Palestinian Red Crescent Society (PRCS) called Saturday for providing an immediate protection to Palestinian paramedics working in the Palestinian territories.

In a statement to WAFA, Director of Emergency Unit in PRCS, Dr. Wael Qa'dan pointed out that Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) has deliberately opened fire at an ambulance transferring a pregnant, adding that such act is a flagrant violation to International Humanitarian Law.

He called on international community and HR organisations to immediately intervene and compel Israel to stop its aggressive policies against paramedics.

Early in the morning, the IOF opened random fire at an ambulance transferring a pregnant to a hospital in Nablus city.

added that the ambulance driver, Toni Ghetit said that five Israeli jeeps surrounded the ambulance at Amman street in Nablus city, while he was in his way to hospital transporting Najah Sadiq, who was in a state of giving birth. They randomly opened fire. "They forced us, under gunpoint, to get out, without showing sympathy to her parturition."

He added that the IOF released them, "but she arrived in hospital in critical condition. Only God's will saved her and the fetus."

In the meantime, Ministry of Health (MOH) denounced the Israeli assault in Nablus. It called upon international HQ Organisations to condemn such an Israeli act and to provide protection to Palestinian paramedics.~

www.arabicnews.com/ansub/Daily/Day/060527/2006052709.html

Extradite them now.

Why isn't he? Put him on trial now.

He's not breaking any laws. He's also telling the truth.

According to his own testimony, he breaks at least one law a day. So he's been caught in yet another lie.
He's not telling the truth.

could be this escalation of zionist assault on this wire like the 'bots and now very predictable noise levels occur here and now.
It's a PR push to deal with the 'final Palestinian solution'.

But it's not breaking the law to tell the truth about Zionist aggression. And yeah, it's the truth. They real did open fire at ambulance with pregnant woman.

It's rather rare for me to brake any laws. Stop lying while you're ahead of yourself.

The problem with you is you constantly lie about Zionism and Jews. You also lie about Palestinian aggression not happening.

Someone help me up to a chair...

Can you see what they are doing? They are flooding the wire with anti-Israel material, in hopes to provoke a reaction from us- then they'll turn around and use it as an excuse to block us from here. The LA IMC meeting is June 1- and we are on their agenda.
Let them spout their lies to the wind. Ignore them for now. They are baiting us- can't you tell?

Another one. What if Becky Johnson comes aboard to comment on the article? Is she also expected not to comment at all?

I thought you liked IMC Watch.
Why not hang out there?
Ha ha

Its down to stupid macho posturing- who gets the last word.
Can you ignore it? Or just comment on factual errors?
I'm feeling that we are being manipulated to push their final solution. Toady started it- Sheepdog is trying to finish up.

Any article containing the mendacious phrase "IOF" can't be trusted to convey news reliably.

PS: for the next two days maybe I'll keep on "ben-Kosiba-fying" my posts. You like this one, Tia?

factual errors.
Where are they?
These may not be Israeli spokesmen, but they do have standing. At least outside Israel.

Sanctitiy of Ambulance? The Palestinians gave that up by using ambulances to transport weapons, suicide bombers and fugitves. Thats how these things develop.

That's what the Zionists tell us, anyway. We all know how honest they are.

Stick to the facts. Your credibility is still plummeting.

again, from you...

you people just don't believe that anyone can read the threads.
Sound high level testimony of wanton murder and you do everything in the world to deny equivocate play with numbers and sugarcoat it.
Never in sorrow but in hate.
You reap with you seed.

Just say anything to apologize for a member of a crew promoting Palestinian lies, genocide and theocracy bred large.

"You reap with you seed [sic]. "

Sure enough, to a canine advocate of genocide.

Incidentally, you strayed from the topic to "supervise" me. Any excuse does for you.

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Chapter 1
Joshua, chapter 1


Compare with King James Version: Josh.01




1: After the death of Moses the servant of the LORD, the LORD said to Joshua the son of Nun, Moses' minister,
2: "Moses my servant is dead; now therefore arise, go over this Jordan, you and all this people, into the land which I am giving to them, to the people of Israel.
3: Every place that the sole of your foot will tread upon I have given to you, as I promised to Moses.
4: From the wilderness and this Lebanon as far as the great river, the river Euphra'tes, all the land of the Hittites to the Great Sea toward the going down of the sun shall be your territory.
5: No man shall be able to stand before you all the days of your life; as I was with Moses, so I will be with you; I will not fail you or forsake you.
6: Be strong and of good courage; for you shall cause this people to inherit the land which I swore to their fathers to give them.
7: Only be strong and very courageous, being careful to do according to all the law which Moses my servant commanded you; turn not from it to the right hand or to the left, that you may have good success wherever you go.
8: This book of the law shall not depart out of your mouth, but you shall meditate on it day and night, that you may be careful to do according to all that is written in it; for then you shall make your way prosperous, and then you shall have good success.
9: Have I not commanded you? Be strong and of good courage; be not frightened, neither be dismayed; for the LORD your God is with you wherever you go."
10: Then Joshua commanded the officers of the people,
11: "Pass through the camp, and command the people, `Prepare your provisions; for within three days you are to pass over this Jordan, to go in to take possession of the land which the LORD your God gives you to possess.'"
12: And to the Reubenites, the Gadites, and the half-tribe of Manas'seh Joshua said,
13: "Remember the word which Moses the servant of the LORD commanded you, saying, `The LORD your God is providing you a place of rest, and will give you this land.'
14: Your wives, your little ones, and your cattle shall remain in the land which Moses gave you beyond the Jordan; but all the men of valor among you shall pass over armed before your brethren and shall help them,
15: until the LORD gives rest to your brethren as well as to you, and they also take possession of the land which the LORD your God is giving them; then you shall return to the land of your possession, and shall possess it, the land which Moses the servant of the LORD gave you beyond the Jordan toward the sunrise."
16: And they answered Joshua, "All that you have commanded us we will do, and wherever you send us we will go.
17: Just as we obeyed Moses in all things, so we will obey you; only may the LORD your God be with you, as he was with Moses!
18: Whoever rebels against your commandment and disobeys your words, whatever you command him, shall be put to death. Only be strong and of good courage."


Chapter 2
Joshua, chapter 2


Compare with King James Version: Josh.02




1: And Joshua the son of Nun sent two men secretly from Shittim as spies, saying, "Go, view the land, especially Jericho." And they went, and came into the house of a harlot whose name was Rahab, and lodged there.
2: And it was told the king of Jericho, "Behold, certain men of Israel have come here tonight to search out the land."
3: Then the king of Jericho sent to Rahab, saying, "Bring forth the men that have come to you, who entered your house; for they have come to search out all the land."
4: But the woman had taken the two men and hidden them; and she said, "True, men came to me, but I did not know where they came from;
5: and when the gate was to be closed, at dark, the men went out; where the men went I do not know; pursue them quickly, for you will overtake them."
6: But she had brought them up to the roof, and hid them with the stalks of flax which she had laid in order on the roof.
7: So the men pursued after them on the way to the Jordan as far as the fords; and as soon as the pursuers had gone out, the gate was shut.
8: Before they lay down, she came up to them on the roof,
9: and said to the men, "I know that the LORD has given you the land, and that the fear of you has fallen upon us, and that all the inhabitants of the land melt away before you.
10: For we have heard how the LORD dried up the water of the Red Sea before you when you came out of Egypt, and what you did to the two kings of the Amorites that were beyond the Jordan, to Sihon and Og, whom you utterly destroyed.
11: And as soon as we heard it, our hearts melted, and there was no courage left in any man, because of you; for the LORD your God is he who is God in heaven above and on earth beneath.
12: Now then, swear to me by the LORD that as I have dealt kindly with you, you also will deal kindly with my father's house, and give me a sure sign,
13: and save alive my father and mother, my brothers and sisters, and all who belong to them, and deliver our lives from death."
14: And the men said to her, "Our life for yours! If you do not tell this business of ours, then we will deal kindly and faithfully with you when the LORD gives us the land."
15: Then she let them down by a rope through the window, for her house was built into the city wall, so that she dwelt in the wall.
16: And she said to them, "Go into the hills, lest the pursuers meet you; and hide yourselves there three days, until the pursuers have returned; then afterward you may go your way."
17: The men said to her, "We will be guiltless with respect to this oath of yours which you have made us swear.
18: Behold, when we come into the land, you shall bind this scarlet cord in the window through which you let us down; and you shall gather into your house your father and mother, your brothers, and all your father's household.
19: If any one goes out of the doors of your house into the street, his blood shall be upon his head, and we shall be guiltless; but if a hand is laid upon any one who is with you in the house, his blood shall be on our head.
20: But if you tell this business of ours, then we shall be guiltless with respect to your oath which you have made us swear."
21: And she said, "According to your words, so be it." Then she sent them away, and they departed; and she bound the scarlet cord in the window.
22: They departed, and went into the hills, and remained there three days, until the pursuers returned; for the pursuers had made search all along the way and found nothing.
23: Then the two men came down again from the hills, and passed over and came to Joshua the son of Nun; and they told him all that had befallen them.
24: And they said to Joshua, "Truly the LORD has given all the land into our hands; and moreover all the inhabitants of the land are fainthearted because of us."


Chapter 3
Joshua, chapter 3


Compare with King James Version: Josh.03




1: Early in the morning Joshua rose and set out from Shittim, with all the people of Israel; and they came to the Jordan, and lodged there before they passed over.
2: At the end of three days the officers went through the camp
3: and commanded the people, "When you see the ark of the covenant of the LORD your God being carried by the Levitical priests, then you shall set out from your place and follow it,
4: that you may know the way you shall go, for you have not passed this way before. Yet there shall be a space between you and it, a distance of about two thousand cubits; do not come near it."
5: And Joshua said to the people, "Sanctify yourselves; for tomorrow the LORD will do wonders among you."
6: And Joshua said to the priests, "Take up the ark of the covenant, and pass on before the people." And they took up the ark of the covenant, and went before the people.
7: And the LORD said to Joshua, "This day I will begin to exalt you in the sight of all Israel, that they may know that, as I was with Moses, so I will be with you.
8: And you shall command the priests who bear the ark of the covenant, `When you come to the brink of the waters of the Jordan, you shall stand still in the Jordan.'"
9: And Joshua said to the people of Israel, "Come hither, and hear the words of the LORD your God."
10: And Joshua said, "Hereby you shall know that the living God is among you, and that he will without fail drive out from before you the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Hivites, the Per'izzites, the Gir'gashites, the Amorites, and the Jeb'usites.
11: Behold, the ark of the covenant of the Lord of all the earth is to pass over before you into the Jordan.
12: Now therefore take twelve men from the tribes of Israel, from each tribe a man.
13: And when the soles of the feet of the priests who bear the ark of the LORD, the Lord of all the earth, shall rest in the waters of the Jordan, the waters of the Jordan shall be stopped from flowing, and the waters coming down from above shall stand in one heap."
14: So, when the people set out from their tents, to pass over the Jordan with the priests bearing the ark of the covenant before the people,
15: and when those who bore the ark had come to the Jordan, and the feet of the priests bearing the ark were dipped in the brink of the water (the Jordan overflows all its banks throughout the time of harvest),
16: the waters coming down from above stood and rose up in a heap far off, at Adam, the city that is beside Zar'ethan, and those flowing down toward the sea of the Arabah, the Salt Sea, were wholly cut off; and the people passed over opposite Jericho.
17: And while all Israel were passing over on dry ground, the priests who bore the ark of the covenant of the LORD stood on dry ground in the midst of the Jordan, until all the nation finished passing over the Jordan.


Chapter 4
Joshua, chapter 4


Compare with King James Version: Josh.04




1: When all the nation had finished passing over the Jordan, the LORD said to Joshua,
2: "Take twelve men from the people, from each tribe a man,
3: and command them, `Take twelve stones from here out of the midst of the Jordan, from the very place where the priests' feet stood, and carry them over with you, and lay them down in the place where you lodge tonight.'"
4: Then Joshua called the twelve men from the people of Israel, whom he had appointed, a man from each tribe;
5: and Joshua said to them, "Pass on before the ark of the LORD your God into the midst of the Jordan, and take up each of you a stone upon his shoulder, according to the number of the tribes of the people of Israel,
6: that this may be a sign among you, when your children ask in time to come, `What do those stones mean to you?'
7: Then you shall tell them that the waters of the Jordan were cut off before the ark of the covenant of the LORD; when it passed over the Jordan, the waters of the Jordan were cut off. So these stones shall be to the people of Israel a memorial for ever."
8: And the men of Israel did as Joshua commanded, and took up twelve stones out of the midst of the Jordan, according to the number of the tribes of the people of Israel, as the LORD told Joshua; and they carried them over with them to the place where they lodged, and laid them down there.
9: And Joshua set up twelve stones in the midst of the Jordan, in the place where the feet of the priests bearing the ark of the covenant had stood; and they are there to this day.
10: For the priests who bore the ark stood in the midst of the Jordan, until everything was finished that the LORD commanded Joshua to tell the people, according to all that Moses had commanded Joshua. The people passed over in haste;
11: and when all the people had finished passing over, the ark of the LORD and the priests passed over before the people.
12: The sons of Reuben and the sons of Gad and the half-tribe of Manas'seh passed over armed before the people of Israel, as Moses had bidden them;
13: about forty thousand ready armed for war passed over before the LORD for battle, to the plains of Jericho.
14: On that day the LORD exalted Joshua in the sight of all Israel; and they stood in awe of him, as they had stood in awe of Moses, all the days of his life.
15: And the LORD said to Joshua,
16: "Command the priests who bear the ark of the testimony to come up out of the Jordan."
17: Joshua therefore commanded the priests, "Come up out of the Jordan."
18: And when the priests bearing the ark of the covenant of the LORD came up from the midst of the Jordan, and the soles of the priests' feet were lifted up on dry ground, the waters of the Jordan returned to their place and overflowed all its banks, as before.
19: The people came up out of the Jordan on the tenth day of the first month, and they encamped in Gilgal on the east border of Jericho.
20: And those twelve stones, which they took out of the Jordan, Joshua set up in Gilgal.
21: And he said to the people of Israel, "When your children ask their fathers in time to come, `What do these stones mean?'
22: then you shall let your children know, `Israel passed over this Jordan on dry ground.'
23: For the LORD your God dried up the waters of the Jordan for you until you passed over, as the LORD your God did to the Red Sea, which he dried up for us until we passed over,
24: so that all the peoples of the earth may know that the hand of the LORD is mighty; that you may fear the LORD your God for ever."


Chapter 5
Joshua, chapter 5


Compare with King James Version: Josh.05




1: When all the kings of the Amorites that were beyond the Jordan to the west, and all the kings of the Canaanites that were by the sea, heard that the LORD had dried up the waters of the Jordan for the people of Israel until they had crossed over, their heart melted, and there was no longer any spirit in them, because of the people of Israel.
2: At that time the LORD said to Joshua, "Make flint knives and circumcise the people of Israel again the second time."
3: So Joshua made flint knives, and circumcised the people of Israel at Gibeath-haaraloth.
4: And this is the reason why Joshua circumcised them: all the males of the people who came out of Egypt, all the men of war, had died on the way in the wilderness after they had come out of Egypt.
5: Though all the people who came out had been circumcised, yet all the people that were born on the way in the wilderness after they had come out of Egypt had not been circumcised.
6: For the people of Israel walked forty years in the wilderness, till all the nation, the men of war that came forth out of Egypt, perished, because they did not hearken to the voice of the LORD; to them the LORD swore that he would not let them see the land which the LORD had sworn to their fathers to give us, a land flowing with milk and honey.
7: So it was their children, whom he raised up in their stead, that Joshua circumcised; for they were uncircumcised, because they had not been circumcised on the way.
8: When the circumcising of all the nation was done, they remained in their places in the camp till they were healed.
9: And the LORD said to Joshua, "This day I have rolled away the reproach of Egypt from you." And so the name of that place is called Gilgal to this day.
10: While the people of Israel were encamped in Gilgal they kept the passover on the fourteenth day of the month at evening in the plains of Jericho.
11: And on the morrow after the passover, on that very day, they ate of the produce of the land, unleavened cakes and parched grain.
12: And the manna ceased on the morrow, when they ate of the produce of the land; and the people of Israel had manna no more, but ate of the fruit of the land of Canaan that year.
13: When Joshua was by Jericho, he lifted up his eyes and looked, and behold, a man stood before him with his drawn sword in his hand; and Joshua went to him and said to him, "Are you for us, or for our adversaries?"
14: And he said, "No; but as commander of the army of the LORD I have now come." And Joshua fell on his face to the earth, and worshiped, and said to him, "What does my lord bid his servant?"
15: And the commander of the LORD's army said to Joshua, "Put off your shoes from your feet; for the place where you stand is holy." And Joshua did so.


Chapter 6
Joshua, chapter 6


Compare with King James Version: Josh.06




1: Now Jericho was shut up from within and from without because of the people of Israel; none went out, and none came in.
2: And the LORD said to Joshua, "See, I have given into your hand Jericho, with its king and mighty men of valor.
3: You shall march around the city, all the men of war going around the city once. Thus shall you do for six days.
4: And seven priests shall bear seven trumpets of rams' horns before the ark; and on the seventh day you shall march around the city seven times, the priests blowing the trumpets.
5: And when they make a long blast with the ram's horn, as soon as you hear the sound of the trumpet, then all the people shall shout with a great shout; and the wall of the city will fall down flat, and the people shall go up every man straight before him."
6: So Joshua the son of Nun called the priests and said to them, "Take up the ark of the covenant, and let seven priests bear seven trumpets of rams' horns before the ark of the LORD."
7: And he said to the people, "Go forward; march around the city, and let the armed men pass on before the ark of the LORD."
8: And as Joshua had commanded the people, the seven priests bearing the seven trumpets of rams' horns before the LORD went forward, blowing the trumpets, with the ark of the covenant of the LORD following them.
9: And the armed men went before the priests who blew the trumpets, and the rear guard came after the ark, while the trumpets blew continually.
10: But Joshua commanded the people, "You shall not shout or let your voice be heard, neither shall any word go out of your mouth, until the day I bid you shout; then you shall shout."
11: So he caused the ark of the LORD to compass the city, going about it once; and they came into the camp, and spent the night in the camp.
12: Then Joshua rose early in the morning, and the priests took up the ark of the LORD.
13: And the seven priests bearing the seven trumpets of rams' horns before the ark of the LORD passed on, blowing the trumpets continually; and the armed men went before them, and the rear guard came after the ark of the LORD, while the trumpets blew continually.
14: And the second day they marched around the city once, and returned into the camp. So they did for six days.
15: On the seventh day they rose early at the dawn of day, and marched around the city in the same manner seven times: it was only on that day that they marched around the city seven times.
16: And at the seventh time, when the priests had blown the trumpets, Joshua said to the people, "Shout; for the LORD has given you the city.
17: And the city and all that is within it shall be devoted to the LORD for destruction; only Rahab the harlot and all who are with her in her house shall live, because she hid the messengers that we sent.
18: But you, keep yourselves from the things devoted to destruction, lest when you have devoted them you take any of the devoted things and make the camp of Israel a thing for destruction, and bring trouble upon it.
19: But all silver and gold, and vessels of bronze and iron, are sacred to the LORD; they shall go into the treasury of the LORD."
20: So the people shouted, and the trumpets were blown. As soon as the people heard the sound of the trumpet, the people raised a great shout, and the wall fell down flat, so that the people went up into the city, every man straight before him, and they took the city.
21: Then they utterly destroyed all in the city, both men and women, young and old, oxen, sheep, and asses, with the edge of the sword.
22: And Joshua said to the two men who had spied out the land, "Go into the harlot's house, and bring out from it the woman, and all who belong to her, as you swore to her."
23: So the young men who had been spies went in, and brought out Rahab, and her father and mother and brothers and all who belonged to her; and they brought all her kindred, and set them outside the camp of Israel.
24: And they burned the city with fire, and all within it; only the silver and gold, and the vessels of bronze and of iron, they put into the treasury of the house of the LORD.
25: But Rahab the harlot, and her father's household, and all who belonged to her, Joshua saved alive; and she dwelt in Israel to this day, because she hid the messengers whom Joshua sent to spy out Jericho.
26: Joshua laid an oath upon them at that time, saying, "Cursed before the LORD be the man that rises up and rebuilds this city, Jericho. At the cost of his first-born shall he lay its foundation, and at the cost of his youngest son shall he set up its gates."
27: So the LORD was with Joshua; and his fame was in all the land.


Chapter 7
Joshua, chapter 7


Compare with King James Version: Josh.07




1: But the people of Israel broke faith in regard to the devoted things; for Achan the son of Carmi, son of Zabdi, son of Zerah, of the tribe of Judah, took some of the devoted things; and the anger of the LORD burned against the people of Israel.
2: Joshua sent men from Jericho to Ai, which is near Beth-a'ven, east of Bethel, and said to them, "Go up and spy out the land." And the men went up and spied out Ai.
3: And they returned to Joshua, and said to him, "Let not all the people go up, but let about two or three thousand men go up and attack Ai; do not make the whole people toil up there, for they are but few."
4: So about three thousand went up there from the people; and they fled before the men of Ai,
5: and the men of Ai killed about thirty-six men of them, and chased them before the gate as far as Sheb'arim, and slew them at the descent. And the hearts of the people melted, and became as water.
6: Then Joshua rent his clothes, and fell to the earth upon his face before the ark of the LORD until the evening, he and the elders of Israel; and they put dust upon their heads.
7: And Joshua said, "Alas, O Lord GOD, why hast thou brought this people over the Jordan at all, to give us into the hands of the Amorites, to destroy us? Would that we had been content to dwell beyond the Jordan!
8: O Lord, what can I say, when Israel has turned their backs before their enemies!
9: For the Canaanites and all the inhabitants of the land will hear of it, and will surround us, and cut off our name from the earth; and what wilt thou do for thy great name?"
10: The LORD said to Joshua, "Arise, why have you thus fallen upon your face?
11: Israel has sinned; they have transgressed my covenant which I commanded them; they have taken some of the devoted things; they have stolen, and lied, and put them among their own stuff.
12: Therefore the people of Israel cannot stand before their enemies; they turn their backs before their enemies, because they have become a thing for destruction. I will be with you no more, unless you destroy the devoted things from among you.
13: Up, sanctify the people, and say, `Sanctify yourselves for tomorrow; for thus says the LORD, God of Israel, "There are devoted things in the midst of you, O Israel; you cannot stand before your enemies, until you take away the devoted things from among you."
14: In the morning therefore you shall be brought near by your tribes; and the tribe which the LORD takes shall come near by families; and the family which the LORD takes shall come near by households; and the household which the LORD takes shall come near man by man.
15: And he who is taken with the devoted things shall be burned with fire, he and all that he has, because he has transgressed the covenant of the LORD, and because he has done a shameful thing in Israel.'"
16: So Joshua rose early in the morning, and brought Israel near tribe by tribe, and the tribe of Judah was taken;
17: and he brought near the families of Judah, and the family of the Zer'ahites was taken; and he brought near the family of the Zer'ahites man by man, and Zabdi was taken;
18: and he brought near his household man by man, and Achan the son of Carmi, son of Zabdi, son of Zerah, of the tribe of Judah, was taken.
19: Then Joshua said to Achan, "My son, give glory to the LORD God of Israel, and render praise to him; and tell me now what you have done; do not hide it from me."
20: And Achan answered Joshua, "Of a truth I have sinned against the LORD God of Israel, and this is what I did:
21: when I saw among the spoil a beautiful mantle from Shinar, and two hundred shekels of silver, and a bar of gold weighing fifty shekels, then I coveted them, and took them; and behold, they are hidden in the earth inside my tent, with the silver underneath."
22: So Joshua sent messengers, and they ran to the tent; and behold, it was hidden in his tent with the silver underneath.
23: And they took them out of the tent and brought them to Joshua and all the people of Israel; and they laid them down before the LORD.
24: And Joshua and all Israel with him took Achan the son of Zerah, and the silver and the mantle and the bar of gold, and his sons and daughters, and his oxen and asses and sheep, and his tent, and all that he had; and they brought them up to the Valley of Achor.
25: And Joshua said, "Why did you bring trouble on us? The LORD brings trouble on you today." And all Israel stoned him with stones; they burned them with fire, and stoned them with stones.
26: And they raised over him a great heap of stones that remains to this day; then the LORD turned from his burning anger. Therefore to this day the name of that place is called the Valley of Achor.


Chapter 8
Joshua, chapter 8


Compare with King James Version: Josh.08




1: And the LORD said to Joshua, "Do not fear or be dismayed; take all the fighting men with you, and arise, go up to Ai; see, I have given into your hand the king of Ai, and his people, his city, and his land;
2: and you shall do to Ai and its king as you did to Jericho and its king; only its spoil and its cattle you shall take as booty for yourselves; lay an ambush against the city, behind it."
3: So Joshua arose, and all the fighting men, to go up to Ai; and Joshua chose thirty thousand mighty men of valor, and sent them forth by night.
4: And he commanded them, "Behold, you shall lie in ambush against the city, behind it; do not go very far from the city, but hold yourselves all in readiness;
5: and I, and all the people who are with me, will approach the city. And when they come out against us, as before, we shall flee before them;
6: and they will come out after us, till we have drawn them away from the city; for they will say, `They are fleeing from us, as before.' So we will flee from them;
7: then you shall rise up from the ambush, and seize the city; for the LORD your God will give it into your hand.
8: And when you have taken the city, you shall set the city on fire, doing as the LORD has bidden; see, I have commanded you."
9: So Joshua sent them forth; and they went to the place of ambush, and lay between Bethel and Ai, to the west of Ai; but Joshua spent that night among the people.
10: And Joshua arose early in the morning and mustered the people, and went up, with the elders of Israel, before the people to Ai.
11: And all the fighting men who were with him went up, and drew near before the city, and encamped on the north side of Ai, with a ravine between them and Ai.
12: And he took about five thousand men, and set them in ambush between Bethel and Ai, to the west of the city.
13: So they stationed the forces, the main encampment which was north of the city and its rear guard west of the city. But Joshua spent that night in the valley.
14: And when the king of Ai saw this he and all his people, the men of the city, made haste and went out early to the descent toward the Arabah to meet Israel in battle; but he did not know that there was an ambush against him behind the city.
15: And Joshua and all Israel made a pretense of being beaten before them, and fled in the direction of the wilderness.
16: So all the people who were in the city were called together to pursue them, and as they pursued Joshua they were drawn away from the city.
17: There was not a man left in Ai or Bethel, who did not go out after Israel; they left the city open, and pursued Israel.
18: Then the LORD said to Joshua, "Stretch out the javelin that is in your hand toward Ai; for I will give it into your hand." And Joshua stretched out the javelin that was in his hand toward the city.
19: And the ambush rose quickly out of their place, and as soon as he had stretched out his hand, they ran and entered the city and took it; and they made haste to set the city on fire.
20: So when the men of Ai looked back, behold, the smoke of the city went up to heaven; and they had no power to flee this way or that, for the people that fled to the wilderness turned back upon the pursuers.
21: And when Joshua and all Israel saw that the ambush had taken the city, and that the smoke of the city went up, then they turned back and smote the men of Ai.
22: And the others came forth from the city against them; so they were in the midst of Israel, some on this side, and some on that side; and Israel smote them, until there was left none that survived or escaped.
23: But the king of Ai they took alive, and brought him to Joshua.
24: When Israel had finished slaughtering all the inhabitants of Ai in the open wilderness where they pursued them and all of them to the very last had fallen by the edge of the sword, all Israel returned to Ai, and smote it with the edge of the sword.
25: And all who fell that day, both men and women, were twelve thousand, all the people of Ai.
26: For Joshua did not draw back his hand, with which he stretched out the javelin, until he had utterly destroyed all the inhabitants of Ai.
27: Only the cattle and the spoil of that city Israel took as their booty, according to the word of the LORD which he commanded Joshua.
28: So Joshua burned Ai, and made it for ever a heap of ruins, as it is to this day.
29: And he hanged the king of Ai on a tree until evening; and at the going down of the sun Joshua commanded, and they took his body down from the tree, and cast it at the entrance of the gate of the city, and raised over it a great heap of stones, which stands there to this day.
30: Then Joshua built an altar in Mount Ebal to the LORD, the God of Israel,
31: as Moses the servant of the LORD had commanded the people of Israel, as it is written in the book of the law of Moses, "an altar of unhewn stones, upon which no man has lifted an iron tool"; and they offered on it burnt offerings to the LORD, and sacrificed peace offerings.
32: And there, in the presence of the people of Israel, he wrote upon the stones a copy of the law of Moses, which he had written.
33: And all Israel, sojourner as well as homeborn, with their elders and officers and their judges, stood on opposite sides of the ark before the Levitical priests who carried the ark of the covenant of the LORD, half of them in front of Mount Ger'izim and half of them in front of Mount Ebal, as Moses the servant of the LORD had commanded at the first, that they should bless the people of Israel.
34: And afterward he read all the words of the law, the blessing and the curse, according to all that is written in the book of the law.
35: There was not a word of all that Moses commanded which Joshua did not read before all the assembly of Israel, and the women, and the little ones, and the sojourners who lived among them.


Chapter 9
Joshua, chapter 9


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1: When all the kings who were beyond the Jordan in the hill country and in the lowland all along the coast of the Great Sea toward Lebanon, the Hittites, the Amorites, the Canaanites, the Per'izzites, the Hivites, and the Jeb'usites, heard of this,
2: they gathered together with one accord to fight Joshua and Israel.
3: But when the inhabitants of Gibeon heard what Joshua had done to Jericho and to Ai,
4: they on their part acted with cunning, and went and made ready provisions, and took worn-out sacks upon their asses, and wineskins, worn-out and torn and mended,
5: with worn-out, patched sandals on their feet, and worn-out clothes; and all their provisions were dry and moldy.
6: And they went to Joshua in the camp at Gilgal, and said to him and to the men of Israel, "We have come from a far country; so now make a covenant with us."
7: But the men of Israel said to the Hivites, "Perhaps you live among us; then how can we make a covenant with you?"
8: They said to Joshua, "We are your servants." And Joshua said to them, "Who are you? And where do you come from?"
9: They said to him, "From a very far country your servants have come, because of the name of the LORD your God; for we have heard a report of him, and all that he did in Egypt,
10: and all that he did to the two kings of the Amorites who were beyond the Jordan, Sihon the king of Heshbon, and Og king of Bashan, who dwelt in Ash'taroth.
11: And our elders and all the inhabitants of our country said to us, `Take provisions in your hand for the journey, and go to meet them, and say to them, "We are your servants; come now, make a covenant with us."'
12: Here is our bread; it was still warm when we took it from our houses as our food for the journey, on the day we set forth to come to you, but now, behold, it is dry and moldy;
13: these wineskins were new when we filled them, and behold, they are burst; and these garments and shoes of ours are worn out from the very long journey."
14: So the men partook of their provisions, and did not ask direction from the LORD.
15: And Joshua made peace with them, and made a covenant with them, to let them live; and the leaders of the congregation swore to them.
16: At the end of three days after they had made a covenant with them, they heard that they were their neighbors, and that they dwelt among them.
17: And the people of Israel set out and reached their cities on the third day. Now their cities were Gibeon, Chephi'rah, Be-er'oth, and Kir'iath-je'arim.
18: But the people of Israel did not kill them, because the leaders of the congregation had sworn to them by the LORD, the God of Israel. Then all the congregation murmured against the leaders.
19: But all the leaders said to all the congregation, "We have sworn to them by the LORD, the God of Israel, and now we may not touch them.
20: This we will do to them, and let them live, lest wrath be upon us, because of the oath which we swore to them."
21: And the leaders said to them, "Let them live." So they became hewers of wood and drawers of water for all the congregation, as the leaders had said of them.
22: Joshua summoned them, and he said to them, "Why did you deceive us, saying, `We are very far from you,' when you dwell among us?
23: Now therefore you are cursed, and some of you shall always be slaves, hewers of wood and drawers of water for the house of my God."
24: They answered Joshua, "Because it was told to your servants for a certainty that the LORD your God had commanded his servant Moses to give you all the land, and to destroy all the inhabitants of the land from before you; so we feared greatly for our lives because of you, and did this thing.
25: And now, behold, we are in your hand: do as it seems good and right in your sight to do to us."
26: So he did to them, and delivered them out of the hand of the people of Israel; and they did not kill them.
27: But Joshua made them that day hewers of wood and drawers of water for the congregation and for the altar of the LORD, to continue to this day, in the place which he should choose.


Chapter 10
Joshua, chapter 10


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1: When Ado'ni-ze'dek king of Jerusalem heard how Joshua had taken Ai, and had utterly destroyed it, doing to Ai and its king as he had done to Jericho and its king, and how the inhabitants of Gibeon had made peace with Israel and were among them,
2: he feared greatly, because Gibeon was a great city, like one of the royal cities, and because it was greater than Ai, and all its men were mighty.
3: So Ado'ni-ze'dek king of Jerusalem sent to Hoham king of Hebron, to Piram king of Jarmuth, to Japhi'a king of Lachish, and to Debir king of Eglon, saying,
4: "Come up to me, and help me, and let us smite Gibeon; for it has made peace with Joshua and with the people of Israel."
5: Then the five kings of the Amorites, the king of Jerusalem, the king of Hebron, the king of Jarmuth, the king of Lachish, and the king of Eglon, gathered their forces, and went up with all their armies and encamped against Gibeon, and made war against it.
6: And the men of Gibeon sent to Joshua at the camp in Gilgal, saying, "Do not relax your hand from your servants; come up to us quickly, and save us, and help us; for all the kings of the Amorites that dwell in the hill country are gathered against us."
7: So Joshua went up from Gilgal, he and all the people of war with him, and all the mighty men of valor.
8: And the LORD said to Joshua, "Do not fear them, for I have given them into your hands; there shall not a man of them stand before you."
9: So Joshua came upon them suddenly, having marched up all night from Gilgal.
10: And the LORD threw them into a panic before Israel, who slew them with a great slaughter at Gibeon, and chased them by the way of the ascent of Beth-hor'on, and smote them as far as Aze'kah and Makke'dah.
11: And as they fled before Israel, while they were going down the ascent of Beth-hor'on, the LORD threw down great stones from heaven upon them as far as Aze'kah, and they died; there were more who died because of the hailstones than the men of Israel killed with the sword.
12: Then spoke Joshua to the LORD in the day when the LORD gave the Amorites over to the men of Israel; and he said in the sight of Israel, "Sun, stand thou still at Gibeon, and thou Moon in the valley of Ai'jalon."
13: And the sun stood still, and the moon stayed, until the nation took vengeance on their enemies.
14: There has been no day like it before or since, when the LORD hearkened to the voice of a man; for the LORD fought for Israel.
15: Then Joshua returned, and all Israel with him, to the camp at Gilgal.
16: These five kings fled, and hid themselves in the cave at Makke'dah.
17: And it was told Joshua, "The five kings have been found, hidden in the cave at Makke'dah."
18: And Joshua said, "Roll great stones against the mouth of the cave, and set men by it to guard them;
19: but do not stay there yourselves, pursue your enemies, fall upon their rear, do not let them enter their cities; for the LORD your God has given them into your hand."
20: When Joshua and the men of Israel had finished slaying them with a very great slaughter, until they were wiped out, and when the remnant which remained of them had entered into the fortified cities,
21: all the people returned safe to Joshua in the camp at Makke'dah; not a man moved his tongue against any of the people of Israel.
22: Then Joshua said, "Open the mouth of the cave, and bring those five kings out to me from the cave."
23: And they did so, and brought those five kings out to him from the cave, the king of Jerusalem, the king of Hebron, the king of Jarmuth, the king of Lachish, and the king of Eglon.
24: And when they brought those kings out to Joshua, Joshua summoned all the men of Israel, and said to the chiefs of the men of war who had gone with him, "Come near, put your feet upon the necks of these kings." Then they came near, and put their feet on their necks.
25: And Joshua said to them, "Do not be afraid or dismayed; be strong and of good courage; for thus the LORD will do to all your enemies against whom you fight."
26: And afterward Joshua smote them and put them to death, and he hung them on five trees. And they hung upon the trees until evening;
27: but at the time of the going down of the sun, Joshua commanded, and they took them down from the trees, and threw them into the cave where they had hidden themselves, and they set great stones against the mouth of the cave, which remain to this very day.
28: And Joshua took Makke'dah on that day, and smote it and its king with the edge of the sword; he utterly destroyed every person in it, he left none remaining; and he did to the king of Makke'dah as he had done to the king of Jericho.
29: Then Joshua passed on from Makke'dah, and all Israel with him, to Libnah, and fought against Libnah;
30: and the LORD gave it also and its king into the hand of Israel; and he smote it with the edge of the sword, and every person in it; he left none remaining in it; and he did to its king as he had done to the king of Jericho.
31: And Joshua passed on from Libnah, and all Israel with him, to Lachish, and laid siege to it, and assaulted it:
32: and the LORD gave Lachish into the hand of Israel, and he took it on the second day, and smote it with the edge of the sword, and every person in it, as he had done to Libnah.
33: Then Horam king of Gezer came up to help Lachish; and Joshua smote him and his people, until he left none remaining.
34: And Joshua passed on with all Israel from Lachish to Eglon; and they laid siege to it, and assaulted it;
35: and they took it on that day, and smote it with the edge of the sword; and every person in it he utterly destroyed that day, as he had done to Lachish.
36: Then Joshua went up with all Israel from Eglon to Hebron; and they assaulted it,
37: and took it, and smote it with the edge of the sword, and its king and its towns, and every person in it; he left none remaining, as he had done to Eglon, and utterly destroyed it with every person in it.
38: Then Joshua, with all Israel, turned back to Debir and assaulted it,
39: and he took it with its king and all its towns; and they smote them with the edge of the sword, and utterly destroyed every person in it; he left none remaining; as he had done to Hebron and to Libnah and its king, so he did to Debir and to its king.
40: So Joshua defeated the whole land, the hill country and the Negeb and the lowland and the slopes, and all their kings; he left none remaining, but utterly destroyed all that breathed, as the LORD God of Israel commanded.
41: And Joshua defeated them from Ka'desh-bar'nea to Gaza, and all the country of Goshen, as far as Gibeon.
42: And Joshua took all these kings and their land at one time, because the LORD God of Israel fought for Israel.
43: Then Joshua returned, and all Israel with him, to the camp at Gilgal.


Chapter 11
Joshua, chapter 11


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1: When Jabin king of Hazor heard of this, he sent to Jobab king of Madon, and to the king of Shimron, and to the king of Ach'shaph,
2: and to the kings who were in the northern hill country, and in the Arabah south of Chin'neroth, and in the lowland, and in Naphoth-dor on the west,
3: to the Canaanites in the east and the west, the Amorites, the Hittites, the Per'izzites, and the Jeb'usites in the hill country, and the Hivites under Hermon in the land of Mizpah.
4: And they came out, with all their troops, a great host, in number like the sand that is upon the seashore, with very many horses and chariots.
5: And all these kings joined their forces, and came and encamped together at the waters of Merom, to fight with Israel.
6: And the LORD said to Joshua, "Do not be afraid of them, for tomorrow at this time I will give over all of them, slain, to Israel; you shall hamstring their horses, and burn their chariots with fire."
7: So Joshua came suddenly upon them with all his people of war, by the waters of Merom, and fell upon them.
8: And the LORD gave them into the hand of Israel, who smote them and chased them as far as Great Sidon and Mis'rephoth-ma'im, and eastward as far as the valley of Mizpeh; and they smote them, until they left none remaining.
9: And Joshua did to them as the LORD bade him; he hamstrung their horses, and burned their chariots with fire.
10: And Joshua turned back at that time, and took Hazor, and smote its king with the sword; for Hazor formerly was the head of all those kingdoms.
11: And they put to the sword all who were in it, utterly destroying them; there was none left that breathed, and he burned Hazor with fire.
12: And all the cities of those kings, and all their kings, Joshua took, and smote them with the edge of the sword, utterly destroying them, as Moses the servant of the LORD had commanded.
13: But none of the cities that stood on mounds did Israel burn, except Hazor only; that Joshua burned.
14: And all the spoil of these cities and the cattle, the people of Israel took for their booty; but every man they smote with the edge of the sword, until they had destroyed them, and they did not leave any that breathed.
15: As the LORD had commanded Moses his servant, so Moses commanded Joshua, and so Joshua did; he left nothing undone of all that the LORD had commanded Moses.
16: So Joshua took all that land, the hill country and all the Negeb and all the land of Goshen and the lowland and the Arabah and the hill country of Israel and its lowland
17: from Mount Halak, that rises toward Se'ir, as far as Ba'al-gad in the valley of Lebanon below Mount Hermon. And he took all their kings, and smote them, and put them to death.
18: Joshua made war a long time with all those kings.
19: There was not a city that made peace with the people of Israel, except the Hivites, the inhabitants of Gibeon; they took all in battle.
20: For it was the LORD's doing to harden their hearts that they should come against Israel in battle, in order that they should be utterly destroyed, and should receive no mercy but be exterminated, as the LORD commanded Moses.
21: And Joshua came at that time, and wiped out the Anakim from the hill country, from Hebron, from Debir, from Anab, and from all the hill country of Judah, and from all the hill country of Israel; Joshua utterly destroyed them with their cities.
22: There was none of the Anakim left in the land of the people of Israel; only in Gaza, in Gath, and in Ashdod, did some remain.
23: So Joshua took the whole land, according to all that the LORD had spoken to Moses; and Joshua gave it for an inheritance to Israel according to their tribal allotments. And the land had rest from war.


Chapter 12
Joshua, chapter 12


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1: Now these are the kings of the land, whom the people of Israel defeated, and took possession of their land beyond the Jordan toward the sunrising, from the valley of the Arnon to Mount Hermon, with all the Arabah eastward:
2: Sihon king of the Amorites who dwelt at Heshbon, and ruled from Aro'er, which is on the edge of the valley of the Arnon, and from the middle of the valley as far as the river Jabbok, the boundary of the Ammonites, that is, half of Gilead,
3: and the Arabah to the Sea of Chin'neroth eastward, and in the direction of Beth-jesh'imoth, to the sea of the Arabah, the Salt Sea, southward to the foot of the slopes of Pisgah;
4: and Og king of Bashan, one of the remnant of the Reph'aim, who dwelt at Ash'taroth and at Ed're-i
5: and ruled over Mount Hermon and Sal'ecah and all Bashan to the boundary of the Gesh'urites and the Ma-ac'athites, and over half of Gilead to the boundary of Sihon king of Heshbon.
6: Moses, the servant of the LORD, and the people of Israel defeated them; and Moses the servant of the LORD gave their land for a possession to the Reubenites and the Gadites and the half-tribe of Manas'seh.
7: And these are the kings of the land whom Joshua and the people of Israel defeated on the west side of the Jordan, from Ba'al-gad in the valley of Lebanon to Mount Halak, that rises toward Se'ir (and Joshua gave their land to the tribes of Israel as a possession according to their allotments,
8: in the hill country, in the lowland, in the Arabah, in the slopes, in the wilderness, and in the Negeb, the land of the Hittites, the Amorites, the Canaanites, the Per'izzites, the Hivites, and the Jeb'usites):
9: the king of Jericho, one; the king of Ai, which is beside Bethel, one;
10: the king of Jerusalem, one; the king of Hebron, one;
11: the king of Jarmuth, one; the king of Lachish, one;
12: the king of Eglon, one; the king of Gezer, one;
13: the king of Debir, one; the king of Geder, one;
14: the king of Hormah, one; the king of Arad, one;
15: the king of Libnah, one; the king of Adullam, one;
16: the king of Makke'dah, one; the king of Bethel, one;
17: the king of Tap'puah, one; the king of Hepher, one;
18: the king of Aphek, one; the king of Lashar'on, one;
19: the king of Madon, one; the king of Hazor, one;
20: the king of Shim'ron-me'ron, one; the king of Ach'shaph, one;
21: the king of Ta'anach, one; the king of Megid'do, one;
22: the king of Kedesh, one; the king of Jok'ne-am in Carmel, one;
23: the king of Dor in Naphath-dor, one; the king of Goi'im in Galilee, one;
24: the king of Tirzah, one: in all, thirty-one kings.


Chapter 13
Joshua, chapter 13


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1: Now Joshua was old and advanced in years; and the LORD said to him, "You are old and advanced in years, and there remains yet very much land to be possessed.
2: This is the land that yet remains: all the regions of the Philistines, and all those of the Gesh'urites
3: (from the Shihor, which is east of Egypt, northward to the boundary of Ekron, it is reckoned as Canaanite; there are five rulers of the Philistines, those of Gaza, Ashdod, Ash'kelon, Gath, and Ekron), and those of the Avvim,
4: in the south, all the land of the Canaanites, and Mear'ah which belongs to the Sido'nians, to Aphek, to the boundary of the Amorites,
5: and the land of the Geb'alites, and all Lebanon, toward the sunrising, from Ba'al-gad below Mount Hermon to the entrance of Hamath,
6: all the inhabitants of the hill country from Lebanon to Mis'rephoth-ma'im, even all the Sido'nians. I will myself drive them out from before the people of Israel; only allot the land to Israel for an inheritance, as I have commanded you.
7: Now therefore divide this land for an inheritance to the nine tribes and half the tribe of Manas'seh."
8: With the other half of the tribe of Manas'seh the Reubenites and the Gadites received their inheritance, which Moses gave them, beyond the Jordan eastward, as Moses the servant of the LORD gave them:
9: from Aro'er, which is on the edge of the valley of the Arnon, and the city that is in the middle of the valley, and all the tableland of Med'eba as far as Dibon;
10: and all the cities of Sihon king of the Amorites, who reigned in Heshbon, as far as the boundary of the Ammonites;
11: and Gilead, and the region of the Gesh'urites and Ma-ac'athites, and all Mount Hermon, and all Bashan to Sal'ecah;
12: all the kingdom of Og in Bashan, who reigned in Ash'taroth and in Ed're-i (he alone was left of the remnant of the Reph'aim); these Moses had defeated and driven out.
13: Yet the people of Israel did not drive out the Gesh'urites or the Ma-ac'athites; but Geshur and Ma'acath dwell in the midst of Israel to this day.
14: To the tribe of Levi alone Moses gave no inheritance; the offerings by fire to the LORD God of Israel are their inheritance, as he said to him.
15: And Moses gave an inheritance to the tribe of the Reubenites according to their families.
16: So their territory was from Aro'er, which is on the edge of the valley of the Arnon, and the city that is in the middle of the valley, and all the tableland by Med'eba;
17: with Heshbon, and all its cities that are in the tableland; Dibon, and Ba'moth-ba'al, and Beth-ba'al-me'on,
18: and Jahaz, and Ked'emoth, and Meph'aath,
19: and Kir'iatha'im, and Sibmah, and Zer'eth-sha'har on the hill of the valley,
20: and Beth-pe'or, and the slopes of Pisgah, and Beth-jesh'imoth,
21: that is, all the cities of the tableland, and all the kingdom of Sihon king of the Amorites, who reigned in Heshbon, whom Moses defeated with the leaders of Mid'ian, Evi and Rekem and Zur and Hur and Reba, the princes of Sihon, who dwelt in the land.
22: Balaam also, the son of Be'or, the soothsayer, the people of Israel killed with the sword among the rest of their slain.
23: And the border of the people of Reuben was the Jordan as a boundary. This was the inheritance of the Reubenites, according to their families with their cities and villages.
24: And Moses gave an inheritance also to the tribe of the Gadites, according to their families.
25: Their territory was Jazer, and all the cities of Gilead, and half the land of the Ammonites, to Aro'er, which is east of Rabbah,
26: and from Heshbon to Ra'math-miz'peh and Bet'onim, and from Mahana'im to the territory of Debir,
27: and in the valley Beth-ha'ram, Beth-nim'rah, Succoth, and Zaphon, the rest of the kingdom of Sihon king of Heshbon, having the Jordan as a boundary, to the lower end of the Sea of Chin'nereth, eastward beyond the Jordan.
28: This is the inheritance of the Gadites according to their families, with their cities and villages.
29: And Moses gave an inheritance to the half-tribe of Manas'seh; it was allotted to the half-tribe of the Manas'sites according to their families.
30: Their region extended from Mahana'im, through all Bashan, the whole kingdom of Og king of Bashan, and all the towns of Ja'ir, which are in Bashan, sixty cities,
31: and half Gilead, and Ash'taroth, and Ed're-i, the cities of the kingdom of Og in Bashan; these were allotted to the people of Machir the son of Manas'seh for the half of the Machirites according to their families.
32: These are the inheritances which Moses distributed in the plains of Moab, beyond the Jordan east of Jericho.
33: But to the tribe of Levi Moses gave no inheritance; the LORD God of Israel is their inheritance, as he said to them.


Chapter 14
Joshua, chapter 14


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1: And these are the inheritances which the people of Israel received in the land of Canaan, which Elea'zar the priest, and Joshua the son of Nun, and the heads of the fathers' houses of the tribes of the people of Israel distributed to them.
2: Their inheritance was by lot, as the LORD had commanded Moses for the nine and one-half tribes.
3: For Moses had given an inheritance to the two and one-half tribes beyond the Jordan; but to the Levites he gave no inheritance among them.
4: For the people of Joseph were two tribes, Manas'seh and E'phraim; and no portion was given to the Levites in the land, but only cities to dwell in, with their pasture lands for their cattle and their substance.
5: The people of Israel did as the LORD commanded Moses; they allotted the land.
6: Then the people of Judah came to Joshua at Gilgal; and Caleb the son of Jephun'neh the Ken'izzite said to him, "You know what the LORD said to Moses the man of God in Ka'desh-bar'nea concerning you and me.
7: I was forty years old when Moses the servant of the LORD sent me from Ka'desh-bar'nea to spy out the land; and I brought him word again as it was in my heart.
8: But my brethren who went up with me made the heart of the people melt; yet I wholly followed the LORD my God.
9: And Moses swore on that day, saying, `Surely the land on which your foot has trodden shall be an inheritance for you and your children for ever, because you have wholly followed the LORD my God.'
10: And now, behold, the LORD has kept me alive, as he said, these forty-five years since the time that the LORD spoke this word to Moses, while Israel walked in the wilderness; and now, lo, I am this day eighty-five years old.
11: I am still as strong to this day as I was in the day that Moses sent me; my strength now is as my strength was then, for war, and for going and coming.
12: So now give me this hill country of which the LORD spoke on that day; for you heard on that day how the Anakim were there, with great fortified cities: it may be that the LORD will be with me, and I shall drive them out as the LORD said."
13: Then Joshua blessed him; and he gave Hebron to Caleb the son of Jephun'neh for an inheritance.
14: So Hebron became the inheritance of Caleb the son of Jephun'neh the Ken'izzite to this day, because he wholly followed the LORD, the God of Israel.
15: Now the name of Hebron formerly was Kir'iath-ar'ba; this Arba was the greatest man among the Anakim. And the land had rest from war.


Chapter 15
Joshua, chapter 15


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1: The lot for the tribe of the people of Judah according to their families reached southward to the boundary of Edom, to the wilderness of Zin at the farthest south.
2: And their south boundary ran from the end of the Salt Sea, from the bay that faces southward;
3: it goes out southward of the ascent of Akrab'bim, passes along to Zin, and goes up south of Ka'desh-bar'nea, along by Hezron, up to Addar, turns about to Karka,
4: passes along to Azmon, goes out by the Brook of Egypt, and comes to its end at the sea. This shall be your south boundary.
5: And the east boundary is the Salt Sea, to the mouth of the Jordan. And the boundary on the north side runs from the bay of the sea at the mouth of the Jordan;
6: and the boundary goes up to Beth-hoglah, and passes along north of Beth-arabah; and the boundary goes up to the stone of Bohan the son of Reuben;
7: and the boundary goes up to Debir from the Valley of Achor, and so northward, turning toward Gilgal, which is opposite the ascent of Adum'mim, which is on the south side of the valley; and the boundary passes along to the waters of En-she'mesh, and ends at En-ro'gel;
8: then the boundary goes up by the valley of the son of Hinnom at the southern shoulder of the Jeb'usite (that is, Jerusalem); and the boundary goes up to the top of the mountain that lies over against the valley of Hinnom, on the west, at the northern end of the valley of Reph'aim;
9: then the boundary extends from the top of the mountain to the spring of the Waters of Nephto'ah, and from there to the cities of Mount Ephron; then the boundary bends round to Ba'alah (that is, Kir'iath-je'arim);
10: and the boundary circles west of Ba'alah to Mount Se'ir, passes along to the northern shoulder of Mount Je'arim (that is, Ches'alon), and goes down to Beth-she'mesh, and passes along by Timnah;
11: the boundary goes out to the shoulder of the hill north of Ekron, then the boundary bends round to Shik'keron, and passes along to Mount Ba'alah, and goes out to Jabneel; then the boundary comes to an end at the sea.
12: And the west boundary was the Great Sea with its coast-line. This is the boundary round about the people of Judah according to their families.
13: According to the commandment of the LORD to Joshua, he gave to Caleb the son of Jephun'neh a portion among the people of Judah, Kir'iath-ar'ba, that is, Hebron (Arba was the father of Anak).
14: And Caleb drove out from there the three sons of Anak, She'shai and Ahi'man and Talmai, the descendants of Anak.
15: And he went up from there against the inhabitants of Debir; now the name of Debir formerly was Kir'iath-se'pher.
16: And Caleb said, "Whoever smites Kir'iath-se'pher, and takes it, to him will I give Achsah my daughter as wife."
17: And Oth'ni-el the son of Kenaz, the brother of Caleb, took it; and he gave him Achsah his daughter as wife.
18: When she came to him, she urged him to ask her father for a field; and she alighted from her ass, and Caleb said to her, "What do you wish?"
19: She said to him, "Give me a present; since you have set me in the land of the Negeb, give me also springs of water." And Caleb gave her the upper springs and the lower springs.
20: This is the inheritance of the tribe of the people of Judah according to their families.
21: The cities belonging to the tribe of the people of Judah in the extreme South, toward the boundary of Edom, were Kabzeel, Eder, Jagur,
22: Kinah, Dimo'nah, Ada'dah,
23: Kedesh, Hazor, Ithnan,
24: Ziph, Telem, Be-a'loth,
25: Ha'zor-hadat'tah, Ker'i-oth-hezron (that is, Hazor),
26: Amam, Shema, Mola'dah,
27: Ha'zar-gad'dah, Heshmon, Beth-pel'et,
28: Hazar-shu'al, Beer-sheba, Biziothi'ah,
29: Ba'alah, I'im, Ezem,
30: Elto'lad, Chesil, Hormah,
31: Ziklag, Madman'nah, Sansan'nah,
32: Leba'oth, Shilhim, A'in, and Rimmon: in all, twenty-nine cities, with their villages.
33: And in the lowland, Eshta'ol, Zorah, Ashnah,
34: Zano'ah, En-gan'nim, Tap'puah, Enam,
35: Jarmuth, Adullam, Socoh, Aze'kah,
36: Shaara'im, Aditha'im, Gede'rah, Gederotha'im: fourteen cities with their villages.
37: Zenan, Hadash'ah, Mig'dal-gad,
38: Di'lean, Mizpeh, Jok'theel,
39: Lachish, Bozkath, Eglon,
40: Cabbon, Lahmam, Chitlish,
41: Gede'roth, Beth-da'gon, Na'amah, and Makke'dah: sixteen cities with their villages.
42: Libnah, Ether, Ashan,
43: Iphtah, Ashnah, Nezib,
44: Kei'lah, Achzib, and Mare'shah: nine cities with their villages.
45: Ekron, with its towns and its villages;
46: from Ekron to the sea, all that were by the side of Ashdod, with their villages.
47: Ashdod, its towns and its villages; Gaza, its towns and its villages; to the Brook of Egypt, and the Great Sea with its coast-line.
48: And in the hill country, Shamir, Jattir, Socoh,
49: Dannah, Kir'iath-san'nah (that is, Debir),
50: Anab, Esh'temoh, Anim,
51: Goshen, Holon, and Giloh: eleven cities with their villages.
52: Arab, Dumah, Eshan,
53: Janim, Beth-tap'puah, Aphe'kah,
54: Humtah, Kir'iath-ar'ba (that is, Hebron), and Zi'or: nine cities with their villages.
55: Ma'on, Carmel, Ziph, Juttah,
56: Jezreel, Jok'de-am, Zano'ah,
57: Kain, Gib'e-ah, and Timnah: ten cities with their villages.
58: Halhul, Beth-zur, Gedor,
59: Ma'arath, Beth-ano

that was my quote.
and murder of non combatants is bad enough.
Trying to lick it clean is something else.

your boyz were a little late on cue for the spam there, Mr. 'goated Jew.
Your timing needs refinement.
Don't like the discussion to center back on the murder by the IDF
Could be?

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Chapter 1
The Book of Job, chapter 1


Compare with King James Version: BJob.01




1: There was a man in the land of Uz, whose name was Job; and that man was blameless and upright, one who feared God, and turned away from evil.
2: There were born to him seven sons and three daughters.
3: He had seven thousand sheep, three thousand camels, five hundred yoke of oxen, and five hundred she-asses, and very many servants; so that this man was the greatest of all the people of the east.
4: His sons used to go and hold a feast in the house of each on his day; and they would send and invite their three sisters to eat and drink with them.
5: And when the days of the feast had run their course, Job would send and sanctify them, and he would rise early in the morning and offer burnt offerings according to the number of them all; for Job said, "It may be that my sons have sinned, and cursed God in their hearts." Thus Job did continually.
6: Now there was a day when the sons of God came to present themselves before the LORD, and Satan also came among them.
7: The LORD said to Satan, "Whence have you come?" Satan answered the LORD, "From going to and fro on the earth, and from walking up and down on it."
8: And the LORD said to Satan, "Have you considered my servant Job, that there is none like him on the earth, a blameless and upright man, who fears God and turns away from evil?"
9: Then Satan answered the LORD, "Does Job fear God for nought?
10: Hast thou not put a hedge about him and his house and all that he has, on every side? Thou hast blessed the work of his hands, and his possessions have increased in the land.
11: But put forth thy hand now, and touch all that he has, and he will curse thee to thy face."
12: And the LORD said to Satan, "Behold, all that he has is in your power; only upon himself do not put forth your hand." So Satan went forth from the presence of the LORD.
13: Now there was a day when his sons and daughters were eating and drinking wine in their eldest brother's house;
14: and there came a messenger to Job, and said, "The oxen were plowing and the asses feeding beside them;
15: and the Sabe'ans fell upon them and took them, and slew the servants with the edge of the sword; and I alone have escaped to tell you."
16: While he was yet speaking, there came another, and said, "The fire of God fell from heaven and burned up the sheep and the servants, and consumed them; and I alone have escaped to tell you."
17: While he was yet speaking, there came another, and said, "The Chalde'ans formed three companies, and made a raid upon the camels and took them, and slew the servants with the edge of the sword; and I alone have escaped to tell you."
18: While he was yet speaking, there came another, and said, "Your sons and daughters were eating and drinking wine in their eldest brother's house;
19: and behold, a great wind came across the wilderness, and struck the four corners of the house, and it fell upon the young people, and they are dead; and I alone have escaped to tell you."
20: Then Job arose, and rent his robe, and shaved his head, and fell upon the ground, and worshiped.
21: And he said, "Naked I came from my mother's womb, and naked shall I return; the LORD gave, and the LORD has taken away; blessed be the name of the LORD."
22: In all this Job did not sin or charge God with wrong.


Chapter 2
The Book of Job, chapter 2


Compare with King James Version: BJob.02




1: Again there was a day when the sons of God came to present themselves before the LORD, and Satan also came among them to present himself before the LORD.
2: And the LORD said to Satan, "Whence have you come?" Satan answered the LORD, "From going to and fro on the earth, and from walking up and down on it."
3: And the LORD said to Satan, "Have you considered my servant Job, that there is none like him on the earth, a blameless and upright man, who fears God and turns away from evil? He still holds fast his integrity, although you moved me against him, to destroy him without cause."
4: Then Satan answered the LORD, "Skin for skin! All that a man has he will give for his life.
5: But put forth thy hand now, and touch his bone and his flesh, and he will curse thee to thy face."
6: And the LORD said to Satan, "Behold, he is in your power; only spare his life."
7: So Satan went forth from the presence of the LORD, and afflicted Job with loathsome sores from the sole of his foot to the crown of his head.
8: And he took a potsherd with which to scrape himself, and sat among the ashes.
9: Then his wife said to him, "Do you still hold fast your integrity? Curse God, and die."
10: But he said to her, "You speak as one of the foolish women would speak. Shall we receive good at the hand of God, and shall we not receive evil?" In all this Job did not sin with his lips.
11: Now when Job's three friends heard of all this evil that had come upon him, they came each from his own place, Eli'phaz the Te'manite, Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Na'amathite. They made an appointment together to come to condole with him and comfort him.
12: And when they saw him from afar, they did not recognize him; and they raised their voices and wept; and they rent their robes and sprinkled dust upon their heads toward heaven.
13: And they sat with him on the ground seven days and seven nights, and no one spoke a word to him, for they saw that his suffering was very great.


Chapter 3
The Book of Job, chapter 3


Compare with King James Version: BJob.03




1: After this Job opened his mouth and cursed the day of his birth.
2: And Job said:
3: "Let the day perish wherein I was born, and the night which said, `A man-child is conceived.'
4: Let that day be darkness! May God above not seek it, nor light shine upon it.
5: Let gloom and deep darkness claim it. Let clouds dwell upon it; let the blackness of the day terrify it.
6: That night -- let thick darkness seize it! let it not rejoice among the days of the year, let it not come into the number of the months.
7: Yea, let that night be barren; let no joyful cry be heard in it.
8: Let those curse it who curse the day, who are skilled to rouse up Levi'athan.
9: Let the stars of its dawn be dark; let it hope for light, but have none, nor see the eyelids of the morning;
10: because it did not shut the doors of my mother's womb, nor hide trouble from my eyes.
11: "Why did I not die at birth, come forth from the womb and expire?
12: Why did the knees receive me? Or why the breasts, that I should suck?
13: For then I should have lain down and been quiet; I should have slept; then I should have been at rest,
14: with kings and counselors of the earth who rebuilt ruins for themselves,
15: or with princes who had gold, who filled their houses with silver.
16: Or why was I not as a hidden untimely birth, as infants that never see the light?
17: There the wicked cease from troubling, and there the weary are at rest.
18: There the prisoners are at ease together; they hear not the voice of the taskmaster.
19: The small and the great are there, and the slave is free from his master.
20: "Why is light given to him that is in misery, and life to the bitter in soul,
21: who long for death, but it comes not, and dig for it more than for hid treasures;
22: who rejoice exceedingly, and are glad, when they find the grave?
23: Why is light given to a man whose way is hid, whom God has hedged in?
24: For my sighing comes as my bread, and my groanings are poured out like water.
25: For the thing that I fear comes upon me, and what I dread befalls me.
26: I am not at ease, nor am I quiet; I have no rest; but trouble comes."


Chapter 4
The Book of Job, chapter 4


Compare with King James Version: BJob.04




1: Then Eli'phaz the Te'manite answered:
2: "If one ventures a word with you, will you be offended? Yet who can keep from speaking?
3: Behold, you have instructed many, and you have strengthened the weak hands.
4: Your words have upheld him who was stumbling, and you have made firm the feeble knees.
5: But now it has come to you, and you are impatient; it touches you, and you are dismayed.
6: Is not your fear of God your confidence, and the integrity of your ways your hope?
7: "Think now, who that was innocent ever perished? Or where were the upright cut off?
8: As I have seen, those who plow iniquity and sow trouble reap the same.
9: By the breath of God they perish, and by the blast of his anger they are consumed.
10: The roar of the lion, the voice of the fierce lion, the teeth of the young lions, are broken.
11: The strong lion perishes for lack of prey, and the whelps of the lioness are scattered.
12: "Now a word was brought to me stealthily, my ear received the whisper of it.
13: Amid thoughts from visions of the night, when deep sleep falls on men,
14: dread came upon me, and trembling, which made all my bones shake.
15: A spirit glided past my face; the hair of my flesh stood up.
16: It stood still, but I could not discern its appearance. A form was before my eyes; there was silence, then I heard a voice:
17: `Can mortal man be righteous before God? Can a man be pure before his Maker?
18: Even in his servants he puts no trust, and his angels he charges with error;
19: how much more those who dwell in houses of clay, whose foundation is in the dust, who are crushed before the moth.
20: Between morning and evening they are destroyed; they perish for ever without any regarding it.
21: If their tent-cord is plucked up within them, do they not die, and that without wisdom?'


Chapter 5
The Book of Job, chapter 5


Compare with King James Version: BJob.05




1: "Call now; is there any one who will answer you? To which of the holy ones will you turn?
2: Surely vexation kills the fool, and jealousy slays the simple.
3: I have seen the fool taking root, but suddenly I cursed his dwelling.
4: His sons are far from safety, they are crushed in the gate, and there is no one to deliver them.
5: His harvest the hungry eat, and he takes it even out of thorns; and the thirsty pant after his wealth.
6: For affliction does not come from the dust, nor does trouble sprout from the ground;
7: but man is born to trouble as the sparks fly upward.
8: "As for me, I would seek God, and to God would I commit my cause;
9: who does great things and unsearchable, marvelous things without number:
10: he gives rain upon the earth and sends waters upon the fields;
11: he sets on high those who are lowly, and those who mourn are lifted to safety.
12: He frustrates the devices of the crafty, so that their hands achieve no success.
13: He takes the wise in their own craftiness; and the schemes of the wily are brought to a quick end.
14: They meet with darkness in the daytime, and grope at noonday as in the night.
15: But he saves the fatherless from their mouth, the needy from the hand of the mighty.
16: So the poor have hope, and injustice shuts her mouth.
17: "Behold, happy is the man whom God reproves; therefore despise not the chastening of the Almighty.
18: For he wounds, but he binds up; he smites, but his hands heal.
19: He will deliver you from six troubles; in seven there shall no evil touch you.
20: In famine he will redeem you from death, and in war from the power of the sword.
21: You shall be hid from the scourge of the tongue, and shall not fear destruction when it comes.
22: At destruction and famine you shall laugh, and shall not fear the beasts of the earth.
23: For you shall be in league with the stones of the field, and the beasts of the field shall be at peace with you.
24: You shall know that your tent is safe, and you shall inspect your fold and miss nothing.
25: You shall know also that your descendants shall be many, and your offspring as the grass of the earth.
26: You shall come to your grave in ripe old age, as a shock of grain comes up to the threshing floor in its season.
27: Lo, this we have searched out; it is true. Hear, and know it for your good."


Chapter 6
The Book of Job, chapter 6


Compare with King James Version: BJob.06




1: Then Job answered:
2: "O that my vexation were weighed, and all my calamity laid in the balances!
3: For then it would be heavier than the sand of the sea; therefore my words have been rash.
4: For the arrows of the Almighty are in me; my spirit drinks their poison; the terrors of God are arrayed against me.
5: Does the wild ass bray when he has grass, or the ox low over his fodder?
6: Can that which is tasteless be eaten without salt, or is there any taste in the slime of the purslane?
7: My appetite refuses to touch them; they are as food that is loathsome to me.
8: "O that I might have my request, and that God would grant my desire;
9: that it would please God to crush me, that he would let loose his hand and cut me off!
10: This would be my consolation; I would even exult in pain unsparing; for I have not denied the words of the Holy One.
11: What is my strength, that I should wait? And what is my end, that I should be patient?
12: Is my strength the strength of stones, or is my flesh bronze?
13: In truth I have no help in me, and any resource is driven from me.
14: "He who withholds kindness from a friend forsakes the fear of the Almighty.
15: My brethren are treacherous as a torrent-bed, as freshets that pass away,
16: which are dark with ice, and where the snow hides itself.
17: In time of heat they disappear; when it is hot, they vanish from their place.
18: The caravans turn aside from their course; they go up into the waste, and perish.
19: The caravans of Tema look, the travelers of Sheba hope.
20: They are disappointed because they were confident; they come thither and are confounded.
21: Such you have now become to me; you see my calamity, and are afraid.
22: Have I said, `Make me a gift'? Or, `From your wealth offer a bribe for me'?
23: Or, `Deliver me from the adversary's hand'? Or, `Ransom me from the hand of oppressors'?
24: "Teach me, and I will be silent; make me understand how I have erred.
25: How forceful are honest words! But what does reproof from you reprove?
26: Do you think that you can reprove words, when the speech of a despairing man is wind?
27: You would even cast lots over the fatherless, and bargain over your friend.
28: "But now, be pleased to look at me; for I will not lie to your face.
29: Turn, I pray, let no wrong be done. Turn now, my vindication is at stake.
30: Is there any wrong on my tongue? Cannot my taste discern calamity?


Chapter 7
The Book of Job, chapter 7


Compare with King James Version: BJob.07




1: "Has not man a hard service upon earth, and are not his days like the days of a hireling?
2: Like a slave who longs for the shadow, and like a hireling who looks for his wages,
3: so I am allotted months of emptiness, and nights of misery are apportioned to me.
4: When I lie down I say, `When shall I arise?' But the night is long, and I am full of tossing till the dawn.
5: My flesh is clothed with worms and dirt; my skin hardens, then breaks out afresh.
6: My days are swifter than a weaver's shuttle, and come to their end without hope.
7: "Remember that my life is a breath; my eye will never again see good.
8: The eye of him who sees me will behold me no more; while thy eyes are upon me, I shall be gone.
9: As the cloud fades and vanishes, so he who goes down to Sheol does not come up;
10: he returns no more to his house, nor does his place know him any more.
11: "Therefore I will not restrain my mouth; I will speak in the anguish of my spirit; I will complain in the bitterness of my soul.
12: Am I the sea, or a sea monster, that thou settest a guard over me?
13: When I say, `My bed will comfort me, my couch will ease my complaint,'
14: then thou dost scare me with dreams and terrify me with visions,
15: so that I would choose strangling and death rather than my bones.
16: I loathe my life; I would not live for ever. Let me alone, for my days are a breath.
17: What is man, that thou dost make so much of him, and that thou dost set thy mind upon him,
18: dost visit him every morning, and test him every moment?
19: How long wilt thou not look away from me, nor let me alone till I swallow my spittle?
20: If I sin, what do I do to thee, thou watcher of men? Why hast thou made me thy mark? Why have I become a burden to thee?
21: Why dost thou not pardon my transgression and take away my iniquity? For now I shall lie in the earth; thou wilt seek me, but I shall not be."


Chapter 8
The Book of Job, chapter 8


Compare with King James Version: BJob.08




1: Then Bildad the Shuhite answered:
2: "How long will you say these things, and the words of your mouth be a great wind?
3: Does God pervert justice? Or does the Almighty pervert the right?
4: If your children have sinned against him, he has delivered them into the power of their transgression.
5: If you will seek God and make supplication to the Almighty,
6: if you are pure and upright, surely then he will rouse himself for you and reward you with a rightful habitation.
7: And though your beginning was small, your latter days will be very great.
8: "For inquire, I pray you, of bygone ages, and consider what the fathers have found;
9: for we are but of yesterday, and know nothing, for our days on earth are a shadow.
10: Will they not teach you, and tell you, and utter words out of their understanding?
11: "Can papyrus grow where there is no marsh? Can reeds flourish where there is no water?
12: While yet in flower and not cut down, they wither before any other plant.
13: Such are the paths of all who forget God; the hope of the godless man shall perish.
14: His confidence breaks in sunder, and his trust is a spider's web.
15: He leans against his house, but it does not stand; he lays hold of it, but it does not endure.
16: He thrives before the sun, and his shoots spread over his garden.
17: His roots twine about the stoneheap; he lives among the rocks.
18: If he is destroyed from his place, then it will deny him, saying, `I have never seen you.'
19: Behold, this is the joy of his way; and out of the earth others will spring.
20: "Behold, God will not reject a blameless man, nor take the hand of evildoers.
21: He will yet fill your mouth with laughter, and your lips with shouting.
22: Those who hate you will be clothed with shame, and the tent of the wicked will be no more."


Chapter 9
The Book of Job, chapter 9


Compare with King James Version: BJob.09




1: Then Job answered:
2: "Truly I know that it is so: But how can a man be just before God?
3: If one wished to contend with him, one could not answer him once in a thousand times.
4: He is wise in heart, and mighty in strength -- who has hardened himself against him, and succeeded? --
5: he who removes mountains, and they know it not, when he overturns them in his anger;
6: who shakes the earth out of its place, and its pillars tremble;
7: who commands the sun, and it does not rise; who seals up the stars;
8: who alone stretched out the heavens, and trampled the waves of the sea;
9: who made the Bear and Orion, the Plei'ades and the chambers of the south;
10: who does great things beyond understanding, and marvelous things without number.
11: Lo, he passes by me, and I see him not; he moves on, but I do not perceive him.
12: Behold, he snatches away; who can hinder him? Who will say to him, `What doest thou'?
13: "God will not turn back his anger; beneath him bowed the helpers of Rahab.
14: How then can I answer him, choosing my words with him?
15: Though I am innocent, I cannot answer him; I must appeal for mercy to my accuser.
16: If I summoned him and he answered me, I would not believe that he was listening to my voice.
17: For he crushes me with a tempest, and multiplies my wounds without cause;
18: he will not let me get my breath, but fills me with bitterness.
19: If it is a contest of strength, behold him! If it is a matter of justice, who can summon him?
20: Though I am innocent, my own mouth would condemn me; though I am blameless, he would prove me perverse.
21: I am blameless; I regard not myself; I loathe my life.
22: It is all one; therefore I say, he destroys both the blameless and the wicked.
23: When disaster brings sudden death, he mocks at the calamity of the innocent.
24: The earth is given into the hand of the wicked; he covers the faces of its judges -- if it is not he, who then is it?
25: "My days are swifter than a runner; they flee away, they see no good.
26: They go by like skiffs of reed, like an eagle swooping on the prey.
27: If I say, `I will forget my complaint, I will put off my sad countenance, and be of good cheer,'
28: I become afraid of all my suffering, for I know thou wilt not hold me innocent.
29: I shall be condemned; why then do I labor in vain?
30: If I wash myself with snow, and cleanse my hands with lye,
31: yet thou wilt plunge me into a pit, and my own clothes will abhor me.
32: For he is not a man, as I am, that I might answer him, that we should come to trial together.
33: There is no umpire between us, who might lay his hand upon us both.
34: Let him take his rod away from me, and let not dread of him terrify me.
35: Then I would speak without fear of him, for I am not so in myself.


Chapter 10
The Book of Job, chapter 10


Compare with King James Version: BJob.10




1: "I loathe my life; I will give free utterance to my complaint; I will speak in the bitterness of my soul.
2: I will say to God, Do not condemn me; let me know why thou dost contend against me.
3: Does it seem good to thee to oppress, to despise the work of thy hands and favor the designs of the wicked?
4: Hast thou eyes of flesh? Dost thou see as man sees?
5: Are thy days as the days of man, or thy years as man's years,
6: that thou dost seek out my iniquity and search for my sin,
7: although thou knowest that I am not guilty, and there is none to deliver out of thy hand?
8: Thy hands fashioned and made me; and now thou dost turn about and destroy me.
9: Remember that thou hast made me of clay; and wilt thou turn me to dust again?
10: Didst thou not pour me out like milk and curdle me like cheese?
11: Thou didst clothe me with skin and flesh, and knit me together with bones and sinews.
12: Thou hast granted me life and steadfast love; and thy care has preserved my spirit.
13: Yet these things thou didst hide in thy heart; I know that this was thy purpose.
14: If I sin, thou dost mark me, and dost not acquit me of my iniquity.
15: If I am wicked, woe to me! If I am righteous, I cannot lift up my head, for I am filled with disgrace and look upon my affliction.
16: And if I lift myself up, thou dost hunt me like a lion, and again work wonders against me;
17: thou dost renew thy witnesses against me, and increase thy vexation toward me; thou dost bring fresh hosts against me.
18: "Why didst thou bring me forth from the womb? Would that I had died before any eye had seen me,
19: and were as though I had not been, carried from the womb to the grave.
20: Are not the days of my life few? Let me alone, that I may find a little comfort
21: before I go whence I shall not return, to the land of gloom and deep darkness,
22: the land of gloom and chaos, where light is as darkness."


Chapter 11
The Book of Job, chapter 11


Compare with King James Version: BJob.11




1: Then Zophar the Na'amathite answered:
2: "Should a multitude of words go unanswered, and a man full of talk be vindicated?
3: Should your babble silence men, and when you mock, shall no one shame you?
4: For you say, `My doctrine is pure, and I am clean in God's eyes.'
5: But oh, that God would speak, and open his lips to you,
6: and that he would tell you the secrets of wisdom! For he is manifold in understanding. Know then that God exacts of you less than your guilt deserves.
7: "Can you find out the deep things of God? Can you find out the limit of the Almighty?
8: It is higher than heaven -- what can you do? Deeper than Sheol -- what can you know?
9: Its measure is longer than the earth, and broader than the sea.
10: If he passes through, and imprisons, and calls to judgment, who can hinder him?
11: For he knows worthless men; when he sees iniquity, will he not consider it?
12: But a stupid man will get understanding, when a wild ass's colt is born a man.
13: "If you set your heart aright, you will stretch out your hands toward him.
14: If iniquity is in your hand, put it far away, and let not wickedness dwell in your tents.
15: Surely then you will lift up your face without blemish; you will be secure, and will not fear.
16: You will forget your misery; you will remember it as waters that have passed away.
17: And your life will be brighter than the noonday; its darkness will be like the morning.
18: And you will have confidence, because there is hope; you will be protected and take your rest in safety.
19: You will lie down, and none will make you afraid; many will entreat your favor.
20: But the eyes of the wicked will fail; all way of escape will be lost to them, and their hope is to breathe their last."


Chapter 12
The Book of Job, chapter 12


Compare with King James Version: BJob.12




1: Then Job answered:
2: "No doubt you are the people, and wisdom will die with you.
3: But I have understanding as well as you; I am not inferior to you. Who does not know such things as these?
4: I am a laughingstock to my friends; I, who called upon God and he answered me, a just and blameless man, am a laughingstock.
5: In the thought of one who is at ease there is contempt for misfortune; it is ready for those whose feet slip.
6: The tents of robbers are at peace, and those who provoke God are secure, who bring their god in their hand.
7: "But ask the beasts, and they will teach you; the birds of the air, and they will tell you;
8: or the plants of the earth, and they will teach you; and the fish of the sea will declare to you.
9: Who among all these does not know that the hand of the LORD has done this?
10: In his hand is the life of every living thing and the breath of all mankind.
11: Does not the ear try words as the palate tastes food?
12: Wisdom is with the aged, and understanding in length of days.
13: "With God are wisdom and might; he has counsel and understanding.
14: If he tears down, none can rebuild; if he shuts a man in, none can open.
15: If he withholds the waters, they dry up; if he sends them out, they overwhelm the land.
16: With him are strength and wisdom; the deceived and the deceiver are his.
17: He leads counselors away stripped, and judges he makes fools.
18: He looses the bonds of kings, and binds a waistcloth on their loins.
19: He leads priests away stripped, and overthrows the mighty.
20: He deprives of speech those who are trusted, and takes away the discernment of the elders.
21: He pours contempt on princes, and looses the belt of the strong.
22: He uncovers the deeps out of darkness, and brings deep darkness to light.
23: He makes nations great, and he destroys them: he enlarges nations, and leads them away.
24: He takes away understanding from the chiefs of the people of the earth, and makes them wander in a pathless waste.
25: They grope in the dark without light; and he makes them stagger like a drunken man.


Chapter 13
The Book of Job, chapter 13


Compare with King James Version: BJob.13




1: "Lo, my eye has seen all this, my ear has heard and understood it.
2: What you know, I also know; I am not inferior to you.
3: But I would speak to the Almighty, and I desire to argue my case with God.
4: As for you, you whitewash with lies; worthless physicians are you all.
5: Oh that you would keep silent, and it would be your wisdom!
6: Hear now my reasoning, and listen to the pleadings of my lips.
7: Will you speak falsely for God, and speak deceitfully for him?
8: Will you show partiality toward him, will you plead the case for God?
9: Will it be well with you when he searches you out? Or can you deceive him, as one deceives a man?
10: He will surely rebuke you if in secret you show partiality.
11: Will not his majesty terrify you, and the dread of him fall upon you?
12: Your maxims are proverbs of ashes, your defenses are defenses of clay.
13: "Let me have silence, and I will speak, and let come on me what may.
14: I will take my flesh in my teeth, and put my life in my hand.
15: Behold, he will slay me; I have no hope; yet I will defend my ways to his face.
16: This will be my salvation, that a godless man shall not come before him.
17: Listen carefully to my words, and let my declaration be in your ears.
18: Behold, I have prepared my case; I know that I shall be vindicated.
19: Who is there that will contend with me? For then I would be silent and die.
20: Only grant two things to me, then I will not hide myself from thy face:
21: withdraw thy hand far from me, and let not dread of thee terrify me.
22: Then call, and I will answer; or let me speak, and do thou reply to me.
23: How many are my iniquities and my sins? Make me know my transgression and my sin.
24: Why dost thou hide thy face, and count me as thy enemy?
25: Wilt thou frighten a driven leaf and pursue dry chaff?
26: For thou writest bitter things against me, and makest me inherit the iniquities of my youth.
27: Thou puttest my feet in the stocks, and watchest all my paths; thou settest a bound to the soles of my feet.
28: Man wastes away like a rotten thing, like a garment that is moth-eaten.


Chapter 14
The Book of Job, chapter 14


Compare with King James Version: BJob.14




1: "Man that is born of a woman is of few days, and full of trouble.
2: He comes forth like a flower, and withers; he flees like a shadow, and continues not.
3: And dost thou open thy eyes upon such a one and bring him into judgment with thee?
4: Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean? There is not one.
5: Since his days are determined, and the number of his months is with thee, and thou hast appointed his bounds that he cannot pass,
6: look away from him, and desist, that he may enjoy, like a hireling, his day.
7: "For there is hope for a tree, if it be cut down, that it will sprout again, and that its shoots will not cease.
8: Though its root grow old in the earth, and its stump die in the ground,
9: yet at the scent of water it will bud and put forth branches like a young plant.
10: But man dies, and is laid low; man breathes his last, and where is he?
11: As waters fail from a lake, and a river wastes away and dries up,
12: so man lies down and rises not again; till the heavens are no more he will not awake, or be roused out of his sleep.
13: Oh that thou wouldest hide me in Sheol, that thou wouldest conceal me until thy wrath be past, that thou wouldest appoint me a set time, and remember me!
14: If a man die, shall he live again? All the days of my service I would wait, till my release should come.
15: Thou wouldest call, and I would answer thee; thou wouldest long for the work of thy hands.
16: For then thou wouldest number my steps, thou wouldest not keep watch over my sin;
17: my transgression would be sealed up in a bag, and thou wouldest cover over my iniquity.
18: "But the mountain falls and crumbles away, and the rock is removed from its place;
19: the waters wear away the stones; the torrents wash away the soil of the earth; so thou destroyest the hope of man.
20: Thou prevailest for ever against him, and he passes; thou changest his countenance, and sendest him away.
21: His sons come to honor, and he does not know it; they are brought low, and he perceives it not.
22: He feels only the pain of his own body, and he mourns only for himself."


Chapter 15
The Book of Job, chapter 15


Compare with King James Version: BJob.15




1: Then Eli'phaz the Te'manite answered:
2: "Should a wise man answer with windy knowledge, and fill himself with the east wind?
3: Should he argue in unprofitable talk, or in words with which he can do no good?
4: But you are doing away with the fear of God, and hindering meditation before God.
5: For your iniquity teaches your mouth, and you choose the tongue of the crafty.
6: Your own mouth condemns you, and not I; your own lips testify against you.
7: "Are you the first man that was born? Or were you brought forth before the hills?
8: Have you listened in the council of God? And do you limit wisdom to yourself?
9: What do you know that we do not know? What do you understand that is not clear to us?
10: Both the gray-haired and the aged are among us, older than your father.
11: Are the consolations of God too small for you, or the word that deals gently with you?
12: Why does your heart carry you away, and why do your eyes flash,
13: that you turn your spirit against God, and let such words go out of your mouth?
14: What is man, that he can be clean? Or he that is born of a woman, that he can be righteous?
15: Behold, God puts no trust in his holy ones, and the heavens are not clean in his sight;
16: how much less one who is abominable and corrupt, a man who drinks iniquity like water!
17: "I will show you, hear me; and what I have seen I will declare
18: (what wise men have told, and their fathers have not hidden,
19: to whom alone the land was given, and no stranger passed among them).
20: The wicked man writhes in pain all his days, through all the years that are laid up for the ruthless.
21: Terrifying sounds are in his ears; in prosperity the destroyer will come upon him.
22: He does not believe that he will return out of darkness, and he is destined for the sword.
23: He wanders abroad for bread, saying, `Where is it?' He knows that a day of darkness is ready at his hand;
24: distress and anguish terrify him; they prevail against him, like a king prepared for battle.
25: Because he has stretched forth his hand against God, and bids defiance to the Almighty,
26: running stubbornly against him with a thick-bossed shield;
27: because he has covered his face with his fat, and gathered fat upon his loins,
28: and has lived in desolate cities, in houses which no man should inhabit, which were destined to become heaps of ruins;
29: he will not be rich, and his wealth will not endure, nor will he strike root in the earth;
30: he will not escape from darkness; the flame will dry up his shoots, and his blossom will be swept away by the wind.
31: Let him not trust in emptiness, deceiving himself; for emptiness will be his recompense.
32: It will be paid in full before his time, and his branch will not be green.
33: He will shake off his unripe grape, like the vine, and cast off his blossom, like the olive tree.
34: For the company of the godless is barren, and fire consumes the tents of bribery.
35: They conceive mischief and bring forth evil and their heart prepares deceit."


Chapter 16
The Book of Job, chapter 16


Compare with King James Version: BJob.16




1: Then Job answered:
2: "I have heard many such things; miserable comforters are you all.
3: Shall windy words have an end? Or what provokes you that you answer?
4: I also could speak as you do, if you were in my place; I could join words together against you, and shake my head at you.
5: I could strengthen you with my mouth, and the solace of my lips would assuage your pain.
6: "If I speak, my pain is not assuaged, and if I forbear, how much of it leaves me?
7: Surely now God has worn me out; he has made desolate all my company.
8: And he has shriveled me up, which is a witness against me; and my leanness has risen up against me, it testifies to my face.
9: He has torn me in his wrath, and hated me; he has gnashed his teeth at me; my adversary sharpens his eyes against me.
10: Men have gaped at me with their mouth, they have struck me insolently upon the cheek, they mass themselves together against me.
11: God gives me up to the ungodly, and casts me into the hands of the wicked.
12: I was at ease, and he broke me asunder; he seized me by the neck and dashed me to pieces; he set me up as his target,
13: his archers surround me. He slashes open my kidneys, and does not spare; he pours out my gall on the ground.
14: He breaks me with breach upon breach; he runs upon me like a warrior.
15: I have sewed sackcloth upon my skin, and have laid my strength in the dust.
16: My face is red with weeping, and on my eyelids is deep darkness;
17: although there is no violence in my hands, and my prayer is pure.
18: "O earth, cover not my blood, and let my cry find no resting place.
19: Even now, behold, my witness is in heaven, and he that vouches for me is on high.
20: My friends scorn me; my eye pours out tears to God,
21: that he would maintain the right of a man with God, like that of a man with his neighbor.
22: For when a few years have come I shall go the way whence I shall not return.


Chapter 17
The Book of Job, chapter 17


Compare with King James Version: BJob.17




1: My spirit is broken, my days are extinct, the grave is ready for me.
2: Surely there are mockers about me, and my eye dwells on their provocation.
3: "Lay down a pledge for me with thyself; who is there that will give surety for me?
4: Since thou hast closed their minds to understanding, therefore thou wilt not let them triumph.
5: He who informs against his friends to get a share of their property, the eyes of his children will fail.
6: "He has made me a byword of the peoples, and I am one before whom men spit.
7: My eye has grown dim from grief, and all my members are like a shadow.
8: Upright men are appalled at this, and the innocent stirs himself up against the godless.
9: Yet the righteous holds to his way, and he that has clean hands grows stronger and stronger.
10: But you, come on again, all of you, and I shall not find a wise man among you.
11: My days are past, my plans are broken off, the desires of my heart.
12: They make night into day; `The light,' they say, `is near to the darkness.'
13: If I look for Sheol as my house, if I spread my couch in darkness,
14: if I say to the pit, `You are my father,' and to the worm, `My mother,' or `My sister,'
15: where then is my hope? Who will see my hope?
16: Will it go down to the bars of Sheol? Shall we descend together into the dust?"


Chapter 18
The Book of Job, chapter 18


Compare with King James Version: BJob.18




1: Then Bildad the Shuhite answered:
2: "How long will you hunt for words? Consider, and then we will speak.
3: Why are we counted as cattle? Why are we stupid in your sight?
4: You who tear yourself in your anger, shall the earth be forsaken for you, or the rock be removed out of its place?
5: "Yea, the light of the wicked is put out, and the flame of his fire does not shine.
6: The light is dark in his tent, and his lamp above him is put out.
7: His strong steps are shortened and his own schemes throw him down.
8: For he is cast into a net by his own feet, and he walks on a pitfall.
9: A trap seizes him by the heel, a snare lays hold of him.
10: A rope is hid for him in the ground, a trap for him in the path.
11: Terrors frighten him on every side, and chase him at his heels.
12: His strength is hunger-bitten, and calamity is ready for his stumbling.
13: By disease his skin is consumed, the first-born of death consumes his limbs.
14: He is torn from the tent in which he trusted, and is brought to the king of terrors.
15: In his tent dwells that which is none of his; brimstone is scattered upon his habitation.
16: His roots dry up beneath, and his branches wither above.
17: His memory perishes from the earth, and he has no name in the street.
18: He is thrust from light into darkness, and driven out of the world.
19: He has no offspring or descendant among his people, and no survivor where he used to live.
20: They of the west are appalled at his day, and horror seizes them of the east.
21: Surely such are the dwellings of the ungodly, such is the place of him who knows not God."


Chapter 19
The Book of Job, chapter 19


Compare with King James Version: BJob.19




1: Then Job answered:
2: "How long will you torment me, and break me in pieces with words?
3: These ten times you have cast reproach upon me; are you not ashamed to wrong me?
4: And even if it be true that I have erred, my error remains with myself.
5: If indeed you magnify yourselves against me, and make my humiliation an argument against me,
6: know then that God has put me in the wrong, and closed his net about me.
7: Behold, I cry out, `Violence!' but I am not answered; I call aloud, but there is no justice.
8: He has walled up my way, so that I cannot pass, and he has set darkness upon my paths.
9: He has stripped from me my glory, and taken the crown from my head.
10: He breaks me down on every side, and I am gone, and my hope has he pulled up like a tree.
11: He has kindled his wrath against me, and counts me as his adversary.
12: His troops come on together; they have cast up siegeworks against me, and encamp round about my tent.
13: "He has put my brethren far from me, and my acquaintances are wholly estranged from me.
14: My kinsfolk and my close friends have failed me;
15: the guests in my house have forgotten me; my maidservants count me as a stranger; I have become an alien in their eyes.
16: I call to my servant, but he gives me no answer; I must beseech him with my mouth.
17: I am repulsive to my wife, loathsome to the sons of my own mother.
18: Even young children despise me; when I rise they talk against me.
19: All my intimate friends abhor me, and those whom I loved have turned against me.
20: My bones cleave to my skin and to my flesh, and I have escaped by the skin of my teeth.
21: Have pity on me, have pity on me, O you my friends, for the hand of God has touched me!
22: Why do you, like God, pursue me? Why are you not satisfied with my flesh?
23: "Oh that my words were written! Oh that they were inscribed in a book!
24: Oh that with an iron pen and lead they were graven in the rock for ever!
25: For I know that my Redeemer lives, and at last he will stand upon the earth;
26: and after my skin has been thus destroyed, then from my flesh I shall see God,
27: whom I shall see on my side, and my eyes shall behold, and not another. My heart faints within me!
28: If you say, `How we will pursue him!' and, `The root of the matter is found in him';
29: be afraid of the sword, for wrath brings the punishment of the sword, that you may know there is a judgment."


Chapter 20
The Book of Job, chapter 20


Compare with King James Version: BJob.20




1: Then Zophar the Na'amathite answered:
2: "Therefore my thoughts answer me, because of my haste within me.
3: I hear censure which insults me, and out of my understanding a spirit answers me.
4: Do you not know this from of old, since man was placed upon earth,
5: that the exulting of the wicked is short, and the joy of the godless but for a moment?
6: Though his height mount up to the heavens, and his head reach to the clouds,
7: he will perish for ever like his own dung; those who have seen him will say, `Where is he?'
8: He will fly away like a dream, and not be found; he will be chased away like a vision of the night.
9: The eye which saw him will see him no more, nor will his place any more behold him.
10: His children will seek the favor of the poor, and his hands will give back his wealth.
11: His bones are full of youthful vigor, but it will lie down with him in the dust.
12: "Though wickedness is sweet in his mouth, though he hides it under his tongue,
13: though he is loath to let it go, and holds it in his mouth,
14: yet his food is turned in his stomach; it is the gall of asps within him.
15: He swallows down riches and vomits them up again; God casts them out of his belly.
16: He will suck the poison of asps; the tongue of a viper will kill him.
17: He will not look upon the rivers, the streams flowing with honey and curds.
18: He will give back the fruit of his toil, and will not swallow it down; from the profit of his trading he will get no enjoyment.
19: For he has crushed and abandoned the poor, he has seized a house which he did not build.
20: "Because his greed knew no rest, he will not save anything in which he delights.
21: There was nothing left after he had eaten; therefore his prosperity will not endure.
22: In the fulness of his sufficiency he will be in straits; all the force of misery will come upon him.
23: To fill his belly to the full God will send his fierce anger into him, and rain it upon him as his food.
24: He will flee from an iron weapon; a bronze arrow will strike him through.
25: It is drawn forth and comes out of his body, the glittering point comes out of his gall; terrors come upon him.
26: Utter darkness is laid up for his treasures; a fire not blown upon will devour him; what is left in his tent will be consumed.
27: The heavens will reveal his iniquity, and the earth will rise up against him.
28: The possessions of his house will be carried away, dragged off in the day of God's wrath.
29: This is the wicked man's portion from God, the heritage decreed for him by God."


Chapter 21
The Book of Job, chapter 21


Compare with King James Version: BJob.21




1: Then Job answered:
2: "Listen carefully to my words, and let this be your consolation.
3: Bear with me, and I will speak, and after I have spoken, mock on.
4: As for me, is my complaint against man? Why should I not be impatient?
5: Look at me, and be appalled, and lay your hand upon your mouth.
6: When I think of it I am dismayed, and shuddering seizes my flesh.
7: Why do the wicked live, reach old age, and grow mighty in power?
8: Their children are established in their presence, and their offspring before their eyes.
9: Their houses are safe from fear, and no rod of God is upon them.
10: Their bull breeds without fail; their cow calves, and does not cast her calf.
11: They send forth their little ones like a flock, and their children dance.
12: They sing to the tambourine and the lyre, and rejoice to the sound of the pipe.
13: They spend their days in prosperity, and in peace they go down to Sheol.
14: They say to God, `Depart from us! We do not desire the knowledge of thy ways.
15: What is the Almighty, that we should serve him? And what profit do we get if we pray to him?'
16: Behold, is not their prosperity in their hand? The counsel of the wicked is far from me.
17: "How often is it that the lamp of the wicked is put out? That their calamity comes upon them? That God distributes pains in his anger?
18: That they are like straw before the wind, and like chaff that the storm carries away?
19: You say, `God stores up their iniquity for their sons.' Let him recompense it to themselves, that they may know it.
20: Let their own eyes see their destruction, and let them drink of the wrath of the Almighty.
21: For what do they care for their houses after them, when the number of their months is cut off?
22: Will any teach God knowledge, seeing that he judges those that are on high?
23: One dies in full prosperity, being wholly at ease and secure,
24: his body full of fat and the marrow of his bones moist.
25: Another dies in bitterness of soul, never having tasted of good.
26: They lie down alike in the dust, and the worms cover them.
27: "Behold, I know your thoughts, and your schemes to wrong me.
28: For you say, `Where is the house of the prince? Where is the tent in which the wicked dwelt?'
29: Have you not asked those who travel the roads, and do you not accept their testimony
30: that the wicked man is spared in the day of calamity, that he is rescued in the day of wrath?
31: Who declares his way to his face, and who requites him for what he has done?
32: When he is borne to the grave, watch is kept over his tomb.
33: The clods of the valley are sweet to him; all men follow after him, and those who go before him are innumerable.
34: How then will you comfort me with empty nothings? There is nothing left of your answers but falsehood."


Chapter 22
The Book of Job, chapter 22


Compare with King James Version: BJob.22




1: Then Eli'phaz the Te'manite answered:
2: "Can a man be profitable to God? Surely he who is wise is profitable to himself.
3: Is it any pleasure to the Almighty if you are righteous, or is it gain to him if you make your ways blameless?
4: Is it for your fear of him that he reproves you, and enters into judgment with you?
5: Is not your wickedness great? There is no end to your iniquities.
6: For you have exacted pledges of your brothers for nothing, and stripped the naked of their clothing.
7: You have given no water to the weary to drink, and you have withheld bread from the hungry.
8: The man with power possessed the land, and the favored man dwelt in it.
9: You have sent widows away empty, and the arms of the fatherless were crushed.
10: Therefore snares are round about you, and sudden terror overwhelms you;
11: your light is darkened, so that you cannot see, and a flood of water covers you.
12: "Is not God high in the heavens? See the highest stars, how lofty they are!
13: Therefore you say, `What does God know? Can he judge through the deep darkness?
14: Thick clouds enwrap him, so that he does not see, and he walks on the vault of heaven.'
15: Will you keep to the old way which wicked men have trod?
16: They were snatched away before their time; their foundation was washed away.
17: They said to God, `Depart from us,' and `What can the Almighty do to us?'
18: Yet he filled their houses with good things -- but the counsel of the wicked is far from me.
19: The righteous see it and are glad; the innocent laugh them to scorn,
20: saying, `Surely our adversaries are cut off, and what they left the fire has consumed.'
21: "Agree with God, and be at peace; thereby good will come to you.
22: Receive instruction from his mouth, and lay up his words in your heart.
23: If you return to the Almighty and humble yourself, if you remove unrighteousness far from your tents,
24: if you lay gold in the dust, and gold of Ophir among the stones of the torrent bed,
25: and if the Almighty is your gold, and your precious silver;
26: then you will delight yourself in the Almighty, and lift up your face to God.
27: You will make your prayer to him, and he will hear you; and you will pay your vows.
28: You will decide on a matter, and it will be established for you, and light will shine on your ways.
29: For God abases the proud, but he saves the lowly.
30: He delivers the innocent man; you will be delivered through the cleanness of your hands."


Chapter 23
The Book of Job, chapter 23


Compare with King James Version: BJob.23




1: Then Job answered:
2: "Today also my complaint is bitter, his hand is heavy in spite of my groaning.
3: Oh, that I knew where I might find him, that I might come even to his seat!
4: I would lay my case before him and fill my mouth with arguments.
5: I would learn what he would answer me, and understand what he would say to me.
6: Would he contend with me in the greatness of his power? No; he would give heed to me.
7: There an upright man could reason with him, and I should be acquitted for ever by my judge.
8: "Behold, I go forward, but he is not there; and backward, but I cannot perceive him;
9: on the left hand I seek him, but I cannot behold him; I turn to the right hand, but I cannot see him.
10: But he knows the way that I take; when he has tried me, I shall come forth as gold.
11: My foot has held fast to his steps; I have kept his way and have not turned aside.
12: I have not departed from the commandment of his lips; I have treasured in my bosom the words of his mouth.
13: But he is unchangeable and who can turn him? What he desires, that he does.
14: For he will complete what he appoints for me; and many such things are in his mind.
15: Therefore I am terrified at his presence; when I consider, I am in dread of him.
16: God has made my heart faint; the Almighty has terrified me;
17: for I am hemmed in by darkness, and thick darkness covers my face.


Chapter 24
The Book of Job, chapter 24


Compare with King James Version: BJob.24




1: "Why are not times of judgment kept by the Almighty, and why do those who know him never see his days?
2: Men remove landmarks; they seize flocks and pasture them.
3: They drive away the ass of the fatherless; they take the widow's ox for a pledge.
4: They thrust the poor off the road; the poor of the earth all hide themselves.
5: Behold, like wild asses in the desert they go forth to their toil, seeking prey in the wilderness as food for their children.
6: They gather their fodder in the field and they glean the vineyard of the wicked man.
7: They lie all night naked, without clothing, and have no covering in the cold.
8: They are wet with the rain of the mountains, and cling to the rock for want of shelter.
9: (There are those who snatch the fatherless child from the breast, and take in pledge the infant of the poor.)
10: They go about naked, without clothing; hungry, they carry the sheaves;
11: among the olive rows of the wicked they make oil; they tread the wine presses, but suffer thirst.
12: From out of the city the dying groan, and the soul of the wounded cries for help; yet God pays no attention to their prayer.
13: "There are those who rebel against the light, who are not acquainted with its ways, and do not stay in its paths.
14: The murderer rises in the dark, that he may kill the poor and needy; and in the night he is as a thief.
15: The eye of the adulterer also waits for the twilight, saying, `No eye will see me'; and he disguises his face.
16: In the dark they dig through houses; by day they shut themselves up; they do not know the light.
17: For deep darkness is morning to all of them; for they are friends with the terrors of deep darkness.
18: "You say, "They are swiftly carried away upon the face of the waters; their portion is cursed in the land; no treader turns toward their vineyards.
19: Drought and heat snatch away the snow waters; so does Sheol those who have sinned.
20: The squares of the town forget them; their name is no longer remembered; so wickedness is broken like a tree.'
21: "They feed on the barren childless woman, and do no good to the widow.
22: Yet God prolongs the life of the mighty by his power; they rise up when they despair of life.
23: He gives them security, and they are supported; and his eyes are upon their ways.
24: They are exalted a little while, and then are gone; they wither and fade like the mallow; they are cut off like the heads of grain.
25: If it is not so, who will prove me a liar, and show that there is nothing in what I say?"


Chapter 25
The Book of Job, chapter 25


Compare with King James Version: BJob.25




1: Then Bildad the Shuhite answered:
2: "Dominion and fear are with God; he makes peace in his high heaven.
3: Is there any number to his armies? Upon whom does his light not arise?
4: How then can man be righteous before God? How can he who is born of woman be clean?
5: Behold, even the moon is not bright and the stars are not clean in his sight;
6: how much less man, who is a maggot, and the son of man, who is a worm!"


Chapter 26
The Book of Job, chapter 26


Compare with King James Version: BJob.26




1: Then Job answered:
2: "How you have helped him who has no power! How you have saved the arm that has no strength!
3: How you have counseled him who has no wisdom, and plentifully declared sound knowledge!
4: With whose help have you uttered words, and whose spirit has come forth from you?
5: The shades below tremble, the waters and their inhabitants.
6: Sheol is naked before God, and Abaddon has no covering.
7: He stretches out the north over the void, and hangs the earth upon nothing.
8: He binds up the waters in his thick clouds, and the cloud is not rent under them.
9: He covers the face of the moon, and spreads over it his cloud.
10: He has described a circle upon the face of the waters at the boundary between light and darkness.
11: The pillars of heaven tremble, and are astounded at his rebuke.
12: By his power he stilled the sea; by his understanding he smote Rahab.
13: By his wind the heavens were made fair; his hand pierced the fleeing serpent.
14: Lo, these are but the outskirts of his ways; and how small a whisper do we hear of him! But the thunder of his power who can understand?"


Chapter 27
The Book of Job, chapter 27


Compare with King James Version: BJob.27




1: And Job again took up his discourse, and said:
2: "As God lives, who has taken away my right, and the Almighty, who has made my soul bitter;
3: as long as my breath is in me, and the spirit of God is in my nostrils;
4: my lips will not speak falsehood, and my tongue will not utter deceit.
5: Far be it from me to say that you are right; till I die I will not put away my integrity from me.
6: I hold fast my righteousness, and will not let it go; my heart does not reproach me for any of my days.
7: "Let my enemy be as the wicked, and let him that rises up against me be as the unrighteous.
8: For what is the hope of the godless when God cuts him off, when God takes away his life?
9: Will God hear his cry, when trouble comes upon him?
10: Will he take delight in the Almighty? Will he call upon God at all times?
11: I will teach you concerning the hand of God; what is with the Almighty I will not conceal.
12: Behold, all of you have seen it yourselves; why then have you become altogether vain?
13: "This is the portion of a wicked man with God, and the heritage which oppressors receive from the Almighty:
14: If his children are multiplied, it is for the sword; and his offspring have not enough to eat.
15: Those who survive him the pestilence buries, and their widows make no lamentation.
16: Though he heap up silver like dust, and pile up clothing like clay;
17: he may pile it up, but the just will wear it, and the innocent will divide the silver.
18: The house which he builds is like a spider's web, like a booth which a watchman makes.
19: He goes to bed rich, but will do so no more; he opens his eyes, and his wealth is gone.
20: Terrors overtake him like a flood; in the night a whirlwind carries him off.
21: The east wind lifts him up and he is gone; it sweeps him out of his place.
22: It hurls at him without pity; he flees from its power in headlong flight.
23: It claps its hands at him, and hisses at him from its place.


Chapter 28
The Book of Job, chapter 28


Compare with King James Version: BJob.28




1: "Surely there is a mine for silver, and a place for gold which they refine.
2: Iron is taken out of the earth, and copper is smelted from the ore.
3: Men put an end to darkness, and search out to the farthest bound the ore in gloom and deep darkness.
4: They open shafts in a valley away from where men live; they are forgotten by travelers, they hang afar from men, they swing to and fro.
5: As for the earth, out of it comes bread; but underneath it is turned up as by fire.
6: Its stones are the place of sapphires, and it has dust of gold.
7: "That path no bird of prey knows, and the falcon's eye has not seen it.
8: The proud beasts have not trodden it; the lion has not passed over it.
9: "Man puts his hand to the flinty rock, and overturns mountains by the roots.
10: He cuts out channels in the rocks, and his eye sees every precious thing.
11: He binds up the streams so that they do not trickle, and the thing that is hid he brings forth to light.
12: "But where shall wisdom be found? And where is the place of understanding?
13: Man does not know the way to it, and it is not found in the land of the living.
14: The deep says, `It is not in me,' and the sea says, `It is not with me.'
15: It cannot be gotten for gold, and silver cannot be weighed as its price.
16: It cannot be valued in the gold of Ophir, in precious onyx or sapphire.
17: Gold and glass cannot equal it, nor can it be exchanged for jewels of fine gold.
18: No mention shall be made of coral or of crystal; the price of wisdom is above pearls.
19: The topaz of Ethiopia cannot compare with it, nor can it be valued in pure gold.
20: "Whence then comes wisdom? And where is the place of understanding?
21: It is hid from the eyes of all living, and concealed from the birds of the air.
22: Abaddon and Death say, `We have heard a rumor of it with our ears.'
23: "God understands the way to it, and he knows its place.
24: For he looks to the ends of the earth, and sees everything under the heavens.
25: When he gave to the wind its weight, and meted out the waters by measure;
26: when he made a decree for the rain, and a way for the lightning of the thunder;
27: then he saw it and declared it; he established it, and searched it out.
28: And he said to man, `Behold, the fear of the Lord, that is wisdom; and to depart from evil is understanding.'"


Chapter 29
The Book of Job, chapter 29


Compare with King James Version: BJob.29




1: And Job again took up his discourse, and said:
2: "Oh, that I were as in the months of old, as in the days when God watched over me;
3: when his lamp shone upon my head, and by his light I walked through darkness;
4: as I was in my autumn days, when the friendship of God was upon my tent;
5: when the Almighty was yet with me, when my children were about me;
6: wh

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Psalm 1


Compare with King James Version: Psal.001




1: Blessed is the man who walks not in the counsel of the wicked, nor stands in the way of sinners, nor sits in the seat of scoffers;
2: but his delight is in the law of the LORD, and on his law he meditates day and night.
3: He is like a tree planted by streams of water, that yields its fruit in its season, and its leaf does not wither. In all that he does, he prospers.
4: The wicked are not so, but are like chaff which the wind drives away.
5: Therefore the wicked will not stand in the judgment, nor sinners in the congregation of the righteous;
6: for the LORD knows the way of the righteous, but the way of the wicked will perish.




Psalm 2


Compare with King James Version: Psal.002




1: Why do the nations conspire, and the peoples plot in vain?
2: The kings of the earth set themselves, and the rulers take counsel together, against the LORD and his anointed, saying,
3: "Let us burst their bonds asunder, and cast their cords from us."
4: He who sits in the heavens laughs; the LORD has them in derision.
5: Then he will speak to them in his wrath, and terrify them in his fury, saying,
6: "I have set my king on Zion, my holy hill."
7: I will tell of the decree of the LORD: He said to me, "You are my son, today I have begotten you.
8: Ask of me, and I will make the nations your heritage, and the ends of the earth your possession.
9: You shall break them with a rod of iron, and dash them in pieces like a potter's vessel."
10: Now therefore, O kings, be wise; be warned, O rulers of the earth.
11: Serve the LORD with fear, with trembling
12: kiss his feet, lest he be angry, and you perish in the way; for his wrath is quickly kindled. Blessed are all who take refuge in him.




Psalm 3


Compare with King James Version: Psal.003




0: A Psalm of David, when he fled from Absalom his son.
1: O LORD, how many are my foes! Many are rising against me;
2: many are saying of me, there is no help for him in God. [Selah]
3: But thou, O LORD, art a shield about me, my glory, and the lifter of my head.
4: I cry aloud to the LORD, and he answers me from his holy hill. [Selah]
5: I lie down and sleep; I wake again, for the LORD sustains me.
6: I am not afraid of ten thousands of people who have set themselves against me round about.
7: Arise, O LORD! Deliver me, O my God! For thou dost smite all my enemies on the cheek, thou dost break the teeth of the wicked.
8: Deliverance belongs to the LORD; thy blessing be upon thy people! [Selah]




Psalm 4


Compare with King James Version: Psal.004




0: To the choirmaster: with stringed instruments. A Psalm of David.
1: Answer me when I call, O God of my right! Thou hast given me room when I was in distress. Be gracious to me, and hear my prayer.
2: O men, how long shall my honor suffer shame? How long will you love vain words, and seek after lies? [Selah]
3: But know that the LORD has set apart the godly for himself; the LORD hears when I call to him.
4: Be angry, but sin not; commune with your own hearts on your beds, and be silent. [Selah]
5: Offer right sacrifices, and put your trust in the LORD.
6: There are many who say, "O that we might see some good! Lift up the light of thy countenance upon us, O LORD!"
7: Thou hast put more joy in my heart than they have when their grain and wine abound.
8: In peace I will both lie down and sleep; for thou alone, O LORD, makest me dwell in safety.




Psalm 5


Compare with King James Version: Psal.005




0: To the choirmaster: for the flutes. A Psalm of David.
1: Give ear to my words, O LORD; give heed to my groaning.
2: Hearken to the sound of my cry, my King and my God, for to thee do I pray.
3: O LORD, in the morning thou dost hear my voice; in the morning I prepare a sacrifice for thee, and watch.
4: For thou art not a God who delights in wickedness; evil may not sojourn with thee.
5: The boastful may not stand before thy eyes; thou hatest all evildoers.
6: Thou destroyest those who speak lies; the LORD abhors bloodthirsty and deceitful men.
7: But I through the abundance of thy steadfast love will enter thy house, I will worship toward thy holy temple in the fear of thee.
8: Lead me, O LORD, in thy righteousness because of my enemies; make thy way straight before me.
9: For there is no truth in their mouth; their heart is destruction, their throat is an open sepulchre, they flatter with their tongue.
10: Make them bear their guilt, O God; let them fall by their own counsels; because of their many transgressions cast them out, for they have rebelled against thee.
11: But let all who take refuge in thee rejoice, let them ever sing for joy; and do thou defend them, that those who love thy name may exult in thee.
12: For thou dost bless the righteous, O LORD; thou dost cover him with favor as with a shield.




Psalm 6


Compare with King James Version: Psal.006




0: To the choirmaster: with stringed instruments; according to The Sheminith. A Psalm of David.
1: O LORD, rebuke me not in thy anger, nor chasten me in thy wrath.
2: Be gracious to me, O LORD, for I am languishing; O LORD, heal me, for my bones are troubled.
3: My soul also is sorely troubled. But thou, O LORD -- how long?
4: Turn, O LORD, save my life; deliver me for the sake of thy steadfast love.
5: For in death there is no remembrance of thee; in Sheol who can give thee praise?
6: I am weary with my moaning; every night I flood my bed with tears; I drench my couch with my weeping.
7: My eye wastes away because of grief, it grows weak because of all my foes.
8: Depart from me, all you workers of evil; for the LORD has heard the sound of my weeping.
9: The LORD has heard my supplication; the LORD accepts my prayer.
10: All my enemies shall be ashamed and sorely troubled; they shall turn back, and be put to shame in a moment.




Psalm 7


Compare with King James Version: Psal.007




0: A Shiggaion of David, which he sang to the LORD concerning Cush a Benjaminite.
1: O LORD my God, in thee do I take refuge; save me from all my pursuers, and deliver me,
2: lest like a lion they rend me, dragging me away, with none to rescue.
3: O LORD my God, if I have done this, if there is wrong in my hands,
4: if I have requited my friend with evil or plundered my enemy without cause,
5: let the enemy pursue me and overtake me, and let him trample my life to the ground, and lay my soul in the dust. [Selah]
6: Arise, O LORD, in thy anger, lift thyself up against the fury of my enemies; awake, O my God; thou hast appointed a judgment.
7: Let the assembly of the peoples be gathered about thee; and over it take thy seat on high.
8: The LORD judges the peoples; judge me, O LORD, according to my righteousness and according to the integrity that is in me.
9: O let the evil of the wicked come to an end, but establish thou the righteous, thou who triest the minds and hearts, thou righteous God.
10: My shield is with God, who saves the upright in heart.
11: God is a righteous judge, and a God who has indignation every day.
12: If a man does not repent, God will whet his sword; he has bent and strung his bow;
13: he has prepared his deadly weapons, making his arrows fiery shafts.
14: Behold, the wicked man conceives evil, and is pregnant with mischief, and brings forth lies.
15: He makes a pit, digging it out, and falls into the hole which he has made.
16: His mischief returns upon his own head, and on his own pate his violence descends.
17: I will give to the LORD the thanks due to his righteousness, and I will sing praise to the name of the LORD, the Most High.




Psalm 8


Compare with King James Version: Psal.008




0: To the choirmaster: according to The Gittith. A Psalm of David.
1: O LORD, our Lord, how majestic is thy name in all the earth! Thou whose glory above the heavens is chanted
2: by the mouth of babes and infants, thou hast founded a bulwark because of thy foes, to still the enemy and the avenger.
3: When I look at thy heavens, the work of thy fingers, the moon and the stars which thou hast established;
4: what is man that thou art mindful of him, and the son of man that thou dost care for him?
5: Yet thou hast made him little less than God, and dost crown him with glory and honor.
6: Thou hast given him dominion over the works of thy hands; thou hast put all things under his feet,
7: all sheep and oxen, and also the beasts of the field,
8: the birds of the air, and the fish of the sea, whatever passes along the paths of the sea.
9: O LORD, our Lord, how majestic is thy name in all the earth!




Psalm 9


Compare with King James Version: Psal.009




0: To the choirmaster: according to Muth-labben. A Psalm of David.
1: I will give thanks to the LORD with my whole heart; I will tell of all thy wonderful deeds.
2: I will be glad and exult in thee, I will sing praise to thy name, O Most High.
3: When my enemies turned back, they stumbled and perished before thee.
4: For thou hast maintained my just cause; thou hast sat on the throne giving righteous judgment.
5: Thou hast rebuked the nations, thou hast destroyed the wicked; thou hast blotted out their name for ever and ever.
6: The enemy have vanished in everlasting ruins; their cities thou hast rooted out; the very memory of them has perished.
7: But the LORD sits enthroned for ever, he has established his throne for judgment;
8: and he judges the world with righteousness, he judges the peoples with equity.
9: The LORD is a stronghold for the oppressed, a stronghold in times of trouble.
10: And those who know thy name put their trust in thee, for thou, O LORD, hast not forsaken those who seek thee.
11: Sing praises to the LORD, who dwells in Zion! Tell among the peoples his deeds!
12: For he who avenges blood is mindful of them; he does not forget the cry of the afflicted.
13: Be gracious to me, O LORD! Behold what I suffer from those who hate me, O thou who liftest me up from the gates of death,
14: that I may recount all thy praises, that in the gates of the daughter of Zion I may rejoice in thy deliverance.
15: The nations have sunk in the pit which they made; in the net which they hid has their own foot been caught.
16: The LORD has made himself known, he has executed judgment; the wicked are snared in the work of their own hands. [Higgaion. Selah]
17: The wicked shall depart to Sheol, all the nations that forget God.
18: For the needy shall not always be forgotten, and the hope of the poor shall not perish for ever.
19: Arise, O LORD! Let not man prevail; let the nations be judged before thee!
20: Put them in fear, O LORD! Let the nations know that they are but men! [Selah]




Psalm 10


Compare with King James Version: Psal.010




1: Why dost thou stand afar off, O LORD? Why dost thou hide thyself in times of trouble?
2: In arrogance the wicked hotly pursue the poor; let them be caught in the schemes which they have devised.
3: For the wicked boasts of the desires of his heart, and the man greedy for gain curses and renounces the LORD.
4: In the pride of his countenance the wicked does not seek him; all his thoughts are, "There is no God."
5: His ways prosper at all times; thy judgments are on high, out of his sight; as for all his foes, he puffs at them.
6: He thinks in his heart, "I shall not be moved; throughout all generations I shall not meet adversity."
7: His mouth is filled with cursing and deceit and oppression; under his tongue are mischief and iniquity.
8: He sits in ambush in the villages; in hiding places he murders the innocent. His eyes stealthily watch for the hapless,
9: he lurks in secret like a lion in his covert; he lurks that he may seize the poor, he seizes the poor when he draws him into his net.
10: The hapless is crushed, sinks down, and falls by his might.
11: He thinks in his heart, "God has forgotten, he has hidden his face, he will never see it."
12: Arise, O LORD; O God, lift up thy hand; forget not the afflicted.
13: Why does the wicked renounce God, and say in his heart, "Thou wilt not call to account"?
14: Thou dost see; yea, thou dost note trouble and vexation, that thou mayest take it into thy hands; the hapless commits himself to thee; thou hast been the helper of the fatherless.
15: Break thou the arm of the wicked and evildoer; seek out his wickedness till thou find none.
16: The LORD is king for ever and ever; the nations shall perish from his land.
17: O LORD, thou wilt hear the desire of the meek; thou wilt strengthen their heart, thou wilt incline thy ear
18: to do justice to the fatherless and the oppressed, so that man who is of the earth may strike terror no more.




Psalm 11


Compare with King James Version: Psal.011




0: To the choirmaster. Of David.
1: In the LORD I take refuge; how can you say to me, "Flee like a bird to the mountains;
2: for lo, the wicked bend the bow, they have fitted their arrow to the string, to shoot in the dark at the upright in heart;
3: if the foundations are destroyed, what can the righteous do"?
4: The LORD is in his holy temple, the LORD's throne is in heaven; his eyes behold, his eyelids test, the children of men.
5: The LORD tests the righteous and the wicked, and his soul hates him that loves violence.
6: On the wicked he will rain coals of fire and brimstone; a scorching wind shall be the portion of their cup.
7: For the LORD is righteous, he loves righteous deeds; the upright shall behold his face.




Psalm 12


Compare with King James Version: Psal.012




0: To the choirmaster: according to The Sheminith. A Psalm of David.
1: Help, LORD; for there is no longer any that is godly; for the faithful have vanished from among the sons of men.
2: Every one utters lies to his neighbor; with flattering lips and a double heart they speak.
3: May the LORD cut off all flattering lips, the tongue that makes great boasts,
4: those who say, "With our tongue we will prevail, our lips are with us; who is our master?"
5: "Because the poor are despoiled, because the needy groan, I will now arise," says the LORD; "I will place him in the safety for which he longs."
6: The promises of the LORD are promises that are pure, silver refined in a furnace on the ground, purified seven times.
7: Do thou, O LORD, protect us, guard us ever from this generation.
8: On every side the wicked prowl, as vileness is exalted among the sons of men.




Psalm 13


Compare with King James Version: Psal.013




0: To the choirmaster. A Psalm of David.
1: How long, O LORD? Wilt thou forget me for ever? How long wilt thou hide thy face from me?
2: How long must I bear pain in my soul, and have sorrow in my heart all the day? How long shall my enemy be exalted over me?
3: Consider and answer me, O LORD my God; lighten my eyes, lest I sleep the sleep of death;
4: lest my enemy say, "I have prevailed over him"; lest my foes rejoice because I am shaken.
5: But I have trusted in thy steadfast love; my heart shall rejoice in thy salvation.
6: I will sing to the LORD, because he has dealt bountifully with me.




Psalm 14


Compare with King James Version: Psal.014




0: To the choirmaster. Of David.
1: The fool says in his heart, "There is no God." They are corrupt, they do abominable deeds, there is none that does good.
2: The LORD looks down from heaven upon the children of men, to see if there are any that act wisely, that seek after God.
3: They have all gone astray, they are all alike corrupt; there is none that does good, no, not one.
4: Have they no knowledge, all the evildoers who eat up my people as they eat bread, and do not call upon the LORD?
5: There they shall be in great terror, for God is with the generation of the righteous.
6: You would confound the plans of the poor, but the LORD is his refuge.
7: O that deliverance for Israel would come out of Zion! When the LORD restores the fortunes of his people, Jacob shall rejoice, Israel shall be glad.




Psalm 15


Compare with King James Version: Psal.015




0: A Psalm of David.
1: O LORD, who shall sojourn in thy tent? Who shall dwell on thy holy hill?
2: He who walks blamelessly, and does what is right, and speaks truth from his heart;
3: who does not slander with his tongue, and does no evil to his friend, nor takes up a reproach against his neighbor;
4: in whose eyes a reprobate is despised, but who honors those who fear the LORD; who swears to his own hurt and does not change;
5: who does not put out his money at interest, and does not take a bribe against the innocent. He who does these things shall never be moved.




Psalm 16


Compare with King James Version: Psal.016




0: A Miktam of David.
1: Preserve me, O God, for in thee I take refuge.
2: I say to the LORD, "Thou art my Lord; I have no good apart from thee."
3: As for the saints in the land, they are the noble, in whom is all my delight.
4: Those who choose another god multiply their sorrows; their libations of blood I will not pour out or take their names upon my lips.
5: The LORD is my chosen portion and my cup; thou holdest my lot.
6: The lines have fallen for me in pleasant places; yea, I have a goodly heritage.
7: I bless the LORD who gives me counsel; in the night also my heart instructs me.
8: I keep the LORD always before me; because he is at my right hand, I shall not be moved.
9: Therefore my heart is glad, and my soul rejoices; my body also dwells secure.
10: For thou dost not give me up to Sheol, or let thy godly one see the Pit.
11: Thou dost show me the path of life; in thy presence there is fulness of joy, in thy right hand are pleasures for evermore.




Psalm 17


Compare with King James Version: Psal.017




0: A Prayer of David.
1: Hear a just cause, O LORD; attend to my cry! Give ear to my prayer from lips free of deceit!
2: From thee let my vindication come! Let thy eyes see the right!
3: If thou triest my heart, if thou visitest me by night, if thou testest me, thou wilt find no wickedness in me; my mouth does not transgress.
4: With regard to the works of men, by the word of thy lips I have avoided the ways of the violent.
5: My steps have held fast to thy paths, my feet have not slipped.
6: I call upon thee, for thou wilt answer me, O God; incline thy ear to me, hear my words.
7: Wondrously show thy steadfast love, O savior of those who seek refuge from their adversaries at thy right hand.
8: Keep me as the apple of the eye; hide me in the shadow of thy wings,
9: from the wicked who despoil me, my deadly enemies who surround me.
10: They close their hearts to pity; with their mouths they speak arrogantly.
11: They track me down; now they surround me; they set their eyes to cast me to the ground.
12: They are like a lion eager to tear, as a young lion lurking in ambush.
13: Arise, O LORD! confront them, overthrow them! Deliver my life from the wicked by thy sword,
14: from men by thy hand, O LORD, from men whose portion in life is of the world. May their belly be filled with what thou hast stored up for them; may their children have more than enough; may they leave something over to their babes.
15: As for me, I shall behold thy face in righteousness; when I awake, I shall be satisfied with beholding thy form.




Psalm 18


Compare with King James Version: Psal.018




0: To the choirmaster. A Psalm of David the servant of the LORD, who addressed the words of this song to the LORD on the day when the LORD delivered him from the hand of all his enemies, and from the hand of Saul. He said:
1: I love thee, O LORD, my strength.
2: The LORD is my rock, and my fortress, and my deliverer, my God, my rock, in whom I take refuge, my shield, and the horn of my salvation, my stronghold.
3: I call upon the LORD, who is worthy to be praised, and I am saved from my enemies.
4: The cords of death encompassed me, the torrents of perdition assailed me;
5: the cords of Sheol entangled me, the snares of death confronted me.
6: In my distress I called upon the LORD; to my God I cried for help. From his temple he heard my voice, and my cry to him reached his ears.
7: Then the earth reeled and rocked; the foundations also of the mountains trembled and quaked, because he was angry.
8: Smoke went up from his nostrils, and devouring fire from his mouth; glowing coals flamed forth from him.
9: He bowed the heavens, and came down; thick darkness was under his feet.
10: He rode on a cherub, and flew; he came swiftly upon the wings of the wind.
11: He made darkness his covering around him, his canopy thick clouds dark with water.
12: Out of the brightness before him there broke through his clouds hailstones and coals of fire.
13: The LORD also thundered in the heavens, and the Most High uttered his voice, hailstones and coals of fire.
14: And he sent out his arrows, and scattered them; he flashed forth lightnings, and routed them.
15: Then the channels of the sea were seen, and the foundations of the world were laid bare, at thy rebuke, O LORD, at the blast of the breath of thy nostrils.
16: He reached from on high, he took me, he drew me out of many waters.
17: He delivered me from my strong enemy, and from those who hated me; for they were too mighty for me.
18: They came upon me in the day of my calamity; but the LORD was my stay.
19: He brought me forth into a broad place; he delivered me, because he delighted in me.
20: The LORD rewarded me according to my righteousness; according to the cleanness of my hands he recompensed me.
21: For I have kept the ways of the LORD, and have not wickedly departed from my God.
22: For all his ordinances were before me, and his statutes I did not put away from me.
23: I was blameless before him, and I kept myself from guilt.
24: Therefore the LORD has recompensed me according to my righteousness, according to the cleanness of my hands in his sight.
25: With the loyal thou dost show thyself loyal; with the blameless man thou dost show thyself blameless;
26: with the pure thou dost show thyself pure; and with the crooked thou dost show thyself perverse.
27: For thou dost deliver a humble people; but the haughty eyes thou dost bring down.
28: Yea, thou dost light my lamp; the LORD my God lightens my darkness.
29: Yea, by thee I can crush a troop; and by my God I can leap over a wall.
30: This God -- his way is perfect; the promise of the LORD proves true; he is a shield for all those who take refuge in him.
31: For who is God, but the LORD? And who is a rock, except our God? --
32: the God who girded me with strength, and made my way safe.
33: He made my feet like hinds' feet, and set me secure on the heights.
34: He trains my hands for war, so that my arms can bend a bow of bronze.
35: Thou hast given me the shield of thy salvation, and thy right hand supported me, and thy help made me great.
36: Thou didst give a wide place for my steps under me, and my feet did not slip.
37: I pursued my enemies and overtook them; and did not turn back till they were consumed.
38: I thrust them through, so that they were not able to rise; they fell under my feet.
39: For thou didst gird me with strength for the battle; thou didst make my assailants sink under me.
40: Thou didst make my enemies turn their backs to me, and those who hated me I destroyed.
41: They cried for help, but there was none to save, they cried to the LORD, but he did not answer them.
42: I beat them fine as dust before the wind; I cast them out like the mire of the streets.
43: Thou didst deliver me from strife with the peoples; thou didst make me the head of the nations; people whom I had not known served me.
44: As soon as they heard of me they obeyed me; foreigners came cringing to me.
45: Foreigners lost heart, and came trembling out of their fastnesses.
46: The LORD lives; and blessed be my rock, and exalted be the God of my salvation,
47: the God who gave me vengeance and subdued peoples under me;
48: who delivered me from my enemies; yea, thou didst exalt me above my adversaries; thou didst deliver me from men of violence.
49: For this I will extol thee, O LORD, among the nations, and sing praises to thy name.
50: Great triumphs he gives to his king, and shows steadfast love to his anointed, to David and his descendants for ever.




Psalm 19


Compare with King James Version: Psal.019




0: To the choirmaster. A Psalm of David.
1: The heavens are telling the glory of God; and the firmament proclaims his handiwork.
2: Day to day pours forth speech, and night to night declares knowledge.
3: There is no speech, nor are there words; their voice is not heard;
4: yet their voice goes out through all the earth, and their words to the end of the world. In them he has set a tent for the sun,
5: which comes forth like a bridegroom leaving his chamber, and like a strong man runs its course with joy.
6: Its rising is from the end of the heavens, and its circuit to the end of them; and there is nothing hid from its heat.
7: The law of the LORD is perfect, reviving the soul; the testimony of the LORD is sure, making wise the simple;
8: the precepts of the LORD are right, rejoicing the heart; the commandment of the LORD is pure, enlightening the eyes;
9: the fear of the LORD is clean, enduring for ever; the ordinances of the LORD are true, and righteous altogether.
10: More to be desired are they than gold, even much fine gold; sweeter also than honey and drippings of the honeycomb.
11: Moreover by them is thy servant warned; in keeping them there is great reward.
12: But who can discern his errors? Clear thou me from hidden faults.
13: Keep back thy servant also from presumptuous sins; let them not have dominion over me! Then I shall be blameless, and innocent of great transgression.
14: Let the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart be acceptable in thy sight, O LORD, my rock and my redeemer.




Psalm 20


Compare with King James Version: Psal.020




0: To the choirmaster. A Psalm of David.
1: The LORD answer you in the day of trouble! The name of the God of Jacob protect you!
2: May he send you help from the sanctuary, and give you support from Zion!
3: May he remember all your offerings, and regard with favor your burnt sacrifices! [Selah]
4: May he grant you your heart's desire, and fulfil all your plans!
5: May we shout for joy over your victory, and in the name of our God set up our banners! May the LORD fulfil all your petitions!
6: Now I know that the LORD will help his anointed; he will answer him from his holy heaven with mighty victories by his right hand.
7: Some boast of chariots, and some of horses; but we boast of the name of the LORD our God.
8: They will collapse and fall; but we shall rise and stand upright.
9: Give victory to the king, O LORD; answer us when we call.




Psalm 21


Compare with King James Version: Psal.021




0: To the choirmaster. A Psalm of David.
1: In thy strength the king rejoices, O LORD; and in thy help how greatly he exults!
2: Thou hast given him his heart's desire, and hast not withheld the request of his lips. [Selah]
3: For thou dost meet him with goodly blessings; thou dost set a crown of fine gold upon his head.
4: He asked life of thee; thou gavest it to him, length of days for ever and ever.
5: His glory is great through thy help; splendor and majesty thou dost bestow upon him.
6: Yea, thou dost make him most blessed for ever; thou dost make him glad with the joy of thy presence.
7: For the king trusts in the LORD; and through the steadfast love of the Most High he shall not be moved.
8: Your hand will find out all your enemies; your right hand will find out those who hate you.
9: You will make them as a blazing oven when you appear. The LORD will swallow them up in his wrath; and fire will consume them.
10: You will destroy their offspring from the earth, and their children from among the sons of men.
11: If they plan evil against you, if they devise mischief, they will not succeed.
12: For you will put them to flight; you will aim at their faces with your bows.
13: Be exalted, O LORD, in thy strength! We will sing and praise thy power.




Psalm 22


Compare with King James Version: Psal.022




0: To the choirmaster: according to The Hind of the Dawn. A Psalm of David.
1: My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me? Why art thou so far from helping me, from the words of my groaning?
2: O my God, I cry by day, but thou dost not answer; and by night, but find no rest.
3: Yet thou art holy, enthroned on the praises of Israel.
4: In thee our fathers trusted; they trusted, and thou didst deliver them.
5: To thee they cried, and were saved; in thee they trusted, and were not disappointed.
6: But I am a worm, and no man; scorned by men, and despised by the people.
7: All who see me mock at me, they make mouths at me, they wag their heads;
8: "He committed his cause to the LORD; let him deliver him, let him rescue him, for he delights in him!"
9: Yet thou art he who took me from the womb; thou didst keep me safe upon my mother's breasts.
10: Upon thee was I cast from my birth, and since my mother bore me thou hast been my God.
11: Be not far from me, for trouble is near and there is none to help.
12: Many bulls encompass me, strong bulls of Bashan surround me;
13: they open wide their mouths at me, like a ravening and roaring lion.
14: I am poured out like water, and all my bones are out of joint; my heart is like wax, it is melted within my breast;
15: my strength is dried up like a potsherd, and my tongue cleaves to my jaws; thou dost lay me in the dust of death.
16: Yea, dogs are round about me; a company of evildoers encircle me; they have pierced my hands and feet --
17: I can count all my bones -- they stare and gloat over me;
18: they divide my garments among them, and for my raiment they cast lots.
19: But thou, O LORD, be not far off! O thou my help, hasten to my aid!
20: Deliver my soul from the sword, my life from the power of the dog!
21: Save me from the mouth of the lion, my afflicted soul from the horns of the wild oxen!
22: I will tell of thy name to my brethren; in the midst of the congregation I will praise thee:
23: You who fear the LORD, praise him! all you sons of Jacob, glorify him, and stand in awe of him, all you sons of Israel!
24: For he has not despised or abhorred the affliction of the afflicted; and he has not hid his face from him, but has heard, when he cried to him.
25: From thee comes my praise in the great congregation; my vows I will pay before those who fear him.
26: The afflicted shall eat and be satisfied; those who seek him shall praise the LORD! May your hearts live for ever!
27: All the ends of the earth shall remember and turn to the LORD; and all the families of the nations shall worship before him.
28: For dominion belongs to the LORD, and he rules over the nations.
29: Yea, to him shall all the proud of the earth bow down; before him shall bow all who go down to the dust, and he who cannot keep himself alive.
30: Posterity shall serve him; men shall tell of the Lord to the coming generation,
31: and proclaim his deliverance to a people yet unborn, that he has wrought it.




Psalm 23


Compare with King James Version: Psal.023




0: A Psalm of David.
1: The LORD is my shepherd, I shall not want;
2: he makes me lie down in green pastures. He leads me beside still waters;
3: he restores my soul. He leads me in paths of righteousness for his name's sake.
4: Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I fear no evil; for thou art with me; thy rod and thy staff, they comfort me.
5: Thou preparest a table before me in the presence of my enemies; thou anointest my head with oil, my cup overflows.
6: Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life; and I shall dwell in the house of the LORD for ever.




Psalm 24


Compare with King James Version: Psal.024




0: A Psalm of David.
1: The earth is the LORD's and the fulness thereof, the world and those who dwell therein;
2: for he has founded it upon the seas, and established it upon the rivers.
3: Who shall ascend the hill of the LORD? And who shall stand in his holy place?
4: He who has clean hands and a pure heart, who does not lift up his soul to what is false, and does not swear deceitfully.
5: He will receive blessing from the LORD, and vindication from the God of his salvation.
6: Such is the generation of those who seek him, who seek the face of the God of Jacob. [Selah]
7: Lift up your heads, O gates! and be lifted up, O ancient doors! that the King of glory may come in.
8: Who is the King of glory? The LORD, strong and mighty, the LORD, mighty in battle!
9: Lift up your heads, O gates! and be lifted up, O ancient doors! that the King of glory may come in.
10: Who is this King of glory? The LORD of hosts, he is the King of glory! [Selah]




Psalm 25


Compare with King James Version: Psal.025




0: A Psalm of David.
1: To thee, O LORD, I lift up my soul.
2: O my God, in thee I trust, let me not be put to shame; let not my enemies exult over me.
3: Yea, let none that wait for thee be put to shame; let them be ashamed who are wantonly treacherous.
4: Make me to know thy ways, O LORD; teach me thy paths.
5: Lead me in thy truth, and teach me, for thou art the God of my salvation; for thee I wait all the day long.
6: Be mindful of thy mercy, O LORD, and of thy steadfast love, for they have been from of old.
7: Remember not the sins of my youth, or my transgressions; according to thy steadfast love remember me, for thy goodness' sake, O LORD!
8: Good and upright is the LORD; therefore he instructs sinners in the way.
9: He leads the humble in what is right, and teaches the humble his way.
10: All the paths of the LORD are steadfast love and faithfulness, for those who keep his covenant and his testimonies.
11: For thy name's sake, O LORD, pardon my guilt, for it is great.
12: Who is the man that fears the LORD? Him will he instruct in the way that he should choose.
13: He himself shall abide in prosperity, and his children shall possess the land.
14: The friendship of the LORD is for those who fear him, and he makes known to them his covenant.
15: My eyes are ever toward the LORD, for he will pluck my feet out of the net.
16: Turn thou to me, and be gracious to me; for I am lonely and afflicted.
17: Relieve the troubles of my heart, and bring me out of my distresses.
18: Consider my affliction and my trouble, and forgive all my sins.
19: Consider how many are my foes, and with what violent hatred they hate me.
20: Oh guard my life, and deliver me; let me not be put to shame, for I take refuge in thee.
21: May integrity and uprightness preserve me, for I wait for thee.
22: Redeem Israel, O God, out of all his troubles.




Psalm 26


Compare with King James Version: Psal.026




0: A Psalm of David.
1: Vindicate me, O LORD, for I have walked in my integrity, and I have trusted in the LORD without wavering.
2: Prove me, O LORD, and try me; test my heart and my mind.
3: For thy steadfast love is before my eyes, and I walk in faithfulness to thee.
4: I do not sit with false men, nor do I consort with dissemblers;
5: I hate the company of evildoers, and I will not sit with the wicked.
6: I wash my hands in innocence, and go about thy altar, O LORD,
7: singing aloud a song of thanksgiving, and telling all thy wondrous deeds.
8: O LORD, I love the habitation of thy house, and the place where thy glory dwells.
9: Sweep me not away with sinners, nor my life with bloodthirsty men,
10: men in whose hands are evil devices, and whose right hands are full of bribes.
11: But as for me, I walk in my integrity; redeem me, and be gracious to me.
12: My foot stands on level ground; in the great congregation I will bless the LORD.




Psalm 27


Compare with King James Version: Psal.027




0: A Psalm of David.
1: The LORD is my light and my salvation; whom shall I fear? The LORD is the stronghold of my life; of whom shall I be afraid?
2: When evildoers assail me, uttering slanders against me, my adversaries and foes, they shall stumble and fall.
3: Though a host encamp against me, my heart shall not fear; though war arise against me, yet I will be confident.
4: One thing have I asked of the LORD, that will I seek after; that I may dwell in the house of the LORD all the days of my life, to behold the beauty of the LORD, and to inquire in his temple.
5: For he will hide me in his shelter in the day of trouble; he will conceal me under the cover of his tent, he will set me high upon a rock.
6: And now my head shall be lifted up above my enemies round about me; and I will offer in his tent sacrifices with shouts of joy; I will sing and make melody to the LORD.
7: Hear, O LORD, when I cry aloud, be gracious to me and answer me!
8: Thou hast said, "Seek ye my face." My heart says to thee, "Thy face, LORD, do I seek."
9: Hide not thy face from me. Turn not thy servant away in anger, thou who hast been my help. Cast me not off, forsake me not, O God of my salvation!
10: For my father and my mother have forsaken me, but the LORD will take me up.
11: Teach me thy way, O LORD; and lead me on a level path because of my enemies.
12: Give me not up to the will of my adversaries; for false witnesses have risen against me, and they breathe out violence.
13: I believe that I shall see the goodness of the LORD in the land of the living!
14: Wait for the LORD; be strong, and let your heart take courage; yea, wait for the LORD!




Psalm 28


Compare with King James Version: Psal.028




0: A Psalm of David.
1: To thee, O LORD, I call; my rock, be not deaf to me, lest, if thou be silent to me, I become like those who go down to the Pit.
2: Hear the voice of my supplication, as I cry to thee for help, as I lift up my hands toward thy most holy sanctuary.
3: Take me not off with the wicked, with those who are workers of evil, who speak peace with their neighbors, while mischief is in their hearts.
4: Requite them according to their work, and according to the evil of their deeds; requite them according to the work of their hands; render them their due reward.
5: Because they do not regard the works of the LORD, or the work of his hands, he will break them down and build them up no more.
6: Blessed be the LORD! for he has heard the voice of my supplications.
7: The LORD is my strength and my shield; in him my heart trusts; so I am helped, and my heart exults, and with my song I give thanks to him.
8: The LORD is the strength of his people, he is the saving refuge of his anointed.
9: O save thy people, and bless thy heritage; be thou their shepherd, and carry them for ever.




Psalm 29


Compare with King James Version: Psal.029




0: A Psalm of David.
1: Ascribe to the LORD, O heavenly beings, ascribe to the LORD glory and strength.
2: Ascribe to the LORD the glory of his name; worship the LORD in holy array.
3: The voice of the LORD is upon the waters; the God of glory thunders, the LORD, upon many waters.
4: The voice of the LORD is powerful, the voice of the LORD is full of majesty.
5: The voice of the LORD breaks the cedars, the LORD breaks the cedars of Lebanon.
6: He makes Lebanon to skip like a calf, and Si'rion like a young wild ox.
7: The voice of the LORD flashes forth flames of fire.
8: The voice of the LORD shakes the wilderness, the LORD shakes the wilderness of Kadesh.
9: The voice of the LORD makes the oaks to whirl, and strips the forests bare; and in his temple all cry, "Glory!"
10: The LORD sits enthroned over the flood; the LORD sits enthroned as king for ever.
11: May the LORD give strength to his people! May the LORD bless his people with peace!




Psalm 30


Compare with King James Version: Psal.030




0: A Psalm of David. A Song at the dedication of the Temple.
1: I will extol thee, O LORD, for thou hast drawn me up, and hast not let my foes rejoice over me.
2: O LORD my God, I cried to thee for help, and thou hast healed me.
3: O LORD, thou hast brought up my soul from Sheol, restored me to life from among those gone down to the Pit.
4: Sing praises to the LORD, O you his saints, and give thanks to his holy name.
5: For his anger is but for a moment, and his favor is for a lifetime. Weeping may tarry for the night, but joy comes with the morning.
6: As for me, I said in my prosperity, "I shall never be moved."
7: By thy favor, O LORD, thou hadst established me as a strong mountain; thou didst hide thy face, I was dismayed.
8: To thee, O LORD, I cried; and to the LORD I made supplication:
9: "What profit is there in my death, if I go down to the Pit? Will the dust praise thee? Will it tell of thy faithfulness?
10: Hear, O LORD, and be gracious to me! O LORD, be thou my helper!"
11: Thou hast turned for me my mourning into dancing; thou hast loosed my sackcloth and girded me with gladness,
12: that my soul may praise thee and not be silent. O LORD my God, I will give thanks to thee for ever.




Psalm 31


Compare with King James Version: Psal.031




0: To the choirmaster. A Psalm of David.
1: In thee, O LORD, do I seek refuge; let me never be put to shame; in thy righteousness deliver me!
2: Incline thy ear to me, rescue me speedily! Be thou a rock of refuge for me, a strong fortress to save me!
3: Yea, thou art my rock and my fortress; for thy name's sake lead me and guide me,
4: take me out of the net which is hidden for me, for thou art my refuge.
5: Into thy hand I commit my spirit; thou hast redeemed me, O LORD, faithful God.
6: Thou hatest those who pay regard to vain idols; but I trust in the LORD.
7: I will rejoice and be glad for thy steadfast love, because thou hast seen my affliction, thou hast taken heed of my adversities,
8: and hast not delivered me into the hand of the enemy; thou hast set my feet in a broad place.
9: Be gracious to me, O LORD, for I am in distress; my eye is wasted from grief, my soul and my body also.
10: For my life is spent with sorrow, and my years with sighing; my strength fails because of my misery, and my bones waste away.
11: I am the scorn of all my adversaries, a horror to my neighbors, an object of dread to my acquaintances; those who see me in the street flee from me.
12: I have passed out of mind like one who is dead; I have become like a broken vessel.
13: Yea, I hear the whispering of many -- terror on every side! -- as they scheme together against me, as they plot to take my life.
14: But I trust in thee, O LORD, I say, "Thou art my God."
15: My times are in thy hand; deliver me from the hand of my enemies and persecutors!
16: Let thy face shine on thy servant; save me in thy steadfast love!
17: Let me not be put to shame, O LORD, for I call on thee; let the wicked be put to shame, let them go dumbfounded to Sheol.
18: Let the lying lips be dumb, which speak insolently against the righteous in pride and contempt.
19: O how abundant is thy goodness, which thou hast laid up for those who fear thee, and wrought for those who take refuge in thee, in the sight of the sons of men!
20: In the covert of thy presence thou hidest them from the plots of men; thou holdest them safe under thy shelter from the strife of tongues.
21: Blessed be the LORD, for he has wondrously shown his steadfast love to me when I was beset as in a besieged city.
22: I had said in my alarm, "I am driven far from thy sight." But thou didst hear my supplications, when I cried to thee for help.
23: Love the LORD, all you his saints! The LORD preserves the faithful, but abundantly requites him who acts haughtily.
24: Be strong, and let your heart take courage, all you who wait for the LORD!




Psalm 32


Compare with King James Version: Psal.032




0: A Psalm of David. A Maskil.
1: Blessed is he whose transgression is forgiven, whose sin is covered.
2: Blessed is the man to whom the LORD imputes no iniquity, and in whose spirit there is no deceit.
3: When I declared not my sin, my body wasted away through my groaning all day long.
4: For day and night thy hand was heavy upon me; my strength was dried up as by the heat of summer. [Selah]
5: I acknowledged my sin to thee, and I did not hide my iniquity; I said, "I will confess my transgressions to the LORD"; then thou didst forgive the guilt of my sin. [Selah]
6: Therefore let every one who is godly offer prayer to thee; at a time of distress, in the rush of great waters, they shall not reach him.
7: Thou art a hiding place for me, thou preservest me from trouble; thou dost encompass me with deliverance. [Selah]
8: I will instruct you and teach you the way you should go; I will counsel you with my eye upon you.
9: Be not like a horse or a mule, without understanding, which must be curbed with bit and bridle, else it will not keep with you.
10: Many are the pangs of the wicked; but steadfast love surrounds him who trusts in the LORD.
11: Be glad in the LORD, and rejoice, O righteous, and shout for joy, all you upright in heart!




Psalm 33


Compare with King James Version: Psal.033




1: Rejoice in the LORD, O you righteous! Praise befits the upright.
2: Praise the LORD with the lyre, make melody to him with the harp of ten strings!
3: Sing to him a new song, play skilfully on the strings, with loud shouts.
4: For the word of the LORD is upright; and all his work is done in faithfulness.
5: He loves righteousness and justice; the earth is full of the steadfast love of the LORD.
6: By the word of the LORD the heavens were made, and all their host by the breath of his mouth.
7: He gathered the waters of the sea as in a bottle; he put the deeps in storehouses.
8: Let all the earth fear the LORD, let all the inhabitants of the world stand in awe of him!
9: For he spoke, and it came to be; he commanded, and it stood forth.
10: The LORD brings the counsel of the nations to nought; he frustrates the plans of the peoples.
11: The counsel of the LORD stands for ever, the thoughts of his heart to all generations.
12: Blessed is the nation whose God is the LORD, the people whom he has chosen as his heritage!
13: The LORD looks down from heaven, he sees all the sons of men;
14: from where he sits enthroned he looks forth on all the inhabitants of the earth,
15: he who fashions the hearts of them all, and observes all their deeds.
16: A king is not saved by his great army; a warrior is not delivered by his great strength.
17: The war horse is a vain hope for victory, and by its great might it cannot save.
18: Behold, the eye of the LORD is on those who fear him, on those who hope in his steadfast love,
19: that he may deliver their soul from death, and keep them alive in famine.
20: Our soul waits for the LORD; he is our help and shield.
21: Yea, our heart is glad in him, because we trust in his holy name.
22: Let thy steadfast love, O LORD, be upon us, even as we hope in thee.




Psalm 34


Compare with King James Version: Psal.034




0: A Psalm of David, when he feigned madness before Abimelech, so that he drove him out, and he went away.
1: I will bless the LORD at all times; his praise shall continually be in my mouth.
2: My soul makes its boast in the LORD; let the afflicted hear and be glad.
3: O magnify the LORD with me, and let us exalt his name together!
4: I sought the LORD, and he answered me, and delivered me from all my fears.
5: Look to him, and be radiant; so your faces shall never be ashamed.
6: This poor man cried, and the LORD heard him, and saved him out of all his troubles.
7: The angel of the LORD encamps around those who fear him, and delivers them.
8: O taste and see that the LORD is good! Happy is the man who takes refuge in him!
9: O fear the LORD, you his saints, for those who fear him have no want!
10: The young lions suffer want and hunger; but those who seek the LORD lack no good thing.
11: Come, O sons, listen to me, I will teach you the fear of the LORD.
12: What man is there who desires life, and covets many days, that he may enjoy good?
13: Keep your tongue from evil, and your lips from speaking deceit.
14: Depart from evil, and do good; seek peace, and pursue it.
15: The eyes of the LORD are toward the righteous, and his ears toward their cry.
16: The face of the LORD is against evildoers, to cut off the remembrance of them from the earth.
17: When the righteous cry for help, the LORD hears, and delivers them out of all their troubles.
18: The LORD is near to the brokenhearted, and saves the crushed in spirit.
19: Many are the afflictions of the righteous; but the LORD delivers him out of them all.
20: He keeps all his bones; not one of them is broken.
21: Evil shall slay the wicked; and those who hate the righteous will be condemned.
22: The LORD redeems the life of his servants; none of those who take refuge in him will be condemned.




Psalm 35


Compare with King James Version: Psal.035




0: A Psalm of David.
1: Contend, O LORD, with those who contend with me; fight against those who fight against me!
2: Take hold of shield and buckler, and rise for my help!
3: Draw the spear and javelin against my pursuers! Say to my soul, "I am your deliverance!"
4: Let them be put to shame and dishonor who seek after my life! Let them be turned back and confounded who devise evil against me!
5: Let them be like chaff before the wind, with the angel of the LORD driving them on!
6: Let their way be dark and slippery, with the angel of the LORD pursuing them!
7: For without cause they hid their net for me; without cause they dug a pit for my life.
8: Let ruin come upon them unawares! And let the net which they hid ensnare them; let them fall therein to ruin!
9: Then my soul shall rejoice in the LORD, exulting in his deliverance.
10: All my bones shall say, "O LORD, who is like thee, thou who deliverest the weak from him who is too strong for him, the weak and needy from him who despoils him?"
11: Malicious witnesses rise up; they ask me of things that I know not.
12: They requite me evil for good; my soul is forlorn.
13: But I, when they were sick -- I wore sackcloth, I afflicted myself with fasting. I prayed with head bowed on my bosom,
14: as though I grieved for my friend or my brother; I went about as one who laments his mother, bowed down and in mourning.
15: But at my stumbling they gathered in glee, they gathered together against me; cripples whom I knew not slandered me without ceasing;
16: they impiously mocked more and more, gnashing at me with their teeth.
17: How long, O LORD, wilt thou look on? Rescue me from their ravages, my life from the lions!
18: Then I will thank thee in the great congregation; in the mighty throng I will praise thee.
19: Let not those rejoice over me who are wrongfully my foes, and let not those wink the eye who hate me without cause.
20: For they do not speak peace, but against those who are quiet in the land they conceive words of deceit.
21: They open wide their mouths against me; they say, "Aha, Aha! our eyes have seen it!"
22: Thou hast seen, O LORD; be not silent! O Lord, be not far from me!
23: Bestir thyself, and awake for my right, for my cause, my God and my Lord!
24: Vindicate me, O LORD, my God, according to thy righteousness; and let them not rejoice over me!
25: Let them not say to themselves, "Aha, we have our heart's desire!" Let them not say, "We have swallowed him up."
26: Let them be put to shame and confusion altogether who rejoice at my calamity! Let them be clothed with shame and dishonor who magnify themselves against me!
27: Let those who desire my vindication shout for joy and be glad, and say evermore, "Great is the LORD, who delights in the welfare of his servant!"
28: Then my tongue shall tell of thy righteousness and of thy praise all the day long.




Psalm 36


Compare with King James Version: Psal.036




0: To the choirmaster. A Psalm of David, the servant of the LORD.
1: Transgression speaks to the wicked deep in his heart; there is no fear of God before his eyes.
2: For he flatters himself in his own eyes that his iniquity cannot be found out and hated.
3: The words of his mouth are mischief and deceit; he has ceased to act wisely and do good.
4: He plots mischief while on his bed; he sets himself in a way that is not good; he spurns not evil.
5: Thy steadfast love, O LORD, extends to the heavens, thy faithfulness to the clouds.
6: Thy righteousness is like the mountains of God, thy judgments are like the great deep; man and beast thou savest, O LORD.
7: How precious is thy steadfast love, O God! The children of men take refuge in the shadow of thy wings.
8: They feast on the abundance of thy house, and thou givest them drink from the river of thy delights.
9: For with thee is the fountain of life; in thy light do we see light.
10: O continue thy steadfast love to those who know thee, and thy salvation to the upright of heart!
11: Let not the foot of arrogance come upon me, nor the hand of the wicked drive me away.
12: There the evildoers lie prostrate, they are thrust down, unable to rise.




Psalm 37


Compare with King James Version: Psal.037




0: A Psalm of David.
1: Fret not yourself because of the wicked, be not envious of wrongdoers!
2: For they will soon fade like the grass, and wither like the green herb.
3: Trust in the LORD, and do good; so you will dwell in the land, and enjoy security.
4: Take delight in the LORD, and he will give you the desires of your heart.
5: Commit your way to the LORD; trust in him, and he will act.
6: He will bring forth your vindication as the light, and your right as the noonday.
7: Be still before the LORD, and wait patiently for him; fret not yourself over him who prospers in his way, over the man who carries out evil devices!
8: Refrain from anger, and forsake wrath! Fret not yourself; it tends only to evil.
9: For the wicked shall be cut off; but those who wait for the LORD shall possess the land.
10: Yet a little while, and the wicked will be no more; though you look well at his place, he will not be there.
11: But the meek shall possess the land, and delight themselves in abundant prosperity.
12: The wicked plots against the righteous, and gnashes his teeth at him;
13: but the LORD laughs at the wicked, for he sees that his day is coming.
14: The wicked draw the sword and bend their bows, to bring down the poor and needy, to slay those who walk uprightly;
15: their sword shall enter their own heart, and their bows shall be broken.
16: Better is a little that the righteous has than the abundance of many wicked.
17: For the arms of the wicked shall be broken; but the LORD upholds the righteous.
18: The LORD knows the days of the blameless, and their heritage will abide for ever;
19: they are not put to shame in evil times, in the days of famine they have abundance.
20: But the wicked perish; the enemies of the LORD are like the glory of the pastures, they vanish -- like smoke they vanish away.
21: The wicked borrows, and cannot pay back, but the righteous is generous and gives;
22: for those blessed by the LORD shall possess the land, but those cursed by him shall be cut off.
23: The steps of a man are from the LORD, and he establishes him in whose way he delights;
24: though he fall, he shall not be cast headlong, for the LORD is the stay of his hand.
25: I have been young, and now am old; yet I have not seen the righteous forsaken or his children begging bread.
26: He is ever giving liberally and lending, and his children become a blessing.
27: Depart from evil, and do good; so shall you abide for ever.
28: For the LORD loves justice; he will not forsake his saints. The righteous shall be preserved for ever, but the children of the wicked shall be cut off.
29: The righteous shall possess the land, and dwell upon it for ever.
30: The mouth of the righteous utters wisdom, and his tongue speaks justice.
31: The law of his God is in his heart; his steps do not slip.
32: The wicked watches the righteous, and seeks to slay him.
33: The LORD will not abandon him to his power, or let him be condemned when he is brought to trial.
34: Wait for the LORD, and keep to his way, and he will exalt you to possess the land; you will look on the destruction of the wicked.
35: I have seen a wicked man overbearing, and towering like a cedar of Lebanon.
36: Again I passed by, and, lo, he was no more; though I sought him, he could not be found.
37: Mark the blameless man, and behold the upright, for there is posterity for the man of peace.
38: But transgressors shall be altogether destroyed; the posterity of the wicked shall be cut off.
39: The salvation of the righteous is from the LORD; he is their refuge in the time of trouble.
40: The LORD helps them and delivers them; he delivers them from the wicked, and saves them, because they take refuge in him.




Psalm 38


Compare with King James Version: Psal.038




0: A Psalm of David, for the memorial offering.
1: O LORD, rebuke me not in thy anger, nor chasten me in thy wrath!
2: For thy arrows have sunk into me, and thy hand has come down on me.
3: There is no soundness in my flesh because of thy indignation; there is no health in my bones because of my sin.
4: For my iniquities have gone over my head; they weigh like a burden too heavy for me.
5: My wounds grow foul and fester because of my foolishness,
6: I am utterly bowed down and prostrate; all the day I go about mourning.
7: For my loins are filled with burning, and there is no soundness in my flesh.
8: I am utterly spent and crushed; I groan because of the tumult of my heart.
9: Lord, all my longing is known to thee, my sighing is not hidden from thee.
10: My heart throbs, my strength fails me; and the light of my eyes -- it also has gone from me.
11: My friends and companions stand aloof from my plague, and my kinsmen stand afar off.
12: Those who seek my life lay their snares, those who seek my hurt speak of ruin, and meditate treachery all the day long.
13: But I am like a deaf man, I do not hear, like a dumb man who does not open his mouth.
14: Yea, I am like a man who does not hear, and in whose mouth are no rebukes.
15: But for thee, O LORD, do I wait; it is thou, O LORD my God, who wilt answer.
16: For I pray, "Only let them not rejoice over me, who boast against me when my foot slips!"
17: For I am ready to fall, and my pain is ever with me.
18: I confess my iniquity, I am sorry for my sin.
19: Those who are my foes without cause are mighty, and many are those who hate me wrongfully.
20: Those who render me evil for good are my adversaries because I follow after good.
21: Do not forsake me, O LORD! O my God, be not far from me!
22: Make haste to help me, O Lord, my salvation!




Psalm 39


Compare with King James Version: Psal.039




0: To the choirmaster: to Jeduthun. A Psalm of David.
1: I said, "I will guard my ways, that I may not sin with my tongue; I will bridle my mouth, so long as the wicked are in my presence."
2: I was dumb and silent, I held my peace to no avail; my distress grew worse,
3: my heart became hot within me. As I mused, the fire burned; then I spoke with my tongue:
4: "LORD, let me know my end, and what is the measure of my days; let me know how fleeting my life is!
5: Behold, thou hast made my days a few handbreadths, and my lifetime is as nothing in thy sight. Surely every man stands as a mere breath! [Selah]
6: Surely man goes about as a shadow! Surely for nought are they in turmoil; man heaps up, and knows not who will gather!
7: "And now, Lord, for what do I wait? My hope is in thee.
8: Deliver me from all my transgressions. Make me not the scorn of the fool!
9: I am dumb, I do not open my mouth; for it is thou who hast done it.
10: Remove thy stroke from me; I am spent by the blows of thy hand.
11: When thou dost chasten man with rebukes for sin, thou dost consume like a moth what is dear to him; surely every man is a mere breath! [Selah]
12: "Hear my prayer, O LORD, and give ear to my cry; hold not thy peace at my tears! For I am thy passing guest, a sojourner, like all my fathers.
13: Look away from me, that I may know gladness, before I depart and be no more!"




Psalm 40


Compare with King James Version: Psal.040




0: To the choirmaster. A Psalm of David.
1: I waited patiently for the LORD; he inclined to me and heard my cry.
2: He drew me up from the desolate pit, out of the miry bog, and set my feet upon a rock, making my steps secure.
3: He put a new song in my mouth, a song of praise to our God. Many will see and fear, and put their trust in the LORD.
4: Blessed is the man who makes the LORD his trust, who does not turn to the proud, to those who go astray after false gods!
5: Thou hast multiplied, O LORD my God, thy wondrous deeds and thy thoughts toward us; none can compare with thee! Were I to proclaim and tell of them, they would be more than can be numbered.
6: Sacrifice and offering thou dost not desire; but thou hast given me an open ear. Burnt offering and sin offering thou hast not required.
7: Then I said, "Lo, I come; in the roll of the book it is written of me;
8: I delight to do thy will, O my God; thy law is within my heart."
9: I have told the glad news of deliverance in the great congregation; lo, I have not restrained my lips, as thou knowest, O LORD.
10: I have not hid thy saving help within my heart, I have spoken of thy faithfulness and thy salvation; I have not concealed thy steadfast love and thy faithfulness from the great congregation.
11: Do not thou, O LORD, withhold thy mercy from me, let thy steadfast love and th

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Chapter 1
Jeremiah, chapter 1


Compare with King James Version: Jere.01




1: The words of Jeremiah, the son of Hilki'ah, of the priests who were in An'athoth in the land of Benjamin,
2: to whom the word of the LORD came in the days of Josi'ah the son of Amon, king of Judah, in the thirteenth year of his reign.
3: It came also in the days of Jehoi'akim the son of Josi'ah, king of Judah, and until the end of the eleventh year of Zedeki'ah, the son of Josi'ah, king of Judah, until the captivity of Jerusalem in the fifth month.
4: Now the word of the LORD came to me saying,
5: "Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, and before you were born I consecrated you; I appointed you a prophet to the nations."
6: Then I said, "Ah, Lord GOD! Behold, I do not know how to speak, for I am only a youth."
7: But the LORD said to me, "Do not say, `I am only a youth'; for to all to whom I send you you shall go, and whatever I command you you shall speak.
8: Be not afraid of them, for I am with you to deliver you, says the LORD."
9: Then the LORD put forth his hand and touched my mouth; and the LORD said to me, "Behold, I have put my words in your mouth.
10: See, I have set you this day over nations and over kingdoms, to pluck up and to break down, to destroy and to overthrow, to build and to plant."
11: And the word of the LORD came to me, saying, "Jeremiah, what do you see?" And I said, "I see a rod of almond."
12: Then the LORD said to me, "You have seen well, for I am watching over my word to perform it."
13: The word of the LORD came to me a second time, saying, "What do you see?" And I said, "I see a boiling pot, facing away from the north."
14: Then the LORD said to me, "Out of the north evil shall break forth upon all the inhabitants of the land.
15: For, lo, I am calling all the tribes of the kingdoms of the north, says the LORD; and they shall come and every one shall set his throne at the entrance of the gates of Jerusalem, against all its walls round about, and against all the cities of Judah.
16: And I will utter my judgments against them, for all their wickedness in forsaking me; they have burned incense to other gods, and worshiped the works of their own hands.
17: But you, gird up your loins; arise, and say to them everything that I command you. Do not be dismayed by them, lest I dismay you before them.
18: And I, behold, I make you this day a fortified city, an iron pillar, and bronze walls, against the whole land, against the kings of Judah, its princes, its priests, and the people of the land.
19: They will fight against you; but they shall not prevail against you, for I am with you, says the LORD, to deliver you."


Chapter 2
Jeremiah, chapter 2


Compare with King James Version: Jere.02




1: The word of the LORD came to me, saying,
2: "Go and proclaim in the hearing of Jerusalem, Thus says the LORD, I remember the devotion of your youth, your love as a bride, how you followed me in the wilderness, in a land not sown.
3: Israel was holy to the LORD, the first fruits of his harvest. All who ate of it became guilty; evil came upon them, says the LORD."
4: Hear the word of the LORD, O house of Jacob, and all the families of the house of Israel.
5: Thus says the LORD: "What wrong did your fathers find in me that they went far from me, and went after worthlessness, and became worthless?
6: They did not say, `Where is the LORD who brought us up from the land of Egypt, who led us in the wilderness, in a land of deserts and pits, in a land of drought and deep darkness, in a land that none passes through, where no man dwells?'
7: And I brought you into a plentiful land to enjoy its fruits and its good things. But when you came in you defiled my land, and made my heritage an abomination.
8: The priests did not say, `Where is the LORD?' Those who handle the law did not know me; the rulers transgressed against me; the prophets prophesied by Ba'al, and went after things that do not profit.
9: "Therefore I still contend with you, says the LORD, and with your children's children I will contend.
10: For cross to the coasts of Cyprus and see, or send to Kedar and examine with care; see if there has been such a thing.
11: Has a nation changed its gods, even though they are no gods? But my people have changed their glory for that which does not profit.
12: Be appalled, O heavens, at this, be shocked, be utterly desolate, says the LORD,
13: for my people have committed two evils: they have forsaken me, the fountain of living waters, and hewed out cisterns for themselves, broken cisterns, that can hold no water.
14: "Is Israel a slave? Is he a homeborn servant? Why then has he become a prey?
15: The lions have roared against him, they have roared loudly. They have made his land a waste; his cities are in ruins, without inhabitant.
16: Moreover, the men of Memphis and Tah'panhes have broken the crown of your head.
17: Have you not brought this upon yourself by forsaking the LORD your God, when he led you in the way?
18: And now what do you gain by going to Egypt, to drink the waters of the Nile? Or what do you gain by going to Assyria, to drink the waters of the Euphra'tes?
19: Your wickedness will chasten you, and your apostasy will reprove you. Know and see that it is evil and bitter for you to forsake the LORD your God; the fear of me is not in you, says the Lord GOD of hosts.
20: "For long ago you broke your yoke and burst your bonds; and you said, `I will not serve.' Yea, upon every high hill and under every green tree you bowed down as a harlot.
21: Yet I planted you a choice vine, wholly of pure seed. How then have you turned degenerate and become a wild vine?
22: Though you wash yourself with lye and use much soap, the stain of your guilt is still before me, says the Lord GOD.
23: How can you say, `I am not defiled, I have not gone after the Ba'als'? Look at your way in the valley; know what you have done -- a restive young camel interlacing her tracks,
24: a wild ass used to the wilderness, in her heat sniffing the wind! Who can restrain her lust? None who seek her need weary themselves; in her month they will find her.
25: Keep your feet from going unshod and your throat from thirst. But you said, `It is hopeless, for I have loved strangers, and after them I will go.'
26: "As a thief is shamed when caught, so the house of Israel shall be shamed: they, their kings, their princes, their priests, and their prophets,
27: who say to a tree, `You are my father,' and to a stone, `You gave me birth.' For they have turned their back to me, and not their face. But in the time of their trouble they say, `Arise and save us!'
28: But where are your gods that you made for yourself? Let them arise, if they can save you, in your time of trouble; for as many as your cities are your gods, O Judah.
29: "Why do you complain against me? You have all rebelled against me, says the LORD.
30: In vain have I smitten your children, they took no correction; your own sword devoured your prophets like a ravening lion.
31: And you, O generation, heed the word of the LORD. Have I been a wilderness to Israel, or a land of thick darkness? Why then do my people say, `We are free, we will come no more to thee'?
32: Can a maiden forget her ornaments, or a bride her attire? Yet my people have forgotten me days without number.
33: "How well you direct your course to seek lovers! So that even to wicked women you have taught your ways.
34: Also on your skirts is found the lifeblood of guiltless poor; you did not find them breaking in. Yet in spite of all these things
35: you say, `I am innocent; surely his anger has turned from me.' Behold, I will bring you to judgment for saying, `I have not sinned.'
36: How lightly you gad about, changing your way! You shall be put to shame by Egypt as you were put to shame by Assyria.
37: From it too you will come away with your hands upon your head, for the LORD has rejected those in whom you trust, and you will not prosper by them.


Chapter 3
Jeremiah, chapter 3


Compare with King James Version: Jere.03




1: "If a man divorces his wife and she goes from him and becomes another man's wife, will he return to her? Would not that land be greatly polluted? You have played the harlot with many lovers; and would you return to me? says the LORD.
2: Lift up your eyes to the bare heights, and see! Where have you not been lain with? By the waysides you have sat awaiting lovers like an Arab in the wilderness. You have polluted the land with your vile harlotry.
3: Therefore the showers have been withheld, and the spring rain has not come; yet you have a harlot's brow, you refuse to be ashamed.
4: Have you not just now called to me, `My father, thou art the friend of my youth --
5: will he be angry for ever, will he be indignant to the end?' Behold, you have spoken, but you have done all the evil that you could."
6: The LORD said to me in the days of King Josi'ah: "Have you seen what she did, that faithless one, Israel, how she went up on every high hill and under every green tree, and there played the harlot?
7: And I thought, `After she has done all this she will return to me'; but she did not return, and her false sister Judah saw it.
8: She saw that for all the adulteries of that faithless one, Israel, I had sent her away with a decree of divorce; yet her false sister Judah did not fear, but she too went and played the harlot.
9: Because harlotry was so light to her, she polluted the land, committing adultery with stone and tree.
10: Yet for all this her false sister Judah did not return to me with her whole heart, but in pretense, says the LORD."
11: And the LORD said to me, "Faithless Israel has shown herself less guilty than false Judah.
12: Go, and proclaim these words toward the north, and say, `Return, faithless Israel, says the LORD. I will not look on you in anger, for I am merciful, says the LORD; I will not be angry for ever.
13: Only acknowledge your guilt, that you rebelled against the LORD your God and scattered your favors among strangers under every green tree, and that you have not obeyed my voice, says the LORD.
14: Return, O faithless children, says the LORD; for I am your master; I will take you, one from a city and two from a family, and I will bring you to Zion.
15: "`And I will give you shepherds after my own heart, who will feed you with knowledge and understanding.
16: And when you have multiplied and increased in the land, in those days, says the LORD, they shall no more say, "The ark of the covenant of the LORD." It shall not come to mind, or be remembered, or missed; it shall not be made again.
17: At that time Jerusalem shall be called the throne of the LORD, and all nations shall gather to it, to the presence of the LORD in Jerusalem, and they shall no more stubbornly follow their own evil heart.
18: In those days the house of Judah shall join the house of Israel, and together they shall come from the land of the north to the land that I gave your fathers for a heritage.
19: "`I thought how I would set you among my sons, and give you a pleasant land, a heritage most beauteous of all nations. And I thought you would call me, My Father, and would not turn from following me.
20: Surely, as a faithless wife leaves her husband, so have you been faithless to me, O house of Israel, says the LORD.'"
21: A voice on the bare heights is heard, the weeping and pleading of Israel's sons, because they have perverted their way, they have forgotten the LORD their God.
22: "Return, O faithless sons, I will heal your faithlessness." "Behold, we come to thee; for thou art the LORD our God.
23: Truly the hills are a delusion, the orgies on the mountains. Truly in the LORD our God is the salvation of Israel.
24: "But from our youth the shameful thing has devoured all for which our fathers labored, their flocks and their herds, their sons and their daughters.
25: Let us lie down in our shame, and let our dishonor cover us; for we have sinned against the LORD our God, we and our fathers, from our youth even to this day; and we have not obeyed the voice of the LORD our God."


Chapter 4
Jeremiah, chapter 4


Compare with King James Version: Jere.04




1: "If you return, O Israel, says the LORD, to me you should return. If you remove your abominations from my presence, and do not waver,
2: and if you swear, `As the LORD lives,' in truth, in justice, and in uprightness, then nations shall bless themselves in him, and in him shall they glory."
3: For thus says the LORD to the men of Judah and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem: "Break up your fallow ground, and sow not among thorns.
4: Circumcise yourselves to the LORD, remove the foreskin of your hearts, O men of Judah and inhabitants of Jerusalem; lest my wrath go forth like fire, and burn with none to quench it, because of the evil of your doings."
5: Declare in Judah, and proclaim in Jerusalem, and say, "Blow the trumpet through the land; cry aloud and say, `Assemble, and let us go into the fortified cities!'
6: Raise a standard toward Zion, flee for safety, stay not, for I bring evil from the north, and great destruction.
7: A lion has gone up from his thicket, a destroyer of nations has set out; he has gone forth from his place to make your land a waste; your cities will be ruins without inhabitant.
8: For this gird you with sackcloth, lament and wail; for the fierce anger of the LORD has not turned back from us."
9: "In that day, says the LORD, courage shall fail both king and princes; the priests shall be appalled and the prophets astounded."
10: Then I said, "Ah, Lord GOD, surely thou hast utterly deceived this people and Jerusalem, saying, `It shall be well with you'; whereas the sword has reached their very life."
11: At that time it will be said to this people and to Jerusalem, "A hot wind from the bare heights in the desert toward the daughter of my people, not to winnow or cleanse,
12: a wind too full for this comes for me. Now it is I who speak in judgment upon them."
13: Behold, he comes up like clouds, his chariots like the whirlwind; his horses are swifter than eagles -- woe to us, for we are ruined!
14: O Jerusalem, wash your heart from wickedness, that you may be saved. How long shall your evil thoughts lodge within you?
15: For a voice declares from Dan and proclaims evil from Mount E'phraim.
16: Warn the nations that he is coming; announce to Jerusalem, "Besiegers come from a distant land; they shout against the cities of Judah.
17: Like keepers of a field are they against her round about, because she has rebelled against me, says the LORD.
18: Your ways and your doings have brought this upon you. This is your doom, and it is bitter; it has reached your very heart."
19: My anguish, my anguish! I writhe in pain! Oh, the walls of my heart! My heart is beating wildly; I cannot keep silent; for I hear the sound of the trumpet, the alarm of war.
20: Disaster follows hard on disaster, the whole land is laid waste. Suddenly my tents are destroyed, my curtains in a moment.
21: How long must I see the standard, and hear the sound of the trumpet?
22: "For my people are foolish, they know me not; they are stupid children, they have no understanding. They are skilled in doing evil, but how to do good they know not."
23: I looked on the earth, and lo, it was waste and void; and to the heavens, and they had no light.
24: I looked on the mountains, and lo, they were quaking, and all the hills moved to and fro.
25: I looked, and lo, there was no man, and all the birds of the air had fled.
26: I looked, and lo, the fruitful land was a desert, and all its cities were laid in ruins before the LORD, before his fierce anger.
27: For thus says the LORD, "The whole land shall be a desolation; yet I will not make a full end.
28: For this the earth shall mourn, and the heavens above be black; for I have spoken, I have purposed; I have not relented nor will I turn back."
29: At the noise of horseman and archer every city takes to flight; they enter thickets; they climb among rocks; all the cities are forsaken, and no man dwells in them.
30: And you, O desolate one, what do you mean that you dress in scarlet, that you deck yourself with ornaments of gold, that you enlarge your eyes with paint? In vain you beautify yourself. Your lovers despise you; they seek your life.
31: For I heard a cry as of a woman in travail, anguish as of one bringing forth her first child, the cry of the daughter of Zion gasping for breath, stretching out her hands, "Woe is me! I am fainting before murderers."


Chapter 5
Jeremiah, chapter 5


Compare with King James Version: Jere.05




1: Run to and fro through the streets of Jerusalem, look and take note! Search her squares to see if you can find a man, one who does justice and seeks truth; that I may pardon her.
2: Though they say, "As the LORD lives," yet they swear falsely.
3: O LORD, do not thy eyes look for truth? Thou hast smitten them, but they felt no anguish; thou hast consumed them, but they refused to take correction. They have made their faces harder than rock; they have refused to repent.
4: Then I said, "These are only the poor, they have no sense; for they do not know the way of the LORD, the law of their God.
5: I will go to the great, and will speak to them; for they know the way of the LORD, the law of their God." But they all alike had broken the yoke, they had burst the bonds.
6: Therefore a lion from the forest shall slay them, a wolf from the desert shall destroy them. A leopard is watching against their cities, every one who goes out of them shall be torn in pieces; because their transgressions are many, their apostasies are great.
7: "How can I pardon you? Your children have forsaken me, and have sworn by those who are no gods. When I fed them to the full, they committed adultery and trooped to the houses of harlots.
8: They were well-fed lusty stallions, each neighing for his neighbor's wife.
9: Shall I not punish them for these things? says the LORD; and shall I not avenge myself on a nation such as this?
10: "Go up through her vine-rows and destroy, but make not a full end; strip away her branches, for they are not the LORD's.
11: For the house of Israel and the house of Judah have been utterly faithless to me, says the LORD.
12: They have spoken falsely of the LORD, and have said, `He will do nothing; no evil will come upon us, nor shall we see sword or famine.
13: The prophets will become wind; the word is not in them. Thus shall it be done to them!'"
14: Therefore thus says the LORD, the God of hosts: "Because they have spoken this word, behold, I am making my words in your mouth a fire, and this people wood, and the fire shall devour them.
15: Behold, I am bringing upon you a nation from afar, O house of Israel, says the LORD. It is an enduring nation, it is an ancient nation, a nation whose language you do not know, nor can you understand what they say.
16: Their quiver is like an open tomb, they are all mighty men.
17: They shall eat up your harvest and your food; they shall eat up your sons and your daughters; they shall eat up your flocks and your herds; they shall eat up your vines and your fig trees; your fortified cities in which you trust they shall destroy with the sword."
18: "But even in those days, says the LORD, I will not make a full end of you.
19: And when your people say, `Why has the LORD our God done all these things to us?' you shall say to them, `As you have forsaken me and served foreign gods in your land, so you shall serve strangers in a land that is not yours.'"
20: Declare this in the house of Jacob, proclaim it in Judah:
21: "Hear this, O foolish and senseless people, who have eyes, but see not, who have ears, but hear not.
22: Do you not fear me? says the LORD; Do you not tremble before me? I placed the sand as the bound for the sea, a perpetual barrier which it cannot pass; though the waves toss, they cannot prevail, though they roar, they cannot pass over it.
23: But this people has a stubborn and rebellious heart; they have turned aside and gone away.
24: They do not say in their hearts, `Let us fear the LORD our God, who gives the rain in its season, the autumn rain and the spring rain, and keeps for us the weeks appointed for the harvest.'
25: Your iniquities have turned these away, and your sins have kept good from you.
26: For wicked men are found among my people; they lurk like fowlers lying in wait. They set a trap; they catch men.
27: Like a basket full of birds, their houses are full of treachery; therefore they have become great and rich,
28: they have grown fat and sleek. They know no bounds in deeds of wickedness; they judge not with justice the cause of the fatherless, to make it prosper, and they do not defend the rights of the needy.
29: Shall I not punish them for these things? says the LORD, and shall I not avenge myself on a nation such as this?"
30: An appalling and horrible thing has happened in the land:
31: the prophets prophesy falsely, and the priests rule at their direction; my people love to have it so, but what will you do when the end comes?


Chapter 6
Jeremiah, chapter 6


Compare with King James Version: Jere.06




1: Flee for safety, O people of Benjamin, from the midst of Jerusalem! Blow the trumpet in Teko'a, and raise a signal on Beth-hacche'rem; for evil looms out of the north, and great destruction.
2: The comely and delicately bred I will destroy, the daughter of Zion.
3: Shepherds with their flocks shall come against her; they shall pitch their tents around her, they shall pasture, each in his place.
4: "Prepare war against her; up, and let us attack at noon!" "Woe to us, for the day declines, for the shadows of evening lengthen!"
5: "Up, and let us attack by night, and destroy her palaces!"
6: For thus says the LORD of hosts: "Hew down her trees; cast up a siege mound against Jerusalem. This is the city which must be punished; there is nothing but oppression within her.
7: As a well keeps its water fresh, so she keeps fresh her wickedness; violence and destruction are heard within her; sickness and wounds are ever before me.
8: Be warned, O Jerusalem, lest I be alienated from you; lest I make you a desolation, an uninhabited land."
9: Thus says the LORD of hosts: "Glean thoroughly as a vine the remnant of Israel; like a grape-gatherer pass your hand again over its branches."
10: To whom shall I speak and give warning, that they may hear? Behold, their ears are closed, they cannot listen; behold, the word of the LORD is to them an object of scorn, they take no pleasure in it.
11: Therefore I am full of the wrath of the LORD; I am weary of holding it in. "Pour it out upon the children in the street, and upon the gatherings of young men, also; both husband and wife shall be taken, the old folk and the very aged.
12: Their houses shall be turned over to others, their fields and wives together; for I will stretch out my hand against the inhabitants of the land," says the LORD.
13: "For from the least to the greatest of them, every one is greedy for unjust gain; and from prophet to priest, every one deals falsely.
14: They have healed the wound of my people lightly, saying, `Peace, peace,' when there is no peace.
15: Were they ashamed when they committed abomination? No, they were not at all ashamed; they did not know how to blush. Therefore they shall fall among those who fall; at the time that I punish them, they shall be overthrown," says the LORD.
16: Thus says the LORD: "Stand by the roads, and look, and ask for the ancient paths, where the good way is; and walk in it, and find rest for your souls. But they said, `We will not walk in it.'
17: I set watchmen over you, saying, `Give heed to the sound of the trumpet!' But they said, `We will not give heed.'
18: Therefore hear, O nations, and know, O congregation, what will happen to them.
19: Hear, O earth; behold, I am bringing evil upon this people, the fruit of their devices, because they have not given heed to my words; and as for my law, they have rejected it.
20: To what purpose does frankincense come to me from Sheba, or sweet cane from a distant land? Your burnt offerings are not acceptable, nor your sacrifices pleasing to me.
21: Therefore thus says the LORD: `Behold, I will lay before this people stumbling blocks against which they shall stumble; fathers and sons together, neighbor and friend shall perish.'"
22: Thus says the LORD: "Behold, a people is coming from the north country, a great nation is stirring from the farthest parts of the earth.
23: They lay hold on bow and spear, they are cruel and have no mercy, the sound of them is like the roaring sea; they ride upon horses, set in array as a man for battle, against you, O daughter of Zion!"
24: We have heard the report of it, our hands fall helpless; anguish has taken hold of us, pain as of a woman in travail.
25: Go not forth into the field, nor walk on the road; for the enemy has a sword, terror is on every side.
26: O daughter of my people, gird on sackcloth, and roll in ashes; make mourning as for an only son, most bitter lamentation; for suddenly the destroyer will come upon us.
27: "I have made you an assayer and tester among my people, that you may know and assay their ways.
28: They are all stubbornly rebellious, going about with slanders; they are bronze and iron, all of them act corruptly.
29: The bellows blow fiercely, the lead is consumed by the fire; in vain the refining goes on, for the wicked are not removed.
30: Refuse silver they are called, for the LORD has rejected them."


Chapter 7
Jeremiah, chapter 7


Compare with King James Version: Jere.07




1: The word that came to Jeremiah from the LORD:
2: "Stand in the gate of the LORD's house, and proclaim there this word, and say, Hear the word of the LORD, all you men of Judah who enter these gates to worship the LORD.
3: Thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, Amend your ways and your doings, and I will let you dwell in this place.
4: Do not trust in these deceptive words: `This is the temple of the LORD, the temple of the LORD, the temple of the LORD.'
5: "For if you truly amend your ways and your doings, if you truly execute justice one with another,
6: if you do not oppress the alien, the fatherless or the widow, or shed innocent blood in this place, and if you do not go after other gods to your own hurt,
7: then I will let you dwell in this place, in the land that I gave of old to your fathers for ever.
8: "Behold, you trust in deceptive words to no avail.
9: Will you steal, murder, commit adultery, swear falsely, burn incense to Ba'al, and go after other gods that you have not known,
10: and then come and stand before me in this house, which is called by my name, and say, `We are delivered!' -- only to go on doing all these abominations?
11: Has this house, which is called by my name, become a den of robbers in your eyes? Behold, I myself have seen it, says the LORD.
12: Go now to my place that was in Shiloh, where I made my name dwell at first, and see what I did to it for the wickedness of my people Israel.
13: And now, because you have done all these things, says the LORD, and when I spoke to you persistently you did not listen, and when I called you, you did not answer,
14: therefore I will do to the house which is called by my name, and in which you trust, and to the place which I gave to you and to your fathers, as I did to Shiloh.
15: And I will cast you out of my sight, as I cast out all your kinsmen, all the offspring of E'phraim.
16: "As for you, do not pray for this people, or lift up cry or prayer for them, and do not intercede with me, for I do not hear you.
17: Do you not see what they are doing in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem?
18: The children gather wood, the fathers kindle fire, and the women knead dough, to make cakes for the queen of heaven; and they pour out drink offerings to other gods, to provoke me to anger.
19: Is it I whom they provoke? says the LORD. Is it not themselves, to their own confusion?
20: Therefore thus says the Lord GOD: Behold, my anger and my wrath will be poured out on this place, upon man and beast, upon the trees of the field and the fruit of the ground; it will burn and not be quenched."
21: Thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel: "Add your burnt offerings to your sacrifices, and eat the flesh.
22: For in the day that I brought them out of the land of Egypt, I did not speak to your fathers or command them concerning burnt offerings and sacrifices.
23: But this command I gave them, `Obey my voice, and I will be your God, and you shall be my people; and walk in all the way that I command you, that it may be well with you.'
24: But they did not obey or incline their ear, but walked in their own counsels and the stubbornness of their evil hearts, and went backward and not forward.
25: From the day that your fathers came out of the land of Egypt to this day, I have persistently sent all my servants the prophets to them, day after day;
26: yet they did not listen to me, or incline their ear, but stiffened their neck. They did worse than their fathers.
27: "So you shall speak all these words to them, but they will not listen to you. You shall call to them, but they will not answer you.
28: And you shall say to them, `This is the nation that did not obey the voice of the LORD their God, and did not accept discipline; truth has perished; it is cut off from their lips.
29: Cut off your hair and cast it away; raise a lamentation on the bare heights, for the LORD has rejected and forsaken the generation of his wrath.'
30: "For the sons of Judah have done evil in my sight, says the LORD; they have set their abominations in the house which is called by my name, to defile it.
31: And they have built the high place of Topheth, which is in the valley of the son of Hinnom, to burn their sons and their daughters in the fire; which I did not command, nor did it come into my mind.
32: Therefore, behold, the days are coming, says the LORD, when it will no more be called Topheth, or the valley of the son of Hinnom, but the valley of Slaughter: for they will bury in Topheth, because there is no room elsewhere.
33: And the dead bodies of this people will be food for the birds of the air, and for the beasts of the earth; and none will frighten them away.
34: And I will make to cease from the cities of Judah and from the streets of Jerusalem the voice of mirth and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom and the voice of the bride; for the land shall become a waste.


Chapter 8
Jeremiah, chapter 8


Compare with King James Version: Jere.08




1: "At that time, says the LORD, the bones of the kings of Judah, the bones of its princes, the bones of the priests, the bones of the prophets, and the bones of the inhabitants of Jerusalem shall be brought out of their tombs;
2: and they shall be spread before the sun and the moon and all the host of heaven, which they have loved and served, which they have gone after, and which they have sought and worshiped; and they shall not be gathered or buried; they shall be as dung on the surface of the ground.
3: Death shall be preferred to life by all the remnant that remains of this evil family in all the places where I have driven them, says the LORD of hosts.
4: "You shall say to them, Thus says the LORD: When men fall, do they not rise again? If one turns away, does he not return?
5: Why then has this people turned away in perpetual backsliding? They hold fast to deceit, they refuse to return.
6: I have given heed and listened, but they have not spoken aright; no man repents of his wickedness, saying, `What have I done?' Every one turns to his own course, like a horse plunging headlong into battle.
7: Even the stork in the heavens knows her times; and the turtledove, swallow, and crane keep the time of their coming; but my people know not the ordinance of the LORD.
8: "How can you say, `We are wise, and the law of the LORD is with us'? But, behold, the false pen of the scribes has made it into a lie.
9: The wise men shall be put to shame, they shall be dismayed and taken; lo, they have rejected the word of the LORD, and what wisdom is in them?
10: Therefore I will give their wives to others and their fields to conquerors, because from the least to the greatest every one is greedy for unjust gain; from prophet to priest every one deals falsely.
11: They have healed the wound of my people lightly, saying, `Peace, peace,' when there is no peace.
12: Were they ashamed when they committed abomination? No, they were not at all ashamed; they did not know how to blush. Therefore they shall fall among the fallen; when I punish them, they shall be overthrown, says the LORD.
13: When I would gather them, says the LORD, there are no grapes on the vine, nor figs on the fig tree; even the leaves are withered, and what I gave them has passed away from them."
14: Why do we sit still? Gather together, let us go into the fortified cities and perish there; for the LORD our God has doomed us to perish, and has given us poisoned water to drink, because we have sinned against the LORD.
15: We looked for peace, but no good came, for a time of healing, but behold, terror.
16: "The snorting of their horses is heard from Dan; at the sound of the neighing of their stallions the whole land quakes. They come and devour the land and all that fills it, the city and those who dwell in it.
17: For behold, I am sending among you serpents, adders which cannot be charmed, and they shall bite you," says the LORD.
18: My grief is beyond healing, my heart is sick within me.
19: Hark, the cry of the daughter of my people from the length and breadth of the land: "Is the LORD not in Zion? Is her King not in her?" "Why have they provoked me to anger with their graven images, and with their foreign idols?"
20: "The harvest is past, the summer is ended, and we are not saved."
21: For the wound of the daughter of my people is my heart wounded, I mourn, and dismay has taken hold on me.
22: Is there no balm in Gilead? Is there no physician there? Why then has the health of the daughter of my people not been restored?


Chapter 9
Jeremiah, chapter 9


Compare with King James Version: Jere.09




1: O that my head were waters, and my eyes a fountain of tears, that I might weep day and night for the slain of the daughter of my people!
2: O that I had in the desert a wayfarers' lodging place, that I might leave my people and go away from them! For they are all adulterers, a company of treacherous men.
3: They bend their tongue like a bow; falsehood and not truth has grown strong in the land; for they proceed from evil to evil, and they do not know me, says the LORD.
4: Let every one beware of his neighbor, and put no trust in any brother; for every brother is a supplanter, and every neighbor goes about as a slanderer.
5: Every one deceives his neighbor, and no one speaks the truth; they have taught their tongue to speak lies; they commit iniquity and are too weary to repent.
6: Heaping oppression upon oppression, and deceit upon deceit, they refuse to know me, says the LORD.
7: Therefore thus says the LORD of hosts: "Behold, I will refine them and test them, for what else can I do, because of my people?
8: Their tongue is a deadly arrow; it speaks deceitfully; with his mouth each speaks peaceably to his neighbor, but in his heart he plans an ambush for him.
9: Shall I not punish them for these things? says the LORD; and shall I not avenge myself on a nation such as this?
10: "Take up weeping and wailing for the mountains, and a lamentation for the pastures of the wilderness, because they are laid waste so that no one passes through, and the lowing of cattle is not heard; both the birds of the air and the beasts have fled and are gone.
11: I will make Jerusalem a heap of ruins, a lair of jackals; and I will make the cities of Judah a desolation, without inhabitant."
12: Who is the man so wise that he can understand this? To whom has the mouth of the LORD spoken, that he may declare it? Why is the land ruined and laid waste like a wilderness, so that no one passes through?
13: And the LORD says: "Because they have forsaken my law which I set before them, and have not obeyed my voice, or walked in accord with it,
14: but have stubbornly followed their own hearts and have gone after the Ba'als, as their fathers taught them.
15: Therefore thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel: Behold, I will feed this people with wormwood, and give them poisonous water to drink.
16: I will scatter them among the nations whom neither they nor their fathers have known; and I will send the sword after them, until I have consumed them."
17: Thus says the LORD of hosts: "Consider, and call for the mourning women to come; send for the skilful women to come;
18: let them make haste and raise a wailing over us, that our eyes may run down with tears, and our eyelids gush with water.
19: For a sound of wailing is heard from Zion: `How we are ruined! We are utterly shamed, because we have left the land, because they have cast down our dwellings.'"
20: Hear, O women, the word of the LORD, and let your ear receive the word of his mouth; teach to your daughters a lament, and each to her neighbor a dirge.
21: For death has come up into our windows, it has entered our palaces, cutting off the children from the streets and the young men from the squares.
22: Speak, "Thus says the LORD: `The dead bodies of men shall fall like dung upon the open field, like sheaves after the reaper, and none shall gather them.'"
23: Thus says the LORD: "Let not the wise man glory in his wisdom, let not the mighty man glory in his might, let not the rich man glory in his riches;
24: but let him who glories glory in this, that he understands and knows me, that I am the LORD who practice steadfast love, justice, and righteousness in the earth; for in these things I delight, says the LORD."
25: "Behold, the days are coming, says the LORD, when I will punish all those who are circumcised but yet uncircumcised --
26: Egypt, Judah, Edom, the sons of Ammon, Moab, and all who dwell in the desert that cut the corners of their hair; for all these nations are uncircumcised, and all the house of Israel is uncircumcised in heart."


Chapter 10
Jeremiah, chapter 10


Compare with King James Version: Jere.10




1: Hear the word which the LORD speaks to you, O house of Israel.
2: Thus says the LORD: "Learn not the way of the nations, nor be dismayed at the signs of the heavens because the nations are dismayed at them,
3: for the customs of the peoples are false. A tree from the forest is cut down, and worked with an axe by the hands of a craftsman.
4: Men deck it with silver and gold; they fasten it with hammer and nails so that it cannot move.
5: Their idols are like scarecrows in a cucumber field, and they cannot speak; they have to be carried, for they cannot walk. Be not afraid of them, for they cannot do evil, neither is it in them to do good."
6: There is none like thee, O LORD; thou art great, and thy name is great in might.
7: Who would not fear thee, O King of the nations? For this is thy due; for among all the wise ones of the nations and in all their kingdoms there is none like thee.
8: They are both stupid and foolish; the instruction of idols is but wood!
9: Beaten silver is brought from Tarshish, and gold from Uphaz. They are the work of the craftsman and of the hands of the goldsmith; their clothing is violet and purple; they are all the work of skilled men.
10: But the LORD is the true God; he is the living God and the everlasting King. At his wrath the earth quakes, and the nations cannot endure his indignation.
11: Thus shall you say to them: "The gods who did not make the heavens and the earth shall perish from the earth and from under the heavens."
12: It is he who made the earth by his power, who established the world by his wisdom, and by his understanding stretched out the heavens.
13: When he utters his voice there is a tumult of waters in the heavens, and he makes the mist rise from the ends of the earth. He makes lightnings for the rain, and he brings forth the wind from his storehouses.
14: Every man is stupid and without knowledge; every goldsmith is put to shame by his idols; for his images are false, and there is no breath in them.
15: They are worthless, a work of delusion; at the time of their punishment they shall perish.
16: Not like these is he who is the portion of Jacob, for he is the one who formed all things, and Israel is the tribe of his inheritance; the LORD of hosts is his name.
17: Gather up your bundle from the ground, O you who dwell under siege!
18: For thus says the LORD: "Behold, I am slinging out the inhabitants of the land at this time, and I will bring distress on them, that they may feel it."
19: Woe is me because of my hurt! My wound is grievous. But I said, "Truly this is an affliction, and I must bear it."
20: My tent is destroyed, and all my cords are broken; my children have gone from me, and they are not; there is no one to spread my tent again, and to set up my curtains.
21: For the shepherds are stupid, and do not inquire of the LORD; therefore they have not prospered, and all their flock is scattered.
22: Hark, a rumor! Behold, it comes! -- a great commotion out of the north country to make the cities of Judah a desolation, a lair of jackals.
23: I know, O LORD, that the way of man is not in himself, that it is not in man who walks to direct his steps.
24: Correct me, O LORD, but in just measure; not in thy anger, lest thou bring me to nothing.
25: Pour out thy wrath upon the nations that know thee not, and upon the peoples that call not on thy name; for they have devoured Jacob; they have devoured him and consumed him, and have laid waste his habitation.


Chapter 11
Jeremiah, chapter 11


Compare with King James Version: Jere.11




1: The word that came to Jeremiah from the LORD:
2: "Hear the words of this covenant, and speak to the men of Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem.
3: You shall say to them, Thus says the LORD, the God of Israel: Cursed be the man who does not heed the words of this covenant
4: which I commanded your fathers when I brought them out of the land of Egypt, from the iron furnace, saying, Listen to my voice, and do all that I command you. So shall you be my people, and I will be your God,
5: that I may perform the oath which I swore to your fathers, to give them a land flowing with milk and honey, as at this day." Then I answered, "So be it, LORD."
6: And the LORD said to me, "Proclaim all these words in the cities of Judah, and in the streets of Jerusalem: Hear the words of this covenant and do them.
7: For I solemnly warned your fathers when I brought them up out of the land of Egypt, warning them persistently, even to this day, saying, Obey my voice.
8: Yet they did not obey or incline their ear, but every one walked in the stubbornness of his evil heart. Therefore I brought upon them all the words of this covenant, which I commanded them to do, but they did not."
9: Again the LORD said to me, "There is revolt among the men of Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem.
10: They have turned back to the iniquities of their forefathers, who refused to hear my words; they have gone after other gods to serve them; the house of Israel and the house of Judah have broken my covenant which I made with their fathers.
11: Therefore, thus says the LORD, Behold, I am bringing evil upon them which they cannot escape; though they cry to me, I will not listen to them.
12: Then the cities of Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem will go and cry to the gods to whom they burn incense, but they cannot save them in the time of their trouble.
13: For your gods have become as many as your cities, O Judah; and as many as the streets of Jerusalem are the altars you have set up to shame, altars to burn incense to Ba'al.
14: "Therefore do not pray for this people, or lift up a cry or prayer on their behalf, for I will not listen when they call to me in the time of their trouble.
15: What right has my beloved in my house, when she has done vile deeds? Can vows and sacrificial flesh avert your doom? Can you then exult?
16: The LORD once called you, `A green olive tree, fair with goodly fruit'; but with the roar of a great tempest he will set fire to it, and its branches will be consumed.
17: The LORD of hosts, who planted you, has pronounced evil against you, because of the evil which the house of Israel and the house of Judah have done, provoking me to anger by burning incense to Ba'al."
18: The LORD made it known to me and I knew; then thou didst show me their evil deeds.
19: But I was like a gentle lamb led to the slaughter. I did not know it was against me they devised schemes, saying, "Let us destroy the tree with its fruit, let us cut him off from the land of the living, that his name be remembered no more."
20: But, O LORD of hosts, who judgest righteously, who triest the heart and the mind, let me see thy vengeance upon them, for to thee have I committed my cause.
21: Therefore thus says the LORD concerning the men of An'athoth, who seek your life, and say, "Do not prophesy in the name of the LORD, or you will die by our hand" --
22: therefore thus says the LORD of hosts: "Behold, I will punish them; the young men shall die by the sword; their sons and their daughters shall die by famine;
23: and none of them shall be left. For I will bring evil upon the men of An'athoth, the year of their punishment."


Chapter 12
Jeremiah, chapter 12


Compare with King James Version: Jere.12




1: Righteous art thou, O LORD, when I complain to thee; yet I would plead my case before thee. Why does the way of the wicked prosper? Why do all who are treacherous thrive?
2: Thou plantest them, and they take root; they grow and bring forth fruit; thou art near in their mouth and far from their heart.
3: But thou, O LORD, knowest me; thou seest me, and triest my mind toward thee. Pull them out like sheep for the slaughter, and set them apart for the day of slaughter.
4: How long will the land mourn, and the grass of every field wither? For the wickedness of those who dwell in it the beasts and the birds are swept away, because men said, "He will not see our latter end."
5: "If you have raced with men on foot, and they have wearied you, how will you compete with horses? And if in a safe land you fall down, how will you do in the jungle of the Jordan?
6: For even your brothers and the house of your father, even they have dealt treacherously with you; they are in full cry after you; believe them not, though they speak fair words to you."
7: "I have forsaken my house, I have abandoned my heritage; I have given the beloved of my soul into the hands of her enemies.
8: My heritage has become to me like a lion in the forest, she has lifted up her voice against me; therefore I hate her.
9: Is my heritage to me like a speckled bird of prey? Are the birds of prey against her round about? Go, assemble all the wild beasts; bring them to devour.
10: Many shepherds have destroyed my vineyard, they have trampled down my portion, they have made my pleasant portion a desolate wilderness.
11: They have made it a desolation; desolate, it mourns to me. The whole land is made desolate, but no man lays it to heart.
12: Upon all the bare heights in the desert destroyers have come; for the sword of the LORD devours from one end of the land to the other; no flesh has peace.
13: They have sown wheat and have reaped thorns, they have tired themselves out but profit nothing. They shall be ashamed of their harvests because of the fierce anger of the LORD."
14: Thus says the LORD concerning all my evil neighbors who touch the heritage which I have given my people Israel to inherit: "Behold, I will pluck them up from their land, and I will pluck up the house of Judah from among them.
15: And after I have plucked them up, I will again have compassion on them, and I will bring them again each to his heritage and each to his land.
16: And it shall come to pass, if they will diligently learn the ways of my people, to swear by my name, `As the LORD lives,' even as they taught my people to swear by Ba'al, then they shall be built up in the midst of my people.
17: But if any nation will not listen, then I will utterly pluck it up and destroy it, says the LORD."


Chapter 13
Jeremiah, chapter 13


Compare with King James Version: Jere.13




1: Thus said the LORD to me, "Go and buy a linen waistcloth, and put it on your loins, and do not dip it in water."
2: So I bought a waistcloth according to the word of the LORD, and put it on my loins.
3: And the word of the LORD came to me a second time,
4: "Take the waistcloth which you have bought, which is upon your loins, and arise, go to the Euphra'tes, and hide it there in a cleft of the rock."
5: So I went, and hid it by the Euphra'tes, as the LORD commanded me.
6: And after many days the LORD said to me, "Arise, go to the Euphra'tes, and take from there the waistcloth which I commanded you to hide there."
7: Then I went to the Euphra'tes, and dug, and I took the waistcloth from the place where I had hidden it. And behold, the waistcloth was spoiled; it was good for nothing.
8: Then the word of the LORD came to me:
9: "Thus says the LORD: Even so will I spoil the pride of Judah and the great pride of Jerusalem.
10: This evil people, who refuse to hear my words, who stubbornly follow their own heart and have gone after other gods to serve them and worship them, shall be like this waistcloth, which is good for nothing.
11: For as the waistcloth clings to the loins of a man, so I made the whole house of Israel and the whole house of Judah cling to me, says the LORD, that they might be for me a people, a name, a praise, and a glory, but they would not listen.
12: "You shall speak to them this word: `Thus says the LORD, the God of Israel, "Every jar shall be filled with wine."' And they will say to you, `Do we not indeed know that every jar will be filled with wine?'
13: Then you shall say to them, `Thus says the LORD: Behold, I will fill with drunkenness all the inhabitants of this land: the kings who sit on David's throne, the priests, the prophets, and all the inhabitants of Jerusalem.
14: And I will dash them one against another, fathers and sons together, says the LORD. I will not pity or spare or have compassion, that I should not destroy them.'"
15: Hear and give ear; be not proud, for the LORD has spoken.
16: Give glory to the LORD your God before he brings darkness, before your feet stumble on the twilight mountains, and while you look for light he turns it into gloom and makes it deep darkness.
17: But if you will not listen, my soul will weep in secret for your pride; my eyes will weep bitterly and run down with tears, because the LORD's flock has been taken captive.
18: Say to the king and the queen mother: "Take a lowly seat, for your beautiful crown has come down from your head."
19: The cities of the Negeb are shut up, with none to open them; all Judah is taken into exile, wholly taken into exile.
20: "Lift up your eyes and see those who come from the north. Where is the flock that was given you, your beautiful flock?
21: What will you say when they set as head over you those whom you yourself have taught to be friends to you? Will not pangs take hold of you, like those of a woman in travail?
22: And if you say in your heart, `Why have these things come upon me?' it is for the greatness of your iniquity that your skirts are lifted up, and you suffer violence.
23: Can the Ethiopian change his skin or the leopard his spots? Then also you can do good who are accustomed to do evil.
24: I will scatter you like chaff driven by the wind from the desert.
25: This is your lot, the portion I have measured out to you, says the LORD, because you have forgotten me and trusted in lies.
26: I myself will lift up your skirts over your face, and your shame will be seen.
27: I have seen your abominations, your adulteries and neighings, your lewd harlotries, on the hills in the field. Woe to you, O Jerusalem! How long will it be before you are made clean?"


Chapter 14
Jeremiah, chapter 14


Compare with King James Version: Jere.14




1: The word of the LORD which came to Jeremiah concerning the drought:
2: "Judah mourns and her gates languish; her people lament on the ground, and the cry of Jerusalem goes up.
3: Her nobles send their servants for water; they come to the cisterns, they find no water, they return with their vessels empty; they are ashamed and confounded and cover their heads.
4: Because of the ground which is dismayed, since there is no rain on the land, the farmers are ashamed, they cover their heads.
5: Even the hind in the field forsakes her newborn calf because there is no grass.
6: The wild asses stand on the bare heights, they pant for air like jackals; their eyes fail because there is no herbage.
7: "Though our iniquities testify against us, act, O LORD, for thy name's sake; for our backslidings are many, we have sinned against thee.
8: O thou hope of Israel, its savior in time of trouble, why shouldst thou be like a stranger in the land, like a wayfarer who turns aside to tarry for a night?
9: Why shouldst thou be like a man confused, like a mighty man who cannot save? Yet thou, O LORD, art in the midst of us, and we are called by thy name; leave us not."
10: Thus says the LORD concerning this people: "They have loved to wander thus, they have not restrained their feet; therefore the LORD does not accept them, now he will remember their iniquity and punish their sins."
11: The LORD said to me: "Do not pray for the welfare of this people.
12: Though they fast, I will not hear their cry, and though they offer burnt offering and cereal offering, I will not accept them; but I will consume them by the sword, by famine, and by pestilence."
13: Then I said: "Ah, Lord GOD, behold, the prophets say to them, `You shall not see the sword, nor shall you have famine, but I will give you assured peace in this place.'"
14: And the LORD said to me: "The prophets are prophesying lies in my name; I did not send them, nor did I command them or speak to them. They are prophesying to you a lying vision, worthless divination, and the deceit of their own minds.
15: Therefore thus says the LORD concerning the prophets who prophesy in my name although I did not send them, and who say, `Sword and famine shall not come on this land': By sword and famine those prophets shall be consumed.
16: And the people to whom they prophesy shall be cast out in the streets of Jerusalem, victims of famine and sword, with none to bury them -- them, their wives, their sons, and their daughters. For I will pour out their wickedness upon them.
17: "You shall say to them this word: `Let my eyes run down with tears night and day, and let them not cease, for the virgin daughter of my people is smitten with a great wound, with a very grievous blow.
18: If I go out into the field, behold, those slain by the sword! And if I enter the city, behold, the diseases of famine! For both prophet and priest ply their trade through the land, and have no knowledge.'"
19: Hast thou utterly rejected Judah? Does thy soul loathe Zion? Why hast thou smitten us so that there is no healing for us? We looked for peace, but no good came; for a time of healing, but behold, terror.
20: We acknowledge our wickedness, O LORD, and the iniquity of our fathers, for we have sinned against thee.
21: Do not spurn us, for thy name's sake; do not dishonor thy glorious throne; remember and do not break thy covenant with us.
22: Are there any among the false gods of the nations that can bring rain? Or can the heavens give showers? Art thou not he, O LORD our God? We set our hope on thee, for thou doest all these things.


Chapter 15
Jeremiah, chapter 15


Compare with King James Version: Jere.15




1: Then the LORD said to me, "Though Moses and Samuel stood before me, yet my heart would not turn toward this people. Send them out of my sight, and let them go!
2: And when they ask you, `Where shall we go?' you shall say to them, `Thus says the LORD: "Those who are for pestilence, to pestilence, and those who are for the sword, to the sword; those who are for famine, to famine, and those who are for captivity, to captivity."'
3: "I will appoint over them four kinds of destroyers, says the LORD: the sword to slay, the dogs to tear, and the birds of the air and the beasts of the earth to devour and destroy.
4: And I will make them a horror to all the kingdoms of the earth because of what Manas'seh the son of Hezeki'ah, king of Judah, did in Jerusalem.
5: "Who will have pity on you, O Jerusalem, or who will bemoan you? Who will turn aside to ask about your welfare?
6: You have rejected me, says the LORD, you keep going backward; so I have stretched out my hand against you and destroyed you; -- I am weary of relenting.
7: I have winnowed them with a winnowing fork in the gates of the land; I have bereaved them, I have destroyed my people; they did not turn from their ways.
8: I have made their widows more in number than the sand of the seas; I have brought against the mothers of young men a destroyer at noonday; I have made anguish and terror fall upon them suddenly.
9: She who bore seven has languished; she has swooned away; her sun went down while it was yet day; she has been shamed and disgraced. And the rest of them I will give to the sword before their enemies, says the LORD."
10: Woe is me, my mother, that you bore me, a man of strife and contention to the whole land! I have not lent, nor have I borrowed, yet all of them curse me.
11: So let it be, O LORD, if I have not entreated thee for their good, if I have not pleaded with thee on behalf of the enemy in the time of trouble and in the time of distress!
12: Can one break iron, iron from the north, and bronze?
13: "Your wealth and your treasures I will give as spoil, without price, for all your sins, throughout all your territory.
14: I will make you serve your enemies in a land which you do not know, for in my anger a fire is kindled which shall burn for ever."
15: O LORD, thou knowest; remember me and visit me, and take vengeance for me on my persecutors. In thy forbearance take me not away; know that for thy sake I bear reproach.
16: Thy words were found, and I ate them, and thy words became to me a joy and the delight of my heart; for I am called by thy name, O LORD, God of hosts.
17: I did not sit in the company of merrymakers, nor did I rejoice; I sat alone, because thy hand was upon me, for thou hadst filled me with indignation.
18: Why is my pain unceasing, my wound incurable, refusing to be healed? Wilt thou be to me like a deceitful brook, like waters that fail?
19: Therefore thus says the LORD: "If you return, I will restore you, and you shall stand before me. If you utter what is precious, and not what is worthless, you shall be as my mouth. They shall turn to you, but you shall not turn to them.
20: And I will make you to this people a fortified wall of bronze; they will fight against you, but they shall not prevail over you, for I am with you to save you and deliver you, says the LORD.
21: I will deliver you out of the hand of the wicked, and redeem you from the grasp of the ruthless."


Chapter 16
Jeremiah, chapter 16


Compare with King James Version: Jere.16




1: The word of the LORD came to me:
2: "You shall not take a wife, nor shall you have sons or daughters in this place.
3: For thus says the LORD concerning the sons and daughters who are born in this place, and concerning the mothers who bore them and the fathers who begot them in this land:
4: They shall die of deadly diseases. They shall not be lamented, nor shall they be buried; they shall be as dung on the surface of the ground. They shall perish by the sword and by famine, and their dead bodies shall be food for the birds of the air and for the beasts of the earth.
5: "For thus says the LORD: Do not enter the house of mourning, or go to lament, or bemoan them; for I have taken away my peace from this people, says the LORD, my steadfast love and mercy.
6: Both great and small shall die in this land; they shall not be buried, and no one shall lament for them or cut himself or make himself bald for them.
7: No one shall break bread for the mourner, to comfort him for the dead; nor shall any one give him the cup of consolation to drink for his father or his mother.
8: You shall not go into the house of feasting to sit with them, to eat and drink.
9: For thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel: Behold, I will make to cease from this place, before your eyes and in your days, the voice of mirth and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom and the voice of the bride.
10: "And when you tell this people all these words, and they say to you, `Why has the LORD pronounced all this great evil against us? What is our iniquity? What is the sin that we have committed against the LORD our God?'
11: then you shall say to them: `Because your fathers have forsaken me, says the LORD, and have gone after other gods and have served and worshiped them, and have forsaken me and have not kept my law,
12: and because you have done worse than your fathers, for behold, every one of you follows his stubborn evil will, refusing to listen to me;
13: therefore I will hurl you out of this land

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Chapter 1
Obadiah, chapter 1


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2: Behold, I will make you small among the nations, you shall be utterly despised.
3: The pride of your heart has deceived you, you who live in the clefts of the rock, whose dwelling is high, who say in your heart, "Who will bring me down to the ground?"
4: Though you soar aloft like the eagle, though your nest is set among the stars, thence I will bring you down, says the LORD.
5: If thieves came to you, if plunderers by night -- how you have been destroyed! -- would they not steal only enough for themselves? If grape gatherers came to you, would they not leave gleanings?
6: How Esau has been pillaged, his treasures sought out!
7: All your allies have deceived you, they have driven you to the border; your confederates have prevailed against you; your trusted friends have set a trap under you -- there is no understanding of it.
8: Will I not on that day, says the LORD, destroy the wise men out of Edom, and understanding out of Mount Esau?
9: And your mighty men shall be dismayed, O Teman, so that every man from Mount Esau will be cut off by slaughter.
10: For the violence done to your brother Jacob, shame shall cover you, and you shall be cut off for ever.
11: On the day that you stood aloof, on the day that strangers carried off his wealth, and foreigners entered his gates and cast lots for Jerusalem, you were like one of them.
12: But you should not have gloated over the day of your brother in the day of his misfortune; you should not have rejoiced over the people of Judah in the day of their ruin; you should not have boasted in the day of distress.
13: You should not have entered the gate of my people in the day of his calamity; you should not have gloated over his disaster in the day of his calamity; you should not have looted his goods in the day of his calamity.
14: You should not have stood at the parting of the ways to cut off his fugitives; you should not have delivered up his survivors in the day of distress.
15: For the day of the LORD is near upon all the nations. As you have done, it shall be done to you, your deeds shall return on your own head.
16: For as you have drunk upon my holy mountain, all the nations round about shall drink; they shall drink, and stagger, and shall be as though they had not been.
17: But in Mount Zion there shall be those that escape, and it shall be holy; and the house of Jacob shall possess their own possessions.
18: The house of Jacob shall be a fire, and the house of Joseph a flame, and the house of Esau stubble; they shall burn them and consume them, and there shall be no survivor to the house of Esau; for the LORD has spoken.
19: Those of the Negeb shall possess Mount Esau, and those of the Shephe'lah the land of the Philistines; they shall possess the land of E'phraim and the land of Sama'ria and Benjamin shall possess Gilead.
20: The exiles in Halah who are of the people of Israel shall possess Phoenicia as far as Zar'ephath; and the exiles of Jerusalem who are in Sephar'ad shall possess the cities of the Negeb.
21: Saviors shall go up to Mount Zion to rule Mount Esau; and the kingdom shall be the LORD's.



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Chapter 1
Jonah, chapter 1


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1: Now the word of the LORD came to Jonah the son of Amit'tai, saying,
2: "Arise, go to Nin'eveh, that great city, and cry against it; for their wickedness has come up before me."
3: But Jonah rose to flee to Tarshish from the presence of the LORD. He went down to Joppa and found a ship going to Tarshish; so he paid the fare, and went on board, to go with them to Tarshish, away from the presence of the LORD.
4: But the LORD hurled a great wind upon the sea, and there was a mighty tempest on the sea, so that the ship threatened to break up.
5: Then the mariners were afraid, and each cried to his god; and they threw the wares that were in the ship into the sea, to lighten it for them. But Jonah had gone down into the inner part of the ship and had lain down, and was fast asleep.
6: So the captain came and said to him, "What do you mean, you sleeper? Arise, call upon your god! Perhaps the god will give a thought to us, that we do not perish."
7: And they said to one another, "Come, let us cast lots, that we may know on whose account this evil has come upon us." So they cast lots, and the lot fell upon Jonah.
8: Then they said to him, "Tell us, on whose account this evil has come upon us? What is your occupation? And whence do you come? What is your country? And of what people are you?"
9: And he said to them, "I am a Hebrew; and I fear the LORD, the God of heaven, who made the sea and the dry land."
10: Then the men were exceedingly afraid, and said to him, "What is this that you have done!" For the men knew that he was fleeing from the presence of the LORD, because he had told them.
11: Then they said to him, "What shall we do to you, that the sea may quiet down for us?" For the sea grew more and more tempestuous.
12: He said to them, "Take me up and throw me into the sea; then the sea will quiet down for you; for I know it is because of me that this great tempest has come upon you."
13: Nevertheless the men rowed hard to bring the ship back to land, but they could not, for the sea grew more and more tempestuous against them.
14: Therefore they cried to the LORD, "We beseech thee, O LORD, let us not perish for this man's life, and lay not on us innocent blood; for thou, O LORD, hast done as it pleased thee."
15: So they took up Jonah and threw him into the sea; and the sea ceased from its raging.
16: Then the men feared the LORD exceedingly, and they offered a sacrifice to the LORD and made vows.
17: And the LORD appointed a great fish to swallow up Jonah; and Jonah was in the belly of the fish three days and three nights.


Chapter 2
Jonah, chapter 2


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1: Then Jonah prayed to the LORD his God from the belly of the fish,
2: saying, "I called to the LORD, out of my distress, and he answered me; out of the belly of Sheol I cried, and thou didst hear my voice.
3: For thou didst cast me into the deep, into the heart of the seas, and the flood was round about me; all thy waves and thy billows passed over me.
4: Then I said, `I am cast out from thy presence; how shall I again look upon thy holy temple?'
5: The waters closed in over me, the deep was round about me; weeds were wrapped about my head
6: at the roots of the mountains. I went down to the land whose bars closed upon me for ever; yet thou didst bring up my life from the Pit, O LORD my God.
7: When my soul fainted within me, I remembered the LORD; and my prayer came to thee, into thy holy temple.
8: Those who pay regard to vain idols forsake their true loyalty.
9: But I with the voice of thanksgiving will sacrifice to thee; what I have vowed I will pay. Deliverance belongs to the LORD!"
10: And the LORD spoke to the fish, and it vomited out Jonah upon the dry land.


Chapter 3
Jonah, chapter 3


Compare with King James Version: Jonah.03




1: Then the word of the LORD came to Jonah the second time, saying,
2: "Arise, go to Nin'eveh, that great city, and proclaim to it the message that I tell you."
3: So Jonah arose and went to Nin'eveh, according to the word of the LORD. Now Nin'eveh was an exceedingly great city, three days' journey in breadth.
4: Jonah began to go into the city, going a day's journey. And he cried, "Yet forty days, and Nin'eveh shall be overthrown!"
5: And the people of Nin'eveh believed God; they proclaimed a fast, and put on sackcloth, from the greatest of them to the least of them.
6: Then tidings reached the king of Nin'eveh, and he arose from his throne, removed his robe, and covered himself with sackcloth, and sat in ashes.
7: And he made proclamation and published through Nin'eveh, "By the decree of the king and his nobles: Let neither man nor beast, herd nor flock, taste anything; let them not feed, or drink water,
8: but let man and beast be covered with sackcloth, and let them cry mightily to God; yea, let every one turn from his evil way and from the violence which is in his hands.
9: Who knows, God may yet repent and turn from his fierce anger, so that we perish not?"
10: When God saw what they did, how they turned from their evil way, God repented of the evil which he had said he would do to them; and he did not do it.


Chapter 4
Jonah, chapter 4


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1: But it displeased Jonah exceedingly, and he was angry.
2: And he prayed to the LORD and said, "I pray thee, LORD, is not this what I said when I was yet in my country? That is why I made haste to flee to Tarshish; for I knew that thou art a gracious God and merciful, slow to anger, and abounding in steadfast love, and repentest of evil.
3: Therefore now, O LORD, take my life from me, I beseech thee, for it is better for me to die than to live."
4: And the LORD said, "Do you do well to be angry?"
5: Then Jonah went out of the city and sat to the east of the city, and made a booth for himself there. He sat under it in the shade, till he should see what would become of the city.
6: And the LORD God appointed a plant, and made it come up over Jonah, that it might be a shade over his head, to save him from his discomfort. So Jonah was exceedingly glad because of the plant.
7: But when dawn came up the next day, God appointed a worm which attacked the plant, so that it withered.
8: When the sun rose, God appointed a sultry east wind, and the sun beat upon the head of Jonah so that he was faint; and he asked that he might die, and said, "It is better for me to die than to live."
9: But God said to Jonah, "Do you do well to be angry for the plant?" And he said, "I do well to be angry, angry enough to die."
10: And the LORD said, "You pity the plant, for which you did not labor, nor did you make it grow, which came into being in a night, and perished in a night.
11: And should not I pity Nin'eveh, that great city, in which there are more than a hundred and twenty thousand persons who do not know their right hand from their left, and also much cattle?"



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Chapter 1
Habakkuk, chapter 1


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1: The oracle of God which Habak'kuk the prophet saw.
2: O LORD, how long shall I cry for help, and thou wilt not hear? Or cry to thee "Violence!" and thou wilt not save?
3: Why dost thou make me see wrongs and look upon trouble? Destruction and violence are before me; strife and contention arise.
4: So the law is slacked and justice never goes forth. For the wicked surround the righteous, so justice goes forth perverted.
5: Look among the nations, and see; wonder and be astounded. For I am doing a work in your days that you would not believe if told.
6: For lo, I am rousing the Chalde'ans, that bitter and hasty nation, who march through the breadth of the earth, to seize habitations not their own.
7: Dread and terrible are they; their justice and dignity proceed from themselves.
8: Their horses are swifter than leopards, more fierce than the evening wolves; their horsemen press proudly on. Yea, their horsemen come from afar; they fly like an eagle swift to devour.
9: They all come for violence; terror of them goes before them. They gather captives like sand.
10: At kings they scoff, and of rulers they make sport. They laugh at every fortress, for they heap up earth and take it.
11: Then they sweep by like the wind and go on, guilty men, whose own might is their god!
12: Art thou not from everlasting, O LORD my God, my Holy One? We shall not die. O LORD, thou hast ordained them as a judgment; and thou, O Rock, hast established them for chastisement.
13: Thou who art of purer eyes than to behold evil and canst not look on wrong, why dost thou look on faithless men, and art silent when the wicked swallows up the man more righteous than he?
14: For thou makest men like the fish of the sea, like crawling things that have no ruler.
15: He brings all of them up with a hook, he drags them out with his net, he gathers them in his seine; so he rejoices and exults.
16: Therefore he sacrifices to his net and burns incense to his seine; for by them he lives in luxury, and his food is rich.
17: Is he then to keep on emptying his net, and mercilessly slaying nations for ever?


Chapter 2
Habakkuk, chapter 2


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1: I will take my stand to watch, and station myself on the tower, and look forth to see what he will say to me, and what I will answer concerning my complaint.
2: And the LORD answered me: "Write the vision; make it plain upon tablets, so he may run who reads it.
3: For still the vision awaits its time; it hastens to the end -- it will not lie. If it seem slow, wait for it; it will surely come, it will not delay.
4: Behold, he whose soul is not upright in him shall fail, but the righteous shall live by his faith.
5: Moreover, wine is treacherous; the arrogant man shall not abide. His greed is as wide as Sheol; like death he has never enough. He gathers for himself all nations, and collects as his own all peoples."
6: Shall not all these take up their taunt against him, in scoffing derision of him, and say, "Woe to him who heaps up what is not his own -- for how long? -- and loads himself with pledges!"
7: Will not your debtors suddenly arise, and those awake who will make you tremble? Then you will be booty for them.
8: Because you have plundered many nations, all the remnant of the peoples shall plunder you, for the blood of men and violence to the earth, to cities and all who dwell therein.
9: Woe to him who gets evil gain for his house, to set his nest on high, to be safe from the reach of harm!
10: You have devised shame to your house by cutting off many peoples; you have forfeited your life.
11: For the stone will cry out from the wall, and the beam from the woodwork respond.
12: Woe to him who builds a town with blood, and founds a city on iniquity!
13: Behold, is it not from the LORD of hosts that peoples labor only for fire, and nations weary themselves for nought?
14: For the earth will be filled with the knowledge of the glory of the LORD, as the waters cover the sea.
15: Woe to him who makes his neighbors drink of the cup of his wrath, and makes them drunk, to gaze on their shame!
16: You will be sated with contempt instead of glory. Drink, yourself, and stagger! The cup in the LORD's right hand will come around to you, and shame will come upon your glory!
17: The violence done to Lebanon will overwhelm you; the destruction of the beasts will terrify you, for the blood of men and violence to the earth, to cities and all who dwell therein.
18: What profit is an idol when its maker has shaped it, a metal image, a teacher of lies? For the workman trusts in his own creation when he makes dumb idols!
19: Woe to him who says to a wooden thing, Awake; to a dumb stone, Arise! Can this give revelation? Behold, it is overlaid with gold and silver, and there is no breath at all in it.
20: But the LORD is in his holy temple; let all the earth keep silence before him.


Chapter 3
Habakkuk, chapter 3


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1: A prayer of Habak'kuk the prophet, according to Shigion'oth.
2: O LORD, I have heard the report of thee, and thy work, O LORD, do I fear. In the midst of the years renew it; in the midst of the years make it known; in wrath remember mercy.
3: God came from Teman, and the Holy One from Mount Paran. His glory covered the heavens, and the earth was full of his praise. Selah
4: His brightness was like the light, rays flashed from his hand; and there he veiled his power.
5: Before him went pestilence, and plague followed close behind.
6: He stood and measured the earth; he looked and shook the nations; then the eternal mountains were scattered, the everlasting hills sank low. His ways were as of old.
7: I saw the tents of Cushan in affliction; the curtains of the land of Mid'ian did tremble.
8: Was thy wrath against the rivers, O LORD? Was thy anger against the rivers, or thy indignation against the sea, when thou didst ride upon thy horses, upon thy chariot of victory?
9: Thou didst strip the sheath from thy bow, and put the arrows to the string. Selah Thou didst cleave the earth with rivers.
10: The mountains saw thee, and writhed; the raging waters swept on; the deep gave forth its voice, it lifted its hands on high.
11: The sun and moon stood still in their habitation at the light of thine arrows as they sped, at the flash of thy glittering spear.
12: Thou didst bestride the earth in fury, thou didst trample the nations in anger.
13: Thou wentest forth for the salvation of thy people, for the salvation of thy anointed. Thou didst crush the head of the wicked, laying him bare from thigh to neck. Selah
14: Thou didst pierce with thy shafts the head of his warriors, who came like a whirlwind to scatter me, rejoicing as if to devour the poor in secret.
15: Thou didst trample the sea with thy horses, the surging of mighty waters.
16: I hear, and my body trembles, my lips quiver at the sound; rottenness enters into my bones, my steps totter beneath me. I will quietly wait for the day of trouble to come upon people who invade us.
17: Though the fig tree do not blossom, nor fruit be on the vines, the produce of the olive fail and the fields yield no food, the flock be cut off from the fold and there be no herd in the stalls,
18: yet I will rejoice in the LORD, I will joy in the God of my salvation.
19: GOD, the Lord, is my strength; he makes my feet like hinds' feet, he makes me tread upon my high places. To the choirmaster: with stringed instruments.



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Chapter 1
Matthew, chapter 1


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1: The book of the genealogy of Jesus Christ, the son of David, the son of Abraham.
2: Abraham was the father of Isaac, and Isaac the father of Jacob, and Jacob the father of Judah and his brothers,
3: and Judah the father of Perez and Zerah by Tamar, and Perez the father of Hezron, and Hezron the father of Ram,
4: and Ram the father of Ammin'adab, and Ammin'adab the father of Nahshon, and Nahshon the father of Salmon,
5: and Salmon the father of Bo'az by Rahab, and Bo'az the father of Obed by Ruth, and Obed the father of Jesse,
6: and Jesse the father of David the king. And David was the father of Solomon by the wife of Uri'ah,
7: and Solomon the father of Rehobo'am, and Rehobo'am the father of Abi'jah, and Abi'jah the father of Asa,
8: and Asa the father of Jehosh'aphat, and Jehosh'aphat the father of Joram, and Joram the father of Uzzi'ah,
9: and Uzzi'ah the father of Jotham, and Jotham the father of Ahaz, and Ahaz the father of Hezeki'ah,
10: and Hezeki'ah the father of Manas'seh, and Manas'seh the father of Amos, and Amos the father of Josi'ah,
11: and Josi'ah the father of Jechoniah and his brothers, at the time of the deportation to Babylon.
12: And after the deportation to Babylon: Jechoni'ah was the father of She-al'ti-el, and She-al'ti-el the father of Zerub'babel,
13: and Zerub'babel the father of Abi'ud, and Abi'ud the father of Eli'akim, and Eli'akim the father of Azor,
14: and Azor the father of Zadok, and Zadok the father of Achim, and Achim the father of Eli'ud,
15: and Eli'ud the father of Elea'zar, and Elea'zar the father of Matthan, and Matthan the father of Jacob,
16: and Jacob the father of Joseph the husband of Mary, of whom Jesus was born, who is called Christ.
17: So all the generations from Abraham to David were fourteen generations, and from David to the deportation to Babylon fourteen generations, and from the deportation to Babylon to the Christ fourteen generations.
18: Now the birth of Jesus Christ took place in this way. When his mother Mary had been betrothed to Joseph, before they came together she was found to be with child of the Holy Spirit;
19: and her husband Joseph, being a just man and unwilling to put her to shame, resolved to divorce her quietly.
20: But as he considered this, behold, an angel of the Lord appeared to him in a dream, saying, "Joseph, son of David, do not fear to take Mary your wife, for that which is conceived in her is of the Holy Spirit;
21: she will bear a son, and you shall call his name Jesus, for he will save his people from their sins."
22: All this took place to fulfil what the Lord had spoken by the prophet:
23: "Behold, a virgin shall conceive and bear a son, and his name shall be called Emmanuel" (which means, God with us).
24: When Joseph woke from sleep, he did as the angel of the Lord commanded him; he took his wife,
25: but knew her not until she had borne a son; and he called his name Jesus.


Chapter 2
Matthew, chapter 2


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1: Now when Jesus was born in Bethlehem of Judea in the days of Herod the king, behold, wise men from the East came to Jerusalem, saying,
2: "Where is he who has been born king of the Jews? For we have seen his star in the East, and have come to worship him."
3: When Herod the king heard this, he was troubled, and all Jerusalem with him;
4: and assembling all the chief priests and scribes of the people, he inquired of them where the Christ was to be born.
5: They told him, "In Bethlehem of Judea; for so it is written by the prophet:
6: `And you, O Bethlehem, in the land of Judah, are by no means least among the rulers of Judah; for from you shall come a ruler who will govern my people Israel.'"
7: Then Herod summoned the wise men secretly and ascertained from them what time the star appeared;
8: and he sent them to Bethlehem, saying, "Go and search diligently for the child, and when you have found him bring me word, that I too may come and worship him."
9: When they had heard the king they went their way; and lo, the star which they had seen in the East went before them, till it came to rest over the place where the child was.
10: When they saw the star, they rejoiced exceedingly with great joy;
11: and going into the house they saw the child with Mary his mother, and they fell down and worshiped him. Then, opening their treasures, they offered him gifts, gold and frankincense and myrrh.
12: And being warned in a dream not to return to Herod, they departed to their own country by another way.
13: Now when they had departed, behold, an angel of the Lord appeared to Joseph in a dream and said, "Rise, take the child and his mother, and flee to Egypt, and remain there till I tell you; for Herod is about to search for the child, to destroy him."
14: And he rose and took the child and his mother by night, and departed to Egypt,
15: and remained there until the death of Herod. This was to fulfil what the Lord had spoken by the prophet, "Out of Egypt have I called my son."
16: Then Herod, when he saw that he had been tricked by the wise men, was in a furious rage, and he sent and killed all the male children in Bethlehem and in all that region who were two years old or under, according to the time which he had ascertained from the wise men.
17: Then was fulfilled what was spoken by the prophet Jeremiah:
18: "A voice was heard in Ramah, wailing and loud lamentation, Rachel weeping for her children; she refused to be consoled, because they were no more."
19: But when Herod died, behold, an angel of the Lord appeared in a dream to Joseph in Egypt, saying,
20: "Rise, take the child and his mother, and go to the land of Israel, for those who sought the child's life are dead."
21: And he rose and took the child and his mother, and went to the land of Israel.
22: But when he heard that Archelaus reigned over Judea in place of his father Herod, he was afraid to go there, and being warned in a dream he withdrew to the district of Galilee.
23: And he went and dwelt in a city called Nazareth, that what was spoken by the prophets might be fulfilled, "He shall be called a Nazarene."


Chapter 3
Matthew, chapter 3


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1: In those days came John the Baptist, preaching in the wilderness of Judea,
2: "Repent, for the kingdom of heaven is at hand."
3: For this is he who was spoken of by the prophet Isaiah when he said, "The voice of one crying in the wilderness: Prepare the way of the Lord, make his paths straight."
4: Now John wore a garment of camel's hair, and a leather girdle around his waist; and his food was locusts and wild honey.
5: Then went out to him Jerusalem and all Judea and all the region about the Jordan,
6: and they were baptized by him in the river Jordan, confessing their sins.
7: But when he saw many of the Pharisees and Sad'ducees coming for baptism, he said to them, "You brood of vipers! Who warned you to flee from the wrath to come?
8: Bear fruit that befits repentance,
9: and do not presume to say to yourselves, `We have Abraham as our father'; for I tell you, God is able from these stones to raise up children to Abraham.
10: Even now the axe is laid to the root of the trees; every tree therefore that does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire.
11: "I baptize you with water for repentance, but he who is coming after me is mightier than I, whose sandals I am not worthy to carry; he will baptize you with the Holy Spirit and with fire.
12: His winnowing fork is in his hand, and he will clear his threshing floor and gather his wheat into the granary, but the chaff he will burn with unquenchable fire."
13: Then Jesus came from Galilee to the Jordan to John, to be baptized by him.
14: John would have prevented him, saying, "I need to be baptized by you, and do you come to me?"
15: But Jesus answered him, "Let it be so now; for thus it is fitting for us to fulfil all righteousness." Then he consented.
16: And when Jesus was baptized, he went up immediately from the water, and behold, the heavens were opened and he saw the Spirit of God descending like a dove, and alighting on him;
17: and lo, a voice from heaven, saying, "This is my beloved Son, with whom I am well pleased."


Chapter 4
Matthew, chapter 4


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1: Then Jesus was led up by the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted by the devil.
2: And he fasted forty days and forty nights, and afterward he was hungry.
3: And the tempter came and said to him, "If you are the Son of God, command these stones to become loaves of bread."
4: But he answered, "It is written, `Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceeds from the mouth of God.'"
5: Then the devil took him to the holy city, and set him on the pinnacle of the temple,
6: and said to him, "If you are the Son of God, throw yourself down; for it is written, `He will give his angels charge of you,' and `On their hands they will bear you up, lest you strike your foot against a stone.'"
7: Jesus said to him, "Again it is written, `You shall not tempt the Lord your God.'"
8: Again, the devil took him to a very high mountain, and showed him all the kingdoms of the world and the glory of them;
9: and he said to him, "All these I will give you, if you will fall down and worship me."
10: Then Jesus said to him, "Begone, Satan! for it is written, `You shall worship the Lord your God and him only shall you serve.'"
11: Then the devil left him, and behold, angels came and ministered to him.
12: Now when he heard that John had been arrested, he withdrew into Galilee;
13: and leaving Nazareth he went and dwelt in Caper'na-um by the sea, in the territory of Zeb'ulun and Naph'tali,
14: that what was spoken by the prophet Isaiah might be fulfilled:
15: "The land of Zeb'ulun and the land of Naph'tali, toward the sea, across the Jordan, Galilee of the Gentiles --
16: the people who sat in darkness have seen a great light, and for those who sat in the region and shadow of death light has dawned."
17: From that time Jesus began to preach, saying, "Repent, for the kingdom of heaven is at hand."
18: As he walked by the Sea of Galilee, he saw two brothers, Simon who is called Peter and Andrew his brother, casting a net into the sea; for they were fishermen.
19: And he said to them, "Follow me, and I will make you fishers of men."
20: Immediately they left their nets and followed him.
21: And going on from there he saw two other brothers, James the son of Zeb'edee and John his brother, in the boat with Zeb'edee their father, mending their nets, and he called them.
22: Immediately they left the boat and their father, and followed him.
23: And he went about all Galilee, teaching in their synagogues and preaching the gospel of the kingdom and healing every disease and every infirmity among the people.
24: So his fame spread throughout all Syria, and they brought him all the sick, those afflicted with various diseases and pains, demoniacs, epileptics, and paralytics, and he healed them.
25: And great crowds followed him from Galilee and the Decap'olis and Jerusalem and Judea and from beyond the Jordan.


Chapter 5
Matthew, chapter 5


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1: Seeing the crowds, he went up on the mountain, and when he sat down his disciples came to him.
2: And he opened his mouth and taught them, saying:
3: "Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.
4: "Blessed are those who mourn, for they shall be comforted.
5: "Blessed are the meek, for they shall inherit the earth.
6: "Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they shall be satisfied.
7: "Blessed are the merciful, for they shall obtain mercy.
8: "Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God.
9: "Blessed are the peacemakers, for they shall be called sons of God.
10: "Blessed are those who are persecuted for righteousness' sake, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.
11: "Blessed are you when men revile you and persecute you and utter all kinds of evil against you falsely on my account.
12: Rejoice and be glad, for your reward is great in heaven, for so men persecuted the prophets who were before you.
13: "You are the salt of the earth; but if salt has lost its taste, how shall its saltness be restored? It is no longer good for anything except to be thrown out and trodden under foot by men.
14: "You are the light of the world. A city set on a hill cannot be hid.
15: Nor do men light a lamp and put it under a bushel, but on a stand, and it gives light to all in the house.
16: Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works and give glory to your Father who is in heaven.
17: "Think not that I have come to abolish the law and the prophets; I have come not to abolish them but to fulfil them.
18: For truly, I say to you, till heaven and earth pass away, not an iota, not a dot, will pass from the law until all is accomplished.
19: Whoever then relaxes one of the least of these commandments and teaches men so, shall be called least in the kingdom of heaven; but he who does them and teaches them shall be called great in the kingdom of heaven.
20: For I tell you, unless your righteousness exceeds that of the scribes and Pharisees, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven.
21: "You have heard that it was said to the men of old, `You shall not kill; and whoever kills shall be liable to judgment.'
22: But I say to you that every one who is angry with his brother shall be liable to judgment; whoever insults his brother shall be liable to the council, and whoever says, `You fool!' shall be liable to the hell of fire.
23: So if you are offering your gift at the altar, and there remember that your brother has something against you,
24: leave your gift there before the altar and go; first be reconciled to your brother, and then come and offer your gift.
25: Make friends quickly with your accuser, while you are going with him to court, lest your accuser hand you over to the judge, and the judge to the guard, and you be put in prison;
26: truly, I say to you, you will never get out till you have paid the last penny.
27: "You have heard that it was said, `You shall not commit adultery.'
28: But I say to you that every one who looks at a woman lustfully has already committed adultery with her in his heart.
29: If your right eye causes you to sin, pluck it out and throw it away; it is better that you lose one of your members than that your whole body be thrown into hell.
30: And if your right hand causes you to sin, cut it off and throw it away; it is better that you lose one of your members than that your whole body go into hell.
31: "It was also said, `Whoever divorces his wife, let him give her a certificate of divorce.'
32: But I say to you that every one who divorces his wife, except on the ground of unchastity, makes her an adulteress; and whoever marries a divorced woman commits adultery.
33: "Again you have heard that it was said to the men of old, `You shall not swear falsely, but shall perform to the Lord what you have sworn.'
34: But I say to you, Do not swear at all, either by heaven, for it is the throne of God,
35: or by the earth, for it is his footstool, or by Jerusalem, for it is the city of the great King.
36: And do not swear by your head, for you cannot make one hair white or black.
37: Let what you say be simply `Yes' or `No'; anything more than this comes from evil.
38: "You have heard that it was said, `An eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth.'
39: But I say to you, Do not resist one who is evil. But if any one strikes you on the right cheek, turn to him the other also;
40: and if any one would sue you and take your coat, let him have your cloak as well;
41: and if any one forces you to go one mile, go with him two miles.
42: Give to him who begs from you, and do not refuse him who would borrow from you.
43: "You have heard that it was said, `You shall love your neighbor and hate your enemy.'
44: But I say to you, Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you,
45: so that you may be sons of your Father who is in heaven; for he makes his sun rise on the evil and on the good, and sends rain on the just and on the unjust.
46: For if you love those who love you, what reward have you? Do not even the tax collectors do the same?
47: And if you salute only your brethren, what more are you doing than others? Do not even the Gentiles do the same?
48: You, therefore, must be perfect, as your heavenly Father is perfect.


Chapter 6
Matthew, chapter 6


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1: "Beware of practicing your piety before men in order to be seen by them; for then you will have no reward from your Father who is in heaven.
2: "Thus, when you give alms, sound no trumpet before you, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and in the streets, that they may be praised by men. Truly, I say to you, they have received their reward.
3: But when you give alms, do not let your left hand know what your right hand is doing,
4: so that your alms may be in secret; and your Father who sees in secret will reward you.
5: "And when you pray, you must not be like the hypocrites; for they love to stand and pray in the synagogues and at the street corners, that they may be seen by men. Truly, I say to you, they have received their reward.
6: But when you pray, go into your room and shut the door and pray to your Father who is in secret; and your Father who sees in secret will reward you.
7: "And in praying do not heap up empty phrases as the Gentiles do; for they think that they will be heard for their many words.
8: Do not be like them, for your Father knows what you need before you ask him.
9: Pray then like this: Our Father who art in heaven, Hallowed be thy name.
10: Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done, On earth as it is in heaven.
11: Give us this day our daily bread;
12: And forgive us our debts, As we also have forgiven our debtors;
13: And lead us not into temptation, But deliver us from evil.
14: For if you forgive men their trespasses, your heavenly Father also will forgive you;
15: but if you do not forgive men their trespasses, neither will your Father forgive your trespasses.
16: "And when you fast, do not look dismal, like the hypocrites, for they disfigure their faces that their fasting may be seen by men. Truly, I say to you, they have received their reward.
17: But when you fast, anoint your head and wash your face,
18: that your fasting may not be seen by men but by your Father who is in secret; and your Father who sees in secret will reward you.
19: "Do not lay up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust consume and where thieves break in and steal,
20: but lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust consumes and where thieves do not break in and steal.
21: For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.
22: "The eye is the lamp of the body. So, if your eye is sound, your whole body will be full of light;
23: but if your eye is not sound, your whole body will be full of darkness. If then the light in you is darkness, how great is the darkness!
24: "No one can serve two masters; for either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and mammon.
25: "Therefore I tell you, do not be anxious about your life, what you shall eat or what you shall drink, nor about your body, what you shall put on. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothing?
26: Look at the birds of the air: they neither sow nor reap nor gather into barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not of more value than they?
27: And which of you by being anxious can add one cubit to his span of life?
28: And why are you anxious about clothing? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow; they neither toil nor spin;
29: yet I tell you, even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these.
30: But if God so clothes the grass of the field, which today is alive and tomorrow is thrown into the oven, will he not much more clothe you, O men of little faith?
31: Therefore do not be anxious, saying, `What shall we eat?' or `What shall we drink?' or `What shall we wear?'
32: For the Gentiles seek all these things; and your heavenly Father knows that you need them all.
33: But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things shall be yours as well.
34: "Therefore do not be anxious about tomorrow, for tomorrow will be anxious for itself. Let the day's own trouble be sufficient for the day.


Chapter 7
Matthew, chapter 7


Compare with King James Version: Matt.07




1: "Judge not, that you be not judged.
2: For with the judgment you pronounce you will be judged, and the measure you give will be the measure you get.
3: Why do you see the speck that is in your brother's eye, but do not notice the log that is in your own eye?
4: Or how can you say to your brother, `Let me take the speck out of your eye,' when there is the log in your own eye?
5: You hypocrite, first take the log out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to take the speck out of your brother's eye.
6: "Do not give dogs what is holy; and do not throw your pearls before swine, lest they trample them under foot and turn to attack you.
7: "Ask, and it will be given you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you.
8: For every one who asks receives, and he who seeks finds, and to him who knocks it will be opened.
9: Or what man of you, if his son asks him for bread, will give him a stone?
10: Or if he asks for a fish, will give him a serpent?
11: If you then, who are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father who is in heaven give good things to those who ask him!
12: So whatever you wish that men would do to you, do so to them; for this is the law and the prophets.
13: "Enter by the narrow gate; for the gate is wide and the way is easy, that leads to destruction, and those who enter by it are many.
14: For the gate is narrow and the way is hard, that leads to life, and those who find it are few.
15: "Beware of false prophets, who come to you in sheep's clothing but inwardly are ravenous wolves.
16: You will know them by their fruits. Are grapes gathered from thorns, or figs from thistles?
17: So, every sound tree bears good fruit, but the bad tree bears evil fruit.
18: A sound tree cannot bear evil fruit, nor can a bad tree bear good fruit.
19: Every tree that does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire.
20: Thus you will know them by their fruits.
21: "Not every one who says to me, `Lord, Lord,' shall enter the kingdom of heaven, but he who does the will of my Father who is in heaven.
22: On that day many will say to me, `Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in your name, and cast out demons in your name, and do many mighty works in your name?'
23: And then will I declare to them, `I never knew you; depart from me, you evildoers.'
24: "Every one then who hears these words of mine and does them will be like a wise man who built his house upon the rock;
25: and the rain fell, and the floods came, and the winds blew and beat upon that house, but it did not fall, because it had been founded on the rock.
26: And every one who hears these words of mine and does not do them will be like a foolish man who built his house upon the sand;
27: and the rain fell, and the floods came, and the winds blew and beat against that house, and it fell; and great was the fall of it."
28: And when Jesus finished these sayings, the crowds were astonished at his teaching,
29: for he taught them as one who had authority, and not as their scribes.


Chapter 8
Matthew, chapter 8


Compare with King James Version: Matt.08




1: When he came down from the mountain, great crowds followed him;
2: and behold, a leper came to him and knelt before him, saying, "Lord, if you will, you can make me clean."
3: And he stretched out his hand and touched him, saying, "I will; be clean." And immediately his leprosy was cleansed.
4: And Jesus said to him, "See that you say nothing to any one; but go, show yourself to the priest, and offer the gift that Moses commanded, for a proof to the people."
5: As he entered Caper'na-um, a centurion came forward to him, beseeching him
6: and saying, "Lord, my servant is lying paralyzed at home, in terrible distress."
7: And he said to him, "I will come and heal him."
8: But the centurion answered him, "Lord, I am not worthy to have you come under my roof; but only say the word, and my servant will be healed.
9: For I am a man under authority, with soldiers under me; and I say to one, `Go,' and he goes, and to another, `Come,' and he comes, and to my slave, `Do this,' and he does it."
10: When Jesus heard him, he marveled, and said to those who followed him, "Truly, I say to you, not even in Israel have I found such faith.
11: I tell you, many will come from east and west and sit at table with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob in the kingdom of heaven,
12: while the sons of the kingdom will be thrown into the outer darkness; there men will weep and gnash their teeth."
13: And to the centurion Jesus said, "Go; be it done for you as you have believed." And the servant was healed at that very moment.
14: And when Jesus entered Peter's house, he saw his mother-in-law lying sick with a fever;
15: he touched her hand, and the fever left her, and she rose and served him.
16: That evening they brought to him many who were possessed with demons; and he cast out the spirits with a word, and healed all who were sick.
17: This was to fulfil what was spoken by the prophet Isaiah, "He took our infirmities and bore our diseases."
18: Now when Jesus saw great crowds around him, he gave orders to go over to the other side.
19: And a scribe came up and said to him, "Teacher, I will follow you wherever you go."
20: And Jesus said to him, "Foxes have holes, and birds of the air have nests; but the Son of man has nowhere to lay his head."
21: Another of the disciples said to him, "Lord, let me first go and bury my father."
22: But Jesus said to him, "Follow me, and leave the dead to bury their own dead."
23: And when he got into the boat, his disciples followed him.
24: And behold, there arose a great storm on the sea, so that the boat was being swamped by the waves; but he was asleep.
25: And they went and woke him, saying, "Save, Lord; we are perishing."
26: And he said to them, "Why are you afraid, O men of little faith?" Then he rose and rebuked the winds and the sea; and there was a great calm.
27: And the men marveled, saying, "What sort of man is this, that even winds and sea obey him?"
28: And when he came to the other side, to the country of the Gadarenes, two demoniacs met him, coming out of the tombs, so fierce that no one could pass that way.
29: And behold, they cried out, "What have you to do with us, O Son of God? Have you come here to torment us before the time?"
30: Now a herd of many swine was feeding at some distance from them.
31: And the demons begged him, "If you cast us out, send us away into the herd of swine."
32: And he said to them, "Go." So they came out and went into the swine; and behold, the whole herd rushed down the steep bank into the sea, and perished in the waters.
33: The herdsmen fled, and going into the city they told everything, and what had happened to the demoniacs.
34: And behold, all the city came out to meet Jesus; and when they saw him, they begged him to leave their neighborhood.


Chapter 9
Matthew, chapter 9


Compare with King James Version: Matt.09




1: And getting into a boat he crossed over and came to his own city.
2: And behold, they brought to him a paralytic, lying on his bed; and when Jesus saw their faith he said to the paralytic, "Take heart, my son; your sins are forgiven."
3: And behold, some of the scribes said to themselves, "This man is blaspheming."
4: But Jesus, knowing their thoughts, said, "Why do you think evil in your hearts?
5: For which is easier, to say, `Your sins are forgiven,' or to say, `Rise and walk'?
6: But that you may know that the Son of man has authority on earth to forgive sins" -- he then said to the paralytic -- "Rise, take up your bed and go home."
7: And he rose and went home.
8: When the crowds saw it, they were afraid, and they glorified God, who had given such authority to men.
9: As Jesus passed on from there, he saw a man called Matthew sitting at the tax office; and he said to him, "Follow me." And he rose and followed him.
10: And as he sat at table in the house, behold, many tax collectors and sinners came and sat down with Jesus and his disciples.
11: And when the Pharisees saw this, they said to his disciples, "Why does your teacher eat with tax collectors and sinners?"
12: But when he heard it, he said, "Those who are well have no need of a physician, but those who are sick.
13: Go and learn what this means, `I desire mercy, and not sacrifice.' For I came not to call the righteous, but sinners."
14: Then the disciples of John came to him, saying, "Why do we and the Pharisees fast, but your disciples do not fast?"
15: And Jesus said to them, "Can the wedding guests mourn as long as the bridegroom is with them? The days will come, when the bridegroom is taken away from them, and then they will fast.
16: And no one puts a piece of unshrunk cloth on an old garment, for the patch tears away from the garment, and a worse tear is made.
17: Neither is new wine put into old wineskins; if it is, the skins burst, and the wine is spilled, and the skins are destroyed; but new wine is put into fresh wineskins, and so both are preserved."
18: While he was thus speaking to them, behold, a ruler came in and knelt before him, saying, "My daughter has just died; but come and lay your hand on her, and she will live."
19: And Jesus rose and followed him, with his disciples.
20: And behold, a woman who had suffered from a hemorrhage for twelve years came up behind him and touched the fringe of his garment;
21: for she said to herself, "If I only touch his garment, I shall be made well."
22: Jesus turned, and seeing her he said, "Take heart, daughter; your faith has made you well." And instantly the woman was made well.
23: And when Jesus came to the ruler's house, and saw the flute players, and the crowd making a tumult,
24: he said, "Depart; for the girl is not dead but sleeping." And they laughed at him.
25: But when the crowd had been put outside, he went in and took her by the hand, and the girl arose.
26: And the report of this went through all that district.
27: And as Jesus passed on from there, two blind men followed him, crying aloud, "Have mercy on us, Son of David."
28: When he entered the house, the blind men came to him; and Jesus said to them, "Do you believe that I am able to do this?" They said to him, "Yes, Lord."
29: Then he touched their eyes, saying, "According to your faith be it done to you."
30: And their eyes were opened. And Jesus sternly charged them, "See that no one knows it."
31: But they went away and spread his fame through all that district.
32: As they were going away, behold, a dumb demoniac was brought to him.
33: And when the demon had been cast out, the dumb man spoke; and the crowds marveled, saying, "Never was anything like this seen in Israel."
34: But the Pharisees said, "He casts out demons by the prince of demons."
35: And Jesus went about all the cities and villages, teaching in their synagogues and preaching the gospel of the kingdom, and healing every disease and every infirmity.
36: When he saw the crowds, he had compassion for them, because they were harassed and helpless, like sheep without a shepherd.
37: Then he said to his disciples, "The harvest is plentiful, but the laborers are few;
38: pray therefore the Lord of the harvest to send out laborers into his harvest."


Chapter 10
Matthew, chapter 10


Compare with King James Version: Matt.10




1: And he called to him his twelve disciples and gave them authority over unclean spirits, to cast them out, and to heal every disease and every infirmity.
2: The names of the twelve apostles are these: first, Simon, who is called Peter, and Andrew his brother; James the son of Zeb'edee, and John his brother;
3: Philip and Bartholomew; Thomas and Matthew the tax collector; James the son of Alphaeus, and Thaddaeus;
4: Simon the Cananaean, and Judas Iscariot, who betrayed him.
5: These twelve Jesus sent out, charging them, "Go nowhere among the Gentiles, and enter no town of the Samaritans,
6: but go rather to the lost sheep of the house of Israel.
7: And preach as you go, saying, `The kingdom of heaven is at hand.'
8: Heal the sick, raise the dead, cleanse lepers, cast out demons. You received without paying, give without pay.
9: Take no gold, nor silver, nor copper in your belts,
10: no bag for your journey, nor two tunics, nor sandals, nor a staff; for the laborer deserves his food.
11: And whatever town or village you enter, find out who is worthy in it, and stay with him until you depart.
12: As you enter the house, salute it.
13: And if the house is worthy, let your peace come upon it; but if it is not worthy, let your peace return to you.
14: And if any one will not receive you or listen to your words, shake off the dust from your feet as you leave that house or town.
15: Truly, I say to you, it shall be more tolerable on the day of judgment for the land of Sodom and Gomor'rah than for that town.
16: "Behold, I send you out as sheep in the midst of wolves; so be wise as serpents and innocent as doves.
17: Beware of men; for they will deliver you up to councils, and flog you in their synagogues,
18: and you will be dragged before governors and kings for my sake, to bear testimony before them and the Gentiles.
19: When they deliver you up, do not be anxious how you are to speak or what you are to say; for what you are to say will be given to you in that hour;
20: for it is not you who speak, but the Spirit of your Father speaking through you.
21: Brother will deliver up brother to death, and the father his child, and children will rise against parents and have them put to death;
22: and you will be hated by all for my name's sake. But he who endures to the end will be saved.
23: When they persecute you in one town, flee to the next; for truly, I say to you, you will not have gone through all the towns of Israel, before the Son of man comes.
24: "A disciple is not above his teacher, nor a servant above his master;
25: it is enough for the disciple to be like his teacher, and the servant like his master. If they have called the master of the house Be-el'zebul, how much more will they malign those of his household.
26: "So have no fear of them; for nothing is covered that will not be revealed, or hidden that will not be known.
27: What I tell you in the dark, utter in the light; and what you hear whispered, proclaim upon the housetops.
28: And do not fear those who kill the body but cannot kill the soul; rather fear him who can destroy both soul and body in hell.
29: Are not two sparrows sold for a penny? And not one of them will fall to the ground without your Father's will.
30: But even the hairs of your head are all numbered.
31: Fear not, therefore; you are of more value than many sparrows.
32: So every one who acknowledges me before men, I also will acknowledge before my Father who is in heaven;
33: but whoever denies me before men, I also will deny before my Father who is in heaven.
34: "Do not think that I have come to bring peace on earth; I have not come to bring peace, but a sword.
35: For I have come to set a man against his father, and a daughter against her mother, and a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law;
36: and a man's foes will be those of his own household.
37: He who loves father or mother more than me is not worthy of me; and he who loves son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me;
38: and he who does not take his cross and follow me is not worthy of me.
39: He who finds his life will lose it, and he who loses his life for my sake will find it.
40: "He who receives you receives me, and he who receives me receives him who sent me.
41: He who receives a prophet because he is a prophet shall receive a prophet's reward, and he who receives a righteous man because he is a righteous man shall receive a righteous man's reward.
42: And whoever gives to one of these little ones even a cup of cold water because he is a disciple, truly, I say to you, he shall not lose his reward."


Chapter 11
Matthew, chapter 11


Compare with King James Version: Matt.11




1: And when Jesus had finished instructing his twelve disciples, he went on from there to teach and preach in their cities.
2: Now when John heard in prison about the deeds of the Christ, he sent word by his disciples
3: and said to him, "Are you he who is to come, or shall we look for another?"
4: And Jesus answered them, "Go and tell John what you hear and see:
5: the blind receive their sight and the lame walk, lepers are cleansed and the deaf hear, and the dead are raised up, and the poor have good news preached to them.
6: And blessed is he who takes no offense at me."
7: As they went away, Jesus began to speak to the crowds concerning John: "What did you go out into the wilderness to behold? A reed shaken by the wind?
8: Why then did you go out? To see a man clothed in soft raiment? Behold, those who wear soft raiment are in kings' houses.
9: Why then did you go out? To see a prophet? Yes, I tell you, and more than a prophet.
10: This is he of whom it is written, `Behold, I send my messenger before thy face, who shall prepare thy way before thee.'
11: Truly, I say to you, among those born of women there has risen no one greater than John the Baptist; yet he who is least in the kingdom of heaven is greater than he.
12: From the days of John the Baptist until now the kingdom of heaven has suffered violence, and men of violence take it by force.
13: For all the prophets and the law prophesied until John;
14: and if you are willing to accept it, he is Eli'jah who is to come.
15: He who has ears to hear, let him hear.
16: "But to what shall I compare this generation? It is like children sitting in the market places and calling to their playmates,
17: `We piped to you, and you did not dance; we wailed, and you did not mourn.'
18: For John came neither eating nor drinking, and they say, `He has a demon';
19: the Son of man came eating and drinking, and they say, `Behold, a glutton and a drunkard, a friend of tax collectors and sinners!' Yet wisdom is justified by her deeds."
20: Then he began to upbraid the cities where most of his mighty works had been done, because they did not repent.
21: "Woe to you, Chora'zin! woe to you, Beth-sa'ida! for if the mighty works done in you had been done in Tyre and Sidon, they would have repented long ago in sackcloth and ashes.
22: But I tell you, it shall be more tolerable on the day of judgment for Tyre and Sidon than for you.
23: And you, Caper'na-um, will you be exalted to heaven? You shall be brought down to Hades. For if the mighty works done in you had been done in Sodom, it would have remained until this day.
24: But I tell you that it shall be more tolerable on the day of judgment for the land of Sodom than for you."
25: At that time Jesus declared, "I thank thee, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, that thou hast hidden these things from the wise and understanding and revealed them to babes;
26: yea, Father, for such was thy gracious will.
27: All things have been delivered to me by my Father; and no one knows the Son except the Father, and no one knows the Father except the Son and any one to whom the Son chooses to reveal him.
28: Come to me, all who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.
29: Take my yoke upon you, and learn from me; for I am gentle and lowly in heart, and you will find rest for your souls.
30: For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light."


Chapter 12
Matthew, chapter 12


Compare with King James Version: Matt.12




1: At that time Jesus went through the grainfields on the sabbath; his disciples were hungry, and they began to pluck heads of grain and to eat.
2: But when the Pharisees saw it, they said to him, "Look, your disciples are doing what is not lawful to do on the sabbath."
3: He said to them, "Have you not read what David did, when he was hungry, and those who were with him:
4: how he entered the house of God and ate the bread of the Presence, which it was not lawful for him to eat nor for those who were with him, but only for the priests?
5: Or have you not read in the law how on the sabbath the priests in the temple profane the sabbath, and are guiltless?
6: I tell you, something greater than the temple is here.
7: And if you had known what this means, `I desire mercy, and not sacrifice,' you would not have condemned the guiltless.
8: For the Son of man is lord of the sabbath."
9: And he went on from there, and entered their synagogue.
10: And behold, there was a man with a withered hand. And they asked him, "Is it lawful to heal on the sabbath?" so that they might accuse him.
11: He said to them, "What man of you, if he has one sheep and it falls into a pit on the sabbath, will not lay hold of it and lift it out?
12: Of how much more value is a man than a sheep! So it is lawful to do good on the sabbath."
13: Then he said to the man, "Stretch out your hand." And the man stretched it out, and it was restored, whole like the other.
14: But the Pharisees went out and took counsel against him, how to destroy him.
15: Jesus, aware of this, withdrew from there. And many followed him, and he healed them all,
16: and ordered them not to make him known.
17: This was to fulfil what was spoken by the prophet Isaiah:
18: "Behold, my servant whom I have chosen, my beloved with whom my soul is well pleased. I will put my Spirit upon him, and he shall proclaim justice to the Gentiles.
19: He will not wrangle or cry aloud, nor will any one hear his voice in the streets;
20: he will not break a bruised reed or quench a smoldering wick, till he brings justice to victory;
21: and in his name will the Gentiles hope."
22: Then a blind and dumb demoniac was brought to him, and he healed him, so that the dumb man spoke and saw.
23: And all the people were amazed, and said, "Can this be the Son of David?"
24: But when the Pharisees heard it they said, "It is only by Be-el'zebul, the prince of demons, that this man casts out demons."
25: Knowing their thoughts, he said to them, "Every kingdom divided against itself is laid waste, and no city or house divided against itself will stand;
26: and if Satan casts out Satan, he is divided against himself; how then will his kingdom stand?
27: And if I cast out demons by Be-el'zebul, by whom do your sons cast them out? Therefore they shall be your judges.
28: But if it is by the Spirit of God that I cast out demons, then the kingdom of God has come upon you.
29: Or how can one enter a strong man's house and plunder his goods, unless he first binds the strong man? Then indeed he may plunder his house.
30: He who is not with me is against me, and he who does not gather with me scatters.
31: Therefore I tell you, every sin and blasphemy will be forgiven men, but the blasphemy against the Spirit will not be forgiven.
32: And whoever says a word against the Son of man will be forgiven; but whoever speaks against the Holy Spirit will not be forgiven, either in this age or in the age to come.
33: "Either make the tree good, and its fruit good; or make the tree bad, and its fruit bad; for the tree is known by its fruit.
34: You brood of vipers! how can you speak good, when you are evil? For out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks.
35: The good man out of his good treasure brings forth good, and the evil man out of his evil treasure brings forth evil.
36: I tell you, on the day of judgment men will render account for every careless word they utter;
37: for by your words you will be justified, and by your words you will be condemned."
38: Then some of the scribes and Pharisees said to him, "Teacher, we wish to see a sign from you."
39: But he answered them, "An evil and adulterous generation seeks for a sign; but no sign shall be given to it except the sign of the prophet Jonah.
40: For as Jonah was three days and three nights in the belly of the whale, so will the Son of man be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth.
41: The men of Nin'eveh will arise at the judgment with this generation and condemn it; for they repented at the preaching of Jonah, and behold, something greater than Jonah is here.
42: The queen of the South will arise at the judgment with this generation and condemn it; for she came from the ends of the earth to hear the wisdom of Solomon, and behold, something greater than Solomon is here.
43: "When the unclean spirit has gone out of a man, he passes through waterless places seeking rest, but he finds none.
44: Then he says, `I will return to my house from which I came.' And when he comes he finds it empty, swept, and put in order.
45: Then he goes and brings with him seven other spirits more evil than himself, and they enter and dwell there; and the last state of that man becomes worse than the first. So shall it be also with this evil generation."
46: While he was still speaking to the people, behold, his mother and his brothers stood outside, asking to speak to him.
48: But he replied to the man who told him, "Who is my mother, and who are my brothers?"
49: And stretching out his hand toward his disciples, he said, "Here are my mother and my brothers!
50: For whoever does the will of my Father in heaven is my brother, and sister, and mother."


Chapter 13
Matthew, chapter 13


Compare with King James Version: Matt.13




1: That same day Jesus went out of the house and sat beside the sea.
2: And great crowds gathered about him, so that he got into a boat and sat there; and the whole crowd stood on the beach.
3: And he told them many things in parables, saying: "A sower went out to sow.
4: And as he sowed, some seeds fell along the path, and the birds came and devoured them.
5: Other seeds fell on rocky ground, where they had not much soil, and immediately they sprang up, since they had no depth of soil,
6: but when the sun rose they were scorched; and since they had no root they withered away.
7: Other seeds fell upon thorns, and the thorns grew up and choked them.
8: Other seeds fell on good soil and brought forth grain, some a hundredfold, some sixty, some thirty.
9: He who has ears, let him hear."
10: Then the disciples came and said to him, "Why do you speak to them in parables?"
11: And he answered them, "To you it has been given to know the secrets of the kingdom of heaven, but to them it has not been given.
12: For to him who has will more be given, and he will have abundance; but from him who has not, even what he has will be taken away.
13: This is why I speak to them in parables, because seeing they do not see, and hearing they do not hear, nor do they understand.
14: With them indeed is fulfilled the prophecy of Isaiah which says: `You shall indeed hear but never understand, and you shall indeed see but never perceive.
15: For this people's heart has grown dull, and their ears are heavy of hearing, and their eyes they have closed, lest they should perceive with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and understand with their heart, and turn for me to heal them.'
16: But blessed are your eyes, for they see, and your ears, for they hear.
17: Truly, I say to you, many prophets and righteous men longed to see what you see, and did not see it, and to hear what you hear, and did not hear it.
18: "Hear then the parable of the sower.
19: When any one hears the word of the kingdom and does not understand it, the evil one comes and snatches away what is sown in his heart; this is what was sown along the path.
20: As for what was sown on rocky ground, this is he who hears the word and immediately receives it with joy;
21: yet he has no root in himself, but endures for a while, and when tribulation or persecution arises on account of the word, immediately he falls away.
22: As for what was sown among thorns, this is he who hears the word, but the cares of the world and the delight in riches choke the word, and it proves unfruitful.
23: As for what was sown on good soil, this is he who hears the word and understands it; he indeed bears fruit, and yields, in one case a hundredfold, in another sixty, and in another thirty."
24: Another parable he put before them, saying, "The kingdom of heaven may be compared to a man who sowed good seed in his field;
25: but while men were sleeping, his enemy came and sowed weeds among the wheat, and went away.
26: So when the plants came up and bore grain, then the weeds appeared also.
27: And the servants of the householder came and said to him, `Sir, did you not sow good seed in your field? How then has it weeds?'
28: He said to them, `An enemy has done this.' The servants said to him, `Then do you want us to go and gather them?'
29: But he said, `No; lest in gathering the weeds you root up the wheat along with them.
30: Let both grow together until the harvest; and at harvest time I will tell the reapers, Gather the weeds first and bind them in bundles to be burned, but gather the wheat into my barn.'"
31: Another parable he put before them, saying, "The kingdom of heaven is like a grain of mustard seed which a man took and sowed in his field;
32: it is the smallest of all seeds, but when it has grown it is the greatest of shrubs and becomes a tree, so that the birds of the air come and make nests in its branches."
33: He told them another parable. "The kingdom of heaven is like leaven which a woman took and hid in three measures of flour, till it was all leavened."
34: All this Jesus said to the crowds in parables; indeed he said nothing to them without a parable.
35: This was to fulfil what was spoken by the prophet: "I will open my mouth in parables, I will utter what has been hidden since the foundation of the world."
36: Then he left the crowds and went into the house. And his disciples came to him, saying, "Explain to us the parable of the weeds of the field."
37: He answered, "He who sows the good seed is the Son of man;
38: the field is the world, and the good seed means the sons of the kingdom; the weeds are the sons of the evil one,
39: and the enemy who sowed them is the devil; the harvest is the close of the age, and the reapers are angels.
40: Just as the weeds are gathered and burned with fire, so will it be at the close of the age.
41: The Son of man will send his angels, and they will gather out of his kingdom all causes of sin and all evildoers,
42: and throw them into the furnace of fire; there men will weep and gnash their teeth.
43: Then the righteous will shine like the sun in the kingdom of their Father. He who has ears, let him hear.
44: "The kingdom of heaven is like treasure hidden in a field, which a man found and covered up; then in his joy he goes and sells all that he has and buys that field.
45: "Again, the kingdom of heaven is like a merchant in search of fine pearls,
46: who, on finding one pearl of great value, went and sold all that he had and bought it.
47: "Again, the kingdom of heaven is like a net which was thrown into the sea and gathered fish of every kind;
48: when it was full, men drew it ashore and sat down and sorted the good into vessels but threw away the bad.
49: So it will be at the close of the age. The angels will come out and separate the evil from the righteous,
50: and throw them into the furnace of fire; there men will weep and gnash their teeth.
51: "Have you understood all this?" They said to him, "Yes."
52: And he said to them, "Therefore every scribe who has been trained for the kingdom of heaven is like a householder who brings out of his treasure what is new and what is old."
53: And when Jesus had finished these parables, he went away from there,
54: and coming to his own country he taught them in their synagogue, so that they were astonished, and said, "Where did this man get this wisdom and these mighty works?
55: Is not this the carpenter's son? Is not his mother called Mary? And are not his brothers James and Joseph and Simon and Judas?
56: And are not all his sisters with us? Where then did this man get all this?"
57: And they took offense at him. But Jesus said to them, "A prophet is not without honor except in his own country and in his own house."
58: And he did not do many mighty works there, because of their unbelief.


Chapter 14
Matthew, chapter 14


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1: At that time Herod the tetrarch heard about the fame of Jesus;
2: and he said to his servants, "This is John the Baptist, he has been raised from the dead; that is why these powers are at work in him."
3: For Herod had seized John and bound him and put him in prison, for the sake of Hero'di-as, his brother Philip's wife;
4: because John said to him, "It is not lawful for you to have her."
5: And though he wanted to put him to death, he feared the people, because they held him to be a prophet.
6: But when Herod's birthday came, the daughter of Hero'di-as danced before the company, and pleased Herod,
7: so that he promised with an oath to give her whatever she might ask.
8: Prompted by her mother, she said, "Give me the head of John the Baptist here on a platter."
9: And the king was sorry; but because of his oaths and his guests he commanded it to be given;
10: he sent and had John beheaded in the prison,
11: and his head was brought on a platter and given to the girl, and she brought it to her mother.
12: And his disciples came and took the body and buried it; and they went and told Jesus.
13: Now when Jesus heard this, he withdrew from there in a boat to a lonely place apart. But when the crowds heard it, they followed him on foot from the towns.
14: As he went ashore he saw a great throng; and he had compassion on them, and healed their sick.
15: When it was evening, the disciples came to him and said, "This is a lonely place, and the day is now over; send the crowds away to go into the villages and buy food for themselves."
16: Jesus said, "They need not go away; you give them something to eat."
17: They said to him, "We have only five loaves here and two fish."
18: And he said, "Bring them here to me."
19: Then he ordered the crowds to sit down on the grass; and taking the five loaves and the two fish he looked up to heaven, and blessed, and broke and gave the loaves to the disciples, and the disciples gave them to the crowds.
20: And they all ate and were satisfied. And they took up twelve baskets full of the broken pieces left over.
21: And those who ate were about five thousand men, besides women and children.
22: Then he made the disciples get into the boat and go before him to the other side, while he dismissed the crowds.
23: And after he had dismissed the crowds, he went up on the mountain by himself to pray. When evening came, he was there alone,
24: but the boat by this time was many furlongs distant from the land, beaten by the waves; for the wind was against them.
25: And in the fourth watch of the night he came to them, walking on the sea.
26: But when the disciples saw him walking on the sea, they were terrified, saying, "It is a ghost!" And they cried out for fear.
27: But immediately he spoke to them, saying, "Take heart, it is I; have no fear."
28: And Peter answered him, "Lord, if it is you, bid me come to you on the water."
29: He said, "Come." So Peter got out of the boat and walked on the water and came to Jesus;
30: but when he saw the wind, he was afraid, and beginning to sink he cried out, "Lord, save me."
31: Jesus immediately reached out his hand and caught him, saying to him, "O man of little faith, why did you doubt?"
32: And when they got into the boat, the wind ceased.
33: And those in the boat worshiped him, saying, "Truly you are the Son of God."
34: And when they had crossed over, they came to land at Gennesaret.
35: And when the men of that place recognized him, they sent round to all that region and brought to him all that were sick,
36: and besought him that they might only touch the fringe of his garment; and as many as touched it were made well.


Chapter 15
Matthew, chapter 15


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1: Then Pharisees and scribes came to Jesus from Jerusalem and said,
2: "Why do your disciples transgress the tradition of the elders? For they do not wash their hands when they eat."
3: He answered them, "And why do you transgress the commandment of God for the sake of your tradition?
4: For God commanded, `Honor your father and your mother,' and, `He who speaks evil of father or mother, let him surely die.'
5: But you say, `If any one tells his father or his mother, What you would have gained from me is given to God, he need not honor his father.'
6: So, for the sake of your tradition, you have made void the word of God.
7: You hypocrites! Well did Isaiah prophesy of you, when he said:
8: `This people honors me with their lips, but their heart is far from me;
9: in vain do they worship me, teaching as doctrines the precepts of men.'"
10: And he called the people to him and said to them, "Hear and understand:
11: not what goes into the mouth defiles a man, but what comes out of the mouth, this defiles a man."
12: Then the disciples came and said to him, "Do you know that the Pharisees were offended when they heard this saying?"
13: He answered, "Every plant which my heavenly Father has not planted will be rooted up.
14: Let them alone; they are blind guides. And if a blind man leads a blind man, both will fall into a pit."
15: But Peter said to him, "Explain the parable to us."
16: And he said, "Are you also still without understanding?
17: Do you not see that whatever goes into the mouth passes into the stomach, and so passes on?
18: But what comes out of the mouth proceeds from the heart, and this defiles a man.
19: For out of the heart come evil thoughts, murder, adultery, fornication, theft, false witness, slander.
20: These are what defile a man; but to eat with unwashed hands does not defile a man."
21: And Jesus went away from there and withdrew to the district of Tyre and Sidon.
22: And behold, a Canaanite woman from that region came out and cried, "Have mercy on me, O Lord, Son of David; my daughter is severely possessed by a demon."
23: But he did not answer her a word. And his disciples came and begged him, saying, "Send her away, for she is crying after us."
24: He answered, "I was sent only to the lost sheep of the house of Israel."
25: But she came and knelt before him, saying, "Lord, help me."
26: And he answered, "It is not fair to take the children's bread and throw it to the dogs."
27: She said, "Yes, Lord, yet even the dogs eat the crumbs that fall from their masters' table."
28: Then Jesus answered her, "O woman, great is your faith! Be it done for you as you desire." And her daughter was healed instantly.
29: And Jesus went on from there and passed along the Sea of Galilee. And he went up on the mountain, and sat down there.
30: And great crowds came to him, bringing with them the lame, the maimed, the blind, the dumb, and many others, and they put them at his feet, and he healed them,
31: so that the throng wondered, when they saw the dumb speaking, the maimed whole, the lame walking, and the blind seeing; and they glorified the God of Israel.
32: Then Jesus called his disciples to him and said, "I have compassion on the crowd, because they have been with me now three days, and have nothing to eat; and I am unwilling to send them away hungry, lest they faint on the way."
33: And the disciples said to him, "Where are we to get bread enough in the desert to feed so great a crowd?"
34: And Jesus said to them, "How many loaves have you?" They said, "Seven, and a few small fish."
35: And commanding the crowd to sit down on the ground,
36: he took the seven loaves and the fish, and having given thanks he broke them and gave them to the disciples, and the disciples gave them to the crowds.
37: And they all ate and were satisfied; and they took up seven baskets full of the broken pieces left over.
38: Those who ate were four thousand men, besides women and children.
39: And sending away the crowds, he got into the boat and went to the region of Mag'adan.


Chapter 16
Matthew, chapter 16


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Chapter 1
Acts, chapter 1


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1: In the first book, O The-oph'ilus, I have dealt with all that Jesus began to do and teach,
2: until the day when he was taken up, after he had given commandment through the Holy Spirit to the apostles whom he had chosen.
3: To them he presented himself alive after his passion by many proofs, appearing to them during forty days, and speaking of the kingdom of God.
4: And while staying with them he charged them not to depart from Jerusalem, but to wait for the promise of the Father, which, he said, "you heard from me,
5: for John baptized with water, but before many days you shall be baptized with the Holy Spirit."
6: So when they had come together, they asked him, "Lord, will you at this time restore the kingdom to Israel?"
7: He said to them, "It is not for you to know times or seasons which the Father has fixed by his own authority.
8: But you shall receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you; and you shall be my witnesses in Jerusalem and in all Judea and Sama'ria and to the end of the earth."
9: And when he had said this, as they were looking on, he was lifted up, and a cloud took him out of their sight.
10: And while they were gazing into heaven as he went, behold, two men stood by them in white robes,
11: and said, "Men of Galilee, why do you stand looking into heaven? This Jesus, who was taken up from you into heaven, will come in the same way as you saw him go into heaven."
12: Then they returned to Jerusalem from the mount called Olivet, which is near Jerusalem, a sabbath day's journey away;
13: and when they had entered, they went up to the upper room, where they were staying, Peter and John and James and Andrew, Philip and Thomas, Bartholomew and Matthew, James the son of Alphaeus and Simon the Zealot and Judas the son of James.
14: All these with one accord devoted themselves to prayer, together with the women and Mary the mother of Jesus, and with his brothers.
15: In those days Peter stood up among the brethren (the company of persons was in all about a hundred and twenty), and said,
16: "Brethren, the scripture had to be fulfilled, which the Holy Spirit spoke beforehand by the mouth of David, concerning Judas who was guide to those who arrested Jesus.
17: For he was numbered among us, and was allotted his share in this ministry.
18: (Now this man bought a field with the reward of his wickedness; and falling headlong he burst open in the middle and all his bowels gushed out.
19: And it became known to all the inhabitants of Jerusalem, so that the field was called in their language Akel'dama, that is, Field of Blood.)
20: For it is written in the book of Psalms, `Let his habitation become desolate, and let there be no one to live in it'; and `His office let another take.'
21: So one of the men who have accompanied us during all the time that the Lord Jesus went in and out among us,
22: beginning from the baptism of John until the day when he was taken up from us -- one of these men must become with us a witness to his resurrection."
23: And they put forward two, Joseph called Barsab'bas, who was surnamed Justus, and Matthi'as.
24: And they prayed and said, "Lord, who knowest the hearts of all men, show which one of these two thou hast chosen
25: to take the place in this ministry and apostleship from which Judas turned aside, to go to his own place."
26: And they cast lots for them, and the lot fell on Matthi'as; and he was enrolled with the eleven apostles.


Chapter 2
Acts, chapter 2


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1: When the day of Pentecost had come, they were all together in one place.
2: And suddenly a sound came from heaven like the rush of a mighty wind, and it filled all the house where they were sitting.
3: And there appeared to them tongues as of fire, distributed and resting on each one of them.
4: And they were all filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak in other tongues, as the Spirit gave them utterance.
5: Now there were dwelling in Jerusalem Jews, devout men from every nation under heaven.
6: And at this sound the multitude came together, and they were bewildered, because each one heard them speaking in his own language.
7: And they were amazed and wondered, saying, "Are not all these who are speaking Galileans?
8: And how is it that we hear, each of us in his own native language?
9: Par'thians and Medes and E'lamites and residents of Mesopota'mia, Judea and Cappado'cia, Pontus and Asia,
10: Phryg'ia and Pamphyl'ia, Egypt and the parts of Libya belonging to Cyre'ne, and visitors from Rome, both Jews and proselytes,
11: Cretans and Arabians, we hear them telling in our own tongues the mighty works of God."
12: And all were amazed and perplexed, saying to one another, "What does this mean?"
13: But others mocking said, "They are filled with new wine."
14: But Peter, standing with the eleven, lifted up his voice and addressed them, "Men of Judea and all who dwell in Jerusalem, let this be known to you, and give ear to my words.
15: For these men are not drunk, as you suppose, since it is only the third hour of the day;
16: but this is what was spoken by the prophet Joel:
17: `And in the last days it shall be, God declares, that I will pour out my Spirit upon all flesh, and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, and your young men shall see visions, and your old men shall dream dreams;
18: yea, and on my menservants and my maidservants in those days I will pour out my Spirit; and they shall prophesy.
19: And I will show wonders in the heaven above and signs on the earth beneath, blood, and fire, and vapor of smoke;
20: the sun shall be turned into darkness and the moon into blood, before the day of the Lord comes, the great and manifest day.
21: And it shall be that whoever calls on the name of the Lord shall be saved.'
22: "Men of Israel, hear these words: Jesus of Nazareth, a man attested to you by God with mighty works and wonders and signs which God did through him in your midst, as you yourselves know --
23: this Jesus, delivered up according to the definite plan and foreknowledge of God, you crucified and killed by the hands of lawless men.
24: But God raised him up, having loosed the pangs of death, because it was not possible for him to be held by it.
25: For David says concerning him, `I saw the Lord always before me, for he is at my right hand that I may not be shaken;
26: therefore my heart was glad, and my tongue rejoiced; moreover my flesh will dwell in hope.
27: For thou wilt not abandon my soul to Hades, nor let thy Holy One see corruption.
28: Thou hast made known to me the ways of life; thou wilt make me full of gladness with thy presence.'
29: "Brethren, I may say to you confidently of the patriarch David that he both died and was buried, and his tomb is with us to this day.
30: Being therefore a prophet, and knowing that God had sworn with an oath to him that he would set one of his descendants upon his throne,
31: he foresaw and spoke of the resurrection of the Christ, that he was not abandoned to Hades, nor did his flesh see corruption.
32: This Jesus God raised up, and of that we all are witnesses.
33: Being therefore exalted at the right hand of God, and having received from the Father the promise of the Holy Spirit, he has poured out this which you see and hear.
34: For David did not ascend into the heavens; but he himself says, `The Lord said to my Lord, Sit at my right hand,
35: till I make thy enemies a stool for thy feet.'
36: Let all the house of Israel therefore know assuredly that God has made him both Lord and Christ, this Jesus whom you crucified."
37: Now when they heard this they were cut to the heart, and said to Peter and the rest of the apostles, "Brethren, what shall we do?"
38: And Peter said to them, "Repent, and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of your sins; and you shall receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.
39: For the promise is to you and to your children and to all that are far off, every one whom the Lord our God calls to him."
40: And he testified with many other words and exhorted them, saying, "Save yourselves from this crooked generation."
41: So those who received his word were baptized, and there were added that day about three thousand souls.
42: And they devoted themselves to the apostles' teaching and fellowship, to the breaking of bread and the prayers.
43: And fear came upon every soul; and many wonders and signs were done through the apostles.
44: And all who believed were together and had all things in common;
45: and they sold their possessions and goods and distributed them to all, as any had need.
46: And day by day, attending the temple together and breaking bread in their homes, they partook of food with glad and generous hearts,
47: praising God and having favor with all the people. And the Lord added to their number day by day those who were being saved.


Chapter 3
Acts, chapter 3


Compare with King James Version: Acts.03




1: Now Peter and John were going up to the temple at the hour of prayer, the ninth hour.
2: And a man lame from birth was being carried, whom they laid daily at that gate of the temple which is called Beautiful to ask alms of those who entered the temple.
3: Seeing Peter and John about to go into the temple, he asked for alms.
4: And Peter directed his gaze at him, with John, and said, "Look at us."
5: And he fixed his attention upon them, expecting to receive something from them.
6: But Peter said, "I have no silver and gold, but I give you what I have; in the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, walk."
7: And he took him by the right hand and raised him up; and immediately his feet and ankles were made strong.
8: And leaping up he stood and walked and entered the temple with them, walking and leaping and praising God.
9: And all the people saw him walking and praising God,
10: and recognized him as the one who sat for alms at the Beautiful Gate of the temple; and they were filled with wonder and amazement at what had happened to him.
11: While he clung to Peter and John, all the people ran together to them in the portico called Solomon's, astounded.
12: And when Peter saw it he addressed the people, "Men of Israel, why do you wonder at this, or why do you stare at us, as though by our own power or piety we had made him walk?
13: The God of Abraham and of Isaac and of Jacob, the God of our fathers, glorified his servant Jesus, whom you delivered up and denied in the presence of Pilate, when he had decided to release him.
14: But you denied the Holy and Righteous One, and asked for a murderer to be granted to you,
15: and killed the Author of life, whom God raised from the dead. To this we are witnesses.
16: And his name, by faith in his name, has made this man strong whom you see and know; and the faith which is through Jesus has given the man this perfect health in the presence of you all.
17: "And now, brethren, I know that you acted in ignorance, as did also your rulers.
18: But what God foretold by the mouth of all the prophets, that his Christ should suffer, he thus fulfilled.
19: Repent therefore, and turn again, that your sins may be blotted out, that times of refreshing may come from the presence of the Lord,
20: and that he may send the Christ appointed for you, Jesus,
21: whom heaven must receive until the time for establishing all that God spoke by the mouth of his holy prophets from of old.
22: Moses said, `The Lord God will raise up for you a prophet from your brethren as he raised me up. You shall listen to him in whatever he tells you.
23: And it shall be that every soul that does not listen to that prophet shall be destroyed from the people.'
24: And all the prophets who have spoken, from Samuel and those who came afterwards, also proclaimed these days.
25: You are the sons of the prophets and of the covenant which God gave to your fathers, saying to Abraham, `And in your posterity shall all the families of the earth be blessed.'
26: God, having raised up his servant, sent him to you first, to bless you in turning every one of you from your wickedness."


Chapter 4
Acts, chapter 4


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1: And as they were speaking to the people, the priests and the captain of the temple and the Sad'ducees came upon them,
2: annoyed because they were teaching the people and proclaiming in Jesus the resurrection from the dead.
3: And they arrested them and put them in custody until the morrow, for it was already evening.
4: But many of those who heard the word believed; and the number of the men came to about five thousand.
5: On the morrow their rulers and elders and scribes were gathered together in Jerusalem,
6: with Annas the high priest and Ca'iaphas and John and Alexander, and all who were of the high-priestly family.
7: And when they had set them in the midst, they inquired, "By what power or by what name did you do this?"
8: Then Peter, filled with the Holy Spirit, said to them, "Rulers of the people and elders,
9: if we are being examined today concerning a good deed done to a cripple, by what means this man has been healed,
10: be it known to you all, and to all the people of Israel, that by the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, whom you crucified, whom God raised from the dead, by him this man is standing before you well.
11: This is the stone which was rejected by you builders, but which has become the head of the corner.
12: And there is salvation in no one else, for there is no other name under heaven given among men by which we must be saved."
13: Now when they saw the boldness of Peter and John, and perceived that they were uneducated, common men, they wondered; and they recognized that they had been with Jesus.
14: But seeing the man that had been healed standing beside them, they had nothing to say in opposition.
15: But when they had commanded them to go aside out of the council, they conferred with one another,
16: saying, "What shall we do with these men? For that a notable sign has been performed through them is manifest to all the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and we cannot deny it.
17: But in order that it may spread no further among the people, let us warn them to speak no more to any one in this name."
18: So they called them and charged them not to speak or teach at all in the name of Jesus.
19: But Peter and John answered them, "Whether it is right in the sight of God to listen to you rather than to God, you must judge;
20: for we cannot but speak of what we have seen and heard."
21: And when they had further threatened them, they let them go, finding no way to punish them, because of the people; for all men praised God for what had happened.
22: For the man on whom this sign of healing was performed was more than forty years old.
23: When they were released they went to their friends and reported what the chief priests and the elders had said to them.
24: And when they heard it, they lifted their voices together to God and said, "Sovereign Lord, who didst make the heaven and the earth and the sea and everything in them,
25: who by the mouth of our father David, thy servant, didst say by the Holy Spirit, `Why did the Gentiles rage, and the peoples imagine vain things?
26: The kings of the earth set themselves in array, and the rulers were gathered together, against the Lord and against his Anointed' --
27: for truly in this city there were gathered together against thy holy servant Jesus, whom thou didst anoint, both Herod and Pontius Pilate, with the Gentiles and the peoples of Israel,
28: to do whatever thy hand and thy plan had predestined to take place.
29: And now, Lord, look upon their threats, and grant to thy servants to speak thy word with all boldness,
30: while thou stretchest out thy hand to heal, and signs and wonders are performed through the name of thy holy servant Jesus."
31: And when they had prayed, the place in which they were gathered together was shaken; and they were all filled with the Holy Spirit and spoke the word of God with boldness.
32: Now the company of those who believed were of one heart and soul, and no one said that any of the things which he possessed was his own, but they had everything in common.
33: And with great power the apostles gave their testimony to the resurrection of the Lord Jesus, and great grace was upon them all.
34: There was not a needy person among them, for as many as were possessors of lands or houses sold them, and brought the proceeds of what was sold
35: and laid it at the apostles' feet; and distribution was made to each as any had need.
36: Thus Joseph who was surnamed by the apostles Barnabas (which means, Son of encouragement), a Levite, a native of Cyprus,
37: sold a field which belonged to him, and brought the money and laid it at the apostles' feet.


Chapter 5
Acts, chapter 5


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1: But a man named Anani'as with his wife Sapphi'ra sold a piece of property,
2: and with his wife's knowledge he kept back some of the proceeds, and brought only a part and laid it at the apostles' feet.
3: But Peter said, "Anani'as, why has Satan filled your heart to lie to the Holy Spirit and to keep back part of the proceeds of the land?
4: While it remained unsold, did it not remain your own? And after it was sold, was it not at your disposal? How is it that you have contrived this deed in your heart? You have not lied to men but to God."
5: When Anani'as heard these words, he fell down and died. And great fear came upon all who heard of it.
6: The young men rose and wrapped him up and carried him out and buried him.
7: After an interval of about three hours his wife came in, not knowing what had happened.
8: And Peter said to her, "Tell me whether you sold the land for so much." And she said, "Yes, for so much."
9: But Peter said to her, "How is it that you have agreed together to tempt the Spirit of the Lord? Hark, the feet of those that have buried your husband are at the door, and they will carry you out."
10: Immediately she fell down at his feet and died. When the young men came in they found her dead, and they carried her out and buried her beside her husband.
11: And great fear came upon the whole church, and upon all who heard of these things.
12: Now many signs and wonders were done among the people by the hands of the apostles. And they were all together in Solomon's Portico.
13: None of the rest dared join them, but the people held them in high honor.
14: And more than ever believers were added to the Lord, multitudes both of men and women,
15: so that they even carried out the sick into the streets, and laid them on beds and pallets, that as Peter came by at least his shadow might fall on some of them.
16: The people also gathered from the towns around Jerusalem, bringing the sick and those afflicted with unclean spirits, and they were all healed.
17: But the high priest rose up and all who were with him, that is, the party of the Sad'ducees, and filled with jealousy
18: they arrested the apostles and put them in the common prison.
19: But at night an angel of the Lord opened the prison doors and brought them out and said,
20: "Go and stand in the temple and speak to the people all the words of this Life."
21: And when they heard this, they entered the temple at daybreak and taught. Now the high priest came and those who were with him and called together the council and all the senate of Israel, and sent to the prison to have them brought.
22: But when the officers came, they did not find them in the prison, and they returned and reported,
23: "We found the prison securely locked and the sentries standing at the doors, but when we opened it we found no one inside."
24: Now when the captain of the temple and the chief priests heard these words, they were much perplexed about them, wondering what this would come to.
25: And some one came and told them, "The men whom you put in prison are standing in the temple and teaching the people."
26: Then the captain with the officers went and brought them, but without violence, for they were afraid of being stoned by the people.
27: And when they had brought them, they set them before the council. And the high priest questioned them,
28: saying, "We strictly charged you not to teach in this name, yet here you have filled Jerusalem with your teaching and you intend to bring this man's blood upon us."
29: But Peter and the apostles answered, "We must obey God rather than men.
30: The God of our fathers raised Jesus whom you killed by hanging him on a tree.
31: God exalted him at his right hand as Leader and Savior, to give repentance to Israel and forgiveness of sins.
32: And we are witnesses to these things, and so is the Holy Spirit whom God has given to those who obey him."
33: When they heard this they were enraged and wanted to kill them.
34: But a Pharisee in the council named Gama'li-el, a teacher of the law, held in honor by all the people, stood up and ordered the men to be put outside for a while.
35: And he said to them, "Men of Israel, take care what you do with these men.
36: For before these days Theu'das arose, giving himself out to be somebody, and a number of men, about four hundred, joined him; but he was slain and all who followed him were dispersed and came to nothing.
37: After him Judas the Galilean arose in the days of the census and drew away some of the people after him; he also perished, and all who followed him were scattered.
38: So in the present case I tell you, keep away from these men and let them alone; for if this plan or this undertaking is of men, it will fail;
39: but if it is of God, you will not be able to overthrow them. You might even be found opposing God!"
40: So they took his advice, and when they had called in the apostles, they beat them and charged them not to speak in the name of Jesus, and let them go.
41: Then they left the presence of the council, rejoicing that they were counted worthy to suffer dishonor for the name.
42: And every day in the temple and at home they did not cease teaching and preaching Jesus as the Christ.


Chapter 6
Acts, chapter 6


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1: Now in these days when the disciples were increasing in number, the Hellenists murmured against the Hebrews because their widows were neglected in the daily distribution.
2: And the twelve summoned the body of the disciples and said, "It is not right that we should give up preaching the word of God to serve tables.
3: Therefore, brethren, pick out from among you seven men of good repute, full of the Spirit and of wisdom, whom we may appoint to this duty.
4: But we will devote ourselves to prayer and to the ministry of the word."
5: And what they said pleased the whole multitude, and they chose Stephen, a man full of faith and of the Holy Spirit, and Philip, and Proch'orus, and Nica'nor, and Ti'mon, and Par'menas, and Nicola'us, a proselyte of Antioch.
6: These they set before the apostles, and they prayed and laid their hands upon them.
7: And the word of God increased; and the number of the disciples multiplied greatly in Jerusalem, and a great many of the priests were obedient to the faith.
8: And Stephen, full of grace and power, did great wonders and signs among the people.
9: Then some of those who belonged to the synagogue of the Freedmen (as it was called), and of the Cyre'nians, and of the Alexandrians, and of those from Cili'cia and Asia, arose and disputed with Stephen.
10: But they could not withstand the wisdom and the Spirit with which he spoke.
11: Then they secretly instigated men, who said, "We have heard him speak blasphemous words against Moses and God."
12: And they stirred up the people and the elders and the scribes, and they came upon him and seized him and brought him before the council,
13: and set up false witnesses who said, "This man never ceases to speak words against this holy place and the law;
14: for we have heard him say that this Jesus of Nazareth will destroy this place, and will change the customs which Moses delivered to us."
15: And gazing at him, all who sat in the council saw that his face was like the face of an angel.


Chapter 7
Acts, chapter 7


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1: And the high priest said, "Is this so?"
2: And Stephen said: "Brethren and fathers, hear me. The God of glory appeared to our father Abraham, when he was in Mesopota'mia, before he lived in Haran,
3: and said to him, `Depart from your land and from your kindred and go into the land which I will show you.'
4: Then he departed from the land of the Chalde'ans, and lived in Haran. And after his father died, God removed him from there into this land in which you are now living;
5: yet he gave him no inheritance in it, not even a foot's length, but promised to give it to him in possession and to his posterity after him, though he had no child.
6: And God spoke to this effect, that his posterity would be aliens in a land belonging to others, who would enslave them and ill-treat them four hundred years.
7: `But I will judge the nation which they serve,' said God, `and after that they shall come out and worship me in this place.'
8: And he gave him the covenant of circumcision. And so Abraham became the father of Isaac, and circumcised him on the eighth day; and Isaac became the father of Jacob, and Jacob of the twelve patriarchs.
9: "And the patriarchs, jealous of Joseph, sold him into Egypt; but God was with him,
10: and rescued him out of all his afflictions, and gave him favor and wisdom before Pharaoh, king of Egypt, who made him governor over Egypt and over all his household.
11: Now there came a famine throughout all Egypt and Canaan, and great affliction, and our fathers could find no food.
12: But when Jacob heard that there was grain in Egypt, he sent forth our fathers the first time.
13: And at the second visit Joseph made himself known to his brothers, and Joseph's family became known to Pharaoh.
14: And Joseph sent and called to him Jacob his father and all his kindred, seventy-five souls;
15: and Jacob went down into Egypt. And he died, himself and our fathers,
16: and they were carried back to Shechem and laid in the tomb that Abraham had bought for a sum of silver from the sons of Hamor in Shechem.
17: "But as the time of the promise drew near, which God had granted to Abraham, the people grew and multiplied in Egypt
18: till there arose over Egypt another king who had not known Joseph.
19: He dealt craftily with our race and forced our fathers to expose their infants, that they might not be kept alive.
20: At this time Moses was born, and was beautiful before God. And he was brought up for three months in his father's house;
21: and when he was exposed, Pharaoh's daughter adopted him and brought him up as her own son.
22: And Moses was instructed in all the wisdom of the Egyptians, and he was mighty in his words and deeds.
23: "When he was forty years old, it came into his heart to visit his brethren, the sons of Israel.
24: And seeing one of them being wronged, he defended the oppressed man and avenged him by striking the Egyptian.
25: He supposed that his brethren understood that God was giving them deliverance by his hand, but they did not understand.
26: And on the following day he appeared to them as they were quarreling and would have reconciled them, saying, `Men, you are brethren, why do you wrong each other?'
27: But the man who was wronging his neighbor thrust him aside, saying, `Who made you a ruler and a judge over us?
28: Do you want to kill me as you killed the Egyptian yesterday?'
29: At this retort Moses fled, and became an exile in the land of Mid'ian, where he became the father of two sons.
30: "Now when forty years had passed, an angel appeared to him in the wilderness of Mount Sinai, in a flame of fire in a bush.
31: When Moses saw it he wondered at the sight; and as he drew near to look, the voice of the Lord came,
32: `I am the God of your fathers, the God of Abraham and of Isaac and of Jacob.' And Moses trembled and did not dare to look.
33: And the Lord said to him, `Take off the shoes from your feet, for the place where you are standing is holy ground.
34: I have surely seen the ill-treatment of my people that are in Egypt and heard their groaning, and I have come down to deliver them. And now come, I will send you to Egypt.'
35: "This Moses whom they refused, saying, `Who made you a ruler and a judge?' God sent as both ruler and deliverer by the hand of the angel that appeared to him in the bush.
36: He led them out, having performed wonders and signs in Egypt and at the Red Sea, and in the wilderness for forty years.
37: This is the Moses who said to the Israelites, `God will raise up for you a prophet from your brethren as he raised me up.'
38: This is he who was in the congregation in the wilderness with the angel who spoke to him at Mount Sinai, and with our fathers; and he received living oracles to give to us.
39: Our fathers refused to obey him, but thrust him aside, and in their hearts they turned to Egypt,
40: saying to Aaron, `Make for us gods to go before us; as for this Moses who led us out from the land of Egypt, we do not know what has become of him.'
41: And they made a calf in those days, and offered a sacrifice to the idol and rejoiced in the works of their hands.
42: But God turned and gave them over to worship the host of heaven, as it is written in the book of the prophets: `Did you offer to me slain beasts and sacrifices, forty years in the wilderness, O house of Israel?
43: And you took up the tent of Moloch, and the star of the god Rephan, the figures which you made to worship; and I will remove you beyond Babylon.'
44: "Our fathers had the tent of witness in the wilderness, even as he who spoke to Moses directed him to make it, according to the pattern that he had seen.
45: Our fathers in turn brought it in with Joshua when they dispossessed the nations which God thrust out before our fathers. So it was until the days of David,
46: who found favor in the sight of God and asked leave to find a habitation for the God of Jacob.
47: But it was Solomon who built a house for him.
48: Yet the Most High does not dwell in houses made with hands; as the prophet says,
49: `Heaven is my throne, and earth my footstool. What house will you build for me, says the Lord, or what is the place of my rest?
50: Did not my hand make all these things?'
51: "You stiff-necked people, uncircumcised in heart and ears, you always resist the Holy Spirit. As your fathers did, so do you.
52: Which of the prophets did not your fathers persecute? And they killed those who announced beforehand the coming of the Righteous One, whom you have now betrayed and murdered,
53: you who received the law as delivered by angels and did not keep it."
54: Now when they heard these things they were enraged, and they ground their teeth against him.
55: But he, full of the Holy Spirit, gazed into heaven and saw the glory of God, and Jesus standing at the right hand of God;
56: and he said, "Behold, I see the heavens opened, and the Son of man standing at the right hand of God."
57: But they cried out with a loud voice and stopped their ears and rushed together upon him.
58: Then they cast him out of the city and stoned him; and the witnesses laid down their garments at the feet of a young man named Saul.
59: And as they were stoning Stephen, he prayed, "Lord Jesus, receive my spirit."
60: And he knelt down and cried with a loud voice, "Lord, do not hold this sin against them." And when he had said this, he fell asleep.


Chapter 8
Acts, chapter 8


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1: And Saul was consenting to his death. And on that day a great persecution arose against the church in Jerusalem; and they were all scattered throughout the region of Judea and Sama'ria, except the apostles.
2: Devout men buried Stephen, and made great lamentation over him.
3: But Saul was ravaging the church, and entering house after house, he dragged off men and women and committed them to prison.
4: Now those who were scattered went about preaching the word.
5: Philip went down to a city of Sama'ria, and proclaimed to them the Christ.
6: And the multitudes with one accord gave heed to what was said by Philip, when they heard him and saw the signs which he did.
7: For unclean spirits came out of many who were possessed, crying with a loud voice; and many who were paralyzed or lame were healed.
8: So there was much joy in that city.
9: But there was a man named Simon who had previously practiced magic in the city and amazed the nation of Sama'ria, saying that he himself was somebody great.
10: They all gave heed to him, from the least to the greatest, saying, "This man is that power of God which is called Great."
11: And they gave heed to him, because for a long time he had amazed them with his magic.
12: But when they believed Philip as he preached good news about the kingdom of God and the name of Jesus Christ, they were baptized, both men and women.
13: Even Simon himself believed, and after being baptized he continued with Philip. And seeing signs and great miracles performed, he was amazed.
14: Now when the apostles at Jerusalem heard that Sama'ria had received the word of God, they sent to them Peter and John,
15: who came down and prayed for them that they might receive the Holy Spirit;
16: for it had not yet fallen on any of them, but they had only been baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus.
17: Then they laid their hands on them and they received the Holy Spirit.
18: Now when Simon saw that the Spirit was given through the laying on of the apostles' hands, he offered them money,
19: saying, "Give me also this power, that any one on whom I lay my hands may receive the Holy Spirit."
20: But Peter said to him, "Your silver perish with you, because you thought you could obtain the gift of God with money!
21: You have neither part nor lot in this matter, for your heart is not right before God.
22: Repent therefore of this wickedness of yours, and pray to the Lord that, if possible, the intent of your heart may be forgiven you.
23: For I see that you are in the gall of bitterness and in the bond of iniquity."
24: And Simon answered, "Pray for me to the Lord, that nothing of what you have said may come upon me."
25: Now when they had testified and spoken the word of the Lord, they returned to Jerusalem, preaching the gospel to many villages of the Samaritans.
26: But an angel of the Lord said to Philip, "Rise and go toward the south to the road that goes down from Jerusalem to Gaza." This is a desert road.
27: And he rose and went. And behold, an Ethiopian, a eunuch, a minister of the Can'dace, queen of the Ethiopians, in charge of all her treasure, had come to Jerusalem to worship
28: and was returning; seated in his chariot, he was reading the prophet Isaiah.
29: And the Spirit said to Philip, "Go up and join this chariot."
30: So Philip ran to him, and heard him reading Isaiah the prophet, and asked, "Do you understand what you are reading?"
31: And he said, "How can I, unless some one guides me?" And he invited Philip to come up and sit with him.
32: Now the passage of the scripture which he was reading was this: "As a sheep led to the slaughter or a lamb before its shearer is dumb, so he opens not his mouth.
33: In his humiliation justice was denied him. Who can describe his generation? For his life is taken up from the earth."
34: And the eunuch said to Philip, "About whom, pray, does the prophet say this, about himself or about some one else?"
35: Then Philip opened his mouth, and beginning with this scripture he told him the good news of Jesus.
36: And as they went along the road they came to some water, and the eunuch said, "See, here is water! What is to prevent my being baptized?"
38: And he commanded the chariot to stop, and they both went down into the water, Philip and the eunuch, and he baptized him.
39: And when they came up out of the water, the Spirit of the Lord caught up Philip; and the eunuch saw him no more, and went on his way rejoicing.
40: But Philip was found at Azo'tus, and passing on he preached the gospel to all the towns till he came to Caesare'a.


Chapter 9
Acts, chapter 9


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1: But Saul, still breathing threats and murder against the disciples of the Lord, went to the high priest
2: and asked him for letters to the synagogues at Damascus, so that if he found any belonging to the Way, men or women, he might bring them bound to Jerusalem.
3: Now as he journeyed he approached Damascus, and suddenly a light from heaven flashed about him.
4: And he fell to the ground and heard a voice saying to him, "Saul, Saul, why do you persecute me?"
5: And he said, "Who are you, Lord?" And he said, "I am Jesus, whom you are persecuting;
6: but rise and enter the city, and you will be told what you are to do."
7: The men who were traveling with him stood speechless, hearing the voice but seeing no one.
8: Saul arose from the ground; and when his eyes were opened, he could see nothing; so they led him by the hand and brought him into Damascus.
9: And for three days he was without sight, and neither ate nor drank.
10: Now there was a disciple at Damascus named Anani'as. The Lord said to him in a vision, "Anani'as." And he said, "Here I am, Lord."
11: And the Lord said to him, "Rise and go to the street called Straight, and inquire in the house of Judas for a man of Tarsus named Saul; for behold, he is praying,
12: and he has seen a man named Anani'as come in and lay his hands on him so that he might regain his sight."
13: But Anani'as answered, "Lord, I have heard from many about this man, how much evil he has done to thy saints at Jerusalem;
14: and here he has authority from the chief priests to bind all who call upon thy name."
15: But the Lord said to him, "Go, for he is a chosen instrument of mine to carry my name before the Gentiles and kings and the sons of Israel;
16: for I will show him how much he must suffer for the sake of my name."
17: So Anani'as departed and entered the house. And laying his hands on him he said, "Brother Saul, the Lord Jesus who appeared to you on the road by which you came, has sent me that you may regain your sight and be filled with the Holy Spirit."
18: And immediately something like scales fell from his eyes and he regained his sight. Then he rose and was baptized,
19: and took food and was strengthened. For several days he was with the disciples at Damascus.
20: And in the synagogues immediately he proclaimed Jesus, saying, "He is the Son of God."
21: And all who heard him were amazed, and said, "Is not this the man who made havoc in Jerusalem of those who called on this name? And he has come here for this purpose, to bring them bound before the chief priests."
22: But Saul increased all the more in strength, and confounded the Jews who lived in Damascus by proving that Jesus was the Christ.
23: When many days had passed, the Jews plotted to kill him,
24: but their plot became known to Saul. They were watching the gates day and night, to kill him;
25: but his disciples took him by night and let him down over the wall, lowering him in a basket.
26: And when he had come to Jerusalem he attempted to join the disciples; and they were all afraid of him, for they did not believe that he was a disciple.
27: But Barnabas took him, and brought him to the apostles, and declared to them how on the road he had seen the Lord, who spoke to him, and how at Damascus he had preached boldly in the name of Jesus.
28: So he went in and out among them at Jerusalem,
29: preaching boldly in the name of the Lord. And he spoke and disputed against the Hellenists; but they were seeking to kill him.
30: And when the brethren knew it, they brought him down to Caesare'a, and sent him off to Tarsus.
31: So the church throughout all Judea and Galilee and Sama'ria had peace and was built up; and walking in the fear of the Lord and in the comfort of the Holy Spirit it was multiplied.
32: Now as Peter went here and there among them all, he came down also to the saints that lived at Lydda.
33: There he found a man named Aene'as, who had been bedridden for eight years and was paralyzed.
34: And Peter said to him, "Aene'as, Jesus Christ heals you; rise and make your bed." And immediately he rose.
35: And all the residents of Lydda and Sharon saw him, and they turned to the Lord.
36: Now there was at Joppa a disciple named Tabitha, which means Dorcas. She was full of good works and acts of charity.
37: In those days she fell sick and died; and when they had washed her, they laid her in an upper room.
38: Since Lydda was near Joppa, the disciples, hearing that Peter was there, sent two men to him entreating him, "Please come to us without delay."
39: So Peter rose and went with them. And when he had come, they took him to the upper room. All the widows stood beside him weeping, and showing tunics and other garments which Dorcas made while she was with them.
40: But Peter put them all outside and knelt down and prayed; then turning to the body he said, "Tabitha, rise." And she opened her eyes, and when she saw Peter she sat up.
41: And he gave her his hand and lifted her up. Then calling the saints and widows he presented her alive.
42: And it became known throughout all Joppa, and many believed in the Lord.
43: And he stayed in Joppa for many days with one Simon, a tanner.


Chapter 10
Acts, chapter 10


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1: At Caesare'a there was a man named Cornelius, a centurion of what was known as the Italian Cohort,
2: a devout man who feared God with all his household, gave alms liberally to the people, and prayed constantly to God.
3: About the ninth hour of the day he saw clearly in a vision an angel of God coming in and saying to him, "Cornelius."
4: And he stared at him in terror, and said, "What is it, Lord?" And he said to him, "Your prayers and your alms have ascended as a memorial before God.
5: And now send men to Joppa, and bring one Simon who is called Peter;
6: he is lodging with Simon, a tanner, whose house is by the seaside."
7: When the angel who spoke to him had departed, he called two of his servants and a devout soldier from among those that waited on him,
8: and having related everything to them, he sent them to Joppa.
9: The next day, as they were on their journey and coming near the city, Peter went up on the housetop to pray, about the sixth hour.
10: And he became hungry and desired something to eat; but while they were preparing it, he fell into a trance
11: and saw the heaven opened, and something descending, like a great sheet, let down by four corners upon the earth.
12: In it were all kinds of animals and reptiles and birds of the air.
13: And there came a voice to him, "Rise, Peter; kill and eat."
14: But Peter said, "No, Lord; for I have never eaten anything that is common or unclean."
15: And the voice came to him again a second time, "What God has cleansed, you must not call common."
16: This happened three times, and the thing was taken up at once to heaven.
17: Now while Peter was inwardly perplexed as to what the vision which he had seen might mean, behold, the men that were sent by Cornelius, having made inquiry for Simon's house, stood before the gate
18: and called out to ask whether Simon who was called Peter was lodging there.
19: And while Peter was pondering the vision, the Spirit said to him, "Behold, three men are looking for you.
20: Rise and go down, and accompany them without hesitation; for I have sent them."
21: And Peter went down to the men and said, "I am the one you are looking for; what is the reason for your coming?"
22: And they said, "Cornelius, a centurion, an upright and God-fearing man, who is well spoken of by the whole Jewish nation, was directed by a holy angel to send for you to come to his house, and to hear what you have to say."
23: So he called them in to be his guests. The next day he rose and went off with them, and some of the brethren from Joppa accompanied him.
24: And on the following day they entered Caesare'a. Cornelius was expecting them and had called together his kinsmen and close friends.
25: When Peter entered, Cornelius met him and fell down at his feet and worshiped him.
26: But Peter lifted him up, saying, "Stand up; I too am a man."
27: And as he talked with him, he went in and found many persons gathered;
28: and he said to them, "You yourselves know how unlawful it is for a Jew to associate with or to visit any one of another nation; but God has shown me that I should not call any man common or unclean.
29: So when I was sent for, I came without objection. I ask then why you sent for me."
30: And Cornelius said, "Four days ago, about this hour, I was keeping the ninth hour of prayer in my house; and behold, a man stood before me in bright apparel,
31: saying, `Cornelius, your prayer has been heard and your alms have been remembered before God.
32: Send therefore to Joppa and ask for Simon who is called Peter; he is lodging in the house of Simon, a tanner, by the seaside.'
33: So I sent to you at once, and you have been kind enough to come. Now therefore we are all here present in the sight of God, to hear all that you have been commanded by the Lord."
34: And Peter opened his mouth and said: "Truly I perceive that God shows no partiality,
35: but in every nation any one who fears him and does what is right is acceptable to him.
36: You know the word which he sent to Israel, preaching good news of peace by Jesus Christ (he is Lord of all),
37: the word which was proclaimed throughout all Judea, beginning from Galilee after the baptism which John preached:
38: how God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Spirit and with power; how he went about doing good and healing all that were oppressed by the devil, for God was with him.
39: And we are witnesses to all that he did both in the country of the Jews and in Jerusalem. They put him to death by hanging him on a tree;
40: but God raised him on the third day and made him manifest;
41: not to all the people but to us who were chosen by God as witnesses, who ate and drank with him after he rose from the dead.
42: And he commanded us to preach to the people, and to testify that he is the one ordained by God to be judge of the living and the dead.
43: To him all the prophets bear witness that every one who believes in him receives forgiveness of sins through his name."
44: While Peter was still saying this, the Holy Spirit fell on all who heard the word.
45: And the believers from among the circumcised who came with Peter were amazed, because the gift of the Holy Spirit had been poured out even on the Gentiles.
46: For they heard them speaking in tongues and extolling God. Then Peter declared,
47: "Can any one forbid water for baptizing these people who have received the Holy Spirit just as we have?"
48: And he commanded them to be baptized in the name of Jesus Christ. Then they asked him to remain for some days.


Chapter 11
Acts, chapter 11


Compare with King James Version: Acts.11




1: Now the apostles and the brethren who were in Judea heard that the Gentiles also had received the word of God.
2: So when Peter went up to Jerusalem, the circumcision party criticized him,
3: saying, "Why did you go to uncircumcised men and eat with them?"
4: But Peter began and explained to them in order:
5: "I was in the city of Joppa praying; and in a trance I saw a vision, something descending, like a great sheet, let down from heaven by four corners; and it came down to me.
6: Looking at it closely I observed animals and beasts of prey and reptiles and birds of the air.
7: And I heard a voice saying to me, `Rise, Peter; kill and eat.'
8: But I said, `No, Lord; for nothing common or unclean has ever entered my mouth.'
9: But the voice answered a second time from heaven, `What God has cleansed you must not call common.'
10: This happened three times, and all was drawn up again into heaven.
11: At that very moment three men arrived at the house in which we were, sent to me from Caesare'a.
12: And the Spirit told me to go with them, making no distinction. These six brethren also accompanied me, and we entered the man's house.
13: And he told us how he had seen the angel standing in his house and saying, `Send to Joppa and bring Simon called Peter;
14: he will declare to you a message by which you will be saved, you and all your household.'
15: As I began to speak, the Holy Spirit fell on them just as on us at the beginning.
16: And I remembered the word of the Lord, how he said, `John baptized with water, but you shall be baptized with the Holy Spirit.'
17: If then God gave the same gift to them as he gave to us when we believed in the Lord Jesus Christ, who was I that I could withstand God?"
18: When they heard this they were silenced. And they glorified God, saying, "Then to the Gentiles also God has granted repentance unto life."
19: Now those who were scattered because of the persecution that arose over Stephen traveled as far as Phoeni'cia and Cyprus and Antioch, speaking the word to none except Jews.
20: But there were some of them, men of Cyprus and Cyre'ne, who on coming to Antioch spoke to the Greeks also, preaching the Lord Jesus.
21: And the hand of the Lord was with them, and a great number that believed turned to the Lord.
22: News of this came to the ears of the church in Jerusalem, and they sent Barnabas to Antioch.
23: When he came and saw the grace of God, he was glad; and he exhorted them all to remain faithful to the Lord with steadfast purpose;
24: for he was a good man, full of the Holy Spirit and of faith. And a large company was added to the Lord.
25: So Barnabas went to Tarsus to look for Saul;
26: and when he had found him, he brought him to Antioch. For a whole year they met with the church, and taught a large company of people; and in Antioch the disciples were for the first time called Christians.
27: Now in these days prophets came down from Jerusalem to Antioch.
28: And one of them named Ag'abus stood up and foretold by the Spirit that there would be a great famine over all the world; and this took place in the days of Claudius.
29: And the disciples determined, every one according to his ability, to send relief to the brethren who lived in Judea;
30: and they did so, sending it to the elders by the hand of Barnabas and Saul.


Chapter 12
Acts, chapter 12


Compare with King James Version: Acts.12




1: About that time Herod the king laid violent hands upon some who belonged to the church.
2: He killed James the brother of John with the sword;
3: and when he saw that it pleased the Jews, he proceeded to arrest Peter also. This was during the days of Unleavened Bread.
4: And when he had seized him, he put him in prison, and delivered him to four squads of soldiers to guard him, intending after the Passover to bring him out to the people.
5: So Peter was kept in prison; but earnest prayer for him was made to God by the church.
6: The very night when Herod was about to bring him out, Peter was sleeping between two soldiers, bound with two chains, and sentries before the door were guarding the prison;
7: and behold, an angel of the Lord appeared, and a light shone in the cell; and he struck Peter on the side and woke him, saying, "Get up quickly." And the chains fell off his hands.
8: And the angel said to him, "Dress yourself and put on your sandals." And he did so. And he said to him, "Wrap your mantle around you and follow me."
9: And he went out and followed him; he did not know that what was done by the angel was real, but thought he was seeing a vision.
10: When they had passed the first and the second guard, they came to the iron gate leading into the city. It opened to them of its own accord, and they went out and passed on through one street; and immediately the angel left him.
11: And Peter came to himself, and said, "Now I am sure that the Lord has sent his angel and rescued me from the hand of Herod and from all that the Jewish people were expecting."
12: When he realized this, he went to the house of Mary, the mother of John whose other name was Mark, where many were gathered together and were praying.
13: And when he knocked at the door of the gateway, a maid named Rhoda came to answer.
14: Recognizing Peter's voice, in her joy she did not open the gate but ran in and told that Peter was standing at the gate.
15: They said to her, "You are mad." But she insisted that it was so. They said, "It is his angel!"
16: But Peter continued knocking; and when they opened, they saw him and were amazed.
17: But motioning to them with his hand to be silent, he described to them how the Lord had brought him out of the prison. And he said, "Tell this to James and to the brethren." Then he departed and went to another place.
18: Now when day came, there was no small stir among the soldiers over what had become of Peter.
19: And when Herod had sought for him and could not find him, he examined the sentries and ordered that they should be put to death. Then he went down from Judea to Caesare'a, and remained there.
20: Now Herod was angry with the people of Tyre and Sidon; and they came to him in a body, and having persuaded Blastus, the king's chamberlain, they asked for peace, because their country depended on the king's country for food.
21: On an appointed day Herod put on his royal robes, took his seat upon the throne, and made an oration to them.
22: And the people shouted, "The voice of a god, and not of man!"
23: Immediately an angel of the Lord smote him, because he did not give God the glory; and he was eaten by worms and died.
24: But the word of God grew and multiplied.
25: And Barnabas and Saul returned from Jerusalem when they had fulfilled their mission, bringing with them John whose other name was Mark.


Chapter 13
Acts, chapter 13


Compare with King James Version: Acts.13




1: Now in the church at Antioch there were prophets and teachers, Barnabas, Simeon who was called Niger, Lucius of Cyre'ne, Man'a-en a member of the court of Herod the tetrarch, and Saul.
2: While they were worshiping the Lord and fasting, the Holy Spirit said, "Set apart for me Barnabas and Saul for the work to which I have called them."
3: Then after fasting and praying they laid their hands on them and sent them off.
4: So, being sent out by the Holy Spirit, they went down to Seleu'cia; and from there they sailed to Cyprus.
5: When they arrived at Sal'amis, they proclaimed the word of God in the synagogues of the Jews. And they had John to assist them.
6: When they had gone through the whole island as far as Paphos, they came upon a certain magician, a Jewish false prophet, named Bar-Jesus.
7: He was with the proconsul, Sergius Paulus, a man of intelligence, who summoned Barnabas and Saul and sought to hear the word of God.
8: But El'ymas the magician (for that is the meaning of his name) withstood them, seeking to turn away the proconsul from the faith.
9: But Saul, who is also called Paul, filled with the Holy Spirit, looked intently at him
10: and said, "You son of the devil, you enemy of all righteousness, full of all deceit and villainy, will you not stop making crooked the straight paths of the Lord?
11: And now, behold, the hand of the Lord is upon you, and you shall be blind and unable to see the sun for a time." Immediately mist and darkness fell upon him and he went about seeking people to lead him by the hand.
12: Then the proconsul believed, when he saw what had occurred, for he was astonished at the teaching of the Lord.
13: Now Paul and his company set sail from Paphos, and came to Perga in Pamphyl'ia. And John left them and returned to Jerusalem;
14: but they passed on from Perga and came to Antioch of Pisid'ia. And on the sabbath day they went into the synagogue and sat down.
15: After the reading of the law and the prophets, the rulers of the synagogue sent to them, saying, "Brethren, if you have any word of exhortation for the people, say it."
16: So Paul stood up, and motioning with his hand said: "Men of Israel, and you that fear God, listen.
17: The God of this people Israel chose our fathers and made the people great during their stay in the land of Egypt, and with uplifted arm he led them out of it.
18: And for about forty years he bore with them in the wilderness.
19: And when he had destroyed seven nations in the land of Canaan, he gave them their land as an inheritance, for about four hundred and fifty years.
20: And after that he gave them judges until Samuel the prophet.
21: Then they asked for a king; and God gave them Saul the son of Kish, a man of the tribe of Benjamin, for forty years.
22: And when he had removed him, he raised up David to be their king; of whom he testified and said, `I have found in David the son of Jesse a man after my heart, who will do all my will.'
23: Of this man's posterity God has brought to Israel a Savior, Jesus, as he promised.
24: Before his coming John had preached a baptism of repentance to all the people of Israel.
25: And as John was finishing his course, he said, `What do you suppose that I am? I am not he. No, but after me one is coming, the sandals of whose feet I am not worthy to untie.'
26: "Brethren, sons of the family of Abraham, and those among you that fear God, to us has been sent the message of this salvation.
27: For those who live in Jerusalem and their rulers, because they did not recognize him nor understand the utterances of the prophets which are read every sabbath, fulfilled these by condemning him.
28: Though they could charge him with nothing deserving death, yet they asked Pilate to have him killed.
29: And when they had fulfilled all that was written of him, they took him down from the tree, and laid him in a tomb.
30: But God raised him from the dead;
31: and for many days he appeared to those who came up with him from Galilee to Jerusalem, who are now his witnesses to the people.
32: And we bring you the good news that what God promised to the fathers,
33: this he has fulfilled to us their children by raising Jesus; as also it is written in the second psalm, `Thou art my Son, today I have begotten thee.'
34: And as for the fact that he raised him from the dead, no more to return to corruption, he spoke in this way, `I will give you the holy and sure blessings of David.'
35: Therefore he says also in another psalm, `Thou wilt not let thy Holy One see corruption.'
36: For David, after he had served the counsel of God in his own generation, fell asleep, and was laid with his fathers, and saw corruption;
37: but he whom God raised up saw no corruption.
38: Let it be known to you therefore, brethren, that through this man forgiveness of sins is proclaimed to you,
39: and by him every one that believes is freed from everything from which you could not be freed by the law of Moses.
40: Beware, therefore, lest there come upon you what is said in the prophets:
41: `Behold, you scoffers, and wonder, and perish; for I do a deed in your days, a deed you will never believe, if one declares it to you.'"
42: As they went out, the people begged that these things might be told them the next sabbath.
43: And when the meeting of the synagogue broke up, many Jews and devout converts to Judaism followed Paul and Barnabas, who spoke to them and urged them to continue in the grace of God.
44: The next sabbath almost the whole city gathered together to hear the word of God.
45: But when the Jews saw the multitudes, they were filled with jealousy, and contradicted what was spoken by Paul, and reviled him.
46: And Paul and Barnabas spoke out boldly, saying, "It was necessary that the word of God should be spoken first to you. Since you thrust it from you, and judge yourselves unworthy of eternal life, behold, we turn to the Gentiles.
47: For so the Lord has commanded us, saying, `I have set you to be a light for the Gentiles, that you may bring salvation to the uttermost parts of the earth.'"
48: And when the Gentiles heard this, they were glad and glorified the word of God; and as many as were ordained to eternal life believed.
49: And the word of the Lord spread throughout all the region.
50: But the Jews incited the devout women of high standing and the leading men of the city, and stirred up persecution against Paul and Barnabas, and drove them out of their district.
51: But they shook off the dust from their feet against them, and went to Ico'nium.
52: And the disciples were filled with joy and with the Holy Spirit.


Chapter 14
Acts, chapter 14


Compare with King James Version: Acts.14




1: Now at Ico'nium they entered together into the Jewish synagogue, and so spoke that a great company believed, both of Jews and of Greeks.
2: But the unbelieving Jews stirred up the Gentiles and poisoned their minds against the brethren.
3: So they remained for a long time, speaking boldly for the Lord, who bore witness to the word of his grace, granting signs and wonders to be done by their hands.
4: But the people of the city were divided; some sided with the Jews, and some with the apostles.
5: When an attempt was made by both Gentiles and Jews, with their rulers, to molest them a

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Chapter 1
1 Corinthians, chapter 1


Compare with King James Version: 1Cor.01




1: Paul, called by the will of God to be an apostle of Christ Jesus, and our brother Sos'thenes,
2: To the church of God which is at Corinth, to those sanctified in Christ Jesus, called to be saints together with all those who in every place call on the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, both their Lord and ours:
3: Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.
4: I give thanks to God always for you because of the grace of God which was given you in Christ Jesus,
5: that in every way you were enriched in him with all speech and all knowledge --
6: even as the testimony to Christ was confirmed among you --
7: so that you are not lacking in any spiritual gift, as you wait for the revealing of our Lord Jesus Christ;
8: who will sustain you to the end, guiltless in the day of our Lord Jesus Christ.
9: God is faithful, by whom you were called into the fellowship of his Son, Jesus Christ our Lord.
10: I appeal to you, brethren, by the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that all of you agree and that there be no dissensions among you, but that you be united in the same mind and the same judgment.
11: For it has been reported to me by Chlo'e's people that there is quarreling among you, my brethren.
12: What I mean is that each one of you says, "I belong to Paul," or "I belong to Apol'los," or "I belong to Cephas," or "I belong to Christ."
13: Is Christ divided? Was Paul crucified for you? Or were you baptized in the name of Paul?
14: I am thankful that I baptized none of you except Crispus and Ga'ius;
15: lest any one should say that you were baptized in my name.
16: (I did baptize also the household of Steph'anas. Beyond that, I do not know whether I baptized any one else.)
17: For Christ did not send me to baptize but to preach the gospel, and not with eloquent wisdom, lest the cross of Christ be emptied of its power.
18: For the word of the cross is folly to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God.
19: For it is written, "I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, and the cleverness of the clever I will thwart."
20: Where is the wise man? Where is the scribe? Where is the debater of this age? Has not God made foolish the wisdom of the world?
21: For since, in the wisdom of God, the world did not know God through wisdom, it pleased God through the folly of what we preach to save those who believe.
22: For Jews demand signs and Greeks seek wisdom,
23: but we preach Christ crucified, a stumbling block to Jews and folly to Gentiles,
24: but to those who are called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God and the wisdom of God.
25: For the foolishness of God is wiser than men, and the weakness of God is stronger than men.
26: For consider your call, brethren; not many of you were wise according to worldly standards, not many were powerful, not many were of noble birth;
27: but God chose what is foolish in the world to shame the wise, God chose what is weak in the world to shame the strong,
28: God chose what is low and despised in the world, even things that are not, to bring to nothing things that are,
29: so that no human being might boast in the presence of God.
30: He is the source of your life in Christ Jesus, whom God made our wisdom, our righteousness and sanctification and redemption;
31: therefore, as it is written, "Let him who boasts, boast of the Lord."


Chapter 2
1 Corinthians, chapter 2


Compare with King James Version: 1Cor.02




1: When I came to you, brethren, I did not come proclaiming to you the testimony of God in lofty words or wisdom.
2: For I decided to know nothing among you except Jesus Christ and him crucified.
3: And I was with you in weakness and in much fear and trembling;
4: and my speech and my message were not in plausible words of wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power,
5: that your faith might not rest in the wisdom of men but in the power of God.
6: Yet among the mature we do impart wisdom, although it is not a wisdom of this age or of the rulers of this age, who are doomed to pass away.
7: But we impart a secret and hidden wisdom of God, which God decreed before the ages for our glorification.
8: None of the rulers of this age understood this; for if they had, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory.
9: But, as it is written, "What no eye has seen, nor ear heard, nor the heart of man conceived, what God has prepared for those who love him,"
10: God has revealed to us through the Spirit. For the Spirit searches everything, even the depths of God.
11: For what person knows a man's thoughts except the spirit of the man which is in him? So also no one comprehends the thoughts of God except the Spirit of God.
12: Now we have received not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit which is from God, that we might understand the gifts bestowed on us by God.
13: And we impart this in words not taught by human wisdom but taught by the Spirit, interpreting spiritual truths to those who possess the Spirit.
14: The unspiritual man does not receive the gifts of the Spirit of God, for they are folly to him, and he is not able to understand them because they are spiritually discerned.
15: The spiritual man judges all things, but is himself to be judged by no one.
16: "For who has known the mind of the Lord so as to instruct him?" But we have the mind of Christ.


Chapter 3
1 Corinthians, chapter 3


Compare with King James Version: 1Cor.03




1: But I, brethren, could not address you as spiritual men, but as men of the flesh, as babes in Christ.
2: I fed you with milk, not solid food; for you were not ready for it; and even yet you are not ready,
3: for you are still of the flesh. For while there is jealousy and strife among you, are you not of the flesh, and behaving like ordinary men?
4: For when one says, "I belong to Paul," and another, "I belong to Apol'los," are you not merely men?
5: What then is Apol'los? What is Paul? Servants through whom you believed, as the Lord assigned to each.
6: I planted, Apol'los watered, but God gave the growth.
7: So neither he who plants nor he who waters is anything, but only God who gives the growth.
8: He who plants and he who waters are equal, and each shall receive his wages according to his labor.
9: For we are God's fellow workers; you are God's field, God's building.
10: According to the grace of God given to me, like a skilled master builder I laid a foundation, and another man is building upon it. Let each man take care how he builds upon it.
11: For no other foundation can any one lay than that which is laid, which is Jesus Christ.
12: Now if any one builds on the foundation with gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, straw --
13: each man's work will become manifest; for the Day will disclose it, because it will be revealed with fire, and the fire will test what sort of work each one has done.
14: If the work which any man has built on the foundation survives, he will receive a reward.
15: If any man's work is burned up, he will suffer loss, though he himself will be saved, but only as through fire.
16: Do you not know that you are God's temple and that God's Spirit dwells in you?
17: If any one destroys God's temple, God will destroy him. For God's temple is holy, and that temple you are.
18: Let no one deceive himself. If any one among you thinks that he is wise in this age, let him become a fool that he may become wise.
19: For the wisdom of this world is folly with God. For it is written, "He catches the wise in their craftiness,"
20: and again, "The Lord knows that the thoughts of the wise are futile."
21: So let no one boast of men. For all things are yours,
22: whether Paul or Apol'los or Cephas or the world or life or death or the present or the future, all are yours;
23: and you are Christ's; and Christ is God's.


Chapter 4
1 Corinthians, chapter 4


Compare with King James Version: 1Cor.04




1: This is how one should regard us, as servants of Christ and stewards of the mysteries of God.
2: Moreover it is required of stewards that they be found trustworthy.
3: But with me it is a very small thing that I should be judged by you or by any human court. I do not even judge myself.
4: I am not aware of anything against myself, but I am not thereby acquitted. It is the Lord who judges me.
5: Therefore do not pronounce judgment before the time, before the Lord comes, who will bring to light the things now hidden in darkness and will disclose the purposes of the heart. Then every man will receive his commendation from God.
6: I have applied all this to myself and Apol'los for your benefit, brethren, that you may learn by us not to go beyond what is written, that none of you may be puffed up in favor of one against another.
7: For who sees anything different in you? What have you that you did not receive? If then you received it, why do you boast as if it were not a gift?
8: Already you are filled! Already you have become rich! Without us you have become kings! And would that you did reign, so that we might share the rule with you!
9: For I think that God has exhibited us apostles as last of all, like men sentenced to death; because we have become a spectacle to the world, to angels and to men.
10: We are fools for Christ's sake, but you are wise in Christ. We are weak, but you are strong. You are held in honor, but we in disrepute.
11: To the present hour we hunger and thirst, we are ill-clad and buffeted and homeless,
12: and we labor, working with our own hands. When reviled, we bless; when persecuted, we endure;
13: when slandered, we try to conciliate; we have become, and are now, as the refuse of the world, the offscouring of all things.
14: I do not write this to make you ashamed, but to admonish you as my beloved children.
15: For though you have countless guides in Christ, you do not have many fathers. For I became your father in Christ Jesus through the gospel.
16: I urge you, then, be imitators of me.
17: Therefore I sent to you Timothy, my beloved and faithful child in the Lord, to remind you of my ways in Christ, as I teach them everywhere in every church.
18: Some are arrogant, as though I were not coming to you.
19: But I will come to you soon, if the Lord wills, and I will find out not the talk of these arrogant people but their power.
20: For the kingdom of God does not consist in talk but in power.
21: What do you wish? Shall I come to you with a rod, or with love in a spirit of gentleness?


Chapter 5
1 Corinthians, chapter 5


Compare with King James Version: 1Cor.05




1: It is actually reported that there is immorality among you, and of a kind that is not found even among pagans; for a man is living with his father's wife.
2: And you are arrogant! Ought you not rather to mourn? Let him who has done this be removed from among you.
3: For though absent in body I am present in spirit, and as if present, I have already pronounced judgment
4: in the name of the Lord Jesus on the man who has done such a thing. When you are assembled, and my spirit is present, with the power of our Lord Jesus,
5: you are to deliver this man to Satan for the destruction of the flesh, that his spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord Jesus.
6: Your boasting is not good. Do you not know that a little leaven leavens the whole lump?
7: Cleanse out the old leaven that you may be a new lump, as you really are unleavened. For Christ, our paschal lamb, has been sacrificed.
8: Let us, therefore, celebrate the festival, not with the old leaven, the leaven of malice and evil, but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.
9: I wrote to you in my letter not to associate with immoral men;
10: not at all meaning the immoral of this world, or the greedy and robbers, or idolaters, since then you would need to go out of the world.
11: But rather I wrote to you not to associate with any one who bears the name of brother if he is guilty of immorality or greed, or is an idolater, reviler, drunkard, or robber -- not even to eat with such a one.
12: For what have I to do with judging outsiders? Is it not those inside the church whom you are to judge?
13: God judges those outside. "Drive out the wicked person from among you."


Chapter 6
1 Corinthians, chapter 6


Compare with King James Version: 1Cor.06




1: When one of you has a grievance against a brother, does he dare go to law before the unrighteous instead of the saints?
2: Do you not know that the saints will judge the world? And if the world is to be judged by you, are you incompetent to try trivial cases?
3: Do you not know that we are to judge angels? How much more, matters pertaining to this life!
4: If then you have such cases, why do you lay them before those who are least esteemed by the church?
5: I say this to your shame. Can it be that there is no man among you wise enough to decide between members of the brotherhood,
6: but brother goes to law against brother, and that before unbelievers?
7: To have lawsuits at all with one another is defeat for you. Why not rather suffer wrong? Why not rather be defrauded?
8: But you yourselves wrong and defraud, and that even your own brethren.
9: Do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived; neither the immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor sexual perverts,
10: nor thieves, nor the greedy, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor robbers will inherit the kingdom of God.
11: And such were some of you. But you were washed, you were sanctified, you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and in the Spirit of our God.
12: "All things are lawful for me," but not all things are helpful. "All things are lawful for me," but I will not be enslaved by anything.
13: "Food is meant for the stomach and the stomach for food" -- and God will destroy both one and the other. The body is not meant for immorality, but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body.
14: And God raised the Lord and will also raise us up by his power.
15: Do you not know that your bodies are members of Christ? Shall I therefore take the members of Christ and make them members of a prostitute? Never!
16: Do you not know that he who joins himself to a prostitute becomes one body with her? For, as it is written, "The two shall become one flesh."
17: But he who is united to the Lord becomes one spirit with him.
18: Shun immorality. Every other sin which a man commits is outside the body; but the immoral man sins against his own body.
19: Do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit within you, which you have from God? You are not your own;
20: you were bought with a price. So glorify God in your body.


Chapter 7
1 Corinthians, chapter 7


Compare with King James Version: 1Cor.07




1: Now concerning the matters about which you wrote. It is well for a man not to touch a woman.
2: But because of the temptation to immorality, each man should have his own wife and each woman her own husband.
3: The husband should give to his wife her conjugal rights, and likewise the wife to her husband.
4: For the wife does not rule over her own body, but the husband does; likewise the husband does not rule over his own body, but the wife does.
5: Do not refuse one another except perhaps by agreement for a season, that you may devote yourselves to prayer; but then come together again, lest Satan tempt you through lack of self-control.
6: I say this by way of concession, not of command.
7: I wish that all were as I myself am. But each has his own special gift from God, one of one kind and one of another.
8: To the unmarried and the widows I say that it is well for them to remain single as I do.
9: But if they cannot exercise self-control, they should marry. For it is better to marry than to be aflame with passion.
10: To the married I give charge, not I but the Lord, that the wife should not separate from her husband
11: (but if she does, let her remain single or else be reconciled to her husband) -- and that the husband should not divorce his wife.
12: To the rest I say, not the Lord, that if any brother has a wife who is an unbeliever, and she consents to live with him, he should not divorce her.
13: If any woman has a husband who is an unbeliever, and he consents to live with her, she should not divorce him.
14: For the unbelieving husband is consecrated through his wife, and the unbelieving wife is consecrated through her husband. Otherwise, your children would be unclean, but as it is they are holy.
15: But if the unbelieving partner desires to separate, let it be so; in such a case the brother or sister is not bound. For God has called us to peace.
16: Wife, how do you know whether you will save your husband? Husband, how do you know whether you will save your wife?
17: Only, let every one lead the life which the Lord has assigned to him, and in which God has called him. This is my rule in all the churches.
18: Was any one at the time of his call already circumcised? Let him not seek to remove the marks of circumcision. Was any one at the time of his call uncircumcised? Let him not seek circumcision.
19: For neither circumcision counts for anything nor uncircumcision, but keeping the commandments of God.
20: Every one should remain in the state in which he was called.
21: Were you a slave when called? Never mind. But if you can gain your freedom, avail yourself of the opportunity.
22: For he who was called in the Lord as a slave is a freedman of the Lord. Likewise he who was free when called is a slave of Christ.
23: You were bought with a price; do not become slaves of men.
24: So, brethren, in whatever state each was called, there let him remain with God.
25: Now concerning the unmarried, I have no command of the Lord, but I give my opinion as one who by the Lord's mercy is trustworthy.
26: I think that in view of the present distress it is well for a person to remain as he is.
27: Are you bound to a wife? Do not seek to be free. Are you free from a wife? Do not seek marriage.
28: But if you marry, you do not sin, and if a girl marries she does not sin. Yet those who marry will have worldly troubles, and I would spare you that.
29: I mean, brethren, the appointed time has grown very short; from now on, let those who have wives live as though they had none,
30: and those who mourn as though they were not mourning, and those who rejoice as though they were not rejoicing, and those who buy as though they had no goods,
31: and those who deal with the world as though they had no dealings with it. For the form of this world is passing away.
32: I want you to be free from anxieties. The unmarried man is anxious about the affairs of the Lord, how to please the Lord;
33: but the married man is anxious about worldly affairs, how to please his wife,
34: and his interests are divided. And the unmarried woman or girl is anxious about the affairs of the Lord, how to be holy in body and spirit; but the married woman is anxious about worldly affairs, how to please her husband.
35: I say this for your own benefit, not to lay any restraint upon you, but to promote good order and to secure your undivided devotion to the Lord.
36: If any one thinks that he is not behaving properly toward his betrothed, if his passions are strong, and it has to be, let him do as he wishes: let them marry -- it is no sin.
37: But whoever is firmly established in his heart, being under no necessity but having his desire under control, and has determined this in his heart, to keep her as his betrothed, he will do well.
38: So that he who marries his betrothed does well; and he who refrains from marriage will do better.
39: A wife is bound to her husband as long as he lives. If the husband dies, she is free to be married to whom she wishes, only in the Lord.
40: But in my judgment she is happier if she remains as she is. And I think that I have the Spirit of God.


Chapter 8
1 Corinthians, chapter 8


Compare with King James Version: 1Cor.08




1: Now concerning food offered to idols: we know that "all of us possess knowledge." "Knowledge" puffs up, but love builds up.
2: If any one imagines that he knows something, he does not yet know as he ought to know.
3: But if one loves God, one is known by him.
4: Hence, as to the eating of food offered to idols, we know that "an idol has no real existence," and that "there is no God but one."
5: For although there may be so-called gods in heaven or on earth -- as indeed there are many "gods" and many "lords" --
6: yet for us there is one God, the Father, from whom are all things and for whom we exist, and one Lord, Jesus Christ, through whom are all things and through whom we exist.
7: However, not all possess this knowledge. But some, through being hitherto accustomed to idols, eat food as really offered to an idol; and their conscience, being weak, is defiled.
8: Food will not commend us to God. We are no worse off if we do not eat, and no better off if we do.
9: Only take care lest this liberty of yours somehow become a stumbling block to the weak.
10: For if any one sees you, a man of knowledge, at table in an idol's temple, might he not be encouraged, if his conscience is weak, to eat food offered to idols?
11: And so by your knowledge this weak man is destroyed, the brother for whom Christ died.
12: Thus, sinning against your brethren and wounding their conscience when it is weak, you sin against Christ.
13: Therefore, if food is a cause of my brother's falling, I will never eat meat, lest I cause my brother to fall.


Chapter 9
1 Corinthians, chapter 9


Compare with King James Version: 1Cor.09




1: Am I not free? Am I not an apostle? Have I not seen Jesus our Lord? Are not you my workmanship in the Lord?
2: If to others I am not an apostle, at least I am to you; for you are the seal of my apostleship in the Lord.
3: This is my defense to those who would examine me.
4: Do we not have the right to our food and drink?
5: Do we not have the right to be accompanied by a wife, as the other apostles and the brothers of the Lord and Cephas?
6: Or is it only Barnabas and I who have no right to refrain from working for a living?
7: Who serves as a soldier at his own expense? Who plants a vineyard without eating any of its fruit? Who tends a flock without getting some of the milk?
8: Do I say this on human authority? Does not the law say the same?
9: For it is written in the law of Moses, "You shall not muzzle an ox when it is treading out the grain." Is it for oxen that God is concerned?
10: Does he not speak entirely for our sake? It was written for our sake, because the plowman should plow in hope and the thresher thresh in hope of a share in the crop.
11: If we have sown spiritual good among you, is it too much if we reap your material benefits?
12: If others share this rightful claim upon you, do not we still more? Nevertheless, we have not made use of this right, but we endure anything rather than put an obstacle in the way of the gospel of Christ.
13: Do you not know that those who are employed in the temple service get their food from the temple, and those who serve at the altar share in the sacrificial offerings?
14: In the same way, the Lord commanded that those who proclaim the gospel should get their living by the gospel.
15: But I have made no use of any of these rights, nor am I writing this to secure any such provision. For I would rather die than have any one deprive me of my ground for boasting.
16: For if I preach the gospel, that gives me no ground for boasting. For necessity is laid upon me. Woe to me if I do not preach the gospel!
17: For if I do this of my own will, I have a reward; but if not of my own will, I am entrusted with a commission.
18: What then is my reward? Just this: that in my preaching I may make the gospel free of charge, not making full use of my right in the gospel.
19: For though I am free from all men, I have made myself a slave to all, that I might win the more.
20: To the Jews I became as a Jew, in order to win Jews; to those under the law I became as one under the law -- though not being myself under the law -- that I might win those under the law.
21: To those outside the law I became as one outside the law -- not being without law toward God but under the law of Christ -- that I might win those outside the law.
22: To the weak I became weak, that I might win the weak. I have become all things to all men, that I might by all means save some.
23: I do it all for the sake of the gospel, that I may share in its blessings.
24: Do you not know that in a race all the runners compete, but only one receives the prize? So run that you may obtain it.
25: Every athlete exercises self-control in all things. They do it to receive a perishable wreath, but we an imperishable.
26: Well, I do not run aimlessly, I do not box as one beating the air;
27: but I pommel my body and subdue it, lest after preaching to others I myself should be disqualified.


Chapter 10
1 Corinthians, chapter 10


Compare with King James Version: 1Cor.10




1: I want you to know, brethren, that our fathers were all under the cloud, and all passed through the sea,
2: and all were baptized into Moses in the cloud and in the sea,
3: and all ate the same supernatural food
4: and all drank the same supernatural drink. For they drank from the supernatural Rock which followed them, and the Rock was Christ.
5: Nevertheless with most of them God was not pleased; for they were overthrown in the wilderness.
6: Now these things are warnings for us, not to desire evil as they did.
7: Do not be idolaters as some of them were; as it is written, "The people sat down to eat and drink and rose up to dance."
8: We must not indulge in immorality as some of them did, and twenty-three thousand fell in a single day.
9: We must not put the Lord to the test, as some of them did and were destroyed by serpents;
10: nor grumble, as some of them did and were destroyed by the Destroyer.
11: Now these things happened to them as a warning, but they were written down for our instruction, upon whom the end of the ages has come.
12: Therefore let any one who thinks that he stands take heed lest he fall.
13: No temptation has overtaken you that is not common to man. God is faithful, and he will not let you be tempted beyond your strength, but with the temptation will also provide the way of escape, that you may be able to endure it.
14: Therefore, my beloved, shun the worship of idols.
15: I speak as to sensible men; judge for yourselves what I say.
16: The cup of blessing which we bless, is it not a participation in the blood of Christ? The bread which we break, is it not a participation in the body of Christ?
17: Because there is one bread, we who are many are one body, for we all partake of the one bread.
18: Consider the people of Israel; are not those who eat the sacrifices partners in the altar?
19: What do I imply then? That food offered to idols is anything, or that an idol is anything?
20: No, I imply that what pagans sacrifice they offer to demons and not to God. I do not want you to be partners with demons.
21: You cannot drink the cup of the Lord and the cup of demons. You cannot partake of the table of the Lord and the table of demons.
22: Shall we provoke the Lord to jealousy? Are we stronger than he?
23: "All things are lawful," but not all things are helpful. "All things are lawful," but not all things build up.
24: Let no one seek his own good, but the good of his neighbor.
25: Eat whatever is sold in the meat market without raising any question on the ground of conscience.
26: For "the earth is the Lord's, and everything in it."
27: If one of the unbelievers invites you to dinner and you are disposed to go, eat whatever is set before you without raising any question on the ground of conscience.
28: (But if some one says to you, "This has been offered in sacrifice," then out of consideration for the man who informed you, and for conscience' sake --
29: I mean his conscience, not yours -- do not eat it.) For why should my liberty be determined by another man's scruples?
30: If I partake with thankfulness, why am I denounced because of that for which I give thanks?
31: So, whether you eat or drink, or whatever you do, do all to the glory of God.
32: Give no offense to Jews or to Greeks or to the church of God,
33: just as I try to please all men in everything I do, not seeking my own advantage, but that of many, that they may be saved.


Chapter 11
1 Corinthians, chapter 11


Compare with King James Version: 1Cor.11




1: Be imitators of me, as I am of Christ.
2: I commend you because you remember me in everything and maintain the traditions even as I have delivered them to you.
3: But I want you to understand that the head of every man is Christ, the head of a woman is her husband, and the head of Christ is God.
4: Any man who prays or prophesies with his head covered dishonors his head,
5: but any woman who prays or prophesies with her head unveiled dishonors her head -- it is the same as if her head were shaven.
6: For if a woman will not veil herself, then she should cut off her hair; but if it is disgraceful for a woman to be shorn or shaven, let her wear a veil.
7: For a man ought not to cover his head, since he is the image and glory of God; but woman is the glory of man.
8: (For man was not made from woman, but woman from man.
9: Neither was man created for woman, but woman for man.)
10: That is why a woman ought to have a veil on her head, because of the angels.
11: (Nevertheless, in the Lord woman is not independent of man nor man of woman;
12: for as woman was made from man, so man is now born of woman. And all things are from God.)
13: Judge for yourselves; is it proper for a woman to pray to God with her head uncovered?
14: Does not nature itself teach you that for a man to wear long hair is degrading to him,
15: but if a woman has long hair, it is her pride? For her hair is given to her for a covering.
16: If any one is disposed to be contentious, we recognize no other practice, nor do the churches of God.
17: But in the following instructions I do not commend you, because when you come together it is not for the better but for the worse.
18: For, in the first place, when you assemble as a church, I hear that there are divisions among you; and I partly believe it,
19: for there must be factions among you in order that those who are genuine among you may be recognized.
20: When you meet together, it is not the Lord's supper that you eat.
21: For in eating, each one goes ahead with his own meal, and one is hungry and another is drunk.
22: What! Do you not have houses to eat and drink in? Or do you despise the church of God and humiliate those who have nothing? What shall I say to you? Shall I commend you in this? No, I will not.
23: For I received from the Lord what I also delivered to you, that the Lord Jesus on the night when he was betrayed took bread,
24: and when he had given thanks, he broke it, and said, "This is my body which is for you. Do this in remembrance of me."
25: In the same way also the cup, after supper, saying, "This cup is the new covenant in my blood. Do this, as often as you drink it, in remembrance of me."
26: For as often as you eat this bread and drink the cup, you proclaim the Lord's death until he comes.
27: Whoever, therefore, eats the bread or drinks the cup of the Lord in an unworthy manner will be guilty of profaning the body and blood of the Lord.
28: Let a man examine himself, and so eat of the bread and drink of the cup.
29: For any one who eats and drinks without discerning the body eats and drinks judgment upon himself.
30: That is why many of you are weak and ill, and some have died.
31: But if we judged ourselves truly, we should not be judged.
32: But when we are judged by the Lord, we are chastened so that we may not be condemned along with the world.
33: So then, my brethren, when you come together to eat, wait for one another --
34: if any one is hungry, let him eat at home -- lest you come together to be condemned. About the other things I will give directions when I come.


Chapter 12
1 Corinthians, chapter 12


Compare with King James Version: 1Cor.12




1: Now concerning spiritual gifts, brethren, I do not want you to be uninformed.
2: You know that when you were heathen, you were led astray to dumb idols, however you may have been moved.
3: Therefore I want you to understand that no one speaking by the Spirit of God ever says "Jesus be cursed!" and no one can say "Jesus is Lord" except by the Holy Spirit.
4: Now there are varieties of gifts, but the same Spirit;
5: and there are varieties of service, but the same Lord;
6: and there are varieties of working, but it is the same God who inspires them all in every one.
7: To each is given the manifestation of the Spirit for the common good.
8: To one is given through the Spirit the utterance of wisdom, and to another the utterance of knowledge according to the same Spirit,
9: to another faith by the same Spirit, to another gifts of healing by the one Spirit,
10: to another the working of miracles, to another prophecy, to another the ability to distinguish between spirits, to another various kinds of tongues, to another the interpretation of tongues.
11: All these are inspired by one and the same Spirit, who apportions to each one individually as he wills.
12: For just as the body is one and has many members, and all the members of the body, though many, are one body, so it is with Christ.
13: For by one Spirit we were all baptized into one body -- Jews or Greeks, slaves or free -- and all were made to drink of one Spirit.
14: For the body does not consist of one member but of many.
15: If the foot should say, "Because I am not a hand, I do not belong to the body," that would not make it any less a part of the body.
16: And if the ear should say, "Because I am not an eye, I do not belong to the body," that would not make it any less a part of the body.
17: If the whole body were an eye, where would be the hearing? If the whole body were an ear, where would be the sense of smell?
18: But as it is, God arranged the organs in the body, each one of them, as he chose.
19: If all were a single organ, where would the body be?
20: As it is, there are many parts, yet one body.
21: The eye cannot say to the hand, "I have no need of you," nor again the head to the feet, "I have no need of you."
22: On the contrary, the parts of the body which seem to be weaker are indispensable,
23: and those parts of the body which we think less honorable we invest with the greater honor, and our unpresentable parts are treated with greater modesty,
24: which our more presentable parts do not require. But God has so composed the body, giving the greater honor to the inferior part,
25: that there may be no discord in the body, but that the members may have the same care for one another.
26: If one member suffers, all suffer together; if one member is honored, all rejoice together.
27: Now you are the body of Christ and individually members of it.
28: And God has appointed in the church first apostles, second prophets, third teachers, then workers of miracles, then healers, helpers, administrators, speakers in various kinds of tongues.
29: Are all apostles? Are all prophets? Are all teachers? Do all work miracles?
30: Do all possess gifts of healing? Do all speak with tongues? Do all interpret?
31: But earnestly desire the higher gifts. And I will show you a still more excellent way.


Chapter 13
1 Corinthians, chapter 13


Compare with King James Version: 1Cor.13




1: If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal.
2: And if I have prophetic powers, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing.
3: If I give away all I have, and if I deliver my body to be burned, but have not love, I gain nothing.
4: Love is patient and kind; love is not jealous or boastful;
5: it is not arrogant or rude. Love does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful;
6: it does not rejoice at wrong, but rejoices in the right.
7: Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.
8: Love never ends; as for prophecies, they will pass away; as for tongues, they will cease; as for knowledge, it will pass away.
9: For our knowledge is imperfect and our prophecy is imperfect;
10: but when the perfect comes, the imperfect will pass away.
11: When I was a child, I spoke like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child; when I became a man, I gave up childish ways.
12: For now we see in a mirror dimly, but then face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall understand fully, even as I have been fully understood.
13: So faith, hope, love abide, these three; but the greatest of these is love.


Chapter 14
1 Corinthians, chapter 14


Compare with King James Version: 1Cor.14




1: Make love your aim, and earnestly desire the spiritual gifts, especially that you may prophesy.
2: For one who speaks in a tongue speaks not to men but to God; for no one understands him, but he utters mysteries in the Spirit.
3: On the other hand, he who prophesies speaks to men for their upbuilding and encouragement and consolation.
4: He who speaks in a tongue edifies himself, but he who prophesies edifies the church.
5: Now I want you all to speak in tongues, but even more to prophesy. He who prophesies is greater than he who speaks in tongues, unless some one interprets, so that the church may be edified.
6: Now, brethren, if I come to you speaking in tongues, how shall I benefit you unless I bring you some revelation or knowledge or prophecy or teaching?
7: If even lifeless instruments, such as the flute or the harp, do not give distinct notes, how will any one know what is played?
8: And if the bugle gives an indistinct sound, who will get ready for battle?
9: So with yourselves; if you in a tongue utter speech that is not intelligible, how will any one know what is said? For you will be speaking into the air.
10: There are doubtless many different languages in the world, and none is without meaning;
11: but if I do not know the meaning of the language, I shall be a foreigner to the speaker and the speaker a foreigner to me.
12: So with yourselves; since you are eager for manifestations of the Spirit, strive to excel in building up the church.
13: Therefore, he who speaks in a tongue should pray for the power to interpret.
14: For if I pray in a tongue, my spirit prays but my mind is unfruitful.
15: What am I to do? I will pray with the spirit and I will pray with the mind also; I will sing with the spirit and I will sing with the mind also.
16: Otherwise, if you bless with the spirit, how can any one in the position of an outsider say the "Amen" to your thanksgiving when he does not know what you are saying?
17: For you may give thanks well enough, but the other man is not edified.
18: I thank God that I speak in tongues more than you all;
19: nevertheless, in church I would rather speak five words with my mind, in order to instruct others, than ten thousand words in a tongue.
20: Brethren, do not be children in your thinking; be babes in evil, but in thinking be mature.
21: In the law it is written, "By men of strange tongues and by the lips of foreigners will I speak to this people, and even then they will not listen to me, says the Lord."
22: Thus, tongues are a sign not for believers but for unbelievers, while prophecy is not for unbelievers but for believers.
23: If, therefore, the whole church assembles and all speak in tongues, and outsiders or unbelievers enter, will they not say that you are mad?
24: But if all prophesy, and an unbeliever or outsider enters, he is convicted by all, he is called to account by all,
25: the secrets of his heart are disclosed; and so, falling on his face, he will worship God and declare that God is really among you.
26: What then, brethren? When you come together, each one has a hymn, a lesson, a revelation, a tongue, or an interpretation. Let all things be done for edification.
27: If any speak in a tongue, let there be only two or at most three, and each in turn; and let one interpret.
28: But if there is no one to interpret, let each of them keep silence in church and speak to himself and to God.
29: Let two or three prophets speak, and let the others weigh what is said.
30: If a revelation is made to another sitting by, let the first be silent.
31: For you can all prophesy one by one, so that all may learn and all be encouraged;
32: and the spirits of prophets are subject to prophets.
33: For God is not a God of confusion but of peace. As in all the churches of the saints,
34: the women should keep silence in the churches. For they are not permitted to speak, but should be subordinate, as even the law says.
35: If there is anything they desire to know, let them ask their husbands at home. For it is shameful for a woman to speak in church.
36: What! Did the word of God originate with you, or are you the only ones it has reached?
37: If any one thinks that he is a prophet, or spiritual, he should acknowledge that what I am writing to you is a command of the Lord.
38: If any one does not recognize this, he is not recognized.
39: So, my brethren, earnestly desire to prophesy, and do not forbid speaking in tongues;
40: but all things should be done decently and in order.


Chapter 15
1 Corinthians, chapter 15


Compare with King James Version: 1Cor.15




1: Now I would remind you, brethren, in what terms I preached to you the gospel, which you received, in which you stand,
2: by which you are saved, if you hold it fast -- unless you believed in vain.
3: For I delivered to you as of first importance what I also received, that Christ died for our sins in accordance with the scriptures,
4: that he was buried, that he was raised on the third day in accordance with the scriptures,
5: and that he appeared to Cephas, then to the twelve.
6: Then he appeared to more than five hundred brethren at one time, most of whom are still alive, though some have fallen asleep.
7: Then he appeared to James, then to all the apostles.
8: Last of all, as to one untimely born, he appeared also to me.
9: For I am the least of the apostles, unfit to be called an apostle, because I persecuted the church of God.
10: But by the grace of God I am what I am, and his grace toward me was not in vain. On the contrary, I worked harder than any of them, though it was not I, but the grace of God which is with me.
11: Whether then it was I or they, so we preach and so you believed.
12: Now if Christ is preached as raised from the dead, how can some of you say that there is no resurrection of the dead?
13: But if there is no resurrection of the dead, then Christ has not been raised;
14: if Christ has not been raised, then our preaching is in vain and your faith is in vain.
15: We are even found to be misrepresenting God, because we testified of God that he raised Christ, whom he did not raise if it is true that the dead are not raised.
16: For if the dead are not raised, then Christ has not been raised.
17: If Christ has not been raised, your faith is futile and you are still in your sins.
18: Then those also who have fallen asleep in Christ have perished.
19: If for this life only we have hoped in Christ, we are of all men most to be pitied.
20: But in fact Christ has been raised from the dead, the first fruits of those who have fallen asleep.
21: For as by a man came death, by a man has come also the resurrection of the dead.
22: For as in Adam all die, so also in Christ shall all be made alive.
23: But each in his own order: Christ the first fruits, then at his coming those who belong to Christ.
24: Then comes the end, when he delivers the kingdom to God the Father after destroying every rule and every authority and power.
25: For he must reign until he has put all his enemies under his feet.
26: The last enemy to be destroyed is death.
27: "For God has put all things in subjection under his feet." But when it says, "All things are put in subjection under him," it is plain that he is excepted who put all things under him.
28: When all things are subjected to him, then the Son himself will also be subjected to him who put all things under him, that God may be everything to every one.
29: Otherwise, what do people mean by being baptized on behalf of the dead? If the dead are not raised at all, why are people baptized on their behalf?
30: Why am I in peril every hour?
31: I protest, brethren, by my pride in you which I have in Christ Jesus our Lord, I die every day!
32: What do I gain if, humanly speaking, I fought with beasts at Ephesus? If the dead are not raised, "Let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we die."
33: Do not be deceived: "Bad company ruins good morals."
34: Come to your right mind, and sin no more. For some have no knowledge of God. I say this to your shame.
35: But some one will ask, "How are the dead raised? With what kind of body do they come?"
36: You foolish man! What you sow does not come to life unless it dies.
37: And what you sow is not the body which is to be, but a bare kernel, perhaps of wheat or of some other grain.
38: But God gives it a body as he has chosen, and to each kind of seed its own body.
39: For not all flesh is alike, but there is one kind for men, another for animals, another for birds, and another for fish.
40: There are celestial bodies and there are terrestrial bodies; but the glory of the celestial is one, and the glory of the terrestrial is another.
41: There is one glory of the sun, and another glory of the moon, and another glory of the stars; for star differs from star in glory.
42: So is it with the resurrection of the dead. What is sown is perishable, what is raised is imperishable.
43: It is sown in dishonor, it is raised in glory. It is sown in weakness, it is raised in power.
44: It is sown a physical body, it is raised a spiritual body. If there is a physical body, there is also a spiritual body.
45: Thus it is written, "The first man Adam became a living being"; the last Adam became a life-giving spirit.
46: But it is not the spiritual which is first but the physical, and then the spiritual.
47: The first man was from the earth, a man of dust; the second man is from heaven.
48: As was the man of dust, so are those who are of the dust; and as is the man of heaven, so are those who are of heaven.
49: Just as we have borne the image of the man of dust, we shall also bear the image of the man of heaven.
50: I tell you this, brethren: flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God, nor does the perishable inherit the imperishable.
51: Lo! I tell you a mystery. We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed,
52: in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet. For the trumpet will sound, and the dead will be raised imperishable, and we shall be changed.
53: For this perishable nature must put on the imperishable, and this mortal nature must put on immortality.
54: When the perishable puts on the imperishable, and the mortal puts on immortality, then shall come to pass the saying that is written: "Death is swallowed up in victory."
55: "O death, where is thy victory? O death, where is thy sting?"
56: The sting of death is sin, and the power of sin is the law.
57: But thanks be to God, who gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.
58: Therefore, my beloved brethren, be steadfast, immovable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, knowing that in the Lord your labor is not in vain.


Chapter 16
1 Corinthians, chapter 16


Compare with King James Version: 1Cor.16




1: Now concerning the contribution for the saints: as I directed the churches of Galatia, so you also are to do.
2: On the first day of every week, each of you is to put something aside and store it up, as he may prosper, so that contributions need not be made when I come.
3: And when I arrive, I will send those whom you accredit by letter to carry your gift to Jerusalem.
4: If it seems advisable that I should go also, they will accompany me.
5: I will visit you after passing through Macedo'nia, for I intend to pass through Macedo'nia,
6: and perhaps I will stay with you or even spend the winter, so that you may speed me on my journey, wherever I go.
7: For I do not want to see you now just in passing; I hope to spend some time with you, if the Lord permits.
8: But I will stay in Ephesus until Pentecost,
9: for a wide door for effective work has opened to me, and there are many adversaries.
10: When Timothy comes, see that you put him at ease among you, for he is doing the work of the Lord, as I am.
11: So let no one despise him. Speed him on his way in peace, that he may return to me; for I am expecting him with the brethren.
12: As for our brother Apol'los, I strongly urged him to visit you with the other brethren, but it was not at all his will to come now. He will come when he has opportunity.
13: Be watchful, stand firm in your faith, be courageous, be strong.
14: Let all that you do be done in love.
15: Now, brethren, you know that the household of Steph'anas were the first converts in Acha'ia, and they have devoted themselves to the service of the saints;
16: I urge you to be subject to such men and to every fellow worker and laborer.
17: I rejoice at the coming of Steph'anas and Fortuna'tus and Acha'icus, because they have made up for your absence;
18: for they refreshed my spirit as well as yours. Give recognition to such men.
19: The churches of Asia send greetings. Aq'uila and Prisca, together with the church in their house, send you hearty greetings in the Lord.
20: All the brethren send greetings. Greet one another with a holy kiss.
21: I, Paul, write this greeting with my own hand.
22: If any one has no love for the Lord, let him be accursed. Our Lord, come!
23: The grace of the Lord Jesus be with you.
24: My love be with you all in Christ Jesus. Amen.



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Chapter 1
2 Corinthians, chapter 1


Compare with King James Version: 2Cor.01




1: Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus by the will of God, and Timothy our brother. To the church of God which is at Corinth, with all the saints who are in the whole of Acha'ia:
2: Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.
3: Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies and God of all comfort,
4: who comforts us in all our affliction, so that we may be able to comfort those who are in any affliction, with the comfort with which we ourselves are comforted by God.
5: For as we share abundantly in Christ's sufferings, so through Christ we share abundantly in comfort too.
6: If we are afflicted, it is for your comfort and salvation; and if we are comforted, it is for your comfort, which you experience when you patiently endure the same sufferings that we suffer.
7: Our hope for you is unshaken; for we know that as you share in our sufferings, you will also share in our comfort.
8: For we do not want you to be ignorant, brethren, of the affliction we experienced in Asia; for we were so utterly, unbearably crushed that we despaired of life itself.
9: Why, we felt that we had received the sentence of death; but that was to make us rely not on ourselves but on God who raises the dead;
10: he delivered us from so deadly a peril, and he will deliver us; on him we have set our hope that he will deliver us again.
11: You also must help us by prayer, so that many will give thanks on our behalf for the blessing granted us in answer to many prayers.
12: For our boast is this, the testimony of our conscience that we have behaved in the world, and still more toward you, with holiness and godly sincerity, not by earthly wisdom but by the grace of God.
13: For we write you nothing but what you can read and understand; I hope you will understand fully,
14: as you have understood in part, that you can be proud of us as we can be of you, on the day of the Lord Jesus.
15: Because I was sure of this, I wanted to come to you first, so that you might have a double pleasure;
16: I wanted to visit you on my way to Macedo'nia, and to come back to you from Macedo'nia and have you send me on my way to Judea.
17: Was I vacillating when I wanted to do this? Do I make my plans like a worldly man, ready to say Yes and No at once?
18: As surely as God is faithful, our word to you has not been Yes and No.
19: For the Son of God, Jesus Christ, whom we preached among you, Silva'nus and Timothy and I, was not Yes and No; but in him it is always Yes.
20: For all the promises of God find their Yes in him. That is why we utter the Amen through him, to the glory of God.
21: But it is God who establishes us with you in Christ, and has commissioned us;
22: he has put his seal upon us and given us his Spirit in our hearts as a guarantee.
23: But I call God to witness against me -- it was to spare you that I refrained from coming to Corinth.
24: Not that we lord it over your faith; we work with you for your joy, for you stand firm in your faith.


Chapter 2
2 Corinthians, chapter 2


Compare with King James Version: 2Cor.02




1: For I made up my mind not to make you another painful visit.
2: For if I cause you pain, who is there to make me glad but the one whom I have pained?
3: And I wrote as I did, so that when I came I might not suffer pain from those who should have made me rejoice, for I felt sure of all of you, that my joy would be the joy of you all.
4: For I wrote you out of much affliction and anguish of heart and with many tears, not to cause you pain but to let you know the abundant love that I have for you.
5: But if any one has caused pain, he has caused it not to me, but in some measure -- not to put it too severely -- to you all.
6: For such a one this punishment by the majority is enough;
7: so you should rather turn to forgive and comfort him, or he may be overwhelmed by excessive sorrow.
8: So I beg you to reaffirm your love for him.
9: For this is why I wrote, that I might test you and know whether you are obedient in everything.
10: Any one whom you forgive, I also forgive. What I have forgiven, if I have forgiven anything, has been for your sake in the presence of Christ,
11: to keep Satan from gaining the advantage over us; for we are not ignorant of his designs.
12: When I came to Tro'as to preach the gospel of Christ, a door was opened for me in the Lord;
13: but my mind could not rest because I did not find my brother Titus there. So I took leave of them and went on to Macedo'nia.
14: But thanks be to God, who in Christ always leads us in triumph, and through us spreads the fragrance of the knowledge of him everywhere.
15: For we are the aroma of Christ to God among those who are being saved and among those who are perishing,
16: to one a fragrance from death to death, to the other a fragrance from life to life. Who is sufficient for these things?
17: For we are not, like so many, peddlers of God's word; but as men of sincerity, as commissioned by God, in the sight of God we speak in Christ.


Chapter 3
2 Corinthians, chapter 3


Compare with King James Version: 2Cor.03




1: Are we beginning to commend ourselves again? Or do we need, as some do, letters of recommendation to you, or from you?
2: You yourselves are our letter of recommendation, written on your hearts, to be known and read by all men;
3: and you show that you are a letter from Christ delivered by us, written not with ink but with the Spirit of the living God, not on tablets of stone but on tablets of human hearts.
4: Such is the confidence that we have through Christ toward God.
5: Not that we are competent of ourselves to claim anything as coming from us; our competence is from God,
6: who has made us competent to be ministers of a new covenant, not in a written code but in the Spirit; for the written code kills, but the Spirit gives life.
7: Now if the dispensation of death, carved in letters on stone, came with such splendor that the Israelites could not look at Moses' face because of its brightness, fading as this was,
8: will not the dispensation of the Spirit be attended with greater splendor?
9: For if there was splendor in the dispensation of condemnation, the dispensation of righteousness must far exceed it in splendor.
10: Indeed, in this case, what once had splendor has come to have no splendor at all, because of the splendor that surpasses it.
11: For if what faded away came with splendor, what is permanent must have much more splendor.
12: Since we have such a hope, we are very bold,
13: not like Moses, who put a veil over his face so that the Israelites might not see the end of the fading splendor.
14: But their minds were hardened; for to this day, when they read the old covenant, that same veil remains unlifted, because only through Christ is it taken away.
15: Yes, to this day whenever Moses is read a veil lies over their minds;
16: but when a man turns to the Lord the veil is removed.
17: Now the Lord is the Spirit, and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom.
18: And we all, with unveiled face, beholding the glory of the Lord, are being changed into his likeness from one degree of glory to another; for this comes from the Lord who is the Spirit.


Chapter 4
2 Corinthians, chapter 4


Compare with King James Version: 2Cor.04




1: Therefore, having this ministry by the mercy of God, we do not lose heart.
2: We have renounced disgraceful, underhanded ways; we refuse to practice cunning or to tamper with God's word, but by the open statement of the truth we would commend ourselves to every man's conscience in the sight of God.
3: And even if our gospel is veiled, it is veiled only to those who are perishing.
4: In their case the god of this world has blinded the minds of the unbelievers, to keep them from seeing the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the likeness of God.
5: For what we preach is not ourselves, but Jesus Christ as Lord, with ourselves as your servants for Jesus' sake.
6: For it is the God who said, "Let light shine out of darkness," who has shone in our hearts to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Christ.
7: But we have this treasure in earthen vessels, to show that the transcendent power belongs to God and not to us.
8: We are afflicted in every way, but not crushed; perplexed, but not driven to despair;
9: persecuted, but not forsaken; struck down, but not destroyed;
10: always carrying in the body the death of Jesus, so that the life of Jesus may also be manifested in our bodies.
11: For while we live we are always being given up to death for Jesus' sake, so that the life of Jesus may be manifested in our mortal flesh.
12: So death is at work in us, but life in you.
13: Since we have the same spirit of faith as he had who wrote, "I believed, and so I spoke," we too believe, and so we speak,
14: knowing that he who raised the Lord Jesus will raise us also with Jesus and bring us with you into his presence.
15: For it is all for your sake, so that as grace extends to more and more people it may increase thanksgiving, to the glory of God.
16: So we do not lose heart. Though our outer nature is wasting away, our inner nature is being renewed every day.
17: For this slight momentary affliction is preparing for us an eternal weight of glory beyond all comparison,
18: because we look not to the things that are seen but to the things that are unseen; for the things that are seen are transient, but the things that are unseen are eternal.


Chapter 5
2 Corinthians, chapter 5


Compare with King James Version: 2Cor.05




1: For we know that if the earthly tent we live in is destroyed, we have a building from God, a house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens.
2: Here indeed we groan, and long to put on our heavenly dwelling,
3: so that by putting it on we may not be found naked.
4: For while we are still in this tent, we sigh with anxiety; not that we would be unclothed, but that we would be further clothed, so that what is mortal may be swallowed up by life.
5: He who has prepared us for this very thing is God, who has given us the Spirit as a guarantee.
6: So we are always of good courage; we know that while we are at home in the body we are away from the Lord,
7: for we walk by faith, not by sight.
8: We are of good courage, and we would rather be away from the body and at home with the Lord.
9: So whether we are at home or away, we make it our aim to please him.
10: For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ, so that each one may receive good or evil, according to what he has done in the body.
11: Therefore, knowing the fear of the Lord, we persuade men; but what we are is known to God, and I hope it is known also to your conscience.
12: We are not commending ourselves to you again but giving you cause to be proud of us, so that you may be able to answer those who pride themselves on a man's position and not on his heart.
13: For if we are beside ourselves, it is for God; if we are in our right mind, it is for you.
14: For the love of Christ controls us, because we are convinced that one has died for all; therefore all have died.
15: And he died for all, that those who live might live no longer for themselves but for him who for their sake died and was raised.
16: From now on, therefore, we regard no one from a human point of view; even though we once regarded Christ from a human point of view, we regard him thus no longer.
17: Therefore, if any one is in Christ, he is a new creation; the old has passed away, behold, the new has come.
18: All this is from God, who through Christ reconciled us to himself and gave us the ministry of reconciliation;
19: that is, in Christ God was reconciling the world to himself, not counting their trespasses against them, and entrusting to us the message of reconciliation.
20: So we are ambassadors for Christ, God making his appeal through us. We beseech you on behalf of Christ, be reconciled to God.
21: For our sake he made him to be sin who knew no sin, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.


Chapter 6
2 Corinthians, chapter 6


Compare with King James Version: 2Cor.06




1: Working together with him, then, we entreat you not to accept the grace of God in vain.
2: For he says, "At the acceptable time I have listened to you, and helped you on the day of salvation." Behold, now is the acceptable time; behold, now is the day of salvation.
3: We put no obstacle in any one's way, so that no fault may be found with our ministry,
4: but as servants of God we commend ourselves in every way: through great endurance, in afflictions, hardships, calamities,
5: beatings, imprisonments, tumults, labors, watching, hunger;
6: by purity, knowledge, forbearance, kindness, the Holy Spirit, genuine love,
7: truthful speech, and the power of God; with the weapons of righteousness for the right hand and for the left;
8: in honor and dishonor, in ill repute and good repute. We are treated as impostors, and yet are true;
9: as unknown, and yet well known; as dying, and behold we live; as punished, and yet not killed;
10: as sorrowful, yet always rejoicing; as poor, yet making many rich; as having nothing, and yet possessing everything.
11: Our mouth is open to you, Corinthians; our heart is wide.
12: You are not restricted by us, but you are restricted in your own affections.
13: In return -- I speak as to children -- widen your hearts also.
14: Do not be mismated with unbelievers. For what partnership have righteousness and iniquity? Or what fellowship has light with darkness?
15: What accord has Christ with Be'lial? Or what has a believer in common with an unbeliever?
16: What agreement has the temple of God with idols? For we are the temple of the living God; as God said, "I will live in them and move among them, and I will be their God, and they shall be my people.
17: Therefore come out from them, and be separate from them, says the Lord, and touch nothing unclean; then I will welcome you,
18: and I will be a father to you, and you shall be my sons and daughters, says the Lord Almighty."


Chapter 7
2 Corinthians, chapter 7


Compare with King James Version: 2Cor.07




1: Since we have these promises, beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from every defilement of body and spirit, and make holiness perfect in the fear of God.
2: Open your hearts to us; we have wronged no one, we have corrupted no one, we have taken advantage of no one.
3: I do not say this to condemn you, for I said before that you are in our hearts, to die together and to live together.
4: I have great confidence in you; I have great pride in you; I am filled with comfort. With all our affliction, I am overjoyed.
5: For even when we came into Macedo'nia, our bodies had no rest but we were afflicted at every turn -- fighting without and fear within.
6: But God, who comforts the downcast, comforted us by the coming of Titus,
7: and not only by his coming but also by the comfort with which he was comforted in you, as he told us of your longing, your mourning, your zeal for me, so that I rejoiced still more.
8: For even if I made you sorry with my letter, I do not regret it (though I did regret it), for I see that that letter grieved you, though only for a while.
9: As it is, I rejoice, not because you were grieved, but because you were grieved into repenting; for you felt a godly grief, so that you suffered no loss through us.
10: For godly grief produces a repentance that leads to salvation and brings no regret, but worldly grief produces death.
11: For see what earnestness this godly grief has produced in you, what eagerness to clear yourselves, what indignation, what alarm, what longing, what zeal, what punishment! At every point you have proved yourselves guiltless in the matter.
12: So although I wrote to you, it was not on account of the one who did the wrong, nor on account of the one who suffered the wrong, but in order that your zeal for us might be revealed to you in the sight of God.
13: Therefore we are comforted. And besides our own comfort we rejoiced still more at the joy of Titus, because his mind has been set at rest by you all.
14: For if I have expressed to him some pride in you, I was not put to shame; but just as everything we said to you was true, so our boasting before Titus has proved true.
15: And his heart goes out all the more to you, as he remembers the obedience of you all, and the fear and trembling with which you received him.
16: I rejoice, because I have perfect confidence in you.


Chapter 8
2 Corinthians, chapter 8


Compare with King James Version: 2Cor.08




1: We want you to know, brethren, about the grace of God which has been shown in the churches of Macedo'nia,
2: for in a severe test of affliction, their abundance of joy and their extreme poverty have overflowed in a wealth of liberality on their part.
3: For they gave according to their means, as I can testify, and beyond their means, of their own free will,
4: begging us earnestly for the favor of taking part in the relief of the saints --
5: and this, not as we expected, but first they gave themselves to the Lord and to us by the will of God.
6: Accordingly we have urged Titus that as he had already made a beginning, he should also complete among you this gracious work.
7: Now as you excel in everything -- in faith, in utterance, in knowledge, in all earnestness, and in your love for us -- see that you excel in this gracious work also.
8: I say this not as a command, but to prove by the earnestness of others that your love also is genuine.
9: For you know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that though he was rich, yet for your sake he became poor, so that by his poverty you might become rich.
10: And in this matter I give my advice: it is best for you now to complete what a year ago you began not only to do but to desire,
11: so that your readiness in desiring it may be matched by your completing it out of what you have.
12: For if the readiness is there, it is acceptable according to what a man has, not according to what he has not.
13: I do not mean that others should be eased and you burdened,
14: but that as a matter of equality your abundance at the present time should supply their want, so that their abundance may supply your want, that there may be equality.
15: As it is written, "He who gathered much had nothing over, and he who gathered little had no lack."
16: But thanks be to God who puts the same earnest care for you into the heart of Titus.
17: For he not only accepted our appeal, but being himself very earnest he is going to you of his own accord.
18: With him we are sending the brother who is famous among all the churches for his preaching of the gospel;
19: and not only that, but he has been appointed by the churches to travel with us in this gracious work which we are carrying on, for the glory of the Lord and to show our good will.
20: We intend that no one should blame us about this liberal gift which we are administering,
21: for we aim at what is honorable not only in the Lord's sight but also in the sight of men.
22: And with them we are sending our brother whom we have often tested and found earnest in many matters, but who is now more earnest than ever because of his great confidence in you.
23: As for Titus, he is my partner and fellow worker in your service; and as for our brethren, they are messengers of the churches, the glory of Christ.
24: So give proof, before the churches, of your love and of our boasting about you to these men.


Chapter 9
2 Corinthians, chapter 9


Compare with King James Version: 2Cor.09




1: Now it is superfluous for me to write to you about the offering for the saints,
2: for I know your readiness, of which I boast about you to the people of Macedo'nia, saying that Acha'ia has been ready since last year; and your zeal has stirred up most of them.
3: But I am sending the brethren so that our boasting about you may not prove vain in this case, so that you may be ready, as I said you would be;
4: lest if some Macedo'nians come with me and find that you are not ready, we be humiliated -- to say nothing of you -- for being so confident.
5: So I thought it necessary to urge the brethren to go on to you before me, and arrange in advance for this gift you have promised, so that it may be ready not as an exaction but as a willing gift.
6: The point is this: he who sows sparingly will also reap sparingly, and he who sows bountifully will also reap bountifully.
7: Each one must do as he has made up his mind, not reluctantly or under compulsion, for God loves a cheerful giver.
8: And God is able to provide you with every blessing in abundance, so that you may always have enough of everything and may provide in abundance for every good work.
9: As it is written, "He scatters abroad, he gives to the poor; his righteousness endures for ever."
10: He who supplies seed to the sower and bread for food will supply and multiply your resources and increase the harvest of your righteousness.
11: You will be enriched in every way for great generosity, which through us will produce thanksgiving to God;
12: for the rendering of this service not only supplies the wants of the saints but also overflows in many thanksgivings to God.
13: Under the test of this service, you will glorify God by your obedience in acknowledging the gospel of Christ, and by the generosity of your contribution for them and for all others;
14: while they long for you and pray for you, because of the surpassing grace of God in you.
15: Thanks be to God for his inexpressible gift!


Chapter 10
2 Corinthians, chapter 10


Compare with King James Version: 2Cor.10




1: I, Paul, myself entreat you, by the meekness and gentleness of Christ -- I who am humble when face to face with you, but bold to you when I am away! --
2: I beg of you that when I am present I may not have to show boldness with such confidence as I count on showing against some who suspect us of acting in worldly fashion.
3: For though we live in the world we are not carrying on a worldly war,
4: for the weapons of our warfare are not worldly but have divine power to destroy strongholds.
5: We destroy arguments and every proud obstacle to the knowledge of God, and take every thought captive to obey Christ,
6: being ready to punish every disobedience, when your obedience is complete.
7: Look at what is before your eyes. If any one is confident that he is Christ's, let him remind himself that as he is Christ's, so are we.
8: For even if I boast a little too much of our authority, which the Lord gave for building you up and not for destroying you, I shall not be put to shame.
9: I would not seem to be frightening you with letters.
10: For they say, "His letters are weighty and strong, but his bodily presence is weak, and his speech of no account."
11: Let such people understand that what we say by letter when absent, we do when present.
12: Not that we venture to class or compare ourselves with some of those who commend themselves. But when they measure themselves by one another, and compare themselves with one another, they are without understanding.
13: But we will not boast beyond limit, but will keep to the limits God has apportioned us, to reach even to you.
14: For we are not overextending ourselves, as though we did not reach you; we were the first to come all the way to you with the gospel of Christ.
15: We do not boast beyond limit, in other men's labors; but our hope is that as your faith increases, our field among you may be greatly enlarged,
16: so that we may preach the gospel in lands beyond you, without boasting of work already done in another's field.
17: "Let him who boasts, boast of the Lord."
18: For it is not the man who commends himself that is accepted, but the man whom the Lord commends.


Chapter 11
2 Corinthians, chapter 11


Compare with King James Version: 2Cor.11




1: I wish you would bear with me in a little foolishness. Do bear with me!
2: I feel a divine jealousy for you, for I betrothed you to Christ to present you as a pure bride to her one husband.
3: But I am afraid that as the serpent deceived Eve by his cunning, your thoughts will be led astray from a sincere and pure devotion to Christ.
4: For if some one comes and preaches another Jesus than the one we preached, or if you receive a different spirit from the one you received, or if you accept a different gospel from the one you accepted, you submit to it readily enough.
5: I think that I am not in the least inferior to these superlative apostles.
6: Even if I am unskilled in speaking, I am not in knowledge; in every way we have made this plain to you in all things.
7: Did I commit a sin in abasing myself so that you might be exalted, because I preached God's gospel without cost to you?
8: I robbed other churches by accepting support from them in order to serve you.
9: And when I was with you and was in want, I did not burden any one, for my needs were supplied by the brethren who came from Macedo'nia. So I refrained and will refrain from burdening you in any way.
10: As the truth of Christ is in me, this boast of mine shall not be silenced in the regions of Acha'ia.
11: And why? Because I do not love you? God knows I do!
12: And what I do I will continue to do, in order to undermine the claim of those who would like to claim that in their boasted mission they work on the same terms as we do.
13: For such men are false apostles, deceitful workmen, disguising themselves as apostles of Christ.
14: And no wonder, for even Satan disguises himself as an angel of light.
15: So it is not strange if his servants also disguise themselves as servants of righteousness. Their end will correspond to their deeds.
16: I repeat, let no one think me foolish; but even if you do, accept me as a fool, so that I too may boast a little.
17: (What I am saying I say not with the Lord's authority but as a fool, in this boastful confidence;
18: since many boast of worldly things, I too will boast.)
19: For you gladly bear with fools, being wise yourselves!
20: For you bear it if a man makes slaves of you, or preys upon you, or takes advantage of you, or puts on airs, or strikes you in the face.
21: To my shame, I must say, we were too weak for that! But whatever any one dares to boast of -- I am speaking as a fool -- I also dare to boast of that.
22: Are they Hebrews? So am I. Are they Israelites? So am I. Are they descendants of Abraham? So am I.
23: Are they servants of Christ? I am a better one -- I am talking like a madman -- with far greater labors, far more imprisonments, with countless beatings, and often near death.
24: Five times I have received at the hands of the Jews the forty lashes less one.
25: Three times I have been beaten with rods; once I was stoned. Three times I have been shipwrecked; a night and a day I have been adrift at sea;
26: on frequent journeys, in danger from rivers, danger from robbers, danger from my own people, danger from Gentiles, danger in the city, danger in the wilderness, danger at sea, danger from false brethren;
27: in toil and hardship, through many a sleepless night, in hunger and thirst, often without food, in cold and exposure.
28: And, apart from other things, there is the daily pressure upon me of my anxiety for all the churches.
29: Who is weak, and I am not weak? Who is made to fall, and I am not indignant?
30: If I must boast, I will boast of the things that show my weakness.
31: The God and Father of the Lord Jesus, he who is blessed for ever, knows that I do not lie.
32: At Damascus, the governor under King Ar'etas guarded the city of Damascus in order to seize me,
33: but I was let down in a basket through a window in the wall, and escaped his hands.


Chapter 12
2 Corinthians, chapter 12


Compare with King James Version: 2Cor.12




1: I must boast; there is nothing to be gained by it, but I will go on to visions and revelations of the Lord.
2: I know a man in Christ who fourteen years ago was caught up to the third heaven -- whether in the body or out of the body I do not know, God knows.
3: And I know that this man was caught up into Paradise -- whether in the body or out of the body I do not know, God knows --
4: and he heard things that cannot be told, which man may not utter.
5: On behalf of this man I will boast, but on my own behalf I will not boast, except of my weaknesses.
6: Though if I wish to boast, I shall not be a fool, for I shall be speaking the truth. But I refrain from it, so that no one may think more of me than he sees in me or hears from me.
7: And to keep me from being too elated by the abundance of revelations, a thorn was given me in the flesh, a messenger of Satan, to harass me, to keep me from being too elated.
8: Three times I besought the Lord about this, that it should leave me;
9: but he said to me, "My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness." I will all the more gladly boast of my weaknesses, that the power of Christ may rest upon me.
10: For the sake of Christ, then, I am content with weaknesses, insults, hardships, persecutions, and calamities; for when I am weak, then I am strong.
11: I have been a fool! You forced me to it, for I ought to have been commended by you. For I was not at all inferior to these superlative apostles, even though I am nothing.
12: The signs of a true apostle were performed among you in all patience, with signs and wonders and mighty works.
13: For in what were you less favored than the rest of the churches, except that I myself did not burden you? Forgive me this wrong!
14: Here for the third time I am ready to come to you. And I will not be a burden, for I seek not what is yours but you; for children ought not to lay up for their parents, but parents for their children.
15: I will most gladly spend and be spent for your souls. If I love you the more, am I to be loved the less?
16: But granting that I myself did not burden you, I was crafty, you say, and got the better of you by guile.
17: Did I take advantage of you through any of those whom I sent to you?
18: I urged Titus to go, and sent the brother with him. Did Titus take advantage of you? Did we not act in the same spirit? Did we not take the same steps?
19: Have you been thinking all along that we have been defending ourselves before you? It is in the sight of God that we have been speaking in Christ, and all for your upbuilding, beloved.
20: For I fear that perhaps I may come and find you not what I wish, and that you may find me not what you wish; that perhaps there may be quarreling, jealousy, anger, selfishness, slander, gossip, conceit, and disorder.
21: I fear that when I come again my God may humble me before you, and I may have to mourn over many of those who sinned before and have not repented of the impurity, immorality, and licentiousness which they have practiced.


Chapter 13
2 Corinthians, chapter 13


Compare with King James Version: 2Cor.13




1: This is the third time I am coming to you. Any charge must be sustained by the evidence of two or three witnesses.
2: I warned those who sinned before and all the others, and I warn them now while absent, as I did when present on my second visit, that if I come again I will not spare them --
3: since you desire proof that Christ is speaking in me. He is not weak in dealing with you, but is powerful in you.
4: For he was crucified in weakness, but lives by the power of God. For we are weak in him, but in dealing with you we shall live with him by the power of God.
5: Examine yourselves, to see whether you are holding to your faith. Test yourselves. Do you not realize that Jesus Christ is in you? -- unless indeed you fail to meet the test!
6: I hope you will find out that we have not failed.
7: But we pray God that you may not do wrong -- not that we may appear to have met the test, but that you may do what is right, though we may seem to have failed.
8: For we cannot do anything against the truth, but only for the truth.
9: For we are glad when we are weak and you are strong. What we pray for is your improvement.
10: I write this while I am away from you, in order that when I come I may not have to be severe in my use of the authority which the Lord has given me for building up and not for tearing down.
11: Finally, brethren, farewell. Mend your ways, heed my appeal, agree with one another, live in peace, and the God of love and peace will be with you.
12: Greet one another with a holy kiss.
13: All the saints greet you.
14: The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ and the love of God and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit be with you all.



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In their story, there are Jews, Romans, Greeks but no Arabs. Why? Because they hadn't gotten there yet from Arabia. I guess that indigeneous claim by the Palestinians is more pure nonsense.

Which puts innocent lives at stake, such as the pregnant woman in this story. Since both UN ambulances and Red Crescent Society ambulances HAVE been used to transport guns, weapons, and terrorists, the IDF must treat them as any other security risk. With suspicion.

Palestinian women have disguised themselves as pregnant in order to conceal weapons. This is the world the Israelis must live in, where any and every means is used to attack and kill them.

The IDF explicitly is under orders to protect innocent civilians during their military excursions. Any purposeful loss of innocent life would be a crime, and under Israeli law, must be prosecuted.

Compare this with the PA which names schools and streets after suicide bombers who purposely targeted innocent Israeli civilians.

oh look...
another 'document' from Ms. BJ. "proving" the lying excuses for murdering innocent people.
As long as they are not Israelis and only mere Palestinians.

I am not convinced that the incident in the lead article even occurred. Eye-witness accounts by Palestinian "victims" have been proven to be total fabrications. (See Pallywood)

Women who have given birth in Palestinian hospitals are approached and asked to give interviews with the press where they are coached to report that they gave birth at a checkpoint because the IDF detained them.

its a total fabrication. And its a common experience in the PA.
Perhaps its even patriotic to give a false report that villifies Israel. However, it COULD have happened too. Hence, I have learned to withhold judgement until more facts are known, and both sides have weighed in.