Isaiah 50Isaiah 511 Timothy 5Isaiah 50
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This is the word of the Lord: Where is the statement which I gave your mother when I put her away? or to which of my creditors have I given you for money? It was for your sins that you were given into the hands of others, and for your evil-doing was your mother put away.
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Why, then, when I came, was there no man? and no one to give answer to my voice? has my hand become feeble, so that it is unable to take up your cause? or have I no power to make you free? See, at my word the sea becomes dry, I make the rivers a waste land: their fish are dead for need of water, and make an evil smell.
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By me the heavens are clothed with black, and I make haircloth their robe.
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The Lord God has given me the tongue of those who are experienced, so that I may be able to give the word a special sense for the feeble: every morning my ear is open to his teaching, like those who are experienced:
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And I have not put myself against him, or let my heart be turned back from him.
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I was offering my back to those who gave me blows, and my face to those who were pulling out my hair: I did not keep my face covered from marks of shame.
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For the Lord God is my helper I will not be put to shame: so I have made my face like a rock, and I am certain that he will give me my right.
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He who takes up my cause is near who will go to law with me? let us come together before the judge: who is against me? let him come near to me.
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See, the Lord God is my helper who will give a decision against me? truly, all of them will become old like a robe they will be food for the worm.
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Who among you has the fear of the Lord, giving ear to the voice of his servant who has been walking in the dark and has no light? Let him put his faith in the name of the Lord, looking to his God for support.
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See, all you who make a fire, arming yourselves with burning branches: go in the flame of your fire, and among the branches you have put a light to. This will you have from my hand, you will make your bed in sorrow.
Isaiah 51
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Give ear to me, you who are searching for righteousness, who are looking for the Lord: see the rock from which you were cut out, and the hole out of which you were taken.
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Let your thoughts be turned to Abraham, your father, and to Sarah, who gave you birth: for when he was but one, my voice came to him, and I gave him my blessing, and made him a great people.
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For the Lord has given comfort to Zion: he has made glad all her broken walls making her waste places like Eden, and changing her dry land into the garden of the Lord joy and delight will be there, praise and the sound of melody.
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Give attention to me, O my people and give ear to me, O my nation for teaching will go out from me, and the knowledge of the true God will be a light to the peoples.
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Suddenly will my righteousness come near, and my salvation will be shining out like the light the sea-lands will be waiting for me, and they will put their hope in my strong arm.
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Let your eyes be lifted up to the heavens, and turned to the earth which is under them: for the heavens will go in flight like smoke, and the earth will become old like a coat, and its people will come to destruction like insects: but my salvation will be for ever, and my righteousness will not come to an end.
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Give ear to me, you who have knowledge of righteousness, in whose heart is my law have no fear of the evil words of men, and give no thought to their curses.
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For like a coat they will be food for the insect, the worm will make a meal of them like wool: but my righteousness will be for ever, and my salvation to all generations.
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Awake! awake! put on strength, O arm of the Lord, awake! as in the old days, in the generations long past. Was it not by you that Rahab was cut in two, and the dragon Wounded?
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Did you not make the sea dry, the waters of the great deep? did you not make the deep waters of the sea a way for the Lord's people to go through?
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Those whom the Lord has made free will come back with songs to Zion and on their heads will be eternal joy: delight and joy will be theirs, and sorrow and sounds of grief will be gone for ever.
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I, even I, am your comforter: are you so poor in heart as to be in fear of man who will come to an end, and of the son of man who will be like grass?
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And you have given no thought to the Lord your Maker, by whom the heavens were stretched out, and the earth placed on its base and you went all day in fear of the wrath of the cruel one, when he was making ready for your destruction. And where is the wrath of the cruel one?
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The prisoner, bent under his chain, will quickly be made free, and will not go down into the underworld, and his bread will not come to an end.
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For I am the Lord your God, who makes the sea calm when its waves are thundering: the Lord of armies is his name.
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And I have put my words in your mouth, covering you with the shade of my hand, stretching out the heavens, and placing the earth on its base, and saying to Zion, You are my people.
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Awake! awake! up! O Jerusalem, you who have taken from the Lord's hand the cup of his wrath tasting in full measure the wine which overcomes.
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She has no one among all her children to be her guide not one of the sons she has taken care of takes her by the hand.
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These two things have come on you who will be weeping for you? wasting and destruction death from need of food, and from the sword how may you be comforted?
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Your sons are overcome, like a roe in a net they are full of the wrath of the Lord, the punishment of your God.
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So now give ear to this, you who are troubled and overcome, but not with wine:
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This is the word of the Lord your master, even your God who takes up the cause of his people: See, I have taken out of your hand the cup which overcomes, even the cup of my wrath it will not again be given to you:
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And I will put it into the hand of your cruel masters, and of those whose yoke has been hard on you who have said to your soul, Down on your face! so that we may go over you: and you have given your backs like the earth, even like the street, for them to go over.
1 Timothy 5
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Do not say sharp words to one who has authority in the church, but let your talk be as to a father, and to the younger men as to brothers:
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To the older women as to mothers, to the younger as to sisters, with a clean heart.
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Give honour to widows who are truly widows.
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But if any widow has children or children's children, let these see that it is right to take care of their family and their fathers and mothers: for this is pleasing in the eyes of God.
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Now she who is truly a widow and without family puts her hope in God, giving herself to prayer day and night.
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But she who gives herself to pleasure is dead while she is living.
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Give orders to this effect, so that no evil may be said of anyone.
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If anyone has no care for his family and those in his house, he is false to the faith, and is worse than one who has no faith.
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Let no woman be numbered among the widows who is under sixty years old, and only if she has been the wife of one man,
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And if witness is given of her good works if she has had the care of children, if she has been kind to travellers, washing the feet of the saints, helping those who are in trouble, giving herself to good works.
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But to the younger widows say No: for when their love is turned away from Christ, they have a desire to be married
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And they are judged because they have been false to their first faith
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And they get into the way of doing no work, going about from house to house and not only doing no work, but talking foolishly, being over-interested in the business of others, saying things which they have no right to say.
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So it is my desire that the younger widows may be married and have children, controlling their families, and giving the Evil One no chance to say anything against them,
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For even now some are turned away to Satan.
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If any woman of the faith has relations who are widows, let her give them help, so that the care of them does not come on the church, and so it may give help to those who are truly widowed.
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Let rulers whose rule is good be honoured twice over, specially those whose work is preaching and teaching.
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For the Writings say, It is not right to keep the ox from taking the grain when he is crushing it. And, The worker has a right to his reward.
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Do not take as true any statement made against one in authority, but only if two or three give witness to it.
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Say sharp words to sinners when all are present, so that the rest may be in fear.
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I give you orders before God and Christ Jesus and the angels of God's selection, to keep these orders without giving thought to one side more than another.
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Do not put hands on any man without thought, and have no part in other men's sins: keep yourself clean.
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Do not take only water as your drink, but take a little wine for the good of your stomach, and because you are frequently ill.
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The sins of some men are clearly seen, going before them to be judged but with others, their sins go after them.
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In the same way, there are good works which are clearly seen and those which are not so, may not be kept secret.
