end the promise might be sure to all the seed not to that onely which is of the law but to that also which is of the faith of Abraham who is the father of us all 17 As it is written * Gen. 27.5 I have made thee a father of many nations ‖ Or like unto him before him whom he beleeved even God who quickneth the dead and calleth those things which be not as though they were 18 Who against hope beleeved in hope that he might become the father of many nations according to that which was spoken * Gen. 15.5 So shall thy seed be 19 And being not weak in faith he considered not his own body now dead when he was about an hundred year old neither yet the deadness of Sara's womb 20 He staggered not at the promise of God through unbelief but was strong in faith giving glory to God 21 And being fully perswaded that what he had promised he was able also to perform 22 And therefore it was imputed to him for righteousness 23 Now it was not written for his sake alone that it was imputed to him 24 But for us also to whom it shall be imputed it we beleeve on him that raised up Jesus our Lord from the dead 25 Who was delivered for our offences and was raised again for our justification CHAP. V. 1 Being justified by faith we have peace with God 2 and joy in our hope 8 that sith we were reconciled by his bloud when we were enemies 10 we shall much more be saved being reconciled 12 As sin and death came by Adam 17 so much more righteousness and life by Jesus Christ 20 Where sin abounded grace did superabound THerefore being justified by faith we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ 2 * Eph. 2.18 By whom also we have access by faith into this grace wherein we stand and rejoyce in hope of the glory of God 3 And not onely so but we glory in tribulations also * James 1.3 knowing that tribulation worketh patience 4 And patience experience and experience hope 5 And hope maketh not ashamed because the love of God is shed abroad in our hearts by the holy Ghost which is given unto us 6 For when we were yet without strength ‖ Or according to the time in due time Christ died for the ungodly 7 For scarcely for a righteous man will one die yet peradventure for a good man some would even dare to die 8 But God commendeth his love towards us in that while we were yet sinners Christ died for us 9 Muâ—h more then being now justified by his bloud we shall be saved from wrath through him 10 For if when we were enemies we were reconciled to God by the death of his Son much more being reconciled we shall be saved by his life 11 And not onely so but we also joy in God through our Lord Jesus Christ by whom we have now received the atonement 12 Wherefore as by one man sin entred into the world and death by sin and so death passed upon all men ‖ Or in whom for that all have sinned 13 For until the saw sin was in the world but sin is not imputed when there is no law 14 Nevertheless death reigned from Adam to Moses even over them that had not sinned after the similitude of Adams transgression who is the figure of him that was to come 15 But not as the offence so also is the free gift For if through the offence of one many be dead much more the grace of God and the gift by grace which is by one man Jesus Christ hath abounded unto many 16 And not as it was by one that sinned so is the gift for the judgement was by one to condemnation but the free gift is of many offences unto justification 17 For if ‖ Or by one offence by one mans offence death reigned by one much more they which receive abundance of grace and of the gift of righteousness shall reign in life by one Jesus Christ 18 Therefore as ‖ Or by one offence by the offence of one judgement came upon all men to condemnation even so ‖ Or by one righteousness by the rigiteousness of one the free gift came upon all men unto justification of life 19 For as by one mans disobedience many were made sinners so by the obedience of one shall many he made righteous 20 Moreover the law entred that the offence might abound But where sin abounded grace did much more abound 21 That as sin hath reigned unto death even so might grace reign through righteousness unto eternal life by Jesus Christ our Lord. CHAP. VI. 1 We may not live in sin 2 for we are dead unto it 3 as appeareth by our baptism 12 Let not sin reign any more 18 because we have yeelded our selves to the service of righteousness 23 and for that death is the wages of sin WHat shall we say then Shall we continue in sin that grace may abound 2 God forbid how shall we that are dead to sin live any longer therein 3 Know ye not that * Gal. 3.27 so many of us as ‖ Or art were baptized into Jesus Christ were baptized into his death 4 Therefore we are * Col. 2.12 buried with him by baptism into death that like as Christ was raised up from the dead by the glory of the Father even so we also should walk in newness of life 5 For if we have been planted together in the likeness of his death we shall be also in the likeness of his resurrection 6 Knowing this that our old man is crucified with him that the body of sin might be destroyed that henceforth we should not serve sin 7 For he that is dead is †Gr. justified freed from sin 8 Now if we be dead with Christ we beleeve that we shall also live with him 9 Knowing that Christ being raised from the dead dieth no more death hath no more dominion over him 10 For in that he died he died unto sin once but in that he liveth he liveth unto God 11 Likewise reckon ye also your selves to be dead indeed unto sin but a live unto God through Jesus Christ our Lord. 12 Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal body that ye should obey it in the lusts thereof 13 Neither yeeld ye your members as †Gr. arms or weapons instruments of unrighteousness unto sin but yeeld your selves unto God as those that are a live from the dead and your members as instruments of righteousness unto God 14 For sin shall not have dominion over you for ye are not under the law but under grace 15 What then shall we sin because we are not under the law but under grace God forbid 16 Know ye not that * Joh. 8.34 2 Pet. 2.19 to whom ye yeeld your selves servants to obey his servants ye are to whom ye obey whether of sin
and was manifested unto us 3 That which we have seen and heard declare we unto you that ye also may have fellowship with us and truly our fellowship is with the Father and with his Son Jesus Christ 4 And these things write we unto you that your joy may be full 5 This then is the message which we have heard of him and declare unto you that * Joh. 8.12 God is light and in him is no darkness at all 6 If we say that we have fellowship with him and walk in darkness we lie and do not the truth 7 But if we walk in the light as he is in the light we have fellowship one with another and * Heb. 9.14 Rev. 1.5 the bloud of Jesus Christ his Son cleanseth us from all sin 8 * 1 Kin. 8.46 Pr. 20.9 Eccl. 7.20 If we say that we have no sin we deceive our selves and the truth is not in us 9 If we confess our sins he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness 10 If we say that we have not sinned we make him a liar and his word is not in us CHAP. II. 1 He comforteth them against the sins of infirmity 3 Rightly to know God is to keep his commandments 9 to love our brethren 15 and not to love the world 18 We must beware of sâ—ducers 20 from whose deceits the godly are safe preserved by perseverance in faith and â—oliness of life MY little children these things write I unto you that ye sin not And if any man sin * Heb. 9. â—â— we have an advocate with the Father Jesus Christ the righteous 2 And he is the propitiation for our sins and not for ours onely but also for the sins of the whole world 3 And hereby we do know that we know him if we keep his commandments 4 He that saith I know him and keepeth not his commandments is a liar and the truth is not in him 5 But whoso keepeth his word in him verily is the love of God perfected hereby know we that we are in him 6 He that saith he abideth in him ought himself also so to walk even as he walked 7 Brethren * 2 Joh. â— I write no new commandment unto you but an old commandment which ye had from the beginning the old commandment is the word which ye have heard from the beginning 8 Again a new commandment I write unto you which thing is true in him and in you because the darkness is past and the true light now shineth 9 He that saith he is in the light and hateth his brother is in darkness even until now 10 * Ch. 3 1â— He that loveth his brother abideth in the light and there is none †Gr scandal occasion of stumbling in him 11 But he that hateth his brother is in darkness and walketh in darkness and knoweth not whither he goeth because that darkness hath blinded his eyes 12 I write unto you little children because your sins are forgiven you for his names sake 13 I write unto you fathers because ye have known him that is from the beginning I write unto you young men because you have overcome the wicked one I write unto you little children because ye have known the Father 14 I have written unto you fathers because ye have known him that is from the beginning I have written unto you young men because ye are strong and the word of God abideth in you and ye have over come the wicked one 15 Love not the world neither the things that are in the world If any man love the world the love of the Father is not in him 16 For all that is in the world the lust of the flesh and the lust of the eyes and the pride of life is not of the Father but is of the world 17 And the world passeth away and the lust thereof but he that doeth the will of God abideth for ever 18 Little children it is the last time and as ye have heard that Antichrist shall come even now are there many Antichrists whereby we know that it is the last time 19 They went out from us but they were not of us for if they had been of us they would no doubt have continued with us but they went out that they might be made manifest that they were not all of us 20 But ye have an unction from the holy One and ye know all things 21 I have not written unto you because ye know not the truth but because ye know it and that no lie is of the truth 22 Who is a har but he that denieth that Jesus is the Christ He is Antichrist that denieth the Father and the Son 23 Whosoever denieth the Son the same hath not the Father but he that acknowledgeth the Son hath the Father also 24 Let that therefore abide in you which ye have heard from the beginning If that which ye have heard from the beginning shall remain in you ye also shall continue in the Son and in the Father 25 And this is the promise that he hath promised us even eternal life 26 These things have I written unto you concerning them that seduce you 27 But the anointing which ye have received of him abideth in you and ye need not that any man teach you But as the same anointing teacheth you of all things and is truth and is no lie and even as it hath taught you ye shall abide in ‖ Or it him 28 And now little children abide in him that when he shall appear we may have confidence and not be ashamed before him at his coming 29 If ye know that he is righteous ‖ Or know ye ye know that every one that doeth righteousness is born of him CHAP. III. 1 He declareth the singular love of God towards us in making us his sons 3 who therefore ought obediently to keep his commandments 11 as also brotherly to love one another BEhold what manner of love the Father hath bestowed upon us that we should be called the sons of God therefore the world knoweth us not because it knew him not 2 Beloved now are we the sons of God and it doth not yet appear what we shall be but we know that when he shall appear we shall be like him for we shall see him as he is 3 And every man that hath this hope in him purifieth himself even as he is pure 4 Whosoever committeth sin transgresseth also the law for sin is the transgression of the law 5 And ye know that he was manifested * Isa 53.6 c. to take away our sins and in him is no sin 6 Whosoever abideth in him sinneth not whosoever sinneth hath not seen him neither known him 7 Little children let no man deceive you he that doeth righteousness is righteous even as he is righteous 8 * Joh. 8.44 He that committeth sin is of the devil for the
carcases they shall fall in this wilderness 33 And your children shall ‖ Or fied wander in the wilderness fourty years and bear your whoredoms until your carcases be wasted in the wilderness 34 After the number of the days in which ye searched the land even * Ps 95.10 Ezek. 4.6 fourty days each day for a year shall ye bear your iniquities even fourty years and ye shall know ‖ Or altering of my purpose my breach of promise 35 I the LORD have said I will surely do it unto all this evil congregation that are gathered together against me in this wilderness they shall be consumed and there they shall die 36 And the men which Moses sent to search the land who returned and made all the congregation to murmure against him by bringing up a slander upon the land 37 Even those men that did bring up the evil report upon the land * 1 Cor. 10.10 Heb. 3.17 Jude 5. died by the plague before the LORD 38 But Joshua the son of Nun and Caleb the son of Jephunneh which were of the men that went to search the land lived still 39 And Moses told these sayings unto all the children of Israel and the people mourned greatly 40 ¶ And they rose up early in the morning and gat them up into the top of the mountain saying Lo we * Deut. â— 41 be here and will go up unto the place which the LORD hath promised for we have sinned 41 And Moses said wherefore now do you transgress the commandment of the LORD but it shall not prosper 42 Go not up for the LORD is not among you that ye be not smitten before your enemies 43 For the Amalekites and the Canaanites are there before you and ye shall fall by the sword because ye are turned away from the LORD therefore the LORD will not be with you 44 But they presumed to go up unto the hill-top nevertheless the ark of the covenant of the LORD and Moses departed not out of the camp 45 Then the Amalekites came down and the Canaanites which dwelt in that hill and smote them and * Deut. 1.44 discomfited them even unto Hormah CHAP. XV. 1 The law of the meat-offering and the drink offering 13 29 The stranger is under the same law 17 The law of the first of the dough for an heave-offering 22 The sacrifice for sins of ignorance 30 The punishment of presumption 32 He that violated the sabbath is stoned 37 The law of fringes ANd the LORD spake unto Moses saying 2 * Levit. 23.10 Speak unto the children of Israel and say unto them When ye be come into the land of your habitations which I give unto you 3 And will make an offering by fire unto the LORD a burnt-offering or a sacrifice * Lev. 22 2â—â— in †Heb. separating performing a vow or in a free-will-offering or in your solemn feasts to make a * Ex. 29.18 sweet savour unto the LORD of the herd or of the flock 4 Then * Lev. 2.1 shall he that offereth his offering unto the LORD bring a meat-offering of a tenth-deal of flour mingled with the fourth part of an hin of oyl 5 And the fourth part of an hin of wine for a drink-offering shalt thou prepare with the burnt-offering or sacrifice for one lamb 6 Or for a ram thou shalt prepare for a meat-offering two tenth-deals of flour mingled with the third part of an hin of oyl 7 And for a drink-offering thou shalt offer the third part of an hin of wine for a sweet savour unto the LORD 8 And when thou preparest a bullock for a burnt-offering or for a sacrifice in performing a vow or peace-offerings unto the LORD 9 Then shall he bring with a bullock a meat-offering of three tenth-deals of flour mingled with half an hin of oyl 10 And thou shalt bring for a drink-offering half an hin of wine for an offering made by fire of a sweet savour unto the LORD 11 Thus shall it be done for one bullock or for one ram or for a lamb or a kid 12 According to the number that ye shall prepare so shall ye do to every one according to their number 13 All that are born of the countrey shall do these things after this manner in offering an offering made by fire of a sweet savour unto the LORD 14 And if a stranger sojourn with you or whosoever be among you in your generations and will offer an offering made by fire of a sweet savour unto the LORD as ye do so he shall do 15 * Ex. 12.49 Ch. 9.14 One ordinance shall be both for you of the congregation and also for the stranger that sojourneth with you an ordinance for ever in your generations as ye are so shall the stranger be before the LORD 16 One law and one manner shall be for you and for the stranger that sojourneth with you 17 ¶ And the LORD spake unto Moses saying 18 Speak unto the children of Israel and say unto them When ye come into the land whither I bring you 19 Then it shall be that when ye eat of the bread of the land ye shall offer up an heave-offering unto the LORD 20 Ye shall offer up a cake of the first of your dought for an heave-offering as ye do the heave-offering of the threshing-floor so shall ye heave it 21 Of the first of your dough ye shall give unto the LORD an heave-offering in your generations 22 ¶ And if ye have erred and not observed all these commandments which the LORD hath spoken unto Moses 23 Even all that the LORD hath commanded you by the hand of Moses from the day that the LORD commanded Moses and henceforward among your generations 24 Then it shall be if ought be committed by ignorance †Heb. from the eyes without the knowledge of the congregation that all the congregation shall offer one young bullock for a burnt-offering for a sweet savour unto the LORD with his meat-offering and his drink-offering according to the ‖ Or ordinance manner and one kid of the goats for a sin-offering 25 And the priest shall make an atonement for all the congregation of the children of Israel and it shall be forgiven them for it is ignorance and they shall bring their offering a sacrifice made by fire unto the LORD and their sin-offering before the LORD for their ignorance 26 And it shall be forgiven all the congregation of the children of Israel and the stranger that sojourneth among them seeing all the people were in ignorance 27 ¶ And * Levit. 4.27 if any soul sin through ignorance then he shall bring a she-goat of the first year for a sin-offering 28 And the priest shall make an atonement for the soul that sinneth ignorantly when he sinneth by ignorance before the LORD to make an atonement for him and it shall be forgiven him 29 You shall have one law for
dishonourest thou God 24 For the name of God is blasphemed among the Gentiles through you as it is * Isa 52.5 Ezek. 36.20.23 written 25 For circumcision verily profiteth if thou keep the law but if thou be a breaker of the law thy circumcision is made uncircumcision 26 Therefore if the uncircumcision keep the righteousness of the law shall not his uncircumcision be counted for circumcision 27 And shall not uncircumcision which is by nature if it fulfil the law judge thee who by the letter and circumcision dost transgress the law 28 For he is not a Jew which is one outwardly neither is that circumcision which is outward in the flesh 29 But he is a Jew which is one inwardly and circumcision is that of the heart in the spirit and not in the letter whose praise is not of men but of God CHAP. III. 1 The Jews prerogative 3 which they have not lost 9 Howbeit the law convinceth them also of sin 20 Therefore no flesh is justified by the law 28 but all without difference by saith onely 31 and yet the law is not abolished WHat advantage then hath the Jew or what profit is there of circumcision 2 Much every way chiefly because that unto them were committed the oracles of God 3 For what it some did not beleeve shall their unbelief make the faith of God without effect 4 God forbid yea let God be true but * Ps 116.11 every man a liar as it is written * Ps 51.4 That thou mightest be justified in thy sayings and mightest overcome when thou art judged 5 But if our unrighteousness commend the righteousness of God what shall we say Is God unrighteous who taketh vengeance I speak as a man 6 God forbid for then how shall God judge the world 7 For if the truth of God hath more abounded through my lie unto his glory why yet am I also judged as a sinner 8 And not rather as we be slanderously reported and as some affirm that we say Let us do evil that good may come whose damnation is just 9 What then are we better then they No in no wise for we have before †Gr. charged proved both Jews and Gentiles that they are all under sin 10 As it is written * Ps 14.1 2 3. There is none righteous no not one 11 There is none that understandeth there is none that seeketh after God 12 They are all gone out of the way they are together become unprofitable there is none that doeth good no not one 13 * Psal 5.9 Their throat is an open sepulchre with their tongues they have used deceit * Ps 140.3 the poison of asps is under their lips 14 * Ps 10.7 Whos 's mouth is full of cursing and bitterness 15 * Pro. 1.16 Isa 59.7 8. Their feet are swift to shed bloud 16 Destruction and misery are in their ways 17 And the way of peace have they not known 18 * Psa 36.1 There is no fear of God before their eyes 19 Now we know that what things soever the law faith it faith to them who are under the law that every mouth may be stopped and all the world may become ‖ Or. subject to the judgement of God guilty before God 20 Therefore * Gal. 2.16 by the deeds or the law there shall no flesh be justified in his sight for by the law is the knowledge of sin 21 But now the righteousness of God without the law is manifested being witnessed by the law and the prophets 22 Even the righteousness of God which is by faith of Jesus Christ unto all and upon all them that beleeve for there is no difference 23 For all have sinned and com◠short of the glory of God 24 Being justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Jesus Christ 25 Whom God hath ‖ Or fore-ordained set forth to be a propitiation through faith in his bloud to declare his righteousness for the ‖ Or passing over remission of sins that are past through the forbearance of God 26 To declare I say at this time his righteousness that he might be just and the justifier of him which beleeveth in Jesus 27 Where is boasting then It is excluded By what law of works Nay but by the law of faith 28 Therefore we conclude that a man is justified by faith without the deeds of the law 29 Is he the God of the Jews onley is he not also of the Gentiles Yes of the Gentiles also 30 Seeing it is one God which shall justifie the circumcision by faith and uncircumcision through faith 31 Do we then make void the law through faith God forbid yea we establish the law CHAP. IV. 1 Abrahams faith was imputed to him for righteousness to before be was circumcised 13 By faith onely be and his seed received the promise 16 Abraham is the father of all that beleeve 24 Our faith also shall be imputed to us for righteousness WHat shall we say then that Abraham our father as pertaining to the flesh hath found 2 For if Abraham were justified by works he hath whereof to glory but not before God 3 For what faith the scripture * Gen. 15.6 Gal. 3.6 Jam. 2.23 Abraham beleeved God and it was counted unto him for righteousness 4 Now to him that worketh is the reward not reckoned of grace but of debt 5 But to him that worketh not but beleeveth on him that justifieth the ungodly his faith is counted for righteousness 6 Even as David also describeth the blessedness of the man unto whom God imputeth righteousness without works 7 Saying * Psal 32.1 Blessed are they whose iniquities are forgiven and whose sins are covered 8 Blessed is the man to whom the Lord will not impute sin 9 Cometh this blessedness then upon the circumcision onely or upon the uncircumcision also For we say that faith was reckoned to Abraham for righteousness 10 How was it then reckoned when he was in circumcision or in uncircumcision not in circumcision but in uncircumcision 11 And he received the signe of circumcision a seal of the righteousness of the faith which he had yet being uncircumcised that he might be the father of all them that beleeve though they be not circumcised that righteousness might be imputed unto them also 12 And the father of circumcision to them who are not of the circumcision onely but also walk in the steps of that faith of our father Abraham which he had being yet uncircumcised 13 For the promise that he should be the heir of the world was not to Abraham or to his seed through the law but through the righteousness of faith 14 For if they which are of the law be heirs faith is made void and the promise made of none effect 15 Because the law worketh wrath for where no law is there is no transgression 16 Therefore it is of faith that it might be by grace to the
justified 17 But if while we seek to be justified by Christ we our selves also are found sinners is therefore Christ the minister of sin God forbid 18 For if I build again the things which I destroyed I make my self a transgressour 19 For I through the law am dead to the law that I might live unto God 20 I am crucified with Christ Nevertheless I live yet not I but Christ liveth in me and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God who loved me and gave himself for me 21 I do not frustrate the grace of God for if righteousness come by the law then Christ is dead in vain CHAP. III. 1 He asketh what moved them to leave the faith and hang upon the law 6 They that believe are justified 9 and blessed with Abraham 10 And this he sheweth by many reasons O Foolish Galatians who hath bewitched you that you should not obey the truth before whose eyes Jesus Christ hath been evidently set forth crucified among you 2 This onely would I learn of you Received ye the Spirit by the works of the law or by the hearing of faith 3 Are ye so foolish having begun in the Spirit are ye now made perfect by the flesh 4 Have ye suffered ‖ Or so great so many things in vain if it be yet in vain 5 He therefore that ministreth to you the Spirit and worketh miracles among you doeth he it by the works of the law or by the hearing of faith 6 Even as * Gen. 15.6 Abraham beleeved God and it was ‖ Or imputed accounted to him for righteousness 7 Know ye therefore that they which are of faith the same are the children of Abraham 8 And the scripture foreseeing that God would justifie the heathen through faith preached before the gospel unto Abraham saying * Gen. 12.3 In thee shall all nations be blessed 9 So then they which be of faith are blessed with faithful Abraham 10 For as many as are of the works of the law are under the curse for it is written * Deu. 27.26 Cursed is every one that continueth not in all things which are written in the book of the law to do them 11 But that no man is justified by the law in the sight of God it is evident for * Hab. 2.4 Rom. 1.17 Heb. 10. 38. The just shall live by faith 12 And the law is not of faith but * Lev. 18.5 the man that doeth them shall live in them 13 Christ hath redeemed us from the curse of the law being made a curse for us for it is written * Deu. 21.23 Cursed is every one that hangeth on a tree 14 That the blessing of Abraham might come on the Gentiles through Jesus Christ that we might receive the promise of the Spirit through faith 15 Brethren I speak after the manner of men Though it be but a mans ‖ Or testament covenant yet if it be confirmed no man disanulleth or addeth thereto 16 Now to Abraham and his seed were the promises made He saith not And to seeds as of many but as of one And to thy seed which is Christ 17 And this I say that the covenant that was confirmed before of God in Christ the law which was four hundred and thirty years after cannot disanul that it should make the promise of none effect 18 For if the inheritance be of the law it is no more of promise but God gave it to Abraham by promise 19 Wherefore then serveth the law It was added because of transgressions till the seed should come to whom the promise was made and it was ordained by angels in the hand of a mediatour 20 Now a mediatour is not a mediatour of one but God is one 21 Is the law then against the promises of God God forbid for if there had been a law given which could have given life verily righteousness should have been by the law 22 But the scripture hath concluded * Rom. 3.9 all under sin that the promise by faith of Jesus Christ might be given to them that beleeve 23 But before faith came we were kept under the law shut up unto the faith which should afterwards be revealed 24 Wherefore the law was our school-master to bring us unto Christ that we might be justified by faith 25 But after that faith is come we are no longer under a school-master 26 For ye are all the children of God by faith in Christ Jesus 27 For * Rom. 6. ◠as many of you as have been baptized into Christ have put on Christ 28 There is neither Jew nor Greek there is neither bond nor free there is neither male nor female for ye are all one in Christ Jesus 29 And if ye be Christs then are ye Abrahams seed and heirs according to the promise CHAP. IV. 1 We were under the law till Christ came as the heir is under his guardian till he be of are 5 But Christ freed us from the law 7 therefore we are servants no longer to it 14 He remembreth their good will to him and his to them 22 and sheweth that we are the sons of Abraham by the free-woman NOw I say that the heir as long as he is a childe differeth nothing from a servant though he be lord of all 2 But is under tutours and governours until the time appointed of the father 3 Even so we when we were children were in bondage under the ‖ Or rudiments elements of the world 4 But when the fulness of the time was come God sent forth his Son made of a woman made under the law 5 To redeem them that were under the law that we might receive the adoption of sons 6 And because ye are sons God hath sent forth * Rom. 8.15 the Spirit of his Son into your hearts crying Abba Father 7 Wherefore thou art no more a servant but a son and if a son then an heir of God through Christ 8 Howbeit then when ye knew not God ye did service unto them which by nature are no gods 9 But now after that ye have known God or rather are known of God how turn ye ‖ Or back again to the weak and beggerly ‖ Or rudiments elements whereunto ye desire again to be in bondage 10 Ye observe days and moneths and times and years 11 I am afraid of you lest I have bestowed upon you labour in vain 12 Brethren I beseech you be as I am for I am as ye are ye have not injured me at all 13 Ye know how through infirmity of the flesh I preached the gospel unto you at the first 14 And my temptation which was in my flesh ye despised not nor rejected but received me as an angel of God even as Christ Jesus 15 ‖ Or What was thou Where is then the blessedness you spake of for I bear you record that if it had been
our bodies washed with pure water 23 Let us hold fast the profession of our faith without wavering for he is faithful that promised 24 And let us consider one another to provoke unto love and to good works 25 Not forsaking the assembling of our selves together as the manner of some is but exhorting one another and so much the more as ye see the day approaching 26 For * Chap. 6.4 if we sin wilfully after that we have received the knowledge of the truth there remaineth no more sacrifice for sins 27 But a certain fearful looking for of judgment and fiery indignation which shall devour the adversaties 28 He that despised Moses law died without mercy * Deut. 19.15 Matth. 18.16 John 8.17 2 Cor. 13.1 under two or three witnesses 29 Of how much sorer punishment suppose ye shall he be thought worthy who hath troden under foot the Son of God and hath counted the bloud of the covenant wherewith he was sanctified and unholy thing and hath done despite unto the Spirit of grace 30 For we know him the hath said * Deut. 32.35 Rom. 12.19 Vengeance belongeth unto me I will recompense saith the Lord. And again * Deut. 32.36 Psal 50.4 The Lord shall judge his people 31 It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God 32 But call to remembrance the former days in which after ye were illuminated ye endured a great fight of afflictions 33 Partly whilest ye were made a gazing-stock both by reproaches and afflictions and partly whilest ye became companions of them that were so used 34 For ye had compassion of me in my bonds and took joyfully the spoiling of your goods knowing in your selves that ye have in heaven a better and an enduring substance 35 Cast not away therefore your confidence which hath great recompence of reward 36 For ye have need of patience that after ye have done the will of God ye might receive the promise 37 For * Hab. 2.3 4. yet a little while he the shall come will come will not tarry 38 Now * Rom. 1.17 Gal. 3.11 the just shall live by faith but if any man draw back my soul shall have no pleasure in him 39 But we are not of them who draw back unto perdition but of them that beleeve to the saving of the soul CHAP. XI 1 What faith is 6 Without faith we cannot please God 7 The worthy fruits thereof in the fathers in old time NOw faith is the ‖ Or ground or confidence substance of things hoped for the evidence of things not seen 2 For by it the elders obtained a good report 3 Through faith we understand that * Gen. 〈◊〉 .1 the worlds were framed by the word of God so the things which are seen were not made of things which do appear 4 By faith * Gen. 4.4 Abel offered unto God a more excellent sacrifice then Cain by which he obtained witness that he was righteous God testifying of his gifts and by it he being dead ‖ Or it yet spoken of yet speaketh 5 By faith * Gen. 5.24 Wisd 4.10 Ecclus 44.16 49.14 Enoch was translated that he should not see death and was not found because God had translated him for before his translation he had this testimony that he pleased God 6 But without faith it is impossible to please him for he that cometh to God must beleeve that he is and that he is a rewarder of them that diligently seek him 7 By faith * Gen. 6.13 Noah being warned of God of things not seen as yet ‖ Or being wary moved with fear prepared an ark te the saving of his house by the which he condemned the world became heir of the righteousness which is by faith 8 By faith * Gen. â—2 4 Abraham when he was called to go out into a place which he should after receive for an inheritance obeyed and he went out not knowing whither he went 9 By saith he sojourned in the land of promise as in a strange countrey dwelling in tabernacles with Isaac and Jacob the heirs with him of the same promise 10 For he looked for a city which hath foundations whose builder and maker is God 11 Through faith also * Gen. 17.19 21.2 Sara her self received strength to conceive seed and was delivered of a childe when she was past age because she judged him faithful who had promised 12 Therefore sprang there even of one and him as good as dead so many as the stars of the skie in multitude and as the sand which is by the sea-shore innumerable 13 These all died †Gr. â—ccording to faith in faith not having received the promises but having seen them afar off and were perswaded of them and embraced them * Gen. 23. 〈◊〉 47.9 1 Chron 29.15 Psal 39.12 119.19 confessed that they were strangers and pilgrims on the earth 14 For they that say such things declare plainly the they seek a countrey 15 And truly if they had been mindful of that countrey from whence they came out they might have had opportunity to have returned 16 But now they desire a better countrey that is an heavenly wherefore God is not ashamed to be called their God for he hath prepared for them a city 17 By faith * Gen. 22.9 Abraham when he was tried offered up Isaac and he that had received the promises offered up his onely begotten son 18 ‖ Or to Of whom it was said * Gen. 21.12 Rom. 9.7 That in Isaac shall thy seed be called 19 Accounting that God was able to raise him up even from the dead from whence also he received him in a figure 20 By faith * Gen. 27.27 39. Isaac blessed Jacob Esau concerning things to come 21 By faith Jacob when he was a dying * Gen. 48.15 blessed both the sons of Juseph and * Gen. 47.31 worshipped leaning upon the top of his staff 22 By faith * Gen. 50.24 25. Joseph when he died ‖ Or remembred made mention of the departing of the children of Israel gave commandment concerning his bones 23 By faith * Exod. 2.2 Acts 7.20 Moses when he was born was hid three moneths of his parents because they saw he was a proper childe and they were not afraid of the kings * Ex. 1.16 commandment 24 By faith * Ex. 2.11 Moses when he was come to years refused to be called the son of Pharaohs daughter 25 Choosing rather to suffer affliction with the people of God then to enjoy the pleasures of sin for a season 26 Esteeming the reproach ‖ Or â—or Christ of Christ greater riches then the treasâ—res in Egypt for he had respect unto the recompence of the reward 27 By faith he forsook Egypt not fearing the wrath of the king for he endured as seeing him who is invisible 28 Through faith *
unclean thing 4 or in making an oath 6 His trespass-offering of the flock 7 of fowls 11 or of flour 14 The trespass-offering in sacriledge 17 and in sins of ignorance ANd if a soul sin and hear the voice of swearing and is a witness whether he hath seen or known of it if he do not utter it then he shall bear his iniquity 2 Or if a soul touch any unclean thing whether it be a carcase of an unclean beast or a carcase of unclean cattel or the carcase of unclean creeping things and if it be hidden from him he also shall be unclean and guilty 3 Or if he touch the uncleanness of man whatsoever uncleanness it be that a man shall be defiled withal and it be hid from him when he knoweth of it then he shall be guilty 4 Or if a soul swear pronouncing with his lips to do evil or to do good whatsoever it be that a man shall pronounce with an oath and it be hid from him when he knoweth of it then he shall be guilty in one of these 5 And it shall be when he shall be guilty in one of these things that he shall confess that he hath sinned in that thing 6 And he shall bring his trespass-offering unto the LORD for his sin which he hath sinned a female from the flock a lamb or a kid of the goats for a sin offering and the priest shall make an atonement for him concerning his sin 7 And if †Heb. his hand cannot reach to the sufficiency of a lamb he be not able to bring a lamb then he shall bring for his trespass which he hath committed two turtle-doves or two young pigeons unto the LORD one for a sin-offering and the other for a burnt-offering 8 And he shall bring them unto the priest who shall offer that which is for the sin-offering first and * Ch. 1.15 wring off his head from his neck but shall not divide it asunder 9 And he shall sprinkle of the bloud of the sin-offering upon the side of the altar and the rest of the bloud shall be wrung out at the bottom of the altar it is a sin-offering 10 And he shall offer the second for a burnt-offering according to the ‖ Or ordinance manner and the priest shall make an atonement for him for his sin which he had sinned and it shall be forgiven him 11 ¶ But if he be not able to bring two turtle-doves or two young pigeons then he that sinned shall bring for his offering the tenth part of an ephah of fine flour for a sin-offering he shall put no oyl upon it neither shall he put any frankincense thereon for it is a sin-offering 12 Then shall he bring it to the priest and the priest shall take his handful of it * Ch. 2.2 even a memorial thereof and burn it on the altar * Ch. 4.35 according to the offerings made by fire unto the LORD it is a sin-offering 13 And the priest shall make an atonement for him as touching his sin that he hath sinned in one of these and it shall be forgiven him and the remnant shall be the priests as a meat-offering 14 ¶ And the LORD spake unto Moses saying 15 If a soul commit a trespass and sin through ignorance in the holy things of the LORD then he shall bring for his trespass unto the LORD a ram without blemâ—sh out of the flocks with thy estimation by shekels of silver after the shekel of the sanctuary for a trespass offering 16 And he shall make amends for the harm that he hath done in the holy thing and shall add the fifth part thereto and give it unto the priest and the priest shall make an atonement for him with the ram of the trespass-offering and it shall be forgiven him 17 ¶ And if a * Chap. â— 2 soul sin and commit any of these things which are forbidden to be done by the commandments of the LORD though he wist it not yet is he guilty and shall bear his iniquity 18 And he shall bring a ram without blemish out of the flock with thy estimation for a trespass offering unto the priest and the priest shall make an atonement for him concerning his ignorance wherein he erred and wist it not and it shall be forgiven him 10 It is a trespass offering he hath certainly trespassed against the LORD CHAP. VI. 1 The trespass-offering for sins done wittingly 8 The law of the burnt-offering 14 and of the meat-offering 19 The offering at the consecration of a priest 24 The law of the sin-offering ANd the LORD spake unto Moses saying 2 If a soul sin and commit a trespass against the LORD and lie unto his neighbour in that which was delivered him to keep or in ‖ Or 〈◊〉 â—â—aâ—ing †Heb. putting of the hand fellowship or in a thing taken away by violence or hath deceived his neighbour 3 Or have found that which was lost and lieth concerning it and * Numb 5.6 sweareth falâ—ly in any of all these that a man doeth sinning therein 4 Then it shall be because he hath sinned and is guilty that he shall restore that which he took violently away or the thing which he hath deceitfully gotten or that which was delivered him to keep or the lost thing which he found 5 Or all that about which he hath sworn falsly he shall even * Chap 5.16 restore it in the principal and shall add the fifth part more thereto and give it unto him to whom it appertaineth ‖ Or in the day of his being found guilty †Heb. in the day of his trespasâ— in the day of his trespass-offering 6 And he shall bring his trespass-offering unto the LORD a ram without blemish out of the * Ch. 5.15 flock with thy estimation for a trespass-offering unto the priest 7 And the priest shall make an atonement for him before the LORD and it shall be forgiven him for any thing of all that he hath done in trespassing therein 8 ¶ And the LORD spake unto Moses saying 9 Command Aaron and his sons saying This is the law of the burnt-offering It is the burnt-offering ‖ Or for the burning because of the burning upon the altar all night unto the morning the fire of the altar shall be burning in it 10 And the priest shall put on his linen garment and his linen breeches shall he put upon his flesh and take up the ashes which the fire hath consumed with the burnt-offering on the altar and he shall put them besides the altar 11 And he shall put off his garments and put on other garments and carry forth the ashes without the camp unto a clean place 12 And the fire upon the altar shall be burning in it it shall not be put out and the priest shall burn wood on it every morning and lay the burnt-offering in order upon it and he shall burn thereon
7 Therefore thou and thy sons with thee shall keep your priests office for every thing of the altar and within the vail and ye shall serve I have given your priests office unto you as a service of gift and the stranger that cometh nigh shall be put to death 8 ¶ And the LORD spake unto Aaron Behold I also have given thee the charge of mine heave-offerings of all the hallowed things of the children of Israel unto thee have I given them by reason of the anointing to thy sons by an ordinance for ever 9 This shall be thine of the most holy things reserved from the fire every oblation of theirs every meat-offering of theirs and every sin offering of theirs and every trespass offering of theirs which they shall render unto me shall be most holy for thee and for thy sons 10 In the most holy place shalt thou eat it every male shall eat it it shall be holy unto thee 11 And this is thine the heave offering of their gift with all the wave-offerings of the children of Israel I have given them unto * Levi◠1◠14 thee and to thy sons and to thy daughters with thee by a statute for ever every one that is clean in thy house shall eat of it 12 All the †Heb. sat best of the oyl and all the best of the wine and of the wheat the first-fruits of them which they shall offer unto the LORD them have I given thee 13 And whatsoever is first ripe in the land which they shall bring unto the LORD shall be thine every one that is clean in thine house shall eat of it 14 * Levit. 27.28 Every thing devoted in Israel shall be thine 15 Everything that openeth * Ex. 13.2 22.29 Lev. 26.27 Chap. 3.12 the matrix in all flesh which they bring unto the LORD whether it be of men or beasts shall be thine nevertheless the first-born of man shalt thou surely redeem and the firstling of unclean beasts shalt thou redeem 16 And those that are to be redeemed from a moneth old shalt thou redeem according to thine estimation for the money of five shekels after the shekel of the sanctuary * Ex. 30.12 Lev. 27.25 Ch. 3.47 Ez. 45.12 which is twenty gerahs 17 But the firstling of a cow or the firstling of a sheep or the firstling of a goat thou shalt not redeem they are holy thou shalt sprinkle their bloud upon the altar and shalt burn their fat for an offering made by fire for a sweet savour unto the LORD 18 And the flesh of them shall be thine as the * Ex. 29.26 wave-breast and as the right shoulder are thine 19 All the heave-offerings of the holy things which the children of Israel offer unto the LORD have I given thee and thy sons and thy daughters with thee by a statute for ever it is a covenant of salt for ever before the LORD unto thee and to thy seed with thee 20 ¶ And the LORD spake unto Aaron Thou shalt have no inheritance in their land neither shalt thou have any part among them * Deut. 10.9 and 18.2 Jos 13.14 33. Ez 44.28 I am thy part and thine inheritance among the children of Israel 21 And behold I have given the children of Levi all the tenth in Israel for an inheritance for their service which they serve even the service of the tabernacle of the congregation 22 Neither must the children of Israel henceforth come nigh the tabernacle of the congregation * Heb. to die lest they bear sin †and die 23 But the Levites shall do the service of the tabernacle of the congregation and they shall bear their iniquity It shall be a statute for ever throughout your generations that among the children of Israel they have no inheritance 24 But the tithes of the children of Israel which they offer as an heave-offering unto the LORD I have given to the Levites to inherit therefore I have said unto them Among the children of Israel they shall have no inheritance 25 ¶ And the LORD spake unto Moses saying 26 Thus speak unto the Levites and say unto them When ye take of the children of Israel the tithes which I have given you from them for your inheritance then ye shall offer up an heave-offering of it for the LORD even a tenth part of the tithe 27 And this your heave-offering shall be reckoned unto you as though it were the corn of the threshing-floor and as the fulness of the wine-press 28 Thus you also shall offer an heave-offering unto the LORD of all your tithes which ye receive of the children of Israel and ye shall give thereof the LORDs heave-offering to Aaron the priest 29 Out of all your gifts ye shall offer every heave-offering of the LORD of all the †Heb. sat best thereof even the hallowed part thereof out of it 30 Therefore thou shalt say unto them When ye have heaved the best thereof from it then it shall be counted unto the Levites as the increase of the threshing-floor and as the encrease of the wine press 31 And ye shall eat it in every place ye and your housholds for it is your reward for your service in the tabernacle of the congregation 32 And ye shall bear no sin by reason of it when ye have heaved from it the best of it neither shall ye pollute the holy things of the children of Israel lest ye die CHAP. XIX 1 The water of separation made of the ashes of a red heifr 11 The law for the use of it in purification of the unclean ANd the LORD spake unto Moses and unto Aaron saying 2 This is the ordinance of the law which the LORD hath commanded saying Speak unto the children of Israel that they bring thee a red heifer without spot wherein is no blemish and upon which never came yoke 3 And ye shall give her unto Eleazar the priest that he may bring her * Heb. 13.11 forth without the camp and one shall slay her before his face 4 And Eleazar the priest shall take of her bloud with his finger and * Heb. 9.13 sprinkle of her bloud directly before the tabernacle of the congregation seven times 5 And one shall burn the heifet in his sight * Ex. 29.14 Levit. 4.11 12. her skin and her flesh and her bloud with her dung shall he burn 6 And the priest shall take cedar-wood and hyssop and scarlet and cast it into the midst of the burning of the heifer 7 Then the priest shall wash his clothes and he shall bathe his flesh in water and afterward he shall come into the camp and the priest shall be unclean until the even 8 And he that burneth her shall wash his clothes in water and bathe his flesh in water and shall be unclean until the even 9 And a man that is clean shall gather up the ashes of the heifer and lay them up without
the people went forth and brought them and made themselves booths every one upon the roof of his house and in their courts and in the courts of the house of God and in the street of the water-gate and in the street of the gate of Ephraim 17 And all the congregation of them that were come again out of the captivity made booths and sat under the booths for since the days of Jeshua the son of Nun unto that day had not the children of Israel done so and there was very great gladness 18 Also day by day from the first day unto the last day he read in the book of the law of God and they kept the feast seven days and on the eighth day was †Heb. a restraint a solemn assembly according unto the manner CHAP. IX 1 A solemn fast and repentance of the people 4 The Levites make a religious confession of Gods goodness and their wickedness NOw in the twenty and fourth day of * Chap. 8.2 this moneth the children of Israel were assembled with fasling and with sackclothes and earth upon them 2 And the seed of Israel separated themselves from all †Heb. strange children strangers and stood and confessed their sins and the iniquities of their fathers 3 And they stood up in their place and read in the book of the law of the LORD their God one fourth part of the day and another fourth part they confessed and worshipped the LORD their God 4 ¶ Then stood up upon the ‖ Or seaffold stairs of the Levites Jeshua and Bani Kadmiel Shebaniah Bunni Sherebiah Bani and Chenani and cried with a loud voice unto the LORD their God 5 Then the Levites Jeshua and Kadmiel Bani Hashabniah Sherebiah Hodijah Shebaniah and Pethabiah said Stand up and bless the LORD your God for ever and ever and blessed be thy glorious name which is exalted above all blessing and praise 6 Thou even thou art LORD alone * Gen. 1.1 thou hast made heaven the heaven of neavens with all their host the earth and all things that are therein the seas and all that is therein and thou preservest them all and the host of heaven worshippeth thee 7 Thou art the LORD the God who didst choose * Gen. 11.31 12.1 Abram and broughtest him forth out of Ur of the Caldees and gavest him the name of * Gen. 17.5 Abraham 8 And foundest his heart * Gen. 15 6. faithful before thee and madest a * Gen. 12.7 and 15.18 and 17.7 â— covenant with him to give the land of the Canaanites the Hittites the Amorites and the Perizzites and the Jebusites and the Girgashites to give it I say to his seed and hast performed thy words for thou art righteous 9 * Ex. 3.7 14.10 And didst see the affliction of our fathers in Egypt and heardest their cry by the Red sea 10 And * Ex. 7.8 9 10 12 and 14 chap. shewedst signs and wonders upon Pharaoh and on all his servants and on all the people of his land for thou knewest that they dealt proudly against them so didst thou get thee a name as it is this day 11 * Ex. 14.21 22. And thou didst divide the sea before them so that they went through the midst of the sea on the dry land and their persecuters thou threwest into the deeps as a stone into the * Ex. 15.10 mighty waters 12 Moreover thou * Ex. 13 21 leddest them in the day by a cloudy pillar and in the night by a pillar of fire to give them light in the way wherein they should go 13 * Ex. 19.20 20.1 Thou camest down also upon mount Sinai and spakest with them from heaven and gavest them right judgements and †Heb. laws of truth true laws good statutes and commandments 14 And madest known unto them thy holy sabbath and commandedst them precepts statutes and laws by the hand of Moses thy servant 15 And * Ex. 15.14 15. gavest them bread from heaven for their hunger and * Ex. 17.6 Num 20.9 c. broughtest forth water for them out of the rock for their thirst and promisedst them that they should * Deu. 1.8 go in to possess the land †Heb. which thou hadst lift up thine hand to give them which thou hadst sworn to give them 16 But they and our fathers dealt proudly and hardned their necks and hearkned not to thy commandments 17 And refused to obey neither were mindful of thy wonders that thou didst among them but hardned their necks and in their rebellion appointed * Nu. 14.4 a captain to return to their bondage but thou art †Heb. a God of pardons a God ready to pardon graciou and merciful slow to anger and of great kindness and forsookest them not 18 Yea * Ex. 32.4 when they had made them a molten calf and said This is thy god that brought thee up out of Egypt and had wrought great provocations 19 Yet thou in thy manifold mercies forsookest them not in the wilderness the * Ex. 13.22 Nu. 14.14 1 Cor. 10.1 pillar of the cloud departed not from them by day to lead them in the way neither the pillar of fire by night to shew them light and the way wherein they should go 20 Thou gavest also thy * Nu. 11.17 good spirit to instruct them and withheldest not thy * Ex. 16.15 Jos 5.12 manna from their mouth and gavest them * Ex. 17.6 water for their thirst 21 Yea fourty years didst thou sustain them in the wilderness so that they lacked nothing their * Deu. 8.4 clothes waxed not old and their feet swelled not 22 Moreover thou gavest them kingdoms and nations and didst divide them into corners so they possessed the land of * Nu. 21.21 c. Sihon and the land of the king of Heshbon and the land of Og king of Bashan 23 Their children also multipliedst thou as the stars of heaven and broughtest them into the land concerning which thou hadst promised to their fathers that they should go in to possess it 24 So the children went in and possessed the land and thou subduedst before them the inhabitants of the land the Canaanites and gavest them into their hands with their kings and the people of the land that they might do with them †Heb. according to their will as they would 25 And they took strong cities and a fat land and possessed houses full of all goods ‖ Or â—iâ—â—â—rns wells digged vineyards and olive-yards and †Heb. tree of food fruit-trees in abundance so they did eat and were filled and became fat and delighted themselves in thy great goodness 26 Nevertheless they were disobedient rebelled against thee and cast thy law behinde their backs and slew thy * 1 Kin. 19.10 prophets with testified against them to turn them to thee they wrought great provocations
commanded and they cleansed the chambers and thither brought I again the vessels of the house of God with the meat-offering and the frankincense 10 ¶ And I perceived that the portions of the Levites had not been given them for the Levites and the singers that did the work were fled every one to his field 11 Then contended I with the rulers and said Why is the house of God forsaken and I gathered them together and set them in their †Heb. standing place 12 Then brought all Judah the tithe of the corn and the new wine and the oyl unto the ‖ Or store-houses treasuries 13 And I made treasurers over the treasuries Shelemiah the priest and Zadok the scribe and of the Levites Pedâ—iah and †Heb. at their hand next to them was Hanan the son of Zaccur the son of Mattaniah for they were counted faithful and †Heb. it was upon them their office was to distribute unto their brethren 14 * Ver. 22. Remember me O my God concerning this and wipe not out my †Heb. bindnesses good deeds that I have done for the house of my God and for the ‖ Or observations offices thereof 15 ¶ In those days saw I in Judah some treading wine-presses on the sabbath and bringing in sheaves and lading asses as also wine grapes and rigs and all manner of burdens which they brought into Jerusalem on the sabbath-day and I testified against them in the day wherein they sold victuals 16 There dwelt men of Tyre also therein which brought fish and all manner of ware and sold on the sabbath unto the children of Judah and in Jerusalem 17 Then I contended with the nobles of Judah and said unto them What evil thing is this that ye do and profane the sabbath day 18 Did not your fathers thus and did not our God bring all this evil upon us and upon this city yet ye bring more wrath upon Israel by profaning the sabbath 19 And it came to pass that when the gates of Jerusalem began to be dark before the sabbath I commanded that the gates should be shut and charged that they should not be opened till after the sabbath and some of my servants set I at the gates that there should no burden be brought in on the sabbath-day 20 So the merchants and sellers of all kinde of ware lodged without Jerusalem once or twice 21 Then I testified against them and said unto them Why lodge ye †Heb. before the wall about the wall if ye do so again I will lay hands on you From that time forth came they no more on the sabbath 22 And I commanded the Levites that they should cleanse themselves and that they should come and keep the gates to sanctifie the sabbath day Remember me O my God concerning this also and spare me according to the ‖ Or multitude greatness of thy mercy 23 ¶ In those days also saw I Jews that †Heb. had made to dwell with them had married wives of Ashdod of Ammon and of Moab 24 And their children spake half in the speech of Ashdod and †Heb. they discerned not to speak could not speak in the Jews language but according to the language †Heb. of people and people of each people 25 And I contended with them and ‖ Or reviled them cursed them and smote certain of them and pluckt off their hair and made them swear by God saying Ye shall not give your daughters unto their sons nor take their daughters unto your sons or for your selves 25 Did not Solomon king of Israel sin by these things yet among many nations was there no king like him who was beloved of his God and God made him king over all Israel * 1 Kin. 11.1 c. nevertheless even him did outlandish women cause to sin 27 Shall we then hearken unto you to do all this great evil to transgress against our God in marrying strange wives 28 And one of the sons of Joiada the son of Eliashib the high priest was son in law to Sanballat the Horonite therefore I chased him from me 29 Remember them O my God †Heb. for the defilings because they have difiled the priesthood and the covenant of the priesthood and of the Levites 30 Thus cleansed I them from all strangers and appointed the wards of the priests and the Levites every one in his business 31 And for the wood-offering at times appointed and for the first-fruits Remember me O my God for good The book of ESTHER CHAP. I. 1 Ahasuerus maketh royal feasts 10 Vashti sent for refuseth to come 13 Ahasuerus by the counsel of Memucan maketh the decree of mens sovereignty NOw it came to pass in the days of Ahasuerus this is Ahasuerus which reigned from India even unto Ethiopia over an hundred and seven and twenty provinces 2 That in those days when the king Ahasuerus sat on the throne of his kingdom which was in Shushan the palace 3 In the third year of his reign he made a feast unto all his princes and his servants the power of Persia and Media the nobles and princes of the provinces being before him 4 When he shewed the riches of his glorious kingdom and the honour of his excellent majesty many days even an hundred and fourscore days 5 And when these days were expired the king made a feast unto all the people that were †Heb. found present in Shushan the palace both unto great and small seven days in the court of the garden of the kings palace 6 Where were white green and ‖ Or violet blue hangings fastned with cords of fine linen and purple to silver rings and pillars of marble the beds were of gold and silver upon a pavement ‖ Or â—fporphyre marble alabaster and stone of blue colour of red and blue and white and black marble 7 And they gave them drink in vessels of gold the vessels being diverse one from another and †Heb. wine of the kingdom royal wine in abundance †Heb. according to the hand of the king according to the state of the king 8 And the drinking was according to the law none did compel for so the king had appointed to all the officers of his house that they should do according to every mans pleasure 9 Also Vashti the queen made a feast for the women in the royal house which belonged to king Ahasuerus 10 ¶ On the seventh day when the heart of the king was merry with wine he commanded Mehuman Biztha Harbona Bigtha and Abagtha Zethar and Carcas the seven ‖ Or eunuchs chamberlains that served in the presence of Ahasuerus the king 11 To bring Vashti the queen before the king with the crown royal to shew the people and the princes her beauty for she was †Heb. good of countenance fair to look on 12 But the queen Vashti refused to come at
that hate him 24 But my faithfulness and my mercy shall be with him and in my name shall his horn 〈◊〉 exalted 25 I will set 〈◊〉 â—and also in the sea and his right hand in the rivers 26 He shall cry unto me Thou art my Father my God and the rock of my salvation 27 Also I will make him my first-born higher then the kings of the earth 28 My mercy will I keep for him for evermore and my covenant shall stand fast with him 29 His seed also will I make to endure for ever and his throne as the days of heaven 30 It his children forsake my law and walk not in my judgements 31 If they †Heb. profane my statutes break my statutes and keep not my commandments 32 Then will I visit their transgression with the rod and their iniquity with stripes 33 Nevertheless my loving kindness †Heb. I will not make void from him will I not utterly take from him nor suffer my faâ—thfulness †Heb. to lie to fail 34 My covenant will I not break nor alter the thing that is gone out of my lips 35 Once have I sworn by my holiness †Heb. if I lie that I will not lie unto David 36 * 2 Sam. 7.16 Luke 1.33 Joh. 12.34 His seed shall endure for ever his throne as the sun before me 37 It shall be established for ever as the moon and as a faithful witness in heaven Selah 38 But thou hast cast off and abhorred thou hast been wroth with thine anointed 39 Thou hast made void the covenant of thy servant thou hast profaned his câ—own by casting it to the ground 40 Thou hast broken down all his hedges thou hast brought his strong holds to ruine 41 All that pass by the way spoil him he is a reproach to his neighbours 42 Thou hast set up the right hand of his adversaries thou hast made all his enemies to rejoyce 43 Thou hast also turned the edge of his sword and hast not made him to stand in the battel 44 Thou hast made his †Heb. brightness glory to cease and cast his throne down to the ground 45 The days of his youth hast thou shortned thou hast covered him with shame Selah 46 How long LORD wilt thou hide thy self for ever shall thy wrath burn like fire 47 Remember how short my time is wherefore hast thou made all men in vain 48 What man is he that liveth and shall not see death shall he deliver his soul from the hand of the grave Selah 49 Lord where are thy former loving kindnesses which thou * 2 Sam. 7 1â— swarest unto David in thy truth 50 Remember Lord the reproach of thy servants how I do bear in my bosom the reproach of all the mighty people 52 Wherewith thine enemies have reproached O LORD wherewith they have reproached the foot-steps of thine anointed 52 Blessed be the LORD for evermore Amen and amen PSAL. XC 1 Moses setting forth Gods providence 3 complains of humane fragility 7 divine chastisements 10 and brevity of life 12 He prayeth for the knowledge and sensible experience of Gods good providence ¶ ‖ Or a prayer being a psalm of Moses A Prayer of Moses the man of God LOrd thou hast been our dwelling-place †Heb. in generation and generation in all generations 2 Before the mountains were brought forth or ever thou hadst formed the earth and the world even from everlasting to everlasting thou art God 3 Thou turnest man to destruction and sayest Return ye children of men 4 * 2 Pet. 3.8 For a thousand years in thy sight are but as yesterday ‖ Or when he hath passed them when it is past and as a watch in the night 5 Thou carriest them away as with a floud they are as a sleep in the morning they are like grass which ‖ Or is changed groweth up 6 In the morning it flourisheth and groweth up in the evening it is cut down and withereth 7 For we are consumed by thine anger and by thy wrath are we troubled 8 Thou hast set our iniquities before thee our secret sins in the light of thy countenance 9 For all our days are †Heb. turned away passed away in thy wrath we spend our years ‖ Or as a meditation as a tale that is told 10 †Heb. as for the days of our years in them are seventy years The days of our years are threescore years and ten and if by reason of strength they be fourscore years yet is their strength labour and sorrow for it is soon cut off and we flie away 11 Who knoweth the power of thine anger even according to thy fear so is thy wrath 12 So teach us to number our days that we may †Heb. cause to come apply our hearts unto wisdom 13 Return O LORD how long and let it repent thee concerning thy servants 14 O satisfie us early with thy mercy that we may rejoyce and be glad all our days 15 Make us glad according to the days wherein thou hast afflicted us and the years wherein we have seen evil 16 Let thy work appear unto thy servants and thy glory unto their children 17 And let the beauty of the LORD our God be upon us and establish thou the work of our hands upon us yea the work of our hands establish thou it PSAL. XCI 1 The state of the godly 3 Their safety 9 Their habitation 11 Their servants 14 Their friend with the effects of them all HE that dwelleth in the secret place of the most High shall †Heb. lodge abide under the shadow of the Almighty 2 I will say of the LORD He is my refuge and my fortress my God in him will I trust 3 Sureâ—y he shall deliver thee from the snare of the fowler and from the noysom peâ—tilâ—nâ—e 4 He shall â—over thee with his feathers and under his wings shalt thou tâ—â—â—â— his truth shall be thâ— shâ—â—ld and buâ—â—ler 5 Tâ—oâ— shalt noâ—â—e afraid for the terrour by night nor for the arrow that flâ—â—th â—y day 6 Noâ— for the pestilâ—nce that walketh in darkness nor for the destruction that wasteth at noâ—n-day 7 A thousand shall fall at thy side and ten thousand at thy right hand but it shall not come nigh thee 8 Onely with thine eyes shalt thou behold and see the reward of the wicked 9 Because thou hast made the LORD which is my refuge even the most High thy habitation 10 There shall no evil befal thee neither shall any plague come nigh thy dwelling 11 * Mat. 4.6 Luke 4.10 For he shall give his angels charge over thee to keep thee in all thy ways 12 They shall bear thee up in their hands lest thou dash thy foot against a stone 13 Thou shalt tread upon the lion and ‖ Or asp adder the young lion and the dragon shalt thou trample under feet 14 Because he hath
make thee to pass with thine enemies into a land which thou knowest not for a * Deu. 32.22 fire is kindled in mine anger which shall burn upon you 15 ¶ O LORD thou knowest remember me and visit me and revenge me of my persecutours take me not away in thy long-suffering know that for thy sake I have suffered rebuke 16 Thy words were found and I did * Ezek. 3.3 Rev. 10.9 eat them and thy word was unto me the joy and rejoycing of mine heart for †Heb. thy name is called upon me I am called by thy name O LORD God of hosts 17 I sat not in the assembly of the mockers nor rejoyced I sat alone because of thy hand for thou hast filled me with indignation 18 Why is my * Ch. 30.15 pain perpetual and my wound incurable which refuseth to be healed wilt thou be altogether unto me as a liar and as waters that †Heb. be not sure fail 19 ¶ Therefore thus saith the LORD If thou return then will I bring thee again and thou shalt stand before me and if thou take forth the precious from the vile thou shalt be as my mouth let them return unto thee but return not thou unto them 20 And I will make thee unto this people a fenced brasen * Ch. 1.18 and â— 27 wall and they shall fight against thee but * Ch. 2â— 11.12 they shall not prevail against thee for I am with thee to save thee and to deliver thee saith the LORD 21 And I will deliver the out of the hand of the wicked and I will redeem thee out of the hand of the terrible CHAP. XVI 1 The prophet under the types of abstaining from marriages from houses of mourning and feasting fâ—resheweth the utter ruine of the Jews 10 because they were worse then their fathers 14 Their return from captivity shall be stranger then their deliverance out of Egypt 16 God will doubly recompense their idolatry THe word of the LORD came also unto me saying 2 Thou shalt not take thee a wife neither shalt thou have sons nor daughters in this place 3 For thus saith the LORD concerning the sons and concerning the daughters that are born in this place and concerning their mothers that bare them and concerning their fathers that begat them in this land 4 They shall die of * Ch. 15.2 grievous deaths they shall not * Ch. 25.33 be lamented neither shall they be buried but they shall be as dung upon the face of the earth and they shall be consumed by the sword and by famine and their * Ps â—9 2 Ch. â— 33 24 2â— carcases shall be meat for the fowls of heaven and for the beasts of the earth 5 For thus saith the LORD Enter not into the house of ‖ Or. mourning-just mourning neither go to lament nor bemoan them for I have taken away my peace from this people saith the LORD even loving kindness and mercies 6 Both the great and the small shall die in this land they shall not be buried neither shall men lament for them nor * Le. 10.28 Deu. 14.1 cut themselves nor make themselves bald for them 7 Neither shall men ‖ Or break bread for them as Ezek. 24.17 tear themselves for them in mourning to comfort them for the dead neither shall men give them the cup of consolation to drink for their father or for their mother 8 Thou shalt not also go into the house of feasting to sit with them to eat and to drink 9 For thus saith the LORD of hosts the God of Israel Behold * Isa 24.7.8 Ch. 7.34 25.10 Ezek. 25.12 I will cause to cease out of this place in 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 it shall come to pass when thou shalt shew this people all these words and they shall say unto thee * Ch. 5.19 and 13.22 Wherefore hath the LORD pronounced all this great evil against us or what is our iniquity or what is our sin that we have committed against the LORD our God 11 Then shalt thou say unto them Because your fathers have forsaken me saith the LORD and have walked after other gods and have served them and have worshipped them and have forsaken me and have not kept my law 12 And ye have done * Ch. 7.26 worse then your fathers for behold ye walk every one after the ‖ Or stubbornness imagination of his evil heart that they may not hearken unto me 13 * Deu. 4.27 and 28.64 6â— Therefore will I cast you out of this land into a land that ye know not neither ye nor your fathers and there shall ye serve other gods day and night where I will not shew you favour 14 ¶ Therefore behold the * Ch. 23.7 8. days come saith the LORD that it shall no more be said the LORD liveth that brought up the children of Israel out of the land of Egypt 15 But the LORD liveth that brought up the children of Israel from the land of the north and from all the lands whither he had driven them and I will bring them again into their land that I gave unto their fathers 16 ¶ Behold I will send for many fishers saith the LORD and they shall fish them and after will I send for many hunters and they shall hunt them from every mountain and from every hill and out of the holes of the rocks 17 For mine * Job 34.21 Pro. 5.21 Ch. 32.19 eyes are upon all their ways they are not hid from my face neither is their iniquity hid from mine eyes 18 And first I will recompense their iniquity and their sin double because they have defiled my land they have filled mine inheritance with the carcases of their detestable and abominable things 19 O LORD my strength and my fortress and my refuge in the day of affliction the Gentiles shall come unto thee from the ends of the earth and shall say Surely our fathers have inherited lies vanity and things wherein there is no profit 20 Shall a man make gods unto himself and * Ch. 2.11 they are no gods 21 Therefore behold I will this once cause them to know I will cause them to know mine hand and my might and they shall know that my name is the LORD CHAP. XVII 1 The captivity of Judah for her sin 5 Trust in man is cursed 7 in God is blessed 9 The deceitful heart cannot deceive God 12 The salvation of God 15 The prophet complaineth of the mockers of his prophesie 19 He is sent to reâ—â—â—â— the covenant in hallowing the sabbath THe sin of Judah is written with a * Job 19.24 pen of iron and with the †Heb. nail point of a diamond it is graven upon the table of their heart and upon the horns
cieled with wood round about ‖ Or and the ground unto the windows and from the ground up to the windows and the windows were covered 17 To that above the door even unto the inner house and without and by all the wall round about within and without by †Heb. measures measure 18 And it was made with cherubims and palm-trees so that a palm-tree was between a cherub and a cherub and every cherub had two faces 19 So that the face of a man was toward the palm-tree on the one side and the face of a young lion toward the palm-tree on the other side it was made through all the house round about 20 From the ground unto above the door were cherubims and palm-trees made and on the wall of the temple 21 The †Heb. post posts of the temple were squared and the face of the sanctuary the appearance of the one as the appearance of the other 22 The altar of wood was three cubits high and the length thereof two cubits and the corners thereof and the length thereof and the walls thereof were of wood and he said unto me This is the table that is before the LORD 23 And the temple and the sanctuary had two doors 24 And the doors had two leaves apiece two turning leaves two leaves for the one door and two leaves for the other door 25 And there were made on them on the doors of the temple cherubims and palm-trees like as were made upon the walls and there were thick planks upon the face of the porch without 26 And there were narrow windows and palm-trees on the one side and on the other side on the sides of the porch and upon the side-chambers of the house and thick planks CHAP. XLII 1 The chambers for the priests 13 The use thereof 19 The measures of the outward court THen he brought me forth into the utter court the way toward the north and he brought me into the chamber that was over against the separate place and which was before the building toward the north 2 Before the length of an hundred cubits was the north-door and the breadth was fifty cubits 3 Over against the twenty cubits which were for the inner court and over against the pavement which was for the utter court was gallery against gallery in three stories 4 And before the chambers was a walk of ten cubits breadth inward a way of one cubit and their doors toward the north 5 Now the upper chambers were shorter for the galleries ‖ Or did eat or these were higher thâ—n these ‖ Or and the building consisted of the lower and the middlemost then the lower and then the middlemost of the building 6 For they were in three stories but had not pillars as the pillars of the courts therefore the building was straitened more thâ—n the lowest and the middlemost from the ground 7 And the wall that was without over against the chambers towards the utter court on the forepart of the chambers the length thereof was fifty cubits 8 For the length of the chambers that were in the utter court was fifty cubits and so before the temple were an hundred cubits 9 And ‖ Or from the place from under these chambers was ‖ Or he that brought me the entry on the east-side ‖ Or as be came as one goeth into them from the utter court 10 The chambers were in the thickness of the wall of the court toward the east over against the separate place and over against the building 11 And the way before them was like the appearance of the chambers which were toward the north as long as they 〈◊〉 as broad as they and all their goings out were both according to their fashions and according to their doors 12 And according to the doors of the chambers that were toward the south was a door in the head of the way even the way directly before the wall toward the east as one entreth into them 13 ¶ Then said he unto me The north-chambers and the south-chambers which are before the separate place they be holy chambers where the priests that approach unto the LORD shall eat the most holy things there shall they say the most holy things and the meat-offering and the sin-offering and the trespass-offering for the place is holy 14 When the priests enter therein then shall they not go out of the holy place into the utter court but there they shall lay their garments wherein they minister for the are holy and shall put on other garments and shall approach to chose things which are for the people 15 Now when he had made an end of measuring the inner house he brought me forth toward the gate whose prospect is toward the east and measured it round about 16 He measured the east †Heb. wind side with the measuring-reed five hundred reeds with the measuring-reed round about 17 He measured the north-side five hundred reeds with the measuring-reed round about 18 He measured the south-side five hundred reeds with the measuring-reed 19 ¶ He turned about to the west-side and measured five hundred reeds with the measuring-reed 20 He measured it by the four sides it had a wall round about five hundred reeds long and five hundred broad to make a separation between the sanctuary and the profane place CHAP. XLIII 1 The returning of the glory of God into the temple 7 The sin of Israel hindred Gods presence 10 The prophet exhorteth them to repentance and observation of the law of the house 13 The measures 18 and the ordinanceâ— of the altar AFterward he brought me to the gate even the gate that looketh toward the east 2 And behold the glory of the God of Israel came from the way of the east and * Ch. 1.24 his voice was like a noise of many waters and the earth shined with his glory 3 And it was * Ch. 1.4 8.4 according to the appearance of the vision which I saw even according to the vision that I saw ‖ Or when I came to prophesie that the city sroâ—lâ— be destroyed See Ch. 9. â— 5. when I came to destroy the city and the visions were like the vision that I saw by the river Chebar and I tell upon my face 4 And the glory of the LORD came into the house by the way of the gate whose prospect is toward the east 5 So the spirit took me up and brought me into the inner court and behold the glory of the LORD filled the house 6 And I heard him speaking unto me out of the house and the man stood by me 7 ¶ And he said unto me Son of man the place of my throne and the place of the soles of my feet where I will dwell in the midst of the children of Israel for ever and my holy name shall the house of Israel no more desile neither they nor their kings by their whoredom nor by the
†Heb. evils wickedness of Samaria for they commit falshood and the chief cometh in and the troop of robbers †Heb. strippeth sâ—oileth without 2 And the †Heb. say not to consider not in their hearts that I remember all their wickedness now their own doings have beset them about they are before my face 3 They make the king glad with their wickedness and the princes with their lies 4 They are all adulterers as an even heated by the baker ‖ Or the raiser will cease who ceaseth ‖ Or from waking from raising after he hath kneaded the dough until it be leavened 5 In the day of our king the princes have made him sick ‖ Or with beâ—t through wine with bottles of wine he stretched out his hand with scorners 6 For they have ‖ Or applied made ready their heart like an oven whiles they lie in wait their baker â—â—eepeth all the night in the morning it burneth as a â—laming firâ— 7 They are all hot as an oven and have devoured their judges all their kings are faln there is none among them that calleth unto me 8 Ephraim he hath mixed himself among the people Ephraim is a cake not turned 9 Strangers have devoured his strength and he knoweth it not yea gray hairs are †Heb. sprinkled here and there upon him yet he knoweth not 10 And the * Gâ— 5. â— pride of Israel testifieth to his face and they do not return to the LORD their God nor seek him for all this 11 ¶ Ephraim also is like a silly dove without heart they call to Egypt they go to Assyria 12 When they shall go I will spread my net upon them I will bring them down as the fowls of the heaven I will chastise them as their congregation hath heard 13 Wo unto them for they have fled from me †Heb. spoil destruction unto them because they have transgressed against me though I have redeemed them yet they have spoken lies against me 14 And they have not cried unto me with their heart when they howled upon their beds they assemble themselves for corn and wine and they rebel against me 15 Though I ‖ Or chastned have bound and strengthned their arms yet do they imagine mischief against me 16 They return but not to the most High they are like a deceitful bowe their princes shall fall by the sword for the * Ps 73 â— rage of their tongue this shall be their decision in the land of Egypt CHAP. VIII 1 12 Destruction is threatned for their impiety 5 and idolatry SEt the trumpet to †Heb. thereof of thy moutâ— thy mouth be shall come as an eagle against the house of the LORD because they have transgressed my covenant and trespassed against my law 2 Israel shall cry unto me My God we know thee 3 Israel hath cast off the thing that is good the enemy shall pursue him 4 They have set up kings but not by me they have made princes and I knew it not of their silver and their gold have they made them idols that they may be cut off 5 ¶ Thy calf O Samaria hath cast thee off mine anger is kindled against them how long will it be ere they attain to innocency 6 For from Israel was it also the workman made it therefore it is not God but the call of Samaria shall be broken in pieces 7 For they have sown the wind and they shall reap the whirlwind it hath no ‖ Or standingâ—orn stalk the bud shall yeeld no meal if so be it yeeld the strangers shall swallow it up 8 Israel is swallowed up now shall they be among the Gentiles as a vessel wherein is no pleasure 9 For they are gone up to Assyria a wilde ass alone by himself Ephraim hath hired †Heb. loves lovers 10 Yea though they have hired among the nations now will I gather them and they shall ‖ Or begin sorrow a little for the burden of the king of princes 11 Because Ephraim hath made many altars to sin altars shall be unto him to sin 12 I have written to him the great things of my law but they were counted as a strange thing 13 ‖ Or in the sacrifices of mine offerinâ—s they c. They sacrifice flesh for the sacrifices of mine offerings and eat it but the LORD accepteth them not now will he remember their iniquity and visit their sins they shall return to Egypt 14 For Israel hath forgotten his maker and buildeth temples and Judah hath multiplied fenced cities but I will send a fire upon his cities and it shall devour the palaces thereof CHAP. IX The distress and captivity of Israel for their sins and idolatry REjoyce not O Israel for joy as other people for thou hast gone a whoring from thy God thou hast loved a * Jer. 44.17 reward ‖ Or in c. upon every corn-floor 2 The floor and the ‖ Or wine-fat wine-press shall not feed them and the new wine shall fail in her 3 They shall not dwell in the LORDs land but Ephraim shall return to Egypt and they shall eat unclean things in Assyria 4 They shall not offer wine offerings to the LORD neither shall they be pleasing unto him their sacrifices shall be unto them as the bread of mourners all that eat thereof shall be polluted for their bread for their soul shall not come into the house of the LORD 5 What will ye do in the solemn day and in the day of the feast of the LORD 6 For lo they are gone because of †Heb. spoil destruction Egypt shall gather them up Memphis shall bury them ‖ Or their silver shall be desired the nettle c. †Heb. the desire the pleasant places for their silver nettles shall possess them thorns shall be in their tabernacles 7 The days of visitation are come the days of recompence are come Israel shall know it the prophet is a fool the †Heb. man of the spirit spiritual man is mad for the multitude of thine iniquity and the great hatred 8 The watchman of Ephraim was with my God but the prophet is a snare of a fowler in all his ways and hatred ‖ Or aâ—ainst in the house of his God 9 They have deeply corrupted themselves as in the days of * Judg. 19.18 Gibeah therefore he will remember their iniquity he will visit their sins 10 I found Israel like grapes in the wilderness I saw your fathers as the first-ripe in the fig-tree at her first time but they went to * Numb 25.3 Baal-peor and separated themselves unto that shame and their abominations were according as they loved 11 As for Ephraim their glory shall flie away like a bird from the birth and from the womb and from the conception 12 Though they bring up their children yet will I bereave them that there shall not be
Chron. 23.18 Gaza and for four I will not turn away the punishment thereof because they ‖ Or carried them away with an entire captivity carried away captive the whole captivity to deliver them up to Edom. 7 But I will send a fire on the wall of Gaza which shall devour the palaces thereof 8 And I will cut off the inhabitant from Ashdod and him that holdeth the sceptre from Ashkelon and I will turn mine hand against Ekron and the remnant of the Philistines shall perish saith the Lord GOD. 9 ¶ Thus saith the LORD For three transgressions of Tyrus and for four I will not turn away the punishment thereof because they delivered up the whole captivity to Edom and remembred not †Heb. the covenant of brethren the brotherly covenant 10 But I will send a fire on the wall of Tyrus which shall devour the palaces thereof 11 ¶ Thus saith the LORD For three transgressions of Edom and for four I will not turn away the punishment thereof because he did pursue his brother with the sword and †Heb. â—â—rrupted his compassiâ—â—s did cast off all pity and his anger did tear perpetually and kept his wrath for ever 12 But I will send a fire upon Teman which shall devour the palaces of Bozrah 13 ¶ Thus saith the LORD For three transgressions of the children of Ammon and for four I will not turn away the punishment thereof because they have ‖ Or â—ivided the mountains ript up the women with childe of Gilead that they might enlarge their border 14 But I will kindle a fire in the wall of Rabbah and it shall devour the palaces thereof with shouting in the day of battel with a tempest in the day of the whirlwind 15 And their king shall go into captivity he and his princes together saith the LORD CHAP. II. 1 Gods wrath against Moab 4 upon Judah 6 and upon Israel 9 God complaineth of their unthankfulness THis saith the LORD For three transgressions of Moah and for four I will not turn away the punishment thereof because he * 2 King 3.27 burnt the bones of the king of Edom into lime 2 But I will send a fire upon Moab and it shall devour the palaces of Kirioth and Moab shall die with tumult with shouting and with the sound of the trumpet 3 And I will cut off the judge from the midst thereof and will slay all the princes thereof with him saith the LORD 4 ¶ Thus saith the LORD For three transgressions of Judah and for four I will not turn away the punishment thereof because they have despised the law of the LORD and have not kept his commandments and their lies caused them to err after the which their fathers have walked 5 But I will send a fire upon Judah and it shall devour the palaces of Jerusalem 6 ¶ Thus saith the LORD For three transgressions of Israel and for four I will not turn away the punishment thereof because * Ch. 8.6 they sold the righteous for â—ilver and the poor for a pair of shoes 7 That pant after the dust of the earth on the head of the poor and turn aside the way of the meek and a man and his father will go in unto the same ‖ Or young woman maid to profane my holy name 8 And they lay themselve down upon clothes laid to pledge by every altar and they drink the wine of ‖ Or such as have fined or multied the condemned in the house of their god 9 ¶ Yet destroyed I the * Num. 21.24 Deut. 2.21 Josh 24.8 Amorite before them whose height was like the height of the cedars and he was strong as the oaks yet I destroyed his fruit from above and his foots from beneath 10 Also * Ex. 12.51 I brought you up from the land of Egypt and led you fourty years through the wilderness to possess the land of the Amorite 11 And I raised up of your sons for prophets and of your young men for Nazarites Is it not even thus O ye children of Israel saith the LORD 12 But ye gave the Nazarites wine to drink and commanded the prophets * Chap. 7.12.13 saying Prophesie not 13 Behold ‖ Or I will press your place as a cart full of sheaves presseth I am pressed under you as a cart is pressed that is full of sheaves 14 Therefore the flight shall perish from the swift and the strong shall not strengthen his force neither shall the mighty deliver †Heb. his soul or life himself 15 Neither shall he stand that handleth the bowe and he that is swift of foot shall not deliver himself neither shall he that rideth the horse deliver himself 16 Aâ—â— â—e that is †Heb. sâ—ronâ— of â—â—s heart couragious among the mighty shall flee away naked in that day saith the LORD CHAP. III. 1 The necesâ—itâ— of Gods judgement against Israel 9 The publication of it with the causes thereof HEar this word that the LORD hath spoken against you O children of Israel against the whole family which I brought up from the land of Egypt saying 2 You onely have I known of all the families of the earth therefore I will †Heb. visit upon punish you for all your iniquities 3 Can two walk together except they be agreed 4 Will a lion roar in the forest when he hath no prey will a young lion †Heb. give forth his voice cry out of his den if he have taken nothing 5 Can a bird fall in a snare upon the earth where no gin is for him shall one take up a snare from the earth and have taken nothing at all 6 Shall a trumpet be blown in the city and the people ‖ Or not â—â—iâ— together not be afraid shall there be evil in a city ‖ Or and shall not the LORD do somewhat and the LORD hath not done it 7 Surely the Lord GOD will do nothing but he revealeth his secret unto his servants the prophets 8 The lion hath roared who will not fear the Lord GOD hath spoken who can but prophesie 9 ¶ Publish in the palaces at Ashdod and in the palaces in the land of Egypt and say Assemble your selves upon the mountains of Samaria and behold the great tumults in the midst thereof and the ‖ Or oppressions oppressed in the midst thereof 10 For they know not to do right saith the LORD who store up violence and ‖ Or spoil robbery in their palaces 11 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD An adversary there shall be even round about the land and he shall bring down thy strength from thee and thy palaces shall be spoiled 12 Thus saith the LORD As the shepherd †Heb. delivereth taketh out of the mouth of the lion two legs or a piece of an ear so shall the children of Israel be taken out that dwell in Samaria in the corner of abed and
of the Lord our God and to give us †Heb. 〈◊〉 Ezra 9.8 food in the time of our servitude 80 Yea when we were in bondage we were not forsaken of our Lord but he made us gracious before the kings of Persia so that they gave us food 81 Yea and honoured the temple of our Lord and raised up the desolate Sion that they have given us a sure abiding in Jewry and Jerusalem 82 And now O Lord what shall we say having these things for we have transgressed thy commandments which thou gavest by the hand of thy servants the prophets saying 83 That the land which ye enter into to possess as an heritage is a land polluted with the pollutions of the strangers of the land and they have filled it with their uncleanness 84 Therefore now shall ye not joyn your daughters unto their sons neither shall ye take their daughters unto your sons 85 Moreover you shall never seek to have peace with them that ye may be strong and eat the good things of the land and that ye may leave the inheritance of the land unto your children for evermore 86 And all that is befaln is done unto us for our wicked works and great sins for thou O Lord didst make our sins light 87 And didst give unto us such a root but we have turned back again to transgress thy law and to mingle our selves with the uncleanness of the nations of the land 88 ‖ Or be not angry c Mightest not thou be angry with us to destroy us till thou hadst left us neither root seed nor name 89 O Lord of Israel thou art true for we are left a root this day 90 Behold now are we before thee in our iniquities for we cannot stand any longer by reason of these things before thee 91 And as Esdras in his prayer made his confession weeping and lying flat upon the ground before the temple there gathered unto him from Jerusalem a very great multitude of men and women and children for there was great weeping among the multitude 92 Then Jechonias the son of Jeelus one of the sons of Israel called out and said O Esdras we have sinned against the Lord God we have married strange women of the nations of the land and now is all Israel ‖ Or exalted Deu. 28.13 Baruch 2.5 aloft 93 Let us make an oath to the Lord that we will put away all our wives which we have taken of the heathen with their children 94 Like as thou hast decreed and as many as do obey the law of the Lord. 95 Arise and put in execution for to thee doth this matter appertain and we will be with thee dovaliantly 96 So Esdras arose and took an oath of the chief of the priests and Levites †Heb. and all Israel Ezâ—a 10.5 of all Israel to do after these things and so they sware CHAP. IX 1 Esdras assembleth all the people 10 They promise to put away the strange wives 20 The names and number of them that did so 4â— The law of Moses is read and declared before all the people 49 They weep and are put in minde of the feast-day THen Esdras rising from the court of the temple went to the chamber of Joanan the son of Eliasib 2 And remained there and did eat no meat nor drink water mourning for the great iniquities of the multitude 3 And there was a proclamation in all Jewry and Jerusalem to all them that were of the captivity that they should be gathered together at Jerusalem 4 And that whosoever met not there within two or three days according as the elders that bare rule appointed their cattel should be seised to the use of the temple and himself ‖ Vtterly destroyed Josh 10.8 cast out from them that were of the captivity 5 And in three days were all they of the tribe of Juda and Benjamin gathered together at Jerusalem the twentieth day of the ninth moneth 6 And all the multitude sat trembling in the broad court of the temple because of the present â—â—ul weather 7 So Esdras arose up and said unto them Ye have transgressed the law in marrying strange wives thereby to increase the sins of Israel 8 And now by confession give glory unto the Lord God of our fathers 9 And do his will and separate your selves from the heathen of the land and from the strange women 10 Then cried the whole multitude and said with a loud voice Like as thou hast spoken so will 〈◊〉 do 11 But forasmuch as the people are many and it is foul weather so that we cannot stand without and this is not a work of a day or two seeing our sin in these things is spread far 12 Therefore let the rulers of the multitude ‖ Or stand stay and let all them of our habitations that have strange wives come at the time appointed 13 And with them the rulers and judges of every place till we turn away the wrath of the Lord from us for this matter 14 Then Jonathan the son of Azael and Ezechias the son of Theocanus accordingly took this matter upon them and Mosollam and Levis and Sabbatheus helped them 15 And they that were of the captivity did according to all these things 16 And Esdras the priest chose unto him the principal men of their families all by name and in the first day of the tenth moneth they sat together to examine the matter 17 So their cause that held strange wives was brought to an end in the first day of the first moneth 18 And of the priests that were come together and had strange wives there were found 19 Of the son of Jesus the son of Josedec and his brethren ‖ Or Maasias Matthelas and Eleazar and ‖ Or Jarib Joribus and ‖ Or Gedaliab Joadanus 20 And they gave their hands to put away their wives and to offer †Heb. a ram rams to make reconcilement for their ‖ Or purification errours 21 And of the sons of Emmer Ananias and Zabdeus and * Harim Eanes and * Maasiah Sameius and * Jehiel Hiereel and * Vzziah Azarias 22 And of the sons of * Pashur Phaisur Elionas Massias Ismael and Nathanael and * Jozabad Ocidelus and * Elasah Talsas 23 And of the Levites Jozabad and Semis and * Kelaiah Colius who was called * Kelitah Calitas and * Pethahiah Patheus and Judas and Jonas 24 Of the holy singers * Eliashib Eleazurus Bacchurus 25 Of the porters Sallumus and * Telem Tolbanes 26 Of them of Israel of the sons of * Parosh Phoros * Bamiah Hiermas and * Jesiah Eddias and Melchias and * Miamin Measus and Eleazar and * Malchiah Asibias and Baanias 27 Of the sons of Ela Matthanias Zacharias and * Jehiel Hierielus and Hieremoth and * Abdi Aedias 28 And of the sons of
life have received benefits and have not known me 11 And they that have lothed my law while they had yet liberty and when as yet place of repentance was open unto them understood not but despised it 12 The same must know it after death by pain 13 And therefore be thou not curious how the ungodly shall be punished and when but enquire how the righteous shall be saved whole the world is and for whom the world is created 14 Then answered I and said 15 I have said before and now do speak and will speak it also hereafter that there be many mo of them which perish then of them which shall be saved 16 Like as a wave is greater then a drop 17 And he answered me saying Like as the field is so is also the seed as the Howers be such are the colours also such as the workman is such also is the work and as the husbandman is himself so is his husbandry also for it was the time of the world 18 ‖ And now because the time of the world was come when I was preparing the world c. And now when I prepared the world which was not yet made even for them to dwell in that now live no man spake against me 19 For then every one obeyed ‖ but when the world was made both now and then the manners of every one created were corrupted by a never-failing harvest and a law unsearchable but now the manners of them which are created in this world that is made are corrupted by a perpetual seed and by a law which is unsearchable rid themselves 20 So I considered the world and behold there was peril because of the devices that were come into it 21 And I saw and spared it greatly and have kept me a ‖ Or grain grape of the cluster and a plant of a great people 22 Let the multitude perish then which was born in vain and let my ‖ Or grain grape be kept my plant for with great labour have I made it perfect 23 Nevertheless if thou wilt cease yet seven days mo but thou shalt not fast in them 24 But go into a field of flowers where no house is builded and eat onely the flowers of the field taste no flesh drink no wine but eat flowers onely 25 And pray unto the Highest continually then will I come and talk with thee 26 So I went my way into the field which is called Ardath like as he commanded me and there I sat amongst the flowers and did eat of the herds of the field and the meat of the same satisfied me 27 After seven days I sat upon the grass and my heart was vexed within me like as before 28 And I opened my mouth and began to talk before the most High and said 29 O Lord thou that shewest thy self unto us thou wast * Ex. 19.9 and 24.3 Deut. 4.12 shewed unto our fathers in the wilderness in a place where no man ‖ Or coâ—â—th treadeth in a barren place when they came out of Egypt 30 And thouspakest saying Hear me O Israel and mark my words thou seed of Jacob. 31 For behold I sow my law in you and it shall bring fruit in you and ye shall be honoured in it for ever 32 But our fathers which received the law kept it not and observed not thy ordinances and though the fruit of thy law did not perish neither could it for it was thine 33 Yet they that received it perished because they kept not the thing that was sown in them 34 And so it is a custom when the ground hath received seed or the sea a ship or any vessel meat or drink that that being perished wherein it was sown or cast into 35 That thing also which was sown or cast therein or received doth perish and remaineth not with us but with us it hath not hapned so 36 For we that have received the law perish by sin and our heart also which received it 37 Notwithstanding the law perisheth not but remaineth in his force 38 And when I spake these things in my heart I looked back with mine eyes and upon the right side I saw a woman and behold she mourned and wept with a loud voice and was much grieved in heart and her clother were rent and she had ashes upon her head 39 Then let I my thoughts go that I was in and turned me unto her 40 And said unto her Wherefore weepest thou why art thou so grieved in thy minde 41 And she said unto me Sir let me alone that I may bewail my lelf and add unto my sorrow for I am sore vexed in my minde and brought very low 42 And I said unto her What aileth thee tell me 43 She said unto me I thy servant have been barren and had no childe though I had an husband thirty years 44 And those thirty years I did nothing else day and night and every hour but make my prayer to the Highest 45 After thirty years God heard me thine hand-maid looked upon my misery considered my trouble and gave me a son and I was very glad of him so was my husband also and all my neighbours and we gave great honour unto the Almighty 46 And I nourished him with great travel 47 So when he grew up and came to the time that he should have a wife I made a feast CHAP. X. 1 He comforteth the woman in the field 17 She vanisheth away and a city appeareth in her place 40 The angel declareth these visions in the field ANd it so came to pass that when my son was entred into his wedding-chamber he fell down and died 2 Then we all overthrew the lights and all my ‖ Or countrey-men Lat. citizens neighbours rose up to comfort me so I took my rest unto the second day at night 3 And it came to pass when they had all left off to comfort me to the end I might be quiet then rose I up by night and fled and came hither into this field as thou seest 4 And I do now purpose not to return into the city but here to stay and neither to eat nor drink but continually to mourn and to fast until I die 5 Then left I the ‖ Or speeches meditations wherein I was and spake to to her in anger saying 6 Thou foolish woman above all other seest thou not our mourning and what hapneth unto us 7 How that Sion our mother is full of all heaviness and much humbled mourning very sore 8 And now seeing we all mourn and are sad for we are all in heaviness art thou grieved for one son 9 For ask the earth and she shall tell thee that it is she which ought to mourn for the fall of so many that grow upon her 10 For out of her came all at the first and out of her shall all others come and behold they walk almost all into destruction and a multitude of them is
the love of wisdom is above them both 21 The pipe and the psaltery make sweet melody but a pleasant tongue is above them both 22 Thine eye desireth favour and beauty but more then both corn while it is green 23 A friend and companion never meet amiss but above both is a wife with her husband 24 Brethren and help are against time of trouble but alms shall deliver more then them both 25 Gold and silver make the foot stand sure but counsel is esteemed above them both 26 Riches and strength lift up the heart but the fear of the Lord is above them both there is no want in the fear of the Lord and it needeth not to seek help 27 The fear of the Lord is ‖ Or a garden that is blessed a fruitful garden and * Isa 4.5 covereth him above all glory 28 My son lead not a beggars life for better it is to die then to beg 29 The life of him that dependeth on another mans table is not to be counted for a life for he polluteth himself with other mens meat but a wise man well-nurtured will beware thereof 30 Begging is sweet in the mouth of the shameless but in his belly there shall burn a fire CHAP. XLI 1 The remembrance of death 3 Death is not to be feared 5 The ungodly shall be accursed 11 Of an evil and a good name 14 Wisdom is to be uttered 16 Of what things we should be ashamed O Death how bitter is the remembrance of thee to a man that liveth at rest in his possessions unto the man that hath nothing to vex him and that hath prosperity in all things yea unto him that is yet able to receive meat 2 O death acceptable is thy sentence unto the needy and unto him whose strength faileth that is now in the last age and ‖ Or to whom every thing 〈◊〉 troublesenâ—â— is vexed with all things and to him that despaireth and hath lost patience 3 Fear not the sentence of death remember them that have been before thee and that come after for this is the sentence of the Lord over all flesh 4 And why art thou against the pleasure of the most High there is no inquisition in the grave whether thou have lived ten or an hundred or a thousand years 5 The children of sinners are abominable children and they that are conversant in the dwelling of the ungodly 6 The inheritance of sinners children shall perish and their posterity shall have a perpetual reproach 7 The children will complain of an ungodly father because they shall be reproached for his sake 8 Wo be unto you ungodly men which have forsaken the law of the most High God for if you increase it shall be to your destruction 9 And if you be born you shall be born to a curse and if you die a curse shall be your portion 10 * Chap. â—0 11 All that are of the earth shall turn to earth again so the ungodly shall go from a curse to destruction 11 The mourning of men is about their bodies but an ill name of sinners shall be blotted out 12 Have regard to thy name for that shall continue with thee above a thousand great treasures of gold 13 A good life hath but few days but a good name endureth for ever 14 My children keep discipline in peace for wisdom that is hid and a treasure that is not seen what profit is in them both 15 A man that hideth his foolishness is better then a man that hideth his wisdom 16 Therefore be shamefac'd according to my word for it is not good to retain all shamefac'dness neither is it altogether approved in every thing 17 Be ashamed of whoredom before father and mother and of a lie before a prince and a mighty man 18 Of an offence before a judge and ruler of iniquity before a congregation and people of unjust dealing before thy partner and friend 19 And of theft in regard of the place where thou sojournest and in regard of the truth of God and his covenant and to lean with thine elbow upon the meat and of scorning to give and take 20 And of silence before them that salute thee and to look upon an harlot 21 And to turn away thy face from thy kinsman or to take away a portion or a gift or to gaze upon another mans wife 22 Or to be over-busie with his maid and come not near her bed or of upbraiding speeches before friends and after thou had given upbraid not 23 Or of iterating and speaking again that which thou hast heard and of revealing of secrets 24 So shalt thou be truly shamefac'd and finde favour before all men CHAP. XLII 1 Whereof we should not be ashamed 9 Be careful of thy daughter 12 Beware of a woman 15 The works and greatness of God OF these things be not thou ashamed and accept no person to sin thereby 2 Of the law of the most High and his covenant and of judgement to justifie the ungodly 3 ‖ Or Of thy partners speech Of reckoning with thy partners and ‖ Or companions travellers or ‖ Or of the giving of the gift of the heritage of friends 4 Of exactness of balance and weights or of getting much or little 5 And of merchants ‖ Or without profit indifferent selling of much correction of children and to make the side of an evil servant to bleed 6 Sure keeping is good where an evil wife is and shut up where many hands are 7 Deliver all things in number and weight and put all in writing that thou ‖ Or dealest for givest out or receivest in 8 Be not ashamed to ‖ Or rebuke inform the unwise and foolish and the extreme aged ‖ Or that is accused of fornication that contendeth with those that are young thus shalt thou be truly learned and approved of all men living 9 The father waketh for the daughter when no man knoweth and the care for her taketh away sleep when she is young lest she pass away the flower of her age and being married lest she should be hated 10 In her virginity lest she should be defiled and gotten with childe in her fathers house and having an husband lest she should misbehave her self and when she is married lest she should be barren 11 Keep a sure watch over a shameless daughter lest she make thee a laughing stock to thine enemies and a by-word in the city and a reproach among the people and make thee ashamed before the multitude 12 Behold not every bodies * Chap. 25.21 beauty and sit not in the midst of women 13 For from garments cometh a moth and * Gen. 3.6 from women wickedness 14 Better is the ‖ Or wickedness churlishness of a man then a courteous woman a woman I say which bringeth shame and reproach 15 I will now remember the works of the Lord and declare the things that I have seen
Agarenes that seek wisdom upon earth the merchants of Meran and of Theman the ‖ Or expounders authours of sables and searchers out of understanding none of these have known the way of wisdom or remember her paths 24 O Israel how great is the house of God and how large is the place of his possession 25 Great and hath none end high and unmeasurable 26 There were the giants famous from the beginning that were of so great stature and so expert in war 27 Those did not the Lord choose neither gave he the way of knowledge unto them 28 But they were destroyed because they had no wisdom and perished through their own foolishness 29 Who hath gone up into heaven and taken her and brought her down from the clouds 30 Who hath gone over the sea and found her and will bring her for pure gold 31 No man knoweth her way nor thinketh of her path 32 But he that knoweth all things knoweth her and hath found her out with his understanding he that prepared the earth for evermore hath filled it with fourfooted beasts 33 He that sendeth forth light and it goeth calleth it again and it obeyeth him with fear 34 The stars shined in their watches and rejoyced when he called them they say Here we be and so with cheerfulness they shewed light unto him that made them 35 This is our God and there shall none other be accounted of in comparision of him 36 He hath found out all the way of knowledge and hath given it unto Jacob his servant and to Israel his beloved 37 * Prov. 8.31 Joh. 1.14 Afterward did he shew himself upon earth and conversed with men CHAP. IV. 1 The book of commandments is that wisdom which was commanded in the former chapter 25 The Jews are moved to patience and to hope for the deliverance THis is the book of the commandments of God and the law that endureth for ever all they that keep it shall come to life but such as leave it shall die 2 Turn thee O Jacob and take hold of it walk †Gr. to the shining before the light thereof in the presence of the light thereof that thou mayest be illuminated 3 Give not thine honour to another nor the things that are profitable unto thee to a strange nation 4 O Israel happy are we for things that are pleasing to God are made known unto us 5 Be of good cheer my people the memorial of Israel 6 Ye were sold to the nations not for your destruction but because ye moved God to wrath ye were delivered unto the enemies 7 For ye provoked him that made you by * 1 Cor 10.20 sacrificing unto devils and not to God 8 Ye have forgotten the everlasting God that brought you up and ye have grieved Jerusalem that nursed you 9 For when she saw the wrath of God coming upon you she said Hearken O ye that dwell about Sion God hath brought upon me great mourning 10 For I saw the captivity of my sons and daughters which the Everlasting brought upon them 11 With joy did I nourish them but sent them away with weeping and mourning 12 Let no man rejoyce over me a widow and forsaken of many who for the sins of my children am left desolate because they departed from the law of God 13 They knew not his statutes nor walked in the ways of his commandments nor trode in the paths ‖ Or of his discipline in righteousness of discipline in his righteousness 14 Let them that dwell about Sion come and remember ye the captivity of my sons and daughters which the Evelasting hath brought upon them 15 For he hath brought a nation upon them from far a shameless nation and of a strange language who neither reverenced old man nor pitied childe 16 These have carried away the dear-beloved children of the widow and left her that was alone desolate without daughters 17 But what can I help you 18 For he that brought these plagues upon you will deliver you from the hands of your enemies 19 Go your way O my children go your way for I am left desolate 20 I have put off the clothing of ‖ Or prosperity peace and put upon me the sackcloth of my prayer I will cry unto the Everlasting ‖ Or in the time of mine affliction * Ps 116.2 137.7 in my days 21 Be of good cheer O my children cry unto the Lord and he shall deliver you from the power and hand of the enemies 22 For my hope is in the Everlasting that he will save you and joy is come unto me from the holy One because of the mercy which shall soon come unto you from the Everlasting our Saviour 23 For I sent you out with mourning and weeping But God will give you to me again with joy and gladness for ever 24 Like as now the neighbours of Sion have seen your captivity so shall they see shortly your salvation from our God which shall come upon you with great glory and brightness of the Everlasting 25 My children suffer patiently the wrath that is come upon you from God for thine enemy hath persecuted thee but shortly thou shalt see his destruction and shalt tread upon his neck 26 ‖ Or My darlings My delicate ones have gone rough ways and were taken away as a flock caught of the enemies 27 Be of good comfort O my children and cry unto God for you shall be remembred of him that brought these things upon you 28 For as it was your minde to go astray from God so being returned seek him ten times more 29 For he that hath brought these plagues upon you shall bring you everlasting joy again with your salvation 30 Take a good heart O Jerusalem for he that gave thee that name will comfort thee 31 Miserable are they that afflicted thee and rejoyced at thy fall 32 Miserable are the cities which thy children served miserable is she that received thy sons 33 For as she rejoyced at thy ruine and was glad of thy fall so shall she be grieved for her own desolation 34 For I will take away the rejoycing of her great multitude and her pride shall be turned into mourning 35 For fire shall come upon her from the Everlasting long to endure and she shall be inhabited of devils for a great time 36 O Jerusalem look about thee towards the east and behold the joy that cometh unto thee from God 37 Lo thy sons come whom thou sentest away they come gathered together from the east to the west by the word of the holy One rejoycing in the glory of God CHAP. V. 1 Jerusalem is moved to rejoyce 5 and to behold their return out of captivity with glory PUt off O Jerusalem the garment of thy mourning and affliction and put on the comeliness of the glory that cometh from God for ever 2 Cast about thee a double garment of the righteousness which cometh from God
among them the works which none other man did they had not had sin but now have they both seen and hated both me and my Father 25 But this cometh to pass that the word might be fulfilled that is written in their law * Ps 35.19 They hated me without a cause 26 * Luk. 24.49 Cha. 14.26 But when the Comforter is come whom I will send unto you from the Father even the Spirit of truth which proceedeth from the Father he shall testifie of me 27 And ye also shall bear witness because ye have been with me from the beginning CHAP. XVI 1 Christ comforteth his disciples against tribulation by the promise of the holy Ghost and by his resurrection and ascension 23 assureth their prayers made in his name to be acceptable to his Father 33 Peace in Christ and in the world afflâ—ction THese things have I spoken unto you that ye should not be offended 2 They shall put you out of the synagogues yea the time cometh that whosoever killeth you will think that he doeth God service 3 And these things will they do unto you because they have not known the Father nor me 4 But these things have I told you that when the time shall come ye may remember that I told you of them And these things I said not unto you at the beginning because I was with you 5 But now I go my way to him that sent me and none of you asketh me Whither goest thou 6 But because I have said these things unto you sorrow hath filled your heart 7 Nevertheless I tell you the truth it is expedient for you that I go away for if I go not away the Comforter will not come unto you but if I dâ—part I will send him unto you 8 And when he is come he will ‖ Or â—â—nomce reprove the world of sin and of righteousness and of judgement 9 Of sin because they beleeve not on me 10 Of righteousness because I go to my Father ye see me no more 11 Of judgement because the prince of this world is judged 12 I have yet many things to say unto you but ye cannot bear them now 13 Howbeit when he the Spirit of truth is come he will guide you into all truth for he shall not speak of himself but whatsoever he shall hear that shall he speak and he will shew you things to come 14 He shall glorifie me for he shall receive of mine and shall shew it unto you 15 All things that the Father hath are mine therefore said I that he shall take of mine and shall shew it unto you 16 A little while and ye shall not see me and again a little while and ye shall â—â—e me because I go to the Father 17 Then said some of his disciples among themselves What is this that he saith unto us A little while and ye shall not see me and again a little while and ye shall see me and Because I go to the Father 18 They said therefore What is this that he saith A little while we cannot tell what he saith 19 Now Jesus knew that they were desirous to ask him and said unto them Do ye enquire among your selves of that I said A little while and ye shall not see me and again a little while and ye shall see me 20 Verâ—ly verily I say unto you that ye shall weep and lament but the world shall rejoyce and ye shall be sorrowful but your sorrow shall be turned into joy 21 A woman when she is in travel hath sorrow because her hour is come but assoon as she is delivered of the childe shâ— remembreth no more the anguish for joy that a man is born into the world 22 And ye now therefore have sorrow but I will see you again and your heart shall rejoyce and your joy no man taketh from you 23 And in the day ye shall ask me nothing * Mat. 7.7 Verily verily I say unto you Whatsoever ye shall ask the Father in my name he will give it you 24 Hitherto have ye asked nothing in my name ask and ye shall receive that your joy may be full 25 These things have I spoken unto you in ‖ Or parables proverbs the time cometh when I shall no more speak unto you in ‖ Or parables proverbs but I shall shew you plainly of the Father 26 At that day ye shall ask in my name and I say not unto you that I will pray the Father for you 27 For the Father himself loveth you because ye have loved me and have beleeved that I came out from God 28 I came forth from the Father and am come into the world again I leave the world and go to the Father 29 His disciples said unto him Lo now speakest thou plainly and speakest no ‖ Or parable proverb 30 Now are we sure that thou knowest all things and needest not that any man should ask thee by this we beleeve that thou camest forth from God 31 Jesus answered them Do ye now beleeve 32 * Mat. 26.31 Behold the hour cometh yea is now come that ye shall be scattered every man to ‖ Or his own home his own and shall leave me alone and yet I am not alone because the Father is with me 33 These things I have spoken unto you that in me ye might have peace In the world ye shall have tribulation but be of good cheer I have overcome the world CHAP. XVII 1 Christ prayeth to his Father to glorifie him 6 to preserve his apostles 11 in unity 17 and truth 20 to glorifie them and all other beleevers with him in heaven THese words spake Jesus and lift up his eyes to heaven and said Father the hour is come glorifie thy Son that thy Son also may glorifie thee 2 * Mat. 28.18 As thou hast given him power over all flesh that he should give eternal life to as many as thou hast given him 3 And this is life eternal that they might know thee the onely true God and Jesus Christ whom thou hast sent 4 I have glorified thee on the earth I have finished the work which thou gavest me to do 5 And now O Father glorifie thou me with thine own self with the glory which I had with thee before the world was 6 I have manifested thy name unto the men which thou gavest me out of the world thine they were and thou gavest them me and they have kept thy word 7 Now they have known that all things whatsoever thou hast given me are of thee 8 For I have given unto them the words which thou gavest me and they have received them * Chap. 16.27 and have known surely that I came out from thee and they have beleeved that thou didst send me 9 I pray for them I pray not for the world but for them which thou hast given me for they are thine 10 And all mine are thine thine are mine
〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 holy or just things which word the Septuag both in the place of Isa 55.3 and in many others use for that which is in the Hebrew mercies mercies of David 35 Wherefore he saith also in another psalm * Psal 16.10 Thou shalt not suffer thine holy one to see corruption 36 For David ‖ Or after he had in his own age served the will of God after he had served his own generation by the will of God * 1 Kings 2.10 fell on sleep and was laid unto his fathers saw corruption 37 But he whom God raised again saw no corruption 38 ¶ Be it known unto you therefore men and brethren that through this man is preached unto you the forgiveness of sins 39 And by him all that beleeve are justified from all things from which ye could not be justified by the law of Moses 40 Beware therefore left that come upon you which is spoken of in * Hab. 1.5 the prophets 41 Behold ye despisers and wonder and perish for I work a work in your days a work which you shall in no wise beleeve though a man declare it unto you 42 And when the Jews were gone out of the synagogue the Gentiles besought that these words might be preached to them †Gr. in the week between or in the sabbath between the next sabbath 43 Now when the congrâ—gation was broken up many of the Jews and religious proselytes followed Paul and Barnabas who speaking to them perswaded them to continue in the grace of God 44 ¶ And the next sabbath-day came almost the whole city together to hear the word of God 45 But when the Jews saw the multitudes they were filled with envy and spake against those things which were spoken by Paul contradicting and blaspheming 46 Then Paul and Barnabas waxed bold and said It was necessary that the word of God should first have been spoken to you but seeing ye put it from you and judge your selves unworthy of everlasting life lo we turn to the Gentiles 47 For so hath the Lord commanded us saying * Isa 49.6 I have set thee to be a light of the Gentiles that thou shouldest be for salvation unto the ends of the earth 48 And when the Gentiles heard this they were glad and glorified the word of the Lord and as many as were ordained to eternal life beleeved 49 And the word of the Lord was published throughout all the region 50 But the Jews stirred up the devout and honourable women and the chief men of the city and raised perfection against Paul and Barnabas and expeâ—sed them out of their coasts 51 * Matth. 10.14 But they shook off the dust of their feet against them and came unto Iconium 52 And the disciples were filled with joy and with the holy Ghost CHAP. XIV 1 Paul and Barnabas are persecuted from Iconium 8 At Lystra Paul healeth a creeple whereupon they are reputed as gods 19 Paul is stoned 21 They pass through divers churches confirming the disciples in faith and patience 26 Returning to Antioch they report what God had done with them ANd it came to pass in Iconium that they went both together into the synagogue of the Jews and so spake that a great multitude both of the Jews and also of the Greeks beleeved 2 But the unbeleeving Jews stirred up the Gentiles and made their minds evil-affected against the brethren 3 Long time therefore abode they speaking boldly in the Lord which gave testimony unto the word of his grace and granted signs and wonders to be done by their hands 4 But the multitude of the city was divided and part held with the Jews and part with the apostles 5 And when there was an assault made both of the Gentiles and also of the Jews with their rulers to use them despitefully to stone them 6 They were ware of it and fled unto Lystra and Derbe cities of Lycaonia and unto the region that lieth round about 7 And there they preached the gospel 8 ¶ And there sat a certain man at Lystra impotent in his feet being a creeple from his mothers womb who never had walked 9 The same heard Paul speak who stedfastly beholding him and perceiving that he had saith to be healed 10 Said with a loud voice Stand up right on thy feet And he leaped and walked 11 And when the people saw what Paul had done they lift up their voices saying in the speech of Lycaonia The gods are come down to us in the likeness of men 12 And they called Barnabas Jupiter and Paul Mercurius because he was the chief speaker 13 Then the priest of Jupiter which was before their city brought oxen and garlands unto the gates and would have done sacrifice with the people 14 Which when the apostles Barnabas and Paul heard of they rent their clothes and ran in among the people crying our 15 And saying Sirs why do ye these things We also are men of like passions with you and preach unto you that ye should turn from these vanities unto the living God * Gen. 1.1 Psal 146.6 Rev. 14.7 which made heaven and earth and the sea and all things that are therein 16 * Psal 81 12. Who in times past suffered all nations to walk in their own ways 17 Nevertheless he left not himself without witness in that he did good and gave us rain from heaven and fruitful seasons filling our hearts with food and gladness 18 And with these sayings scarce restrained they the people that they had not done sacrifice unto them 19 ¶ And there came thither certain Jews from Antioch and Iconium who perswaded the people * 2 Cot. 11.23 and having stoned Paul drew him out of the city supposing he had been dead 20 Howbeit as the disciples stood round about him he rose up and came into the city the next day he departed with Barnabas to Derbe 21 And when they had preached the gospel to that city and had taught many they returned again to Lystra and to Iconium Antioch 22 Confirming the souls of the disciples and exhorting them to continue in the faith and that we must through much tribulation enter into the kingdom of God 23 And when they had ordained them elders in every church and had prayed with fasting they commended them to the Lord on whom they beleeved 24 And after they had passed throughout Pisidia they came to Pamphylia 25 And when they had preached the word in Perga they went down into Attalia 26 And thence sailed to Antioch from whence they had been recommended to the grace of God for the work which they fulfilled 27 And when they were come and had gathered the church together they rehearsed all that God had done with them and how he had opened the door of faith unto the Gentiles 28 And there they abode long time with the disciples CHAP. XV. 1 Great dissention ariseth touching circumcision 6 The apostles
10 Making request if by any means now at length I might have a prosperous journey by the will of God to come unto you 11 For I long to see you that I may impart unto you some spiritual gift to the end you may be established 12 That is that I may be comforted together ‖ Or in you with you by the mutual faith both of you and me 13 Now I would not have you ignorant brethren that oftentimes I purposed to come unto you but was let hitherto that I might have some fruit ‖ Or in you among you also even as among other Gentiles 14 I am debter both to the Greeks and to the Barbarians both to the wise and to the unwise 15 So as much as in me is I am ready to preach the gospel to you that are at Rome also 16 For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ for it is the power of God unto salvation to every one that beleeveth to the Jew first and also to the Greek 17 For therein is the righteousness of God revealed from faith to faith as it is written * Hâ—b 2.4 Gal. 3.11 Heb. 10.38 The just shall live by faith 18 For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men who hold the truth in unrighteousness 19 Because that which may be known of God is manifest ‖ Or to them in them for God hath shewed it unto them 20 For the invisible things of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen being understood by the things that are made even his eternal power and Godhead ‖ Or that they may be so that they are without excuse 21 Because that when they knew God they glorified him not as God neither were thankful but became vain in their imaginations and their foolish heart was * Eph. 4.18 darkned 22 Professing themselves to be wise they became fools 23 And changed the glory of the uncorruptible * Psal 106.10 God into an image made like to corruptible man and to birds and four-footed beasts and creeping things 24 Wherefore God also gave them up to uncleanness through the lusts of their own hearts to dishonour their own bodies between themselves 25 Who changed the truth of God into a lie and worshipped and served the creature more then the Creatour who is blessed for ever Amen 26 For this cause God gave them up unto vile affections For even their women did change thou natural use into thou which is against nature 27 And likewise also the men leaving the natural use of the woman burned in their lust one toward another men with men working that which is unseemly and receiving in themselves that recompence of their errour which was meet 28 And even as they did not like ‖ Or to acknowledge to retain God in their knowledge God gave them over to ‖ Or a minde â—â—id of judgement a reprobate minde to do those things which are not convenient 29 Being filled with all unrighteousness fornication wickedness covetousness maliciousness full of envy murder debate deceit malignity whisperers 30 Backbiters haters of God despiteful proud boasters inventers of evil things disobedient to parents 31 Without understanding covenant-breakers ‖ Or unsociable without natural affection implacable unmerciful 32 Who knowing the judgement of God that they which commit such things are worthy of death not onely do the same but ‖ Or â—sâ—â—t with them have pleasure in them that do them CHAP. II. 1 They that sin though they condemn it in others cannot excuse themselves 6 and much less escape the judgement of God 9 whether they be Jews or Gentiles 14 The Gentiles cannot escape 17 nor yet the Jews 25 whom their circumcision shall not profit if they keep not the law THerefore thou art inexcusable O man whosoever thou art that judgest * Mâ—l 7.2 for wherein thou judgest another thou condemnest thy self for thou that judgest doest the same things 2 But we are sure that the judgement of God is according to truth against them which commit such things 3 And thinkest thou this O man that judgest them which do such things doest the fame that thou shalt escape the judgement of God 4 Or despisest thou the riches of his goodness and forbearance and long-suffering not knowing that the goodness of God leadeth thee to repentance 5 But after thy hardness and impenitent heart * Jam. 5.3 treasurest up unto thy self wrath against the day of wrath and revelation of the righteous judgement of God 6 * Psâ— 2.12 â—â—t 16.27 â—er 22 12. Who will tender to every man according to his deeds 7 To them who by patient continuance in well-doing seek for glory and honour and immortality eternal life 8 But unto them that are contentious and do not obey the truth but obey unrighteousness indignation and wrath 9 Tribulation and anguish upon every soul of man that doeth evil of the Jew first and also of the †Gr. Greek Gentile 10 But glory honour and peace to every man that worketh good to the Jew first and also to the †Gr. Greek Gentile 11 For * Deu. 10.17 2 Chr. 19.7 Job 34.19 Act. 10.34 Gal. 2.6 Eph. 6.9 Col. 3.25 1 Pet. 1.17 there is no respect of persons with God 12 For as many as have sinned without law shall also perish without law and as many as have sinned in the law shall be judged by the law 13 For * Mat. 7.21 Jam. 1.22 not the hearers of the law are just before God but the doers of the law shall be justified 14 For when the Gentiles which have not the law do by nature the things contained in the law these having not the law are a law unto themselves 15 Which shew the work of the law written in their hearts ‖ Or the conscience witnessing with them their conscience also bearing witness and their thoughts ‖ Or between themselves the mean while accusing or else excusing one another 16 In the day when God shall judge the secrets of men by Jesus Christ according to my gospel 17 Behold thou art called a Jew and restest in the law and makest thy boast of God 18 And knowest his will and ‖ Or triast the things that differ approvest the things that are more excellent being instructed out of the law 19 And art confident that thou thy self art a guide of the blinde a light of them which are in darkness 20 An instructer of the foolish a teacher of babes which hast the form of knowledge and of the truth in the law 21 Thou therefore which teachest another teachest thou not thy self thou that preachest a man should not steal dost thou steal 22 Thou that sayest a man should not commit adultery dost thou commit adultery thou that abhorrelâ— idols dost thou commit sacriledge 23 Thou that makest thy boast of the law through breaking the law
unto death or of obedience unto righteousness 17 But God be thanked that ye were the servants of sin but ye have obeyed from the heart that form of doctrine †Gr. whereto ye were delivered which was delivered you 18 Being then made free from sin ye became the servants of righteousness 19 I speak after the manner of men because of the infirmity of your flesh for as ye have yeelded your members servants to uncleanness and to iniquity unto iniquity even so now yeeld your members servants to righteousness unto holiness 20 For when ye were the servants of sin ye were free †Gr. to righteousness from righteousness 21 What fruit had ye then in those things whereof ye are now ashamed for the end of those things is death 22 But now being made free from sin and become servants to God ye have your fruit unto holiness and the end everlasting life 23 For the wages of sin is death but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord. CHAP. VII 1 No law hath power over a man longer then he liveth 4 But we are dead to the law 7 Yet is not the law sin 12 but holy just good 16 as I acknowledge who am grieved because I cannot keep it KNow ye not brethren for I speak to them that know the law how that the law hath dominion over a man as long as he liveth 2 For * 1 Cor. 7.39 the woman which hath an husband is bound by the law to her husband so long as he liveth but if the husband be dead she is loosed from the law of her husband 3 So then if while her husband liveth she be married to another man she shall be called an adulteress but if her husband be dead she is free from that law so that she is no adulteress though she be married to another man 4 Wherefore my brethren ye also are become dead to the law by the body of Christ that ye should be married to another even to him who is raised from the dead that we should bring forth fruit unto God 5 For when we were in the flesh the †Gr. passions motions of sins which were by the law did work in our members to bring forth fruit unto death 6 But now we are delivered from the law ‖ Or being dead to that that being dead wherein we were held that we should serve in newness of spirit and not in the oldness of the letter 7 What shall we say then Is the law sin God forbid Nay I had not known sin but by the law for I had not known ‖ Or concupiscence lust except the law had said * Ex. 20.17 Deut. 5.21 Thou shalt not cover 8 But sin taking occasion by the commandment wrought in me all manner of concupiscence For without the law sin was dead 9 For I was alive without the law once but when the commandment came sin revived and I died 10 And the commandment which was ordained to life I found to be unto death 11 For sin taking occasion by the commandment deceived me and by it slew me 12 Wherefore the law is holy and the commandment holy and just and good 13 Was then that which is good made death unto me God forbid But sin that it might appear sin working death in me by that which is good that sin by the commandment might become exceeding sinful 14 For we know that the law is spiritual but I am carnal sold under sin 15 For that which I do I †Gr. know allow not for what I would that do I not but what I hate that do I. 16 If then I do that which I would not I consent unto the law that it is good 17 Now then it is no more I that do it but sin that dwelleth in me 18 For I know that in me that is in my flesh dwelleth no good thing for to will is present with me but how to perform that which is good I finde not 19 For the good that I would I do not but the evil which I would not that I do 20 Now if I do that I would not it is no more I that do it but sin that dwelleth in me 21 I finde then a law that when I would do good evil is present with me 22 For I delight in the law of God after the inward man 23 But I see another law in my members warring against the law of my minde and bringing me into â—aptivity to the law of sin which is in my members 24 O wretched man that I am who shall deliver me from ‖ Or this body of death the body of this death 25 I thank God through Jesus Christ our Lord. So then with the minde I my self serve the law of God but with the flesh the law of sin CHAP. VIII 1 They that are in Christ and live according to the Spirit are free from condemnation 5 13 What harm cometh of the flesh 6 14 and what good of the Spirit 17 and what of being Gods children 19 whose glorious deliverance all things long for 29 It was beforehand dâ—creed from God 38 What can sever us from his love THere is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus who walk not after the flesh but after the Spirit 2 For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made me free from the law of sin and death 3 For what the law could not do in that it was weak through the flesh God sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh and ‖ Or by a sacrifice for sin for sin condemned sin in the flesh 4 That the righteousness of the law might be fulfilled in us who walk not after the flesh but after the Spirit 5 For they that are after the flesh do minde the things of the flesh but they that are after the Spirit the things of the Spirit 6 For †Gr. the minding of the flesh to be carnally minded is death but †Gr. the minding of the Spirit to be spiritually minded is life and peace 7 Because †Gr. the minding of the flesh the carnal minde is enmity against God for it is not subject to the law of God neither indeed can be 8 So then they that are in the flesh cannot please God 9 But ye are not in the flesh but in the Spirit if so be that the Spirit of God dwell in you Now if any man have not the Spirit of Christ he is none of his 10 And if Christ be in you the body is dead because of sin but the Spirit is life because of righteousness 11 But if the Spirit of him that raised up Jesus from the dead dwell in you he that raised up Christ from the dead shall also quicken your mortal bodies ‖ Or because of his Spirit by his Spirit that dwelleth in you 12 Therefore brethren we are debters not to
resurrection of the dead 22 For as in Adam all die even so in Christ shall all be made alive 23 But * 1 Thess 4.15 every man in his own order Christ the first-fruits afterward they that are Christs at his coming 24 Then cometh the end when he shall have delivered up the kingdom to God even the Father when he shall have put down all rule and all authority and power 25 For he must reign * Psal 110.1 till he hath put all enemies under his feet 26 The last enemy that shall be destroyed is death 27 For he * Psal 8.6 hath put all things under his feet But when he saith all things are put under him it is manifest that he is excepted which did put all things under him 28 And when all things shall be subdued unto him then shall the Son also himself be subject unto him that put all things under him that God may be all in all 29 Else what shall they do which are baptized for the dead if the dead rise not at all why are they then baptized for the dead 30 And why stand we in jeopardy every hour 31 I protest by ‖ Some read our your rejoycing which I have in Christ Jesus our Lord I die daily 32 If ‖ Or to speak after the manner of men after the manner of men I have fought with beasts at Ephesus what advantageth it me if the dead rise not * Isa 22.23 let us eat and drink for tomorrow we die 33 Be not deceived evil communications corrupt good manners 34 Awake to righteousness and sin not for some have not the knowledge of God I speak this to your shame 35 But some man will say How are the dead raised up and with what body do they come 36 Thou fool that which thou sowest is not quickned exceptit die 37 And that which thou sowest thou sowest not that body that shall be but bare grain it may chance of wheat or of some other grain 38 But God giveth it a body as it hath pleased him and to every seed his own body 39 All flesh is not the same flesh but there is one kinde of flesh of men another flesh of beasts another of fishes and another of birds 40 There are also celestial bodies and bodies terrestrial 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 one star differeth from another star in glory 42 So also is the resurrection of the dead It is sown in corruption it is raised in incorruption 43 It is sown in dishonour it is raised in glory it is sown in weakness it is raised in power 44 It is sown a natural body it is raised a spiritual body There is a natural body and there is a spiritual body 45 And so it is written The first man Adam * Gen. 1.7 was made a living soul the last Adam was made a quickning spirit 46 Howbeit that was not first which is spiritual but that which is natural and afterward that which is spiritual 47 The first man is of the earth earthy the second man is the Lord from heaven 48 As is the earthy such are they also that are earthy and as is the heavenly such are they also that are heavenly 49 And as we have born the image of the earthy we shall also bear the image of the heavenly 50 Now this I say brethren that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God neither doth corruption inherit incorruption 51 Behold I shew 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 * Matth. 24.31 1 Thess 4.16 trump for the trumpet shall sound and the dead shall be raised incorruptible and we shall be changed 53 For this corruptible must put on incorruption and this mortal must put on immortality 54 So when this corruptible shall have put on incorruption and this mortal shall have put on immortality then shall be brought to pass the saying that is written * Isa 25.8 Hos 13.14 Death is swallowed up in victory 55 O death where is thy sting O ‖ Or hell grave where is thy victory 56 The sting of death is sin and the strength of sin is the law 57 But thanks be to God which giveth us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ 58 Therefore my beloved brethren be ye stedfast unmoveable always abounding in the work of the Lord forasmuch as ye know that your labour is not in vain in the Lord. CHAP. XVI 1 He exhorteth them to relieve the want of the brethren at Jerusalem 10 commendeth Timothy 13 and after friendly admonitions 16 shutteth up his epistle with divers salutations NOw concerning the collection for the saints as I have given order to the churches of Galatia even so do ye 2 Upon the first day of the week let every one of you lay by him in store as God hath prospered him that there be no gatherings when I come 3 And when I come whomsoever you shall approve by your letters them will I send to bring your †Gr. â—ife liberality unto Jerusalem 4 And if it be meet that I go also they shall go with me 5 Now I will come unto you when I shall pass through Macedonia for I do pass through Macedonia 6 And it may be that I will abide yea and winter with you that ye may bring me on my journey whithersoever I go 7 For I will not see you now by the way but I trust to tarry a while with you if the Lord permit 8 But I will tarry at Ephesus until Pentecost 9 For a great door and effectual is opened unto me and there are many adversaries 10 Now if Timotheus come see that he may be with you without fear for he worketh the work of the Lord as I also do 11 Let no man therefore despise him but conduct him forth in peace that he may come unto me for I look for him with the brethren 12 As touching our brother Apollos I greatly desired him to come unto you with the brethren but his will was not at all to come at this time but he will come when he shall have convenient time 13 Watch ye stand fast in the faith quit you like men be strong 14 Let all your things be done with charity 15 I beseech you brethren ye know the house of Stephanas that it is the first-fruits of Achaia and that they have addicted themselves to the ministery of the saints 16 That ye submit your selves unto such and to every one that helpeth with us and laboureth 17 I am glad of the coming of Stephanas and Fortunatus and Achaicus for that which was lacking on your part they have supplied 18 For they have refreshed my spirit and yours therefore acknowledge ye
Salem priest of the most high God who met Abraham returning from the slaughter of the kings and blessed him 2 To whom also Abraham gave a tenth part of all first being by interpretation king of righteousness and after that also king of Salem which is king of peace 3 Without father without mother †Gr. without pedegree without descent having neither beginning of days nor end of life but made like unto the Son of God abideth a priest continually 4 Now consider how great this man was unto whom even the patriarch Abraham gave the tenth of the spoils 5 And verily * Num. 18.21 they that are of the sons of Levi who receive the office of the priesthood have a commandment to take tithes of the people according to the law that is of their brethren though they come out of the loyns of Abraham 6 But he whose ‖ Or pedegree descent is not counted from them received tithes of Abraham and blessed him that had the promises 7 And without all contradiction the less is blessed of the better 8 And here men that die receive tithes but there he receiveth them of whom it is witnessed that he liveth 9 And as I may so say Levi also who receiveth tithes payed tithes in Abraham 10 For he was yet in the loyns of his father when Melchisedec met him 11 If therefore perfection were by the Levitical priesthood for under it the people received the law what further need was there that another priest should rise after the order of Melchisedec and not be called after the order of Aaron 12 For the priesthood being changed there is made of necessity a change also of the law 13 For he of whom these things are spoken pertaineth to another tribe of which no man gave attendance at the altar 14 For it is evident that our Lord sprang out of Juda of which tribe Moses spake nothing concerning priesthood 15 And it is yet far more evident for that alter the similitude of Melchisedec there ariseth another priest 16 Who is made not after the law of a carnal commandment but after the power of an endless life 17 For he testifieth * Psal 110.4 Thou art a priest for ever after the order of Melchisedec 18 For there is verily a disanulling of the commandment going before for the weakness and unprofitableness thereof 19 For the law made nothing perfect ‖ Or but is was the bringing in but the bringing in of a better hope did by the which we draw nigh unto God 20 And in as much as not without an oath he was made priest 21 For those priests were made ‖ Or without swearing of an oath without an oath but this with an oath by him that said unto him * Psal 110.4 The Lord sware and will not repent Thou art a priest for ever after the order of Melchisedec 22 By so much was Jesus made a surety of a better testament 23 And they truly were many priests because they were not suffered to continue by reason of death 24 But this man because he continueth ever hath an ‖ Or which pasfeth not from one to another unchangeable priesthood 25 Wherefore he is able also to save them ‖ Or evermore to the uttermost the come unto God by him seeing he ever liveth to make intercession for them 26 For such an high priest became us who is holy harmless undefiled separate from sinners and made higher then the heavens 27 Who needeth not daily as * Levit. 9.7 16.6 those high priests to offer up sacrifice first for his own sins and then for the peoples for this he did once when he offered up himself 28 For the law maketh men high priests which have infirmity but the word of the oath which was since the law maketh the Son who is †Gr. perfected consecrated for evermore CHAP. VIII 1 By the eternal priesthood of Christ the Levitical priesthood of Aaron is abolished 7 and the temporal covenant with the fathers by the eternal covenant of the gospel NOw of the things which we have spoken this is the sum We have such an high Priest who is set on the right hand of the throne of the Majesty in the heavens 2 A minister ‖ Or of â—oly things of the sanctuary and of the true tabernacle which the Lord pitched and not man 3 For every high priest is ordained to offer gifts and sacrifices wherefore it is of necessity that this man have somewhat also to offer 4 For if he were on earth he should not be a priest seeing that ‖ Or they are priests there are priests that offer gifts according to the law 5 Who serve unto the example and shadow of heavenly things as Moses was admonished of God when he was about to make the tabernacle * Exod. 25. â—0 Acts 7.44 For see saith he that thou make all things according to the pattern shewed to thee in the mount 6 But now hath he obtained a more excellent ministery by how much also he is the Mediatour of a better ‖ Or testament covenant which was established upon better promises 7 For if that first covenant had been faultless then should no place have been sought for the second 8 For finding fault with them he saith * Jer. 31.31 32 33 34. Behold the days come saith the Lord when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah 9 Not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day when I took them by the hand to lead them out of the land of Egypt because they continued nor in my covenant and I regarded them not saith the Lord. 10 For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days saith the Lord I will †Gr. give put my laws into their minde and write them ‖ Or upon in their hearts and I will be to them a God and they shall be to me a people 11 And they shall not teach every man his neighbour and every man his brother saying Know the Lord for all shall know me from the least to the greatest 12 For I will be merciful to their unrighteousness and their sins and their iniquities will I remember no more 13 In that he saith A new covenant he hath made the first old Now that which decayeth and waxeth old is ready to vanish away CHAP. IX 1 The dâ—scription of the rites and bloudy sacrifices of the law 11 far inferiour to the dignity perfection of the bloud and sacrifice of Christ THen verily the first covenant had also ‖ Or ceâ—â—mâ—nits ordinances of divine service and a worldly sanctuary 2 For there was a tabernable made * â—xod 40. the first wherein was the candlestick and the table and the shew-bread which is called ‖ Or holy the sanctuary 3 And after the second vail the
tabernacle which is called the holiest of all 4 Which had the golden censer and the ark of the covenant overlaid round about with gold wherein was * Ex. 16.34 the golden pot that had manna and * Num. 17.16 Aâ—rons rod that budded and * Deut. 10.5 1 King 8.9 〈◊〉 Chr. 5.10 the tables of the covenant 5 And * Ex. 25.22 over it the cherubims of glory shadowing the mercy-seat of which we cannot now speak particularly 6 Now when these things were thus ordained the priests went always into the first tabernacle accomplishing the service of God 7 But into the second went the high priest alone * Ex. 30.10 â—ev 16. 〈◊〉 once every year not without bloud which he offered for himself and for the errours of the people 8 The holy Ghost this signifying that the way into the holiest of all was not yet made manifest while as the first tabernacle was yet standing 9 Which was a sigure for the time then present in which were offered both gifts and sacrifices that could not make him that did the service perfect as pertaining to the conscience 10 Which stood onely in meats and drinks and divers washings and carnal ‖ Or vitor ceremonies ordinances imposed on them until the time of reformation 11 But Christ being come an high priest of good things to come by a greater and more perfect tabernacle not made with hands that is to say not of this building 12 Neither by the bloud of goats and calves but by his own bloud he entred in once into the holy place having obtained eternal redemption fâ—r us 13 For it * Lev. 1â— 14 the bloud of bulls and of goats and * 1 Num. 19.17 c. the ashes of an heifer sprinkling the unclean sanctifieth to the purifying of the flesh 14 How much more shall the bloud of Christ who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without ‖ Or fault spot to God purge your conscience from dead works to serve the living God 15 And for this cause he is the Mediatour of the new testament that by means of death for the redemption of the transgressions that were under the first testament they which are called might receive the promise of eternal inheritance 16 For where a testament is there must also of necessity ‖ Or be brought in be the death of the testatour 17 For a testament is of force after men are dead otherwise it is of no strength at all whilest the testatour liveth 18 Whereupon neither the first testament was ‖ Or purified dedicated without bloud 19 For when Moses had spoken every precept to all the people according to the law he took the bloud of calves and of goats with water and ‖ Or purple scarlet wooll and hyssop and sprinkled both the book and all the people 20 Saying * Eâ— 24.8 This is the bloud of the testament which God hath enjoyned unto you 21 Moreover he sprinkled likewise with bloud both the tabernacle and all the vessels of the ministery 22 And almost all things are by the law purged with bloud and without shedding of bloud is no remission 23 It was therefore necessary that the patterns of things in the heavens should be purified with these but the heavenly things themselves with better sacrifices then these 24 For Christ is not entred into the holy places made with hands which are the figures of the true but into heaven it self now * 1 Joh. 2.1 to appear in the presence of God for us 25 Nor yet that he should offer himself often as the high priest entreth into the holy place every year with bloud of others 26 For then must he often have suffered since the foundation of the world but now once in the end of the world hath he appeared to put away sin by the sacrifice of himself 27 And as it is appointed unto men once to die but after this the judgement 28 So * 1 Pet. 3.18 Christ was once offered to bear the sins of many and unto them that look for him shall he appear the second time without sin unto salvation CHAP. X. 1 The weakness of the law-sacrifices 10 The sacrifice of Christs body once offered 14 for ever hath taken away sins 19 An exhortation to hold fast the faith with patience and thanksgiving FOr the law having a shadow of good things to come and not the very image of the things can never with those sacrifices which they offered year by year continually make the comers thereunto perfect 2 For then would they not have ceased to be offered because that the worshippers once purged should have had no more conscience of sins 3 But in those sacrifices there is a remembrance again made of sins every year 4 For it is not possible that the bloud of bulls and of goats should take away sins 5 Wherefore when he cometh into the world he saith * Psal 10.6 c. Sacrifice and offering thou wouldest not but a body ‖ Or thou â—â—st fitted me hast thou prepared me 6 In burnt-offerings and sacrifices for sin thou hast had no pleasure 7 Then said I Lo I come In the volume of the book it is written of me to do thy will O God 8 Above when he said Sacrifice and offering and barnt offerings and offering for sin thou wouldest not neither hadst pleasure therein which are offered by the law 9 Then said he Lo I come to do thy will O God He taketh away the first that he may establish the second 10 By the which will we are sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all 11 And every priest standeth daily ministring and offering oftentimes the same sacrifices which can never take away sins 12 But this man after he had offered one sacrifice for sins for ever sat down on the right hand of God 13 From henceforth expecting * Psal 11â— 1. 1 Cor. 15.25 Chap. 1.13 till his enemies be made his footstool 14 For by one offering he hath perfected for ever them that are sanctified 15 Whereof the holy Ghost also is a witness to us for after that he had said before 16 This is the covenant that I will make with them after those days saith the Lord I will * Jer. 31.33 put my laws into their hearts and in their minds will I write them 17 And their sins and iniquities will I remember no more 18 Now where remission of these is there is no more offering for sin 19 Having therefore brethren ‖ Or liberty boldness to enter into the holiest by the bloud of Jesus 20 By a new and living way which he hath ‖ Or new mâ—dâ— consecrated for us through the vail that is to say his flesh 21 And having an high priest over the house of God 22 Let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience and
the rich and to despise the poor brethren 13 rather we are to be loving and merciful 14 and not to boast of faith where no deeds are 17 which is but a dead faith 19 the faith of devils 21 not of Abraham 25 and Rabab MY brethren have not the faith of our Lord Jesus Christ the Lord of glory with * Lev. 19.15 Deut. 1.17 and 16.19 Prov. 24.23 respect of persons 2 For if there come unto your †Gr. synagogue assembly a man with a gold ring in goodly apparel and there come in also a poor man in vile raiment 3 And ye have respect to him that weareth the gay clothing and say unto him Sit thou here ‖ Or well or seemly in a good place and say to the poor Stand thou there or sit here under my footstool 4 Are ye not then partial in your selves and are become judges of evil thoughts 5 Hearken my beloved brethren Hath not God chosen the poor of this world rich in faith and heirs of ‖ Or that the kingdom which he hath promised to them that love him * Lev. 19.18 Rom 13.9 6 But ye have desâ—ised the poor Do not rich men oppress you and draw you before the judgment-seats 7 Do not they blaspheme that worthy name by the which ye are called 8 If ye fulfil the royal saw according to the scripture * Lev. 19.18 Rom 13.9 Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thy self ye do well 9 But if ye have respect to persons ye commit sin and are convinced of the law as transgressours 10 For whosoever shall keep the whole law and yet offend in one point he is guisty of all 11 For ‖ Or that law which said he that said Do not commit adultery said also Do not kill Now if thou commit no adultery yet if thou kill thou art become a transgressour of the law 12 So speak ye c so do as they the shall be judged by the law of liberty 13 For he shall have judgement without mercy that hath shewed no mercy and mercy ‖ Or glorieth rejoyceth against judgement 14 What doth it profit my brethren though a man say he hath faith and have not works can faith save him 15 If a brother or sister be naked and destitute of daily food 16 And one of you say unto them Depart in peace be you warmed and filled notwithstanding ye give them not those things which are needful to the body what doth it profit 17 Even so faith if it hath not works is dead being †Gr by it self alone 18 Yea a man may say Thou hast faith and I have works shew me thy faith ‖ Some copies read by thy works without thy works I will shew thee my faith by my works 19 Thou beleevest that there is one God thou doest well the devils also beleeve and tremble 20 But wilt thou know O vain man that faith without works is dead 21 Was not Abraham our father justified by works when he had offered Isaac his son upon the altar 22 ‖ Or thou seest Seest thou how faith wrought with his works and by works was faith made perfect 23 And the scripture was fulfilled which saith * Gen. 15.6 Rum 4.3 Gal. 3.6 Abraham beleeved God and it was imputed unto him for righteousness and he was called the friend of God 24 Ye see then how the by works a man is justified not by faith onely 25 Likewise also was not Rahab the Harlot justified by works when she had received the messengers and had sent them out another way 26 For as the body without the ‖ Or breath spirit is dead so faith without works is dead also CHAP. III. 1 We are not rashly or arrogantly to reprove others 5 but rather to bridle the tongue a little member but a powerful instrument of much good and great barm 13 They who be truly wise be midde and peaceable without envying and strife MY brethren be not many masters knowing that we shall receive the greater ‖ Or judgement condemnation 2 For in many things we offend all * Ecclus. 14.1 and 19.16 and 25.8 If any man offend not in word the same is a perfect man and able also to bridle the whole body 3 Behold we put bits in the horses mouths that they may obey us and we turn about their whole body 4 Behold also the ships which though they be so great and are driven of fierce winds yet are they turned about with a very small helm whithersoever the governour listeth 5 Even so the tongue is a little member and boasteth great things Behold how great ‖ Or. wood a matter a little fire kindlâ—th 6 And the tongue is a fire a world of iniquity so is the tongue amongst our members that it defileth the whole body and setteth on fire the course of nature and it is let on fire of hell 7 For every †Gr. nature kinde of beasts and of birds and of serpents and things in the sea is tamed and hath been tamed of †Gr. nature of man mankinde 8 But the tongue can no man tame it is an unruly evil full of deadly poyson 9 Therewith bless we God even the Father and therewith curse we men which are made after the similitude of God 10 Out of the same mouth proceedeth blessing and cursing My brethren these things ought not so to be 11 Doth a fountain send forth at the same ‖ Or bek place sweet water and bitter 12 Can the fig-tree my brethren bear olive-berries either a vine sigs so can no fountain both yeeld salt water and fresh 13 Who is a wise man and endued with knowledge amongst you let him shew out of a good conversation his works with meekness of wisdom 14 But if ye have bitter envying and strife in your hearts glory not and lie not against the truth 15 This wisdom descendeth not from above but is earthly ‖ Or natural sensual devilish 16 For where envying and strife is there is †Gr tumult or unquietness confusion and every evil work 17 But the wisdom that is from above is first pure then peaceable gentle and easte to be intreated full of mercy and good fruits ‖ Or without wrangling without partiality and without hypocrisie 18 And the fruit of righteousness is sown in peace of them that make peace CHAP. IV. 1 We are to strive against covetousness 4 intemperance 5 pride 11 detraction and rash judgement of others 13 and not to be confident in the good success of worldly business but mindful ever of the uncertainty of this life to commit our selves and all our affairs to Gods providence FRom whence come wars and ‖ Or brawlings fightings among you come they not hence even of your ‖ Or pleasures lusts that war in your members 2 Ye suit and have not ye kill and desire to have and cannot obtain ye sight
him that †Heb. doeth sinneth through ignorance both for him that is born amongst the children of Israel and for the stranger that sojourneth among them 30 ¶ But the soul that doeth ought †Heb. with an high hand presumptuously whether he be born in the land or a stranger the same reproacheth the LORD and that soul shall be cut off from among his people 31 Because he hath despised the word of the LORD and hath broken his commandment that soul shall utterly be cut off his iniquity shall be upon him 32 ¶ And while the children of Israel were in the wilderness they found a man that gathered sticks upon the sabbath-day 33 And they that found him gathering sticks brought him unto Moses and Aaron and unto all the congregation 34 And they put him * Lev. 24.12 in ward because it was not declared what should be done to him 35 And the LORD said unto Moses The man shall be surely put to death all the congregation shall stone him with stones without the camp 36 And all the congregation brought him without the camp and stoned him with stones and he died as the LORD commanded Moses 37 ¶ And the LORD spake unto Moses saying 38 Speak unto the children of Israel and bid * Deut. 22.12 Mat. 23.5 them that they make them fringes in the borders of their garments throughout their generations and that they put upon the fringe of the borders a ribband of blue 39 And it shall be unto you for a fringe that ye may look upon it and remember all the commandments of the LORD and do them and that ye seek not after your own heart and your own eyes after which ye use to go a whoring 40 That ye may remember and do all my commandments and be holy unto your God 41 I am the LORD your God which brought you out of the land of Egypt to be your God I am the LORD your God CHAP. XVI 1 The rebellion of Korah Dathan and Abiram 23 Moses separateth the people from the rebels tents 31 The earth swalloweth up Korah and a fire consumeth others 36 The censers are reserved to holy use 41 Fourteen thousand and seven hundred are slain by a plague for murmuring against Moses and Aaron 46 Aaron by incense stayeth the plague NOw * Ch. 27.3 Ecclus 45.18 Jude 11. Korah the son of Izhar the son of Kohath the son of Levi and Dathan and Abiram the sons of Eliab and On the son of Peleth sons of Reuben took men 2 And they rose up before Moses with certain of the children of Israel two hundred and fifty princes of the assembly * Ch. 26.9 famous in the congregation men of renown 3 And they gathered themselves together against Moses and against Aaron and said unto them †Heb. It is much for you Ye take too much upon you seeing all the congregation are holy everyone of them and the LORD is among them wherefore then lift you up your selves above the congregation of the LORD 4 And when Moses heard it he fell upon his face 5 And he spake unto Korah and unto all his company saying Even to morrow the LORD will shew who are his and who is holy and will cause him to come near unto him even him whom he hath chosen will he cause to come near unto him 6 This do take you censers Korah and all his company 7 And put fire therein and put incense in them before the LORD to morrow and it shall be that the man whom the LORD doth choose he shall be holy ye take too much upon you ye sons of Levi. 8 And Moses said unto Korah Hear I pray you ye sons of Levi 9 Seemeth it but a small thing unto you that the God of Israel hath separated you from the congregation of Israel to bring you near to himself to do the service of the tabernacle of the LORD and to stand before the congregation to minister unto them 10 And he hath brought thee near to him and all thy brethren the sons of Levi with thee and seek ye the priesthood also 11 For which cause both thou and all thy company are gathered together against the LORD and what is Aaron that ye murmure against him 12 ¶ And Moses sent to call Dathan and Abiram the sons of Eliab which said We will not come up 13 Is it a small thing that thou hast brought us up out of a land that floweth with milk and honey to kill us in the wilderness except thou make thy self altogether a prince over us 14 Moreover thou hast not brought us into a land that floweth with milk and honey or given us inheritance of fields and vineyards wilt thou †Heb. here out put out the eyes of these men we will not come up 15 And Moses was very wroth and said unto the LORD * Gen. 4 4. Respect not thou their offering I have not taken one ass from them neither have I hurt one of them 16 And Moses said unto Korah Be thou and all thy company before the LORD thou and they and Aaron to morrow 17 And take every man his censer and put incense in them and bring ye before the LORD every man his censer two hundred and fifty censers thou also and Aaron each of you his censer 18 And they took every man his censer and put fire in them and said incense thereon and stood in the door of the tabernacle of the congregation with Moses and Aaron 19 And Korah gathered all the congregation against them unto the door of the tabernacle of the congregation and the glory of the LORD appeared unto all the congregation 20 And the LORD spake unto Moses and unto Aaron saying 21 Separate your selves from among this congregation that I may consume them in a moment 22 And they fell upon their faces and said O God the God of the spirits of all flesh shall one man sin and wilt thou be wroth with all the congregation 23 ¶ And the LORD spake unto Moses saying 24 Speak unto the congregation saying Get you up from about the taberlacle of Korah Dathan and Abiram 25 And Moses rose up and went unto Dathan and Abiram and the elders of Israel followed him 26 And he spake unto the congregation saying Depart I pray you from the tents of these wicked men and touch nothing of theirs lest ye be consumed in all their sins 27 So they gat up from the tabernacle of Korah Dathan and Abiram on every side and Dathan and Abiram came out and stood in the door of their tents and their wives and their sons and their little children 28 And Moses said Hereby ye shall know that the LORD hath sent me to do all these works for I have not done them of mine own minde 29 If these men die †Heb. as every man dieth the common death of all men or if they be visited after the visitation of all men then