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  • Hebrews 11
    Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.
    For by it the elders obtained a good report.
    Through faith we understand that the worlds were framed by the word of God, so that things which are seen were not made of things which do appear.
    By faith Abel offered unto God a more excellent sacrifice than Cain, by which he obtained witness that he was righteous, God testifying of his gifts: and by it he being dead yet speaketh.
    By faith Enoch was translated that he should not see death; and was not found, because God had translated him: for before his translation he had this testimony, that he pleased God.
    But without faith it is impossible to please him: for he that cometh to God must believe that he is, and that he is a rewarder of them that diligently seek him.
    By faith Noah, being warned of God of things not seen as yet, moved with fear, prepared an ark to the saving of his house; by the which he condemned the world, and became heir of the righteousness which is by faith.
    By faith Abraham, when he was called to go out into a place which he should after receive for an inheritance, obeyed; and he went out, not knowing whither he went.
    By faith he sojourned in the land of promise, as in a strange country, dwelling in tabernacles with Isaac and Jacob, the heirs with him of the same promise:
    For he looked for a city which hath foundations, whose builder and maker is God.
    Through faith also Sara herself received strength to conceive seed, and was delivered of a child when she was past age, because she judged him faithful who had promised.
    Therefore sprang there even of one, and him as good as dead, so many as the stars of the sky in multitude, and as the sand which is by the sea shore innumerable.
    These all died in faith, not having received the promises, but having seen them afar off, and were persuaded of them, and embraced them, and confessed that they were strangers and pilgrims on the earth.
    For they that say such things declare plainly that they seek a country.
    And truly, if they had been mindful of that country from whence they came out, they might have had opportunity to have returned.
    But now they desire a better country, that is, an heavenly: wherefore God is not ashamed to be called their God: for he hath prepared for them a city.
    By faith Abraham, when he was tried, offered up Isaac: and he that had received the promises offered up his only begotten son,
    Of whom it was said, That in Isaac shall thy seed be called:
    Accounting that God was able to raise him up, even from the dead; from whence also he received him in a figure.
    By faith Isaac blessed Jacob and Esau concerning things to come.
    By faith Jacob, when he was a dying, blessed both the sons of Joseph; and worshipped, leaning upon the top of his staff.
    By faith Joseph, when he died, made mention of the departing of the children of Israel; and gave commandment concerning his bones.
    By faith Moses, when he was born, was hid three months of his parents, because they saw he was a proper child; and they were not afraid of the king's commandment.
    By faith Moses, when he was come to years, refused to be called the son of Pharaoh's daughter;
    Choosing rather to suffer affliction with the people of God, than to enjoy the pleasures of sin for a season;
    Esteeming the reproach of Christ greater riches than the treasures in Egypt: for he had respect unto the recompence of the reward.
    By faith he forsook Egypt, not fearing the wrath of the king: for he endured, as seeing him who is invisible.
    Through faith he kept the passover, and the sprinkling of blood, lest he that destroyed the firstborn should touch them.
    By faith they passed through the Red sea as by dry land: which the Egyptians assaying to do were drowned.
    By faith the walls of Jericho fell down, after they were compassed about seven days.
    By faith the harlot Rahab perished not with them that believed not, when she had received the spies with peace.
    And what
    7 min
  • Job 3,4
    After this opened Job his mouth, and cursed his day.
    And Job spake, and said,
    Let the day perish wherein I was born, and the night in which it was said, There is a man child conceived.
    Let that day be darkness; let not God regard it from above, neither let the light shine upon it.
    Let darkness and the shadow of death stain it; let a cloud dwell upon it; let the blackness of the day terrify it.
    As for that night, let darkness seize upon it; let it not be joined unto the days of the year, let it not come into the number of the months.
    Lo, let that night be solitary, let no joyful voice come therein.
    Let them curse it that curse the day, who are ready to raise up their mourning.
    Let the stars of the twilight thereof be dark; let it look for light, but have none; neither let it see the dawning of the day:
    Because it shut not up the doors of my mother's womb, nor hid sorrow from mine eyes.
    Why died I not from the womb? why did I not give up the ghost when I came out of the belly?
    Why did the knees prevent me? or why the breasts that I should suck?
    For now should I have lain still and been quiet, I should have slept: then had I been at rest,
    With kings and counsellors of the earth, which build desolate places for themselves;
    Or with princes that had gold, who filled their houses with silver:
    Or as an hidden untimely birth I had not been; as infants which never saw light.
    There the wicked cease from troubling; and there the weary be at rest.
    There the prisoners rest together; they hear not the voice of the oppressor.
    The small and great are there; and the servant is free from his master.
    Wherefore is light given to him that is in misery, and life unto the bitter in soul;
    Which long for death, but it cometh not; and dig for it more than for hid treasures;
    Which rejoice exceedingly, and are glad, when they can find the grave?
    Why is light given to a man whose way is hid, and whom God hath hedged in?
    For my sighing cometh before I eat, and my roarings are poured out like the waters.
    For the thing which I greatly feared is come upon me, and that which I was afraid of is come unto me.
    I was not in safety, neither had I rest, neither was I quiet; yet trouble came.
    Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered and said,
    If we assay to commune with thee, wilt thou be grieved? but who can withhold himself from speaking?
    Behold, thou hast instructed many, and thou hast strengthened the weak hands.
    Thy words have upholden him that was falling, and thou hast strengthened the feeble knees.
    But now it is come upon thee, and thou faintest; it toucheth thee, and thou art troubled.
    Is not this thy fear, thy confidence, thy hope, and the uprightness of thy ways?
    Remember, I pray thee, who ever perished, being innocent? or where were the righteous cut off?
    Even as I have seen, they that plow iniquity, and sow wickedness, reap the same.
    By the blast of God they perish, and by the breath of his nostrils are they consumed.
    The roaring of the lion, and the voice of the fierce lion, and the teeth of the young lions, are broken.
    The old lion perisheth for lack of prey, and the stout lion's whelps are scattered abroad.
    Now a thing was secretly brought to me, and mine ear received a little thereof.
    In thoughts from the visions of the night, when deep sleep falleth on men,
    Fear came upon me, and trembling, which made all my bones to shake.
    Then a spirit passed before my face; the hair of my flesh stood up:
    It stood still, but I could not discern the form thereof: an image was before mine eyes, there was silence, and I heard a voice, saying,
    Shall mortal man be more just than God? shall a man be more pure than his maker?
    Behold, he put no trust in his servants; and his angels he charged with folly:
    How much less in them that dwell in houses of clay, whose foundation is in the dust, which are crushed before the moth?
    They are destroyed from morning to evening: they perish for ever without any regarding it.
    Doth not their excel
    7 min
  • Jonah 4
    But it displeased Jonah exceedingly, and he was very angry.
    And he prayed unto the LORD, and said, I pray thee, O LORD, was not this my saying, when I was yet in my country? Therefore I fled before unto Tarshish: for I knew that thou art a gracious God, and merciful, slow to anger, and of great kindness, and repentest thee of the evil.
    Therefore now, O LORD, take, I beseech thee, my life from me; for it is better for me to die than to live.
    Then said the LORD, Doest thou well to be angry?
    So Jonah went out of the city, and sat on the east side of the city, and there made him a booth, and sat under it in the shadow, till he might see what would become of the city.
    And the LORD God prepared a gourd, and made it to come up over Jonah, that it might be a shadow over his head, to deliver him from his grief. So Jonah was exceeding glad of the gourd.
    But God prepared a worm when the morning rose the next day, and it smote the gourd that it withered.
    And it came to pass, when the sun did arise, that God prepared a vehement east wind; and the sun beat upon the head of Jonah, that he fainted, and wished in himself to die, and said, It is better for me to die than to live.
    And God said to Jonah, Doest thou well to be angry for the gourd? And he said, I do well to be angry, even unto death.
    Then said the LORD, Thou hast had pity on the gourd, for the which thou hast not laboured, neither madest it grow; which came up in a night, and perished in a night:
    And should not I spare Nineveh, that great city, wherein are more then sixscore thousand persons that cannot discern between their right hand and their left hand; and also much cattle?
    3 min
  • Hebrews 10
    For the law having a shadow of good things to come, and not the very image of the things, can never with those sacrifices which they offered year by year continually make the comers thereunto perfect.
    For then would they not have ceased to be offered? because that the worshippers once purged should have had no more conscience of sins.
    But in those sacrifices there is a remembrance again made of sins every year.
    For it is not possible that the blood of bulls and of goats should take away sins.
    Wherefore when he cometh into the world, he saith, Sacrifice and offering thou wouldest not, but a body hast thou prepared me:
    In burnt offerings and sacrifices for sin thou hast had no pleasure.
    Then said I, Lo, I come (in the volume of the book it is written of me,) to do thy will, O God.
    Above when he said, Sacrifice and offering and burnt offerings and offering for sin thou wouldest not, neither hadst pleasure therein; which are offered by the law;
    Then said he, Lo, I come to do thy will, O God. He taketh away the first, that he may establish the second.
    By the which will we are sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all.
    And every priest standeth daily ministering and offering oftentimes the same sacrifices, which can never take away sins:
    But this man, after he had offered one sacrifice for sins for ever, sat down on the right hand of God;
    From henceforth expecting till his enemies be made his footstool.
    For by one offering he hath perfected for ever them that are sanctified.
    Whereof the Holy Ghost also is a witness to us: for after that he had said before,
    This is the covenant that I will make with them after those days, saith the Lord, I will put my laws into their hearts, and in their minds will I write them;
    And their sins and iniquities will I remember no more.
    Now where remission of these is, there is no more offering for sin.
    Having therefore, brethren, boldness to enter into the holiest by the blood of Jesus,
    By a new and living way, which he hath consecrated for us, through the veil, that is to say, his flesh;
    And having an high priest over the house of God;
    Let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience, and our bodies washed with pure water.
    Let us hold fast the profession of our faith without wavering; (for he is faithful that promised;)
    And let us consider one another to provoke unto love and to good works:
    Not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as the manner of some is; but exhorting one another: and so much the more, as ye see the day approaching.
    For if we sin wilfully after that we have received the knowledge of the truth, there remaineth no more sacrifice for sins,
    But a certain fearful looking for of judgment and fiery indignation, which shall devour the adversaries.
    He that despised Moses' law died without mercy under two or three witnesses:
    Of how much sorer punishment, suppose ye, shall he be thought worthy, who hath trodden under foot the Son of God, and hath counted the blood of the covenant, wherewith he was sanctified, an unholy thing, and hath done despite unto the Spirit of grace?
    For we know him that hath said, Vengeance belongeth unto me, I will recompense, saith the Lord. And again, The Lord shall judge his people.
    It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God.
    But call to remembrance the former days, in which, after ye were illuminated, ye endured a great fight of afflictions;
    Partly, whilst ye were made a gazingstock both by reproaches and afflictions; and partly, whilst ye became companions of them that were so used.
    For ye had compassion of me in my bonds, and took joyfully the spoiling of your goods, knowing in yourselves that ye have in heaven a better and an enduring substance.
    Cast not away therefore your confidence, which hath great recompence of reward.
    For ye have need of patience, that, after ye have done the will of God, ye mig
    6 min
  • Job 1,2
    There was a man in the land of Uz, whose name was Job; and that man was perfect and upright, and one that feared God, and eschewed evil.
    And there were born unto him seven sons and three daughters.
    His substance also was seven thousand sheep, and three thousand camels, and five hundred yoke of oxen, and five hundred she asses, and a very great household; so that this man was the greatest of all the men of the east.
    And his sons went and feasted in their houses, every one his day; and sent and called for their three sisters to eat and to drink with them.
    And it was so, when the days of their feasting were gone about, that Job sent and sanctified them, and rose up early in the morning, and offered burnt offerings according to the number of them all: for Job said, It may be that my sons have sinned, and cursed God in their hearts. Thus did Job continually.
    Now there was a day when the sons of God came to present themselves before the LORD, and Satan came also among them.
    And the LORD said unto Satan, Whence comest thou? Then Satan answered the LORD, and said, From going to and fro in the earth, and from walking up and down in it.
    And the LORD said unto Satan, Hast thou considered my servant Job, that there is none like him in the earth, a perfect and an upright man, one that feareth God, and escheweth evil?
    Then Satan answered the LORD, and said, Doth Job fear God for nought?
    Hast not thou made an hedge about him, and about his house, and about all that he hath on every side? thou hast blessed the work of his hands, and his substance is increased in the land.
    But put forth thine hand now, and touch all that he hath, and he will curse thee to thy face.
    And the LORD said unto Satan, Behold, all that he hath is in thy power; only upon himself put not forth thine hand. So Satan went forth from the presence of the LORD.
    And there was a day when his sons and his daughters were eating and drinking wine in their eldest brother's house:
    And there came a messenger unto Job, and said, The oxen were plowing, and the asses feeding beside them:
    And the Sabeans fell upon them, and took them away; yea, they have slain the servants with the edge of the sword; and I only am escaped alone to tell thee.
    While he was yet speaking, there came also another, and said, The fire of God is fallen from heaven, and hath burned up the sheep, and the servants, and consumed them; and I only am escaped alone to tell thee.
    While he was yet speaking, there came also another, and said, The Chaldeans made out three bands, and fell upon the camels, and have carried them away, yea, and slain the servants with the edge of the sword; and I only am escaped alone to tell thee.
    While he was yet speaking, there came also another, and said, Thy sons and thy daughters were eating and drinking wine in their eldest brother's house:
    And, behold, there came a great wind from the wilderness, and smote the four corners of the house, and it fell upon the young men, and they are dead; and I only am escaped alone to tell thee.
    Then Job arose, and rent his mantle, and shaved his head, and fell down upon the ground, and worshipped,
    And said, Naked came I out of my mother's womb, and naked shall I return thither: the LORD gave, and the LORD hath taken away; blessed be the name of the LORD.
    In all this Job sinned not, nor charged God foolishly.
    Again there was a day when the sons of God came to present themselves before the LORD, and Satan came also among them to present himself before the LORD.
    And the LORD said unto Satan, From whence comest thou? And Satan answered the LORD, and said, From going to and fro in the earth, and from walking up and down in it.
    And the LORD said unto Satan, Hast thou considered my servant Job, that there is none like him in the earth, a perfect and an upright man, one that feareth God, and escheweth evil? and still he holdeth fast his integrity, although thou movedst me against him, to destroy him without cause.
    And Satan answered
    8 min
  • Jonah 2,3
    Then Jonah prayed unto the LORD his God out of the fish's belly,
    And said, I cried by reason of mine affliction unto the LORD, and he heard me; out of the belly of hell cried I, and thou heardest my voice.
    For thou hadst cast me into the deep, in the midst of the seas; and the floods compassed me about: all thy billows and thy waves passed over me.
    Then I said, I am cast out of thy sight; yet I will look again toward thy holy temple.
    The waters compassed me about, even to the soul: the depth closed me round about, the weeds were wrapped about my head.
    I went down to the bottoms of the mountains; the earth with her bars was about me for ever: yet hast thou brought up my life from corruption, O LORD my God.
    When my soul fainted within me I remembered the LORD: and my prayer came in unto thee, into thine holy temple.
    They that observe lying vanities forsake their own mercy.
    But I will sacrifice unto thee with the voice of thanksgiving; I will pay that that I have vowed. Salvation is of the LORD.
    And the LORD spake unto the fish, and it vomited out Jonah upon the dry land.
    And the word of the LORD came unto Jonah the second time, saying,
    Arise, go unto Nineveh, that great city, and preach unto it the preaching that I bid thee.
    So Jonah arose, and went unto Nineveh, according to the word of the LORD. Now Nineveh was an exceeding great city of three days' journey.
    And Jonah began to enter into the city a day's journey, and he cried, and said, Yet forty days, and Nineveh shall be overthrown.
    So the people of Nineveh believed God, and proclaimed a fast, and put on sackcloth, from the greatest of them even to the least of them.
    For word came unto the king of Nineveh, and he arose from his throne, and he laid his robe from him, and covered him with sackcloth, and sat in ashes.
    And he caused it to be proclaimed and published through Nineveh by the decree of the king and his nobles, saying, Let neither man nor beast, herd nor flock, taste any thing: let them not feed, nor drink water:
    But let man and beast be covered with sackcloth, and cry mightily unto God: yea, let them turn every one from his evil way, and from the violence that is in their hands.
    Who can tell if God will turn and repent, and turn away from his fierce anger, that we perish not?
    And God saw their works, that they turned from their evil way; and God repented of the evil, that he had said that he would do unto them; and he did it not.
    4 min
  • Hebrews 8, 9
    Now of the things which we have spoken this is the sum: We have such an high priest, who is set on the right hand of the throne of the Majesty in the heavens;
    A minister of the sanctuary, and of the true tabernacle, which the Lord pitched, and not man.
    For every high priest is ordained to offer gifts and sacrifices: wherefore it is of necessity that this man have somewhat also to offer.
    For if he were on earth, he should not be a priest, seeing that there are priests that offer gifts according to the law:
    Who serve unto the example and shadow of heavenly things, as Moses was admonished of God when he was about to make the tabernacle: for, See, saith he, that thou make all things according to the pattern shewed to thee in the mount.
    But now hath he obtained a more excellent ministry, by how much also he is the mediator of a better covenant, which was established upon better promises.
    For if that first covenant had been faultless, then should no place have been sought for the second.
    For finding fault with them, he saith, Behold, the days come, saith the Lord, when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah:
    Not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day when I took them by the hand to lead them out of the land of Egypt; because they continued not in my covenant, and I regarded them not, saith the Lord.
    For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, saith the Lord; I will put my laws into their mind, and write them in their hearts: and I will be to them a God, and they shall be to me a people:
    And they shall not teach every man his neighbour, and every man his brother, saying, Know the Lord: for all shall know me, from the least to the greatest.
    For I will be merciful to their unrighteousness, and their sins and their iniquities will I remember no more.
    In that he saith, A new covenant, he hath made the first old. Now that which decayeth and waxeth old is ready to vanish away.
    Then verily the first covenant had also ordinances of divine service, and a worldly sanctuary.
    For there was a tabernacle made; the first, wherein was the candlestick, and the table, and the shewbread; which is called the sanctuary.
    And after the second veil, the tabernacle which is called the Holiest of all;
    Which had the golden censer, and the ark of the covenant overlaid round about with gold, wherein was the golden pot that had manna, and Aaron's rod that budded, and the tables of the covenant;
    And over it the cherubims of glory shadowing the mercyseat; of which we cannot now speak particularly.
    Now when these things were thus ordained, the priests went always into the first tabernacle, accomplishing the service of God.
    But into the second went the high priest alone once every year, not without blood, which he offered for himself, and for the errors of the people:
    The Holy Ghost this signifying, that the way into the holiest of all was not yet made manifest, while as the first tabernacle was yet standing:
    Which was a figure for the time then present, in which were offered both gifts and sacrifices, that could not make him that did the service perfect, as pertaining to the conscience;
    Which stood only in meats and drinks, and divers washings, and carnal ordinances, imposed on them until the time of reformation.
    But Christ being come an high priest of good things to come, by a greater and more perfect tabernacle, not made with hands, that is to say, not of this building;
    Neither by the blood of goats and calves, but by his own blood he entered in once into the holy place, having obtained eternal redemption for us.
    For if the blood of bulls and of goats, and the ashes of an heifer sprinkling the unclean, sanctifieth to the purifying of the flesh:
    How much more shall the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without spot to God, purge your conscience from dead works to serve the living God?
    And for this
    8 min
  • Esther 9,10
    Now in the twelfth month, that is, the month Adar, on the thirteenth day of the same, when the king's commandment and his decree drew near to be put in execution, in the day that the enemies of the Jews hoped to have power over them, (though it was turned to the contrary, that the Jews had rule over them that hated them;)
    The Jews gathered themselves together in their cities throughout all the provinces of the king Ahasuerus, to lay hand on such as sought their hurt: and no man could withstand them; for the fear of them fell upon all people.
    And all the rulers of the provinces, and the lieutenants, and the deputies, and officers of the king, helped the Jews; because the fear of Mordecai fell upon them.
    For Mordecai was great in the king's house, and his fame went out throughout all the provinces: for this man Mordecai waxed greater and greater.
    Thus the Jews smote all their enemies with the stroke of the sword, and slaughter, and destruction, and did what they would unto those that hated them.
    And in Shushan the palace the Jews slew and destroyed five hundred men.
    And Parshandatha, and Dalphon, and Aspatha,
    And Poratha, and Adalia, and Aridatha,
    And Parmashta, and Arisai, and Aridai, and Vajezatha,
    The ten sons of Haman the son of Hammedatha, the enemy of the Jews, slew they; but on the spoil laid they not their hand.
    On that day the number of those that were slain in Shushan the palace was brought before the king.
    And the king said unto Esther the queen, The Jews have slain and destroyed five hundred men in Shushan the palace, and the ten sons of Haman; what have they done in the rest of the king's provinces? now what is thy petition? and it shall be granted thee: or what is thy request further? and it shall be done.
    Then said Esther, If it please the king, let it be granted to the Jews which are in Shushan to do to morrow also according unto this day's decree, and let Haman's ten sons be hanged upon the gallows.
    And the king commanded it so to be done: and the decree was given at Shushan; and they hanged Haman's ten sons.
    For the Jews that were in Shushan gathered themselves together on the fourteenth day also of the month Adar, and slew three hundred men at Shushan; but on the prey they laid not their hand.
    But the other Jews that were in the king's provinces gathered themselves together, and stood for their lives, and had rest from their enemies, and slew of their foes seventy and five thousand, but they laid not their hands on the prey,
    On the thirteenth day of the month Adar; and on the fourteenth day of the same rested they, and made it a day of feasting and gladness.
    But the Jews that were at Shushan assembled together on the thirteenth day thereof, and on the fourteenth thereof; and on the fifteenth day of the same they rested, and made it a day of feasting and gladness.
    Therefore the Jews of the villages, that dwelt in the unwalled towns, made the fourteenth day of the month Adar a day of gladness and feasting, and a good day, and of sending portions one to another.
    And Mordecai wrote these things, and sent letters unto all the Jews that were in all the provinces of the king Ahasuerus, both nigh and far,
    To stablish this among them, that they should keep the fourteenth day of the month Adar, and the fifteenth day of the same, yearly,
    As the days wherein the Jews rested from their enemies, and the month which was turned unto them from sorrow to joy, and from mourning into a good day: that they should make them days of feasting and joy, and of sending portions one to another, and gifts to the poor.
    And the Jews undertook to do as they had begun, and as Mordecai had written unto them;
    Because Haman the son of Hammedatha, the Agagite, the enemy of all the Jews, had devised against the Jews to destroy them, and had cast Pur, that is, the lot, to consume them, and to destroy them;
    But when Esther came before the king, he commanded by letters that his wicked device, which he devised against the Jew
    7 min
  • Jonah 1
    Now the word of the LORD came unto Jonah the son of Amittai, saying,
    Arise, go to Nineveh, that great city, and cry against it; for their wickedness is come up before me.
    But Jonah rose up to flee unto Tarshish from the presence of the LORD, and went down to Joppa; and he found a ship going to Tarshish: so he paid the fare thereof, and went down into it, to go with them unto Tarshish from the presence of the LORD.
    But the LORD sent out a great wind into the sea, and there was a mighty tempest in the sea, so that the ship was like to be broken.
    Then the mariners were afraid, and cried every man unto his god, and cast forth the wares that were in the ship into the sea, to lighten it of them. But Jonah was gone down into the sides of the ship; and he lay, and was fast asleep.
    So the shipmaster came to him, and said unto him, What meanest thou, O sleeper? arise, call upon thy God, if so be that God will think upon us, that we perish not.
    And they said every one to his fellow, Come, and let us cast lots, that we may know for whose cause this evil is upon us. So they cast lots, and the lot fell upon Jonah.
    Then said they unto him, Tell us, we pray thee, for whose cause this evil is upon us; What is thine occupation? and whence comest thou? what is thy country? and of what people art thou?
    And he said unto them, I am an Hebrew; and I fear the LORD, the God of heaven, which hath made the sea and the dry land.
    Then were the men exceedingly afraid, and said unto him. Why hast thou done this? For the men knew that he fled from the presence of the LORD, because he had told them.
    Then said they unto him, What shall we do unto thee, that the sea may be calm unto us? for the sea wrought, and was tempestuous.
    And he said unto them, Take me up, and cast me forth into the sea; so shall the sea be calm unto you: for I know that for my sake this great tempest is upon you.
    Nevertheless the men rowed hard to bring it to the land; but they could not: for the sea wrought, and was tempestuous against them.
    Wherefore they cried unto the LORD, and said, We beseech thee, O LORD, we beseech thee, let us not perish for this man's life, and lay not upon us innocent blood: for thou, O LORD, hast done as it pleased thee.
    So they look up Jonah, and cast him forth into the sea: and the sea ceased from her raging.
    Then the men feared the LORD exceedingly, and offered a sacrifice unto the LORD, and made vows.
    Now the LORD had prepared a great fish to swallow up Jonah. And Jonah was in the belly of the fish three days and three nights.
    4 min
  • Hebrews 6,7
    Therefore leaving the principles of the doctrine of Christ, let us go on unto perfection; not laying again the foundation of repentance from dead works, and of faith toward God,
    Of the doctrine of baptisms, and of laying on of hands, and of resurrection of the dead, and of eternal judgment.
    And this will we do, if God permit.
    For it is impossible for those who were once enlightened, and have tasted of the heavenly gift, and were made partakers of the Holy Ghost,
    And have tasted the good word of God, and the powers of the world to come,
    If they shall fall away, to renew them again unto repentance; seeing they crucify to themselves the Son of God afresh, and put him to an open shame.
    For the earth which drinketh in the rain that cometh oft upon it, and bringeth forth herbs meet for them by whom it is dressed, receiveth blessing from God:
    But that which beareth thorns and briers is rejected, and is nigh unto cursing; whose end is to be burned.
    But, beloved, we are persuaded better things of you, and things that accompany salvation, though we thus speak.
    For God is not unrighteous to forget your work and labour of love, which ye have shewed toward his name, in that ye have ministered to the saints, and do minister.
    And we desire that every one of you do shew the same diligence to the full assurance of hope unto the end:
    That ye be not slothful, but followers of them who through faith and patience inherit the promises.
    For when God made promise to Abraham, because he could swear by no greater, he sware by himself,
    Saying, Surely blessing I will bless thee, and multiplying I will multiply thee.
    And so, after he had patiently endured, he obtained the promise.
    For men verily swear by the greater: and an oath for confirmation is to them an end of all strife.
    Wherein God, willing more abundantly to shew unto the heirs of promise the immutability of his counsel, confirmed it by an oath:
    That by two immutable things, in which it was impossible for God to lie, we might have a strong consolation, who have fled for refuge to lay hold upon the hope set before us:
    Which hope we have as an anchor of the soul, both sure and stedfast, and which entereth into that within the veil;
    Whither the forerunner is for us entered, even Jesus, made an high priest for ever after the order of Melchisedec.
    For this Melchisedec, king of Salem, priest of the most high God, who met Abraham returning from the slaughter of the kings, and blessed him;
    To whom also Abraham gave a tenth part of all; first being by interpretation King of righteousness, and after that also King of Salem, which is, King of peace;
    Without father, without mother, without descent, having neither beginning of days, nor end of life; but made like unto the Son of God; abideth a priest continually.
    Now consider how great this man was, unto whom even the patriarch Abraham gave the tenth of the spoils.
    And verily they that are of the sons of Levi, who receive the office of the priesthood, have a commandment to take tithes of the people according to the law, that is, of their brethren, though they come out of the loins of Abraham:
    But he whose descent is not counted from them received tithes of Abraham, and blessed him that had the promises.
    And without all contradiction the less is blessed of the better.
    And here men that die receive tithes; but there he receiveth them, of whom it is witnessed that he liveth.
    And as I may so say, Levi also, who receiveth tithes, payed tithes in Abraham.
    For he was yet in the loins of his father, when Melchisedec met him.
    If therefore perfection were by the Levitical priesthood, (for under it the people received the law,) what further need was there that another priest should rise after the order of Melchisedec, and not be called after the order of Aaron?
    For the priesthood being changed, there is made of necessity a change also of the law.
    For he of whom these things are spoken pertaineth to another tribe, of which no man gave at
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