas, who was sirnamed Justus, and Matthias, and they prayed,"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 1, "verse": "24", "text": "saying, \"thou Lord, who knowest the hearts of all men, show us which of these two thou hast chosen,"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 1, "verse": "25", "text": "that he may be admitted to this apostolick ministry which Judas abandoned, to go to his own place.\""}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 1, "verse": "26", "text": "and having drawn lots; the lot fell upon Matthias, who was added to the eleven apostles."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 2, "verse": "1", "text": "When the day of pentecost was come, they all met together with one accord."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 2, "verse": "2", "text": "when all of a sudden there came a sound from heaven, like that of an impetuous wind, which filled all the house where they were."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 2, "verse": "3", "text": "and there appeared several little flames, and sat upon each of them:"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 2, "verse": "4", "text": "and they were all filled with the holy ghost, and began to speak in different languages, as the spirit gave them utterance."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 2, "verse": "5", "text": "now many devout Jews were residing at Jerusalem, who came from all quarters of the world."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 2, "verse": "6", "text": "and upon the rumour of this event, the multitude came together, and were confounded, every man hearing the disciples speak in his own language."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 2, "verse": "7", "text": "struck with astonishment and admiration, they said to one another, are not these men who are speaking, all Galileans?"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 2, "verse": "8", "text": "how comes it then that we hear every man talking in our own native tongue?"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 2, "verse": "9", "text": "Parthians, Medes, Elamites, the inhabitants of Mesopotamia, Judea, Cappadocia, Pontus,"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 2, "verse": "10", "text": "Asia, Phrygia, Pamphylia, Egypt, the parts of Libya about Cyrene, foreigners from Rome, Jews, and proselytes,"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 2, "verse": "11", "text": "Cretes, and Arabians, we hear them all proclaiming in our tongues the wonderful works of God."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 2, "verse": "12", "text": "and they were all amazed, and perplex'd, saying one to another, what can the meaning of this be?"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 2, "verse": "13", "text": "others in derision said, these men are full of sweet wine. Peter Addresses the Crowd"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 2, "verse": "14", "text": "But Peter standing up with the eleven, and raising his voice, said to them, ye men of Judea, and all ye that dwell at Jerusalem, be this known to you, and observe what I say."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 2, "verse": "15", "text": "these are not drunk, as you suppose, since it is but the third hour of the day."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 2, "verse": "16", "text": "but this is the accomplishment of what was said by the prophet Joel,"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 2, "verse": "17", "text": "\"it shall come to pass in the last days (saith God) I will pour out of my spirit upon all flesh: and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, and your young men shall see visions, and your old men dream dreams:"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 2, "verse": "18", "text": "and on my servants, and on my handmaidens I will pour out of my spirit in those days, and they shall prophesy:"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 2, "verse": "19", "text": "and I will shew prodigies in the heavens, and signs on the earth; blood, and fire, and vapour of smoke."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 2, "verse": "20", "text": "the sun shall be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, before that great and illustrious day of the Lord shall come."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 2, "verse": "21", "text": "and then whoever shall call on the name of the Lord, shall be saved.\""}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 2, "verse": "22", "text": "ye men of Israel attend to what I say; Jesus of Nazareth was a man whom God distinguished among you, by miracles, by prodigies, and signs, which God did by him in the midst of you, as you your selves also know:"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 2, "verse": "23", "text": "him, being delivered by the determinate counsel and foreknowledge of God, ye have taken, and by means of the wicked, have crucified and slain: whom God hath raised up,"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 2, "verse": "24", "text": "having delivered him from the pains of death: because it was not possible that he should be overpower'd by it."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 2, "verse": "25", "text": "for David says concerning him, \"I had the Lord always present before me, he is on my right hand, that I should not be moved."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 2, "verse": "26", "text": "therefore did my heart rejoice, my tongue was glad: and my body shall rest in hope."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 2, "verse": "27", "text": "because thou wilt not leave my soul in the grave, nor wilt thou give thine holy one a prey to corruption."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 2, "verse": "28", "text": "thou hast made known to me the ways of life; thou shalt make me full of joy by thy presence.\""}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 2, "verse": "29", "text": "men and brethren, let me with assurance tell you of the patriarch David, who died and was buried here, his sepulchre being with us to this day:"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 2, "verse": "30", "text": "that, as he was a prophet, and knowing that God had sworn to him, to place the fruit of his loins upon his throne: foreseeing this,"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 2, "verse": "31", "text": "he spoke of the resurrection of Christ, when he said, \"that his soul was not lest in the grave, neither did his body undergo corruption.\"'"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 2, "verse": "32", "text": "'tis this Jesus whom God hath raised up, of which we all are witnesses."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 2, "verse": "33", "text": "therefore being by the right hand of God exalted, and having received of the father the promise of the holy spirit, he has diffused that spirit, the effects of which ye now see and hear."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 2, "verse": "34", "text": "for David is not ascended to heaven: yet he saith himself, \"the Lord said to my Lord, sit thou on my right hand,"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 2, "verse": "35", "text": "until I make thy foes thy footstool.\""}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 2, "verse": "36", "text": "therefore let all the house of Israel know assuredly, that God hath made that same Jesus whom ye have crucified, both Lord and Christ. Three Thousand Believe"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 2, "verse": "37", "text": "Now when they heard this, their hearts were struck with remorse, and they said to Peter, and to the rest of the apostles, men and brethren, what shall we do?"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 2, "verse": "38", "text": "Peter replied, repent, and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ, for the remission of sins, and ye shall receive the gift of the holy spirit."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 2, "verse": "39", "text": "for the promise is to you, and to your children, and to all that are afar off, even as many as the Lord our God shall call."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 2, "verse": "40", "text": "and with many other discourses did he conjure and exhort them, to save themselves from that depraved generation."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 2, "verse": "41", "text": "then they that embraced his doctrine, were baptized: and there were about three thousand converts made that very day. The Fellowship of Believers ( Acts 4:32–37 )"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 2, "verse": "42", "text": "they continued stedfastly in the apostolical doctrine of a community, and in breaking of bread, and in prayers."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 2, "verse": "43", "text": "and all the people were allarm'd at the many prodigies and miracles which were done by the apostles."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 2, "verse": "44", "text": "All that believed were united together, and had all things in common,"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 2, "verse": "45", "text": "so that they sold their possessions and goods, and distributed the money to every one as his occasions required."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 2, "verse": "46", "text": "and continuing daily with one accord in the temple, and breaking bread from house to house, they did eat their meals with gladness, and simplicity of heart,"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 2, "verse": "47", "text": "praising God, and showing benevolence to all the people, and the Lord encreased the church daily with new converts."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 3, "verse": "1", "text": "One day as Peter and John were going together to the temple, at the ninth hour, which was the hour of prayer,"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 3, "verse": "2", "text": "they were carrying a man who had been lame from his birth, one whom they daily laid at the gate of the temple called, Beauty-gate, to ask alms of those that pass'd into the temple."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 3, "verse": "3", "text": "he seeing Peter and John going into the temple, asked alms of them."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 3, "verse": "4", "text": "Peter and John having their eyes upon him, Peter said, look on us."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 3, "verse": "5", "text": "at which he look'd very attentively, expecting to receive something of them."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 3, "verse": "6", "text": "then Peter said, silver and gold have I none; but such as I have I give thee: in the name of Jesus Christ the Nazarene, rise up and walk."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 3, "verse": "7", "text": "and taking him by the right hand, he lift him up; and immediately his feet and ancle-bones received strength."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 3, "verse": "8", "text": "so that he fell a leaping, and walking, and entred with them into the temple, walking, and leaping, and praising God."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 3, "verse": "9", "text": "all the people saw him walking and praising God."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 3, "verse": "10", "text": "and knowing it was he who us'd to sit begging at the Beauty-gate of the temple, they were filled with wonder and amazement at such an event. Peter Speaks in Solomon’s Colonnade"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 3, "verse": "11", "text": "As the lame man who was cured, held Peter and John, the people all in surprize ran to Solomon's porch, where they were."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 3, "verse": "12", "text": "which Peter observing, thus addressed them, ye men of Israel, why are ye so surprized at this event? or why do you look so earnestly on us, as though by our own power or piety, we had caus'd this man to walk?"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 3, "verse": "13", "text": "the God of Abraham, of Isaac, and of Jacob, the God of our fathers, hath glorified his son Jesus; whom ye delivered up, and renounced in opposition to Pilate, who was determined to let him go."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 3, "verse": "14", "text": "but ye renounced him that was holy and just; you interceeded for the life of a murderer,"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 3, "verse": "15", "text": "but killed the prince of life, whom God hath raised from the dead; whereof we are witnesses."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 3, "verse": "16", "text": "it is the faith which we have in him, that has procured strength to this man whom ye see and know: yea, the faith which is by him, hath given him this perfect soundness in the presence of you all."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 3, "verse": "17", "text": "and now, brethren, I know it was through ignorance, that both you and your rulers, have acted thus."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 3, "verse": "18", "text": "but thus it is that God has accomplished what he had foretold by the mouth of all his prophets, that Christ should suffer."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 3, "verse": "19", "text": "repent therefore, and be converted, that your sins may be blotted out, when the times of refreshment shall come from the presence of the Lord, who shall send Jesus Christ,"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 3, "verse": "20", "text": "who has been beforehand prepar'd thereto,"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 3, "verse": "21", "text": "but must reside in heaven, till the time of the restitution of all things, of which God has spoken from the beginning by the mouth of his holy prophets."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 3, "verse": "22", "text": "for Moses said to the fathers, \"a prophet shall the Lord your God raise up unto you, of your brethren, like unto me; observe whatever he shall say to you."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 3, "verse": "23", "text": "and whoever he be that will not hear that prophet, shall be destroyed from among the people.\""}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 3, "verse": "24", "text": "afterwards Samuel and all that prophesied after him, have likewise foretold these times."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 3, "verse": "25", "text": "ye are the children of the prophets, and of the covenant which God made with our fathers, when he said to Abraham, \"all the families of the earth shall be blessed in your posterity.\""}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 3, "verse": "26", "text": "it is to you that God first of all sent his son Jesus, having raised him up to bless you, provided you all renounce your iniquities."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 4, "verse": "1", "text": "While they were speaking to the people, the priests, the captain of the temple, and the Sadduces came upon them,"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 4, "verse": "2", "text": "being displeas'd that they taught the people, and maintain'd the resurrection from the dead in the person of Jesus."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 4, "verse": "3", "text": "and they laid hands on them, and put them in prison, till the next day: for it was now evening."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 4, "verse": "4", "text": "however, many who heard Peter's discourse, believed, to the number of about five thousand people."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 4, "verse": "5", "text": "On the morrow, the rulers, senators, and doctors of the law, then at Jerusalem, assembled,"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 4, "verse": "6", "text": "with Annas the high priest, Caiphas, John, and Alexander, and as many as were of the pontifical family."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 4, "verse": "7", "text": "and having caused Peter and John to appear, they asked, by what influence, or by what authority have you done this?"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 4, "verse": "8", "text": "then Peter filled with the holy spirit, said to them, Rulers of the people, and senators of Israel,"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 4, "verse": "9", "text": "since we are this day to be examined about the cure of a cripple, and by what means he was recovered; be it known to you all,"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 4, "verse": "10", "text": "and to all the people of Israel, that by the name of Jesus Christ the Nazarene, whom ye crucified, whom God raised from the dead, even by him doth this man stand here before you entirely recover'd."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 4, "verse": "11", "text": "this is the stone which was rejected by you builders, but is become the chief of the angle."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 4, "verse": "12", "text": "salvation is not to be had by any other: for there is no other name under heaven given to men whereby we can be saved. The Name Forbidden"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 4, "verse": "13", "text": "Now when they saw the boldness of Peter and John, and perceived that they were illiterate, and of the lower rank of men, they were surpriz'd; but tho' they knew that they had been Jesus's disciples,"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 4, "verse": "14", "text": "yet seeing the man who was cured standing with them, they could not tell what to reply."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 4, "verse": "15", "text": "having therefore order'd them to withdraw from the council, they conferred among themselves,"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 4, "verse": "16", "text": "saying, what shall we do to these men? for that indeed a notable miracle hath been done by them is manifest to all that dwell in Jerusalem, and we cannot deny it."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 4, "verse": "17", "text": "but to prevent its spreading any further among the people, let us charge them with threats not to speak for the future to any man in that name."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 4, "verse": "18", "text": "so they called them in, and commanded them not to speak or teach upon any account, in the name of Jesus."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 4, "verse": "19", "text": "but Peter and John made answer, do you yourselves judge, whether it be right in the sight of God, to obey you rather than God."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 4, "verse": "20", "text": "for we cannot avoid publishing what we have seen and heard."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 4, "verse": "21", "text": "so when they had further threatned them, they let them go, not finding it practicable to punish them, because of the people, who all glorified God for that which was done."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 4, "verse": "22", "text": "for the man who was so miraculously cured, was above forty years old. The Believers’ Prayer"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 4, "verse": "23", "text": "As soon as they were discharg'd, they went to their brethren, and reported all that the chief priests and senators had said to them:"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 4, "verse": "24", "text": "at the relation of which they unanimously lift up their voice to God, and said, Lord, thou art the God who hast made the heaven, the earth, the sea, and all that is therein:"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 4, "verse": "25", "text": "who by the mouth of thy servant David hast said, \"why did the heathen rage, and the people imagine vain things?"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 4, "verse": "26", "text": "the kings of the earth stood up, and the rulers were gathered together against the Lord, and against his Christ.\""}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 4, "verse": "27", "text": "for it was truly against thy holy child Jesus, whom thou hast anointed, that Herod and Pontius Pilate, with the Gentiles, and the people of Israel, united themselves in this city,"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 4, "verse": "28", "text": "to effect what thy power and thy wisdom pre-determined to be done."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 4, "verse": "29", "text": "and now, Lord, behold their threatnings: and enable thy servants to deliver thy word with freedom,"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 4, "verse": "30", "text": "by displaying thine hand in miraculous cures, and prodigies, which by the name of thy holy child Jesus shall be done."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 4, "verse": "31", "text": "When they had prayed, the place where they were assembled, trembled; they were all filled with the holy spirit, and they spake the word of God with boldness. Sharing among Believers ( Acts 2:42–47 )"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 4, "verse": "32", "text": "Now the whole body of believers were but one heart, and one soul: no one look'd upon what he possessed, as his own, but every thing was held in common."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 4, "verse": "33", "text": "Great was the power by which the apostles attested the resurrection of the Lord Jesus: and they were all greatly favoured by the people."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 4, "verse": "34", "text": "for there was no poor among them, because as many as bad lands or houses, sold them, and brought the value,"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 4, "verse": "35", "text": "which they laid down at the apostles feet: and they distributed it to every man as his occasions required."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 4, "verse": "36", "text": "among the rest one Joseph, who by the apostles was surnamed Barnabas (that is to say, the son of consolation) a Levite, and a native of Cyprus,"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 4, "verse": "37", "text": "sold an estate he had, and brought the money, and laid it at the apostles feet."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 5, "verse": "1", "text": "Now there was a certain man named Ananias who with Sapphira his wife, sold a possession,"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 5, "verse": "2", "text": "and kept back part of the price, his wife also being privy to it, and brought the rest which he laid at the apostles feet."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 5, "verse": "3", "text": "upon which Peter said, Ananias, how could satan inspire thine heart to lye to the holy ghost, and to keep back part of the price of the land?"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 5, "verse": "4", "text": "was not the estate your own estate? and was not the price for which it was sold, all in your own hands? how came such a design as this in your heart? thou hast not lyed unto men, but unto God."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 5, "verse": "5", "text": "at these words Ananias fell down dead upon the spot: which struck the minds of all that heard of it with great dread."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 5, "verse": "6", "text": "and some young men came and wound him up, then carried him out, and buried him."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 5, "verse": "7", "text": "about the space of three hours after, his wife, not knowing what had happen'd, came in."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 5, "verse": "8", "text": "when Peter addressing himself to her, tell me, said he, have you sold the land for such a price? yes, said she, for so much."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 5, "verse": "9", "text": "then Peter said to her, how comes it that you have conspir'd together, to tempt the spirit of the Lord? see there at the door the men that are come from burying thy husband, and they shall carry thee out likewise."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 5, "verse": "10", "text": "in the instant she fell down dead at his feet: and the young men came in, found her dead, carried her out, and buried her by her husband."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 5, "verse": "11", "text": "which affected the whole assembly, and all that heard of it with great dread. The Apostles Heal Many"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 5, "verse": "12", "text": "Thus were many signs and wonders wrought among the people, by the apostles, who us'd to meet in Solomon's porch with great unanimity:"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 5, "verse": "13", "text": "but the people who reverenc'd them,"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 5, "verse": "14", "text": "did not venture to approach near them, the number of those who believed in the Lord, both men and women, increas'd more and more."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 5, "verse": "15", "text": "insomuch that they brought the sick into the streets, and laid them on beds and couches, that at the least, the shadow of Peter might cover some of them, as he pass'd by."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 5, "verse": "16", "text": "multitudes came likewise from the neighbouring cities to Jerusalem, bringing their sick, and those who were tormented with impure spirits: who were all cured. The Apostles Arrested and Freed"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 5, "verse": "17", "text": "Then the high priest, and all that accompanied him, who were of the sect of the Sadducees, being filled with indignation,"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 5, "verse": "18", "text": "went and seized on the apostles, and put them in the common prison."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 5, "verse": "19", "text": "but an angel of the Lord opened the prison-doors by night, and having brought them out, said to them,"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 5, "verse": "20", "text": "go, stand in the temple, and declare to the people, the whole doctrine of life."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 5, "verse": "21", "text": "when they heard that, they entred into the temple early in the morning, and taught, in the mean time, the high priest, and those of his party, being arrived at the council-chamber, summon'd all the Jewish senate to meet, and sent to the prison to bring the apostles before them."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 5, "verse": "22", "text": "but the officers who went there not finding them in the prison, returned, and made this report,"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 5, "verse": "23", "text": "the prison we found shut very secure, and the keepers posted before the doors: but when we had opened it, we found no body within. The Apostles before the Sanhedrin"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 5, "verse": "24", "text": "Upon hearing this, the high priest, the captain of the temple, and the chief priests wonder'd bow this could be."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 5, "verse": "25", "text": "when somebody came and told them, the men whom ye order'd to prison, are standing in the temple, and teaching the people."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 5, "verse": "26", "text": "upon which the captain went with his officers, and brought them, without offering any violence, for fear of being stoned, he and his men by the people."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 5, "verse": "27", "text": "when they had brought them, they set them before the council: and the high priest asked them,"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 5, "verse": "28", "text": "saying, did not we strictly command you, not to teach in this name? and yet you have spread your doctrine through Jerusalem, and you endeavour to make us responsible for this man's blood."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 5, "verse": "29", "text": "then Peter and the other apostles made answer, we ought to obey God rather than men."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 5, "verse": "30", "text": "the God of our fathers raised up Jesus, whom ye slew, and hanged on a tree."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 5, "verse": "31", "text": "him hath God rais'd by his power to be the author of salvation, by giving repentance to Israel, and the remission of their sins."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 5, "verse": "32", "text": "and we are his witnesses in what we say, and so is the holy spirit, whom God hath given to those that obey him. Gamaliel’s Advice"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 5, "verse": "33", "text": "When they heard that, they were so enraged, they consulted to take away their lives."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 5, "verse": "34", "text": "when a Pharisee, named Gamaliel, a doctor of law, who was respected by all the people, rose up in the council, and moved the apostles might withdraw for some time."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 5, "verse": "35", "text": "and then he said, \"ye men of Israel, be cautious how you proceed with regard to these men."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 5, "verse": "36", "text": "for some time ago one Theudas started up, pretending to be something extraordinary, who was join'd indeed by about four hundred men: but he was no sooner put to death, than his followers all dispers'd, and were reduc'd to nothing."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 5, "verse": "37", "text": "after this man, Judas of Galilee appear'd, at the time of the registry, and seduc'd many people: he also perished, and all his followers were dispersed."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 5, "verse": "38", "text": "my opinion therefore is, not to meddle with these men, but to let them go on: for if the design be a human project, it will fall of it self, but if it be from God,"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 5, "verse": "39", "text": "you cannot defeat it; perhaps you may be found warring against heaven.\" To him they agreed: and"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 5, "verse": "40", "text": "after the apostles were called in, and scourged, they charged them not to speak in the name of Jesus, and then releas'd them, out they went from the council,"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 5, "verse": "41", "text": "full of joy, that they were counted worthy to suffer shame for the name of Jesus."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 5, "verse": "42", "text": "and every day either in the temple or in private houses they continued to preach and proclaim Jesus to be the Christ."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 6, "verse": "1", "text": "At that time, as the number of the disciples was multiplied, the Hellenists murmured against the Hebrews, because their widows were neglected in the distribution that was made daily."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 6, "verse": "2", "text": "the twelve therefore assembled all the disciples, and said, it is not fit that we should leave the word of God, to mind what relates to your meals."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 6, "verse": "3", "text": "wherefore, brethren, chuse out of your number seven persons of good reputation, full of the holy spirit and wisdom, who may have the management of this affair:"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 6, "verse": "4", "text": "whilst we shall continue our applications to prayer, and to preaching."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 6, "verse": "5", "text": "this proposition pleased the whole assembly: and they chose Stephen, a man full of faith and of the holy spirit, Philip, Prochorus, Nicanor, Timon, Parmenas, and Nicolas a proselyte of Antioch."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 6, "verse": "6", "text": "these they presented to the apostles: who after prayer gave them imposition of hands."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 6, "verse": "7", "text": "thus the word of God was spread; and the number of disciples encreased very much at Jerusalem; and a numerous body of priests embrac'd the faith. The Arrest of Stephen"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 6, "verse": "8", "text": "Now Stephen full of grace and power, did great wonders and miracles among the people."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 6, "verse": "9", "text": "when some out of the several synagogues, belonging to the freed men, to the Cyrenians, Alexandrians, and to those of Cilicia, and of Asia, came to dispute with Stephen."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 6, "verse": "10", "text": "but as they were not able to withstand the force of that sublime knowledge which appeared in his discourse,"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 6, "verse": "11", "text": "they suborned men, who said, we have heard him speak irreverently of Moses, and of God."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 6, "verse": "12", "text": "and they stirred up the people, the senators, and the doctors of law, who came and seiz'd him, and brought him to the council,"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 6, "verse": "13", "text": "where they produc'd false witnesses, who said, this man is continually inveighing against the holy place, and against the law."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 6, "verse": "14", "text": "for we have heard him say, that Jesus the Nazarene shall destroy this place, and change the customs which Moses delivered us."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 6, "verse": "15", "text": "and all that sat in the council, looking stedfastly on him, saw an air of majesty in his aspect."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 7, "verse": "1", "text": "Then said the high priest, are these things so?"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 7, "verse": "2", "text": "Stephen answer'd, my brethren, and you my fathers, lend your attention. The God of glory appeared unto our father Abraham, when he was in Mesopotamia, before he dwelt in Charran,"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 7, "verse": "3", "text": "and said to him, quit your country, and your kindred, to go to the land which I shall shew thee."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 7, "verse": "4", "text": "thereupon he went out of Chaldea, and dwelt in Charran: from thence, after his father's death, he removed him to this very country where you now dwell."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 7, "verse": "5", "text": "he gave him no inheritance in it, not even a foot of land: yet he promised to give it to him for a possession, and to his posterity after him, tho' he had then no child."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 7, "verse": "6", "text": "God declar'd likewise, \"that his posterity should sojourn in a strange land, where they should be enslaved and abused four hundred years."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 7, "verse": "7", "text": "and the nation to whom they shall be in bondage, will I judge, said God: and after that shall they come forth, and serve me in this place.\""}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 7, "verse": "8", "text": "at length he gave him the covenant of circumcision: accordingly Abraham circumcised his son Isaac eight days after he was born, Isaac was father of Jacob, who was father of the twelve patriarchs. Joseph Sold into Egypt"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 7, "verse": "9", "text": "the patriarchs being jealous of Joseph, sold him into Egypt: but God was with him,"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 7, "verse": "10", "text": "he delivered him out of all his afflictions, and gave him wisdom to become acceptable to Pharaoh king of Egypt; who made him governor of Egypt, and all his houshold."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 7, "verse": "11", "text": "in the mean time a famine spread over all the land of Egypt and Chanaan, so that our fathers did not know where to get provisions."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 7, "verse": "12", "text": "but when Jacob heard there was corn in Egypt, he sent our fathers there."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 7, "verse": "13", "text": "at the second voyage Joseph discover'd himself to his brethren; and Joseph's kindred were made known to Pharaoh."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 7, "verse": "14", "text": "after this, Joseph sent to invite his father Jacob to come with all his kindred, being threescore and fifteen persons. Israel Oppressed in Egypt"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 7, "verse": "15", "text": "so Jacob went down into Egypt, and died, he and our fathers,"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 7, "verse": "16", "text": "and were transported to Sychem, and laid in the sepulchre that Abraham bought for a sum of money of the sons of Emmor the father of Sychem."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 7, "verse": "17", "text": "now while the time was approaching to accomplish what God had sworn to Abraham, the people grew numerous in Egypt,"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 7, "verse": "18", "text": "till another king arose who knew not Joseph."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 7, "verse": "19", "text": "this prince employ'd all his arts against our nation, and persecuted our fathers, by obliging them to expose their young children, in order to extirpate the race. The Birth and Adoption of Moses ( Hebrews 11:23–29 )"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 7, "verse": "20", "text": "in which time Moses was born, who was exceeding fair, and nourished in his father's house three months:"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 7, "verse": "21", "text": "and when he was exposed, Pharaoh's daughter caused him to be taken up, and maintain'd for her adopted son."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 7, "verse": "22", "text": "at length Moses was instructed in all the sciences of the Egyptians, and had great influence by his counsels and actions. The Rejection and Flight of Moses"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 7, "verse": "23", "text": "when he was full forty years old, he took the resolution to visit his brethren the children of Israel."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 7, "verse": "24", "text": "and seeing one of them abus'd, he defended him, and avenged the injury by killing the Egyptian:"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 7, "verse": "25", "text": "for he supposed his brethren would have perceiv'd by this, that God design'd to make him the instrument of their deliverance; but they did not perceive it."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 7, "verse": "26", "text": "the next day seeing some that were fighting, he would have persuaded them to agree, saying, sirs, ye are brethren; why do ye injure one another?"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 7, "verse": "27", "text": "but he that did his neighbour the injury repelled Moses, saying, who made thee a ruler and a judge over us?"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 7, "verse": "28", "text": "will you kill me as you kill'd the Egyptian yesterday? at these words Moses fled,"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 7, "verse": "29", "text": "and went to reside in the land of Madian, where he became the father of two sons. The Call of Moses"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 7, "verse": "30", "text": "when forty years were expired, there appeared to him in the wilderness of mount Sina, an angel of the Lord in a flaming bush."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 7, "verse": "31", "text": "Moses was astonished at this vision: and as he drew near to observe it, he heard the voice of the Lord, which said to him,"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 7, "verse": "32", "text": "\"I am the God of thy fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob.\" and Moses trembled so, he durst not observe any longer."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 7, "verse": "33", "text": "then said the Lord to him, \"put off thy shoes from thy feet: for the place where thou standest is holy ground."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 7, "verse": "34", "text": "I have seen, I have seen the affliction of my people which is in Egypt; I have heard their groaning, and am come down to deliver them, come immediately, and I will send you into Egypt.\""}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 7, "verse": "35", "text": "this Moses whom they refused, saying, who made thee a ruler and a judge? the very same did God send to be a ruler and a deliverer by the hands of the angel that appeared to him in the bush."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 7, "verse": "36", "text": "he it was, who delivered them by doing prodigies and miracles in the land of Egypt, in the red sea, and in the wilderness for forty years."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 7, "verse": "37", "text": "this is that Moses who said to the children of Israel, \"a prophet shall the Lord your God raise up unto you of your brethren, like unto me; him shall ye hear.\""}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 7, "verse": "38", "text": "'twas he that was in the assembly with our fathers in the wilderness, and with the angel that spoke to him on mount Sina: and delivered the oracles to him by word of mouth for our use. The Rebellion of Israel"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 7, "verse": "39", "text": "him our fathers would not obey, but rejected him, and they return'd to their Egyptian disposition."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 7, "verse": "40", "text": "\"make us gods, said they to Aaron, to be our guides: for as for this Moses, who brought us out of the land of Egypt, we know not what is become of him.\""}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 7, "verse": "41", "text": "'twas then they made a calf, and offered sacrifice to the idol, triumphing in the works of their own hands."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 7, "verse": "42", "text": "then God left them, and abandon'd them to the worship of the celestial army; as it is written in the book of the prophets, \"O ye house of Israel, is it to me that ye have offered victims, and sacrifices, for the space of forty years in the wilderness?"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 7, "verse": "43", "text": "on the contrary, ye carried the tabernacle of Moloch, and the star of your god Remphan, figures which ye made to worship them: wherefore I will transport you beyond Babylon.\" The Tabernacle of the Testimony ( Hebrews 9:1–10 )"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 7, "verse": "44", "text": "our fathers had the tabernacle of witness in the wilderness, as he had appointed, ordering Moses to make it according to the model that he had seen."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 7, "verse": "45", "text": "which our fathers and Joshua having receiv'd, they carry'd it into the territory of those nations whom God drove out upon their arrival: where it staid to the time of David, who was favoured by God,"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 7, "verse": "46", "text": "and desired to have a settled tabernacle for the God of Jacob."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 7, "verse": "47", "text": "it was Solomon however that built him a temple."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 7, "verse": "48", "text": "altho' the most high does not dwell in temples made with hands; as the prophet said, \"heaven is my throne,"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 7, "verse": "49", "text": "and earth is my footstool: what house will ye build me? saith the Lord: or what is the place of my rest?"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 7, "verse": "50", "text": "hath not my hand made all these things?\""}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 7, "verse": "51", "text": "stubborn people, whose hearts and ears like the uncircumcised, are always averse to the holy spirit: as your fathers did, so do ye."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 7, "verse": "52", "text": "was there ever any prophet whom your fathers did not persecute? have they not slain those who predicted the coming of that just person whom you have so lately betrayed and murder'd?"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 7, "verse": "53", "text": "you, I say, who received the law by the administration of angels, but have not however observ'd it. The Stoning of Stephen"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 7, "verse": "54", "text": "When they heard these things, they were transported with rage, and gnashed their teeth against him."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 7, "verse": "55", "text": "but he, full of the holy spirit, fix'd his eyes towards heaven, and saw the glory of God, and Jesus standing at the right hand of God."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 7, "verse": "56", "text": "and he said, there I see the heavens open, and the son of man standing on the right hand of God."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 7, "verse": "57", "text": "then they broke out into a loud cry, and stopping their ears, fell upon him all at once."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 7, "verse": "58", "text": "then they dragg'd him out of the city, and stoned him: the false witnesses having laid down their clothes at a young man's feet, whose name was Saul."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 7, "verse": "59", "text": "Thus they stoned Stephen, while he was calling upon God, and saying, \"Lord Jesus, receive my spirit.\""}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 7, "verse": "60", "text": "and on his knees he cried with a loud voice, \"Lord, lay not this sin to their charge.\" and having said this, he expired."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 8, "verse": "1", "text": "and Saul was accessory to his death. At that time the persecution was so violent against the church at Jerusalem, they were all dispers'd through the regions of Judea and Samaria, except the apostles,"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 8, "verse": "2", "text": "and some devout men who carried Stephen to his burial, making great lamentation over him."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 8, "verse": "3", "text": "as for Saul, he made havock of the Church, entring into their houses, whence he dragg'd away both men and women, to throw them into prison. Philip in Samaria"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 8, "verse": "4", "text": "but they that were dispers'd, preach'd the gospel wherever they went."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 8, "verse": "5", "text": "Philip being arrived at Samaria, preached Christ to them."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 8, "verse": "6", "text": "the people attended with great unanimity, hearing his discourses, and observing the miracles he wrought."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 8, "verse": "7", "text": "for the impure spirits, with great outcries, came out of many that were possessed: many paralytic, and lame people were cured."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 8, "verse": "8", "text": "which caused great joy in that city. Simon the Sorcerer"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 8, "verse": "9", "text": "One Simon was then resident in that place, who pretended to be something extra-ordinary, and by his magical practices had so enchanted the people of Samaria,"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 8, "verse": "10", "text": "that they all followed him, both old and young, this man, said they, is the plenipotentiary of God."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 8, "verse": "11", "text": "no wonder they were so attach'd to one, who had for a long time infatuated them with his arts."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 8, "verse": "12", "text": "but when they had embraced the doctrine of Philip, concerning the kingdom of the Messias, and the authority of Jesus Christ, they were baptized, both men and women."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 8, "verse": "13", "text": "nay, Simon himself became a proselyte: and after he was baptized, he continued with Philip, and was transported at the sight of the miracles and prodigies which he perform'd."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 8, "verse": "14", "text": "Now when the apostles who were at Jerusalem, heard that the Samaritans had embraced the word of God, they sent Peter and John,"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 8, "verse": "15", "text": "who upon their arrival, prayed for them that they might receive the holy spirit."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 8, "verse": "16", "text": "(for as yet he had not descended on any of them: they having only been baptized in the name of the Lord"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 8, "verse": "17", "text": "Jesus) the apostles therefore gave them imposition of hands, and they received the holy spirit."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 8, "verse": "18", "text": "when Simon saw that the holy spirit was given by imposition of the hands of the apostles, he offered them money, saying,"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 8, "verse": "19", "text": "give me too this power, that on whomsoever I lay hands he may receive the holy spirit."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 8, "verse": "20", "text": "but Peter said unto him, thy money perish with thee, for thinking that the gift of God may be purchased with money."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 8, "verse": "21", "text": "thou hast no manner of share in this gift: for thy heart is not right in the sight of God."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 8, "verse": "22", "text": "repent therefore of this thy wickedness, and pray to God, to forgive, if it be possible, this suggestion you have entertain'd."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 8, "verse": "23", "text": "for I perceive you are upon the brink of misery, led captive by your sin."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 8, "verse": "24", "text": "Simon answered, do you pray to the Lord for me, that nothing like what you mention may befall me."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 8, "verse": "25", "text": "after this the apostles having certified and preached the word of the Lord, returned to Jerusalem, preaching the gospel by the way in many villages of the Samaritans. Philip and the Ethiopian"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 8, "verse": "26", "text": "Now an angel of the Lord spoke to Philip, saying, arise, and go toward the south, by the way that leads from Jerusalem to Gaza, in the desart."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 8, "verse": "27", "text": "accordingly he departed: and met a man of Ethiopia, an eunuch of great authority under Candace queen of the Ethiopians, and was her high-treasurer: he had been at Jerusalem, to perform the duties of a proselyte,"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 8, "verse": "28", "text": "but was now upon his return, and sat in his chariot, reading the prophet Esaias."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 8, "verse": "29", "text": "then the spirit said unto Philip, go near, and advance to his chariot."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 8, "verse": "30", "text": "Philip ran to him, and hearing him read the prophet Esaias, said, do you understand what you read?"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 8, "verse": "31", "text": "how can I, answer'd he, without some expositor? and he desired Philip to mount, and sit with him."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 8, "verse": "32", "text": "the passage of the scripture which he read, was this, \"he was led as a sheep to the slaughter, and like a lamb before his shearer, was dumb, so opened he not his mouth:"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 8, "verse": "33", "text": "in his humiliation he was judged, he was taken off: and who shall describe the men of his time? for the land has taken away his life.\""}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 8, "verse": "34", "text": "and the eunuch answered Philip, and said, pray, of whom does the prophet say this? of himself, or of some other?"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 8, "verse": "35", "text": "then Philip enter'd upon the subject, and show'd how the whole passage was applicable to Jesus."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 8, "verse": "36", "text": "as they pursued their journey, they came to a place of water: and the eunuch said, see, here is water; what should hinder my being baptized?"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 8, "verse": "37", "text": "[and Philip said, if you believe with all your heart, you may, and he answered, I do believe that Jesus Christ is the son of God.]"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 8, "verse": "38", "text": "so he order'd the charioteer to stop: and they went down into the water, both Philip and the eunuch; and he baptized him."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 8, "verse": "39", "text": "when they were come out of the water, the spirit of the Lord caught away Philip, that the eunuch saw him no more: and he pursued his way with joy."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 8, "verse": "40", "text": "but Philip was found at Azotus: and passing on, he preached in all the cities, till he came to Cesarea."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 9, "verse": "1", "text": "Saul still breathing out nothing but threats and slaughter against the disciples of the Lord,"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 9, "verse": "2", "text": "went to the high priest, and demanded letters for the synagogues of Damascus, that if he found any of this sect, whether men or women, he might bring them bound to Jerusalem."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 9, "verse": "3", "text": "As he was on his journey, and near Damascus, on a sudden, a light from heaven surrounded him,"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 9, "verse": "4", "text": "and he fell to the ground, and heard a voice which said to him, Saul, Saul, why persecutest thou me?"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 9, "verse": "5", "text": "and he said, who art thou, Lord? and the Lord said, I am Jesus whom thou persecutest: [it is hard for thee to kick against the goad. Then trembling with the fright Saul said, Lord, what wilt thou have me to do? and the Lord said to him,]"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 9, "verse": "6", "text": "but rise, and go into the city, and you shall be told what you must do."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 9, "verse": "7", "text": "the mean while the men who accompany'd him, remain'd astonish'd, hearing a voice, but seeing no one."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 9, "verse": "8", "text": "at length Saul rose from the ground; and when he opened his eyes, he could not see: so that they led him by the hand, and brought him to Damascus,"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 9, "verse": "9", "text": "where he was three days without sight, and did neither eat nor drink. Ananias Baptizes Saul"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 9, "verse": "10", "text": "Now there was a disciple at Damascus, named Ananias, to whom the Lord said in a vision, Ananias! and he said, Lord, here I am."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 9, "verse": "11", "text": "and the Lord said unto him, arise, and go to the street called Straight, and enquire at the house of Judas, for one Saul of Tarsus: for he is there at prayer."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 9, "verse": "12", "text": "(at that very instant Saul saw in a vision the said Ananias come in, and put his hand on him, to restore his sight.)"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 9, "verse": "13", "text": "then Ananias answered, Lord, I have heard from many that this man has done a world of mischief to thy saints at Jerusalem: he is now here,"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 9, "verse": "14", "text": "and is impower'd by the chief priests, to imprison all that make profession of thy name."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 9, "verse": "15", "text": "go, said the Lord to him: for he is the instrument I have chosen, to bear my name to the Gentiles, to kings, and to the children of Israel."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 9, "verse": "16", "text": "for I will make him see how much he must suffer for my name."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 9, "verse": "17", "text": "Ananias therefore departed, and being arrived at the house, he put his hands on Saul, and said, brother Saul, the Lord, even Jesus that appeared to you on your journey hither, hath sent me, that you might obtain your sight, and be filled with the holy spirit."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 9, "verse": "18", "text": "immediately there fell from his eyes something like scales, and he recover'd his sight; upon which he instantly arose, and was baptized."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 9, "verse": "19", "text": "and when he had taken some food, he was refresh'd, after which Saul staid some time with the disciples at Damascus. Saul Preaches at Damascus"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 9, "verse": "20", "text": "Immediately he maintained in the synagogues, that Jesus was the son of God."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 9, "verse": "21", "text": "the audience were all amazed, and said, is not this he that persecuted the professors of this doctrine at Jerusalem, and came here on purpose to carry them prisoners to the chief priests?"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 9, "verse": "22", "text": "however Saul still gain'd ground, and confounded the Jews of Damascus, proving that Jesus was the Messias. The Escape from Damascus"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 9, "verse": "23", "text": "A good while after, the Jews conspir'd to kill him:"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 9, "verse": "24", "text": "but Saul was appriz'd of their plot, and as they were night and day upon the watch at the gates, in order to kill him,"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 9, "verse": "25", "text": "the disciples took him by night, and let him down the wall in a basket. Saul in Jerusalem"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 9, "verse": "26", "text": "when Saul was come to Jerusalem, he try'd to associate himself with the disciples: but they were all afraid of him, and could not be persuaded that he was a disciple."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 9, "verse": "27", "text": "thereupon Barnabas took him with him to the apostles, and related to them how the Lord had appear'd to him on his journey, and had spoken to him, and how publickly Saul had preach'd at Damascus in the name of Jesus."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 9, "verse": "28", "text": "then he convers'd freely with the apostles at Jerusalem:"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 9, "verse": "29", "text": "and he openly preach'd in the name of the Lord Jesus, and disputed against the Hellenists, who therefore plotted against his life:"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 9, "verse": "30", "text": "which when the brethren knew, they brought him down to Cesarea, and sent him away to Tarsus. The Healing of Aeneas"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 9, "verse": "31", "text": "Then the churches in all Judea, Galilee, and Samaria, were unmolested and establish'd, and by their religious conduct, and the assistance of the holy spirit, grew more extensive."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 9, "verse": "32", "text": "now as Peter was making a general visitation, he went to Lydda to see the converts in that city,"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 9, "verse": "33", "text": "where finding a man named Eneas, a paralytic, who had kept his bed eight years,"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 9, "verse": "34", "text": "Peter said to him, Eneas, Jesus, who is the Messiah, gives thee health: rise, and make your bed your self: upon which he immediately rose."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 9, "verse": "35", "text": "and all that dwelt at Lydda, and Saron, saw him, and became converts to the Lord. The Raising of Tabitha ( John 11:38–44 )"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 9, "verse": "36", "text": "At Joppa there was a disciple named Tabitha, that is in Greek, Dorcas: this woman was very active in all the offices of benevolence and charity."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 9, "verse": "37", "text": "she happen'd to fall sick at that time, and died: after they had bath'd her body, they laid her out in an upper chamber."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 9, "verse": "38", "text": "as Lydda was near Joppa, and the disciples having heard that Peter was there, they sent two men to him to desire he would come to them without delay."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 9, "verse": "39", "text": "Peter immediately went with them, and when he was come, they conducted him to the upper chamber: and all the widows advanc'd to him weeping, and shew'd the robes and garments which Dorcas made while she was with them."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 9, "verse": "40", "text": "but Peter turn'd them all out, and kneeled down and prayed, then turning towards the body, Tabitha, said he, arise immediately, she opened her eyes: and when she saw Peter, she sat up."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 9, "verse": "41", "text": "Peter lent her his hand, and lift her up; and having called the saints and widows, he presented her alive."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 9, "verse": "42", "text": "this was soon spread thro' all Joppa; and many believed in the Lord."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 9, "verse": "43", "text": "so that Peter staid there a considerable time with one Simon a tanner."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 10, "verse": "1", "text": "In Cesarea there was a centurion of a cohort in the Italic legion, whose name was Cornelius, a religious man,"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 10, "verse": "2", "text": "and was a proselyte, together with all his family: he gave much alms to the people, and was assiduous in his prayers to God."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 10, "verse": "3", "text": "one day about the ninth hour, he clearly saw in a vision an angel of God, who addrest himself to him, and said, Cornelius!"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 10, "verse": "4", "text": "and when he looked on him, he was afraid, and said, what is it, Lord? and he said to him, thy prayers and thine alms have been observ'd and approv'd by God."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 10, "verse": "5", "text": "send messengers immediately to Joppa, for one Simon, whose sirname is Peter:"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 10, "verse": "6", "text": "he lodges with one Simon a tanner, whose house is by the sea-side."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 10, "verse": "7", "text": "As soon as the angel that spoke to Cornelius was departed, he called two of his domesticks, and a devout soldier, one of those that were in waiting:"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 10, "verse": "8", "text": "and after he had related to them the whole affair, he sent them to Joppa. Peter’s Vision"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 10, "verse": "9", "text": "On the morrow as they were on their journey, and drew nigh the city, Peter went upon the leads to pray, about the sixth hour."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 10, "verse": "10", "text": "and being seiz'd with hunger, he would have had something to eat: but while they were making it ready, he fell into a trance,"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 10, "verse": "11", "text": "when he saw the heaven open, and something descending in the form of a great sheet, ty'd at the four corners, and let down to the earth:"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 10, "verse": "12", "text": "in it were all sorts of quadrupeds, reptiles, and birds."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 10, "verse": "13", "text": "and a voice said to him, rise, Peter; kill and eat."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 10, "verse": "14", "text": "but Peter said, not so, Lord; for I have never eaten any thing that is common or unclean."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 10, "verse": "15", "text": "and the voice spake to him again the second time, don't call that common, which God calls clean."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 10, "verse": "16", "text": "this was done thrice: and then the sheet was taken up into heaven. Peter Called to Caesarea"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 10, "verse": "17", "text": "While Peter was perplexed about the signification of this vision, the messengers from Cornelius having enquir'd out Simon's house, arriv'd at the gate,"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 10, "verse": "18", "text": "and calling somebody, ask'd, whether Simon Peter lodg'd there."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 10, "verse": "19", "text": "As Peter was still pondering upon the vision, the spirit said to him, there are people below, who enquire for you."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 10, "verse": "20", "text": "rise therefore, get thee down, and go with them, without hesitating: for I have sent them."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 10, "verse": "21", "text": "then Peter went down to the messengers; and said, I am the person you look for: what occasion brought you hither?"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 10, "verse": "22", "text": "they answered, Cornelius the centurion, a man of probity and piety, one that has an universal good character among the Jews, was divinely admonish'd by an holy angel to send for you to his house, to hear what you had to say to him."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 10, "verse": "23", "text": "then he invited them in, and they lodged there. On the morrow, Peter departed with them, and some of his brethren from Joppa accompanied him. Peter Visits Cornelius"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 10, "verse": "24", "text": "the next day they arriv'd at Cesarea: where Cornelius expected them, having invited his kinsmen and intimate friends, to his house."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 10, "verse": "25", "text": "as Peter was coming in, Cornelius met him, and prostrated himself at his feet,"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 10, "verse": "26", "text": "but Peter rais'd him, saying, stand up; I am but a man, as well as you."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 10, "verse": "27", "text": "and as he discours'd with him, he went in, where finding many persons assembled; you know,"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 10, "verse": "28", "text": "said he, how unlawful it is for a Jew, to frequent a stranger, or even to go to his house: but God hath shewed me, that I should not look upon any man as common and unclean."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 10, "verse": "29", "text": "for which reason I came without demur, as soon as I knew your message: I ask therefore upon what account you sent for me?"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 10, "verse": "30", "text": "then Cornelius said, it is now four days ago that I was fasting, and while I was at prayers in my house, about the ninth hour, a man in bright attire presented himself before me,"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 10, "verse": "31", "text": "and said, \"Cornelius, thy prayer is heard, and God has approved thine alms."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 10, "verse": "32", "text": "send therefore to Joppa, for one Simon, whose surname is Peter; he is lodged in the house of one Simon a tanner, by the sea-side, who, when he is arriv'd, will give you information.\""}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 10, "verse": "33", "text": "immediately I sent to you; and you have done well to come, now here we are all in the presence of God, to hear whatever he has given you in charge. Good News for the Gentiles"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 10, "verse": "34", "text": "then Peter thus began, now I plainly perceive that God is no respecter of persons:"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 10, "verse": "35", "text": "but in every nation, he that feareth him, and acts justly, is acceptable to him."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 10, "verse": "36", "text": "this was what he communicated to the children of Israel, proclaiming salvation by Jesus Christ, who is the Lord of all mankind."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 10, "verse": "37", "text": "you know, how his fame spread from Galilee through all Judea, after the baptism which John had preach'd:"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 10, "verse": "38", "text": "how Jesus of Nazareth divinely inspired by the holy spirit, and with miraculous power, went about doing good, and healing all that were under the oppression of the devil: because God was with him."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 10, "verse": "39", "text": "we are witnesses of all his transactions, both in Judea, and at Jerusalem, however, they put him to death, even that of the cross."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 10, "verse": "40", "text": "but God raised him up the third day, and shewed him openly,"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 10, "verse": "41", "text": "not to all the people, but to those witnesses, which God had before chosen: to us, I say, who did eat and drink with him after he rose from the dead."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 10, "verse": "42", "text": "and he commanded us to publish, and to testify to the people, that he was the person whom God had constituted to be the judge of the living, and of the dead."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 10, "verse": "43", "text": "he is the person to whom all the prophets give this attestation, that all who believe in him, shall receive remission of sins, by his authority. The Gentiles Receive the Holy Spirit ( Acts 19:1–7 )"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 10, "verse": "44", "text": "Peter was yet speaking, when the holy spirit descended on all that heard him."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 10, "verse": "45", "text": "all the Jewish converts, who came with Paul, were astonished to see that the gift of the holy spirit was diffused likewise among the Gentiles."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 10, "verse": "46", "text": "for they heard them express their praises to God in divers languages."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 10, "verse": "47", "text": "then Peter said, can we refuse the water of baptism to such as have received the holy spirit as well as we?"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 10, "verse": "48", "text": "so he directed they should be baptized in the name of the Lord, after which they desired him to stay some time with them."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 11, "verse": "1", "text": "In the mean time, the apostles, and the brethren, who were in Judea, heard that the Gentiles had likewise receiv'd the word of God."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 11, "verse": "2", "text": "and when Peter was return'd to Jerusalem, the Jewish converts objected to his conduct,"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 11, "verse": "3", "text": "and ask'd him, why did you go to eat with the uncircumcised?"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 11, "verse": "4", "text": "but Peter represented the whole affair to them,"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 11, "verse": "5", "text": "saying, as I was at prayers in Joppa, I saw something like a great sheet, tied at the four corners, which descended from heaven, and came just to me."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 11, "verse": "6", "text": "as I was considering it very attentively, I saw several quadrupeds, wild beasts, reptiles and birds."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 11, "verse": "7", "text": "then I heard a voice, which said, rise, Peter; kill and eat."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 11, "verse": "8", "text": "but I said, Lord, by no means: for I never did eat any thing impure, and defiled."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 11, "verse": "9", "text": "but the voice from heaven address'd it self to me again, and said, don't call that impure, which God has purified."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 11, "verse": "10", "text": "this was done three times, and then the whole scene was mounted to heaven."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 11, "verse": "11", "text": "at that very instant three men, dispatch'd from Cesarea to me, were just arrived at the house, where I was."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 11, "verse": "12", "text": "and the spirit bid me make no difficulty of going with them, these six brethren accompany'd me, and we went together to the man's house."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 11, "verse": "13", "text": "he told us how he had seen an angel, who had presented himself to him, and had said, send to Joppa, to fetch Simon, surnam'd Peter:"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 11, "verse": "14", "text": "who will give you such instructions, as will be the means of saving both you and all your family."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 11, "verse": "15", "text": "and while I was speaking to them, the holy spirit descended upon them, as it did on us, at the beginning."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 11, "verse": "16", "text": "then I remember'd that expression of the Lord, \"John baptized with water, but ye shall be baptized with the holy spirit.\""}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 11, "verse": "17", "text": "if therefore God has bestow'd the same favour upon them, as on us, after we had believed on the Lord Jesus Christ, how could I make any opposition to the divine will?"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 11, "verse": "18", "text": "Having heard this, they were appeas'd, and glorified God, saying, God has then granted salvation likewise to the gentiles, on the terms of their repentance. The Church at Antioch"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 11, "verse": "19", "text": "In the mean time they who were dispers'd upon the persecution that arose after Stephen's time, had travell'd as far as Phenicia, Cyprus and Antioch, without preaching the gospel to any, but Jews only."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 11, "verse": "20", "text": "some of them were of Cyprus and Cyrene, and upon their arrival at Antioch they address'd themselves to the Greeks, and preach'd to them the Lord Jesus."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 11, "verse": "21", "text": "and as the divine assistance accompany'd them, a great number of persons believed and became converts."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 11, "verse": "22", "text": "Of this the church at Jerusalem being appriz'd, they order'd Barnabas to go to Antioch;"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 11, "verse": "23", "text": "who upon his arrival there, was glad to see such effects of the divine grace, and exhorted them all to remain firmly attach'd to the christian profession:"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 11, "verse": "24", "text": "for he was a good man, and full of the holy spirit and of faith: so that many converts were added to the church."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 11, "verse": "25", "text": "at length Barnabas departed to Tarsus in quest of Saul, and having found him, he conducted him to Antioch:"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 11, "verse": "26", "text": "where they resided a whole year with that church, and instructed abundance of disciples, and these disciples were the first that were denominated Christians."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 11, "verse": "27", "text": "About that time some prophets came from Jerusalem to Antioch:"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 11, "verse": "28", "text": "and one of them named Agabus foretold by the spirit, that there should be a great famine, thro' all the world: which accordingly happen'd in the reign of Claudius Cesar."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 11, "verse": "29", "text": "then the disciples determin'd to send, each of them answerably to his abilities, some relief to the brethren residing in Judea: which they actually perform'd,"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 11, "verse": "30", "text": "and sent it by the hands of Saul and Barnabas to the presbyters at Jerusalem."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 12, "verse": "1", "text": "About that time, king Herod Agrippa began to persecute some of the church."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 12, "verse": "2", "text": "he caus'd James the brother of John to be beheaded."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 12, "verse": "3", "text": "and perceiving that the Jews were pleas'd with this, he proceeded to secure Peter during the feast of unleavened bread:"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 12, "verse": "4", "text": "having apprehended Peter, he put him into prison, appointing a detachment of sixteen soldiers to guard him, intending to have him brought to publick execution, after Easter. The Rescue of Peter"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 12, "verse": "5", "text": "thus Peter was kept in prison, but the Church prayed to God, without ceasing, for him,"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 12, "verse": "6", "text": "now the very night preceding the day which Herod design'd for his execution, Peter bound with two chains, was sleeping between two soldiers, while the other guards secured the prison door; when an angel of"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 12, "verse": "7", "text": "the Lord suddenly appear'd and fill'd the room with light, and touching Peter on the side, awak'd him, saying, rise, be quick, and immediately his chains fell from his hands."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 12, "verse": "8", "text": "put on your girdle, continu'd the angel, and bind on your sandals: which he did, throw your cloak over you, said the angel, and follow me."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 12, "verse": "9", "text": "so he went out after the angel without knowing that what the angel had done, was real; but thinking it was all a vision."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 12, "verse": "10", "text": "when they had pass'd the first and second guard, they came to the iron-gate that leads to the city, which open'd to them of itself: so they went out and pass'd together thro' one street: when all of a sudden the angel quitted Peter. Then coming to himself; now,"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 12, "verse": "11", "text": "said he, I know for certain, that the Lord has sent his angel, and has deliver'd me from the hands of Herod, and from what the Jews were in expectation of."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 12, "verse": "12", "text": "then recollecting where he was, he went to the house of Mary the mother of John, surnam'd Mark, where many were assembled at prayers."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 12, "verse": "13", "text": "when he had knock'd at the door of the gate, a servant named Rhoda came to ask who was there."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 12, "verse": "14", "text": "upon hearing Peter tell his name, instead of opening the gate, she ran, out of joy, to tell them, that Peter was there."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 12, "verse": "15", "text": "are you mad? said they, but she persisting that it was even so, they reply'd, it is then his angel."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 12, "verse": "16", "text": "as Peter still continued knocking, they let him in, and seeing it was he, they were extremely surpriz'd:"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 12, "verse": "17", "text": "but he made a sign to them with his hand, to be silent: and related to them, how the Lord had brought him out of the prison, go, said he, and acquaint James and the other brethren with this affair, after which he departed and went to another place."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 12, "verse": "18", "text": "As soon as it was day, the soldiers were in a world of confusion to know what was become of Peter."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 12, "verse": "19", "text": "Herod having caus'd diligent search to be made, without being able to find him, after examining the guards, he order'd them to execution, after which he departed from Judea, and went to Cesarea, where he resided. The Death of Herod"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 12, "verse": "20", "text": "Herod was then making warlike preparations against the Tyrians, and Sidonians: but they unanimously sent a deputation to court: where having gain'd Blastus the king's chamberlain, they brought matters to an accommodation: for their country was subsisted by the king's territorys."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 12, "verse": "21", "text": "one court-day, Herod array'd in his robes of state, and seated upon the throne, made a publick oration:"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 12, "verse": "22", "text": "at which the people gave a shout, saying, it is the voice of a God, and not of a man."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 12, "verse": "23", "text": "but at the instant an angel of the Lord smote him, because he did not glorify God: so that he became a prey to worms and died. In the mean time, the"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 12, "verse": "24", "text": "word of God made continual progress, and after Barnabas"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 12, "verse": "25", "text": "and Saul had executed their commission, they return'd to Jerusalem, and took with them John who was surnam'd Mark."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 13, "verse": "1", "text": "Now there were several prophets and teachers in the church of Antioch, as Barnabas, Simeon surnam'd Niger, Lucius of Cyrene, Manaen who had been brought up with Herod the tetrarch, and Saul."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 13, "verse": "2", "text": "as they were ministring to the Lord, and fasting, the holy spirit said to them, separate me Barnabas and Saul, for the work to which I have destin'd them."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 13, "verse": "3", "text": "accordingly, after having fasted and prayed they gave them imposition of hands, and dismiss'd them. On Cyprus"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 13, "verse": "4", "text": "being thus appointed missionarys by the holy spirit, they went to Seleucia, where they embark'd for Cyprus."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 13, "verse": "5", "text": "when they were arrived at Salamis, they preach'd the word of God in the synagogues of the Jews, and had John for their assistant."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 13, "verse": "6", "text": "Having travers'd the isle as far as to Paphos, they found a Jew there nam'd Barjesus, who was a false prophet and magician:"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 13, "verse": "7", "text": "he was with the proconsul Sergius Paulus, a man of prudence: who sent for Barnabas and Saul, desiring to hear the word of God."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 13, "verse": "8", "text": "but Elymas (a name which signifies Magus) opposed them, endeavouring to seduce the proconsul from the faith."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 13, "verse": "9", "text": "then Saul, who was nam'd likewise Paul, full of the holy spirit, look'd fixedly upon him,"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 13, "verse": "10", "text": "and said, \"thou heap of imposture and mischief, offspring of the devil, and enemy to all justice, wilt thou not cease to pervers men from the right ways of the Lord?"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 13, "verse": "11", "text": "his hand is falling upon thee, thou shalt be blind, and not see the sun for some time.\" immediately his eyes were covered with obscurity and darkness; so that he grop'd about for somebody to lead him by the hand."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 13, "verse": "12", "text": "the proconsul seeing the fact, embraced the faith, being struck with admiration of the christian doctrine. In Pisidian Antioch"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 13, "verse": "13", "text": "after which Paul and his company set out from Paphos to Perga in Pamphilia, where John quitted them in order to return to Jerusalem."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 13, "verse": "14", "text": "From Perga they went to Antioch in Pisidia, and going to the synagogue on the sabbath-day, they took their places,"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 13, "verse": "15", "text": "and after the lesson out of the law and the prophets was finish'd, the heads of the synagogue sent this message to them; Men and brethren, if you have any instruction to offer to the people, deliver it."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 13, "verse": "16", "text": "thereupon Paul stood up, and having made sign with his hand for their attention, he said, men of Israel, and ye that fear God, give audience."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 13, "verse": "17", "text": "the God of Israel made choice of our fathers, and exalted the people when they sojourn'd in Egypt, from whence he conducted them by the terror of his arm."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 13, "verse": "18", "text": "for forty years he maintain'd them in the wilderness."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 13, "verse": "19", "text": "after that he distributed to them by lot the territorys of seven nations, which he destroyed in Canaan."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 13, "verse": "20", "text": "after these transactions, which lasted about four hundred and fifty years, he gave them judges to the time of the prophet Samuel:"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 13, "verse": "21", "text": "when having demanded a king, God gave them Saul the son of Cis, of the tribe of Benjamin: the government of both having lasted forty years,"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 13, "verse": "22", "text": "God removed Saul, and rais'd up David to be their king, to whom he gave this testimonial, \" I have found David the son of Jesse: he is a man most acceptable to me, and he will execute all my orders.\""}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 13, "verse": "23", "text": "it is of his posterity that God, pursuant to his promise, has rais'd up Jesus to be the saviour of Israel."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 13, "verse": "24", "text": "before his appearance, John had preach'd the baptism of repentance to all the people of Israel."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 13, "verse": "25", "text": "and in the discharge of his mission, he said, \"who do you think I am? I am not the Messias, but there comes another after me, whose shoes I am not worthy to untie.\""}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 13, "verse": "26", "text": "It is to you, my brethren, who are the children of Abraham, and to all who fear God among you, that this salutary news is sent."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 13, "verse": "27", "text": "as for the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and their senators, by their not knowing who he was, and by condemning him, they have accomplished the declarations of the prophets, which are read every sabbath-day:"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 13, "verse": "28", "text": "although they could not convict him of any thing capital, yet they demanded of Pilate, that he should be put to death."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 13, "verse": "29", "text": "after they had accomplished all that was written concerning him, he was taken down from the cross, and laid in a sepulchre:"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 13, "verse": "30", "text": "but God raised him from the dead:"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 13, "verse": "31", "text": "and for many days he was seen by those, who had accompany'd him from Galilee to Jerusalem: and they are now his witnesses to the people."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 13, "verse": "32", "text": "to you therefore we declare, that the promise which God had made to the fathers, he has now perform'd to us, who are their children, by his having raised up Jesus again."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 13, "verse": "33", "text": "agreeable to what is written in the first psalm, \"thou art my son, this day have I begotten thee.\""}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 13, "verse": "34", "text": "and to show that he rais'd him from the dead, never more to return to corruption, he said thus, \"I will faithfully perform the promises, which I made to David.\""}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 13, "verse": "35", "text": "wherefore in another place he says, \"thou shalt not suffer thy holy one to see corruption.\""}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 13, "verse": "36", "text": "for David, after he had serv'd in his time the designs of providence, died and was buryed with his fathers, and was subject to corruption."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 13, "verse": "37", "text": "but he, whom God hath raised, was not subject to corruption."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 13, "verse": "38", "text": "know then, my brethren, it is by him, that the remission of sins is offer'd to you:"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 13, "verse": "39", "text": "by him, every one who believes, is purged from all that guilt, for which the law of Moses had made no such provision."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 13, "verse": "40", "text": "take care then, that what the prophets predicted may not happen to you,"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 13, "verse": "41", "text": "\"consider you despisers, be surpriz'd and turn pale, for I shall perform a work in your days, which you will not believe, whoever shall declare it unto you.\" A Light for the Gentiles"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 13, "verse": "42", "text": "When Paul and Barnabas were gone out of the Jewish synagogue, the Gentiles desired them to entertain them on the same subject, the following sabbath."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 13, "verse": "43", "text": "when the assembly was separated, many Jews and religious proselytes followed after, to whom the apostles address'd themselves, and exhorted them to persevere in the divine dispensation."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 13, "verse": "44", "text": "The next sabbath-day almost the whole city assembled to hear the word of God."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 13, "verse": "45", "text": "when the Jews saw such a crowd, they were fill'd with resentment, and oppos'd what Paul had advanc'd, even to blasphemy."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 13, "verse": "46", "text": "but Paul and Barnabas told them boldly, you indeed were the first, to whom the word of God was to be preach'd: but since you reject it, and judge your own selves unworthy of eternal life, be assur'd, we shall make the same offer to the Gentiles:"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 13, "verse": "47", "text": "for thus has the Lord commanded us, \"I have appointed you to be a light to the Gentiles, that you should bring salvation to the remotest parts of the earth.\""}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 13, "verse": "48", "text": "when the Gentiles heard this, they received the word with joy, glorifying the Lord: and as many as were dispos'd to eternal life, believed."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 13, "verse": "49", "text": "and the word of the Lord spread through the whole country."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 13, "verse": "50", "text": "but the Jews having animated the women of quality of their religion, and the leading men of the city, raised a persecution against Paul and Barnabas, and banish'd them from their territorys."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 13, "verse": "51", "text": "so they shook off the dust of their feet against them, and went to Iconium."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 13, "verse": "52", "text": "and the disciples were filled with joy, and with the holy spirit."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 14, "verse": "1", "text": "Being arriv'd at Iconium, they went both together to the Jewish synagogue, where they discours'd in such a manner, that a great number both of Jews and of Greeks believed."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 14, "verse": "2", "text": "but the disbelieving Jews practis'd upon the Gentiles, and inflam'd their minds against the brethren."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 14, "verse": "3", "text": "however the apostles stay'd there a considerable time, being inspir'd with great resolution by the Lord, who gave his attestation to the evangelical doctrine, by the prodigys and miracles, which he did by their hands."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 14, "verse": "4", "text": "so that the people of the city were divided, some siding with the Jews, and others with the apostles."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 14, "verse": "5", "text": "upon this the Gentiles and the Jews, supported by their magistrates, made an insurrection in order to use violence against them, and even to stone them:"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 14, "verse": "6", "text": "of which they were appriz'd, and fled to Lystra and Derbe, citys of Lycaonia, and to the adjacent country,"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 14, "verse": "7", "text": "where they preach'd the gospel. The Visit to Lystra and Derbe"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 14, "verse": "8", "text": "Now at Lystra there was a man, who could not stand upon his feet, he was born a cripple, and had never walked about."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 14, "verse": "9", "text": "one day he heard Paul preach, who fixing his eyes upon him, and perceiving that he expected to be cured,"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 14, "verse": "10", "text": "he said to him aloud, rise and stand right upon your feet: upon which he leap'd up and walk'd."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 14, "verse": "11", "text": "When the people saw what Paul had done, they cry'd out in the Lycaonian tongue, the Gods have assum'd a human form, and are descended among us."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 14, "verse": "12", "text": "Barnabas, they stiled Jupiter; and Paul, Mercury, because he was the chief speaker."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 14, "verse": "13", "text": "even the priest of Jupiter, whose statue was at the city-gates, brought oxen and garlands there, and together with the people, would have offer'd sacrifice to the apostles."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 14, "verse": "14", "text": "but Paul and Barnabas being appriz'd of it, tore their clothes, and throwing themselves among the crowd,"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 14, "verse": "15", "text": "cry'd out, \"sirs, what are you going to do? we are but men as well as you, and we exhort you to renounce these vanities, and turn to the living God, who made the heaven, the earth and the sea, and all that they contain:"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 14, "verse": "16", "text": "who in past ages has let all Nations proceed in their own ways."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 14, "verse": "17", "text": "nevertheless he sufficiently display'd himself by his beneficence to mankind, in giving us rain from heaven, and fruitful seasons, replenishing our hearts with food and gladness.\""}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 14, "verse": "18", "text": "but whatever they could say, it was with difficulty that they restrain'd the people from sacrificing to them."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 14, "verse": "19", "text": "Now some Jews being arriv'd from Antioch and Iconium, work'd so upon the people, that they stoned Paul, and dragg'd him out of the city, supposing he had been dead."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 14, "verse": "20", "text": "but the disciples being gather'd about him, he rose up and went into the city, from whence he departed the next day with Barnabas to go to Derbe. Strengthening the Disciples"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 14, "verse": "21", "text": "After they had preach'd the gospel in that city, and made many disciples, they retook the road to Lystra, Iconium and Antioch,"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 14, "verse": "22", "text": "encouraging the disciples, exhorting them to persevere in the faith, representing that it is thro' much tribulation that we must enter into the kingdom of God."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 14, "verse": "23", "text": "and after they had by prayers and fastings establish'd Pastors for them in every church, they recommended them to the Lord in whom they had believed."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 14, "verse": "24", "text": "at length they pass'd thro' Pisidia, and came to Pamphilia:"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 14, "verse": "25", "text": "and having preach'd the word in Perga, they went to Attalia:"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 14, "verse": "26", "text": "from thence they sailed to Antioch, where they had been recommended to the favour of God, for the commission, which they had now discharg'd."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 14, "verse": "27", "text": "when they were arrived, and had assembled the Church, they related what great things God had wrought by them, and how he had opened the door of faith to the Gentiles:"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 14, "verse": "28", "text": "and they resided there a considerable time with the disciples."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 15, "verse": "1", "text": "However some that arrived from Judea, told the Gentile converts, unless you are circumcised agreeably to the law of Moses, you cannot be saved."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 15, "verse": "2", "text": "upon which Paul and Barnabas having warmly contested the point with them, it was resolved, that Paul and Barnabas and some others should go to Jerusalem to consult the apostles upon this question."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 15, "verse": "3", "text": "so they set out, accompanied part of the way by the church, and pass'd thro' Phenicia and Samaria, relating the conversion of the Gentiles, which gave great joy to all the brethren."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 15, "verse": "4", "text": "and being arrived at Jerusalem, they were receiv'd by the church, by the apostles, and presbyters, to whom they related all that God had done by them. The Council at Jerusalem ( Galatians 2:1–10 )"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 15, "verse": "5", "text": "but some of the sect of the Pharisees who had embraced the faith, started up, pretending that the Gentiles ought to be circumcised, and observe the law of Moses."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 15, "verse": "6", "text": "The apostles therefore, and the presbyters assembled to deliberate upon this affair."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 15, "verse": "7", "text": "and after the question had been much canvass'd, Peter rose up, and said, my brethren, you know that a considerable time since God chose me from among you to preach the gospel to the Gentiles, and bring them to the faith."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 15, "verse": "8", "text": "God who knows their hearts has granted them a testimonial, by giving them the holy spirit, even as he did to us:"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 15, "verse": "9", "text": "making no difference between us and them, having purified their hearts by the faith."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 15, "verse": "10", "text": "why therefore do you tempt God to put a yoke upon the neck of the disciples, which neither we nor our forefathers were able to bear?"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 15, "verse": "11", "text": "but we believe that it is by the favour of the Lord Jesus Christ, that we are to be sav'd, as well as they."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 15, "verse": "12", "text": "The whole assembly were very silent, whilst Barnabas and Paul related what miracles and prodigies God had wrought among the Gentiles by their ministry."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 15, "verse": "13", "text": "After they had done speaking, James assum'd the discourse, and said, my brethren, give me your attention."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 15, "verse": "14", "text": "Simon has related how God began to visit the Gentiles, to chuse from among them a people consecrated to his name."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 15, "verse": "15", "text": "and this is agreeable to the oracles of the prophets: as it is written,"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 15, "verse": "16", "text": "\"after this I will return and build again the tabernacle of David, which is fallen down:"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 15, "verse": "17", "text": "I will repair its ruins, and raise it up: that the rest of mankind, even all the nations, that profess my name, may seek the Lord."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 15, "verse": "18", "text": "he that does all these things, is the Lord himself that has said it.\" for the works of God are all known to him from the beginning of the world."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 15, "verse": "19", "text": "wherefore my opinion is not to disquiet the Gentile converts: but only to write to them,"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 15, "verse": "20", "text": "that they abstain from the pollutions of idols, from fornication, from animals that are strangled, and from their blood."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 15, "verse": "21", "text": "for as to the law of Moses, that has been published in every city a considerable time, being read in the synagogues every sabbath-day. The Letter to the Gentile Believers"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 15, "verse": "22", "text": "Then the apostles, the presbyters, and the whole church thought it proper to select some out of their own body to accompany Paul and Barnabas to Antioch: such as Judas surnam'd Barsabas, and Silas, leading men among the brethren,"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 15, "verse": "23", "text": "whom they charg'd with this letter. The apostles, the presbyters, and the brethren, to the Gentile brethren at Antioch, in Syria, and Cilicia, send greeting."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 15, "verse": "24", "text": "Whereas we have been appriz'd, that some who went from us, have embarass'd you with their discourse, and unsettled your minds, maintaining, that you ought to be circumcised, and to observe the law, though we gave them no such injunction: after having been assembled,"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 15, "verse": "25", "text": "we unanimously judg'd it proper to send particular deputies to you, with our beloved Barnabas and Paul,"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 15, "verse": "26", "text": "men that have exposed their lives for the name of our Lord Jesus Christ."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 15, "verse": "27", "text": "we therefore send Judas and Silas to inform you in person of this affair."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 15, "verse": "28", "text": "for by the holy spirit it seemed good to us, to lay no greater burthen upon you, than these necessary injunctions;"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 15, "verse": "29", "text": "that you abstain from what has been sacrificed to idols, from blood, from the flesh of strangled animals, and from fornication: you will do well to preserve your selves from these practices, farewel. The Believers at Antioch Rejoice"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 15, "verse": "30", "text": "Being thus dispatch'd, they went to Antioch; where having assembled all the faithful, they deliver'd the letter: from the reading of which,"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 15, "verse": "31", "text": "they were affected with joy at the comfortable contents, as for Judas and Silas,"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 15, "verse": "32", "text": "they being also prophets, they consolated and confirm'd the brethren by several discourses."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 15, "verse": "33", "text": "and after they had stay'd there some time, with the good wishes of the brethren, they had leave to go to the apostles."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 15, "verse": "34", "text": "however Silas thought fit to stay at Antioch,"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 15, "verse": "35", "text": "where Paul and Barnabas continued, teaching and preaching the doctrine of the Lord, with many others. Paul’s Second Missionary Journey Begins ( Acts 13:1–3 ; Acts 18:23–28 )"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 15, "verse": "36", "text": "Some time after, Paul said to Barnabas, let us return to visit all those cities, where we have preach'd the word of the Lord, to see what condition the brethren are in."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 15, "verse": "37", "text": "upon which Barnabas propos'd to take John surnam'd Mark, with them."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 15, "verse": "38", "text": "but Paul did not think it proper to take one that had quitted them at Pamphylia, refusing to accompany them in their ministry."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 15, "verse": "39", "text": "and the contention was so sharp between them, that they separated: so Barnabas took Mark, and sailed to Cyprus."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 15, "verse": "40", "text": "but Paul chose Silas, and having been recommended by the brethren to the favour of God,"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 15, "verse": "41", "text": "he departed, and passing through Syria and Cilicia, he settled the churches there."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 16, "verse": "1", "text": "Paul arrived then at Derbe and Lystra, where there was a disciple named Timothy, whose mother was a Jewish convert, but his father a Greek."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 16, "verse": "2", "text": "as the brethren of Lystra and Iconium gave him a good character, Paul had a mind he should accompany him."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 16, "verse": "3", "text": "so he took him and had him circumcised, out of regard to the Jews of that country, who all knew his father was a Greek."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 16, "verse": "4", "text": "as they pass'd through the cities, they recommended it to the faithful to observe the decisions, made by the apostles and presbyters at Jerusalem."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 16, "verse": "5", "text": "thus were the churches established in the faith, and daily grew more numerous. Paul’s Vision of the Macedonian"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 16, "verse": "6", "text": "but after they had travers'd Phrygia and Galatia, they were order'd by the holy spirit not to preach the gospel in Asia:"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 16, "verse": "7", "text": "being therefore arrived in Mysia, they essayed to go into Bithynia, but the spirit of Jesus would not allow it: so they pass'd by Mysia,"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 16, "verse": "8", "text": "and came to Troas."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 16, "verse": "9", "text": "there Paul had a vision in the night, a Macedonian appear'd to him, and thus address'd him, \"pass on to Macedonia, and come to our relief.\""}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 16, "verse": "10", "text": "immediately after he had had this vision, we endeavoured to go into Macedonia, concluding from thence, that the Lord had called us to publish the gospel there, we embark'd therefore at Troas, Lydia’s Conversion in Philippi ( Revelation 2:18–29 )"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 16, "verse": "11", "text": "and sail'd directly to Samothracia, and the next day landed at Neapolis."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 16, "verse": "12", "text": "from thence we marched to Philippi, the chief city of that part of Macedonia, and a colony, having stopp'd there some days,"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 16, "verse": "13", "text": "we went out of town on the sabbath towards the river, where the Jews were allowed to have an oratory."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 16, "verse": "14", "text": "so we took our places, and convers'd with the women, that came there, one of them was nam'd Lydia of Thyatira, a trader in purple, and a Jewish proselyte, she heard us: and the Lord inclin'd her heart to attend to what Paul said."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 16, "verse": "15", "text": "so that having been baptized with her family, she made us this request, if you think me sincere in my profession, pray come and lodge at my house; and she prevail'd upon us. Paul and Silas Imprisoned"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 16, "verse": "16", "text": "One day as we went to the oratory, we happen'd to meet a slave, who had the spirit Python, and was very gainful to her masters by telling of fortunes."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 16, "verse": "17", "text": "as she followed Paul and the rest of us, she cried out, these men are the servants of the most high God, who show you the way to salvation."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 16, "verse": "18", "text": "this she did for several days, till Paul tir'd with it turn'd about, and said to the spirit, in the name of Jesus Christ I command you to quit her; and instantly he came out."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 16, "verse": "19", "text": "her masters finding they had lost such a prospect of gain, seized upon Paul and Silas, and hawl'd them to the publick place before the magistrates."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 16, "verse": "20", "text": "having presented them to the Officers, they said, these men, who are Jews, raise great disorders in our city, and preach such maxims,"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 16, "verse": "21", "text": "as it is not lawful for Romans, as we are, to admit or practise."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 16, "verse": "22", "text": "upon this the populace rose upon them, and the Officers order'd them to be stript and scourg'd."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 16, "verse": "23", "text": "after they had been severely lash'd, they were thrown into prison, the jayler being charg'd to keep them safe."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 16, "verse": "24", "text": "in consequence of this order he thrust them into the inner prison, and made their feet fast in the stocks. The Conversion of the Jailer"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 16, "verse": "25", "text": "At midnight Paul and Silas went to prayers, and sang praises to God, which the other prisoners heard:"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 16, "verse": "26", "text": "when all of a sudden there was such a great earthquake, that the foundations of the prison were shaken: immediately all the doors opened, and the setters dropp'd from the prisoners."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 16, "verse": "27", "text": "the jayler waking, and seeing the prison-doors open, drew his sword, designing to dispatch himself from the apprehension that the prisoners had escaped."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 16, "verse": "28", "text": "but Paul call'd to him aloud, and said, do thy self no harm, for we are all here."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 16, "verse": "29", "text": "then having called for a light, he ran in, and with trembling fell down before Paul and Silas;"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 16, "verse": "30", "text": "and bringing them out, he said, sirs, what must I do to be saved?"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 16, "verse": "31", "text": "believe, said they, on the Lord Jesus, and you shall be saved, you, and your family."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 16, "verse": "32", "text": "then they declared the word of the Lord to him, and to all his family."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 16, "verse": "33", "text": "at the same time of night he washed their stripes, and immediately he was baptized, he, and all that belong'd to him."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 16, "verse": "34", "text": "then he conducted them to his house, and gave them an entertainment; and he and his family were affected with joy, for having believed in God. An Official Apology"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 16, "verse": "35", "text": "When it was day the officers sent their serjeants to bid the jayler let the men go."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 16, "verse": "36", "text": "so the jayler told Paul, the magistrates had order'd them to be discharg'd, depart then, said he, and go in peace."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 16, "verse": "37", "text": "but Paul replied, they have publickly scourg'd us, who are Romans, without any trial, they have thrown us into jayl, and now do they give us a private discharge? no, let them come themselves and release us."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 16, "verse": "38", "text": "the serjeants having reported what he said, to their officers, they began to be apprehensive upon hearing they were Romans."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 16, "verse": "39", "text": "so they came, and by persuasions brought them out, and desired them to leave the city."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 16, "verse": "40", "text": "then they quitted the prison, and went to Lydia's house, where finding the brethren, they gave them an exhortation, and departed."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 17, "verse": "1", "text": "Having pass'd thro' Amphipolis and Apollonia, they arriv'd at Thessalonica, where there was a synagogue."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 17, "verse": "2", "text": "Paul, as was his custom, us'd to go there, and for three sabbath-days discours'd to the Jews from the scriptures,"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 17, "verse": "3", "text": "explaining them, and setting it to view, that the Messiah was to suffer and rise again from the dead: and that Jesus, whom he denounc'd to them, was that very Messiah."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 17, "verse": "4", "text": "Some of them believed, and join'd themselves to Paul and Silas, besides a great number of Greek proselytes, and several women of distinction."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 17, "verse": "5", "text": "but the unbelieving Jews thro' envy, by the assistance of some loose strolers, rais'd a mob, set the whole city in an uproar, and attack'd Jason's house, thinking to find them there, and deliver them up to the populace."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 17, "verse": "6", "text": "but not finding them, they dragg'd Jason and some of the brethren to the magistrates, crying out, these that have been every where the disturbers of the publick peace, are come hither also, and have been entertain'd by Jason."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 17, "verse": "7", "text": "they all act in defiance of the edicts of Cesar, pretending there is another king, one Jesus."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 17, "verse": "8", "text": "the people, and the magistrates upon hearing this were alarm'd:"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 17, "verse": "9", "text": "however having oblig'd Jason and the rest to give security, they let them go. The Character of the Bereans"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 17, "verse": "10", "text": "Immediately the brethren sent away Paul and Silas by night to Berea, where being arriv'd, they went into the synagogue."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 17, "verse": "11", "text": "the Jews there were of a more generous temper than those of Thessalonica: for they very readily embrac'd their doctrine, and daily examin'd, whether it was conformable to the scriptures."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 17, "verse": "12", "text": "so that many of them believed, besides a considerable number of women of distinction, and of men, that were Greeks."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 17, "verse": "13", "text": "but when the Jews of Thessalonica were inform'd that Paul had preached the word of God at Berea, they went thither to stir up the populace."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 17, "verse": "14", "text": "Upon this the brethren immediately sent Paul away to the sea-coast, but Silas and Timothy staid there."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 17, "verse": "15", "text": "however Paul's guides attended him to Athens: where they left him, after having received his orders for Silas and Timothy to come to him with all speed. Paul in Athens"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 17, "verse": "16", "text": "While Paul was expecting them at Athens, he was grieved to the soul to see the whole city o'er-spread with idols."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 17, "verse": "17", "text": "he disputed therefore in the synagogue with the Jews, and the proselyted Greeks: and in the publick place daily with those he met."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 17, "verse": "18", "text": "there certain Epicurean and Stoick philosophers encountred him: \"what does this mountebank mean?\" said some: \"he seems to proclaim some strange deitys,\" said others: because he talk'd to them of Jesus and the resurrection."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 17, "verse": "19", "text": "One day they conducted him to the Areopagus, and said to him, may we know what this new doctrine is, which you publish?"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 17, "verse": "20", "text": "for what you say sounds so very strange, we should be glad to know what it means."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 17, "verse": "21", "text": "now the Athenians, and the foreigners residing at Athens generally amus'd themselves about nothing, but hearing and spreading of news. Paul’s Address in the Areopagus"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 17, "verse": "22", "text": "Then Paul being plac'd in the middle of the Areopagus, said thus, \"I observe, O Athenians, that you are in a manner too devout."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 17, "verse": "23", "text": "for considering, as I pass'd along, the deitys, which you adore, I met with an altar that had this inscription, TO THE UNKNOWN GOD, now that GOD whom you worship without knowing him, is the same that I denounce to you."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 17, "verse": "24", "text": "the GOD who made the world and every thing therein, and is the Lord of heaven and earth, does not dwell in temples erected by men:"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 17, "verse": "25", "text": "he receives no service from their officiousness: he is self-sufficient: it is he that gives to all their life and breath and every thing they have."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 17, "verse": "26", "text": "he he has deduced all mankind from one parent, to inhabit the surface of the whole earth, having pre-establish'd the appointed periods, and the boundarys of their dominions:"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 17, "verse": "27", "text": "by which they might enquire, and by due reflection investigate the supreme being, although he be not far from every one of us: for in him we live,"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 17, "verse": "28", "text": "are moved, and do exist: even as some of your own poets have said, WE ARE EVEN HIS OFFSPRING."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 17, "verse": "29", "text": "since then we are the offspring of God, we should not imagine that the Deity bears any resemblance to the form which Gold, or Silver, or Stone has receiv'd from human art and industry."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 17, "verse": "30", "text": "God has been pleas'd to over-look this state of ignorance: but now he enjoins all men every where to repent:"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 17, "verse": "31", "text": "because he has fix'd the day, when he will judge in equity, by that man, whom he has appointed thereto: of which he has given full proof to all the world, by having raised him from the dead.\""}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 17, "verse": "32", "text": "When they heard of the resurrection of the dead, some made it a matter of ridicule: others said, we will hear you again upon this subject;"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 17, "verse": "33", "text": "upon which Paul left the assembly."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 17, "verse": "34", "text": "however, there were some who adher'd to him, as Denis the Areopagite, a woman named Damaris, and others with them."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 18, "verse": "1", "text": "After this Paul left Athens and arriv'd at Corinth:"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 18, "verse": "2", "text": "where having found a Jew nam'd Aquila, a native of Pontus, who lately came from Italy, with his wife Priscilla, because Claudius had order'd all the Jews to quit Rome; he went to them:"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 18, "verse": "3", "text": "and being of the same trade, he liv'd with them, and follow'd the business of tent-making, every sabbath he disputed in the synagogue,"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 18, "verse": "4", "text": "and try'd to gain upon the Jews and the Greek proselytes:"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 18, "verse": "5", "text": "and when Silas and Timothy were arriv'd from Macedonia, Paul with great concern remonstrated to the Jews, that Jesus was the Messiah:"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 18, "verse": "6", "text": "but as they oppos'd him with invectives, he shook his garment, and said, \"you your selves be answerable for your own destruction, I am clear: and for the future I shall address my self to the Gentiles.\""}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 18, "verse": "7", "text": "When he had left them, he went to the house of one Justus a proselyte to Judaism, who lived near the synagogue: however Crispus,"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 18, "verse": "8", "text": "the chief ruler of the synagogue, believed on the Lord with all his family, as well as many of the Corinthians, who heard Paul, and were baptized."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 18, "verse": "9", "text": "then the Lord said to Paul in a vision by night, \"be not afraid, but speak, and be not silenc'd:"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 18, "verse": "10", "text": "(since I am with thee, and no man shall lift up his hand so as to hurt thee:) for my people in this city are numerous.\""}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 18, "verse": "11", "text": "so he continued there a year and a half preaching the word of God among them. Paul before Gallio"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 18, "verse": "12", "text": "When Gallio was proconsul of Achaia, the Jews made a general insurrection against Paul, and carry'd him to his tribunal."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 18, "verse": "13", "text": "this fellow, said they, would persuade us to set up a way of worship inconsistent with our law."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 18, "verse": "14", "text": "and when Paul was going to speak, Gallio said to the Jews, \"if it were a matter of some injustice or something immoral, O Jews, it would be reasonable to hear you out."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 18, "verse": "15", "text": "but since it is about disputable matters, about names, and your own law, you may decide that among yourselves: for I won't take cognizance of such affairs.\""}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 18, "verse": "16", "text": "upon which he order'd them to withdraw."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 18, "verse": "17", "text": "but the Greeks in a body fell upon Sosthenes the chief ruler of the synagogue, and beat him before the tribunal: whilst Gallio was unconcern'd about the matter. Paul Returns to Antioch"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 18, "verse": "18", "text": "Paul still continued a considerable time at Corinth, and then taking his leave of the brethren, he set sail for Syria, with Priscilla and Aquila, who had his head shav'd in Cenchrea upon account of a vow."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 18, "verse": "19", "text": "being arriv'd at Ephesus, he left them there, and went himself to the synagogue, where he disputed with the Jews,"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 18, "verse": "20", "text": "who desired him to stay longer with them, but he would not consent to it: for,"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 18, "verse": "21", "text": "said he, in taking his leave, I must necessarily keep the approaching feast at Jerusalem: after which I will return to you if God permit."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 18, "verse": "22", "text": "having sail'd from Ephesus, he went ashore at Cesarea, where he saluted the church, and then proceeded to Antioch. Paul’s Third Missionary Journey Begins ( Acts 13:1–3 ; Acts 15:36–41 )"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 18, "verse": "23", "text": "after he had stay'd there some time, he departed and pass'd through all Galatia and Phrygia, where he encourag'd the disciples."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 18, "verse": "24", "text": "In the mean time a Jew, nam'd Apollos, born at Alexandria, a man of letters, and vers'd in the scriptures, arriv'd at Ephesus."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 18, "verse": "25", "text": "he had been instructed in the doctrine of the gospel, and being full of zeal, he harangued with great assiduity about what related to Jesus, though he had been only instituted in the baptism of John."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 18, "verse": "26", "text": "having talk'd with great freedom in the synagogue, Aquila and Priscilla, who had heard him, invited him home, and gave him a more distinct view of the gospel."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 18, "verse": "27", "text": "and being determin'd to pass into Achaia, the brethren who advis'd him to it, writ to the disciples to receive him, when he was arrived, he was, by the divine favour, very useful to those, who had receiv'd the faith."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 18, "verse": "28", "text": "for he strenuously disputed with the Jews in publick, proving from the scriptures that Jesus was the Messiah."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 19, "verse": "1", "text": "Whilst Apollos was at Corinth, Paul, having pass'd through the upper provinces of Asia, arrived at Ephesus, where finding some disciples, he said to them,"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 19, "verse": "2", "text": "did you receive the holy spirit, when you made profession of your faith? they answer'd, we have not so much as heard of a holy spirit."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 19, "verse": "3", "text": "what baptism then, said he, did you receive? they replied, the baptism of John."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 19, "verse": "4", "text": "upon which Paul said, John indeed administer'd the baptism of repentance, but with this admonition, that they should believe in him, who was to come after, that is, in Jesus the Messias."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 19, "verse": "5", "text": "when they heard this, they were initiated by baptism into the christian profession."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 19, "verse": "6", "text": "and Paul having given them imposition of hands, the holy spirit came upon them, and they spoke foreign languages, and prophesied:"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 19, "verse": "7", "text": "the number of them being about twelve. Paul Ministers in Ephesus ( Ephesians 1:1–2 ; Revelation 2:1–7 )"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 19, "verse": "8", "text": "At length Paul went to the synagogue, where he spoke with great freedom, and for three months he conferr'd with them to persuade them of the truth of the evangelical kingdom."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 19, "verse": "9", "text": "but some of them being such obdurate infidels as to inveigh against the institution before the populace, he retired, and taking the disciples with him, he instructed them daily in the school of one Tyrannus."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 19, "verse": "10", "text": "this he continued for two years; so that the Jews and proselytes of that part of Asia heard the doctrine of the Lord Jesus."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 19, "verse": "11", "text": "the miracles which God wrought by the ministry of Paul being of such an extraordinary nature, that by applying the handkerchiefs,"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 19, "verse": "12", "text": "or aprons that had touch'd his skin, to the distemper'd, they were cured, and the evil spirits came out of the possessed. Seven Sons of Sceva"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 19, "verse": "13", "text": "Upon this, certain vagabond Jews, who were exorcists, pretended to cure demoniacs by pronouncing the name of the Lord Jesus: their form being this, \"I adjure you by Jesus whom Paul preaches.\""}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 19, "verse": "14", "text": "these practitioners were seven in number, the sons of Sceva a Jew, one of the chief priests."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 19, "verse": "15", "text": "but the evil spirit said to them, \"Jesus I know, and Paul I know; but who are ye?\""}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 19, "verse": "16", "text": "the man who was possess'd immediately leapt upon them, got the better, and used them so roughly, they were forc'd to fly out of the house, cover'd with nothing but their wounds."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 19, "verse": "17", "text": "this was known to all the Jews and Greeks, that liv'd at Ephesus, who were all seiz'd with fear, and the name of the Lord Jesus was exalted."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 19, "verse": "18", "text": "many that believed came to confess, and give an account of their past actions."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 19, "verse": "19", "text": "many that had practis'd magical arts, brought the books and publickly threw them into the fire: the value by computation amounting to fifty thousand pieces of silver."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 19, "verse": "20", "text": "thus the christian doctrine flourish'd and prevail'd. The Riot in Ephesus"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 19, "verse": "21", "text": "after this, Paul had a design to pass thro' Macedonia and Achaia in his way to Jerusalem: purposing when he had been there to make a visit to Rome."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 19, "verse": "22", "text": "he sent therefore Timothy and Erastus, two of his assistants in the ministry, before to Macedonia; but stay'd himself in Asia for some time."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 19, "verse": "23", "text": "It was then a tumult happen'd at Ephesus upon account of the christian sect."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 19, "verse": "24", "text": "for one Demetrius, a silver-smith, who made little models of Diana's temple, and so furnish'd a deal of employment to the workmen in that trade,"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 19, "verse": "25", "text": "summon'd the company, and thus address'd them, \"tho' you know, sirs, it is by this craft that we are in such plight,"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 19, "verse": "26", "text": "yet your own eyes and ears have inform'd you, that not only at Ephesus, but almost throughout all Asia, this Paul by his persuasions has turn'd the heads of a world of people, asserting, that these are Gods of our own making, and not really such."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 19, "verse": "27", "text": "so that not only our profession runs the risk of being vilified; but the temple of the great goddess Diana will be depreciated, and her majesty, so rever'd thro' all Asia, and the whole world, will be discarded.\""}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 19, "verse": "28", "text": "at these words, they were fir'd with indignation, and cry'd out, \"great is Diana of the Ephesians.\""}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 19, "verse": "29", "text": "and the whole city was fill'd with confusion: all crouded in a body to the theatre, dragging with them Gaius and Aristarchus, both of Macedonia, who had travell'd with Paul."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 19, "verse": "30", "text": "upon this Paul was bent upon going, to the populace,"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 19, "verse": "31", "text": "but was prevented by his disciples, and by the primates of Asia, who were his friends, and sent to desire he would not venture to the theatre:"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 19, "verse": "32", "text": "there the mob were in the utmost riot, some bawling out in one cry, some in another, and the greatest part at a loss to know why they were met."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 19, "verse": "33", "text": "at last Alexander was disengag'd from the croud, and accus'd by the Jews, then he waved his hand, desiring to make his defence before them all."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 19, "verse": "34", "text": "but when they knew he was a Jew, they cry'd out one and all for the space of two hours, \"great is Diana of the Ephesians.\""}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 19, "verse": "35", "text": "at length the town-clerk appeased the people, and thus began, \"who is there, O Ephesians, that does not know, that the city of Ephesus is the guardian of the temple of the great Diana, and of her statue, which fell from heaven:"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 19, "verse": "36", "text": "since this is incontestible, it behoves you to be easy, and free from any rash conduct:"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 19, "verse": "37", "text": "for the men you have brought here, have neither plunder'd your temples, nor inveigh'd against your goddess."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 19, "verse": "38", "text": "if Demetrius and the other artists, that are with him, can lay their action against any man, the law is open, and the proconsul is near; let them begin their process."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 19, "verse": "39", "text": "but if the contest be about other matters, it may be decided in a regular assembly."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 19, "verse": "40", "text": "for we run the risk of being answerable for this day's sedition: there being no justifiable occasion for such a commotion.\""}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 19, "verse": "41", "text": "having thus harangued them, he broke up the assembly."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 20, "verse": "1", "text": "This disturbance being over, Paul sent for the disciples, took his leave and departed for Macedonia."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 20, "verse": "2", "text": "after having visited the faithful in those parts, and given them many exhortations, he went to Greece."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 20, "verse": "3", "text": "there he stay'd three months; and then the Jews conspiring to surprize him at his embarkation for Syria, it was thought adviseable he should return thro' Macedonia. Sopater of Berea,"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 20, "verse": "4", "text": "Aristarchus and Secundus of Thessalonica, Gaius of Derby and Timothy, Tychicus and Trophimus both Asiatics, all accompanied him to Asia,"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 20, "verse": "5", "text": "and then advanc'd before and waited for us at Troas."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 20, "verse": "6", "text": "after the feast of unleaven'd bread we sail'd from Philippi, and in five days we join'd them at Troas, where we stay'd seven. Eutychus Revived at Troas"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 20, "verse": "7", "text": "on the first day of the week we assembled to break bread, when Paul, who was to depart on the morrow, gave them a sermon, which lasted till midnight."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 20, "verse": "8", "text": "in the upper chamber where we were assembled, several lamps were burning:"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 20, "verse": "9", "text": "and as Paul continued his discourse a great while, a young man, named Eutychus, who was sitting in the window, was seiz'd with a deep sleep, which quite o'er-came him; so that he fell down from the third story, and was taken up dead."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 20, "verse": "10", "text": "so Paul went down, and stooping over him, he embraced him, and said, don't trouble your selves; for his life is in him."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 20, "verse": "11", "text": "then Paul went up again, and having broken bread and eaten, he reassumed his discourse till break of day, and then departed."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 20, "verse": "12", "text": "but the young man was brought in alive and well, to the joy of the whole assembly. As for us, we embark'd, and sail'd to Assos, From Troas to Miletus"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 20, "verse": "13", "text": "where by appointment Paul was to be taken aboard, designing himself to go thither by land."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 20, "verse": "14", "text": "meeting with him at Assos, we took him in and arriv'd at Mitylene:"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 20, "verse": "15", "text": "from thence we bore away: the next day we came off Chios, and the day after we pass'd by Samos, landing at Trogyllium, and arrived at Miletus the next day."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 20, "verse": "16", "text": "for Paul had determined not to go ashore at Ephesus, to avoid losing time in Asia: because he was eager to get to Jerusalem, if possible, by the day of pentecost. Paul’s Farewell to the Ephesians"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 20, "verse": "17", "text": "At Miletus he sent a message to the pastors of the church at Ephesus, to come to him:"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 20, "verse": "18", "text": "and when they were arriv'd he told them, you know how I have always behav'd towards you from the first day of my arrival in Asia:"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 20, "verse": "19", "text": "how I have serv'd the Lord with all resignation, with tears, and trials occasion'd by the insidious practices of the Jews:"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 20, "verse": "20", "text": "that I have conceal'd nothing that might be useful to you, but have inform'd you of it, and instructed you therein, both in publick and in private:"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 20, "verse": "21", "text": "remonstrating both to Jews and Gentiles the advantages of a sincere repentance, and of believing"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 20, "verse": "22", "text": "in our Lord Jesus Christ, but now I am fix'd in my resolution to go to Jerusalem, without any apprehension of what may befal me there:"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 20, "verse": "23", "text": "save what the holy spirit in every city declares, \"that bonds and afflictions wait for me.\""}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 20, "verse": "24", "text": "things that little affect me, nor is life so much my concern, as to finish my course, and the charge I receiv'd from the Lord Jesus, to attest the declaration of the divine favour."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 20, "verse": "25", "text": "and now I am persuaded you will none of you see my face any more: whilst I have been among you, I have proclaim'd the kingdom of the Messias:"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 20, "verse": "26", "text": "I therefore declare to you at this present time, that I am not responsible for the ruin of any:"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 20, "verse": "27", "text": "for I have acquainted you with the whole dispensation of God without reserve."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 20, "verse": "28", "text": "be therefore upon your guard to secure your selves, and the whole flock over which the holy spirit has made you overseers, to feed the church of God, which he has purchased with his own blood."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 20, "verse": "29", "text": "for I know when I am gone, you will be oppress'd by wolves, that will not spare the flock."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 20, "verse": "30", "text": "nay, among your own body some will start up to vent their intricate conceits, and draw a number of followers."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 20, "verse": "31", "text": "be then upon the watch, and remember, that for three years I have not ceased by night, or by day to warn every soul of you, even with tears."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 20, "verse": "32", "text": "and now, my brethren, I recommend you to God, and to his gracious dispensation, which is able to improve you, and secure to you the inheritance with those who are sanctify'd."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 20, "verse": "33", "text": "I have not desir'd to get from any one either silver, or gold, or apparel."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 20, "verse": "34", "text": "you yourselves can witness, that what was necessary for myself and those who were with me, these very hands have supply'd."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 20, "verse": "35", "text": "my constant example has shown you that the disabled should be assisted by your labours, remembring the words of the Lord Jesus, who said, \"it is a greater happiness to give than to receive.\""}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 20, "verse": "36", "text": "After this discourse, he kneeled down, and prayed with them all."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 20, "verse": "37", "text": "then melted into tears, they fell upon his neck and kissed him,"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 20, "verse": "38", "text": "being more particularly afflicted at his having said, \"they should see his face no more.\" and then they conducted him to the ship."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 21, "verse": "1", "text": "After we were parted from them, and clear of land, we made directly for Cos, the next day to Rhodes, and from thence to Patara:"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 21, "verse": "2", "text": "where finding a vessel bound to Phoenicia, we went aboard, and put off."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 21, "verse": "3", "text": "having made Cyprus, leaving it to the North, we took our course to Syria, and landed at Tyre, where the ship was to unlade her cargo."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 21, "verse": "4", "text": "we staid seven days with the disciples we met there: who told Paul from the holy spirit, that he should not go to Jerusalem."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 21, "verse": "5", "text": "that time being ended, we departed, being conducted by them in a body with the women and children quite out of the city, where we kneeled down on the shore, and prayed."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 21, "verse": "6", "text": "then having taken our leave of one another, we embark'd and they went home."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 21, "verse": "7", "text": "From Tyre we sail'd to Ptolemais, which ended our voyage, we saluted the brethren there, and staid a day with them. Paul Visits Philip the Evangelist"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 21, "verse": "8", "text": "on the morrow we set out, and arriv'd at Cesarea, and went to the house of Philip the evangelist, with whom we lodg'd:"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 21, "verse": "9", "text": "he was one of the seven deacons, and had four daughters all virgins, prophetesses."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 21, "verse": "10", "text": "after we had been there several days, a prophet arriv'd from Judea, one Agabus, who made us a visit."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 21, "verse": "11", "text": "when taking Paul's girdle, he bound his own feet and hands, and said, \"thus saith the holy spirit, so shall the Jews at Jerusalem bind the man, that owns this girdle, and deliver him into the hands of the Gentiles.\""}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 21, "verse": "12", "text": "upon hearing this, we and some of the city intreated him not to go to Jerusalem."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 21, "verse": "13", "text": "but Paul replied, what do you mean by afflicting me thus with your tears? I am not only ready to meet my chains, but even to die at Jerusalem, for the name of the Lord Jesus."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 21, "verse": "14", "text": "he being then inflexible, we desisted, saying, the will of the Lord be done."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 21, "verse": "15", "text": "after this we prepar'd for our journey to Jerusalem."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 21, "verse": "16", "text": "some of the disciples of Cesarea accompany'd us, bringing with them one Mnason of Cyprus, an old disciple, at whose house we were to lodge. Paul’s Arrival at Jerusalem"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 21, "verse": "17", "text": "When we were arriv'd at Jerusalem, the brethren receiv'd us with joy."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 21, "verse": "18", "text": "the next day Paul went with us to James, where all the pastors assembled."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 21, "verse": "19", "text": "after having saluted them, he gave a particular account of what God had wrought by his ministry among the Gentiles."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 21, "verse": "20", "text": "upon hearing this, they gave glory to God: and thus address'd Paul, you see, brother, how many thousand believing Jews there are, all however zealous for the law."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 21, "verse": "21", "text": "now they have heard that you instruct the Jews that are among the Gentiles to abandon Moses, by telling them they must not circumcise their children, nor observe the establish'd rites."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 21, "verse": "22", "text": "what then is to be done? they will necessarily be all assembled, for they can't but hear, you are come."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 21, "verse": "23", "text": "yield then to our advice: there are four men here, who have made a vow:"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 21, "verse": "24", "text": "these take, and perform the rites of purification with them, contributing to the expence of having their heads shav'd: this will convince them, what has been reported of you, is all groundless, and that you stick to the observances of the law."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 21, "verse": "25", "text": "as for the believing Gentiles, we have given them by letter this decision, \"they need only take care to abstain from meats offered to idols, from blood, from the flesh of animals strangled, and from fornication.\""}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 21, "verse": "26", "text": "accordingly Paul went to the men, and the next day was purified with them; then entring into the temple, he declar'd how long the time of the purification was to last, and when the offering was to be made for each of them. Paul Seized at the Temple"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 21, "verse": "27", "text": "The seven days being almost expir'd, the Asiatic Jews seeing him in the temple, rais'd a tumult, and fell upon him,"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 21, "verse": "28", "text": "bawling out, \"men of Israel, help: this is the man that every where inveighs upon all occasions against the people, against the law, and against this place, where they have brought Greeks too to profane this holy place.\""}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 21, "verse": "29", "text": "(for having seen Trophimus an Ephesian with him in the city, they imagin'd Paul had conducted him into the temple.)"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 21, "verse": "30", "text": "the whole city was in an uproar, the people crouded together: they seized Paul, dragg'd him out of the temple, and then shut the gates."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 21, "verse": "31", "text": "as they were busy upon his execution, news came to the commander of the cohort, that the whole city was in an uproar."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 21, "verse": "32", "text": "immediately he headed a detachment, with his centurions, and march'd briskly to them; who, upon seeing the officer and his men, left off beating Paul."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 21, "verse": "33", "text": "the commander advanc'd, seiz'd him, and order'd to load him with two chains: then demanded who he was, and what he had done."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 21, "verse": "34", "text": "in the hubbub some cry'd one thing, some another: so that not being able to get any information for the tumult, he order'd him to be carried to the castle."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 21, "verse": "35", "text": "as he was mounting the stairs, the soldiers bore him up thro' the violence of the people, who were all pressing after,"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 21, "verse": "36", "text": "roaring out, \"away with him.\" Paul Addresses the Crowd"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 21, "verse": "37", "text": "just as he was entring into the castle, Paul said to the officer, may I be favour'd with a word? you can speak Greek then, said he?"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 21, "verse": "38", "text": "are not you the Egyptian, who lately made an insurrection at the head of four thousand banditti in the desart?"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 21, "verse": "39", "text": "Paul replied, I am a Jew of Tarsus in Cilicia, a citizen of that famous city: and I beg you would give me leave to speak to the people: which being granted,"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 21, "verse": "40", "text": "Paul then standing upon the stairs made a sign with his hand to the people, who being very silent, he rais'd his voice, and thus address'd them in the Hebrew tongue:"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 22, "verse": "1", "text": "My brethren, and fathers, pray hear what I have to say for my self."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 22, "verse": "2", "text": "when they perceiv'd he talk'd Hebrew, they were the more silent."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 22, "verse": "3", "text": "then he said, I am a Jew, a native of Tarsus in Cilicia, but had my education in this city: at the feet of Gamaliel I was instructed in the law, and in the exact decisions of our fathers, and was as religiously zealous as you are at this time."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 22, "verse": "4", "text": "for I persecuted this sect even to death, throwing them into chains and prisons both men and women:"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 22, "verse": "5", "text": "this the high-priest and the senate know too well: from them I receiv'd my warrant directed to the Jews of Damascus, where I went, to bring the converts there in chains to Jerusalem, in order to be punished."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 22, "verse": "6", "text": "as I was upon the road, advanc'd near Damascus, about mid-day, all of a sudden a great light from heaven broke all around me."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 22, "verse": "7", "text": "I fell to the ground, and heard a voice pronounce these words, \"Saul, Saul, why persecutest thou me?\""}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 22, "verse": "8", "text": "I answered, who art thou, Lord? it answered, \"I am Jesus the Nazarene whom thou dost persecute.\""}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 22, "verse": "9", "text": "the company actually saw the light, but did not hear the voice of him that spoke to me."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 22, "verse": "10", "text": "then I said, Lord, what must I do? and the Lord answer'd, arise, go to Damascus; there you will be inform'd what you are to do."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 22, "verse": "11", "text": "but as I had lost the use of my eyes by the splendor of that light, I was led by the hand to Damascus, by those who were with me."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 22, "verse": "12", "text": "there one Ananias a religious observer of the law, who had the good word of all the Jews in that place, came to see me,"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 22, "verse": "13", "text": "and being introduc'd, he said, brother Saul, receive thy sight, and instantly I saw him."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 22, "verse": "14", "text": "then he said, the God of our fathers has singled you out to be acquainted with his will, to see the just one, and to hear the words of his mouth:"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 22, "verse": "15", "text": "that you might testify to all men, what you have seen and heard."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 22, "verse": "16", "text": "why should you now delay? arise, be baptized, and cleansed from your sins, by invoking the name of the Lord."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 22, "verse": "17", "text": "at length being return'd to Jerusalem, one day as I was praying in the temple, I fell into a trance."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 22, "verse": "18", "text": "then I saw JESUS, who said to me, \"make haste, and go out of Jerusalem immediately: for they will not receive the attestations you would give of me.\" Lord,"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 22, "verse": "19", "text": "said I, they know it is I that imprison'd those who believed on thee, and caus'd them to be scourg'd in the assemblies:"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 22, "verse": "20", "text": "that I was present, when the blood of thy martyr Stephen was shed, that I abetted the slaughter, and watch'd the clothes of those who slew him."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 22, "verse": "21", "text": "but the Lord said to me, \"be gone, for I will send you far hence, even to the Gentiles.\" Paul the Roman Citizen"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 22, "verse": "22", "text": "Till that word, the Jews had given their attention, but then they broke out into a full cry, \"out of the world with such a fellow: for it is not fit he should live.\""}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 22, "verse": "23", "text": "thus they roar'd, and threw off their cloaks, and scatter'd dust in the air:"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 22, "verse": "24", "text": "when the commanding officer order'd him to be brought into the castle, and put to the question by the lash, in order to find out the reason of their exclamations against him."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 22, "verse": "25", "text": "as they were tying him with thongs, Paul said to the centurion, does the law allow to scourge a Roman citizen, and without any trial?"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 22, "verse": "26", "text": "upon hearing that, the centurion went to acquaint the head officer, take care, said he, what you do; for this man is a Roman."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 22, "verse": "27", "text": "then the head officer came to him, and said, tell me, are you a Roman?"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 22, "verse": "28", "text": "he answer'd, yes, the officer rejoin'd, my freedom cost me a considerable sum, but I had it, said Paul, by right of birth."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 22, "verse": "29", "text": "immediately those who were going to put him to the question, withdrew: the commander himself being under some apprehension for having order'd him to be bound."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 22, "verse": "30", "text": "as he was resolv'd to know for certain, the next day, what the Jews laid to his charge, he took off his chains, and summon'd the chief priests, and the council to appear, when Paul was brought, and presented before them."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 23, "verse": "1", "text": "Then Paul directing himself to the council, thus said, \"hitherto I have liv'd strictly conscientious, as God knows.\""}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 23, "verse": "2", "text": "at which the high priest Ananias order'd those that were near him to strike him on the face:"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 23, "verse": "3", "text": "which made Paul say, \"may God strike thee, thou plaister'd wall: you sit to judge me according to law, and in defiance of the law you order me to be struck!\""}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 23, "verse": "4", "text": "what, said the standers-by, do you revile the high priest of God?"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 23, "verse": "5", "text": "Paul replied, I did not consider, brethren, that he was the high priest, it is indeed written, \"thou shalt not speak evil of the ruler of thy people.\""}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 23, "verse": "6", "text": "But as Paul knew that one part of the Sanhedrim were Sadducees, and the other Pharisees, he cried out, my brethren, \"I am a Pharisee, the son of a Pharisee, and I am now prosecuted for believing the resurrection of the dead.\""}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 23, "verse": "7", "text": "at these words the Pharisees and the Sadducees were all in confusion, the whole assembly being divided:"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 23, "verse": "8", "text": "for the Sadducees maintain, there is neither resurrection, nor angel, or spirit, whereas the Pharisees acknowledge both: the clamour was great,"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 23, "verse": "9", "text": "and the Scribes taking part with the Pharisees, grew warm in the debate, and said, \"we find no harm in this man; perhaps a spirit or an angel has spoke to him.\""}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 23, "verse": "10", "text": "but the tumult growing worse, the tribune apprehensive that Paul might be torn to pieces among them, order'd detachment to secure him by force of arms, and bring him to the castle."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 23, "verse": "11", "text": "The night following, the Lord appear'd to him, and said, Paul, take courage; for the same remonstrances that you have made concerning me at Jerusalem, you must likewise make at Rome. The Plot to Kill Paul ( John 16:1–4 )"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 23, "verse": "12", "text": "when it was day, some Jews, that had form'd a conspiracy, engag'd themselves by an oath, not to eat, or drink, till they had kill'd Paul."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 23, "verse": "13", "text": "the conspirators, who were above forty in number,"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 23, "verse": "14", "text": "went to the chief priests and senators, and said, \"we have bound our selves by oath not to eat till we have slain Paul."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 23, "verse": "15", "text": "if you will move it then to the tribune in the name of the Sanhedrim, to send him here to-morrow, under colour of examining his affair with more solemnity, we shall take care to dispatch him, and make a short end of his journey.\""}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 23, "verse": "16", "text": "Paul's sister's son hearing of the ambuscade, went to the castle, and being admitted, told Paul;"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 23, "verse": "17", "text": "who having sent for one of the centurions, said, introduce this young man to the tribune, for he has something to communicate to him."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 23, "verse": "18", "text": "accordingly he went along with him, and having introduc'd him to the tribune, he said, Paul, who is in custody sent for me, and desired me to introduce this young man, who has something to tell you."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 23, "verse": "19", "text": "then the tribune taking him by the hand, retir'd with him in private, and ask'd, what he had to say."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 23, "verse": "20", "text": "the Jews, said he, have agreed to desire you would send Paul down to-morrow to the council, under the pretext of examining him more strictly."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 23, "verse": "21", "text": "but don't believe them: for above forty of them lie in ambush, having bound themselves by oath not to eat or drink till they have kill'd him: they are already prepar'd, and only wait your answer."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 23, "verse": "22", "text": "then the tribune dismiss'd the youth with this charge, don't tell any one, that you have given me this information. Paul Sent to Felix"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 23, "verse": "23", "text": "then calling two of his centurions, draw out, said he, two hundred foot, seventy horse, and two hundred archers, ready to march to Cesarea by the third hour of the night:"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 23, "verse": "24", "text": "let them take care to see Paul mounted, and convoy him safe to governour Felix."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 23, "verse": "25", "text": "at the same time he writ a letter to Felix to this purport."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 23, "verse": "26", "text": "CLAUDIUS LYSIAS to the most excellent governour FELIX wishes health."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 23, "verse": "27", "text": "The Jews having seiz'd this man, were just upon the point to dispatch him, when I march'd with a body to his rescue;"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 23, "verse": "28", "text": "having been informed he was a Roman, I had him brought before their Sanhedrim, to hear what crime they laid to his charge."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 23, "verse": "29", "text": "but I found their accusation turned upon certain topics of their law, and contain'd nothing that was capital, or that deserv'd imprisonment:"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 23, "verse": "30", "text": "and having intelligence that the Jews had form'd a conspiracy against him, I immediately sent him to you, directing his accusers to lay their charge before you, farewel."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 23, "verse": "31", "text": "The soldiers pursuant to order took Paul, and conducted him by night to Antipatris."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 23, "verse": "32", "text": "on the morrow they march'd back to the castle, having left him to the custody of the horse:"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 23, "verse": "33", "text": "who upon their arrival at Cesarea, delivered the letter to the governour, and presented Paul to him."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 23, "verse": "34", "text": "The governour having read the letter, ask'd Paul of what province he was, and being inform'd he was of Cilicia, you shall be heard,"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 23, "verse": "35", "text": "said he, when your accusers are come: and then order'd him to the guard-room at Herod's palace."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 24, "verse": "1", "text": "Five days after the sovereign pontiff Ananias arriv'd and some of the senators, who with one Tertullus a pleader, appear'd before the governour as plaintiffs against Paul."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 24, "verse": "2", "text": "so Paul was call'd, and Tertullus thus open'd the charge."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 24, "verse": "3", "text": "\"The happiness our nation enjoys, most noble Felix, by the wisdom of your administration, affects us too sensibly not to be acknowledg'd every where, and upon all occasions, with the utmost gratitude."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 24, "verse": "4", "text": "but not to trespass upon you too far, be pleas'd to hear what I have to say in brief, with your usual indulgence."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 24, "verse": "5", "text": "this man is known to be a pernicious fellow that goes about the world to raise seditions among the Jews: he is the ringleader of the sect of the Nazarenes,"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 24, "verse": "6", "text": "and has attempted to prophane the temple: we secur'd him, and would have try'd him by our law:"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 24, "verse": "7", "text": "but general Lysias interpos'd, and with open force took him out of our hands,"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 24, "verse": "8", "text": "ordering his accusers to appear before you, if you please to interrogate him yourself, you will find the whole charge to be truly laid.\""}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 24, "verse": "9", "text": "this the Jews confirm'd by declaring it was all fact. Paul’s Defense to Felix"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 24, "verse": "10", "text": "Then the governour sign'd to Paul to reply; who said, I enter upon my defence with the greater confidence, by considering you have govern'd this nation several years:"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 24, "verse": "11", "text": "possibly you are appriz'd, that it is not above twelve days since, that I went to Jerusalem to worship."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 24, "verse": "12", "text": "they neither found me in conference with any one in the temple, nor working up the people either in the assemblies or in the streets:"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 24, "verse": "13", "text": "so far are they from proving what they lay to my charge."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 24, "verse": "14", "text": "I do indeed own, that I serve the God of our nation according to the discipline they call sect: and believe whatever is written in the law and in the prophets."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 24, "verse": "15", "text": "I have the same expectations from the DEITY, which they themselves entertain, that of the resurrection both of the just and of the unjust."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 24, "verse": "16", "text": "and 'tis my endeavour to preserve a conscience free from reproach both with respect to God, and with respect to men."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 24, "verse": "17", "text": "after several years absence I came to Jerusalem, with contributions for my brethren, and oblations for the temple:"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 24, "verse": "18", "text": "there religiously employ'd some Asiatic Jews found me, without crowd or tumult:"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 24, "verse": "19", "text": "and here they ought to have appear'd, if they had any thing to object against me."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 24, "verse": "20", "text": "or let these now declare, if they could convict me of any misdemeanor, when I was brought before the Sanhedrim:"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 24, "verse": "21", "text": "unless it be, that I did indeed break out into this expression, it \"is for the resurrection of the dead, that I am now call'd into question.\" The Verdict Postponed"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 24, "verse": "22", "text": "Then Felix adjourn'd them, saying, I shall inform myself more particularly of this sect, and when general Lysias comes, I will give you a full hearing."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 24, "verse": "23", "text": "Felix then order'd a centurion to take Paul into his custody, without confining him so as to hinder his friends from waiting upon him."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 24, "verse": "24", "text": "some time after he came to Cesarea with his wife Drusilla, a Jewess, when sending for Paul, he heard him discourse about the Christian faith."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 24, "verse": "25", "text": "but as he was treating of justice, temperance, and a future judgment, Felix greatly alarm'd, said, \"withdraw for the present; and when I am at leisure, I will send for you.\""}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 24, "verse": "26", "text": "this he frequently did, and convers'd with him upon the presumption that Paul would have"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 24, "verse": "27", "text": "offer'd him mony in order to obtain his discharge, but two years after he was succeeded by Porcius Festus, who to oblige the Jews left Paul under confinement."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 25, "verse": "1", "text": "Three days after his arrival in the province, Festus went from Cesarea to Jerusalem:"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 25, "verse": "2", "text": "when the high priest and the chief of the Jews waited upon him with an information against Paul,"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 25, "verse": "3", "text": "\"desiring the favour he might be sent for to Jerusalem.\" they having prepar'd measures to assassinate him upon the road."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 25, "verse": "4", "text": "Festus answer'd, that Paul was in custody at Cesarea, where he design'd to be himself e'er long:"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 25, "verse": "5", "text": "the most considerable, said he, among you may go with me, and if he has committed any crime, let 'em begin the process."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 25, "verse": "6", "text": "Having staid above eight, nay ten days, he went to Cesarea, and on the morrow mounting the tribunal, he order'd Paul to be brought before him."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 25, "verse": "7", "text": "when he appear'd, the Jews, who were come from Jerusalem presented themselves before Festus, and loaded Paul with abundance of accusations, which they were not able to prove."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 25, "verse": "8", "text": "to this he answer'd, \"I have not been guilty of any misdemeanour, either against the law, or against the temple, or against Cesar.\""}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 25, "verse": "9", "text": "but Festus willing to oblige the Jews ask'd him, will you consent to go to Jerusalem, and take your trial before me there? Paul Appeals to Caesar"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 25, "verse": "10", "text": "\"I stand, said Paul, to the tribunal of Cesar, where I ought to be judged, to the Jews I have done no wrong, as you yourself very well know."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 25, "verse": "11", "text": "if I am guilty of any capital crime, I am contented to die, but since their accusations are all groundless, that I may not be sacrificed to their humour, I appeal to Cesar.\""}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 25, "verse": "12", "text": "upon this, Festus having deliberated with his council, answer'd, \"since you have appeal'd to Cesar, to Cesar you shall go.\" Festus Consults Agrippa"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 25, "verse": "13", "text": "Some days after, king Agrippa and Bernice came to Cesarea to make Festus a visit."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 25, "verse": "14", "text": "as they continued there for some time, Festus represented Paul's case to the king: Felix, said he, had left here a certain prisoner:"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 25, "verse": "15", "text": "and when I was at Jerusalem, the chief priests and senators of the Jews made their appearance, and demanded to have justice against him."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 25, "verse": "16", "text": "I told them, it was not the custom of the Romans to deliver up any man, till he was accus'd and confronted by his accusers, and had an opportunity of pleading to the charge."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 25, "verse": "17", "text": "the next day after they were come, to avoid delay, I mounted the tribunal, and order'd the man to be brought."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 25, "verse": "18", "text": "when his accusers appear'd, they did not charge him with any such crimes as I imagined they would."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 25, "verse": "19", "text": "they objected certain articles that related only to their superstition, and to one Jesus that was dead, but Paul asserted he was alive."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 25, "verse": "20", "text": "being at a loss how to determine such an affair, I ask'd him if he would go to Jerusalem, and take his tryal there."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 25, "verse": "21", "text": "but Paul having made his appeal, insisting to have his cause refer'd to the cognizance of the emperor, I order'd him into custody, till I could send him to Cesar."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 25, "verse": "22", "text": "thereupon Agrippa told Festus, he himself should be glad to hear the man, to-morrow, said Festus, you shall hear him. Paul before Agrippa and Bernice"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 25, "verse": "23", "text": "On the morrow Agrippa and Bernice came in great state, and being introduc'd into the court attended by the officers and the principal men of the city, Festus gave the word, and Paul was brought to the Bar."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 25, "verse": "24", "text": "then Festus said, \"King Agrippa, and you that are here present, you see the man, against whom a numerous body of the Jews have been practising with me both at Jerusalem, and in this city, urging with vehemence, that he should not be suffer'd to live."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 25, "verse": "25", "text": "but finding he had done nothing that deserv'd death, I have resolved to send him to the emperor, to whom he had appealed."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 25, "verse": "26", "text": "as I have no certain account to communicate to the emperor my master, I caus'd him to appear before this assembly, and before you, king Agrippa, in particular, that after he is examin'd, I may know how to represent the affair;"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 25, "verse": "27", "text": "for it seems to me absurd to send a prisoner without expressing the crimes laid to his charge.\""}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 26, "verse": "1", "text": "Then Agrippa said to Paul, you are at liberty to make your defence, upon which Paul disengaging his hand from his cloak, thus made his plea."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 26, "verse": "2", "text": "I think myself happy, king Agrippa, in having this opportunity of vindicating myself in your presence, from every thing the Jews have laid to my charge:"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 26, "verse": "3", "text": "for I know you are fully acquainted with the Jewish customs and controversies: and therefore I beg the indulgence of your attention."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 26, "verse": "4", "text": "what course of life I led at Jerusalem, where I was brought up from my youth among those of my own nation, is known to all the Jews."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 26, "verse": "5", "text": "they can testify, if they will, that I early profess'd myself a Pharisee, a member of the most rigorous sect of our religion:"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 26, "verse": "6", "text": "and now I stand arraign'd for expecting the accomplishment of the divine promise made to our fathers,"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 26, "verse": "7", "text": "which our twelve tribes by their continual services, night and day, hope themselves to obtain: yet for that hope, king Agrippa, do the Jews now accuse me."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 26, "verse": "8", "text": "you may think it something incredible that God should raise the dead:"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 26, "verse": "9", "text": "I myself too once thought myself oblig'd strenuously to oppose the professors of Jesus the Nazarene, as I actually did at Jerusalem,"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 26, "verse": "10", "text": "where numbers of converts I threw into jail, by warrant from the high priests: and when they were put to death, I myself was an accomplice."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 26, "verse": "11", "text": "it was I that persecuted them from synagogue to synagogue, and tortured them even to blaspheme: and in the transport of my rage I pursued them to foreign cities."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 26, "verse": "12", "text": "with such views, authorized by commission from the high priests, I was on the road to Damascus:"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 26, "verse": "13", "text": "when at mid-day, O king, a light from heaven exceeding the splendor of the sun, broke all around me, and those that accompanied me."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 26, "verse": "14", "text": "we were all struck down: when I heard a voice directed to me pronounce these words in the Hebrew tongue, \"Saul, Saul, why dost thou persecute me? it is dangerous for thee to kick against the goad.\""}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 26, "verse": "15", "text": "I answer'd, who art thou, Lord? he said, \"I am Jesus, whom thou persecutest."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 26, "verse": "16", "text": "but rise upright upon thy feet: for I have appear'd to thee in order to establish you my minister in testifying both what you have seen, and what I shall hereafter show to you,"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 26, "verse": "17", "text": "by delivering you from this people, and from the Gentiles to whom I now send thee, to open their eyes,"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 26, "verse": "18", "text": "and to turn them from darkness to light, and from the power of Satan unto God, that they may receive forgiveness of sins, and partake of the inheritance of the saints, by believing on me.\""}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 26, "verse": "19", "text": "this heavenly vision, king Agrippa, I presently obey'd:"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 26, "verse": "20", "text": "first I warn'd the people of Damascus, of Jerusalem, of all Judea, and then the Gentiles, to repent, and turn to God, by acting suitably to their repentance."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 26, "verse": "21", "text": "for such a conduct the Jews seiz'd upon me in the temple, designing to assassinate me;"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 26, "verse": "22", "text": "but by the divine favour I am still preserv'd alive, testifying to the small and to the great nothing but what Moses and the prophets have predicted should happen: \"that Christ should suffer:"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 26, "verse": "23", "text": "that he should be the first that was to rise from the dead: and that he should enlighten both the Jews and the Gentiles.\" Festus Interrupts Paul’s Defense"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 26, "verse": "24", "text": "As he was thus making his defence, Festus broke out into this exclamation, \"Paul, you are mad: much study has turn'd your brain.\""}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 26, "verse": "25", "text": "I am not mad, said he, most noble Festus, but what I say, is very sound truth."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 26, "verse": "26", "text": "the king is inform'd of these things, to whom I address myself with the greater confidence, being persuaded he is fully apprized of these matters, that were far from being transacted in private."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 26, "verse": "27", "text": "king Agrippa, don't you give credit to the prophetic writings? I know you do."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 26, "verse": "28", "text": "but Agrippa reply'd to Paul, you almost persuade me I shall be a christian!"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 26, "verse": "29", "text": "I pray God, said Paul, that not only you, but all that now hear me, were both almost and altogether such as I am, the circumstance of my bonds excepted."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 26, "verse": "30", "text": "When he had said this, the king, the governour, Bernice, and all that were seated near them, rose up: and being retired,"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 26, "verse": "31", "text": "they declar'd to one another, \"this man has done nothing that deserves either death or imprisonment:\""}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 26, "verse": "32", "text": "nay, Agrippa said to Festus, \"this man might have been discharg'd if he had not appeal'd to Cesar.\""}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 27, "verse": "1", "text": "When it was resolv'd, that we should sail for Italy, Paul and other prisoners were delivered to the custody of one Julius, a centurion of"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 27, "verse": "2", "text": "a cohort in Augustus's legion, we embark'd in a vessel of Adramyttium, designing to coast it along Asia, and set sail with Aristarchus a Macedonian of Thessalonica."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 27, "verse": "3", "text": "the next day we touch'd at Sidon, where the centurion, who was very civil to Paul, gave him leave to go, and refresh himself at his friends."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 27, "verse": "4", "text": "from thence we put off, and made our coast north of Cyprus, the wind being contrary."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 27, "verse": "5", "text": "after having travers'd the sea of Cilicia and Pamphylia, we arriv'd at Myra, a city of Lycia."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 27, "verse": "6", "text": "there the centurion met with a ship of Alexandria, bound for Italy, and put us on board."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 27, "verse": "7", "text": "For several days we made very little sail, and having scarce got sight of Cnidus, the wind being against us, we bore away between Salmone and Crete:"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 27, "verse": "8", "text": "with much ado we weathered the cape and got to Belhaven near Lasea."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 27, "verse": "9", "text": "having lost a good deal of time, and sailing being now dangerous, for the fast was now over, Paul gave them this warning,"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 27, "verse": "10", "text": "\"my friends, said he, I foresee our voyage will be attended with great difficulties, and no small risk of losing not only the ship and cargo, but our lives too.\""}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 27, "verse": "11", "text": "however, the centurion minded the pilot and the ship's owner more than he did Paul's prediction."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 27, "verse": "12", "text": "for as that haven could not cover us from the storm, most were of opinion to bear away, and try to put in at Phenice, where we could ride safe, the port lying by south-west, and north-west. The Storm at Sea"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 27, "verse": "13", "text": "a gentle breeze at south, secure of gaining their point, they weigh'd anchor, and coasted close under Crete:"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 27, "verse": "14", "text": "but soon after it blew a storm from north-east, which bore so upon the ship,"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 27, "verse": "15", "text": "we could not go upon the wind, but were forc'd to let her drive."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 27, "verse": "16", "text": "when we were nigh the isle Clauda, we had much ado to hoist in the skiff."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 27, "verse": "17", "text": "this done, all hands aloft they frapp'd the ship tought with her cables, and for fear of striking upon the sands, they struck the main sail, and so drove."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 27, "verse": "18", "text": "the next day the storm work'd the ship with great fury; they threw some of her lading over board:"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 27, "verse": "19", "text": "and the third day we lent our hands to send the tackling after."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 27, "verse": "20", "text": "For several days, we had not seen either sun or stars: the tempest still bore hard: all our hopes of escape quite sunk,"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 27, "verse": "21", "text": "and our spirits droop with fasting: when Paul presented himself, and said, \"well, my friends, it had been, if I could have prevail'd upon you, to have sav'd your selves all this perplexity and loss by staying at Crete."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 27, "verse": "22", "text": "yet now I advise you to discard your fears: your lives are all safe, though the vessel will be lost."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 27, "verse": "23", "text": "for an angel of that God, whose minister I am, and whom I serve, this night appear'd to me, and said, Paul, be not afraid:"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 27, "verse": "24", "text": "you must be brought before Cesar: and upon your account, the whole company now with you, will God preserve."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 27, "verse": "25", "text": "take courage then, my friends, for I have this confidence in God, that what has been told me, shall be effected,"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 27, "verse": "26", "text": "notwithstanding we must be shipwrack'd upon some island.\" The Shipwreck"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 27, "verse": "27", "text": "It was the fourteenth night that we had been driving up and down in the Adriatick sea, when the ship's crew about midnight suspected they were making to land:"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 27, "verse": "28", "text": "they threw the line and sounded twenty fathom water: a little further they sounded again, and came to fifteen fathom:"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 27, "verse": "29", "text": "then for fear of striking upon the rocks, they dropt four anchors astern, and lay impatient for the day."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 27, "verse": "30", "text": "but the crew under pretext of dropping their anchors to moor, had hoisted out the boat; designing to make off:"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 27, "verse": "31", "text": "upon this Paul said to the centurion and his men, \"except the crew stay aboard, you can't be safe:\""}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 27, "verse": "32", "text": "and immediately the soldiers chopt the cable, and set the boat adrift."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 27, "verse": "33", "text": "while they were waiting for day, Paul advis'd the whole company to take some refreshment: \"these fourteen days, said he, you have been very abstemious, and not made a meal:"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 27, "verse": "34", "text": "therefore, pray, take something to recruit your strength: and be assur'd every one of you shall be preserv'd.\""}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 27, "verse": "35", "text": "having said this, he took bread, and gave thanks to God, the whole company present: then he broke it and began to eat,"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 27, "verse": "36", "text": "at which they all took heart and fell a eating likewise,"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 27, "verse": "37", "text": "the whole number then on board being two hundred and seventy six."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 27, "verse": "38", "text": "when they had eat enough, they threw the wheat over board to ease the ship:"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 27, "verse": "39", "text": "at day-break they made an unknown land, with a creek, where they resolv'd, if it were possible, to run the ship ashore."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 27, "verse": "40", "text": "accordingly, having heaved in their anchors, they drove with the sea, then loos'd the helm, bois'd the mizen-sail to wind, and made to shore:"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 27, "verse": "41", "text": "when falling into the confluence of two currents, they ran the ship a-ground: where the fore-castle stuck fast and would not give, but her stern was shatter'd by the violence of the waves."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 27, "verse": "42", "text": "the soldiers propos'd to dispatch the prisoners, for fear any of them should swim for their lives; but the centurion,"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 27, "verse": "43", "text": "who had a mind to save Paul, prevented their design: and order'd all that could swim immediately to get off to shore,"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 27, "verse": "44", "text": "and the rest to get upon the planks, or other pieces of the wreck: and by this means it happen'd that they all came safe to land."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 28, "verse": "1", "text": "Having thus escap'd, we found we were upon the isle of Malta:"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 28, "verse": "2", "text": "where the inhabitants, as much barbarians, as they were, receiv'd us with great humanity, they kindled a fire, and secur'd us from the falling rains, as well as the cold:"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 28, "verse": "3", "text": "when Paul having taken up some brush-wood and laid it upon the fire, a viper started out from the heat, and seiz'd upon his hand."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 28, "verse": "4", "text": "the barbarians seeing the venomous creature hang fast to his hand, said to one another, this man is a murderer, no doubt; for, escaped from the wreck, the divine justice still pursues him to death."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 28, "verse": "5", "text": "but Paul shook off the animal into the fire without having receiv'd any hurt."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 28, "verse": "6", "text": "however, they expected to have seen him swell, or suddenly die away, but when they had waited a good while, and saw no harm come to him, they were of another opinion, and said he was a God."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 28, "verse": "7", "text": "The chief of the island, one Publius, had his estate in that quarter: he entertain'd us with diet and lodging for three days with great civility."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 28, "verse": "8", "text": "Publius's father happening then to lie sick of a fever, and a dysentery, Paul made him a visit, pray'd by him, gave him imposition of hands, and cur'd him."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 28, "verse": "9", "text": "upon this several that were indispos'd in the island came to Paul, and were cur'd,"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 28, "verse": "10", "text": "showing their respect by many presents, and furnishing us with provisions upon our departure. Paul Arrives in Italy"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 28, "verse": "11", "text": "After having been there three months, we embark'd on board the Castor and Pollux from Alexandria, that had put in there by hard weather:"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 28, "verse": "12", "text": "we landed at Syracuse, and stay'd there three days."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 28, "verse": "13", "text": "from thence we turn'd to the wind, and arriv'd at Rhegium: the next day the wind being at south, we came in two days to Puteoli:"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 28, "verse": "14", "text": "where finding some brethren, they desir'd us to stay with them seven days, after which we set out for Rome:"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 28, "verse": "15", "text": "the brethren there having had news of us, came as far as Appiiforum, and the Three inns to meet us: whom when Paul saw, he gave thanks to God, and was greatly encourag'd. Paul Preaches at Rome"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 28, "verse": "16", "text": "Upon our arrival at Rome, the centurion deliver'd the prisoners to the captain of the guard: but Paul was allow'd to be at private lodgings, under the custody of a soldier."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 28, "verse": "17", "text": "three days after, Paul sent for the chief of the Jews: and when they were assembled, he said to them, \"my brethren, tho' I have done nothing against the Jews, or against the customs of our fathers, I was made a prisoner at Jerusalem, and put into the hands of the Romans:"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 28, "verse": "18", "text": "who, after my examination, would have discharg'd me, as having done nothing that was capital."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 28, "verse": "19", "text": "but the Jews opposing it, I was oblig'd to appeal to the emperor: not having however any design to accuse them."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 28, "verse": "20", "text": "for this reason I desir'd to see and talk with you; it being for the expectation of Israel that I am subject to this chain.\""}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 28, "verse": "21", "text": "they reply'd, we have receiv'd no letter from Judea concerning you; nor have any of our brethren that are arrived, said any harm of you."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 28, "verse": "22", "text": "but we should be glad to know your sentiments: for as to this sect, we are sensible it is every where inveigh'd against."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 28, "verse": "23", "text": "Having therefore set him a day, they came in great numbers to his lodgings; where he explain'd and confirm'd the reality of the gospel-dispensation, from morning to night, enforcing what the writings of Moses and the prophets had affirm'd concerning Jesus."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 28, "verse": "24", "text": "some believed what he had said, but others did not believe:"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 28, "verse": "25", "text": "so not being able to agree, they retir'd, upon Paul's having told them, that the holy spirit had very justly said to our fathers by the prophet Esaias,"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 28, "verse": "26", "text": "\"go to this people and say, hearing you shall hear, and shall not understand; and seeing ye shall see, and not perceive."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 28, "verse": "27", "text": "for the heart of this people is become gross, their ears are dull of hearing, and their eyes have they closed; lest they should see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and understand with their heart, and be converted and I should heal them.\""}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 28, "verse": "28", "text": "take notice therefore, that the offers of divine salvation are sent to the Gentiles, and they will receive them."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 28, "verse": "29", "text": "[ having said this, the Jews went out, warmly debating it among themselves.]"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 28, "verse": "30", "text": "After this, Paul staid two whole years in a house he had hired, and gave access to all that visited him,"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 28, "verse": "31", "text": "preaching the kingdom of God, and instructing them in all things relating to the Lord Jesus Christ, with the utmost freedom, without being molested."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 1, "verse": "1", "text": "Paul, a servant of Jesus Christ, called to be an apostle, chosen to declare the gospel dispensation,"}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 1, "verse": "2", "text": "which God had promised by his prophets in the holy scriptures,"}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 1, "verse": "3", "text": "with relation to his son Jesus Christ our Lord, who was of the lineage of David as to his body,"}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 1, "verse": "4", "text": "but as to his holy spirit miraculously declared to be the son of God, by his resurrection from the dead:"}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 1, "verse": "5", "text": "by whose favour I have received the office of an apostle to bring the Gentiles every where to the obedience of faith preached in his name:"}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 1, "verse": "6", "text": "among whom Jesus Christ has also called you:"}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 1, "verse": "7", "text": "to all the beloved of God, the saints by this vocation, who are in Rome, grace to you, and peace from God our father, and from the Lord Jesus Christ. Unashamed of the Gospel"}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 1, "verse": "8", "text": "First, I thank my God through Jesus Christ for you all, that your faith is celebrated through the whole world."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 1, "verse": "9", "text": "for God is my witness, to whom I am entirely devoted, in preaching the gospel of his son, that I constantly make mention of you, in my prayers, requesting,"}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 1, "verse": "10", "text": "if it be God's will, that I might now at length have the happiness of coming to you."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 1, "verse": "11", "text": "for I long to see you, that I may impart to you some spiritual gift, in order to establish you:"}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 1, "verse": "12", "text": "or indeed that we may have mutual consolation from the faith which is in common to you and to me."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 1, "verse": "13", "text": "now I would not have you ignorant, my brethren, that I often purposed to come to you, tho' I have been hindered hitherto, that I might be useful among you as well as among other Gentiles."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 1, "verse": "14", "text": "I owe what service I can do to the Greeks, and to the Barbarians, to the learned, and to the illiterate."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 1, "verse": "15", "text": "so, that as far as it depends upon me, I am ready to preach the gospel to you also, who are at Rome."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 1, "verse": "16", "text": "for I am not ashamed of the gospel, since it is divinely effectual to salvation, to everyone that believes, to the Jew first, and then to the Gentile."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 1, "verse": "17", "text": "There it is that divine justification is revealed to be wholly by faith: as it is written, \" the just shall live by faith.\" God’s Wrath against Sin"}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 1, "verse": "18", "text": "there the divine wrath is revealed from heaven against all impiety, and injustice of men, who wickedly suppress the truth."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 1, "verse": "19", "text": "because what should be known of God they are acquainted with; for God hath manifested it unto them."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 1, "verse": "20", "text": "for ever since the creation of the world, his eternal power and divinity, things in themselves invisible, are clearly seen, being perceived by the things that are made; so that they are without excuse:"}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 1, "verse": "21", "text": "because when they knew God, they did not with gratitude glorify him as God, but their reasoning became extravagance, and their minds, void of judgment, were involv'd in darkness."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 1, "verse": "22", "text": "pretending to be wise, they became fools:"}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 1, "verse": "23", "text": "the honour due to God, who is immortal, they transferr'd to idols representing men, who are mortal, to birds, and beasts, and insects."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 1, "verse": "24", "text": "wherefore God abandon'd them to the impure passions of their own hearts, so that they themselves dishonour'd their own bodies;"}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 1, "verse": "25", "text": "they changed the true God for an idol, and adored and served the creature more than the creator, who is blessed for ever."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 1, "verse": "26", "text": "amen, for this cause God gave them up to infamous passions: for even the sex perverted the instinct of nature:"}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 1, "verse": "27", "text": "and the men unnaturally leaving the sex, were inflamed with mutual passions, which they shamefully indulged, and received in their own persons, the retribution that was justly due to such enormities."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 1, "verse": "28", "text": "As they did not seek the favour of God, by worshipping him, God gave them over to a depraved sense, to act unworthy of human nature;"}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 1, "verse": "29", "text": "they were full of all injustice, fornication, mischief, covetousness, malice; full of envy, murder, contention, fraud, malignity;"}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 1, "verse": "30", "text": "whisperers, backbiters, enemies of God, injurious, proud, vain, inventers of vices, disobedient to parents, void of judgment,"}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 1, "verse": "31", "text": "fidelity, and natural affection; implacable, and unmerciful:"}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 1, "verse": "32", "text": "who knowing the divine rule of right, did not perceive that they who commit such things are worthy of death, and not only they who do the same, but they who give countenance to those that do them."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 2, "verse": "1", "text": "Therefore thou art inexcusable, O man, whosoever thou art, that condemnest another, for by condemning them, you condemn yourself; since you that condemn them, do the same things."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 2, "verse": "2", "text": "but we know that the judgment of God against those who commit such crimes, is just."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 2, "verse": "3", "text": "do you think then, O man, who do what you condemn in others, that you shall escape the judgment of God?"}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 2, "verse": "4", "text": "or do you despise the riches of his kindness, and forbearance, and long-suffering; not considering that the kindness of God invites you to repentance?"}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 2, "verse": "5", "text": "however by your impenitence, and the insensibility of your heart, you treasure up for yourself wrath against the day of wrath, and of the revelation of the righteous judgment of God,"}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 2, "verse": "6", "text": "who will render to every man according to his actions: eternal life to those,"}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 2, "verse": "7", "text": "who by patient continuance in well doing, seek for glory, honour, and immortality;"}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 2, "verse": "8", "text": "but unto those who are contentious, and do not yield to the truth, but give way to injustice, indignation and wrath,"}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 2, "verse": "9", "text": "tribulation and anguish to every one that doth evil, to the Jew first, and also to the Gentile."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 2, "verse": "10", "text": "but glory, honour, and peace, to every man that acts right, to the Jew first, and also to the Gentile:"}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 2, "verse": "11", "text": "since with God there is no respect of persons."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 2, "verse": "12", "text": "For as many as have sinned without the law, shall also perish without the law: and as many as have sinned under the law, shall be condemned by the law,"}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 2, "verse": "13", "text": "for not the bare hearers of the law, but they who observe the law, are such as shall be justified, before God."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 2, "verse": "14", "text": "when the Gentiles who have not the law, do by nature what the law prescribes, tho' these have not the law, they are a law to themselves:"}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 2, "verse": "15", "text": "for they shew that the duties prescrib'd by the law, are written in their hearts, their consciences bearing witness to it, by their own reasonings alternately accusing and excusing them."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 2, "verse": "16", "text": "in the day, when according to my gospel, God shall judge the secret actions of men by Jesus Christ. The Jews and the Law"}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 2, "verse": "17", "text": "'Tis true, you bear the name of a Jew, you depend upon the law, and boast of your worship:"}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 2, "verse": "18", "text": "you know the divine will, and what is contrary thereto, having been educated in the law:"}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 2, "verse": "19", "text": "you think you are a guide to the blind, a light to those who are in darkness,"}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 2, "verse": "20", "text": "an instructer of the ignorant, a teacher to the weak, because you have a clear view of the true meaning of the law."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 2, "verse": "21", "text": "you therefore who instruct others don't you instruct yourself?"}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 2, "verse": "22", "text": "you who preach against stealing, do you steal? you who declaim against adultery, do you commit adultery? you who abhor idols, do you commit sacrilege?"}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 2, "verse": "23", "text": "and you, who glory in the law, do you dishonour God by the violation of the law?"}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 2, "verse": "24", "text": "for (as it is written) the name of God is blasphemed among the Gentiles by your miscarriages."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 2, "verse": "25", "text": "Circumcision indeed is an advantage, if you keep the law: but if you violate the law, your being a Jew makes you no better than a heathen."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 2, "verse": "26", "text": "if therefore an uncircumcised Gentile keep the moral precepts contained in the law, shall not he be reckon'd, as if he were circumcised?"}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 2, "verse": "27", "text": "and shall not a Gentile, tho' he is not actually circumcised, if he fulfil the law, condemn thee, who, tho' literally circumcised, dost yet transgress the law?"}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 2, "verse": "28", "text": "for it is not the Jew in outward appearance, neither is it the external mark of circumcision:"}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 2, "verse": "29", "text": "but it is the Jew, who is so inwardly, and it is the circumcision of the heart, according to the spiritual, not the literal sense, which have the approbation, I do not say of men, but of God."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 3, "verse": "1", "text": "What advantage then hath the Jew? or what benefit is there from circumcision?"}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 3, "verse": "2", "text": "much every way: chiefly, because they were intrusted with the oracles of God."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 3, "verse": "3", "text": "for what if some betrayed their trust? shall their unfaithfulness render"}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 3, "verse": "4", "text": "the faithfulness of God of no effect? by no means; yea, let God be acknowledged to be true, tho' men should be all deceivers; as it is written, \" that you might be justified in your sayings, and might overcome when you are judged.\""}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 3, "verse": "5", "text": "but say you, \"if our unfaithfulness displays the veracity of God, what shall we say? is it not injustice in God to inflict punishment?\""}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 3, "verse": "6", "text": "not at all: for then how could God judge the world?"}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 3, "verse": "7", "text": "\"but, say you, if the veracity of God hath appeared more illustrious thro' my unfaithfulness, why then am I condemned as a sinner?"}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 3, "verse": "8", "text": "and why may we not do evil, that good may come?\" which is slanderously reported to be our maxim, by some, whose condemnation is just. There Is No One Righteous"}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 3, "verse": "9", "text": "\"how then are we better than they?\" why, not at all: for we have already convicted both Jews and Gentiles, of being all under the guilt of sin."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 3, "verse": "10", "text": "as it is written, \" there is none righteous, no not one:"}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 3, "verse": "11", "text": "there is none that understandeth, there is none that seeketh after God."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 3, "verse": "12", "text": "they are all gone out of the way, they are together become unprofitable, there is none that doth good, no not one."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 3, "verse": "13", "text": "their throat is an open sepulchre; with their tongues they have used deceit; the poison of asps is under their lips:"}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 3, "verse": "14", "text": "whose mouth is full of cursing and bitterness."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 3, "verse": "15", "text": "their feet are swift to shed blood."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 3, "verse": "16", "text": "destruction and misery are in their ways:"}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 3, "verse": "17", "text": "and the way of peace have they not known."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 3, "verse": "18", "text": "there is no fear of God before their eyes.\""}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 3, "verse": "19", "text": "Now we know that whatever the law says, it says to those who are under the law: that every one may be silenc'd, and all the world plead guilty before God."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 3, "verse": "20", "text": "for by the observation of the law no one shall be justified in his sight, since it is the law that takes cognizance of sin. Righteousness through Faith in Christ ( Philippians 3:1–11 )"}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 3, "verse": "21", "text": "but the divine justification certified by the law and the prophets, is now clearly proposed independently of the law:"}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 3, "verse": "22", "text": "that divine justification, which by faith in Jesus Christ is extended to all, that believe; for there is no distinction:"}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 3, "verse": "23", "text": "for all having sinned, all have forfeited eternal glory:"}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 3, "verse": "24", "text": "being justified by his unmerited favour through the redemption that is by Jesus Christ:"}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 3, "verse": "25", "text": "whom God had ordained, thro' faith, to be the propitiatory victim by his blood, for the manifestation of his goodness, by patiently passing over their past transgressions: to manifest,"}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 3, "verse": "26", "text": "I say, his goodness at this time: that he might appear to be just, and the justifier of him who believes in Jesus."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 3, "verse": "27", "text": "what reason then is there for boasting? it is excluded, what, by the ceremonial law? no: but by the law of faith."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 3, "verse": "28", "text": "for we conclude, that a man is justified by faith, without observing the legal rites."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 3, "verse": "29", "text": "is God the God of the Jews only, and not of the Gentiles? surely he is of the Gentiles too;"}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 3, "verse": "30", "text": "since it is one God, who will justify both the Jews and the Gentiles, through faith."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 3, "verse": "31", "text": "do we then make the law useless by our doctrine of faith? by no means; on the contrary, it is we that observe the law."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 4, "verse": "1", "text": "How then can we assert, \"that Abraham our father obtained this from circumcision?\""}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 4, "verse": "2", "text": "for if Abraham was justified by works, he had matter of pretension, whereas he had no such claim from God."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 4, "verse": "3", "text": "for what saith the scripture? \"Abraham believed God, and it was counted to him for righteousness.\""}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 4, "verse": "4", "text": "the reward is not counted as a favour to him that has done good actions, but as a debt:"}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 4, "verse": "5", "text": "whereas he that trusts in God to be made righteous, tho' he has not done such actions, shall find his faith accounted as righteousness."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 4, "verse": "6", "text": "even as David also speaks of the happiness of the man whom God accounted righteous independently of his works,"}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 4, "verse": "7", "text": "\" happy are they whose iniquities are forgiven, and whose sins are covered."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 4, "verse": "8", "text": "happy is the man to whom the Lord will not account sin.\""}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 4, "verse": "9", "text": "Is this happiness then for the circumcised only, or for the uncircumcised also? for we say that faith was accounted to Abraham for righteousness."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 4, "verse": "10", "text": "how was it then accounted? whilst he was circumcised, or uncircumcised? he was not then circumcised, but uncircumcised:"}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 4, "verse": "11", "text": "and he received the sign of circumcision, as a seal of the justification by that faith, which the uncircumcised have: that he might be the father of all those who believe, tho' they are uncircumcised, that it might be accounted to them also for righteousness:"}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 4, "verse": "12", "text": "and the father of the circumcised, that is of those who are not barely circumcised, but who imitate that faith which our father Abraham had, being yet uncircumcised. Abraham Receives the Promise"}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 4, "verse": "13", "text": "Besides, the promise that he should possess the world, was not made to Abraham, or to his posterity in consideration of the law, but with regard to the righteousness by faith."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 4, "verse": "14", "text": "for if they only who are of the law have right of possession, faith is made useless, and the promise becomes of no effect."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 4, "verse": "15", "text": "because the effect of the law is punishment: for if there had been no law, there could have been no transgression."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 4, "verse": "16", "text": "therefore the inheritance is of faith, that it might be meerly of favour, to the end the promise might be assured to all his posterity, not to that part only who have the law, but to that also who have the faith of Abraham, the father of us all, as it is written,"}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 4, "verse": "17", "text": "\" I have made thee a father of many nations,\" then existing in the sight of God, whom he believed, who gives life to the dead, and calls forth things that are not, as if they were:"}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 4, "verse": "18", "text": "he it was who against hope believed in hope, that he should become the father of many nations, according to what was told him, \"so shall thy posterity be:\""}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 4, "verse": "19", "text": "far from being weak in faith, unconcern'd at his own bodily decay, being then about an hundred years old, and at Sarah's incapacity of child-bearing,"}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 4, "verse": "20", "text": "he was not incredulously diffident of the divine promise; but was strong in faith, and did honour to God,"}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 4, "verse": "21", "text": "by the full persuasion he had, that what he had promised, he was able also to perform."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 4, "verse": "22", "text": "and therefore it was accounted to him for righteousness."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 4, "verse": "23", "text": "now this saying, \"that it was accounted to him,\" was not written for his sake alone,"}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 4, "verse": "24", "text": "but for us also, to whom it shall be accounted, if we believe on him that raised up Jesus our Lord from the dead,"}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 4, "verse": "25", "text": "who was delivered for our offences, and was raised again for our justification."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 5, "verse": "1", "text": "Therefore being justified by faith, we have peace with God, through our Lord Jesus Christ,"}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 5, "verse": "2", "text": "who has given us access by faith to that degree of favour, we are in, by which we triumph in the hopes of divine glory."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 5, "verse": "3", "text": "and not only so, but we triumph in tribulation also, knowing that tribulation worketh patience; and patience, probation;"}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 5, "verse": "4", "text": "and probation, hope:"}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 5, "verse": "5", "text": "now hope will not deceive us, because the love of God is diffused thro' our hearts, by the holy spirit which is given to us; Christ’s Sacrifice for the Ungodly ( John 3:1–21 )"}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 5, "verse": "6", "text": "for at the appointed time Christ died for us, when we were in a helpless, sinful state."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 5, "verse": "7", "text": "now for a wicked man no one would willingly die; but for a benefactor some have readily offer'd to die."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 5, "verse": "8", "text": "but herein hath God displayed his love towards us, in that Christ died for us, even while we were yet sinners."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 5, "verse": "9", "text": "much more then being now justified by his blood, shall we thro' him be delivered from the wrath to come."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 5, "verse": "10", "text": "for if, when we were enemies, we were reconciled to God by the death of his son: much more being reconciled, shall we be saved by his life."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 5, "verse": "11", "text": "and not only so, but we have present joy in God, through our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom we have now obtained the reconciliation. Death in Adam, Life in Christ"}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 5, "verse": "12", "text": "Wherefore, as by one man sin entered into the world, so death by this sin; and thereby death passed upon all men, who all by his means became mortal."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 5, "verse": "13", "text": "sin indeed was in the world all the time before the law: but then sin is not punished when there is no law."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 5, "verse": "14", "text": "nevertheless death reigned from Adam to Moses, even over those who had not sinned by violating a positive law, as did Adam, who is"}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 5, "verse": "15", "text": "the type of him that was to come: but yet the damage of the fall does not exactly correspond to the advantages of the divine favour: for tho' through the fall of one, mankind became mortal, yet this is greatly over-ballanced by the favour and bounty of God, in the benevolence of one man, Jesus Christ, to all mankind."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 5, "verse": "16", "text": "neither is the gift, as was the fall by one sin: for the sentence of condemnation, was for one offence; but the divine favour extends to justification from a multitude of sins."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 5, "verse": "17", "text": "for tho' death reigned thro' the single offence of one, they who receive the most valuable favour, even the gift of righteousness, shall much more easily reign by the life of one, even Jesus Christ."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 5, "verse": "18", "text": "Therefore as by one offence all men fell under condemnation: even so by one act of righteousness, all men are restored to life."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 5, "verse": "19", "text": "for as by one man's disobedience many receiv'd the punishment of sinners, so by the obedience of one shall many receive the reward of the righteous."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 5, "verse": "20", "text": "the law was introduc'd, that the greatness of the fall might fully appear; but the more sin display'd its enormity, the divine favour was so much the more transcendent."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 5, "verse": "21", "text": "that as sin prevailed unto death, even so might the divine favour prevail by righteousness unto eternal life, thro' Jesus Christ our Lord."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 6, "verse": "1", "text": "Do we then conclude thus, let us continue in sin, that the divine favour may be more fully display'd?"}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 6, "verse": "2", "text": "God forbid, that we who have died to sin should live any longer therein."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 6, "verse": "3", "text": "don't you know that when we were all baptized in the name of Jesus Christ, we were plunged into a state figurative of his death."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 6, "verse": "4", "text": "therefore we are buried with him by being plunged into a sort of death: that as Christ was raised up from the dead into a state of glory with the father, even so we also should proceed to a new state of life."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 6, "verse": "5", "text": "for if we resembled him with regard to death, certainly we shall likewise do so with regard to his resurrection:"}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 6, "verse": "6", "text": "considering this, that our vicious passions were crucified with him, that the body of sin being destroyed, we might not any longer be vassals to sin."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 6, "verse": "7", "text": "for by its being dead, we are set free from sin."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 6, "verse": "8", "text": "since then we died with Christ, we are persuaded that we shall also live with him:"}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 6, "verse": "9", "text": "knowing that Christ being raised from the dead, is to die no more; death hath no more dominion over him."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 6, "verse": "10", "text": "for as to his death, he died upon the account of sin once for all; but as to his being alive, he lives to the glory of God for ever."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 6, "verse": "11", "text": "in like manner consider your selves as dead to sin; but alive to God, through Jesus Christ our Lord."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 6, "verse": "12", "text": "Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal body, by making you slaves to the lusts thereof."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 6, "verse": "13", "text": "neither yield your members as instruments to iniquity: but yield yourselves unto God, as being alive after having been dead; and your members as instruments of righteousness."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 6, "verse": "14", "text": "for then sin shall have no dominion over you: because you are not under the legal, but under the gospel dispensation. The Wages of Sin"}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 6, "verse": "15", "text": "What then? shall we sin, because we are not under the law, but under the gospel?"}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 6, "verse": "16", "text": "by no means, know ye not, that to whom ye subject your selves vassals at command, his vassals you are whom you thus obey; the vassals either of sin to destruction, or of obedience to justification?"}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 6, "verse": "17", "text": "but God be thanked, that you, who were the vassals of sin, have sincerely obeyed in the manner the gospel prescribed."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 6, "verse": "18", "text": "being then set free from sin, ye became the servants of righteousness."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 6, "verse": "19", "text": "(I allude to civil affairs, because of your unacquaintedness with spiritual matters:) as then you made your natural faculties subservient to impurity, and all manner of vice; make them now subservient to virtue and holiness."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 6, "verse": "20", "text": "for when ye were the vassals of sin, ye were not in the service of virtue."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 6, "verse": "21", "text": "what benefit had you then in those things whereof you are now ashamed? since they terminated all in death."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 6, "verse": "22", "text": "but now being set free from sin, and actually in the service of God, the present advantage you reap is holiness, and the future everlasting life."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 6, "verse": "23", "text": "for the wages of sin is death: but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 7, "verse": "1", "text": "Know ye not, brethren, (for I speak to Jews acquainted with the law) that the law hath authority over a man, till it be abrogated?"}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 7, "verse": "2", "text": "now a married woman is bound by the law to her living husband: but if her husband dieth, she is released from the marriage-contract."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 7, "verse": "3", "text": "wherefore she will be reputed an adulteress if she become another man's during her husband's life: but if her husband dies, she is clear from that law, from the imputation of being an adulteress, though she become another man's."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 7, "verse": "4", "text": "thus, my brethren, the law is become dead with respect to you by the body of Christ; that you might be subject to another, even to him who is raised from the dead, that we should bring forth fruit unto God."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 7, "verse": "5", "text": "for when we were in the carnal state of the law, the sinful passions of that state set our animal faculties to work in the service of death."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 7, "verse": "6", "text": "but now we are delivered by the death of the law, which held us in bondage: that we might serve according to the living spirit, and not in the dead letter of the law. God’s Law Is Holy"}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 7, "verse": "7", "text": "Do we then conclude, that the law is the cause of sin? by no means; but I should not have had such a notion of sin, had it not been for the law: for I should not have known concupiscence was a sin, unless the law had said, \"thou shalt not covet.\""}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 7, "verse": "8", "text": "but sin receiving strength by the commandment, wrought in me all manner of concupiscence, for before the law sin appear'd dead."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 7, "verse": "9", "text": "then it was I once liv'd secure; but when the prohibition came, sin exerted it self, and I was in a dying condition:"}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 7, "verse": "10", "text": "and the commandment which leads to life was instrumental to my ruin."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 7, "verse": "11", "text": "for sin getting power by the commandment, deceived me, and by it slew me."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 7, "verse": "12", "text": "wherefore the law is holy; and the commandment holy, and just, and good. Struggling with Sin"}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 7, "verse": "13", "text": "was it then good that brought death upon me? no, but it was sin, that sin might show it self by being able to bring death upon me by means of that which is good; that sin, I say, by the commandment might appear to be exceedingly destructive."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 7, "verse": "14", "text": "for we know that the law is spiritual: but I am carnal, sold a slave to sin."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 7, "verse": "15", "text": "what I do I allow not: for what my mind leads me to, that do I not; but what I have an aversion to, that I do."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 7, "verse": "16", "text": "if then I do what I in my mind am against, the consent of my mind is, that the law is right."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 7, "verse": "17", "text": "now then, it is not wholly I that do it, but the sinful passions that dwell in me."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 7, "verse": "18", "text": "for I experience, that in the carnal part of me dwells no good: for it is familiar to me, to will, but not to execute that which is good."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 7, "verse": "19", "text": "for the good that I purpose to do, I do not: but the evil which I resolve against, that I do."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 7, "verse": "20", "text": "now if I do that which my mind is against, it is not meerly I that do it, but sin that dwells in me."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 7, "verse": "21", "text": "I find then a settled custom, that evil is objected in my way whenever I have a mind to act well:"}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 7, "verse": "22", "text": "for my mind takes delight in the law of God,"}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 7, "verse": "23", "text": "but I perceive in the animal part of me another law warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity to the law of sin, which is in my animal part."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 7, "verse": "24", "text": "O wretched man that I am, what shall deliver me from this body of death?"}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 7, "verse": "25", "text": "the divine grace thro' Jesus Christ our Lord, so then, with the mind I my self am devoted to the law of God; tho' my carnal inclinations are enslaved to the law of sin."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 8, "verse": "1", "text": "Sentence of death therefore shall not pass upon those christians who do not lead a vicious life."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 8, "verse": "2", "text": "for the christian dispensation of a spiritual life has set me free from the legal state of sin and death."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 8, "verse": "3", "text": "God having sent his own son invested with a body like that of sinful men, as a sacrifice for sin, thereby destroyed its power; which the law could not effect, human nature being in such a corrupted state."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 8, "verse": "4", "text": "so that the moral obligations of the law might be fulfilled by us, in living according to the spiritual, and not the carnal tenor thereof:"}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 8, "verse": "5", "text": "for they that are sensually affected, abandon themselves to sensuality, but the spiritual pursue their spiritual entertainments."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 8, "verse": "6", "text": "now sensual inclinations lead to death; but spiritual affections to a life of tranquillity."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 8, "verse": "7", "text": "because a sensual disposition of mind is averse to God: for it is not subject to the divine law, nor indeed can it be."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 8, "verse": "8", "text": "so that they who are in a carnal state, cannot be acceptable to the divine being, as for you,"}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 8, "verse": "9", "text": "you are not in such a state, but in a spiritual one, provided the divine spirit dwell in you, now if any man have not the spirit of Christ, he is none of his."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 8, "verse": "10", "text": "and if Christ be in you, tho' the body is mortal in consequence of sin; the spirit gives life by justification."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 8, "verse": "11", "text": "for if the spirit of him that raised up Jesus from the dead, dwell in you; he that raised up Christ from the dead, shall likewise restore your mortal bodies to life, by his spirit that dwelleth in you. Heirs with Christ"}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 8, "verse": "12", "text": "You are, therefore, brethren oblig'd to oppose your sensual passions;"}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 8, "verse": "13", "text": "for if you lead a sensual life, you will be miserable: but if through the spirit you mortify the affections of corrupted nature, you will be happy."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 8, "verse": "14", "text": "as many as are actuated by the spirit of God, they are the sons of God."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 8, "verse": "15", "text": "for the spirit you have received is not servile to keep you still in fear; but it is the spirit of adoption, whereby we cry Abba, that is, father."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 8, "verse": "16", "text": "the same spirit testifies to our spirit, that we are the children of God."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 8, "verse": "17", "text": "and if children, then heirs; heirs of God, and joint-heirs with Christ; although we now suffer with him, that we may also be glorified with him. Future Glory ( 2 Corinthians 5:1–10 )"}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 8, "verse": "18", "text": "for I consider, that the sufferings of this present life are infinitely over-ballanc'd by that glory which shall hereafter be discovered to us."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 8, "verse": "19", "text": "mankind impatiently desire that the divine being would display himself to his creatures,"}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 8, "verse": "20", "text": "who were not, by their own choice, expos'd to this uncertain state, but by virtue of him, who subjected them thereto:"}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 8, "verse": "21", "text": "and therefore hope to be removed from this slavish condition of mortality to the free inheritance of divine glory."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 8, "verse": "22", "text": "for we know that the whole creation groans, and labours with general pain even to this day."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 8, "verse": "23", "text": "and not only they, but even those who have the first fruits of the spirit, even we our selves do inwardly groan for the fruit of our adoption, by the deliverance of our body from corruption."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 8, "verse": "24", "text": "for we are saved but by hope: but hope supposes things not yet present; for how can a man hope for what he has now in possession?"}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 8, "verse": "25", "text": "but if we hope for what is yet to come, our patience does necessarily intervene."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 8, "verse": "26", "text": "The spirit likewise softens our afflictions: for being at a loss to apply for the most proper relief; the spirit it self affects us with those pious ejaculations, which we can't well express."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 8, "verse": "27", "text": "and he that penetrates into the heart approves what the spirit desires, because what he demands for the saints is agreeable to the divine will. God Works in All Things ( Ephesians 1:3–14 )"}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 8, "verse": "28", "text": "We know too, that all things co-operate for the good of those who love God, who, pursuant to his purpose, has now called them:"}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 8, "verse": "29", "text": "for whom he before approv'd, he predispos'd to follow the example of his son, who was to conduct them all as their elder brother;"}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 8, "verse": "30", "text": "but whom he predispos'd, he calls: and whom he has call'd, he justifies: and whom he has justified, he glorifies."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 8, "verse": "31", "text": "What shall we conclude then from this? if God be for us, who can be against us?"}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 8, "verse": "32", "text": "he that spared not his own son, but delivered him up for us all, will he not with him likewise freely give us all things?"}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 8, "verse": "33", "text": "who shall plead against God's elect? shall God who justifieth them?"}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 8, "verse": "34", "text": "who shall condemn them? shall Christ that died, yea rather, that is risen again, who is even at the right hand of God, and makes intercession for us? More than Conquerors"}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 8, "verse": "35", "text": "what shall separate us from the love of Christ? shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or penury, or peril, or sword?"}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 8, "verse": "36", "text": "for as it is written, \"for thy sake we are sacrificed every day; we are counted as sheep for the slaughter:\""}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 8, "verse": "37", "text": "yet after all we are more than conquerors, through him that loved us."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 8, "verse": "38", "text": "for I am fully persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come,"}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 8, "verse": "39", "text": "neither the high, nor the low, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God by Christ Jesus our Lord."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 9, "verse": "1", "text": "I call Christ, and the holy spirit to witness with my conscience, that I speak the truth without guile, when I say,"}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 9, "verse": "2", "text": "that I have great heaviness, and continual sorrow in my heart."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 9, "verse": "3", "text": "for I could wish to be as one anathematiz'd from the christian church for my brethren, who are of the same race as my self,"}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 9, "verse": "4", "text": "who are Israelites; who had the adoption, the glory, the covenants, the law, the form of divine worship, and the promises;"}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 9, "verse": "5", "text": "who are the offspring of the patriarchs, and of whom as to the flesh Christ came, who is over all, God blessed for ever. Amen. God’s Sovereign Choice"}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 9, "verse": "6", "text": "However, the divine promise cannot but have its effect, for they are not the whole of Israel, who are descended from Israel:"}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 9, "verse": "7", "text": "neither are they who are the race of Abraham, all children: but 'tis said, \"in Isaac shall thy posterity be called.\""}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 9, "verse": "8", "text": "that is, the children by natural descent are not thereby the children of God: but the children of the promise are alone considered as his posterity."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 9, "verse": "9", "text": "for the words of the promise run thus, \"at this time I will come, and Sara shall have a son.\""}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 9, "verse": "10", "text": "this appears too from the case of Rebecca, who conceived twins by our father Isaac."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 9, "verse": "11", "text": "for before they were born, and had done neither good or evil, that the distinction which God had purposed to make might appear to be, not in consideration of their actions, but of his own free call,"}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 9, "verse": "12", "text": "it was said to her, \"the elder shall serve the younger.\""}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 9, "verse": "13", "text": "as it is written, \"Jacob have I loved, but Esau I have discarded.\""}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 9, "verse": "14", "text": "What do we say then? is there injustice in God?"}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 9, "verse": "15", "text": "God forbid, for he saith to Moses, \"I will show favour to whom I will show favour, and I will have compassion on whom I will have compassion.\""}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 9, "verse": "16", "text": "so that this is a matter not dependent on him that wills or runs, but on God, who shews mercy."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 9, "verse": "17", "text": "for 'tis said in scripture to Pharaoh, \"even for this same purpose have I raised thee up, that I might shew my power in thee, and that my name might be declared throughout all the earth.\""}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 9, "verse": "18", "text": "thus some he pursues with his favours, and abandons others to their obduracy, according as he thinks fit."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 9, "verse": "19", "text": "But you will object, why does he then find fault? for \"who can resist his will?\""}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 9, "verse": "20", "text": "nay, but, O man, who art thou, to raise a dust against heaven? shall the pitcher say to him that formed it, \"why hast thou made me thus?\""}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 9, "verse": "21", "text": "is not the potter the master of his own clay, of the same mass to make one vessel for use and ornament, and another for a meaner purpose?"}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 9, "verse": "22", "text": "if the divine Being has patiently bore with those objects of his displeasure, that had been working out their own destruction, why may he not reveal himself to make them feel his vindictive power,"}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 9, "verse": "23", "text": "and display his infinite goodness to such objects of mercy, as he had prepared for glory?"}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 9, "verse": "24", "text": "to such as we, whom he has called, both from among the Jews, and from among the Gentiles."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 9, "verse": "25", "text": "as he saith himself in Osee, \"I will call them my people, which were not my people; and her, beloved, which was not beloved."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 9, "verse": "26", "text": "and it shall come to pass, that in the place where it was said unto them, ye are not my people; there shall they be called, the children of the living God.\""}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 9, "verse": "27", "text": "Esaias also breaks out concerning Israel, \" tho' the number of the children of Israel be as the sand of the sea, a remnant only shall be saved."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 9, "verse": "28", "text": "for in ballancing the account, the Lord will leave a small remainder upon the land.\""}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 9, "verse": "29", "text": "and as Esaias said before, \"except the God of heaven had left us a remnant, we had been as Sodoma, and brought to the state of Gomorrha.\" Israel’s Unbelief"}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 9, "verse": "30", "text": "What shall we hence conclude? that the Gentiles who sought not after justice, have obtained justice, even to that which is by faith:"}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 9, "verse": "31", "text": "but Israel, who followed the law of justice, hath not attained to the law of justice."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 9, "verse": "32", "text": "why? because they sought it not by faith, but indeed by the works of the law: for they stumbled at that stumbling-stone;"}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 9, "verse": "33", "text": "as it is written, \"behold, I lay in Sion a stumbling-stone, and a rock of offence: and whosoever believeth in him, shall not be ashamed.\""}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 10, "verse": "1", "text": "Brethren, my hearty desire and prayer to God for Israel is, that they may be saved."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 10, "verse": "2", "text": "for I bear them witness, that they have a zeal for God, but not guided by true knowledge."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 10, "verse": "3", "text": "because being ignorant of the justice which is of God, and going about to establish a justification of their own, they have not submitted themselves to that which is of God."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 10, "verse": "4", "text": "for the end of the law was to bring men to Christ, that every one who believeth, might be justified."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 10, "verse": "5", "text": "For Moses describes the justice that was to be had by the law, thus: \"the man who performeth the things here required, shall have life thereby.\""}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 10, "verse": "6", "text": "but the justification which is by faith, speaks in this manner; \"say not in thine heart, who shall ascend into heaven, in order to bring Christ down from above?"}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 10, "verse": "7", "text": "or, who shall descend into the deep, in order to bring up Christ again from the dead?\""}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 10, "verse": "8", "text": "what does it say \"more? the word is nigh thee, let it be in thy mouth and in thy heart:\" that is the word of faith which we preach."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 10, "verse": "9", "text": "for if you openly confess, that Jesus is the Lord, and sincerely believe, that God has raised him from the dead, you shall be saved."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 10, "verse": "10", "text": "for with the heart man believeth unto righteousness, and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 10, "verse": "11", "text": "for the scripture saith, \"whosoever believeth on him, shall not be ashamed.\""}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 10, "verse": "12", "text": "In reality there is no difference between the Jew and the Gentile: they have all the same Lord, who is bountiful to all that call upon him."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 10, "verse": "13", "text": "\"whoever shall call upon the name of the Lord, shall be saved.\""}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 10, "verse": "14", "text": "But how, say you, shall they call on him on whom they have not believed? and how shall they believe in him of whom they have not heard?"}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 10, "verse": "15", "text": "and how shall they hear without a preacher? and how shall they preach except they be sent? as it is written, \"how beautiful are the feet of those who preach the gospel of peace, and bring glad tidings of good things!\""}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 10, "verse": "16", "text": "'tis true, faith comes by preaching, and preaching is by the divine appointment."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 10, "verse": "17", "text": "but all do not obey the gospel, for Esaias saith, \"Lord, who hath believed our report?\""}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 10, "verse": "18", "text": "I reply, have they not heard? on the contrary, \"their voice spread thro' all the earth, and their words to the remotest inhabitants thereof.\""}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 10, "verse": "19", "text": "but still I ask, did not Israel know this? first, Moses saith, \"I will provoke you to jealousy, by those that are no people, and by a foolish nation I will anger you.\""}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 10, "verse": "20", "text": "but Esaias is more express, and says, \"I was found of them that sought me not; I was made manifest to them that asked not after me."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 10, "verse": "21", "text": "and to Israel he says, \"all day long I have stretched forth my hands to an incredulous and rebellious people.\""}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 11, "verse": "1", "text": "You will say then, hath God discarded his people? by no means, for I my self am an Israelite, of the posterity of Abraham, of the tribe of Benjamin."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 11, "verse": "2", "text": "God hath not discarded his people whom he formerly approv'd, don't you know what the scripture says of Elias? how he complain'd to God against Israel,"}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 11, "verse": "3", "text": "in these words, \"Lord, they have killed thy prophets, and digged down thine altars; and I alone am left, and they seek my life also.\""}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 11, "verse": "4", "text": "but what said the oracle to him? \"I have reserved to my self seven thousand men, who have not bowed the knee to Baal.\""}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 11, "verse": "5", "text": "in like manner at this time there is also a remnant chosen by the divine favour;"}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 11, "verse": "6", "text": "and if it be by favour, it is not upon the account of merit, for then mercy would not be mercy."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 11, "verse": "7", "text": "\"What then, hath not Israel obtained what he sought for?\" no, but the chosen remnant have obtained it, and the rest are obdurate to this day,"}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 11, "verse": "8", "text": "as it is written, \"God hath given them up to a state of insensibility, so that their eyes could not see, and their ears could not hear.\""}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 11, "verse": "9", "text": "and David says, \"let their table be made a snare, and a trap, and a gin, and a recompence for their iniquity."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 11, "verse": "10", "text": "let their eyes be darkned, so as not to see, and let their back be continually bowed down.\" The Ingrafting of the Gentiles"}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 11, "verse": "11", "text": "You will say then, \"were they suffer'd to stumble meerly for their ruin?\" no: but that thro' their fall, salvation might be offer'd to the Gentiles, in order to provoke their emulation."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 11, "verse": "12", "text": "now if their fall be to the advancement of the world, and the few converts among them bring in whole numbers of the Gentiles: how much more so will it be, when the Jewish body recover?"}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 11, "verse": "13", "text": "this concerns you Gentiles, for as I am the apostle of the Gentiles, I should do honour to my character,"}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 11, "verse": "14", "text": "if I could by any means excite the emulation of my dear countrymen, in order to save some."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 11, "verse": "15", "text": "for, if by rejecting them, the world may be reconciled; what shall their restoration be, but a general resurrection?"}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 11, "verse": "16", "text": "Now if the first-fruits be holy, so is the whole product: and if the root be holy, so are the branches."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 11, "verse": "17", "text": "if then, some of the branches are broken off, and thou like a wild olive, were grafted in their place to partake of the root and sap of the olivestock;"}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 11, "verse": "18", "text": "don't triumph over the branches: or if you do, remember the root is not dependent upon you, but you upon the root."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 11, "verse": "19", "text": "you will say then, \"the branches were broken off, that I might be grafted in.\""}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 11, "verse": "20", "text": "well, be it so, for their incredulity they were broken off, and you by faith stand firm: be not then elated, but let this be your fear,"}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 11, "verse": "21", "text": "lest God should not spare you, since he did not spare even the natural branches."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 11, "verse": "22", "text": "consider then the divine benignity, and his severity: his severity to those who fell, and his benignity to you, provided you adhere thereto; otherwise you likewise will be lopt off."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 11, "verse": "23", "text": "nay, even the Jews, if they don't continue still incredulous, shall be grafted in: since divine power can graft them in again."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 11, "verse": "24", "text": "for if you were taken from the wild olive, which was natural to you, to be grafted into a good olive-stock of a different nature, with how much greater reason shall these who are the natural branches, be grafted into their own olive-tree? All Israel Will Be Saved"}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 11, "verse": "25", "text": "I would not, brethren, have you ignorant of this secret, (for fear you should presume too much on your selves) that blindness has fallen upon a part of Israel, until the time when the Gentiles shall be fully come in."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 11, "verse": "26", "text": "and then all Israel shall be saved: as it is written, \"there shall come out of Sion the deliverer, and shall turn away Jacob from his impiety."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 11, "verse": "27", "text": "for this is my covenant with them, that I shall take away their sins.\""}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 11, "verse": "28", "text": "Though they are violently prejudiced against the gospel upon your account: yet they are objects of favour upon the account of their having been chosen out of respect to your fore-fathers."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 11, "verse": "29", "text": "for the divine gifts and vocation are irrevocable."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 11, "verse": "30", "text": "as you in times past did not obey God, yet have now obtained mercy upon the occasion of their disobedience:"}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 11, "verse": "31", "text": "so the Jews are at present incredulous, by reason of the mercy shown to you; so that they themselves are now to be pitied."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 11, "verse": "32", "text": "for God hath manifested to all the disobedient, that he would have mercy upon all. A Hymn of Praise"}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 11, "verse": "33", "text": "O the depth of the divine goodness, wisdom, and contrivance! how impenetrable are his decrees, and his ways past finding out!"}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 11, "verse": "34", "text": "for who hath known the mind of the Lord, or who hath been his counsellor?"}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 11, "verse": "35", "text": "who hath given any thing to him, and he will repay it?"}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 11, "verse": "36", "text": "for of him, and through him, and in him are all things: to whom be glory for ever. Amen."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 12, "verse": "1", "text": "I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God to you, that you present your bodies a living victim, holy, acceptable unto God, as the service of a rational being."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 12, "verse": "2", "text": "and be not conformed to the present age: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that you may perceive what God requires of you is good, and acceptable, and perfect."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 12, "verse": "3", "text": "Now it is by virtue of my apostolical commission, that I charge every man among you, not to entertain too high an opinion of himself; but modestly consider, that 'tis God who has dealt to every man his proportion of spiritual gifts."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 12, "verse": "4", "text": "for as there are many members in one and the same body, but all the members have not the same office:"}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 12, "verse": "5", "text": "so we who are many, make all but one body in Christ, and every member subservient to one another."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 12, "verse": "6", "text": "having then different gifts, according to the respective favour bestowed upon us; if it be prophecy, let him prophesy according to the proportion of his gift."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 12, "verse": "7", "text": "if it be the ministry, let him attend on that ministry; and he that teacheth, on teaching; he that exhorteth,"}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 12, "verse": "8", "text": "on exhortation: he that giveth, let him be disinterested; he that presideth, let him be diligent; he that sheweth mercy, let him do it with cheerfulness. Love, Zeal, Hope, Hospitality ( John 13:31–35 ; 1 John 3:11–24 )"}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 12, "verse": "9", "text": "Let love be without dissimulation, abhor that which is evil, adhere to that which is good."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 12, "verse": "10", "text": "in brotherly kindness be passionately affected to one another; in honour prefer one another:"}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 12, "verse": "11", "text": "in business be not slothful, but of an active mind, making the best use of every incident."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 12, "verse": "12", "text": "be joyful in hope; be patient under affliction; persevere in prayer;"}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 12, "verse": "13", "text": "distribute to the necessity of the saints; cultivate hospitality. Forgiveness ( Matthew 18:21–35 )"}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 12, "verse": "14", "text": "bless them who persecute you:"}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 12, "verse": "15", "text": "bless them, but curse not, rejoice with those that do rejoice, and weep with those that weep."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 12, "verse": "16", "text": "have the same respect for one another, let not your behaviour be haughty, but soften'd to the condition of those below you, be not wise in your own conceits."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 12, "verse": "17", "text": "Render no man evil for evil, mind such things as are approved not only by God, but by men."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 12, "verse": "18", "text": "do all you can to live peaceably, if it be possible, with all mankind."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 12, "verse": "19", "text": "dear brethren, avenge not yourselves, but leave that to the resentment of another: for it is written, \"vengeance is mine; I will repay, saith the Lord.\""}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 12, "verse": "20", "text": "therefore if thine enemy hunger, feed him; if he thirst, give him drink: for in so doing, you will heap coals of fire on his head."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 12, "verse": "21", "text": "be not overcome by evil, but overcome evil by good."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 13, "verse": "1", "text": "Be every one of you subject to the ruling powers, for every ruler holds of God: the rulers in being are constituted by God."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 13, "verse": "2", "text": "so that he who opposes the ruler, disobeys the orders of God: and will be punished too for resisting, by those very powers."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 13, "verse": "3", "text": "rulers are not a terror to virtue, but to vice, would you then live without any dread of the civil power? do what is right, and you shall have his commendation."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 13, "verse": "4", "text": "for his administration is appointed by God for your good, but if you do wrong, you have reason to be afraid; for he bears not the sword in vain: he being the minister of God, to execute punishment upon malefactors."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 13, "verse": "5", "text": "wherefore you ought to submit not only from an apprehension of punishment, but"}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 13, "verse": "6", "text": "from a principle of conscience, for this is the reason why you also pay tribute, because under God, they are continually"}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 13, "verse": "7", "text": "attending upon the publick administration, render therefore to all their dues: tribute to whom tribute is due, custom to whom custom, reverence to whom reverence, honour to whom honour. Love Fulfills the Law"}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 13, "verse": "8", "text": "Owe no man any thing, but mutual love: for he that"}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 13, "verse": "9", "text": "loves others hath fulfilled the law, for this, \"thou shalt not commit adultery, thou shalt not kill, thou shalt not steal, thou shalt not bear false witness, thou shalt not covet;\" and whatever social precept there be, it is reduced to this single head,"}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 13, "verse": "10", "text": "thou shalt love thy neighbour as thy self.\" the benevolent never does wrong to his neighbour: therefore benevolence is the fulfilling of the law. The Day Is Near"}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 13, "verse": "11", "text": "Consider likewise the present season, that now it is high time to rouse out of sleep: for now is our salvation nearer than when we first believed."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 13, "verse": "12", "text": "the night is far spent, the day is at hand: let us therefore throw off the habits of darkness, and be invested with the ornaments of light."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 13, "verse": "13", "text": "let us behave with decency as in open view; not with rioting and drunkenness, not with lewdness and brutality, not with strife and envy."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 13, "verse": "14", "text": "but imitate the Lord Jesus Christ, and by no means indulge any sensual desires."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 14, "verse": "1", "text": "A weak convert receive as a friend without regard to any difference of opinion."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 14, "verse": "2", "text": "for one makes no difficulty of eating all sorts of food: another is so scrupulous, he lives upon herbs."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 14, "verse": "3", "text": "let not him that eateth, despise him that does not; and let not him that refrains, pass censure on him that eateth: for God hath received him."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 14, "verse": "4", "text": "who art thou that judgest the domestick of another? his staying or removal depends solely upon his master: yea, he shall be fixed: for God is able to establish him."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 14, "verse": "5", "text": "one man thinks one day fitter for religious worship than another: another thinks every day alike, let every man follow the persuasion of his own mind."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 14, "verse": "6", "text": "he that observes a day, and he that obobserves it not, act both from a sense of duty, he that eats, consisiders it as the bounty of his Lord, for he giveth God thanks; and he that forbeareth to eat, considers his forbearance as enjoined by his Lord, and giveth God thanks for the rest."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 14, "verse": "7", "text": "for we neither live, nor die, as if we were our own masters."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 14, "verse": "8", "text": "if we live, our life is appropriated to the Lord; and if we die, we die as his servants: whether we live therefore or die, we are the Lord's."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 14, "verse": "9", "text": "for to this end Christ both died, and rose, and revived, that he might be Lord both of the dead and living."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 14, "verse": "10", "text": "why then dost thou judge thy brother? or why dost thou think contemptibly of thy brother? since we shall all of us be brought before the judgment-seat of Christ."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 14, "verse": "11", "text": "for it is written, \"as I live, saith the Lord, every knee shall bow to me, and every tongue shall give praise to God.\""}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 14, "verse": "12", "text": "Since then every one of us shall give an account of himself to God; The Law of Love ( 1 Corinthians 8:1–13 )"}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 14, "verse": "13", "text": "let us not judge one another any more: but rather come to this determination, not to put a stumbling-block, or any thing in a brother's way, that may make him fall."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 14, "verse": "14", "text": "I know, being fully assured by the Lord Jesus, that there is nothing unclean of itself: it is only so to him that thinks it is unclean."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 14, "verse": "15", "text": "now if your brother be endanger'd by your eating, you violate the obligations of love: for such a matter as eating, will you risk his life, for whom Christ died?"}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 14, "verse": "16", "text": "Don't let our religion then be expos'd to reproach."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 14, "verse": "17", "text": "for the gospel dispensation does not consist in meats and drinks, but in piety and peace, and spiritual joy."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 14, "verse": "18", "text": "for he that thus pays his allegiance to Christ, is acceptable to God, and approved of men."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 14, "verse": "19", "text": "Let us therefore pursue those things which tend to peace, and mutual edification."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 14, "verse": "20", "text": "do not for such a thing as meat, pull down what God has been raising, all things indeed are pure; but they become evil to him who by eating giveth offence."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 14, "verse": "21", "text": "it is better to abstain from flesh, and wine, and every thing whereby your brother is in danger of falling off."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 14, "verse": "22", "text": "keep the persuasion you have, to your own conscience, blessed is he that approves himself to God, without making any difference about meats:"}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 14, "verse": "23", "text": "for he that makes a difference, is self-condemn'd, if he eats against his own persuasion: for every action of that kind is sin."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 15, "verse": "1", "text": "I add, we that are better inform'd ought to bear the infirmities of the weak, and not study our own pleasure."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 15, "verse": "2", "text": "let every one of us consult the good of his neighbour to his edification."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 15, "verse": "3", "text": "for even Christ did not consult his own satisfaction; but as it is written, \"the reproaches of them that reproached thee are fallen upon me.\""}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 15, "verse": "4", "text": "now whatever was heretofore writ, was writ for our instruction; that we through patience and the comfortable promises of the scriptures might have hope."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 15, "verse": "5", "text": "May the God of patience and consolation, make you equally concern'd for one another, according to the example of Christ Jesus,"}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 15, "verse": "6", "text": "that ye may unanimously with one voice glorify God, even the father of our Lord Jesus Christ. Christ the Servant of Jews and Gentiles"}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 15, "verse": "7", "text": "wherefore be kindly affected to one another, as Christ was to you, that you might glorify God."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 15, "verse": "8", "text": "for I tell you, that Jesus Christ was a minister to the Jews, to manifest the veracity of God in fulfilling the promises made to the fathers:"}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 15, "verse": "9", "text": "and you Gentiles ought to glorify God for his mercy; as it is written, \"for this cause I will confess to thee among the Gentiles, and sing unto thy name.\""}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 15, "verse": "10", "text": "and again the scripture saith, \"rejoice, ye Gentiles, with his people.\""}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 15, "verse": "11", "text": "and elsewhere, praise the Lord, all ye Gentiles, and laud him, all ye people.\""}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 15, "verse": "12", "text": "besides Esaias saith, \"there shall be a root of Jesse, and he that shall rise to reign over the Gentiles; in him shall the Gentiles hope.\""}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 15, "verse": "13", "text": "Now the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, that ye may abound in hope through the power of the holy spirit. Paul the Minister to the Gentiles"}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 15, "verse": "14", "text": "As to myself, I am persuaded, my brethren, that you abound in goodness, and in variety of knowledge, and are able to instruct one another."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 15, "verse": "15", "text": "nevertheless, brethren, I have writ to the Gentile part of you, and admonish'd you with the greater freedom by virtue of the commission that God has given me,"}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 15, "verse": "16", "text": "to be the minister of Jesus Christ to the Gentiles, officiating the gospel of God, that the Gentiles might be made an acceptable offering, being sanctified by the holy spirit."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 15, "verse": "17", "text": "I have therefore matter of glorying thro' Jesus Christ, with respect to divine service."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 15, "verse": "18", "text": "for I will not offer to mention any thing, but what Christ has wrought by me, to make the Gentiles christians, both in profession and practice:"}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 15, "verse": "19", "text": "by virtue of the miracles and prodigies wrought by the power of the divine spirit; so that from Jerusalem, and the neighbouring country, quite to Illyricum,"}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 15, "verse": "20", "text": "I have effectually preached the gospel of Christ: yet so as studiously to avoid preaching it where Christ was owned, lest I should build upon another man's foundation; for,"}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 15, "verse": "21", "text": "as it is written, \"they to whom he was not mentioned, shall see: and they that have not heard, shall understand.\""}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 15, "verse": "22", "text": "This has chiefly hindred me from coming to you. Paul’s Travel Plans ( 1 Corinthians 16:5–9 )"}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 15, "verse": "23", "text": "but now there being no further occasion for me in these parts, and having had a great desire these many years to visit you;"}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 15, "verse": "24", "text": "when I take my journey into Spain, I hope to see you in my way, and be forwarded by you to that place, after having for some time enjoy'd the pleasure of your company."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 15, "verse": "25", "text": "but now I am going to Jerusalem, to distribute charity to the converts."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 15, "verse": "26", "text": "for those of Macedonia and Achaia, have thought fit to make a contribution for the poor converts at Jerusalem."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 15, "verse": "27", "text": "they have thought fit, I say, and they owed them as much, for if the Gentiles have participated of their spirituals, they are bound on their side to minister to them in their temporals."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 15, "verse": "28", "text": "when I have dispatch'd this affair, and have secur'd to them this collection, I will come to you in my way to Spain."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 15, "verse": "29", "text": "and I know that when I do come, I shall come charged with the blessings of Christ."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 15, "verse": "30", "text": "in the mean time, I conjure you, brethren, by our Lord Jesus Christ, and by the love of the spirit, that you join with me in earnest prayers to God for me;"}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 15, "verse": "31", "text": "that I may be delivered from the unbelievers in Judea; and that the charitable service which I am employed about, for the converts at Jerusalem, may be acceptable to them:"}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 15, "verse": "32", "text": "that by the will of God we may meet with joy, and rest together in peace."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 15, "verse": "33", "text": "now the God of peace be with you all. Amen."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 16, "verse": "1", "text": "I recommend to you Phebe our sister, who is a deaconess of the church at Kenchrea; receive her for Christ's sake,"}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 16, "verse": "2", "text": "as becometh christians, and assist her in every thing her business requires: for she hath assisted many besides my self."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 16, "verse": "3", "text": "salute Priscilla and Aquila, my fellow-labourers in the gospel of Christ Jesus:"}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 16, "verse": "4", "text": "who have for my life readily exposed their own: to whom not only I, but all the churches of the Gentiles too give thanks."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 16, "verse": "5", "text": "salute the church that is in their house, salute my dear Epenetus, who is the first christian convert of Asia."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 16, "verse": "6", "text": "salute Mary, who spared no trouble upon our account."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 16, "verse": "7", "text": "salute Andronicus and Junias my relations, and fellow-prisoners, who are distinguish'd among the apostles,"}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 16, "verse": "8", "text": "and were christians before me, salute Amplias, whom"}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 16, "verse": "9", "text": "I value as a good christian, salute Urbane my assistant in the cause of Christ,"}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 16, "verse": "10", "text": "and my dear Stachys, salute Apelles, an approved christian, salute the family of Aristobulus."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 16, "verse": "11", "text": "salute Herodion my kinsman, salute the family of Narcissus, who have embraced the gospel."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 16, "verse": "12", "text": "salute Tryphena and Tryphosa, who labour for the Lord, salute my dear Persis, who laboured much in the gospel."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 16, "verse": "13", "text": "salute Rufus chosen by the Lord, and his mother and mine."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 16, "verse": "14", "text": "salute Asyncritus, Phlegon, Hermas, Patrobas, Hermes, and the brethren who are with them."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 16, "verse": "15", "text": "salute Philologus, Julia, Nereas, his sister, Olympas, and all the converts who are with them."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 16, "verse": "16", "text": "salute one anther with an holy kiss, all the churches of Christ here, salute you. Avoid Divisions ( Titus 3:9–11 )"}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 16, "verse": "17", "text": "Now I beseech you, brethren, mark those who cause divisions and revolts against the doctrine which you have learned; and avoid them."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 16, "verse": "18", "text": "for such as these serve not our Lord Jesus Christ, but their own selfishness; and by flourish and flattery, deceive the open-hearted simple."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 16, "verse": "19", "text": "your christianity is very well known in the world. I am glad therefore on your behalf: but yet I would have you as expert in that which is good, as unpractis'd in what is evil."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 16, "verse": "20", "text": "the God of peace will soon bruise Satan under your feet, the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you. Amen. Greetings from Paul’s Fellow Workers ( Colossians 4:7–14 )"}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 16, "verse": "21", "text": "Timotheus my collegue, Lucius, Jason, and Sosipater, my kinsmen, salute you."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 16, "verse": "22", "text": "I Tertius, who wrote this epistle, salute you in the Lord."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 16, "verse": "23", "text": "Gaius, with whom I lodge, who purveys for the church in general, salutes you. Erastus the chamberlain of the city salutes you; and Quartus a brother."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 16, "verse": "24", "text": "[the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you all. Amen.] Doxology ( Jude 1:24–25 )"}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 16, "verse": "25", "text": "Now to him that is able to establish you according to my gospel, and the preaching of Jesus Christ, conformable to the revelation of the mystery, which was kept secret from antient times, but now is laid open,"}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 16, "verse": "26", "text": "and by the writings of the prophets (according to the commandment of the eternal God) made known to all the Gentiles, to induce them to obey the faith:"}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 16, "verse": "27", "text": "to God, I say, who is only wise, be glory thro' Jesus Christ for ever. Amen."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 1, "verse": "1", "text": "Paul appointed by the divine will to be an apostle of Jesus Christ, and Sosthenes our brother,"}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 1, "verse": "2", "text": "to the church of God which is at Corinth, to those who being sanctified by Christ Jesus, are saints by that vocation, to all that any where invoke the name of Jesus Christ, who is both their Lord and ours."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 1, "verse": "3", "text": "grace and peace be with you from God our father, and from the Lord Jesus Christ. Thanksgiving ( Philippians 1:3–11 ; Colossians 1:3–14 )"}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 1, "verse": "4", "text": "I continually give thanks to God on your behalf, for the favour he has bestowed on you thro' Jesus Christ;"}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 1, "verse": "5", "text": "in your being enriched by him in every gift, with all that light and knowledge,"}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 1, "verse": "6", "text": "whereby the testimony we gave concerning Christ was confirmed among you."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 1, "verse": "7", "text": "so that you will be deficient in no gift; during your expectation of the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ:"}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 1, "verse": "8", "text": "and God will confirm you to the end, that ye may be unaccused in the day of our Lord Jesus Christ."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 1, "verse": "9", "text": "for he, who has called you to the communication of his son Jesus Christ our Lord, will make good his promise. Unity in the Church ( Ephesians 4:1–16 )"}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 1, "verse": "10", "text": "Now I beseech you, brethren, by the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, to maintain all the same doctrine, to suffer no divisions among you; but to be perfectly united in the same mind, and in the same judgment."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 1, "verse": "11", "text": "for I have been inform'd, my brethren, by some of Chloe's family, that there are contentions among you."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 1, "verse": "12", "text": "I mean that one or other of you cries out \"I am of Paul, and I of Apollos, and I of Cephas,"}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 1, "verse": "13", "text": "and I of Christ.\" is the school of Christ divided? was Paul crucified for you? or were you baptized into the name of Paul?"}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 1, "verse": "14", "text": "I thank God, I baptized none of you, except Crispus and Gaius:"}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 1, "verse": "15", "text": "lest any should say, I had baptized into mine own name."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 1, "verse": "16", "text": "true, I baptized the family of Stephanas: but I don't know that I baptized any other besides."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 1, "verse": "17", "text": "for Christ did not send me to baptize: but to preach the gospel: tho' not with the preaching of the wise, lest the cross of Christ should have been hinder'd in its efficacy. The Message of the Cross"}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 1, "verse": "18", "text": "For tho' the doctrine of the cross seems folly to those that perish: yet we that are to be saved, do feel its energy is divine."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 1, "verse": "19", "text": "for it is written, \"I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, and will bring to nothing the understanding of the prudent.\""}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 1, "verse": "20", "text": "where is the wise? where is the scribe? where is the disputant of this age? has not God prov'd the wisdom of this world to be downright folly."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 1, "verse": "21", "text": "for whereas the world, with all their learning, did not distinguish the characters of his divine wisdom, in his works, it pleased God to save those who believe, by preaching, which they counted folly."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 1, "verse": "22", "text": "while the Jews require signs, and the Greeks seek wisdom:"}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 1, "verse": "23", "text": "we preach Christ crucified, an obstacle to the Jews indeed, and to the Gentiles foolishness: but to those who believe,"}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 1, "verse": "24", "text": "both Jews and Gentiles, he is the Christ, the power of God, and the wisdom of God."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 1, "verse": "25", "text": "for this divine doctrine, as foolish and weak as men may think it, far surpasses all their wisdom, and baffles all their power. Wisdom from God"}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 1, "verse": "26", "text": "for consider, brethren, that not many worldly wise, not many men of power, not many men of birth are among you that are called."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 1, "verse": "27", "text": "but God hath chosen those who are foolish in the opinion of the world, to confound the wise; and the weak men of the world to confound the mighty:"}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 1, "verse": "28", "text": "those who were looked upon by the world as vile, as despicable, as nothing, these has God chosen to reduce their sufficiency to nothing."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 1, "verse": "29", "text": "that no man might glory before God;"}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 1, "verse": "30", "text": "for from him it is that ye believe in Christ Jesus, whom God has made to us wisdom, and righteousness, and sanctification, and redemption: that,"}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 1, "verse": "31", "text": "according as it is written, \"he that glorieth, should glory in the Lord.\""}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 2, "verse": "1", "text": "As for me, my brethren, when I appear'd among you, it was not to represent to you the divine mystery in sublime language, and with human literature."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 2, "verse": "2", "text": "for I did not think I was to have any other knowledge among you, than that of Christ, a crucified saviour."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 2, "verse": "3", "text": "I was with you in weakness, in fear, and in great agony:"}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 2, "verse": "4", "text": "my discourse, and my preaching did not consist in the persuasive reasonings of human wisdom, but in demonstrating the spiritual meaning of the scriptures:"}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 2, "verse": "5", "text": "that your faith might not be owing to human wisdom, but to the divine influence. Spiritual Wisdom ( Ephesians 1:15–23 )"}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 2, "verse": "6", "text": "However, what we preach is wisdom, to those who are thoroughly instructed: yet not the wisdom of this age, nor of the rulers of this age, who will soon come to nothing."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 2, "verse": "7", "text": "but we explain that mysterious plan of divine wisdom, which God had contriv'd before the ages, for our glory:"}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 2, "verse": "8", "text": "which none of the rulers of this age understood: for if they had, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 2, "verse": "9", "text": "but, as it is written, \"eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither have entred into the heart of man, the things which God hath prepared for them that love him.\""}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 2, "verse": "10", "text": "this is what God has revealed to us by his spirit: for the spirit penetrates into all things, even the profound counsels of God."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 2, "verse": "11", "text": "for who knows the thoughts of a man, but the spirit of man which is in him? even so the thoughts of God no one can know, but the spirit of God."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 2, "verse": "12", "text": "now the spirit which we have received, is not the spirit of this world, but that which comes from God; that we might know what he has graciously bestowed upon us."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 2, "verse": "13", "text": "this is what we declare, not in the words which human wisdom, but which the holy spirit dictates; explaining spiritual things in a spiritual language."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 2, "verse": "14", "text": "but the animal man does not receive the effusions of the spirit of God; for they are foolishness to him; neither can he understand them, because they are spiritually discerned."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 2, "verse": "15", "text": "but they are all expos'd to the judgment of the spiritual, whilst he himself is not subject to the judgment of any man."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 2, "verse": "16", "text": "for how can he, that does not know the mind of the Lord, instruct another? but as for us, we are acquainted with the mind of the Lord."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 3, "verse": "1", "text": "However, I could not speak to you, my brethren, as to the spiritual, or as to the dispassionate, but as to novices in christianity."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 3, "verse": "2", "text": "I have fed you with milk, and not with meat: for hitherto ye were not able to bear it, nor have you yet sufficient strength."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 3, "verse": "3", "text": "for you are still subject to your passions, since envy, and strife, and divisions are among you, are you not actuated by the vices of the animal part?"}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 3, "verse": "4", "text": "while one cries I am Paul's disciple, and another, I am Apollo's, are ye not vicious?"}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 3, "verse": "5", "text": "who then is Paul, and who is Apollos, but ministers by whom ye have received faith according to the divine gifts imparted to each of them?"}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 3, "verse": "6", "text": "I have planted, Apollos watered: but God gave the increase."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 3, "verse": "7", "text": "so then, neither is he that planted any thing, nor he that watered: it is God only that gives the increase."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 3, "verse": "8", "text": "he that planteth, and he that watereth, have the same design: and each shall receive his proper reward, in proportion to his own labour."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 3, "verse": "9", "text": "For we are fellow labourers employed by God: you are his field, and his mansion. Christ Our Foundation ( Ephesians 2:19–22 ; 1 Peter 2:1–8 )"}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 3, "verse": "10", "text": "according to the free gift of God bestowed upon me, I, as a skilful architect, have laid the foundation, and another builds thereon, but let every man take heed how he builds thereupon."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 3, "verse": "11", "text": "for no one can lay any other foundation, than what is laid, which is, that Jesus is the Messias."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 3, "verse": "12", "text": "now if upon this foundation somebody builds gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, stubble: he that builds such work,"}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 3, "verse": "13", "text": "will be expos'd, for the time of tryal will show it: it shall be discovered by the fire, which will put each sort of work to the test."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 3, "verse": "14", "text": "if the work abide which somebody has built thereupon, he shall receive a reward."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 3, "verse": "15", "text": "if that man's work should be burnt, he will suffer loss: but should he himself escape, it will be as out of the fire. God’s Temple and God’s Wisdom ( Romans 12:1–8 ; 1 Corinthians 6:18–20 )"}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 3, "verse": "16", "text": "Don't you know, that you are the temple of God, and that the spirit of God dwells in you?"}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 3, "verse": "17", "text": "if any man divide the temple of God, him shall God destroy: for you, who are the temple of God, are consecrated to him."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 3, "verse": "18", "text": "let no man deceive himself: if any among you pretends to worldly wisdom, let him commence fool, in order to be truly wise."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 3, "verse": "19", "text": "for the wisdom of this world is folly, in the eye of God: as it is written, \"he surprizes the wise in all their artifices.\""}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 3, "verse": "20", "text": "and again, \"the Lord knows, that the thoughts of the wise are vain.\""}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 3, "verse": "21", "text": "therefore, let no one glory in men: for all are yours:"}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 3, "verse": "22", "text": "whether Paul or Apollos, or Cephas, or the world, or life, or death, or things present, or things to come;"}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 3, "verse": "23", "text": "all are yours; and you are Christ's; and Christ is God's."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 4, "verse": "1", "text": "Let men consider us, as the ministers of Christ, who dispense the divine mysteries."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 4, "verse": "2", "text": "now it is required in a steward, that he be found faithful."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 4, "verse": "3", "text": "as for me, it is a matter of no great concern that I should be called to account by you, or any human authority; not that I am my own judge;"}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 4, "verse": "4", "text": "(for though I am not conscious to my self of any unfaithfulness, yet am I not hereby absolved:) but he that is my supreme judge, is the Lord."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 4, "verse": "5", "text": "therefore suspend your judgment till the Lord comes, who will bring to light the secrets of darkness, and expose the counsels of mens hearts: and then shall every man have his due reward from God."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 4, "verse": "6", "text": "These things, my brethren, I have represented to you in my own person, and that of Apollos, out of respect to you: to show you how to moderate your esteem by the rule prescrib'd, that you may not be transported in favour of one rather than another."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 4, "verse": "7", "text": "for who has distinguish'd thee above another? or what have you, that you did not receive? now if you did receive it, why do you glory as if you had not received it?"}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 4, "verse": "8", "text": "You have already a sufficiency, you already abound, you live like princes in our absence: and would to God you did reign, that we too might have the advantage of your administration."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 4, "verse": "9", "text": "for it seems as if God had exposed us apostles the last upon the stage, as persons appointed to death, for we are made a spectacle to the world, to angels, and to men."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 4, "verse": "10", "text": "we are made fools for our attachment to Christ, while you, who are christians too, still pass for the wise: we are in poverty, but you are in power: you meet with esteem, but we find contempt."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 4, "verse": "11", "text": "to this very day we suffer both hunger, thirst, and penury: we are buffeted from place to place, as vagabonds:"}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 4, "verse": "12", "text": "we are fatigu'd by our manual toil: when reviled, we pray: when persecuted, we don't repine:"}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 4, "verse": "13", "text": "and when we are defamed, we intreat: in a word, we are look'd upon as the dregs and scum of mankind, even to this day. Paul’s Fatherly Warning"}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 4, "verse": "14", "text": "This I don't write to give you any confusion, but by way of remonstrance, to you who are my dear children."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 4, "verse": "15", "text": "for though you may have ten thousand christian preceptors, you cannot have many fathers; since it was I that first instructed you in the gospel of Christ Jesus:"}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 4, "verse": "16", "text": "and therefore I intreat you, to copy after me."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 4, "verse": "17", "text": "'tis for this end I have sent you Timothy, who is my dear disciple, and a faithful christian, who will inform you how I behave my self in every church where I teach the gospel of Christ."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 4, "verse": "18", "text": "Some make their boast as if I would not come to you."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 4, "verse": "19", "text": "but if the Lord pleases, I will visit you very soon; and then I shall try, not what these boasters can say, but what they can do:"}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 4, "verse": "20", "text": "for the gospel dispensation does not consist in talk, but in power."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 4, "verse": "21", "text": "Which would you chuse, that I should come to you arm'd with resentment? or, in a mild and benevolent temper?"}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 5, "verse": "1", "text": "we have it from all quarters, that incest is practis'd among you, and such as is not among the Gentiles, that of a man's having his father's wife."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 5, "verse": "2", "text": "this you have made a matter of levity, instead of being concern'd in discarding him that has done such an action."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 5, "verse": "3", "text": "as for me, though I am absent in person, yet being present by my authority, with regard to him that has committed this fact, I am come to the same resolution, as if I was present,"}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 5, "verse": "4", "text": "that is, when you are assembled, and I virtually there, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ,"}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 5, "verse": "5", "text": "to deliver him up to satan, to suffer corporal punishment, that his spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord Jesus Christ."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 5, "verse": "6", "text": "Your levity is very indecent: don't you know that a little leaven infects the whole mass?"}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 5, "verse": "7", "text": "purge out the old leaven, that you may be a new mass, since you should be without leaven, for Christ our paschal lamb has been sacrificed for us."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 5, "verse": "8", "text": "therefore let us keep the feast, not with old leaven, the leaven of malice and wickedness; but with unaffected sincerity and truth. Expel the Immoral Brother"}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 5, "verse": "9", "text": "When I formerly writ to you, not to keep company with the vicious:"}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 5, "verse": "10", "text": "I did not mean the vicious Gentiles, the misers, the raparees, or with idolaters; for then you must have gone out of the world."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 5, "verse": "11", "text": "but my meaning was, not to keep company with any christian known to be vicious, or covetous, or an idolater, or a railer, or a drunkard, or rapacious, no not even to eat with such a one."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 5, "verse": "12", "text": "for what have I to do to judge those who are without the church; but are not you to judge those that are within?"}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 5, "verse": "13", "text": "those that are without, God will judge, therefore expel the libertine from your community."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 6, "verse": "1", "text": "When any controversy arises among you, will any one presume to appeal to the Gentiles, and not to Christians?"}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 6, "verse": "2", "text": "don't you know that these are to judge the world? if the world is to be judg'd by you, are not you qualify'd to decide your petty causes?"}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 6, "verse": "3", "text": "don't you know that we shall be judges of angels? much more then of the affairs of life?"}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 6, "verse": "4", "text": "if then you have the cognizance of such matters, why do ye set those to judge who are despised by the church? I speak it to your shame."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 6, "verse": "5", "text": "what, is there not a man of experience amongst you, capable of being arbitrator between his brethren?"}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 6, "verse": "6", "text": "but when a contest arises, you must refer the decision to infidels?"}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 6, "verse": "7", "text": "beside, you are absolutely in the wrong in going to law with one another at all: why don't you rather take wrong? why do ye not rather suffer loss?"}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 6, "verse": "8", "text": "nay, in this case, you act injuriously, and do damage even to your brethren. Members of Christ"}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 6, "verse": "9", "text": "Know you not that the unjust shall not inherit the kingdom of God? be not deceived: neither the licentious, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor the effeminate, nor the brutal,"}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 6, "verse": "10", "text": "nor thieves, nor misers, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor raparees, shall inherit the kingdom of God."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 6, "verse": "11", "text": "and such were some of you: but you have been washed, you have been sanctified, you have been justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ, and by the spirit of our God."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 6, "verse": "12", "text": "Are all things lawful for me? however, all things are not expedient: are all things lawful for me? however, I will not be a slave to any."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 6, "verse": "13", "text": "\"meat is design'd for the belly, and the belly for meat:\" true, yet God has design'd both for destruction, now the body is not design'd for licentiousness, but for the glory of the Lord; since the Lord died for the glorification of the body:"}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 6, "verse": "14", "text": "for as God hath raised up the Lord, so will he likewise raise us up to partake of his own power."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 6, "verse": "15", "text": "Don't you know, that your bodies are parts of Christ's mystical body? now, how can that which is Christ's, be made the property of a very creature?"}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 6, "verse": "16", "text": "it cannot be, why, don't you perceive, that where there is such an attachment, they are but as one person? for the scripture says, \"they two shall be as one.\""}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 6, "verse": "17", "text": "but he that is attach'd to the Lord, is united to him by one and the same spirit. The Temple of the Holy Spirit ( Romans 12:1–8 ; 1 Corinthians 3:16–23 )"}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 6, "verse": "18", "text": "flee licentiousness, no other sin that a man commits does affect the church as a body: but the licentious commits a fraud against the whole body to which he belongs."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 6, "verse": "19", "text": "what! know ye not that your bodies are the temple of the holy spirit, which is in you, which you have from God, and that you are not your own?"}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 6, "verse": "20", "text": "for you are bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 7, "verse": "1", "text": "Now as to the question you writ to me about; \"whether it is best for a man not to marry?\""}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 7, "verse": "2", "text": "I answer, with regard to the licentious, it is best for a man, to have his wife; and for a woman to have her husband."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 7, "verse": "3", "text": "let the husband discharge his obligations to his wife: and likewise the wife to the husband."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 7, "verse": "4", "text": "the wife has not the right of her own person, but the husband: and so likewise the husband has not the right of his own person, but the wife."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 7, "verse": "5", "text": "don't desert one another, unless you mutually consent to retire for a time, to the solemnity of prayer; and then come together again, lest satan make an attempt upon your continency."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 7, "verse": "6", "text": "but as for the rest, I speak it by way of counsel, and not of command."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 7, "verse": "7", "text": "for I wish that all men were as I myself am: but every man hath his proper gift from God, some one way, and some another."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 7, "verse": "8", "text": "As to the unmarried and widows, I say, it is best for them to continue so, as I do."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 7, "verse": "9", "text": "but if they have not the gift, let them marry: for it is better to marry than to be in pain."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 7, "verse": "10", "text": "as to the married, I enjoin this rule, not as from my self, but from the Lord, that a woman should not leave her husband:"}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 7, "verse": "11", "text": "but if she has separated herself, let her remain unmarried, or be reconciled to her husband: and let not the husband put away his wife."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 7, "verse": "12", "text": "But as to the other cases, which were not decided by the Lord; I say, if any brother has a pagan wife, who likes to live with him, let him not put her away."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 7, "verse": "13", "text": "and if a woman has a pagan husband, who likes to live with her, let her not leave him."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 7, "verse": "14", "text": "for the unbelieving husband is christianiz'd by the believing wife, and the unbelieving wife is christianiz'd by the believing husband: else were your children heathens: whereas they are christians."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 7, "verse": "15", "text": "but if the infidel will separate, let him go: a brother or a sister is not inslaved in such cases, but God has called us to peace; for how do you know,"}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 7, "verse": "16", "text": "O wife, but you may save your husband? or how do you know, O man, but you may save your wife? Live Your Calling"}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 7, "verse": "17", "text": "Whatever condition God has allotted to any man, let him go on in the same state he was in when he became a christian: this I give as a standing rule to all churches."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 7, "verse": "18", "text": "does a Jew turn Christian? let him not pretend to be uncircumcised: does a Gentile turn Christian? let him not become circumcised."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 7, "verse": "19", "text": "circumcision is nothing, and uncircumcision is nothing, in comparison of obeying the divine commands."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 7, "verse": "20", "text": "let every man continue in the same state he was in when he turn'd christian."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 7, "verse": "21", "text": "were you called being a slave? be not perplex'd about it; but if you can obtain your freedom, don't refuse it."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 7, "verse": "22", "text": "for the slave that turns christian, is the Lord's freedman: likewise, the freeman that becomes a convert is Christ's servant."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 7, "verse": "23", "text": "have you been redeemed from slavery? then, don't turn slaves."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 7, "verse": "24", "text": "brethren, let every man conscientiously continue in the state he was in when he was converted. The Unmarried and Widowed"}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 7, "verse": "25", "text": "As to the case of celibacy, I have no positive instructions: yet my advice deserves to be regarded, as coming from one the divine favour has distinguished."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 7, "verse": "26", "text": "I think therefore it is best, considering the present distress, I say, it is best, for a single person to continue so still."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 7, "verse": "27", "text": "are you contracted to a wife? seek not to be disengag'd, are you disengag'd from your wife? don't look out for another;"}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 7, "verse": "28", "text": "not that it is a sin for you to marry; nor is it so if a virgin marry; but they that do, will be troubled for their relations, and that I would prevent."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 7, "verse": "29", "text": "This I say, brethren, because the time is coming, when they who have wives will be as those that have none;"}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 7, "verse": "30", "text": "and they that weep, as those that are unconcern'd; and they that rejoice, as those that do not; and they that buy, as those that have no possessions;"}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 7, "verse": "31", "text": "and they that possess this world, as those that can't make an ill use of it, for the scene of this world is continually shifting. I would have you free from anxiety."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 7, "verse": "32", "text": "the unmarried is religiously concerned, how he may please the Lord:"}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 7, "verse": "33", "text": "he that is married is worldly concern'd, how he may please his wife."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 7, "verse": "34", "text": "there is the same difference between a married woman and a virgin: the last is religiously concern'd to be holy, both in body and mind: but she that is married is taken up with worldly cares to please her husband."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 7, "verse": "35", "text": "And this I say for your particular advantage, not to lay any constraint upon you, but as that which is most suitable to a state of uninterrupted attendance upon religion."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 7, "verse": "36", "text": "if any man thinks it would be a reflexion upon his manhood to be a stale batchelor, and so ought to marry; let him follow his bent, he is at liberty, let such marry."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 7, "verse": "37", "text": "but he that has been steady in his purpose, and finds no necessity to alter it; if he is a master of his passion, and is heartily determin'd to keep his virginity, it is well."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 7, "verse": "38", "text": "so that he who marries, does well; but he who lives single, may have less trouble."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 7, "verse": "39", "text": "The wife is bound as long as her husband lives: but if her husbnd be dead, she is at liberty to be married, if she pleases; provided it be to a christian."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 7, "verse": "40", "text": "but she will be happier, if she remain a widow, in my opinion: and I think the divine spirit suggests the same."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 8, "verse": "1", "text": "Now as to things offered to idols, 'tis certain that the knowledge you all pretend to have, swells you with pride, but 'tis charity that edifieth."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 8, "verse": "2", "text": "and if any man be conceited of his own knowledge, he knows nothing yet as he ought to know it."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 8, "verse": "3", "text": "but if a man love God, the same is taught by him."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 8, "verse": "4", "text": "As to the eating therefore of what is offered in sacrifice to idols, we know that the heathen deities have no real existence, and that there is but one God."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 8, "verse": "5", "text": "for tho' there are several titular deities, both in heaven and on earth: such as the whole crowd of gods, and lords among the Gentiles;"}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 8, "verse": "6", "text": "yet to us there is but one God, the father, from whom are all things, and we in him; and one Lord Jesus Christ, by whom are all things, and we by him."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 8, "verse": "7", "text": "But every one has not this knowledge: for some still imagine the idol represents a deity: and eat the meat under the notion of an offering to such a being: by which erroneous opinion they are infected with idolatry."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 8, "verse": "8", "text": "meat does not recommend us to God: if we eat, we are not the better men; if we don't eat, we are not the worse."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 8, "verse": "9", "text": "but take care that this liberty of yours does not prove a scandal to the weak."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 8, "verse": "10", "text": "for if any man see you who have a just notion of idols, sitting at table in their temple, will not the person who is wrong in his notions be incouraged to eat what is offered to idols, tho' contrary to his own opinion?"}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 8, "verse": "11", "text": "so that your notions may endanger the life of thy weak brother, for whom Christ died."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 8, "verse": "12", "text": "but when you thus offend against the brethren, by wounding their weak conscience, you sin against Christ."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 8, "verse": "13", "text": "wherefore if my eating makes my brother offend, I will never eat flesh rather than make my brother offend."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 9, "verse": "1", "text": "Am I not free? am I not an apostle? have I not seen Jesus Christ our Lord? are not you become christians by my labour?"}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 9, "verse": "2", "text": "if I am not an apostle to others, yet doubtless I am to you: for your being christians is the proof of my apostleship."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 9, "verse": "3", "text": "my answer to those who call me to account, is this:"}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 9, "verse": "4", "text": "have we not a right to meat and drink?"}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 9, "verse": "5", "text": "have not we the liberty to take a christian woman with us in our travels, as well as the rest of the apostles, as the brothers of the Lord, and Cephas did?"}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 9, "verse": "6", "text": "or I and Barnabas, are we only excluded the privilege of not working?"}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 9, "verse": "7", "text": "who ever serves in war at his own charges? who plants a vineyard, and does not eat of the fruit? or who feeds a flock, and eats not of the milk of the flock?"}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 9, "verse": "8", "text": "is this only the voice of reason? does not the law express the same too?"}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 9, "verse": "9", "text": "for it is written in the law of Moses, \"thou shalt not muzzle the mouth of the ox that treadeth out the corn.\" are oxen the objects of divine care?"}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 9, "verse": "10", "text": "or is it said, no doubt, for our sakes? for our sakes, no doubt, this is written: that he who plows should plow in hope; and that he who thresheth should expect the advantage."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 9, "verse": "11", "text": "if for your benefit we have sown spirituals, is it so extraordinary if we should reap some benefit from your temporals?"}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 9, "verse": "12", "text": "if others partake of your substance, have not I a better title? nevertheless, I have not made use of this privilege; but bear with any thing rather than obstruct the gospel of Christ."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 9, "verse": "13", "text": "don't you know, that they who prepare the sacrifices, do eat of the sacrifice in the temple? and they who wait at the altar, have their portion from the altar?"}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 9, "verse": "14", "text": "even so has the Lord ordained, that they who preach the gospel, should live by the gospel."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 9, "verse": "15", "text": "but I have not made use of these advantages, neither have I writ this to obtain such maintenance: for I had rather die for want, than be deprived of such matter of glorying."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 9, "verse": "16", "text": "for in barely preaching the gospel, I have nothing to glory in: because I am under an obligation to do it; yea, wo is unto me if I preach not the gospel."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 9, "verse": "17", "text": "now if I do this willingly, I have a reward: but if against my will, it is a dispensation of trust which must be discharged."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 9, "verse": "18", "text": "whence then is my reward? why, from my preaching the gospel of Christ gratis, without making use of the privilege which the gospel gives me. Paul the Servant to All"}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 9, "verse": "19", "text": "for tho' I am independent of all men, yet have I subjected myself to all, that I might gain the more."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 9, "verse": "20", "text": "to the Jews, I became as a Jew, that I might gain the Jews; to those who are under the law, as under the law, that I might gain those who are under the law;"}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 9, "verse": "21", "text": "to those who are without the law, as without that law, (not as being under no law to God, but as under the law to Christ) that I might gain those who are without the law."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 9, "verse": "22", "text": "to the weak I became as weak, that I might gain the weak: I became all things to all men, that I might save all sorts of men."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 9, "verse": "23", "text": "and I do all for the gospel's sake, that I may share in the benefits thereof. Run Your Race to Win"}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 9, "verse": "24", "text": "You know, that in a race, tho' all run, but one receives the prize: so run, that you may obtain."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 9, "verse": "25", "text": "every one that strives for the mastery, is extremely temperate: now, they do it to obtain a corruptible crown, but we an incorruptible one."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 9, "verse": "26", "text": "I therefore so run, not as one that is distanc'd: I fight, but not with the air."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 9, "verse": "27", "text": "but I mortify my body, and bring it into subjection: lest after having been a herald to others, I my self should be thrown out."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 10, "verse": "1", "text": "I would not have you ignorant, my brethren, that all our fathers were under the Cloud, all passed thro' the sea:"}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 10, "verse": "2", "text": "and were all baptized into the Mosaical institution by the cloud, and by the sea;"}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 10, "verse": "3", "text": "they all eat the same spiritual meat,"}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 10, "verse": "4", "text": "and all drank the same spiritual drink: (for they drank of what flowed from the spiritual rock: and that rock was Christ.)"}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 10, "verse": "5", "text": "but with the greater part God was not well pleased: for their carcasses were strown in the wilderness."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 10, "verse": "6", "text": "now these things were examples to deter us from longing after things that are pernicious, as they did."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 10, "verse": "7", "text": "be not idolaters, as some of them were; as it is written, \"the people sat down to eat and drink, and rose up to play.\""}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 10, "verse": "8", "text": "neither let us commit fornication, as some of them did, of whom three and twenty thousand fell in one day."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 10, "verse": "9", "text": "neither let us provoke Christ as some of them provoked him, and were destroyed by serpents."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 10, "verse": "10", "text": "neither murmur ye, as some of them murmured, and were slain by the destroying angel."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 10, "verse": "11", "text": "All these things happened to them for examples: and are written for our admonition, upon whom the ends of the ages are come."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 10, "verse": "12", "text": "wherefore let him that thinks he stands firm, take heed lest he fall."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 10, "verse": "13", "text": "you have met with no trials yet, but such as are common to men: and God who is faithful, will not suffer you to be tempted above your strength; but will with the temptation make a way to escape, by enabling you to bear it. Flee from Idolatry"}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 10, "verse": "14", "text": "wherefore, my beloved, flee from idolatry."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 10, "verse": "15", "text": "I speak as to knowing men: be you your selves the judges of what I say."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 10, "verse": "16", "text": "the cup of benediction which we bless, is it not the communion of the blood of Christ? the bread which we break, is it not the communion of the body of Christ?"}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 10, "verse": "17", "text": "for the bread being one, as many as we are, we are one body: for we are all partakers of that one bread."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 10, "verse": "18", "text": "consider the custom of the Jews by descent, are not they which eat of the sacrifices, partakers of the altar? what say I then?"}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 10, "verse": "19", "text": "that the idol, or that what is offered in sacrifice to the idol, is a matter of consequence?"}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 10, "verse": "20", "text": "no, but that what the Gentiles sacrifice, they sacrifice to demons, and not to God: and I would not have you partake of the sacrifices of demons."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 10, "verse": "21", "text": "you should not drink the cup of the Lord, and the cup of demons: you should not be partakers of the Lord's table, and of the table of demons."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 10, "verse": "22", "text": "Shall we provoke the Lord to jealousy? are we stronger than he? All to God’s Glory ( 1 Peter 4:1–11 )"}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 10, "verse": "23", "text": "are all things lawful for me? yet all things are not expedient: are all things lawful for me? yet all things do not edify."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 10, "verse": "24", "text": "Let no man consult barely his own interest: but every man that of others."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 10, "verse": "25", "text": "whatever is sold in the shambles, that eat, without making any scrupulous enquiry."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 10, "verse": "26", "text": "for the earth is the Lord's, and the fulness thereof."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 10, "verse": "27", "text": "if any of the unbelievers invite you to an entertainment, and you are disposed to go; whatever is set before you, eat, without asking any question out of a scruple of conscience."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 10, "verse": "28", "text": "but if any man say to you, this is offered in sacrifice to an idol, don't eat, for his sake that mentioned it, and for conscience sake."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 10, "verse": "29", "text": "when I say conscience, I don't mean your own, but that of the other: for why should I expose my liberty to the censure of another man's conscience?"}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 10, "verse": "30", "text": "if I am thankful for what I have, why should I chuse to be evil spoken of for that for which I give thanks?"}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 10, "verse": "31", "text": "whether therefore you eat or drink, or whatsoever you do, do all to the glory of God."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 10, "verse": "32", "text": "give no offence, neither to the Jews, nor to the Gentiles, nor to the church of God."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 10, "verse": "33", "text": "thus I endeavour to be acceptable to all men in all things, not seeking my own advantage, but that of others, so as they may be saved."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 11, "verse": "1", "text": "Imitate herein my example as I do that of Christ."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 11, "verse": "2", "text": "now I commend you, brethren, for remembring all my orders, and for keeping the rules I delivered to you."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 11, "verse": "3", "text": "but I would have you take notice, that the head of every man is Christ; and the head of the wife, is the man; and the head of Christ, is God."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 11, "verse": "4", "text": "every man who prays or prophesies having his head covered, dishonoureth him who is his head: but every woman who prays"}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 11, "verse": "5", "text": "or prophesies with her head uncovered, dishonoureth the man who is her head: for it is the same thing as if her head was shav'd."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 11, "verse": "6", "text": "a woman may as well have the tonsure, as not wear her veil: the one is as indecent as the other."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 11, "verse": "7", "text": "A man ought not to be veil'd: he has the honour of being invested with authority from God, and may glory in his priority to the woman."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 11, "verse": "8", "text": "for the man was not taken from the woman: but the woman from the man."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 11, "verse": "9", "text": "nor was the man copied from the woman: but the woman from the man."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 11, "verse": "10", "text": "therefore the woman ought to be veil'd, out of regard to the angels."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 11, "verse": "11", "text": "however, the man and the woman are equal with respect to the Lord."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 11, "verse": "12", "text": "for as the woman was taken from the man, so man is born of the woman: and all are from God."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 11, "verse": "13", "text": "Be you yourselves judges: is it decent for a woman to pray to God without a veil?"}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 11, "verse": "14", "text": "does not settled custom show it is a shame for a man to have long hair?"}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 11, "verse": "15", "text": "on the contrary, such is an ornament to a woman: because it was given her as a sort of veil."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 11, "verse": "16", "text": "but if any man has a mind to be contentious, I answer, we have no such custom, nor any of the churches of God. Sharing in the Lord’s Supper ( Matthew 26:20–30 ; Mark 14:17–26 ; Luke 22:14–23 )"}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 11, "verse": "17", "text": "Now in what I am going to say, I do not commend you, because your assemblies are not to your advantage, but to your prejudice."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 11, "verse": "18", "text": "for first, I hear, that when you come together in the church, you fall into parties; and I believe it is true of some of you."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 11, "verse": "19", "text": "for there must be factions among you, whereby it will appear who among you are the approved."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 11, "verse": "20", "text": "when you thus assemble therefore, this is not eating the Lord's supper."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 11, "verse": "21", "text": "for in eating every one strives to take his own supper first, and while one is hungry, another is surfeited."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 11, "verse": "22", "text": "what, have you no houses to eat and drink in? or have ye a contempt for the church of God, or is it to insult those who are in want? what shall I say to you? shall I commend such behaviour? I do not approve of it."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 11, "verse": "23", "text": "For I received it from the Lord, and I inform'd you of it: that the Lord Jesus, the night in which he was betrayed, took bread:"}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 11, "verse": "24", "text": "and when he had given thanks, he brake it, and said, \"take, eat; this is my body, which is broken for you: this do in remembrance of me.\""}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 11, "verse": "25", "text": "in the same manner he took the cup, after supper, and said, \"this cup is the new covenant in my blood: this do ye, as oft as ye drink it, in remembrance of me.\""}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 11, "verse": "26", "text": "As often then as ye eat this bread, and drink this cup, ye make a declaration of the Lord's death till he come."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 11, "verse": "27", "text": "so that whosoever eats this bread, and drinks this cup without respect to the Lord, does make a criminal use of the body and blood of the Lord."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 11, "verse": "28", "text": "Let a man then sift and approve himself, and accordingly let him eat of that bread, and drink of that cup."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 11, "verse": "29", "text": "for he that eats and drinks in a disrespectful manner, not discriminating the Lord's body, eateth and drinketh to his own punishment."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 11, "verse": "30", "text": "hence it is, that many are weak and sickly among you, and no small number now sleep in their graves."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 11, "verse": "31", "text": "for if we made such a discrimination, we should not be punished."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 11, "verse": "32", "text": "but when we are punished, we are chastised by the Lord, that we may not be condemned with the world."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 11, "verse": "33", "text": "wherefore, my brethren, when you come together to eat, stay for one another."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 11, "verse": "34", "text": "and if any one is press'd with hunger, let him eat at home; that ye may not otherwise meet with punishment, as for other matters, I will set them in order when I come."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 12, "verse": "1", "text": "Now concerning those who are spiritual, my brethren, I would not have you be mistaken."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 12, "verse": "2", "text": "when you were Gentiles, you know how you were seduced by your leaders, to the worship of dumb idols."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 12, "verse": "3", "text": "wherefore I give you to understand, that no man who has the spirit of God, can pronounce Jesus anathema: and that no man can acknowledge Jesus to be the Lord, but by the holy spirit."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 12, "verse": "4", "text": "Now there are different gifts, but the same spirit."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 12, "verse": "5", "text": "and there are different offices, but the same Lord."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 12, "verse": "6", "text": "and there are different operations, but it is the same God who performs them all in every one."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 12, "verse": "7", "text": "now to particular men the spirit gives particular gifts, that they may be displayed to greater advantage."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 12, "verse": "8", "text": "for to one the spirit gives the knowledge of the prophetical writings; to another the same spirit gives the knowledge of the doctrines of religion;"}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 12, "verse": "9", "text": "to another faith; to another the gifts of healing;"}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 12, "verse": "10", "text": "to another the working of miracles; to another prophecy, to another discerning of spirits; to another diversity of languages; to another the interpretation of languages."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 12, "verse": "11", "text": "but all are wrought by one and the same spirit, distributing to every one in particular, as he thinks fit. The Body of Christ"}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 12, "verse": "12", "text": "For as the body is one, tho' it has many members, and all the members of that one body, tho' many, are one body: so also is the body of Christ."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 12, "verse": "13", "text": "for by one spirit we have all been baptized, to be form'd into one body, whether Jews or Gentiles, slaves or free; and have been all made to drink of one spirit."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 12, "verse": "14", "text": "the body is not one member, but many."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 12, "verse": "15", "text": "if the foot should say, \"because I am not the hand, I am not of the body;\" is it therefore not of the body?"}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 12, "verse": "16", "text": "and if the ear should say, \"because I am not the eye, I am not of the body;\" is it therefore not of the body?"}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 12, "verse": "17", "text": "if the whole body were an eye, where would be the hearing? if the whole were hearing, where would be the smelling?"}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 12, "verse": "18", "text": "now God disposed every one of the members in the body as he thought fit."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 12, "verse": "19", "text": "but if they were all one member, where would be the body?"}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 12, "verse": "20", "text": "thus, tho' there are many members, yet there is but one body."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 12, "verse": "21", "text": "and the eye cannot say to the hand, \"I have no need of thee:\" nor again, the head to the feet, \"I have no need of you.\""}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 12, "verse": "22", "text": "nay, those parts of the body, which seem to be of the least account, are much more necessary."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 12, "verse": "23", "text": "what we think to be less honourable, is loaded with additional ornaments, and the less graceful have adventitious finery,"}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 12, "verse": "24", "text": "of which the graceful have no need: but God has contrived the symmetry of the body, by bestowing an additional advantage where it seem'd to want it."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 12, "verse": "25", "text": "that there might be no schism in the body; but that the members should have the same mutual concern for one another."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 12, "verse": "26", "text": "so that if one member suffer, they all suffer with it: or if one be honoured, they partake of it. The Greater Gifts"}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 12, "verse": "27", "text": "Thus you are the body of Christ, being the particular members of it."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 12, "verse": "28", "text": "which God has placed in the church, first apostles, next prophets, then teachers, after that miracles, then gifts of healings, assistants, governours, interpreters of languages."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 12, "verse": "29", "text": "are all apostles? are all prophets? are all teachers? are all workers of miracles?"}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 12, "verse": "30", "text": "have all the gifts of healing? do all speak divers languages? do all interpret?"}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 12, "verse": "31", "text": "you are contesting about the superiority of your gifts: but I point out to you a more excellent way."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 13, "verse": "1", "text": "For tho' I should speak with the eloquence of men, and of angels, and not have social affection, I should be like sounding brass, or a noisy cymbal."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 13, "verse": "2", "text": "and tho' I should have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries, and all knowledge; and tho' I had all the faith necessary to remove mountains, and had no benevolence, it would signify nothing."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 13, "verse": "3", "text": "and tho' I distribute my whole substance to the poor, and give my body to be burned, and have not social affection, it profits me nothing."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 13, "verse": "4", "text": "Social affection is patient, is kind; is a stranger to envy; is not insolently vain, nor arrogant: does not behave indecently,"}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 13, "verse": "5", "text": "is not self-interested, is not easily provoked, nor suspects any ill;"}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 13, "verse": "6", "text": "it does not countenance injustice, but smiles upon virtue;"}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 13, "verse": "7", "text": "it excuses all things, believes what is favourable, hopes for the best, and suffers the worst."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 13, "verse": "8", "text": "Social affection will never fail: but as for prophecies, they shall be out of use; as for languages, they shall cease; as for knowledge, it shall vanish away."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 13, "verse": "9", "text": "for our knowledge is defective, and our prophesying is defective."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 13, "verse": "10", "text": "but when that which is perfect is come, then that which is defective shall be laid aside."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 13, "verse": "11", "text": "when I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I reasoned as a child: but when I became a man, I laid aside my childish ways."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 13, "verse": "12", "text": "now we do but indirectly see the faint images of things; but then the objects themselves will be before our eyes; now I have a partial knowledge, but then shall I know, even as I myself am known."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 13, "verse": "13", "text": "and now faith, hope, social virtue, these three will all remain; but the most permanent of the three is social virtue."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 14, "verse": "1", "text": "Cultivate social virtue; then desire spiritual gifts, but chiefly that of explaining the prophetical writings."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 14, "verse": "2", "text": "for he that speaks in an unknown tongue, speaks not to men, but to God: for no man can understand the mysteries he delivers by the spirit."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 14, "verse": "3", "text": "but he that expounds, speaks to the edification, exhortation, and comfort of men."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 14, "verse": "4", "text": "he that speaks in an unknown tongue, edifies himself alone: but he that expounds, edifies the church."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 14, "verse": "5", "text": "I wish you all had the gift of languages, but rather that you expounded: for greater is he that expounds, than he that speaks unknown languages, except he interpret what he says, that the church may be edified by it."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 14, "verse": "6", "text": "for instance, brethren, if I deliver myself to you in an unknown tongue, what good shall I do you, except I deliver to you the meaning of what is said, whether it relate to revelation, to mystical knowledge, to prophecy, or to doctrine."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 14, "verse": "7", "text": "And even inanimate instruments of sound, whether pipe or harp, except they have a distinct variety of notes, how can they express any significant tune?"}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 14, "verse": "8", "text": "for if the trumpet give an undistinguish'd sound, who shall prepare himself to the battle?"}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 14, "verse": "9", "text": "in like manner, if you express yourselves in words of obscure signification, you may as well talk to the wind, for how shall any comprehend you?"}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 14, "verse": "10", "text": "there are, it may be, as many different languages in the world as there are people, and none of them without signification."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 14, "verse": "11", "text": "therefore if I don't know the meaning of the language, with respect to him that speaks, I shall be a barbarian; and he that speaks shall be a barbarian to me."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 14, "verse": "12", "text": "But since there is emulation among you concerning spiritual gifts, seek to abound in the exercise of such gifts as tend most to the edification of the church."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 14, "verse": "13", "text": "wherefore let him that speaketh in an unknown tongue, pray for the gift of interpretation."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 14, "verse": "14", "text": "for if I pray in an unknown tongue, my spirit indeed prays, but my meaning is of no benefit to others."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 14, "verse": "15", "text": "what then is to be done? why, I will pray by the spirit, but my prayer shall be intelligible: I will sing by the spirit, but my hymn shall be intelligible."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 14, "verse": "16", "text": "otherwise if you should give thanks by the spirit in an unknown tongue, the hearer cannot but appear unlearned upon this occasion; how then can he say Amen to thy thanksgiving? since he does not conceive what you say."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 14, "verse": "17", "text": "thy thanksgiving indeed is right, but the other is not all edified by it."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 14, "verse": "18", "text": "I thank God, I speak more languages than you all:"}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 14, "verse": "19", "text": "yet in the church I had rather speak five words that convey my meaning to the instruction of others, than ten thousand words in an unknown tongue."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 14, "verse": "20", "text": "Brethren, be not childish in understanding: be as innocent as babes, but use your understanding like men."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 14, "verse": "21", "text": "in the law it is written, \" with men of other tongues and other lips, will I speak unto this people: and yet for all that will they not hear me, saith the Lord.\""}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 14, "verse": "22", "text": "wherefore tongues are for a sign, not to believers, but to unbelievers: but expounding the prophets, not for unbelievers so much as for those who believe."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 14, "verse": "23", "text": "when therefore the whole church is assembled, and all speak different languages, if such as are either unlearned, or are unbelievers should come in, will they not say you are all mad?"}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 14, "verse": "24", "text": "but if you all expound, and an unbeliever, or one unlearned come in, he is examin'd by all, he is tryed by all:"}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 14, "verse": "25", "text": "the secrets of his heart become manifest; and so falling down on his face, he will worship God, and declare that God is certainly amongst you. Orderly Worship"}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 14, "verse": "26", "text": "what is then to be done, my brethren? when you come together, one of you with a psalm, another with a doctrine, another with a strange tongue, another with a revelation, another with an interpretation: let the whole be done to edification."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 14, "verse": "27", "text": "and if any man do speak in an unknown tongue, let but two speak, or three at the most, and that by turns: and let there be but one to interpret."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 14, "verse": "28", "text": "but if there be no interpreter, let him keep silence in the church; and tacitly address himself to God."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 14, "verse": "29", "text": "of the prophets let but two or three speak by turns, and let the others deliberate."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 14, "verse": "30", "text": "if the meaning be revealed to another that sits by, let the first be silent."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 14, "verse": "31", "text": "for ye may all prophesy one by one, that all may receive instruction and exhortation."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 14, "verse": "32", "text": "the prophetic gifts are to be subservient to the prophets."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 14, "verse": "33", "text": "for God is not the God of confusion, but of peace, in all christian assemblies."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 14, "verse": "34", "text": "Let your women be silent in your assemblies: for they are not allowed to discourse there; but are to observe orders, as indeed the law implies:"}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 14, "verse": "35", "text": "and if they desire to have information about any point, let them consult their husbands at home: for it does not become women to ask questions in the church."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 14, "verse": "36", "text": "What, did the gospel take its rise from you? or was it communicated to you alone?"}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 14, "verse": "37", "text": "if any one pretends to be a prophet, or to spiritual gifts, let him be assured that the rules which I have here prescrib'd, are the commandments of the Lord."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 14, "verse": "38", "text": "but if he will be blind, I leave him to his blindness."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 14, "verse": "39", "text": "wherefore, brethren, zealously exercise the gift of prophecy, and don't prohibit those that speak in an unknown language."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 14, "verse": "40", "text": "let all things be done with decency, and without disorder."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 15, "verse": "1", "text": "What I have explain'd to you, my brethren, is the gospel which I preached to you, which you have received, and wherein you have persisted:"}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 15, "verse": "2", "text": "by which also you will be saved, if you so retain it as I preached it to you, unless you have believed without sufficient grounds."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 15, "verse": "3", "text": "I acquainted you chiefly with what I received myself, that Christ died for our sins, as the scriptures foretold:"}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 15, "verse": "4", "text": "that he was buried, and rose again the third day, as the scriptures foretold:"}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 15, "verse": "5", "text": "that he was seen by Cephas, then by the twelve:"}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 15, "verse": "6", "text": "after that, he was seen by above five hundred brethren at once: of whom the greater part remain alive to this day, but some are now dead."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 15, "verse": "7", "text": "after that he was seen by James; then by all the apostles."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 15, "verse": "8", "text": "and last of all, he was seen by me too, who am as it were an abortive;"}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 15, "verse": "9", "text": "for I am the meanest of the apostles, not worthy the name of an apostle, because I persecuted the church of God."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 15, "verse": "10", "text": "it is by the divine favour that I am what I am: and his favour to me was not in vain; no, I laboured more than they all: yet it was not I, it was the divine favour which assisted me."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 15, "verse": "11", "text": "but whether I or they labour'd most, this is what we preach, and this is what you believed. The Resurrection of the Dead"}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 15, "verse": "12", "text": "Now if it has been declared, that Christ rose from the dead, how comes it, that some among you assert, \"there is no resurrection of the dead?\""}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 15, "verse": "13", "text": "for if there be no resurrection of the dead, then Christ is not risen."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 15, "verse": "14", "text": "and if Christ be not risen, then our preaching is empty talk, and your faith even meer amusement."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 15, "verse": "15", "text": "yea, and we are no better than enthusiastic impostors by affirming that God raised up Christ, when he never did raise him up."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 15, "verse": "16", "text": "for if the dead are not raised, then was not Christ raised:"}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 15, "verse": "17", "text": "and if Christ was not raised, your faith is meer illusion, your sins are not yet forgiven."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 15, "verse": "18", "text": "then they too who died christians, are entirely lost."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 15, "verse": "19", "text": "if our expectations as christians all terminate in this life, we of all men are most to be pitied. The Order of Resurrection"}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 15, "verse": "20", "text": "But Christ is actually risen, as previous to those who were dead."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 15, "verse": "21", "text": "for since by man came death, by man the resurrection of the dead will likewise come."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 15, "verse": "22", "text": "for as by Adam all die, even so by Christ shall all be restored to life."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 15, "verse": "23", "text": "but every one in proper order: Christ has the precedence, next they who were Christians shall rise at his advent."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 15, "verse": "24", "text": "and then will be the end, when he shall deliver up the kingdom to God even the father; after having abolished all rule, and all authority, and power."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 15, "verse": "25", "text": "for he must reign, \"till God has cast all his enemies under his feet.\""}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 15, "verse": "26", "text": "the last enemy that shall be destroyed, is death."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 15, "verse": "27", "text": "for he hath subjected all things to him, but when it is said all things are subjected, it is plain that he is to be excepted, who did subject all things to him."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 15, "verse": "28", "text": "and when all things shall be reduced under subjection to him, then shall the son also himself be subject to him that put all things under his subjection, that God may be all in all."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 15, "verse": "29", "text": "If it be not so, what can they effect who are baptized for the dead? if the dead rise not at all, why are they then baptized for the dead?"}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 15, "verse": "30", "text": "and why do we continually expose our lives to danger?"}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 15, "verse": "31", "text": "I am daily receiving new mortifications, witness your cruel boastings against me, which I bear for the sake of Christ Jesus our Lord;"}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 15, "verse": "32", "text": "besides, my engaging with those monsters, as I may say, at Ephesus, what advantage was it to me? if the dead don't rise, \"let us eat and drink, for to-morrow we die.\""}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 15, "verse": "33", "text": "be not deceived: \"vicious conversation corrupts good morals.\""}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 15, "verse": "34", "text": "rouze from your sins, as is but just; for some of you have not the knowledge of God: I speak it to your shame. The Resurrection Body"}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 15, "verse": "35", "text": "But some will say, how will the dead be raised? with what kind of body will they appear?"}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 15, "verse": "36", "text": "foolish as you are, the grain you sow, is not revived except it die."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 15, "verse": "37", "text": "and whatever you sow, you don't sow that body which shall afterwards appear, but only the bare grain of wheat, for instance, or of some other grain."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 15, "verse": "38", "text": "but God gives it such a body, as he thinks fit, to every seed its peculiar body."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 15, "verse": "39", "text": "All flesh is not of the same kind: but there is one kind that belongs to men, another to beasts, another to fishes, and another to birds."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 15, "verse": "40", "text": "there are celestial bodies, and bodies terrestrial: but the glory of the celestial is of one kind, and the glory of the terrestrial of another."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 15, "verse": "41", "text": "the glory of the sun is of one kind, the glory of the moon of another, and the glory of the stars still different; nay, one star differs from another star in glory."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 15, "verse": "42", "text": "such will be the resurrection of the dead: the body is sown corruptible, it will be raised incorruptible."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 15, "verse": "43", "text": "it is sown in dishonour, it will be raised in glory: it is sown in decay, it will be raised in power:"}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 15, "verse": "44", "text": "it is sown an animal body, it will rise a spiritual body, there is an animal body, and there is a spiritual body."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 15, "verse": "45", "text": "and so it is written, the first man Adam was made an animating soul, the last Adam was made a vivifying spirit."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 15, "verse": "46", "text": "but the spiritual body was not first, but the animal; and afterwards the spiritual."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 15, "verse": "47", "text": "the first man was formed from the dust of the earth: the second man was from heaven."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 15, "verse": "48", "text": "as was the terrestrial, such are they also that are terrestrial: and as is the celestial, such also shall they be who are to be celestial."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 15, "verse": "49", "text": "for as we have born the image of the terrestrial, so we shall bear the image of the celestial. Where, O Death, Is Your Victory?"}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 15, "verse": "50", "text": "this I say, my brethren, because the body, as it is at present, cannot possess the kingdom of God; and what is corruptible, can't enjoy incorruptibility."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 15, "verse": "51", "text": "I shall now tell you a very great secret: we shall not all of us sleep, but we shall all be changed,"}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 15, "verse": "52", "text": "in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the sound of the last trumpet (for the trumpet shall sound) and the dead shall rise incorruptible; but as for us, we shall be changed."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 15, "verse": "53", "text": "for this corruptible body must be invested with incorruptibility, this mortal be invested with immortality."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 15, "verse": "54", "text": "but when this corruptible shall be invested with incorruptibility, and this mortal with immortality, then shall be fulfilled that passage of scripture, \" death is swallowed up for ever.\""}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 15, "verse": "55", "text": "\"O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory?\""}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 15, "verse": "56", "text": "the sting of death was sin; and the strength of sin was the law."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 15, "verse": "57", "text": "but thanks be to God, who has given us the victory, thro' our Lord Jesus Christ."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 15, "verse": "58", "text": "therefore, my beloved brethren, be ye inflexibly steady, and continually surpass others in the work of the Lord, knowing that he will not leave your christian labour unrewarded."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 16, "verse": "1", "text": "Now as to the collection for the converts at Jerusalem, do as I have directed for the churches of Galatia."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 16, "verse": "2", "text": "every sabbath-day let every one of you set apart something of what he has happily gain'd, for the common treasury, that there may be no collection when I come."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 16, "verse": "3", "text": "and when I come, I shall send such as you shall approve of, who will convey letters, and your kind present to Jerusalem."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 16, "verse": "4", "text": "and if it be so considerable as to induce me to go, they shall accompany me. Paul’s Travel Plans ( Romans 15:23–33 )"}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 16, "verse": "5", "text": "I shall come to you, by the way of Macedonia: (for I"}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 16, "verse": "6", "text": "pass thro' Macedonia) and perhaps I shall make some stay, if not pass the winter with you, that you may forward me on my journey, wherever I go."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 16, "verse": "7", "text": "for I do not design to see you in my passage thither, yet I hope to spend some time with you, if the Lord permit."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 16, "verse": "8", "text": "I shall stay at Ephesus, till whitsontide."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 16, "verse": "9", "text": "for I have a very fair and promising opportunity given me of propagating the gospel, tho' there are many opposers. Timothy and Apollos ( Philippians 2:19–30 )"}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 16, "verse": "10", "text": "If Timothy visit you, take care he may be perfectly safe: for he labours in the cause of christianity, as well as I."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 16, "verse": "11", "text": "let no man therefore despise him: but conduct him safe, that he may come to me: for I and the brethren expect him."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 16, "verse": "12", "text": "as to brother Apollos, I earnestly entreat him to make you a visit, with the brethren: but he has not the least mind to it at present; however, he will be with you when a fit occasion offers. Concluding Exhortations"}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 16, "verse": "13", "text": "Be upon the watch, stand firm in the faith, behave your selves like men of fortitude:"}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 16, "verse": "14", "text": "let all your transactions flow from social affections."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 16, "verse": "15", "text": "You know brethren, that the family of Stephanas were the first converts of Achaia, and have made it their business to be serviceable to christian converts: to such,"}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 16, "verse": "16", "text": "I beseech you be subservient, and to every one that helpeth us with his labours."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 16, "verse": "17", "text": "I am glad that Stephanas, Fortunatus, and Achaicus are come: for what was wanting on your side, they have supplied."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 16, "verse": "18", "text": "for they have quieted my mind as well as yours: therefore to such have a regard. Signature and Final Greetings ( Colossians 4:15–18 ; 2 Thessalonians 3:16–18 )"}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 16, "verse": "19", "text": "The churches of Asia, salute you. Aquila and Priscilla salute you with much christian affection, and so do the church that is in their house."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 16, "verse": "20", "text": "all the brethren salute you, salute one another with an holy kiss."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 16, "verse": "21", "text": "I Paul salute you, and with my own handwriting."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 16, "verse": "22", "text": "If any man love not the Lord Jesus Christ, let him be accurst."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 16, "verse": "23", "text": "the favour of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 16, "verse": "24", "text": "present my love to every christian among you, amen."}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 1, "verse": "1", "text": "Paul an apostle of Jesus Christ, by the divine appointment, and Timothy our brother, to the church of God, which is at Corinth, with all the christians throughout Achaia: favour,"}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 1, "verse": "2", "text": "and peace be to you from God our father, and from the Lord Jesus Christ. The God of All Comfort"}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 1, "verse": "3", "text": "Blessed be the God, and father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the father of mercies, and the God of all consolation:"}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 1, "verse": "4", "text": "who comforteth me in all my tribulations, that I may be able to comfort them who are in any trouble, by the comfort wherewith I myself am comforted of God."}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 1, "verse": "5", "text": "for as I have greatly suffered for Christ, so I have been greatly comforted thro' Christ."}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 1, "verse": "6", "text": "but whether I am afflicted, it is for your consolation and relief, which is effected by your perseverance, patiently enduring the same sufferings which I also undergo: or whether I am comforted, it is for your consolation and relief."}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 1, "verse": "7", "text": "and the hopes I had of you continue still the same, knowing that as you have had your share of suffering, so you will likewise have of consolation."}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 1, "verse": "8", "text": "For I would not, brethren, have you ignorant of that insupportable weight of affliction that over-whelm'd me so in Asia that I despaired even of life:"}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 1, "verse": "9", "text": "nay, I abandon'd my self to death, that I might not rely upon my self for deliverance, but on God who raiseth the dead."}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 1, "verse": "10", "text": "and he did deliver me from so terrible a death, and on him I have relied for further deliverance: especially,"}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 1, "verse": "11", "text": "being assisted by your prayers for me, so that thanks may be returned by many, for the gracious deliverance procur'd me by their prayers. Paul’s Change of Plans"}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 1, "verse": "12", "text": "for this is to me matter of glorying, the testimony of my conscience, that without artifice, and with religious sincerity, not by worldly wisdom, but by God's favourable assistance I have behaved my self towards all men, but more particularly to you."}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 1, "verse": "13", "text": "In reality, we writ nothing to you, but what you may perceive by the reading, and I trust you ever will perceive."}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 1, "verse": "14", "text": "as some of you have already own'd, that I am matter of joy to you, as you will be to me in the day of the Lord Jesus Christ:"}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 1, "verse": "15", "text": "in this confidence I purposed to visit you before now, (that you might have again the like satisfaction)"}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 1, "verse": "16", "text": "not to call upon you as I pass into Macedonia, but in my return from thence, to be conducted by you toward Judea."}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 1, "verse": "17", "text": "was this design therefore the effect of levity? or do I design first one thing, and then another, as it best suits my worldly interest?"}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 1, "verse": "18", "text": "God is my witness, I never prevaricated with you."}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 1, "verse": "19", "text": "for what I, and Timothy, and Silvanus preached concerning Jesus Christ, the son of God, is not inconsistent, but invariably the same."}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 1, "verse": "20", "text": "for all the promises of God do center in him, and are verifyed by him to the glory of God by our preaching."}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 1, "verse": "21", "text": "now it is God who keeps you fix'd in the doctrine of Christ; who has appointed me,"}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 1, "verse": "22", "text": "and mark'd me with his seal, and given me the earnest of the spirit in my heart."}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 1, "verse": "23", "text": "I call God to witness, and may I die if it is not true, that the reason of my not coming yet to Corinth, was to avoid using any severity towards you."}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 1, "verse": "24", "text": "not that I would arbitrarily prescribe what you should believe, but rather encourage you to go on: for 'tis by faith you have stood."}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 2, "verse": "1", "text": "But I purposed in my self, I would not be the occasion of any uneasiness to you when I come again."}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 2, "verse": "2", "text": "why should I make you uneasy, for who then could give me comfort, but those to whom I give uneasiness?"}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 2, "verse": "3", "text": "and I wrote to you upon that disagreeable subject, that when I came, I might not receive uneasiness from those from whom I ought to receive comfort, being persuaded that you will all think yourselves interested to promote my satisfaction."}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 2, "verse": "4", "text": "for out of much affliction and anguish of heart, I wrote to you with many tears; not to make you uneasy, but to make you sensible of the overflowing tenderness which I have for you."}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 2, "verse": "5", "text": "The affliction I have had, comes only from a particular quarter, so that my resentment does not affect the whole church."}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 2, "verse": "6", "text": "the punishment, which was inflicted by the community, is sufficient on this occasion."}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 2, "verse": "7", "text": "so that now you ought rather to forgive, and comfort him, for fear he should be overwhelm'd by an excess of sorrow."}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 2, "verse": "8", "text": "wherefore, pray, convince him of your affection to him:"}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 2, "verse": "9", "text": "for this was one view I had in writing, to have this trial of you, whether you are intirely obedient."}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 2, "verse": "10", "text": "to whom you forgive any thing, I also forgive: for if I have forgiven any thing, I forgave it, for your sakes (as Christ is"}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 2, "verse": "11", "text": "witness) lest satan should have got some advantage of us: for we are apprized of his artifices. Triumph in Christ"}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 2, "verse": "12", "text": "When an opportunity was given me by the Lord to preach the gospel of Christ, upon my arrival at Troas,"}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 2, "verse": "13", "text": "I was so uneasy in my mind for not finding Titus my brother, that taking my leave of them, I went from thence into Macedonia."}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 2, "verse": "14", "text": "but thanks be to God, who maketh me triumph, thro' Christ, and spreads his healing doctrine by me, in eevery place:"}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 2, "verse": "15", "text": "for God is pleased to accept my christian labours, in favour both of those who are in a saving, and of those who are in a ruinous state:"}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 2, "verse": "16", "text": "by the one my preaching is taken as a deadly poison, to the other it is a reviving potion, and who is so sufficient for such a commission?"}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 2, "verse": "17", "text": "for we are not like others, who adulterate the word of God; but we preach the pure gospel of Christ, as I receiv'd it from God, and as in the presence of God."}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 3, "verse": "1", "text": "Do I begin again to commend my self? or need I, as some others, commendatory letters to you, or from you?"}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 3, "verse": "2", "text": "you are my epistle, your conversion being writ in, my heart, known and read by all men:"}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 3, "verse": "3", "text": "which shows you to be the epistle of Christ, written by my ministration, not with ink, but with the spirit of the living God; not on tables of stone, but on living tables of the heart."}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 3, "verse": "4", "text": "It is by Christ that I have this confidence in God."}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 3, "verse": "5", "text": "not that I am sufficient of myself to effect any thing by the strength of my own reason: but my sufficiency is from God."}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 3, "verse": "6", "text": "who also hath enabled me to be a minister of the new covenant, not of the literal sense, but of the spiritual meaning: it is the letter that denounces death, but the spirit gives life. The Glory of the New Covenant"}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 3, "verse": "7", "text": "now if the law engraven on stone, the letter of whose sanction is death, was delivered with such glory, that the children of Israel could not steadily behold the face of Moses, for the glory of his countenance, tho' it was transient;"}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 3, "verse": "8", "text": "shall not the ministration of the spirit be more glorious?"}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 3, "verse": "9", "text": "for if the ministration of condemnation was illustrious, the ministration of righteousness will be much more glorious."}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 3, "verse": "10", "text": "since that which distinguished the first had no glory, when compared to that of the other, which far excell'd it."}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 3, "verse": "11", "text": "if that which was only temporary was glorious, much more shall that which is permanent be glorious."}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 3, "verse": "12", "text": "Having then such an opinion of my ministry, I use great plainness of speech."}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 3, "verse": "13", "text": "and do not act as Moses did, who threw a veil over his face so as to hinder the children of Israel from perceiving the end of that which was to cease:"}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 3, "verse": "14", "text": "besides, their minds were greatly prejudiced: for that very veil would still have obstructed the understanding of the old testament, unless it had been taken away by Christ."}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 3, "verse": "15", "text": "nevertheless, when Moses is read, the veil upon their mind continues unto this day:"}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 3, "verse": "16", "text": "but when their mind shall turn to the Lord, that veil too shall be taken away."}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 3, "verse": "17", "text": "for the spiritual meaning of the law centers in him, and the spirit of the law is gospel-liberty:"}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 3, "verse": "18", "text": "but as we lay aside the veil, the divine light gradually informs the mind, according as we attend to that spiritual sense, which points out the Lord."}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 4, "verse": "1", "text": "Therefore, having by the divine favour such a ministry, I exert myself:"}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 4, "verse": "2", "text": "renouncing all secret dishonesty, and void of all artifice, I deliver the word of God unadulterated, and recommend my self by urging the truth home to every man's conscience, as in the presence of God."}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 4, "verse": "3", "text": "but if our gospel be obscure, it is so only to those who are lost:"}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 4, "verse": "4", "text": "to those unbelievers, whose minds the God of this world has so blinded, that the glorious lustre of the gospel of Christ, who is the image of God, does not enlighten them."}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 4, "verse": "5", "text": "for we preach not our selves, but Christ Jesus the Lord, professing our selves your servants for his sake."}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 4, "verse": "6", "text": "for God, who commanded the light to shine out of darkness, hath shined in our hearts, to enlighten others in the knowledge of the glory of God, which shines in the person of Jesus Christ. Treasure in Jars of Clay ( Romans 6:1–14 )"}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 4, "verse": "7", "text": "but this treasure is lodg'd in such earthen vessels as we are, that the exceeding efficacy of it may appear to be from God, and not from us."}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 4, "verse": "8", "text": "I am press'd on every side, yet not crush'd; perplexed, but not in despair;"}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 4, "verse": "9", "text": "persecuted, but not forsaken; dejected, but not destroyed;"}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 4, "verse": "10", "text": "always bearing about in my body the marks of sufferings like those of Jesus, so that Jesus might be plainly prov'd to be alive by the sufferings of my body."}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 4, "verse": "11", "text": "for as long as I live I shall be exposed to death for the sake of Jesus, that the life also of Jesus might be made manifest by the preservation of our mortal life."}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 4, "verse": "12", "text": "so that I suffer the influences of his death, while you only feel the effects of his life."}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 4, "verse": "13", "text": "Having by the same spirit the same faith as David had when he said, \"I believed, and therefore have I spoken:\" I also believe, and therefore I speak;"}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 4, "verse": "14", "text": "knowing that he who raised up the Lord Jesus, shall raise up me also by Jesus, and shall present me with you:"}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 4, "verse": "15", "text": "for all things are for your sakes, that the grace which was conferr'd upon many, might by the gratitude of so many, redound to the glory of God."}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 4, "verse": "16", "text": "for which cause I am not discouraged, but tho' my body decays, yet my mind is daily renewed."}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 4, "verse": "17", "text": "for the light affliction, which I at present suffer, will be infinitely over-ballanced by an eternal weight of glory;"}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 4, "verse": "18", "text": "for I have no regard to the things which are visible, but to such as are invisible: since visible things are temporary, but the invisible are eternal."}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 5, "verse": "1", "text": "For I know, that if my body, which is but a tent for my sojourning upon earth, were dissolved, I have what is not fram'd by human art, but by the divine architect, a mansion eternal in the heavens."}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 5, "verse": "2", "text": "while I am thus incas'd, I groan with desire to have that celestial vehicle superinduc'd:"}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 5, "verse": "3", "text": "tho' should I be divested of this body, I shall not even then be destitute of one."}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 5, "verse": "4", "text": "we that are in this tabernacle do groan under the burden of it: not that we desire to be divested of it, but we desire to have our celestial body, that this mortal state may vanish into immortality."}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 5, "verse": "5", "text": "now he that hath prepared us for this very state, is God, who hath given us the spirit as a pledge of it."}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 5, "verse": "6", "text": "therefore being always certainly assur'd that whilst I sojourn in this body, I am absent from the Lord,"}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 5, "verse": "7", "text": "(for I regulate my conduct by my future expectations, not by visible enjoyments:"}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 5, "verse": "8", "text": ") in this assurance, I say, I think it best to be quit of this body, and be present with the Lord."}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 5, "verse": "9", "text": "wherefore I studiously endeavour, whether staying in it, or departing out of it, to be acceptable to him."}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 5, "verse": "10", "text": "for we must all appear before the tribunal of Christ; that every one may receive the retribution, according as his actions in the body were either good or evil. Ambassadors for Christ"}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 5, "verse": "11", "text": "Shall I then, who know this terrible judgment of the Lord, endeavour to appease men? as for God, I am approved by him, and I trust also you are convinced of my being so approved."}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 5, "verse": "12", "text": "and this I say, not to commend myself again unto you, but to give you an occasion of glorying on my account, that you may confront those who make a false show of glorying."}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 5, "verse": "13", "text": "for if I glory even to transport, my glorying is in God: if I am moderate, my glorying is for your service."}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 5, "verse": "14", "text": "to this I am urg'd by the love I bear to Christ, persuaded as I am, that if one died for all, then were all in a dying state: and that he died for all,"}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 5, "verse": "15", "text": "that they who are in a state of life should not live at their own discretion, but to the service of him who died for them, and rose again."}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 5, "verse": "16", "text": "Wherefore, henceforth I have no regard to any man for his external appearance: for tho' I formerly look'd for worldly grandeur in the Messiah, yet now I see things in another light."}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 5, "verse": "17", "text": "therefore, if any man be a christian, he is in a new creation: the old state of things is chang'd to one entirely new."}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 5, "verse": "18", "text": "Now this is all owing to God, who hath reconciled us to himself by Jesus Christ, and hath made us the ministers of this reconciliation;"}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 5, "verse": "19", "text": "for it is God that has reconciled the world to himself, by Jesus Christ, by not imputing their sins to them; and hath committed to us the gospel of reconciliation."}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 5, "verse": "20", "text": "we then are ambassadors for Christ, and 'tis God who makes you the offers by us: we pray you in the name of Christ, to make your peace with God."}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 5, "verse": "21", "text": "for he hath made him who knew no sin to be a sin-offering for us, that we might be justified by God thro' him."}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 6, "verse": "1", "text": "Invested then with such a commission, I beseech you let not the offers of divine favour be made to you in vain."}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 6, "verse": "2", "text": "for he saith, \" I have heard thee in a favourable time, and in the day of salvation have I succoured thee.\" now this is the favourable time; this is that day of salvation."}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 6, "verse": "3", "text": "as for us, we give no occasion of offence, that our ministry may not be blamed:"}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 6, "verse": "4", "text": "but in all things I approve myself as the minister of God, by great constancy in afflictions, in torments, in distresses, from stripes,"}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 6, "verse": "5", "text": "from imprisonments, from tumults, from labours, from watchings, from penury."}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 6, "verse": "6", "text": "I approve myself, by chastity, by knowledge, by meekness, by kindness, by sanctity of mind, by undisguised benevolence,"}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 6, "verse": "7", "text": "by the preaching of truth, by the power of God, by the arms of justice, both offensive and defensive."}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 6, "verse": "8", "text": "in honour and disgrace, under infamy, and in repute: look'd upon as an impostor, while I say what is true;"}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 6, "verse": "9", "text": "as unknown, and yet celebrated; as dying, and yet I am alive; as chastised, but not slain;"}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 6, "verse": "10", "text": "as sorrowful, though always cheerful; as poor, tho' inriching many; as having nothing, though contented with every thing."}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 6, "verse": "11", "text": "O Corinthians, my heart is so full, my tongue cannot be silent:"}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 6, "verse": "12", "text": "our affections are as enlarged towards you, as yours are contracted towards us."}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 6, "verse": "13", "text": "I address myself to you as a parent, be not you wanting in the returns of filial respect to me. Do Not Be Unequally Yoked"}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 6, "verse": "14", "text": "Are you not become associates with infidels? but what affinity is there between virtue and vice? and what communication has light with darkness?"}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 6, "verse": "15", "text": "what concord can Christ maintain with Belial? what concern has a believer with an infidel?"}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 6, "verse": "16", "text": "and what agreement hath the temple of God with idols? for ye are the temple of the living God; as God has said, \"I will dwell with, and walk among them; I will be their God, and they shall be my people."}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 6, "verse": "17", "text": "wherefore come out from among them, be ye separate, saith the Lord, and touch not the unclean thing; and I will receive you,"}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 6, "verse": "18", "text": "I will be a father unto you, and ye shall be my sons and daughters, saith the Lord Almighty.\""}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 7, "verse": "1", "text": "since then, we have these promises, my dear brethren, let us cleanse our selves from all impurity, whether of body or mind, perfecting holiness in the fear of God."}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 7, "verse": "2", "text": "Receive me as one who has wronged no man, who has corrupted no man, who has defrauded no man."}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 7, "verse": "3", "text": "I speak not this to your reproach: for I have already assured you, that I am so heartily well affected to you, I could live and die with you."}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 7, "verse": "4", "text": "I use indeed great freedom of speech toward you, yet I greatly glory upon your account: I am filled with comfort, and my joy is still superiour to all my affliction."}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 7, "verse": "5", "text": "for when I came to Macedonia, I had no respit from the trouble that beset me on every side: oppositions from without, and apprehensions within."}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 7, "verse": "6", "text": "nevertheless, God who comforteth those that are cast down, gave me comfort by the arrival of Titus: not barely by his presence,"}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 7, "verse": "7", "text": "but by the consolation I received from you by him, when he acquainted me with your earnest desire to see me, with your concern, and your zeal for me; which greatly increas'd my joy."}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 7, "verse": "8", "text": "For tho' I was sorry my letter gave you some uneasiness, I do not repent of it, perceiving, that the uneasiness you had from that letter, did not dwell upon your minds."}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 7, "verse": "9", "text": "now I rejoice, not at your uneasiness, but at your repentance which succeeded: for your sorrow was a religious sorrow, such as convinc'd you I had done you no wrong."}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 7, "verse": "10", "text": "for religious sorrow produces that salutary repentance, which we never regret: but worldly sorrow preys upon life."}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 7, "verse": "11", "text": "'tis observable, even this religious sorrow which you had, what solicitude has it not wrought in you, what apologies, what indignation, what fear, what desire, what zeal, yea, what revenge! so that by your whole conduct, ye have shown your selves to be clear from guilt in this matter."}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 7, "verse": "12", "text": "wherefore, my writing to you so severely did not proceed from any prejudice to him, that had done the wrong, or from favour to him that suffered wrong, but to show my conscientious regard to your welfare."}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 7, "verse": "13", "text": "so that your comfort was no small satisfaction to me: yea, and I was the more exceedingly pleased for that cheerful tranquillity of mind which Titus received from the behaviour of you all."}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 7, "verse": "14", "text": "so that I am not ashamed of the commendations I have formerly given you to him; but as I have always preached the truth to you, so in my commendation to Titus, I have said nothing but truth of you."}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 7, "verse": "15", "text": "and his affection to you is abundantly increased, whilst he remembers your obedience, and that fear and reverence with which you all received him."}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 7, "verse": "16", "text": "my having therefore such an entire confidence in you, does agreeably affect me."}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 8, "verse": "1", "text": "I must acquaint you, brethren, with the contribution which the churches of Macedonia have religiously made,"}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 8, "verse": "2", "text": "who tho' labouring under great trial of affliction, and extreme poverty, have notwithstanding with exceeding cheerfulness contributed very liberally: being forward of themselves to the utmost of their power,"}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 8, "verse": "3", "text": "(I bear them witness) yea, and beyond their power:"}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 8, "verse": "4", "text": "earnestly intreating me to take the gift, and the charge of conveying it to the converts at Jerusalem:"}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 8, "verse": "5", "text": "and in this they out-did my expectation; such was the divine pleasure, they first gave themselves to the Lord, and then made me an offer to go themselves to Corinth."}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 8, "verse": "6", "text": "I therefore desired Titus, as he had begun, to finish this contribution among you."}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 8, "verse": "7", "text": "that as you excel in every thing, in faith, in language, mystical knowledge, in all virtue, and in your affection to us; I hope you will excel too in this charitable disposition."}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 8, "verse": "8", "text": "I don't mean to prescribe to you, but that the zeal of others may show you are as sincerely well-affected."}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 8, "verse": "9", "text": "for you are sensible of the beneficence of our Lord Jesus Christ; powerful as he was, for your sake he became poor, that you through his poverty might be made rich."}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 8, "verse": "10", "text": "in this I only advise you: it being for your credit, since you have not only begun to execute it, but you were the first that form'd the design a year ago."}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 8, "verse": "11", "text": "Pray then, dispatch this affair; as you readily undertook it, as readily perform it, to the best of your abilities."}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 8, "verse": "12", "text": "for what a man gives with a ready mind, according to his abilities, is well received; but not when he goes beyond his circumstances."}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 8, "verse": "13", "text": "my meaning is not, that you should be distress'd to relieve others, I only recommend an equality;"}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 8, "verse": "14", "text": "that as your present sufficiency supplies their wants, their sufficiency may supply your occasions another way: and thus there will be an equality."}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 8, "verse": "15", "text": "as it is written, \" he that had much, had nothing over, and he that had little, had no lack.\" Titus Commended ( Titus 1:1–4 )"}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 8, "verse": "16", "text": "But thanks be to God, who disposed Titus to be so industrious for you."}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 8, "verse": "17", "text": "for he not only complyed with my exhortation, but being more than ordinarily concern'd, he voluntarily went to you;"}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 8, "verse": "18", "text": "with whom I have sent one of the brethren, who is not only distinguish'd among all the churches, by his preaching the gospel,"}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 8, "verse": "19", "text": "but was chosen by the churches to accompany me with this collection; which service I undertook for the sake of Christ, and to encourage your generous design."}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 8, "verse": "20", "text": "this I did, to prevent any suspicion that might be rais'd from my having the management of so great a sum:"}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 8, "verse": "21", "text": "always considering what is virtuous, with respect to God, and with respect to men."}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 8, "verse": "22", "text": "I have sent likewise another of our brethren, whose diligence I have experienc'd in several affairs."}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 8, "verse": "23", "text": "now as to Titus, he is my collegue, and assists me in your affairs: as to our brethren, they are the deputies of the churches, and the glory of the christian profession."}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 8, "verse": "24", "text": "wherefore show how much you love them, and how well you deserve the character I gave you, before all the churches."}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 9, "verse": "1", "text": "As to the relief of the converts, it is superfluous for me to write to you."}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 9, "verse": "2", "text": "for I know your generous propensity, and I mention'd it with applause to the Macedonians, that Achaia was ready a year ago; so that your zeal has influenc'd many others."}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 9, "verse": "3", "text": "yet have I sent the brethren, that my character of you may not appear to be groundless, with respect to that part wherein I said, ye would be ready:"}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 9, "verse": "4", "text": "for if the Macedonians should come with me, and find you unprepared, how shall I, not to say you, be ashamed for having had so little ground to boast of you?"}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 9, "verse": "5", "text": "I thought it therefore necessary to counsel the brethren to go before, and settle the management of the contribution by this previous notice, that it might have such dispatch, as shows a bountiful, and not a niggardly temper."}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 9, "verse": "6", "text": "remember, \" he who sows sparingly, shall reap also sparingly: and he who sows bountifully, shall reap also bountifully.\""}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 9, "verse": "7", "text": "let every man give as he is disposed in his own mind, without any regret or reluctance: for God loves a cheerful benefactor."}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 9, "verse": "8", "text": "and God is able to make every charitable gift redound to your advantage; that being always sufficiently supply'd in every thing, you may excel in every good work:"}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 9, "verse": "9", "text": "as it is written, \" he hath distributed, he hath given to the poor: his liberality remaineth for ever.\""}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 9, "verse": "10", "text": "now he that furnishes seed to the sower, and bread for food, shall furnish and multiply what you sow, and increase the fruits of your liberality."}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 9, "verse": "11", "text": "so that being enriched in every thing, you may be continually beneficent to the glory of God by our thanksgiving."}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 9, "verse": "12", "text": "for the execution of this charitable office, does not only supply the necessities of the converts, but by the thanksgivings of many redounds also to the glory of God."}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 9, "verse": "13", "text": "having this proof of you by such a supply, they will glorify God for your profess'd subjection to the gospel of Christ, and for your liberal distribution to them as well as others;"}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 9, "verse": "14", "text": "and you will have the advantage of their earnest prayers, for the exceeding favour God has bestowed upon them by you:"}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 9, "verse": "15", "text": "thanks be to God for his unspeakable gift."}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 10, "verse": "1", "text": "I who am a person of a mean presence, when among you, but exert myself upon your account, when absent; I Paul intreat you by the meekness and gentleness of Christ, not to let me exert that authority,"}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 10, "verse": "2", "text": "when I am present, which I think to exercise against some, who censure me, as if I was actuated by worldly views."}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 10, "verse": "3", "text": "for tho' I am involv'd with the world, I don't sustain the war with their poor arts:"}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 10, "verse": "4", "text": "our military arms are not so defective, but divinely effectual to demolish all their ramparts;"}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 10, "verse": "5", "text": "to level all the barriers they contrive for obstructing the divine doctrine, and to make their pride captive to the authority of Christ."}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 10, "verse": "6", "text": "and I am prepar'd, when you have discharg'd your duty, to make examples of the rest for their disobedience."}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 10, "verse": "7", "text": "Do ye judge of things by the outward appearance? if any man is confident in himself, that he is Christ's, let him from himself conclude too, that as he is Christ's, even so are we."}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 10, "verse": "8", "text": "for though I should more than ever magnify my authority, which the Lord hath given us for your improvement, and not for your ruin, I should have no reason to be ashamed;"}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 10, "verse": "9", "text": "but that I may not seem as if I would strike a terror in you by letters:"}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 10, "verse": "10", "text": "(for 'tis objected that my letters are weighty and powerful, but my bodily presence weak, and my preaching"}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 10, "verse": "11", "text": "contemptible) let such a one depend upon this, that the same authority which appear'd in my letters, when I was absent, will appear in fact, when I am present."}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 10, "verse": "12", "text": "for I dare not rank or compare my self with some who vaunt themselves: but they making their self-conceit the only standard whereby to judge of themselves, show their want of judgment."}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 10, "verse": "13", "text": "I will not boast of any thing done without my province, but confine myself within that line by which God has mark'd out my bounds, and in which you are included."}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 10, "verse": "14", "text": "for I do not stretch beyond my limits to take you in; since in preaching the gospel of Christ, we are advanced even to you."}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 10, "verse": "15", "text": "I don't assume to myself the credit of other men's labours in another province, but hope, that when your faith is increased, the bounds now prescribed will be enlarged by you yet farther;"}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 10, "verse": "16", "text": "so that I may preach the gospel in the regions beyond you, and not assume the credit of things ready prepared to my hand, in another man's province."}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 10, "verse": "17", "text": "but he that glorieth, let him glory in the Lord."}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 10, "verse": "18", "text": "for not he that commendeth himself, but he whom the Lord commendeth, is the approved."}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 11, "verse": "1", "text": "Would you could bear with me a little in my vanity, but indeed you do bear with me."}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 11, "verse": "2", "text": "for I am jealous over you with religious jealousy: since I have espoused you to one husband, that I may present you as a chaste virgin to Christ."}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 11, "verse": "3", "text": "but I fear lest by some means or other, as Eve was beguiled by the subtilly of the serpent, your minds should be corrupted from the simplicity that is due to Christ."}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 11, "verse": "4", "text": "if he that is come to you, preaches another Jesus whom I have not preached, or if ye receive other gifts of the spirit, than what ye have received from me, or another gospel, than what you have accepted, you might well bear with his pretensions:"}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 11, "verse": "5", "text": "for I think I am not at all inferior to the chiefest of the apostles."}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 11, "verse": "6", "text": "if my language is inelegant, my knowledge is not contemptible; but has been fully display'd among you on all occasions."}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 11, "verse": "7", "text": "If I have degraded myself for your advantage by preaching the holy gospel to you gratis, is that such a trespass?"}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 11, "verse": "8", "text": "by taking wages of other churches, I may have injured them, to do you service."}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 11, "verse": "9", "text": "when I was present among you, and in want, I was chargeable to no man: for the brethren which came from Macedonia, supplied my necessities: and as I have, so I always shall keep myself from being burdensome to you."}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 11, "verse": "10", "text": "I solemnly protest, no man shall hinder me of this applause, in the regions of Achaia."}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 11, "verse": "11", "text": "why so? is it because I love you not? far otherwise, God knows."}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 11, "verse": "12", "text": "but this I do, and shall do, to make them drop their hire, who are so bent upon hire: and then indeed they will be as they pretend to be, like me."}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 11, "verse": "13", "text": "for these are false apostles, deceitful workmen, disguised so as to pass for true apostles."}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 11, "verse": "14", "text": "and no wonder; for satan himself may put on the appearance of an angel of light."}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 11, "verse": "15", "text": "therefore it is not strange if his agents are so disguised as to appear like ministers of the gospel; but their end shall be answerable to their actions. Paul’s Suffering and Service ( Colossians 1:24–29 )"}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 11, "verse": "16", "text": "I say it again, let no man think me vain; but if they do, yet as such, bear with me, that I too may applaud my self a little."}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 11, "verse": "17", "text": "what I say, I say it not as an apostle, but as it were to indulge my vanity in this matter of boasting."}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 11, "verse": "18", "text": "since many glory in outward advantages, I will glory too."}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 11, "verse": "19", "text": "for as wise as you are your selves, you easily bear with the folly of others."}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 11, "verse": "20", "text": "if a man impose upon you, if he preys upon you, if he makes a gain of you, if a man insults you, if he disgracefully assaults you, I mean it as to their reproaches, you take it all;"}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 11, "verse": "21", "text": "as if I was inferior to them, but whatever they pretend to, (I must be so vain) I pretend to the like."}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 11, "verse": "22", "text": "Are they Hebrews? so am I: are they Israelites? so am I: are they of the race of Abraham?"}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 11, "verse": "23", "text": "so am I: are they ministers of Christ? is it my vanity? I am more so: in toilsome labours I surpass them, in stripes I am exceedingly beyond them, in prisons I have been oftner, and frequently in the very jaws of death."}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 11, "verse": "24", "text": "from the Jews I have five times received forty stripes save one."}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 11, "verse": "25", "text": "thrice was I whip'd with rods, once was I stoned, thrice I was shipwreck'd; a night and a day I was floating on the deep:"}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 11, "verse": "26", "text": "in my voyages I have been frequently in perils from rivers, in perils from robbers, in perils from my own countrymen, in perils from the Gentiles, in perils in the city, in perils in the country, in perils at sea, in perils among false brethren;"}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 11, "verse": "27", "text": "expos'd to toil, to fatigue, to frequent watchings, to hunger and thirst, to frequent fastings, to cold and penury."}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 11, "verse": "28", "text": "besides these troubles from without, that which crouds upon me daily, the care of all the churches."}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 11, "verse": "29", "text": "who is afflicted, and I not suffer? who is offended, and I not inflam'd?"}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 11, "verse": "30", "text": "If I must be compell'd to glory, I will glory on the account of my sufferings."}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 11, "verse": "31", "text": "the ever-blessed God, and father of our Lord Jesus Christ, knows that I speak truth."}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 11, "verse": "32", "text": "in Damascus the governor for king Aretas, posted guards at the city-gates, with a design to apprehend me:"}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 11, "verse": "33", "text": "but thro' a window I was let down in a basket by the wall, and so escap'd."}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 12, "verse": "1", "text": "Have not I reason to glory? for now I shall mention my visions and revelations from the Lord."}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 12, "verse": "2", "text": "I knew a christian who above fourteen years ago, was snatch'd up even to the third heaven, whether in the body, I cannot tell; or whether out of the body, I cannot tell: God knows."}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 12, "verse": "3", "text": "but tho' I don't know whether it was in the body, or out of the body, which God only knows,"}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 12, "verse": "4", "text": "this I know, that he was snatch'd up into paradise, and heard such secrets as it is not lawful for a man to reveal. Paul’s Thorn and God’s Grace"}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 12, "verse": "5", "text": "I might glory in being the man; but I will not glory in any thing relating to myself, unless it be my sufferings."}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 12, "verse": "6", "text": "tho' if I had a mind to glory, I might do it without vanity, for I should say nothing but what is true: but now I forbear, lest any man should ascribe more to me than my actions, or my preaching can justify."}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 12, "verse": "7", "text": "and lest I should be exalted above measure by the extraordinary revelations I have had, I was afflicted in my person, so that the messenger of satan insulted me; concerning which,"}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 12, "verse": "8", "text": "I besought the Lord thrice, to make him leave me."}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 12, "verse": "9", "text": "but he said to me, \"my favour is sufficient for thee: for my strength is shown to be perfect by thy weakness.\" with pleasure therefore will I glory in my infirmities, that the power of Christ may be seen to dwell in me."}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 12, "verse": "10", "text": "I take pleasure then in infirmities, in reproaches, in necessities, in persecutions, in distresses for Christ's sake: for when I am afflicted, then it is I have fortitude. Paul’s Concern for the Corinthians"}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 12, "verse": "11", "text": "Am I become vain? 'tis you have forc'd me to it: for I ought to have been commended by you: since I am not inferior to the chiefest of the apostles, tho' in myself I am nothing."}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 12, "verse": "12", "text": "the marks indeed of an apostle I have shown among you by my extreme patience, by signs, and prodigies, and miracles."}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 12, "verse": "13", "text": "for in what were ye inferior to other churches, except it be that I myself was not burdensome to you? an injury I hope you will easily forgive."}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 12, "verse": "14", "text": "This is the third time I purposed to come to you; but I will not be burdensome to you; for I seek not yours, but you: since it is not expected children should lay up for their parents, but parents for their children: on the contrary,"}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 12, "verse": "15", "text": "I shall be glad to sacrifice myself and all I have for your service, even tho' it should happen that the more I love you, the less I should be beloved."}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 12, "verse": "16", "text": "'tis own'd I did not put you to any charges myself: but was so crafty, as to over-reach you, by others."}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 12, "verse": "17", "text": "what, did I make a gain of you by any body I sent to you?"}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 12, "verse": "18", "text": "I desired Titus, and with him I sent a brother: did Titus make a gain of you? didn't we follow the same principles, and take the same measures?"}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 12, "verse": "19", "text": "do you think I have been making excuses for not coming? as I am a christian, in the presence of God, I have, my beloved, in every thing consulted your advantage."}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 12, "verse": "20", "text": "yet I fear when I do come I shall not find you such as I would, and that you will find me such as you least desire: I am afraid there are among you debates, envyings, animosities, strifes, backbitings, whisperings, arrogance, tumults:"}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 12, "verse": "21", "text": "and I am afraid, God will humble me when I come again among you, and I shall bewail many who have formerly sinned, and have not yet repented of their impurity, their fornication, and dissoluteness."}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 13, "verse": "1", "text": "This is the third time I am coming to you: \"in the mouth of two or three witnesses shall every word be established.\""}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 13, "verse": "2", "text": "I told you once before, and now being absent I write to forewarn you and all that have sinned, that when I shall arrive, I will not spare them;"}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 13, "verse": "3", "text": "since you demand a proof of my mission from Christ, who with regard to you has shown no want of power among you."}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 13, "verse": "4", "text": "for tho' he was crucified with the appearance of weakness, yet he lives by the power of God; tho' we are afflicted upon his account, we shall live with him by the power of God toward you."}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 13, "verse": "5", "text": "Examine yourselves, whether you be in the faith; bring yourselves to the proof; are you so little acquainted with yourselves, as not to know whether Jesus Christ be in you? but if you are destitute of proofs,"}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 13, "verse": "6", "text": "I trust you shall know that we are not so destitute,"}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 13, "verse": "7", "text": "now I pray God that I may not punish you; not that I may show you my proofs to your cost, but that by your acting honestly, I may be as if I had no proofs:"}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 13, "verse": "8", "text": "for I can employ no power against the truth, but for the truth."}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 13, "verse": "9", "text": "I am therefore glad when I am disarm'd by the strength of your integrity: and this is what I pray for, even your perfection."}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 13, "verse": "10", "text": "these things therefore I write to you being absent, that when I come I may not use severity, according to the power which the Lord hath given me for edification, and not for destruction. Benediction and Farewell"}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 13, "verse": "11", "text": "Finally, brethren, be cheerful: redress yourselves, encourage one another, be of one mind, live in peace; and the God of love and peace shall be with you."}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 13, "verse": "12", "text": "salute one another with religious affection."}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 13, "verse": "13", "text": "all the converts salute you."}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 13, "verse": "14", "text": "the favour of the Lord Jesus Christ, and the love of God, and the communication of the Holy Spirit, be with you all, amen."}
{"book": "GAL", "chapter": 1, "verse": "1", "text": "Paul an apostle (not from men, nor by man, but by Jesus Christ, and God the father who raised him from the dead) and all the brethren,"}
{"book": "GAL", "chapter": 1, "verse": "2", "text": "who are with me, unto the churches of Galatia: grace be to you, and peace from God the father,"}
{"book": "GAL", "chapter": 1, "verse": "3", "text": "and from our Lord Jesus Christ: who gave himself for our sins,"}
{"book": "GAL", "chapter": 1, "verse": "4", "text": "that he might deliver us from the vices of this present age, according to the will of God, even our father: to"}
{"book": "GAL", "chapter": 1, "verse": "5", "text": "whom be glory for ever and ever, amen. I wonder you have so soon deserted unto another gospel, No Other Gospel"}
{"book": "GAL", "chapter": 1, "verse": "6", "text": "from me, who called you by the grace of Christ; this can be"}
{"book": "GAL", "chapter": 1, "verse": "7", "text": "owing to nothing but your being practised upon by some, who would overturn the gospel of Christ."}
{"book": "GAL", "chapter": 1, "verse": "8", "text": "but tho' I, or an angel from heaven should preach any thing to you for gospel, different from the gospel I have preached unto you, let him be accursed."}
{"book": "GAL", "chapter": 1, "verse": "9", "text": "as I said before, so say I now again, if any one preach any other thing to you for gospel, than what you have received, let him be accursed. Paul Preaches the Gospel"}
{"book": "GAL", "chapter": 1, "verse": "10", "text": "for do I now act in obedience to men, or to God? or do I seek to please men? if I had hitherto pleased men, I should not have been the servant of Christ."}
{"book": "GAL", "chapter": 1, "verse": "11", "text": "I certify to you, brethren, that the gospel, which has been preached by me, is not the result of human artifice:"}
{"book": "GAL", "chapter": 1, "verse": "12", "text": "for I neither received it from man, nor was I taught it but by the revelation of Jesus Christ."}
{"book": "GAL", "chapter": 1, "verse": "13", "text": "you have heard of my former behaviour, whilst I was of the Jewish religion, with what excessive violence I persecuted the church of God, and laid it waste:"}
{"book": "GAL", "chapter": 1, "verse": "14", "text": "and that I made a greater proficiency in Judaism than many my contemporaries of my own nation, being an extraordinary zealot for the traditions of my forefathers."}
{"book": "GAL", "chapter": 1, "verse": "15", "text": "but when it pleased God, who ordained me from my birth, and called me by his especial favour, to reveal his son to me,"}
{"book": "GAL", "chapter": 1, "verse": "16", "text": "that I might preach him among the Gentiles, I did not thereupon apply my self to any man;"}
{"book": "GAL", "chapter": 1, "verse": "17", "text": "neither went I up to Jerusalem, to those who were apostles before me: but I went immediately to Arabia, and returned again to Damascus."}
{"book": "GAL", "chapter": 1, "verse": "18", "text": "After three years, I went up to Jerusalem, to see Peter, and abode with him fifteen days:"}
{"book": "GAL", "chapter": 1, "verse": "19", "text": "but other of the apostles saw I none, except James the Lord's brother."}
{"book": "GAL", "chapter": 1, "verse": "20", "text": "what I write to you, I call God to witness is all true:"}
{"book": "GAL", "chapter": 1, "verse": "21", "text": "afterwards I came into the regions of Syria and Cilicia;"}
{"book": "GAL", "chapter": 1, "verse": "22", "text": "but was personally unknown to the churches of Christ in Judea,"}
{"book": "GAL", "chapter": 1, "verse": "23", "text": "who had only heard, that I, who formerly persecuted them, did now preach the gospel of faith, which I once endeavoured to suppress:"}
{"book": "GAL", "chapter": 1, "verse": "24", "text": "and they glorified God upon my account."}
{"book": "GAL", "chapter": 2, "verse": "1", "text": "Fourteen years after I went up again to Jerusalem, with Barnabas, and took Titus also with me:"}
{"book": "GAL", "chapter": 2, "verse": "2", "text": "and I went up according to revelation, and communicated to them that gospel, which I preach among the Gentiles; but privately to those who were of note, lest the pains, that I have already taken, or may hereafter take in the gospel, should be in vain."}
{"book": "GAL", "chapter": 2, "verse": "3", "text": "however, Titus who was then with me, being a Greek, was not compelled to be circumcised:"}
{"book": "GAL", "chapter": 2, "verse": "4", "text": "and as to the false brethren, who insidiously crept in to spy out our liberty which we have by Christ Jesus, that they might bring us into servitude;"}
{"book": "GAL", "chapter": 2, "verse": "5", "text": "I did not show them the lest compliance by way of submission, that the doctrine of the gospel might remain among you."}
{"book": "GAL", "chapter": 2, "verse": "6", "text": "But as for those who were men of real eminency, how considerable soever they were heretofore, it does not any ways affect me; God accepts not the person of any man: for they who were of note, in conference with me, had nothing new to add."}
{"book": "GAL", "chapter": 2, "verse": "7", "text": "on the contrary, when they perceived that I had the province of preaching the gospel to the Gentiles, as Peter had that of preaching it to the Jews,"}
{"book": "GAL", "chapter": 2, "verse": "8", "text": "(for he that had wrought powerfully in Peter with respect to his apostleship among the Jews, had also wrought powerfully in me upon account of the Gentiles:) and when James,"}
{"book": "GAL", "chapter": 2, "verse": "9", "text": "Peter, and John, who were esteemed to be pillars, perceived the favour that was bestowed on me, they admitted me and Barnabas into fellowship, and agreed, that we should go to the Gentiles, and they to the Jews."}
{"book": "GAL", "chapter": 2, "verse": "10", "text": "only they recommended to us to get collections for the poor in Judea: which I was very careful to do. Paul Confronts Cephas"}
{"book": "GAL", "chapter": 2, "verse": "11", "text": "But when Peter came to Antioch, I opposed him to his face, for he was to be blamed."}
{"book": "GAL", "chapter": 2, "verse": "12", "text": "for till certain Jews came thither from James, he used to eat with the Gentiles; but when they were come, he withdrew and separated himself, for fear of those, who were for circumcision:"}
{"book": "GAL", "chapter": 2, "verse": "13", "text": "and the rest of the Jews dissembled likewise with him, insomuch that Barnabas himself was carried away with their hypocrisy."}
{"book": "GAL", "chapter": 2, "verse": "14", "text": "but when I saw, they conformed not their conduct to the truth of the gospel, I said to Peter before them all: if you being a Jew, live after the manner of the Gentiles, and not according to that of the Jews, why do you constrain the Gentiles to judaize?"}
{"book": "GAL", "chapter": 2, "verse": "15", "text": "We are Jews by birth, and not of the sinful race of the Gentiles,"}
{"book": "GAL", "chapter": 2, "verse": "16", "text": "yet knowing that a man is not justified by the works of the law, but by faith in Jesus Christ, even we have believed in Christ Jesus, that we might be justified by faith in him, and not by the works of the law, by which there is no justification."}
{"book": "GAL", "chapter": 2, "verse": "17", "text": "Now if it be a sin to seek for justification by Christ, then is Christ the minister of sin, which cannot be."}
{"book": "GAL", "chapter": 2, "verse": "18", "text": "on the contrary, if I re-establish what I have demolish'd, I show myself a prevaricator."}
{"book": "GAL", "chapter": 2, "verse": "19", "text": "for by one law, I am dead to the other law, that I might live unto God:"}
{"book": "GAL", "chapter": 2, "verse": "20", "text": "I am crucified with Christ, it is not I that now live, but Christ that liveth in me; the life I have in this body I live by faith in the son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me."}
{"book": "GAL", "chapter": 2, "verse": "21", "text": "I do not frustrate the grace of God: for if justification be by the law, Christ died to no purpose."}
{"book": "GAL", "chapter": 3, "verse": "1", "text": "O foolish Galatians, who hath deluded you, you that have had the crucifixion of Jesus Christ represented to your view?"}
{"book": "GAL", "chapter": 3, "verse": "2", "text": "this one thing I desire to know of you, did you receive the spirit by the works of the law, or by the gospel preach'd to you?"}
{"book": "GAL", "chapter": 3, "verse": "3", "text": "have you so little understanding, as having begun in the spiritual doctrine of the gospel, to turn again to the law?"}
{"book": "GAL", "chapter": 3, "verse": "4", "text": "have you suffered so many things in vain?"}
{"book": "GAL", "chapter": 3, "verse": "5", "text": "if it be in vain, he therefore that ministreth the spirit to you, and worketh miracles among you, doth he it by the works of the law, or by the preaching of faith?"}
{"book": "GAL", "chapter": 3, "verse": "6", "text": "As Abraham believed God, and it was accounted to him for righteousness:"}
{"book": "GAL", "chapter": 3, "verse": "7", "text": "so hence ye know, that it is they who believe who are the children of Abraham."}
{"book": "GAL", "chapter": 3, "verse": "8", "text": "and the scripture insinuating, that God would justify the Gentiles thro' faith, gave Abraham an intimation of the gospel in these words, \" in thee shall all nations be blessed.\""}
{"book": "GAL", "chapter": 3, "verse": "9", "text": "so that it is they who believe, who are blessed with Abraham, who did believe. Christ Has Redeemed Us"}
{"book": "GAL", "chapter": 3, "verse": "10", "text": "but they that rest themselves upon the works of the law, are obnoxious to the curse: for it is written, \" cursed is every one, who continueth not in all things, which are written in the book of the law, to do them:\""}
{"book": "GAL", "chapter": 3, "verse": "11", "text": "but that no man is justified by the law in the sight of God, is evident: for, \" the just shall live by faith.\""}
{"book": "GAL", "chapter": 3, "verse": "12", "text": "now the law does not justify by FAITH, but says, \"he that DOES these things shall live by them.\""}
{"book": "GAL", "chapter": 3, "verse": "13", "text": "Christ hath redeemed us from the curse of the law, being made a curse for us. (for it is written, \" cursed is every one, that hangeth upon a tree.\")"}
{"book": "GAL", "chapter": 3, "verse": "14", "text": "that the blessing promised to Abraham might come on the Gentiles thro' Jesus Christ; that we by believing might receive the spirit that was promised. The Purpose of the Law ( Romans 7:1–6 )"}
{"book": "GAL", "chapter": 3, "verse": "15", "text": "Brethren, I speak according to the practice of men; contracts between men, when once ratified, cannot be disannulled or altered afterwards by any man."}
{"book": "GAL", "chapter": 3, "verse": "16", "text": "now to Abraham and his offspring were the promises made, he does not say, \"to offsprings,\" as if he spoke of many; but as speaking of one, \"and to thy offspring,\" which means Christ."}
{"book": "GAL", "chapter": 3, "verse": "17", "text": "this therefore I say, that the law, which was not till four hundred and thirty years after, cannot disannul the promise, that was ratified before by God, so as to set the promise afoot."}
{"book": "GAL", "chapter": 3, "verse": "18", "text": "now if the right to the inheritance be from the law, it is no longer founded upon the promise; altho' God made a donation of it to Abraham by promise."}
{"book": "GAL", "chapter": 3, "verse": "19", "text": "\"To what purpose then was the law?\" it was added as a check to transgressors, till the offspring should come to whom the promise was made; and it was ordained by angels with the intervention of a mediator."}
{"book": "GAL", "chapter": 3, "verse": "20", "text": "now a mediator supposes two parties, of which God is but one."}
{"book": "GAL", "chapter": 3, "verse": "21", "text": "Is the law then opposite to the promises? by no means, for if there had been a law given, which could have given life, certainly justification should have been by the law."}
{"book": "GAL", "chapter": 3, "verse": "22", "text": "but the scripture has declar'd all guilty of sin, that the blessing promised on condition of faith in Jesus Christ might be given to those who believe."}
{"book": "GAL", "chapter": 3, "verse": "23", "text": "but before faith came, we were shut up together as prisoners under the custody of the law, 'till faith was to be revealed."}
{"book": "GAL", "chapter": 3, "verse": "24", "text": "so that the law was our school-master to bring us to Christ, that we might be justified by faith."}
{"book": "GAL", "chapter": 3, "verse": "25", "text": "but now faith being come, we are no longer under a pedagogue. Sons through Faith in Christ"}
{"book": "GAL", "chapter": 3, "verse": "26", "text": "for you are all the sons of God by faith in Christ Jesus."}
{"book": "GAL", "chapter": 3, "verse": "27", "text": "for as many of you as have been baptized into christianity, have been invested as christians."}
{"book": "GAL", "chapter": 3, "verse": "28", "text": "there is now no distinction of Jew or Greek, of bond or free, of male or female: for you are all one in Christ Jesus."}
{"book": "GAL", "chapter": 3, "verse": "29", "text": "and if you belong to Christ, you are Abraham's offspring, and his heirs by virtue of the promise."}
{"book": "GAL", "chapter": 4, "verse": "1", "text": "Now I say, that the heir, as long as he is a child, is in a state of servitude, tho' he is to be lord of all;"}
{"book": "GAL", "chapter": 4, "verse": "2", "text": "being under tutors and guardians, 'till the time prefix'd by his father."}
{"book": "GAL", "chapter": 4, "verse": "3", "text": "even so we, whilst we were children, were in a state of servitude to the elements of the world, but when the time appointed was accomplished,"}
{"book": "GAL", "chapter": 4, "verse": "4", "text": "God sent forth his own son born of a woman, and subject to the law, to redeem those,"}
{"book": "GAL", "chapter": 4, "verse": "5", "text": "who were under the law, that we might receive the adoption of sons."}
{"book": "GAL", "chapter": 4, "verse": "6", "text": "and because ye are sons, God has sent forth the spirit of his son into your hearts, crying Abba, that is, father;"}
{"book": "GAL", "chapter": 4, "verse": "7", "text": "so that thou art no longer a bond servant, but a son: and if a son, then an heir of God thro' Christ. Paul’s Concern for the Galatians"}
{"book": "GAL", "chapter": 4, "verse": "8", "text": "When you did not know God, you did service to those, who in reality are no Gods; but now that you know God,"}
{"book": "GAL", "chapter": 4, "verse": "9", "text": "or rather that you are favoured by him, how can ye turn again to the weak and beggarly elements of the law, to which you desire again to be in bondage?"}
{"book": "GAL", "chapter": 4, "verse": "10", "text": "observing as you do, the days, the moons, the feasts and years."}
{"book": "GAL", "chapter": 4, "verse": "11", "text": "you make me apprehensive, that the labour I have bestowed upon you will be all in vain."}
{"book": "GAL", "chapter": 4, "verse": "12", "text": "I beseech you, brethren, be as I am, for I was as you are."}
{"book": "GAL", "chapter": 4, "verse": "13", "text": "It is not you that have done me any injury: tho' you knew through what infirmity of the flesh I heretofore preached the gospel to you,"}
{"book": "GAL", "chapter": 4, "verse": "14", "text": "yet you did not despise me for the trial which attended my person, nor treated me with scorn; but received me as an angel of God, even as Christ Jesus."}
{"book": "GAL", "chapter": 4, "verse": "15", "text": "what benedictions did you then pour out upon me! for I bear you witness, that, had it been practicable, you would have pulled out your very eyes, and given them to me."}
{"book": "GAL", "chapter": 4, "verse": "16", "text": "am I now become your enemy in continuing to tell you the truth?"}
{"book": "GAL", "chapter": 4, "verse": "17", "text": "they court your affection, but not in a fair way; for they design to exclude me, that you might have the greater esteem for them."}
{"book": "GAL", "chapter": 4, "verse": "18", "text": "but it is just you should cultivate my affection for you upon all proper occasions, and not only when I am present with you."}
{"book": "GAL", "chapter": 4, "verse": "19", "text": "my dear children, how am I in pain, till Christ be formed in you?"}
{"book": "GAL", "chapter": 4, "verse": "20", "text": "I wish I could be present this very moment with you, and suit my discourse accordingly, for I stand in doubt what to think of you. Hagar and Sarah"}
{"book": "GAL", "chapter": 4, "verse": "21", "text": "But tell me, you that are so willing to be under the law, why don't you consider the law?"}
{"book": "GAL", "chapter": 4, "verse": "22", "text": "for it is there written, Abraham had two sons, the one by a bond-maid, the other by a free-woman."}
{"book": "GAL", "chapter": 4, "verse": "23", "text": "he, who was of the bond-woman, was born according to the ordinary course of nature; but he, who was of the free-woman, was born by virtue of the promise."}
{"book": "GAL", "chapter": 4, "verse": "24", "text": "these things have an allegorical meaning: the two women signify the two covenants, the one from mount Sinai, which is represented by Agar, whose children were born in a state of servitude."}
{"book": "GAL", "chapter": 4, "verse": "25", "text": "this Agar answers to the Jerusalem now in being, for she is in servitude with her children:"}
{"book": "GAL", "chapter": 4, "verse": "26", "text": "but the heavenly Jerusalem is represented by the free-woman, who is the mother of us all."}
{"book": "GAL", "chapter": 4, "verse": "27", "text": "for it is written, \"rejoice thou barren, that bearest not; break out into loud acclamations, thou that hast not the travels of childbirth, for more are the children of the desolate, than of her that hath an husband.\""}
{"book": "GAL", "chapter": 4, "verse": "28", "text": "Now we, my brethren, as Isaac was, are the children of the promise."}
{"book": "GAL", "chapter": 4, "verse": "29", "text": "but as then, he that was born in the ordinary course of nature, persecuted him, who was born by an extraordinary power; even so it is now."}
{"book": "GAL", "chapter": 4, "verse": "30", "text": "but what saith the scripture? \"cast out the bond-woman and her son; for the son of the bond-woman shall not share the inheritance with the son of the free-woman.\""}
{"book": "GAL", "chapter": 4, "verse": "31", "text": "so then, my brethren, we are not children of the bond-woman, but of the free-woman, by virtue of that freedom which Christ has procur'd for us."}
{"book": "GAL", "chapter": 5, "verse": "1", "text": "Stand fast therefore, and be not hampered again with the yoke of bondage."}
{"book": "GAL", "chapter": 5, "verse": "2", "text": "take notice, 'tis I Paul declare it to you, that if you are circumcised, Christ shall be of no advantage to you."}
{"book": "GAL", "chapter": 5, "verse": "3", "text": "for I testify to every man that is circumcised, that he is under an obligation to perform the whole law."}
{"book": "GAL", "chapter": 5, "verse": "4", "text": "Christ is of no use to you, whoever of you seek to be justified by the law; you have lost all interest in the gospel-dispensation."}
{"book": "GAL", "chapter": 5, "verse": "5", "text": "but as for us, our minds are possessed with the hopes of justification by faith."}
{"book": "GAL", "chapter": 5, "verse": "6", "text": "for in the christian-dispensation, neither circumcision avails any thing, nor uncircumcision, but an active benevolent faith."}
{"book": "GAL", "chapter": 5, "verse": "7", "text": "You set out well in your course: who hath obstructed your progress in the truth?"}
{"book": "GAL", "chapter": 5, "verse": "8", "text": "this opinionativeness does not come from him that called you."}
{"book": "GAL", "chapter": 5, "verse": "9", "text": "a little leaven affects the whole mass."}
{"book": "GAL", "chapter": 5, "verse": "10", "text": "I have confidence in you, that, through the Lord, you will be of the same mind with me, so that he who troubles you shall fall under the censure he deserves, whoever he be."}
{"book": "GAL", "chapter": 5, "verse": "11", "text": "as for me, brethren, if I yet preach circumcision, why am I yet persecuted? for then there would not be so much objection to the doctrine of the cross."}
{"book": "GAL", "chapter": 5, "verse": "12", "text": "I wish they who unsettle you were entirely circumcised."}
{"book": "GAL", "chapter": 5, "verse": "13", "text": "for, brethren, you have been called to liberty, only abuse not this freedom as a pretext to vice, but in offices of love be as servants one to another."}
{"book": "GAL", "chapter": 5, "verse": "14", "text": "for all the law is comprehended in this one precept, \"thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.\""}
{"book": "GAL", "chapter": 5, "verse": "15", "text": "but if you bite and tear one another, take heed that you be not consumed by one another. Walking by the Spirit ( Romans 8:9–11 )"}
{"book": "GAL", "chapter": 5, "verse": "16", "text": "I say then, conduct yourselves by the spirit, and you will not then gratify the animal passions."}
{"book": "GAL", "chapter": 5, "verse": "17", "text": "for the vicious desires are contrary to those of the spirit, and the inclinations of the spirit are contrary to those of the animal part; these are opposite to each other, so that you do not the things that you would."}
{"book": "GAL", "chapter": 5, "verse": "18", "text": "but if you are governed by the spirit, you are not subject to the law."}
{"book": "GAL", "chapter": 5, "verse": "19", "text": "now the effects of vicious passions are manifestly these, fornication, uncleanness,"}
{"book": "GAL", "chapter": 5, "verse": "20", "text": "brutality, idolatry, poisoning, enmities, quarrels, emulations, animosities, strife, seditions, factions, envyings,"}
{"book": "GAL", "chapter": 5, "verse": "21", "text": "drunkenness, revellings, and such like, concerning which I forewarn you now, as heretofore I have done, that they who practise such vices, shall not inherit the kingdom of God."}
{"book": "GAL", "chapter": 5, "verse": "22", "text": "but the fruit of the spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, sweetness of disposition, beneficence, faithfulness, meekness, temperance:"}
{"book": "GAL", "chapter": 5, "verse": "23", "text": "against such there is no law."}
{"book": "GAL", "chapter": 5, "verse": "24", "text": "now they who belong to Christ, have crucified the animal nature with the affections and passions thereof."}
{"book": "GAL", "chapter": 5, "verse": "25", "text": "if we live by the spirit, let us regulate our actions by the spirit:"}
{"book": "GAL", "chapter": 5, "verse": "26", "text": "let us not be vain-glorious, provoking one another, envying one another."}
{"book": "GAL", "chapter": 6, "verse": "1", "text": "Brethren, if a man be overtaken in a fault, do you, who are spiritual, restore him with all gentleness, taking heed lest you yourselves be overcome by temptation."}
{"book": "GAL", "chapter": 6, "verse": "2", "text": "bear with one another's infirmities, and so fulfil the law of Christ."}
{"book": "GAL", "chapter": 6, "verse": "3", "text": "for if a man thinks himself to be considerable, when he is not, he deceives himself."}
{"book": "GAL", "chapter": 6, "verse": "4", "text": "but let every one bring his own work to the test, and then he will have matter of glorying in himself alone, and not in another."}
{"book": "GAL", "chapter": 6, "verse": "5", "text": "for every man must be answerable for his own actions."}
{"book": "GAL", "chapter": 6, "verse": "6", "text": "Let him that is instructed in the word freely communicate his good things to him that teaches him."}
{"book": "GAL", "chapter": 6, "verse": "7", "text": "be not deceived, God will not be mocked: for what a man soweth, that shall he also reap:"}
{"book": "GAL", "chapter": 6, "verse": "8", "text": "he that soweth to his vices, shall reap the deadly fruit of his vices; but he that sows to the spirit, shall of the spirit reap everlasting life."}
{"book": "GAL", "chapter": 6, "verse": "9", "text": "let us then not be weary in doing good, for in due season we shall reap, if we be not tired."}
{"book": "GAL", "chapter": 6, "verse": "10", "text": "therefore as we have opportunity, let us do good offices to all men, especially to the family of believers. Final Warnings and Blessings"}
{"book": "GAL", "chapter": 6, "verse": "11", "text": "You see how long a letter I have writ to you with my own hand."}
{"book": "GAL", "chapter": 6, "verse": "12", "text": "they who desire to make a figure in the world, constrain you to be circumcised, only to avoid being persecuted for the cross of Christ."}
{"book": "GAL", "chapter": 6, "verse": "13", "text": "for even they who are circumcised, do not themselves observe the law in other respects; but they dedesire to have you circumcised, that they may have matter of glorying upon that account."}
{"book": "GAL", "chapter": 6, "verse": "14", "text": "but far be it from me that I should glory, save in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, by which the world is as contemptible to me, as I am to the world."}
{"book": "GAL", "chapter": 6, "verse": "15", "text": "for in the dispensation of Jesus Christ, neither circumcision availeth any thing, nor uncircumcision, but the new creation."}
{"book": "GAL", "chapter": 6, "verse": "16", "text": "as many as walk by this rule, peace and mercy be on them, even upon the Israel of God."}
{"book": "GAL", "chapter": 6, "verse": "17", "text": "from henceforth let no man give me trouble; for I bear in my body the marks of the Lord Jesus."}
{"book": "GAL", "chapter": 6, "verse": "18", "text": "Brethren, the favour of our Lord Jesus Christ be with your spirit, amen."}
{"book": "EPH", "chapter": 1, "verse": "1", "text": "Paul an apostle of Jesus Christ, by the divine appointment to the converts which are at Ephesus, who stand firm in the faith of Christ Jesus:"}
{"book": "EPH", "chapter": 1, "verse": "2", "text": "grace be to you, and peace from God our father, and from the Lord Jesus Christ. Spiritual Blessings ( Romans 8:28–34 )"}
{"book": "EPH", "chapter": 1, "verse": "3", "text": "Blessed be the God and father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who hath blessed us with all the spiritual blessings in Christ's kingdom."}
{"book": "EPH", "chapter": 1, "verse": "4", "text": "according as he had chosen us in himself before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy, free from vice, and devoted to virtue."}
{"book": "EPH", "chapter": 1, "verse": "5", "text": "having predetermin'd to adopt us by Jesus Christ to be his children, according to the good pleasure of his own will,"}
{"book": "EPH", "chapter": 1, "verse": "6", "text": "to display the glory of his grace, which has render'd us acceptable by his beloved son:"}
{"book": "EPH", "chapter": 1, "verse": "7", "text": "who has by his blood obtained for us the redemption, even the forgiveness of our sins, according to the riches of his grace,"}
{"book": "EPH", "chapter": 1, "verse": "8", "text": "out of the over-flowing treasures of his comprehensive wisdom and contrivance."}
{"book": "EPH", "chapter": 1, "verse": "9", "text": "for he has discover'd to us the secret of his will, that out of his meer good pleasure, he had purposed in himself,"}
{"book": "EPH", "chapter": 1, "verse": "10", "text": "when the full time of the dispensation was come, to reduce all things both in heaven and on earth, under one head in Christ."}
{"book": "EPH", "chapter": 1, "verse": "11", "text": "It is by him, that we have a share in the inheritance, which was before allotted to us, in consequence of his design, who executes the whole plan, as he himself had contriv'd it:"}
{"book": "EPH", "chapter": 1, "verse": "12", "text": "that we should celebrate his glory, who were the first that plac'd our hopes in Christ."}
{"book": "EPH", "chapter": 1, "verse": "13", "text": "by whom you also have heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation: and having believed in him, ye were mark'd with the seal of the holy spirit, which was promised:"}
{"book": "EPH", "chapter": 1, "verse": "14", "text": "and this is the pledge of our inheritance, being given for the deliverance of his peculiar people, to the display of his glory. Spiritual Wisdom ( 1 Corinthians 2:6–16 )"}
{"book": "EPH", "chapter": 1, "verse": "15", "text": "Wherefore having heard of your faith in the Lord Jesus, and of your love to all christians,"}
{"book": "EPH", "chapter": 1, "verse": "16", "text": "I continually give thanks upon your account, making mention of you in my prayers;"}
{"book": "EPH", "chapter": 1, "verse": "17", "text": "that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the father of glory, may give you the spirit of wisdom and revelation, whereby ye may know him:"}
{"book": "EPH", "chapter": 1, "verse": "18", "text": "an enlightned understanding, that ye may see what great expectations he has called you to, and what abundant glory it is to the saints to be the lot of his inheritance."}
{"book": "EPH", "chapter": 1, "verse": "19", "text": "and how exceedingly great that power is, which he has employ'd upon us who believe, a power corresponding to that energy of his mighty strength;"}
{"book": "EPH", "chapter": 1, "verse": "20", "text": "which he exerted in Christ, when he raised him from the dead, and set him at the head of his heavenly kingdom,"}
{"book": "EPH", "chapter": 1, "verse": "21", "text": "far above all the principalities, all the powers, all the potentates, all the dominations, and whatever order can be named, not only in this age, but also in the age to come:"}
{"book": "EPH", "chapter": 1, "verse": "22", "text": "for he has subjected all things to him, and constituted him supreme head of the church,"}
{"book": "EPH", "chapter": 1, "verse": "23", "text": "which is his body, a work compleatly finished in all its parts."}
{"book": "EPH", "chapter": 2, "verse": "1", "text": "When you were in that destructive state of transgression and sin,"}
{"book": "EPH", "chapter": 2, "verse": "2", "text": "in which you formerly liv'd, influenc'd by the customs of this world, and by the prince of the aerial powers, the spirits that now actuate the incredulous:"}
{"book": "EPH", "chapter": 2, "verse": "3", "text": "of which number we all have formerly been, leading our dissolute lives in gratifying the desires of our sensual imaginations: and were indeed obnoxious to the divine displeasure, as other. Gentiles were:"}
{"book": "EPH", "chapter": 2, "verse": "4", "text": "then it was that God, who is rich in mercy, thro' his great love, wherewith he loved us,"}
{"book": "EPH", "chapter": 2, "verse": "5", "text": "did raise us all, who were in that deadly state of sin, to life by Christ, for by grace ye are saved:"}
{"book": "EPH", "chapter": 2, "verse": "6", "text": "he hath raised us up together, and made us partakers of his heavenly kingdom."}
{"book": "EPH", "chapter": 2, "verse": "7", "text": "that in the ages to come, he might shew the immense riches of his gracious kindness towards us, through Christ Jesus."}
{"book": "EPH", "chapter": 2, "verse": "8", "text": "for by grace are ye saved, thro' faith (and that not from us:"}
{"book": "EPH", "chapter": 2, "verse": "9", "text": "it is the gift of God) but not by works, so that no man can boast:"}
{"book": "EPH", "chapter": 2, "verse": "10", "text": "for he hath made us a-new, and form'd us by Christ Jesus to do good works, for which God had before prepared us, that we might live in them. One in Christ ( Philippians 2:1–4 )"}
{"book": "EPH", "chapter": 2, "verse": "11", "text": "Wherefore remember that you were heretofore Gentiles, being denominated the uncircumcised, by those who are the circumcised by a manual operation;"}
{"book": "EPH", "chapter": 2, "verse": "12", "text": "that at that time ye were without all knowledge of the Messiah, being aliens from the common-wealth of Israel, and strangers to the covenants of promise, having no hope, and living in the world without any true knowledge of God."}
{"book": "EPH", "chapter": 2, "verse": "13", "text": "but now you who were formerly at a distance, are brought near by the death of Christ Jesus."}
{"book": "EPH", "chapter": 2, "verse": "14", "text": "for he is our peace-maker, who hath united both Jew and Gentile, and hath by his flesh broken down the middle wall of partition"}
{"book": "EPH", "chapter": 2, "verse": "15", "text": "(which kept us at variance) by abolishing the dogmatical injunctions of the law, that having made the peace, he might incorporate the two into one new body under himself;"}
{"book": "EPH", "chapter": 2, "verse": "16", "text": "that he might reconcile both in one body unto God by the cross, wherefore he destroyed the enmity that was between them:"}
{"book": "EPH", "chapter": 2, "verse": "17", "text": "and being come, he preached the glad tidings of peace to YOU who were afar off, and to US that were nigh."}
{"book": "EPH", "chapter": 2, "verse": "18", "text": "for thro' him both of us have access by the same spirit to the father. Christ Our Cornerstone ( 1 Corinthians 3:10–15 ; 1 Peter 2:1–8 )"}
{"book": "EPH", "chapter": 2, "verse": "19", "text": "Therefore now, you are no more strangers and foreigners, but fellow-citizens with the saints, and domesticks of God's family,"}
{"book": "EPH", "chapter": 2, "verse": "20", "text": "being built upon the foundation laid by the apostles and prophets, whereof Jesus Christ himself is the main stone of the angle:"}
{"book": "EPH", "chapter": 2, "verse": "21", "text": "on which the whole structure rises with symmetry into a temple, consecrated by the Lord:"}
{"book": "EPH", "chapter": 2, "verse": "22", "text": "who by his spirit has likewise made you a part of this divine mansion."}
{"book": "EPH", "chapter": 3, "verse": "1", "text": "This it is that makes me Paul a prisoner for Jesus Christ upon your account, O Gentiles;"}
{"book": "EPH", "chapter": 3, "verse": "2", "text": "if so be you have heard of the charge, which God has graciously dispens'd to me for you Gentiles;"}
{"book": "EPH", "chapter": 3, "verse": "3", "text": "having revealed to me the secret, I now mention'd in short,"}
{"book": "EPH", "chapter": 3, "verse": "4", "text": "by the reading whereof you may perceive how far I am let into the secret of Christ."}
{"book": "EPH", "chapter": 3, "verse": "5", "text": "which preceeding was not discover'd to men, as now it is to his holy apostles and prophets by the spirit; to wit,"}
{"book": "EPH", "chapter": 3, "verse": "6", "text": "\"that the Gentiles should be heirs as well as the Jews, make one body together, and partake of the divine promise in Christ by the gospel.\""}
{"book": "EPH", "chapter": 3, "verse": "7", "text": "of this I was made a minister, according to the gracious gift God bestowed on me, by the effectual operation of his influence:"}
{"book": "EPH", "chapter": 3, "verse": "8", "text": "upon me, who am the meanest of all christians, is this favour bestowed, that I should proclaim to the Gentiles the undiscoverable advantages by Christ;"}
{"book": "EPH", "chapter": 3, "verse": "9", "text": "and display to all the world that mysterious dispensation, which from all past ages has been conceal'd in the secret purpose of God, who created all things:"}
{"book": "EPH", "chapter": 3, "verse": "10", "text": "that the manifold wisdom of God, in ordering his heavenly kingdom, might by his church be now made known, to princes and magistrates,"}
{"book": "EPH", "chapter": 3, "verse": "11", "text": "in pursuance of that dispensation which he made to former ages by Christ Jesus our Lord:"}
{"book": "EPH", "chapter": 3, "verse": "12", "text": "by whom we have freedom of access to God, with confidence, by faith in him."}
{"book": "EPH", "chapter": 3, "verse": "13", "text": "Wherefore I desire that you be not dejected at the tribulations I am under for your sake, which are matter of glory to you. Paul’s Prayer for the Ephesians"}
{"book": "EPH", "chapter": 3, "verse": "14", "text": "for this cause I bow my knees unto the father of our Lord Jesus Christ,"}
{"book": "EPH", "chapter": 3, "verse": "15", "text": "from whom the whole family in heaven and earth are denominated his children:"}
{"book": "EPH", "chapter": 3, "verse": "16", "text": "that by his immense power he would strengthen the faculties of your minds by his spirit:"}
{"book": "EPH", "chapter": 3, "verse": "17", "text": "so that your souls may be possess'd with faith in Christ."}
{"book": "EPH", "chapter": 3, "verse": "18", "text": "Be ye rooted and grounded in social virtue, that you may be able to comprehend with all saints, what is the breadth, and length, and depth, and height of this mystery:"}
{"book": "EPH", "chapter": 3, "verse": "19", "text": "and be sensible of his exceeding love, in giving you the knowledge of Christ, that you may be filled with all the supplies of divine bounty."}
{"book": "EPH", "chapter": 3, "verse": "20", "text": "Now unto him that is able to do infinitely above what we ask or comprehend, by his power operating in us,"}
{"book": "EPH", "chapter": 3, "verse": "21", "text": "unto him be glory in the church, even by Christ Jesus, thro' all the successions of future ages, amen."}
{"book": "EPH", "chapter": 4, "verse": "1", "text": "I therefore the prisoner for the Lord, beseech you to live suitably to the offers that have been made to you:"}
{"book": "EPH", "chapter": 4, "verse": "2", "text": "with all humility, meekness, and patience, bearing with one another in love;"}
{"book": "EPH", "chapter": 4, "verse": "3", "text": "endeavouring to preserve the spiritual union by your affectionate attachment to one another."}
{"book": "EPH", "chapter": 4, "verse": "4", "text": "Being one body, acted by one spirit, since you all have but one expectation in view;"}
{"book": "EPH", "chapter": 4, "verse": "5", "text": "there is but one Lord, one faith, one baptism,"}
{"book": "EPH", "chapter": 4, "verse": "6", "text": "one God and father of all, who is above all, and through all, and in all."}
{"book": "EPH", "chapter": 4, "verse": "7", "text": "but to every one of us a different charge is given, according to the distribution which Christ has made;"}
{"book": "EPH", "chapter": 4, "verse": "8", "text": "wherefore 'tis said, \" when he ascended up on high, he made a number of captives, and gave gifts to men.\""}
{"book": "EPH", "chapter": 4, "verse": "9", "text": "now his having ascended, what does it mean, but that he had descended into the lower parts of the earth?"}
{"book": "EPH", "chapter": 4, "verse": "10", "text": "he that descended, is the same too that ascended far above all heavens, to perfect all things."}
{"book": "EPH", "chapter": 4, "verse": "11", "text": "It is he then that made some, apostles: some, prophets: some, evangelists: and others, pastors, and teachers:"}
{"book": "EPH", "chapter": 4, "verse": "12", "text": "thus fitly qualifying his servants for their respective offices, in order to build up the body of Christ:"}
{"book": "EPH", "chapter": 4, "verse": "13", "text": "till being united in a perfect belief, and acknowledgment of the son of God, we grow up to that full state of maturity required by Christ:"}
{"book": "EPH", "chapter": 4, "verse": "14", "text": "that we should be no longer children, fluctuating, and carried about with every empty doctrine, by men vers'd in sleight and the crafty arts of deceit:"}
{"book": "EPH", "chapter": 4, "verse": "15", "text": "but being sincere in mutual love, may be entirely united to Christ, who is the head:"}
{"book": "EPH", "chapter": 4, "verse": "16", "text": "from which the whole body fitly framed, and compacted by the entire adherence and contribution of every part performing its respective function, increases and improves itself by the mutual concern of the parts. New Life in Christ ( Colossians 3:1–17 )"}
{"book": "EPH", "chapter": 4, "verse": "17", "text": "This I say therefore, and conjure you by the Lord not to live for the future as other Gentiles do, in the vanity of their minds,"}
{"book": "EPH", "chapter": 4, "verse": "18", "text": "which are overspread with darkness, and averse to a religious life, thro' their innate ignorance and obduracy:"}
{"book": "EPH", "chapter": 4, "verse": "19", "text": "who without remorse, have abandon'd themselves to brutality, in gratifying every lewd unnatural passion."}
{"book": "EPH", "chapter": 4, "verse": "20", "text": "but you have learned other things from Christ,"}
{"book": "EPH", "chapter": 4, "verse": "21", "text": "if you have heard of him, and have been taught the truth as he preach'd it:"}
{"book": "EPH", "chapter": 4, "verse": "22", "text": "to quit the vicious habits of your former conversation, corrupted by deceitful passions:"}
{"book": "EPH", "chapter": 4, "verse": "23", "text": "and to be renewed in your mind, by living like men formed anew,"}
{"book": "EPH", "chapter": 4, "verse": "24", "text": "after the image of God, in justice, sanctity, and truth."}
{"book": "EPH", "chapter": 4, "verse": "25", "text": "Wherefore leave off the practice of lying, and let every man speak truth to his neighbour: for we are all members of one society."}
{"book": "EPH", "chapter": 4, "verse": "26", "text": "are you angry? have a care you don't sin. \"let not the sun go down upon your wrath,\""}
{"book": "EPH", "chapter": 4, "verse": "27", "text": "lest the devil take hold of the opportunity."}
{"book": "EPH", "chapter": 4, "verse": "28", "text": "let him that stole, steal no more: but rather let him labour, to encrease his fortune with his own hands, that he may have wherewithal to relieve the needy:"}
{"book": "EPH", "chapter": 4, "verse": "29", "text": "let no obscene language defile your mouth, use only such as tends to edification, that it may be beneficial to the hearers."}
{"book": "EPH", "chapter": 4, "verse": "30", "text": "grieve not the holy spirit of God, by whom you are sealed against the day of deliverance:"}
{"book": "EPH", "chapter": 4, "verse": "31", "text": "banish all resentment and indignation, anger, vehemence, detraction, and every thing like malice."}
{"book": "EPH", "chapter": 4, "verse": "32", "text": "be mutually kind, tender-hearted, forgiving one another, even as God for Christ's sake hath forgiven you."}
{"book": "EPH", "chapter": 5, "verse": "1", "text": "Be ye therefore imitators of God, as his dear children; live together in love,"}
{"book": "EPH", "chapter": 5, "verse": "2", "text": "for Christ loved us, and for us gave himself an offering and a sacrifice acceptable to God."}
{"book": "EPH", "chapter": 5, "verse": "3", "text": "But fornication, and all impurity, or inordinate desire, let it not be approved by you, as being unworthy of christians: neither ribaldry,"}
{"book": "EPH", "chapter": 5, "verse": "4", "text": "nor buffoonry, which they call pleasantry, but is indecent: be you rather exercised in social virtue."}
{"book": "EPH", "chapter": 5, "verse": "5", "text": "for this you know, that no licentious or dissolute person, no lewd libertine, that is, an idolater, hath any part in the kingdom of Christ, and of God."}
{"book": "EPH", "chapter": 5, "verse": "6", "text": "let no man mislead you by vain reasonings: for it is for these vices, that the wrath of God lights upon the incredulous."}
{"book": "EPH", "chapter": 5, "verse": "7", "text": "don't you therefore be concern'd with them. Children of Light"}
{"book": "EPH", "chapter": 5, "verse": "8", "text": "you were heretofore altogether in the dark, but now being enlightned by the Lord, behave as children of light:"}
{"book": "EPH", "chapter": 5, "verse": "9", "text": "for the natural effect of light, is universal benevolence, justice, and truth:"}
{"book": "EPH", "chapter": 5, "verse": "10", "text": "consider what is acceptable to the Lord;"}
{"book": "EPH", "chapter": 5, "verse": "11", "text": "and be not accomplices in the fruitless practices of vice; on the contrary, condemn them."}
{"book": "EPH", "chapter": 5, "verse": "12", "text": "for it is a shame even to mention what they practise in secret."}
{"book": "EPH", "chapter": 5, "verse": "13", "text": "but whatever is unjustifiable will be brought to light: and that will show them to be unjustifiable."}
{"book": "EPH", "chapter": 5, "verse": "14", "text": "wherefore 'tis said, \" awake thou that sleepest, arise from the dead, and Christ shall give thee light.\""}
{"book": "EPH", "chapter": 5, "verse": "15", "text": "See then that you behave circumspectly, and not as fools, but as wise,"}
{"book": "EPH", "chapter": 5, "verse": "16", "text": "weighing the circumstances of the season, because the times are dangerous."}
{"book": "EPH", "chapter": 5, "verse": "17", "text": "wherefore be not imprudent, but consider what is agreeable to the divine will."}
{"book": "EPH", "chapter": 5, "verse": "18", "text": "do not drink to excess, for that tends to dissoluteness, but be regal'd with spiritual entertainments:"}
{"book": "EPH", "chapter": 5, "verse": "19", "text": "expressing yourselves in psalms, in hymns, and spiritual songs; and let your hearts beat the time, in concerts of praises to the Lord,"}
{"book": "EPH", "chapter": 5, "verse": "20", "text": "and this the burthen of the song, \"thanks be to God, even the father, for his son Jesus Christ our Lord.\" Wives and Husbands ( 1 Peter 3:1–7 )"}
{"book": "EPH", "chapter": 5, "verse": "21", "text": "Be mutually obsequious with christian respect."}
{"book": "EPH", "chapter": 5, "verse": "22", "text": "let married women be submissive to their husbands, out of regard to the Lord."}
{"book": "EPH", "chapter": 5, "verse": "23", "text": "for the husband presides over his wife, as Christ presides over the church: and he it is that preserves the whole body."}
{"book": "EPH", "chapter": 5, "verse": "24", "text": "as the church then is subordinate to Christ, so let women be to their husbands upon all occasions."}
{"book": "EPH", "chapter": 5, "verse": "25", "text": "You husband, love your spouse, even as Christ loved the church, and laid down his life for her:"}
{"book": "EPH", "chapter": 5, "verse": "26", "text": "to sanctify and purify her by the ablution of his word,"}
{"book": "EPH", "chapter": 5, "verse": "27", "text": "that he himself might make her appear illustrious to his own eye, a church without spot, or any thing like a defect; so as to be holy and irreprehensible."}
{"book": "EPH", "chapter": 5, "verse": "28", "text": "in like manner ought men to love their wives, as their own bodies: \"he that loves his wife, loveth himself.\""}
{"book": "EPH", "chapter": 5, "verse": "29", "text": "no man was ever yet averse to his own flesh; but nourisheth and cherisheth it, as the Lord doth the church:"}
{"book": "EPH", "chapter": 5, "verse": "30", "text": "of which we are the several parts constituting his body."}
{"book": "EPH", "chapter": 5, "verse": "31", "text": "the scripture says, \"for this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall be united to his wife, and they two shall be as one.\""}
{"book": "EPH", "chapter": 5, "verse": "32", "text": "these words contain a very mystical sense, I mean in reference to Christ and the church."}
{"book": "EPH", "chapter": 5, "verse": "33", "text": "wherefore let every one of you without exception, love his wife even as himself; and let the wife respect her husband."}
{"book": "EPH", "chapter": 6, "verse": "1", "text": "Children, obey your christian parents: for this is the law."}
{"book": "EPH", "chapter": 6, "verse": "2", "text": "the first commandment with a promise annexed, is, \"honour thy father and mother,"}
{"book": "EPH", "chapter": 6, "verse": "3", "text": "that it may be well with thee, and thou mayst be long-lived on the earth.\""}
{"book": "EPH", "chapter": 6, "verse": "4", "text": "and you fathers don't exasperate your children: but instruct them in the discipline and institution of the Lord. Serving with Honor ( Colossians 3:22–25 ; 1 Timothy 6:1–2 )"}
{"book": "EPH", "chapter": 6, "verse": "5", "text": "Servants, be obedient to your legal masters, with awful reverence and sincerity of heart, as unto Christ:"}
{"book": "EPH", "chapter": 6, "verse": "6", "text": "not doing your work meerly out of regard to their presence or their pleasure, but as the servants of Christ, in hearty obedience to the will of God:"}
{"book": "EPH", "chapter": 6, "verse": "7", "text": "serve them with affection, as if it was to the Lord,"}
{"book": "EPH", "chapter": 6, "verse": "8", "text": "and not to men: considering that whatever good any man doth, he shall be rewarded for it by the Lord, whether he be a slave or free."}
{"book": "EPH", "chapter": 6, "verse": "9", "text": "and you masters have a just regard to them, by softning your authority: knowing that both their and your master is in heaven, where there is no respect of persons with him. The Full Armor of God"}
{"book": "EPH", "chapter": 6, "verse": "10", "text": "Finally, my brethren, place your strength in the transcendent power of the Lord."}
{"book": "EPH", "chapter": 6, "verse": "11", "text": "put on the set of divine armour, that ye may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil."}
{"book": "EPH", "chapter": 6, "verse": "12", "text": "for our conflict is not barely with men, but with principalities, with potentates, with the princes of darkness, with wicked aereal spirits."}
{"book": "EPH", "chapter": 6, "verse": "13", "text": "wherefore invest yourselves with the set of divine armour, that ye may be able to withstand in the difficult day, and having overcome all to maintain your ground."}
{"book": "EPH", "chapter": 6, "verse": "14", "text": "stand firm, the belt of truth round your waist, let justice invest you like mail:"}
{"book": "EPH", "chapter": 6, "verse": "15", "text": "wing your feet with the gospel of peace:"}
{"book": "EPH", "chapter": 6, "verse": "16", "text": "cover all with the shield of faith, to repel all the fiery darts of the adversary:"}
{"book": "EPH", "chapter": 6, "verse": "17", "text": "let salvation be your helmet, and the divine doctrine your spiritual sword."}
{"book": "EPH", "chapter": 6, "verse": "18", "text": "Pour out your souls unto God upon all occasions, watching in prayer with all perseverance and supplication for all christians:"}
{"book": "EPH", "chapter": 6, "verse": "19", "text": "in particular for me, that I may have leave to speak without any restraint, and make known the mystery of the gospel,"}
{"book": "EPH", "chapter": 6, "verse": "20", "text": "for which I am an embassador, tho' in chains: that I may duely represent it to the full. Final Greetings ( Philippians 4:21–23 ; 2 Timothy 4:19–22 )"}
{"book": "EPH", "chapter": 6, "verse": "21", "text": "As to the state of my affairs, and health, Tychicus our dear brother, and faithful minister in the Lord, will very particularly acquaint you with them."}
{"book": "EPH", "chapter": 6, "verse": "22", "text": "I have sent him to you on purpose to acquaint you with our concerns, and to comfort your hearts."}
{"book": "EPH", "chapter": 6, "verse": "23", "text": "may our brethren have peace, social affection, and faith from God the father, and the Lord Jesus Christ."}
{"book": "EPH", "chapter": 6, "verse": "24", "text": "grace be with all those that have love uncorrupted for our Lord Jesus Christ, amen."}
{"book": "PHP", "chapter": 1, "verse": "1", "text": "the servants of Jesus Christ, to all the christians that are at Philippi, to the bishops, and to the deacons."}
{"book": "PHP", "chapter": 1, "verse": "2", "text": "Grace and peace be with you from God our father, and from the Lord Jesus Christ. Thanksgiving and Prayer ( 1 Corinthians 1:4–9 ; Colossians 1:3–14 )"}
{"book": "PHP", "chapter": 1, "verse": "3", "text": "I thank God, for your remembrance of me,"}
{"book": "PHP", "chapter": 1, "verse": "4", "text": "and I never pray without praying for you all with joy, for your liberality to the gospel,"}
{"book": "PHP", "chapter": 1, "verse": "5", "text": "from the first day to the present time, being persuaded that"}
{"book": "PHP", "chapter": 1, "verse": "6", "text": "he who has begun this good work in you will bring it to perfection against the appearance of Christ, it is but just"}
{"book": "PHP", "chapter": 1, "verse": "7", "text": "I should have this opinion of you, being sensible you make the dispensation I am under a common concern, with respect to my confinement, and the defence and confirmation of the gospel."}
{"book": "PHP", "chapter": 1, "verse": "8", "text": "for God is my witness, that I love you with a christian tenderness."}
{"book": "PHP", "chapter": 1, "verse": "9", "text": "and the favour I ask of him is this, that your kindness to me may be crown'd with farther improvements in knowledge and all prudence;"}
{"book": "PHP", "chapter": 1, "verse": "10", "text": "that being capable to distinguish what is best, you may remain stedfastly sincere until the day of Christ,"}
{"book": "PHP", "chapter": 1, "verse": "11", "text": "abounding in good works by Jesus Christ, to the glory and praise of God. Paul’s Trials Advance the Gospel ( James 1:2–12 )"}
{"book": "PHP", "chapter": 1, "verse": "12", "text": "Now I would have you know, my brethren, that what has happen'd to me, has only conduc'd to the progress of the gospel;"}
{"book": "PHP", "chapter": 1, "verse": "13", "text": "so that the whole court and publick are well appriz'd that I am a prisoner upon the account of Jesus Christ."}
{"book": "PHP", "chapter": 1, "verse": "14", "text": "even many of our brethren, encourag'd by my bonds, preach the word with greater freedom and intrepidity."}
{"book": "PHP", "chapter": 1, "verse": "15", "text": "it is true, there are some who preach Christ out of a spirit of envy and contention; but others do it out of pure affection."}
{"book": "PHP", "chapter": 1, "verse": "16", "text": "those preach the gospel of Christ, not in sincerity, but from a principle of contention, with a view to inflame the persecution against me:"}
{"book": "PHP", "chapter": 1, "verse": "17", "text": "the others act from affection, as knowing that I suffer for having defended the gospel."}
{"book": "PHP", "chapter": 1, "verse": "18", "text": "is it not however some advantage? since in either way, whether it be occasionally, or professedly, Christ is preach'd; which is now, and always will be matter of joy to me."}
{"book": "PHP", "chapter": 1, "verse": "19", "text": "for I know that this shall turn to my deliverance, thro' your prayers, by the spirit, which Jesus Christ will supply me with,"}
{"book": "PHP", "chapter": 1, "verse": "20", "text": "agreeably to that expectation and persuasion I have, that I shall not labour in vain; but as I always have, so I shall still glorify Christ in my body, whether it be by life or by death: for if I live, I live to Christ; To Live Is Christ"}
{"book": "PHP", "chapter": 1, "verse": "21", "text": "and if I die, I gain."}
{"book": "PHP", "chapter": 1, "verse": "22", "text": "whether it be an advantage to me or not still to lead this mortal life, what to chuse I cannot tell."}
{"book": "PHP", "chapter": 1, "verse": "23", "text": "I am doubly press'd between my desire to depart, in order to be with Christ, which is by far the best for ME;"}
{"book": "PHP", "chapter": 1, "verse": "24", "text": "and my inclination to abide in this life, as being more advantageous for YOU:"}
{"book": "PHP", "chapter": 1, "verse": "25", "text": "which consideration persuades me that I shall abide, and even continue some time with you all, to improve your advancement in the faith, and to promote your joy:"}
{"book": "PHP", "chapter": 1, "verse": "26", "text": "that by my being present with you again, I may be the occasion of heightning your christian joy. Worthy of the Gospel"}
{"book": "PHP", "chapter": 1, "verse": "27", "text": "only conduct yourselves in a manner becoming the gospel of Christ, that whether I come to see you, or else am absent, I may have this account of you, that you are stedfastly of the same resolution, and unanimously contend for the faith of the gospel,"}
{"book": "PHP", "chapter": 1, "verse": "28", "text": "without being under any the least apprehension from your adversaries: this will be to them a sign of their ruin, and to you of salvation, by the divine appointment."}
{"book": "PHP", "chapter": 1, "verse": "29", "text": "for it is a favour bestowed upon you, that you not only believe on Christ, but suffer also for his sake,"}
{"book": "PHP", "chapter": 1, "verse": "30", "text": "being engag'd in the same conflict, in which you saw I was formerly, and hear that I am at present engag'd."}
{"book": "PHP", "chapter": 2, "verse": "1", "text": "If then there be any christian consolation, any charitable relief, any communion of the spirit, if any tenderness of compassion,"}
{"book": "PHP", "chapter": 2, "verse": "2", "text": "compleat my joy, by pursuing the same view, living in mutual love, by being unanimous, and cultivating that harmony."}
{"book": "PHP", "chapter": 2, "verse": "3", "text": "Do nothing out of a spirit of contention, or for vain-glory, but modestly look upon others as if they were better than yourselves."}
{"book": "PHP", "chapter": 2, "verse": "4", "text": "let no man consult only his private interest, but let every man consult likewise the interest of others. The Mind of Christ"}
{"book": "PHP", "chapter": 2, "verse": "5", "text": "for the same temper of mind ought to be in you as was in Christ Jesus:"}
{"book": "PHP", "chapter": 2, "verse": "6", "text": "who tho' he was the image of God, did not affect to appear with divine majesty, but divested himself thereof,"}
{"book": "PHP", "chapter": 2, "verse": "7", "text": "by assuming the form of a servant: being made in the likeness of men,"}
{"book": "PHP", "chapter": 2, "verse": "8", "text": "and his whole exterior showing nothing more than a meer man, he abased himself, and carried his submission so far as to die, even the death of the cross."}
{"book": "PHP", "chapter": 2, "verse": "9", "text": "wherefore God has highly exalted and given him a name, which is above every name;"}
{"book": "PHP", "chapter": 2, "verse": "10", "text": "that at the name of Jesus both angels and men, the living and the dead, should pay their adorations,"}
{"book": "PHP", "chapter": 2, "verse": "11", "text": "and that every nation should confess that Jesus Christ is the Lord, to the glory of God the father. Lights in the World ( Matthew 5:13–16 )"}
{"book": "PHP", "chapter": 2, "verse": "12", "text": "Wherefore, my beloved, as you have always obey'd the gospel, not only when I was with you, but much more now while I am absent, continue the work of your own salvation, whatever persecutions you apprehend:"}
{"book": "PHP", "chapter": 2, "verse": "13", "text": "for it is God that influences your desires and endeavours, out of his benevolence to you."}
{"book": "PHP", "chapter": 2, "verse": "14", "text": "do every thing without murmuring and disputes:"}
{"book": "PHP", "chapter": 2, "verse": "15", "text": "that you may be without reproach, the inoffensive spotless children of God in the midst of a depraved and perverse generation (among whom you should shine as stars in the world,"}
{"book": "PHP", "chapter": 2, "verse": "16", "text": "you, who display the doctrine of eternal life) that in the day of Christ I may have the satisfaction of not having pursued my laborious course in vain."}
{"book": "PHP", "chapter": 2, "verse": "17", "text": "and if my blood should serve as a libation to ratify your faith, I should rejoice and congratulate with you all thereupon;"}
{"book": "PHP", "chapter": 2, "verse": "18", "text": "and you too should be glad and congratulate me upon that account. Timothy and Epaphroditus ( 1 Corinthians 16:10–12 )"}
{"book": "PHP", "chapter": 2, "verse": "19", "text": "However, I hope by the favour of the Lord Jesus to send Timothy to you very soon, that I may have some encouragement by knowing the state of your affairs:"}
{"book": "PHP", "chapter": 2, "verse": "20", "text": "for there is no one that is so dear to me as he, and no one will more sincerely interest himself in your concerns."}
{"book": "PHP", "chapter": 2, "verse": "21", "text": "the most consult their private advantage, and neglect the dispensation of Jesus Christ."}
{"book": "PHP", "chapter": 2, "verse": "22", "text": "you know he has stood the test, and has serv'd with me in the gospel, as a son serves with his father."}
{"book": "PHP", "chapter": 2, "verse": "23", "text": "I hope therefore to send him to you as soon as I find what turn my affairs shall take:"}
{"book": "PHP", "chapter": 2, "verse": "24", "text": "nay, I trust in the Lord, that I myself too shall visit you very soon."}
{"book": "PHP", "chapter": 2, "verse": "25", "text": "however I thought it necessary to send you Epaphroditus my brother, my collegue in the ministry, and my fellow-soldier, whom you had sent to supply my wants:"}
{"book": "PHP", "chapter": 2, "verse": "26", "text": "for he long'd to see you all, and was greatly concern'd, that you should hear he was sick, and indeed he was sick almost unto death:"}
{"book": "PHP", "chapter": 2, "verse": "27", "text": "but God had pity on him, and not on him only, but on me likewise, lest I should have sorrow upon sorrow."}
{"book": "PHP", "chapter": 2, "verse": "28", "text": "I sent him therefore with the greater dispatch, that I might have the less disquietude, by the satisfaction you will find in seeing him again."}
{"book": "PHP", "chapter": 2, "verse": "29", "text": "receive him then in the Lord with all alacrity, and let such be the objects of your esteem:"}
{"book": "PHP", "chapter": 2, "verse": "30", "text": "for he was upon the brink of death for the service of Christ, having expos'd his life to the greatest dangers, to perform those kind offices, which you could not do yourselves."}
{"book": "PHP", "chapter": 3, "verse": "1", "text": "Finally, my brethren, rejoice in the Lord, it is not uneasy to me to write what I have already said, and it is an advantage to you."}
{"book": "PHP", "chapter": 3, "verse": "2", "text": "be upon your guard against snarlers, against the contrivances of the crafty, against the spurious breed;"}
{"book": "PHP", "chapter": 3, "verse": "3", "text": "for we are the genuine sons of Abraham, who worship God in the spiritual manner, and value no other dependance than that on Jesus Christ, without confiding in any external advantages:"}
{"book": "PHP", "chapter": 3, "verse": "4", "text": "which I might do more justly than any other man can pretend to:"}
{"book": "PHP", "chapter": 3, "verse": "5", "text": "being circumcised the eighth day, of the family of Israel, of the tribe of Benjamin, an Hebrew by descent, by sect a Pharisee."}
{"book": "PHP", "chapter": 3, "verse": "6", "text": "if zeal is to be regarded, I persecuted the church; if the integrity prescrib'd by the law, I am without reproach;"}
{"book": "PHP", "chapter": 3, "verse": "7", "text": "these advantages I renounce for Christ,"}
{"book": "PHP", "chapter": 3, "verse": "8", "text": "nay I think them disadvantages when put in competition with the excellency of the knowledge of Jesus Christ my Lord: for whose sake I abandon all these things, and count them as straw, that I may gain Christ,"}
{"book": "PHP", "chapter": 3, "verse": "9", "text": "and be his true disciple, not professing that justification, which is derived from the law, but that which is from the gospel,"}
{"book": "PHP", "chapter": 3, "verse": "10", "text": "the justification which God grants to those who acknowledge Christ and the power of his resurrection, who suffer after his example, and die to sin, as he died to the world,"}
{"book": "PHP", "chapter": 3, "verse": "11", "text": "in order to obtain the resurrection of the just. Pressing on toward the Goal"}
{"book": "PHP", "chapter": 3, "verse": "12", "text": "for I am not yet secure of the prize, I have not yet finish'd my course: but I press to obtain the reward, which Jesus Christ invited me to."}
{"book": "PHP", "chapter": 3, "verse": "13", "text": "I don't imagine, my brethren, that I am arriv'd at the goal; but this I do, unmindful of what is pass'd, I stretch towards that which is in view,"}
{"book": "PHP", "chapter": 3, "verse": "14", "text": "I press towards the mark for the prize to which God has called me from above by Jesus Christ."}
{"book": "PHP", "chapter": 3, "verse": "15", "text": "Let us therefore, who have been instructed, have this in view: and if you are sollicitous about any thing else, God will reveal even that unto you."}
{"book": "PHP", "chapter": 3, "verse": "16", "text": "in the mean while, as we are already advanc'd so far, pursue your course, and keep it still in view: Citizenship in Heaven"}
{"book": "PHP", "chapter": 3, "verse": "17", "text": "tread in my steps, my brethren, and fix your eyes upon those who follow the example I give you."}
{"book": "PHP", "chapter": 3, "verse": "18", "text": "for there are many that wander about, of whom I have frequently told you, and now repeat it with tears, that they are enemies to the cross of Christ:"}
{"book": "PHP", "chapter": 3, "verse": "19", "text": "who in the, end will be ruin'd, who place their religion in sensuality, their glory in that which is their shame, and fix their thoughts upon this earth."}
{"book": "PHP", "chapter": 3, "verse": "20", "text": "but we are the denisons of heaven, from whence we expect the saviour Jesus Christ our Lord."}
{"book": "PHP", "chapter": 3, "verse": "21", "text": "it is he, that will change our vile body into a like form with his glorious body, by displaying that power which is able to subdue all things unto himself."}
{"book": "PHP", "chapter": 4, "verse": "1", "text": "Wherefore, my dearly beloved brethren, my joy and my crown, whom I long to see, continue firm in your christian profession, my beloved."}
{"book": "PHP", "chapter": 4, "verse": "2", "text": "I conjure Euodias, and I conjure Syntyche to be perfectly united in the Lord."}
{"book": "PHP", "chapter": 4, "verse": "3", "text": "yea, I intreat thee too, my faithful collegue, to assist them both, for they assisted me in the gospel, as well as Clement, and my other collegues, whose names are in the book of life."}
{"book": "PHP", "chapter": 4, "verse": "4", "text": "Rejoice in the Lord alway: I say it again, rejoice."}
{"book": "PHP", "chapter": 4, "verse": "5", "text": "let your meekness be known unto all men."}
{"book": "PHP", "chapter": 4, "verse": "6", "text": "the Lord is coming: be not in any manner of sollicitude, but in all your occasions lay your requests before God by prayer and supplication accompany'd by thanksgiving."}
{"book": "PHP", "chapter": 4, "verse": "7", "text": "and the favour of God, which surpasses all comprehension, shall keep your hearts and mind attach'd to Jesus Christ."}
{"book": "PHP", "chapter": 4, "verse": "8", "text": "Finally, my brethren, whatever has the character of truth, of dignity, of justice, of chastity, whatever can procure you esteem and reputation, in a word, if there be any thing virtuous or praise-worthy, let that be the object of your enquiry."}
{"book": "PHP", "chapter": 4, "verse": "9", "text": "practise what I have taught, what you have learnt of me, what you have heard me preach, and seen me practise, this do, and the God of peace will then be with you. The Generosity of the Philippians ( 2 Corinthians 8:1–15 )"}
{"book": "PHP", "chapter": 4, "verse": "10", "text": "Now I joyfully thank the Lord, that your concern for me has at length reviv'd, not that you wanted the disposition, but only the opportunity."}
{"book": "PHP", "chapter": 4, "verse": "11", "text": "it is not my indigence that makes me say this: for I have learn'd, in whatevever state I am, therewith to be content: I know how to be in want,"}
{"book": "PHP", "chapter": 4, "verse": "12", "text": "I know how to abound: every where, and in every circumstance, I have been prepar'd for fulness or famine, for plenty or penury:"}
{"book": "PHP", "chapter": 4, "verse": "13", "text": "to these things I am equal, thro' Christ who strengthens me."}
{"book": "PHP", "chapter": 4, "verse": "14", "text": "however, you acted generously in assisting me in my necessity:"}
{"book": "PHP", "chapter": 4, "verse": "15", "text": "and you yourselves know, O Philippians, that when I first preach'd the gospel, at my departure from Macedonia, I receiv'd no manner of assistance from any other church but yours;"}
{"book": "PHP", "chapter": 4, "verse": "16", "text": "for you sent more than once to Thessalonica to supply my occasions."}
{"book": "PHP", "chapter": 4, "verse": "17", "text": "not that I desire a present; but what I desire is, that the fruits of your liberality may greatly redound to your own account."}
{"book": "PHP", "chapter": 4, "verse": "18", "text": "I have now receiv'd the whole, and have more than sufficient: I am loaded with the presents you sent by Epaphroditus, which I have receiv'd as grateful incense, as a sacrifice which God accepts and approves."}
{"book": "PHP", "chapter": 4, "verse": "19", "text": "for which may my God crown all your desires with glory by Christ Jesus."}
{"book": "PHP", "chapter": 4, "verse": "20", "text": "to God our father be glory for ever, amen. Final Greetings ( Ephesians 6:21–24 ; 2 Timothy 4:19–22 )"}
{"book": "PHP", "chapter": 4, "verse": "21", "text": "Salute all the christian converts, the brethren who are with me salute you."}
{"book": "PHP", "chapter": 4, "verse": "22", "text": "all the converts here salute you, particularly those of Cesar's houshold."}
{"book": "PHP", "chapter": 4, "verse": "23", "text": "The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with your spirit. AMEN."}
{"book": "COL", "chapter": 1, "verse": "1", "text": "Paul an apostle of Jesus Christ by the divine appointment, and Timothy our brother,"}
{"book": "COL", "chapter": 1, "verse": "2", "text": "to our faithful brethren the christian converts at Coloss, favour and peace be to you from God our father, and from the Lord Jesus Christ. Thanksgiving and Prayer ( 1 Corinthians 1:4–9 ; Philippians 1:3–11 )"}
{"book": "COL", "chapter": 1, "verse": "3", "text": "In our prayers we continually give thanks to the God and father of our Lord Jesus Christ upon your account,"}
{"book": "COL", "chapter": 1, "verse": "4", "text": "having heard of your faith in Christ Jesus, and of the affection you have to all christians;"}
{"book": "COL", "chapter": 1, "verse": "5", "text": "for the sake of that happiness, which you hope for, and is reserv'd for you in heaven, of which you have already been inform'd by the preaching of the truth, that is, the gospel:"}
{"book": "COL", "chapter": 1, "verse": "6", "text": "which is not only come to you, but to all the world; where it produces its effects, and increases, as it does also among you, ever since you sincerely embrac'd the divine favour,"}
{"book": "COL", "chapter": 1, "verse": "7", "text": "which you heard was offer'd to you, by the instructions of Epaphras, our dear fellow-servant, who is to you a faithful minister of Christ:"}
{"book": "COL", "chapter": 1, "verse": "8", "text": "who also declared to us the love you bear to us upon a spiritual account."}
{"book": "COL", "chapter": 1, "verse": "9", "text": "For this cause, ever since we heard of it, we incessantly pray for you, requesting that you may be endued with respect to the knowledge of his will, with all wisdom and spiritual discernment:"}
{"book": "COL", "chapter": 1, "verse": "10", "text": "that your conduct may be worthy of the Lord, in every respect agreeable to him, being friutful in every kind of virtue, and increasing in divine knowledge:"}
{"book": "COL", "chapter": 1, "verse": "11", "text": "being fortified in so effectual a manner, as to sustain your trials with constancy and joy:"}
{"book": "COL", "chapter": 1, "verse": "12", "text": "giving thanks to the father, who has qualified you to share in that light he affords to his people:"}
{"book": "COL", "chapter": 1, "verse": "13", "text": "who has deliver'd you from the state of darkness, and has translated you into the kingdom of his beloved son."}
{"book": "COL", "chapter": 1, "verse": "14", "text": "It is by him, that we have obtain'd the redemption, even the remission of our sins: The Supremacy of the Son ( Hebrews 1:1–14 )"}
{"book": "COL", "chapter": 1, "verse": "15", "text": "he is the image of the invisible God, the first-born of the whole creation."}
{"book": "COL", "chapter": 1, "verse": "16", "text": "for by him were all things created, that are in heaven, and that are on earth, both visible and invisible, the thrones, and the sovereigntys, the principalitys, and the powers: all were created by him, and for him: he is before all things,"}
{"book": "COL", "chapter": 1, "verse": "17", "text": "and by him all things consist."}
{"book": "COL", "chapter": 1, "verse": "18", "text": "he himself is the head of the church, which is his body, he is the prince, the first-born from the dead, that in all things he might be chief."}
{"book": "COL", "chapter": 1, "verse": "19", "text": "for it seemed good to the father to inhabit the whole body of the church by Christ:"}
{"book": "COL", "chapter": 1, "verse": "20", "text": "and having made peace by the blood of his cross, to reconcile all things to himself, both those in heaven, and those upon earth."}
{"book": "COL", "chapter": 1, "verse": "21", "text": "You then that formerly were alienated from God, and were enemies by your imaginations and wicked practices, even you has Jesus Christ now reconciled to the body of his church,"}
{"book": "COL", "chapter": 1, "verse": "22", "text": "through his own death, to present you holy, and unblameable, and unreproveable in his own sight:"}
{"book": "COL", "chapter": 1, "verse": "23", "text": "provided you continue well-grounded and settled in the faith, and do not abandon that hope which has been offer'd to you by the gospel, and is proclaim'd to all mankind; of which I Paul am made a minister. Paul’s Suffering for the Church ( 2 Corinthians 11:16–33 )"}
{"book": "COL", "chapter": 1, "verse": "24", "text": "Now I rejoice in my sufferings for you, and am filling up the measure of those remaining afflictions, which in my turn I am to suffer in this life, in the cause of Christ, for the sake of his body, which is the church:"}
{"book": "COL", "chapter": 1, "verse": "25", "text": "of which I have been established a minister, according to the charge which God has given me to preach his gospel faithfully among you. ---"}
{"book": "COL", "chapter": 1, "verse": "26", "text": "that mystery, which has been hid from ages and generations, but is now made manifest to his saints:"}
{"book": "COL", "chapter": 1, "verse": "27", "text": "to whom God does disclose the glorious advantages of this mystery to you Gentiles, to wit, \"that by Christ you may have the expectation of glory.\""}
{"book": "COL", "chapter": 1, "verse": "28", "text": "he it is that we preach, exhorting, and instructing men in every part of divine knowledge, that they may all be perfectly acquainted with the doctrine of Christ Jesus."}
{"book": "COL", "chapter": 1, "verse": "29", "text": "this is what I earnestly strive to effect, by virtue of that power, which effectually operates in me."}
{"book": "COL", "chapter": 2, "verse": "1", "text": "For I wish you knew how great my concern is for you, and for those of Laodicea, and for such as have never seen me in person:"}
{"book": "COL", "chapter": 2, "verse": "2", "text": "that their hearts might be comforted, and that being firmly united in love, they might possess the highest and fullest persuasion of the truth of this doctrine, by entring into this mystery, even of God the father, and of Christ,"}
{"book": "COL", "chapter": 2, "verse": "3", "text": "in whom are reserv'd all the treasures of wd om and knowledge."}
{"book": "COL", "chapter": 2, "verse": "4", "text": "I mention this, lest any one should deceive you by specious pretences."}
{"book": "COL", "chapter": 2, "verse": "5", "text": "for tho' I am absent in person, yet I am present with you in my mind, and am glad to perceive the regularily of your affairs, and the stedfastness of your faith in Christ. Alive with Christ ( Ephesians 2:1–10 )"}
{"book": "COL", "chapter": 2, "verse": "6", "text": "continue therefore to follow the doctrine of our Lord Jesus Christ, as you have receiv'd it:"}
{"book": "COL", "chapter": 2, "verse": "7", "text": "being firmly attach'd to, and founded upon him: establishing yourselves in the faith you have been taught, and being thankful for the improvement you make therein."}
{"book": "COL", "chapter": 2, "verse": "8", "text": "beware lest any one seduce you by the vain illusions of philosophy, founded upon human traditions, and meer shadows, and not upon Christ:"}
{"book": "COL", "chapter": 2, "verse": "9", "text": "for in him all divine plenitude does substantially reside."}
{"book": "COL", "chapter": 2, "verse": "10", "text": "and ye are filled by him, who is the chief of all principality and power:"}
{"book": "COL", "chapter": 2, "verse": "11", "text": "by whom also ye have obtain'd the true spiritual circumcision, not effected by men, when you were by a christian circumcision divested of all your carnal affections,"}
{"book": "COL", "chapter": 2, "verse": "12", "text": "which were buried (as Christ was) in your baptism, by virtue of which you rise (as he did) to a new life, through a belief of that divine power, which raised him from the dead."}
{"book": "COL", "chapter": 2, "verse": "13", "text": "Even you, who were in a dying sinful state, and were uncircumcised Gentiles, has God raised to life, as he did Christ, having pardoned all your sins:"}
{"book": "COL", "chapter": 2, "verse": "14", "text": "and cancell'd the obligation of the ceremonial law, which was disadvantageous to us, removing that which divided us, and nailing it to the cross."}
{"book": "COL", "chapter": 2, "verse": "15", "text": "and having divested principalitys and powers, he made them an example of obedience, and caus'd them to triumph in Christ."}
{"book": "COL", "chapter": 2, "verse": "16", "text": "Let no man therefore condemn you for meats or drinks, or in respect of feasts, or new moons, or sabbaths:"}
{"book": "COL", "chapter": 2, "verse": "17", "text": "for these were only the shadows of future things, prefiguring Christ, who is the substance."}
{"book": "COL", "chapter": 2, "verse": "18", "text": "Let no man condemn you, from an affectation of humility, in worshipping of Angels, boldly prying into matters which he knows nothing of, being vainly puft up with his Jewish conceits:"}
{"book": "COL", "chapter": 2, "verse": "19", "text": "not adhering to the head, from which all the parts of the body derive its nutrition, and being firmly united together by its joints and ligaments, receives a divine increase."}
{"book": "COL", "chapter": 2, "verse": "20", "text": "If then you are dead with Christ, in respect of those shadows of the Jewish state; why do ye, as if you were still in that state, submit to those ordinances?"}
{"book": "COL", "chapter": 2, "verse": "21", "text": "\"don't eat this, don't taste that, nor touch it:\""}
{"book": "COL", "chapter": 2, "verse": "22", "text": "which yet were all made to be consumed for our use, notwithstanding the injunctions and doctrines of men:"}
{"book": "COL", "chapter": 2, "verse": "23", "text": "by which indeed they make a pretence to wisdom, by a worship of their own devising, by an air of humility, and self-denial, and a disregard to the gratifications of sense."}
{"book": "COL", "chapter": 3, "verse": "1", "text": "If then you are risen with Christ, seek the things, that are above, where Christ sits at the right hand of God."}
{"book": "COL", "chapter": 3, "verse": "2", "text": "let the things above, and not such worldly matters be the object of your thoughts."}
{"book": "COL", "chapter": 3, "verse": "3", "text": "for you are dead to them, and Christ has secured your life with God."}
{"book": "COL", "chapter": 3, "verse": "4", "text": "Christ is your life, and when he shall appear, then shall you also appear with him in glory."}
{"book": "COL", "chapter": 3, "verse": "5", "text": "Mortify therefore your sensual appetites, fornication, impurity, irregular passions, wicked desires, and that licentiousness practised by idolaters."}
{"book": "COL", "chapter": 3, "verse": "6", "text": "these are vices which draw down the divine vengeance upon unbelieving nations;"}
{"book": "COL", "chapter": 3, "verse": "7", "text": "among whom you had your conversation, when you followed their practices."}
{"book": "COL", "chapter": 3, "verse": "8", "text": "but now renounce them all, as well as anger, animosity, malice: let calumny and obscene discourse be banish'd from your lips."}
{"book": "COL", "chapter": 3, "verse": "9", "text": "let there be no fraud among you, since you have discarded your former habits and practices, and are become new men,"}
{"book": "COL", "chapter": 3, "verse": "10", "text": "improv'd by knowledge into a resemblance of him, who made this change:"}
{"book": "COL", "chapter": 3, "verse": "11", "text": "by which there is now neither Greek, or Jew; circumcised, or uncircumcised; Barbarian, or Scythian; slave, or freeman; but Christ is all, and in all."}
{"book": "COL", "chapter": 3, "verse": "12", "text": "be you therefore adorn'd with a compassionate temper, with benevolence, humility, meekness, patience as becometh saints and chosen favourites of God:"}
{"book": "COL", "chapter": 3, "verse": "13", "text": "bearing with one another, and forgiving one another, when one has any cause of complaint against another: as the Lord forgave you, do you likewise forgive."}
{"book": "COL", "chapter": 3, "verse": "14", "text": "to all this add love, which is the band of perfect union:"}
{"book": "COL", "chapter": 3, "verse": "15", "text": "may the peace of Christ, to which you are called to be but one body, influence your hearts, to be benevolent."}
{"book": "COL", "chapter": 3, "verse": "16", "text": "Let the christian doctrine be the familiar subject of your entertainment: in all wisdom instructing and exhorting one another, in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, melodiously tuning your grateful praises to God."}
{"book": "COL", "chapter": 3, "verse": "17", "text": "let your discourse and your actions be all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the father by him. Christian Households ( Ephesians 6:1–4 )"}
{"book": "COL", "chapter": 3, "verse": "18", "text": "Dames, be submissive to your husbands, as becomes christians."}
{"book": "COL", "chapter": 3, "verse": "19", "text": "husbands, love your wives, and do not exasperate them."}
{"book": "COL", "chapter": 3, "verse": "20", "text": "children, obey your parents upon all occasions, for that is graceful in a christian."}
{"book": "COL", "chapter": 3, "verse": "21", "text": "fathers, don't treat your children with severity, lest they be discourag'd. Serving with Honor ( Ephesians 6:5–9 ; 1 Timothy 6:1–2 )"}
{"book": "COL", "chapter": 3, "verse": "22", "text": "servants, be entirely obedient to those, whom the laws have made your masters, and not meerly out of regard to their observation, as designing only to please men, but from a principle of integrity, as fearing God:"}
{"book": "COL", "chapter": 3, "verse": "23", "text": "and whatever you do, do it heartily, as serving the Lord, and not men:"}
{"book": "COL", "chapter": 3, "verse": "24", "text": "knowing that as you are the servants of Christ our Lord, you shall receive from him the inheritance for your reward."}
{"book": "COL", "chapter": 3, "verse": "25", "text": "but he that does wrong shall be punish'd for his injustice: for no regard will be shown to the external characters of men."}
{"book": "COL", "chapter": 4, "verse": "1", "text": "as for you, masters, give to your servants what is just and suitable: considering that you also have a master in heaven."}
{"book": "COL", "chapter": 4, "verse": "2", "text": "Persevere and be vigilant in prayer and in thanksgiving:"}
{"book": "COL", "chapter": 4, "verse": "3", "text": "put up your requests likewise for me, that God would give me an opportunity to declare the mystery of Christ (for which I am even in bonds:)"}
{"book": "COL", "chapter": 4, "verse": "4", "text": "that I may publish it in the manner, it should necessarily be done."}
{"book": "COL", "chapter": 4, "verse": "5", "text": "Be prudent in your conduct to those, who are not christians: and make the best of of every opportunity."}
{"book": "COL", "chapter": 4, "verse": "6", "text": "let an air of modesty appear in all your discourse; and let it be seasoned with discretion, in making a proper reply, when you are call'd into question. Greetings from Paul’s Fellow Workers ( Romans 16:21–23 )"}
{"book": "COL", "chapter": 4, "verse": "7", "text": "As to what relates to me, you will be inform'd of it by Tychicus my dear brother, who is a faithful minister of the Lord, and serves him with me."}
{"book": "COL", "chapter": 4, "verse": "8", "text": "I sent him on purpose to acquaint you with my circumstances, and give you matter of comfort."}
{"book": "COL", "chapter": 4, "verse": "9", "text": "I have sent him with Onesimus a faithful and beloved brother, who is of your city: they will inform you of what passes here."}
{"book": "COL", "chapter": 4, "verse": "10", "text": "Aristarchus my companion in bonds salutes you, and so does Mark, nephew to Barnabas, for whom you have receiv'd recommendations, if he come to you, give him a kind reception."}
{"book": "COL", "chapter": 4, "verse": "11", "text": "Jesus, who is called Justus, salutes you: these are the only Jews who by assisting me in preaching the gospel,"}
{"book": "COL", "chapter": 4, "verse": "12", "text": "have cordially reliev'd me. Epaphras a servant of Christ, and your countryman, salutes you, who is always very earnest in his prayers, that you may be perfectly acquainted with, and constantly observe,"}
{"book": "COL", "chapter": 4, "verse": "13", "text": "the whole will of God, for I can witness for him, that he is ardently concern'd for you, and the christians of Laodicea,"}
{"book": "COL", "chapter": 4, "verse": "14", "text": "and Hierapolis, our dear brother Luke the Physician, and Demas salute you. Signature and Final Instructions ( 1 Corinthians 16:19–24 ; 2 Thessalonians 3:16–18 )"}
{"book": "COL", "chapter": 4, "verse": "15", "text": "Salute our brethren of Laodicea, and Nymphas, and the"}
{"book": "COL", "chapter": 4, "verse": "16", "text": "church which uses to meet in his house, when this epistle has been read among you, take care that it be read likewise in the church of the Laodiceans, and"}
{"book": "COL", "chapter": 4, "verse": "17", "text": "that you read the epistle from Laodicea, give Archippus this instruction from me, take care to discharge the function, you"}
{"book": "COL", "chapter": 4, "verse": "18", "text": "have received from the Lord. I Paul salute you, and this salutation I write with my own hand, remember my bonds, grace be with you. AMEN."}
{"book": "1TH", "chapter": 1, "verse": "1", "text": "Paul, Silvanus, and Timothy to the church of the Thessalonians, who believe in God the father, and in our Lord Jesus Christ, grace and peace be with you from God our father, and from Jesus Christ our Lord."}
{"book": "1TH", "chapter": 1, "verse": "2", "text": "We always mention you in our prayers, and give thanks to God for you all:"}
{"book": "1TH", "chapter": 1, "verse": "3", "text": "never forgetting the effects of your faith, your charitable offices, and the constancy of your hope in our Lord Jesus Christ; of which God is our witness."}
{"book": "1TH", "chapter": 1, "verse": "4", "text": "for we are persuaded, my brethren, that you are the peculiar objects of divine favour;"}
{"book": "1TH", "chapter": 1, "verse": "5", "text": "since the gospel we preach'd, did not consist only of words, but was fully confirm'd by miracles and gifts of the holy spirit, you yourselves being witnesses, what we did among you and for you."}
{"book": "1TH", "chapter": 1, "verse": "6", "text": "and you imitated us, and were imitators of the Lord, having receiv'd the word, notwithstanding all your afflictions, with that alacrity, which the holy spirit inspires."}
{"book": "1TH", "chapter": 1, "verse": "7", "text": "so that you became examples to all the believers in Macedonia and in Achaia."}
{"book": "1TH", "chapter": 1, "verse": "8", "text": "for the gospel has made so favourable a progress not only in Macedonia and Achaia, but in every other place, where the reputation of your divine faith has spread, that 'tis needless to mention any thing of it; since they all relate of us,"}
{"book": "1TH", "chapter": 1, "verse": "9", "text": "how successful our arrival was among you, and how you renounc'd your idols to serve the living and true God,"}
{"book": "1TH", "chapter": 1, "verse": "10", "text": "and to expect his son from heaven, whom he raised from the dead, even Jesus, who delivers us from impending ruin."}
{"book": "1TH", "chapter": 2, "verse": "1", "text": "And you are satisfied, my brethren, that our address to you was not fallacious:"}
{"book": "1TH", "chapter": 2, "verse": "2", "text": "on the contrary, notwithstanding the outrages, you know we suffer'd at Philippi, we had still the resolution, by the divine assistance, to preach the gospel of God to you without reserve against all opposition."}
{"book": "1TH", "chapter": 2, "verse": "3", "text": "for our doctrine was free from all imposture, avarice, and fraud."}
{"book": "1TH", "chapter": 2, "verse": "4", "text": "we preach the gospel just as God thought fit to intrust it with us, not being studious to please men, but God, who approves our sincerity."}
{"book": "1TH", "chapter": 2, "verse": "5", "text": "our address to you was without any flattery, as you yourselves can witness, and God is witness that we had no avarice to disguise."}
{"book": "1TH", "chapter": 2, "verse": "6", "text": "we never courted you nor any others, from an affectation of human applause, instead of making our apostolical character any ways expensive to you, as we might;"}
{"book": "1TH", "chapter": 2, "verse": "7", "text": "we behav'd to you with a tender regard, even as a mother, who nurses her own children."}
{"book": "1TH", "chapter": 2, "verse": "8", "text": "Our affection therefore to you being so great, we were as ready to give our lives for you, as we were to communicate the divine gospel to you, so much did you engage our love."}
{"book": "1TH", "chapter": 2, "verse": "9", "text": "for you remember, my brethren, our labour and toil: how we worked day and night, that in preaching the gospel of God, we might not be chargeable to any of you."}
{"book": "1TH", "chapter": 2, "verse": "10", "text": "you are witnesses, and God is so too, how holy, how just and irreproachable our behaviour was to you, who believe."}
{"book": "1TH", "chapter": 2, "verse": "11", "text": "you likewise know, that we exhorted and encouraged every one of you, as a father doth his children,"}
{"book": "1TH", "chapter": 2, "verse": "12", "text": "conjuring you to live suitably to the favour of God, who has called you to his kingdom and glory."}
{"book": "1TH", "chapter": 2, "verse": "13", "text": "nor do we fail of giving thanks to God continually, that, when you received the word of God, which we preach, you did not receive it as the doctrine of men, but as a doctrine that appears to be truly divine, by the influences it displays in you, who believe."}
{"book": "1TH", "chapter": 2, "verse": "14", "text": "for, my brethren, you have followed the example of the christian churches in Judea; by having suffer'd the same persecutions from your own nation, as the churches have suffer'd from the Jews,"}
{"book": "1TH", "chapter": 2, "verse": "15", "text": "the very men who have persecuted the Lord Jesus, and the prophets even to death; who have persecuted us; they who are regardless of pleasing the deity, and are enemies to all mankind;"}
{"book": "1TH", "chapter": 2, "verse": "16", "text": "who by obstructing our endeavours to save the Gentiles, continue to fill up the measure of their enormities; for which consummate vengeance is falling upon them. Paul’s Longing to Visit"}
{"book": "1TH", "chapter": 2, "verse": "17", "text": "As for me, my brethren, having been so abruptly separated from you, in person, tho' not in affection, I have the more ardently endeavour'd to see you again."}
{"book": "1TH", "chapter": 2, "verse": "18", "text": "this I Paul have frequently attempted, but Satan has been my obstacle."}
{"book": "1TH", "chapter": 2, "verse": "19", "text": "for what can be our hope, or joy, what can crown our pretensions, unless it be you, when we shall appear before the Lord Jesus Christ at his coming?"}
{"book": "1TH", "chapter": 2, "verse": "20", "text": "for ye are our glory and our joy."}
{"book": "1TH", "chapter": 3, "verse": "1", "text": "Being therefore impatient to hear of you, we judg'd it proper to stay at Athens alone, and send you our brother Timothy,"}
{"book": "1TH", "chapter": 3, "verse": "2", "text": "a minister of God, and our collegue in preaching the gospel of Christ, that by establishing you in the faith, and by his exhortations,"}
{"book": "1TH", "chapter": 3, "verse": "3", "text": "none of you might be stagger'd by these persecutions: for you know that we are destin'd to suffer."}
{"book": "1TH", "chapter": 3, "verse": "4", "text": "and even when we were with you, we foretold you, that we should be persecuted, as you know it happen'd."}
{"book": "1TH", "chapter": 3, "verse": "5", "text": "not being able therefore to wait any longer, I sent Timothy to know the state of your faith, for fear the tempter should have seduc'd you, and all our labour have prov'd abortive. Timothy’s Encouraging Report"}
{"book": "1TH", "chapter": 3, "verse": "6", "text": "but Timothy, upon his arrival here from you, brings us the agreeable news of the perseverance of your faith and charity, that you always make honourable mention of us, and that you desire to see us as ardently as we do to see you."}
{"book": "1TH", "chapter": 3, "verse": "7", "text": "Thus, my brethren, your conduct has given us great consolation, under all our persecutions and distress."}
{"book": "1TH", "chapter": 3, "verse": "8", "text": "for now I am reviv'd, since you continue stedfast in the christian profession."}
{"book": "1TH", "chapter": 3, "verse": "9", "text": "how can I be sufficiently thankful to God upon your account, for all the joy, which by your means we have been affected with,"}
{"book": "1TH", "chapter": 3, "verse": "10", "text": "whilst night and day we make our ardent requests to him, that we may once more be present with you, that nothing may be wanting to the perfection of your faith?"}
{"book": "1TH", "chapter": 3, "verse": "11", "text": "now may God our father, and our Lord Jesus Christ remove all the obstructions of our journey to you."}
{"book": "1TH", "chapter": 3, "verse": "12", "text": "may the Lord make you increase and abound in mutual love, in love towards all men, as we do towards you:"}
{"book": "1TH", "chapter": 3, "verse": "13", "text": "that by the sanctity of your affections, you may stand unreprov'd in the presence of God our father, when our Lord Jesus Christ shall come with all his holy angels."}
{"book": "1TH", "chapter": 4, "verse": "1", "text": "Finally, my brethren, we intreat and conjure you by the Lord Jesus Christ, to observe the instructions we gave you about your religious conduct, and to make continual progress therein."}
{"book": "1TH", "chapter": 4, "verse": "2", "text": "for you know the precepts we gave you in the name of the Lord Jesus."}
{"book": "1TH", "chapter": 4, "verse": "3", "text": "and such is the will of God, that you should be holy, and avoid licentiousness;"}
{"book": "1TH", "chapter": 4, "verse": "4", "text": "that every one of you should take care to preserve the dignity of his"}
{"book": "1TH", "chapter": 4, "verse": "5", "text": "person unsullied by the vices of the Gentiles, who know not God:"}
{"book": "1TH", "chapter": 4, "verse": "6", "text": "that no man should be exorbitant, and behave contumeliously to his brother: because the Lord is the avenger of all such crimes, as we have formerly remonstrated to you."}
{"book": "1TH", "chapter": 4, "verse": "7", "text": "for God has not called us to impurity, but to holiness:"}
{"book": "1TH", "chapter": 4, "verse": "8", "text": "he therefore that violates these precepts, does not despise man, but God, who has endued me with his holy spirit."}
{"book": "1TH", "chapter": 4, "verse": "9", "text": "As to brotherly love, I have no occasion to write about it, God himself having instructed you to love one another."}
{"book": "1TH", "chapter": 4, "verse": "10", "text": "this indeed you practise towards all our brethren in Macedonia; and we only exhort you to advance more and more therein:"}
{"book": "1TH", "chapter": 4, "verse": "11", "text": "to study your own quiet, to mind your own affairs, and follow some handicraft trade, as we recommended it to you:"}
{"book": "1TH", "chapter": 4, "verse": "12", "text": "so that your way of life may stand fair to the world, and prevent your being dependent upon any man. The Return of the Lord"}
{"book": "1TH", "chapter": 4, "verse": "13", "text": "Now I would not have you, my brethren, be mistaken about the state of the dead, lest you should be as greatly afflicted as those, who have no hope."}
{"book": "1TH", "chapter": 4, "verse": "14", "text": "for if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, we must believe that God by Jesus will raise the dead, and assemble them with him."}
{"book": "1TH", "chapter": 4, "verse": "15", "text": "for one thing I have in charge to tell you from the Lord, that we, who shall be found still alive at the coming of the Lord, shall not get the advance of those that are dead:"}
{"book": "1TH", "chapter": 4, "verse": "16", "text": "for the Lord himself will descend from heaven, and by the voice of the archangel, with the trumpet of God, resound the summons: they who died christians shall rise first:"}
{"book": "1TH", "chapter": 4, "verse": "17", "text": "then we, who shall be still alive, shall be convey'd together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air, and so we shall ever be with the Lord."}
{"book": "1TH", "chapter": 4, "verse": "18", "text": "therefore comfort one another with this information."}
{"book": "1TH", "chapter": 5, "verse": "1", "text": "It is not necessary, my brethren, to specify the exact time:"}
{"book": "1TH", "chapter": 5, "verse": "2", "text": "for you very well know, that the day of the Lord steals on like a thief in the night."}
{"book": "1TH", "chapter": 5, "verse": "3", "text": "whilst they flatter themselves with peace and safety, destruction shall fall upon them, like the pangs of a woman in travail, and they shall not escape."}
{"book": "1TH", "chapter": 5, "verse": "4", "text": "but you, my brethren, are too well inform'd to be surpriz'd by that day, as by a thief."}
{"book": "1TH", "chapter": 5, "verse": "5", "text": "you inherit the advantages of meridian light: we are not involv'd in the obscurity of night."}
{"book": "1TH", "chapter": 5, "verse": "6", "text": "therefore let us not sleep away our time like others, but be vigilant and temperate."}
{"book": "1TH", "chapter": 5, "verse": "7", "text": "they that are sober take their rest in the night, whilst they that are sots, are drunk in the night:"}
{"book": "1TH", "chapter": 5, "verse": "8", "text": "but let us, who enjoy the light, be temperate; let us be arm'd with the breast-plate of faith and charity, and for an helmet, with the hope of salvation."}
{"book": "1TH", "chapter": 5, "verse": "9", "text": "for God did not design to make us the objects of his displeasure, but to effect our felicity by the Lord Jesus Christ, who died for us,"}
{"book": "1TH", "chapter": 5, "verse": "10", "text": "that whether we happen to be alive or dead, we may be secure of living with him."}
{"book": "1TH", "chapter": 5, "verse": "11", "text": "wherefore comfort and edify one another, as you have hitherto done. Christian Living"}
{"book": "1TH", "chapter": 5, "verse": "12", "text": "We entreat you, brethren, to respect those, who labour in the ministry, who by divine appointment preside over you, and instruct you."}
{"book": "1TH", "chapter": 5, "verse": "13", "text": "maintain an intire affection for them, upon account of their office, and don't form any brigues against them."}
{"book": "1TH", "chapter": 5, "verse": "14", "text": "and we exhort you, brethren, reprove the disorderly, comfort the pusillanimous, support the weak, and be patient toward all men."}
{"book": "1TH", "chapter": 5, "verse": "15", "text": "Don't allow any one to return evil for evil, but strive to do all the good you can to one another, and to all the world."}
{"book": "1TH", "chapter": 5, "verse": "16", "text": "be always chearful."}
{"book": "1TH", "chapter": 5, "verse": "17", "text": "pray upon all occasions."}
{"book": "1TH", "chapter": 5, "verse": "18", "text": "be thankful to God for every thing, for so christians are oblig'd to be."}
{"book": "1TH", "chapter": 5, "verse": "19", "text": "don't abuse the gifts of the spirit."}
{"book": "1TH", "chapter": 5, "verse": "20", "text": "don't despise the prophetic gift."}
{"book": "1TH", "chapter": 5, "verse": "21", "text": "bring every thing to the test: if it be proof, abide by that:"}
{"book": "1TH", "chapter": 5, "verse": "22", "text": "if it has the least appearance of evil, reject it. Final Blessings and Instructions"}
{"book": "1TH", "chapter": 5, "verse": "23", "text": "Now may the God of peace make you intirely holy: may every part of you, your spirit, soul, and body be preserved irreprovable at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ."}
{"book": "1TH", "chapter": 5, "verse": "24", "text": "he that has called you, is faithful, and this he will effect."}
{"book": "1TH", "chapter": 5, "verse": "25", "text": "My brethren, pray for us."}
{"book": "1TH", "chapter": 5, "verse": "26", "text": "salute all the brethren with an holy kiss."}
{"book": "1TH", "chapter": 5, "verse": "27", "text": "I conjure you by the Lord, that this epistle may be read to all our christian brethren."}
{"book": "1TH", "chapter": 5, "verse": "28", "text": "the favour of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you. AMEN."}
{"book": "2TH", "chapter": 1, "verse": "1", "text": "Paul, Silvanus, and Timothy, to the church of the Thessalonians, that believe in God our father, and in the Lord Jesus Christ."}
{"book": "2TH", "chapter": 1, "verse": "2", "text": "favour and peace be with you from God our father, and from the Lord Jesus Christ."}
{"book": "2TH", "chapter": 1, "verse": "3", "text": "We are oblig'd, my brethren, to render thanks to God continually upon your account, as it is but just; since your faith still improves, and your mutual love is always increasing."}
{"book": "2TH", "chapter": 1, "verse": "4", "text": "so that you are the subject of our glorying in the churches of God, for the constancy of your faith, under all the persecutions and afflictions you endure from men, Christ’s Coming"}
{"book": "2TH", "chapter": 1, "verse": "5", "text": "by which you may be assur'd, that they will be punish'd by the divine justice, and that you shall be rewarded with the kingdom of God, for which you suffer;"}
{"book": "2TH", "chapter": 1, "verse": "6", "text": "since it is agreeable to his justice to afflict those in their turn, who afflict you:"}
{"book": "2TH", "chapter": 1, "verse": "7", "text": "and that you, who are distress'd, should obtain your repose, together with us, when the Lord Jesus, with his angels, the ministers of his power, shall descend from heaven,"}
{"book": "2TH", "chapter": 1, "verse": "8", "text": "in flaming fire, to take vengeance on those, who know not God, and do not obey the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ:"}
{"book": "2TH", "chapter": 1, "verse": "9", "text": "the Lord shall punish them with everlasting destruction, when he shall appear in the glory of his power,"}
{"book": "2TH", "chapter": 1, "verse": "10", "text": "and come to be glorified by his saints, and to be the object of admiration to all who believed, that the testimony we gave you, would be justified in that day."}
{"book": "2TH", "chapter": 1, "verse": "11", "text": "Wherefore we continually pray, that our God would by his power effect all the gracious designs of his goodness, and accomplish the work of faith in you;"}
{"book": "2TH", "chapter": 1, "verse": "12", "text": "that the name of our Lord Jesus Christ may be glorified by you, and you by him, by the favour of our God, and of our Lord Jesus Christ."}
{"book": "2TH", "chapter": 2, "verse": "1", "text": "Now we conjure you, brethren, that with respect to the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, and our being assembled with him,"}
{"book": "2TH", "chapter": 2, "verse": "2", "text": "you would not by any pretended revelation, by any discourse or epistle ascrib'd to us, be immediately perplex'd in your minds, or under any concern for the approach of the day of the Lord."}
{"book": "2TH", "chapter": 2, "verse": "3", "text": "don't be led into any mistake, because the previous rebellion does not yet appear, nor the man of sin throw off the disguise, that offspring of perdition:"}
{"book": "2TH", "chapter": 2, "verse": "4", "text": "that adversary that exalts it self above the divine authority of majesty: that is seated in the temple of God, pretending to be it self divine."}
{"book": "2TH", "chapter": 2, "verse": "5", "text": "don't you remember, I told you this, when I was with you?"}
{"book": "2TH", "chapter": 2, "verse": "6", "text": "and you know what hinders his throwing off the disguise at a time which he enjoys for the present."}
{"book": "2TH", "chapter": 2, "verse": "7", "text": "for the secret spirit of misrule is ready to break out as soon as the obstacle is taken away:"}
{"book": "2TH", "chapter": 2, "verse": "8", "text": "and then the lawless will be discover'd, whom the Lord will extirpate by the spirit of his mouth, and at his glorious advent, will intirely abolish him,"}
{"book": "2TH", "chapter": 2, "verse": "9", "text": "who by the instigation of satan will make his parade with various arts, with fallacious signs and prodigies,"}
{"book": "2TH", "chapter": 2, "verse": "10", "text": "and with all the vile methods of imposture, to the ruin of those, who are averse to the truth, by which they might be saved."}
{"book": "2TH", "chapter": 2, "verse": "11", "text": "wherefore God will suffer a spirit of delusion to work them into the belief of a lye:"}
{"book": "2TH", "chapter": 2, "verse": "12", "text": "to the condemnation of all those, who instead of embracing the gospel, had pleasure in iniquity. Stand Firm"}
{"book": "2TH", "chapter": 2, "verse": "13", "text": "As for you, my brethren, the favourites of the Lord, we are oblig'd to render perpetual thanks to God, for having chosen you from the beginning, in purifying you by his spirit, upon your believing the gospel."}
{"book": "2TH", "chapter": 2, "verse": "14", "text": "to this he has called you, to a life of glory with our Lord Jesus Christ."}
{"book": "2TH", "chapter": 2, "verse": "15", "text": "be stedfast therefore, and firmly maintain the doctrine I have delivered to you, either by word of mouth, or by my letter."}
{"book": "2TH", "chapter": 2, "verse": "16", "text": "Now may our Lord Jesus Christ, and God our father, who has loved us, and by his favour given us the advantageous hopes of eternal joys, consolate your souls,"}
{"book": "2TH", "chapter": 2, "verse": "17", "text": "and establish you in all sound doctrine and virtue."}
{"book": "2TH", "chapter": 3, "verse": "1", "text": "To conclude, pray for us, my brethren, that the doctrine of the Lord may make its progress, and be respected every where as it is among you:"}
{"book": "2TH", "chapter": 3, "verse": "2", "text": "and that we may be delivered from vexatious wicked men; for all have not the faith."}
{"book": "2TH", "chapter": 3, "verse": "3", "text": "but as for you, the Lord, who is faithful, will establish you, and protect you from the malicious one."}
{"book": "2TH", "chapter": 3, "verse": "4", "text": "and we have this hope in the Lord, that you will still continue to observe the directions we give you."}
{"book": "2TH", "chapter": 3, "verse": "5", "text": "may the Lord qualify your hearts with divine affection, and a patient expectation of Jesus Christ. A Warning against Idleness"}
{"book": "2TH", "chapter": 3, "verse": "6", "text": "We direct you, brethren, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, to withdraw from all those of your brethren, whose conduct is irregular, and not agreeable to the instructions they received from us."}
{"book": "2TH", "chapter": 3, "verse": "7", "text": "for you know what an example we have given for your imitation: that our conduct among you was regular:"}
{"book": "2TH", "chapter": 3, "verse": "8", "text": "that we did not eat any man's bread for nothing: but with toil and fatigue work'd night and day to avoid being chargeable to any of you:"}
{"book": "2TH", "chapter": 3, "verse": "9", "text": "not, that we had no just claim, but to present ourselves as a pattern, which you should imitate,"}
{"book": "2TH", "chapter": 3, "verse": "10", "text": "pursuant to the maxim, which we laid down, when among you, \"he that refuses to work should be deny'd food.\""}
{"book": "2TH", "chapter": 3, "verse": "11", "text": "now being inform'd, that there are among you people of an irregular conduct, who neglect their own business, and busy themselves with the affairs of others:"}
{"book": "2TH", "chapter": 3, "verse": "12", "text": "we command these persons, and exhort them by the Lord Jesus Christ, to stay at home, and earn their bread by labour."}
{"book": "2TH", "chapter": 3, "verse": "13", "text": "As for you, my brethren, be not weary of your commendable industry:"}
{"book": "2TH", "chapter": 3, "verse": "14", "text": "and if any one should disregard what we have prescrib'd, signify it to us by letter, and don't converse with him, that he may be put to shame."}
{"book": "2TH", "chapter": 3, "verse": "15", "text": "however, don't treat him as an enemy, but reprove him as a brother. Signature and Final Greetings ( 1 Corinthians 16:19–24 ; Colossians 4:15–18 )"}
{"book": "2TH", "chapter": 3, "verse": "16", "text": "Now the Lord of peace grant you continual peace in all respects, the Lord be with you all."}
{"book": "2TH", "chapter": 3, "verse": "17", "text": "I Paul salute you, this salutation being my own hand writing, which is the distinguishing mark of all my letters, so I write."}
{"book": "2TH", "chapter": 3, "verse": "18", "text": "the favour of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you all. AMEN."}
{"book": "1TI", "chapter": 1, "verse": "1", "text": "Paul an apostle of Jesus Christ by the appointment of God our saviour, and of Jesus Christ our hope,"}
{"book": "1TI", "chapter": 1, "verse": "2", "text": "to Timothy my sincere convert, favour, mercy and peace from God our father, and Jesus Christ our Lord. Correcting False Teachers ( Titus 1:10–16 )"}
{"book": "1TI", "chapter": 1, "verse": "3", "text": "At my departure from Macedonia, I advised you to stay at Ephesus in order to charge certain persons not to teach any different doctrine,"}
{"book": "1TI", "chapter": 1, "verse": "4", "text": "or trouble their heads with fables and endless genealogies, which rather promote disputes than the gospel-dispensation:"}
{"book": "1TI", "chapter": 1, "verse": "5", "text": "such a charge will produce that charity, which arises from purity, from a good conscience, and a sincere belief:"}
{"book": "1TI", "chapter": 1, "verse": "6", "text": "for want of which, some have lost themselves in frivolous disputes,"}
{"book": "1TI", "chapter": 1, "verse": "7", "text": "pretending to be doctors of the law, tho' they neither understand what they advance, nor upon what it is founded."}
{"book": "1TI", "chapter": 1, "verse": "8", "text": "I own that the law is good, if a man make a right use of it:"}
{"book": "1TI", "chapter": 1, "verse": "9", "text": "it being plain, that the law was not design'd against the just, but against the lawless and refractory, against irreligion and vice, impiety and prophaneness, parricide and man-slaughter,"}
{"book": "1TI", "chapter": 1, "verse": "10", "text": "against licentiousness and unnatural passion, against men-stealers, lyars, perjured persons, and every thing that is inconsistent"}
{"book": "1TI", "chapter": 1, "verse": "11", "text": "with the salutary doctrine of the gospel of immortality, which the blessed God committed to my trust. God’s Grace to Paul"}
{"book": "1TI", "chapter": 1, "verse": "12", "text": "I offer thanks to Jesus Christ our Lord, who qualified me for the ministry he has plac'd me in, for having appointed me to such a trust,"}
{"book": "1TI", "chapter": 1, "verse": "13", "text": "who was before a blasphemer, and a violent persecutor; but I obtained mercy, because I acted thro' ignorance in incrudelity."}
{"book": "1TI", "chapter": 1, "verse": "14", "text": "but the favour of our Lord display'd itself by that faith and charity, which was wrought in me by Jesus Christ."}
{"book": "1TI", "chapter": 1, "verse": "15", "text": "it is a proposition worthy to be believ'd, and be embrac'd by all, that Jesus Christ is come into the world to save sinners, of whom I am the greatest."}
{"book": "1TI", "chapter": 1, "verse": "16", "text": "however I obtained mercy, that Jesus Christ might demonstrate the greatness of his clemency, by making me an eminent instance of it to those who should hereafter believe in him, in order to eternal life."}
{"book": "1TI", "chapter": 1, "verse": "17", "text": "to the king of the world, the immortal, invisible, and the only God be honour and glory to endless ages, amen."}
{"book": "1TI", "chapter": 1, "verse": "18", "text": "This charge, my son Timothy, I recommend to you, agreeably to the prophetic gifts heretofore conferr'd on you, by virtue of which you might carry on a successful warfare,"}
{"book": "1TI", "chapter": 1, "verse": "19", "text": "assisted by faith and a good conscience: for some having discarded the one, have entirely lost the other."}
{"book": "1TI", "chapter": 1, "verse": "20", "text": "Hymeneus and Alexander are of that number, whom I have deliver'd to Satan, that they may learn not to blaspheme."}
{"book": "1TI", "chapter": 2, "verse": "1", "text": "I exhort you therefore, above all things, to present supplications, prayers, intercessions and thanksgiving for all men:"}
{"book": "1TI", "chapter": 2, "verse": "2", "text": "for kings, and for all that are in authority, that we may lead a quiet and peaceable life in the practice of all piety and virtue;"}
{"book": "1TI", "chapter": 2, "verse": "3", "text": "for such offices are commendable, and agreeable to God our saviour,"}
{"book": "1TI", "chapter": 2, "verse": "4", "text": "who wills that all men be saved, by embracing the truth."}
{"book": "1TI", "chapter": 2, "verse": "5", "text": "for there is but one God, and but one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus,"}
{"book": "1TI", "chapter": 2, "verse": "6", "text": "who gave himself for the redemption of all mankind: this is what was to be promulg'd in due time:"}
{"book": "1TI", "chapter": 2, "verse": "7", "text": "for this I was establish'd a herald and an apostle, I speak the truth without disguise, a doctor to instruct the Gentiles in the true faith."}
{"book": "1TI", "chapter": 2, "verse": "8", "text": "I direct therefore that the men pray in publick and private, lifting up their hands to heaven with innocence, charity, and composure. Instructions to Women"}
{"book": "1TI", "chapter": 2, "verse": "9", "text": "and that the women be decent in their apparel, adorned with modesty and reserve, not with broider'd hair, or gold, or pearls, or costly array;"}
{"book": "1TI", "chapter": 2, "verse": "10", "text": "but, as becomes women, who make a profession of religion, to be adorn'd with virtue."}
{"book": "1TI", "chapter": 2, "verse": "11", "text": "Let the women with submissive silence attend to instruction."}
{"book": "1TI", "chapter": 2, "verse": "12", "text": "for I don't allow a woman to be a teacher, nor to dictate to her husband; but let her be silent."}
{"book": "1TI", "chapter": 2, "verse": "13", "text": "for Adam was the first that was form'd, then Eve."}
{"book": "1TI", "chapter": 2, "verse": "14", "text": "Adam was not seduc'd, but the woman, who was the cause of his transgression."}
{"book": "1TI", "chapter": 2, "verse": "15", "text": "however the women may be saved by educating their children, and persevering themselves in faith, in charity, in holiness and chastity, this may be depended upon as true."}
{"book": "1TI", "chapter": 3, "verse": "1", "text": "He that aspires to be a bishop, desires an office that is honourable."}
{"book": "1TI", "chapter": 3, "verse": "2", "text": "a bishop therefore ought to be of an unspotted character, to have but one wife, to be sober, prudent, grave, hospitable, and qualified for teaching:"}
{"book": "1TI", "chapter": 3, "verse": "3", "text": "not given to wine or violence, but of a gentle temper, averse to contention and avarice: a master of economy,"}
{"book": "1TI", "chapter": 3, "verse": "4", "text": "obliging his children to behave with decorum."}
{"book": "1TI", "chapter": 3, "verse": "5", "text": "for if a man is incapable of governing his own family, how can he take care of the church of God?"}
{"book": "1TI", "chapter": 3, "verse": "6", "text": "nor must he be a new convert; for fear he should be elated with pride, and so involve himself in the same ruin as the devil."}
{"book": "1TI", "chapter": 3, "verse": "7", "text": "besides, he ought to stand fair in the opinion of unbelievers, lest he fall into disgrace, and the ambushes of the accuser. Qualifications for Deacons ( Acts 6:1–7 )"}
{"book": "1TI", "chapter": 3, "verse": "8", "text": "The deacons too must be grave, not double tongued, not addicted to drinking, or sordid gain,"}
{"book": "1TI", "chapter": 3, "verse": "9", "text": "but by their integrity maintain the reverence due to the gospel."}
{"book": "1TI", "chapter": 3, "verse": "10", "text": "let them be first examin'd, and if they are without reproach, let them enter upon their office."}
{"book": "1TI", "chapter": 3, "verse": "11", "text": "their wives must be likewise grave, free from scandal, sober, and always faithful."}
{"book": "1TI", "chapter": 3, "verse": "12", "text": "a deacon must have but one wife, and govern his children, and the rest of the family in a proper manner."}
{"book": "1TI", "chapter": 3, "verse": "13", "text": "for they who duly discharge that office, prepare their way to a higher degree, and may promote the christian faith with the greater freedom. The Mystery of Godliness"}
{"book": "1TI", "chapter": 3, "verse": "14", "text": "This I write, tho' I hope to make you a visit in a little time, that in case I am retarded,"}
{"book": "1TI", "chapter": 3, "verse": "15", "text": "you may know how to conduct yourself in the house of God, that is, in the church of the true God."}
{"book": "1TI", "chapter": 3, "verse": "16", "text": "the mystery of piety is the pillar and basts of truth; and certainly most extraordinary. God has appear'd in the flesh, been justified by the spirit, seen by angels, proclaim'd to the Gentiles, believ'd by the world, and assum'd into glory."}
{"book": "1TI", "chapter": 4, "verse": "1", "text": "Now the spirit says expresly, that in the latter times some shall abandon the faith, by giving credit to seducing spirits, and the doctrine concerning demons;"}
{"book": "1TI", "chapter": 4, "verse": "2", "text": "broach'd by hypocrititical impostors, whose consciences are cauteriz'd,"}
{"book": "1TI", "chapter": 4, "verse": "3", "text": "interdicting marriage; and the use of animal food; which God created for the repast of the faithful, who embrace the truth with thankfulness."}
{"book": "1TI", "chapter": 4, "verse": "4", "text": "for all that God has created is good, and nothing is to be rejected, provided it be receiv'd with thanksgiving:"}
{"book": "1TI", "chapter": 4, "verse": "5", "text": "since it is sanctified by the divine permission, and by prayer. A Good Servant of Jesus Christ"}
{"book": "1TI", "chapter": 4, "verse": "6", "text": "If you represent these things to the brethren, you will appear to be a true minister of Jesus Christ, brought up in the institutions of faith, and the true doctrine to which you were attach'd."}
{"book": "1TI", "chapter": 4, "verse": "7", "text": "as for prophane and groundless fables, reject them."}
{"book": "1TI", "chapter": 4, "verse": "8", "text": "exercise yourself in piety: for those exercises which relate only to the body are of little consequence, but piety is of absolute use, having the promises both of the present life, and of the life that is to come."}
{"book": "1TI", "chapter": 4, "verse": "9", "text": "what I tell you is certain, and deserves entire credit."}
{"book": "1TI", "chapter": 4, "verse": "10", "text": "for to that end we expose ourselves to trouble and reproach, because we hope in the living God, who is the saviour of all men, especially of believers."}
{"book": "1TI", "chapter": 4, "verse": "11", "text": "These things recommend and teach."}
{"book": "1TI", "chapter": 4, "verse": "12", "text": "don't give occasion to any to despise your youth: but be a pattern to believers in your discourse, in your behaviour, by your charity, faith and chastity."}
{"book": "1TI", "chapter": 4, "verse": "13", "text": "while I am absent apply yourself to reading, to exhortation, and instruction."}
{"book": "1TI", "chapter": 4, "verse": "14", "text": "don't neglect the gift you have, which was given you with the ministerial charge, when you receiv'd imposition of hands from the presbytery."}
{"book": "1TI", "chapter": 4, "verse": "15", "text": "meditate upon these things, be wholly employ'd about them, that your proficiency may appear to all."}
{"book": "1TI", "chapter": 4, "verse": "16", "text": "take care how you behave, and what you teach, persevere in these duties: for by the practice of them, you will save both yourself, and those who hear you."}
{"book": "1TI", "chapter": 5, "verse": "1", "text": "Don't treat a senior with harsh reproof, but exhort him as a father, and the young men, as brethren:"}
{"book": "1TI", "chapter": 5, "verse": "2", "text": "the elder women as mothers; the younger, as sisters, with all purity. Honoring True Widows"}
{"book": "1TI", "chapter": 5, "verse": "3", "text": "show regard to widows that are really such."}
{"book": "1TI", "chapter": 5, "verse": "4", "text": "if a widow has children or grand-children, let them above all things instruct their own family to be religious, and let them be grateful to their parents, for this is acceptable to God."}
{"book": "1TI", "chapter": 5, "verse": "5", "text": "as for the widow, who is really such, and without any assistance, let her place all her hopes in God, and be assiduous in supplication and prayer."}
{"book": "1TI", "chapter": 5, "verse": "6", "text": "the widow of pleasure is dead tho' she lives."}
{"book": "1TI", "chapter": 5, "verse": "7", "text": "these things recommend to them, that they may be without reproach."}
{"book": "1TI", "chapter": 5, "verse": "8", "text": "he that takes no care of his relations, especially those of his own family, has renounc'd the faith and is worse than an infidel."}
{"book": "1TI", "chapter": 5, "verse": "9", "text": "Let none be put upon the list of widows, but such as are at least threescore years of age, and have been married but once:"}
{"book": "1TI", "chapter": 5, "verse": "10", "text": "such as have been recommended by their good actions, by the education of their children, by their hospitality, by their officiousness to the faithful, by relieving the afflicted, and by the practice of every virtue."}
{"book": "1TI", "chapter": 5, "verse": "11", "text": "as for young widows, don't admit them: for being impatient of religious restraint, they will be marry'd:"}
{"book": "1TI", "chapter": 5, "verse": "12", "text": "for which they are much to be condemn'd, because they violate the engagements they had before enter'd into:"}
{"book": "1TI", "chapter": 5, "verse": "13", "text": "besides, having nothing to do, they get the habit of rambling from one house to another, and are not only idling, but prattle and intermeddle, and utter what is not decent."}
{"book": "1TI", "chapter": 5, "verse": "14", "text": "I enjoin therefore the young women to marry, to detest abortion, to govern their families, and give our enemies no handle for reproach."}
{"book": "1TI", "chapter": 5, "verse": "15", "text": "for some have already revolted to paganism."}
{"book": "1TI", "chapter": 5, "verse": "16", "text": "If any convert has widow-relations, let such relieve them, that the church may not be charged, but with the relief of such as are entirely destitute. Honoring Elders"}
{"book": "1TI", "chapter": 5, "verse": "17", "text": "Let the presbyters that govern well receive a double salary, especially those who are employ'd in preaching and instructing."}
{"book": "1TI", "chapter": 5, "verse": "18", "text": "for the scripture says, \"thou shalt not muzzle the ox, when he treads the corn.\" and, \"the labourer is worthy of his reward.\""}
{"book": "1TI", "chapter": 5, "verse": "19", "text": "don't receive any accusation against a pastor, but upon the deposition of two or three witnesses."}
{"book": "1TI", "chapter": 5, "verse": "20", "text": "Those that transgress reprove in publick, to strike a terror in the rest. A Charge to Timothy"}
{"book": "1TI", "chapter": 5, "verse": "21", "text": "I conjure you before God, before our Lord Jesus Christ, and his chosen angels, to observe these rules without prepossession and partiality."}
{"book": "1TI", "chapter": 5, "verse": "22", "text": "Don't be hasty to ordain any man: and be not accessory to the faults of others: preserve your own integrity."}
{"book": "1TI", "chapter": 5, "verse": "23", "text": "Discontinue the drinking of bare water, take a litle wine out of regard to your weak stomach, and your frequent indispositions."}
{"book": "1TI", "chapter": 5, "verse": "24", "text": "The vices of some men are so notorious, they prevent any inquisition: others don't discover themselves till they have been ordain'd."}
{"book": "1TI", "chapter": 5, "verse": "25", "text": "virtue wears no disguise, and vice cannot be long conceal'd."}
{"book": "1TI", "chapter": 6, "verse": "1", "text": "Let those who are in a state of servitude, consider the entire respect due to their masters, that the name of God, and the doctrine of the gospel may not be blasphemed."}
{"book": "1TI", "chapter": 6, "verse": "2", "text": "let them not treat their christian masters, on pretence of being their brethren, with less respect: but be the more obsequious, because they are believers, and deserve to be belov'd, for the kind provision they make for them, let this be the subject of your instructions, and exhortation. Reject False Doctrines"}
{"book": "1TI", "chapter": 6, "verse": "3", "text": "If any one deviate from this doctrine, not adhering to the wholesome instructions of our Lord Jesus Christ, the true doctrine of piety,"}
{"book": "1TI", "chapter": 6, "verse": "4", "text": "he is full of pride and ignorance, touch'd with a spirit of chicanery and wrangling, productive of envy, contention, calumny,"}
{"book": "1TI", "chapter": 6, "verse": "5", "text": "mischievous opinions, and a familiarity with pernicious ignorant impostors, who consider religion only as it makes for their gain. Godliness with Contentment"}
{"book": "1TI", "chapter": 6, "verse": "6", "text": "Religion indeed with contentment leads to great gain."}
{"book": "1TI", "chapter": 6, "verse": "7", "text": "as we brought nothing into the world, certain it is, we can carry nothing away, having therefore food and raiment,"}
{"book": "1TI", "chapter": 6, "verse": "8", "text": "we ought to think that sufficient, but they who will be rich, expose"}
{"book": "1TI", "chapter": 6, "verse": "9", "text": "themselves to temptations and snares, and to many foolish noxious passions, which plunge men into ruin and perdition, for the love of money is the root of all evil:"}
{"book": "1TI", "chapter": 6, "verse": "10", "text": "which some having obtain'd, have revolted from the faith, and brought upon themselves variety of piercing pains. Fight the Good Fight"}
{"book": "1TI", "chapter": 6, "verse": "11", "text": "As for you the minister of God, avoid those things: adhere to justice, piety, faith, charity, patience, and benignity of temper."}
{"book": "1TI", "chapter": 6, "verse": "12", "text": "exert yourself in the glorious cause of faith, and secure the prize of eternal life, to which you were called, when you made that excellent profession of faith before so many witnesses."}
{"book": "1TI", "chapter": 6, "verse": "13", "text": "I enjoin you, before God, who gives life to all, and before Christ Jesus, who made a glorious confession before Pontius Pilate;"}
{"book": "1TI", "chapter": 6, "verse": "14", "text": "to observe these precepts, to lead an unspotted life without reproof until the appearance of our Lord Jesus Christ,"}
{"book": "1TI", "chapter": 6, "verse": "15", "text": "whose advent HE will in his own time display, WHO is perfectly happy, who alone is omnipotent, the king of kings, and the lord of all that bear rule;"}
{"book": "1TI", "chapter": 6, "verse": "16", "text": "who alone is essentially immortal, dwelling in that inaccessible light, which no mortal ever saw, or can see: to whom belongs everlasting honour and empire, amen. A Charge to the Rich ( James 5:1–6 )"}
{"book": "1TI", "chapter": 6, "verse": "17", "text": "Charge those that are rich in this world, not to be elated, not to depend upon their perishable wealth, but upon the God of life, who furnishes us with every thing in plenty for our enjoyment;"}
{"book": "1TI", "chapter": 6, "verse": "18", "text": "to be beneficent, to be rich in good works, to be liberal to the common fund,"}
{"book": "1TI", "chapter": 6, "verse": "19", "text": "securing to themselves a well-grounded expectation of obtaining hereafter an immortal life. Guard the Faith"}
{"book": "1TI", "chapter": 6, "verse": "20", "text": "O Timothy, keep what is deposited in your care, avoiding the prophane empty declamations and objections of a spurious science, which some have profess'd,"}
{"book": "1TI", "chapter": 6, "verse": "21", "text": "and thereby deviated from the true principles of faith, grace be with you. AMEN."}
{"book": "2TI", "chapter": 1, "verse": "1", "text": "Paul an apostle of Jesus Christ, appointed by God to declare the promise, which Jesus Christ has made of eternal life;"}
{"book": "2TI", "chapter": 1, "verse": "2", "text": "to Timothy, my dear son, grace, mercy and peace from God the father, and from Jesus Christ our Lord. Faithfulness under Persecution ( Matthew 10:16–25 )"}
{"book": "2TI", "chapter": 1, "verse": "3", "text": "When I remember you, as I continually do in my prayers night and day, I give thanks to God, whom I serve with a pure conscience, after the example of my fore-fathers."}
{"book": "2TI", "chapter": 1, "verse": "4", "text": "when I call to mind your affliction, it makes me ardently desire the exceeding pleasure I shall have in seeing you:"}
{"book": "2TI", "chapter": 1, "verse": "5", "text": "especially when I reflect upon the sincerity of your faith, and the attachment your grand-mother Lois first show'd, and then your mother Eunice, examples which I am persuaded you will follow."}
{"book": "2TI", "chapter": 1, "verse": "6", "text": "For which reason I remind you to exert the divine gifts you received, when I gave you the imposition of hands."}
{"book": "2TI", "chapter": 1, "verse": "7", "text": "for the spirit, which God has given us, is not a spirit of timidity, but of fortitude, of benevolence, and of moderation."}
{"book": "2TI", "chapter": 1, "verse": "8", "text": "be not therefore asham'd of the testimony of the Lord, nor of me who am a prisoner upon his account, but share with me in the afflictions, which attend the gospel, supported as you are by the power of God,"}
{"book": "2TI", "chapter": 1, "verse": "9", "text": "who has saved us, and by the gospel hath called us to holiness, not in consideration of our works, but in pursuance of his own resolution, and the favour, which having been promised us by Jesus Christ several ages ago,"}
{"book": "2TI", "chapter": 1, "verse": "10", "text": "has now been display'd by the coming of Jesus Christ our saviour, who has defeated the power of death, by bringing a life of immortality to light thro' the gospel."}
{"book": "2TI", "chapter": 1, "verse": "11", "text": "For this I was establish'd the herald, the apostle, and doctor of the Gentiles, this has drawn upon me the evils I suffer."}
{"book": "2TI", "chapter": 1, "verse": "12", "text": "yet I am not ashamed, for I know in whom I have confided, and I am persuaded he is able to keep what I have committed to him against that day. Holding to Sound Teaching"}
{"book": "2TI", "chapter": 1, "verse": "13", "text": "Keep that form of sound doctrine you receiv'd from me, which consists in christian faith and charity:"}
{"book": "2TI", "chapter": 1, "verse": "14", "text": "that valuable depositum do you preserve by the holy spirit, which resides in us."}
{"book": "2TI", "chapter": 1, "verse": "15", "text": "You know that I have been abandon'd by all the Asiatics, by Phygellus and Hermogenes among the rest."}
{"book": "2TI", "chapter": 1, "verse": "16", "text": "the Lord be favourable to the family of Onesiphorus; for he often reliev'd me, and was not asham'd of my chains:"}
{"book": "2TI", "chapter": 1, "verse": "17", "text": "but when he was at Rome, he enquired for me very diligently, and found me."}
{"book": "2TI", "chapter": 1, "verse": "18", "text": "the Lord grant he may obtain mercy from him in that day, for you know very well what services de did me at Ephesus."}
{"book": "2TI", "chapter": 2, "verse": "1", "text": "As for you, my son, strenuously acquit yourself of the charge you have receiv'd from Christ Jesus."}
{"book": "2TI", "chapter": 2, "verse": "2", "text": "and what you heard me deliver in the presence of many, intrust to such persons of integrity as are qualified to instruct others"}
{"book": "2TI", "chapter": 2, "verse": "3", "text": "bravely endure hardships, like a soldier of Jesus Christ."}
{"book": "2TI", "chapter": 2, "verse": "4", "text": "he that enters into the service, disengages himself from civil affairs, that he may be acceptable to his officer."}
{"book": "2TI", "chapter": 2, "verse": "5", "text": "a combatant does not receive the crown, unless he has observ'd the laws of the games."}
{"book": "2TI", "chapter": 2, "verse": "6", "text": "the labourer must work before he can obtain his reward."}
{"book": "2TI", "chapter": 2, "verse": "7", "text": "consider what I say, and the Lord will give you understanding in all things."}
{"book": "2TI", "chapter": 2, "verse": "8", "text": "Remember that Jesus Christ, who is of the posterity of David, is raised from the dead, according to my gospel,"}
{"book": "2TI", "chapter": 2, "verse": "9", "text": "for which I suffer even the chains of a malefactor: but the word of God is not so confin'd."}
{"book": "2TI", "chapter": 2, "verse": "10", "text": "I therefore bear with every thing for the sake of the converts, that they may obtain that salvation, which Jesus Christ has procur'd us, even eternal glory."}
{"book": "2TI", "chapter": 2, "verse": "11", "text": "it is an undoubted truth, that if we die for him, we shall live with him:"}
{"book": "2TI", "chapter": 2, "verse": "12", "text": "if we suffer, we shall also reign: if we renounce him,"}
{"book": "2TI", "chapter": 2, "verse": "13", "text": "he will renounce us likewise: tho' we are diffident, he is still faithful, and will not retract his word. The Lord’s Approved Workman"}
{"book": "2TI", "chapter": 2, "verse": "14", "text": "These things represent, conjuring them by the presence of the Lord, to avoid disputes about words, which only serve to pervert the audience."}
{"book": "2TI", "chapter": 2, "verse": "15", "text": "endeavour to approve yourself to God, as an artist that is not afraid of reproach, by rightly explaining the word of truth."}
{"book": "2TI", "chapter": 2, "verse": "16", "text": "discountenance such as hold vain irreligious discourse; for they will grow bold in impiety,"}
{"book": "2TI", "chapter": 2, "verse": "17", "text": "and their doctrine will spread like the gangrene. Hymeneus and Philetus are such:"}
{"book": "2TI", "chapter": 2, "verse": "18", "text": "they have deserted the faith themselves, and debauch'd the faith of others, by maintaining, \"the resurrection is already past.\""}
{"book": "2TI", "chapter": 2, "verse": "19", "text": "however, the foundation of the divine architect is still immoveable, having this inscription, \" the Lord discerns who are his.\" and, \" let every one that invokes the name of the Lord, depart from iniquity.\""}
{"book": "2TI", "chapter": 2, "verse": "20", "text": "in a palace there are vessels not only of gold, and of silver, but of wood and of earth likewise: some are for honourable uses, and others for meaner purposes."}
{"book": "2TI", "chapter": 2, "verse": "21", "text": "he that is clear of vice, is a vessel of the first kind, sanctified and fit for the master's use, and qualified for every virtuous action."}
{"book": "2TI", "chapter": 2, "verse": "22", "text": "Avoid the passions of youth, pursue justice, fidelity, benevolence and concord with all sincere christians."}
{"book": "2TI", "chapter": 2, "verse": "23", "text": "decline all impertinent barren disputes, since they only serve for contention."}
{"book": "2TI", "chapter": 2, "verse": "24", "text": "a christian must not be litigious, but easy to all men, qualify'd to instruct,"}
{"book": "2TI", "chapter": 2, "verse": "25", "text": "with great temper and meekness informing those, who differ in opinion; because he does not know, but God may change their minds, by convincing them of the truth."}
{"book": "2TI", "chapter": 2, "verse": "26", "text": "and so they may rouze out of the snare of the devil, who leads them captive at his discretion."}
{"book": "2TI", "chapter": 3, "verse": "1", "text": "Take notice that in the latter days difficult incidents will arise;"}
{"book": "2TI", "chapter": 3, "verse": "2", "text": "for men will be selfish, avaricious, vain, proud, slanderers, disobedient to parents, ungrateful,"}
{"book": "2TI", "chapter": 3, "verse": "3", "text": "villainous, unnatural, perfidious, defamers, debauchees,"}
{"book": "2TI", "chapter": 3, "verse": "4", "text": "cruel, enemies to virtue, traitors, insolent, conceited, and more devoted to pleasure than to piety:"}
{"book": "2TI", "chapter": 3, "verse": "5", "text": "of which they wear the appearance, but disclaim its influence, have no intercourse with such."}
{"book": "2TI", "chapter": 3, "verse": "6", "text": "Of this number are they, who insinuate themselves into families, to make a prey of the weaker sex, who are inveigled by their vitious suggestions, abetted by their own subtle passions,"}
{"book": "2TI", "chapter": 3, "verse": "7", "text": "and by lending an assiduous ear to such lessons, render it impossible they should ever be acquainted with the truth."}
{"book": "2TI", "chapter": 3, "verse": "8", "text": "Moses did not meet with greater opposition from Jannes and Jambres, than truth does from men so corrupted in their mind, and so adulterated in their faith."}
{"book": "2TI", "chapter": 3, "verse": "9", "text": "but they will be stop'd in their career; for they shall be expos'd to the world for impostors, as those magicians were. All Scripture Is God-Breathed ( Hebrews 4:12–16 )"}
{"book": "2TI", "chapter": 3, "verse": "10", "text": "As for me, you are perfectly acquainted with my doctrine, my conduct, my designs, my temper, my benevolence, my constancy,"}
{"book": "2TI", "chapter": 3, "verse": "11", "text": "my persecutions, and the sufferings that befel me at Antioch, at Iconium, at Lystra; what persecutions did I endure? but the Lord deliver'd me out of them all: yes,"}
{"book": "2TI", "chapter": 3, "verse": "12", "text": "and those who will live like Christians, shall generally suffer persecution."}
{"book": "2TI", "chapter": 3, "verse": "13", "text": "as for these impious impostors, they will go on from bad to worse, seducing others, and deluding themselves."}
{"book": "2TI", "chapter": 3, "verse": "14", "text": "But be you attach'd to the doctrine you have learnt, with which you are intrusted, considering by whom you have been instructed:"}
{"book": "2TI", "chapter": 3, "verse": "15", "text": "and that from your infancy you were acquainted with the sacred writings, which point you the way to salvation, by believing in Christ Jesus:"}
{"book": "2TI", "chapter": 3, "verse": "16", "text": "for all divinely inspired writings are conducive to instruction, to conviction, to reformation, and the practice of virtue;"}
{"book": "2TI", "chapter": 3, "verse": "17", "text": "that the minister of God may be perfectly accomplished for every office of religion."}
{"book": "2TI", "chapter": 4, "verse": "1", "text": "I conjure you in the name of God, and of the Lord Jesus Christ, who is to judge the living and the dead, at his appearance in his kingdom,"}
{"book": "2TI", "chapter": 4, "verse": "2", "text": "to preach the word with assiduity upon all occasions: reprove, censure, exhort, with the most tender persuasions."}
{"book": "2TI", "chapter": 4, "verse": "3", "text": "for the time will come, when they will not endure sound doctrine, but get teachers of their own corrupt taste, to sooth their ears that itch for flattery:"}
{"book": "2TI", "chapter": 4, "verse": "4", "text": "which, while they are deaf to the truth, attentively listen to fables."}
{"book": "2TI", "chapter": 4, "verse": "5", "text": "be you then entirely upon the watch: be insensible to toil: perform the work of an evangelist, and discharge your ministerial function."}
{"book": "2TI", "chapter": 4, "verse": "6", "text": "as for me, my blood will soon be pour'd out, and the time of my departure draws nigh:"}
{"book": "2TI", "chapter": 4, "verse": "7", "text": "I have struggled in a glorious cause: I have finish'd my career: I have stood to the faith:"}
{"book": "2TI", "chapter": 4, "verse": "8", "text": "I have nothing more to do, but to receive the crown of virtue reserv'd for me, which the Lord, the just judge, will give me in that day: and not only to me, but to those also, who have long'd for his appearance. Personal Concerns"}
{"book": "2TI", "chapter": 4, "verse": "9", "text": "Endeavour to come to me very soon:"}
{"book": "2TI", "chapter": 4, "verse": "10", "text": "for Damas, out of love to this world has abandon'd me, and is gone to Thessalonica: Crescens, to Galatia: and Titus, to Dalmatia."}
{"book": "2TI", "chapter": 4, "verse": "11", "text": "only Luke is with me, take Mark and bring him with you; because he will be useful to me in the ministry."}
{"book": "2TI", "chapter": 4, "verse": "12", "text": "Tychicus I have sent to Ephesus."}
{"book": "2TI", "chapter": 4, "verse": "13", "text": "when you come, bring the cloke and books, but especially the roll, which I left with Carpus at Troas."}
{"book": "2TI", "chapter": 4, "verse": "14", "text": "Alexander the copper-smith did me many injuries: the Lord may reward him according to his actions."}
{"book": "2TI", "chapter": 4, "verse": "15", "text": "beware of him, for he violently opposed our doctrine. The Lord Remains Faithful"}
{"book": "2TI", "chapter": 4, "verse": "16", "text": "At my first defence, I had no assistance, for every body deserted me. I wish it may never be laid to their charge."}
{"book": "2TI", "chapter": 4, "verse": "17", "text": "however the Lord assisted and strengthen'd me, that the gospel might be confirm'd by my remonstrance, and all the nations might hear it; so that I was deliver'd out of the mouth of the lion:"}
{"book": "2TI", "chapter": 4, "verse": "18", "text": "and the Lord will deliver me from every malicious design, and preserve me for his heavenly kingdom, to him be glory to endless ages, amen. Final Greetings ( Ephesians 6:21–24 ; Philippians 4:21–23 )"}
{"book": "2TI", "chapter": 4, "verse": "19", "text": "Salute Prisca, and Aquila, and the family of Onesiphorus."}
{"book": "2TI", "chapter": 4, "verse": "20", "text": "Erastus staid at Corinth: but Trophimus I left sick at Miletum."}
{"book": "2TI", "chapter": 4, "verse": "21", "text": "endeavour to come before winter. Eubulus, Prudens, Linus, Claudia, and all the brethren salute you."}
{"book": "2TI", "chapter": 4, "verse": "22", "text": "the Lord Jesus Christ be with your spirit, grace be with you. AMEN."}
{"book": "TIT", "chapter": 1, "verse": "1", "text": "Paul a servant of God, and an apostle of Jesus Christ, to declare the faith which recommends men to the divine favour, and to convince them of that truth, which leads to piety,"}
{"book": "TIT", "chapter": 1, "verse": "2", "text": "and gives the expectation of eternal life, which the God of veracity promised so many ages ago;"}
{"book": "TIT", "chapter": 1, "verse": "3", "text": "and has in due time manifested by the preaching of his word, which is committed to me according to the commandment of God our saviour:"}
{"book": "TIT", "chapter": 1, "verse": "4", "text": "TO Titus my own convert to the common faith: grace and peace from God the father, and the Lord Jesus Christ our saviour. Appointing Elders on Crete ( 1 Timothy 3:1–7 ; 1 Peter 5:1–4 )"}
{"book": "TIT", "chapter": 1, "verse": "5", "text": "I left you in Crete, to regulate what was amiss, and to ordain pastors in every city, as I had appointed you,"}
{"book": "TIT", "chapter": 1, "verse": "6", "text": "to chuse such as are without reproach, married to but one wife, whose children are obedient, not accused of debauchery, nor unruly."}
{"book": "TIT", "chapter": 1, "verse": "7", "text": "for a bishop must be blameless, as the steward of God; not morose, not soon angry, not given to wine, not violent, not desirous of unlawful gain."}
{"book": "TIT", "chapter": 1, "verse": "8", "text": "but a lover of hospitality, humane, prudent, just, holy, temperate;"}
{"book": "TIT", "chapter": 1, "verse": "9", "text": "attach'd to the truth, that has been taught him, that he may be able to teach others sound doctrine, and to convince those who oppose it. Correcting False Teachers ( 1 Timothy 1:3–11 )"}
{"book": "TIT", "chapter": 1, "verse": "10", "text": "For there are many, especially among the Jews, who are obstinate, vain talkers and deceivers;"}
{"book": "TIT", "chapter": 1, "verse": "11", "text": "who ought to be curb'd, who pervert whole families, teaching things which they ought not, for sordid lucre."}
{"book": "TIT", "chapter": 1, "verse": "12", "text": "one of their own prophets said, \"the Cretans are always liars, evil beasts, slow bellies.\""}
{"book": "TIT", "chapter": 1, "verse": "13", "text": "the charge is true: wherefore rebuke them sharply, that they maybe sound in the faith;"}
{"book": "TIT", "chapter": 1, "verse": "14", "text": "not doating on Jewish Fables, and the tenets of men, that deviate from the truth."}
{"book": "TIT", "chapter": 1, "verse": "15", "text": "to the pure all things are pure: but to corrupt infidels nothing is pure; whose very mind and conscience is polluted."}
{"book": "TIT", "chapter": 1, "verse": "16", "text": "they make a profession of knowing God; but in fact they deny him, being execrably incredulous, and utter strangers to all virtue."}
{"book": "TIT", "chapter": 2, "verse": "1", "text": "As for you, teach nothing"}
{"book": "TIT", "chapter": 2, "verse": "2", "text": "but what is agreeable to sound doctrine: advise the aged to be prudent, grave, temperate, sound in faith,"}
{"book": "TIT", "chapter": 2, "verse": "3", "text": "in charity, in patience: the aged women likewise, to behave with sanctity of manners, not false accusers, not given to tipling,"}
{"book": "TIT", "chapter": 2, "verse": "4", "text": "but to lectures on virtue, that they may teach the young women prudence, to love their husbands,"}
{"book": "TIT", "chapter": 2, "verse": "5", "text": "to love their children, to be discreet, chaste, good oeconimists, beneficent, submissive to their husbands,"}
{"book": "TIT", "chapter": 2, "verse": "6", "text": "that the word of God may not be blasphemed, the young men likewise exhort to be modest."}
{"book": "TIT", "chapter": 2, "verse": "7", "text": "In all things show yourself a pattern of virtue: in teaching shewing uncorruptness,"}
{"book": "TIT", "chapter": 2, "verse": "8", "text": "gravity; let your doctrine be sound and inoffensive, that your opponents may be ashamed, and have nothing that is ill to say of us."}
{"book": "TIT", "chapter": 2, "verse": "9", "text": "Exhort servants to be obedient to their masters, to be"}
{"book": "TIT", "chapter": 2, "verse": "10", "text": "entirely obsequious without grumbling, not to pilfer, but to show the strictest fidelity; that they may do honour to the doctrine of God our saviour in all things. God’s Grace Brings Salvation"}
{"book": "TIT", "chapter": 2, "verse": "11", "text": "For the divine savour has display'd its salutary effects to all mankind:"}
{"book": "TIT", "chapter": 2, "verse": "12", "text": "teaching us to renounce impiety and worldly passions, and to practise temperance, justice and piety in this present world;"}
{"book": "TIT", "chapter": 2, "verse": "13", "text": "in expectation of that desirable happiness, the glorious appearance of the supreme God, and of our saviour Jesus Christ,"}
{"book": "TIT", "chapter": 2, "verse": "14", "text": "who gave himself for us, to redeem us from all iniquity, and qualify us to be his peculiar people, passionately affected to virtue."}
{"book": "TIT", "chapter": 2, "verse": "15", "text": "these things remonstrate: recommend and enforce with all your authority: guard yourself against all contempt."}
{"book": "TIT", "chapter": 3, "verse": "1", "text": "Admonish them to be subject to princes and to magistrates, to obey their orders, and to exert their virtue and loyalty upon all occasions."}
{"book": "TIT", "chapter": 3, "verse": "2", "text": "to speak evil of no man, to avoid contention, to be moderate and entirely inoffensive to all men."}
{"book": "TIT", "chapter": 3, "verse": "3", "text": "for even we ourselves were once inconsiderate, disobedient, deluded, addicted to variety of passions and pleasures, living in malice and envy, the deserving objects of mutual hatred."}
{"book": "TIT", "chapter": 3, "verse": "4", "text": "but when the kindness and love of God our saviour display'd itself to mankind,"}
{"book": "TIT", "chapter": 3, "verse": "5", "text": "he saved us not in consideration of any virtuous actions which we had done, but out of his meer mercy, by the baptism of regeneration, he form'd us anew, by the plentiful effusion of the holy spirit,"}
{"book": "TIT", "chapter": 3, "verse": "6", "text": "thro' Jesus Christ our saviour:"}
{"book": "TIT", "chapter": 3, "verse": "7", "text": "that being justified by his favour, we should have the inheritance of eternal life, according to our hopes."}
{"book": "TIT", "chapter": 3, "verse": "8", "text": "This is a secure rule, and what I would have you constantly maintain, that they who have believed in God, should take care to be examples of virtue, for that is commendable and useful to mankind. Avoid Divisions ( Romans 16:17–20 )"}
{"book": "TIT", "chapter": 3, "verse": "9", "text": "but avoid frivolous enquiries about genealogies, and vexatious disputes about the law; for they are unprofitable and vain."}
{"book": "TIT", "chapter": 3, "verse": "10", "text": "A man that is an heretick, after the first and second admonition, avoid:"}
{"book": "TIT", "chapter": 3, "verse": "11", "text": "it being plain that such a person is perverted, and knows in his own conscience that his tenets are false. Final Remarks and Greetings"}
{"book": "TIT", "chapter": 3, "verse": "12", "text": "When I shall send you Artemas, or Tychicus, endeavour to meet me at Nicopolis: for I have determined to winter there."}
{"book": "TIT", "chapter": 3, "verse": "13", "text": "dispatch Zenas the lawyer, and Apollos, and take care that nothing be wanting to their journey."}
{"book": "TIT", "chapter": 3, "verse": "14", "text": "Let our brethren too learn some honest profession to supply their occasions, that they may not be destitute of an income."}
{"book": "TIT", "chapter": 3, "verse": "15", "text": "All that are with me salute you, salute our christian friends, grace be with you all. AMEN."}
{"book": "PHM", "chapter": 1, "verse": "1", "text": "Paul a prisoner for Jesus Christ, and Timothy our brother, to Philemon our dearly beloved, and fellow-labourer,"}
{"book": "PHM", "chapter": 1, "verse": "2", "text": "to our beloved Appia, to Archippus our fellow-soldier, and to the church in your house, favour and peace be with you,"}
{"book": "PHM", "chapter": 1, "verse": "3", "text": "from God our father, and the Lord Jesus Christ. Philemon’s Faith and Love"}
{"book": "PHM", "chapter": 1, "verse": "4", "text": "I mention you always in my prayers,"}
{"book": "PHM", "chapter": 1, "verse": "5", "text": "and thank my God for the account I have of your faith in the Lord Jesus and the love you bear to all the saints;"}
{"book": "PHM", "chapter": 1, "verse": "6", "text": "so that the christian faith, which you have in common with us, displays itself to the observation of all good men about you."}
{"book": "PHM", "chapter": 1, "verse": "7", "text": "for your liberality, my brother, affected us with great joy and comfort, by your having refresh'd the bowels of the saints. Paul’s Appeal for Onesimus"}
{"book": "PHM", "chapter": 1, "verse": "8", "text": "Wherefore, tho' I have a right by virtue of my character, to prescribe what is fit:"}
{"book": "PHM", "chapter": 1, "verse": "9", "text": "I had rather apply to your benevolent temper, and desire you would regard the years of Paul, who am now also a prisoner for Jesus Christ,"}
{"book": "PHM", "chapter": 1, "verse": "10", "text": "and intercede with you for my son Onesimus, whom I made a convert whilst I was in chains."}
{"book": "PHM", "chapter": 1, "verse": "11", "text": "'tis true he was formerly useless to you, but now he will be useful to us both:"}
{"book": "PHM", "chapter": 1, "verse": "12", "text": "I have sent him back, therefore receive him as one that I tenderly love."}
{"book": "PHM", "chapter": 1, "verse": "13", "text": "I would have kept him with me, to assist me in your stead during my confinement for the gospel."}
{"book": "PHM", "chapter": 1, "verse": "14", "text": "but I would not do any thing without your consent; that your benefaction might not appear any ways forc'd, but perfectly voluntary."}
{"book": "PHM", "chapter": 1, "verse": "15", "text": "perhaps he quitted you for a while, to be yours for ever after:"}
{"book": "PHM", "chapter": 1, "verse": "16", "text": "not as a slave, but in another quality, as a dear brother whom I particularly value, but much more should you, both as he is your servant, and as he is a christian."}
{"book": "PHM", "chapter": 1, "verse": "17", "text": "I beg you therefore by the common ties of friendship to receive him as you would myself."}
{"book": "PHM", "chapter": 1, "verse": "18", "text": "if he has wrong'd you, or is indebted to you, place that to my account."}
{"book": "PHM", "chapter": 1, "verse": "19", "text": "I Paul give it under my own hand, I will repay it; not to say, that you owe your very self to me."}
{"book": "PHM", "chapter": 1, "verse": "20", "text": "for the Lord's sake, brother, let me have this satisfaction: refresh my heart for his sake."}
{"book": "PHM", "chapter": 1, "verse": "21", "text": "I writ this upon the presumption of your compliance, being persuaded that you will even do more than I mention."}
{"book": "PHM", "chapter": 1, "verse": "22", "text": "pray at the same time prepare me a lodging: for I trust that through your prayers I shall be restored to you. Additional Greetings"}
{"book": "PHM", "chapter": 1, "verse": "23", "text": "Epaphras my fellow-prisoner in the cause of Christ Jesus; Marcus,"}
{"book": "PHM", "chapter": 1, "verse": "24", "text": "Aristarchus, Demas, Luke, my fellow-labourers, salute you."}
{"book": "PHM", "chapter": 1, "verse": "25", "text": "the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with your spirit. AMEN."}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 1, "verse": "1", "text": "God who at sundry times, and in divers manners, spake in time past to the fathers by the prophets, hath in these last days spoken unto us by his SON,"}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 1, "verse": "2", "text": "whom he hath constituted heir of all things, by whom also be made the world."}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 1, "verse": "3", "text": "who being the radiation of his glory, and the imprest image of his substance, and governing all things by his powerful command, after having himself made expiation for our sins, sat down on the right hand of the divine majesty in the highest heavens."}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 1, "verse": "4", "text": "He is so much superiour to the angels, as the authority he possesses is more excellent than theirs."}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 1, "verse": "5", "text": "for to which of the angels did he ever say, \" thou art my son, this day have I begotten thee? and again, I will be his father, and he shall be my son?"}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 1, "verse": "6", "text": "and when he re-introduces the first-begotten into the world, he saith, \" and let all the angels of God worship him.\""}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 1, "verse": "7", "text": "and of the angels, he saith, who employs his angels like the winds, and flames of fire as his ministers.\""}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 1, "verse": "8", "text": "but to the son he saith, \"God is thy throne for ever and ever; the sceptre of thy kingdom is a sceptre of equity."}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 1, "verse": "9", "text": "thou hast loved justice and hated iniquity; therefore God, even thy God, hath anointed thee with the oil of gladness above thy peers.\""}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 1, "verse": "10", "text": "again, \"thou, Lord, in the beginning hast laid the foundation of the earth; and the heavens are the works of thy hands."}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 1, "verse": "11", "text": "they shall perish, but thou shalt remain: and they all shall come to an end like an old garment;"}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 1, "verse": "12", "text": "as a vesture shalt thou change them, and they shall be changed: but thou art the same, and thy years shall never end.\""}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 1, "verse": "13", "text": "But to which of the angels did he ever say, \"sit on my right hand, until I make thine enemies thy footstool?\""}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 1, "verse": "14", "text": "are not all those spirits dispatch'd as ministers to take care of those who shall belong to the christian church."}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 2, "verse": "1", "text": "Therefore we ought to give the greater attention to the things we have heard, for fear we should abandon the gospel."}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 2, "verse": "2", "text": "for if the law deliver'd by angels was put in execution, and every transgression and disobedience was justly punish'd as it deserv'd;"}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 2, "verse": "3", "text": "how shall we escape, if we neglect that salutary doctrine? which was first published by the Lord, and was confirmed to us by those that heard him;"}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 2, "verse": "4", "text": "God also giving an additional testimony both by signs, by prodigies, by divers miracles, and gifts of the holy spirit, which he distributes as he pleases. Jesus like His Brothers"}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 2, "verse": "5", "text": "'Tis not therefore to the angels that he has subjected the gospel state of which we are treating."}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 2, "verse": "6", "text": "and this is attested by a certain writer, who says, \"what is man that thou art mindful of him, or the son of man that thou visitest him?"}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 2, "verse": "7", "text": "thou hast made him for a while lower than the angels; thou hast crown'd him with glory and honour, and hast set him over the works of thy hands:"}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 2, "verse": "8", "text": "thou hast put all things in subjection under his feet.\" now since he has put all in subjection to him, he left nothing that is not subjected to him, however we do not see as yet that all things are put under him."}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 2, "verse": "9", "text": "but Jesus, who was for a while inferior to the angels by his sufferings and death, we see was crown'd with glory and honour; when by the divine goodness, he had pass'd thro' death for every man."}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 2, "verse": "10", "text": "For it was agreeable to his wisdom, for whom are all things, and by whom are all things, in bringing many sons unto glory, to consecrate the author of their salvation by his sufferings."}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 2, "verse": "11", "text": "for both he that sanctifieth, and they who are sanctified, are all deriv'd from one: for which cause he is not asham'd to call them brethren, saying,"}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 2, "verse": "12", "text": "\"I will declare thy name unto my brethren, in the midst of the church will I sing praise unto thee.\""}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 2, "verse": "13", "text": "and again, \"I will put my trust in him.\" and again, \"behold, I, and the children which God hath given me."}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 2, "verse": "14", "text": "Since then the children were made subject to a state of mortality, so he himself likewise was subject to the same condition: that through death he might destroy him that had the power of death, that is, the devil;"}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 2, "verse": "15", "text": "and deliver them who thro' fear of death were all their life-time in a state of slavery."}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 2, "verse": "16", "text": "for he is not the deliverer of angels; but the deliverer of Abraham's posterity."}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 2, "verse": "17", "text": "whence it was necessary he should be in all things like his brethren; that he might be a merciful high priest, and faithfully discharge the divine office of expiating the sins of the people."}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 2, "verse": "18", "text": "for having himself stood the test of sufferings, he is capable of being moved to relieve those who undergo such tryals."}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 3, "verse": "1", "text": "Wherefore, christian brethren, you who are called to an heavenly inheritance, consider the apostle and high priest of the faith we profess, even Christ Jesus;"}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 3, "verse": "2", "text": "who was faithful to him that constituted him such, as Moses likewise was faithful in all his administration of God's house."}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 3, "verse": "3", "text": "but as the architect is of much greater dignity than the house he has made; so the glory which Christ received was greater than that of Moses."}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 3, "verse": "4", "text": "no house is without a builder; now he that built the whole house of Israel is God."}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 3, "verse": "5", "text": "besides Moses throughout his whole administration acted in quality of a servant, representing to the people what he was order'd to say."}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 3, "verse": "6", "text": "but Christ govern'd his own house in quality of son and heir, and 'tis we that are his house, provided we stedfastly persevere unto the end in the publick profession of that hope, in virtue of which we glory. Do Not Harden Your Hearts"}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 3, "verse": "7", "text": "Wherefore as the holy spirit saith, \"since to-day you hear his voice,"}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 3, "verse": "8", "text": "harden not your hearts, as at Meriba and Massa in the desart:"}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 3, "verse": "9", "text": "where your fathers provoked me to give proofs of my power forty years, tho' they saw my works."}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 3, "verse": "10", "text": "wherefore I was displeased with that generation, and said, they do alway err in their hearts; and they have not known my ways."}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 3, "verse": "11", "text": "so I swear in my wrath, that they should not enter into my rest.\" The Peril of Unbelief"}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 3, "verse": "12", "text": "Take heed, brethren, lest there be in any of you such incredulity as to make you desert the living God."}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 3, "verse": "13", "text": "but exhort one another daily while the day lasts, lest any of you be hardned through the deceitfulness of sin."}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 3, "verse": "14", "text": "for we were receiv'd into the communion of Christ, upon condition of inviolably maintaining the hope we had at the beginning even unto the end,"}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 3, "verse": "15", "text": "which is imply'd by, \"to-day since ye hear his voice, harden not your hearts, as at Meriba.\""}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 3, "verse": "16", "text": "for some when they had heard his voice, did provoke him: however, not all that were brought out of Egypt by Moses did so."}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 3, "verse": "17", "text": "but with whom was he displeased forty years? was it not with those that had sinned, whose carcases fell in the desert?"}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 3, "verse": "18", "text": "and who were they, who, he sware, should not enter into his rest, but those that did not believe? so we see that they could not enter in,"}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 3, "verse": "19", "text": "because of their incredulity."}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 4, "verse": "1", "text": "Let us therefore fear, lest any of us by rejecting the promise of entring into his rest, should be excluded from it."}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 4, "verse": "2", "text": "for to us was the good promise made, as well as to them: but the word address'd to them was not effectually receiv'd with faith by those that heard it."}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 4, "verse": "3", "text": "Whereas 'tis we who have believed that shall enter into rest, as he said, \"wherefore I have sworn in my wrath, that they shall not enter into my rest.\" which is different from that rest, at the beginning of the world, when the work of creation was finished."}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 4, "verse": "4", "text": "of which in a certain place relating to the seventh day, 'tis said, \"and God did rest the seventh day from all his works.\""}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 4, "verse": "5", "text": "but in this place 'tis said, \"they shall not enter into my rest.\""}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 4, "verse": "6", "text": "Since there remains then a rest which some are still to enter into, for they to whom the promise was first made, did not enter in, because of their incredulity;"}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 4, "verse": "7", "text": "he pointed out another time in the words, which were spoken by David, a long time after their going into Canaan, in the passage just now quoted, \"today since ye hear his voice, harden not your hearts.\""}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 4, "verse": "8", "text": "for if Joshuah had given them rest, David would not afterwards have mentioned another day."}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 4, "verse": "9", "text": "which shows that the people of God have a sabbath still to come."}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 4, "verse": "10", "text": "then he that enters into divine rest, will indeed rest from his works, as God did from his."}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 4, "verse": "11", "text": "Let us labour therefore to enter into that rest, lest any of us by imitating their incredulity, should fall short thereof like them. The Living Word ( 2 Timothy 3:10–17 )"}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 4, "verse": "12", "text": "for the word of God is active and efficacious, sharper than any two-edged sword, penetrating even to the division of soul and spirit, to the smallest and most inward parts, distinguishing the thoughts, and intentions of the heart."}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 4, "verse": "13", "text": "so that there is not a creature that is concealed from his view: but all is naked and open to the eyes of him of whom we speak. Having then so great a high priest,"}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 4, "verse": "14", "text": "who is passed into the heavens, Jesus the son of God, let us hold fast our profession, for we have"}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 4, "verse": "15", "text": "not an high priest who is incapable of compassionating our miseries; since he was exposed to the same trials as we are, sin only excepted, let"}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 4, "verse": "16", "text": "us therefore approach with confidence to the throne of grace, that we may obtain the seasonable assistance of divine mercy and favour."}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 5, "verse": "1", "text": "For every high priest is appointed to officiate for men in religious matters, offering gifts and sacrifices for their sins: being chosen from among the people, that as he himself is surrounded with infirmities,"}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 5, "verse": "2", "text": "he might have the greater compassion for those who sin through ignorance or mistake, and for the same reason"}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 5, "verse": "3", "text": "he is obliged to offer sacrifices for his own sins as well as for those of the people, besides, no man can assume"}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 5, "verse": "4", "text": "to himself the honour of the priesthood: he must be called thereto by God, as Aaron was."}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 5, "verse": "5", "text": "Wherefore Christ himself did not assume the character of an high priest; but it was confirm'd by him that said, \"thou art my son, to-day have I begotten thee.\""}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 5, "verse": "6", "text": "as he saith too in another place, \"thou art a priest for ever after the order of Melchisedec.\""}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 5, "verse": "7", "text": "this was Jesus, who while he was in a mortal body, having offered up prayers and supplications, with strong cries, and with tears, to him that was able to save him from that death, was heard so as to be delivered from his fear;"}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 5, "verse": "8", "text": "for tho' he was the son of God, yet he found by his own sufferings what it was to obey,"}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 5, "verse": "9", "text": "and by a perfect obedience he procured eternal salvation for all that obey him;"}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 5, "verse": "10", "text": "God having declared him an high priest after the order of Melchisedec. Milk and Solid Food ( 1 Corinthians 3:1–9 )"}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 5, "verse": "11", "text": "On this head we have many things to say, not easily to be comprehended, because of your prejudices."}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 5, "verse": "12", "text": "for though by this time you ought to be capable of teaching others, you want to be instructed anew in the first principles of the divine oracles; and are in such a state as to stand in need of milk, rather than of solid nourishment."}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 5, "verse": "13", "text": "now he that is disciplined like a child, is not prepared for the doctrine of justification:"}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 5, "verse": "14", "text": "such solid nourishment is only fit for such as are arriv'd at their full growth and strength, whose senses have been exercis'd in distinguishing what is good, and what is prejudicial."}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 6, "verse": "1", "text": "Therefore omitting for the present the principles of the christian doctrine, we shall proceed to something more sublime, without mentioning those fundamental articles of repentance from destructive vices, and of divine faith:"}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 6, "verse": "2", "text": "the doctrine of baptisms, and laying on of hands, the resurrection of the dead, and eternal judgment:"}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 6, "verse": "3", "text": "of which we shall treat another time, if God permit."}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 6, "verse": "4", "text": "For it is impossible for those who were once enlightned, and have received the heavenly gifts, communicated by the holy spirit,"}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 6, "verse": "5", "text": "and have known by experience the truth of the divine promises, and the miracles of the age that was to come; it is impossible,"}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 6, "verse": "6", "text": "if they shall fall away, to re-instate themselves by repentance: seeing, as far in them lies, they crucify the son of God afresh, and expose him to open shame."}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 6, "verse": "7", "text": "for the earth which drinks up the frequent show'rs that fall upon it, and produces plants fit for the use of him that cultivates it, is stiled heavenly land:"}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 6, "verse": "8", "text": "but that which bears thorns and briars, is look'd upon as lying under a curse; whose end will be to be burnt."}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 6, "verse": "9", "text": "But though we speak in this manner, my dear brethren, we expect better things of you, and such as are more suitable to your salvation."}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 6, "verse": "10", "text": "for God is too just to his promise not to regard your piety, and the love which you have shewn to the christian religion by the assistance ye have given to the saints, and still continue to give."}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 6, "verse": "11", "text": "but we desire that every one of you may shew the same concern, continuing to discharge the condition upon which your hopes are founded: that ye be not unactive,"}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 6, "verse": "12", "text": "but imitate the example of those who by faith and patience have obtain'd the inheritance that was promis'd to them. God’s Unchangeable Promise"}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 6, "verse": "13", "text": "For when God gave his promise to Abraham, because he could swear by no greater, he sware by himself, saying,"}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 6, "verse": "14", "text": "\"surely I will heap blessings upon thee, and will give thee a numerous posterity.\""}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 6, "verse": "15", "text": "and after he had patiently waited, he obtained what was promised."}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 6, "verse": "16", "text": "for when men swear by a superior, the ratifying what they say with an oath, puts an end to all further debate."}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 6, "verse": "17", "text": "wherefore God was willing to give the heirs of promise a stronger proof of the immutability of his counsel, by the intervention of an oath:"}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 6, "verse": "18", "text": "that by two immutable things in which it was impossible for God to deceive us, we, who have no other refuge to fly to, but to maintain our present hopes,"}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 6, "verse": "19", "text": "might have strong consolation to serve as a sure and stedfast anchor to the soul: till it arrives within the veil,"}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 6, "verse": "20", "text": "where Jesus is gone to usher us in, having been made an high priest for ever, after the order of Melchisedec."}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 7, "verse": "1", "text": "For this Melchisedec was both king of Salem, and a priest of the most high God; 'twas he who met Abraham returning from the slaughter of the kings, and blessed him:"}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 7, "verse": "2", "text": "to whom also Abraham gave a tenth part of the whole booty: first, being by the signification of his name king of justice, and in fact king of Salem, which is, king of peace;"}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 7, "verse": "3", "text": "without father, without mother, without genealogy; his days have no beginning, and his life no end; but like the son of God, he was a perpetual priest."}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 7, "verse": "4", "text": "Now consider the dignity of this person, to whom even the patriarch Abraham gave the tenth of the spoils."}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 7, "verse": "5", "text": "'tis true they of the race of Levi, who assume the office of the priesthood, have a right by law to take tithes of the people, that is, of their brethren, though they all issued from Abraham:"}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 7, "verse": "6", "text": "but he who was not of their pedigree, received tithes from Abraham, and blessed him to whom the promises were made."}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 7, "verse": "7", "text": "now 'tis past dispute, he that is blessed is inferior to him that blesses:"}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 7, "verse": "8", "text": "besides here they that receive tithes are men who die: but there 'twas he of whom it is testified that he liveth."}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 7, "verse": "9", "text": "and even Levi who received tithes, pay'd tithes, if I may so say, in the person of Abraham."}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 7, "verse": "10", "text": "for he was even then in the loins of his father, when Melchisedec met him. A Superior Priesthood"}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 7, "verse": "11", "text": "If therefore the Levitical priesthood, concerning which the people received a law, could have given perfection, what further need was there that another priest should rise, to be named after the order of Melchisedec, and not after the order of Aaron?"}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 7, "verse": "12", "text": "now the priesthood being changed, the law must necessarily be changed too."}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 7, "verse": "13", "text": "for he who was there mention'd was of another tribe, none of whom ever gave attendance at the altar."}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 7, "verse": "14", "text": "since it is evident that our Lord sprang out of the tribe of Juda, to which Moses never ascribed the priesthood."}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 7, "verse": "15", "text": "This appears still more clear from another priest's arising like Melchisedec,"}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 7, "verse": "16", "text": "who was not establish'd by virtue of a temporary law, but with the power of being a perpetual priest."}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 7, "verse": "17", "text": "for it is said, \"thou art a priest for ever after the order of Melchisedec.\""}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 7, "verse": "18", "text": "wherefore the preceeding law is abolished for its being weak and useless."}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 7, "verse": "19", "text": "for the law made no man perfect, but this was effected by introducing a better hope, which brings us nearer to the divine presence."}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 7, "verse": "20", "text": "Besides those priests were establish'd without any oath: but this with an oath,"}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 7, "verse": "21", "text": "by him that said to him, \"the Lord has swore, and will not repent, thou art a priest for ever after the order of Melchisedec.\""}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 7, "verse": "22", "text": "so that Jesus was made guarantee of an alliance so much the more excellent, as it was not without the solemnity of an oath."}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 7, "verse": "23", "text": "besides, the priesthood then devolv'd to many, death depriving them of a lasting possession."}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 7, "verse": "24", "text": "but he, by virtue of his immortal state, hath a priesthood that does not pass by succession."}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 7, "verse": "25", "text": "so that he has an uninterrupted power to save those, that come to God by him, because he ever lives to make intercession for them."}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 7, "verse": "26", "text": "and indeed we wanted an high priest of such a character, one that is holy, innocent, undefiled, one that is separated from sinful men, and exalted above the heavens; one who was under no necessity,"}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 7, "verse": "27", "text": "as those high priests of the law were, to offer up daily sacrifices, first for his own sins, and then for those of the people: having done this once for all, by offering up himself."}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 7, "verse": "28", "text": "for the law appointed frail mortals to be high priests, but the oracle pronounc'd with an oath, which was since the law, established the son, who is crown'd with immortal perfections."}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 8, "verse": "1", "text": "What we have said amounts to this; we have an high priest, who sits in heaven on the right hand of the throne of the divine majesty."}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 8, "verse": "2", "text": "a priest of the sanctuary, and of the true tabernacle which the Lord made, and not man."}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 8, "verse": "3", "text": "every high priest being establish'd to offer gifts and sacrifices: it was necessary that he likewise should make a peculiar offering,"}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 8, "verse": "4", "text": "which office he could not discharge here upon earth, where priests are already establish'd, who offer gifts according to the law:"}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 8, "verse": "5", "text": "and officiate in the sanctuary, which was a gross representation of that in heaven, agreeable to the order given by God to Moses, when he projected the tabernacle, \"be very exact, said he, in following the model which was laid before thee in the mount.\" The New Covenant"}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 8, "verse": "6", "text": "Our high priest then has obtained a priesthood so much the more excellent, as he is the mediator of a better alliance, established upon better promises."}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 8, "verse": "7", "text": "for if the first alliance had been without defect, there could have been no occasion for the second."}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 8, "verse": "8", "text": "nor for that reproach, which was made to our fathers, where 'tis said, \"behold, the days come, saith the Lord, when I will make a new alliance with the house of Israel, and with the house of Juda:"}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 8, "verse": "9", "text": "not according to the alliance that I made with their fathers, when I took them by the hand, to lead them out of the land of Egypt; for they have not kept my alliance, wherefore I have rejected them, saith the Lord."}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 8, "verse": "10", "text": "but this is the alliance that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, saith the Lord: I will put my laws into their mind, and write them in their hearts: I will be their God, and they shall be my people."}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 8, "verse": "11", "text": "they shall no longer instruct every man his neighbour, and every man his brother, saying, know the Lord: for all shall know me, from the least to the greatest."}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 8, "verse": "12", "text": "for I will pardon their iniquity, and their sins and their trangressions will I remember no more.\""}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 8, "verse": "13", "text": "now by stiling the second a new alliance, he has antiquated the first, but to be antiquated and obsolete is next to being abolished."}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 9, "verse": "1", "text": "The first alliance then had rites of divine service, and a worldly sanctuary."}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 9, "verse": "2", "text": "for the disposition of the tabernacle was such, that in the first part named the sanctuary, were placed the candlestick, the table, and the shew-bread;"}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 9, "verse": "3", "text": "and beyond the veil, was the second part of the tabernacle which is called the holy of holys;"}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 9, "verse": "4", "text": "there was the golden censer, and the ark of the covenant gilded all over with gold, wherein was the golden urn containing the manna, and Aaron's rod that budded, and the tables of the alliance."}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 9, "verse": "5", "text": "over the ark were the cherubims of glory covering the propitiatory with their wings, of which we cannot now enter into a particular detail."}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 9, "verse": "6", "text": "These things being thus disposed, the priests went at all times into the first part of the tabernacle, to officiate the divine service, but into the other part,"}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 9, "verse": "7", "text": "the high priest only enter'd, and that but once every year, when he carried the blood, which he offered for himself, and for the errors of the people."}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 9, "verse": "8", "text": "the holy spirit showing thereby, that the way to the holy of holys, was not yet open, while the first tabernacle was standing."}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 9, "verse": "9", "text": "This type subsists to the present time, both gifts and sacrifices being still offered, which cannot purify the mind of him that officiates"}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 9, "verse": "10", "text": "only in matters relating to meats and drinks, and divers baptisms, meer external rites which were to subsist only till the time of reformation. Redemption through His Blood"}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 9, "verse": "11", "text": "but Christ, the high priest of a better dispensation that was to come, having appeared, is enter'd into the holy of holys by a nobler and more perfect tabernacle, not the effect of human art, but of a higher nature;"}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 9, "verse": "12", "text": "nor with the blood of goats and calves, but with his own blood he enter'd once for all into the holy of holys, after having obtained for us an eternal redemption."}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 9, "verse": "13", "text": "For if the blood of goats and of bulls, and the ashes of an heifer sprinkled on the unclean, can cleanse them from external impurities;"}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 9, "verse": "14", "text": "how much more shall the blood of Christ, who through the holy spirit offered himself a spotless victim to God, purify our souls from deadly sins, to serve the living God?"}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 9, "verse": "15", "text": "and for this cause he is the mediator of the new testament, that, the transgressions that were unexpiated by the first testament, being expiated by his death, they who are called might receive the eternal inheritance, which was promised."}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 9, "verse": "16", "text": "For where a testament is, there the death of the testator is necessarily pre-suppos'd."}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 9, "verse": "17", "text": "because a testament has no effect till after the demise: it not being in force while the testator is alive."}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 9, "verse": "18", "text": "whence even the first testament was not established without the effusion of blood."}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 9, "verse": "19", "text": "for when every precept of the law had been represented by Moses to all the people, he took the blood of calves and of goats, with water, wool of a scarlet dye, and hyssop, and sprinkled both the book of the law and all the people,"}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 9, "verse": "20", "text": "saying, \"this is the blood of the testament which God has made in your behalf.\""}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 9, "verse": "21", "text": "he sprinkled likewise the tabernacle with blood, and all the vessels used in divine service."}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 9, "verse": "22", "text": "and indeed according to the law almost every thing is purified with blood, without the effusion of which, there is no remission of sins."}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 9, "verse": "23", "text": "It was therefore necessary that what was only a type of the heavenly sanctuary, should be purified by such sacrifices; but the heavenly sanctuary itself, by a more excellent sacrifice."}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 9, "verse": "24", "text": "for Christ is not entred into a sanctuary made by human art, such as is only representative of the true one, but into heaven itself, to appear from henceforth in the presence of God on our behalf:"}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 9, "verse": "25", "text": "nor to make a frequent offering of himself, as the high priest every year enters into the holy of holies with other blood than his own."}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 9, "verse": "26", "text": "for then must he have suffered several times since the beginning of the world, when in the consummation of the ages, he has appeared once for all to expiate sin by offering himself as a sacrifice."}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 9, "verse": "27", "text": "as then it is appointed that men should die but once, after which the judgment ensues;"}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 9, "verse": "28", "text": "so Christ being once offered up to take away the sins of many; he shall appear the second time, without making any further expiation to save those who expect him."}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 10, "verse": "1", "text": "For the law being only an allusion to a future dispensation that was more excellent, and not an exact imitation of such a state, cannot by the anniversary sacrifices, which are offered, entirely purify those that present themselves."}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 10, "verse": "2", "text": "for then they would not have been repeated, because they who sacrificed being once purified, would not have been conscious of wanting any further atonement for their sins:"}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 10, "verse": "3", "text": "whereas their annual sacrifices were accompanied with an anniversary commemoration of their sins."}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 10, "verse": "4", "text": "And indeed it is not possible that the blood of bulls and of goats, should take away the guilt of sin."}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 10, "verse": "5", "text": "wherefore at his appearing in publick, he saith, \"sacrifice and offering thou wouldst not, but a body hast thou prepared me:"}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 10, "verse": "6", "text": "in burnt-offerings and sacrifices for sin thou hast had no pleasure:"}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 10, "verse": "7", "text": "then said I, lo I come, as in the volume of the book it is written of me, to do thy will, O God.\""}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 10, "verse": "8", "text": "after having said, \"victims, oblations, holocausts, and sacrifice for sin, thou wouldst not, neither hadst pleasure therein,\" tho' they are all prescrib'd by the law;"}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 10, "verse": "9", "text": "he immediately adds, \"lo, I come to do thy WILL, O God.\" he abolishes the first to establish the second:"}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 10, "verse": "10", "text": "in consequence of which WILL we are sanctified by the oblation which Jesus Christ has made once for all of his own body."}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 10, "verse": "11", "text": "While the high priest in his daily administrations frequently repeated the same sacrifices which could by no means expiate sin;"}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 10, "verse": "12", "text": "Christ, after he had offered one sacrifice for sin, sat down on the right hand of God for ever:"}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 10, "verse": "13", "text": "expecting the only event still remaining, the entire subjection of his enemies."}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 10, "verse": "14", "text": "for by one single oblation he has purified for ever those that are sanctified."}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 10, "verse": "15", "text": "and this is what the holy spirit declares, when after having said,"}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 10, "verse": "16", "text": "\"this is the alliance that I will make with them after those days, saith the Lord; I will put my laws into their hearts, and in their mind will I write them:"}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 10, "verse": "17", "text": "he adds, and their sins and iniquities will I remember no more.\""}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 10, "verse": "18", "text": "now where they are remitted, there is no need of any further oblation for sin. A Call to Persevere ( Jude 1:17–23 )"}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 10, "verse": "19", "text": "Wherefore, my brethren, since by virtue of the blood of Jesus we have the liberty of entring into the holy of holies,"}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 10, "verse": "20", "text": "by a new and living way which he has first open'd for us, thro' the veil, that is, thro' his flesh;"}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 10, "verse": "21", "text": "and having an high priest, who is established over the house of God,"}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 10, "verse": "22", "text": "let us draw near with sincerity, in full assurance of faith, having our consciences purified from guilt, and our bodies washed with pure water."}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 10, "verse": "23", "text": "Let us stedfastly maintain the hope which we have avow'd, since he is faithful that has promised:"}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 10, "verse": "24", "text": "and let us animate one another to the mutual returns of love, and kind offices: not abandoning our assemblies,"}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 10, "verse": "25", "text": "as some do; but encourage one another: even so much the more, as you see the day approaching."}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 10, "verse": "26", "text": "for if we wilfully apostatize, after having received the knowledge of the truth, it is as a sin for which there is no sacrifice appointed."}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 10, "verse": "27", "text": "and nothing is to be expected but that dreadful judgment, and fiery indignation, which shall devour all such adversaries."}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 10, "verse": "28", "text": "He that by two or three witnesses was convicted of violating Moses's law, was put to death without mercy."}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 10, "verse": "29", "text": "don't you think then that he deserves a much greater punishment, who hath despised the son of God, and counted the blood of the covenant wherewith be was sanctified, to have been justly shed, thereby offering an indignity to the spirit of grace?"}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 10, "verse": "30", "text": "for we know who it is that has said, \"vengeance belongeth unto me, I will repay.\" and again, \"the Lord shall revenge his people.\""}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 10, "verse": "31", "text": "it is a terrible thing to fall into the hands of the living God."}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 10, "verse": "32", "text": "Call to remembrance the former times, in which after ye were illuminated, you were forc'd to struggle with sufferings,"}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 10, "verse": "33", "text": "some of you being expos'd to publick obloquy and persecution: whilst others had their share of affliction in seeing such treatment."}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 10, "verse": "34", "text": "for you were passionately affected for those who were in bonds, and were pleas'd at the seizing of your goods, knowing that you have what is more excellent and lasting."}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 10, "verse": "35", "text": "don't therefore quit that resolution you have, which will be attended with so great a reward."}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 10, "verse": "36", "text": "for it is necessary you should persevere, that after having perform'd what God has commanded, you may receive what he has promised."}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 10, "verse": "37", "text": "only wait but a little while, and he that is to come, will come without delay."}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 10, "verse": "38", "text": "the just shall have life by trusting in me, but if he revolt, he will be the object of my displeasure."}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 10, "verse": "39", "text": "as for us, we are not such as desert to their own destruction; but such as persevere in the faith, to the saving of our souls."}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 11, "verse": "1", "text": "Now faith is the foundation of our hopes of happiness, and the persuasion we have about things not evident to our senses."}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 11, "verse": "2", "text": "and it was for their faith that our fore-fathers acquired so great a reputation."}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 11, "verse": "3", "text": "'Tis by faith we learn that the worlds were framed by the word of God, so that the visible world was not made out of any thing that did appear. The Faith of Abel, Enoch, Noah"}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 11, "verse": "4", "text": "'Twas by faith that Abel offered unto God a more excellent sacrifice than Cain, by which he was declared righteous, God himself having testified that he accepted his offering, and after he died for his faith, he was not silent."}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 11, "verse": "5", "text": "By faith Enoch was translated that he might avoid dying; and he could not be found, because God had translated him: for 'tis recorded, that before his translation he was approved by God."}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 11, "verse": "6", "text": "now without faith it is impossible to be acceptable to him: for he that presents himself to God, cannot but believe he exists, and that he is a rewarder of those who make their addresses to him."}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 11, "verse": "7", "text": "'Twas by faith that Noah being divinely warned of unforeseen events, with a religious concern built an ark to the preservation of his family; whereby the world became inexcusable, and he obtained the reward of that righteousness which is by faith. The Faith of Abraham and Sarah ( Romans 4:1–12 )"}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 11, "verse": "8", "text": "'Twas by faith that he who was named Abraham, showed his obedience in travelling to a foreign country, which he was afterwards to inherit; and began his journey without knowing where he was going."}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 11, "verse": "9", "text": "'twas by faith that he sojourned in a land that was promised, as in a strange country, dwelling in tents with Isaac and Jacob, who were equally entitled to the same promise."}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 11, "verse": "10", "text": "for he had in view the city, whose foundations are sure, the architect and founder being God."}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 11, "verse": "11", "text": "'Twas likewise through faith that Sara, though barren, received the power of becoming pregnant, and was delivered of a child when she was past age, because she judged him faithful who had promised."}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 11, "verse": "12", "text": "so that even a single person whose vigour was gone, gave rise to a posterity as numerous as the stars of the sky, or the sands on the sea-shore, which cannot be numbred."}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 11, "verse": "13", "text": "These all died in faith, without receiving what was promised, having only a distant view of what they eagerly expected, professing to live as strangers and pilgrims in the land."}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 11, "verse": "14", "text": "for they, that make such a declaration, show plainly that they seek some other country."}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 11, "verse": "15", "text": "and truly, if that had been in their view, they might have had an opportunity of returning to the place from whence they came."}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 11, "verse": "16", "text": "they desired therefore a better, that is, an heavenly country: so that God is very justly stiled their God: for he had appointed a city for them."}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 11, "verse": "17", "text": "'Twas by faith that Abraham, when put to the trial, offered up Isaac: HE offered up his darling son, to whose posterity the promises were to be made good:"}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 11, "verse": "18", "text": "of whom it was said, \"only the descendants of Isaac shall be counted your posterity:\""}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 11, "verse": "19", "text": "concluding that God was able to raise him up, even from the grave; from whence, in a figurative sense, be may be said to have been recover'd. The Faith of Isaac, Jacob, and Joseph"}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 11, "verse": "20", "text": "By faith Isaac predicted the future fortunes of Jacob and Esau."}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 11, "verse": "21", "text": "by faith Jacob when he was a dying, blessed both the sons of Joseph; and worshipped leaning upon the top of his staff."}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 11, "verse": "22", "text": "by faith Joseph when he died, made mention of the departure of the children of Israel; and gave directions concerning his burial. The Faith of Moses ( Acts 7:20–22 )"}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 11, "verse": "23", "text": "'Twas by faith that the parents of Moses conceal'd him for three months after his birth, because they saw he was a beautiful child; and they were not afraid of the king's edict."}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 11, "verse": "24", "text": "by faith Moses when he was grown up, refused to be called the son of Pharaoh's daughter;"}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 11, "verse": "25", "text": "chusing rather to suffer affliction with the people of God, than to enjoy the pleasures of sin for a season;"}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 11, "verse": "26", "text": "esteeming the sufferings of Israel greater riches than the treasures of Egypt: for he had an eye to the reward."}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 11, "verse": "27", "text": "by faith he left Egypt without being apprehensive of the king's resentment: for he remain'd firm, as if he saw him who is invisible."}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 11, "verse": "28", "text": "through faith he celebrated the passover, and sprinkled blood, that the destroying angel might pass by the first-born."}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 11, "verse": "29", "text": "By faith they passed thro' the red sea, as by dry land: which the Egyptians attempting to do, were drowned. The Faith of Many"}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 11, "verse": "30", "text": "by faith they made the tour of Jericho for seven days, in consequence of which the walls fell down."}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 11, "verse": "31", "text": "by faith Rahab having given the spies a safe reception, escap'd being destroyed with unbelievers, tho' she had led a dissolute life."}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 11, "verse": "32", "text": "And what shall I say more? for the time would fail me to tell of Gedeon, of Barak, of Samson, of Jephthae, of David, of Samuel, and of the prophets:"}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 11, "verse": "33", "text": "who through faith subdued kingdoms, practis'd justice, obtained what was promised, stopped the mouths of lions,"}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 11, "verse": "34", "text": "were proof against the violence of fire, escaped the edge of the sword, show'd their resolution in distress, and their valour in fight, putting to flight the armies of the aliens."}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 11, "verse": "35", "text": "women recovered their children, tho' dead, by their being raised to life again: some expired under torments, refusing to be delivered; that they might obtain a better deliverance at the resurrection."}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 11, "verse": "36", "text": "others suffer'd cruel indignities and scourgings, besides chains and imprisonment."}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 11, "verse": "37", "text": "they were stoned, they were sawn asunder, were tempted, were slain with the sword: they wandred about in sheepskins, and goat-skins, being destitute, afflicted, tormented:"}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 11, "verse": "38", "text": "(of whom the world was not worthy) they wandred in desarts, and in mountains, having no retreat but the dens and caves of the earth."}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 11, "verse": "39", "text": "Tho' these were all celebrated for their faith, they did not receive the reward that was promised:"}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 11, "verse": "40", "text": "because God out of his distinguishing kindness to us, would not let them arrive before us to the enjoyment of perfect felicity."}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 12, "verse": "1", "text": "Wherefore, since we are surrounded with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every incumbrance, and the sin which does so easily embarrass us, and let us pursue with constancy the course that is proposed to us:"}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 12, "verse": "2", "text": "having Jesus in our view, the author and finisher of our faith; who for the joy that was set before him, endured the cross, despising the shame, and is set down on the right hand of the throne of God."}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 12, "verse": "3", "text": "for you should consider how he endured such opposition from sinners against himself, lest ye be tired out, and quite despond. God Disciplines His Sons"}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 12, "verse": "4", "text": "You have not yet resisted unto death, striving against sin."}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 12, "verse": "5", "text": "have you forgot the exhortation which is address'd to you, as to children? \"my son, despise not thou the chastning of the Lord, nor faint when thou art rebuked of him."}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 12, "verse": "6", "text": "for whom the Lord loveth, he chastises, and scourgeth every son whom he receives.\""}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 12, "verse": "7", "text": "if you are to endure chastisement, God treats you as his children: for where's the son whom his father does not chastise?"}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 12, "verse": "8", "text": "but if you were exempted from that discipline which others are subject to, then are you bastards, and not sons."}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 12, "verse": "9", "text": "when our natural parents corrected us, we gave them reverence: is it not much more reasonable to be in subjection to the father of spirits, in order to have life?"}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 12, "verse": "10", "text": "their discipline was temporary, and the effect of humour; whereas God chastises us for our advantage, to make us partakers of his holiness."}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 12, "verse": "11", "text": "'tis true, all correction at first is far from appearing agreeable, yet afterward it produces the agreeable fruits of virtue in those who are exercised thereby."}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 12, "verse": "12", "text": "Wherefore \"strengthen your weak hands and your feeble knees."}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 12, "verse": "13", "text": "clear the way for your feet, lest that which is lame should be quite out of joint, instead of being redress'd.\" A Call to Holiness ( 1 Peter 1:13–21 )"}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 12, "verse": "14", "text": "seek peace with all men, and sanctity of life, without which no man shall see the Lord:"}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 12, "verse": "15", "text": "take care not to deprive yourselves of the divine favour: and that no poisonous root spring up, and spread a general infection among you."}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 12, "verse": "16", "text": "let there be no licentious or profane person, such as Esau, \"who sold his birth-right, for a single mess.\""}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 12, "verse": "17", "text": "for you know that afterward, when he would have inherited the blessing, he was rejected: not being able to make Isaac to retract, though he importun'd him with tears. An Unshakable Kingdom"}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 12, "verse": "18", "text": "You do not approach to any thing corporeal, to scorching fire, to smoak, darkness, and tempest,"}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 12, "verse": "19", "text": "nor to the sound of trumpets, and the voice which pronounc'd such words, that they who heard, intreated they might hear it no more."}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 12, "verse": "20", "text": "nor could they endure that threat, \"if so much as a beast touch the mountain, it shall be stoned.\""}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 12, "verse": "21", "text": "and so terrible was the appearance, that Moses cry'd out, \"I tremble with the fright.\""}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 12, "verse": "22", "text": "but you are come to mount Sion, to the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to an innumerable congress of angels, to the general assembly,"}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 12, "verse": "23", "text": "the church of the first-born who are enroll'd in heaven, to God the judge of all, to the spirits of just men made perfect,"}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 12, "verse": "24", "text": "to Jesus the mediator of the new covenant, and to the aspersion of that blood which cries for pardon, and not for vengeance as that of Abel."}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 12, "verse": "25", "text": "Take care that you be not deaf to him that speaketh: for if they did not escape, who disregarded the oracles pronounc'd on earth, much less shall we escape, if we turn away from him that delivered the oracles from heaven:"}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 12, "verse": "26", "text": "whose voice then shook the earth: but he has promised to do it now, saying, \" yet once more I will shake, not the earth only, but heaven too.\""}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 12, "verse": "27", "text": "and this expression, yet once more\" signifies the abolition of those changeable things which were only contriv'd, that what is unalterable might lastingly succeed."}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 12, "verse": "28", "text": "since then we are entring into a kingdom which cannot be changed, let us maintain the divine favour, whereby we may serve God acceptably, with reverence and fear."}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 12, "verse": "29", "text": "for \"our God is a consuming fire.\""}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 13, "verse": "1", "text": "Let brotherly love still reign."}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 13, "verse": "2", "text": "be not unmindful of hospitality: for thereby some have unknowingly entertained angels."}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 13, "verse": "3", "text": "remember those that are in chains, as if you were confin'd with them; and those who suffer adversity, as being your selves of the same body."}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 13, "verse": "4", "text": "Marriage is every where honourable, and that state is innocent: but the licentious and adulterers God will punish. Christ’s Unchanging Nature"}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 13, "verse": "5", "text": "let your morals be free from avarice, being contented with what you have: for he hath said, \"I will never leave thee, nor forsake thee.\""}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 13, "verse": "6", "text": "so that we may boldly say, \" the Lord is my helper, and I will not fear what man shall do unto me.\""}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 13, "verse": "7", "text": "Remember those who have the rule over you, who have preach'd to you the word of God: imitate their faith; consider their conduct, and the exit they made."}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 13, "verse": "8", "text": "Jesus Christ is always the same, yesterday, to-day, and for ever, be not then misled by artful, novel doctrines:"}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 13, "verse": "9", "text": "for the mind is better improv'd by the gospel-dispensation, than by the distinctions about meats, in which some have been so uselesly vers'd."}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 13, "verse": "10", "text": "We have a victim, whereof they, who still serve at the tabernacle, have no more right to eat,"}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 13, "verse": "11", "text": "than the sacrificers had to eat of the flesh of those beasts, which were burnt without the camp, and whose blood the highpriest carried into the sanctuary."}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 13, "verse": "12", "text": "for Jesus likewise suffered without the gate, to show he was the expiatory victim for the people."}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 13, "verse": "13", "text": "let us therefore decamp, and bear the reproach of following his example:"}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 13, "verse": "14", "text": "for we have, no settled corporation here, but are in expectation of that which is approaching. Sacrifice, Obedience, and Prayer"}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 13, "verse": "15", "text": "Let our sacrifice then, which we are to offer to God by Jesus Christ, be that of incessant praises, the offering of our lips, which celebrate his name:"}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 13, "verse": "16", "text": "but don't forget to be beneficent to the community; for such sacrifice is acceptable to God."}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 13, "verse": "17", "text": "Confide in your guides, and be respectful: that they who are vigilant, as being accountable for your souls, may discharge themselves with cheerfulness, and not with anxiety, which would be to your prejudice."}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 13, "verse": "18", "text": "Pray for us, for we trust we have a clear conscience, and desire our virtuous conduct may appear to all the world."}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 13, "verse": "19", "text": "I conjure you the more earnestly to do this, that I may be restored to you the sooner. Benediction and Farewell"}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 13, "verse": "20", "text": "May the God of peace, who has raised from the dead our Lord Jesus (who by the blood of the eternal covenant is become the grand pastor of"}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 13, "verse": "21", "text": "the sheep) make you perfect in every virtue, to the accomplishment of his will: effecting that in you by Jesus Christ, which is agreeable to him: to whom be glory thro' all ages."}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 13, "verse": "22", "text": "Pray, my brethren, favourably receive this exhortation, which I have writ to you in brief."}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 13, "verse": "23", "text": "know, that our brother Timothy is set at liberty, if he comes quickly, I shall make YOU a visit with him."}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 13, "verse": "24", "text": "salute those who conduct you, and all the christians, they of Italy salute you."}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 13, "verse": "25", "text": "grace be with you all. AMEN."}
{"book": "JAS", "chapter": 1, "verse": "1", "text": "James a servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ, to the TWELVE TRIBES dispers'd thro' the world, sends greeting. Rejoicing in Trials ( Philippians 1:12–20 )"}
{"book": "JAS", "chapter": 1, "verse": "2", "text": "Consider the various tryals that surround you, my brethren, as matter of great joy; knowing this,"}
{"book": "JAS", "chapter": 1, "verse": "3", "text": "that the bringing your faith to the test, produces constancy."}
{"book": "JAS", "chapter": 1, "verse": "4", "text": "but constancy should be brought to its perfection, that you may be entirely accomplished, without any defect."}
{"book": "JAS", "chapter": 1, "verse": "5", "text": "If any of you is deficient in prudence, let him ask it of God, who liberally gives to all without upbraiding: and he will give it."}
{"book": "JAS", "chapter": 1, "verse": "6", "text": "but let him be fully persuaded of the lawfulness of what he asks: for he that is diffident about that, is like the waves that fluctuate with the wind."}
{"book": "JAS", "chapter": 1, "verse": "7", "text": "such a man must not expect any answer from the Lord."}
{"book": "JAS", "chapter": 1, "verse": "8", "text": "a diffident man is inconstant in all his actions."}
{"book": "JAS", "chapter": 1, "verse": "9", "text": "Let him that is poor triumph in the advantages of being a christian."}
{"book": "JAS", "chapter": 1, "verse": "10", "text": "let the rich be humbled by his instability: for he is as transitory as a flower in the field."}
{"book": "JAS", "chapter": 1, "verse": "11", "text": "the sun is up and darts its rays, the grass is wither'd, its flowers droop, and all their beautiful appearance vanishes away, just so the rich man fades with all his projects."}
{"book": "JAS", "chapter": 1, "verse": "12", "text": "happy is he that can stand the tryal: for when he has undergone the test, he shall receive that crown of life which the Lord has promised to those that love him. Good and Perfect Gifts"}
{"book": "JAS", "chapter": 1, "verse": "13", "text": "Let no man under temptation, say, it is God that tempts him; for as he is incapable of moral evil, he can't influence any one thereto."}
{"book": "JAS", "chapter": 1, "verse": "14", "text": "a man is instigated, and drawn into the snare by his own vicious passions, which once indulg'd, are productive of sin,"}
{"book": "JAS", "chapter": 1, "verse": "15", "text": "and the genuine offspring of sin is death."}
{"book": "JAS", "chapter": 1, "verse": "16", "text": "Don't be deluded, my brethren;"}
{"book": "JAS", "chapter": 1, "verse": "17", "text": "every thing that is valuable, every gift that leads to perfection is deriv'd from heaven, it descends from that original light, which knows no change, no shadow, or decline:"}
{"book": "JAS", "chapter": 1, "verse": "18", "text": "'tis he that has voluntarily renew'd us by the oracles of truth, that we might be the first converts of the new creation. Hearing and Doing"}
{"book": "JAS", "chapter": 1, "verse": "19", "text": "Wherefore, my dear brethren, let every one be eager to hear, averse to contradiction, and deaf to passion."}
{"book": "JAS", "chapter": 1, "verse": "20", "text": "for he that is not dispassionate is a stranger to the practice of true virtue."}
{"book": "JAS", "chapter": 1, "verse": "21", "text": "throw off then your vices as dregs and scum: and receive with docility that genuine doctrine, which is effectual to your salvation."}
{"book": "JAS", "chapter": 1, "verse": "22", "text": "Don't delusively content your selves with being of the audience, but put what you hear in practice:"}
{"book": "JAS", "chapter": 1, "verse": "23", "text": "for a bare auditor without practice is like one who sees his image form'd by a mirror:"}
{"book": "JAS", "chapter": 1, "verse": "24", "text": "he takes a view, turns away, and instantly loses his appearance."}
{"book": "JAS", "chapter": 1, "verse": "25", "text": "whereas, he that attentively considers the perfect law of liberty, and is attach'd thereto, he is not a forgetful hearer, but reduces it to practice, and his conduct is crown'd with hapiness."}
{"book": "JAS", "chapter": 1, "verse": "26", "text": "If a person of an ungovernable tongue pretends to religion, he abuses himself: for his religion is meer illusion."}
{"book": "JAS", "chapter": 1, "verse": "27", "text": "pure and unadulterated religion, in the eye of God our father, consists in taking care of orphans and widows in their distress: and in keeping clear of the vices of the age."}
{"book": "JAS", "chapter": 2, "verse": "1", "text": "My brethren, let not your christian profession be accompanied with partiality."}
{"book": "JAS", "chapter": 2, "verse": "2", "text": "when any one, adorn'd with a gold ring, and a splendid dress, enters into your assembly; and a poor man comes in meanly habited:"}
{"book": "JAS", "chapter": 2, "verse": "3", "text": "if you should respectfully say to the suit of fine cloths, sit you there, that's for quality; and to the poor man, stand thou there, or place your self at my feet:"}
{"book": "JAS", "chapter": 2, "verse": "4", "text": "have not you made an arbitrary distinction, don't your judgments flow from a vicious principle?"}
{"book": "JAS", "chapter": 2, "verse": "5", "text": "consider, my dear brethren, has not God chose the poor of this world to be rich by faith, and to inherit the kingdom he has promised to those who love him?"}
{"book": "JAS", "chapter": 2, "verse": "6", "text": "but you, who despise the poor, are not you oppress'd by the rich? is it not they who drag you to their tribunals?"}
{"book": "JAS", "chapter": 2, "verse": "7", "text": "they who blaspheme that sacred name by which you are distinguish'd?"}
{"book": "JAS", "chapter": 2, "verse": "8", "text": "If, agreeably to the scriptures, you observe that royal law, \"thou shalt love thy neighbour as thy self,\" you do well."}
{"book": "JAS", "chapter": 2, "verse": "9", "text": "but partiality is iniquity; and the law will convict the offender of transgression."}
{"book": "JAS", "chapter": 2, "verse": "10", "text": "for he that violates but one precept of the whole law, is as obnoxious to punishment, as if he had broke thro' all the rest."}
{"book": "JAS", "chapter": 2, "verse": "11", "text": "he that said, \"do not commit adultery,\" said too, \"do not kill.\" though you should not commit adultery, yet if you kill, you are a transgressor of the law."}
{"book": "JAS", "chapter": 2, "verse": "12", "text": "speak and act as those, who are to be judged by the law of liberty."}
{"book": "JAS", "chapter": 2, "verse": "13", "text": "for he that has not shewed mercy, shall be condemn'd without mercy: while the merciful shall triumph at his trial. Faith and Works ( Galatians 3:1–9 )"}
{"book": "JAS", "chapter": 2, "verse": "14", "text": "What advantage is it, my brethren, for a man to say he has faith, if he has no beneficence? can such a faith save him?"}
{"book": "JAS", "chapter": 2, "verse": "15", "text": "suppose one of your brethren should be destitute of cloths, and of his daily nourishment,"}
{"book": "JAS", "chapter": 2, "verse": "16", "text": "and one of you should thus address him; \"go and prosper, I wish you a warm fire, and a full meal:\" without relieving his wants, would he be the better for your wish?"}
{"book": "JAS", "chapter": 2, "verse": "17", "text": "just so faith, if it be not operative, is intirely lifeless."}
{"book": "JAS", "chapter": 2, "verse": "18", "text": "it will be said, \"you have a speculative faith, but mine is practical, where is your faith, if no effects appear? as for me, my actions will vouch for my faith."}
{"book": "JAS", "chapter": 2, "verse": "19", "text": "you believe there is but one God, very well: the demons believe as much, and tremble.\""}
{"book": "JAS", "chapter": 2, "verse": "20", "text": "Vain man, must I show you how lifeless a thing faith is, without its effects?"}
{"book": "JAS", "chapter": 2, "verse": "21", "text": "was not our father Abraham treated as just, in consequence of his actions, when he had attempted to sacrifice his son upon the altar?"}
{"book": "JAS", "chapter": 2, "verse": "22", "text": "don't you see his actions and his faith conspir'd, and that his faith had its perfect effect in his conduct?"}
{"book": "JAS", "chapter": 2, "verse": "23", "text": "it was then, that those words of scripture were accomplished, \"Abraham believed God, and he was regarded for it as a man of virtue, and was the favourite of God.\""}
{"book": "JAS", "chapter": 2, "verse": "24", "text": "you see then, that a man is accounted just for his actions, and not for his bare faith."}
{"book": "JAS", "chapter": 2, "verse": "25", "text": "was it not likewise for her actions, that Rahab, formerly a loose liver, was accounted as just, for having entertain'd the messengers of Joshuah, and dismiss'd them the securest way?"}
{"book": "JAS", "chapter": 2, "verse": "26", "text": "as the body then without the soul is a meer carcase, so faith without its effects is lifeless."}
{"book": "JAS", "chapter": 3, "verse": "1", "text": "My brethren, don't affect many of you to be doctors, considering, that those of us who are such, shall be tried with the greater severity."}
{"book": "JAS", "chapter": 3, "verse": "2", "text": "for we are all liable to frequent mistakes, he that does not give too great a loose to his tongue, is an accomplish'd person and fit to moderate the whole church."}
{"book": "JAS", "chapter": 3, "verse": "3", "text": "you see how manageable horses are made by the application of a bit, which makes them take what motion we please."}
{"book": "JAS", "chapter": 3, "verse": "4", "text": "a ship too of the greatest burthen, tho' the wind bears hard, by means of an inconsiderable helm, veers about as the hand of the pilot directs her."}
{"book": "JAS", "chapter": 3, "verse": "5", "text": "so the tongue is but a small part of the body, yet how grand are its pretensions, a spark of fire! what quantities of timber will it blow into a flame?"}
{"book": "JAS", "chapter": 3, "verse": "6", "text": "the tongue is a brand that sets the world in a combustion: it is but one of the numerous organs of the body, yet it can blast whole assemblies: tipp'd with infernal sulphur it sets the whole train of life in a blaze."}
{"book": "JAS", "chapter": 3, "verse": "7", "text": "creatures of every kind, beasts, birds, reptiles, and sea-monsters, are frequently tamed by human industry."}
{"book": "JAS", "chapter": 3, "verse": "8", "text": "but who could ever tame the tongue? arm'd with deadly poison, the mischief scorns restraint."}
{"book": "JAS", "chapter": 3, "verse": "9", "text": "By that we give praises to God the father: and that pronounces curses even against men, who are form'd after the divine resemblance."}
{"book": "JAS", "chapter": 3, "verse": "10", "text": "from the same mouth shall blessing and cursing proceed? this ought not to be practis'd, my brethren;"}
{"book": "JAS", "chapter": 3, "verse": "11", "text": "does a fountain throw up salt water and fresh, by the same conveyance?"}
{"book": "JAS", "chapter": 3, "verse": "12", "text": "can a fig-tree, my brethren, produce olives, or a vine figs? no more can the sea yield water that is fresh. The Wisdom from Above"}
{"book": "JAS", "chapter": 3, "verse": "13", "text": "Whoever is a skilful moralist, let him show by his virtuous conduct, that he practises the humble precepts of wisdom."}
{"book": "JAS", "chapter": 3, "verse": "14", "text": "but if envy and contention imbitter your minds, don't think your false pretences can stand against the truth:"}
{"book": "JAS", "chapter": 3, "verse": "15", "text": "such wisdom is not derived from heaven; but is terrestrial, sensual, demoniacal."}
{"book": "JAS", "chapter": 3, "verse": "16", "text": "where false zeal, and a spirit of contention reign, there confusion and every vice prevail."}
{"book": "JAS", "chapter": 3, "verse": "17", "text": "but wisdom deriv'd from heaven is first dispassionate, then pacific, equitable, and obsequious: full of beneficence, and all social virtue, free from partiality, and hypocrisy."}
{"book": "JAS", "chapter": 3, "verse": "18", "text": "they who cultivate peace, enjoy the reward of their virtue."}
{"book": "JAS", "chapter": 4, "verse": "1", "text": "you breathe slaughter and revenge for what you cannot obtain."}
{"book": "JAS", "chapter": 4, "verse": "2", "text": "you quarrel and go to war, but without success, because you don't petition for it: and if you did,"}
{"book": "JAS", "chapter": 4, "verse": "3", "text": "you would not obtain it, because you wickedly request to have your passions gratified."}
{"book": "JAS", "chapter": 4, "verse": "4", "text": "Degenerate race, don't you know that friendship with vice is hostility against heaven, he that is a friend to the vicious world, is an enemy to God."}
{"book": "JAS", "chapter": 4, "verse": "5", "text": "or do you imagine that passage of scripture to be insignificant, \"does the spirit that dwells in you, incite you to vice?\""}
{"book": "JAS", "chapter": 4, "verse": "6", "text": "on the contrary, he heaps his favours upon you, wherefore 'tis said, \"God defeats the proud, but is gracious to the humble.\" Drawing Near to God"}
{"book": "JAS", "chapter": 4, "verse": "7", "text": "Surrender therefore to God, resist the devil, and he will flee from you."}
{"book": "JAS", "chapter": 4, "verse": "8", "text": "address your selves to God, and you will find him present with you: cleanse your hands, ye sinners; and purify your hearts, you that are diffident."}
{"book": "JAS", "chapter": 4, "verse": "9", "text": "be afflicted, be mournful, and weep: let your mirth be converted to sadness, and your joy to vexation."}
{"book": "JAS", "chapter": 4, "verse": "10", "text": "humble your selves before the Lord, and he will raise you up."}
{"book": "JAS", "chapter": 4, "verse": "11", "text": "Don't, my brethren, treat one another with detraction, he that reflects upon his brother, and censures his brother, reflects upon the law, and censures the law: if you censure the law, instead of obeying it, you set up for a judge."}
{"book": "JAS", "chapter": 4, "verse": "12", "text": "there is but one legislator, and judge, he that has the power of life and death: who art thou, to pass sentence upon another? Do Not Boast about Tomorrow"}
{"book": "JAS", "chapter": 4, "verse": "13", "text": "As for you, who affirm, \"to-day, or, to-morrow we will go to such a city, we will stay there a whole year, there we will traffic, and find our account.\""}
{"book": "JAS", "chapter": 4, "verse": "14", "text": "how do you know, what will happen to-morrow? for, \"what is your life?\" a vapour that just appears, and then vanishes."}
{"book": "JAS", "chapter": 4, "verse": "15", "text": "your language ought to be this, \"if the Lord pleases to give us life, we shall do this, or that.\""}
{"book": "JAS", "chapter": 4, "verse": "16", "text": "you triumph in your vain projects, but your presumption is vicious."}
{"book": "JAS", "chapter": 4, "verse": "17", "text": "he then that knows what is virtuous, and does not practise it, is a criminal."}
{"book": "JAS", "chapter": 5, "verse": "1", "text": "As for you that are rich: weep, and lament the miserys that are falling upon you."}
{"book": "JAS", "chapter": 5, "verse": "2", "text": "your wealth is wasted, your wardrobe is devour'd by the worm,"}
{"book": "JAS", "chapter": 5, "verse": "3", "text": "and your gold and silver by rust: that rust shall convict you: that rust shall corrode your flesh like a caustic, which you have treasur'd up against the last days."}
{"book": "JAS", "chapter": 5, "verse": "4", "text": "hark! what a noise there is of hire, of which you cheated the labourers, who gather'd in your harvest! the cries of the reapers have reach'd even the Lord of the celestial militia."}
{"book": "JAS", "chapter": 5, "verse": "5", "text": "you have liv'd on the earth in voluptuousness and luxury: you have indulg'd your selves as in a day of sacrifice:"}
{"book": "JAS", "chapter": 5, "verse": "6", "text": "you have condemn'd the just, you have put him to death, though he did not oppose you. Patience in Suffering"}
{"book": "JAS", "chapter": 5, "verse": "7", "text": "As for you, my brethren, bear your sufferings with constancy, till the advent of the Lord, the farmer, from the prospect of a golden crop, patiently expects the showers of the spring and the autumn."}
{"book": "JAS", "chapter": 5, "verse": "8", "text": "be you equally patient, and exercise your fortitude, for the advent of the Lord is nigh."}
{"book": "JAS", "chapter": 5, "verse": "9", "text": "don't repine, my brethren, against one another, for fear you should be condemn'd, behold, the judge is at the gate."}
{"book": "JAS", "chapter": 5, "verse": "10", "text": "let the prophets, my brethren, who were commission'd by the Lord, be your examples; suffer persecution with constancy like them."}
{"book": "JAS", "chapter": 5, "verse": "11", "text": "we pronounce those happy, who have so endur'd, you have heard of the constancy of Job, you know with what success he was crown'd by the Lord, who is all mercy and compassion."}
{"book": "JAS", "chapter": 5, "verse": "12", "text": "Above all things, my brethren, don't swear, neither by the heaven, nor by the earth, nor use any other oath; but let your affirmation, or negation, be sincere, lest you fall under condemnation. The Prayer of Faith"}
{"book": "JAS", "chapter": 5, "verse": "13", "text": "Is any among you afflicted? let him pray, is his mind serene? let him sing psalms."}
{"book": "JAS", "chapter": 5, "verse": "14", "text": "Is any of you sick? let him send for the pastors of the church, to pray for him, and after giving him the unction, in the name of the Lord,"}
{"book": "JAS", "chapter": 5, "verse": "15", "text": "the prayer that proceeds from faith, shall save the sick; the Lord will raise him up, and his sins that may have been the occasion, shall be forgiven."}
{"book": "JAS", "chapter": 5, "verse": "16", "text": "confess then to one another the offences you have committed, and pray for one another, that you may be healed; the fervent prayer of a virtuous man has great influence."}
{"book": "JAS", "chapter": 5, "verse": "17", "text": "Elias was only a man, as we are; however, having ardently prayed, that it might not rain, it did not rain in that country for three years and a half:"}
{"book": "JAS", "chapter": 5, "verse": "18", "text": "then be pray'd again: the heavens sent its showers, and the earth push'd out its fruit. Restoring a Sinner"}
{"book": "JAS", "chapter": 5, "verse": "19", "text": "My brethren, when any of you deviates from the truth, whoever sets him right, may be assured,"}
{"book": "JAS", "chapter": 5, "verse": "20", "text": "that the retrieving of a sinner from his erroneous habits, is saving a soul from ruin, and cancels a multitude of sins."}
{"book": "1PE", "chapter": 1, "verse": "1", "text": "PETER an apostle of Jesus Christ, to the foreigners dispers'd thro' Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia, Asia, and Bithynia, whom God the father has chosen in pursuance of his decree,"}
{"book": "1PE", "chapter": 1, "verse": "2", "text": "to sanctify them by his spirit, that by their obedience they might be sprinkled with the blood of Jesus Christ, may the divine savour make you continually prosper. A Living Hope"}
{"book": "1PE", "chapter": 1, "verse": "3", "text": "Blessed be the God and father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who according to his great mercy has regenerated us, and given us by the resurrection of Jesus Christ, the expectation of immortal life,"}
{"book": "1PE", "chapter": 1, "verse": "4", "text": "in the enjoyment of a state, that can never change or decay, a state reserv'd in heaven for us,"}
{"book": "1PE", "chapter": 1, "verse": "5", "text": "whom the divine power preserves through faith for that salvation, which is going to be made manifest in the latter time."}
{"book": "1PE", "chapter": 1, "verse": "6", "text": "This it is that fills you with joy, notwithstanding the various tryals, which still necessarily afflict you,"}
{"book": "1PE", "chapter": 1, "verse": "7", "text": "that your faith being put to a more advantageous proof, than that of gold, which loses by the essay, may redound to your praise and highest honour at the appearance of Jesus Christ:"}
{"book": "1PE", "chapter": 1, "verse": "8", "text": "whom though you have not seen, you love: and though he is not now the object of your view, yet you believe in him, and triumph with such a laudable transport, as cannot be express'd:"}
{"book": "1PE", "chapter": 1, "verse": "9", "text": "since the salvation of your souls is the reward you receive for your faith."}
{"book": "1PE", "chapter": 1, "verse": "10", "text": "'Twas this salvation, that employ'd the most profound enquiries of those, who predicted the dispensation that was to be in your behalf:"}
{"book": "1PE", "chapter": 1, "verse": "11", "text": "when the spirit of Christ inform'd the minds of the prophets of his future sufferings, and of the glorious consequences, they were solicitous to know the circumstances of the times pointed at:"}
{"book": "1PE", "chapter": 1, "verse": "12", "text": "and were answer'd, that it was not they, but we, who were concern'd in the events which they predicted, events which have been now represented to you by those, whom the holy spirit from heaven inspired to preach the gospel to you: a secret which the angels desire to penetrate into. A Call to Holiness ( Hebrews 12:14–17 )"}
{"book": "1PE", "chapter": 1, "verse": "13", "text": "Let your minds then be duely prepar'd, be vigilant, and constantly expect the favour you will meet with at the appearance of Jesus Christ."}
{"book": "1PE", "chapter": 1, "verse": "14", "text": "as obedient children be no longer influenc'd by those passions, which were the effects of your former ignorance."}
{"book": "1PE", "chapter": 1, "verse": "15", "text": "but as he, who has called you, is holy: let your whole conduct be an imitation of his holiness."}
{"book": "1PE", "chapter": 1, "verse": "16", "text": "for it is written, \"be ye holy, because I am holy.\""}
{"book": "1PE", "chapter": 1, "verse": "17", "text": "and since you invoke him as your father, who without respect of persons judges every one according to his actions; while you are passing thro' this world, be fearful of offending him:"}
{"book": "1PE", "chapter": 1, "verse": "18", "text": "considering, that it was not by such perishable things as silver or gold, that you were releas'd from those vain rites and customs impos'd upon you by your fathers,"}
{"book": "1PE", "chapter": 1, "verse": "19", "text": "but by the precious blood of Christ, who is the lamb without spot, and without blemish:"}
{"book": "1PE", "chapter": 1, "verse": "20", "text": "who was destin'd before the creation of the world, tho' 'tis of late only that he has appear'd, upon your account:"}
{"book": "1PE", "chapter": 1, "verse": "21", "text": "it is by him that you believe in God, who has raised him from the dead, and invested him with glory, that your faith and your hope might be in God. The Enduring Word"}
{"book": "1PE", "chapter": 1, "verse": "22", "text": "You that have purified your souls by the holy spirit, in obeying the gospel, which obliges you to an undisguised benevolence, let your hearts be mutually affected with the most disinterested ardour;"}
{"book": "1PE", "chapter": 1, "verse": "23", "text": "since your regeneration is not owing to any corruptible principles, but to the unchangeable word of the immortal God."}
{"book": "1PE", "chapter": 1, "verse": "24", "text": "for human nature is like grass, and all their glory like the flower of the herb, the herb withers, the flower droops,"}
{"book": "1PE", "chapter": 1, "verse": "25", "text": "but the word of the Lord remains for ever: and that is the gospel, which has been preached to you."}
{"book": "1PE", "chapter": 2, "verse": "1", "text": "Renouncing therefore every kind of malice, and knavery, hypocrisy, envy, and detraction, as new-born infants desire that mystical milk,"}
{"book": "1PE", "chapter": 2, "verse": "2", "text": "which is without any mixture, and will make you thrive. Since you have tasted how good the Lord is,"}
{"book": "1PE", "chapter": 2, "verse": "3", "text": "adhere to him as to a living stone,"}
{"book": "1PE", "chapter": 2, "verse": "4", "text": "which however rejected it is by men, is the precious stone, which God has chosen: and"}
{"book": "1PE", "chapter": 2, "verse": "5", "text": "you your selves are as so many living stones, you are the edifice, the spiritual house, a holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices, agreeable to God by Jesus Christ."}
{"book": "1PE", "chapter": 2, "verse": "6", "text": "wherefore it is said in the scripture, I lay in Sion the principal stone of the angle, a choice one of great value: he that"}
{"book": "1PE", "chapter": 2, "verse": "7", "text": "trusts thereon shall not be confounded, it will prove an honour to you, who believe; but to the incredulous, the same stone, which is the chief of the angle,"}
{"book": "1PE", "chapter": 2, "verse": "8", "text": "and which the architects rejected, will be an occasion to the incredulous of their stumbling, and bruising themselves thereby:"}
{"book": "1PE", "chapter": 2, "verse": "9", "text": "and this they were destin'd to, but you are the chosen race, you are kings and priests, the holy nation, the peculiar people, that you might display his glory, who called you out"}
{"book": "1PE", "chapter": 2, "verse": "10", "text": "of darkness into his marvellous light: you, who formerly were not a people, but are now the people of God, who had not obtained mercy,"}
{"book": "1PE", "chapter": 2, "verse": "11", "text": "but at present have obtain'd it. I exhort you, my dear brethren, as strangers and travellers to avoid all sensual passions, as destructive to your"}
{"book": "1PE", "chapter": 2, "verse": "12", "text": "souls. Let your behaviour among the Gentiles be virtuous, that instead of inveighing against you as vicious, they may observe your honest behaviour, Submission to Authorities ( Romans 13:1–7 )"}
{"book": "1PE", "chapter": 2, "verse": "13", "text": "and glorify God in the times of distress, be subject therefore, for the Lord's sake to every human establishment: whether it be to the king,"}
{"book": "1PE", "chapter": 2, "verse": "14", "text": "as supreme; or to governors, as being deputed by him to punish those who do ill,"}
{"book": "1PE", "chapter": 2, "verse": "15", "text": "and to encourage those who do well, for such is the divine pleasure, that by your good conduct you obviate the cavils of inconsiderate"}
{"book": "1PE", "chapter": 2, "verse": "16", "text": "men. You are free, don't let your liberty serve as a pretext for vice: but act as the servants"}
{"book": "1PE", "chapter": 2, "verse": "17", "text": "of God. Be respectful to all, love your brethren, fear God, and honour the king."}
{"book": "1PE", "chapter": 2, "verse": "18", "text": "You that are servants, be subject to your masters with all reverence: not only to such as are kind and gentle,"}
{"book": "1PE", "chapter": 2, "verse": "19", "text": "but even to the morose, for it is a recommendation to the divine favour, to suffer unjust persecution"}
{"book": "1PE", "chapter": 2, "verse": "20", "text": "from a principle of conscience, what glory is there in suffering corporal punishment for real offences? but if you meet with ill usage for doing your duty, and bear it with constancy, Christ’s Example of Suffering"}
{"book": "1PE", "chapter": 2, "verse": "21", "text": "this will conciliate the divine favour, and this is the condition of your vocation, since Christ himself has suffer'd for us,"}
{"book": "1PE", "chapter": 2, "verse": "22", "text": "leaving an example for your exact imitation, he who never offended, and from whose lips no fallacy was ever utter'd,"}
{"book": "1PE", "chapter": 2, "verse": "23", "text": "who, when he was reviled, did not revile again: when he was in his sufferings, he did not threat, but referr'd his cause to the righteous judge."}
{"book": "1PE", "chapter": 2, "verse": "24", "text": "he himself cancel'd our sins by the crucifixion of his body, that we being set free from sin, might live in the service of virtue, it is by his bruises that you were healed:"}
{"book": "1PE", "chapter": 2, "verse": "25", "text": "for you were as sheep going astray, but now you are brought back to the pastor and overseer of your souls."}
{"book": "1PE", "chapter": 3, "verse": "1", "text": "Let the married women be subservient to their husbands, that if they happen to disbelieve the gospel, they may be gain'd by the instructive conduct of their wives,"}
{"book": "1PE", "chapter": 3, "verse": "2", "text": "by observing the religious chastity of their manners."}
{"book": "1PE", "chapter": 3, "verse": "3", "text": "let their ornament consist, not in what is external, in curling the hair, in appendages of gold, or finery of dress;"}
{"book": "1PE", "chapter": 3, "verse": "4", "text": "but in the internal qualities of the mind, in that purity, in that mild and dispassionate temper, which is so acceptable to the divine being."}
{"book": "1PE", "chapter": 3, "verse": "5", "text": "the holy religious women of former times were thus adorned, and were submissive to their husbands."}
{"book": "1PE", "chapter": 3, "verse": "6", "text": "such was Sarah, who show'd her obeysance to Abraham, by stiling him her Lord: and you will be stiled her children, if you imitate her conduct, and are not to be terrified out of your virtue."}
{"book": "1PE", "chapter": 3, "verse": "7", "text": "You husbands, do you on your part behave with prudence towards your wives: who being of a more delicate make, ought to be treated with the greater tenderness: and consider they are equally intitled to the evangelical gifts, that your prayers may not be frustrated. Turning from Evil"}
{"book": "1PE", "chapter": 3, "verse": "8", "text": "In a word, live all of you in perfect agreement and sympathy, be full of fraternal love, compassion, and affability."}
{"book": "1PE", "chapter": 3, "verse": "9", "text": "don't return evil for evil, nor calumny for calumny; on the contrary, bestow your benedictions, considering that your vocation obliges you thereto, as a means to obtain the divine blessing."}
{"book": "1PE", "chapter": 3, "verse": "10", "text": "\" He that desires to live in prosperity, must restrain his tongue from detraction, and his lips from uttering falsehood:"}
{"book": "1PE", "chapter": 3, "verse": "11", "text": "he must avoid vice, practise virtue, seek peace, and persevere in the enquiry."}
{"book": "1PE", "chapter": 3, "verse": "12", "text": "for the eyes of the Lord are upon the virtuous, and his ears attend to their prayers, but the wicked he discountenances.\""}
{"book": "1PE", "chapter": 3, "verse": "13", "text": "for who can hurt you, if you strive to excel in virtue. Suffering for Righteousness"}
{"book": "1PE", "chapter": 3, "verse": "14", "text": "However, if you suffer in the cause of virtue, it is your happiness: and instead of being over-awed by their threats, and struck with concern,"}
{"book": "1PE", "chapter": 3, "verse": "15", "text": "adore the Lord God in your hearts, and be ready to show with modesty and respect to every one that asks it, what ground there is for the expectations you have:"}
{"book": "1PE", "chapter": 3, "verse": "16", "text": "always maintaining a good conscience, that instead of inveighing against you as evildoers, they may be cover'd with confusion, who traduce your virtuous behaviour as Christians."}
{"book": "1PE", "chapter": 3, "verse": "17", "text": "for since it is the will of heaven you should suffer, it is better you should suffer for your virtue, than for any crimes."}
{"book": "1PE", "chapter": 3, "verse": "18", "text": "for Jesus Christ himself has already suffer'd for our sins, the innocent for the guilty, to bring us to God: who, tho' he died with respect to his body, was rais'd to life by that spirit,"}
{"book": "1PE", "chapter": 3, "verse": "19", "text": "by which he went with guardian spirits to preach to"}
{"book": "1PE", "chapter": 3, "verse": "20", "text": "those antient rebels in the time of Noah, when the divine forbearance waited, till the ark was quite finish'd, in which only eight persons were saved by means of the water."}
{"book": "1PE", "chapter": 3, "verse": "21", "text": "thus baptism, which corresponds to the deluge, does now save us, not as it is a cleansing from external filth, but as it is an engagement to lead a divine life, from the belief of the resurrection of Jesus Christ,"}
{"book": "1PE", "chapter": 3, "verse": "22", "text": "who being ascended into heaven, is seated at the right hand of God, where angels, dominations, and potentates have been subjected to him."}
{"book": "1PE", "chapter": 4, "verse": "1", "text": "Since then Christ has with respect to his mortal nature died for us, arm yourselves with this reflection, that he, who is dead with respect to sensuality, has renounced sin;"}
{"book": "1PE", "chapter": 4, "verse": "2", "text": "so that for the future he does not pass the rest of this life in gratifying his sensual passions, but in conformity to the divine precepts."}
{"book": "1PE", "chapter": 4, "verse": "3", "text": "for the time past of your lives may suffice, to have liv'd in conformity to the Gentile customs, in impurity, licentiousness, sottishness, in dissolute festivals, and the criminal rites of idolaters."}
{"book": "1PE", "chapter": 4, "verse": "4", "text": "As they think it strange, that you don't concur in the same profusion of luxury, they traduce you."}
{"book": "1PE", "chapter": 4, "verse": "5", "text": "but they will be call'd to account by him, who is ready to judge both the living and the dead."}
{"book": "1PE", "chapter": 4, "verse": "6", "text": "for to this end was the gospel preach'd to those, who are now dead, that after having suffer'd the loss of this frail life from men, they might enjoy an immortal life with God."}
{"book": "1PE", "chapter": 4, "verse": "7", "text": "The consummation of all things draws nigh, be temperate, be vigilant in prayer."}
{"book": "1PE", "chapter": 4, "verse": "8", "text": "but above all, let your mutual benevolence be intense, for benevolence cancels a multitude of offences."}
{"book": "1PE", "chapter": 4, "verse": "9", "text": "be mutually hospitable, without repining."}
{"book": "1PE", "chapter": 4, "verse": "10", "text": "as good economists of the different dispensations of God, communicate to one another the gifts you have receiv'd."}
{"book": "1PE", "chapter": 4, "verse": "11", "text": "let a speaker deliver nothing but what is agreeable to the divine oracles: and let him that attends the poor, be active in proportion to the strength God has given him, amen. Suffering as Christians"}
{"book": "1PE", "chapter": 4, "verse": "12", "text": "My dear brethren, don't be surpriz'd at your being brought as it were to the test of fire; as if some strange thing had happen'd to you."}
{"book": "1PE", "chapter": 4, "verse": "13", "text": "on the contrary, rejoice at the share you have of sufferings, as well as Christ: that you may likewise triumph, when he shall appear in his glory."}
{"book": "1PE", "chapter": 4, "verse": "14", "text": "if you suffer indignities in the cause of Christ, you are happy: for the glorious spirit of God rests upon you."}
{"book": "1PE", "chapter": 4, "verse": "15", "text": "take care therefore not to suffer upon the account of homicide, or thievery, or for any criminal, or pragmatical practices."}
{"book": "1PE", "chapter": 4, "verse": "16", "text": "but whoever suffers as a christian, let him not be asham'd, but rather give thanks to God upon that account."}
{"book": "1PE", "chapter": 4, "verse": "17", "text": "for now is the time when God will begin his judgments with his own church, now if he begins with us, what will the conclusion be to those who do not obey the divine gospel?"}
{"book": "1PE", "chapter": 4, "verse": "18", "text": "if the virtuous escape with difficulty, what will become of impious transgressors?"}
{"book": "1PE", "chapter": 4, "verse": "19", "text": "let those then, whom God calls to sufferings, by virtue recommend their souls to him, as to a creator, who will make good his promise."}
{"book": "1PE", "chapter": 5, "verse": "1", "text": "I address myself to you pastors, as being a pastor myself, and a witness of the sufferings of Christ, and as one who is to partake of the glory, that shall hereafter be made manifest;"}
{"book": "1PE", "chapter": 5, "verse": "2", "text": "to exhort you to feed the flock of God, which is among you: to take care of it, voluntarily, without reluctance, not from any view to sordid gain, but out of real affection;"}
{"book": "1PE", "chapter": 5, "verse": "3", "text": "not to domineer over the laity, but to be examples for their imitation;"}
{"book": "1PE", "chapter": 5, "verse": "4", "text": "that when the sovereign pastor shall appear, you may carry off a glorious crown, that will never fade. Cast Your Cares on Him"}
{"book": "1PE", "chapter": 5, "verse": "5", "text": "As for you that are young, be you submissive to those of a more advanc'd age: and do you all of you pay a becoming deference to one another: be cloak'd with humility, for \" God opposes the proud, and shows favour to the humble.\""}
{"book": "1PE", "chapter": 5, "verse": "6", "text": "submit yourselves therefore to the divine jurisdiction, that he may exalt you in due time."}
{"book": "1PE", "chapter": 5, "verse": "7", "text": "refer all your disquietudes to him, for you are the objects of his care."}
{"book": "1PE", "chapter": 5, "verse": "8", "text": "Be temperate, be vigilant: for your adversary the Devil goes about like a roaring lion, seeking whom he may devour."}
{"book": "1PE", "chapter": 5, "verse": "9", "text": "resist him by the steadiness of your faith, considering that your brethren among the Gentiles, suffer the same persecutions as you do. Benediction and Farewell"}
{"book": "1PE", "chapter": 5, "verse": "10", "text": "but may the all-gracious God, who has called us to eternal glory, perfect, confirm, fortify, and settle you, during the short interval of your sufferings."}
{"book": "1PE", "chapter": 5, "verse": "11", "text": "to him belongs eternal glory and empire, amen."}
{"book": "1PE", "chapter": 5, "verse": "12", "text": "I formerly writ to you a short epistle, by Silvanus, I think, a faithful brother, to declare and testify to you, that the true dispensation of God is that to which you are attach'd."}
{"book": "1PE", "chapter": 5, "verse": "13", "text": "the church at Babylon, who are likewise Christians, and Mark my son salute you."}
{"book": "1PE", "chapter": 5, "verse": "14", "text": "salute one another with social affection, peace be with every christian among you. Amen."}
{"book": "2PE", "chapter": 1, "verse": "1", "text": "Simon Peter the servant and apostle of Jesus Christ, to those who equally share with us in the advantages of faith, thro' the veracity of our God, and of Jesus Christ."}
{"book": "2PE", "chapter": 1, "verse": "2", "text": "may the divine favour and felicity be poured upon you, by the knowledge of God, and of our Lord Jesus Christ. Partakers of the Divine Nature"}
{"book": "2PE", "chapter": 1, "verse": "3", "text": "It is thus his divine power has given us every thing conducive to life and piety, by making us acquainted with him, who has called us by his illustrious power;"}
{"book": "2PE", "chapter": 1, "verse": "4", "text": "by which we have receiv'd the most inestimable promises, that thereby you might become partakers of the divine perfections, after having escap'd from the corruption of a sensual world."}
{"book": "2PE", "chapter": 1, "verse": "5", "text": "Do you on your part employ all your care in adding to your faith, fortitude: to fortitude, knowledge:"}
{"book": "2PE", "chapter": 1, "verse": "6", "text": "to knowledge, temperance: to temperance, patience: to patience, piety:"}
{"book": "2PE", "chapter": 1, "verse": "7", "text": "to piety, fraternal affection: and to fraternal affection, universal benevolence."}
{"book": "2PE", "chapter": 1, "verse": "8", "text": "for if you are possess'd of these virtues and improve therein, they will prevent the knowledge you have of our Lord Jesus Christ from being useless to others, and unprofitable to yourselves."}
{"book": "2PE", "chapter": 1, "verse": "9", "text": "but he that is destitute of them is blind or short-sighted, having forgot he was purified from his past sins."}
{"book": "2PE", "chapter": 1, "verse": "10", "text": "Wherefore be the more diligent, my brethren, to secure your vocation and election by your virtuous actions, for by so doing, you will never relapse:"}
{"book": "2PE", "chapter": 1, "verse": "11", "text": "and thus you will have a free admittance into the eternal kingdom of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ."}
{"book": "2PE", "chapter": 1, "verse": "12", "text": "for this reason I shall never omit to put you in mind of these things, however knowing you are already, and settled in the truth."}
{"book": "2PE", "chapter": 1, "verse": "13", "text": "whilst I am alive, I think it my duty to awaken you by my admonitions:"}
{"book": "2PE", "chapter": 1, "verse": "14", "text": "knowing that I must soon leave this tabernacle, as our Lord Jesus Christ has signify'd to me."}
{"book": "2PE", "chapter": 1, "verse": "15", "text": "However, I shall inculcate these things so as to make you continually remember them, even after my departure. Eyewitnesses of His Majesty ( Matthew 17:1–13 ; Mark 9:1–13 ; Luke 9:28–36 )"}
{"book": "2PE", "chapter": 1, "verse": "16", "text": "for, the information we gave you of the powerful advent of our Lord Jesus Christ, did not proceed from any artfully contriv'd fables, we our selves having been spectators of his majesty."}
{"book": "2PE", "chapter": 1, "verse": "17", "text": "for he received this honourable and glorious testimony from his father, when the voice broke out from the magnificent splendor, in these words, \"this is my beloved son in whom I am well pleased.\""}
{"book": "2PE", "chapter": 1, "verse": "18", "text": "we our selves heard this voice, that came from heaven, when we were with him upon the holy mountain."}
{"book": "2PE", "chapter": 1, "verse": "19", "text": "Besides, we have the more authentic accounts of the prophets, to which you do well in giving your attention, as to a lamp shining in an obscure place, till the day dawn, and the morning-star arises in your hearts."}
{"book": "2PE", "chapter": 1, "verse": "20", "text": "But you must above all consider, that no prophecy of the scripture did proceed"}
{"book": "2PE", "chapter": 1, "verse": "21", "text": "from the prophet's OWN MOTION; but the holy men of God spoke by the IMPULSE of the holy spirit."}
{"book": "2PE", "chapter": 2, "verse": "1", "text": "As there were false prophets among the people of Israel, there will likewise be false doctors among you, who by introducing pernicious sects, and by renouncing the Lord, who bought them, will bring upon themselves swift destruction."}
{"book": "2PE", "chapter": 2, "verse": "2", "text": "many will follow their destructive maxims, and by their means christianity will be traduc'd."}
{"book": "2PE", "chapter": 2, "verse": "3", "text": "By their artful discourses they will make you the tools of their avarice; but their condemnation has been a long time advancing, and their ruin is far from lingring."}
{"book": "2PE", "chapter": 2, "verse": "4", "text": "for since God did not spare the angels, who had sinned, but having precipitated them to hell, confin'd them to chains of darkness, where they are reserv'd for judgment:"}
{"book": "2PE", "chapter": 2, "verse": "5", "text": "since he did not spare the old world, having preserved only eight persons, including Noah, that preacher of virtue, when he brought the deluge upon the impious world:"}
{"book": "2PE", "chapter": 2, "verse": "6", "text": "since he condemn'd the cities of Sodom and Gomorrha to an entire subversion, and reduc'd them to ashes, to make them serve for examples to future impiety:"}
{"book": "2PE", "chapter": 2, "verse": "7", "text": "since he deliver'd that just man Lot, who was grieved at the enormous practices of the licentious;"}
{"book": "2PE", "chapter": 2, "verse": "8", "text": "for whilst this good man was among them, it daily pierc'd his virtuous soul, to see and hear of their detestable behaviour: this consider'd,"}
{"book": "2PE", "chapter": 2, "verse": "9", "text": "I say, the Lord will deliver those, who fear him, from their affliction, and reserve the wicked to be punish'd at the day of judgment."}
{"book": "2PE", "chapter": 2, "verse": "10", "text": "especially those, who prostitute themselves to sensual infamous passions: who despise magistrates, who being audacious, and insolent, intrepidly calumniate the higher powers;"}
{"book": "2PE", "chapter": 2, "verse": "11", "text": "whereas the angels, who are of superiour power and dignity, don't inveigh against one another."}
{"book": "2PE", "chapter": 2, "verse": "12", "text": "But as for these, they have no more reason than brute beasts that are naturally made for hunting, and slaughter: so these who calumniate what they do not understand, shall receive the reward of their iniquity by perishing in their own corruption."}
{"book": "2PE", "chapter": 2, "verse": "13", "text": "they place their felicity in daily pleasure: they are a vile scandal to religion: when they are present at your love-feasts they indulge their luxury:"}
{"book": "2PE", "chapter": 2, "verse": "14", "text": "their eyes are inflam'd with adultery, and unextinguishable vice: they insnare the souls of the inconstant, their minds are practis'd in the arts of avarice: an execrable race, who have deserted the right way,"}
{"book": "2PE", "chapter": 2, "verse": "15", "text": "and are gone astray to follow the practices of Balaam of Bosor, who loved the wages of iniquity;"}
{"book": "2PE", "chapter": 2, "verse": "16", "text": "but he was rebuked for his transgression: for an ass, as dumb as it was, spoke with an articulate voice, and reprimanded the extravagance of the prophet."}
{"book": "2PE", "chapter": 2, "verse": "17", "text": "These are wells without water; clouds agitated with a tempest, who are consigned to the obscurity of eternal darkness."}
{"book": "2PE", "chapter": 2, "verse": "18", "text": "when their language swells with vanity, by applying to the sensual passions of the licentious, they allure those who were escap'd for a while, from such deceivers:"}
{"book": "2PE", "chapter": 2, "verse": "19", "text": "whilst they promise others liberty, they themselves are slaves to their corrupt passions, for he that is vanquished, is a slave to the conqueror."}
{"book": "2PE", "chapter": 2, "verse": "20", "text": "As for those who have renounc'd the pollutions of the world, by their owning Jesus Christ for their Lord and saviour, if they are prevail'd upon to be entangled therein again, their last state is worse than the first."}
{"book": "2PE", "chapter": 2, "verse": "21", "text": "for it had been better for them, not to have made any profession of the gospel, than after they have embraced it, to abandon the holy injunction, that was delivered to them."}
{"book": "2PE", "chapter": 2, "verse": "22", "text": "but the proverb is exactly verified in them, \"the dog is return'd to his own vomit: the sow that was wash'd, is wallowing in the mire.\""}
{"book": "2PE", "chapter": 3, "verse": "1", "text": "This is the second letter I now write to you, my brethren, by which I would awaken your sincere attention,"}
{"book": "2PE", "chapter": 3, "verse": "2", "text": "by admonishing you to be mindful of the predictions of the holy prophets, and of the directions of the apostles of our Lord and Saviour."}
{"book": "2PE", "chapter": 3, "verse": "3", "text": "Above all things you are to know, that in these last times, impostors will appear, who will abandon themselves to their own sensual passions, whose cry will be,"}
{"book": "2PE", "chapter": 3, "verse": "4", "text": "\"where is the promise of his coming? for since our fathers are dead, the state of things is the same it has ever been since the beginning of the world.\""}
{"book": "2PE", "chapter": 3, "verse": "5", "text": "but they are wilfully ignorant, that the heavens were originally form'd by the divine Logos, and likewise the earth, which was separated from the water, and still subsists upon it."}
{"book": "2PE", "chapter": 3, "verse": "6", "text": "whence the former world was destroyed by an inundation."}
{"book": "2PE", "chapter": 3, "verse": "7", "text": "but the heavens and the earth now existing are kept in store by his Logos, reserv'd for the conflagration of doomsday, when the impious shall be involv'd in perdition. The Day of the Lord ( 1 Thessalonians 5:1–11 )"}
{"book": "2PE", "chapter": 3, "verse": "8", "text": "But there is one thing, my brethren, you ought to be appriz'd of, which is this, that \"with the Lord one day is as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.\""}
{"book": "2PE", "chapter": 3, "verse": "9", "text": "the Lord does not delay the accomplishment of his promise, as some do imagine, but he waits with patience upon our account, as being unwilling that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance."}
{"book": "2PE", "chapter": 3, "verse": "10", "text": "As for that day of the Lord, it will advance like a thief: then the heavens will rush with violence, the boiling elements will be dissolved, and the earth with all its contents, shall be burnt away."}
{"book": "2PE", "chapter": 3, "verse": "11", "text": "Since then this whole system is to be destroyed, how holy should your conduct be, and how ardent your piety?"}
{"book": "2PE", "chapter": 3, "verse": "12", "text": "expecting, and vehemently desiring the day of the Lord would come, when the heavens all on fire shall be dissolv'd, and the elements shall melt with intense heat."}
{"book": "2PE", "chapter": 3, "verse": "13", "text": "As for us, in consequence of his promise, we expect a new heaven, and a new earth, where justice shall reside. Final Exhortations"}
{"book": "2PE", "chapter": 3, "verse": "14", "text": "since then, my dear brethren, your expectations are such, take care to appear before him, without any defect or blemish, in order to be happy; and be persuaded,"}
{"book": "2PE", "chapter": 3, "verse": "15", "text": "that the patience of our Lord is for your advantage: as our dear brother Paul, according to the information he receiv'd, has writ to you,"}
{"book": "2PE", "chapter": 3, "verse": "16", "text": "as it were in all his epistles, where he takes notice of these things: in which there are some passages that are difficult to understand, which the illiterate, and unstable wrest, as they do the rest of the scriptures, to their own ruin."}
{"book": "2PE", "chapter": 3, "verse": "17", "text": "Do you then, my dear brethren, being thus forewarn'd, take care not to be seduc'd by those prophane impostors, and so lose the reward of your constancy."}
{"book": "2PE", "chapter": 3, "verse": "18", "text": "on the contrary, may you increase in the favour, and in the knowledge of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ! to him be glory both now and for ever. AMEN."}
{"book": "1JN", "chapter": 1, "verse": "1", "text": "Concerning the Logos, the author of Life, we declare what was from the beginning, what we have heard, what we have seen with our eyes, what we have consider'd, and what has been the object of our touch."}
{"book": "1JN", "chapter": 1, "verse": "2", "text": "for the life was manifested, we have seen it, we testify of it, and denounce unto you, that eternal life which was with the father, and was manifested unto us."}
{"book": "1JN", "chapter": 1, "verse": "3", "text": "what we have seen and heard, we declare unto you, that ye also may be of the same society with us: and truly associated with the father, and with his son Jesus Christ."}
{"book": "1JN", "chapter": 1, "verse": "4", "text": "and these things write we unto you, that our joy may be perfect. Walking in the Light ( John 8:12–29 )"}
{"book": "1JN", "chapter": 1, "verse": "5", "text": "This then is the commission we have from him, to declare unto you, that God is light, and in him there is no darkness."}
{"book": "1JN", "chapter": 1, "verse": "6", "text": "if we say that we have communion with him, and walk in darkness, we lye, and do not act sincerely:"}
{"book": "1JN", "chapter": 1, "verse": "7", "text": "but if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have society one with another, and the blood of his son Jesus Christ cleanseth us from all sin."}
{"book": "1JN", "chapter": 1, "verse": "8", "text": "If we say that we are without sin, we deceive ourselves, and have no regard to truth."}
{"book": "1JN", "chapter": 1, "verse": "9", "text": "if we confess our sins, as he is faithful and just, he will forgive us our sins, and cleanse us from all iniquity."}
{"book": "1JN", "chapter": 1, "verse": "10", "text": "if we say that we have not sinned, we impeach his veracity, and discredit his word."}
{"book": "1JN", "chapter": 2, "verse": "1", "text": "My dear children, these things I write unto you, that ye may avoid sin, but if any man has failed, we have an advocate with the father, Jesus Christ the just."}
{"book": "1JN", "chapter": 2, "verse": "2", "text": "he is the the victim that has expiated our sins: and not ours only, but likewise the sins of the whole world."}
{"book": "1JN", "chapter": 2, "verse": "3", "text": "if we keep his commandments, that is a proof that we know him."}
{"book": "1JN", "chapter": 2, "verse": "4", "text": "he that says, he knows him, and does not keep his commandments, is a lyar, and an enemy to the truth:"}
{"book": "1JN", "chapter": 2, "verse": "5", "text": "but he that observes his precepts, loves God with a true and perfect love: 'tis by this we know that we are truly christians."}
{"book": "1JN", "chapter": 2, "verse": "6", "text": "he that says he is attach'd to Christ, ought to regulate his conduct by his example. A New Commandment"}
{"book": "1JN", "chapter": 2, "verse": "7", "text": "My brethren, I don't prescribe you any new commandment, but the antient precept which you had from the beginning: and that is no other than the word which was originally delivered."}
{"book": "1JN", "chapter": 2, "verse": "8", "text": "however, it is really, in effect, a new commandment I write unto you, with respect to you: because the darkness is past, and things now appear in their true light."}
{"book": "1JN", "chapter": 2, "verse": "9", "text": "he that says, he is in the light, and yet hates his brother, is still in darkness."}
{"book": "1JN", "chapter": 2, "verse": "10", "text": "he that loves his brother, abides in the light, and will be secure from stumbling."}
{"book": "1JN", "chapter": 2, "verse": "11", "text": "but he that hates his brother, is in darkness, he walks in darkness, and knows not whither he is going, because the darkness hath blinded his eyes."}
{"book": "1JN", "chapter": 2, "verse": "12", "text": "I write to you, dear children, because your sins are forgiven you upon the account of Christ."}
{"book": "1JN", "chapter": 2, "verse": "13", "text": "I write to you, fathers, because ye have known him that is from the beginning. I write to you, young men, because you have overcome the wicked spirit. I write to you, little children, because ye have known the father."}
{"book": "1JN", "chapter": 2, "verse": "14", "text": "I write to you, fathers, because you have known him that is from the beginning. I write to you, young men, because ye are strong, and the word of God abideth in you, and ye have overcome the wicked spirit. Do Not Love the World"}
{"book": "1JN", "chapter": 2, "verse": "15", "text": "Love not the world, nor let worldly things engage your affections, he that is worldly affected is a stranger to divine love."}
{"book": "1JN", "chapter": 2, "verse": "16", "text": "for what the world is so full of, sensuality, avarice, and pride, is not deriv'd from the creator, but is the offspring of a vicious world."}
{"book": "1JN", "chapter": 2, "verse": "17", "text": "and the world is passing away, with all its vices: but he that obeys the divine will, shall enjoy a life of immortality. Beware of Antichrists"}
{"book": "1JN", "chapter": 2, "verse": "18", "text": "Dear children, the last time is come: as ye have heard that antichrist was to come, accordingly many antichrists have already appeared; whereby we know that we are now in the last times."}
{"book": "1JN", "chapter": 2, "verse": "19", "text": "they went out from us, but they were not of us: for if they had been of us, they would no doubt have continued with us: but they went out, that it might be manifest, that they were not all of us."}
{"book": "1JN", "chapter": 2, "verse": "20", "text": "As for you who have receiv'd the unction of the holy spirit, you know the whole affair."}
{"book": "1JN", "chapter": 2, "verse": "21", "text": "I have not written to you, as to people unacquainted with the truth of the gospel: but as to such who know it, and know that it cannot give rise to any imposture."}
{"book": "1JN", "chapter": 2, "verse": "22", "text": "who is so great an impostor as he, who denies that Jesus is the Christ? he is antichrist, that denies the father and the son."}
{"book": "1JN", "chapter": 2, "verse": "23", "text": "whosoever denieth the son, disowns the father: Remain in Christ"}
{"book": "1JN", "chapter": 2, "verse": "24", "text": "adhere therefore to what ye have learnt from the beginning, if you adhere to what ye have heard from the beginning, you will still persist to own both the son and the father."}
{"book": "1JN", "chapter": 2, "verse": "25", "text": "and this is the reward that he hath promised us, even eternal life."}
{"book": "1JN", "chapter": 2, "verse": "26", "text": "These things have I written to you concerning those that would seduce you."}
{"book": "1JN", "chapter": 2, "verse": "27", "text": "but as the unction which ye have received from him, abides in you, you don't need any instruction: being then fully instructed by his unction, which is true and not fallacious, adhere to what that has taught you."}
{"book": "1JN", "chapter": 2, "verse": "28", "text": "adhere to that, my dear children, that when he shall appear, we may have confidence, and not be ashamed before him at his coming."}
{"book": "1JN", "chapter": 2, "verse": "29", "text": "since you know that God is the source of virtue, you know that every one who has virtue, derives it from him."}
{"book": "1JN", "chapter": 3, "verse": "1", "text": "Consider what proof the father has given us of his love, in allowing us to be called the sons of God: therefore the world does not know us, because it knew him not."}
{"book": "1JN", "chapter": 3, "verse": "2", "text": "beloved, we are now the sons of God, tho' it does not yet appear what we shall be: but we know, that when this change shall be, his immediate presence will give us a divine resemblance."}
{"book": "1JN", "chapter": 3, "verse": "3", "text": "he that hath such an expectation should purify himself, even as he is pure."}
{"book": "1JN", "chapter": 3, "verse": "4", "text": "he that is vitious, is lawless: for sin is the transgression of the law."}
{"book": "1JN", "chapter": 3, "verse": "5", "text": "and you know that he appear'd to abolish our sins; and that he was himself without sin."}
{"book": "1JN", "chapter": 3, "verse": "6", "text": "whosoever adheres to him, sinneth not: whosoever sinneth, hath not seen him, he does not know him."}
{"book": "1JN", "chapter": 3, "verse": "7", "text": "dear children, let no man deceive you: only he that acts justly is just, as he is just."}
{"book": "1JN", "chapter": 3, "verse": "8", "text": "he that lives in sin, imitates the devil; for the devil was a sinner from the beginning, for this purpose the son of God appeared, that he might destroy the works of the devil."}
{"book": "1JN", "chapter": 3, "verse": "9", "text": "whosoever is born of God, does not commit sin; for the divine principle remaineth in him: he will not sin, because he is born of God."}
{"book": "1JN", "chapter": 3, "verse": "10", "text": "In this the children of God are distinguished from the children of the devil: he that does not practise virtue, and fraternal benevolence, is not of God. Love One Another ( John 13:31–35 ; Romans 12:9–13 )"}
{"book": "1JN", "chapter": 3, "verse": "11", "text": "for this is the doctrine that you have heard from the beginning, that we should love one another."}
{"book": "1JN", "chapter": 3, "verse": "12", "text": "not acting like Cain, who was of that wicked one, and slew his brother: but why did he slay him? because his own actions were evil, and his brother's were virtuous."}
{"book": "1JN", "chapter": 3, "verse": "13", "text": "Marvel not, my brethren, if the world hate you."}
{"book": "1JN", "chapter": 3, "verse": "14", "text": "as for us, we know, that we have passed from a state of death to that of life, because we love our brethren: he that does not love his brother, is in a destructive state."}
{"book": "1JN", "chapter": 3, "verse": "15", "text": "whosoever hateth his brother, has the disposition of a murderer: and you know that no murderer has any title to eternal life."}
{"book": "1JN", "chapter": 3, "verse": "16", "text": "this is the proof of the divine love, Christ expos'd his life for us: and we ought to expose our lives for the brethren."}
{"book": "1JN", "chapter": 3, "verse": "17", "text": "he that possesses the enjoyments of life, and seeing his brother in want, has no compassion for him, how can he be said to have any divine love?"}
{"book": "1JN", "chapter": 3, "verse": "18", "text": "my dear children, let not our love be only in the language of our lips, but in the real effects of the heart."}
{"book": "1JN", "chapter": 3, "verse": "19", "text": "Hereby we shall know that we are true professors, and set our consciences securely at rest."}
{"book": "1JN", "chapter": 3, "verse": "20", "text": "for if our conscience condemn us, God knows us better than we do our selves, he knoweth all things."}
{"book": "1JN", "chapter": 3, "verse": "21", "text": "beloved, if our heart condemn us not, we may securely confide in God."}
{"book": "1JN", "chapter": 3, "verse": "22", "text": "whatever we ask, we shall receive it of him, because we keep his commandments, and do what is agreeable to him."}
{"book": "1JN", "chapter": 3, "verse": "23", "text": "now this is his commandment, that we believe in his son Jesus Christ, and that we love one another, as he commanded us."}
{"book": "1JN", "chapter": 3, "verse": "24", "text": "he that observes his commandments, dwelleth in God, and God in him: and hereby we know that he abideth in us, by the spirit which he hath given us."}
{"book": "1JN", "chapter": 4, "verse": "1", "text": "Beloved, believe not every spirit, but try the spirits whether they are of God: because many false prophets are gone out into the world."}
{"book": "1JN", "chapter": 4, "verse": "2", "text": "by this you may distinguish the spirit of God: \"every spirit that confesseth that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh, is from God."}
{"book": "1JN", "chapter": 4, "verse": "3", "text": "and every spirit that does not own that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh, is not from God.\" this is that anti-christian spirit which you have heard was to come, and even now it appears in the world."}
{"book": "1JN", "chapter": 4, "verse": "4", "text": "ye are of God, my dear children, and you have overcome them: because he that is in you, is superior to him that is in the world."}
{"book": "1JN", "chapter": 4, "verse": "5", "text": "they are of the world: therefore their doctrine is worldly, and the world are their disciples."}
{"book": "1JN", "chapter": 4, "verse": "6", "text": "we are of God: he that knoweth God, heareth us; he that is not of God, heareth not us, by this we distinguish the spirit of truth from the spirit of imposture. Love Comes from God"}
{"book": "1JN", "chapter": 4, "verse": "7", "text": "Beloved, let us love one another: for love is of God; and every one that loveth, is born of God, and knoweth God."}
{"book": "1JN", "chapter": 4, "verse": "8", "text": "he that has not social affection, does not know God; for God is love."}
{"book": "1JN", "chapter": 4, "verse": "9", "text": "by this was the love of God displayed towards us, in that God sent his only begotten son into the world, that we might live thro' him."}
{"book": "1JN", "chapter": 4, "verse": "10", "text": "and what heightens his love, was this, that it was not we who first loved God, but it was he that first loved us, and sent his son to expiate our sins."}
{"book": "1JN", "chapter": 4, "verse": "11", "text": "beloved, if God so loved us, we ought to love one another."}
{"book": "1JN", "chapter": 4, "verse": "12", "text": "no man hath ever seen God, if we love one another, God dwelleth in us, and our love for him is then sincere."}
{"book": "1JN", "chapter": 4, "verse": "13", "text": "Hereby we know that we dwell in him, and he in us, because he hath given us of his spirit."}
{"book": "1JN", "chapter": 4, "verse": "14", "text": "and we have seen, and do testify, that the father hath sent the son to be the saviour of the world."}
{"book": "1JN", "chapter": 4, "verse": "15", "text": "whosoever shall confess that Jesus is the son of God, God dwelleth in him, and he in God."}
{"book": "1JN", "chapter": 4, "verse": "16", "text": "and we have known, and are convinced that God hath loved us. God is love; and he that cultivates social affection, dwelleth in God, and God in him."}
{"book": "1JN", "chapter": 4, "verse": "17", "text": "the divine love to us will be in the highest degree, if our condition in this world be the same as was that of Christ Jesus; so that we may appear with confidence in the day of judgment."}
{"book": "1JN", "chapter": 4, "verse": "18", "text": "Fear is a stranger to love; for perfect loves excludes all fear: since pain is the object of fear, he that is affected with fear, cannot be sincere in his love."}
{"book": "1JN", "chapter": 4, "verse": "19", "text": "let us love him; since he first loved us."}
{"book": "1JN", "chapter": 4, "verse": "20", "text": "if a man says he loves God, and yet hates his brother, he is a lyar: for he that does not love his brother, who is before his eyes, how can he love God who is invisible?"}
{"book": "1JN", "chapter": 4, "verse": "21", "text": "besides, 'tis a commandment we have receiv'd from him, that he who would love God, must love his brother also."}
{"book": "1JN", "chapter": 5, "verse": "1", "text": "Whosoever believeth that Jesus is the Messiah, is born of God: and every one that loves the father, will likewise be affected with love to his son."}
{"book": "1JN", "chapter": 5, "verse": "2", "text": "by this we may know that we love the children of God, if we love God, and keep his commandments."}
{"book": "1JN", "chapter": 5, "verse": "3", "text": "for our love of God consists in the observation of his precepts: precepts that are far from being grievous."}
{"book": "1JN", "chapter": 5, "verse": "4", "text": "for he that is a true christian, overcomes the world: by obtaining faith, we have gain'd a victory over the world."}
{"book": "1JN", "chapter": 5, "verse": "5", "text": "Who is it that overcomes the world, but he that believes that Jesus is the son of God?"}
{"book": "1JN", "chapter": 5, "verse": "6", "text": "it appear'd by the water, and by the blood, who he was, even Jesus the Messiah; not by the water only, but by the water and by the blood: besides, the spirit is a witness too, now the spirit is truth itself."}
{"book": "1JN", "chapter": 5, "verse": "7", "text": "There are three witnesses in heaven, the Father, the Word, and the Holy Ghost: and these three testify the same thing."}
{"book": "1JN", "chapter": 5, "verse": "8", "text": "so that there are three witnesses, the spirit, the water, and the blood: and these three testify the same thing. God’s Testimony about His Son"}
{"book": "1JN", "chapter": 5, "verse": "9", "text": "if we receive the testimony of men, the testimony of God is greater: now this is the testimony, which God has given us of his son."}
{"book": "1JN", "chapter": 5, "verse": "10", "text": "he that believeth on the son of God, hath the testimony of God thereto: he that does not believe God, impeaches his veracity, because he does not believe the testimony that God gave of his son."}
{"book": "1JN", "chapter": 5, "verse": "11", "text": "Now what is testified, is this, that God has given to us eternal life: and this life is by his son."}
{"book": "1JN", "chapter": 5, "verse": "12", "text": "he that receives the son, is intitled to life; and he that does not receive the son of God, has no title to life. Effective Prayer"}
{"book": "1JN", "chapter": 5, "verse": "13", "text": "these things have I written to you, that you may know that you have eternal life, by your believing on the name of the son of God."}
{"book": "1JN", "chapter": 5, "verse": "14", "text": "Besides, we have this confidence in him, that if we ask any thing according to his will, he will hear us."}
{"book": "1JN", "chapter": 5, "verse": "15", "text": "and since we are sure that he hears all our prayers, we are sure that the petitions we presented to him, will be answered."}
{"book": "1JN", "chapter": 5, "verse": "16", "text": "If any man see his brother commit a sin, which is not a mortal sin, let him pray to God, who will grant him life, for such as do not commit a mortal sin, there is a sin unto death: in which case I do not enjoin any prayer to be made."}
{"book": "1JN", "chapter": 5, "verse": "17", "text": "every thing that is contrary to virtue, is a sin: but every sin is not a mortal sin: The True God"}
{"book": "1JN", "chapter": 5, "verse": "18", "text": "we know that a true christian will not commit such a sin, for he that is the child of God keeps upon his guard, so that the wicked spirit does not approach him."}
{"book": "1JN", "chapter": 5, "verse": "19", "text": "we know that we are the children of God, and the rest of the world are subject to the evil spirit."}
{"book": "1JN", "chapter": 5, "verse": "20", "text": "We know that the son of God is come, and hath given us an understanding to know him that is true: and we are with him that is true, by his son Jesus Christ. \"he is the true God, who is the author of eternal life.\""}
{"book": "1JN", "chapter": 5, "verse": "21", "text": "dear children, keep yourselves from idols. AMEN."}
{"book": "2JN", "chapter": 1, "verse": "1", "text": "The PRESBYTER to the lady ECLECTA and her children, whom I sincerely love, and not only I, but all true christians,"}
{"book": "2JN", "chapter": 1, "verse": "2", "text": "in consideration of the true doctrine, we all profess, and in which we shall for ever persevere."}
{"book": "2JN", "chapter": 1, "verse": "3", "text": "Grace, mercy, and peace be with you from God the father, and from the Lord Jesus Christ the son of the father, in consequence of your sincere piety, and social virtue. Walking in the Truth ( John 8:30–47 )"}
{"book": "2JN", "chapter": 1, "verse": "4", "text": "It was a great satisfaction to me, to see the conduct of your children, was so agreeable to the directions, we received from the father."}
{"book": "2JN", "chapter": 1, "verse": "5", "text": "and now, my lady, I beg our love may be mutual, since what I write, is no new prescription, but what was originally enjoin'd."}
{"book": "2JN", "chapter": 1, "verse": "6", "text": "now love consists in the practice of the divine precepts, this is the precept you have originally receiv'd, as the rule of your conduct. Beware of Deceivers"}
{"book": "2JN", "chapter": 1, "verse": "7", "text": "For there are many impostors started up in the world, who will not own that Jesus Christ was incarnate, such a one is an impostor and an anti-christ."}
{"book": "2JN", "chapter": 1, "verse": "8", "text": "be upon your guard, that we may not lose the fruit of our labours, but that we may receive our full reward."}
{"book": "2JN", "chapter": 1, "verse": "9", "text": "no renegado that deserts the doctrine of Christ, has any interest in the deity: he that adheres to the doctrine of Christ, has an interest both in the father, and in the son."}
{"book": "2JN", "chapter": 1, "verse": "10", "text": "whoever comes to you unaccompanied with this doctrine, don't admit him to your house, nor treat him with the common term of civility."}
{"book": "2JN", "chapter": 1, "verse": "11", "text": "for he who shows that respect to such a man, is accessary to his wicked actions. Conclusion ( 3 John 1:13–14 )"}
{"book": "2JN", "chapter": 1, "verse": "12", "text": "I had many things to write to you, but I don't think it proper to commit them to paper and ink, because I hope to make you a visit, and deliver them by word of mouth; that so our joy may be compleat."}
{"book": "2JN", "chapter": 1, "verse": "13", "text": "The children of your sister ECLECTA salute you. AMEN."}
{"book": "3JN", "chapter": 1, "verse": "1", "text": "The PRESBYTER to my dear Gaius, whom I truly love."}
{"book": "3JN", "chapter": 1, "verse": "2", "text": "I wish, my beloved, you may be as prosperous with regard to your health and other circumstances, as in what concerns your soul."}
{"book": "3JN", "chapter": 1, "verse": "3", "text": "For I was greatly pleased when the brethren came and assured me of your fidelity and religious conduct."}
{"book": "3JN", "chapter": 1, "verse": "4", "text": "greater joy I cannot have, than to hear that my children are attach'd to the truth. Gaius Commended for Hospitality"}
{"book": "3JN", "chapter": 1, "verse": "5", "text": "My dear child, whatever you do in behalf of the brethren, and of those who are strangers, is commendable."}
{"book": "3JN", "chapter": 1, "verse": "6", "text": "they have made a publick declaration of your charity, and you will do well to accompany them in the most effectual manner."}
{"book": "3JN", "chapter": 1, "verse": "7", "text": "for they set out upon account of the gospel, and refus'd to take any thing of the Gentiles."}
{"book": "3JN", "chapter": 1, "verse": "8", "text": "it behoves us to give a kind reception to such, that we may be assistant in promoting the truth. Diotrephes and Demetrius"}
{"book": "3JN", "chapter": 1, "verse": "9", "text": "I have writ to the church: but Diotrephes, who affects the superiority, has no regard to our representations."}
{"book": "3JN", "chapter": 1, "verse": "10", "text": "for which reason, when I come, I shall animadvert upon his conduct, and the malicious aspersions he casts upon us: not contented with this, he will neither receive the brethren himself, nor suffer those who are better inclin'd, to do it; but drives them out of the church."}
{"book": "3JN", "chapter": 1, "verse": "11", "text": "my beloved, don't imitate vice, but virtue, he that does good, is a child of God: he that does evil, is not acquainted with God."}
{"book": "3JN", "chapter": 1, "verse": "12", "text": "Demetrius has the applauses of all men, and the testimony of his own virtue: we likewise certify in his behalf, and you know that our testimonial deserves credit. Conclusion ( 2 John 1:12–13 )"}
{"book": "3JN", "chapter": 1, "verse": "13", "text": "I have many things to write, which I don't think fit to commit to paper and ink:"}
{"book": "3JN", "chapter": 1, "verse": "14", "text": "hoping I shall shortly see you, and then communicate them in person."}
{"book": "JUD", "chapter": 1, "verse": "1", "text": "Jude the servant of Jesus Christ, and brother of James, to those that are sanctified by God the father, and by their vocation are reserved for Jesus Christ."}
{"book": "JUD", "chapter": 1, "verse": "2", "text": "mercy, peace and love be multiplied to you. God’s Judgment on the Ungodly ( 2 Peter 3:1–7 )"}
{"book": "JUD", "chapter": 1, "verse": "3", "text": "My beloved, as I was strongly bent upon writing to you of our common salvation, I thought it necessary to write to you at present, and exhort you to contend earnestly for the faith, which was once delivered to the saints."}
{"book": "JUD", "chapter": 1, "verse": "4", "text": "For certain men have insinuated themselves among you, who were formerly proscrib'd to be punish'd; impious men, who pervert the divine favour to licentiousness, and renounce their only master, and Jesus Christ our Lord."}
{"book": "JUD", "chapter": 1, "verse": "5", "text": "Now, I would call to your remembrance what you once were inform'd of, that when the Lord had delivered the people from the land of Egypt, he afterward destroyed those that were disobedient."}
{"book": "JUD", "chapter": 1, "verse": "6", "text": "and the angels which kept not their original dignity, but deserted their proper abode, he hath reserved in everlasting chains under darkness, to the judgment of the great day."}
{"book": "JUD", "chapter": 1, "verse": "7", "text": "so it was with Sodom, Gomorrha, and the neighbouring cities, who abandoning themselves to the same licentiousness and abominable passions, were made examples by suffering the punishment of eternal fire."}
{"book": "JUD", "chapter": 1, "verse": "8", "text": "yet these visionary debauchees despise princes, and traduce dignitys."}
{"book": "JUD", "chapter": 1, "verse": "9", "text": "whereas Michael the archangel, when contending with the devil, he disputed about the body of Moses, did not take the liberty to inveigh against him, but said, \"the Lord rebuke thee.\""}
{"book": "JUD", "chapter": 1, "verse": "10", "text": "As for these, they inveigh against what they do not understand: and abuse those natural instincts which regulate brute animals."}
{"book": "JUD", "chapter": 1, "verse": "11", "text": "unhappy creatures! they have followed the practices of Cain, they have addicted themselves to the mercenary illusions of Balaam, and perish in their rebellion like Core."}
{"book": "JUD", "chapter": 1, "verse": "12", "text": "they are a disgrace to your love-feasts, they indulge themselves at your festivals without reserve: clouds without water, transported with every wind: trees whose fruit soon withers and is useless, twice dead and rooted up:"}
{"book": "JUD", "chapter": 1, "verse": "13", "text": "raging waves of the sea, foaming out their own shame: wandering lights, to whom is reserv'd the thickest darkness for ever."}
{"book": "JUD", "chapter": 1, "verse": "14", "text": "Of these did Enoch, the seventh from Adam, prophesy in these words, \"see! the Lord is coming with ten thousand of his saints,"}
{"book": "JUD", "chapter": 1, "verse": "15", "text": "to execute judgment upon all, and to convict all the impious among them, of all the impious actions they have committed, and of all the injurious expressions, which impious sinners have utter'd against him.\""}
{"book": "JUD", "chapter": 1, "verse": "16", "text": "These are murmurers, complainers, who pursue their own passions: their language swells with flattery, which they offer to the personages of men from a prospect of gain. A Call to Persevere ( Hebrews 10:19–39 ; 2 Peter 3:1–7 )"}
{"book": "JUD", "chapter": 1, "verse": "17", "text": "As for you, my beloved, remember what the apostles of our Lord Jesus Christ have formerly told you."}
{"book": "JUD", "chapter": 1, "verse": "18", "text": "for they assur'd you, there would be impostors in the last days, who would follow their own impious passions."}
{"book": "JUD", "chapter": 1, "verse": "19", "text": "these are they who distinguish themselves, though they are sensual, and have nothing that is spiritual."}
{"book": "JUD", "chapter": 1, "verse": "20", "text": "but you, my brethren, improve yourselves in your most holy faith, present your addresses by the holy spirit,"}
{"book": "JUD", "chapter": 1, "verse": "21", "text": "and thereby cultivate the divine favour, in the expectation of eternal life by the mercy of Jesus Christ our Lord."}
{"book": "JUD", "chapter": 1, "verse": "22", "text": "Make use of your discernment; some reprove:"}
{"book": "JUD", "chapter": 1, "verse": "23", "text": "of others be compassionately tender, snatching them, as it were, out of the fire: and avoid even the garment of the infected. Doxology ( Romans 16:25–27 )"}
{"book": "JUD", "chapter": 1, "verse": "24", "text": "Now to him that is able to keep you from falling, and make you appear in his glorious presence, without defect, and full of joy:"}
{"book": "JUD", "chapter": 1, "verse": "25", "text": "to God only wise, our saviour, be glory, magnificence, power, and empire, both now and for ever."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 1, "verse": "1", "text": "The REVELATION of Jesus Christ, which God gave him, to shew to his servants things which must shortly come to pass; this he signified by his angel whom he dispatch'd to his servant John:"}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 1, "verse": "2", "text": "who publish'd the divine message, and gave his attestation to every thing that he saw concerning Jesus Christ."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 1, "verse": "3", "text": "Happy is he that reads, and attends to the words of this prophecy, and observes the matter therein contain'd: for the time draws nigh. John Greets the Seven Churches"}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 1, "verse": "4", "text": "JOHN to the seven churches which are in Asia: favour and peace be with you from him WHO IS, WHO WAS, WHO WILL BE; and from the seven spirits who are before his throne;"}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 1, "verse": "5", "text": "and from Jesus Christ, who is the faithful witness, the first-born of the dead, and the prince of the kings of the earth: unto him that loved us, and washed us from our sins by his own blood,"}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 1, "verse": "6", "text": "who hath made us kings and priests to his God and father; to him be glory and dominion for ever and ever. Amen."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 1, "verse": "7", "text": "See! he is coming on the clouds; and every eye shall see him, even they who pierced him: then all the tribes of the earth will smite their breasts at the sight: even so it will be."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 1, "verse": "8", "text": "I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end, saith the Lord, who is, and who was, and who will be, the almighty. John’s Vision on Patmos"}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 1, "verse": "9", "text": "I JOHN, who am your brother, and partake in the tribulation, in the reign, and in the patience of Jesus Christ, was in the isle called Patmos, for the word of God, and for the testimony I gave of Jesus Christ."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 1, "verse": "10", "text": "there I was in an exstacy on the Lord's day, and heard behind me a loud voice, like the sound of a trumpet,"}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 1, "verse": "11", "text": "saying, \"I am Alpha and Omega, the first and the last: and, what you shall see, write in a book, and send it to the seven churches which are in Asia; to Ephesus, to Smyrna, to Pergamos, to Thyatira, to Sardis, to Philadelphia, and to Laodicea.\""}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 1, "verse": "12", "text": "and I turned to see from whence the voice came that spake to me, and turning about, I saw seven golden candlesticks;"}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 1, "verse": "13", "text": "and in the midst of the seven candlesticks, one who resembled the son of man, cloathed with a garment down to the foot, and girt below the breast with a girdle of gold."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 1, "verse": "14", "text": "his head and his hairs were white like wool, as white as snow; and his eyes were as a flame of fire; his feet were like fine brass,"}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 1, "verse": "15", "text": "when glowing in a furnace; and his voice as the sound of many waters."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 1, "verse": "16", "text": "in his right hand he held seven stars: out of his mouth went a sharp two-edged sword, and his countenance was as the sun shining in his full glory."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 1, "verse": "17", "text": "as soon as I saw him, I fell at his feet as dead: but he laid his right hand upon me, and said, \"Fear not; I am the first and the last:"}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 1, "verse": "18", "text": "I am he that liveth; I was dead; but now you see I am alive for all eternity, amen; and I have the keys of the grave, and of death.\""}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 1, "verse": "19", "text": "write what you have seen, the things which are, and the things which shall be hereafter."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 1, "verse": "20", "text": "the conceal'd meaning of the seven stars which you saw in my right hand, and of the seven golden candlesticks, is this: the seven stars signify the angels of the seven churches: and the seven candlesticks which you saw, signify the seven churches."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 2, "verse": "1", "text": "To the angel of the church of Ephesus, write, \"HE that holds the seven stars in his right hand, who walks in the midst of the seven golden candlesticks, says thus,"}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 2, "verse": "2", "text": "I know thy works, thy labour, and thy patience, and that thou canst not bear those who are evil: thou hast tried those who say they are apostles, but are not; and hast found them lyars:"}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 2, "verse": "3", "text": "thou hast suffer'd, hast patience, for my name's sake thou hast laboured, and hast not fainted."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 2, "verse": "4", "text": "nevertheless, I have somewhat against thee, because thou hast left thy first love."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 2, "verse": "5", "text": "remember therefore from whence thou art fallen, and repent, and do the first works; or else I will come unto thee quickly, and will remove thy candlestick out of his place except thou repent."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 2, "verse": "6", "text": "but in this thou art right, that thou hatest the deeds of the Nicolaitans, which I also hate."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 2, "verse": "7", "text": "he that hath an ear, let him hear what the spirit saith to the churches, to him that overcometh will I give to eat of the tree of life, which is in the paradise of my God.\" To the Church in Smyrna"}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 2, "verse": "8", "text": "And to the angel of the church in Smyrna, write, \"THESE things saith the first and last, who was dead, and is alive.\""}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 2, "verse": "9", "text": "\"I know thy works, thy tribulation and poverty (tho' thou art rich) and I know the blasphemy of those who say they are Jews, and are not, but are the synagogue of satan."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 2, "verse": "10", "text": "fear none of those things which thou shalt suffer: behold, the devil shall cast some of you into prison, that ye may be tried; and ye shall have tribulation ten days: be thou faithful unto death, and I will give thee a crown of life."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 2, "verse": "11", "text": "he that hath an ear, let him hear what the spirit saith to the churches, he that overcometh, shall not be hurt by the second death.\" To the Church in Pergamum"}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 2, "verse": "12", "text": "And to the angel of the church in Pergamos, write, \"THESE things, saith he, who hath the sharp sword with two edges,"}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 2, "verse": "13", "text": "I know thy works, and where thou dwellest, even where the throne of satan is: thou maintainest my name, and hast not renounced your faith in me, even at a time when Antipas my faithful martyr was slain among you, where Satan dwells."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 2, "verse": "14", "text": "but I have a few things against thee, because thou hast there those that hold the doctrine of Balaam, who counselled Balac to ensnare the children of Israel, to eat things sacrificed to idols, and to commit fornication."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 2, "verse": "15", "text": "you have likewise those that hold the doctrine of the Nicolaitans, which I hate."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 2, "verse": "16", "text": "repent; or else I will come unto thee quickly, and will fight against them with the sword of my mouth."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 2, "verse": "17", "text": "he that hath an ear, let him hear what the spirit saith unto the churches: to him that overcometh, will I give to eat of the hidden manna, and will give him a white stone, and in the stone a new name written, which no man understands, except he that receives it.\" To the Church in Thyatira ( Acts 16:11–15 )"}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 2, "verse": "18", "text": "And unto the angel of the church in Thyatira, write, \"THESE things saith the son of God, whose eyes are like a flame of fire, and his feet like fine brass; I know thy works,"}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 2, "verse": "19", "text": "your charitable offices, your faith, and your patience, and that your last works exceed the first."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 2, "verse": "20", "text": "notwithstanding, I have a few things against thee, because thou sufferest that woman Jezabel, who stiles herself a prophetess, and teaches and seduces my servants to commit fornication, and to eat things sacrificed to idols."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 2, "verse": "21", "text": "I gave her space to repent of her fornication, but she repented not."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 2, "verse": "22", "text": "behold, I will confine her to her bed, and those that commit adultery with her I will severely afflict, except they repent of their actions."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 2, "verse": "23", "text": "I will strike her children dead; and all the churches shall know that I am he who searcheth the reins and the heart: and I will give to every one of you according to your works."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 2, "verse": "24", "text": "but I say to the rest that are in Thyatira, who do not follow this doctrine, and have not been initiated in the depths, as they are called, of satan, I will put upon you no other burden, but what you have:"}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 2, "verse": "25", "text": "hold that fast till I come."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 2, "verse": "26", "text": "he that overcometh, and keepeth my works unto the end, to him will I give power over the nations:"}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 2, "verse": "27", "text": "he shall rule them with a rod of iron: as the vessels of a potter shall they be broken to shivers, according to the power I have received of my father."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 2, "verse": "28", "text": "I will even give him the lustre of the morning-star."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 2, "verse": "29", "text": "he that hath an ear, let him hear what the spirit saith to the churches.\""}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 3, "verse": "1", "text": "And unto the angel of the church in Sardis, write, \"THESE things saith he that hath the seven spirits of God and the seven stars; I know thy works, that thou hast the reputation of being alive, but art dead."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 3, "verse": "2", "text": "be watchful, and fortify the rest that are ready to die: for I have not found thy works perfect before God."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 3, "verse": "3", "text": "remember therefore what thou hast received and heard: observe it and repent, if therefore thou art not vigilant, I will come upon thee as a thief, thou shalt not know what hour I will come upon thee."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 3, "verse": "4", "text": "thou hast a few persons in Sardis who have not defiled their garments; they shall walk with me in white: for they are worthy."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 3, "verse": "5", "text": "he that overcometh, the same shall be cloathed in white raiment; I will not efface his name out of the book of life, but I will own him before my father, and before his angels."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 3, "verse": "6", "text": "he that hath an ear, let him hear what the spirit saith unto the churches.\" To the Church in Philadelphia"}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 3, "verse": "7", "text": "And to the angel of the church in Philadelphia, write, \"THESE things saith He that is holy, He that is true, He that hath the key of David, He that openeth what no man can shut; and shutteth what no man can open:"}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 3, "verse": "8", "text": "I know thy works: behold, I have set before thee an open door, and no man can shut it: for tho' few in number, you have kept my word, and have not renounced my name."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 3, "verse": "9", "text": "you shall see I will make those of the synagogue of satan, who say they are Jews, and are not, but do lye: you shall see I will make them come, and throw themselves at your feet, and they shall know that you are the objects of my love."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 3, "verse": "10", "text": "because you have kept my precept about patience, I also will keep you in the time of persecution, which shall happen to all the world, to try the inhabitants of the earth."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 3, "verse": "11", "text": "behold, I come quickly: hold that fast which you have, let no man take your crown."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 3, "verse": "12", "text": "him that overcomes, will I make a pillar in the temple of my God, and he shall go out no more: I will write upon him the name of my God, and the name of the city of my God, which is new Jerusalem, which descends from heaven from my God: even my new name will I write."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 3, "verse": "13", "text": "he that hath an ear, let him hear what the spirit saith unto the churches.\" To the Church in Laodicea ( Colossians 2:1–5 )"}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 3, "verse": "14", "text": "And unto the angel of the church of the Laodiceans, write, \"these things saith the AMEN, the faithful and true witness, the beginning of the creation of God;"}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 3, "verse": "15", "text": "I know thy works, that thou art neither cold nor hot: I would thou wert cold or hot."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 3, "verse": "16", "text": "but since thou art lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I will spue thee out of my mouth."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 3, "verse": "17", "text": "you say you are rich, and have increased your gain, and have need of nothing; but you do not consider that you are wretched, miserable, poor, blind, and naked."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 3, "verse": "18", "text": "I counsel thee to purchase of me gold tried in the fire, that thou mayst be rich; and white raiment, that thou mayst be cloathed, and that the shame of thy nakedness may not appear; and an ointment for thine eyes to make you see clear."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 3, "verse": "19", "text": "as many as I love, I rebuke and chastise: be warm therefore with zeal, and repent."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 3, "verse": "20", "text": "behold, I stand at the door, and knock: if any man hear my voice, and open the door, I will come in to him, I will sup with him, and he shall afterwards be entertain'd by me."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 3, "verse": "21", "text": "to him that overcometh will I grant to sit with me in my throne, even as I also overcame, and am set down with my father in his throne."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 3, "verse": "22", "text": "he that hath an ear, let him hear what the spirit saith unto the churches."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 4, "verse": "1", "text": "At another time I had a vision, when I saw a door was opened in heaven: and the first voice which I heard talking to me, was like the sound of a trumpet; which said, \"come up hither, and I will shew thee things which must be hereafter.\""}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 4, "verse": "2", "text": "Immediately I was in an extasy: and I saw a throne placed in heaven, and one sitting on the throne."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 4, "verse": "3", "text": "he that sat, appear'd to the sight, like a jasper, and a sardine stone: and there was an arch like a rain-bow, round about the throne, which had the appearance of an emerald."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 4, "verse": "4", "text": "round about the throne were four and twenty seats: and upon the seats I saw four and twenty Elders sitting, cloathed in white raiment; and they had on their heads crowns of gold. Worship of the Creator"}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 4, "verse": "5", "text": "out of the throne proceeded lightnings, and thundrings, and voices: and there were seven lamps of fire burning before the throne, which are the seven spirits of God."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 4, "verse": "6", "text": "Before the throne there was a sea of glass like unto crystal: and towards the throne, and round about the throne were four ANIMALS full of eyes before and behind."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 4, "verse": "7", "text": "the first animal was like a lion, the second animal like a calf, the third animal appear'd like a man, and the fourth animal was like a flying eagle."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 4, "verse": "8", "text": "the four animals had each of them six wings about him, and they were full of eyes within; and they never ceas'd day and night, crying, HOLY, HOLY, HOLY, Lord God ALMIGHTY, WHO WAS, WHO IS, AND WHO WILL BE, and when those animals gave glory,"}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 4, "verse": "9", "text": "and honour, and thanks to him that sat on the throne, who liveth for ever and ever, the"}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 4, "verse": "10", "text": "four and twenty elders fell down before him that sat on the throne, and worshipped him that liveth for ever and ever, and cast their crowns before the throne, saying,"}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 4, "verse": "11", "text": "\"thou art worthy, O Lord, to receive glory, and honour, and power: for thou hast created all things, by thy WILL they subsist, and were created.\""}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 5, "verse": "1", "text": "And I saw in the right hand of him that sate on the throne, A BOOK written within and on the backside, sealed with seven SEALS."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 5, "verse": "2", "text": "and I saw a powerful angel proclaiming with a loud voice, \"who is worthy to open the book, and to loose the seals thereof.\""}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 5, "verse": "3", "text": "and no one in heaven, nor in earth, nor under the earth, was able to open the book, or to look therein."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 5, "verse": "4", "text": "and I wept much, because no man was found worthy to open and read the book, nor to look therein."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 5, "verse": "5", "text": "and one of the elders said to me, weep not: behold, the lion of the tribe of Juda, the offspring of David, hath prevailed to open the book, and to loose the seven seals thereof."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 5, "verse": "6", "text": "And I beheld, and saw before the throne, in the midst of the four animals, and in the midst of the elders, a lamb which seem'd to have been slain, having seven horns, and seven eyes, which are the seven spirits of God sent forth into all the earth."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 5, "verse": "7", "text": "and he came and took the book out of the right hand of him that sate upon the throne."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 5, "verse": "8", "text": "when he had taken the book, the four animals, and the four and twenty elders fell down before the lamb, every one of them having harps, and golden vials full of odours, which are the prayers of the saints."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 5, "verse": "9", "text": "and they sung a new song, saying, \"thou art worthy to take the book, and to open the seals thereof: for thou wast slain, and hast redeemed us to God by thy blood, out of every tribe, and language, and people, and nation;"}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 5, "verse": "10", "text": "and hast made us kings and priests unto our God: and we shall reign on the earth.\" The Lamb Exalted"}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 5, "verse": "11", "text": "Then in my vision I heard the voice of many angels which surrounded the throne, the animals, and the elders: to the number of ten thousand times ten thousand, and thousands of thousands;"}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 5, "verse": "12", "text": "saying with a loud voice, \"worthy is the lamb that was slain to receive power, and riches, and wisdom, and strength, and honour, and glory, and blessing.\""}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 5, "verse": "13", "text": "and every creature which is in heaven, on the earth, under the earth, and such as are in the sea, and all that are in them, heard I, saying, \"blessing, and honour, and glory, and power be unto him that sitteth upon the throne, and unto the lamb for ever and ever.\""}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 5, "verse": "14", "text": "and the four animals said, amen, and the four and twenty elders fell down and worshipped him that liveth for ever and ever."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 6, "verse": "1", "text": "Then I saw the lamb open one of the seals, when I heard one of the four animals with a voice like thunder, say, \"come, and see.\""}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 6, "verse": "2", "text": "I look'd, and there was a white horse; and he that sat on him had a bow, and a crown was given unto him, and he went forth like a conqueror, to gain conquests. The Second Seal: War"}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 6, "verse": "3", "text": "When he had opened the second seal, I heard the second animal say, \"come and see.\""}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 6, "verse": "4", "text": "and there went out another horse that was red: and power was given to him that sat thereon, to banish peace from the land, and to make men kill one another: and there was given unto him a great sword. The Third Seal: Famine"}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 6, "verse": "5", "text": "When he had opened the third seal, I heard the third animal say, \"come and see.\" and I beheld, and saw a black horse; and he that sat on him had a balance in his hand."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 6, "verse": "6", "text": "and I heard a voice from amidst the four animals say, \" a measure of wheat for a penny, and three measures of barley for a penny; but don't touch the oil and the wine.\" The Fourth Seal: Death"}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 6, "verse": "7", "text": "When he had opened the fourth seal, I heard the voice of the fourth animal say, \"come and see.\""}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 6, "verse": "8", "text": "and I looked, and there was a pale horse; the name of him that sat thereon was DEATH, and the Grave followed with him: and power was given to them, over the fourth part of the land to kill with sword, with famine, with pestilence, and with wild beasts. The Fifth Seal: The Martyrs"}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 6, "verse": "9", "text": "When he had opened the fifth seal, I saw under the altar the souls of those that were slain for the word of God, and for the testimony which they maintain'd."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 6, "verse": "10", "text": "and they cried with a loud voice, saying, \"how long, O Lord, holy and true, dost thou defer doing justice, and avenging our blood on those that dwell on the earth?\""}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 6, "verse": "11", "text": "and white robes were given to every one of them, and it was said unto them, that they should have patience yet for a little while, till the number of their fellow-servants, and their brethren, that should be killed, as they were, should be complete. The Sixth Seal: Terror"}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 6, "verse": "12", "text": "And when I beheld the opening of the sixth seal, there was a great earthquake: the sun became black as sackcloth of hair, and the moon became as blood; the stars"}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 6, "verse": "13", "text": "of heaven fell down to the earth, even as a fig-tree casteth its untimely figs when it is shaken by a mighty wind: the heaven disappeared as a book when it is rolled up:"}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 6, "verse": "14", "text": "every mountain and island were moved out of their places: the kings of the earth, the great men,"}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 6, "verse": "15", "text": "the rich men, the chief captains, and the mighty men, every bond-man, and every free-man, bid themselves in the caverns, and in the rocks of the mountains; and said to the mountains, and to the rocks,"}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 6, "verse": "16", "text": "\"fall on us, and hide us from the face of him that sitteth on the throne, and from the wrath of the lamb:"}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 6, "verse": "17", "text": "for the great day of his wrath is come; and who shall be able to subsist?\""}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 7, "verse": "1", "text": "After these things, I saw FOUR ANGELS standing on the four corners of the land, holding the four winds of the land, that the wind should not blow on the land, nor on the sea, nor on any tree."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 7, "verse": "2", "text": "and I saw another angel ascending from the east, having the seal of the living God: and he cried with a loud vioce to the four angels, to whom it was given to hurt the earth and the sea,"}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 7, "verse": "3", "text": "saying, \"hurt not the earth, nor the sea, nor the trees, till we have sealed the servants of our God in their foreheads.\""}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 7, "verse": "4", "text": "And I heard the number of those who were sealed: and there were sealed an hundred forty and four thousand, of all the tribes of the children of Israel."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 7, "verse": "5", "text": "of the tribe of Juda were sealed twelve thousand, of the tribe of Reuben were sealed twelve thousand, of the tribe of Gad were sealed twelve thousand."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 7, "verse": "6", "text": "of the tribe of Aser were sealed twelve thousand, of the tribe of Nephthalim were sealed twelve thousand, of the tribe of Manasses were sealed twelve thousand."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 7, "verse": "7", "text": "of the tribe of Simeon were sealed twelve thousand, of the tribe of Levi were sealed twelve thousand, of the tribe of Isachar were sealed twelve thousand."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 7, "verse": "8", "text": "of the tribe of Zabulon were sealed twelve thousand, of the tribe of Joseph were sealed twelve thousand, of the tribe of Benjamin were sealed twelve thousand. Praise from the Great Multitude"}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 7, "verse": "9", "text": "After this I beheld, and there was a great multitude, which no man could number, of every nation, tribe, people, and language, who stood before the throne, and before the lamb cloathed in white robes, having palms in their hands."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 7, "verse": "10", "text": "They cried with a loud voice, \"salvation from our God who sits upon the throne, and unto the lamb.'"}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 7, "verse": "11", "text": "and all the angels who stood round about the throne, and about the elders, and the four animals fell before the throne on their faces, and worshipped God, saying, amen:"}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 7, "verse": "12", "text": "praise, and glory, and wisdom, and thanksgiving, and honour, and power, and might be to our God for ever and ever, amen."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 7, "verse": "13", "text": "Then one of the elders spake, and said to me, who are those that are arrayed in white robes? and whence do they come?"}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 7, "verse": "14", "text": "my Lord, answer'd I, you can tell, and he said to me, these are they who came out of great tribulation, and have washed their robes, and made them white in the blood of the lamb."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 7, "verse": "15", "text": "therefore are they before the throne of God, and serve him day and night in his temple: and he that sitteth on the throne shall cover them, as a pavillion."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 7, "verse": "16", "text": "they shall no more suffer hunger or thirst, neither shall the sun dart on them, nor any heat molest them."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 7, "verse": "17", "text": "for the lamb who is in the midst before the throne, shall feed them, and shall lead them to living fountains of waters: and God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 8, "verse": "1", "text": "At the opening of the SEVENTH SEAL, there was silence in heaven about the space of half an hour."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 8, "verse": "2", "text": "Then I saw the seven angels who attend in the presence of God; and to them were given seven trumpets."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 8, "verse": "3", "text": "and another angel came and stood at the altar, having a golden censer; and there was given to him much incense, that he should offer it with the prayers of all the saints upon the golden altar, which was before the throne."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 8, "verse": "4", "text": "and the smoke of the incense together with the prayers of the saints, ascended up before God, out of the angel's hand."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 8, "verse": "5", "text": "and the angel took the censer, and having filled it with the fire of the altar, he cast it upon the land: and there was a noise of thunders, and lightnings, and an earthquake. The First Four Trumpets"}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 8, "verse": "6", "text": "Then the seven angels who had the seven trumpets, prepared themselves to sound."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 8, "verse": "7", "text": "the first angel sounded, and there followed hail and fire mingled with blood, which fell upon the earth: and a third part of the earth, and a third part of the trees was burnt up, and all the green grass."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 8, "verse": "8", "text": "And the second angel sounded, and a great mountain as it were all on fire was cast into the sea; and the third part of the sea became blood:"}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 8, "verse": "9", "text": "and the third part of the creatures which were in the sea, and had life, died; and the third part of the ships were destroyed."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 8, "verse": "10", "text": "And the third angel sounded, and there fell a great star from heaven, burning like a flambeau, and it fell upon the third part of the rivers, and upon the fountains of waters."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 8, "verse": "11", "text": "the name of the star was wormwood: and the third part of the waters became wormwood; and many men died of the waters, because they were made bitter."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 8, "verse": "12", "text": "And the fourth angel sounded, and the third part of the sun was smitten, and the third part of the moon, and the third part of the stars; so as the third part of them was darkned, and the day lost a third part of its light, and the night likewise."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 8, "verse": "13", "text": "then I beheld, and heard an eagle flying thro' the midst of heaven, saying with a loud voice, wo, wo, wo to the inhabitants of the earth, by reason of the sound of the trumpets which the other three angels are yet to sound."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 9, "verse": "1", "text": "And the fifth angel sounded, and I saw a star fall from heaven unto the earth: and to him was given the key of the bottomless pit."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 9, "verse": "2", "text": "and he opened the bottomless pit, and there arose a smoke out of the pit, as the smoke of a great furnace; and the sun and the air were darkned by reason of the smoke of the pit."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 9, "verse": "3", "text": "and there came out of the smoke locusts upon the land; and to them was given power, as the scorpions of the earth have power."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 9, "verse": "4", "text": "and they were commanded not to hurt the fruits of the earth, nor any green thing, nor any tree; but those men who have not the seal of God in their foreheads."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 9, "verse": "5", "text": "and to them was power given, not to kill them, but to torment them five months: and their pain was like the pain which a scorpion produces when it strikes a man."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 9, "verse": "6", "text": "in those days shall men seek for death, but shall not find it; they will desire to die, and death will shun them."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 9, "verse": "7", "text": "the figure of the locusts were like that of horses prepared to battle; but on their heads they had, as it were, crowns like gold, and their faces were as the faces of men."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 9, "verse": "8", "text": "their hair was like that of women, and their teeth like the teeth of lions."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 9, "verse": "9", "text": "they were vested with breast-plates, as it were of iron; and the sound of their wings was like the sound of chariots and many horses running to battle."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 9, "verse": "10", "text": "they had stings in their tails like scorpions; and they had leave to molest men for five months with their stings."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 9, "verse": "11", "text": "they had for their king the angel of the bottomless pit, whose name in the Hebrew tongue is Abaddon, but in the Greek his name is Apollyon."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 9, "verse": "12", "text": "One wo is past, and now two woes are to follow. The Sixth Trumpet"}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 9, "verse": "13", "text": "then the sixth angel sounded, and I heard a voice from the four horns of the golden altar, which is before God,"}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 9, "verse": "14", "text": "saying to the sixth angel who had the trumpet, \"loose the four angels which are bound in the great river Euphrates.\""}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 9, "verse": "15", "text": "and the four angels were loosed, who were prepared for an hour, and a day, and a month, and a year, to slay the third part of men."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 9, "verse": "16", "text": "and the number of the horse of that army were two hundred millions: for I heard them number'd."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 9, "verse": "17", "text": "the horses I saw in my vision had this appearance: the riders had breast-plates of fire, of jacinth, and brimstone: the heads of the horses were like the heads of lions; and out of their mouths issued fire, smoke, and brimstone."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 9, "verse": "18", "text": "by these three the third part of men were killed, by the fire, by the smoke, and by the brimstone, which issued out of their mouths."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 9, "verse": "19", "text": "for the power of these horses is in their mouths, and in their tails: for their tails were like serpents, and had heads, with which they do mischief."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 9, "verse": "20", "text": "As for the rest of the men who were not killed by these plagues, they did not repent of their evil actions, so as to forbear worshipping demons, and idols of gold and silver, and brass, and stone, and of wood: which can neither see, nor hear, nor walk:"}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 9, "verse": "21", "text": "nor did they repent of their murders, of their poisoning, of their brutality, nor of their robberys."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 10, "verse": "1", "text": "Then I saw another mighty angel come down from heaven, invested with a cloud, a rainbow was upon his head, his face was like the sun, and his feet like pillars of fire."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 10, "verse": "2", "text": "he held in his hand a little book open: his right foot was upon the sea, and his left foot on the land."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 10, "verse": "3", "text": "his voice was as loud as the roaring of a lion: and when he had cried, seven thunders uttered their voices."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 10, "verse": "4", "text": "and when the seven thunders had uttered their voices, I was about to write: but I heard a voice saying to me, \"seal up those things which the seven thunders uttered, and write them not.\""}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 10, "verse": "5", "text": "Then the angel which I saw standing upon the sea, and upon the land, lifted up his hand to heaven,"}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 10, "verse": "6", "text": "and sware by him that liveth for ever and ever, who created the heaven and all that is therein, the earth and all that is therein, the sea and all that is therein, \"that the time should be no longer defer'd.\""}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 10, "verse": "7", "text": "but when the seventh angel should speak, and the trumpet should sound, the mystery of God should be accomplish'd, as he hath declared to his servants the prophets."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 10, "verse": "8", "text": "And the voice which I heard from heaven, spake to me again, and said, \"go, take the little book that is open, from the hand of the angel who stands upon the sea, and upon the land.\""}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 10, "verse": "9", "text": "so I went to the angel, and said to him, \"give me the little book.\" and he said to me, \"take it, and eat it up; it shall prove bitter in thy bowels, but in thy mouth it shall be as sweet as honey.\""}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 10, "verse": "10", "text": "immediately having took the little book out of the angel's hand, I swallowed it down: and in my mouth it was as sweet as honey: but as soon as I had swallowed it, it was bitter within me."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 10, "verse": "11", "text": "then he said to me, \"thou must prophesy again of many people, nations, provinces, and kings.\""}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 11, "verse": "1", "text": "Then there was given me a reed like a rod: with this direction, rise and measure the temple of God, with the altar, and those that worship therein."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 11, "verse": "2", "text": "but don't measure the court which is without; for it is given to the Gentiles: and the holy city shall they trample under foot two and forty months."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 11, "verse": "3", "text": "by virtue of my power, my two witnesses shall prophesy a thousand two hundred and threescore days cloathed in sackcloth."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 11, "verse": "4", "text": "these are the two olive-trees, and the two candlesticks standing before the Lord of the earth."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 11, "verse": "5", "text": "if any man should offer to hurt them, fire will proceed out of their mouth, and destroy their enemies: whoever should hurt them, would by this means perish."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 11, "verse": "6", "text": "during their prophecy they have power to prevent any rain descending from heaven: their power extends over waters to turn them to blood, and to smite the earth with what plagues they please. The Witnesses Killed and Raised"}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 11, "verse": "7", "text": "when they shall have finished their testimony, the beast that ascends out of the bottomless pit, will make war against them, overcome them, and kill them."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 11, "verse": "8", "text": "their dead bodies shall lie in the street of the great city, which in the mystical stile is called Sodom and Egypt, where our Lord was crucified."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 11, "verse": "9", "text": "the people of different tribes, languages, and nations shall see their dead bodies three days and an half, and not suffer them to be buried in the grave."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 11, "verse": "10", "text": "the inhabitants of the land will rejoice, and triumph over them, they will send presents to one another; because the two prophets had gall'd the inhabitants of the land."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 11, "verse": "11", "text": "but after three days and an half, the spirit of life from God enter'd into them: they stood upon their feet, and great fear fell upon those who saw them."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 11, "verse": "12", "text": "then they heard a great voice from heaven, saying to them, \"come up hither.\" and they ascended up to heaven in a cloud, and their enemies beheld them."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 11, "verse": "13", "text": "at the same time there was a great earthquake; the tenth part of the city fell, and in the earthquake seven thousand men were slain: and the remnant were frighted, and gave glory to the God of heaven."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 11, "verse": "14", "text": "the second wo is past, and behold, the third wo soon follows. The Seventh Trumpet"}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 11, "verse": "15", "text": "The seventh angel sounded, and there were great voices in heaven, crying, \"the kingdom of this world is become the kingdom of our Lord, and of his Christ, and he shall reign for ever and ever.\""}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 11, "verse": "16", "text": "then the four and twenty elders, who sat before God on their thrones, fell upon their faces, and worshipped God,"}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 11, "verse": "17", "text": "saying, \"we give thee thanks, O Lord God almighty, who, art, and who wast; because thou hast assum'd thy great power, and hast reigned."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 11, "verse": "18", "text": "the nations were enrag'd, but the time of thy vengeance is come, and the time when the dead are to be judged, when thou wilt reward thy servants the prophets, the saints, and those that fear thy name, small and great, and exterminate those who have corrupted the land.\""}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 11, "verse": "19", "text": "THEN the temple of God was opened in heaven, and there was seen in his temple the ark of his testament: and there were lightnings, voices, and thunders, and an earthquake, and great hail."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 12, "verse": "1", "text": "and there appeared a great wonder in heaven, a WOMAN invested with glory like the sun: the moon was under her feet, and upon her head a crown of twelve stars:"}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 12, "verse": "2", "text": "she was with child, and cried in her labour with the pangs of her delivery."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 12, "verse": "3", "text": "And there appeared another wonder in heaven, it was a great red dragon, having seven heads, and ten horns, and seven crowns upon his heads."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 12, "verse": "4", "text": "his tail swept the third part of the stars of heaven; and cast them to the earth: and the dragon stood before the woman who was ready to be delivered, in order to devour her child as soon as it was born."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 12, "verse": "5", "text": "and she brought forth a man-child, who was to rule all nations with a rod of iron: and her child was caught up to be with God, and about his throne."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 12, "verse": "6", "text": "but the woman fled into the wilderness, where God had prepared a place for her maintenance, during a thousand two hundred and threescore days. The War in Heaven"}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 12, "verse": "7", "text": "Then there was war in heaven; Michael and his angels fought against the dragon; on the other side fought the dragon with his angels: but these were defeated,"}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 12, "verse": "8", "text": "they lost their place in heaven:"}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 12, "verse": "9", "text": "the great dragon was cast out, that old serpent, call'd the devil or satan, which deceiveth the whole world: he was cast down to the earth, and his angels were precipitated with him."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 12, "verse": "10", "text": "then I heard a loud voice, which cry'd in the heaven, \"the time of salvation, and power, the kingdom of our God, and the authority of his Christ are now come: for the accuser of our brethren, who accused them before our God day and night, is cast down."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 12, "verse": "11", "text": "they overcame him by the blood of the lamb, and by the word to which they gave testimony; for their lives they expos'd to the last."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 12, "verse": "12", "text": "therefore rejoice, ye heavens, and ye that dwell in them. WO to the land, and to the sea: for the devil is come down unto you, in great rage, because he knows that his time is but short.\" The Woman Persecuted"}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 12, "verse": "13", "text": "The dragon then finding that he was precipitated to the earth, persecuted the woman, who brought forth the man-child."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 12, "verse": "14", "text": "but to the woman were given two wings of a great eagle, that she might fly from the serpent into the wilderness, to her place, where she is to be maintain'd for a time, and times, and half a time."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 12, "verse": "15", "text": "and the serpent spouted from his throat a flood of water, after the woman, in order to drown her with the flood."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 12, "verse": "16", "text": "but the earth helped the woman, for the earth opened its jaws, and swallowed up the flood which the dragon threw out of his throat,"}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 12, "verse": "17", "text": "which so enrag'd the dragon against the woman, that he went to make war with the rest of her race, who keep the commandments of God, and bear testimony to Jesus."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 13, "verse": "1", "text": "Then I saw a beast rise up out of the sea, having seven heads, and ten horns; upon his horns were ten crowns, and upon his heads the name of blasphemy."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 13, "verse": "2", "text": "and the beast which I saw was like a leopard, his feet were as the feet of a bear, and his mouth as the mouth of a lion: and the dragon gave him his power, and his throne, and great authority."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 13, "verse": "3", "text": "and I saw one of his heads, as it were wounded to death; and his deadly wound was healed: and all the world went wondring after the beast."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 13, "verse": "4", "text": "They worshipped the dragon which had given his power to the beast: and they worshipped the beast, saying, \"who is like unto the beast? who is able to make war with him?\""}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 13, "verse": "5", "text": "there was given to him a mouth speaking great things, and blasphemy; and power was given to him for two and forty months."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 13, "verse": "6", "text": "and he opened his mouth in blasphemy against God, to blaspheme his name, and his tabernacle, and those that dwell in heaven,"}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 13, "verse": "7", "text": "he was permitted to make war with the saints, and to overcome them: and power was given him over all the tribes, and provinces, and nations."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 13, "verse": "8", "text": "all that dwell upon the earth will worship him, whose names are not written from the foundation of the world in the book of life of the lamb, that was slain."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 13, "verse": "9", "text": "if any man have an ear, let him hear."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 13, "verse": "10", "text": "he hath leadeth into captivity, shall be led into captivity: he that killeth with the sword, shall perish by the sword, here is the patience and the faith of the saints. The Beast from the Earth"}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 13, "verse": "11", "text": "Then I beheld another beast coming out of the earth, it had two horns like a lamb, but it spake like a dragon."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 13, "verse": "12", "text": "he exercised all the power of the first beast by his authority, and caused the earth, and those who dwell therein, to worship the first beast, whose deadly wound was healed."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 13, "verse": "13", "text": "he perform'd great wonders, so as to make fire come down from heaven on the earth, in the sight of men."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 13, "verse": "14", "text": "and he deceived the inhabitants of the earth, by the prodigys which he had power to effect by the influence of the beast, by telling the inhabitants of the earth, that he had made an image to the beast, which had the wound by a sword, but yet did revive."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 13, "verse": "15", "text": "he had power likewise to animate the image made for the beast, so that the image was made to speak, and as many as would not worship the image were order'd to be killed. The Mark of the Beast"}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 13, "verse": "16", "text": "he likewise obliged all, both small and great, rich and poor, the freeman and the slave, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads: and order'd,"}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 13, "verse": "17", "text": "that no body should buy or sell unless he had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 13, "verse": "18", "text": "here is wisdom, let him that hath understanding count the number of the beast: for it is the number of a man; and his number is six hundred sixty six."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 14, "verse": "1", "text": "THEN I looked, and I saw a lamb on mount Sion, and with him an hundred forty and four thousand, having his name and his father's name writ on their foreheads."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 14, "verse": "2", "text": "and I heard a voice from heaven, which was like the noise of many waters, or like a great thunder-clap: I heard too a sound like that of a harp, when touch'd by the hand of a musician."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 14, "verse": "3", "text": "and a new song was sung before the throne, and before the four animals, and the elders: and no one could learn that song, but the hundred forty four thousand, who were ransom'd from the earth."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 14, "verse": "4", "text": "these are they who were not defiled with women: for they are virgins: these are they who follow the lamb wherever he goes: these were ransom'd from among men, being the first fruits unto God, and to the lamb."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 14, "verse": "5", "text": "in their mouth was found no guile: for they are without defect. The Three Angels and Babylon’s Fall"}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 14, "verse": "6", "text": "Then I saw another angel fly in the mid-heaven, having the everlasting gospel to preach to those that dwell on the earth, to every nation, tribe, province, and people, crying with a loud voice,"}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 14, "verse": "7", "text": "\"fear the Lord, and give glory to him, for the hour of his judgment is come: adore therefore him that made the heaven, the earth, the sea, and the fountains.\""}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 14, "verse": "8", "text": "And a second angel followed, saying, \"Babylon the great is fallen, is fallen, because she has made all nations drink of the deadly wine of her fornication.\""}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 14, "verse": "9", "text": "And a third angel followed them, crying with a loud voice, \"if any man worship the beast, or his image, or receive his mark on his forehead, or in his hand,"}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 14, "verse": "10", "text": "he shall drink of the wine of the divine vengeance, the strongest wine that can be poured out of the cup of his indignation; He shall be tormented with fire and brimstone, in the presence of the holy angels, and in the presence of the lamb:"}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 14, "verse": "11", "text": "the smoke of their torment shall ascend for ever and ever: they who worship the beast or his image, they who receive the mark of his name, shall have no rest either day or night.\""}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 14, "verse": "12", "text": "here is the patience of the saints, who keep the commandments of God, and the faith of Jesus."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 14, "verse": "13", "text": "Then I heard a voice from heaven, saying to me, \"write, blessed are the dead who die in the Lord; yes, from henceforth, saith the spirit, they shall rest from their labours; and the recompence of their labours shall follow them.\" The Harvest of the Earth"}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 14, "verse": "14", "text": "again I looked, and I saw a white cloud, and there was sitting upon the cloud one like the son of man, having a crown of gold upon his head,"}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 14, "verse": "15", "text": "and a sharp sickle in his hand, and another angel came out of the temple, crying with a loud voice to him that sat on the cloud, \"thrust in thy sickle, and reap: for the reaping time is come; for the"}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 14, "verse": "16", "text": "harvest of the earth is ripe.\" so he that sat on the cloud, stretch'd out his sickle to the earth; and the earth was reaped."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 14, "verse": "17", "text": "Then another angel came out of the temple which is in heaven,"}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 14, "verse": "18", "text": "he also having a sharp sickle, and another angel came out from the altar, who presided over the fire; and cried with a loud cry to him that had the sharp sickle, \"stretch out thy sharp sickle, and gather the clusters of the vine of the earth; for her grapes are full ripe.\""}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 14, "verse": "19", "text": "so the angel stretch'd out his sickle to the earth, and gathered the vintage of the earth, and cast it into the great wine-press of the divine vengeance."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 14, "verse": "20", "text": "and the grapes were press'd without the City, and blood came out of the wine-press, even to the horse-bridles: for the space of sixteen hundred furlongs."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 15, "verse": "1", "text": "I saw another prodigy in heaven, great and marvellous, SEVEN ANGELS, having the seven last plagues, for by them the divine vengeance is consummated."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 15, "verse": "2", "text": "and I saw as it were a sea of glass, mingled with fire; and those that had been victorious over the beast, and over his image, and over the number of his name, standing on the sea of glass, with their divine harps in their hands."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 15, "verse": "3", "text": "and they sung the song of Moses, the servant of God, and the song of the lamb, saying, \"great and marvellous are thy works, Lord God almighty; just and true are thy ways, thou king of ages."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 15, "verse": "4", "text": "who will not fear thee, O Lord, and glorify thy name? for thou only art holy: and all nations shall come to adore thee; because thy judgments have been display'd.\" Preparation for Judgment"}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 15, "verse": "5", "text": "After that I looked, and the tabernacle of the testimony in the heavenly temple was opened:"}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 15, "verse": "6", "text": "then the seven angels, who held the seven plagues, came out of the temple, cloathed in pure white linen, wearing upon their breasts girdles of gold."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 15, "verse": "7", "text": "and one of the four animals gave to the seven angels, seven golden vials full of the wrath of God, who liveth for ever and ever."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 15, "verse": "8", "text": "the temple was filled with smoke from the emanations of divine power; and no one could enter into the temple, till the seven plagues were executed by the seven angels."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 16, "verse": "1", "text": "THEN I heard a terrible voice from the temple, crying to the seven angels, \"go pour out the VIALS of divine vengeance upon the earth.\""}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 16, "verse": "2", "text": "Immediately the FIRST went, and poured out his vial upon the earth; and there fell a noisom and grievous ulcer upon the men who had the mark of the beast, and upon those who worshipped his image."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 16, "verse": "3", "text": "The SECOND angel poured out his vial upon the sea; and it became as the blood of a dead man: and every living soul died in the sea."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 16, "verse": "4", "text": "The THIRD angel poured out his vial upon the rivers and fountains; and they became blood."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 16, "verse": "5", "text": "and I heard the angel of the waters say, \"thou art just, who art, and hast always been holy, because thou hast judged thus:"}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 16, "verse": "6", "text": "for they have shed the blood of saints and prophets: thou hast given them blood to drink; for they have deserv'd it.\""}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 16, "verse": "7", "text": "and I heard another from the altar say, \"oh! Lord God almighty, true and just are thy judgments.\""}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 16, "verse": "8", "text": "The FOURTH angel poured out his vial upon the sun; and power was given to him to scorch mankind with its fire."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 16, "verse": "9", "text": "and men were scorched with great heat, and blasphemed the name of God, who hath power over these plagues: and they repented not, to give him glory."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 16, "verse": "10", "text": "And the FIFTH angel poured out his vial upon the seat of the beast; and his kingdom was full of darkness, and they gnawed their tongues for pain."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 16, "verse": "11", "text": "and blasphemed the God of heaven, because of their pains and their sores, and repented not of their deeds."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 16, "verse": "12", "text": "And the SIXTH angel poured out his vial upon the great river Euphrates; and the water thereof was dried up, that the way of the kings of the east might be prepared."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 16, "verse": "13", "text": "and I saw three unclean spirits like frogs come out of the mouth of the dragon, and out of the mouth of the beast, and out of the mouth of the false prophet."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 16, "verse": "14", "text": "for they are the spirits of demons working miracles, which make a progress to the kings of the whole world, to gather them to the battle of that great day of God almighty."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 16, "verse": "15", "text": "\"I shall come with surprize, happy he that is upon the watch, and keepeth his garments pure, that his vices may not put him to shame.\""}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 16, "verse": "16", "text": "and he gathered them together into a place called in the Hebrew tongue, Armageddon. The Seventh Bowl of Wrath"}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 16, "verse": "17", "text": "And the SEVENTH angel poured out his vial into the air; and there a loud voice issued from the temple of heaven, from the throne, saying, \"it is done.\""}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 16, "verse": "18", "text": "and there were voices, thunders, and lightnings; and there was a great earthquake, such as was not since men were upon the earth, so mighty an earthquake and so great."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 16, "verse": "19", "text": "and the great city was divided into three parts, and the cities of the nations fell: and great Babylon came in remembrance before God, to give unto her the cup of the wine of the fierceness of his wrath."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 16, "verse": "20", "text": "and every island fled away, and the mountains were not found."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 16, "verse": "21", "text": "and there fell upon men a great hail out of heaven, every stone about the weight of a TALENT: and men blasphemed God because of the plague of the hail, for the plague thereof was exceeding great."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 17, "verse": "1", "text": "Then there came one of the seven angels that had the seven vials, and talked with me, saying \"come hither, I will explain to you the judgment of the great whore, that sitteth upon many waters:"}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 17, "verse": "2", "text": "by whom the kings of the earth became idolaters, and the inhabiters of the earth have been made drunk with the wine of idolatry.\""}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 17, "verse": "3", "text": "so he carried me away in the spirit into the wilderness: and I saw a woman sit upon a scarlet-coloured beast, full of names of blasphemy, having seven heads, and ten horns."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 17, "verse": "4", "text": "and the woman was arrayed in purple, and scarlet colour, and decked with gold and precious stone and pearls, having a golden cup in her hand, full of the abominable impurities of idolatry."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 17, "verse": "5", "text": "Upon her forehead this mystical title was written, Babylon the great, the mother of harlots, and abominations of the earth. The Mystery Explained"}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 17, "verse": "6", "text": "and I saw the woman drunken with the blood of the saints, and with the blood of the martyrs of Jesus: and when I saw her, I wondred with great admiration."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 17, "verse": "7", "text": "and the angel said to me, wherefore didst thou marvel? I will tell thee the mystical meaning of the woman, and of the beast that carrieth her, which hath the seven heads and ten horns."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 17, "verse": "8", "text": "the beast that thou sawest, was, and is not; and shall ascend out of the bottomless pit, and go into perdition: and they that dwell on the earth, whose names were not written in the book of life from the foundation of the world, shall wonder when they behold the beast that was, and is not, but shall be."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 17, "verse": "9", "text": "the meaning is very comprehensive. The seven heads are seven mountains, on which the woman sitteth."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 17, "verse": "10", "text": "they likewise signify seven kings: five are fallen, and one is, and the other is not yet come; when he comes, he will continue but a short space."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 17, "verse": "11", "text": "the beast that was, and is not, is himself the eighth: he is of the seven, and shall be destroy'd."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 17, "verse": "12", "text": "the ten horns which you saw, are ten kings, who have received no kingdom as yet; but receive power as kings for a while with the beast."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 17, "verse": "13", "text": "they all agree in this, to give their power and strength to the beast. The Victory of the Lamb"}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 17, "verse": "14", "text": "they will make war with the lamb, but the lamb, who is lord of lords, and king of kings, together with those that are called, chosen, and faithful, shall overcome them."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 17, "verse": "15", "text": "Then he said to me, the waters which you saw, where the prostitute has her seat, are the people, the multitude, nations, and provinces."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 17, "verse": "16", "text": "the ten horns which you saw upon the beast, they shall hate the whore, they shall plunder, and strip her, eat her flesh, and burn her with fire."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 17, "verse": "17", "text": "for God hath put it in their hearts to execute his designs, in agreeing to give their kingdom to the beast, until the divine oracles shall be accomplished."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 17, "verse": "18", "text": "and the woman which you saw, is that great city, which reigns the empress of the kings of the earth."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 18, "verse": "1", "text": "After this I saw another angel come down from heaven, having great power; and the earth was lightned with his glory."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 18, "verse": "2", "text": "and he cried with a strong voice, Babylon the great is fallen, is fallen, and is become the abode of demons, the dungeon of every foul spirit, and a cage of every impure ill-boding bird."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 18, "verse": "3", "text": "for all nations have drunk of the poisonous wine of her idolatry, the kings of the earth have submitted to her idolatries, and the merchants of the earth are grown rich through the abundance of her delicacies."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 18, "verse": "4", "text": "And I heard another voice from heaven, saying, come out of her, my people, that ye may not be partakers of her sins, nor share in her plagues:"}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 18, "verse": "5", "text": "for her sins have reached unto heaven, and God hath remembred her iniquities."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 18, "verse": "6", "text": "reward her according to her dealings, and repay her double, according to her works: give her twice as much in the same cup which she gave you to drink,"}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 18, "verse": "7", "text": "give her torment and pain in proportion to her pride and luxury; for she said in her heart, \"I am enthron'd like a queen, I am no widow, and shall see no sorrow.\""}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 18, "verse": "8", "text": "therefore shall her plagues come, mortality, mourning, and famine all at once: and she shall be consumed with fire: for the Lord God, who condemns her, is almighty. Lament over Babylon"}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 18, "verse": "9", "text": "the kings of the earth, the accomplices of her licentiousness and luxury, shall bewail her, and lament for her, when they shall see the smoke of her conflagration,"}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 18, "verse": "10", "text": "frightned at her torments they will stand afar off, and cry, \"alas, alas, that great city Babylon, that mighty city! what! is thy condemnation so suddenly come?\""}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 18, "verse": "11", "text": "the merchants of the earth shall bewail and mourn over her, because there are none to purchase their cargo:"}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 18, "verse": "12", "text": "their gold, and silver, precious stones, and pearls, fine linnen, and purple, their silk, scarlet, and all sort of citron wood, their various vessels of ivory, and of precious wood, of brass, iron, and marble:"}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 18, "verse": "13", "text": "nor their cinnamon, perfumes, essences, and frankincense; nor their wine, oil, fine flour, and wheat; their cattle, sheep, horses, and chariots; nor the servile souls of men."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 18, "verse": "14", "text": "the fruits, the object of your delight, are departed from thee, all your delicacy and magnificence are lost, beyond the possibility of a recovery! the merchants"}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 18, "verse": "15", "text": "of these wares who were enrich'd by her, shall stand afar off, under the dread of her torments, with tears and lamentations,"}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 18, "verse": "16", "text": "crying, alas, alas, that great city, that was cloathed in fine linnen, purple, and scarlet: decked with gold, precious stones and pearls:"}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 18, "verse": "17", "text": "her wealth is all sunk in a moment! the pilots and the passengers: the ships-crew, and the super-cargo's shall stand afar off,"}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 18, "verse": "18", "text": "and cry out, when they see the smoke of her burning, what city could be compar'd to this great city?"}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 18, "verse": "19", "text": "they will scatter dust on their heads, and cry with tears, and bemoaning, \"alas, alas, that great city, which enrich'd all the traders by sea, by the consumption she made: how is she reduc'd to a desert, in an instant!\""}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 18, "verse": "20", "text": "O heaven, and ye holy apostles and prophets, triumph at her ruin, since God hath avenged you on her. The Doom of Babylon"}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 18, "verse": "21", "text": "Then a mighty angel took up a stone like a great milstone, and threw it into the sea, saying, \"thus with violence shall that great city Babylon be thrown down, never to be found any more."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 18, "verse": "22", "text": "the musick of the harp, of the flute, and of the trumpet, shall never be heard again in thee: no artist of any kind shall be found again in thee; the sound of a milstone shall never be heard again in thee;"}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 18, "verse": "23", "text": "the lamp shall no more be lighted in thee; the bridal-song shall be heard there no more: for thy merchants were the great men of the earth; all nations were seduc'd by thy enchantments."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 18, "verse": "24", "text": "here it was, that the blood of the prophets, of the saints, and of all that were slain upon the earth, was found.\""}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 19, "verse": "1", "text": "And after these things I heard a great voice of a numerous multitude in heaven, saying, \"alleluia; salvation, glory, honour, and power unto the Lord our God:"}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 19, "verse": "2", "text": "for just and right are his judgments; for he hath condemned the grand prostitute, who corrupted the earth with her licentiousness, and hath avenged the blood of his servants that were shed by her hand.\""}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 19, "verse": "3", "text": "again they said, \"alleluia.\" and her smoke, rose up for ever and ever."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 19, "verse": "4", "text": "Then the four and twenty elders, and the four animals fell down and worshipped God that sat on the throne, saying, \"amen; alleluia.\""}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 19, "verse": "5", "text": "and a voice came out of the throne, saying, \"praise our God, all ye his servants, and ye that fear him, both small and great.\" The Marriage of the Lamb"}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 19, "verse": "6", "text": "and I heard as it were the voice of a great multitude, which was like the sound of many waters, or like a volley of thunder, saying, \"alleluia: for the Lord God omnipotent does reign.\""}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 19, "verse": "7", "text": "let us rejoyce, and triumph, and give honour to him: for the marriage of the lamb is come, and his spouse is already adorn'd."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 19, "verse": "8", "text": "for she was permitted to be arrayed in fine linnen, clean and white: for the fine linnen represents the virtues of the saints.\""}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 19, "verse": "9", "text": "and he said unto me, \"write, happy are they who are invited to the marriage-supper of the lamb.\" and he said to me, \"thus I have delivered the real oracles of God.\""}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 19, "verse": "10", "text": "then I fell at his seet to worship him: but he said to me, \"forbear: I am the servant of God, as you and your brethren are, that bear testimony to Jesus: worship God: for to give testimony to Jesus, is the very design of prophecy.\" The Rider on the White Horse"}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 19, "verse": "11", "text": "Then I saw heaven opened, and a white horse appear'd; and he that sat upon him was called the faithful and the true: in righteousness he judges and makes war:"}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 19, "verse": "12", "text": "his eyes were as a flame of fire, on his head were many crowns: and a name inscrib'd which no one comprehended, but himself:"}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 19, "verse": "13", "text": "he had a vesture dipt in blood: and his name is called, the logos of God."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 19, "verse": "14", "text": "and the armies of heaven followed him upon white horses, cloathed in fine linnen, white and clean."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 19, "verse": "15", "text": "out of his mouth went a sharp sword, in order to smite the nations: for he shall rule them with an iron sceptre: and tread the wine-press of the fierce vengeance of almighty God."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 19, "verse": "16", "text": "on the mantle about his thigh was this inscription, KING OF KINGS, AND LORD OF LORDS. Defeat of the Beast and False Prophet"}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 19, "verse": "17", "text": "I saw likewise an angel standing upon the sun; and he cryed with a loud voice, saying to all the fowls that fly in the midst of heaven, \"come and gather your selves together to the supper of the great God;"}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 19, "verse": "18", "text": "that ye may eat the flesh of kings, the flesh of captains, the flesh of mighty men, the flesh of horses, and of those that ride on them, the flesh of all that are free, and all that are slaves, both small and great.\""}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 19, "verse": "19", "text": "Then I saw the beast, and the kings of the earth, with their armies assembled, to make war against him that sat on the horse, and against his army."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 19, "verse": "20", "text": "and the beast was taken, and with him the false prophet that wrought miracles in his favour, by which he seduc'd those that had received the mark of the beast, and those that worshipped his image, these were both cast alive into a lake of fire burning with brimstone."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 19, "verse": "21", "text": "all the rest were slain with the sword of him that sat upon the horse, which sword proceeded out of his mouth: and all the fowls were satiated with their flesh."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 20, "verse": "1", "text": "Afterwards I saw an angel come down from heaven, having the key of the bottomless pit, with a great chain in his hand."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 20, "verse": "2", "text": "and he laid hold on the dragon, that old serpent, which is the devil and satan, and bound him for a thousand years,"}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 20, "verse": "3", "text": "then cast him into the bottomless pit, there shut him up, and set a seal upon him, that he should seduce the nations no more, till the thousand years should he fulfilled: and after that, he was to be loosed for a short time."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 20, "verse": "4", "text": "I saw likewise thrones, where persons were seated, to whom the power of judging was given: and I saw the souls of those that were beheaded for the testimony they had given to Jesus, and for the word of God, who had not worshipped the beast, nor his image, nor had received his mark upon their foreheads, or in their hands; and they lived and reigned with Christ a thousand years."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 20, "verse": "5", "text": "but the rest of the dead shall not live again until the thousand years are finished, this is the first resurrection."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 20, "verse": "6", "text": "happy and holy are they that have part in the first resurrection: on such the second death hath no power, but they shall be priests of God, and of Christ, and shall reign with him a thousand years. Satan Cast into the Lake of Fire"}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 20, "verse": "7", "text": "When the thousand years are expired, Satan shall be loosed out of his prison,"}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 20, "verse": "8", "text": "and shall go out to seduce the nations, which are in the four quarters of the earth, Gog and Magog, to assemble them to battle: they will be as numerous as the sand of the sea."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 20, "verse": "9", "text": "they will spread on the surface of the earth, and encompass the camp of the saints, and the beloved city: and fire shall descend from God out of heaven, and devour them."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 20, "verse": "10", "text": "the devil that seduced them, shall be cast into the lake of fire and brimstone, where the beast and the false prophet are, and shall be tormented day and night for ever and ever. Judgment before the Great White Throne"}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 20, "verse": "11", "text": "Then I saw a great white throne, and him that sat on it, from whose presence the earth and the heaven fled away, so that they disappear'd."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 20, "verse": "12", "text": "and I saw the dead, small and great, stand before the throne; the books were opened: and another book was opened, which is the book of life: and the dead were judged out, of those things which were written in the books, according to their works."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 20, "verse": "13", "text": "the sea gave up the dead which were in it; death and the grave delivered up the dead which were in them: and they were judged every one according to their works."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 20, "verse": "14", "text": "and death and the grave were cast into the lake of fire: this is the second death."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 20, "verse": "15", "text": "and whosoever was not found written in the book of life, was cast into the lake of fire."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 21, "verse": "1", "text": "Afterwards I saw a new heaven, and a new earth: for the first heaven and the first earth were vanished; and there was no more sea."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 21, "verse": "2", "text": "and I saw the holy city, the new Jerusalem, descend from God out of heaven, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 21, "verse": "3", "text": "then I heard a great voice out of heaven, saying, \"behold, the tabernacle of God is with men: he will dwell with them, they shall be his people, God himself shall be with them, as their God."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 21, "verse": "4", "text": "God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes; there shall be no more death, sorrow, or crying, neither shall there be any more pain: for the former state of things is passed away.\" he that sat upon the throne, said,"}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 21, "verse": "5", "text": "\"behold, I make all things new.\" and he said write: \"for these words are true and authentic.\""}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 21, "verse": "6", "text": "and he said to me, \"it is done. I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end: to him that is a-thirst I will freely give of the fountain of living water."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 21, "verse": "7", "text": "he that overcomes, shall inherit these things: I will be his God, and he shall be my son."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 21, "verse": "8", "text": "but the fearful, and incredulous, the abominable, the murderer, the licentious, the poisoner, the idolater, and every lyar shall have their part in the lake which burns with fire and brimstone: this is the second death.\" The New Jerusalem"}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 21, "verse": "9", "text": "Then there came to me one of the seven angels, who had the seven vials full of the seven last plagues, and talked with me, saying, \"come hither, I will shew thee the bride, the lamb's wife.\""}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 21, "verse": "10", "text": "and he carried me away in an extacy to a great and high mountain, and shewed me the city, the holy Jerusalem, descending out of heaven from God."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 21, "verse": "11", "text": "it blaz'd with the glory of God: her luminary was like that of a brilliant, even like a jasper, as transparent as crystal."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 21, "verse": "12", "text": "her walls were large and high; the gates were twelve; and at the gates twelve angels, with the names of the twelve tribes of the children of Israel inscrib'd thereon."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 21, "verse": "13", "text": "on the east were three gates; on the north, three gates; on the south, three gates; and three gates on the west."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 21, "verse": "14", "text": "the wall of the city had twelve foundations, and on them the names of the twelve apostles of the lamb."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 21, "verse": "15", "text": "he that talked with me, had a golden reed to measure the city, its gates, and its walls."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 21, "verse": "16", "text": "the city was a square, the length being as large as the breadth: he measured the city with the reed, and found it twelve thousand furlongs: the length, the breadth, and the height of it were equal."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 21, "verse": "17", "text": "he measured the wall, and it was an hundred and forty four cubits, according to the common measure, which was what the angel employed."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 21, "verse": "18", "text": "the wall was built of jasper; and the city was of pure gold, as pure as glass."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 21, "verse": "19", "text": "the foundations of the citywall were embellished with all manner of precious stones, the first foundation was of jasper; the second, of sapphire; the third, of chalcedony; the fourth, of an emerald;"}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 21, "verse": "20", "text": "the fifth, of sardonyx; the sixth, of sardius; the seventh, of chrysolite; the eighth, of beryl; the ninth, of a topaz; the tenth, of a chrysoprasus; the elventh, of a jacinth; the twelfth, of an amethyst."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 21, "verse": "21", "text": "the twelve gates were twelve pearls; each single gate was of one pearl: and the street of the city was pure gold, as splendid as glass."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 21, "verse": "22", "text": "I did not see any temple there: for the Lord God almighty, and the lamb are its temple."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 21, "verse": "23", "text": "the city had no need either of the sun, or of the moon to shine in it: for the glory of God did lighten it, and the lamb is the luminary thereof."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 21, "verse": "24", "text": "the nations shall walk by its light, and the kings of the earth bring all their glory and magnificence into it."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 21, "verse": "25", "text": "the gates of it shall never be shut by day: for no night shall be there."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 21, "verse": "26", "text": "the glory and magnificence of the nations shall be brought into it."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 21, "verse": "27", "text": "and nothing that is impure, no one that is guilty of any abomination, or a lye, shall ever enter there: but they alone who are written in the lamb's book of life."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 22, "verse": "1", "text": "Then he shewed me a pure river of living water, clear as crystal, proceeding out of the throne of God, and of the lamb."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 22, "verse": "2", "text": "in the midst of the area, surrounded by the river, was the tree of life, which had twelve fruit-seasons, yielding its fruit every month: and the leaves of the tree were for the healing of the nations."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 22, "verse": "3", "text": "There shall be nothing obnoxious to a curse: but the throne of God and of the lamb shall be in it; and his servants shall serve him."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 22, "verse": "4", "text": "they shall see his face; and his name shall be, in their foreheads."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 22, "verse": "5", "text": "no night shall be there, nor any need of a lamp, or of the light of the sun; for the Lord God will give them light: and they shall reign for ever and ever. Jesus Is Coming"}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 22, "verse": "6", "text": "the angel then said, \"these sayings are certain and true, the Lord God of the holy prophets has sent his angel to shew his servants what must shortly happen."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 22, "verse": "7", "text": "I shall soon come: happy is he that attends to the prophecies of this book.\""}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 22, "verse": "8", "text": "I John saw these things, and heard them, and when I had heard and seen, I fell down to worship at the feet of the angel, who shewed me these things."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 22, "verse": "9", "text": "but he said to me, \"forbear, I am the servant of God, as you are, and your brethren the prophets, and those who observe the words of this book: worship God.\""}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 22, "verse": "10", "text": "He subjoin'd, \"don't seal the prophetic discourses of this book: for the time draws nigh."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 22, "verse": "11", "text": "he that is unjust, let him be unjust still: he that is filthy, let him be filthy still: he that is righteous, let him be righteous still: and he that is holy, let him be holy still."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 22, "verse": "12", "text": "behold, I come quickly; and my reward is with me, to give every man according as his work shall be."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 22, "verse": "13", "text": "I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end, the first and the last."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 22, "verse": "14", "text": "blessed are they who wash their robes, that they may have right to the tree of life, and may enter in through the gates into the city.\""}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 22, "verse": "15", "text": "\"but without are the execrable, the poisoners, the licentious, the murderers, the idolaters, and all who are pleas'd with, or practise deceit."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 22, "verse": "16", "text": "\"I Jesus have sent my angel to testify these things to the churches. I am the shoot, the offspring of David, the splendid morning star."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 22, "verse": "17", "text": "the spirit and the bride say, come, let him that heareth, say, come, let him that is a-thirst, come: and whosoever will, let him take the water of life freely. Nothing May Be Added or Removed"}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 22, "verse": "18", "text": "\"I declare to every one that hears the words of the prophecy of this book, if any one shall add to these things, God shall strike him with the plagues that are written in this book:"}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 22, "verse": "19", "text": "and if any one shall take away from the words of the book of this prophecy, God shall exclude him from any interest in the tree of life, and in the holy city, and in the things which are written in this book.\""}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 22, "verse": "20", "text": "he who testifieth these things, saith, \"I come quickly.\" Amen, even so, come, Lord Jesus."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 22, "verse": "21", "text": "the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you all."}