9Let all the nations be gathered together, and let the people be assembled: who among them can declare this, and shew us former things? let them bring forth their witnesses, that they may be justified: or let them hear, and say, It is truth.Log in to add notes
10Ye are my witnesses, saith the Lord, and my servant whom I have chosen: that ye may know and believe me, and understand that I am he: before me there was no God formed, neither shall there be after me.Log in to add notes
11I, even I, am the Lord; and beside me there is no saviour.Log in to add notes
12I have declared, and have saved, and I have shewed, when there was no strange god among you: therefore ye are my witnesses, saith the Lord, that I am God.Log in to add notes
13Yea, before the day was I am he; and there is none that can deliver out of my hand: I will work, and who shall let it?Log in to add notes
14Thus saith the Lord, your redeemer, the Holy One of Israel; For your sake I have sent to Babylon, and have brought down all their nobles, and the Chaldeans, whose cry is in the ships.Log in to add notes
1But the souls of the righteous are in the hand of God, and there shall no torment touch them.Log in to add notes
2In the sight of the unwise they seemed to die: and their departure is taken for misery,Log in to add notes
3And their going from us to be utter destruction: but they are in peace.Log in to add notes
4For though they be punished in the sight of men, yet is their hope full of immortality.Log in to add notes
5And having been a little chastised, they shall be greatly rewarded: for God proved them, and found them worthy for himself.Log in to add notes
6As gold in the furnace hath he tried them, and received them as a burnt offering.Log in to add notes
7And in the time of their visitation they shall shine, and run to and fro like sparks among the stubble.Log in to add notes
8They shall judge the nations, and have dominion over the people, and their Lord shall reign for ever.Log in to add notes
9They that put their trust in him shall understand the truth: and such as be faithful in love shall abide with him: for grace and mercy is to his saints, and he hath care for his elect.Log in to add notes
7But though the righteous be prevented with death, yet shall he be in rest.Log in to add notes
8For honourable age is not that which standeth in length of time, nor that is measured by number of years.Log in to add notes
9But wisdom is the gray hair unto men, and an unspotted life is old age.Log in to add notes
10He pleased God, and was beloved of him: so that living among sinners he was translated.Log in to add notes
11Yea speedily was he taken away, lest that wickedness should alter his understanding, or deceit beguile his soul.Log in to add notes
12For the bewitching of naughtiness doth obscure things that are honest; and the wandering of concupiscence doth undermine the simple mind.Log in to add notes
13He, being made perfect in a short time, fulfilled a long time:Log in to add notes
14For his soul pleased the Lord: therefore hasted he to take him away from among the wicked.Log in to add notes
15This the people saw, and understood it not, neither laid they up this in their minds, That his grace and mercy is with his saints, and that he hath respect unto his chosen.Log in to add notes
12But before all these, they shall lay their hands on you, and persecute you, delivering you up to the synagogues, and into prisons, being brought before kings and rulers for my name’s sake.Log in to add notes
13And it shall turn to you for a testimony.Log in to add notes
14Settle it therefore in your hearts, not to meditate before what ye shall answer:Log in to add notes
15For I will give you a mouth and wisdom, which all your adversaries shall not be able to gainsay nor resist.Log in to add notes
16And ye shall be betrayed both by parents, and brethren, and kinsfolks, and friends; and some of you shall they cause to be put to death.Log in to add notes
17And ye shall be hated of all men for my name’s sake.Log in to add notes
18But there shall not an hair of your head perish.Log in to add notes
19In your patience possess ye your souls.Log in to add notes
13:4Charity suffereth long, and is kind; charity envieth not; charity vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up,Log in to add notes
13:5Doth not behave itself unseemly, seeketh not her own, is not easily provoked, thinketh no evil;Log in to add notes
13:6Rejoiceth not in iniquity, but rejoiceth in the truth;Log in to add notes
13:7Beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all things, endureth all things.Log in to add notes
13:8Charity never faileth: but whether there be prophecies, they shall fail; whether there be tongues, they shall cease; whether there be knowledge, it shall vanish away.Log in to add notes
13:9For we know in part, and we prophesy in part.Log in to add notes
13:10But when that which is perfect is come, then that which is in part shall be done away.Log in to add notes
13:11When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish things.Log in to add notes
13:12For now we see through a glass, darkly; but then face to face: now I know in part; but then shall I know even as also I am known.Log in to add notes
13:13And now abideth faith, hope, charity, these three; but the greatest of these is charity.Log in to add notes
14:1Follow after charity, and desire spiritual gifts, but rather that ye may prophesy.Log in to add notes
14:2For 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.Log in to add notes
14:3But he that prophesieth speaketh unto men to edification, and exhortation, and comfort.Log in to add notes
14:4He that speaketh in an unknown tongue edifieth himself; but he that prophesieth edifieth the church.Log in to add notes
14:5I 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.Log in to add notes
28And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose.Log in to add notes
29For whom he did foreknow, he also did predestinate to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brethren.Log in to add notes
30Moreover whom he did predestinate, them he also called: and whom he called, them he also justified: and whom he justified, them he also glorified.Log in to add notes
31What shall we then say to these things? If God be for us, who can be against us?Log in to add notes
32He that spared not his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, how shall he not with him also freely give us all things?Log in to add notes
33Who shall lay any thing to the charge of God’s elect? It is God that justifieth.Log in to add notes
34Who is he that condemneth? It is Christ that died, yea rather, that is risen again, who is even at the right hand of God, who also maketh intercession for us.Log in to add notes
35Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?Log in to add notes
36As it is written, For thy sake we are killed all the day long; we are accounted as sheep for the slaughter.Log in to add notes
37Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him that loved us.Log in to add notes
38For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come,Log in to add notes
39Nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.Log in to add notes
1For the kingdom of heaven is like unto a man that is an householder, which went out early in the morning to hire labourers into his vineyard.Log in to add notes
2And when he had agreed with the labourers for a penny a day, he sent them into his vineyard.Log in to add notes
3And he went out about the third hour, and saw others standing idle in the marketplace,Log in to add notes
4And said unto them; Go ye also into the vineyard, and whatsoever is right I will give you. And they went their way.Log in to add notes
5Again he went out about the sixth and ninth hour, and did likewise.Log in to add notes
6And about the eleventh hour he went out, and found others standing idle, and saith unto them, Why stand ye here all the day idle?Log in to add notes
7They say unto him, Because no man hath hired us. He saith unto them, Go ye also into the vineyard; and whatsoever is right, that shall ye receive.Log in to add notes
8So when even was come, the lord of the vineyard saith unto his steward, Call the labourers, and give them their hire, beginning from the last unto the first.Log in to add notes
9And when they came that were hired about the eleventh hour, they received every man a penny.Log in to add notes
10But when the first came, they supposed that they should have received more; and they likewise received every man a penny.Log in to add notes
11And when they had received it, they murmured against the goodman of the house,Log in to add notes
12Saying, These last have wrought but one hour, and thou hast made them equal unto us, which have borne the burden and heat of the day.Log in to add notes
13But he answered one of them, and said, Friend, I do thee no wrong: didst not thou agree with me for a penny?Log in to add notes
14Take that thine is, and go thy way: I will give unto this last, even as unto thee.Log in to add notes
15Is it not lawful for me to do what I will with mine own? Is thine eye evil, because I am good?Log in to add notes
16So the last shall be first, and the first last: for many be called, but few chosen.Log in to add notes
15:17These things I command you, that ye love one another.Log in to add notes
15:18If the world hate you, ye know that it hated me before it hated you.Log in to add notes
15:19If ye were of the world, the world would love his own: but because ye are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world, therefore the world hateth you.Log in to add notes
15:20Remember the word that I said unto you, The servant is not greater than his lord. If they have persecuted me, they will also persecute you; if they have kept my saying, they will keep yours also.Log in to add notes
15:21But all these things will they do unto you for my name’s sake, because they know not him that sent me.Log in to add notes
15:22If I had not come and spoken unto them, they had not had sin: but now they have no cloke for their sin.Log in to add notes
15:23He that hateth me hateth my Father also.Log in to add notes
15:24If I had not done among them the works which none other man did, they had not had sin: but now have they both seen and hated both me and my Father.Log in to add notes
15:25But this cometh to pass, that the word might be fulfilled that is written in their law, They hated me without a cause.Log in to add notes
15:26But when the Comforter is come, whom I will send unto you from the Father, even the Spirit of truth, which proceedeth from the Father, he shall testify of me:Log in to add notes
15:27And ye also shall bear witness, because ye have been with me from the beginning.Log in to add notes
16:1These things have I spoken unto you, that ye should not be offended.Log in to add notes
16:2They shall put you out of the synagogues: yea, the time cometh, that whosoever killeth you will think that he doeth God service.Log in to add notes