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And said, O men of Galilee, why are you looking up into heaven? This Jesus, who was taken from you into heaven, will come again, in the same way as you saw him go into heaven.

A curse on them! They have gone in the way of Cain, running uncontrolled into the error of Balaam for reward, and have come to destruction by saying evil against the Lord, like Korah.

Attempting to see what sort of time the Spirit of Christ which was in them was pointing to, when it gave witness to the pains which Christ would undergo and the glories which would come after them.

O Lord, let your ear take note of the prayer of your servant, and of the prayers of your servants, who take delight in worshipping your name: give help, O Lord, to your servant this day, and let him have mercy in the eyes of this man. (Now I was the king's wine-servant.)

Saying, What you see, put in a book, and send it to the seven churches; to Ephesus and to Smyrna and to Pergamos and to Thyatira and to Sardis and to Philadelphia and to Laodicea.

For so the way will be open to you into the eternal kingdom of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ.

He came to the things which were his and his people did not take him to their hearts.

They will come to their end; but you are for ever; they will become old as a robe;

And she made an oath, and said, O Lord of armies, if you will truly take note of the sorrow of your servant, not turning away from me but keeping me in mind, and will give me a man-child, then I will give him to the Lord all the days of his life, and his hair will never be cut.

You at the same time helping together by your prayer for us; so that for what has been given to us through a number of persons, praise may go up to God for us from all of them.

Which may be seen in the good news of the glory of the great God, which was given into my care.

These are the words of the Lord: For three crimes of Edom, and for four, I will not let its fate be changed; because his sword was turned against his brother, without pity, and his wrath was burning at all times, and he was angry for ever.

By whom some families have been completely overturned; who take money for teaching things which are not right; these will have to be stopped.

And God said, Let grass come up on the earth, and plants producing seed, and fruit-trees giving fruit, in which is their seed, after their sort: and it was so.

And a voice came out of heaven, You are my dearly loved Son, with whom I am well pleased.

If they say, Come with us; let us make designs against the good, waiting secretly for the upright, without cause;

And the children of Israel and the children of Judah will come together and take for themselves one head, and will go up from the land, for great will be the day of Jezreel.

But now, put out your hand against all he has, and he will be cursing you to your face.

So they put overseers of forced work over them, in order to make their strength less by the weight of their work. And they made store-towns for Pharaoh, Pithom and Raamses.

For when the sun comes up with its burning heat, the grass gets dry and the grace of its form is gone with the falling flower; so the man of wealth comes to nothing in his ways.

For I have a strong desire to see you, and to give you some grace of the spirit, so that you may be made strong;

Of which I was made a preacher and an Apostle and a teacher;

May the Lord, the God of your fathers, make you a thousand times greater in number than you are, and give you his blessing as he has said!

One has gone out from you who is designing evil against the Lord, whose purposes are of no value.

That Vashti the queen was to come before him, crowned with her crown, and let the people and the captains see her: for she was very beautiful.

Again the word of the Lord came to me, saying, Jeremiah, what do you see? And I said, I see a branch of an almond-tree.

And he saw an angel of the Lord in his place on the right side of the altar.

Because I say to you, my brothers, that the good news of which I was the preacher is not man's.

And God said to Solomon, Because this was in your heart, and you did not make request for money, property, or honour, or for the destruction of your haters, or for long life; but you have made request for wisdom and knowledge for yourself, so that you may be the judge of my people over whom I have made you king:

Breathing out grief all her people are looking for bread; they have given their desired things for food to give them life: see, O Lord, and take note; for she has become a thing of shame.

Then David gave way to bitter grief, and so did all the men who were with him:

There is no memory of those who have gone before, and of those who come after there will be no memory for those who are still to come after them.

Because it has come to my knowledge, through those of the house of Chloe, that there are divisions among you, my brothers.

Because you were there watching when men from other lands took away his goods, and strange men came into his doors, and put the fate of Jerusalem to the decision of chance; you were like one of them.

And the sons of Josiah were Jechoniah and his brothers, at the time of the taking away to Babylon.

And he is to put it to death on the north side of the altar before the Lord: and Aaron's sons, the priests, are to put some of the blood on and round the altar.

Go through the tents and give orders to the people, saying, Get ready a store of food; for in three days you are to go over this river Jordan and take for your heritage the land which the Lord your God is giving you.

And by my order no rain came on the land or on the mountains or the grain or the wine or the oil or the produce of the earth or on men or cattle or on any work of man's hands.

Who in the past was of no profit to you, but now is of profit to you and to me:

The farmers are shamed, the workers in the vine-gardens give cries of grief, for the wheat and the barley; for the produce of the fields has come to destruction.

But Naomi said, Go back, my daughters; why will you come with me? Have I more sons in my body, to become your husbands?

And the man who was between the mountains, answering, said to the angel of the Lord, We have gone up and down through the earth, and all the earth is quiet and at rest.

For he who gives him words of love has a part in his evil works.

Be uncovered and go away, you who are living in Shaphir: the one living in Zaanan has not come out of her town; Beth-ezel is taken away from its base, even from its resting-place.

Because of the downfall of all the people of Canaan: all those who were weighted down with silver have been cut off.

And their wings were separate at the top; two of the wings of every one were joined one to another, and two were covering their bodies.

Then the king sent another captain of fifty with his fifty men; and he said to Elijah, O man of God, the king says, Come down quickly.

Then Nathan said to Bath-sheba, the mother of Solomon, Has it not come to your ears that Adonijah, the son of Haggith, has made himself king without the knowledge of David our lord?

From Benjamin, Abidan, the son of Gideoni;

There were five thousand, four hundred gold and silver vessels. All these were taken back by Sheshbazzar, when those who had been taken prisoner went up from Babylon to Jerusalem.

And they said to him, What are we to do to you so that the sea may become calm for us? For the sea was getting rougher and rougher.

Then his purpose will be changed, over-stepping the limit; he will make his strength his god.

We will make you chains of gold with ornaments of silver.

And Egypt was the father of the Ludim and the Anamim and the Lehabim and the Naphtuhim

And from there he went up against the people of Debir. (Now the name of Debir in earlier times was Kiriath-sepher.)

Then Daniel said to the keeper in whose care the captain of the unsexed servants had put Daniel, Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah:

In the Lord put I my faith; how will you say to my soul, Go in flight like a bird to the mountain?

Now the people were saying evil against the Lord; and the Lord, hearing it, was angry and sent fire on them, burning the outer parts of the tent-circle.

And it came about that he was in prayer in a certain place, and when he came to an end, one of his disciples said to him, Lord, will you give us teaching about prayer, as John did to his disciples?

So have love for the Lord your God, and give him worship, and keep his laws and his decisions and his orders at all times.

Now a number of strange women were loved by Solomon, women of the Moabites, Ammonites, Edomites, Zidonians, and Hittites:

Now a certain man named Lazarus was ill; he was of Bethany, the town of Mary and her sister Martha.

And the wind, lifting me up, took me to the east doorway of the Lord's house, looking to the east: and at the door I saw twenty-five men; and among them I saw Jaazaniah, the son of Azzur, and Pelatiah, the son of Benaiah, rulers of the people.

Now the Apostles and the brothers who were in Judaea had news that the word of God had been given to the Gentiles.

Then about a month after this, Nahash the Ammonite came up and put his forces in position for attacking Jabesh-gilead: and all the men of Jabesh said to Nahash, Make an agreement with us and we will be your servants.

And there was given to me a measuring rod: and one said, Go up and take the measure of the house of God, and the altar, and the worshippers in it.

And the rulers of the people were living in Jerusalem: the rest of the people made selection, by the decision of chance, of one out of every ten to be living in Jerusalem, the holy town; the other nine to go to the other towns.

And it came about that when Jesus had come to the end of giving these orders to his twelve disciples, he went away from there, teaching and preaching in their towns.

Now when Athaliah, the mother of Ahaziah, saw that her son was dead, she had all the rest of the seed of the kingdom put to death.

Let your doors be open, O Lebanon, so that fire may be burning among your cedars.

And when they came near to Jerusalem, to Beth-phage and Bethany, at the Mountain of Olives, he sent two of his disciples,

Now in the spring, at the time when kings go out to war, David sent Joab and his servants and all Israel with him; and they made waste the land of the children of Ammon, and took up their position before Rabbah, shutting it in. But David was still at Jerusalem.

Put up with me if I am a little foolish: but, truly, you do put up with me.

Now Jabin, king of Hazor, hearing of these things, sent to Jobab, king of Madon, and to the king of Shimron, and to the king of Achshaph,

And all the earth had one language and one tongue.

And the Lord said to Moses, I will send one more punishment on Pharaoh and on Egypt; after that he will let you go; and when he does let you go, he will not keep one of you back, but will send you out by force.

Now Jephthah the Gileadite was a great man of war; he was the son of a loose woman, and Gilead was his father.

Then all Israel came together to David at Hebron, and said, Truly, we are your bone and your flesh.

And as for me, in the first year of Darius the Mede I was on his side to make his position safe and make him strong.

And Rehoboam came to Jerusalem, and got together the men of Judah and Benjamin, a hundred and eighty thousand of his best fighting-men, to make war against Israel and get the kingdom back for Rehoboam.

And the Lord said to Moses and Aaron,

Then Zophar the Naamathite made answer and said,

The word which came to Jeremiah from the Lord, saying,