CIL Daily Bible Readings

CIL Daily Bible Readings

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  • 1st John 3,4
    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.
    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.
    And every man that hath this hope in him purifieth himself, even as he is pure.
    Whosoever committeth sin transgresseth also the law: for sin is the transgression of the law.
    And ye know that he was manifested to take away our sins; and in him is no sin.
    Whosoever abideth in him sinneth not: whosoever sinneth hath not seen him, neither known him.
    Little children, let no man deceive you: he that doeth righteousness is righteous, even as he is righteous.
    He that committeth sin is of the devil; for the devil sinneth from the beginning. For this purpose the Son of God was manifested, that he might destroy the works of the devil.
    Whosoever is born of God doth not commit sin; for his seed remaineth in him: and he cannot sin, because he is born of 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.
    For this is the message that ye heard from the beginning, that we should love one another.
    Not as Cain, who was of that wicked one, and slew his brother. And wherefore slew he him? Because his own works were evil, and his brother's righteous.
    Marvel not, my brethren, if the world hate you.
    We know that we have passed from death unto life, because we love the brethren. He that loveth not his brother abideth in death.
    Whosoever hateth his brother is a murderer: and ye know that no murderer hath eternal life abiding in him.
    Hereby perceive we the love of God, because he laid down his life for us: and we ought to lay down our lives for the brethren.
    But whoso hath this world's good, and seeth his brother have need, and shutteth up his bowels of compassion from him, how dwelleth the love of God in him?
    My little children, let us not love in word, neither in tongue; but in deed and in truth.
    And hereby we know that we are of the truth, and shall assure our hearts before him.
    For if our heart condemn us, God is greater than our heart, and knoweth all things.
    Beloved, if our heart condemn us not, then have we confidence toward God.
    And whatsoever we ask, we receive of him, because we keep his commandments, and do those things that are pleasing in his sight.
    And this is his commandment, That we should believe on the name of his Son Jesus Christ, and love one another, as he gave us commandment.
    And he that keepeth his commandments dwelleth in him, and he in him. And hereby we know that he abideth in us, by the Spirit which he hath given us.
    Beloved, believe not every spirit, but try the spirits whether they are of God: because many false prophets are gone out into the world.
    Hereby know ye the Spirit of God: Every spirit that confesseth that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is of God:
    And every spirit that confesseth not that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is not of God: and this is that spirit of antichrist, whereof ye have heard that it should come; and even now already is it in the world.
    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.
    They are of the world: therefore speak they of the world, and the world heareth them.
    We are of God: he that knoweth God heareth us; he that is not of God heareth not us. Hereby know we the spirit of truth, and the spirit of error.
    Beloved, let us love one another: for love is of God; and every one that loveth is born of God, and knoweth God.
    He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love.
    In this was manifested the love of God toward us, because that God sent his only begotten Son into the world, that we might live through him.
    Herein is love, not tha
    7 min
  • Zephaniah 3
    Woe to her that is filthy and polluted, to the oppressing city!
    She obeyed not the voice; she received not correction; she trusted not in the LORD; she drew not near to her God.
    Her princes within her are roaring lions; her judges are evening wolves; they gnaw not the bones till the morrow.
    Her prophets are light and treacherous persons: her priests have polluted the sanctuary, they have done violence to the law.
    The just LORD is in the midst thereof; he will not do iniquity: every morning doth he bring his judgment to light, he faileth not; but the unjust knoweth no shame.
    I have cut off the nations: their towers are desolate; I made their streets waste, that none passeth by: their cities are destroyed, so that there is no man, that there is none inhabitant.
    I said, Surely thou wilt fear me, thou wilt receive instruction; so their dwelling should not be cut off, howsoever I punished them: but they rose early, and corrupted all their doings.
    Therefore wait ye upon me, saith the LORD, until the day that I rise up to the prey: for my determination is to gather the nations, that I may assemble the kingdoms, to pour upon them mine indignation, even all my fierce anger: for all the earth shall be devoured with the fire of my jealousy.
    For then will I turn to the people a pure language, that they may all call upon the name of the LORD, to serve him with one consent.
    From beyond the rivers of Ethiopia my suppliants, even the daughter of my dispersed, shall bring mine offering.
    In that day shalt thou not be ashamed for all thy doings, wherein thou hast transgressed against me: for then I will take away out of the midst of thee them that rejoice in thy pride, and thou shalt no more be haughty because of my holy mountain.
    I will also leave in the midst of thee an afflicted and poor people, and they shall trust in the name of the LORD.
    The remnant of Israel shall not do iniquity, nor speak lies; neither shall a deceitful tongue be found in their mouth: for they shall feed and lie down, and none shall make them afraid.
    Sing, O daughter of Zion; shout, O Israel; be glad and rejoice with all the heart, O daughter of Jerusalem.
    The LORD hath taken away thy judgments, he hath cast out thine enemy: the king of Israel, even the LORD, is in the midst of thee: thou shalt not see evil any more.
    In that day it shall be said to Jerusalem, Fear thou not: and to Zion, Let not thine hands be slack.
    The LORD thy God in the midst of thee is mighty; he will save, he will rejoice over thee with joy; he will rest in his love, he will joy over thee with singing.
    I will gather them that are sorrowful for the solemn assembly, who are of thee, to whom the reproach of it was a burden.
    Behold, at that time I will undo all that afflict thee: and I will save her that halteth, and gather her that was driven out; and I will get them praise and fame in every land where they have been put to shame.
    At that time will I bring you again, even in the time that I gather you: for I will make you a name and a praise among all people of the earth, when I turn back your captivity before your eyes, saith the LORD.
    5 min
  • Job 21
    But Job answered and said,
    Hear diligently my speech, and let this be your consolations.
    Suffer me that I may speak; and after that I have spoken, mock on.
    As for me, is my complaint to man? and if it were so, why should not my spirit be troubled?
    Mark me, and be astonished, and lay your hand upon your mouth.
    Even when I remember I am afraid, and trembling taketh hold on my flesh.
    Wherefore do the wicked live, become old, yea, are mighty in power?
    Their seed is established in their sight with them, and their offspring before their eyes.
    Their houses are safe from fear, neither is the rod of God upon them.
    Their bull gendereth, and faileth not; their cow calveth, and casteth not her calf.
    They send forth their little ones like a flock, and their children dance.
    They take the timbrel and harp, and rejoice at the sound of the organ.
    They spend their days in wealth, and in a moment go down to the grave.
    Therefore they say unto God, Depart from us; for we desire not the knowledge of thy ways.
    What is the Almighty, that we should serve him? and what profit should we have, if we pray unto him?
    Lo, their good is not in their hand: the counsel of the wicked is far from me.
    How oft is the candle of the wicked put out! and how oft cometh their destruction upon them! God distributeth sorrows in his anger.
    They are as stubble before the wind, and as chaff that the storm carrieth away.
    God layeth up his iniquity for his children: he rewardeth him, and he shall know it.
    His eyes shall see his destruction, and he shall drink of the wrath of the Almighty.
    For what pleasure hath he in his house after him, when the number of his months is cut off in the midst?
    Shall any teach God knowledge? seeing he judgeth those that are high.
    One dieth in his full strength, being wholly at ease and quiet.
    His breasts are full of milk, and his bones are moistened with marrow.
    And another dieth in the bitterness of his soul, and never eateth with pleasure.
    They shall lie down alike in the dust, and the worms shall cover them.
    Behold, I know your thoughts, and the devices which ye wrongfully imagine against me.
    For ye say, Where is the house of the prince? and where are the dwelling places of the wicked?
    Have ye not asked them that go by the way? and do ye not know their tokens,
    That the wicked is reserved to the day of destruction? they shall be brought forth to the day of wrath.
    Who shall declare his way to his face? and who shall repay him what he hath done?
    Yet shall he be brought to the grave, and shall remain in the tomb.
    The clods of the valley shall be sweet unto him, and every man shall draw after him, as there are innumerable before him.
    How then comfort ye me in vain, seeing in your answers there remaineth falsehood?
    4 min
  • Job 20
    Then answered Zophar the Naamathite, and said,
    Therefore do my thoughts cause me to answer, and for this I make haste.
    I have heard the check of my reproach, and the spirit of my understanding causeth me to answer.
    Knowest thou not this of old, since man was placed upon earth,
    That the triumphing of the wicked is short, and the joy of the hypocrite but for a moment?
    Though his excellency mount up to the heavens, and his head reach unto the clouds;
    Yet he shall perish for ever like his own dung: they which have seen him shall say, Where is he?
    He shall fly away as a dream, and shall not be found: yea, he shall be chased away as a vision of the night.
    The eye also which saw him shall see him no more; neither shall his place any more behold him.
    His children shall seek to please the poor, and his hands shall restore their goods.
    His bones are full of the sin of his youth, which shall lie down with him in the dust.
    Though wickedness be sweet in his mouth, though he hide it under his tongue;
    Though he spare it, and forsake it not; but keep it still within his mouth:
    Yet his meat in his bowels is turned, it is the gall of asps within him.
    He hath swallowed down riches, and he shall vomit them up again: God shall cast them out of his belly.
    He shall suck the poison of asps: the viper's tongue shall slay him.
    He shall not see the rivers, the floods, the brooks of honey and butter.
    That which he laboured for shall he restore, and shall not swallow it down: according to his substance shall the restitution be, and he shall not rejoice therein.
    Because he hath oppressed and hath forsaken the poor; because he hath violently taken away an house which he builded not;
    Surely he shall not feel quietness in his belly, he shall not save of that which he desired.
    There shall none of his meat be left; therefore shall no man look for his goods.
    In the fulness of his sufficiency he shall be in straits: every hand of the wicked shall come upon him.
    When he is about to fill his belly, God shall cast the fury of his wrath upon him, and shall rain it upon him while he is eating.
    He shall flee from the iron weapon, and the bow of steel shall strike him through.
    It is drawn, and cometh out of the body; yea, the glittering sword cometh out of his gall: terrors are upon him.
    All darkness shall be hid in his secret places: a fire not blown shall consume him; it shall go ill with him that is left in his tabernacle.
    The heaven shall reveal his iniquity; and the earth shall rise up against him.
    The increase of his house shall depart, and his goods shall flow away in the day of his wrath.
    This is the portion of a wicked man from God, and the heritage appointed unto him by God.
    4 min
  • 1st John 1,2
    That which was from the beginning, which we have heard, which we have seen with our eyes, which we have looked upon, and our hands have handled, of the Word of life;
    (For the life was manifested, and we have seen it, and bear witness, and shew unto you that eternal life, which was with the Father, and was manifested unto us;)
    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.
    And these things write we unto you, that your joy may be full.
    This then is the message which we have heard of him, and declare unto you, that God is light, and in him is no darkness at all.
    If we say that we have fellowship with him, and walk in darkness, we lie, and do not the truth:
    But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship one with another, and the blood of Jesus Christ his Son cleanseth us from all sin.
    If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.
    If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
    If we say that we have not sinned, we make him a liar, and his word is not in us.
    My little children, these things write I unto you, that ye sin not. And if any man sin, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous:
    And he is the propitiation for our sins: and not for our's only, but also for the sins of the whole world.
    And hereby we do know that we know him, if we keep his commandments.
    He that saith, I know him, and keepeth not his commandments, is a liar, and the truth is not in him.
    But whoso keepeth his word, in him verily is the love of God perfected: hereby know we that we are in him.
    He that saith he abideth in him ought himself also so to walk, even as he walked.
    Brethren, 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.
    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.
    He that saith he is in the light, and hateth his brother, is in darkness even until now.
    He that loveth his brother abideth in the light, and there is none occasion of stumbling in him.
    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.
    I write unto you, little children, because your sins are forgiven you for his name's sake.
    I write unto you, fathers, because ye have known him that is from the beginning. I write unto you, young men, because ye have overcome the wicked one. I write unto you, little children, because ye have known the Father.
    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 overcome the wicked one.
    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.
    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.
    And the world passeth away, and the lust thereof: but he that doeth the will of God abideth for ever.
    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.
    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.
    But ye have an unction from the Holy One, and ye know all things.
    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.
    Who is a liar bu
    7 min
  • Zephaniah 2
    Gather yourselves together, yea, gather together, O nation not desired;
    Before the decree bring forth, before the day pass as the chaff, before the fierce anger of the LORD come upon you, before the day of the LORD's anger come upon you.
    Seek ye the LORD, all ye meek of the earth, which have wrought his judgment; seek righteousness, seek meekness: it may be ye shall be hid in the day of the LORD's anger.
    For Gaza shall be forsaken, and Ashkelon a desolation: they shall drive out Ashdod at the noon day, and Ekron shall be rooted up.
    Woe unto the inhabitants of the sea coast, the nation of the Cherethites! the word of the LORD is against you; O Canaan, the land of the Philistines, I will even destroy thee, that there shall be no inhabitant.
    And the sea coast shall be dwellings and cottages for shepherds, and folds for flocks.
    And the coast shall be for the remnant of the house of Judah; they shall feed thereupon: in the houses of Ashkelon shall they lie down in the evening: for the LORD their God shall visit them, and turn away their captivity.
    I have heard the reproach of Moab, and the revilings of the children of Ammon, whereby they have reproached my people, and magnified themselves against their border.
    Therefore as I live, saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, Surely Moab shall be as Sodom, and the children of Ammon as Gomorrah, even the breeding of nettles, and saltpits, and a perpetual desolation: the residue of my people shall spoil them, and the remnant of my people shall possess them.
    This shall they have for their pride, because they have reproached and magnified themselves against the people of the LORD of hosts.
    The LORD will be terrible unto them: for he will famish all the gods of the earth; and men shall worship him, every one from his place, even all the isles of the heathen.
    Ye Ethiopians also, ye shall be slain by my sword.
    And he will stretch out his hand against the north, and destroy Assyria; and will make Nineveh a desolation, and dry like a wilderness.
    And flocks shall lie down in the midst of her, all the beasts of the nations: both the cormorant and the bittern shall lodge in the upper lintels of it; their voice shall sing in the windows; desolation shall be in the thresholds; for he shall uncover the cedar work.
    This is the rejoicing city that dwelt carelessly, that said in her heart, I am, and there is none beside me: how is she become a desolation, a place for beasts to lie down in! every one that passeth by her shall hiss, and wag his hand.
    4 min
  • Job 18,19
    Then answered Bildad the Shuhite, and said,
    How long will it be ere ye make an end of words? mark, and afterwards we will speak.
    Wherefore are we counted as beasts, and reputed vile in your sight?
    He teareth himself in his anger: shall the earth be forsaken for thee? and shall the rock be removed out of his place?
    Yea, the light of the wicked shall be put out, and the spark of his fire shall not shine.
    The light shall be dark in his tabernacle, and his candle shall be put out with him.
    The steps of his strength shall be straitened, and his own counsel shall cast him down.
    For he is cast into a net by his own feet, and he walketh upon a snare.
    The gin shall take him by the heel, and the robber shall prevail against him.
    The snare is laid for him in the ground, and a trap for him in the way.
    Terrors shall make him afraid on every side, and shall drive him to his feet.
    His strength shall be hungerbitten, and destruction shall be ready at his side.
    It shall devour the strength of his skin: even the firstborn of death shall devour his strength.
    His confidence shall be rooted out of his tabernacle, and it shall bring him to the king of terrors.
    It shall dwell in his tabernacle, because it is none of his: brimstone shall be scattered upon his habitation.
    His roots shall be dried up beneath, and above shall his branch be cut off.
    His remembrance shall perish from the earth, and he shall have no name in the street.
    He shall be driven from light into darkness, and chased out of the world.
    He shall neither have son nor nephew among his people, nor any remaining in his dwellings.
    They that come after him shall be astonied at his day, as they that went before were affrighted.
    Surely such are the dwellings of the wicked, and this is the place of him that knoweth not God.
    Then Job answered and said,
    How long will ye vex my soul, and break me in pieces with words?
    These ten times have ye reproached me: ye are not ashamed that ye make yourselves strange to me.
    And be it indeed that I have erred, mine error remaineth with myself.
    If indeed ye will magnify yourselves against me, and plead against me my reproach:
    Know now that God hath overthrown me, and hath compassed me with his net.
    Behold, I cry out of wrong, but I am not heard: I cry aloud, but there is no judgment.
    He hath fenced up my way that I cannot pass, and he hath set darkness in my paths.
    He hath stripped me of my glory, and taken the crown from my head.
    He hath destroyed me on every side, and I am gone: and mine hope hath he removed like a tree.
    He hath also kindled his wrath against me, and he counteth me unto him as one of his enemies.
    His troops come together, and raise up their way against me, and encamp round about my tabernacle.
    He hath put my brethren far from me, and mine acquaintance are verily estranged from me.
    My kinsfolk have failed, and my familiar friends have forgotten me.
    They that dwell in mine house, and my maids, count me for a stranger: I am an alien in their sight.
    I called my servant, and he gave me no answer; I intreated him with my mouth.
    My breath is strange to my wife, though I intreated for the children's sake of mine own body.
    Yea, young children despised me; I arose, and they spake against me.
    All my inward friends abhorred me: and they whom I loved are turned against me.
    My bone cleaveth to my skin and to my flesh, and I am escaped with the skin of my teeth.
    Have pity upon me, have pity upon me, O ye my friends; for the hand of God hath touched me.
    Why do ye persecute me as God, and are not satisfied with my flesh?
    Oh that my words were now written! oh that they were printed in a book!
    That they were graven with an iron pen and lead in the rock for ever!
    For I know that my redeemer liveth, and that he shall stand at the latter day upon the earth:
    And though after my skin worms destroy this body, yet in my flesh shall I see God:
    Whom I shall see for myself, and mine eyes shall behold, and not another; th
    6 min
  • 2nd Peter 3
    This second epistle, beloved, I now write unto you; in both which I stir up your pure minds by way of remembrance:
    That ye may be mindful of the words which were spoken before by the holy prophets, and of the commandment of us the apostles of the Lord and Saviour:
    Knowing this first, that there shall come in the last days scoffers, walking after their own lusts,
    And saying, Where is the promise of his coming? for since the fathers fell asleep, all things continue as they were from the beginning of the creation.
    For this they willingly are ignorant of, that by the word of God the heavens were of old, and the earth standing out of the water and in the water:
    Whereby the world that then was, being overflowed with water, perished:
    But the heavens and the earth, which are now, by the same word are kept in store, reserved unto fire against the day of judgment and perdition of ungodly men.
    But, beloved, be not ignorant of this one thing, that one day is with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.
    The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness; but is longsuffering to us-ward, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance.
    But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night; in the which the heavens shall pass away with a great noise, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat, the earth also and the works that are therein shall be burned up.
    Seeing then that all these things shall be dissolved, what manner of persons ought ye to be in all holy conversation and godliness,
    Looking for and hasting unto the coming of the day of God, wherein the heavens being on fire shall be dissolved, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat?
    Nevertheless we, according to his promise, look for new heavens and a new earth, wherein dwelleth righteousness.
    Wherefore, beloved, seeing that ye look for such things, be diligent that ye may be found of him in peace, without spot, and blameless.
    And account that the longsuffering of our Lord is salvation; even as our beloved brother Paul also according to the wisdom given unto him hath written unto you;
    As also in all his epistles, speaking in them of these things; in which are some things hard to be understood, which they that are unlearned and unstable wrest, as they do also the other scriptures, unto their own destruction.
    Ye therefore, beloved, seeing ye know these things before, beware lest ye also, being led away with the error of the wicked, fall from your own stedfastness.
    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.
    4 min
  • Zephaniah 1
    The word of the LORD which came unto Zephaniah the son of Cushi, the son of Gedaliah, the son of Amariah, the son of Hizkiah, in the days of Josiah the son of Amon, king of Judah.
    I will utterly consume all things from off the land, saith the LORD.
    I will consume man and beast; I will consume the fowls of the heaven, and the fishes of the sea, and the stumbling blocks with the wicked: and I will cut off man from off the land, saith the LORD.
    I will also stretch out mine hand upon Judah, and upon all the inhabitants of Jerusalem; and I will cut off the remnant of Baal from this place, and the name of the Chemarims with the priests;
    And them that worship the host of heaven upon the housetops; and them that worship and that swear by the LORD, and that swear by Malcham;
    And them that are turned back from the LORD; and those that have not sought the LORD, nor enquired for him.
    Hold thy peace at the presence of the Lord GOD: for the day of the LORD is at hand: for the LORD hath prepared a sacrifice, he hath bid his guests.
    And it shall come to pass in the day of the LORD's sacrifice, that I will punish the princes, and the king's children, and all such as are clothed with strange apparel.
    In the same day also will I punish all those that leap on the threshold, which fill their masters' houses with violence and deceit.
    And it shall come to pass in that day, saith the LORD, that there shall be the noise of a cry from the fish gate, and an howling from the second, and a great crashing from the hills.
    Howl, ye inhabitants of Maktesh, for all the merchant people are cut down; all they that bear silver are cut off.
    And it shall come to pass at that time, that I will search Jerusalem with candles, and punish the men that are settled on their lees: that say in their heart, The LORD will not do good, neither will he do evil.
    Therefore their goods shall become a booty, and their houses a desolation: they shall also build houses, but not inhabit them; and they shall plant vineyards, but not drink the wine thereof.
    The great day of the LORD is near, it is near, and hasteth greatly, even the voice of the day of the LORD: the mighty man shall cry there bitterly.
    That day is a day of wrath, a day of trouble and distress, a day of wasteness and desolation, a day of darkness and gloominess, a day of clouds and thick darkness,
    A day of the trumpet and alarm against the fenced cities, and against the high towers.
    And I will bring distress upon men, that they shall walk like blind men, because they have sinned against the LORD: and their blood shall be poured out as dust, and their flesh as the dung.
    Neither their silver nor their gold shall be able to deliver them in the day of the LORD's wrath; but the whole land shall be devoured by the fire of his jealousy: for he shall make even a speedy riddance of all them that dwell in the land.
    4 min
  • 2nd Peter 1,2
    Simon Peter, a servant and an apostle of Jesus Christ, to them that have obtained like precious faith with us through the righteousness of God and our Saviour Jesus Christ:
    Grace and peace be multiplied unto you through the knowledge of God, and of Jesus our Lord,
    According as his divine power hath given unto us all things that pertain unto life and godliness, through the knowledge of him that hath called us to glory and virtue:
    Whereby are given unto us exceeding great and precious promises: that by these ye might be partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust.
    And beside this, giving all diligence, add to your faith virtue; and to virtue knowledge;
    And to knowledge temperance; and to temperance patience; and to patience godliness;
    And to godliness brotherly kindness; and to brotherly kindness charity.
    For if these things be in you, and abound, they make you that ye shall neither be barren nor unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.
    But he that lacketh these things is blind, and cannot see afar off, and hath forgotten that he was purged from his old sins.
    Wherefore the rather, brethren, give diligence to make your calling and election sure: for if ye do these things, ye shall never fall:
    For so an entrance shall be ministered unto you abundantly into the everlasting kingdom of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ.
    Wherefore I will not be negligent to put you always in remembrance of these things, though ye know them, and be established in the present truth.
    Yea, I think it meet, as long as I am in this tabernacle, to stir you up by putting you in remembrance;
    Knowing that shortly I must put off this my tabernacle, even as our Lord Jesus Christ hath shewed me.
    Moreover I will endeavour that ye may be able after my decease to have these things always in remembrance.
    For we have not followed cunningly devised fables, when we made known unto you the power and coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, but were eyewitnesses of his majesty.
    For he received from God the Father honour and glory, when there came such a voice to him from the excellent glory, This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased.
    And this voice which came from heaven we heard, when we were with him in the holy mount.
    We have also a more sure word of prophecy; whereunto ye do well that ye take heed, as unto a light that shineth in a dark place, until the day dawn, and the day star arise in your hearts:
    Knowing this first, that no prophecy of the scripture is of any private interpretation.
    For the prophecy came not in old time by the will of man: but holy men of God spake as they were moved by the Holy Ghost.
    But there were false prophets also among the people, even as there shall be false teachers among you, who privily shall bring in damnable heresies, even denying the Lord that bought them, and bring upon themselves swift destruction.
    And many shall follow their pernicious ways; by reason of whom the way of truth shall be evil spoken of.
    And through covetousness shall they with feigned words make merchandise of you: whose judgment now of a long time lingereth not, and their damnation slumbereth not.
    For if God spared not the angels that sinned, but cast them down to hell, and delivered them into chains of darkness, to be reserved unto judgment;
    And spared not the old world, but saved Noah the eighth person, a preacher of righteousness, bringing in the flood upon the world of the ungodly;
    And turning the cities of Sodom and Gomorrha into ashes condemned them with an overthrow, making them an ensample unto those that after should live ungodly;
    And delivered just Lot, vexed with the filthy conversation of the wicked:
    (For that righteous man dwelling among them, in seeing and hearing, vexed his righteous soul from day to day with their unlawful deeds;)
    The Lord knoweth how to deliver the godly out of temptations, and to reserve the unjust unto the day of judgment to be punished
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