For I am the Lord thy God, the Holy One of Israel, thy Saviour: I gave Egypt for thy ransom, Ethiopia and Seba for thee.

They are all gone aside, they are all together become filthy: there is none that doeth good, no, not one.

I will go and return to my place, till they acknowledge their offence, and seek my face: in their affliction they will seek me early.

But this is a people robbed and spoiled; they are all of them snared in holes, and they are hid in prison houses: they are for a prey, and none delivereth; for a spoil, and none saith, Restore.

They hunt our steps, that we cannot go in our streets: our end is near, our days are fulfilled; for our end is come.

And the Lord shall bring thee into Egypt again with ships, by the way whereof I spake unto thee, Thou shalt see it no more again: and there ye shall be sold unto your enemies for bondmen and bondwomen, and no man shall buy you.

But if thou shalt indeed obey his voice, and do all that I speak; then I will be an enemy unto thine enemies, and an adversary unto thine adversaries.

That we should be saved from our enemies, and from the hand of all that hate us;

For, lo, thine enemies make a tumult: and they that hate thee have lifted up the head.

But grow in grace, and in the knowledge of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. To him be glory both now and for ever. Amen.

For it is evident that our Lord sprang out of Juda; of which tribe Moses spake nothing concerning priesthood.

Concerning his Son Jesus Christ our Lord, which was made of the seed of David according to the flesh;

They said one to another, Let us restore the decayed estate of our people, and let us fight for our people and the sanctuary.

But (which becometh women professing godliness) with good works.

Fight the good fight of faith, lay hold on eternal life, whereunto thou art also called, and hast professed a good profession before many witnesses.

Let us hold fast the profession of our faith without wavering; (for he is faithful that promised;)

We will not hearken to the king's words, to go from our religion, either on the right hand, or the left.

For in the former times, when they mingled not themselves with the Gentiles, he had been accused of Judaism, and did boldly jeopard his body and life with all vehemency for the religion of the Jews.

And this is the law which Moses set before the children of Israel:

And many people shall go and say, Come ye, and let us go up to the mountain of the Lord, to the house of the God of Jacob; and he will teach us of his ways, and we will walk in his paths: for out of Zion shall go forth the law, and the word of the Lord from Jerusalem.

Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this, To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep himself unspotted from the world.

And the people shall take them, and bring them to their place: and the house of Israel shall possess them in the land of the Lord for servants and handmaids: and they shall take them captives, whose captives they were; and they shall rule over their oppressors.

For the nation and kingdom that will not serve thee shall perish; yea, those nations shall be utterly wasted.

And ye shall take them as an inheritance for your children after you, to inherit them for a possession; they shall be your bondmen for ever: but over your brethren the children of Israel, ye shall not rule one over another with rigour.

He that leadeth into captivity shall go into captivity: he that killeth with the sword must be killed with the sword. Here is the patience and the faith of the saints.

But it shall come to pass, if thou wilt not hearken unto the voice of the Lord thy God, to observe to do all his commandments and his statutes which I command thee this day; that all these curses shall come upon thee, and overtake thee:

Your iniquities have turned away these things, and your sins have withholden good things from you.

Now therefore, my lord and governor, if there be any error against this people, and they sin against their God, let us consider that this shall be their ruin, and let us go up, and we shall overcome them.

And if ye will not yet for all this hearken unto me, then I will punish you seven times more for your sins.

He hath not beheld iniquity in Jacob, neither hath he seen perverseness in Israel: the Lord his God is with him, and the shout of a king is among them.

Behold, these caused the children of Israel, through the counsel of Balaam, to commit trespass against the Lord in the matter of Peor, and there was a plague among the congregation of the Lord.

But I have a few things against thee, because thou hast there them that hold the doctrine of Balaam, who taught Balac to cast a stumblingblock before the children of Israel, to eat things sacrificed unto idols, and to commit fornication.

And the Lord said, I will remove Judah also out of my sight, as I have removed Israel, and will cast off this city Jerusalem which I have chosen, and the house of which I said, My name shall be there.

And he shall set up an ensign for the nations, and shall assemble the outcasts of Israel, and gather together the dispersed of Judah from the four corners of the earth.

The Lord God, which gathereth the outcasts of Israel saith, Yet will I gather others to him, beside those that are gathered unto him.

The Lord doth build up Jerusalem: he gathereth together the outcasts of Israel.

God hath not cast away his people which he foreknew. Wot ye not what the scripture saith of Elias? how he maketh intercession to God against Israel saying,

Ye are of God, little children, and have overcome them: because greater is he that is in you, than he that is in the world.

For whatsoever is born of God overcometh the world: and this is the victory that overcometh the world, even our faith.

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.

But he that shall endure unto the end, the same shall be saved.

He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches; To him that overcometh will I give to eat of the tree of life, which is in the midst of the paradise of God.

He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches; He that overcometh shall not be hurt of the second death.

He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches; To him that overcometh will I give to eat of the hidden manna, and will give him a white stone, and in the stone a new name written, which no man knoweth saving he that receiveth it.

And he that overcometh, and keepeth my works unto the end, to him will I give power over the nations:

He that overcometh, the same shall be clothed in white raiment; and I will not blot out his name out of the book of life, but I will confess his name before my Father, and before his angels.

He that overcometh shall inherit all things; and I will be his God, and he shall be my son.

Be not overcome of evil, but overcome evil with good.

Then these men were bound in their coats, their hosen, and their hats, and their other garments, and were cast into the midst of the burning fiery furnace.

He put upon him perfect glory; and strengthened him with rich garments, with breeches, with a long robe, and the ephod.

And thou shalt make them linen breeches to cover their nakedness; from the loins even unto the thighs they shall reach:

Therefore let us keep the feast, not with old leaven, neither with the leaven of malice and wickedness; but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.

So the children of Israel which were present held the passover at that time, and the feast of sweet bread seven days.

And we sailed away from Philippi after the days of unleavened bread, and came unto them to Troas in five days; where we abode seven days.

Observe the month of Abib, and keep the passover unto the Lord thy God: for in the month of Abib the Lord thy God brought thee forth out of Egypt by night.

Three times in a year shall all thy males appear before the Lord thy God in the place which he shall choose; in the feast of unleavened bread, and in the feast of weeks, and in the feast of tabernacles: and they shall not appear before the Lord empty:

And this day shall be unto you for a memorial; and ye shall keep it a feast to the Lord throughout your generations; ye shall keep it a feast by an ordinance for ever.

Thou shalt keep the feast of unleavened bread: (thou shalt eat unleavened bread seven days, as I commanded thee, in the time appointed of the month Abib; for in it thou camest out from Egypt: and none shall appear before me empty:)

In the first month, in the fourteenth day of the month, ye shall have the passover, a feast of seven days; unleavened bread shall be eaten.

In the fourteenth day of the first month at even is the Lord's passover.

Now the feast of unleavened bread drew nigh, which is called the Passover.

And he said, Go into the city to such a man, and say unto him, The Master saith, My time is at hand; I will keep the passover at thy house with my disciples.

Let the children of Israel also keep the passover at his appointed season.

Purge out therefore the old leaven, that ye may be a new lump, as ye are unleavened. For even Christ our passover is sacrificed for us:

And ye shall keep it up until the fourteenth day of the same month: and the whole assembly of the congregation of Israel shall kill it in the evening.

In one house shall it be eaten; thou shalt not carry forth ought of the flesh abroad out of the house; neither shall ye break a bone thereof.

The next day John seeth Jesus coming unto him, and saith, Behold the Lamb of God, which taketh away the sin of the world.

Whoso eateth my flesh, and drinketh my blood, hath eternal life; and I will raise him up at the last day.

And it was the preparation of the passover, and about the sixth hour: and he saith unto the Jews, Behold your King!

But when they came to Jesus, and saw that he was dead already, they brake not his legs:

And he said unto them, This is my blood of the new testament, which is shed for many.

For this is my blood of the new testament, which is shed for many for the remission of sins.

And all that dwell upon the earth shall worship him, whose names are not written in the book of life of the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world.

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.

A patient man will bear for a time, and afterward joy shall spring up unto him.

Whatsoever is brought upon thee take cheerfully, and be patient when thou art changed to a low estate.

In your patience possess ye your souls.

He that leadeth into captivity shall go into captivity: he that killeth with the sword must be killed with the sword. Here is the patience and the faith of the saints.

Here is the patience of the saints: here are they that keep the commandments of God, and the faith of Jesus.

To them who by patient continuance in well doing seek for glory and honour and immortality, eternal life:

For whatsoever things were written aforetime were written for our learning, that we through patience and comfort of the scriptures might have hope.

Finally, brethren, farewell. Be perfect, be of good comfort, be of one mind, live in peace; and the God of love and peace shall be with you.

A sinful man disquieteth friends, and maketh debate among them that be at peace.

Endeavouring to keep the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace.

Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace, whose mind is stayed on thee: because he trusteth in thee.

And the fruit of righteousness is sown in peace of them that make peace.

Blessed are the peacemakers: for they shall be called the children of God.

When a man's ways please the Lord, he maketh even his enemies to be at peace with him.

Depart from evil, and do good; seek peace, and pursue it.

Mark the perfect man, and behold the upright: for the end of that man is peace.

If it be possible, as much as lieth in you, live peaceably with all men.

For when they shall say, Peace and safety; then sudden destruction cometh upon them, as travail upon a woman with child; and they shall not escape.

Make no tarrying to turn to the Lord, and put not off from day to day: for suddenly shall the wrath of the Lord come forth, and in thy security thou shalt be destroyed, and perish in the day of vengeance.