Now after a long time, when the Lord had given Israel rest from wars on every side, and Joshua was old and full of years,

You have seen everything the Lord your God has done to all these nations because of you for it is the Lord your God who has been fighting for you.

The Lord your God will send them away by force, driving them out before you and you are to take their land for your heritage, as the Lord your God said to you.

Have nothing to do with these nations who still are living among you let not their gods be named by you or used in your oaths do not be their servants or give them worship:

For the Lord has sent out from before you nations great and strong: and they have all given way before you till this day.

So keep watch on yourselves, and see that you have love for the Lord your God.

Then you may be certain that the Lord your God will not go on driving these nations out from before you but they will become a danger and a cause of sin to you, a whip for your sides and thorns in your eyes, till you are cut off from this good land which the Lord your God has given you.

And you will see that, as all the good things which the Lord your God undertook to do for you, have come to you, so the Lord will send down on you all the evil things till he has made your destruction complete, and you are cut off from the good land which the Lord your God has given you.

Then Joshua got all the tribes of Israel together at Shechem and he sent for the responsible men of Israel and their chiefs and their judges and their overseers and they took their place before God.

And I took your father Abraham from the other side of the River, guiding him through all the land of Canaan I made his offspring great in number, and gave him Isaac.

And I sent Moses and Aaron, troubling Egypt by all the signs I did among them: and after that I took you out.

And at their cry, the Lord made it dark between you and the Egyptians, and made the sea go over them, covering them with its waters your eyes have seen what I did in Egypt: then for a long time you were living in the waste land.

Then Balak, the son of Zippor, king of Moab, went up to war against Israel and he sent for Balaam, the son of Beor, to put a curse on you:

Then you went over Jordan and came to Jericho: and the men of Jericho made war on you, the Amorites and the Perizzites and the Canaanites and the Hittites and the Girgashites and the Hivites and the Jebusites: and I gave them up into your hands.

And I gave you a land on which you had done no work, and towns not of your building, and you are now living in them and your food comes from vine-gardens and olive-gardens not of your planting.

And if it seems evil to you to be the servants of the Lord, make the decision this day whose servants you will be: of the gods whose servants your fathers were across the River, or of the gods of the Amorites in whose land you are living: but I and my house will be the servants of the Lord.

For it is the Lord our God who has taken us and our fathers out of the land of Egypt, out of the prison-house, and who did all those great signs before our eyes, and kept us safe on all our journeys, and among all the peoples through whom we went:

And Joshua said to the people, You are not able to be the servants of the Lord, for he is a holy God, a God who will not let his honour be given to another: he will have no mercy on your wrongdoing or your sins.

And the people said to Joshua, No! But we will be the servants of the Lord.

Then, he said, put away the strange gods among you, turning your hearts to the Lord, the God of Israel.

So Joshua made an agreement with the people that day, and gave them a rule and a law in Shechem.

And Joshua said to all the people, See now, this stone is to be a witness against us for all the words of the Lord have been said to us in its hearing: so it will be a witness against you if you are false to the Lord your God.

Now after these things, the death of Joshua, the son of Nun, the servant of the Lord, took place, he being then a hundred and ten years old.

And Israel was true to the Lord all the days of Joshua, and all the days of the older men who were still living after Joshua's death, and had seen what the Lord had done for Israel.

Then the death of Eleazar, the son of Aaron, took place and his body was put in the earth in the hill of Phinehas his son, which had been given to him in the hill-country of Ephraim.

And he went up into the mountain, and sent for those whom it was his pleasure to have with him: and they went to him.

And give them the power of driving out evil spirits:

And to James, the son of Zebedee, and John, the brother of James, he gave the second name of Boanerges, which is, Sons of thunder:

And Judas Iscariot, who was false to him.

And when his friends had news of it, they went out to get him, saying, He is off his head.

And turning to them, he said to them in the form of a story, How is it possible for Satan to put out Satan?

And if there is division in a house, that house will come to destruction

But no one is able to go into the house of the strong man and take his goods, without first putting cords round the strong man, and then he will take his goods.

But whoever says evil things against the Holy Spirit will never have forgiveness, but the evil he has done will be with him for ever:

And his mother and brothers came and were outside, and sent for him, requesting to see him.

And he said in answer, Who are my mother and my brothers?

Whoever does God's pleasure, the same is my brother, and sister, and mother.