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  • 2nd Corinthians 1,2
    Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ by the will of God, and Timothy our brother, unto the church of God which is at Corinth, with all the saints which are in all Achaia:
    Grace be to you and peace from God our Father, and from the Lord Jesus Christ.
    Blessed be God, even the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies, and the God of all comfort;
    Who comforteth us in all our tribulation, that we may be able to comfort them which are in any trouble, by the comfort wherewith we ourselves are comforted of God.
    For as the sufferings of Christ abound in us, so our consolation also aboundeth by Christ.
    And whether we be afflicted, it is for your consolation and salvation, which is effectual in the enduring of the same sufferings which we also suffer: or whether we be comforted, it is for your consolation and salvation.
    And our hope of you is stedfast, knowing, that as ye are partakers of the sufferings, so shall ye be also of the consolation.
    For we would not, brethren, have you ignorant of our trouble which came to us in Asia, that we were pressed out of measure, above strength, insomuch that we despaired even of life:
    But we had the sentence of death in ourselves, that we should not trust in ourselves, but in God which raiseth the dead:
    Who delivered us from so great a death, and doth deliver: in whom we trust that he will yet deliver us;
    Ye also helping together by prayer for us, that for the gift bestowed upon us by the means of many persons thanks may be given by many on our behalf.
    For our rejoicing is this, the testimony of our conscience, that in simplicity and godly sincerity, not with fleshly wisdom, but by the grace of God, we have had our conversation in the world, and more abundantly to you-ward.
    For we write none other things unto you, than what ye read or acknowledge; and I trust ye shall acknowledge even to the end;
    As also ye have acknowledged us in part, that we are your rejoicing, even as ye also are our's in the day of the Lord Jesus.
    And in this confidence I was minded to come unto you before, that ye might have a second benefit;
    And to pass by you into Macedonia, and to come again out of Macedonia unto you, and of you to be brought on my way toward Judaea.
    When I therefore was thus minded, did I use lightness? or the things that I purpose, do I purpose according to the flesh, that with me there should be yea yea, and nay nay?
    But as God is true, our word toward you was not yea and nay.
    For the Son of God, Jesus Christ, who was preached among you by us, even by me and Silvanus and Timotheus, was not yea and nay, but in him was yea.
    For all the promises of God in him are yea, and in him Amen, unto the glory of God by us.
    Now he which stablisheth us with you in Christ, and hath anointed us, is God;
    Who hath also sealed us, and given the earnest of the Spirit in our hearts.
    Moreover I call God for a record upon my soul, that to spare you I came not as yet unto Corinth.
    Not for that we have dominion over your faith, but are helpers of your joy: for by faith ye stand.
    But I determined this with myself, that I would not come again to you in heaviness.
    For if I make you sorry, who is he then that maketh me glad, but the same which is made sorry by me?
    And I wrote this same unto you, lest, when I came, I should have sorrow from them of whom I ought to rejoice; having confidence in you all, that my joy is the joy of you all.
    For out of much affliction and anguish of heart I wrote unto you with many tears; not that ye should be grieved, but that ye might know the love which I have more abundantly unto you.
    But if any have caused grief, he hath not grieved me, but in part: that I may not overcharge you all.
    Sufficient to such a man is this punishment, which was inflicted of many.
    So that contrariwise ye ought rather to forgive him, and comfort him, lest perhaps such a one should be swallowed up with overmuch sorrow.
    Wherefore I beseech you that ye would confirm your love toward him.
    7 min
  • Lamentations 3
    I AM the man that hath seen affliction by the rod of his wrath.
    He hath led me, and brought me into darkness, but not into light.
    Surely against me is he turned; he turneth his hand against me all the day.
    My flesh and my skin hath he made old; he hath broken my bones.
    He hath builded against me, and compassed me with gall and travail.
    He hath set me in dark places, as they that be dead of old.
    He hath hedged me about, that I cannot get out: he hath made my chain heavy.
    Also when I cry and shout, he shutteth out my prayer.
    He hath inclosed my ways with hewn stone, he hath made my paths crooked.
    He was unto me as a bear lying in wait, and as a lion in secret places.
    He hath turned aside my ways, and pulled me in pieces: he hath made me desolate.
    He hath bent his bow, and set me as a mark for the arrow.
    He hath caused the arrows of his quiver to enter into my reins.
    I was a derision to all my people; and their song all the day.
    He hath filled me with bitterness, he hath made me drunken with wormwood.
    He hath also broken my teeth with gravel stones, he hath covered me with ashes.
    And thou hast removed my soul far off from peace: I forgat prosperity.
    And I said, My strength and my hope is perished from the LORD:
    Remembering mine affliction and my misery, the wormwood and the gall.
    My soul hath them still in remembrance, and is humbled in me.
    This I recall to my mind, therefore have I hope.
    It is of the LORD's mercies that we are not consumed, because his compassions fail not.
    They are new every morning: great is thy faithfulness.
    The LORD is my portion, saith my soul; therefore will I hope in him.
    The LORD is good unto them that wait for him, to the soul that seeketh him.
    It is good that a man should both hope and quietly wait for the salvation of the LORD.
    It is good for a man that he bear the yoke of his youth.
    He sitteth alone and keepeth silence, because he hath borne it upon him.
    He putteth his mouth in the dust; if so be there may be hope.
    He giveth his cheek to him that smiteth him: he is filled full with reproach.
    For the LORD will not cast off for ever:
    But though he cause grief, yet will he have compassion according to the multitude of his mercies.
    For he doth not afflict willingly nor grieve the children of men.
    To crush under his feet all the prisoners of the earth.
    To turn aside the right of a man before the face of the most High,
    To subvert a man in his cause, the LORD approveth not.
    Who is he that saith, and it cometh to pass, when the Lord commandeth it not?
    Out of the mouth of the most High proceedeth not evil and good?
    Wherefore doth a living man complain, a man for the punishment of his sins?
    Let us search and try our ways, and turn again to the LORD.
    Let us lift up our heart with our hands unto God in the heavens.
    We have transgressed and have rebelled: thou hast not pardoned.
    Thou hast covered with anger, and persecuted us: thou hast slain, thou hast not pitied.
    Thou hast covered thyself with a cloud, that our prayer should not pass through.
    Thou hast made us as the offscouring and refuse in the midst of the people.
    All our enemies have opened their mouths against us.
    Fear and a snare is come upon us, desolation and destruction.
    Mine eye runneth down with rivers of water for the destruction of the daughter of my people.
    Mine eye trickleth down, and ceaseth not, without any intermission.
    Till the LORD look down, and behold from heaven.
    Mine eye affecteth mine heart because of all the daughters of my city.
    Mine enemies chased me sore, like a bird, without cause.
    They have cut off my life in the dungeon, and cast a stone upon me.
    Waters flowed over mine head; then I said, I am cut off.
    I called upon thy name, O LORD, out of the low dungeon.
    Thou hast heard my voice: hide not thine ear at my breathing, at my cry.
    Thou drewest near in the day that I called upon thee: thou saidst, Fear not.
    O LORD, thou hast pleaded the causes of my soul; thou hast redeemed
    6 min
  • 1st Corinthians 16
    Now concerning the collection for the saints, as I have given order to the churches of Galatia, even so do ye.
    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.
    And when I come, whomsoever ye shall approve by your letters, them will I send to bring your liberality unto Jerusalem.
    And if it be meet that I go also, they shall go with me.
    Now I will come unto you, when I shall pass through Macedonia: for I do pass through Macedonia.
    And it may be that I will abide, yea, and winter with you, that ye may bring me on my journey whithersoever I go.
    For I will not see you now by the way; but I trust to tarry a while with you, if the Lord permit.
    But I will tarry at Ephesus until Pentecost.
    For a great door and effectual is opened unto me, and there are many adversaries.
    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.
    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.
    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.
    Watch ye, stand fast in the faith, quit you like men, be strong.
    Let all your things be done with charity.
    I beseech you, brethren, (ye know the house of Stephanas, that it is the firstfruits of Achaia, and that they have addicted themselves to the ministry of the saints,)
    That ye submit yourselves unto such, and to every one that helpeth with us, and laboureth.
    I am glad of the coming of Stephanas and Fortunatus and Achaicus: for that which was lacking on your part they have supplied.
    For they have refreshed my spirit and your's: therefore acknowledge ye them that are such.
    The churches of Asia salute you. Aquila and Priscilla salute you much in the Lord, with the church that is in their house.
    All the brethren greet you. Greet ye one another with an holy kiss.
    The salutation of me Paul with mine own hand.
    If any man love not the Lord Jesus Christ, let him be Anathema Maranatha.
    The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you.
    My love be with you all in Christ Jesus. Amen.
    3 min
  • 2nd Kings 7
    Then Elisha said, Hear ye the word of the LORD; Thus saith the LORD, To morrow about this time shall a measure of fine flour be sold for a shekel, and two measures of barley for a shekel, in the gate of Samaria.
    Then a lord on whose hand the king leaned answered the man of God, and said, Behold, if the LORD would make windows in heaven, might this thing be? And he said, Behold, thou shalt see it with thine eyes, but shalt not eat thereof.
    And there were four leprous men at the entering in of the gate: and they said one to another, Why sit we here until we die?
    If we say, We will enter into the city, then the famine is in the city, and we shall die there: and if we sit still here, we die also. Now therefore come, and let us fall unto the host of the Syrians: if they save us alive, we shall live; and if they kill us, we shall but die.
    And they rose up in the twilight, to go unto the camp of the Syrians: and when they were come to the uttermost part of the camp of Syria, behold, there was no man there.
    For the LORD had made the host of the Syrians to hear a noise of chariots, and a noise of horses, even the noise of a great host: and they said one to another, Lo, the king of Israel hath hired against us the kings of the Hittites, and the kings of the Egyptians, to come upon us.
    Wherefore they arose and fled in the twilight, and left their tents, and their horses, and their asses, even the camp as it was, and fled for their life.
    And when these lepers came to the uttermost part of the camp, they went into one tent, and did eat and drink, and carried thence silver, and gold, and raiment, and went and hid it; and came again, and entered into another tent, and carried thence also, and went and hid it.
    Then they said one to another, We do not well: this day is a day of good tidings, and we hold our peace: if we tarry till the morning light, some mischief will come upon us: now therefore come, that we may go and tell the king's household.
    So they came and called unto the porter of the city: and they told them, saying, We came to the camp of the Syrians, and, behold, there was no man there, neither voice of man, but horses tied, and asses tied, and the tents as they were.
    And he called the porters; and they told it to the king's house within.
    And the king arose in the night, and said unto his servants, I will now shew you what the Syrians have done to us. They know that we be hungry; therefore are they gone out of the camp to hide themselves in the field, saying, When they come out of the city, we shall catch them alive, and get into the city.
    And one of his servants answered and said, Let some take, I pray thee, five of the horses that remain, which are left in the city, (behold, they are as all the multitude of Israel that are left in it: behold, I say, they are even as all the multitude of the Israelites that are consumed:) and let us send and see.
    They took therefore two chariot horses; and the king sent after the host of the Syrians, saying, Go and see.
    And they went after them unto Jordan: and, lo, all the way was full of garments and vessels, which the Syrians had cast away in their haste. And the messengers returned, and told the king.
    And the people went out, and spoiled the tents of the Syrians. So a measure of fine flour was sold for a shekel, and two measures of barley for a shekel, according to the word of the LORD.
    And the king appointed the lord on whose hand he leaned to have the charge of the gate: and the people trode upon him in the gate, and he died, as the man of God had said, who spake when the king came down to him.
    And it came to pass as the man of God had spoken to the king, saying, Two measures of barley for a shekel, and a measure of fine flour for a shekel, shall be to morrow about this time in the gate of Samaria:
    And that lord answered the man of God, and said, Now, behold, if the LORD should make windows in heaven, might such a thing be? And he said, Behold, thou shalt see it with thine
    4 min
  • 2nd Kings 6
    And the sons of the prophets said unto Elisha, Behold now, the place where we dwell with thee is too strait for us.
    Let us go, we pray thee, unto Jordan, and take thence every man a beam, and let us make us a place there, where we may dwell. And he answered, Go ye.
    And one said, Be content, I pray thee, and go with thy servants. And he answered, I will go.
    So he went with them. And when they came to Jordan, they cut down wood.
    But as one was felling a beam, the axe head fell into the water: and he cried, and said, Alas, master! for it was borrowed.
    And the man of God said, Where fell it? And he shewed him the place. And he cut down a stick, and cast it in thither; and the iron did swim.
    Therefore said he, Take it up to thee. And he put out his hand, and took it.
    Then the king of Syria warred against Israel, and took counsel with his servants, saying, In such and such a place shall be my camp.
    And the man of God sent unto the king of Israel, saying, Beware that thou pass not such a place; for thither the Syrians are come down.
    And the king of Israel sent to the place which the man of God told him and warned him of, and saved himself there, not once nor twice.
    Therefore the heart of the king of Syria was sore troubled for this thing; and he called his servants, and said unto them, Will ye not shew me which of us is for the king of Israel?
    And one of his servants said, None, my lord, O king: but Elisha, the prophet that is in Israel, telleth the king of Israel the words that thou speakest in thy bedchamber.
    And he said, Go and spy where he is, that I may send and fetch him. And it was told him, saying, Behold, he is in Dothan.
    Therefore sent he thither horses, and chariots, and a great host: and they came by night, and compassed the city about.
    And when the servant of the man of God was risen early, and gone forth, behold, an host compassed the city both with horses and chariots. And his servant said unto him, Alas, my master! how shall we do?
    And he answered, Fear not: for they that be with us are more than they that be with them.
    And Elisha prayed, and said, LORD, I pray thee, open his eyes, that he may see. And the LORD opened the eyes of the young man; and he saw: and, behold, the mountain was full of horses and chariots of fire round about Elisha.
    And when they came down to him, Elisha prayed unto the LORD, and said, Smite this people, I pray thee, with blindness. And he smote them with blindness according to the word of Elisha.
    And Elisha said unto them, This is not the way, neither is this the city: follow me, and I will bring you to the man whom ye seek. But he led them to Samaria.
    And it came to pass, when they were come into Samaria, that Elisha said, LORD, open the eyes of these men, that they may see. And the LORD opened their eyes, and they saw; and, behold, they were in the midst of Samaria.
    And the king of Israel said unto Elisha, when he saw them, My father, shall I smite them? shall I smite them?
    And he answered, Thou shalt not smite them: wouldest thou smite those whom thou hast taken captive with thy sword and with thy bow? set bread and water before them, that they may eat and drink, and go to their master.
    And he prepared great provision for them: and when they had eaten and drunk, he sent them away, and they went to their master. So the bands of Syria came no more into the land of Israel.
    And it came to pass after this, that Benhadad king of Syria gathered all his host, and went up, and besieged Samaria.
    And there was a great famine in Samaria: and, behold, they besieged it, until an ass's head was sold for fourscore pieces of silver, and the fourth part of a cab of dove's dung for five pieces of silver.
    And as the king of Israel was passing by upon the wall, there cried a woman unto him, saying, Help, my lord, O king.
    And he said, If the LORD do not help thee, whence shall I help thee? out of the barnfloor, or out of the winepress?
    And the king said unto her, What aileth thee? A
    6 min
  • 1st Corinthians 15
    Moreover, brethren, I declare unto you the gospel which I preached unto you, which also ye have received, and wherein ye stand;
    By which also ye are saved, if ye keep in memory what I preached unto you, unless ye have believed in vain.
    For I delivered unto you first of all that which I also received, how that Christ died for our sins according to the scriptures;
    And that he was buried, and that he rose again the third day according to the scriptures:
    And that he was seen of Cephas, then of the twelve:
    After that, he was seen of above five hundred brethren at once; of whom the greater part remain unto this present, but some are fallen asleep.
    After that, he was seen of James; then of all the apostles.
    And last of all he was seen of me also, as of one born out of due time.
    For I am the least of the apostles, that am not meet to be called an apostle, because I persecuted the church of God.
    But by the grace of God I am what I am: and his grace which was bestowed upon me was not in vain; but I laboured more abundantly than they all: yet not I, but the grace of God which was with me.
    Therefore whether it were I or they, so we preach, and so ye believed.
    Now if Christ be preached that he rose from the dead, how say some among you that there is no resurrection of the dead?
    But if there be no resurrection of the dead, then is Christ not risen:
    And if Christ be not risen, then is our preaching vain, and your faith is also vain.
    Yea, and we are found false witnesses of God; because we have testified of God that he raised up Christ: whom he raised not up, if so be that the dead rise not.
    For if the dead rise not, then is not Christ raised:
    And if Christ be not raised, your faith is vain; ye are yet in your sins.
    Then they also which are fallen asleep in Christ are perished.
    If in this life only we have hope in Christ, we are of all men most miserable.
    But now is Christ risen from the dead, and become the firstfruits of them that slept.
    For since by man came death, by man came also the resurrection of the dead.
    For as in Adam all die, even so in Christ shall all be made alive.
    But every man in his own order: Christ the firstfruits; afterward they that are Christ's at his coming.
    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.
    For he must reign, till he hath put all enemies under his feet.
    The last enemy that shall be destroyed is death.
    For he 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.
    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.
    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?
    And why stand we in jeopardy every hour?
    I protest by your rejoicing which I have in Christ Jesus our LORD, I die daily.
    If after the manner of men I have fought with beasts at Ephesus, what advantageth it me, if the dead rise not? let us eat and drink; for to morrow we die.
    Be not deceived: evil communications corrupt good manners.
    Awake to righteousness, and sin not; for some have not the knowledge of God: I speak this to your shame.
    But some man will say, How are the dead raised up? and with what body do they come?
    Thou fool, that which thou sowest is not quickened, except it die:
    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:
    But God giveth it a body as it hath pleased him, and to every seed his own body.
    All flesh is not the same flesh: but there is one kind of flesh of men, another flesh of beasts, another of fishes, and another of birds.
    There are also celestial bodies, and bodies terrestrial: but the glory of the celestial is one
    8 min
  • Lamentations 2
    How hath the LORD covered the daughter of Zion with a cloud in his anger, and cast down from heaven unto the earth the beauty of Israel, and remembered not his footstool in the day of his anger!
    The LORD hath swallowed up all the habitations of Jacob, and hath not pitied: he hath thrown down in his wrath the strong holds of the daughter of Judah; he hath brought them down to the ground: he hath polluted the kingdom and the princes thereof.
    He hath cut off in his fierce anger all the horn of Israel: he hath drawn back his right hand from before the enemy, and he burned against Jacob like a flaming fire, which devoureth round about.
    He hath bent his bow like an enemy: he stood with his right hand as an adversary, and slew all that were pleasant to the eye in the tabernacle of the daughter of Zion: he poured out his fury like fire.
    The LORD was as an enemy: he hath swallowed up Israel, he hath swallowed up all her palaces: he hath destroyed his strong holds, and hath increased in the daughter of Judah mourning and lamentation.
    And he hath violently taken away his tabernacle, as if it were of a garden: he hath destroyed his places of the assembly: the LORD hath caused the solemn feasts and sabbaths to be forgotten in Zion, and hath despised in the indignation of his anger the king and the priest.
    The LORD hath cast off his altar, he hath abhorred his sanctuary, he hath given up into the hand of the enemy the walls of her palaces; they have made a noise in the house of the LORD, as in the day of a solemn feast.
    The LORD hath purposed to destroy the wall of the daughter of Zion: he hath stretched out a line, he hath not withdrawn his hand from destroying: therefore he made the rampart and the wall to lament; they languished together.
    Her gates are sunk into the ground; he hath destroyed and broken her bars: her king and her princes are among the Gentiles: the law is no more; her prophets also find no vision from the LORD.
    The elders of the daughter of Zion sit upon the ground, and keep silence: they have cast up dust upon their heads; they have girded themselves with sackcloth: the virgins of Jerusalem hang down their heads to the ground.
    Mine eyes do fail with tears, my bowels are troubled, my liver is poured upon the earth, for the destruction of the daughter of my people; because the children and the sucklings swoon in the streets of the city.
    They say to their mothers, Where is corn and wine? when they swooned as the wounded in the streets of the city, when their soul was poured out into their mothers' bosom.
    What thing shall I take to witness for thee? what thing shall I liken to thee, O daughter of Jerusalem? what shall I equal to thee, that I may comfort thee, O virgin daughter of Zion? for thy breach is great like the sea: who can heal thee?
    Thy prophets have seen vain and foolish things for thee: and they have not discovered thine iniquity, to turn away thy captivity; but have seen for thee false burdens and causes of banishment.
    All that pass by clap their hands at thee; they hiss and wag their head at the daughter of Jerusalem, saying, Is this the city that men call The perfection of beauty, The joy of the whole earth?
    All thine enemies have opened their mouth against thee: they hiss and gnash the teeth: they say, We have swallowed her up: certainly this is the day that we looked for; we have found, we have seen it.
    The LORD hath done that which he had devised; he hath fulfilled his word that he had commanded in the days of old: he hath thrown down, and hath not pitied: and he hath caused thine enemy to rejoice over thee, he hath set up the horn of thine adversaries.
    Their heart cried unto the LORD, O wall of the daughter of Zion, let tears run down like a river day and night: give thyself no rest; let not the apple of thine eye cease.
    Arise, cry out in the night: in the beginning of the watches pour out thine heart like water before the face of the LORD: lift up thy hands toward him for the life of th
    6 min
  • Lamentations 1
    How doth the city sit solitary, that was full of people! how is she become as a widow! she that was great among the nations, and princess among the provinces, how is she become tributary!
    She weepeth sore in the night, and her tears are on her cheeks: among all her lovers she hath none to comfort her: all her friends have dealt treacherously with her, they are become her enemies.
    Judah is gone into captivity because of affliction, and because of great servitude: she dwelleth among the heathen, she findeth no rest: all her persecutors overtook her between the straits.
    The ways of Zion do mourn, because none come to the solemn feasts: all her gates are desolate: her priests sigh, her virgins are afflicted, and she is in bitterness.
    Her adversaries are the chief, her enemies prosper; for the LORD hath afflicted her for the multitude of her transgressions: her children are gone into captivity before the enemy.
    And from the daughter of Zion all her beauty is departed: her princes are become like harts that find no pasture, and they are gone without strength before the pursuer.
    Jerusalem remembered in the days of her affliction and of her miseries all her pleasant things that she had in the days of old, when her people fell into the hand of the enemy, and none did help her: the adversaries saw her, and did mock at her sabbaths.
    Jerusalem hath grievously sinned; therefore she is removed: all that honoured her despise her, because they have seen her nakedness: yea, she sigheth, and turneth backward.
    Her filthiness is in her skirts; she remembereth not her last end; therefore she came down wonderfully: she had no comforter. O LORD, behold my affliction: for the enemy hath magnified himself.
    The adversary hath spread out his hand upon all her pleasant things: for she hath seen that the heathen entered into her sanctuary, whom thou didst command that they should not enter into thy congregation.
    All her people sigh, they seek bread; they have given their pleasant things for meat to relieve the soul: see, O LORD, and consider; for I am become vile.
    Is it nothing to you, all ye that pass by? behold, and see if there be any sorrow like unto my sorrow, which is done unto me, wherewith the LORD hath afflicted me in the day of his fierce anger.
    From above hath he sent fire into my bones, and it prevaileth against them: he hath spread a net for my feet, he hath turned me back: he hath made me desolate and faint all the day.
    The yoke of my transgressions is bound by his hand: they are wreathed, and come up upon my neck: he hath made my strength to fall, the LORD hath delivered me into their hands, from whom I am not able to rise up.
    The LORD hath trodden under foot all my mighty men in the midst of me: he hath called an assembly against me to crush my young men: the LORD hath trodden the virgin, the daughter of Judah, as in a winepress.
    For these things I weep; mine eye, mine eye runneth down with water, because the comforter that should relieve my soul is far from me: my children are desolate, because the enemy prevailed.
    Zion spreadeth forth her hands, and there is none to comfort her: the LORD hath commanded concerning Jacob, that his adversaries should be round about him: Jerusalem is as a menstruous woman among them.
    The LORD is righteous; for I have rebelled against his commandment: hear, I pray you, all people, and behold my sorrow: my virgins and my young men are gone into captivity.
    I called for my lovers, but they deceived me: my priests and mine elders gave up the ghost in the city, while they sought their meat to relieve their souls.
    Behold, O LORD; for I am in distress: my bowels are troubled; mine heart is turned within me; for I have grievously rebelled: abroad the sword bereaveth, at home there is as death.
    They have heard that I sigh: there is none to comfort me: all mine enemies have heard of my trouble; they are glad that thou hast done it: thou wilt bring the day that thou hast called, and they shall be l
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  • 2nd Kings 5
    Now Naaman, captain of the host of the king of Syria, was a great man with his master, and honourable, because by him the LORD had given deliverance unto Syria: he was also a mighty man in valour, but he was a leper.
    And the Syrians had gone out by companies, and had brought away captive out of the land of Israel a little maid; and she waited on Naaman's wife.
    And she said unto her mistress, Would God my lord were with the prophet that is in Samaria! for he would recover him of his leprosy.
    And one went in, and told his lord, saying, Thus and thus said the maid that is of the land of Israel.
    And the king of Syria said, Go to, go, and I will send a letter unto the king of Israel. And he departed, and took with him ten talents of silver, and six thousand pieces of gold, and ten changes of raiment.
    And he brought the letter to the king of Israel, saying, Now when this letter is come unto thee, behold, I have therewith sent Naaman my servant to thee, that thou mayest recover him of his leprosy.
    And it came to pass, when the king of Israel had read the letter, that he rent his clothes, and said, Am I God, to kill and to make alive, that this man doth send unto me to recover a man of his leprosy? wherefore consider, I pray you, and see how he seeketh a quarrel against me.
    And it was so, when Elisha the man of God had heard that the king of Israel had rent his clothes, that he sent to the king, saying, Wherefore hast thou rent thy clothes? let him come now to me, and he shall know that there is a prophet in Israel.
    So Naaman came with his horses and with his chariot, and stood at the door of the house of Elisha.
    And Elisha sent a messenger unto him, saying, Go and wash in Jordan seven times, and thy flesh shall come again to thee, and thou shalt be clean.
    But Naaman was wroth, and went away, and said, Behold, I thought, He will surely come out to me, and stand, and call on the name of the LORD his God, and strike his hand over the place, and recover the leper.
    Are not Abana and Pharpar, rivers of Damascus, better than all the waters of Israel? may I not wash in them, and be clean? So he turned and went away in a rage.
    And his servants came near, and spake unto him, and said, My father, if the prophet had bid thee do some great thing, wouldest thou not have done it? how much rather then, when he saith to thee, Wash, and be clean?
    Then went he down, and dipped himself seven times in Jordan, according to the saying of the man of God: and his flesh came again like unto the flesh of a little child, and he was clean.
    And he returned to the man of God, he and all his company, and came, and stood before him: and he said, Behold, now I know that there is no God in all the earth, but in Israel: now therefore, I pray thee, take a blessing of thy servant.
    But he said, As the LORD liveth, before whom I stand, I will receive none. And he urged him to take it; but he refused.
    And Naaman said, Shall there not then, I pray thee, be given to thy servant two mules' burden of earth? for thy servant will henceforth offer neither burnt offering nor sacrifice unto other gods, but unto the LORD.
    In this thing the LORD pardon thy servant, that when my master goeth into the house of Rimmon to worship there, and he leaneth on my hand, and I bow myself in the house of Rimmon: when I bow down myself in the house of Rimmon, the LORD pardon thy servant in this thing.
    And he said unto him, Go in peace. So he departed from him a little way.
    But Gehazi, the servant of Elisha the man of God, said, Behold, my master hath spared Naaman this Syrian, in not receiving at his hands that which he brought: but, as the LORD liveth, I will run after him, and take somewhat of him.
    So Gehazi followed after Naaman. And when Naaman saw him running after him, he lighted down from the chariot to meet him, and said, Is all well?
    And he said, All is well. My master hath sent me, saying, Behold, even now there be come to me from mount Ephraim two young men of the
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  • 1st Corinthians 14
    Follow after charity, and desire spiritual gifts, but rather that ye may prophesy.
    For he that speaketh in an unknown tongue speaketh not unto men, but unto God: for no man understandeth him; howbeit in the spirit he speaketh mysteries.
    But he that prophesieth speaketh unto men to edification, and exhortation, and comfort.
    He that speaketh in an unknown tongue edifieth himself; but he that prophesieth edifieth the church.
    I would that ye all spake with tongues but rather that ye prophesied: for greater is he that prophesieth than he that speaketh with tongues, except he interpret, that the church may receive edifying.
    Now, brethren, if I come unto you speaking with tongues, what shall I profit you, except I shall speak to you either by revelation, or by knowledge, or by prophesying, or by doctrine?
    And even things without life giving sound, whether pipe or harp, except they give a distinction in the sounds, how shall it be known what is piped or harped?
    For if the trumpet give an uncertain sound, who shall prepare himself to the battle?
    So likewise ye, except ye utter by the tongue words easy to be understood, how shall it be known what is spoken? for ye shall speak into the air.
    There are, it may be, so many kinds of voices in the world, and none of them is without signification.
    Therefore if I know not the meaning of the voice, I shall be unto him that speaketh a barbarian, and he that speaketh shall be a barbarian unto me.
    Even so ye, forasmuch as ye are zealous of spiritual gifts, seek that ye may excel to the edifying of the church.
    Wherefore let him that speaketh in an unknown tongue pray that he may interpret.
    For if I pray in an unknown tongue, my spirit prayeth, but my understanding is unfruitful.
    What is it then? I will pray with the spirit, and I will pray with the understanding also: I will sing with the spirit, and I will sing with the understanding also.
    Else when thou shalt bless with the spirit, how shall he that occupieth the room of the unlearned say Amen at thy giving of thanks, seeing he understandeth not what thou sayest?
    For thou verily givest thanks well, but the other is not edified.
    I thank my God, I speak with tongues more than ye all:
    Yet in the church I had rather speak five words with my understanding, that by my voice I might teach others also, than ten thousand words in an unknown tongue.
    Brethren, be not children in understanding: howbeit in malice be ye children, but in understanding be men.
    In the law it is written, With men of other tongues and other lips will I speak unto this people; and yet for all that will they not hear me, saith the LORD.
    Wherefore tongues are for a sign, not to them that believe, but to them that believe not: but prophesying serveth not for them that believe not, but for them which believe.
    If therefore the whole church be come together into one place, and all speak with tongues, and there come in those that are unlearned, or unbelievers, will they not say that ye are mad?
    But if all prophesy, and there come in one that believeth not, or one unlearned, he is convinced of all, he is judged of all:
    And thus are the secrets of his heart made manifest; and so falling down on his face he will worship God, and report that God is in you of a truth.
    How is it then, brethren? when ye come together, every one of you hath a psalm, hath a doctrine, hath a tongue, hath a revelation, hath an interpretation. Let all things be done unto edifying.
    If any man speak in an unknown tongue, let it be by two, or at the most by three, and that by course; and let one interpret.
    But if there be no interpreter, let him keep silence in the church; and let him speak to himself, and to God.
    Let the prophets speak two or three, and let the other judge.
    If any thing be revealed to another that sitteth by, let the first hold his peace.
    For ye may all prophesy one by one, that all may learn, and all may be comforted.
    And the spirits of the prophets are subject to the pr
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