24But I trust in the Lord that I also myself shall come shortly.Log in to add notes
25Yet I supposed it necessary to send to you Epaphroditus, my brother, and companion in labour, and fellowsoldier, but your messenger, and he that ministered to my wants.Log in to add notes
26For he longed after you all, and was full of heaviness, because that ye had heard that he had been sick.Log in to add notes
27For indeed he was sick nigh unto death: but God had mercy on him; and not on him only, but on me also, lest I should have sorrow upon sorrow.Log in to add notes
28I sent him therefore the more carefully, that, when ye see him again, ye may rejoice, and that I may be the less sorrowful.Log in to add notes
29Receive him therefore in the Lord with all gladness; and hold such in reputation:Log in to add notes
30Because for the work of Christ he was nigh unto death, not regarding his life, to supply your lack of service toward me.Log in to add notes
22For it is written, that Abraham had two sons, the one by a bondmaid, the other by a freewoman.Log in to add notes
23But he who was of the bondwoman was born after the flesh; but he of the freewoman was by promise.Log in to add notes
24Which things are an allegory: for these are the two covenants; the one from the mount Sinai, which gendereth to bondage, which is Agar.Log in to add notes
25For this Agar is mount Sinai in Arabia, and answereth to Jerusalem which now is, and is in bondage with her children.Log in to add notes
26But Jerusalem which is above is free, which is the mother of us all.Log in to add notes
27For it is written, Rejoice, thou barren that bearest not; break forth and cry, thou that travailest not: for the desolate hath many more children than she which hath an husband.Log in to add notes
28Now we, brethren, as Isaac was, are the children of promise.Log in to add notes
29But as then he that was born after the flesh persecuted him that was born after the Spirit, even so it is now.Log in to add notes
30Nevertheless what saith the scripture? Cast out the bondwoman and her son: for the son of the bondwoman shall not be heir with the son of the freewoman.Log in to add notes
31So then, brethren, we are not children of the bondwoman, but of the free.Log in to add notes
1And Jesus being full of the Holy Ghost returned from Jordan, and was led by the Spirit into the wilderness,Log in to add notes
2Being forty days tempted of the devil. And in those days he did eat nothing: and when they were ended, he afterward hungered.Log in to add notes
3And the devil said unto him, If thou be the Son of God, command this stone that it be made bread.Log in to add notes
4And Jesus answered him, saying, It is written, That man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word of God.Log in to add notes
5And the devil, taking him up into an high mountain, shewed unto him all the kingdoms of the world in a moment of time.Log in to add notes
6And the devil said unto him, All this power will I give thee, and the glory of them: for that is delivered unto me; and to whomsoever I will I give it.Log in to add notes
7If thou therefore wilt worship me, all shall be thine.Log in to add notes
8And Jesus answered and said unto him, Get thee behind me, Satan: for it is written, Thou shalt worship the Lord thy God, and him only shalt thou serve.Log in to add notes
9And he brought him to Jerusalem, and set him on a pinnacle of the temple, and said unto him, If thou be the Son of God, cast thyself down from hence:Log in to add notes
10For it is written, He shall give his angels charge over thee, to keep thee:Log in to add notes
11And in their hands they shall bear thee up, lest at any time thou dash thy foot against a stone.Log in to add notes
12And Jesus answering said unto him, It is said, Thou shalt not tempt the Lord thy God.Log in to add notes
13And when the devil had ended all the temptation, he departed from him for a season.Log in to add notes
14And Jesus returned in the power of the Spirit into Galilee: and there went out a fame of him through all the region round about.Log in to add notes
15And he taught in their synagogues, being glorified of all.Log in to add notes
5There was in the days of Herod, the king of Judea, a certain priest named Zacharias, of the course of Abia: and his wife was of the daughters of Aaron, and her name was Elisabeth.Log in to add notes
6And they were both righteous before God, walking in all the commandments and ordinances of the Lord blameless.Log in to add notes
7And they had no child, because that Elisabeth was barren, and they both were now well stricken in years.Log in to add notes
8And it came to pass, that while he executed the priest’s office before God in the order of his course,Log in to add notes
9According to the custom of the priest’s office, his lot was to burn incense when he went into the temple of the Lord.Log in to add notes
10And the whole multitude of the people were praying without at the time of incense.Log in to add notes
11And there appeared unto him an angel of the Lord standing on the right side of the altar of incense.Log in to add notes
12And when Zacharias saw him, he was troubled, and fear fell upon him.Log in to add notes
13But the angel said unto him, Fear not, Zacharias: for thy prayer is heard; and thy wife Elisabeth shall bear thee a son, and thou shalt call his name John.Log in to add notes
14And thou shalt have joy and gladness; and many shall rejoice at his birth.Log in to add notes
15For he shall be great in the sight of the Lord, and shall drink neither wine nor strong drink; and he shall be filled with the Holy Ghost, even from his mother’s womb.Log in to add notes
16And many of the children of Israel shall he turn to the Lord their God.Log in to add notes
17And he shall go before him in the spirit and power of Elias, to turn the hearts of the fathers to the children, and the disobedient to the wisdom of the just; to make ready a people prepared for the Lord.Log in to add notes
18And Zacharias said unto the angel, Whereby shall I know this? for I am an old man, and my wife well stricken in years.Log in to add notes
19And the angel answering said unto him, I am Gabriel, that stand in the presence of God; and am sent to speak unto thee, and to shew thee these glad tidings.Log in to add notes
20And, behold, thou shalt be dumb, and not able to speak, until the day that these things shall be performed, because thou believest not my words, which shall be fulfilled in their season.Log in to add notes
21And the people waited for Zacharias, and marvelled that he tarried so long in the temple.Log in to add notes
22And when he came out, he could not speak unto them: and they perceived that he had seen a vision in the temple: for he beckoned unto them, and remained speechless.Log in to add notes
23And it came to pass, that, as soon as the days of his ministration were accomplished, he departed to his own house.Log in to add notes
24And after those days his wife Elisabeth conceived, and hid herself five months, saying,Log in to add notes
25Thus hath the Lord dealt with me in the days wherein he looked on me, to take away my reproach among men.Log in to add notes