Yea, many also of the Israelites consented to his religion, and sacrificed unto idols, and profaned the sabbath.

They provoked him to jealousy with strange gods, with abominations provoked they him to anger.

Thou shalt have no other gods before me.

Lest thou make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land, and they go a whoring after their gods, and do sacrifice unto their gods, and one call thee, and thou eat of his sacrifice;

For all the gods of the nations are idols: but the Lord made the heavens.

For they counted all the idols of the heathen to be gods: which neither have the use of eyes to see, nor noses to draw breath, nor ears to hear, nor fingers of hands to handle; and as for their feet, they are slow to go.

Yet if they shall bethink themselves in the land whither they were carried captives, and repent, and make supplication unto thee in the land of them that carried them captives, saying, We have sinned, and have done perversely, we have committed wickedness;

For I knew that they would not hear me, because it is a stiff-necked people: but in the land of their captivities they shall remember themselves.

Remember the days of old, consider the years of many generations: ask thy father, and he will shew thee; thy elders, and they will tell thee.

Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy.

Remember the former things of old: for I am God, and there is none else; I am God, and there is none like me,

But the Comforter, which is the Holy Ghost, whom the Father will send in my name, he shall teach you all things, and bring all things to your remembrance, whatsoever I have said unto you.

That ye may remember, and do all my commandments, and be holy unto your God.

My son, forget not my law; but let thine heart keep my commandments:

And have put on the new man, which is renewed in knowledge after the image of him that created him:

And be renewed in the spirit of your mind;

Brethren, I count not myself to have apprehended: but this one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forth unto those things which are before,

Create in me a clean heart, O God; and renew a right spirit within me.

And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God.

And the kingdom and dominion, and the greatness of the kingdom under the whole heaven, shall be given to the people of the saints of the most High, whose kingdom is an everlasting kingdom, and all dominions shall serve and obey him.

And the Lord thy God will make thee plenteous in every work of thine hand, in the fruit of thy body, and in the fruit of thy cattle, and in the fruit of thy land, for good: for the Lord will again rejoice over thee for good, as he rejoiced over thy fathers:

And I will lay my vengeance upon Edom by the hand of my people Israel: and they shall do in Edom according to mine anger and according to my fury; and they shall know my vengeance, saith the Lord God.

For thus saith the Lord, Ye have sold yourselves for nought; and ye shall be redeemed without money.

The sons also of them that afflicted thee shall come bending unto thee; and all they that despised thee shall bow themselves down at the soles of thy feet; and they shall call thee; The city of the Lord, The Zion of the Holy One of Israel.

His children shall seek to please the poor, and his hands shall restore their goods.

And Edom shall be a possession, Seir also shall be a possession for his enemies; and Israel shall do valiantly.

Therefore shall they receive a glorious kingdom, and a beautiful crown from the Lord's hand: for with his right hand shall he cover them, and with his arm shall he protect them.

Yet if they shall bethink themselves in the land whither they were carried captives, and repent, and make supplication unto thee in the land of them that carried them captives, saying, We have sinned, and have done perversely, we have committed wickedness;

If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land.

And they that have loathed my law, while they had yet liberty, and, when as yet place of repentance was open unto them, understood not, but despised it;

Therefore if so be that ye will subdue your own understanding, and reform your hearts, ye shall be kept alive and after death ye shall obtain mercy.

Behold, God himself is the judge, fear him: leave off from your sins, and forget your iniquities, to meddle no more with them for ever: so shall God lead you forth, and deliver you from all trouble.

Repent ye therefore, and be converted, that your sins may be blotted out, when the times of refreshing shall come from the presence of the Lord.

And thou shalt return and obey the voice of the Lord, and do all his commandments which I command thee this day.

Return unto the Lord, and forsake thy sins, make thy prayer before his face, and offend less.

He that hateth to be reproved is in the way of sinners: but he that feareth the Lord will repent from his heart.

So is it with a man that fasteth for his sins, and goeth again, and doeth the same: who will hear his prayer? or what doth his humbling profit him?

To depart from wickedness is a thing pleasing to the Lord; and to forsake unrighteousness is a propitiation.

Therefore say unto the house of Israel, Thus saith the Lord God; Repent, and turn yourselves from your idols; and turn away your faces from all your abominations.

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.

For thus saith the Lord God, the Holy One of Israel; In returning and rest shall ye be saved; in quietness and in confidence shall be your strength: and ye would not.

A good name is better than precious ointment; and the day of death than the day of one's birth.

A good life hath but few days: but a good name endureth for ever.

And then will I profess unto them, I never knew you: depart from me, ye that work iniquity.

A good name is rather to be chosen than great riches, and loving favour rather than silver and gold.

Then Peter opened his mouth, and said, Of a truth I perceive that God is no respecter of persons:

Ye shall not respect persons in judgment; but ye shall hear the small as well as the great; ye shall not be afraid of the face of man; for the judgment is God's: and the cause that is too hard for you, bring it unto me, and I will hear it.

Accept no person against thy soul, and let not the reverence of any man cause thee to fall.

Go not to law with a judge; for they will judge for him according to his honour.

It is not meet to despise the poor man that hath understanding; neither is it convenient to magnify a sinful man.

Some of them hath he blessed and exalted and some of them he sanctified, and set near himself: but some of them hath he cursed and brought low, and turned out of their places.

By the law of the Lord he judged the congregation, and the Lord had respect unto Jacob.

And God looked upon the children of Israel, and God had respect unto them.

But if ye have respect to persons, ye commit sin, and are convinced of the law as transgressors.

For I will have respect unto you, and make you fruitful, and multiply you, and establish my covenant with you.

For there is no respect of persons with God.

In this the children of God are manifest, and the children of the devil: whosoever doeth not righteousness is not of God, neither he that loveth not his brother.

And it shall be our righteousness, if we observe to do all these commandments before the Lord our God, as he hath commanded us.

Hearken unto me, ye that know righteousness, the people in whose heart is my law; fear ye not the reproach of men, neither be ye afraid of their revilings.

And when he is come, he will reprove the world of sin, and of righteousness, and of judgment:

My tongue shall speak of thy word: for all thy commandments are righteousness.

(For righteousness is immortal:)

He that loveth his son causeth him oft to feel the rod, that he may have joy of him in the end.

Bow down his neck while he is young, and beat him on the sides while he is a child, lest he wax stubborn, and be disobedient unto thee, and so bring sorrow to thine heart.

Foolishness is bound in the heart of a child; but the rod of correction shall drive it far from him.

Withhold not correction from the child: for if thou beatest him with the rod, he shall not die.

Thou shalt beat him with the rod, and shalt deliver his soul from hell.

Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for thou art with me; thy rod and thy staff they comfort me.

Phrygia, and Pamphylia, in Egypt, and in the parts of Libya about Cyrene, and strangers of Rome, Jews and proselytes,

And found a certain Jew named Aquila, born in Pontus, lately come from Italy, with his wife Priscilla; (because that Claudius had commanded all Jews to depart from Rome:) and came unto them.

To all that be in Rome, beloved of God, called to be saints: Grace to you and peace from God our Father, and the Lord Jesus Christ.

And they shall wander from sea to sea, and from the north even to the east, they shall run to and fro to seek the word of the Lord, and shall not find it.

But thou, O Daniel, shut up the words, and seal the book, even to the time of the end: many shall run to and fro, and knowledge shall be increased.

And the Lord answered me, and said, Write the vision, and make it plain upon tables, that he may run that readeth it.

And God blessed the seventh day, and sanctified it: because that in it he had rested from all his work which God created and made.

For Moses of old time hath in every city them that preach him, being read in the synagogues every sabbath day.

Saying, When will the new moon be gone, that we may sell corn? and the sabbath, that we may set forth wheat, making the ephah small, and the shekel great, and falsifying the balances by deceit?

Keep the sabbath day to sanctify it, as the Lord thy God hath commanded thee.

Why doth one day excel another, when as all the light of every day in the year is of the sun?

And he said unto them, This is that which the Lord hath said, To morrow is the rest of the holy sabbath unto the Lord: bake that which ye will bake to day, and seethe that ye will seethe; and that which remaineth over lay up for you to be kept until the morning.

Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy.

But the seventh day is the sabbath of the Lord thy God: in it thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, thy manservant, nor thy maidservant, nor thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is within thy gates:

Speak thou also unto the children of Israel, saying, Verily my sabbaths ye shall keep: for it is a sign between me and you throughout your generations; that ye may know that I am the Lord that doth sanctify you.

Wherefore the children of Israel shall keep the sabbath, to observe the sabbath throughout their generations, for a perpetual covenant.