Isaiah 57Isaiah 582 Timothy 2Isaiah 57
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The righteous perisheth, and no man layeth [it] to heart: and merciful men [are] taken away, none considering that the righteous is taken away from the evil [to come].
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He shall enter into peace: they shall rest in their beds, [each one] walking [in] his uprightness.
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But draw near hither, ye sons of the sorceress, the seed of the adulterer and the whore.
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Against whom do ye sport yourselves? against whom make ye a wide mouth, [and] draw out the tongue? [are] ye not children of transgression, a seed of falsehood,
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Enflaming yourselves with idols under every green tree, slaying the children in the valleys under the clifts of the rocks?
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Among the smooth [stones] of the stream [is] thy portion they, they [are] thy lot: even to them hast thou poured a drink offering, thou hast offered a meat offering. Should I receive comfort in these?
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Upon a lofty and high mountain hast thou set thy bed: even thither wentest thou up to offer sacrifice.
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Behind the doors also and the posts hast thou set up thy remembrance: for thou hast discovered [thyself to another] than me, and art gone up thou hast enlarged thy bed, and made thee [a covenant] with them thou lovedst their bed where thou sawest [it].
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And thou wentest to the king with ointment, and didst increase thy perfumes, and didst send thy messengers far off, and didst debase [thyself even] unto hell.
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Thou art wearied in the greatness of thy way [yet] saidst thou not, There is no hope: thou hast found the life of thine hand therefore thou wast not grieved.
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And of whom hast thou been afraid or feared, that thou hast lied, and hast not remembered me, nor laid [it] to thy heart? have not I held my peace even of old, and thou fearest me not?
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I will declare thy righteousness, and thy works for they shall not profit thee.
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When thou criest, let thy companies deliver thee but the wind shall carry them all away vanity shall take [them]: but he that putteth his trust in me shall possess the land, and shall inherit my holy mountain
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And shall say, Cast ye up, cast ye up, prepare the way, take up the stumblingblock out of the way of my people.
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For thus saith the high and lofty One that inhabiteth eternity, whose name [is] Holy I dwell in the high and holy [place], with him also [that is] of a contrite and humble spirit, to revive the spirit of the humble, and to revive the heart of the contrite ones.
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For I will not contend for ever, neither will I be always wroth: for the spirit should fail before me, and the souls [which] I have made.
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For the iniquity of his covetousness was I wroth, and smote him: I hid me, and was wroth, and he went on frowardly in the way of his heart.
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I have seen his ways, and will heal him: I will lead him also, and restore comforts unto him and to his mourners.
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I create the fruit of the lips Peace, peace to [him that is] far off, and to [him that is] near, saith the LORD and I will heal him.
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But the wicked [are] like the troubled sea, when it cannot rest, whose waters cast up mire and dirt.
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[There is] no peace, saith my God, to the wicked.
Isaiah 58
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Cry aloud, spare not, lift up thy voice like a trumpet, and shew my people their transgression, and the house of Jacob their sins.
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Yet they seek me daily, and delight to know my ways, as a nation that did righteousness, and forsook not the ordinance of their God: they ask of me the ordinances of justice they take delight in approaching to God.
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Wherefore have we fasted, [say they], and thou seest not? [wherefore] have we afflicted our soul, and thou takest no knowledge? Behold, in the day of your fast ye find pleasure, and exact all your labours.
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Behold, ye fast for strife and debate, and to smite with the fist of wickedness: ye shall not fast as [ye do this] day, to make your voice to be heard on high.
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Is it such a fast that I have chosen? a day for a man to afflict his soul? [is it] to bow down his head as a bulrush, and to spread sackcloth and ashes [under him]? wilt thou call this a fast, and an acceptable day to the LORD?
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[Is] not this the fast that I have chosen? to loose the bands of wickedness, to undo the heavy burdens, and to let the oppressed go free, and that ye break every yoke?
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[Is it] not to deal thy bread to the hungry, and that thou bring the poor that are cast out to thy house? when thou seest the naked, that thou cover him and that thou hide not thyself from thine own flesh?
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Then shall thy light break forth as the morning, and thine health shall spring forth speedily: and thy righteousness shall go before thee the glory of the LORD shall be thy rereward.
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Then shalt thou call, and the LORD shall answer thou shalt cry, and he shall say, Here I [am]. If thou take away from the midst of thee the yoke, the putting forth of the finger, and speaking vanity
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And [if] thou draw out thy soul to the hungry, and satisfy the afflicted soul then shall thy light rise in obscurity, and thy darkness [be] as the noonday:
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And the LORD shall guide thee continually, and satisfy thy soul in drought, and make fat thy bones: and thou shalt be like a watered garden, and like a spring of water, whose waters fail not.
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And [they that shall be] of thee shall build the old waste places: thou shalt raise up the foundations of many generations and thou shalt be called, The repairer of the breach, The restorer of paths to dwell in.
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If thou turn away thy foot from the sabbath, [from] doing thy pleasure on my holy day and call the sabbath a delight, the holy of the LORD, honourable and shalt honour him, not doing thine own ways, nor finding thine own pleasure, nor speaking [thine own] words:
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Then shalt thou delight thyself in the LORD and I will cause thee to ride upon the high places of the earth, and feed thee with the heritage of Jacob thy father: for the mouth of the LORD hath spoken [it].
2 Timothy 2
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Thou therefore, my son, be strong in the grace that is in Christ Jesus.
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And the things that thou hast heard of me among many witnesses, the same commit thou to faithful men, who shall be able to teach others also.
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Thou therefore endure hardness, as a good soldier of Jesus Christ.
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No man that warreth entangleth himself with the affairs of [this] life that he may please him who hath chosen him to be a soldier.
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And if a man also strive for masteries, [yet] is he not crowned, except he strive lawfully.
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The husbandman that laboureth must be first partaker of the fruits.
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Consider what I say and the Lord give thee understanding in all things.
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Remember that Jesus Christ of the seed of David was raised from the dead according to my gospel:
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Wherein I suffer trouble, as an evil doer, [even] unto bonds but the word of God is not bound.
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Therefore I endure all things for the elect's sakes, that they may also obtain the salvation which is in Christ Jesus with eternal glory.
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[It is] a faithful saying: For if we be dead with [him], we shall also live with [him]:
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If we suffer, we shall also reign with [him]: if we deny [him], he also will deny us:
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If we believe not, [yet] he abideth faithful: he cannot deny himself.
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Of these things put [them] in remembrance, charging [them] before the Lord that they strive not about words to no profit, [but] to the subverting of the hearers.
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Study to shew thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth.
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But shun profane [and] vain babblings: for they will increase unto more ungodliness.
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And their word will eat as doth a canker: of whom is Hymenaeus and Philetus
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Who concerning the truth have erred, saying that the resurrection is past already and overthrow the faith of some.
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Nevertheless the foundation of God standeth sure, having this seal, The Lord knoweth them that are his. And, Let every one that nameth the name of Christ depart from iniquity.
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But in a great house there are not only vessels of gold and of silver, but also of wood and of earth and some to honour, and some to dishonour.
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If a man therefore purge himself from these, he shall be a vessel unto honour, sanctified, and meet for the master's use, [and] prepared unto every good work.
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Flee also youthful lusts: but follow righteousness, faith, charity, peace, with them that call on the Lord out of a pure heart.
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But foolish and unlearned questions avoid, knowing that they do gender strifes.
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And the servant of the Lord must not strive but be gentle unto all [men], apt to teach, patient,
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In meekness instructing those that oppose themselves if God peradventure will give them repentance to the acknowledging of the truth
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And [that] they may recover themselves out of the snare of the devil, who are taken captive by him at his will.
