Rom. vii. 1-4,

Gal. v. 17. Rev. ii. 15.

CHAPTER IV.

FROM whence come con

tests, and from whence conflicts among you? come they not from hence, from your desires which combat in your members?

2 Ye covet, and have not: ye cry out and strive eagerly, yet cannot obtain: ye contest and conflict, yet ye have not, because ye ask not:

3 though ye ask, ye receive not, because ye ask evilly, that ye may expend it on your desires.

1 John, ii. 15. 4 Ye adulteresses, know ye and viii. 7. not, that the love of the world is hatred of God? whosoever, therefore, will be a lover of the world, becomes a hater of God:

9 be afflicted, and mourn, and weep: let your laughter be turned to mourning, and your joy to heaviness:

10 humble yourselves before the Lord, and he will exalt you.

11 Speak not against each other, brethren: he that speaketh against his brother, or judgeth his brother, speaketh against the law, and judgeth the law:

12 but, if thou judgest the law, thou art not a doer, but a judge, of the law:

13 there is one lawgiver and judge, who is able to save and to destroy: but, who art thou that judgest thy neighbour?

14 Go to now, ye who say, Let us go to-day or to-morrow to such a city, and let us work there a year, and traffic, and make gain;

15 ye, who know nothing of the morrow, what your life will be; for, ye are a vapour that appeareth for a little time, and then disappeareth:

16 instead of saying, If the Lord will, and we shall be alive, we will then do this, or that:

17 but now, ye boast in your presumption: all such boasting is evil.

18 To him, therefore, who knoweth how to do right, and who doeth it not, it is sin.

CHAPTER V.

O to now, ye that are rich; weep and wail, for your miseries that are coming upon you:

2 your riches are corrupted, and your garments are become moth-eaten :

3 your gold and your silver is cankered; and their rust will be a witness against you, and will eat your flesh, as it were fire: ye are laying up in store for your last days:

4 behold, the hire of the labourers that have reaped your fields, which is withheld from them by you, crieth out; and the cries of them that have reaped, are entered into the ears of the Lord of Sabaoth:

5 ye have lived in luxury and profusion on the earth; ye have feasted your hearts, as in "a day of slaughter:"

6 ye have condemned, ye have killed the just One; and he resisteth you not.

7 Be patient, therefore, brethren, until the presence of the Lord: behold, the husbandman looketh for the precious fruit of the earth, waiting patiently for it, until he hath received the early and latter rain :

8 be ye also patient; establish your hearts, for, the presence of the Lord approacheth. 9 Be not straitened, brethren,

one towards another, that ye be not judged: behold, the judge standeth before the door.

10 My brethren, take for an example of enduring affliction, and of patience, the prophets who have spoken in the name of the Lord:

11 behold, we account those blessed who endure: ye have heard of the patience of Job, and have seen the end of the Lord, that He is very pitiful, and of tender mercy.

12 But, before all things, my brethren, swear not; neither by heaven, nor by the earth, nor by any other oath: but, let your yea be yea; and your nay, nay; Matt. v. 40. lest ye fall under judgment.

13 Is any one among you afflicted? let him pray is any

:

cheerful? let him sing psalms: 14 is any one ill among you? let him call to him the elders of the church; and, when they have anointed him with oil, let Mark, vi. 13. them pray over him, in the Name by which ye are called: c. ii. 6.

15 and the prayer of faith will save the sick, and the Lord will raise him up; and John, vi. though he have committed 1 Cor. v. 14 sins, they will be forgiven him.

16 Confess your sins, therefore, one to another; and pray, one for another, that ye may be healed:

17 the earnest prayer of a just man, hath great power: 18 Elijah was a man of like

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2 Cor. iv. 14

CHAPTER I.

PETER, an apostle of Jesus

Christ, to the sojourners dispersed throughout Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia, Asia, and Bithynia;

2 chosen, according to the foreknowledge of God the Father, with sanctification of the Spirit, for obedience, and cleansing by the blood of Jesus Christ: grace, and peace, be multiplied

to you.

3 Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who, according to his great mercy, hath regenerated us, by the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, to a living hope;

4 even to an inheritance incorruptible, and undefiled, and that fadeth not away,

5 reserved in heaven for you; who, by the power of God, are secured through faith, for the salvation ready to be revealed in the last time.

6 In which salvation, rejoice greatly; though now, for a little

while, if need be, ye are in hea-
viness through various trials:
7 that the proving of your
faith, which is much more
precious than that of gold
which perisheth, though it be
proved by fire, may be found
to be for praise, and glory, and
honour, at the revelation of
Jesus Christ;

8 whom, though ye have not seen him, ye love; in whom, though now ye see him not, yet believing, rejoice ye with joy unspeakable, and full of glory : 9 receiving the end of your faith, even the salvation of your souls.

10 Concerning which salvation, the prophets, who prophesied of the grace now bestowed on you, inquired and searched diligently;

11 searching what, or about what time the Spirit within them signified, which testified beforehand the sufferings for Rom. viii. 36. Christ; and the glories that 2 Cor. iv. 11; should follow, to those to whom he hath been revealed:

12 for they ministered not

1 Cor. iv. 9.

and xi. 23.

to themselves, but to us, the things which are now declared to you by those who have preached the gospel to you, with the Holy Spirit sent down from heaven: into which things the angels are desirous to look. 13 Wherefore, girding up the loins of your mind, be wakeful, and hope to the end for the grace that will be brought to you, at the revelation of Jesus Christ, as children of obedi

ence:

14 not conforming yourselves to your former lusts, in your ignorance;

15 but, according to the Holy One who hath called you, be ye also holy in all your conversation;

16 for it is written, "Ye shall "be holy, for I am holy."

17 And, if ye call him "Fa

ther," who judgeth, without respect to persons, according to every one's work, pass ye the time of your sojourning here in fear:

18 knowing, that ye were not redeemed from your vain conversation, derived from your fathers, with corruptible things, as silver and gold; but, with the precious blood of Christ, as of a lamb without blemish and without spot;

19 foreordained, indeed, before the foundation of the world; but, manifested at the end of time, for your sakes,

20 who, through him, believe in God that raised him from the dead, and gave him glory; that your faith and hope might be in God:

21 and, having sanctified your souls, by obedience to the truth, to unfeigned brotherly love, love ye one another constantly, from the heart:

22 having been regenerated, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, by the word of God, which liveth and continueth: