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drb@Romans:1:1 @Paul, a servant of Jesus Christ, called to be an apostle, separated unto the gospel of God,

drb@Romans:1:2 @Which he had promised before, by his prophets, in the holy scriptures,

drb@Romans:1:4 @Who was predestinated the Son of God in power, according to the spirit of sanctification, by the resurrection of our Lord Jesus Christ from the dead;

drb@Romans:1:5 @By whom we have received grace and apostleship for obedience to the faith, in all nations, for his name;

drb@Romans:1:7 @To all that are at Rome, the beloved of God, called to be saints. Grace to you, and peace from God our Father, and from the Lord Jesus Christ.

drb@Romans:1:8 @First I give thanks to my God, through Jesus Christ, for you all, because your faith is spoken of in the whole world.

drb@Romans:1:9 @For God is my witness, whom I serve in my spirit in the gospel of his Son, that without ceasing I make a commemoration of you;

drb@Romans:1:10 @Always in my prayers making request, if by any means now at length I may have a prosperous journey, by the will of God, to come unto you.

drb@Romans:1:11 @For I long to see you, that I may impart unto you some spiritual grace, to strengthen you:

drb@Romans:1:13 @And I would not have you ignorant, brethren, that I have often purposed to come unto you, (and have been hindered hitherto,) that I might have some fruit among you also, even as among other Gentiles.

drb@Romans:1:15 @So (as much as is in me) I am ready to preach the gospel to you also that are at Rome.

drb@Romans:1:16 @For I am not ashamed of the gospel. For it is the power of God unto salvation to every one that believeth, to the Jew first, and to the Greek.

drb@Romans:1:20 @For the invisible things of him, from the creation of the world, are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made; his eternal power also, and divinity: so that they are inexcusable.

drb@Romans:1:22 @For professing themselves to be wise, they became fools.

drb@Romans:1:23 @And they changed the glory of the incorruptible God into the likeness of the image of a corruptible man, and of birds, and of fourfooted beasts, and of creeping things.

drb@Romans:1:24 @Wherefore God gave them up to the desires of their heart, unto uncleanness, to dishonour their own bodies among themselves.

drb@Romans:1:25 @Who changed the truth of God into a lie; and worshipped and served the creature rather than the Creator, who is blessed for ever. Amen.

drb@Romans:1:26 @For this cause God delivered them up to shameful affections. For their women have changed the natural use into that use which is against nature.

drb@Romans:1:27 @And, in like manner, the men also, leaving the natural use of the women, have burned in their lusts one towards another, men with men working that which is filthy, and receiving in themselves the recompense which was due to their error.

drb@Romans:1:28 @And as they liked not to have God in their knowledge, God delivered them up to a reprobate sense, to do those things which are not convenient;

drb@Romans:1:29 @Being filled with all iniquity, malice, fornication, avarice, wickedness, full of envy, murder, contention, deceit, malignity, whisperers,

drb@Romans:1:30 @Detractors, hateful to God, contumelious, proud, haughty, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents,

drb@Romans:2:3 @And thinkest thou this, O man, that judgest them who do such things, and dost the same, that thou shalt escape the judgment of God?

drb@Romans:2:4 @Or despisest thou the riches of his goodness, and patience, and longsuffering? Knowest thou not, that the benignity of God leadeth thee to penance?

drb@Romans:2:5 @But according to thy hardness and impenitent heart, thou treasurest up to thyself wrath, against the day of wrath, and revelation of the just judgment of God.

drb@Romans:2:7 @To them indeed, who according to patience in good work, seek glory and honour and incorruption, eternal life:

drb@Romans:2:9 @Tribulation and anguish upon every soul of man that worketh evil, of the Jew first, and also of the Greek.

drb@Romans:2:10 @But glory, and honour, and peace to every one that worketh good, to the Jew first, and also to the Greek.

drb@Romans:2:11 @For there is no respect of persons with God.

drb@Romans:2:12 @For whosoever have sinned without the law, shall perish without the law; and whosoever have sinned in the law, shall be judged by the law.

drb@Romans:2:16 @In the day when God shall judge the secrets of men by Jesus Christ, according to my gospel.

drb@Romans:2:18 @And knowest his will, and approvest the more profitable things, being instructed by the law,

drb@Romans:2:21 @Thou therefore that teachest another, teachest not thyself: thou that preachest that men should not steal, stealest:

drb@Romans:2:24 @(For the name of God through you is blasphemed among the Gentiles, as it is written.)

drb@Romans:2:25 @Circumcision profiteth indeed, if thou keep the law; but if thou be a transgressor of the law, thy circumcision is made uncircumcision.

drb@Romans:2:26 @If, then, the uncircumcised keep the justices of the law, shall not this uncircumcision be counted for circumcision?

drb@Romans:2:29 @But he is a Jew, that is one inwardly; and the circumcision is that of the heart, in the spirit, not in the letter; whose praise is not of men, but of God.

drb@Romans:3:1 @What advantage then hath the Jew, or what is the profit of circumcision?

drb@Romans:3:6 @(I speak according to man.) God forbid: otherwise how shall God judge this world?

drb@Romans:3:12 @All have turned out of the way; they are become unprofitable together: there is none that doth good, there is not so much as one.

drb@Romans:3:13 @Their throat is an open sepulchre; with their tongues they have dealt deceitfully. The venom of asps is under their lips.

drb@Romans:3:17 @And the way of peace they have not known:

drb@Romans:3:19 @Now we know, that what things soever the law speaketh, it speaketh to them that are in the law; that every mouth may be stopped, and all the world may be made subject to God.

drb@Romans:3:21 @But now without the law the justice of God is made manifest, being witnessed by the law and the prophets.

drb@Romans:3:22 @Even the justice of God, by faith of Jesus Christ, unto all and upon all them that believe in him: for there is no distinction:

drb@Romans:3:24 @Being justified freely by his grace, through the redemption, that is in Christ Jesus,

drb@Romans:3:25 @Whom God hath proposed to be a propitiation, through faith in his blood, to the shewing of his justice, for the remission of former sins,

drb@Romans:4:3 @For what saith the scripture? Abraham believed God, and it was reputed to him unto justice.

drb@Romans:4:5 @But to him that worketh not, yet believeth in him that justifieth the ungodly, his faith is reputed to justice, according to the purpose of the grace of God.

drb@Romans:4:6 @As David also termeth the blessedness of a man, to whom God reputeth justice without works:

drb@Romans:4:8 @Blessed is the man to whom the Lord hath not imputed sin.

drb@Romans:4:9 @This blessedness then, doth it remain in the circumcision only, or in the uncircumcision also? For we say that unto Abraham faith was reputed to justice.

drb@Romans:4:10 @How then was it reputed? When he was in circumcision, or in uncircumcision? Not in circumcision, but in uncircumcision

drb@Romans:4:11 @And he received the sign of circumcision, a seal of the justice of the faith, which he had, being uncircumcised; that he might be the father of all them that believe, being uncircumcised, that unto them also it may be reputed to justice:

drb@Romans:4:12 @And might be the father of circumcision; not to them only, that are of the circumcision, but to them also that follow the steps of the faithful, that is in the uncircumcision of our father Abraham.

drb@Romans:4:13 @For not through the law was the promise to Abraham, or to his seed, that he should be heir of the world; but through the justice of faith.

drb@Romans:4:14 @For if they who are of the law be heirs, faith is made void, the promise is made of no effect.

drb@Romans:4:16 @Therefore is it of faith, that according to grace the promise might be firm to all the seed; not to that only which is of the law, but to that also which is of the faith of Abraham, who is the father of us all,

drb@Romans:4:18 @Who against hope believed in hope; that he might be made the father of many nations, according to that which was said to him: So shall thy seed be.

drb@Romans:4:20 @In the promise also of God he staggered not by distrust; but was strengthened in faith, giving glory to God:

drb@Romans:4:21 @Most fully knowing, that whatsoever he has promised, he is able also to perform.

drb@Romans:4:22 @And therefore it was reputed to him unto justice.

drb@Romans:4:23 @Now it is not written only for him, that it was reputed to him unto justice,

drb@Romans:4:24 @But also for us, to whom it shall be reputed, if we believe in him, that raised up Jesus Christ, our Lord, from the dead,

drb@Romans:4:25 @Who was delivered up for our sins, and rose again for our justification.

drb@Romans:5:1 @Being justified therefore by faith, let us have peace with God, through our Lord Jesus Christ:

drb@Romans:5:2 @By whom also we have access through faith into this grace, wherein we stand, and glory in the hope of the glory of the sons of God.

drb@Romans:5:3 @And not only so; but we glory also in tribulations, knowing that tribulation worketh patience;

drb@Romans:5:4 @And patience trial; and trial hope;

drb@Romans:5:5 @And hope confoundeth not: because the charity of God is poured forth in our hearts, by the Holy Ghost, who is given to us.

drb@Romans:5:7 @For scarce for a just man will one die; yet perhaps for a good man some one would dare to die.

drb@Romans:5:12 @Wherefore as by one man sin entered into this world, and by sin death; and so death passed upon all men, in whom all have sinned

drb@Romans:5:13 @For until the law sin was in the world; but sin was not imputed, when the law was not.

drb@Romans:6:3 @Know you not that all we, who are baptized in Christ Jesus, are baptized in his death?

drb@Romans:6:4 @For we are buried together with him by baptism into death; that as Christ is risen from the dead by the glory of the Father, so we also may walk in newness of life.

drb@Romans:6:5 @For if we have been planted together in the likeness of his death, we shall be also in the likeness of his resurrection.

drb@Romans:6:13 @Neither yield ye your members as instruments of iniquity unto sin; but present yourselves to God, as those that are alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of justice unto God.

drb@Romans:6:19 @I speak an human thing, because of the infirmity of your flesh. For as you have yielded your members to serve uncleanness and iniquity, unto iniquity; so now yield your members to serve justice, unto sanctification.

drb@Romans:7:1 @Know you not, brethren, (for I speak to them that know the law,) that the law hath dominion over a man, as long as it liveth?

drb@Romans:7:5 @For when we were in the flesh, the passions of sins, which were by the law, did work in our members, to bring forth fruit unto death.

drb@Romans:7:6 @But now we are loosed from the law of death, wherein we were detained; so that we should serve in newness of spirit, and not in the oldness of the letter.

drb@Romans:7:7 @What shall we say, then? Is the law sin? God forbid. But I do not know sin, but by the law; for I had not known concupiscence, if the law did not say: Thou shalt not covet.

drb@Romans:7:8 @But sin taking occasion by the commandment, wrought in me all manner of concupiscence. For without the law sin was dead.

drb@Romans:7:13 @Was that then which is good, made death unto me? God forbid. But sin, that it may appear sin, by that which is good, wrought death in me; that sin, by the commandment, might become sinful above measure.

drb@Romans:7:14 @For we know that the law is spiritual; but I am carnal, sold under sin.

drb@Romans:7:18 @For I know that there dwelleth not in me, that is to say, in my flesh, that which is good. For to will, is present with me; but to accomplish that which is good, I find not.

drb@Romans:7:21 @I find then a law, that when I have a will to do good, evil is present with me.

drb@Romans:7:23 @But I see another law in my members, fighting against the law of my mind, and captivating me in the law of sin, that is in my members.

drb@Romans:7:24 @Unhappy man that I am, who shall deliver me from the body of this death?

drb@Romans:8:2 @For the law of the spirit of life, in Christ Jesus, hath delivered me from the law of sin and of death.

drb@Romans:8:4 @That the justification of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not according to the flesh, but according to the spirit.

drb@Romans:8:5 @For they that are according to the flesh, mind the things that are of the flesh; but they that are according to the spirit, mind the things that are of the spirit.

drb@Romans:8:6 @For the wisdom of the flesh is death; but the wisdom of the spirit is life and peace.

drb@Romans:8:8 @And they who are in the flesh, cannot please God.

drb@Romans:8:9 @But you are not in the flesh, but in the spirit, if so be that the Spirit of God dwell in you. Now if any man have not the Spirit of Christ, he is none of his.

drb@Romans:8:10 @And if Christ be in you, the body indeed is dead, because of sin; but the spirit liveth, because of justification.

drb@Romans:8:11 @And if the Spirit of him that raised up Jesus from the dead, dwell in you; he that raised up Jesus Christ from the dead, shall quicken also your mortal bodies, because of his Spirit that dwelleth in you.

drb@Romans:8:13 @For if you live according to the flesh, you shall die: but if by the Spirit you mortify the deeds of the flesh, you shall live.

drb@Romans:8:14 @For whosoever are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God.

drb@Romans:8:15 @For you have not received the spirit of bondage again in fear; but you have received the spirit of adoption of sons, whereby we cry: Abba (Father).

drb@Romans:8:16 @For the Spirit himself giveth testimony to our spirit, that we are the sons of God.

drb@Romans:8:18 @For I reckon that the sufferings of this time are not worthy to be compared with the glory to come, that shall be revealed in us

drb@Romans:8:19 @For the expectation of the creature waiteth for the revelation of the sons of God.

drb@Romans:8:20 @For the creature was made subject to vanity, not willingly, but by reason of him that made it subject, in hope:

drb@Romans:8:21 @Because the creature also itself shall be delivered from the servitude of corruption, into the liberty of the glory of the children of God.

drb@Romans:8:22 @For we know that every creature groaneth and travaileth in pain, even till now.

drb@Romans:8:23 @And not only it, but ourselves also, who have the firstfruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting for the adoption of the sons of God, the redemption of our body.

drb@Romans:8:24 @For we are saved by hope. But hope that is seen, is not hope. For what a man seeth, why doth he hope for?

drb@Romans:8:25 @But if we hope for that which we see not, we wait for it with patience.

drb@Romans:8:26 @Likewise the Spirit also helpeth our infirmity. For we know not what we should pray for as we ought; but the Spirit himself asketh for us with unspeakable groanings.

drb@Romans:8:27 @And he that searcheth the hearts, knoweth what the Spirit desireth; because he asketh for the saints according to God.

drb@Romans:8:28 @And we know that to them that love God, all things work together unto good, to such as, according to his purpose, are called to be saints.

drb@Romans:8:29 @For whom he foreknew, he also predestinated to be made conformable to the image of his Son; that he might be the firstborn amongst many brethren.

drb@Romans:8:30 @And whom he predestinated, them he also called. And whom he called, them he also justified. And whom he justified, them he also glorified.

drb@Romans:8:32 @He that spared not even his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, how hath he not also, with him, given us all things?

drb@Romans:8:35 @Who then shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation? or distress? or famine? or nakedness? or danger? or persecution? or the sword?

drb@Romans:8:36 @(As it is written: For thy sake we are put to death all the day long. We are accounted as sheep for the slaughter.)

drb@Romans:8:38 @For I am sure that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come, nor might,

drb@Romans:8:39 @Nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.

drb@Romans:9:2 @For when the children were not yet born, nor had done any good or evil (that the purpose of God, according to election, might stand,)

drb@Romans:9:8 @For the scripture saith to Pharao: To this purpose have I raised thee, that I may shew my power in thee, and that my name may be declared throughout all the earth.

drb@Romans:9:11 @O man, who art thou that repliest against God? Shall the thing formed say to him that formed it: Why hast thou made me thus?

drb@Romans:9:12 @Or hath not the potter power over the clay, of the same lump, to make one vessel unto honour, and another unto dishonour?

drb@Romans:9:13 @What if God, willing to shew his wrath, and to make his power known, endured with much patience vessels of wrath, fitted for destruction,

drb@Romans:9:14 @That he might shew the riches of his glory on the vessels of mercy, which he hath prepared unto glory?

drb@Romans:9:16 @As in Osee he saith: I will call that which was not my people, my people; and her that was not beloved, beloved; and her that had not obtained mercy, one that hath obtained mercy.

drb@Romans:9:17 @And it shall be, in the place where it was said unto them, You are not my people; there they shall be called the sons of the living God.

drb@Romans:9:19 @For he shall finish his word, and cut it short in justice; because a short word shall the Lord make upon the earth.

drb@Romans:10:1 @Brethren, the will of my heart, indeed, and my prayer to God, is for them unto salvation.

drb@Romans:10:6 @But the justice which is of faith, speaketh thus: Say not in thy heart, Who shall ascend into heaven? that is, to bring Christ down;

drb@Romans:10:7 @Or who shall descend into the deep? that is, to bring up Christ again from the dead.

drb@Romans:10:8 @But what saith the scripture? The word is nigh thee, even in thy mouth, and in thy heart. This is the word of faith, which we preach.

drb@Romans:10:9 @For if thou confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and believe in thy heart that God hath raised him up from the dead, thou shalt be saved

drb@Romans:10:11 @For the scripture saith: Whosoever believeth in him, shall not be confounded.

drb@Romans:10:12 @For there is no distinction of the Jew and the Greek: for the same is Lord over all, rich unto all that call upon him.

drb@Romans:10:13 @For whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord, shall be saved.

drb@Romans:10:14 @How then shall they call on him, in whom they have not believed? Or how shall they believe him, of whom they have not heard? And how shall they hear, without a preacher?

drb@Romans:10:15 @And how shall they preach unless they be sent, as it is written: How beautiful are the feet of them that preach the gospel of peace, of them that bring glad tidings of good things!

drb@Romans:10:16 @But all do not obey the gospel. For Isaias saith: Lord, who hath believed our report?

drb@Romans:10:19 @But I say: Hath not Israel known? First, Moses saith: I will provoke you to jealousy by that which is not a nation; by a foolish nation I will anger you.

drb@Romans:10:20 @But Isaias is bold, and saith: I was found by them that did not seek me: I appeared openly to them that asked not after me.

drb@Romans:10:21 @But to Israel he saith: All the day long have I spread my hands to a people that believeth not, and contradicteth me.

drb@Romans:11:4 @For I say to you, Gentiles: as long indeed as I am the apostle of the Gentiles, I will honour my ministry,

drb@Romans:11:5 @If, by any means, I may provoke to emulation them who are my flesh, and may save some of them.

drb@Romans:11:7 @For if the firstfruit be holy, so is the lump also: and if the root be holy, so are the branches.

drb@Romans:11:8 @And if some of the branches be broken, and thou, being a wild olive, art ingrafted in them, and art made partaker of the root, and of the fatness of the olive tree,

drb@Romans:11:12 @For if God hath not spared the natural branches, fear lest perhaps he also spare not thee.

drb@Romans:11:16 @For I would not have you ignorant, brethren, of this mystery, (lest you should be wise in your own conceits), that blindness in part has happened in Israel, until the fulness of the Gentiles should come in.

drb@Romans:11:19 @As concerning the gospel, indeed, they are enemies for your sake: but as touching the election, they are most dear for the sake of the fathers.

drb@Romans:11:20 @For the gifts and the calling of God are without repentance.

drb@Romans:11:21 @For as you also in times past did not believe God, but now have obtained mercy, through their unbelief;

drb@Romans:11:24 @O the depth of the riches of the wisdom and of the knowledge of God! How incomprehensible are his judgments, and how unsearchable his ways!

drb@Romans:11:26 @Or who hath first given to him, and recompense shall be made him?

drb@Romans:12:1 @I BESEECH you therefore, brethren, by the mercy of God, that you present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, pleasing unto God, your reasonable service.

drb@Romans:12:2 @And be not conformed to this world; but be reformed in the newness of your mind, that you may prove what is the good, and the acceptable, and the perfect will of God.

drb@Romans:12:6 @And having different gifts, according to the grace that is given us, either prophecy, to be used according to the rule of faith;

drb@Romans:12:8 @He that exhorteth, in exhorting; he that giveth, with simplicity; he that ruleth, with carefulness; he that sheweth mercy, with cheerfulness.

drb@Romans:12:10 @Loving one another with the charity of brotherhood, with honour preventing one another.

drb@Romans:12:11 @In carefulness not slothful. In spirit fervent. Serving the Lord.

drb@Romans:12:12 @Rejoicing in hope. Patient in tribulation. Instant in prayer.

drb@Romans:12:14 @Bless them that persecute you: bless, and curse not.

drb@Romans:12:15 @Rejoice with them that rejoice; weep with them that weep.

drb@Romans:12:17 @To no man rendering evil for evil. Providing good things, not only in the sight of God, but also in the sight of all men.

drb@Romans:12:18 @If it be possible, as much as is in you, have peace with all men.

drb@Romans:12:19 @Revenge not yourselves, my dearly beloved; but give place unto wrath, for it is written: Revenge is mine, I will repay, saith the Lord.

drb@Romans:12:20 @But if thy enemy be hungry, give him to eat; if he thirst, give him to drink. For, doing this, thou shalt heap coals of fire upon his head.

drb@Romans:13:1 @Let every soul be subject to higher powers: for there is no power but from God: and those that are, are ordained of God.

drb@Romans:13:2 @Therefore he that resisteth the power, resisteth the ordinance of God. And they that resist, purchase to themselves damnation.

drb@Romans:13:3 @For princes are not a terror to the good work, but to the evil. Wilt thou then not be afraid of the power? Do that which is good: and thou shalt have praise from the same.

drb@Romans:13:4 @For he is God's minister to thee, for good. But if thou do that which is evil, fear: for he beareth not the sword in vain. For he is God's minister: an avenger to execute wrath upon him that doth evil.

drb@Romans:13:6 @For therefore also you pay tribute. For they are the ministers of God, serving unto this purpose.

drb@Romans:13:9 @For Thou shalt not commit adultery: Thou shalt not kill: Thou shalt not steal, Thou shalt not bear false witness: Thou shalt not covet: and if there be any other commandment, it is comprised in this word, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.

drb@Romans:13:11 @And that knowing the season; that it is now the hour for us to rise from sleep. For now our salvation is nearer than when we believed.

drb@Romans:13:12 @The night is passed, and the day is at hand. Let us therefore cast off the works of darkness, and put on the armour of light.

drb@Romans:13:13 @Let us walk honestly, as in the day: not in rioting and drunkenness, not in chambering and impurities, not in contention and envy:

drb@Romans:13:14 @But put ye on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make not provision for the flesh in its concupiscences.

drb@Romans:14:1 @Now him that is weak in faith, take unto you: not in disputes about thoughts.

drb@Romans:14:3 @Let not him that eateth, despise him that eateth not: and he that eateth not, let him not judge him that eateth. For God hath taken him to him.

drb@Romans:14:10 @But thou, why judgest thou thy brother? or thou, why dost thou despise thy brother? For we shall all stand before the judgment seat of Christ.

drb@Romans:14:13 @Let us not therefore judge one another any more. But judge this rather, that you put not a stumblingblock or a scandal in your brother's way.

drb@Romans:14:16 @Let not then our good be evil spoken of.

drb@Romans:14:17 @For the kingdom of God is not meat and drink; but justice, and peace, and joy in the Holy Ghost

drb@Romans:14:18 @For he that in this serveth Christ, pleaseth God, and is approved of men.

drb@Romans:14:19 @Therefore let us follow after the things that are of peace; and keep the things that are of edification one towards another.

drb@Romans:15:1 @Now we that are stronger, ought to bear the infirmities of the weak, and not to please ourselves.

drb@Romans:15:2 @Let every one of you please his neighbour unto good, to edification.

drb@Romans:15:3 @For Christ did not please himself, but as it is written: The reproaches of them that reproached thee, fell upon me.

drb@Romans:15:4 @For what things soever were written, were written for our learning: that through patience and the comfort of the scriptures, we might have hope.

drb@Romans:15:5 @Now the God of patience and of comfort grant you to be of one mind one towards another, according to Jesus Christ:

drb@Romans:15:8 @For I say that Christ Jesus was minister of the circumcision for the truth of God, to confirm the promises made unto the fathers.

drb@Romans:15:10 @And again he saith: Rejoice, ye Gentiles, with his people.

drb@Romans:15:11 @And again: Praise the Lord, all ye Gentiles; and magnify him, all ye people.

drb@Romans:15:12 @And again Isaias saith: There shall be a root of Jesse; and he that shall rise up to rule the Gentiles, in him the Gentiles shall hope.

drb@Romans:15:13 @Now the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing; that you may abound in hope, and in the power of the Holy Ghost.

drb@Romans:15:14 @And I myself also, my brethren, am assured of you, that you also are full of love, replenished with all knowledge, so that you are able to admonish one another.

drb@Romans:15:15 @But I have written to you, brethren, more boldly in some sort, as it were putting you in mind: because of the grace which is given me from God.

drb@Romans:15:16 @That I should be the minister of Christ Jesus among the Gentiles; sanctifying the gospel of God, that the oblation of the Gentiles may be made acceptable and sanctified in the Holy Ghost.

drb@Romans:15:18 @For I dare not to speak of any of those things which Christ worketh not by me, for the obedience of the Gentiles, by word and deed,

drb@Romans:15:19 @By the virtue of signs and wonders, in the power of the Holy Ghost, so that from Jerusalem round about as far as unto Illyricum, I have replenished the gospel of Christ

drb@Romans:15:20 @And I have so preached this gospel, not where Christ was named, lest I should build upon another man's foundation.

drb@Romans:15:21 @But as it is written: They to whom he was not spoken of, shall see, and they that have not heard shall understand.

drb@Romans:15:22 @For which cause also I was hindered very much from coming to you, and have been kept away till now.

drb@Romans:15:23 @But now having no more place in these countries, and having a great desire these many years past to come unto you,

drb@Romans:15:24 @When I shall begin to take my journey into Spain, I hope that as I pass, I shall see you, and be brought on my way thither by you, if first, in part, I shall have enjoyed you:

drb@Romans:15:26 @For it hath pleased them of Macedonia and Achaia to make a contribution for the poor of the saints that are in Jerusalem.

drb@Romans:15:27 @For it hath pleased them; and they are their debtors. For if the Gentiles have been made partakers of their spiritual things, they ought also in carnal things to minister to them.

drb@Romans:15:28 @When therefore I shall have accomplished this, and consigned to them this fruit, I will come by you into Spain.

drb@Romans:15:29 @And I know, that when I come to you, I shall come in the abundance of the blessing of the gospel of Christ.

drb@Romans:15:30 @I beseech you therefore, brethren, through our Lord Jesus Christ, and by the charity of the Holy Ghost, that you help me in your prayers for me to God,

drb@Romans:15:31 @That I may be delivered from the unbelievers that are in Judea, and that the oblation of my service may be acceptable in Jerusalem to the saints.

drb@Romans:15:33 @Now the God of peace be with you all. Amen.

drb@Romans:16:1 @And I commend to you Phebe, our sister, who is in the ministry of the church, that is in Cenchrae:

drb@Romans:16:3 @Salute Prisca and Aquila, my helpers in Christ Jesus,

drb@Romans:16:5 @And the church which is in their house. Salute Epenetus, my beloved: who is the firstfruits of Asia in Christ.

drb@Romans:16:7 @Salute Andronicus and Junias, my kinsmen and fellow prisoners: who are of note among the apostles, who also were in Christ before me.

drb@Romans:16:8 @Salute Ampliatus, most beloved to me in the Lord.

drb@Romans:16:9 @Salute Urbanus, our helper in Christ Jesus, and Stachys, my beloved.

drb@Romans:16:10 @Salute Apelles, approved in Christ.

drb@Romans:16:12 @Salute Tryphaena and Tryphosa, who labour in the Lord. Salute Persis, the dearly beloved, who hath much laboured in the Lord.

drb@Romans:16:14 @Salute Asyncritus, Phlegon, Hermas, Patrobas, Hermes, and the brethren that are with them.

drb@Romans:16:15 @Salute Philologus and Julia, Nereus and his sister, and Olympias; and all the saints that are with them.

drb@Romans:16:18 @For they that are such, serve not Christ our Lord, but their own belly; and by pleasing speeches and good words, seduce the hearts of the innocent.

drb@Romans:16:19 @For your obedience is published in every place. I rejoice therefore in you. But I would have you to be wise in good, and simple in evil.

drb@Romans:16:20 @And the God of peace crush Satan under your feet speedily. The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you.

drb@Romans:16:21 @Timothy, my fellow labourer, saluteth you, and Lucius, and Jason, and Sosipater, my kinsmen

drb@Romans:16:22 @I Tertius, who wrote this epistle, salute you in the Lord.

drb@Romans:16:25 @Now to him that is able to establish you, according to my gospel, and the preaching of Jesus Christ, according to the revelation of the mystery, which was kept secret from eternity,

drb@Romans:16:26 @(Which now is made manifest by the scriptures of the prophets, according to the precept of the eternal God, for the obedience of faith,) known among all nations;

drb@1Corinthians:1:1 @Paul, called to be an apostle of Jesus Christ by the will of God, and Sosthenes a brother,

drb@1Corinthians:1:2 @To the church of God that is at Corinth, to them that are sanctified in Christ Jesus, called to be saints, with all that invoke the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, in every place of theirs and ours.

drb@1Corinthians:1:3 @Grace to you, and peace from God our Father, and from the Lord Jesus Christ.

drb@1Corinthians:1:9 @God is faithful: by whom you are called unto the fellowship of his Son Jesus Christ our Lord.

drb@1Corinthians:1:10 @Now I beseech you, brethren, by the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that you all speak the same thing, and that there be no schisms among you; but that you be perfect in the same mind, and in the same judgment.

drb@1Corinthians:1:12 @Now this I say, that every one of you saith: I indeed am of Paul; and I am of Apollo; and I am of Cephas; and I of Christ.

drb@1Corinthians:1:13 @Is Christ divided? Was Paul then crucified for you? or were you baptized in the name of Paul?

drb@1Corinthians:1:14 @I give God thanks, that I baptized none of you but Crispus and Caius;

drb@1Corinthians:1:15 @Lest any should say that you were baptized in my name.

drb@1Corinthians:1:16 @And I baptized also the household of Stephanus; besides, I know not whether I baptized any other.

drb@1Corinthians:1:17 @For Christ sent me not to baptize, but to preach the gospel: not in wisdom of speech, lest the cross of Christ should be made void.

drb@1Corinthians:1:18 @For the word of the cross, to them indeed that perish, is foolishness; but to them that are saved, that is, to us, it is the power of God.

drb@1Corinthians:1:19 @For it is written: I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, and the prudence of the prudent I will reject.

drb@1Corinthians:1:20 @Where is the wise? Where is the scribe? Where is the disputer of this world? Hath not God made foolish the wisdom of this world?

drb@1Corinthians:1:21 @For seeing that in the wisdom of God the world, by wisdom, knew not God, it pleased God, by the foolishness of our preaching, to save them that believe.

drb@1Corinthians:1:23 @But we preach Christ crucified, unto the Jews indeed a stumblingblock, and unto the Gentiles foolishness:

drb@1Corinthians:1:24 @But unto them that are called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God, and the wisdom of God.

drb@1Corinthians:1:28 @And the base things of the world, and the things that are contemptible, hath God chosen, and things that are not, that he might bring to nought things that are:

drb@1Corinthians:1:30 @But of him are you in Christ Jesus, who of God is made unto us wisdom, and justice, and sanctification, and redemption:

drb@1Corinthians:2:1 @And I, brethren, when I came to you, came not in loftiness of speech or of wisdom, declaring unto you the testimony of Christ.

drb@1Corinthians:2:4 @And my speech and my preaching was not in the persuasive words of human wisdom, but in shewing of the Spirit and power;

drb@1Corinthians:2:5 @That your faith might not stand on the wisdom of men, but on the power of God.

drb@1Corinthians:2:6 @Howbeit we speak wisdom among the perfect: yet not the wisdom of this world, neither of the princes of this world that come to nought;

drb@1Corinthians:2:7 @But we speak the wisdom of God in a mystery, a wisdom which is hidden, which God ordained before the world, unto our glory:

drb@1Corinthians:2:8 @Which none of the princes of this world knew; for if they had known it, they would never have crucified the Lord of glory.

drb@1Corinthians:2:9 @But, as it is written: That eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither hath it entered into the heart of man, what things God hath prepared for them that love him.

drb@1Corinthians:2:10 @But to us God hath revealed them, by this Spirit. For the Spirit searcheth all things, yea, the deep things of God.

drb@1Corinthians:2:11 @For what man knoweth the things of a man, but the spirit of a man that is in him? So the things also that are of God no man knoweth, but the Spirit of God.

drb@1Corinthians:2:12 @Now we have received not the spirit of this world, but the Spirit that is of God; that we may know the things that are given us from God.

drb@1Corinthians:2:13 @Which things also we speak, not in the learned words of human wisdom; but in the doctrine of the Spirit, comparing spiritual things with spiritual.

drb@1Corinthians:2:14 @But the sensual man perceiveth not these things that are of the Spirit of God; for it is foolishness to him, and he cannot understand, because it is spiritually examined.

drb@1Corinthians:2:15 @But the spiritual man judgeth all things; and he himself is judged of no man.

drb@1Corinthians:3:1 @And I, brethren, could not speak to you as unto spiritual, but as unto carnal. As unto little ones in Christ.

drb@1Corinthians:3:4 @For while one saith, I indeed am of Paul; and another, I am of Apollo; are you not men? What then is Apollo, and what is Paul?

drb@1Corinthians:3:6 @I have planted, Apollo watered, but God gave the increase.

drb@1Corinthians:3:7 @Therefore, neither he that planteth is any thing, nor he that watereth; but God that giveth the increase.

drb@1Corinthians:3:8 @Now he that planteth, and he that watereth, ate one. And every man shall receive his own reward, according to his own labour.

drb@1Corinthians:3:12 @Now if any man build upon this foundation, gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, stubble:

drb@1Corinthians:3:14 @If any man's work abide, which he hath built thereupon, he shall receive a reward.

drb@1Corinthians:3:16 @Know you not, that you are the temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you?

drb@1Corinthians:3:17 @But if any man violate the temple of God, him shall God destroy. For the temple of God is holy, which you are.

drb@1Corinthians:3:22 @For all things are yours, whether it be Paul, or Apollo, or Cephas, or the world, or life, or death, or things present, or things to some; for all are yours;

drb@1Corinthians:4:1 @Let a man so account of us as of the ministers of Christ, and the dispensers of the mysteries of God.

drb@1Corinthians:4:2 @Here now it is required among the dispensers, that a man be found faithful.

drb@1Corinthians:4:5 @Therefore judge not before the time; until the Lord come, who both will bring to light the hidden things of darkness, and will make manifest the counsels of the hearts; and then shall every man have praise from God.

drb@1Corinthians:4:6 @But these things, brethren, I have in a figure transferred to myself and to Apollo, for your sakes; that in us you may learn, that one be not puffed up against the other for another, above that which is written.

drb@1Corinthians:4:9 @For I think that God hath set forth us apostles, the last, as it were men appointed to death: we are made a spectacle to the world, and to angels, and to men.

drb@1Corinthians:4:12 @And we labour, working with our own hands: we are reviled, and we bless; we are persecuted, and we suffer it.

drb@1Corinthians:4:13 @We are blasphemed, and we entreat; we are made as the refuse of this world, the offscouring of all even until now.

drb@1Corinthians:4:15 @For if you have ten thousand instructors in Christ, yet not many fathers. For in Christ Jesus, by the gospel, I have begotten you.

drb@1Corinthians:4:17 @For this cause have I sent to you Timothy, who is my dearest son and faithful in the Lord; who will put you in mind of my ways, which are in Christ Jesus; as I teach every where in every church.

drb@1Corinthians:4:18 @As if I would not come to you, so some are puffed up.

drb@1Corinthians:4:19 @But I will come to you shortly, if the Lord will: and will know, not the speech of them that are puffed up, but the power.

drb@1Corinthians:4:20 @For the kingdom of God is not in speech, but in power.

drb@1Corinthians:4:21 @What will you? shall I come to you with a rod; or in charity, and in the spirit of meekness?

drb@1Corinthians:5:2 @And you are puffed up; and have not rather mourned, that he might be taken away from among you, that hath done this deed.

drb@1Corinthians:5:3 @I indeed, absent in body, but present in spirit, have already judged, as though I were present, him that hath so done,

drb@1Corinthians:5:4 @In the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, you being gathered together, and my spirit, with the power of our Lord Jesus;

drb@1Corinthians:5:5 @To deliver such a one to Satan for the destruction of the flesh, that the spirit may be saved in the day of our Lord Jesus Christ.

drb@1Corinthians:5:6 @Your glorying is not good. Know you not that a little leaven corrupteth the whole lump?

drb@1Corinthians:5:7 @Purge out the old leaven, that you may be a new paste, as you are unleavened. For Christ our pasch is sacrificed.

drb@1Corinthians:5:9 @I wrote to you in an epistle, not to keep company with fornicators.

drb@1Corinthians:5:11 @But now I have written to you, not to keep company, if any man that is named a brother, be a fornicator, or covetous, or a server of idols, or a railer, or a drunkard, or an extortioner: with such a one, not so much as to eat.

drb@1Corinthians:5:13 @For them that are without, God will judge. Put away the evil one from among yourselves.

drb@1Corinthians:6:4 @If therefore you have judgments of things pertaining to this world, set them to judge, who are the most despised in the church.

drb@1Corinthians:6:5 @I speak to your shame. Is it so that there is not among you any one wise man, that is able to judge between his brethren?

drb@1Corinthians:6:7 @Already indeed there is plainly a fault among you, that you have lawsuits one with another. Why do you not rather take wrong? Why do you not rather suffer yourselves to be defrauded?

drb@1Corinthians:6:9 @Know you not that the unjust shall not possess the kingdom of God? Do not err: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers,

drb@1Corinthians:6:10 @Nor the effeminate, nor liers with mankind, nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor railers, nor extortioners, shall possess the kingdom of God.

drb@1Corinthians:6:11 @And such some of you were; but you are washed, but you are sanctified, but you are justified in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, and the Spirit of our God.

drb@1Corinthians:6:12 @All things are lawful to me, but all things are not expedient. All things are lawful to me, but I will not be brought under the power of any.

drb@1Corinthians:6:14 @Now God hath both raised up the Lord, and will raise us up also by his power

drb@1Corinthians:6:17 @But he who is joined to the Lord, is one spirit.

drb@1Corinthians:6:19 @Or know you not, that your members are the temple of the Holy Ghost, who is in you, whom you have from God; and you are not your own?

drb@1Corinthians:6:20 @For you are bought with a great price. Glorify and bear God in your body.

drb@1Corinthians:7:4 @The wife hath not power of her own body, but the husband. And in like manner the husband also hath not power of his own body, but the wife.

drb@1Corinthians:7:5 @Defraud not one another, except, perhaps, by consent, for a time, that you may give yourselves to prayer; and return together again, lest Satan tempt you for your incontinency.

drb@1Corinthians:7:6 @But I speak this by indulgence, not by commandment.

drb@1Corinthians:7:7 @For I would that all men were even as myself: but every one hath his proper gift from God; one after this manner, and another after that.

drb@1Corinthians:7:10 @But to them that are married, not I but the Lord commandeth, that the wife depart not from her husband.

drb@1Corinthians:7:11 @And if she depart, that she remain unmarried, or be reconciled to her husband. And let not the husband put away his wife.

drb@1Corinthians:7:12 @For to the rest I speak, not the Lord. If any brother hath a wife that believeth not, and she consent to dwell with him, let him not put her away.

drb@1Corinthians:7:13 @And if any woman hath a husband that believeth not, and he consent to dwell with her, let her not put away her husband.

drb@1Corinthians:7:15 @But if the unbeliever depart, let him depart. For a brother or sister is not under servitude in such cases. But God hath called us in peace.

drb@1Corinthians:7:18 @Is any man called, being circumcised? let him not procure uncircumcision. Is any man called in uncircumcision? let him not be circumcised.

drb@1Corinthians:7:23 @You are bought with a price; be not made the bondslaves of men.

drb@1Corinthians:7:26 @I think therefore that this is good for the present necessity, that it is good for a man so to be.

drb@1Corinthians:7:28 @But if thou take a wife, thou hast not sinned. And if a virgin marry, she hath not sinned: nevertheless, such shall have tribulation of the flesh. But I spare you.

drb@1Corinthians:7:30 @And they that weep, as though they wept not; and they that rejoice, as if they rejoiced not; and they that buy, as though they possessed not;

drb@1Corinthians:7:31 @And they that use this world, as if they used it not: for the fashion of this world passeth away.

drb@1Corinthians:7:32 @But I would have you to be without solicitude. He that is without a wife, is solicitous for the things that belong to the Lord, how he may please God.

drb@1Corinthians:7:33 @But he that is with a wife, is solicitous for the things of the world, how he may please his wife: and he is divided.

drb@1Corinthians:7:34 @And the unmarried woman and the virgin thinketh on the things of the Lord, that she may be holy both in body and in spirit. But she that is married thinketh on the things of the world, how she may please her husband.

drb@1Corinthians:7:35 @And this I speak for your profit: not to cast a snare upon you; but for that which is decent, and which may give you power to attend upon the Lord, without impediment.

drb@1Corinthians:7:37 @For he that hath determined being steadfast in his heart, having no necessity, but having power of his own will; and hath judged this in his heart, to keep his virgin, doth well.

drb@1Corinthians:7:40 @But more blessed shall she be, if she so remain, according to my counsel; and I think that I also have the spirit of God.

drb@1Corinthians:8:1 @Now concerning those things that are sacrificed to idols, we know that we all have knowledge. Knowledge puffeth up; but charity edifieth.

drb@1Corinthians:8:7 @But there is not knowledge in every one. For some until this present, with conscience of the idol: eat as a thing sacrificed to an idol, and their conscience, being weak, is defiled.

drb@1Corinthians:8:9 @But take heed lest perhaps this your liberty become a stumblingblock to the weak.

drb@1Corinthians:8:10 @For if a man see him that hath knowledge sit at meat in the idol's temple, shall not his conscience, being weak, be emboldened to eat those things which are sacrificed to idols?

drb@1Corinthians:8:11 @And through thy knowledge shall the weak brother perish, for whom Christ hath died?

drb@1Corinthians:9:1 @Am not I free? Am not I an apostle? Have not I seen Christ Jesus our Lord? Are not you my work in the Lord?

drb@1Corinthians:9:2 @And if unto others I be not an apostle, but yet to you I am. For you are the seal of my apostleship in the Lord.

drb@1Corinthians:9:4 @Have not we power to eat and to drink?

drb@1Corinthians:9:5 @Have we not power to carry about a woman, a sister, as well as the rest of the apostles, and the brethren of the Lord, and Cephas?

drb@1Corinthians:9:6 @Or I only and Barnabas, have not we power to do this?

drb@1Corinthians:9:7 @Who serveth as a soldier at any time, at his own charges? Who planteth a vineyard, and eateth not of the fruit thereof? Who feedeth the flock, and eateth not of the milk of the flock?

drb@1Corinthians:9:8 @Speak I these things according to man? Or doth not the law also say these things?

drb@1Corinthians:9:10 @Or doth he say this indeed for our sakes? For these things are written for our sakes: that he that plougheth, should plough in hope; and he that thrasheth, in hope to receive fruit.

drb@1Corinthians:9:11 @If we have sown unto you spiritual things, is it a great matter if we reap your carnal things?

drb@1Corinthians:9:12 @If others be partakers of this power over you, why not we rather? Nevertheless, we have not used this power: but we bear all things, lest we should give any hindrance to the gospel of Christ.

drb@1Corinthians:9:13 @Know you not, that they who work in the holy place, eat the things that are of the holy place; and they that serve the altar, partake with the altar?

drb@1Corinthians:9:14 @So also the Lord ordained that they who preach the gospel, should live by the gospel.

drb@1Corinthians:9:16 @For if I preach the gospel, it is no glory to me, for a necessity lieth upon me: for woe is unto me if I preach not the gospel.

drb@1Corinthians:9:17 @For if I do this thing willingly, I have a reward: but if against my will, a dispensation is committed to me:

drb@1Corinthians:9:18 @What is my reward then? That preaching the gospel, I may deliver the gospel without charge, that I abuse not my power in the gospel.

drb@1Corinthians:9:23 @And I do all things for the gospel's sake: that I may be made partaker thereof.

drb@1Corinthians:9:24 @Know you not that they that run in the race, all run indeed, but one receiveth the prize? So run that you may obtain.

drb@1Corinthians:9:25 @And every one that striveth for the mastery, refraineth himself from all things: and they indeed that they may receive a corruptible crown; but we an incorruptible one.

drb@1Corinthians:9:27 @But I chastise my body, and bring it into subjection: lest perhaps, when I have preached to others, I myself should become a castaway.

drb@1Corinthians:10:1 @For I would not have you ignorant, brethren, that our fathers were all under the cloud, and all passed through the sea.

drb@1Corinthians:10:2 @And all in Moses were baptized, in the cloud, and in the sea:

drb@1Corinthians:10:3 @And did all eat the same spiritual food,

drb@1Corinthians:10:4 @And all drank the same spiritual drink; (and they drank of the spiritual rock that followed them, and the rock was Christ.)

drb@1Corinthians:10:5 @But with most of them God was not well pleased: for they were overthrown in the desert.

drb@1Corinthians:10:7 @Neither become ye idolaters, as some of them, as it is written: The people sat down to eat and drink, and rose up to play.

drb@1Corinthians:10:9 @Neither let us tempt Christ: as some of them tempted, and perished by the serpents

drb@1Corinthians:10:11 @Now all these things happened to them in figure: and they are written for our correction, upon whom the ends of the world are come.

drb@1Corinthians:10:13 @Let no temptation take hold on you, but such as is human. And God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above that which you are able: but will make also with temptation issue, that you may be able to bear it.

drb@1Corinthians:10:15 @I speak as to wise men: judge ye yourselves what I say.

drb@1Corinthians:10:16 @The chalice of benediction, which we bless, is it not the communion of the blood of Christ? And the bread, which we break, is it not the partaking of the body of the Lord?

drb@1Corinthians:10:17 @For we, being many, are one bread, one body, all that partake of one bread.

drb@1Corinthians:10:18 @Behold Israel according to the flesh: are not they, that eat of the sacrifices, partakers of the altar?

drb@1Corinthians:10:20 @But the things which the heathens sacrifice, they sacrifice to devils, and not to God. And I would not that you should be made partakers with devils.

drb@1Corinthians:10:21 @You cannot drink the chalice of the Lord, and the chalice of devils: you cannot be partakers of the table of the Lord, and of the table of devils.

drb@1Corinthians:10:22 @Do we provoke the Lord to jealousy? Are we stronger than he? All things are lawful for me, but all things are not expedient.

drb@1Corinthians:10:30 @If I partake with thanksgiving, why am I evil spoken of, for that for which I give thanks?

drb@1Corinthians:10:33 @As I also in all things please all men, not seeking that which is profitable to myself, but to many, that may be saved.

drb@1Corinthians:11:2 @Now I praise you, brethren, that in all things you are mindful of me: and keep my ordinances as I have delivered them to you.

drb@1Corinthians:11:4 @Every man praying or prophesying with his head covered, disgraceth his head.

drb@1Corinthians:11:5 @But every woman praying or prophesying with her head not covered, disgraceth her head: for it is all one as if she were shaven.

drb@1Corinthians:11:10 @Therefore ought the woman to have a power over her head, because of the angels.

drb@1Corinthians:11:13 @You yourselves judge: doth it become a woman, to pray unto God uncovered?

drb@1Corinthians:11:17 @Now this I ordain: not praising you, that you come together not for the better, but for the worse.

drb@1Corinthians:11:18 @For first of all I hear that when you come together in the church, there are schisms among you; and in part I believe it.

drb@1Corinthians:11:19 @For there must be also heresies: that they also, who are approved, may be made manifest among you.

drb@1Corinthians:11:20 @When you come therefore together into one place, it is not now to eat the Lord's supper.

drb@1Corinthians:11:21 @For every one taketh before his own supper to eat. And one indeed is hungry and another is drunk.

drb@1Corinthians:11:22 @What, have you not houses to eat and to drink in? Or despise ye the church of God; and put them to shame that have not? What shall I say to you? Do I praise you? In this I praise you not.

drb@1Corinthians:11:25 @In like manner also the chalice, after he had supped, saying: This chalice is the new testament in my blood: this do ye, as often as you shall drink, for the commemoration of me.

drb@1Corinthians:11:28 @But let a man prove himself: and so let him eat of that bread, and drink of the chalice.

drb@1Corinthians:11:30 @Therefore are there many inform and weak among you, and many sleep.

drb@1Corinthians:12:1 @Now concerning spiritual things, my brethren, I would not have you ignorant.

drb@1Corinthians:12:3 @Wherefore I give you to understand, that no man, speaking by the Spirit of God, saith Anathema to Jesus. And no man can say the Lord Jesus, but by the Holy Ghost.

drb@1Corinthians:12:4 @Now there are diversities of graces, but the same Spirit;

drb@1Corinthians:12:6 @And there are diversities of operations, but the same God, who worketh all in all.

drb@1Corinthians:12:7 @And the manifestation of the Spirit is given to every man unto profit.

drb@1Corinthians:12:8 @To one indeed, by the Spirit, is given the word of wisdom: and to another, the word of knowledge, according to the same Spirit;

drb@1Corinthians:12:9 @To another, faith in the same spirit; to another, the grace of healing in one Spirit;

drb@1Corinthians:12:10 @To another, the working of miracles; to another, prophecy; to another, the discerning of spirits; to another, diverse kinds of tongues; to another, interpretation of speeches.

drb@1Corinthians:12:11 @But all these things one and the same Spirit worketh, dividing to every one according as he will.

drb@1Corinthians:12:13 @For in one Spirit were we all baptized into one body, whether Jews or Gentiles, whether bond or free; and in one Spirit we have all been made to drink

drb@1Corinthians:12:18 @But now God hath set the members every one of them in the body as it hath pleased him.

drb@1Corinthians:12:21 @And the eye cannot say to the hand: I need not thy help; nor again the head to the feet: I have no need of you.

drb@1Corinthians:12:23 @And such as we think to be the less honourable members of the body, about these we put more abundant honour; and those that are our uncomely parts, have more abundant comeliness.

drb@1Corinthians:12:24 @But our comely parts have no need: but God hath tempered the body together, giving to that which wanted the more abundant honour,

drb@1Corinthians:12:28 @And God indeed hath set some in the church; first apostles, secondly prophets, thirdly doctors; after that miracles; then the graces of healing, helps, governments, kinds of tongues, interpretations of speeches.

drb@1Corinthians:12:29 @Are all apostles? Are all prophets? Are all doctors?

drb@1Corinthians:12:30 @Are all workers of miracles? Have all the grace of healing? Do all speak with tongues? Do all interpret?

drb@1Corinthians:13:1 @If I speak with the tongues of men, and of angels, and have not charity, I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal.

drb@1Corinthians:13:2 @And if I should have prophecy and should know all mysteries, and all knowledge, and if I should have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, and have not charity, I am nothing.

drb@1Corinthians:13:3 @And if I should distribute all my goods to feed the poor, and if I should deliver my body to be burned, and have not charity, it profiteth me nothing.

drb@1Corinthians:13:4 @Charity is patient, is kind: charity envieth not, dealeth not perversely; is not puffed up;

drb@1Corinthians:13:5 @Is not ambitious, seeketh not her own, is not provoked to anger, thinketh no evil;

drb@1Corinthians:13:7 @Beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all things, endureth all things.

drb@1Corinthians:13:8 @Charity never falleth away: whether prophecies shall be made void, or tongues shall cease, or knowledge shall be destroyed.

drb@1Corinthians:13:9 @For we know in part, and we prophesy in part.

drb@1Corinthians:13:10 @But when that which is perfect is come, that which is in part shall be done away.

drb@1Corinthians:13:11 @When I was a child, I spoke as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child. But, when I became a man, I put away the things of a child.

drb@1Corinthians:13:12 @We see now through a glass in a dark manner; but then face to face. Now I know I part; but then I shall know even as I am known.

drb@1Corinthians:13:13 @And now there remain faith, hope, and charity, these three: but the greatest of these is charity.

drb@1Corinthians:14:1 @Follow after charity, be zealous for spiritual gifts; but rather that you may prophesy.

drb@1Corinthians:14:2 @For he that speaketh in a tongue, speaketh not unto men, but unto God: for no man heareth. Yet by the Spirit he speaketh mysteries.

drb@1Corinthians:14:3 @But he that prophesieth, speaketh to men unto edification, and exhortation, and comfort.

drb@1Corinthians:14:4 @He that speaketh in a tongue, edifieth himself: but he that prophesieth, edifieth the church.

drb@1Corinthians:14:5 @And I would have you all to speak with tongues, but rather to prophesy. For greater is he that prophesieth, than he that speaketh with tongues: unless perhaps he interpret, that the church may receive edification.

drb@1Corinthians:14:6 @But now, brethren, if I come to you speaking with tongues, what shall I profit you, unless I speak to you either in revelation, or in knowledge, or in prophecy, or in doctrine?

drb@1Corinthians:14:7 @Even things without life that give sound, whether pipe or harp, except they give a distinction of sounds, how shall it be known what is piped or harped?

drb@1Corinthians:14:8 @For if the trumpet give an uncertain sound, who shall prepare himself to the battle?

drb@1Corinthians:14:9 @So likewise you, except you utter by the tongue plain speech, how shall it be known what is said? For you shall be speaking into the air.

drb@1Corinthians:14:10 @There are, for example, so many kinds of tongues in this world; and none is without voice.

drb@1Corinthians:14:11 @If then I know not the power of the voice, I shall be to him to whom I speak a barbarian; and he that speaketh, a barbarian to me.

drb@1Corinthians:14:12 @So you also, forasmuch as you are zealous of spirits, seek to abound unto the edifying of the church.

drb@1Corinthians:14:13 @And therefore he that speaketh by a tongue, let him pray that he may interpret.

drb@1Corinthians:14:14 @For if I pray in a tongue, my spirit prayeth, but my understanding is without fruit.

drb@1Corinthians:14:15 @What is it then? I will pray with the spirit, I will pray also with the understanding; I will sing with the spirit, I will sing also with the understanding.

drb@1Corinthians:14:16 @Else if thou shalt bless with the spirit, how shall he that holdeth the place of the unlearned say, Amen, to thy blessing? because he knoweth not what thou sayest.

drb@1Corinthians:14:18 @I thank my God I speak with all your tongues.

drb@1Corinthians:14:19 @But in the church I had rather speak five words with my understanding, that I may instruct others also; than ten thousand words in a tongue.

drb@1Corinthians:14:20 @Brethren, do not become children in sense: but in malice be children, and in sense be perfect.

drb@1Corinthians:14:21 @In the law it is written: In other tongues and other lips I will speak to this people; and neither so will they hear me, saith the Lord.

drb@1Corinthians:14:22 @Wherefore tongues are for a sign, not to believers, but to unbelievers; but prophecies not to unbelievers, but to believers.

drb@1Corinthians:14:23 @If therefore the whole church come together into one place, and all speak with tongues, and there come in unlearned persons or infidels, will they not say that you are mad?

drb@1Corinthians:14:24 @But if all prophesy, and there come in one that believeth not, or an unlearned person, he is convinced of all, he is judged of all.

drb@1Corinthians:14:26 @How is it then, brethren? When you come together, every one of you hath a psalm, hath a doctrine, hath a revelation, hath a tongue, hath an interpretation: let all things be done to edification.

drb@1Corinthians:14:27 @If any speak with a tongue, let it be by two, or at the most by three, and in course, and let one interpret.

drb@1Corinthians:14:28 @But if there be no interpreter, let him hold his peace in the church, and speak to himself and to God.

drb@1Corinthians:14:29 @And let the prophets speak, two or three; and let the rest judge.

drb@1Corinthians:14:30 @But if any thing be revealed to another sitting, let the first hold his peace.

drb@1Corinthians:14:31 @For you may all prophesy one by one; that all may learn, and all may be exhorted:

drb@1Corinthians:14:32 @And the spirits of the prophets are subject to the prophets.

drb@1Corinthians:14:33 @For God is not the God of dissension, but of peace: as also I teach in all the churches of the saints.

drb@1Corinthians:14:34 @Let women keep silence in the churches: for it is not permitted them to speak, but to be subject, as also the law saith.

drb@1Corinthians:14:35 @But if they would learn any thing, let them ask their husbands at home. For it is a shame for a woman to speak in the church.

drb@1Corinthians:14:37 @If any seem to be a prophet, or spiritual, let him know the things that I write to you, that they are the commandments of the Lord.

drb@1Corinthians:14:39 @Wherefore, brethren, be zealous to prophesy; and forbid not to speak with tongues.

drb@1Corinthians:15:1 @Now I make known unto you, brethren, the gospel which I preached to you, which also you have received, and wherein you stand;

drb@1Corinthians:15:2 @By which also you are saved, if you hold fast after what manner I preached unto you, unless you have believed in vain.

drb@1Corinthians:15:3 @For I delivered unto you first of all, which I also received: how that Christ died for our sins, according to the scriptures:

drb@1Corinthians:15:4 @And that he was buried, and that he rose again the third day, according to the scriptures:

drb@1Corinthians:15:5 @And that he was seen by Cephas; and after that by the eleven.

drb@1Corinthians:15:6 @Then he was seen by more than five hundred brethren at once: of whom many remain until this present, and some are fallen asleep.

drb@1Corinthians:15:7 @After that, he was seen by James, then by all the apostles.

drb@1Corinthians:15:9 @For I am the least of the apostles, who am not worthy to be called an apostle, because I persecuted the church of God.

drb@1Corinthians:15:11 @For whether I, or they, so we preach, and so you have believed.

drb@1Corinthians:15:12 @Now if Christ be preached, that he arose again from the dead, how do some among you say, that there is no resurrection of the dead?

drb@1Corinthians:15:14 @And if Christ be not risen again, then is our preaching vain, and your faith is also vain.

drb@1Corinthians:15:15 @Yea, and we are found false witnesses of God: because we have given testimony against God, that he hath raised up Christ; whom he hath not raised up, if the dead rise not again.

drb@1Corinthians:15:18 @Then they also that are fallen asleep in Christ, are perished.

drb@1Corinthians:15:19 @If in this life only we have hope in Christ, we are of all men most miserable

drb@1Corinthians:15:20 @But now Christ is risen from the dead, the firstfruits of them that sleep:

drb@1Corinthians:15:24 @Afterwards the end, when he shall have delivered up the kingdom to God and the Father, when he shall have brought to nought all principality, and power, and virtue.

drb@1Corinthians:15:25 @For he must reign, until he hath put all his enemies under his feet.

drb@1Corinthians:15:26 @And the enemy death shall be destroyed last: For he hath put all things under his feet. And whereas he saith,

drb@1Corinthians:15:27 @All things are put under him; undoubtedly, he is excepted, who put all things under him.

drb@1Corinthians:15:28 @And when all things shall be subdued unto him, then the Son also himself shall be subject unto him that put all things under him, that God may be all in all.

drb@1Corinthians:15:29 @Otherwise what shall they do that are baptized for the dead, if the dead rise not again at all? why are they then baptized for them?

drb@1Corinthians:15:31 @I die daily, I protest by your glory, brethren, which I have in Christ Jesus our Lord.

drb@1Corinthians:15:32 @If (according to man) I fought with beasts at Ephesus, what doth it profit me, if the dead rise not again? Let us eat and drink, for to morrow we shall die.

drb@1Corinthians:15:33 @Be not seduced: Evil communications corrupt good manners.

drb@1Corinthians:15:34 @Awake, ye just, and sin not. For some have not the knowledge of God, I speak it to your shame.

drb@1Corinthians:15:36 @Senseless man, that which thou sowest is not quickened, except it die first.

drb@1Corinthians:15:38 @But God giveth it a body as he will: and to every seed its proper body.

drb@1Corinthians:15:42 @So also is the resurrection of the dead. It is sown in corruption, it shall rise in incorruption.

drb@1Corinthians:15:43 @It is sown in dishonour, it shall rise in glory. It is sown in weakness, it shall rise in power.

drb@1Corinthians:15:44 @It is sown a natural body, it shall rise a spiritual body. If there be a natural body, there is also a spiritual body, as it is written:

drb@1Corinthians:15:45 @The first man Adam was made into a living soul; the last Adam into a quickening spirit.

drb@1Corinthians:15:46 @Yet that was not first which is spiritual, but that which is natural; afterwards that which is spiritual.

drb@1Corinthians:15:50 @Now this I say, brethren, that flesh and blood cannot possess the kingdom of God: neither shall corruption possess incorruption.

drb@1Corinthians:15:52 @In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet: for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall rise again incorruptible: and we shall be changed.

drb@1Corinthians:15:53 @For this corruptible must put on incorruption; and this mortal must put on immortality.

drb@1Corinthians:15:54 @And when this mortal hath put on immortality, then shall come to pass the saying that is written: Death is swallowed up in victory.

drb@1Corinthians:15:56 @Now the sting of death is sin: and the power of sin is the law.

drb@1Corinthians:16:2 @On the first day of the week let every one of you put apart with himself, laying up what it shall well please him; that when I come, the collections be not then to be made.

drb@1Corinthians:16:3 @And when I shall be with you, whomsoever you shall approve by letters, them will I send to carry your grace to Jerusalem.

drb@1Corinthians:16:5 @Now I will come to you, when I shall have passed through Macedonia. For I shall pass through Macedonia.

drb@1Corinthians:16:6 @And with you perhaps I shall abide, or even spend the winter: that you may bring me on my way whithersoever I shall go.

drb@1Corinthians:16:7 @For I will not see you now by the way, for I trust that I shall abide with you some time, if the Lord permit.

drb@1Corinthians:16:8 @But I will tarry at Ephesus until Pentecost.

drb@1Corinthians:16:9 @For a great door and evident is opened unto me: and many adversaries.

drb@1Corinthians:16:11 @Let no man therefore despise him, but conduct ye him on his way in peace: that he may come to me. For I look for him with the breatheren.

drb@1Corinthians:16:12 @And touching our brother Apollo, I give you to understand, that I much entreated him to come unto you with the breatheren: and indeed it was not his will at all to come at this time. But he will come when he shall have leisure.

drb@1Corinthians:16:15 @And I beseech you, brethren, you know the house of Stephanas, and of Fortunatus, and of Achaicus, that they are the firstfruits of Achaia, and have dedicated themselves to the ministry of the saints:

drb@1Corinthians:16:17 @And I rejoice in the presence of Stephanas, and Fortunatus, and Achaicus, because that which was wanting on your part, they have supplied.

drb@1Corinthians:16:18 @For they have refreshed both my spirit and yours. Know them, therefore, that are such.

drb@1Corinthians:16:19 @The churches of Asia salute you. Aquila and Priscilla salute you much in the Lord, with the church that is in their house, with whom I also lodge.

drb@1Corinthians:16:21 @The salutation of me Paul, with my own hand

drb@2Corinthians:1:1 @Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ by the will of God, and Timothy our brother: to the church of God that is at Corinth, with all the saints that are in all Achaia:

drb@2Corinthians:1:2 @Grace unto you and peace from God our Father, and from the Lord Jesus Christ.

drb@2Corinthians:1:7 @That our hope for you may be steadfast: knowing that as you are partakers of the sufferings, so shall you be also of the consolation.

drb@2Corinthians:1:8 @For we would not have you ignorant,brethren, of our tribulation, which came to us in Asia, that we were pressed out of measure above our strength, so that we were weary even of life.

drb@2Corinthians:1:11 @You helping withal in prayer for us: that for this gift obtained for us, by the means of many persons, thanks may be given by many in our behalf.

drb@2Corinthians:1:12 @For our glory is this, the testimony of our conscience, that in simplicity of heart and sincerity of God, and not in carnal wisdom, but in the grace of God, we have conversed in this world: and more abundantly towards you.

drb@2Corinthians:1:13 @For we write no other things to you than what you have read and known. And I hope that you shall know unto the end:

drb@2Corinthians:1:14 @As also you have known us in part, that we are your glory, as you also are ours, in the day of our Lord Jesus Christ.

drb@2Corinthians:1:16 @And to pass by you into Macedonia, and again from Macedonia to come to you, and by you to be brought on my way towards Judea.

drb@2Corinthians:1:17 @Whereas then I was thus minded, did I use lightness? Or, the things that I purpose, do I purpose according to the flesh, that there should be with me, It is, and It is not?

drb@2Corinthians:1:18 @But God is faithful, for our preaching which was to you, was not, It is, and It is not.

drb@2Corinthians:1:19 @For the Son of God, Jesus Christ who was preached among you by us, by me, and Sylvanus, and Timothy, was not, It is and It is not, but, It is, was in him.

drb@2Corinthians:1:20 @For all the promises of God are in him, It is; therefore also by him, amen to God, unto our glory.

drb@2Corinthians:1:22 @Who also hath sealed us, and given the pledge of the Spirit in our hearts.

drb@2Corinthians:1:23 @But I call God to witness upon my soul, that to spare you, I came not any more to Corinth:

drb@2Corinthians:1:24 @not because we exercise dominion over your faith: but we are helpers of your joy: for in faith you stand.

drb@2Corinthians:2:3 @And I wrote this same to you; that I may not, when I come, have sorrow upon sorrow, from them of whom I ought to rejoice: having confidence in you all, that my joy is the joy of you all.

drb@2Corinthians:2:5 @And if any one have caused grief, he hath not grieved me; but in part, that I may not burden you all.

drb@2Corinthians:2:7 @So that on the contrary, you should rather forgive him and comfort him, lest perhaps such a one be swallowed up with overmuch sorrow.

drb@2Corinthians:2:9 @For to this end also did I write, that I may know the experiment of you, whether you be obedient in all things.

drb@2Corinthians:2:10 @And to whom you have pardoned any thing, I also. For, what I have pardoned, if I have pardoned any thing, for your sakes have I done it in the person of Christ.

drb@2Corinthians:2:12 @And when I was come to Troas for the gospel of Christ, and a door was opened unto me in the Lord,

drb@2Corinthians:2:13 @I had no rest in my spirit, because I found not Titus my brother; but bidding them farewell, I went into Macedonia.

drb@2Corinthians:2:14 @Now thanks be to God, who always maketh us to triumph in Christ Jesus, and manifesteth the odour of his knowledge by us in every place.

drb@2Corinthians:2:15 @For we are the good odour of Christ unto God, in them that are saved, and in them that perish.

drb@2Corinthians:2:17 @For we are not as many, adulterating the word of God; but with sincerity, but as from God, before God, in Christ we speak.

drb@2Corinthians:3:1 @Do we begin again to commend ourselves? Or do we need (as some do) epistles of commendation to you, or from you?

drb@2Corinthians:3:2 @You are our epistle, written in our hearts, which is known and read by all men:

drb@2Corinthians:3:3 @Being manifested, that you are the epistle of Christ, ministered by us, and written not with ink, but with the Spirit of the living God; not in tables of stone, but in the fleshly tables of the heart.

drb@2Corinthians:3:6 @Who also hath made us fit ministers of the new testament, not in the letter, but in the spirit. For the letter killeth, but the spirit quickeneth.

drb@2Corinthians:3:7 @Now if the ministration of death, engraven with letters upon stones, was glorious; so that the children of Israel could not steadfastly behold the face of Moses, for the glory of his countenance, which is made void:

drb@2Corinthians:3:8 @How shall not the ministration of the spirit be rather in glory?

drb@2Corinthians:3:10 @For even that which was glorious in this part was not glorified, by reason of the glory that excelleth

drb@2Corinthians:3:12 @Having therefore such hope, we use much confidence:

drb@2Corinthians:3:13 @And not as Moses put a veil upon his face, that the children of Israel might not steadfastly look on the face of that which is made void.

drb@2Corinthians:3:14 @But their senses were made dull. For, until this present day, the selfsame veil, in the reading of the old testament, remaineth not taken away (because in Christ it is made void).

drb@2Corinthians:3:15 @But even until this day, when Moses is read, the veil is upon their heart.

drb@2Corinthians:3:17 @Now the Lord is a Spirit. And where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty.

drb@2Corinthians:3:18 @But we all beholding the glory of the Lord with open face, are transformed into the same image from glory to glory, as by the Spirit of the Lord.

drb@2Corinthians:4:3 @And if our gospel be also hid, it is hid to them that are lost,

drb@2Corinthians:4:4 @In whom the god of this world hath blinded the minds of unbelievers, that the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God, should not shine unto them.

drb@2Corinthians:4:5 @For we preach not ourselves, but Jesus Christ our Lord; and ourselves your servants through Jesus.

drb@2Corinthians:4:7 @But we have this treasure in earthen vessels, that the excellency may be of the power of God, and not of us.

drb@2Corinthians:4:9 @We suffer persecution, but are not forsaken; we are cast down, but we perish not:

drb@2Corinthians:4:13 @But having the same spirit of faith, as it is written: I believed, for which cause I have spoken; we also believe, for which cause we speak also:

drb@2Corinthians:4:14 @Knowing that he who raised up Jesus, will raise us up also with Jesus, and place us with you.

drb@2Corinthians:4:16 @For which cause we faint not; but though our outward man is corrupted, yet the inward man is renewed day by day.

drb@2Corinthians:4:17 @For that which is at present momentary and light of our tribulation, worketh for us above measure exceedingly an eternal weight of glory.

drb@2Corinthians:4:18 @While we look not at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen. For the things which are seen, are temporal; but the things which are not seen, are eternal.

drb@2Corinthians:5:2 @For in this also we groan, desiring to be clothed upon with our habitation that is from heaven.

drb@2Corinthians:5:4 @For we also, who are in this tabernacle, do groan, being burthened; because we would not be unclothed, but clothed upon, that that which is mortal may be swallowed up by life.

drb@2Corinthians:5:5 @Now he that maketh us for this very thing, is God, who hath given us the pledge of the Spirit.

drb@2Corinthians:5:8 @But we are confident, and have a good will to be absent rather from the body, and to be present with the Lord.

drb@2Corinthians:5:9 @And therefore we labour, whether absent or present, to please him.

drb@2Corinthians:5:10 @For we must all be manifested before the judgement seat of Christ, that every one may receive the proper things of the body, according as he hath done, whether it be good or evil.

drb@2Corinthians:5:11 @Knowing therefore the fear of the Lord, we use persuasion to men; but to God we are manifest. And I trust also that in your consciences we are manifest.

drb@2Corinthians:5:13 @For whether we be transported in mind, it is to God; or whether we be sober, it is for you.

drb@2Corinthians:5:14 @For the charity of Christ presseth us: judging this, that if one died for all, then all were dead.

drb@2Corinthians:5:17 @If then any be in Christ a new creature, the old things are passed away, behold all things are made new.

drb@2Corinthians:5:19 @For God indeed was in Christ, reconciling the world to himself, not imputing to them their sins; and he hath placed in us the word of reconciliation.

drb@2Corinthians:6:1 @And we helping do exhort you, that you receive not the grace of God in vain.

drb@2Corinthians:6:2 @For he saith: In an accepted time have I heard thee; and in the day of salvation have I helped thee. Behold, now is the acceptable time; behold, now is the day of salvation.

drb@2Corinthians:6:4 @But in all things let us exhibit ourselves as the ministers of God, in much patience, in tribulation, in necessities, in distresses,

drb@2Corinthians:6:5 @In stripes, in prisons, in seditions, in labours, in watchings, in fastings,

drb@2Corinthians:6:7 @In the word of truth, in the power of God; by the armour of justice on the right hand and on the left;

drb@2Corinthians:6:8 @By honour and dishonour, by evil report and good report; as deceivers, and yet true; as unknown, and yet known;

drb@2Corinthians:6:10 @As sorrowful, yet always rejoicing; as needy, yet enriching many; as having nothing, and possessing all things.

drb@2Corinthians:6:11 @Our mouth is open to you, O ye Corinthians, our heart is enlarged.

drb@2Corinthians:6:13 @But having the same recompense, (I speak as to my children,) be you also enlarged.

drb@2Corinthians:6:15 @And what concord hath Christ with Belial? Or what part hath the faithful with the unbeliever?

drb@2Corinthians:6:16 @And what agreement hath the temple of God with idols? For you are the temple of the living God; as God saith: I will dwell in them, and walk among them; and I will be their God, and they shall be my people.

drb@2Corinthians:6:17 @Wherefore, Go out from among them, and be ye separate, saith the Lord, and touch not the unclean thing:

drb@2Corinthians:7:1 @Having therefore these promises, dearly beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from all defilement of the flesh and of the spirit, perfecting sactification in the fear of God.

drb@2Corinthians:7:2 @Receive us. We have injured no man, we have corrupted no man, we have overreached no man.

drb@2Corinthians:7:3 @I speak not this to your condemnation. For we have said before, that you are in our hearts, to die together, and to live together.

drb@2Corinthians:7:8 @For although I made you sorrowful by my epistle, I do not repent; and if I did repent, seeing that the same epistle (although but for a time) did make you sorrowful;

drb@2Corinthians:7:9 @Now I am glad: not because you were made sorrowful; but because you were made sorrowful unto penance. For you were made sorrowful according to God, that you might suffer damage by us in nothing.

drb@2Corinthians:7:10 @For the sorrow that is according to God worketh penance, steadfast unto salvation; but the sorrow of the world worketh death.

drb@2Corinthians:7:13 @Before God: therefore we were comforted. But in our consolation, we did the more abundantly rejoice for the joy of Titus, because his spirit was refreshed by you all.

drb@2Corinthians:7:14 @And if I have boasted any thing to him of you, I have not been put to shame; but as we have spoken all things to you in truth, so also our boasting that was made to Titus is found a truth.

drb@2Corinthians:8:2 @That in much experience of tribulation, they have had abundance of joy; and their very deep poverty hath abounded unto the riches of their simplicity.

drb@2Corinthians:8:3 @For according to their power ( I bear them witness), and beyond their power, they were willing.

drb@2Corinthians:8:5 @And not as we hoped, but they gave their own selves first to the Lord, then to us by the will of God:

drb@2Corinthians:8:8 @I speak not as commanding; but by the carefulness of others, approving also the good disposition of your charity.

drb@2Corinthians:8:9 @For you know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that being rich he became poor, for your sakes; that through his poverty you might be rich.

drb@2Corinthians:8:10 @And herein I give my advice; for this is profitable for you, who have begun not only to do, but also to be willing, a year ago.

drb@2Corinthians:8:11 @Now therefore perform ye it also in deed; that as your mind is forward to be willing, so it may be also to perform, out of that which you have.

drb@2Corinthians:8:12 @For if the will be forward, it is accepted according to that which a man hath, not according to that which he hath not.

drb@2Corinthians:8:14 @In this present time let your abundance supply their want, that their abundance also may supply your want, that there may be an equality,

drb@2Corinthians:8:17 @For indeed he accepted the exhortation; but being more careful, of his own will he went unto you.

drb@2Corinthians:8:18 @We have sent also with him the brother, whose praise is in the gospel through all the churches

drb@2Corinthians:8:19 @And not that only, but he was also ordained by the churches companion of our travels, for this grace, which is administered by us, to the glory of the Lord, and our determined will:

drb@2Corinthians:8:22 @And we have sent with them our brother also, whom we have often proved diligent in many things; but now much more diligent, with much confidence in you,

drb@2Corinthians:8:23 @Either for Titus, who is my companion and fellow labourer towards you, or our brethren, the apostles of the churches, the glory of Christ.

drb@2Corinthians:9:1 @For concerning the ministry that is done towards the saints, it is superfluous for me to write unto you.

drb@2Corinthians:9:2 @For I know your forward mind: for which I boast of you to the Macedonians. That Achaia also is ready from the year past, and your emulation hath provoked very many.

drb@2Corinthians:9:4 @Lest, when the Macedonians shall come with me, and find you unprepared, we (not to say ye) should be ashamed in this matter.

drb@2Corinthians:9:5 @Therefore I thought it necessary to desire the brethren that they would go to you before, and prepare this blessing before promised, to be ready, so as a blessing, not as covetousness.

drb@2Corinthians:9:6 @Now this I say: He who soweth sparingly, shall also reap sparingly: and he who soweth in blessings, shall also reap blessings.

drb@2Corinthians:9:9 @As it is written: He hath dispersed abroad, he hath given to the poor: his justice remaineth for ever.

drb@2Corinthians:9:10 @And he that ministereth seed to the sower, will both give you bread to eat, and will multiply your seed, and increase the growth of the fruits of your justice:

drb@2Corinthians:9:11 @That being enriched in all things, you may abound unto all simplicity, which worketh through us thanksgiving to God.

drb@2Corinthians:9:12 @Because the administration of this office doth not only supply the want of the saints, but aboundeth also by many thanksgivings in the Lord,

drb@2Corinthians:9:13 @By the proof of this ministry, glorifying God for the obedience of your confession unto the gospel of Christ, and for the simplicity of your communicating unto them, and unto all.

drb@2Corinthians:9:14 @And in their praying for you, being desirous of you, because of the excellent grace of God in you.

drb@2Corinthians:9:15 @Thanks be to God for his unspeakable gift.

drb@2Corinthians:10:1 @Now I Paul myself beseech you, by the mildness and modesty of Christ, who in presence indeed am lowly among you, but being absent, am bold toward you.

drb@2Corinthians:10:2 @But I beseech you, that I may not be bold when I am present, with that confidence wherewith I am thought to be bold, against some, who reckon us as if we walked according to the flesh.

drb@2Corinthians:10:4 @For the weapons of our warfare are not carnal, but mighty to God unto the pulling down of fortifications, destroying counsels,

drb@2Corinthians:10:5 @And every height that exhalteth itself against the knowledge of God, and bringing into captivity every understanding unto the obedience of Christ;

drb@2Corinthians:10:7 @See the things that are according to outward appearance. If any man trust to himself, that he is Christ's, let him think this again with himself, that as he is Christ's, so are we also.

drb@2Corinthians:10:8 @For if also I should boast somewhat more of our power, which the Lord hath given us unto edification, and not for your destruction, I should not be ashamed.

drb@2Corinthians:10:9 @But that I may not be thought as it were to terrify you by epistles,

drb@2Corinthians:10:10 @(For his epistles indeed, say they, are weighty and strong; but his bodily presence is weak, and his speech contemptible,)

drb@2Corinthians:10:11 @Let such a one think this, that such as we are in word by epistles, when absent, such also we will be indeed when present.

drb@2Corinthians:10:12 @For we dare not match, or compare ourselves with some, that commend themselves; but we measure ourselves by ourselves, and compare ourselves with ourselves.

drb@2Corinthians:10:14 @For we stretch not ourselves beyond our measure, as if we reached not unto you. For we are come as far as to you in the gospel of Christ.

drb@2Corinthians:10:15 @Not glorying beyond measure in other men's labours; but having hope of your increasing faith, to be magnified in you according to our rule abundantly;

drb@2Corinthians:10:16 @Yea, unto those places that are beyond you, to preach the gospel, not to glory in another man's rule, in those things that are made ready to our hand.

drb@2Corinthians:10:18 @For not he who commendeth himself, is approved, but he, whom God commendeth.

drb@2Corinthians:11:2 @For I am jealous of you with the jealousy of God. For I have espoused you to one husband that I may present you as a chaste virgin to Christ.

drb@2Corinthians:11:3 @But I fear lest, as the serpent seduced Eve by his subtilty, so your minds should be corrupted, and fall from the simplicity that is in Christ.

drb@2Corinthians:11:4 @For if he that cometh preacheth another Christ, whom we have not preached; or if you receive another Spirit, whom you have not received; or another gospel which you have not received; you might well bear with him.

drb@2Corinthians:11:5 @For I suppose that I have done nothing less than the great apostles.

drb@2Corinthians:11:6 @For although I be rude in speech, yet not in knowledge; but in all things we have been made manifest to you.

drb@2Corinthians:11:7 @Or did I commit a fault, humbling myself, that you might be exalted? Because I preached unto you the gospel of God freely?

drb@2Corinthians:11:9 @And, when I was present with you, and wanted, I was chargeable to no man: for that which was wanting to me, the brethren supplied who came from Macedonia; and in all things I have kept myself from being burthensome to you, and so I will keep myself.

drb@2Corinthians:11:13 @For such false apostles are deceitful workmen, transforming themselves into the apostles of Christ.

drb@2Corinthians:11:17 @That which I speak, I speak not according to God, but as it were in foolishness, in this matter of glorying.

drb@2Corinthians:11:20 @For you suffer if a man bring you into bondage, if a man devour you, if a man take from you, if a man be lifted up, if a man strike you on the face.

drb@2Corinthians:11:21 @I speak according to dishonour, as if we had been weak in this part. Wherein if any man dare (I speak foolishly), I dare also.

drb@2Corinthians:11:23 @They are the ministers of Christ (I speak as one less wise): I am more; in many more labours, in prisons more frequently, in stripes above measure, in deaths often.

drb@2Corinthians:11:24 @Of the Jews five times did I receive forty stripes, save one.

drb@2Corinthians:11:25 @Thrice was I beaten with rods, once I was stoned, thrice I suffered shipwreck, a night and a day I was in the depth of the sea.

drb@2Corinthians:11:26 @In journeying often, in perils of waters, in perils of robbers, in perils from my own nation, in perils from the Gentiles, in perils in the city, in perils in the wilderness, in perils in the sea, in perils from false brethren.

drb@2Corinthians:11:27 @In labour and painfulness, in much watchings, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, in cold and nakedness.

drb@2Corinthians:11:32 @At Damascus, the governor of the nation under Aretas the king, guarded the city of the Damascenes, to apprehend me.

drb@2Corinthians:11:33 @And through a window in a basket was I let down by the wall, and so escaped his hands.

drb@2Corinthians:12:1 @If I must glory (it is not expedient indeed): but I will come to visions and revelations of the Lord.

drb@2Corinthians:12:2 @I know a man in Christ above fourteen years ago (whether in the body, I know not, or out of the body, I know not; God knoweth), such a one caught up to the third heaven.

drb@2Corinthians:12:4 @That he was caught up into paradise, and heard secret words, which it is not granted to man to utter.

drb@2Corinthians:12:8 @For which thing thrice I besought the Lord, that it might depart from me.

drb@2Corinthians:12:9 @And he said to me: My grace is sufficient for thee; for power is made perfect in infirmity. Gladly therefore will I glory in my infirmities, that the power of Christ may dwell in me.

drb@2Corinthians:12:10 @For which cause I please myself in my infirmities, in reproaches, in necessities, in persecutions, in distresses, for Christ. For when I am weak, then am I powerful.

drb@2Corinthians:12:11 @I am become foolish: you have compelled me. For I ought to have been commended by you: for I have no way come short of them that are above measure apostles, although I be nothing.

drb@2Corinthians:12:12 @Yet the signs of my apostleship have been wrought on you, in all patience, in signs, and wonders, and mighty deeds.

drb@2Corinthians:12:13 @For what is there that you have had less than the other churches, but that I myself was not burthensome to you? Pardon me this injury

drb@2Corinthians:12:14 @Behold now the third time I am ready to come to you; and I will not be burthensome unto you. For I seek not the things that are yours, but you. For neither ought the children to lay up for the parents, but the parents for the children.

drb@2Corinthians:12:15 @But I most gladly will spend and be spent myself for your souls; although loving you more, I be loved less.

drb@2Corinthians:12:18 @I desired Titus, and I sent with him a brother. Did Titus overreach you? Did we not walk with the same spirit? did we not in the same steps?

drb@2Corinthians:12:19 @Of old, think you that we excuse ourselves to you? We speak before God in Christ; but all things, my dearly beloved, for your edification.

drb@2Corinthians:12:20 @For I fear lest perhaps when I come I shall not find you such as I would, and that I shall be found by you such as you would not. Lest perhaps contentions, envyings, animosities, dissensions, detractions, whisperings, swellings, seditions, be among you.

drb@2Corinthians:12:21 @Lest again, when I come, God humble me among you: and I mourn many of them that sinned before, and have not done penance for the uncleanness, and fornication, and lasciviousness, that they have committed.

drb@2Corinthians:13:2 @I have told before, and foretell, as present, and now absent, to them that sinned before, and to all the rest, that if I come again, I will not spare.

drb@2Corinthians:13:3 @Do you seek a proof of Christ that speaketh in me, who towards you is not weak, but is mighty in you?

drb@2Corinthians:13:4 @For although he was crucified through weakness, yet he liveth by the power of God. For we also are weak in him: but we shall live with him by the power of God towards you.

drb@2Corinthians:13:5 @Try your own selves if you be in the faith; prove ye yourselves. Know you not your own selves, that Christ Jesus is in you, unless perhaps you be reprobates?

drb@2Corinthians:13:6 @But I trust that you shall know that we are not reprobates.

drb@2Corinthians:13:7 @Now we pray God, that you may do no evil, not that we may appear approved, but that you may do that which is good, and that we may be as reprobates.

drb@2Corinthians:13:9 @For we rejoice that we are weak, and you are strong. This also we pray for, your perfection.

drb@2Corinthians:13:10 @Therefore I write these things, being absent, that, being present, I may not deal more severely, according to the power which the Lord hath given me unto edification, and not unto destruction.

drb@2Corinthians:13:11 @For the rest, brethren, rejoice, be perfect, take exhortation, be of one mind, have peace; and the God of peace and of love shall be with you.

drb@Galatians:1:1 @Paul, an apostle, not of men, neither by man, but by Jesus Christ, and God the Father, who raised him from the dead,

drb@Galatians:1:3 @Grace be to you, and peace from God the Father, and from our Lord Jesus Christ,

drb@Galatians:1:4 @Who gave himself for our sins, that he might deliver us from this present wicked world, according to the will of God and our Father:

drb@Galatians:1:6 @I wonder that you are so soon removed from him that called you into the grace of Christ, unto another gospel.

drb@Galatians:1:7 @Which is not another, only there are some that trouble you, and would pervert the gospel of Christ.

drb@Galatians:1:8 @But though we, or an angel from heaven, preach a gospel to you besides that which we have preached to you, let him be anathema.

drb@Galatians:1:9 @As we said before, so now I say again: If any one preach to you a gospel, besides that which you have received, let him be anathema.

drb@Galatians:1:10 @For do I now persuade men, or God? Or do I seek to please men? If I yet pleased men, I should not be the servant of Christ.

drb@Galatians:1:11 @For I give you to understand, brethren, that the gospel which was preached by me is not according to man.

drb@Galatians:1:13 @For you have heard of my conversation in time past in the Jews' religion: how that, beyond measure, I persecuted the church of God, and wasted it.

drb@Galatians:1:14 @And I made progress in the Jews' religion above many of my equals in my own nation, being more abundantly zealous for the traditions of my fathers.

drb@Galatians:1:15 @But when it pleased him, who separated me from my mother's womb, and called me by his grace,

drb@Galatians:1:16 @To reveal his Son in me, that I might preach him among the Gentiles, immediately I condescended not to flesh and blood.

drb@Galatians:1:17 @Neither went I to Jerusalem, to the apostles who were before me: but I went into Arabia, and again I returned to Damascus.

drb@Galatians:1:18 @Then, after three years, I went to Jerusalem, to see Peter, and I tarried with him fifteen days.

drb@Galatians:1:19 @But other of the apostles I saw none, saving James the brother of the Lord.

drb@Galatians:1:23 @But they had heard only: He, who persecuted us in times past, doth now preach the faith which once he impugned:

drb@Galatians:2:1 @Then, after fourteen years, I went up again to Jerusalem with Barnabas, taking Titus also with me.

drb@Galatians:2:2 @And I went up according to revelation; and communicated to them the gospel, which I preach among the Gentiles, but apart to them who seemed to be some thing: lest perhaps I should run, or had run in vain.

drb@Galatians:2:3 @But neither Titus, who was with me, being a Gentile, was compelled to be circumcised.

drb@Galatians:2:4 @But because of false brethren unawares brought in, who came in privately to spy our liberty, which we have in Christ Jesus, that they might bring us into servitude.

drb@Galatians:2:5 @To whom we yielded not by subjection, no not for an hour, that the truth of the gospel might continue with you.

drb@Galatians:2:6 @But of them who seemed to be some thing, (what they were some time, it is nothing to me, God accepteth not the person of man,) for to me they that seemed to be some thing added nothing.

drb@Galatians:2:7 @But contrariwise, when they had seen that to me was committed the gospel of the uncircumcision, as to Peter was that of the circumcision.

drb@Galatians:2:8 @(For he who wrought in Peter to the apostleship of the circumcision, wrought in me also among the Gentiles.)

drb@Galatians:2:9 @And when they had known the grace that was given to me, James and Cephas and John, who seemed to be pillars, gave to me and Barnabas the right hands of fellowship: that we should go unto the Gentiles, and they unto the circumcision:

drb@Galatians:2:10 @Only that we should be mindful of the poor: which same thing also I was careful to do.

drb@Galatians:2:11 @But when Cephas was come to Antioch, I withstood him to the face, because he was to be blamed.

drb@Galatians:2:12 @For before that some came from James, he did eat with the Gentiles: but when they were come, he withdrew and separated himself, fearing them who were of the circumcision.

drb@Galatians:2:14 @But when I saw that they walked not uprightly unto the truth of the gospel, I said to Cephas before them all: If thou, being a Jew, livest after the manner of the Gentiles, and not as the Jews do, how dost thou compel the Gentiles to live as do the Jews?

drb@Galatians:2:18 @For if I build up again the things which I have destroyed, I make myself a prevaricator.

drb@Galatians:3:2 @This only would I learn of you: Did you receive the Spirit by the works of the law, or by the hearing of faith?

drb@Galatians:3:3 @Are you so foolish, that, whereas you began in the Spirit, you would now be made perfect by the flesh?

drb@Galatians:3:5 @He therefore who giveth to you the Spirit, and worketh miracles among you; doth he do it by the works of the law, or by the hearing of the faith?

drb@Galatians:3:6 @As it is written: Abraham believed God, and it was reputed to him unto justice.

drb@Galatians:3:8 @And the scripture, foreseeing, that God justifieth the Gentiles by faith, told unto Abraham before: In thee shall all nations be blessed.

drb@Galatians:3:14 @That the blessing of Abraham might come on the Gentiles through Christ Jesus: that we may receive the promise of the Spirit by faith.

drb@Galatians:3:15 @Brethren (I speak after the manner of man,) yet a man's testament, if it be confirmed, no man despiseth, nor addeth to it.

drb@Galatians:3:16 @To Abraham were the promises made and to his seed. He saith not, And to his seeds, as of many: but as of one, And to thy seed, which is Christ.

drb@Galatians:3:17 @Now this I say, that the testament which was confirmed by God, the law which was made after four hundred and thirty years, doth not disannul, to make the promise of no effect.

drb@Galatians:3:18 @For if the inheritance be of the law, it is no more of promise. But God gave it to Abraham by promise.

drb@Galatians:3:19 @Why then was the law? It was set because of transgressions, until the seed should come, to whom he made the promise, being ordained by angels in the hand of a mediator.

drb@Galatians:3:21 @Was the law then against the promises of God? God forbid. For if there had been a law given which could give life, verily justice should have been by the law.

drb@Galatians:3:22 @But the scripture hath concluded all under sin, that the promise, by the faith of Jesus Christ, might be given to them that believe.

drb@Galatians:3:23 @But before the faith came, we were kept under the law shut up, unto that faith which was to be revealed.

drb@Galatians:3:24 @Wherefore the law was our pedagogue in Christ, that we might be justified by faith.

drb@Galatians:3:25 @But after the faith is come, we are no longer under a pedagogue.

drb@Galatians:3:27 @For as many of you as have been baptized in Christ, have put on Christ.

drb@Galatians:3:29 @And if you be Christ's, then are you the seed of Abraham, heirs according to the promise.

drb@Galatians:4:2 @But is under tutors and governors until the time appointed by the father:

drb@Galatians:4:5 @That he might redeem them who were under the law: that we might receive the adoption of sons.

drb@Galatians:4:6 @And because you are sons, God hath sent the Spirit of his Son into your hearts, crying: Abba, Father.

drb@Galatians:4:11 @I am afraid of you, lest perhaps I have laboured in vain among you.

drb@Galatians:4:13 @And you know, how through infirmity of the flesh, I preached the gospel to you heretofore: and your temptation in my flesh,

drb@Galatians:4:14 @You despised not, nor rejected: but received me as an angel of God, even as Christ Jesus.

drb@Galatians:4:15 @Where is then your blessedness? For I bear you witness, that, if it could be done, you would have plucked out your own eyes, and would have given them to me.

drb@Galatians:4:18 @But be zealous for that which is good in a good thing always: and not only when I am present with you.

drb@Galatians:4:20 @And I would willingly be present with you now, and change my voice: because I am ashamed for you.

drb@Galatians:4:23 @But he who was of the bondwoman, was born according to the flesh: but he of the free woman, was by promise.

drb@Galatians:4:28 @Now we, brethren, as Isaac was, are the children of promise.

drb@Galatians:4:29 @But as then he, that was born according to the flesh, persecuted him that was after the spirit; so also it is now.

drb@Galatians:4:30 @But 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 free woman.

drb@Galatians:5:2 @Behold, I Paul tell you, that if you be circumcised, Christ shall profit you nothing.

drb@Galatians:5:5 @For we in spirit, by faith, wait for the hope of justice.

drb@Galatians:5:8 @This persuasion is not from him that calleth you.

drb@Galatians:5:9 @A little leaven corrupteth the whole lump.

drb@Galatians:5:11 @And I, brethren, if I yet preach circumcision, why do I yet suffer persecution? Then is the scandal of the cross made void.

drb@Galatians:5:13 @For you, brethren, have been called unto liberty: only make not liberty an occasion to the flesh, but by charity of the spirit serve one another.

drb@Galatians:5:16 @I say then, walk in the spirit, and you shall not fulfil the lusts of the flesh.

drb@Galatians:5:17 @For the flesh lusteth against the spirit: and the spirit against the flesh; for these are contrary one to another: so that you do not the things that you would.

drb@Galatians:5:18 @But if you are led by the spirit, you are not under the law.

drb@Galatians:5:22 @But the fruit of the Spirit is, charity, joy, peace, patience, benignity, goodness, longanimity,

drb@Galatians:5:24 @And they that are Christ's, have crucified their flesh, with the vices and concupiscences.

drb@Galatians:5:25 @If we live in the Spirit, let us also walk in the Spirit.

drb@Galatians:5:26 @Let us not be made desirous of vain glory, provoking one another, envying on another.

drb@Galatians:6:1 @Brethren, and if a man be overtaken in any fault, you, who are spiritual, instruct such a one in the spirit of meekness, considering thyself, lest thou also be tempted.

drb@Galatians:6:4 @But let every one prove his own work, and so he shall have glory in himself only, and not in another.

drb@Galatians:6:8 @For what things a man shall sow, those also shall he reap. For he that soweth in his flesh, of the flesh also shall reap corruption. But he that soweth in the spirit, of the spirit shall reap life everlasting.

drb@Galatians:6:9 @And in doing good, let us not fail. For in due time we shall reap, not failing.

drb@Galatians:6:10 @Therefore, whilst we have time, let us work good to all men, but especially to those who are of the household of the faith.

drb@Galatians:6:12 @For as many as desire to please in the flesh, they constrain you to be circumcised, only that they may not suffer the persecution of the cross of Christ.

drb@Galatians:6:13 @For neither they themselves who are circumcised, keep the law; but they will have you to be circumcised, that they may glory in your flesh.

drb@Galatians:6:16 @And whosoever shall follow this rule, peace on them, and mercy, and upon the Israel of God.

drb@Galatians:6:18 @The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with your spirit, brethren. Amen.

drb@Ephesians:1:1 @Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ, by the will of God, to all the saints who are at Ephesus, and to the faithful in Christ Jesus.

drb@Ephesians:1:2 @Grace be to you, and peace from God the Father, and from the Lord Jesus Christ.

drb@Ephesians:1:3 @Blessed by the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who hath blessed us with spiritual blessings in heavenly places, in Christ:

drb@Ephesians:1:4 @As he chose us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and unspotted in his sight in charity.

drb@Ephesians:1:5 @Who hath predestinated us unto the adoption of children through Jesus Christ unto himself: according to the purpose of his will:

drb@Ephesians:1:6 @Unto the praise of the glory of his grace, in which he hath graced us in his beloved son.

drb@Ephesians:1:7 @In whom we have redemption through his blood, the remission of sins, according to the riches of his grace,

drb@Ephesians:1:8 @Which hath superabounded in us in all wisdom and prudence,

drb@Ephesians:1:9 @That he might make known unto us the mystery of his will, according to his good pleasure, which he hath purposed in him,

drb@Ephesians:1:10 @In the dispensation of the fulness of times, to re-establish all things in Christ, that are in heaven and on earth, in him.

drb@Ephesians:1:11 @In whom we also are called by lot, being predestinated according to the purpose of him who worketh all things according to the counsel of his will.

drb@Ephesians:1:12 @That we may be unto the praise of his glory, we who before hoped Christ:

drb@Ephesians:1:13 @In whom you also, after you had heard the word of truth, (the gospel of your salvation;) in whom also believing, you were signed with the holy Spirit of promise,

drb@Ephesians:1:14 @Who is the pledge of our inheritance, unto the redemption of acquisition, unto the praise of his glory.

drb@Ephesians:1:15 @Wherefore I also, hearing of your faith that is in the Lord Jesus, and of your love towards all the saints,

drb@Ephesians:1:16 @Cease not to give thanks for you, making commemoration of you in my prayers,

drb@Ephesians:1:17 @That the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give unto you the spirit of wisdom and of revelation, in the knowledge of him:

drb@Ephesians:1:18 @The eyes of your heart enlightened, that you may know what the hope is of the glory of his inheritance in the saints.

drb@Ephesians:1:19 @And what is the exceeding greatness of his power towards us, who believe according to the operation of the might of his power,

drb@Ephesians:1:20 @Which he wrought in Christ, raising him up from the dead, and setting him on his right hand in the heavenly places.

drb@Ephesians:1:21 @Above all principality, and power, and virtue, and dominion, and every name that is named, not only in this world, but also in that which is to come.

drb@Ephesians:1:22 @And he hath subjected all things under his feet, and hath made him head over all the church,

drb@Ephesians:1:23 @Which is his body, and the fulness of him who is filled all in all.

drb@Ephesians:2:1 @And you, when you were dead in your offences, and sins,

drb@Ephesians:2:2 @Wherein in time past you walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of this air, of the spirit that now worketh on the children of unbelief:

drb@Ephesians:2:3 @In which also we all conversed in time past, in the desires of our flesh, fulfilling the will of the flesh and of our thoughts, and were by nature children of wrath, even as the rest:

drb@Ephesians:2:4 @But God, (who is rich in mercy,) for his exceeding charity wherewith he loved us,

drb@Ephesians:2:5 @Even when we were dead in sins, hath quickened us together in Christ, (by whose grace you are saved,)

drb@Ephesians:2:6 @And hath raised us up together, and hath made us sit together in the heavenly places, through Christ Jesus.

drb@Ephesians:2:7 @That he might shew in the ages to come the abundant riches of his grace, in his bounty towards us in Christ Jesus.

drb@Ephesians:2:8 @For by grace you are saved through faith, and that not of yourselves, for it is the gift of God;

drb@Ephesians:2:9 @Not of works, that no man may glory.

drb@Ephesians:2:10 @For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus in good works, which God hath prepared that we should walk in them.

drb@Ephesians:2:11 @For which cause be mindful that you, being heretofore Gentiles in the flesh, who are called uncircumcision by that which is called circumcision in the flesh, made by hands;

drb@Ephesians:2:12 @That you were at that time without Christ, being aliens from the conversation of Israel, and strangers to the testament, having no hope of the promise, and without God in this world.

drb@Ephesians:2:13 @But now in Christ Jesus, you, who some time were afar off, are made nigh by the blood of Christ.

drb@Ephesians:2:14 @For he is our peace, who hath made both one, and breaking down the middle wall of partition, the enmities in his flesh:

drb@Ephesians:2:15 @Making void the law of commandments contained in decrees; that he might make the two in himself into one new man, making peace;

drb@Ephesians:2:16 @And might reconcile both to God in one body by the cross, killing the enmities in himself.

drb@Ephesians:2:17 @And coming, he preached peace to you that were afar off, and peace to them that were nigh.

drb@Ephesians:2:18 @For by him we have access both in one Spirit to the Father.

drb@Ephesians:2:19 @Now therefore you are no more strangers and foreigners; but you are fellow citizens with the saints, and the domestics of God,

drb@Ephesians:2:20 @Built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Jesus Christ himself being the chief corner stone:

drb@Ephesians:2:21 @In whom all the building, being framed together, groweth up into an holy temple in the Lord.

drb@Ephesians:2:22 @In whom you also are built together into an habitation of God in the Spirit.

drb@Ephesians:3:1 @For this cause, I Paul, the prisoner of Jesus Christ, for you Gentiles;

drb@Ephesians:3:2 @If yet you have heard of the dispensation of the grace of God which is given me towards you:

drb@Ephesians:3:3 @How that, according to revelation, the mystery has been made known to me, as I have written above in a few words;

drb@Ephesians:3:4 @As you reading, may understand my knowledge in the mystery of Christ,

drb@Ephesians:3:5 @Which in other generations was not known to the sons of men, as it is now revealed to his holy apostles and prophets in the Spirit:

drb@Ephesians:3:6 @That the Gentiles should be fellow heirs, and of the same body, and co-partners of his promise in Christ Jesus, by the gospel:

drb@Ephesians:3:7 @Of which I am made a minister, according to the gift of the grace of God, which is given to me according to the operation of his power:

drb@Ephesians:3:8 @To me, the least of all the saints, is given this grace, to preach among the Gentiles, the unsearchable riches of Christ,

drb@Ephesians:3:9 @And to enlighten all men, that they may see what is the dispensation of the mystery which hath been hidden from eternity in God, who created all things:

drb@Ephesians:3:10 @That the manifold wisdom of God may be made known to the principalities and powers in heavenly places through the church,

drb@Ephesians:3:11 @According to the eternal purpose, which he made, in Christ Jesus our Lord:

drb@Ephesians:3:12 @In whom we have boldness and access with confidence by the faith of him.

drb@Ephesians:3:13 @Wherefore I pray you not to faint at my tribulations for you, which is your glory.

drb@Ephesians:3:14 @For this cause I bow my knees to the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ,

drb@Ephesians:3:15 @Of whom all paternity in heaven and earth is named,

drb@Ephesians:3:16 @That he would grant you, according to the riches of his glory, to be strengthened by his Spirit with might unto the inward man,

drb@Ephesians:3:17 @That Christ may dwell by faith in your hearts; that being rooted and founded in charity,

drb@Ephesians:3:18 @You may be able to comprehend, with all the saints, what is the breadth, and length, and height, and depth:

drb@Ephesians:3:19 @To know also the charity of Christ, which surpasseth all knowledge, that you may be filled unto all the fulness of God.

drb@Ephesians:3:20 @Now to him who is able to do all things more abundantly than we desire or understand, according to the power that worketh in us;

drb@Ephesians:3:21 @To him be glory in the church, and in Christ Jesus unto all generations, world without end. Amen.

drb@Ephesians:4:1 @I therefore, a prisoner in the Lord, beseech you that you walk worthy of the vocation in which you are called,

drb@Ephesians:4:2 @With all humility and mildness, with patience, supporting one another in charity.

drb@Ephesians:4:3 @Careful to keep the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace.

drb@Ephesians:4:4 @One body and one Spirit; as you are called in one hope of your calling.

drb@Ephesians:4:5 @One Lord, one faith, one baptism.

drb@Ephesians:4:6 @One God and Father of all, who is above all, and through all, and in us all.

drb@Ephesians:4:7 @But to every one of us is given grace, according to the measure of the giving of Christ.

drb@Ephesians:4:8 @Wherefore he saith: Ascending on high, he led captivity captive; he gave gifts to men.

drb@Ephesians:4:9 @Now that he ascended, what is it, but because he also descended first into the lower parts of the earth?

drb@Ephesians:4:10 @He that descended is the same also that ascended above all the heavens, that he might fill all things

drb@Ephesians:4:11 @And he gave some apostles, and some prophets, and other some evangelists, and other some pastors and doctors,

drb@Ephesians:4:12 @For the perfecting of the saints, for the work of the ministry, for the edifying of the body of Christ:

drb@Ephesians:4:13 @Until we all meet into the unity of faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of God, unto a perfect man, unto the measure of the age of the fulness of Christ;

drb@Ephesians:4:14 @That henceforth we be no more children tossed to and fro, and carried about with every wind of doctrine by the wickedness of men, by cunning craftiness, by which they lie in wait to deceive

drb@Ephesians:4:15 @But doing the truth in charity, we may in all things grow up in him who is the head, even Christ:

drb@Ephesians:4:16 @From whom the whole body, being compacted and fitly joined together, by what every joint supplieth, according to the operation in the measure of every part, maketh increase of the body, unto the edifying of itself in charity.

drb@Ephesians:4:17 @This then I say and testify in the Lord: That henceforward you walk not as also the Gentiles walk in the vanity of their mind,

drb@Ephesians:4:18 @Having their understanding darkened, being alienated from the life of God through the ignorance that is in them, because of the blindness of their hearts.

drb@Ephesians:4:19 @Who despairing, have given themselves up to lasciviousness, unto the working of all uncleanness, unto the working of all uncleanness, unto covetousness.

drb@Ephesians:4:20 @But you have not so learned Christ;

drb@Ephesians:4:21 @If so be that you have heard him, and have been taught in him, as the truth is in Jesus:

drb@Ephesians:4:22 @To put off, according to former conversation, the old man, who is corrupted according to the desire of error.

drb@Ephesians:4:23 @And be renewed in the spirit of your mind:

drb@Ephesians:4:24 @And put on the new man, who according to God is created in justice and holiness of truth.

drb@Ephesians:4:25 @Wherefore putting away lying, speak;ye the truth every man with his neighbour; for we are members one of another.

drb@Ephesians:4:26 @Be angry, and sin not. Let not the sun go down upon your anger.

drb@Ephesians:4:27 @Give not place to the devil.

drb@Ephesians:4:28 @He that stole, let him now steal no more; but rather let him labour, working with his hands the thing which is good, that he may have something to give to him that suffereth need.

drb@Ephesians:4:29 @Let no evil speech proceed from your mouth; but that which is good, to the edification of faith, that it may administer grace to the hearers.

drb@Ephesians:4:30 @And grieve not the holy Spirit of God: whereby you are sealed unto the day of redemption.

drb@Ephesians:4:31 @Let all bitterness, and anger, and indignation, and clamour, and blasphemy, be put away from you, with all malice.

drb@Ephesians:4:32 @And be ye kind one to another; merciful, forgiving one another, even as God hath forgiven you in Christ.

drb@Ephesians:5:1 @Be ye therefore followers of God, as most dear children;

drb@Ephesians:5:2 @And walk in love, as Christ also hath loved us, and hath delivered himself for us, an oblation and a sacrifice to God for an odour of sweetness.

drb@Ephesians:5:3 @But fornication, and all uncleanness, or covetousness, let it not so much as be named among you, as becometh saints:

drb@Ephesians:5:4 @Or obscenity, or foolish talking, or scurrility, which is to no purpose; but rather giving of thanks.

drb@Ephesians:5:5 @For know you this and understand, that no fornicator, or unclean, or covetous person (which is a serving of idols), hath inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and of God.

drb@Ephesians:5:6 @Let no man deceive you with vain words. For because of these things cometh the anger of God upon the children of unbelief.

drb@Ephesians:5:7 @Be ye not therefore partakers with them.

drb@Ephesians:5:8 @For you were heretofore darkness, but now light in the Lord. Walk then as children of the light.

drb@Ephesians:5:9 @For the fruit of the light is in all goodness, and justice, and truth;

drb@Ephesians:5:10 @Proving what is well pleasing to God:

drb@Ephesians:5:11 @And have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather reprove them.

drb@Ephesians:5:12 @For the things that are done by them in secret, it is a shame even to speak of

drb@Ephesians:5:13 @But all things that are reproved, are made manifest by the light; for all that is made manifest is light.

drb@Ephesians:5:14 @Wherefore he saith: Rise thou that sleepest, and arise from the dead: and Christ shall enlighten thee.

drb@Ephesians:5:15 @See therefore, brethren, how you walk circumspectly: not as unwise,

drb@Ephesians:5:16 @But as wise: redeeming the time, because the days are evil.

drb@Ephesians:5:17 @Wherefore become not unwise, but understanding what is the will of God.

drb@Ephesians:5:18 @And be not drunk with wine, wherein is luxury; but be ye filled with the holy Spirit,

drb@Ephesians:5:19 @Speaking to yourselves in psalms, and hymns, and spiritual canticles, singing and making melody in your hearts to the Lord;

drb@Ephesians:5:20 @Giving thanks always for all things, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, to God and the Father:

drb@Ephesians:5:21 @Being subject one to another, in the fear of Christ.

drb@Ephesians:5:22 @Let women be subject to their husbands, as to the Lord:

drb@Ephesians:5:23 @Because the husband is the head of the wife, as Christ is the head of the church. He is the saviour of his body.

drb@Ephesians:5:24 @Therefore as the church is subject to Christ, so also let the wives be to their husbands in all things.

drb@Ephesians:5:25 @Husbands, love your wives, as Christ also loved the church, and delivered himself up for it:

drb@Ephesians:5:26 @That he might sanctify it, cleansing it by the laver of water in the word of life:

drb@Ephesians:5:27 @That he might present it to himself a glorious church, not having spot or wrinkle, or any; such thing; but that it should be holy, and without blemish.

drb@Ephesians:5:28 @So also ought men to love their wives as their own bodies. He that loveth his wife, loveth himself.

drb@Ephesians:5:29 @For no man ever hated his own flesh; but nourisheth and cherisheth it, as also Christ doth the church:

drb@Ephesians:5:30 @Because we are members of his body, of his flesh, and of his bones.

drb@Ephesians:5:31 @For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall cleave to his wife, and they shall be two in one flesh.

drb@Ephesians:5:32 @This is a great sacrament; but I speak in Christ and in the church.

drb@Ephesians:5:33 @Nevertheless let every one of you in particular love his wife as himself: and let the wife fear her husband.

drb@Ephesians:6:1 @Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is just.

drb@Ephesians:6:2 @Honour thy father and thy mother, which is the first commandment with a promise:

drb@Ephesians:6:3 @That it may be well with thee, and thou mayest be long lived upon earth.

drb@Ephesians:6:4 @And you, fathers, provoke not your children to anger; but bring them up in the discipline and correction of the Lord.

drb@Ephesians:6:5 @Servants, be obedient to them that are your lords according to the flesh, with fear and trembling, in the simplicity of your heart, as to Christ:

drb@Ephesians:6:6 @Not serving to the eye, as it were pleasing men, but, as the servants of Christ doing the will of God from the heart,

drb@Ephesians:6:7 @With a good will serving, as to the Lord, and not to men.

drb@Ephesians:6:8 @Knowing that whatsoever good thing any man shall do, the same shall he receive from the Lord, whether he be bond, or free.

drb@Ephesians:6:9 @And you, masters, do the same things to them, forbearing threatenings, knowing that the Lord both of them and you is in heaven; and there is no respect of persons with him.

drb@Ephesians:6:10 @Finally, brethren, be strengthened in the Lord, and in the might of his power.

drb@Ephesians:6:11 @Put you on the armour of God, that you may be able to stand against the deceits of the devil.

drb@Ephesians:6:12 @For our wrestling is not against flesh and blood; but against principalities and power, against the rulers of the world of this darkness, against the spirits of wickedness in the high places.

drb@Ephesians:6:13 @Therefore take unto you the armour of God, that you may be able to resist in the evil day, and to stand in all things perfect.

drb@Ephesians:6:14 @Stand therefore, having your loins girt about with truth, and having on the breastplate of justice,

drb@Ephesians:6:15 @And your feet shod with the preparation of the gospel of peace:

drb@Ephesians:6:16 @In all things taking the shield of faith, wherewith you may be able to extinguish all the fiery darts of the most wicked one.

drb@Ephesians:6:17 @And take unto you the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit (which is the word of God).

drb@Ephesians:6:18 @By all prayer and supplication praying at all times in the spirit; and in the same watching with all instance and supplication for all the saints:

drb@Ephesians:6:19 @And for me, that speech may be given me, that I may open my mouth with confidence, to make known the mystery of the gospel.

drb@Ephesians:6:20 @For which I am an ambassador in a chain, so that therein I may be bold to speak according as I ought.

drb@Ephesians:6:21 @But that you also may know the things that concern me, and what I am doing, Tychicus, my dearest brother and faithful minister in the Lord, will make known to you all things:

drb@Ephesians:6:22 @Whom I have sent to you for this same purpose, that you may know the things concerning us, and that he may comfort your hearts.

drb@Ephesians:6:23 @Peace be to the brethren and charity with faith, from God the Father, and the Lord Jesus Christ.

drb@Ephesians:6:24 @Grace be with all them that love our Lord Jesus Christ in incorruption. Amen.

drb@Philippians:1:1 @Paul and Timothy, the servants of Jesus Christ; to all the saints in Christ Jesus, who are at Philippi, with the bishops and deacons.

drb@Philippians:1:2 @Grace be unto you, and peace from God our Father, and from the Lord Jesus Christ.

drb@Philippians:1:3 @I give thanks to my God in every remembrance of you,

drb@Philippians:1:4 @Always in all my prayers making supplication for you all, with joy;

drb@Philippians:1:5 @For your communication in the gospel of Christ from the first day until now.

drb@Philippians:1:6 @Being confident of this very thing, that he, who hath begun a good work in you, will perfect it unto the day of Christ Jesus.

drb@Philippians:1:7 @As it is meet for me to think this for you all, for that I have you in my heart; and that in my bands, and in the defence and confirmation of the gospel, you all are partakers of my joy.

drb@Philippians:1:8 @For God is my witness, how I long after you all in the bowels of Jesus Christ.

drb@Philippians:1:9 @And this I pray, that your charity may more and more abound in knowledge, and in all understanding:

drb@Philippians:1:10 @That you may approve the better things, that you may be sincere and without offence unto the day of Christ,

drb@Philippians:1:11 @Filled with the fruit of justice, through Jesus Christ, unto the glory and praise of God.

drb@Philippians:1:12 @Now, brethren, I desire you should know, that the things which have happened to me, have fallen out rather to the furtherance of the gospel:

drb@Philippians:1:13 @So that my bands are made manifest in Christ, in all the court, and in all other places;

drb@Philippians:1:14 @And many of the brethren in the Lord, growing confident by my bands, are much more bold to speak the word of God without fear.

drb@Philippians:1:15 @Some indeed, even out of envy and contention; but some also for good will preach Christ.

drb@Philippians:1:16 @Some out of charity, knowing that I am set for the defence of the gospel.

drb@Philippians:1:17 @And some out of contention preach Christ not sincerely: supposing that they raise affliction to my bands.

drb@Philippians:1:18 @But what then? So that by all means, whether by occasion, or by truth, Christ be preached: in this also I rejoice, yea, and will rejoice.

drb@Philippians:1:19 @For I know that this shall fall out to me unto salvation, through your prayer, and the supply of the Spirit of Jesus Christ,

drb@Philippians:1:20 @According to my expectation and hope; that in nothing I shall be confounded, but with all confidence, as always, so now also shall Christ be magnified in my body, wither it be by life, or by death.

drb@Philippians:1:21 @For to me, to live is Christ; and to die is gain.

drb@Philippians:1:22 @And if to live in the flesh, that is to me the fruit of labour, and what I shall choose I know not.

drb@Philippians:1:23 @But I am straitened between two: having a desire to be dissolved and to be with Christ, a thing by far the better.

drb@Philippians:1:24 @But to abide still in the flesh, is needful for you.

drb@Philippians:1:25 @And having this confidence, I know that I shall abide, and continue with you all, for your furtherance and joy of faith:

drb@Philippians:1:26 @That your rejoicing may abound in Christ Jesus for me, by my coming to you again.

drb@Philippians:1:27 @Only let your conversation be worthy of the gospel of Christ: that, whether I come and see you, or, being absent, may hear of you, that you stand fast in one spirit, with one mind labouring together for the faith of the gospel.

drb@Philippians:1:28 @And in nothing be ye terrified by the adversaries: which to them is a cause of perdition, but to you of salvation, and this from God:

drb@Philippians:1:29 @For unto you it is given for Christ, not only to believe in him, but also to suffer for him.

drb@Philippians:1:30 @Having the same conflict as that which you have seen in me, and now have heard of me.

drb@Philippians:2:1 @If there be therefore any consolation in Christ, if any comfort of charity, if any society of the spirit, if any bowels of commiseration:

drb@Philippians:2:2 @Fulfil ye my joy, that you may be of one mind, having the same charity, being of one accord, agreeing in sentiment.

drb@Philippians:2:3 @Let nothing be done through contention, neither by vain glory: but in humility, let each esteem others better than themselves:

drb@Philippians:2:4 @Each one not considering the things that are his own, but those that are other men's.

drb@Philippians:2:5 @For let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus:

drb@Philippians:2:6 @Who being in the form of God, thought it not robbery to be equal with God:

drb@Philippians:2:7 @But emptied himself, taking the form of a servant, being made in the likeness of men, and in habit found as a man.

drb@Philippians:2:8 @He humbled himself, becoming obedient unto death, even to the death of the cross.

drb@Philippians:2:9 @For which cause God also hath exalted him, and hath given him a name which is above all names:

drb@Philippians:2:10 @That in the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of those that are in heaven, on earth, and under the earth:

drb@Philippians:2:11 @And that every tongue should confess that the Lord Jesus Christ is in the glory of God the Father.

drb@Philippians:2:12 @Wherefore, my dearly beloved, (as you have always obeyed, not as in my presence only, but much more now in my absence,) with fear and trembling work out your salvation.

drb@Philippians:2:13 @For it is God who worketh in you, both to will and to accomplish, according to his good will.

drb@Philippians:2:14 @And do ye all things without murmurings and hesitations;

drb@Philippians:2:15 @That you may be blameless, and sincere children of God, without reproof, in the midst of a crooked and perverse generation; among whom you shine as lights in the world.

drb@Philippians:2:16 @Holding forth the word of life to my glory in the day of Christ, because I have not run in vain, nor laboured in vain.

drb@Philippians:2:17 @Yea, and if I be made a victim upon the sacrifice and service of your faith, I rejoice, and congratulate with you all.

drb@Philippians:2:18 @And for the selfsame thing do you also rejoice, and congratulate with me.

drb@Philippians:2:19 @And I hope in the Lord Jesus to send Timothy unto you shortly, that I also may be of good comfort, when I know the things concerning you.

drb@Philippians:2:20 @For I have no man so of the same mind, who with sincere affection is solicitous for you.

drb@Philippians:2:21 @For all seek the things that are their own; not the things that are Jesus Christ's.

drb@Philippians:2:22 @Now know ye the proof of him, that as a son with the father, so hath he served with me in the gospel.

drb@Philippians:2:23 @Him therefore I hope to send unto you immediately, so soon as I shall see how it will go with me.

drb@Philippians:2:24 @And I trust in the Lord, that I myself also shall come to you shortly.

drb@Philippians:2:25 @But I have thought it necessary to send to you Epaphroditus, my brother and fellow labourer, and fellow soldier, but your apostle, and he that hath ministered to my wants.

drb@Philippians:2:26 @For indeed he longed after you all: and was sad, for that you had heard that he was sick.

drb@Philippians:2:27 @For indeed he was sick, nigh unto death; but God had mercy on him; and not only on him, but on me also, lest I should have sorrow upon sorrow.

drb@Philippians:2:28 @Therefore I sent him the more speedily: that seeing him again, you may rejoice, and I may be without sorrow.

drb@Philippians:2:29 @Receive him therefore with all joy in the Lord; and treat with honour such as he is.

drb@Philippians:2:30 @Because for the work of Christ he came to the point of death: delivering his life, that he might fulfil that which on your part was wanting towards my service.

drb@Philippians:3:1 @As to the rest, my brethren, rejoice in the Lord. To write the same things to you, to me indeed is not wearisome, but to you it is necessary.

drb@Philippians:3:2 @Beware of dogs, beware of evil workers, beware of the concision.

drb@Philippians:3:3 @For we are the circumcision, who in spirit serve God; and glory in Christ Jesus, not having confidence in the flesh.

drb@Philippians:3:4 @Though I might also have confidence in the flesh. If any other thinketh he may have confidence in the flesh, I more,

drb@Philippians:3:5 @Being circumcised the eighth day, of the stock of Israel, of the tribe of Benjamin, an Hebrew of the Hebrews; according to the law, a Pharisee:

drb@Philippians:3:6 @According to zeal, persecuting the church of God; according to the justice that is in the law, conversing without blame.

drb@Philippians:3:7 @But the things that were gain to me, the same I have counted loss for Christ.

drb@Philippians:3:8 @Furthermore I count all things to be but loss for the excellent knowledge of Jesus Christ my Lord; for whom I have suffered the loss of all things, and count them but as dung, that I may gain Christ:

drb@Philippians:3:9 @And may be found in him, not having my justice, which is of the law, but that which is of the faith of Christ Jesus, which is of God, justice in faith:

drb@Philippians:3:10 @That I may know him, and the power of his resurrection, and the fellowship of his sufferings, being made conformable to his death,

drb@Philippians:3:11 @If by any means I may attain to the resurrection which is from the dead.

drb@Philippians:3:12 @Not as though I has already attained, or were already perfect; but I follow after, if I may by any means apprehend, wherein I am also apprehended by Christ Jesus.

drb@Philippians:3:13 @Brethren, I do not count myself to have apprehended. But one thing I do: forgetting the things that are behind, and stretching forth myself to those that are before,

drb@Philippians:3:14 @I press towards the mark, to the prize of the supernal vocation of God in Christ Jesus.

drb@Philippians:3:15 @Let us therefore, as many as are perfect, be thus minded; and if in any thing you be otherwise minded, this also God will reveal to you.

drb@Philippians:3:16 @Nevertheless whereunto we are come, that we be of the same mind, let us also continue in the same rule.

drb@Philippians:3:17 @Be ye followers of me, brethren, and observe them who walk so as you have our model.

drb@Philippians:3:18 @For many walk, of whom I have told you often (and now tell you weeping), that they are enemies of the cross of Christ;

drb@Philippians:3:19 @Whose end is destruction; whose God is their belly; and whose glory is in their shame; who mind earthly things.

drb@Philippians:3:20 @But our conversation is in heaven; from whence also we look for the Saviour, our Lord Jesus Christ,

drb@Philippians:3:21 @Who will reform the body of our lowness, made like to the body of his glory, according to the operation whereby also he is able to subdue all things unto himself.

drb@Philippians:4:1 @Therefore, my dearly beloved brethren, and most desired, my joy and my crown; so stand fast in the Lord, my dearly beloved.

drb@Philippians:4:2 @I beg of Evodia, and I beseech Syntyche, to be of one mind in the Lord.

drb@Philippians:4:3 @And I entreat thee also, my sincere companion, help those women who have laboured with me in the gospel, with Clement and the rest of my fellow labourers, whose names are in the book of life.

drb@Philippians:4:4 @Rejoice in the Lord always; again, I say, rejoice.

drb@Philippians:4:5 @Let your modesty be known to all men. The Lord is nigh.

drb@Philippians:4:6 @Be nothing solicitous; but in every thing, by prayer and supplication, with thanksgiving, let your petitions be made known to God.

drb@Philippians:4:7 @And the peace of God, which surpasseth all understanding, keep your hearts and minds in Christ Jesus.

drb@Philippians:4:8 @For the rest, brethren, whatsoever things are true, whatsoever modest, whatsoever just, whatsoever holy, whatsoever lovely, whatsoever of good fame, if there be any virtue, if any praise of discipline, think on these things.

drb@Philippians:4:9 @The things which you have both learned, and received, and heard, and seen in me, these do ye, and the God of peace shall be with you.

drb@Philippians:4:10 @Now I rejoice in the Lord exceedingly, that now at length your thought for me hath flourished again, as you did also think; but you were busied

drb@Philippians:4:11 @I speak not as it were for want. For I have learned, in whatsoever state I am, to be content therewith.

drb@Philippians:4:12 @I know both how to be brought low, and I know how to abound: (everywhere, and in all things I am instructed) both to be full, and to be hungry; both to abound, and to suffer need.

drb@Philippians:4:13 @I can do all these things in him who strengtheneth me.

drb@Philippians:4:14 @Nevertheless you have done well in communicating to my tribulation.

drb@Philippians:4:15 @And you also know, O Philippians, that in the beginning of the gospel, when I departed from Macedonia, no church communicated with me as concerning giving and receiving, but you only:

drb@Philippians:4:16 @For unto Thessalonica also you sent once and again for my use.

drb@Philippians:4:17 @Not that I seek the gift, but I seek the fruit that may abound to your account.

drb@Philippians:4:18 @But I have all, and abound: I am filled, having received from Epaphroditus the things you sent, an odour of sweetness, an acceptable sacrifice, pleasing to God.

drb@Philippians:4:19 @And may my God supply all your want, according to his riches in glory in Christ Jesus.

drb@Philippians:4:20 @Now to God and our Father be glory world without end. Amen.

drb@Philippians:4:21 @Salute ye every saint in Christ Jesus.

drb@Philippians:4:22 @The brethren who are with me, salute you. All the saints salute you; especially they that are of Caesar's household.

drb@Philippians:4:23 @The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with your spirit. Amen.

drb@Colossians:1:1 @Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ, by the will of God, and Timothy, a brother,

drb@Colossians:1:3 @Grace be to you and peace from God our Father, and from the Lord Jesus Christ. We give thanks to God, and the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, praying always for you.

drb@Colossians:1:5 @For the hope that is laid up for you in heaven, which you have heard in the word of the truth of the gospel,

drb@Colossians:1:7 @As you learned of Epaphras, our most beloved fellow servant, who is for you a faithful minister of Christ Jesus;

drb@Colossians:1:8 @Who also hath manifested to us your love in the spirit.

drb@Colossians:1:9 @Therefore we also, from the day that we heard it, cease not to pray for you, and to beg that you may be filled with the knowledge of his will, in all wisdom, and spiritual understanding:

drb@Colossians:1:10 @That you may walk worthy of God, in all things pleasing; being fruitful in every good work, and increasing in the knowledge of God:

drb@Colossians:1:11 @Strengthened with all might, according to the power of his glory, in all patience and longsuffering with joy,

drb@Colossians:1:12 @Giving thanks to God the Father, who hath made us worthy to be partakers of the lot of the saints in light:

drb@Colossians:1:13 @Who hath delivered us from the power of darkness, and hath translated us into the kingdom of the Son of his love,

drb@Colossians:1:14 @In whom we have redemption through his blood, the remission of sins;

drb@Colossians:1:16 @For in him were all things created in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones, or dominations, or principalities, or powers: all things were created by him and in him.

drb@Colossians:1:18 @And he is the head of the body, the church, who is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead; that in all things he may hold the primacy:

drb@Colossians:1:19 @Because in him, it hath well pleased the Father, that all fullness should dwell;

drb@Colossians:1:20 @And through him to reconcile all things unto himself, making peace through the blood of his cross, both as to the things that are on earth, and the things that are in heaven.

drb@Colossians:1:22 @Yet now he hath reconciled in the body of his flesh through death, to present you holy and unspotted, and blameless before him:

drb@Colossians:1:23 @If so ye continue in the faith, grounded and settled, and immoveable from the hope of the gospel which you have heard, which is preached in all the creation that is under heaven, whereof I Paul am made a minister.

drb@Colossians:1:24 @Who now rejoice in my sufferings for you, and fill up those things that are wanting of the sufferings of Christ, in my flesh, for his body, which is the church:

drb@Colossians:1:25 @Whereof I am made a minister according to the dispensation of God, which is given me towards you, that I may fulfil the word of God:

drb@Colossians:1:27 @To whom God would make known the riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles, which is Christ, in you the hope of glory.

drb@Colossians:1:28 @Whom we preach, admonishing every man, and teaching every man in all wisdom, that we may present every man perfect in Christ Jesus.

drb@Colossians:1:29 @Wherein also I labour, striving according to his working which he worketh in me in power.

drb@Colossians:2:5 @For though I be absent in body, yet in spirit I am with you; rejoicing, and beholding your order, and the steadfastness of your faith which is in Christ.

drb@Colossians:2:7 @Rooted and built up in him, and confirmed in the faith, as also you have learned, abounding in him in thanksgiving.

drb@Colossians:2:8 @Beware lest any man cheat you by philosophy, and vain deceit; according to the tradition of men, according to the elements of the world, and not according to Christ:

drb@Colossians:2:9 @For in him dwelleth all the fulness of the Godhead corporeally;

drb@Colossians:2:10 @And you are filled in him, who is the head of all principality and power:

drb@Colossians:2:11 @In whom also you are circumcised with circumcision not made by hand, in despoiling of the body of the flesh, but in the circumcision of Christ:

drb@Colossians:2:12 @Buried with him in baptism, in whom also you are risen again by the faith of the operation of God, who hath raised him up from the dead.

drb@Colossians:2:15 @And despoiling the principalities and powers, he hath exposed them confidently in open shew, triumphing over them in himself.

drb@Colossians:2:16 @Let no man therefore judge you in meat or in drink, or in respect of a festival day, or of the new moon, or of the sabbaths,

drb@Colossians:2:18 @Let no man seduce you, willing in humility, and religion of angels, walking in the things which he hath not seen, in vain puffed up by the sense of his flesh,

drb@Colossians:2:19 @And not holding the head, from which the whole body, by joints and bands, being supplied with nourishment and compacted, groweth unto the increase of God.

drb@Colossians:2:22 @Which all are unto destruction by the very use, according to the precepts and doctrines of men.

drb@Colossians:2:23 @Which things have indeed a shew of wisdom in superstition and humility, and not sparing the body; not in any honour to the filling of the flesh.

drb@Colossians:3:2 @Mind the things that are above, not the things that are upon the earth.

drb@Colossians:3:4 @When Christ shall appear, who is your life, then you also shall appear with him in glory.

drb@Colossians:3:5 @Mortify therefore your members which are upon the earth; fornication, uncleanness, lust, evil concupiscence, and covetousness, which is the service of idols.

drb@Colossians:3:6 @For which things the wrath of God cometh upon the children of unbelief,

drb@Colossians:3:8 @But now put you also all away: anger, indignation, malice, blasphemy, filthy speech out of your mouth.

drb@Colossians:3:9 @Lie not one to another: stripping yourselves of the old man with his deeds,

drb@Colossians:3:10 @And putting on the new, him who is renewed unto knowledge, according to the image of him that created him

drb@Colossians:3:12 @Put ye on therefore, as the elect of God, holy, and beloved, the bowels of mercy, benignity, humility, modesty, patience:

drb@Colossians:3:13 @Bearing with one another, and forgiving one another, if any have a complaint against another: even as the Lord hath forgiven you, so do you also.

drb@Colossians:3:14 @But above all these things have charity, which is the bond of perfection:

drb@Colossians:3:15 @And let the peace of Christ rejoice in your hearts, wherein also you are called in one body: and be ye thankful.

drb@Colossians:3:16 @Let the word of Christ dwell in you abundantly, in all wisdom: teaching and admonishing one another in psalms, hymns, and spiritual canticles, singing in grace in your hearts to God.

drb@Colossians:3:20 @Children, obey your parents in all things: for this is well pleasing to the Lord.

drb@Colossians:3:21 @Fathers, provoke not your children to indignation, lest they be discouraged.

drb@Colossians:3:22 @Servants, obey in all things your masters according to the flesh, not serving to the eye, as pleasing men, but in simplicity of heart, fearing God.

drb@Colossians:3:25 @For he that doth wrong, shall receive for that which he hath done wrongfully: and there is no respect of persons with God.

drb@Colossians:4:2 @Be instant in prayer; watching in it with thanksgiving:

drb@Colossians:4:3 @Praying withal for us also, that God may open unto us a door of speech to speak the mystery of Christ (for which also I am bound;)

drb@Colossians:4:4 @That I may make it manifest as I ought to speak.

drb@Colossians:4:6 @Let your speech be always in grace seasoned with salt: that you may know how you ought to answer every man.

drb@Colossians:4:8 @Whom I have sent to you for this same purpose, that he may know the things that concern you, and comfort your hearts,

drb@Colossians:4:10 @Aristarchus, my fellow prisoner, saluteth you, and Mark, the cousin german of Barnabus, touching whom you have received commandments; if he come unto you, receive him:

drb@Colossians:4:11 @And Jesus, that is called Justus: who are of the circumcision: these only are my helpers in the kingdom of God; who have been a comfort to me.

drb@Colossians:4:12 @Epaphras saluteth you, who is one of you, a servant of Christ Jesus, who is always solicitous for you in prayers, that you may stand perfect, and full in all the will of God.

drb@Colossians:4:13 @For I bear him testimony that he hath much labour for you, and for them that are at Laodicea, and them at Hierapolis.

drb@Colossians:4:14 @Luke, the most dear physician, saluteth you: and Demas.

drb@Colossians:4:15 @Salute the brethren who are at Laodicea, and Nymphas, and the church that is in his house.

drb@Colossians:4:16 @And when this epistle shall have been read with you, cause that it be read also in the church of the Laodiceans: and that you read that which is of the Laodiceans.

drb@Colossians:4:17 @And say to Archippus: Take heed to the ministry which thou hast received in the Lord, that thou fulfil it.

drb@Colossians:4:18 @The salutation of Paul with my own hand. Be mindful of my bands. Grace be with you. Amen

drb@1Thessalonians:1:1 @Paul and Sylvanus and Timothy: to the church of the Thessalonians, in God the Father, and in the Lord Jesus Christ.

drb@1Thessalonians:1:2 @Grace be to you and peace. We give thanks to God always for you all; making a remembrance of you in our prayers without ceasing,

drb@1Thessalonians:1:3 @Being mindful of the work of your faith, and labour, and charity, and of the enduring of the hope of our Lord Jesus Christ before God and our Father:

drb@1Thessalonians:1:5 @For our gospel hath not been unto you in word only, but in power also, and in the Holy Ghost, and in much fulness, as you know what manner of men we have been among you for your sakes.

drb@1Thessalonians:1:7 @So that you were made a pattern to all that believe in Macedonia and in Achaia.

drb@1Thessalonians:1:8 @For from you was spread abroad the word of the Lord, not only in Macedonia, and in Achaia, but also in every place, your faith which is towards God, is gone forth, so that we need not to speak any thing.

drb@1Thessalonians:1:10 @And to wait for his Son from heaven (whom he raised up from the dead,) Jesus, who hath delivered us from the wrath to come.

drb@1Thessalonians:2:2 @But having suffered many things before, and been shamefully treated (as you know) at Philippi, we had confidence in our God, to speak unto you the gospel of God in much carefulness.

drb@1Thessalonians:2:4 @But as we were approved by God that the gospel should be committed to us: even so we speak, not as pleasing men, but God, who proveth our hearts.

drb@1Thessalonians:2:5 @For neither have we used, at any time, the speech of flattery, as you know; nor taken an occasion of covetousness, God is witness:

drb@1Thessalonians:2:6 @Nor sought we glory of men, neither of you, nor of others. 7 Whereas we might have been burdensome to you, as the apostles of Christ: but we became little ones in the midst of you, as if a nurse should cherish her children:

drb@1Thessalonians:2:7 @So desirous of you, we would gladly impart unto you not only the gospel of God, but also our own souls: because you were become most dear unto us.

drb@1Thessalonians:2:8 @For you remember, brethren, our labour and toil: working night and day, lest we should be chargeable to any of you, we preached among you the gospel of God.

drb@1Thessalonians:2:14 @Who both killed the Lord Jesus, and the prophets, and have persecuted us, and please not God, and are adversaries to all men;

drb@1Thessalonians:2:15 @Prohibiting us to speak to the Gentiles, that they may be saved, to fill up their sins always: for the wrath of God is come upon them to the end.

drb@1Thessalonians:2:17 @For we would have come unto you, I Paul indeed, once and again: but Satan hath hindered us.

drb@1Thessalonians:2:18 @For what is our hope, or joy, or crown of glory? Are not you, in the presence of our Lord Jesus Christ at his coming?

drb@1Thessalonians:3:2 @And we sent Timothy, our brother, and the minister of God in the gospel of Christ, to confirm you and exhort you concerning your faith:

drb@1Thessalonians:3:3 @That no man should be moved in these tribulations: for yourselves know, that we are appointed thereunto.

drb@1Thessalonians:3:4 @For even when we were with you, we foretold you that we should suffer tribulations, as also it is come to pass, and you know.

drb@1Thessalonians:3:5 @For this cause also, I, forbearing no longer, sent to know your faith: lest perhaps he that tempteth should have tempted you, and our labour should be made vain.

drb@1Thessalonians:3:10 @Night and day more abundantly praying that we may see your face, and may accomplish those things that are wanting to your faith?

drb@1Thessalonians:3:12 @And may the Lord multiply you, and make you abound in charity towards one another, and towards all men: as we do also towards you,

drb@1Thessalonians:4:1 @For the rest therefore, brethren, we pray and beseech you in the Lord Jesus, that as you have received from us, how you ought to walk, and to please God, so also you would walk, that you may abound the more.

drb@1Thessalonians:4:2 @For you know what precepts I have given to you by the Lord Jesus.

drb@1Thessalonians:4:4 @That every one of you should know how to possess his vessel in sanctification and honour:

drb@1Thessalonians:4:5 @Not in the passion of lust, like the Gentiles that know not God:

drb@1Thessalonians:4:8 @Therefore, he that despiseth these things, despiseth not man, but God, who also hath given his holy Spirit in us.

drb@1Thessalonians:4:12 @And we will not have you ignorant, brethren, concerning them that are asleep, that you be not sorrowful, even as others who have no hope.

drb@1Thessalonians:4:13 @For if we believe that Jesus died, and rose again; even so them who have slept through Jesus, will God bring with him.

drb@1Thessalonians:4:14 @For this we say unto you in the word of the Lord, that we who are alive, who remain unto the coming of the Lord, shall not prevent them who have slept.

drb@1Thessalonians:4:15 @For the Lord himself shall come down from heaven with commandment, and with the voice of an archangel, and with the trumpet of God: and the dead who are in Christ, shall rise first.

drb@1Thessalonians:4:16 @Then we who are alive, who are left, shall be taken up together with them in the clouds to meet Christ, into the air, and so shall we be always with the Lord.

drb@1Thessalonians:5:2 @For yourselves know perfectly, that the day of the Lord shall so come, as a thief in the night.

drb@1Thessalonians:5:3 @For when they shall say, peace and security; then shall sudden destruction come upon them, as the pains upon her that is with child, and they shall not escape.

drb@1Thessalonians:5:5 @For all you are the children of light, and children of the day: we are not of the night, nor of darkness. 6 Therefore, let us not sleep, as others do; but let us watch, and be sober.

drb@1Thessalonians:5:6 @For they that sleep, sleep in the night; and they that are drunk, are drunk in the night.

drb@1Thessalonians:5:7 @But let us, who are of the day, be sober, having on the breastplate of faith and charity, and for a helmet the hope of salvation.

drb@1Thessalonians:5:8 @For God hath not appointed us unto wrath, but unto the purchasing of salvation by our Lord Jesus Christ,

drb@1Thessalonians:5:9 @Who died for us; that, whether we watch or sleep, we may live together with him.

drb@1Thessalonians:5:12 @That you esteem them more abundantly in charity, for their work's sake. Have peace with them.

drb@1Thessalonians:5:13 @And we beseech you, brethren, rebuke the unquiet, comfort the feeble minded, support the weak, be patient towards all men.

drb@1Thessalonians:5:16 @Pray without ceasing.

drb@1Thessalonians:5:18 @Extinguish not the spirit.

drb@1Thessalonians:5:19 @Despise not prophecies.

drb@1Thessalonians:5:20 @But prove all things; hold fast that which is good.

drb@1Thessalonians:5:21 @From all appearance of evil refrain yourselves.

drb@1Thessalonians:5:22 @And may the God of peace himself sanctify you in all things; that your whole spirit, and soul, and body, may be preserved blameless in the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.

drb@1Thessalonians:5:24 @Brethren, pray for us.

drb@1Thessalonians:5:26 @I charge you by the Lord, that this epistle be read to all the holy brethren.

drb@2Thessalonians:1:1 @Paul, and Sylvanus, and Timothy, to the church of the Thessalonians in God our Father, and the Lord Jesus Christ.

drb@2Thessalonians:1:2 @Grace unto you, and peace from God our Father, and from the Lord Jesus Christ.

drb@2Thessalonians:1:4 @So that we ourselves also glory in you in the churches of God, for your patience and faith, and in all your persecutions and tribulations, which you endure,

drb@2Thessalonians:1:5 @For an example of the just judgment of God, that you may be counted worthy of the kingdom of God, for which also you suffer.

drb@2Thessalonians:1:6 @Seeing it is a just thing with God to repay tribulation to them that trouble you:

drb@2Thessalonians:1:7 @And to you who are troubled, rest with us when the Lord Jesus shall be revealed from heaven, with the angels of his power:

drb@2Thessalonians:1:8 @In a flame of fire, giving vengeance to them who know not God, and who obey not the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ.

drb@2Thessalonians:1:9 @Who shall suffer eternal punishment in destruction, from the face of the Lord, and from the glory of his power:

drb@2Thessalonians:1:10 @When he shall come to be glorified in his saints, and to be made wonderful in all them who have believed; because our testimony was believed upon you in that day.

drb@2Thessalonians:1:11 @Wherefore also we pray always for you; that our God would make you worthy of his vocation, and fulfill all the good pleasure of his goodness and the work of faith in power;

drb@2Thessalonians:2:2 @That you be not easily moved from your sense, nor be terrified, neither by spirit, nor by word, nor by epistle, as sent from us, as if the day of the Lord were at hand.

drb@2Thessalonians:2:3 @Let no man deceive you by any means, for unless there come a revolt first, and the man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition,

drb@2Thessalonians:2:4 @Who opposeth, and is lifted up above all that is called God, or that is worshipped, so that he sitteth in the temple of God, shewing himself as if he were God.

drb@2Thessalonians:2:8 @And then that wicked one shall be revealed whom the Lord Jesus shall kill with the spirit of his mouth; and shall destroy with the brightness of his coming, him,

drb@2Thessalonians:2:9 @Whose coming is according to the working of Satan, in all power, and signs, and lying wonders,

drb@2Thessalonians:2:10 @And in all seduction of iniquity to them that perish; because they receive not the love of the truth, that they might be saved. Therefore God shall send them the operation of error, to believe lying:

drb@2Thessalonians:2:12 @But we ought to give thanks to God always for you, brethren, beloved of God, for that God hath chosen you firstfruits unto salvation, in sanctification of the spirit, and faith of the truth:

drb@2Thessalonians:2:13 @Whereunto also he hath called you by our gospel, unto the purchasing of the glory of our Lord Jesus Christ.

drb@2Thessalonians:2:14 @Therefore, brethren, stand fast; and hold the traditions which you have learned, whether by word, or by our epistle.

drb@2Thessalonians:2:15 @Now our Lord Jesus Christ himself, and God and our Father, who hathloved us, and hath given us everlasting consolation, and good hope in grace,

drb@2Thessalonians:3:1 @For the rest, brethren, pray for us, that the word of God may run, and may be glorified, even as among you;

drb@2Thessalonians:3:2 @And that we may be delivered from importunate and evil men; for all men have not faith.

drb@2Thessalonians:3:3 @But God is faithful, who will strengthen and keep you from evil.

drb@2Thessalonians:3:5 @And the Lord direct your hearts, in the charity of God, and the patience of Christ.

drb@2Thessalonians:3:9 @Not as if we had not power: but that we might give ourselves a pattern unto you, to imitate us.

drb@2Thessalonians:3:14 @And if any man obey not our word by this epistle, note that man, and do not keep company with him, that he may be ashamed:

drb@2Thessalonians:3:16 @Now the Lord of peace himself give you everlasting peace in every place. The Lord be with you all.

drb@2Thessalonians:3:17 @The salutation of Paul with my own hand; which is the sign in every epistle. So I write.

drb@1Timothy:1:1 @Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ, according to the commandment of God our Savior, and of Christ Jesus our hope:

drb@1Timothy:1:2 @To Timothy, his beloved son in faith. Grace, mercy, and peace from God the Father, and from Christ Jesus our Lord.

drb@1Timothy:1:3 @As I desired thee to remain at Ephesus when I went into Macedonia, that thou mightest charge some not to teach otherwise,

drb@1Timothy:1:5 @Now the end of the commandment is charity, from a pure heart, and a good conscience, and an unfeigned faith.

drb@1Timothy:1:10 @For fornicators, for them who defile themselves with mankind, for menstealers, for liars, for perjured persons, and whatever other thing is contrary to sound doctrine,

drb@1Timothy:1:11 @Which is according to the gospel of the glory of the blessed God, which hath been committed to my trust.

drb@1Timothy:1:12 @I give thanks who hath strengthened me, even to Christ Jesus our Lord, for that he hath counted me faithful, putting me in the ministry;

drb@1Timothy:1:13 @Who before was a blasphemer, and a persecutor, and contumelious. But I obtained the mercy of God, because I did it ignorantly in unbelief.

drb@1Timothy:1:15 @A faithful saying, and worthy of all acceptation, that Christ Jesus came into this world to save sinners, of whom I am the chief.

drb@1Timothy:1:16 @But for this cause have I obtained mercy: that in me first Christ Jesus might shew forth all patience, for the information of them that shall believe in him unto life everlasting.

drb@1Timothy:1:18 @This precept I commend to thee, O son Timothy; according to the prophecies going before on thee, that thou war in them a good warfare,

drb@1Timothy:1:19 @Having faith and a good conscience, which some rejecting have made shipwreck concerning the faith.

drb@1Timothy:1:20 @Of whom is Hymeneus and Alexander, whom I have delivered up to Satan, that they may learn not to blaspheme.

drb@1Timothy:2:1 @I desire therefore, first of all, that supplications, prayers, intercessions, and thanksgivings be made for all men:

drb@1Timothy:2:2 @For kings, and for all that are in high station: that we may lead a quiet and a peaceable life in all piety and chastity.

drb@1Timothy:2:3 @For this is good and acceptable in the sight of God our Saviour,

drb@1Timothy:2:6 @Who gave himself a redemption for all, a testimony in due times.

drb@1Timothy:2:7 @Whereunto I am appointed a preacher and an apostle, (I say the truth, I lie not,) a doctor of the Gentiles in faith and truth.

drb@1Timothy:2:8 @I will therefore that men pray in every place, lifting up pure hands, without anger and contention.

drb@1Timothy:2:9 @In like manner women also in decent apparel: adorning themselves with modesty and sobriety, not with plaited hair, or gold, or pearls, or costly attire,

drb@1Timothy:2:10 @But as it becometh women professing godliness, with good works.

drb@1Timothy:3:1 @A faithful saying: if a man desire the office of a bishop, he desireth a good work.

drb@1Timothy:3:2 @It behoveth therefore a bishop to be blameless, the husband of one wife, sober, prudent, of good behaviour, chaste, given to hospitality, a teacher,

drb@1Timothy:3:6 @Not a neophyte: lest being puffed up with pride, he fall into the judgment of the devil.

drb@1Timothy:3:7 @Moreover he must have a good testimony of them who are without: lest he fall into reproach and the snare of the devil.

drb@1Timothy:3:9 @Holding the mystery of faith in a pure conscience.

drb@1Timothy:3:10 @And let these also first be proved: and so let them minister, having no crime

drb@1Timothy:3:13 @For they that have ministered well, shall purchase to themselves a good degree, and much confidence in the faith which is in Christ Jesus.

drb@1Timothy:3:14 @These things I write to thee, hoping that I shall come to thee shortly.

drb@1Timothy:3:15 @But if I tarry long, that thou mayest know how thou oughtest to behave thyself in the house of God, which is the church of the living God, the pillar and ground of the truth.

drb@1Timothy:3:16 @And evidently great is the mystery of godliness, which was manifested in the flesh, was justified in the spirit, appeared unto angels, hath been preached unto the Gentiles, is believed in the world, is taken up in glory.

drb@1Timothy:4:1 @Now the Spirit manifestly saith, that in the last times some shall depart from the faith, giving heed to spirits of error, and doctrines of devils,

drb@1Timothy:4:2 @Speaking lies in hypocrisy, and having their conscience seared,

drb@1Timothy:4:5 @For it is sanctified by the word of God and prayer.

drb@1Timothy:4:6 @These things proposing to the brethren, thou shalt be a good minister of Christ Jesus, nourished up in the words of faith, and of the good doctrine which thou hast attained unto.

drb@1Timothy:4:8 @For bodily exercise is profitable to little: but godliness is profitable to all things, having promise of the life that now is, and of that which is to come.

drb@1Timothy:4:9 @A faithful saying and worthy of all acceptation.

drb@1Timothy:4:10 @For therefore we labor and are reviled, because we hope in the living God, who is the Saviour of all men, especially of the faithful

drb@1Timothy:4:12 @Let no man despise thy youth: but be thou an example of the faithful in word, in conversation, in charity, in faith, in chastity.

drb@1Timothy:4:14 @Neglect not the grace that is in thee, which was given thee by prophesy, with imposition of the hands of the priesthood.

drb@1Timothy:4:15 @Meditate upon these things, be wholly in these things: that thy profiting may be manifest to all.

drb@1Timothy:5:4 @But if any widow have children, or grandchildren, let her learn first to govern her own house, and to make a return of duty to her parents: for this is acceptable before God.

drb@1Timothy:5:5 @But she that is a widow indeed, and desolate, let her trust in God, and continue in supplications and prayers night and day.

drb@1Timothy:5:6 @For she that liveth in pleasures, is dead while she is living.

drb@1Timothy:5:8 @But if any man have not care of his own, and especially of those of his house, he hath denied the faith, and is worse than an infidel.

drb@1Timothy:5:10 @Having testimony for her good works, if she have brought up children, if she have received to harbour, if she have washed the saints' feet, if she have ministered to them that suffer tribulation, if she have diligently followed every good work.

drb@1Timothy:5:13 @And withal being idle they learn to go about from house to house: and are not only idle, but tattlers also, and busybodies, speaking things which they ought not.

drb@1Timothy:5:14 @I will therefore that the younger should marry, bear children, be mistresses of families, give no occasion to the adversary to speak evil.

drb@1Timothy:5:17 @Let the priests that rule well, be esteemed worthy of double honour: especially they who labour in the word and doctrine:

drb@1Timothy:5:18 @For the scripture saith: Thou shalt not muzzle the ox that treadeth out the corn: and, The labourer is worthy of his reward.

drb@1Timothy:5:19 @Against a priest receive not an accusation, but under two or three witnesses.

drb@1Timothy:5:20 @Them that sin reprove before all: that the rest also may have fear.

drb@1Timothy:5:21 @I charge thee before God, and Christ Jesus, and the elect angels, that thou observe these things without prejudice, doing nothing by declining to either side.

drb@1Timothy:5:22 @Impose not hands lightly upon any man, neither be partaker of other men's sins. Keep thyself chaste.

drb@1Timothy:6:1 @Whosoever are servants under the yoke, let them count their masters worthy of all honour; lest the name of the Lord and his doctrine be blasphemed.

drb@1Timothy:6:2 @But they that have believing masters, let them not despise them, because they are brethren; but serve them the rather, because they are faithful and beloved, who are partakers of the benefit. These things teach and exhort.

drb@1Timothy:6:4 @He is proud, knowing nothing, but sick about questions and strifes of words; from which arise envies, contentions, blasphemies, evil suspicions,

drb@1Timothy:6:5 @Conflicts of men corrupted in mind, and who are destitute of the truth, supposing gain to be godliness.

drb@1Timothy:6:9 @For they that will become rich, fall into temptation, and into the snare of the devil, and into many unprofitable and hurtful desires, which drown men into destruction and perdition.

drb@1Timothy:6:11 @But thou, O man of God, fly these things: and pursue justice, godliness, faith, charity, patience, mildness.

drb@1Timothy:6:13 @I charge thee before God, who quickeneth all things, and before Christ Jesus, who gave testimony under Pontius Pilate, a good confession,

drb@1Timothy:6:14 @That thou keep the commandment without spot, blameless, unto the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ,

drb@1Timothy:6:16 @Who only hath immortality, and inhabiteth light inaccessible, whom no man hath seen, nor can see: to whom be honour and empire everlasting. Amen.

drb@1Timothy:6:19 @To lay up in store for themselves a good foundation against the time to come, that they may lay hold on the true life.

drb@1Timothy:6:20 @O Timothy, keep that which is committed to thy trust, avoiding the profane novelties of words, and oppositions of knowledge falsely so called.

drb@1Timothy:6:21 @Which some promising, have erred concerning the faith. Grace be with thee. Amen.

drb@2Timothy:1:1 @Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ, by the will of God, according to the promise of life, which is in Christ Jesus.

drb@2Timothy:1:2 @To Timothy my dearly beloved son, grace, mercy, and peace, from God the Father, and from Christ Jesus our Lord.

drb@2Timothy:1:3 @I give thanks to God, whom I serve from my forefathers with a pure conscience, that without ceasing, I have a remembrance of thee in my prayers, night and day.

drb@2Timothy:1:6 @For which cause I admonish thee, that thou stir up the grace of God which is in thee, by the imposition of my hands.

drb@2Timothy:1:7 @For God hath not given us the spirit of fear: but of power, and of love, and of sobriety.

drb@2Timothy:1:8 @Be not thou therefore ashamed of the testimony of our Lord, nor of me his prisoner: but labour with the gospel, according to the power of God,

drb@2Timothy:1:9 @Who hath delivered us and called us by his holy calling, not according to our works, but according to his own purpose and grace, which was given us in Christ Jesus before the times of the world.

drb@2Timothy:1:10 @But is now made manifest by the illumination of our Saviour Jesus Christ, who hath destroyed death, and hath brought to light life and incorruption by the gospel:

drb@2Timothy:1:11 @Wherein I am appointed a preacher, and an apostle, and teacher of the Gentiles.

drb@2Timothy:1:12 @For which cause I also suffer these things: but I am not ashamed. For I know whom I have believed, and I am certain that he is able to keep that which I have committed unto him, against that day.

drb@2Timothy:1:14 @Keep the good thing committed to thy trust by the Holy Ghost, who dwelleth in us.

drb@2Timothy:1:15 @Thou knowest this, that all they who are in Asia, are turned away from me: of whom are Phigellus and Hermogenes.

drb@2Timothy:1:16 @The Lord give mercy to the house of Onesiphorus: because he hath often refreshed me, and hath not been ashamed of my chain:

drb@2Timothy:1:18 @The Lord grant unto him to find mercy of the Lord in that day: and in how many things he ministered unto me at Ephesus, thou very well knowest.

drb@2Timothy:2:4 @No man, being a soldier to God, entangleth himself with secular businesses; that he may please him to whom he hath engaged himself.

drb@2Timothy:2:5 @For he also that striveth for the mastery, is not crowned, except he strive lawfully.

drb@2Timothy:2:6 @The husbandman, that laboureth, must first partake of the fruits.

drb@2Timothy:2:8 @Be mindful that the Lord Jesus Christ is risen again from the dead, of the seed of David, according to my gospel.

drb@2Timothy:2:14 @Of these things put them in mind, charging them before the Lord. Contend not in words, for it is to no profit, but to the subverting of the hearers.

drb@2Timothy:2:15 @Carefully study to present thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly handling the word of truth.

drb@2Timothy:2:16 @But shun profane and vain babblings: for they grow much towards ungodliness.

drb@2Timothy:2:17 @And their speech spreadeth like a canker: of whom are Hymeneus and Philetus:

drb@2Timothy:2:18 @Who have erred from the truth, saying, that the resurrection is past already, and have subverted the faith of some.

drb@2Timothy:2:19 @But the sure foundation of God standeth firm, having this seal: the Lord knoweth who are his; and let every one depart from iniquity who nameth the name of the Lord.

drb@2Timothy:2:21 @If any man therefore shall cleanse himself from these, he shall be a vessel unto honour, sanctified and profitable to the Lord, prepared unto every good work.

drb@2Timothy:2:22 @But flee thou youthful desires, and pursue justice, faith, charity, and peace, with them that call on the Lord out of a pure heart.

drb@2Timothy:2:24 @But the servant of the Lord must not wrangle: but be mild towards all men, apt to teach, patient,

drb@2Timothy:2:25 @With modesty admonishing them that resist the truth: if peradventure God may give them repentance to know the truth,

drb@2Timothy:2:26 @And they may recover themselves from the snares of the devil, by whom they are held captive at his will.

drb@2Timothy:3:2 @Men shall be lovers of themselves, covetous, haughty, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, ungrateful, wicked,

drb@2Timothy:3:3 @Without affection, without peace, slanderers, incontinent, unmerciful, without kindness,

drb@2Timothy:3:4 @Traitors, stubborn, puffed up, and lovers of pleasures more than of God:

drb@2Timothy:3:5 @Having an appearance indeed of godliness, but denying the power thereof. Now these avoid.

drb@2Timothy:3:6 @For of these sort are they who creep into houses, and lead captive silly women laden with sins, who are led away with divers desires:

drb@2Timothy:3:8 @Now as Jannes and Mambres resisted Moses, so these also resist the truth, men corrupted in mind, reprobate concerning the faith.

drb@2Timothy:3:9 @But they shall proceed no farther; for their folly shall be manifest to all men, as theirs also was.

drb@2Timothy:3:10 @But thou hast fully known my doctrine, manner of life, purpose, faith, longsuffering, love, patience,

drb@2Timothy:3:11 @Persecutions, afflictions: such as came upon me at Antioch, at Iconium, and at Lystra: what persecutions I endured, and out of them all the Lord delivered me.

drb@2Timothy:3:12 @And all that will live godly in Christ Jesus, shall suffer persecution.

drb@2Timothy:3:15 @And because from thy infancy thou hast known the holy scriptures, which can instruct thee to salvation, by the faith which is in Christ Jesus.

drb@2Timothy:3:16 @All scripture, inspired of God, is profitable to teach, to reprove, to correct, to instruct in justice,

drb@2Timothy:3:17 @That the man of God may be perfect, furnished to every good work.

drb@2Timothy:4:2 @Preach the word: be instant in season, out of season: reprove, entreat, rebuke in all patience and doctrine.

drb@2Timothy:4:3 @For there shall be a time, when they will not endure sound doctrine; but, according to their own desires, they will heap to themselves teachers, having itching ears:

drb@2Timothy:4:7 @I have fought a good fight, I have finished my course, I have kept the faith.

drb@2Timothy:4:8 @As to the rest, there is laid up for me a crown of justice, which the Lord the just judge will render to me in that day: and not only to me, but to them also that love his coming. Make haste to come to me quickly.

drb@2Timothy:4:11 @Only Luke is with me. Take Mark, and bring him with thee: for he is profitable to me for the ministry.

drb@2Timothy:4:12 @But Tychicus I have sent to Ephesus.

drb@2Timothy:4:13 @The cloak that I left at Troas, with Carpus, when thou comest, bring with thee, and the books, especially the parchments.

drb@2Timothy:4:14 @Alexander the coppersmith hath done me much evil: the Lord will reward him according to his works:

drb@2Timothy:4:17 @But the Lord stood by me, and strengthened me, that by me the preaching may be accomplished, and that all the Gentiles may hear: and I was delivered out of the mouth of the lion.

drb@2Timothy:4:18 @The Lord hath delivered me from every evil work: and will preserve me unto his heavenly kingdom, to whom be glory for ever and ever. Amen.

drb@2Timothy:4:19 @Salute Prisca and Aquila, and the household of Onesiphorus.

drb@2Timothy:4:20 @Erastus remained at Corinth. And Trophimus I left sick at Miletus.

drb@2Timothy:4:21 @Make haste to come before winter Eubulus and Pudens, and Linus and Claudia, and all the brethren, salute thee.

drb@2Timothy:4:22 @The Lord Jesus Christ be with thy spirit. Grace be with you. Amen.

drb@Titus:1:1 @Paul, a servant of God, and an apostle of Jesus Christ, according to the faith of the elect of God and the acknowledging of the truth, which is according to godliness:

drb@Titus:1:2 @Unto the hope of life everlasting, which God, who lieth not, hath promised before the times of the world:

drb@Titus:1:3 @But hath in due times manifested his word in preaching, which is committed to me according to the commandment of God our Savior:

drb@Titus:1:4 @To Titus my beloved son, according to the common faith, grace and peace from God the Father, and from Christ Jesus our Savior.

drb@Titus:1:5 @For this cause I left thee in Crete, that thou shouldest set in order the things that are wanting, and shouldest ordain priests in every city, as I also appointed thee:

drb@Titus:1:7 @For a bishop must be without crime, as the steward of God: not proud, not subject to anger, not given to wine, no striker, not greedy of filthy lucre:

drb@Titus:1:8 @But given to hospitality, gentle, sober, just, holy, continent:

drb@Titus:1:10 @For there are also many disobedient, vain talkers, and seducers: especially they who are of the circumcision:

drb@Titus:1:11 @Who must be reproved, who subvert whole houses, teaching things which they ought not, for filthy lucre's sake.

drb@Titus:1:12 @One of them a prophet of their own, said, The Cretians are always liars, evil beasts, slothful bellies.

drb@Titus:1:13 @This testimony is true. Wherefore rebuke them sharply, that they may be sound in the faith;

drb@Titus:1:16 @They profess that they know God: but in their works they deny him; being abominable, and incredulous, and to every good work reprobate.

drb@Titus:2:1 @But speak thou the things that become sound doctrine:

drb@Titus:2:2 @That the aged men be sober, chaste, prudent, sound in faith, in love, in patience.

drb@Titus:2:5 @To be discreet, chaste, sober, having a care of the house, gentle, obedient to their husbands, that the word of God be not blasphemed.

drb@Titus:2:7 @In all things shew thyself an example of good works, in doctrine, in integrity, in gravity,

drb@Titus:2:8 @The sound word that can not be blamed: that he, who is on the contrary part, may be afraid, having no evil to say of us.

drb@Titus:2:9 @Exhort servants to be obedient to their masters, in all things pleasing, not gainsaying:

drb@Titus:2:11 @For the grace of God our Savior hath appeared to all men;

drb@Titus:2:13 @Looking for the blessed hope and coming of the glory of the great God and our Savior Jesus Christ,

drb@Titus:2:14 @Who gave himself for us, that he might redeem us from all iniquity, and might cleanse to himself a people acceptable, a pursuer of good works.

drb@Titus:2:15 @These things speak, and exhort and rebuke with all authority. Let no man despise thee.

drb@Titus:3:1 @Admonish them to be subject to princes and powers, to obey at a word, to be ready to every good work.

drb@Titus:3:2 @To speak evil of no man, not to be litigious, but gentle: shewing all mildness towards all men.

drb@Titus:3:3 @For we ourselves also were some time unwise, incredulous, erring, slaves to divers desires and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, and hating one another.

drb@Titus:3:4 @But when the goodness and kindness of God our Savior appeared:

drb@Titus:3:6 @Whom he hath poured forth upon us abundantly, through Jesus Christ our Savior:

drb@Titus:3:7 @That, being justified by his grace, we may be heirs, according to hope of life everlasting.

drb@Titus:3:8 @It is a faithful saying: and these things I will have thee affirm constantly: that they, who believe in God, may be careful to excel in good works. These things are good and profitable unto men.

drb@Titus:3:9 @But avoid foolish questions, and genealogies, and contentions, and strivings about the law. For they are unprofitable and vain.

drb@Titus:3:12 @When I shall send to thee Artemas or Tychicus, make haste to come unto me to Nicopolis. For there I have determined to winter.

drb@Titus:3:13 @Send forward Zenas, the lawyer, and Apollo, with care, that nothing be wanting to them.

drb@Philemon:1:1 @Paul, a prisoner of Christ Jesus, and Timothy, a brother: to Philemon, our beloved and fellow labourer;

drb@Philemon:1:2 @And to Appia, our dearest sister, and to Archippus, our fellow soldier, and to the church which is in thy house:

drb@Philemon:1:3 @Grace to you and peace from God our Father, and from the Lord Jesus Christ.

drb@Philemon:1:4 @I give thanks to my God, always making a remembrance of thee in my prayers.

drb@Philemon:1:5 @Hearing of thy charity and faith, which thou hast in the Lord Jesus, and towards all the saints:

drb@Philemon:1:6 @That the communication of thy faith may be made evident in the acknowledgment of every good work, that is in you in Christ Jesus.

drb@Philemon:1:7 @For I have had great joy and consolation in thy charity, because the bowels of the saints have been refreshed by thee, brother.

drb@Philemon:1:8 @Wherefore though I have much confidence in Christ Jesus, to command thee that which is to the purpose:

drb@Philemon:1:9 @For charity sake I rather beseech, whereas thou art such a one, as Paul an old man, and now a prisoner also of Jesus Christ.

drb@Philemon:1:10 @I beseech thee for my son, whom I have begotten in my bands, Onesimus,

drb@Philemon:1:11 @Who hath been heretofore unprofitable to thee, but now is profitable both to me and thee,

drb@Philemon:1:12 @Whom I have sent back to thee. And do thou receive him as my own bowels.

drb@Philemon:1:13 @Whom I would have retained with me, that in thy stead he might have ministered to me in the bands of the gospel:

drb@Philemon:1:14 @But without thy counsel I would do nothing: that thy good deed might not be as it were of necessity, but voluntary.

drb@Philemon:1:15 @For perhaps he therefore departed for a season from thee, that thou mightest receive him again for ever:

drb@Philemon:1:16 @Not now as a servant, but instead of a servant, a most dear brother, especially to me: but how much more to thee both in the flesh and in the Lord?

drb@Philemon:1:17 @If therefore thou count me a partner, receive him as myself.

drb@Philemon:1:18 @And if he hath wronged thee in any thing, or is in thy debt, put that to my account.

drb@Philemon:1:19 @I Paul have written it with my own hand: I will repay it: not to say to thee, that thou owest me thy own self also.

drb@Philemon:1:20 @Yea, brother. May I enjoy thee in the Lord. Refresh my bowels in the Lord.

drb@Philemon:1:21 @Trusting in thy obedience, I have written to thee: knowing that thou wilt also do more than I say.

drb@Philemon:1:22 @But withal prepare me also a lodging. For I hope that through your prayers I shall be given unto you.

drb@Philemon:1:23 @There salute thee Epaphras, my fellow prisoner in Christ Jesus;

drb@Philemon:1:24 @Mark, Aristarchus, Demas, and Luke my fellow labourers.

drb@Philemon:1:25 @The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with your spirit. Amen.

drb@Hebrews:1:1 @God, who, at sundry times and in divers manners, spoke in times past to the fathers by the prophets, last of all,

drb@Hebrews:1:2 @In these days hath spoken to us by his Son, whom he hath appointed heir of all things, by whom also he made the world.

drb@Hebrews:1:3 @Who being the brightness of his glory, and the figure of his substance, and upholding all things by the word of his power, making purgation of sins, sitteth on the right hand of the majesty on high.

drb@Hebrews:1:7 @And to the angels indeed he saith: He that maketh his angels spirits, and his ministers a flame of fire.

drb@Hebrews:1:8 @But to the Son: Thy throne, O God, is for ever and ever: a sceptre of justice is the sceptre of thy kingdom.

drb@Hebrews:1:11 @They shall perish, but thou shalt continue: and they shall all grow old as a garment.

drb@Hebrews:1:14 @Are they not all ministering spirits, sent to minister for them, who shall receive the inheritance of salvation?

drb@Hebrews:2:1 @Therefore ought we more diligently to observe the things which we have heard, lest perhaps we should let them slip.

drb@Hebrews:2:2 @For if the word, spoken by angels, became steadfast, and every transgression and disobedience received a just recompense of reward:

drb@Hebrews:2:3 @How shall we escape if we neglect so great salvation? which having begun to be declared by the Lord, was confirmed unto us by them that heard him.

drb@Hebrews:2:5 @For God hath not subjected unto angels the world to come, whereof we speak.

drb@Hebrews:2:6 @But one in a certain place hath testified, saying: What is man, that thou art mindful of him: or the son of man, that thou visitest him?

drb@Hebrews:2:10 @For it became him, for whom are all things, and by whom are all things, who had brought many children into glory, to perfect the author of their salvation, by his passion.

drb@Hebrews:2:12 @I will declare thy name to my brethren; in the midst of the church will I praise thee.

drb@Hebrews:2:13 @And again: I will put my trust in him. And again: Behold I and my children, whom God hath given me.

drb@Hebrews:2:14 @Therefore because the children are partakers of flesh and blood, he also himself in like manner hath been partaker of the same: that, through death, he might destroy him who had the empire of death, that is to say, the devil:

drb@Hebrews:2:17 @Wherefore it behoved him in all things to be made like unto his brethren, that he might become a merciful and faithful priest before God, that he might be a propitiation for the sins of the people.

drb@Hebrews:2:18 @For in that, wherein he himself hath suffered and been tempted, he is able to succour them also that are tempted.

drb@Hebrews:3:1 @Wherefore, holy brethren, partakers of the heavenly vocation, consider the apostle and high priest of our confession, Jesus:

drb@Hebrews:3:6 @But Christ as the Son in his own house: which house are we, if we hold fast the confidence and glory of hope unto the end.

drb@Hebrews:3:8 @Harden not your hearts, as in the provocation; in the day of temptation in the desert,

drb@Hebrews:3:9 @Where your fathers tempted me, proved and saw my works,

drb@Hebrews:3:12 @Take heed, brethren, lest perhaps there be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief, to depart from the living God.

drb@Hebrews:3:14 @For we are made partakers of Christ: yet so, if we hold the beginning of his substance firm unto the end.

drb@Hebrews:3:15 @While it is said, To day if you shall hear his voice, harden not your hearts, as in that provocation.

drb@Hebrews:3:16 @For some who heard did provoke: but not all that came out of Egypt by Moses.

drb@Hebrews:4:1 @Let us fear therefore lest the promise being left of entering into his rest, any of you should be thought to be wanting.

drb@Hebrews:4:2 @For unto us also it hath been declared, in like manner as unto them. But the word of hearing did not profit them, not being mixed with faith of those things they heard.

drb@Hebrews:4:4 @For in a certain place he spoke of the seventh day thus: And God rested the seventh day from all his works.

drb@Hebrews:4:5 @And in this place again: If they shall enter into my rest.

drb@Hebrews:4:6 @Seeing then it remaineth that some are to enter into it, and they, to whom it was first preached, did not enter because of unbelief:

drb@Hebrews:4:8 @For if Jesus had given them rest, he would never have afterwards spoken of another day.

drb@Hebrews:4:9 @There remaineth therefore a day of rest for the people of God.

drb@Hebrews:4:11 @Let us hasten therefore to enter into that rest; lest any man fall into the same example of unbelief.

drb@Hebrews:4:12 @For the word of God is living and effectual, and more piercing than any two edged sword; and reaching unto the division of the soul and the spirit, of the joints also and the marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart.

drb@Hebrews:4:13 @Neither is there any creature invisible in his sight: but all things are naked and open to his eyes, to whom our speech is.

drb@Hebrews:4:14 @Having therefore a great high priest that hath passed into the heavens, Jesus the Son of God: let us hold fast our confession.

drb@Hebrews:4:15 @For we have not a high priest, who can not have compassion on our infirmities: but one tempted in all things like as we are, without sin.

drb@Hebrews:5:1 @For every high priest taken from among men, is ordained for men in the things that appertain to God, that he may offer up gifts and sacrifices for sins:

drb@Hebrews:5:2 @Who can have compassion on them that are ignorant and that err: because he himself also is compassed with infirmity.

drb@Hebrews:5:3 @And therefore he ought, as for the people, so also for himself, to offer for sins.

drb@Hebrews:5:5 @So Christ also did not glorify himself, that he might be made a high priest: but he that said unto him: Thou art my Son, this day have I begotten thee.

drb@Hebrews:5:6 @As he saith also in another place: Thou art a priest for ever, according to the order of Melchisedech.

drb@Hebrews:5:7 @Who in the days of his flesh, with a strong cry and tears, offering up prayers and supplications to him that was able to save him from death, was heard for his reverence.

drb@Hebrews:5:10 @Called by God a high priest according to the order of Melchisedech.

drb@Hebrews:5:13 @For every one that is a partaker of milk, is unskillful in the word of justice: for he is a little child.

drb@Hebrews:5:14 @But strong meat is for the perfect; for them who by custom have their senses exercised to the discerning of good and evil.

drb@Hebrews:6:1 @Wherefore leaving the word of the beginning of Christ, let us go on to things more perfect, not laying again the foundation of penance from dead works, and of faith towards God,

drb@Hebrews:6:2 @Of the doctrine of baptisms, and imposition of hands, and of the resurrection of the dead, and of eternal judgment.

drb@Hebrews:6:3 @And this will we do, if God permit.

drb@Hebrews:6:4 @For it is impossible for those who were once illuminated, have tasted also the heavenly gift, and were made partakers of the Holy Ghost,

drb@Hebrews:6:5 @Have moreover tasted the good word of God, and the powers of the world to come,

drb@Hebrews:6:6 @And are fallen away: to be renewed again to penance, crucifying again to themselves the Son of God, and making him a mockery.

drb@Hebrews:6:7 @For the earth that drinketh in the rain which cometh often upon it, and bringeth forth herbs meet for them by whom it is tilled, receiveth blessing from God.

drb@Hebrews:6:8 @But that which bringeth forth thorns and briers, is reprobate, and very near unto a curse, whose end is to be burnt.

drb@Hebrews:6:9 @But, my dearly beloved, we trust better things of you, and nearer to salvation; though we speak thus.

drb@Hebrews:6:11 @And we desire that every one of you shew forth the same carefulness to the accomplishing of hope unto the end:

drb@Hebrews:6:12 @That you become not slothful, but followers of them, who through faith and patience shall inherit the promises.

drb@Hebrews:6:13 @For God making promise to Abraham, because he had no one greater by whom he might swear, swore by himself,

drb@Hebrews:6:14 @Saying: Unless blessing I shall bless thee, and multiplying I shall multiply thee

drb@Hebrews:6:15 @And so patiently enduring he obtained the promise.

drb@Hebrews:6:17 @Wherein God, meaning more abundantly to shew to the heirs of the promise the immutability of his counsel, interposed an oath:

drb@Hebrews:6:18 @That by two immutable things, in which it is impossible for God to lie, we may have the strongest comfort, who have fled for refuge to hold fast the hope set before us.

drb@Hebrews:6:20 @Where the forerunner Jesus is entered for us, made a high priest for ever according to the order of Melchisedech.

drb@Hebrews:7:1 @For this Melchisedech was king of Salem, priest of the most high God, who met Abraham returning from the slaughter of the kings, and blessed him:

drb@Hebrews:7:2 @To whom also Abraham divided the tithes of all: who first indeed by interpretation, is king of justice: and then also king of Salem, that is, king of peace:

drb@Hebrews:7:3 @Without father, without mother, without genealogy, having neither beginning of days nor end of life, but likened unto the Son of God, continueth a priest for ever.

drb@Hebrews:7:4 @Now consider how great this man is, to whom also Abraham the patriarch gave tithes out of the principal things.

drb@Hebrews:7:5 @And indeed they that are of the sons of Levi, who receive the priesthood, have a commandment to take tithes of the people according to the law, that is to say, of their brethren: though they themselves also came out of the loins of Abraham.

drb@Hebrews:7:6 @But he, whose pedigree is not numbered among them, received tithes of Abraham, and blessed him that had the promises.

drb@Hebrews:7:9 @And (as it may be said) even Levi who received tithes, paid tithes in Abraham:

drb@Hebrews:7:11 @If then perfection was by the Levitical priesthood, (for under it the people received the law,) what further need was there that another priest should rise according to the order of Melchisedech, and not be called according to the order of Aaron?

drb@Hebrews:7:12 @For the priesthood being translated, it is necessary that a translation also be made of the law.

drb@Hebrews:7:13 @For he, of whom these things are spoken, is of another tribe, of which no one attended on the altar.

drb@Hebrews:7:14 @For it is evident that our Lord sprung out of Juda: in which tribe Moses spoke nothing concerning priests.

drb@Hebrews:7:15 @And it is yet far more evident: if according to the similitude of Melchisedech there ariseth another priest,

drb@Hebrews:7:16 @Who is made not according to the law of a carnal commandment, but according to the power of an indissoluble life:

drb@Hebrews:7:17 @For he testifieth: Thou art a priest for ever, according to the order of Melchisedech.

drb@Hebrews:7:18 @There is indeed a setting aside of the former commandment, because of the weakness and unprofitableness thereof:

drb@Hebrews:7:19 @(For the law brought nothing to perfection,) but a bringing in of a better hope, by which we draw nigh to God.

drb@Hebrews:7:20 @And inasmuch as it is not without an oath, (for the others indeed were made priests without an oath;

drb@Hebrews:7:21 @But this with an oath, by him that said unto him: The Lord hath sworn, and he will not repent, Thou art a priest for ever.)

drb@Hebrews:7:23 @And the others indeed were made many priests, because by reason of death they were not suffered to continue:

drb@Hebrews:7:24 @But this, for that he continueth for ever, hath an everlasting priesthood,

drb@Hebrews:7:26 @For it was fitting that we should have such a high priest, holy, innocent, undefiled, separated from sinners, and made higher than the heavens;

drb@Hebrews:7:27 @Who needeth not daily (as the other priests) to offer sacrifices first for his own sins, and then for the people's: for this he did once, in offering himself.

drb@Hebrews:7:28 @For the law maketh men priests, who have infirmity: but the word of the oath, which was since the law, the Son who is perfected for evermore.

drb@Hebrews:8:1 @Now of the things which we have spoken, this is the sum: We have such an high priest, who is set on the right hand of the throne of majesty in the heavens,

drb@Hebrews:8:2 @A minister of the holies, and of the true tabernacle, which the Lord hath pitched, and not man.

drb@Hebrews:8:3 @For every high priest is appointed to offer gifts and sacrifices: wherefore it is necessary that he also should have some thing to offer.

drb@Hebrews:8:4 @If then he were on earth, he would not be a priest: seeing that there would be others to offer gifts according to the law,

drb@Hebrews:8:5 @Who serve unto the example and shadow of heavenly things. As it was answered to Moses, when he was to finish the tabernacle: See (saith he) that thou make all things according to the pattern which was shewn thee on the mount.

drb@Hebrews:8:6 @But now he hath obtained a better ministry, by how much also he is a mediator of a better testament, which is established on better promises.

drb@Hebrews:8:7 @For if that former had been faultless, there should not indeed a place have been sought for a second.

drb@Hebrews:8:8 @For finding fault with them, he saith: Behold, the days shall come, saith the Lord: and I will perfect unto the house of Israel, and unto the house of Juda, a new testament:

drb@Hebrews:8:9 @Not according to the testament which I made to their fathers, on the day when I took them by the hand to lead them out of the land of Egypt: because they continued not in my testament: and I regarded them not, saith the Lord.

drb@Hebrews:8:10 @For this is the testament which I will make to the house of Israel after those days, saith the Lord: I will give my laws into their mind, and in their heart will I write them: and I will be their God, and they shall be my people:

drb@Hebrews:9:4 @Having a golden censer, and the ark of the testament covered about on every part with gold, in which was a golden pot that had manna, and the rod of Aaron, that had blossomed, and the tables of the testament.

drb@Hebrews:9:5 @And over it were the cherubims of glory overshadowing the propitiatory: of which it is not needful to speak now particularly.

drb@Hebrews:9:6 @Now these things being thus ordered, into the first tabernacle the priests indeed always entered, accomplishing the offices of sacrifices.

drb@Hebrews:9:7 @But into the second, the high priest alone, once a year: not without blood, which he offereth for his own, and the people's ignorance:

drb@Hebrews:9:9 @Which is a parable of the time present: according to which gifts and sacrifices are offered, which can not, as to the conscience, make him perfect that serveth, only in meats and in drinks,

drb@Hebrews:9:11 @But Christ, being come an high priest of the good things to come, by a greater and more perfect tabernacle not made with hand, that is, not of this creation:

drb@Hebrews:9:12 @Neither by the blood of goats, or of calves, but by his own blood, entered once into the holies, having obtained eternal redemption.

drb@Hebrews:9:13 @For if the blood of goats and of oxen, and the ashes of an heifer being sprinkled, sanctify such as are defiled, to the cleansing of the flesh:

drb@Hebrews:9:14 @How much more shall the blood of Christ, who by the Holy Ghost offered himself unspotted unto God, cleanse our conscience from dead works, to serve the living God?

drb@Hebrews:9:15 @And therefore he is the mediator of the new testament: that by means of his death, for the redemption of those trangressions, which were under the former testament, they that are called may receive the promise of eternal inheritance.

drb@Hebrews:9:18 @Whereupon neither was the first indeed dedicated without blood.

drb@Hebrews:9:19 @For when every commandment of the law had been read by Moses to all the people, he took the blood of calves and goats, with water, and scarlet wool and hyssop, and sprinkled both the book itself and all the people,

drb@Hebrews:9:21 @The tabernacle also and all the vessels of the ministry, in like manner, he sprinkled with blood.

drb@Hebrews:9:23 @It is necessary therefore that the patterns of heavenly things should be cleansed with these: but the heavenly things themselves with better sacrifices than these.

drb@Hebrews:9:24 @For Jesus is not entered into the holies made with hands, the patterns of the true: but into heaven itself, that he may appear now in the presence of God for us.

drb@Hebrews:9:25 @Nor yet that he should offer himself often, as the high priest entereth into the holies, every year with the blood of others:

drb@Hebrews:9:26 @For then he ought to have suffered often from the beginning of the world: but now once at the end of ages, he hath appeared for the destruction of sin, by the sacrifice of himself.

drb@Hebrews:9:27 @And as it is appointed unto men once to die, and after this the judgment:

drb@Hebrews:9:28 @So also Christ was offered once to exhaust the sins of many; the second time he shall appear without sin to them that expect him unto salvation.

drb@Hebrews:10:1 @For the law having a shadow of the good things to come, not the very image of the things; by the selfsame sacrifices which they offer continually every year, can never make the comers thereunto perfect:

drb@Hebrews:10:2 @For then they would have ceased to be offered: because the worshippers once cleansed should have no conscience of sin any longer:

drb@Hebrews:10:4 @For it is impossible that with the blood of oxen and goats sin should be taken away.

drb@Hebrews:10:6 @Holocausts for sin did not please thee.

drb@Hebrews:10:8 @In saying before, Sacrifices, and oblations, and holocausts for sin thou wouldest not, neither are they pleasing to thee, which are offered according to the law.

drb@Hebrews:10:11 @And every priest indeed standeth daily ministering, and often offering the same sacrifices, which can never take away sins.

drb@Hebrews:10:13 @From henceforth expecting, until his enemies be made his footstool.

drb@Hebrews:10:14 @For by one oblation he hath perfected for ever them that are sanctified.

drb@Hebrews:10:21 @And a high priest over the house of God:

drb@Hebrews:10:22 @Let us draw near with a true heart in fulness of faith, having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience, and our bodies washed with clean water.

drb@Hebrews:10:23 @Let us hold fast the confession of our hope without wavering (for he is faithful that hath promised),

drb@Hebrews:10:24 @And let us consider one another, to provoke unto charity and to good works:

drb@Hebrews:10:25 @Not forsaking our assembly, as some are accustomed; but comforting one another, and so much the more as you see the day approaching.

drb@Hebrews:10:27 @But a certain dreadful expectation of judgment, and the rage of a fire which shall consume the adversaries.

drb@Hebrews:10:29 @How much more, do you think he deserveth worse punishments, who hath trodden under foot the Son of God, and hath esteemed the blood of the testament unclean, by which he was sanctified, and hath offered an affront to the Spirit of grace?

drb@Hebrews:10:30 @For we know him that hath said: Vengeance belongeth to me, and I will repay. And again: The Lord shall judge his people.

drb@Hebrews:10:33 @And on the one hand indeed, by reproaches and tribulations, were made a gazingstock; and on the other, became companions of them that were used in such sort.

drb@Hebrews:10:34 @For you both had compassion on them that were in bands, and took with joy the being stripped of your own goods, knowing that you have a better and a lasting substance.

drb@Hebrews:10:36 @For patience is necessary for you; that, doing the will of God, you may receive the promise.

drb@Hebrews:10:38 @But my just man liveth by faith; but if he withdraw himself, he shall not please my soul.

drb@Hebrews:10:39 @But we are not the children of withdrawing unto perdition, but of faith to the saving of the soul.

drb@Hebrews:11:1 @Now faith is the substance of things to be hoped for, the evidence of things that appear not.

drb@Hebrews:11:4 @By faith Abel offered to God a sacrifice exceeding that of Cain, by which he obtained a testimony that he was just, God giving testimony to his gifts; and by it he being dead yet speaketh.

drb@Hebrews:11:5 @By faith Henoch was translated, that he should not see death; and he was not found, because God had translated him: for before his translation he had testimony that he pleased God.

drb@Hebrews:11:6 @But without faith it is impossible to please God. For he that cometh to God, must believe that he is, and is a rewarder to them that seek him.

drb@Hebrews:11:8 @By faith he that is called Abraham, obeyed to go out into a place which he was to receive for an inheritance; and he went out, not knowing whither he went.

drb@Hebrews:11:9 @By faith he abode in the land, dwelling in cottages, with Isaac and Jacob, the co-heirs of the same promise.

drb@Hebrews:11:11 @By faith also Sara herself, being barren, received strength to conceive seed, even past the time of age; because she believed that he was faithful who had promised,

drb@Hebrews:11:12 @For which cause there sprung even from one (and him as good as dead) as the stars of heaven in multitude, and as the sand which is by the sea shore innumerable.

drb@Hebrews:11:13 @All these died according to faith, not having received the promises, but beholding them afar off, and saluting them, and confessing that they are pilgrims and strangers on the earth.

drb@Hebrews:11:15 @But now they desire a better, that is to say, a heavenly country. Therefore God is not ashamed to be called their God; for he hath prepared for them a city.

drb@Hebrews:11:16 @By faith Abraham, when he was tried, offered Isaac: and he that had received the promises, offered up his only begotten son;

drb@Hebrews:11:18 @Accounting that God is able to raise up even from the dead. Whereupon also he received him for a parable.

drb@Hebrews:11:20 @By faith Jacob dying, blessed each of the sons of Joseph, and adored the top of his rod.

drb@Hebrews:11:21 @By faith Joseph, when he was dying, made mention of the going out of the children of Israel; and gave commandment concerning his bones.

drb@Hebrews:11:22 @By faith Moses, when he was born, was hid three months by his parents; because they saw he was a comely babe, and they feared not the king's edict.

drb@Hebrews:11:23 @By faith Moses, when he was grown up, denied himself to be the son of Pharao's daughter;

drb@Hebrews:11:24 @Rather choosing to be afflicted with the people of God, than to have the pleasure of sin for a time,

drb@Hebrews:11:25 @Esteeming the reproach of Christ greater riches than the treasure of the Egyptians. For he looked unto the reward.

drb@Hebrews:11:26 @By faith he left Egypt, not fearing the fierceness of the king: for he endured as seeing him that is invisible.

drb@Hebrews:11:27 @By faith he celebrated the pasch, and the shedding of the blood; that he, who destroyed the firstborn, might not touch them.

drb@Hebrews:11:28 @By faith they passed through the Red Sea, as by dry land: which the Egyptians attempting, were swallowed up.

drb@Hebrews:11:30 @By faith Rahab the harlot perished not with the unbelievers, receiving the spies with peace.

drb@Hebrews:11:31 @And what shall I yet say? For the time would fail me to tell of Gedeon, Barac, Samson, Jephthe, David, Samuel, and the prophets:

drb@Hebrews:11:32 @Who by faith conquered kingdoms, wrought justice, obtained promises, stopped the mouths of lions,

drb@Hebrews:11:33 @Quenched the violence of fire, escaped the edge of the sword, recovered strength from weakness, became valiant in battle, put to flight the armies of foreigners:

drb@Hebrews:11:34 @Women received their dead raised to life again. But others were racked, not accepting deliverance, that they might find a better resurrection.

drb@Hebrews:11:35 @And others had trial of mockeries and stripes, moreover also of bands and prisons.

drb@Hebrews:11:36 @They were stoned, they were cut asunder, they were tempted, they were put to death by the sword, they wandered about in sheepskins, in goatskins, being in want, distressed, afflicted:

drb@Hebrews:11:38 @And all these being approved by the testimony of faith, received not the promise;

drb@Hebrews:11:39 @God providing some better thing for us, that they should not be perfected without us.

drb@Hebrews:12:1 @And therefore we also having so great a cloud of witnesses over our head, laying aside every weight and sin which surrounds us, let us run by patience to the fight proposed to us:

drb@Hebrews:12:2 @Looking on Jesus, the author and finisher of faith, who having joy set before him, endured the cross, despising the shame, and now sitteth on the right hand of the throne of God.

drb@Hebrews:12:3 @For think diligently upon him that endured such opposition from sinners against himself; that you be not wearied, fainting in your minds.

drb@Hebrews:12:5 @And you have forgotten the consolation, which speaketh to you, as unto children, saying: My son, neglect not the discipline of the Lord; neither be thou wearied whilst thou art rebuked by him.

drb@Hebrews:12:7 @Persevere under discipline. God dealeth with you as with his sons; for what son is there, whom the father doth not correct?

drb@Hebrews:12:8 @But if you be without chastisement, whereof all are made partakers, then are you bastards, and not sons.

drb@Hebrews:12:9 @Moreover we have had fathers of our flesh, for instructors, and we reverenced them: shall we not much more obey the Father of spirits, and live?

drb@Hebrews:12:10 @And they indeed for a few days, according to their own pleasure, instructed us: but he, for our profit, that we might receive his sanctification.

drb@Hebrews:12:11 @Now all chastisement for the present indeed seemeth not to bring with it joy, but sorrow: but afterwards it will yield, to them that are exercised by it, the most peaceable fruit of justice.

drb@Hebrews:12:12 @Wherefore lift up the hands which hang down, and the feeble knees,

drb@Hebrews:12:13 @And make straight steps with your feet: that no one, halting, may go out of the way; but rather be healed

drb@Hebrews:12:14 @Follow peace with all men, and holiness: without which no man shall see God.

drb@Hebrews:12:15 @Looking diligently, lest any man be wanting to the grace of God; lest any root of bitterness springing up do hinder, and by it many be defiled.

drb@Hebrews:12:16 @Lest there be any fornicator, or profane person, as Esau; who for one mess, sold his first birthright.

drb@Hebrews:12:17 @For know ye that afterwards, when he desired to inherit the benediction, he was rejected; for he found no place of repentance, although with tears he had sought it.

drb@Hebrews:12:19 @And the sound of a trumpet, and the voice of words, which they that heard excused themselves, that the word might not be spoken to them:

drb@Hebrews:12:22 @But you are come to mount Sion, and to the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to the company of many thousands of angels,

drb@Hebrews:12:23 @And to the church of the firstborn, who are written in the heavens, and to God the judge of all, and to the spirits of the just made perfect,

drb@Hebrews:12:24 @And to Jesus the mediator of the new testament, and to the sprinkling of blood which speaketh better than that of Abel.

drb@Hebrews:12:25 @See that you refuse him not that speaketh. For if they escaped not who refused him that spoke upon the earth, much more shall not we, that turn away from him that speaketh to us from heaven.

drb@Hebrews:12:26 @Whose voice then moved the earth; but now he promiseth, saying: Yet once more, and I will move not only the earth, but heaven also.

drb@Hebrews:12:28 @Therefore receiving an immoveable kingdom, we have grace; whereby let us serve, pleasing God, with fear and reverence.

drb@Hebrews:13:2 @And hospitality do not forget; for by this some, being not aware of it, have entertained angels.

drb@Hebrews:13:6 @So that we may confidently say: The Lord is my helper: I will not fear what man shall do to me.

drb@Hebrews:13:7 @Remember your prelates who have spoken the word of God to you; whose faith follow, considering the end of their conversation,

drb@Hebrews:13:9 @Be not led away with various and strange doctrines. For it is best that the heart be established with grace, not with meats; which have not profited those that walk in them.

drb@Hebrews:13:10 @We have an altar, whereof they have no power to eat who serve the tabernacle.

drb@Hebrews:13:11 @For the bodies of those beasts, whose blood is brought into the holies by the high priest for sin, are burned without the camp.

drb@Hebrews:13:12 @Wherefore Jesus also, that he might sanctify the people by his own blood, suffered without the gate.

drb@Hebrews:13:13 @Let us go forth therefore to him without the camp, bearing his reproach.

drb@Hebrews:13:15 @By him therefore let us offer the sacrifice of praise always to God, that is to say, the fruit of lips confessing to his name

drb@Hebrews:13:16 @And do not forget to do good, and to impart; for by such sacrifices God's favour is obtained.

drb@Hebrews:13:17 @Obey your prelates, and be subject to them. For they watch as being to render an account of your souls; that they may do this with joy, and not with grief. For this is not expedient for you.

drb@Hebrews:13:18 @Pray for us. For we trust we have a good conscience, being willing to behave ourselves well in all things.

drb@Hebrews:13:20 @And may the God of peace, who brought again from the dead the great pastor of the sheep, our Lord Jesus Christ, in the blood of the everlasting testament,

drb@Hebrews:13:21 @Fit you in all goodness, that you may do his will; doing in you that which is well pleasing in his sight, through Jesus Christ, to whom is glory for ever and ever. Amen.

drb@Hebrews:13:24 @Salute all your prelates, and all the saints. The brethren from Italy salute you.

drb@James:1:2 @My brethren, count it all joy, when you shall fall into divers temptations;

drb@James:1:3 @Knowing that the trying of your faith worketh patience.

drb@James:1:4 @And patience hath a perfect work; that you may be perfect and entire, failing in nothing.

drb@James:1:5 @But if any of you want wisdom, let him ask of God, who giveth to all men abundantly, and upbraideth not; and it shall be given him.

drb@James:1:10 @And the rich, in his being low; because as the flower of the grass shall he pass away.

drb@James:1:11 @For the sun rose with a burning heat, and parched the grass, and the flower thereof fell off, and the beauty of the shape thereof perished: so also shall the rich man fade away in his ways.

drb@James:1:12 @Blessed is the man that endureth temptation; for when he hath been proved, he shall receive a crown of life, which God hath promised to them that love him.

drb@James:1:13 @Let no man, when he is tempted, say that he is tempted by God. For God is not a tempter of evils, and he tempteth no man.

drb@James:1:14 @But every man is tempted by his own concupiscence, being drawn away and allured.

drb@James:1:15 @Then when concupiscence hath conceived, it bringeth forth sin. But sin, when it is completed, begetteth death.

drb@James:1:17 @Every best gift, and every perfect gift, is from above, coming down from the Father of lights, with whom there is no change, nor shadow of alteration.

drb@James:1:19 @You know, my dearest brethren. And let every man be swift to hear, but slow to speak, and slow to anger.

drb@James:1:23 @For if a man be a hearer of the word, and not a doer, he shall be compared to a man beholding his own countenance in a glass.

drb@James:1:24 @For he beheld himself, and went his way, and presently forgot what manner of man he was.

drb@James:1:25 @But he that hath looked into the perfect law of liberty, and hath continued therein, not becoming a forgetful hearer, but a doer of the work; this man shall be blessed in his deed.

drb@James:1:27 @Religion clean and undefiled before God and the Father, is this: to visit the fatherless and widows in their tribulation: and to keep one's self unspotted from this world.

drb@James:2:1 @My brethren, have not the faith of our Lord Jesus Christ of glory with respect of persons.

drb@James:2:2 @For if there shall come into your assembly a man having a golden ring, in fine apparel, and there shall come in also a poor man in mean attire,

drb@James:2:3 @And you have respect to him that is clothed with the fine apparel, and shall say to him: Sit thou here well; but say to the poor man: Stand thou there, or sit under my footstool:

drb@James:2:5 @Hearken, my dearest brethren: hath not God chosen the poor in this world, rich in faith, and heirs of the kingdom which God hath promised to them that love him?

drb@James:2:6 @But you have dishonoured the poor man. Do not the rich oppress you by might? and do not they draw you before the judgment seats?

drb@James:2:7 @Do not they blaspheme the good name that is invoked upon you?

drb@James:2:8 @If then you fulfil the royal law, according to the scriptures, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself; you do well.

drb@James:2:9 @But if you have respect to persons, you commit sin, being reproved by the law as transgressors.

drb@James:2:10 @And whosoever shall keep the whole law, but offend in one point, is become guilty of all.

drb@James:2:12 @So speak ye, and so do, as being to be judged by the law of liberty.

drb@James:2:14 @What shall it profit, my brethren, if a man say he hath faith, but hath not works? Shall faith be able to save him?

drb@James:2:16 @And one of you say to them: Go in peace, be ye warmed and filled; yet give them not those things that are necessary for the body, what shall it profit?

drb@James:2:21 @Was not Abraham our father justified by works, offering up Isaac his son upon the altar?

drb@James:2:22 @Seest thou, that faith did co-operate with his works; and by works faith was made perfect?

drb@James:2:23 @And the scripture was fulfilled, saying: Abraham believed God, and it was reputed to him to justice, and he was called the friend of God.

drb@James:2:26 @For even as the body without the spirit is dead; so also faith without works is dead.

drb@James:3:2 @For in many things we all offend. If any man offend not in word, the same is a perfect man. He is able also with a bridle to lead about the whole body.

drb@James:3:3 @For if we put bits into the mouths of horses, that they may obey us, and we turn about their whole body.

drb@James:3:4 @Behold also ships, whereas they are great, and are driven by strong winds, yet are they turned about with a small helm, whithersoever the force of the governor willeth.

drb@James:3:6 @And the tongue is a fire, a world of iniquity. The tongue is placed among our members, which defileth the whole body, and inflameth the wheel of our nativity, being set on fire by hell.

drb@James:3:7 @For every nature of beasts, and of birds, and of serpents, and of the rest, is tamed, and hath been tamed, by the nature of man:

drb@James:3:8 @But the tongue no man can tame, an unquiet evil, full of deadly poison.

drb@James:3:10 @Out of the same mouth proceedeth blessing and cursing

drb@James:3:12 @Can the fig tree, my brethren, bear grapes; or the vine, figs? So neither can the salt water yield sweet.

drb@James:3:17 @But the wisdom, that is from above, first indeed is chaste, then peaceable, modest, easy to be persuaded, consenting to the good, full of mercy and good fruits, without judging, without dissimulation.

drb@James:3:18 @And the fruit of justice is sown in peace, to them that make peace.

drb@James:4:1 @From whence are wars and contentions among you? Are they not hence, from your concupiscences, which war in your members?

drb@James:4:3 @You ask, and receive not; because you ask amiss: that you may consume it on your concupiscences.

drb@James:4:4 @Adulterers, know you not that the friendship of this world is the enemy of God? Whosoever therefore will be a friend of this world, becometh an enemy of God.

drb@James:4:5 @Or do you think that the scripture saith in vain: To envy doth the spirit covet which dwelleth in you?

drb@James:4:6 @But he giveth greater grace. Wherefore he saith: God resisteth the proud, and giveth grace to the humble.

drb@James:4:8 @Draw nigh to God, and he will draw nigh to you. Cleanse your hands, ye sinners: and purify your hearts, ye double minded.

drb@James:4:9 @Be afflicted, and mourn, and weep: let your laughter be turned into mourning, and your joy into sorrow.

drb@James:4:13 @But who art thou that judgest thy neighbour? Behold, now you that say: To day or to morrow we will go into such a city, and there we will spend a year, and will traffic, and make our gain.

drb@James:4:15 @For what is your life? It is a vapour which appeareth for a little while, and afterwards shall vanish away. For that you should say: If the Lord will, and if we shall live, we will do this or that.

drb@James:5:1 @Go to now, ye rich men, weep and howl in your miseries, which shall come upon you.

drb@James:5:2 @Your riches are corrupted: and your garments are motheaten.

drb@James:5:3 @Your gold and silver is cankered: and the rust of them shall be for a testimony against you, and shall eat your flesh like fire. You have stored up to yourselves wrath against the last days.

drb@James:5:4 @Behold the hire of the labourers, who have reaped down your fields, which by fraud has been kept back by you, crieth: and the cry of them hath entered into the ears of the Lord of sabaoth.

drb@James:5:5 @You have feasted upon earth: and in riotousness you have nourished your hearts, in the day of slaughter.

drb@James:5:6 @You have condemned and put to death the Just One, and he resisted you not.

drb@James:5:7 @Be patient therefore, brethren, until the coming of the Lord. Behold, the husbandman waiteth for the precious fruit of the earth: patiently bearing till he receive the early and latter rain.

drb@James:5:8 @Be you therefore also patient, and strengthen your hearts: for the coming of the Lord is at hand.

drb@James:5:10 @Take, my brethren, for an example of suffering evil, of labour and patience, the prophets, who spoke in the name of the Lord.

drb@James:5:11 @Behold, we account them blessed who have endured. You have heard of the patience of Job, and you have seen the end of the Lord, that the Lord is merciful and compassionate.

drb@James:5:13 @Is any of you sad? Let him pray. Is he cheerful in mind? Let him sing.

drb@James:5:14 @Is any man sick among you? Let him bring in the priests of the church, and let them pray over him, anointing him with oil in the name of the Lord.

drb@James:5:15 @And the prayer of faith shall save the sick man: and the Lord shall raise him up: and if he be in sins, they shall be forgiven him.

drb@James:5:16 @Confess therefore your sins one to another: and pray one for another, that you may be saved. For the continual prayer of a just man availeth much.

drb@James:5:17 @Elias was a man passible like unto us: and with prayer he prayed that it might not rain upon the earth, and it rained not for three years and six months.

drb@James:5:18 @And he prayed again: and the heaven gave rain, and the earth brought forth her fruit.

drb@1Peter:1:1 @Peter, an apostle of Jesus Christ, to the strangers dispersed through Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia, Asia, and Bithynia, elect,

drb@1Peter:1:2 @According to the foreknowledge of God the Father, unto the sanctification of the Spirit, unto obedience and sprinkling of the blood of Jesus Christ: Grace unto you and peace be multiplied.

drb@1Peter:1:3 @Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who according to his great mercy hath regenerated us unto a lively hope, by the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead,

drb@1Peter:1:4 @Unto an inheritance incorruptible, and undefiled, and that can not fade, reserved in heaven for you,

drb@1Peter:1:5 @Who, by the power of God, are kept by faith unto salvation, ready to be revealed in the last time.

drb@1Peter:1:6 @Wherein you shall greatly rejoice, if now you must be for a little time made sorrowful in divers temptations:

drb@1Peter:1:7 @That the trial of your faith (much more precious than gold which is tried by the fire) may be found unto praise and glory and honour at the appearing of Jesus Christ:

drb@1Peter:1:8 @Whom having not seen, you love: in whom also now, though you see him not, you believe: and believing shall rejoice with joy unspeakable and glorified;

drb@1Peter:1:9 @Receiving the end of your faith, even the salvation of your souls.

drb@1Peter:1:10 @Of which salvation the prophets have inquired and diligently searched, who prophesied of the grace to come in you.

drb@1Peter:1:11 @Searching what or what manner of time the Spirit of Christ in them did signify: when it foretold those sufferings that are in Christ, and the glories that should follow:

drb@1Peter:1:12 @To whom it was revealed, that not to themselves, but to you they ministered those things which are now declared to you by them that have preached the gospel to you, the Holy Ghost being sent down from heaven, on whom the angels desire to look.

drb@1Peter:1:13 @Wherefore having the loins of your mind girt up, being sober, trust perfectly in the grace which is offered you in the revelation of Jesus Christ,

drb@1Peter:1:14 @As children of obedience, not fashioned according to the former desires of your ignorance:

drb@1Peter:1:15 @But according to him that hath called you, who is holy, be you also in all manner of conversation holy:

drb@1Peter:1:16 @Because it is written: You shall be holy, for I am holy.

drb@1Peter:1:17 @And if you invoke as Father him who, without respect of persons, judgeth according to every one's work: converse in fear during the time of your sojourning here.

drb@1Peter:1:18 @Knowing that you were not redeemed with corruptible things as gold or silver, from your vain conversation of the tradition of your fathers:

drb@1Peter:1:19 @But with the precious blood of Christ, as of a lamb unspotted and undefiled,

drb@1Peter:1:20 @Foreknown indeed before the foundation of the world, but manifested in the last times for you,

drb@1Peter:1:21 @Who through him are faithful in God, who raised him up from the dead, and hath given him glory, that your faith and hope might be in God.

drb@1Peter:1:22 @Purifying your souls in the obedience of charity, with a brotherly love, from a sincere heart love one another earnestly:

drb@1Peter:1:23 @Being born again not of corruptible seed, but incorruptible, by the word of God who liveth and remaineth for ever.

drb@1Peter:1:24 @For all flesh is as grass; and all the glory thereof as the flower of grass. The grass is withered, and the flower thereof is fallen away.

drb@1Peter:1:25 @But the word of the Lord endureth for ever. And this is the word which by the gospel hath been preached unto you.

drb@1Peter:2:1 @Wherefore laying away all malice, and all guile, and dissimulations, and envies, and all detractions,

drb@1Peter:2:2 @As newborn babes, desire the rational milk without guile, that thereby you may grow unto salvation:

drb@1Peter:2:3 @If so be you have tasted that the Lord is sweet.

drb@1Peter:2:4 @Unto whom coming, as to a living stone, rejected indeed by men, but chosen and made honourable by God:

drb@1Peter:2:5 @Be you also as living stones built up, a spiritual house, a holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices, acceptable to God by Jesus Christ.

drb@1Peter:2:6 @Wherefore it is said in the scripture: Behold, I lay in Sion a chief corner stone, elect, precious. And he that shall believe in him, shall not be confounded.

drb@1Peter:2:7 @To you therefore that believe, he is honour: but to them that believe not, the stone which the builders rejected, the same is made the head of the corner:

drb@1Peter:2:8 @And a stone of stumbling, and a rock of scandal, to them who stumble at the word, neither do believe, whereunto also they are set.

drb@1Peter:2:9 @But you are a chosen generation, a kingly priesthood, a holy nation, a purchased people: that you may declare his virtues, who hath called you out of darkness into his marvellous light:

drb@1Peter:2:10 @Who in time past were not a people: but are now the people of God. Who had not obtained mercy; but now have obtained mercy.

drb@1Peter:2:11 @Dearly beloved, I beseech you as strangers and pilgrims, to refrain yourselves from carnal desires which war against the soul,

drb@1Peter:2:12 @Having your conversation good among the Gentiles: that whereas they speak against you as evildoers, they may, by the good works, which they shall behold in you, glorify God in the day of visitation.

drb@1Peter:2:13 @Be ye subject therefore to every human creature for God's sake: whether it be to the king as excelling;

drb@1Peter:2:14 @Or to governors as sent by him for the punishment of evildoers, and for the praise of the good:

drb@1Peter:2:15 @For so is the will of God, that by doing well you may put to silence the ignorance of foolish men:

drb@1Peter:2:16 @As free, and not as making liberty a cloak for malice, but as the servants of God.

drb@1Peter:2:17 @Honour all men. Love the brotherhood. Fear God. Honour the king.

drb@1Peter:2:18 @Servants, be subject to your masters with all fear, not only to the good and gentle, but also to the froward.

drb@1Peter:2:19 @For this is thankworthy, if for conscience towards God, a man endure sorrows, suffering wrongfully.

drb@1Peter:2:20 @For what glory is it, if committing sin, and being buffeted for it, you endure? But if doing well you suffer patiently; this is thankworthy before God.

drb@1Peter:2:21 @For unto this are you called: because Christ also suffered for us, leaving you an example that you should follow his steps.

drb@1Peter:2:22 @Who did no sin, neither was guile found in his mouth.

drb@1Peter:2:23 @Who, when he was reviled, did not revile: when he suffered, he threatened not: but delivered himself to him that judged him unjustly.

drb@1Peter:2:24 @Who his own self bore our sins in his body upon the tree: that we, being dead to sins, should live to justice: by whose stripes you were healed.

drb@1Peter:2:25 @For you were as sheep going astray; but you are now converted to the shepherd and bishop of your souls.

drb@1Peter:3:1 @In like manner also let wives be subject to their husbands: that if any believe not the word, they may be won without the word, by the conversation of the wives.

drb@1Peter:3:2 @Considering your chaste conversation with fear.

drb@1Peter:3:3 @Whose adorning let it not be the outward plaiting of the hair, or the wearing of gold, or the putting on of apparel:

drb@1Peter:3:4 @But the hidden man of the heart in the incorruptibility of a quiet and a meek spirit, which is rich in the sight of God.

drb@1Peter:3:5 @For after this manner heretofore the holy women also, who trusted in God, adorned themselves, being in subjection to their own husbands:

drb@1Peter:3:6 @As Sara obeyed Abraham, calling him lord: whose daughters you are, doing well, and not fearing any disturbance.

drb@1Peter:3:7 @Ye husbands, likewise dwelling with them according to knowledge, giving honour to the female as to the weaker vessel, and as to the co-heirs of the grace of life: that your prayers be not hindered.

drb@1Peter:3:8 @And in fine, be ye all of one mind, having compassion one of another, being lovers of the brotherhood, merciful, modest, humble:

drb@1Peter:3:9 @Not rendering evil for evil, nor railing for railing, but contrariwise, blessing: for unto this are you called, that you may inherit a blessing.

drb@1Peter:3:10 @For he that will love life, and see good days, let him refrain his tongue from evil, and his lips that they speak no guile

drb@1Peter:3:11 @Let him decline from evil, and do good: let him seek after peace and pursue it:

drb@1Peter:3:12 @Because the eyes of the Lord are upon the just, and his ears unto their prayers: but the countenance of the Lord upon them that do evil things.

drb@1Peter:3:13 @And who is he that can hurt you, if you be zealous of good?

drb@1Peter:3:14 @But if also you suffer any thing for justice' sake, blessed are ye. And be not afraid of their fear, and be not troubled.

drb@1Peter:3:15 @But sanctify the Lord Christ in your hearts, being ready always to satisfy every one that asketh you a reason of that hope which is in you.

drb@1Peter:3:16 @But with modesty and fear, having a good conscience: that whereas they speak evil of you, they may be ashamed who falsely accuse your good conversation in Christ.

drb@1Peter:3:17 @For it is better doing well (if such be the will of God) to suffer, than doing ill.

drb@1Peter:3:18 @Because Christ also died once for our sins, the just for the unjust: that he might offer us to God, being put to death indeed in the flesh, but enlivened in the spirit,

drb@1Peter:3:19 @In which also coming he preached to those spirits that were in prison:

drb@1Peter:3:20 @Which had been some time incredulous, when they waited for the patience of God in the days of Noe, when the ark was a building: wherein a few, that is, eight souls, were saved by water.

drb@1Peter:3:21 @Whereunto baptism being of the like form, now saveth you also: not the putting away of the filth of the flesh, but the examination of a good conscience towards God by the resurrection of Jesus Christ.

drb@1Peter:3:22 @Who is on the right hand of God, swallowing down death, that we might be made heirs of life everlasting: being gone into heaven, the angels and powers and virtues being made subject to him.

drb@1Peter:4:1 @Christ therefore having suffered in the flesh, be you also armed with the same thought: for he that hath suffered in the flesh, hath ceased from sins:

drb@1Peter:4:2 @That now he may live the rest of his time in the flesh, not after the desires of men, but according to the will of God.

drb@1Peter:4:3 @For the time past is sufficient to have fulfilled the will of the Gentiles, for them who have walked in riotousness, lusts, excess of wine, revellings, banquetings, and unlawful worshipping of idols.

drb@1Peter:4:4 @Wherein they think it strange, that you run not with them into the same confusion of riotousness, speaking evil of you.

drb@1Peter:4:5 @Who shall render account to him, who is ready to judge the living and the dead.

drb@1Peter:4:6 @For, for this cause was the gospel preached also to the dead: that they might be judged indeed according to men, in the flesh; but may live according to God, in the Spirit.

drb@1Peter:4:7 @But the end of all is at hand. Be prudent therefore, and watch in prayers.

drb@1Peter:4:8 @But before all things have a constant mutual charity among yourselves: for charity covereth a multitude of sins.

drb@1Peter:4:9 @Using hospitality one towards another, without murmuring,

drb@1Peter:4:10 @As every man hath received grace, ministering the same one to another: as good stewards of the manifold grace of God

drb@1Peter:4:11 @If any man speak, let him speak, as the words of God. If any man minister, let him do it, as of the power, which God administereth: that in all things God may be honoured through Jesus Christ: to whom is glory and empire for ever and ever. Amen.

drb@1Peter:4:12 @Dearly beloved, think not strange the burning heat which is to try you, as if some new thing happened to you;

drb@1Peter:4:13 @But if you partake of the sufferings of Christ, rejoice that when his glory shall be revealed, you may also be glad with exceeding joy.

drb@1Peter:4:14 @If you be reproached for the name of Christ, you shall be blessed: for that which is of the honour, glory, and power of God, and that which is his Spirit, resteth upon you.

drb@1Peter:4:15 @But let none of you suffer as a murderer, or a thief, or a railer, or a coveter of other men's things.

drb@1Peter:4:16 @But if as a Christian, let him not be ashamed, but let him glorify God in that name.

drb@1Peter:4:17 @For the time is, that judgment should begin at the house of God. And if first at us, what shall be the end of them that believe not the gospel of God?

drb@1Peter:4:18 @And if the just man shall scarcely be saved, where shall the ungodly and the sinner appear?

drb@1Peter:4:19 @Wherefore let them also that suffer according to the will of God, commend their souls in good deeds to the faithful Creator.

drb@1Peter:5:1 @The ancients therefore that are among you, I beseech, who am myself also an ancient, and a witness of the sufferings of Christ: as also a partaker of that glory which is to be revealed in time to come:

drb@1Peter:5:2 @Feed the flock of God which is among you, taking care of it, not by constraint, but willingly, according to God: not for filthy lucre's sake, but voluntarily:

drb@1Peter:5:3 @Neither as lording it over the clergy, but being made a pattern of the flock from the heart.

drb@1Peter:5:4 @And when the prince of pastors shall appear, you shall receive a never fading crown of glory.

drb@1Peter:5:5 @In like manner, ye young men, be subject to the ancients. And do you all insinuate humility one to another, for God resisteth the proud, but to the humble he giveth grace.

drb@1Peter:5:6 @Be you humbled therefore under the mighty hand of God, that he may exalt you in the time of visitation:

drb@1Peter:5:7 @Casting all your care upon him, for he hath care of you.

drb@1Peter:5:8 @Be sober and watch: because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, goeth about seeking whom he may devour.

drb@1Peter:5:9 @Whom resist ye, strong in faith: knowing that the same affliction befalls your brethren who are in the world.

drb@1Peter:5:10 @But the God of all grace, who hath called us into his eternal glory in Christ Jesus, after you have suffered a little, will himself perfect you, and confirm you, and establish you.

drb@1Peter:5:11 @To him be glory and empire for ever and ever. Amen.

drb@1Peter:5:12 @By Sylvanus, a faithful brother unto you, as I think, I have written briefly: beseeching and testifying that this is the true grace of God, wherein you stand

drb@1Peter:5:13 @The church that is in Babylon, elected together with you, saluteth you: and so doth my son Mark.

drb@1Peter:5:14 @Salute one another with a holy kiss. Grace be to all you, who are in Christ Jesus. Amen.

drb@2Peter:1:1 @Simon Peter, servant and apostle of Jesus Christ, to them that have obtained equal faith with us in the justice of our God and Saviour Jesus Christ.

drb@2Peter:1:2 @Grace to you and peace be accomplished in the knowledge of God and of Christ Jesus our Lord:

drb@2Peter:1:3 @As all things of his divine power which appertain to life and godliness, are given us, through the knowledge of him who hath called us by his own proper glory and virtue.

drb@2Peter:1:4 @By whom he hath given us most great and precious promises: that by these you may be made partakers of the divine nature: flying the corruption of that concupiscence which is in the world.

drb@2Peter:1:5 @And you, employing all care, minister in your faith, virtue; and in virtue, knowledge;

drb@2Peter:1:6 @And in knowledge, abstinence; and in abstinence, patience; and in patience, godliness;

drb@2Peter:1:7 @And in godliness, love of brotherhood; and in love of brotherhood, charity.

drb@2Peter:1:8 @For if these things be with you and abound, they will make you to be neither empty nor unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.

drb@2Peter:1:9 @For he that hath not these things with him, is blind, and groping, having forgotten that he was purged from his old sins.

drb@2Peter:1:10 @Wherefore, brethren, labour the more, that by good works you may make sure your calling and election. For doing these things, you shall not sin at any time.

drb@2Peter:1:11 @For so an entrance shall be ministered to you abundantly into the everlasting kingdom of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ.

drb@2Peter:1:12 @For which cause I will begin to put you always in remembrance of these things: though indeed you know them, and are confirmed in the present truth.

drb@2Peter:1:13 @But I think it meet as long as I am in this tabernacle, to stir you up by putting you in remembrance.

drb@2Peter:1:14 @Being assured that the laying away of this my tabernacle is at hand, according as our Lord Jesus Christ also hath signified to me.

drb@2Peter:1:15 @And I will endeavour, that you frequently have after my decease, whereby you may keep a memory of these things.

drb@2Peter:1:16 @For we have not by following artificial fables, made known to you the power, and presence of our Lord Jesus Christ; but we were eyewitnesses of his greatness.

drb@2Peter:1:17 @For he received from God the Father, honour and glory: this voice coming down to him from the excellent glory: This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased; hear ye him.

drb@2Peter:1:18 @And this voice we heard brought from heaven, when we were with him in the holy mount.

drb@2Peter:1:19 @And we have the more firm prophetical word: whereunto you do well to attend, as to a light that shineth in a dark place, until the day dawn, and the day star arise in your hearts:

drb@2Peter:1:20 @Understanding this first, that no prophecy of scripture is made by private interpretation.

drb@2Peter:1:21 @For prophecy came not by the will of man at any time: but the holy men of God spoke, inspired by the Holy Ghost.

drb@2Peter:2:1 @But there were also false prophets among the people, even as there shall be among you lying teachers, who shall bring in sects of perdition, and deny the Lord who bought them: bringing upon themselves swift destruction.

drb@2Peter:2:2 @And many shall follow their riotousnesses, through whom the way of truth shall be evil spoken of.

drb@2Peter:2:3 @And through covetousness shall they with feigned words make merchandise of you. Whose judgment now of a long time lingereth not, and their perdition slumbereth not.

drb@2Peter:2:4 @For if God spared not the angels that sinned, but delivered them, drawn down by infernal ropes to the lower hell, unto torments, to be reserved unto judgment:

drb@2Peter:2:5 @And spared not the original world, but preserved Noe, the eighth person, the preacher of justice, bringing in the flood upon the world of the ungodly.

drb@2Peter:2:6 @And reducing the cities of the Sodomites, and of the Gomorrhites, into ashes, condemned them to be overthrown, making them an example to those that should after act wickedly.

drb@2Peter:2:7 @And delivered just Lot, oppressed by the injustice and lewd conversation of the wicked.

drb@2Peter:2:8 @For in sight and hearing he was just: dwelling among them, who from day to day vexed the just soul with unjust works.

drb@2Peter:2:9 @The Lord knoweth how to deliver the godly from temptation, but to reserve the unjust unto the day of judgment to be tormented.

drb@2Peter:2:10 @And especially them who walk after the flesh in the lust of uncleanness, and despise government, audacious, self willed, they fear not to bring in sects, blaspheming.

drb@2Peter:2:11 @Whereas angels who are greater in strength and power, bring not against themselves a railing judgment.

drb@2Peter:2:12 @But these men, as irrational beasts, naturally tending to the snare and to destruction, blaspheming those things which they know not, shall perish in their corruption,

drb@2Peter:2:13 @Receiving the reward of their injustice, counting for a pleasure the delights of a day: stains and spots, sporting themselves to excess, rioting in their feasts with you:

drb@2Peter:2:14 @Having eyes full of adultery and of sin that ceaseth not: alluring unstable souls, having their heart exercised with covetousness, children of malediction:

drb@2Peter:2:15 @Leaving the right way they have gone astray, having followed the way of Balaam of Bosor, who loved the wages of iniquity,

drb@2Peter:2:16 @But had a check of his madness, the dumb beast used to the yoke, which speaking with man's voice, forbade the folly of the prophet.

drb@2Peter:2:17 @These are fountains without water, and clouds tossed with whirlwinds, to whom the mist of darkness is reserved.

drb@2Peter:2:18 @For, speaking proud words of vanity, they allure by the desires of fleshly riotousness, those who for a little while escape, such as converse in error:

drb@2Peter:2:19 @Promising them liberty, whereas they themselves are the slaves of corruption. For by whom a man is overcome, of the same also he is the slave.

drb@2Peter:2:20 @For if, flying from the pollutions of the world, through the knowledge of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, they be again entangled in them and overcome: their latter state is become unto them worse than the former.

drb@2Peter:2:21 @For it had been better for them not to have known the way of justice, than after they have known it, to turn back from that holy commandment which was delivered to them.

drb@2Peter:2:22 @For, that of the true proverb has happened to them: The dog is returned to his vomit: and, The sow that was washed, to her wallowing in the mire.

drb@2Peter:3:1 @Behold this second epistle I write to you, my dearly beloved, in which I stir up by way of admonition your sincere mind:

drb@2Peter:3:2 @That you may be mindful of those words which I told you before from the holy prophets, and of your apostles, of the precepts of the Lord and Saviour.

drb@2Peter:3:3 @Knowing this first, that in the last days there shall come deceitful scoffers, walking after their own lusts,

drb@2Peter:3:4 @Saying: Where is his promise or his coming? for since the time that the fathers slept, all things continue as they were from the beginning of the creation.

drb@2Peter:3:5 @For this they are wilfully ignorant of, that the heavens were before, and the earth out of water, and through water, consisting by the word of God.

drb@2Peter:3:6 @Whereby the world that then was, being overflowed with water, perished.

drb@2Peter:3:7 @But the heavens and the earth which are now, by the same word are kept in store, reserved unto fire against the day of judgment and perdition of the ungodly men.

drb@2Peter:3:8 @But of this one thing be not ignorant, my beloved, that one day with the Lord is as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.

drb@2Peter:3:9 @The Lord delayeth not his promise, as some imagine, but dealeth patiently for your sake, not willing that any should perish, but that all should return to penance.

drb@2Peter:3:10 @But the day of the Lord shall come as a thief, in which the heavens shall pass away with great violence, and the elements shall be melted with heat, and the earth and the works which are in it, shall be burnt up

drb@2Peter:3:11 @Seeing then that all these things are to be dissolved, what manner of people ought you to be in holy conversation and godliness?

drb@2Peter:3:12 @Looking for and hasting unto the coming of the day of the Lord, by which the heavens being on fire shall be dissolved, and the elements shall melt with the burning heat?

drb@2Peter:3:13 @But we look for new heavens and a new earth according to his promises, in which justice dwelleth.

drb@2Peter:3:14 @Wherefore, dearly beloved, waiting for these things, be diligent that you may be found before him unspotted and blameless in peace.

drb@2Peter:3:15 @And account the longsuffering of our Lord, salvation; as also our most dear brother Paul, according to the wisdom given him, hath written to you:

drb@2Peter:3:16 @As also in all his epistles, speaking in them of these things; in which are certain things hard to be understood, which the unlearned and unstable wrest, as they do also the other scriptures, to their own destruction.

drb@2Peter:3:17 @You therefore, brethren, knowing these things before, take heed, lest being led aside by the error of the unwise, you fall from your own steadfastness.

drb@2Peter:3:18 @But grow in grace, and in the knowledge of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. To him be glory both now and unto the day of eternity. Amen.

drb@1John:1:1 @That which was from the beginning, which we have heard, which we have seen with our eyes, which we have looked upon, and our hands have handled, of the word of life:

drb@1John:1:2 @For the life was manifested; and we have seen and do bear witness, and declare unto you the life eternal, which was with the Father, and hath appeared to us:

drb@1John:1:3 @That which we have seen and have heard, we declare unto you, that you also may have fellowship with us, and our fellowship may be with the Father, and with his Son Jesus Christ.

drb@1John:1:6 @If we say that we have fellowship with him, and walk in darkness, we lie, and do not the truth.

drb@1John:1:7 @But if we walk in the light, as he also is in the light, we have fellowship one with another, and the blood of Jesus Christ his Son cleanseth us from all sin.

drb@1John:2:2 @And he is the propitiation for our sins: and not for ours only, but also for those of the whole world.

drb@1John:2:3 @And by this we know that we have known him, if we keep his commandments.

drb@1John:2:4 @He who saith that he knoweth him, and keepeth not his commandments, is a liar, and the truth is not in him.

drb@1John:2:5 @But he that keepeth his word, in him in very deed the charity of God is perfected; and by this we know that we are in him.

drb@1John:2:8 @Again a new commandment I write unto you, which thing is true both in him and in you; because the darkness is passed, and the true light now shineth.

drb@1John:2:16 @For all that is in the world, is the concupiscence of the flesh, and the concupiscence of the eyes, and the pride of life, which is not of the Father, but is of the world.

drb@1John:2:17 @And the world passeth away, and the concupiscence thereof: but he that doth the will of God, abideth for ever.

drb@1John:2:25 @And this is the promise which he hath promised us, life everlasting.

drb@1John:2:28 @And now, little children, abide in him, that when he shall appear, we may have confidence, and not be confounded by him at his coming.

drb@1John:3:1 @Behold what manner of charity the Father hath bestowed upon us, that we should be called, and should be the sons of God. Therefore the world knoweth not us, because it knew not him.

drb@1John:3:2 @Dearly beloved, we are now the sons of God; and it hath not yet appeared what we shall be. We know, that, when he shall appear, we shall be like to him: because we shall see him as he is.

drb@1John:3:3 @And every one that hath this hope in him, sanctifieth himself, as he also is holy.

drb@1John:3:5 @And you know that he appeared to take away our sins, and in him there is no sin.

drb@1John:3:8 @He that commmitteth sin is of the devil: for the devil sinneth from the beginning. For this purpose, the Son of God appeared, that he might destroy the works of the devil.

drb@1John:3:14 @We know that we have passed from death to life, because we love the brethren. He that loveth not, abideth in death.

drb@1John:3:17 @He that hath the substance of this world, and shall see his brother in need, and shall shut up his bowels from him: how doth the charity of God abide in him?

drb@1John:3:19 @In this we know that we are of the truth: and in his sight shall persuade our hearts.

drb@1John:3:20 @For if our heart reprehend us, God is greater than our heart, and knoweth all things.

drb@1John:3:21 @Dearly beloved, if our heart do not reprehend us, we have confidence towards God:

drb@1John:3:22 @And whatsoever we shall ask, we shall receive of him: because we keep his commandments, and do those things which are pleasing in his sight.

drb@1John:3:24 @And he that keepeth his commandments, abideth in him, and he in him. And in this we know that he abideth in us, by the Spirit which he hath given us.

drb@1John:4:1 @Dearly beloved, believe not every spirit, but try the spirits if they be of God: because many false prophets are gone out into the world.

drb@1John:4:2 @By this is the spirit of God known. Every spirit which confesseth that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh, is of God:

drb@1John:4:3 @And every spirit that dissolveth Jesus, is not of God: and this is Antichrist, of whom you have heard that he cometh, and he is now already in the world.

drb@1John:4:5 @They are of the world: therefore of the world they speak, and the world heareth them.

drb@1John:4:6 @We are of God. He that knoweth God, heareth us. He that is not of God, heareth us not. By this we know the spirit of truth, and the spirit of error.

drb@1John:4:9 @By this hath the charity of God appeared towards us, because God hath sent his only begotten Son into the world, that we may live by him.

drb@1John:4:10 @In this is charity: not as though we had loved God, but because he hath first loved us, and sent his Son to be a propitiation for our sins

drb@1John:4:12 @No man hath seen God at any time. If we love one another, God abideth in us, and his charity is perfected in us.

drb@1John:4:13 @In this we know that we abide in him, and he in us: because he hath given us of his spirit.

drb@1John:4:17 @In this is the charity of God perfected with us, that we may have confidence in the day of judgment: because as he is, we also are in this world.

drb@1John:4:18 @Fear is not in charity: but perfect charity casteth out fear, because fear hath pain. And he that feareth, is not perfected in charity.

drb@1John:5:2 @In this we know that we love the children of God: when we love God, and keep his commandments.

drb@1John:5:3 @For this is the charity of God, that we keep his commandments: and his commandments are not heavy.

drb@1John:5:6 @This is he that came by water and blood, Jesus Christ: not by water only, but by water and blood. And it is the Spirit which testifieth, that Christ is the truth.

drb@1John:5:8 @And there are three that give testimony on earth: the spirit, and the water, and the blood: and these three are one.

drb@1John:5:15 @And we know that he heareth us whatsoever we ask: we know that we have the petitions which we request of him.

drb@1John:5:18 @We know that whosoever is born of God, sinneth not: but the generation of God preserveth him, and the wicked one toucheth him not.

drb@1John:5:21 @Little children, keep yourselves from idols. Amen.

drb@2John:1:3 @Grace be with you, mercy, and peace from God the Father, and from Christ Jesus the Son of the Father; in truth and charity.

drb@2John:1:10 @If any man come to you, and bring not this doctrine, receive him not into the house nor say to him, God speed you.

drb@2John:1:11 @For he that saith unto him, God speed you, communicateth with his wicked works.

drb@2John:1:12 @Having more things to write unto you, I would not by paper and ink: for I hope that I shall be with you, and speak face to face: that your joy may be full.

drb@3John:1:2 @Dearly beloved, concerning all things I make it my prayer that thou mayest proceed prosperously, and fare well as thy soul doth prosperously.

drb@3John:1:8 @We therefore ought to receive such, that we may be fellow helpers of the truth.

drb@3John:1:9 @I had written perhaps to the church: but Diotrephes, who loveth to have the pre-eminence among them, doth not receive us.

drb@3John:1:10 @For this cause, if I come, I will advertise his works which he doth, with malicious words prating against us. And as if these things were not enough for him, neither doth he himself receive the brethren, and them that do receive them he forbiddeth, and casteth out of the church.

drb@3John:1:13 @I had many things to write unto thee: but I would not by ink and pen write to thee.

drb@3John:1:14 @But I hope speedily to see thee, and we will speak mouth to mouth. Peace be to thee. Our friends salute thee. Salute the friends by name.

drb@Jude:1:1 @Jude, the servant of Jesus Christ, and brother of James: to them that are beloved in God the Father, and preserved in Jesus Christ, and called.

drb@Jude:1:2 @Mercy unto you, and peace, and charity be fulfilled.

drb@Jude:1:5 @I will therefore admonish you, though ye once knew all things, that Jesus, having saved the people out of the land of Egypt, did afterwards destroy them that believed not:

drb@Jude:1:6 @And the angels who kept not their principality, but forsook their own habitation, he hath reserved under darkness in everlasting chains, unto the judgment of the great day.

drb@Jude:1:7 @As Sodom and Gomorrha, and the neighbouring cities, in like manner, having given themselves to fornication, and going after other flesh, were made an example, suffering the punishment of eternal fire.

drb@Jude:1:8 @In like manner these men also defile the flesh, and despise dominion, and blaspheme majesty.

drb@Jude:1:9 @When Michael the archangel, disputing with the devil, contended about the body of Moses, he durst not bring against him the judgment of railing speech, but said: The Lord command thee.

drb@Jude:1:10 @But these men blaspheme whatever things they know not: and what things soever they naturally know, like dumb beasts, in these they are corrupted.

drb@Jude:1:11 @Woe unto them, for they have gone in the way of Cain: and after the error of Balaam they have for reward poured out themselves, and have perished in the contradiction of Core.

drb@Jude:1:12 @These are spots in their banquets, feasting together without fear, feeding themselves, clouds without water, which are carried about by winds, trees of the autumn, unfruitful, twice dead, plucked up by the roots,

drb@Jude:1:14 @Now of these Enoch also, the seventh from Adam, prophesied, saying: Behold, the Lord cometh with thousands of his saints,

drb@Jude:1:15 @To execute judgment upon all, and to reprove all the ungodly for all the works of their ungodliness, whereby they have done ungodly, and of all the hard things which ungodly sinners have spoken against God.

drb@Jude:1:16 @These are murmurers, full of complaints, walking according to their own desires, and their mouth speaketh proud things, admiring persons for gain's sake.

drb@Jude:1:17 @But you, my dearly beloved, be mindful of the words which have been spoken before by the apostles of our Lord Jesus Christ,

drb@Jude:1:19 @These are they, who separate themselves, sensual men, having not the Spirit.

drb@Jude:1:20 @But you, my beloved, building yourselves upon you most holy faith, praying in the Holy Ghost,

drb@Jude:1:21 @Keep yourselves in the love of God, waiting for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ, unto life everlasting.

drb@Jude:1:22 @And some indeed reprove, being judged:

drb@Jude:1:23 @But others save, pulling them out of the fire. And on others have mercy, in fear, hating also the spotted garment which is carnal.

drb@Jude:1:24 @Now to him who is able to preserve you without sin, and to present you spotless before the presence of his glory with exceeding joy, in the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ,

drb@Jude:1:25 @To the only God our Saviour through Jesus Christ our Lord, be glory and magnificence, empire and power, before all ages, and now, and for all ages of ages. Amen.

drb@Revelation:1:1 @The Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave unto him, to make known to his servants the things which must shortly come to pass: and signified, sending by his angel to his servant John,

drb@B738:26 @Neither shall they give them, whilst they are fighting, or furnish them with wheat, or arms, or money, or ships, as it hath seemed good to the Romans: and they shall obey their orders, without taking any thing of them.

drb@B738:27 @In like manner also if war shall come first upon the nation of the Jews, the Romans shall help them with all their heart, according as the time shall permit them.

drb@B738:28 @And there shall not be given to them that come to their aid, either wheat, or arms, or money, or ships, as it hath seemed good to the Romans: and they shall observe their orders without deceit.

drb@B738:29 @According to these articles did the Romans covenant with the people of the Jews.

drb@B738:30 @And if after this one party or the other shall have a mind to add to these articles, or take away anything, they may do it at their pleasure: and whatsoever they shall add, or take away, shall be ratified.

drb@B738:31 @Moreover concerning the evils that Demetrius the king hath done against them, we have written to him, saying: Why hast thou made thy yoke heavy upon our friends, and allies, the Jews?

drb@B738:32 @If therefore they come again to us complaining of thee, we will do them justice, and will make war against thee by sea and land.

drb@B739:2 @And they took the road that leadeth to Galgal, and they camped in Masaloth, which is in Arabella: and they made themselves masters of it, and slew many people.

drb@B739:5 @Now Judas had pitched his tents in Laisa, and three thousand chosen men with him:

drb@B739:6 @And they saw the multitude of the army that they were many, and they were seized with great fear: and many withdrew themselves out of the camp, and there remained of them no more than eight hundred men.

drb@B739:7 @And Judas saw that his army slipped away, and the battle pressed upon him, and his heart was cast down: because he had not time to gather them together, and he was discouraged.

drb@B739:11 @And the army removed out of the camp, and they stood over against them: and the horsemen were divided into two troops, and the slingers, and the archers went before the army, and they that were in the front were all men of valour.

drb@B739:12 @And Bacchides was in the right wing, and the legion drew near on two sides, and they sounded the trumpets:

drb@B739:14 @And Judas perceived that the stronger part of the army of Bacchides was on the right side, and all the stout of heart came together with him:

drb@B739:15 @And the right wing was discomfited by them, and he pursued them even to the mount Azotus.

drb@B739:19 @And Jonathan and Simon took Judas their brother, and buried him in the sepulchre of their fathers in the city of Modin.

drb@B739:20 @And all the people of Israel bewailed him with great lamentation, and they mourned for him many days

drb@B739:21 @And said: How is the mighty man fallen, that saved the people of Israel!

drb@B739:23 @And it came to pass after the death of Judas, that the wicked began to put forth their heads in all the confines of Israel, and all the workers of iniquity rose up.

drb@B739:27 @And there was a great tribulation in Israel, such as was not since the day, that there was no prophet seen in Israel.

drb@B739:30 @Now therefore we have chosen thee this day to be our prince, and captain in his stead to fight our battles.

drb@B739:31 @So Jonathan took upon him the government at that time, and rose up in the place of Judas his brother.

drb@B739:33 @And Jonathan and Simon his brother, knew it, and all that were with them: and they fled into the desert of Thecua, and they pitched by the water of the lake of Asphar,

drb@B739:35 @And Jonathan sent his brother a captain of the people, to desire the Nabutheans his friends, that they would lend them their equipage, which was copious.

drb@B739:37 @After this it was told Jonathan, and Simon his brother, that the children of Jambri made a great marriage, and were bringing the bride out of Madaba, the daughter of one of the great princes of Chanaan, with great pomp.

drb@B739:38 @And the remembered the blood of John their brother: and they went up, and hid themselves under the covert of the mountain.

drb@B739:39 @And they lifted up their eyes, and saw: and behold a tumult, and great preparation: and the bridegroom came forth, and his friends, and his brethren to meet them with timbrels, and musical instruments, and many weapons.

drb@B739:40 @And they rose up against them from the place where they lay in ambush, and slew them, and there fell many wounded, and the rest fled into the mountains, and they took all their spoils:

drb@B739:43 @And Bacchides heard it, and he came on the sabbath day even to the bank of the Jordan with a great power.

drb@B739:44 @And Jonathan said to his company: Let us arise, and fight against our enemies: for it is not now as yesterday, and the day before.

drb@B739:45 @And behold the battle is before us, and the water of the Jordan on this side and on that side, and banks, and marshes, and woods: and there is no place for us to turn aside.

drb@B739:48 @And Jonathan, and they that were with him leaped into the Jordan, and swam over the Jordan to them:

drb@B739:50 @And they built strong cities in Judea, the fortress that was in Jericho, and in Ammaus, and in Bethoron, and in Bethel, and Thamnata, and Phara, and Thopo, with high walls, and gates, and bars.

drb@B739:51 @And he placed garrisons in them, that they might wage war against Israel:

drb@B739:52 @And he fortified the city of Bethsura, and Gazara, and the castle, and set garrisons in them, and provisions of victuals:

drb@B739:53 @And he took the sons of the chief men of the country for hostages, and put them in the castle in Jerusalem in custody.

drb@B739:54 @Now in the year one hundred and fifty-three, the second month, Alcimus commanded the walls of the inner court of the sanctuary to be thrown down, and the works of the prophets to be destroyed: and he began to be destroyed: and he began to destroy.

drb@B739:55 @At that time Alcimus was struck: and his works were hindered, and his mouth was stopped, and he was taken with a palsy, so that he could no more speak a word, nor give order concerning his house.

drb@B739:60 @And he arose to come with a great army: and he sent secretly letters to his adherents that were in Judea, to seize upon Jonathan, and them that were with him: but they could not, for their design was known to them.

drb@B739:61 @And he apprehended of the men of the country, that were the principal authors of the mischief, fifty men, and slew them.

drb@B739:62 @And Jonathan, and Simon, and they that were with him retired into Bethbessen, which is in the desert: and he repaired the breaches thereof, and they fortified it.

drb@B739:64 @And he came, and camped above Bethbessen, and fought against it many days, and made engines.

drb@B739:66 @And struck Odares, and his brethren, and the children of Phaseron in their tents, and he began to slay, and to increase in forces.

drb@B739:68 @And they fought against Bacchides, and he was discomfited by them: and they afflicted him exceedingly, for his counsel, and his enterprise was in vain.

drb@B739:69 @And he was angry with the wicked men that had given him counsel to come into their country, and he slew many of them: and he purposed to return with the rest into their country.

drb@B739:70 @And Jonathan had knowledge of it, and he sent ambassadors to him to make peace with him, and to restore to him the prisoners.

drb@B739:71 @And he accepted it willingly, and did according to his words, and swore that the would do him no harm all the days of his life.

drb@B739:72 @And he restored to him the prisoners which he before had taken out of the land of Juda: and he returned and went away into his own country, and he came no more into their borders.

drb@B739:73 @So the sword ceased from Israel: and Jonathan dwelt in Machmas, and Jonathan began there to judge the people, and he destroyed the wicked out of Israel.

drb@B7310:1 @Now in the hundred and sixtieth year Alexander the son of Antiochus, surnamed the Illustrious, came up and took Ptolemais, and they received him, and he reigned there.

drb@B7310:3 @And Demetrius sent a letter to Jonathan with peaceable words, to magnify him.

drb@B7310:4 @For he said: Let us first make a peace with him, before he make one with Alexander against us.

drb@B7310:7 @And Jonathan came to Jerusalem, and read the letters in the hearing of all the people, and of them that were in the castle.

drb@B7310:9 @And the hostages were delivered to Jonathan, and he restored them to their parents

drb@B7310:10 @And Jonathan dwelt in Jerusalem, and began to build, and to repair the city.

drb@B7310:13 @And every man left his place, and departed into his own country:

drb@B7310:14 @Only in Bethsura there remained some of them, that had forsaken the law, and the commandments of God: for this was a place of refuge for them.

drb@B7310:15 @And king Alexander heard of the promises that Demetrius had made Jonathan: and they told him of the battles, and the worthy acts that he, and his brethren had done, and the labours that they had endured.

drb@B7310:19 @We have heard of thee, that thou art a man of great power, and fit to be our friend:

drb@B7310:20 @Now therefore we make thee this day high priest of thy nation, and that thou be called the king's friend, (and he sent him a purple robe, and a crown of gold,) and that thou be of one mind with us in our affairs, and keep friendship with us.

drb@B7310:21 @Then Jonathan put on the holy vestment in the seventh month, in the year one hundred and threescore, at the feast day of the tabernacles: and he gathered together an army, and made a great number of arms.

drb@B7310:23 @What is this that we have done, that Alexander hath prevented us to gain the friendship of the Jews to strengthen himself?

drb@B7310:26 @Whereas you have kept covenant with us, and have continued in our friendship, and have not joined with our enemies, we have heard of it, and are glad.

drb@B7310:27 @Wherefore now continue still to keep fidelity towards us, and we will reward you with good things, for what you have done in our behalf.

drb@B7310:32 @I yield up also the power of the castle that is in Jerusalem, and I give it to the high priest, to place therein such men as he shall choose to keep it.

drb@B7310:33 @And every soul of the Jews that hath been carried captive from the land of Juda in all my kingdom, I set at liberty freely, that all be discharged from tributes even of their cattle.

drb@B7310:34 @And I will that all the feasts, and the sabbaths, and the new moons, and the days appointed, and three days before the solemn day, and three days after the solemn day, be all days of immunity and freedom, for all the Jews that are in my kingdom:

drb@B7310:35 @And no man shall have power to do any thing against them, or to molest any of them, in any cause.

drb@B7310:36 @And let there be enrolled in the king's army to the number of thirty thousand of the Jews: and allowance shall be made them as is due to all the king's forces, and certain of them shall be appointed to be in the fortresses of the great king:

drb@B7310:38 @And the three cities that are added to Judea, out of the country of Samaria, let them be accounted with Judea: that they may be under one, and obey no other authority but that of the high priest:

drb@B7310:39 @Ptolemais, and the confines thereof, I give as a free gift to the holy places, that are in Jerusalem, for the necessary charges of the holy things.

drb@B7310:41 @And all that is above, which they that were over the affairs the years before, had not paid, from this time they shall give it to the works of the house.

drb@B7310:42 @Moreover the five thousand sicles of silver which they received from the account of the holy places, every year, shall also belong to the priests that execute the ministry.

drb@B7310:43 @And whosoever shall flee into the temple that is in Jerusalem, and in all the borders thereof, being indebted to the king for any matter, let them be set at liberty, and all that they have in my kingdom, let them have it free.

drb@B7310:44 @For the building also, or repairing the works of the holy places, the charges shall be given out of the king's revenues:

drb@B7310:46 @Now when Jonathan, and the people heard these words, they gave no credit to them nor received them: because they remembered the great evil that he had done in Israel, for he had afflicted them exceedingly.

drb@B7310:47 @And their inclinations were towards Alexander, because he had been the chief promoter of peace in their regard, and him they always helped.

drb@B7310:48 @And king Alexander gathered together a great army, and moved his camp near to Demetrius.

drb@B7310:49 @And the two kings joined battle, and the army of Demetrius fled away, and Alexander pursued after him, and pressed them close.

drb@B7310:51 @And Alexander sent ambassadors to Ptolemee king of Egypt, with words to this effect, saying:

drb@B7310:52 @Forasmuch as I am returned into my kingdom, and am set in the throne of my ancestors and have gotten the dominion, and have overthrown Demetrius, and possessed our country,

drb@B7310:53 @And have joined battle with him, and both he and his army have been destroyed by us, and we are placed in the throne of his kingdom:

drb@B7310:54 @Now therefore let us make friendship one with another: and give me now thy daughter to wife, and I will be thy son in law, and I will give both thee and her gifts worthy of thee.

drb@B7310:55 @And king Ptolemee answered, saying: Happy is the day wherein thou didst return to the land of thy fathers, and sattest in the throne of their kingdom.

drb@B7310:56 @And now I will do to thee as thou hast written: but meet me at Ptolemais, that we may see one another, and I may give her to thee as thou hast said.

drb@B7310:57 @So Ptolemee went out of Egypt, with Cleopatra his daughter, and he came to Ptolemais in the hundred and sixty-second year.

drb@B7310:58 @And king Alexander met him, and he gave him his daughter Cleopatra: and he celebrated her marriage at Ptolemais, with great glory, after the manner of kings.

drb@B7310:60 @And he went honourably to Ptolemais, and he met there the two kings, and he gave them much silver, and gold, and presents: and he found favour in their sight.

drb@B7310:61 @And some pestilent men of Israel, men of a wicked life, assembled themselves against him to accuse him: and the king gave no heed to them.

drb@B7310:62 @And he commanded that Jonathan's garments should be taken off, and that he should be clothed with purple: and they did so. And the king made him sit by himself.

drb@B7310:63 @And he said to his princes: Go out with him into the midst of the city, and make proclamation, that no man complain against him of any matter, and that no man trouble him for any manner of cause.

drb@B7310:64 @So when his accusers saw his glory proclaimed, and him clothed with purple, they all fled away.

drb@B7310:65 @And the king magnified him, and enrolled him amongst his chief friends, and made him governor and partaker of his dominion.

drb@B7310:66 @And Jonathan returned into Jerusalem with peace and joy.

drb@B7310:69 @And king Demetrius made Apollonius his general, who was governor of Celesyria: and he gathered together a great army, and came to Jamnia: and he sent to Jonathan the high priest,

drb@B7310:70 @Saying: Thou alone standest against us, and I am laughed at, and reproached, because thou shewest thy power against us in the mountains.

drb@B7310:71 @Now therefore if thou trustest in thy forces, come down to us into the plain, and there let us try one another: for with me is the strength of war.

drb@B7310:72 @Ask, and learn who I am, and the rest that help me, who also say that your foot cannot stand before our face, for thy fathers have twice been put to flight in their own land:

drb@B7310:73 @And now how wilt thou be able to abide the horsemen, and so great an army in the plain, where there is no stone, nor rock, nor place to flee to?

drb@B7310:74 @Now when Jonathan heard the words of Apollonius, he was moved in his mind: and he chose ten thousand men, and went out of Jerusalem, and Simon his brother met him to help him.

drb@B7310:75 @And they pitched their tents near Joppe, but they shut him out of the city: because a garrison of Apollonius was in Joppe, and he laid siege to it.

drb@B7310:76 @And they that were in the city being affrighted, opened the gates to him: so Jonathan took Joppe.

drb@B7310:77 @And Apollonius heard of it, and he took three thousand horsemen, and a great army.

drb@B7310:78 @And he went to Azotus as one that was making a journey, and immediately he went forth into the plain: because he had a great number of horsemen, and he trusted in them. And Jonathan followed after him to Azotus, and they joined battle.

drb@B7310:79 @And Apollonius left privately in the camp a thousand horsemen behind them.

drb@B7310:80 @And Jonathan knew that there was an ambush behind him, and they surrounded his army, and cast darts at the people from morning till evening.

drb@B7310:81 @But the people stood still, as Jonathan had commanded them: and so their horses were fatigued.

drb@B7310:83 @And they that were scattered about the plain, fled into Azotus, and went into Bethdagon their idol's temple, there to save themselves.

drb@B7310:84 @But Jonathan set fire to Azotus, and the cities that were around it, and took the spoils of them, and the temple of Dagon: and all them that were fled into it, he burnt with fire.

drb@B7310:86 @And Jonathan removed his army from thence, and camped against Ascalon: and they went out of the city to meet him with great honour.

drb@B7310:87 @And Jonathan returned into Jerusalem with his people, having many spoils.

drb@B7310:88 @And it came to pass: When Alexander the king heard these words, that he honoured Jonathan yet more.

drb@B7310:89 @And he sent him a buckle of gold, as the custom is, to be given to such as are of the royal blood. And he gave him Accaron and all the borders thereof in possession.

drb@B7311:1 @And the king of Egypt gathered together an army, like the sand that lieth upon the sea shore, and many ships: and he sought to get the kingdom of Alexander by deceit, and join it to his own kingdom.

drb@B7311:2 @And he went out into Syria with peaceable words, and they opened to him the cities, and met him: for king Alexander had ordered them to go forth to meet him, because he was his father in law.

drb@B7311:3 @Now when Ptolemee entered into the cities, he put garrisons of soldiers in every city.

drb@B7311:4 @And when he came near to Azotus, they shewed him the temple of Dagon that was burnt with fire, and Azotus, and the suburbs thereof that were destroyed, and the bodies that were cast abroad, and the graves of them that were slain in the battle, which they had made near the way.

drb@B7311:5 @And they told the king that Jonathan had done these things, to make him odious: but the king held his peace.

drb@B7311:6 @And Jonathan came to meet the king at Joppe with glory, and they saluted one another, and they lodged there.

drb@B7311:8 @And king Ptolemee got the dominion of the cities by the sea side, even to Seleucia, and he devised evil designs against Alexander.

drb@B7311:10 @For I repent that I have given him my daughter: for he hath sought to kill me.

drb@B7311:13 @And Ptolemee entered into Antioch, and set two crowns upon his head, that of Egypt, and that of Asia.

drb@B7311:14 @Now king Alexander was in Cilicia at that time: because they that were in those places had rebelled.

drb@B7311:15 @And when Alexander heard of it, he came to give him battle, and king Ptolemee brought forth his army, and met him with a strong power, and put him to flight.

drb@B7311:16 @And Alexander fled into Arabia, there to be protected: and king Ptolemee was exalted.

drb@B7311:17 @And Zabdiel the Arabian took off Alexander's head, and sent it to Ptolemee.

drb@B7311:18 @And king Ptolemee died the third day after: and they that were in the strong holds were destroyed by them that were within the camp.

drb@B7311:22 @And when he heard it, he was angry: and forthwith he came to Ptolemais, and wrote to Jonathan, that he should not besiege the castle, but should come to him in haste, and speak to him.

drb@B7311:23 @But when Jonathan heard this, he bade them besiege it still: and he chose some of the ancients of Israel, and of the priests, and put himself in danger.

drb@B7311:24 @And he took gold, and silver, and raiment, and many other presents, and went to the king to Ptolemais, and he found favour in his sight.

drb@B7311:25 @And certain wicked men of his nation made complaints against him.

drb@B7311:26 @And the king treated him as his predecessor had done before: and he exalted him in the sight of all his friends.

drb@B7311:27 @And he confirmed him in the high priesthood, and all the honours he had before, and he made him the chief of his friends.

drb@B7311:28 @And Jonathan requested of the king that he would make Judea free from tribute, and the three governments, and Samaria, and the confines thereof: and he promised him three hundred talents.

drb@B7311:31 @We send you here a copy of the letter, which we have written to Lasthenes our parent concerning you, that you might know it.

drb@B7311:32 @King Demetrius to Lasthenes his parent, greeting.

drb@B7311:33 @We have determined to do good to the nation of the Jews who are our friends, and keep the things that are just with us, for their good will which they bear towards us.

drb@B7311:34 @We have ratified therefore unto them all the borders of Judea, and the three cities, Apherema, Lydda, and Ramatha, which are added to Judea, out of Samaria, and all their confines, to be set apart to all them that sacrifice in Jerusalem, instead of the payments which the king received of them every year, and for the fruits of the land, and of the trees.

drb@B7311:35 @And as for other things that belonged to us of the tithes, and of the tributes, from this time we discharge them of them: the saltpans also, and the crowns that were presented to us.

drb@B7311:37 @Now therefore see that thou make a copy of these things, and let it be given to Jonathan, and set upon the holy mountain, in a conspicuous place.

drb@B7311:38 @And king Demetrius seeing that the land was quiet before him, and nothing resisted him, sent away all his forces, every man to his own place, except the foreign army, which he had drawn together from the islands of the nations: so all the troops of his fathers hated him.

drb@B7311:39 @Now there was one Tryphon who had been of Alexander's party before: who seeing that all the army murmured against Demetrius, went to Emalchuel the Arabian, who brought up Antiochus the son of Alexander.

drb@B7311:40 @And he pressed him much to deliver him to him, that he might be king in his father's place: and he told him all that Demetrius had done, and how his soldiers hated him. And he remained there many days.

drb@B7311:42 @And Demetrius sent to Jonathan, saying: I will not only do this for thee, and for thy people, but I will greatly honour thee, and thy nation, when opportunity shall serve.

drb@B7311:43 @Now therefore thou shalt do well if thou send me men to help me: for all my army is gone from me.

drb@B7311:46 @And the king fled into the palace, and they of the city kept the passages of the city, and began to fight.

drb@B7311:47 @And the king called the Jews to his assistance: and they came to him all at once, and they all dispersed themselves through the city.

drb@B7311:48 @And they slew in that day a hundred thousand men, and they set fire to the city, and got many spoils that day, and delivered the king.

drb@B7311:49 @And they that were of the city saw that the Jews had got the city as they would: and they were discouraged in their minds, and cried to the king, making supplication, and saying:

drb@B7311:50 @Grant us peace, and let the Jews cease from assaulting us, and the city.

drb@B7311:51 @And they threw down their arms, and made peace, and the Jews were glorified in the sight of the king, and in the sight of all that were in his realm, and were renowned throughout the kingdom, and returned to Jerusalem with many spoils.

drb@B7311:54 @And after this Tryphon returned, and with him Antiochus the young boy, who was made king, and put on the diadem.

drb@B7311:56 @And Tryphon took the elephants, and made himself master of Antioch.

drb@B7311:57 @And young Antiochus wrote to Jonathan, saying: I confirm thee in the high priesthood, and I appoint thee ruler over the four cities, and to be one of the king's friends.

drb@B7311:58 @And he sent him vessels of gold for his service, and he gave him leave to drink in gold, and to be clothed in purple, and to wear a golden buckle:

drb@B7311:59 @And he made his brother Simon governor from the borders of Tyre even to the confines of Egypt.

drb@B7311:60 @Then Jonathan went forth and passed through the cities beyond the river: and all the forces of Syria gathered themselves to him to help him, and he came to Ascalon, and they met him honourably out of the city.

drb@B7311:61 @And he went from thence to Gaza: and they that were in Gaza shut him out: and he besieged it, and burnt all the suburbs round about, and took the spoils.

drb@B7311:62 @And the men of Gaza made supplication to Jonathan, and he gave them the right hand: and he took their sons for hostages, and sent them to Jerusalem: and he went through the country as far as Damascus.

drb@B7311:63 @And Jonathan heard that the generals of Demetrius were come treacherously to Cades, which is in Galilee, with a great army, purposing to remove him from the affairs of the kingdom:

drb@B7311:65 @And Simon encamped against Bethsura, and assaulted it many days, and shut them up.

drb@B7311:66 @And they desired him to make peace, and he granted it them: and he cast them out from thence, and took the city, and placed a garrison in it.

drb@B7311:67 @And Jonathan, and his army encamped by the water of Genesar, and before it was light they were ready in the plain of Asor.

drb@B7311:68 @And behold the army of the strangers met him in the plain, and they laid an ambush for him in the mountains: but he went out against them.

drb@B7311:69 @And they that lay in ambush arose out of their places, and joined battle.

drb@B7311:70 @And all that were on Jonathan's side fled, and none was left of them, but Mathathias the son of Absalom, and Judas the son of Calphi, chief captain of the army.

drb@B7311:71 @And Jonathan rent his garments, and cast earth upon his head, and prayed.

drb@B7311:72 @And Jonathan turned again to them to battle, and he put them to flight, and they fought.

drb@B7311:73 @And they of his part that fled saw this, and they turned again to him, and they all with him pursued the enemies even to Cades to their own camp, and they came even thither.

drb@B7312:2 @And he sent letters to the Spartans, and to other places according to the same form.

drb@B7312:3 @And they went to Rome, and entered into the senate house, and said: Jonathan the high priest, and the nation of the Jews have sent us to renew the amity, and alliance as it was before.

drb@B7312:4 @And they gave them letters to their governors in every place, to conduct them into the land of Juda with peace.

drb@B7312:5 @And this is a copy of the letters which Jonathan wrote to the Spartans:

drb@B7312:6 @Jonathan the high priest, and the ancients of the nation, and the priests, and the rest of the people of the Jews, to the Spartans, their brethren, greeting.

drb@B7312:7 @There were letters sent long ago to Onias the high priest from Arius who reigned then among you, to signify that you are our brethren, as the copy here underwritten doth specify.

drb@B7312:10 @Chose rather to send to you to renew the brotherhood and friendship, lest we should become strangers to you altogether: for there is a long time passed since you sent to us.

drb@B7312:15 @For we have had help from heaven, and we have been delivered, and our enemies are humbled.

drb@B7312:16 @We have chosen therefore Numenius the son of Antiochus, and Antipater the son of Jason, and have sent them to the Romans to renew with them the former amity and alliance.

drb@B7312:19 @And this is the copy of the letter which he had sent to Onias:

drb@B7312:20 @Arius king of the Spartans to Onias the high priest, greeting.

drb@B7312:21 @It is found in writing concerning the Spartans, and the Jews, that they are brethren, and that they are of the stock of Abraham.

drb@B7312:22 @And now since this is come to our knowledge, you do well to write to us of your prosperity.

drb@B7312:23 @And we also have written back to you: That our cattle, and our possessions are yours: and yours, ours. We therefore have commanded that these things should be told you.

drb@B7312:26 @And he sent spies into their camp, and they came back and brought him word that they designed to come upon them in the night.

drb@B7312:27 @And when the sun was set, Jonathan commanded his men to watch, and to be in arms all night long ready to fight, and he set sentinels round about the camp.

drb@B7312:28 @And the enemies heard that Jonathan and his men were ready for battle, and they were struck with fear, and dread in their heart: and they kindled fires in their camp.

drb@B7312:30 @And Jonathan pursued after them, but overtook them not: for they had passed the river Eleutherus.

drb@B7312:31 @And Jonathan turned upon the Arabians that are called Zabadeans: and he defeated them, and took the spoils of them.

drb@B7312:32 @And he went forward, and came to Damascus, and passed through all that country.

drb@B7312:33 @Simon also went forth, and came as far as Ascalon, and the neighbouring fortresses, and he turned aside to Joppe, and took possession of it,

drb@B7312:34 @(For he heard that they designed to deliver the hold to them that took part with Demetrius,) and he put a garrison there to keep it.

drb@B7312:35 @And Jonathan came back, and called together the ancients of the people, and he took a resolution with them to build fortresses in Judea,

drb@B7312:36 @And to build up walls in Jerusalem, and raise a mount between the castle and the city, to separate it from the city, that so it might have no communication, and that they might neither buy nor sell.

drb@B7312:37 @And they came together to build up the city: for the wall that was upon the brook towards the east was broken down, and he repaired that which is called Caphetetha:

drb@B7312:38 @And Simon built Adiada in Sephela, and fortified it, and set up gates and bars.

drb@B7312:39 @Now when Tryphon had conceived a design to make himself king of Asia, and to take the crown, and to stretch out his hand against king Antiochus:

drb@B7312:40 @Fearing lest Jonathan would not suffer him, but would fight against him: he sought to seize upon him, and to kill him. So he rose up and came to Bethsan.

drb@B7312:42 @Now when Tryphon saw that Jonathan came with a great army, he durst not stretch forth his hand against him,

drb@B7312:43 @But received him with honour, and commended him to all his friends, and gave him presents: and he commanded his troops to obey him, as himself.

drb@B7312:44 @And he said to Jonathan: Why hast thou troubled all the people, whereas we have no war?

drb@B7312:45 @Now therefore send them back to their own houses: and choose thee a few men that may be with thee, and come with me to Ptolemais, and I will deliver it to thee, and the rest of the strong holds, and the army, and all that have any charge, and I will return and go away: for this is the cause of my coming.

drb@B7312:46 @And Jonathan believed him, and did as he said: and sent away his army, and they departed into the land of Juda:

drb@B7312:47 @But he kept with him three thousand men: of whom he sent two thousand into Galilee, and one thousand went with him.

drb@B7312:48 @Now as soon as Jonathan entered into Ptolemais, they of Ptolemais shut the gates of the city, and took him: and all them that came in with him they slew with the sword.

drb@B7312:49 @Then Tryphon sent an army and horsemen into Galilee, and into the great plain to destroy all Jonathan's company.

drb@B7312:52 @Whereupon they all came peaceably into the land of Juda. And they bewailed Jonathan, and them that had been with him, exceedingly: and Israel mourned with great lamentation.

drb@B7312:54 @They have no prince, nor any to help them: now therefore let us make war upon them, and take away the memory of them from amongst mem.

drb@B7313:1 @Now Simon heard that Tryphon was gathering together a very great army, to invade the land of Juda, and to destroy it.

drb@B7313:2 @And seeing that the people was in dread, and in fear, he went up to Jerusalem, and assembled the people:

drb@B7313:5 @And now far be it from me to spare my life in any time of trouble: for I am not better than my brethren.

drb@B7313:7 @And the spirit of the people was enkindled as soon as they heard these words.

drb@B7313:8 @And they answered with a loud voice, saying: Thou art our leader in the place of Judas, and Jonathan thy brother.

drb@B7313:11 @And he sent Jonathan the son of Absalom, and with him a new army into Joppe, and he cast out them that were in it, and himself remained there.

drb@B7313:12 @And Tryphon removed from Ptolemais with a great army, to invade the land of Juda, and Jonathan was with him in custody.

drb@B7313:13 @But Simon pitched in Addus, over against the plain.

drb@B7313:14 @And when Tryphon understood that Simon was risen up in the place of his brother Jonathan, and that he meant to join battle with him, he sent messengers to him,

drb@B7313:17 @Now Simon knew that he spoke deceitfully to him, nevertheless he ordered the money, and the children to be sent: lest he should bring upon himself a great hatred of the people of Israel, who might have said:

drb@B7313:20 @And after this Tryphon entered within the country, to destroy it: and they went about by the way that leadeth to Ador: and Simon and his army marched to every place whithersoever they went.

drb@B7313:21 @And they that were in the castle, sent messengers to Tryphon, that he should make haste to come through the desert, and sent them victuals.

drb@B7313:22 @And Tryphon made ready all his horsemen to come that night: but there fell a very great snow, and he came not into the country of Galaad.

drb@B7313:23 @And when he approached to Bascama, he slew Jonathan and his sons there.

drb@B7313:24 @And Tryphon returned, and went into his own country.

drb@B7313:27 @And Simon built over the sepulchre of his father and of his brethren, a building lofty to the sight, of polished stone behind and before:

drb@B7313:28 @And he set up seven pyramids one against another for his father and his mother, and his four brethren:

drb@B7313:29 @And round about these he set great pillars: and upon the pillars arms for a perpetual memory: and by the arms ships carved, which might be seen by all that sailed on the sea.

drb@B7313:30 @This is the sepulchre that he made in Modin even unto this day.

drb@B7313:31 @But Tryphon when he was upon a journey with the young king Antiochus, treacherously slew him.

drb@B7313:32 @And he reigned in his place, and put on the crown of Asia: and brought great evils upon the land.

drb@B7313:33 @And Simon built up the strong holds of Judea, fortifying them with high towers, and great walls, and gates, and bars: and he stored up victuals in the fortresses.

drb@B7313:34 @And Simon chose men and sent to king Demetrius, to the end that he should grant an immunity to the land: for all that Tryphon did was to spoil.

drb@B7313:36 @King Demetrius to Simon the high priest, and friend of kings, and to the ancients, and to the nation of the Jews, greeting.

drb@B7313:37 @The golden crown, and the palm, which you sent, we have received: and we are ready to make a firm peace with you, and to write to the king's chief officers to release you the things that we have released.

drb@B7313:40 @And if any of you be fit to be enrolled among ours, let them be enrolled, and let there be peace between us.

drb@B7313:42 @And the people of Israel began to write in the instruments, and public records, The first year under Simon the high priest, the great captain and prince of the Jews.

drb@B7313:43 @In those days Simon besieged Gaza, and camped round about it, and he made engines, and set them to the city, and he struck one tower, and took it.

drb@B7313:44 @And they that were within the engine leaped into the city: and there was a great uproar in the city.

drb@B7313:45 @And they that were in the city went up with their wives and children upon the wall, with their garments rent, and they cried with a loud voice, beseeching Simon to grant them peace.

drb@B7313:48 @And having cast out of it all uncleanness, he placed in it men that should observe the law: and he fortified it, and made it his habitation.

drb@B7313:49 @But they that were in the castle of Jerusalem were hindered from going out and coming into the country, and from buying and selling: and they were straitened with hunger, and many of them perished through famine.

drb@B7313:50 @And they cried to Simon form peace, and he granted it to them: and he cast them out from thence, and cleansed the castle from uncleannesses.

drb@B7313:51 @And they entered into it the three and twentieth day of the second month, in the year one hundred and seventy-one, with thanksgiving, and branches of palm trees, and harps, and cymbals, and psalteries, and hymns, and canticles, because the great enemy was destroyed out of Israel.

drb@B7313:52 @And he ordained that these days should be kept every year with gladness.

drb@B7313:53 @And he fortified the mountain of the temple that was near the castle, and he dwelt there himself, and they that were with him.

drb@B7313:54 @And Simon saw that John his son was a valiant man for war: and he made him captain of all the forces: and he dwelt in Gazara.

drb@B7314:1 @In the year one hundred and seventy-two, king Demetrius assembled has army, and went into Media to get him succours to fight against Tryphon.

drb@B7314:2 @And Arsaces the king of Persia and Media heard that Demetrius was entered within his borders, and he sent one of his princes to take him alive, and bring him to him.

drb@B7314:3 @And he went and defeated the army of Demetrius: and took him, and brought him to Arsaces, and he put him into custody.

drb@B7314:4 @And all the land of Juda was at rest all the days of Simon, and he sought the good of his nation: and his power, and his glory pleased them well all his days.

drb@B7314:5 @And with all his glory he took Joppe for a haven, and made an entrance to the isles of the sea.

drb@B7314:7 @And he gathered together a great number of captives, and had the dominion of Gazara, and of Bethsura, and of the castle: and took away all uncleanness out of it and there was none that resisted him.

drb@B7314:8 @And every man tilled his land with peace: and the land of Juda yielded her increase, and the trees of the fields their fruit.

drb@B7314:9 @The ancient men sat all in the streets, and treated together of the good things of the land, and the young men put on them glory, and the robes of war.

drb@B7314:10 @And he provided victuals for the cities, and he appointed that they should be furnished with ammunition, so that the fame of his glory was renowned even to the end of the earth.

drb@B7314:11 @He made peace in the land, and Israel rejoiced with great joy.

drb@B7314:14 @And he strengthened all those of his people that were brought low, and he sought the law, and took away every unjust and wicked man.

drb@B7314:15 @He glorified the sanctuary, and multiplied the vessels of the holy places.

drb@B7314:16 @And it was heard at Rome, and as far as Sparta, that Jonathan was dead: and they were very sorry.

drb@B7314:17 @But when they heard that Simon his brother was made high priest in his place, and was possessed of all the country, and the cities therein:

drb@B7314:18 @They wrote to him in tables of brass, to renew the friendship and alliance which they had made with Judas, and with Jonathan his brethren.

drb@B7314:19 @And they were read before the assembly in Jerusalem. And this is the copy of the letters that the Spartans sent.

drb@B7314:20 @The princes and the cities of the Spartans to Simon the high priest, and to the ancients, and the priests, and the rest of the people of the Jews their brethren, greeting.

drb@B7314:21 @The ambassadors that were sent to our people, have told us of your glory, and honour, and joy: and we rejoice at their coming.

drb@B7314:22 @And we registered what was said by them in the councils of the people in this manner: Numenius the son of Antiochus, and Antipater the son of Jason, ambassadors of the Jews, came to us to renew the former friendship with us.

drb@B7314:23 @And it pleased the people to receive the men honourably, and to put a copy of their words in the public records, to be a memorial to the people of the Spartans. And we have written a copy of them to Simon the high priest.

drb@B7314:24 @And after this Simon sent Numenius to Rome, with a great shield of gold the weight of a thousand pounds, to confirm the league with them. And when the people of Rome had heard

drb@B7314:26 @For he hath restored his brethren, and hath driven away in fight the enemies of Israel from them: and they decreed him liberty, and registered it in tables of brass, and set it upon pillars in mount Sion.

drb@B7314:27 @And this is a copy of the writing: The eighteenth day of the month Elul, in the year one hundred and seventy-two, being the third year under Simon the high priest at Asaramel,

drb@B7314:28 @In a great assembly of the priests, and of the people, and the princes of the nation, and the ancients of the country, these things were notified: Forasmuch as there have often been wars in our country,

drb@B7314:29 @And Simon the son of Mathathias of the children of Jarib, and his brethren have put themselves in danger, and have resisted the enemies of their nation, for the maintenance of their holy places, and the law: and have raised their nation to great glory.

drb@B7314:30 @And Jonathan gathered together his nation, and was made their high priest, and he was laid to his people.

drb@B7314:31 @And their enemies desired to tread down and destroy their country, and to stretch forth their hands against their holy places.

drb@B7314:33 @And he fortified the cities of Judea, and Bethsura that lieth in the borders of Judea, where the armour of the enemies was before: and he placed there a garrison of Jews.

drb@B7314:34 @And he fortified Joppe which lieth by the sea: and Gazara, which bordereth upon Azotus, wherein the enemies dwelt before, and he placed Jews here: and furnished them with all things convenient for their reparation.

drb@B7314:35 @And the people seeing the acts of Simon, and to what glory he meant to bring his nation, made him their prince, and high priest, because he had done all these things, and for the justice, and faith, which he kept to his nation, and for that he sought by all means to advance his people.

drb@B7314:36 @And in his days things prospered in his hands, so that the heathens were taken away out of their country, and they also that were in the city of David in Jerusalem in the castle, out of which they issued forth, and profaned all places round about the sanctuary, and did much evil to its purity.

drb@B7314:37 @And he placed therein Jews for the defence of the country, and of the city, and he raised up the walls of Jerusalem.

drb@B7314:38 @And king Demetrius confirmed him in the high priesthood.

drb@B7314:41 @And that the Jews, and their priests, had consented that he should be their prince, and high priest for ever, till there should arise a faithful prophet:

drb@B7314:42 @And that he should be chief over them, and that he should have the charge of the sanctuary, and that he should appoint rulers over their works, and over the country, and over the armour, and over the strong holds.

drb@B7314:43 @And that he should have care of the holy places: and that he should be obeyed by all, and that all the writings in the country should be made in his name: and that he should be clothed with purple, and gold:

drb@B7314:44 @And that it should not be lawful for any of the people, or of the priests, to disannul any of these things, or to gainsay his words, or to call together an assembly in the country without him: or to be clothed with purple, or to wear a buckle of gold:

drb@B7314:45 @And whosoever shall do otherwise, or shall make void any of these things shall be punished.

drb@B7314:46 @And it pleased all the people to establish Simon, and to do according to these words.

drb@B7314:47 @And Simon accepted thereof, and was well pleased to execute the office of the high priesthood, and to be captain, and prince of the nation of the Jews, and of the priests, and to be chief over all.

drb@B7314:48 @And they commanded that this writing should be put in tables of brass, and that they should be set up within the compass of the sanctuary, in a conspicuous place:

drb@B7314:49 @And that a copy thereof should be put in the treasury, that Simon and his sons may have it.

drb@B7315:1 @And king Antiochus the son of Demetrius sent letters from the isles of the sea to Simon the priest, and prince of the nation of the Jews, and to all the people:

drb@B7315:2 @And the contents were these: King Antiochus to Simon the high priest, and to the nation of the Jews, greeting.

drb@B7315:3 @Forasmuch as certain pestilent men have usurped the kingdom of our fathers, and my purpose is to challenge the kingdom, and to restore it to its former estate: and I have chosen a great army, and have built ships of war.

drb@B7315:7 @And let Jerusalem be holy and free, and all the armour that hath been made, and the fortresses which thou hast built, and which thou keepest in thy hands, let them remain to thee.

drb@B7315:8 @And all that is due to the king, and what should be the king's hereafter, from this present and for ever, is forgiven thee.

drb@B7315:9 @And when we shall have recovered our kingdom, we will glorify thee, and thy nation, and the temple with great glory, so that your glory shall be made manifest in all the earth.

drb@B7315:10 @In the year one hundred and seventy-four Antiochus entered into the land of this fathers, and all the forces assembled to him, so that few were left with Tryphon.

drb@B7315:11 @And king Antiochus pursued after him, and he fled along by the sea coast and came to Dora.

drb@B7315:12 @For he perceived that evils were gathered together upon him, and his troops had forsaken him.

drb@B7315:13 @And Antiochus camped above Dora with a hundred and twenty thousand men of war, and eight thousand horsemen:

drb@B7315:14 @And he invested the city, and the ships drew near by sea: and they annoyed the city by land, and by sea, and suffered none to come in, or to go out.

drb@B7315:16 @Lucius the consul of the Romans, to king Ptolemee, greeting.

drb@B7315:17 @The ambassadors of the Jews our friends came to us, to renew the former friendship and alliance, being sent from Simon the high priest, and the people of the Jews.

drb@B7315:18 @And they brought also a shield of gold of a thousand pounds.

drb@B7315:21 @If therefore any pestilent men are fled out of their country to you, deliver them to Simon the high priest, that he may punish them according to their law.

drb@B7315:23 @And to all the countries; and to Lampsacus, and to the Spartans, and to Delus, and Myndus, and Sicyon, and Caria, and Samus, and Pamphylia, and Lycia, and Alicarnassus, and Cos, and Side, and Aradus, and Rhodes, and Phaselis, and Gortyna, and Gnidus, and Cyprus, and Cyrene.

drb@B7315:24 @And they wrote a copy thereof to Simon the high priest, and to the people of the Jews.

drb@B7315:25 @But king Antiochus moved his camp to Dora the second time, assaulting it continually, and making engines: and shut up Tryphon, that he could not go out.

drb@B7315:28 @And he sent to him Athenobius one of his friends, to treat with him, saying: You hold Joppe, and Gazara, and the castle that is in Jerusalem, which are cities of my kingdom:

drb@B7315:29 @Their borders you have wasted, and you have made great havock in the land, and have got the dominion of many places in my kingdom.

drb@B7315:30 @Now therefore deliver up the cities that you have taken, and the tributes of the places whereof you have gotten the dominion without the borders of Judea.

drb@B7315:32 @So Athenobius the king's friend came to Jerusalem, and saw the glory of Simon and his magnificence in gold, and silver, and his great equipage, and he was astonished, and told him the king's words.

drb@B7315:33 @And Simon answered him, and said to him: We have neither taken other men's land, neither do we hold that which is other men's: but the inheritance of our fathers, which was for some time unjustly possessed by our enemies.

drb@B7315:34 @But we having opportunity claim the inheritance of our fathers.

drb@B7315:35 @And as to thy complaints concerning Joppe and Gazara, they did great harm to the people, and to our country: yet for these we will give a hundred talents. And Athenobius answered him not a word:

drb@B7315:36 @But returning in a rage to the king, made report to him of these words, and of the glory of Simon, and of all that he had seen, and the king was exceeding angry.

drb@B7315:37 @And Tryphon fled away by ship to Orthosias.

drb@B7315:38 @And the king appointed Cendebeus captain of the sea coast, and gave him an army of footmen and horsemen.

drb@B7315:39 @And he commanded him to march with his army towards Judea: and he commanded him to build up Gedor, and to fortify the gates of the city, and to war against the people. But the king himself pursued after Tryphon.

drb@B7315:40 @And Cendebeus came to Jamnia, and began to provoke the people, and to ravage Judea, and to take the people prisoners, and to kill, and to build Gedor.

drb@B7315:41 @And he placed there horsemen, and an army: that they might issue forth, and make incursions upon the ways of Judea, as the king had commanded him.

drb@B7316:1 @Then John came up from Gazara, and told Simon his father what Cendebeus had done against their people.

drb@B7316:2 @And Simon called his two eldest sons, Judas and John, and said to them: I and my brethren, and my father's house, have fought against the enemies of Israel from our youth even to this day: and things have prospered so well in our hands that we have delivered Israel oftentimes.

drb@B7316:3 @And now I am old, but be you instead of me, and my brethren, and go out, and fight for our nation: and the help from heaven be with you.

drb@B7316:5 @And they arose in the morning, and went into the plain: and behold a very great army of footmen and horsemen came against them, and there was a running river between them.

drb@B7316:6 @And he and his people pitched their camp over against them, and he saw that the people were afraid to go over the river, so he went over first: then the men seeing him, passed over after him.

drb@B7316:7 @And he divided the people, and set the horsemen in the midst of the footmen: but the horsemen of the enemies were very numerous.

drb@B7316:8 @And they sounded the holy trumpets: and Cendebeus and his army were put to flight: and there fell many of them wounded, and the rest fled into the strong hold.

drb@B7316:9 @At that time Judas John's brother was wounded: but John pursued after them, till he came to Cedron, which he had built:

drb@B7316:10 @And they fled even to the towers that were in the fields of Azotus, and he burnt them with fire. And there fell of them two thousand men, and he returned into Judea in peace.

drb@B7316:11 @Now Ptolemee the son of Abobus was appointed captain in the plain of Jericho, and he had abundance of silver and gold,

drb@B7316:12 @For he was son in law of the high priest.

drb@B7316:13 @And his heart was lifted up, and he designed to make himself master of the country, and he purposed treachery against Simon, and his sons, to destroy them.

drb@B7316:16 @And when Simon and his sons had drunk plentifully, Ptolemee and his men rose up and took their weapons, and entered into the banqueting place, and slew him, and his two sons, and some of his servants.

drb@B7316:18 @And Ptolemee wrote these things and sent to the king that he should send him an army to aid him, and he would deliver him the country, and their cities, and tributes.

drb@B7316:20 @And he sent others to take Jerusalem, and the mountain of the temple.

drb@B7316:22 @But when he heard it he was exceedingly afraid: and he apprehended the men that came to kill him, and he put them to death: for he knew that they sought to make him away.

drb@B7316:24 @Behold these are written in the book of the days of his priesthood, from the time he was made high priest after his father.

drb@B741:1 @To the brethren the Jews that are I throughout Egypt, the brethren, the Jews that are in Jerusalem, and in the land of Judea, send health, and good peace.

drb@B741:3 @And give you all a heart to worship him, and to do his will with a great heart, and a willing mind.

drb@B741:4 @May he open your heart in his law, and in his commandments, and send you peace.

drb@B741:5 @May he hear your prayers, and be reconciled unto you, and never forsake you in the evil time.

drb@B741:6 @And now here we are praying for you.

drb@B741:7 @When Demetrius reigned, in the year one hundred and sixty-nine, we Jews wrote to you, in the trouble, and violence, that came upon us in those years, after Jason withdrew himself from the holy land, and from the kingdom.

drb@B741:8 @They burnt the gate, and shed innocent blood: then we prayed to the Lord, and were heard, and we offered sacrifices, and fine flour, and lighted the lamps, and set forth the leaves.

drb@B741:9 @And now celebrate ye the days of Scenopegia in the month of Casleu.

drb@B741:10 @In the year Bone hundred and eighty- eight, the people that is at Jerusalem, and in Judea, and the senate, and Judas, to Aristobolus, the preceptor of king Ptolemee, who is of the stock of the anointed priests, and to the Jews that are in Egypt, health and welfare.

drb@B741:12 @For he made numbers of men swarm out of Persia that have fought against us, and the holy city.

drb@B741:13 @For when the leader himself was in Persia, and with him a very great army, he fell in the temple of Nanea, being deceived by the counsel of the priests of Nanea.

drb@B741:14 @For Antiochus, with his friends, came to the place as though he would marry her, and that he might receive great sums of money under the title of a dowry.

drb@B741:15 @And when the priests of Nanea had set it forth, and he with a small company had entered into the compass of the temple, they shut the temple,

drb@B741:16 @When Antiochus was came in: and opening a secret entrance of the temple, they cast stones and slew the leader, and them that were with him, and hewed them in pieces, and cutting off their heads they threw them forth.

drb@B741:17 @Blessed be God in all things, who hath delivered up the wicked.

drb@B741:18 @Therefore whereas we purpose to keep the purification of the temple on the five and twentieth day of the month of Casleu, we thought it necessary to signify it to you: that you also may keep the day of Scenopegia, and the day of the fire, that was given when Nehemias offered sacrifice, after the temple and the altar was built.

drb@B741:19 @For when our fathers were led in Persia, the priests that then were worshippers of God took privately the fire from the altar, and hid it in a valley where there was a deep pit without water, and there they kept it safe,

drb@B741:20 @But when many years had passed, and it pleased God that Nehemias should be sent by the king of Persia, he sent some of the posterity of those priests that had hid it, to seek for the fire: and as they told us, they found no fire, but thick water.

drb@B741:21 @Then he bade them draw it up, and bring it to him: and the priest Nehemias commanded the sacrifices that were laid on, to be sprinkled with the same water, both the wood, and the things that were laid upon it.

drb@B741:23 @And all the priests made prayer, while the sacrifice was consuming, Jonathan beginning, and the rest answering.

drb@B741:24 @And the prayer of Nehemias was after this manner: 0 Lord God, Creator of all things, dreadful and strong, just and merciful, who alone art the goad king,

drb@B741:26 @Receive the sacrifice for all thy people Israel, and preserve thy own portion, and sanctify it.

drb@B741:27 @Gather together our scattered people, deliver them that are slaves to the Gentiles, and look upon them that are despised and abhorred: that the Gentiles may know that thou art our God.

drb@B741:28 @Punish them that oppress us, and that treat us injuriously with pride.

drb@B741:29 @Establish thy people in thy holy place, as Moses hath spoken.

drb@B741:30 @And the priests sung hymns till the sacrifice was consumed.

drb@B741:31 @And when the sacrifice was consumed, Nehemias commanded the water that was left to be poured out upon the great stones.

drb@B741:33 @And when this matter became public, it was told to the king of Persia, that in the place where the priests that were led away, had hid the fire, there appeared water, with which Nehemias and they that were with him had purified the sacrifices.

drb@B741:34 @And the king considering, and diligently examining the matter, made a temple for it, that he might prove what had happened.

drb@B741:35 @And when he had proved it, he gave the priests many goods, and divers presents, and he took end distributed them to them with his own hand.

drb@B741:36 @And Nehemias called this place Nephthar, which is interpreted purification. But many call it Nephi.

drb@B741:37 @that the place was unknown to all men.

drb@B742:1 @Now it is found in the descriptions of Jeremias the prophet, that he commanded them that went into captivity, to take the fire, as it hath been signified, and how he gave charge to them that were carried away into captivity.

drb@B742:3 @And with other such like speeches, he exhorted them that they would not remove the law from their heart.

drb@B742:4 @It was also contained in the same writing, how the prophet, being warned by God, commanded that the tabernacle and the ark should accompany him, till he came forth to the mountain " where Moses went up, and saw the inheritance of God.

drb@B742:5 @And when Jeremias came thither he found a hollow cave: and he carried in thither the tabernacle, and the ark, and the altar of incense, and so stopped the door.

drb@B742:6 @Then some of them that followed him, came up to mark the place: but they could not And it.

drb@B742:7 @And when Jeremias perceived it, he blamed them, saying: The place shall be unknown, till God gather together the congregation of the people, and receive them to mercy.

drb@B742:8 @And then the Lord will shew these things, and the majesty of the Lord shall appear, and there shall be a cloud as it was also shewed to Moses, "and he shewed it when Solomon prayed that the place might be sanctified to the great God.

drb@B742:9 @For he treated wisdom in a magnificent manner: and like a wise man, he offered the sacrifice of the dedication, and of the finishing of the temple.

drb@B742:10 @And as Moses prayed to the Lord and fire came down from heaven, and consumed the holocaust: so Solomon also prayed, and fire came down from heaven and consumed the holocaust.

drb@B742:13 @And these same things were set down in the memoirs and commentaries of Nehemias: and how he made a library, and gathered together out of the countries, the books both of the prophets, and of David, and the epistles of the kings. and concerning the holy gifts.

drb@B742:14 @And in like manner Judas also gathered together all such things as were lost by the war we had, and they are in our possession.

drb@B742:16 @As we are then about to celebrate the purification, we have written unto you: and you shall do well, if you keep the same days.

drb@B742:17 @And we hope that God who hath delivered his people, and hath rendered to all the inheritance, and the kingdom, and the priesthood, and the sanctuary,

drb@B742:18 @As he promised in the law, will shortly have mercy upon us, and will gather us together from every land under heaven into the holy place.

drb@B742:19 @For he hath delivered us out of great perils, and hath cleansed the place.

drb@B742:20 @Now as concerning Judas Machabeus. and his brethren, and the purification of the great temple, and the dedication o the altar:

drb@B742:21 @As also the wars against Antioch the Illustrious, and his son Eupator:

drb@B742:22 @And the manifestations that from heaven to them, that behaved themselves manfully on the behalf of the Jews, so that, being but a few, they made themselves masters of the whole country, and put to flight; the barbarous multitude:

drb@B742:23 @And recovered again the most renowned temple in all the world, and delivered the city, and restored the laws that were abolished, the Lord with all clemency shewing mercy to them.

drb@B742:24 @And all such things as have been comprised in five books by Jason of Cyrene, we have attempted to abridge in one book.

drb@B742:26 @We have taken care for those indeed that are willing to read, that it might be a pleasure of mind: and for the studious, that they may more easily commit to memory: and that all that read might receive profit.

drb@B742:28 @But as they that prepare a feast, and seek to satisfy the will of others: for the sake of many, we willingly undergo the labour.

drb@B742:29 @Leaving to the authors the exact handling of every particular, and as for ourselves, according to the plan pro- posed, studying to be brief.

drb@B742:30 @For as the master builder of a new house must have care of the whole building: but he that taketh care to paint it, must seek out fit things for the adorning of it: so must it be judged for us.

drb@B742:31 @For to collect all that is to be known, to put the discourse in order, and curiously to discuss every particular point, is the duty of the author of a history:

drb@B742:32 @But to pursue brevity of speech, and to avoid nice declarations of things, is to be granted to him that maketh an abridgment.

drb@B742:33 @Here then we will begin the narration: let this be enough by way of a preface: for it is a foolish thing to make a long prologue, and to be short in the story itself.

drb@B743:1 @Therefore when the holy city was inhabited with all peace, and the laws as yet were very well kept, because of the godliness of Onias the high priest, and the hatred his soul had of evil,

drb@B743:2 @It came to pass that even the kings themselves, and the princes esteemed the place worthy of the highest honour, and glorified the temple with very great gifts:

drb@B743:4 @But one Simon of the tribe of Benjamin, who was appointed overseer of the temple, strove in opposition to the high priest, to bring about some unjust thing in the city.

drb@B743:5 @And when he could not overcome Onias he went to Apollonius the son of Tharseas, who at that time was governor of Celesyria and Phenicia:

drb@B743:6 @And told him, that the treasury in Jerusalem was full of immense sums of money, and the common store was infinite, which did not belong to the account of the sacrifices: and that it was possible to bring all into the king's hands.

drb@B743:7 @Now when Apollonius had given the king notice concerning the money that he was told of, he called for Heliodorus, who had the charge over his affairs, and sent him with commission to bring him the foresaid money.

drb@B743:8 @So Heliodorus forthwith began his journey, under a colour of visiting the cities of Celesyria and Phenicia, but in- deed to fulfil the king's purpose.

drb@B743:9 @And when he was come to Jerusalem, and had been courteously received in the city by the high priest, he told him what information had been given concerning the money: and declared the cause for which he was come: and asked if these things were so indeed.

drb@B743:10 @Then the high priest told him that these were sums deposited, and provisions for the subsistence of the widows and the fatherless

drb@B743:11 @And that some part of that which wicked Simon had given intelligence of, belonged to Hircanus son of Tobias, a man of great dignity: and that the whole was four hundred talents of silver, and two hundred of gold:

drb@B743:12 @But that to deceive them who had trusted to the place and temple which is honoured throughout the whole world, for the reverence and holiness of it, was a thing which could not by any means be done.

drb@B743:14 @So on the day he had appointed, Heliodorus entered in to order this mat- tar. But there was no small terror throughout the whole city.

drb@B743:15 @And the priests prostrated them- selves before the altar in their priests' vestments, and called upon him from heaven, who made the law concerning things given to be kept, that he would preserve them safe, for them that had deposited them.

drb@B743:16 @Now whosoever saw the countenance of the high priest, was wounded in heart: for his face, and the changing of his colour declared the inward sorrow of his mind.

drb@B743:17 @For the man was so compassed with sadness and horror of the body, that it was manifest to them that beheld him, what sorrow he had in his heart.

drb@B743:18 @Others also came hocking together out of their houses, praying and making public supplication, because the place was like to come into contempt.

drb@B743:19 @And the women, girded with haircloth about their breasts, came together in the streets. And the virgins also that were shut up, came forth, some to Onias, and some to the walls, and others looked out of the windows.

drb@B743:20 @And all holding up their hands towards heaven, made supplication.

drb@B743:21 @For the expectation of the mixed multitude, and of the high priest who was in an agony, would have moved any one to pity.

drb@B743:22 @And these indeed called upon al- mighty God, to preserve the things that had been committed to them, safe and sure for those that had committed them.

drb@B743:23 @But Heliodorus executed that which he had resolved on, himself being present in the same place with his guard about the treasury.

drb@B743:24 @But the spirit of the almighty God gave a great evidence of his presence, so that all that had presumed to obey him, falling down by the power of God, were struck with fainting and dread.

drb@B743:25 @For there appeared to them a horse with a terrible rider upon him, adorned with a very rich covering: and he ran fiercely and struck Heliodorus with his fore feet, and he that sat upon him seemed to have armour of gold.

drb@B743:26 @Moreover there appeared two other young men beautiful and strong, bright and glorious, and in comely apparel: who stood by him, on either side, and scourged him without ceasing with many stripes.

drb@B743:27 @Arid Heliodorus suddenly fell to the ground, and they took him up covered with great darkness, and having put him into a litter they carried him out.

drb@B743:28 @So he that came with many servants, and all his guard into the aforesaid treasury, was carried out, no one being able to help him, the manifest power of God being known.

drb@B743:29 @And he indeed by the power of God lay speechless, and without all hope of recovery.

drb@B743:30 @But they praised the Lord because he had glorified his place: and the temple, that a little before was full of fear and trouble, when the almighty Lord appeared, was filled with joy and gladness.

drb@B743:31 @Then some of the friends of Heliodorus forthwith begged of Onias, that he would call upon the most High to grant him his life, who was ready to give up the ghost.

drb@B743:32 @So the high priest considering that the king might perhaps suspect that some mischief had been done to Heliodorus by the Jews, offered a sacrifice of health for the recovery of the man.

drb@B743:33 @And when the high priest was praying, the same young men in the same clothing stood by Heliodorus, and said to him: Give thanks to Onias the priest: because for his sake the Lord hath granted thee life.

drb@B743:34 @And thou having been scourged by God, declare unto all men the great works and the power of God. And having spoken thus, they appeared no more.

drb@B743:35 @So Heliodorus after he had offered a sacrifice to God, and made great vows to him, that had granted him life, and given thanks to Onias, taking his troops with him, returned to the king.

drb@B743:38 @If thou hast any enemy or traitor to thy kingdom, send him thither, and thou shalt receive him again scourged, if so be he escape: for there is undoubtedly in that place a certain power of God.

drb@B743:39 @For he that hath his dwelling in the heavens, is the visitor, and protector of that place, and he striketh and destroyeth them that come to do evil to it.

drb@B743:40 @And the things concerning Heliodorus, and the keeping of the treasury fell out in this manner.

drb@B744:1 @But Simon, of whom we spoke before, and of his country, spoke ill of Onias, as though he had incited Heliodorus to do these things, and had been the promoter of evils:

drb@B744:2 @And he presumed to call him a traitor to the kingdom, who provided for the city, and defended his nation, and wed zealous for the law of God.

drb@B744:3 @But when the enmities proceeded so far, that murders also were committed by some of Simon's friends:

drb@B744:4 @Onias considering the danger of this contention, and that Apollonius, who was the governor of Celesyria and Phenicia, was outrageous, which increased the malice of Simon, went to the king,

drb@B744:5 @Not to be an accuser of his countrymen, but with a view to the common good of all the people.

drb@B744:6 @For he saw that, except the king took care, it was impossible that matters should be settled in peace, or that Simon would cease from his folly.

drb@B744:7 @But after the death of Seleucus, when Antiochus, who was called the Illustrious, had taken possession of the kingdom, Jason the brother of Onias ambitiously sought the high priesthood:

drb@B744:8 @And went to the king, promising him three hundred and sixty talents of silver, and out of other revenues four- score talents.

drb@B744:9 @Besides this he promised also a hundred and fifty more, if he might have license to set him up a place for exercise, and a place for youth, and to entitle them, that were at Jerusalem, Antiochians.

drb@B744:11 @And abolishing those things, which had been decreed of special favour by the kings in behalf of the Jews, by the means of John the father of that Eupolemus, who went ambassador to Rome to make amity and alliance, he disannulled the lawful ordinances of the citizens, and brought in fashions that were perverse.

drb@B744:12 @For he had the boldness to set up, U under the very castle, a place of exercise, and to put all the choicest youths in brothel houses.

drb@B744:13 @Now this was not the beginning, but an increase, and progress of heathenish and foreign manners, through the abominable and unheard of wickedness of Jason, that impious wretch and no priest.

drb@B744:14 @Insomuch that the priests were not now occupied about the offices of the altar, but despising the temple and neglecting the sacrifices, hastened to be partakers of the games, and of the unlawful allowance thereof, and of the exercise of the discus.

drb@B744:17 @For acting wickedly against the laws of God doth not pass unpunished: but this the time following will declare.

drb@B744:18 @Now when the game that was used every fifth year was kept at Tyre, the king being present,

drb@B744:19 @The wicked Jason sent from Jerusalem sinful men to carry three hundred didrachmas of silver for the sacrifice of Hercules; but the bearers thereof de- sired it might not be bestowed on the sacrifices, because it was not necessary, but might be deputed for other charges.

drb@B744:20 @So the money was appointed by him that sent it to the sacrifice of Hercules: but because of them that carried it was employed for the making of galleys.

drb@B744:21 @Now when Apollonius the son of Mnestheus was sent into Egypt to treat with the nobles of king Philometor, and Antiochus understood that he was wholly excluded from the affairs of the kingdom, consulting his own interest, he departed thence and came to Joppe, and from thence to Jerusalem:

drb@B744:22 @Where he was received in a, magnificent manner by Jason, and the city, and came in with torch lights, and with praises, end from thence he returned with his army into Phenicia.

drb@B744:24 @But he being recommended to the king, when he had magnified the appearance of his power, got the high priesthood for himself, by offering more than Jason by three hundred talents of silver.

drb@B744:25 @So having received the king's man- date, he returned bringing nothing worthy of the high priesthood: but having the mind of a cruel tyrant, and the rage of a savage beast.

drb@B744:27 @So Menelaus got the principality: but as for the money he had promised to the king he took no care, when Sostratus the governor of the castle called for

drb@B744:28 @For to him appertained the gathering of the taxes: wherefore they were both called before the king.

drb@B744:29 @And Menelaus was removed from the priesthood, Lysimachus his brother succeeding: and Sostratus was made governor of the Cyprians.

drb@B744:31 @The king therefore went in all haste to appease them, leaving Andronicus, one of his nobles, for his deputy.

drb@B744:32 @Then Menelaus supposing that he had found a convenient time, having stolen certain vessels of gold out of the temple, gave them to Andronicus, and others he had sold at Tyre, and in the neighbouring cities.

drb@B744:33 @Which when Onias understood most certainly, he reproved him, keeping him- self in a safe place at Antioch beside Daphne.

drb@B744:34 @Whereupon Menelaus coming to Andronicus, desired him to kill Onias. And he went to Onias, and gave him his right hand with an oath, and (though he were suspected by him) persuaded him to come forth out of the sanctuary, and immediately slew him, without any regard to justice.

drb@B744:36 @And when the king was come back from the places of Cilicia, the Jews that were at Antioch, and also the Creaks went to him: complaining of the unjust murder of Onias.

drb@B744:37 @Antiochus therefore was grieved in his mind for Onias, and being moved to pity, shed tears, remembering the sobriety and modesty of the deceased.

drb@B744:38 @And being inflamed to anger, he commanded Andronicus to be stripped of his purple, and to be led about through all the city: and that in the same place wherein he had committed the impiety against Onias, the sacrilegious wretch should be put to death, the Lord repaying him his deserved punishment.

drb@B744:39 @Now when many sacrileges had been committed by Lysimachus in the temple by the counsel of Menelaus, and the rumour of it was spread abroad, the multitude gathered themselves together against Lysimachus, a great quantity of gold being already carried away.

drb@B744:40 @Wherefore the multitude making an insurrection, and their minds being filled with anger, Lysimachus armed about three thousand men, and began to use violence, one Tyrannus being captain, a man far gone both in age, and in madness.

drb@B744:41 @But when they perceived the attempt of Lysimachus, some caught up stones, some strong clubs: and some threw ashes upon Lysimachus,

drb@B744:42 @And many of them were wounded, and some struck down to the ground, but all were put to flight: and as for the sacrilegious fellow himself, they slew him beside the treasury.

drb@B744:44 @And when the king was come to Tyre, three men were sent from the ancients to plead the cause before him.

drb@B744:45 @But Menelaus being convicted, promised Ptolemee to give him much money to persuade the king to favour him.

drb@B744:46 @So Ptolemee went to the king in a certain court where he was, as it were to cool himself, and brought him to be of another mind:

drb@B744:47 @So Menelaus who was guilty of all the evil, was acquitted by him of the accusations: and those poor men, who, if they had pleaded their cause even before Scythians, should have been judged innocent, were condemned to death.

drb@B744:48 @Thus they that prosecuted the cause for the city, and for the people, and the sacred vessels, did soon suffer unjust punishment.

drb@B744:50 @And so through the covetousness of them that were in power, Menelaus continued in authority, increasing in malice to the betraying of the citizens.

drb@B745:1 @At the same time Antiochus prepared for a second journey into Egypt.

drb@B745:2 @And it came to pass that through the whole city of Jerusalem for the space of forty days there were seen horsemen running in the air, in gilded raiment, and armed with spears, like bands of soldiers.

drb@B745:4 @Wherefore all men prayed that these prodigies might turn to good.

drb@B745:6 @But Jason slew his countrymen without mercy, not considering that prosperity against one's own kindred is a very great evil, thinking they had been enemies, and not citizens, whom he conquered.

drb@B745:7 @Yet he did not gee the principality, but received confusion at tile end, for the reward of his treachery, and fled again into the country of the Ammonites.

drb@B745:8 @At the last having been shut up by Aretas the king of the Arabians, in order for his destruction, flying from city to city, hated by all men, as a forsaker of the laws, and execrable, as an enemy of his country and countrymen, he was thrust out into Egypt:

drb@B745:9 @And he that had driven many out of their country, perished in a strange land, going to Lacedemon, as if for kindred sake he should have refuge there:

drb@B745:10 @But he that had cast out many unburied, was himself cast forth both unlamented and unburied, neither having foreign burial, nor being partaker of the sepulchre of his fathers.

drb@B745:11 @Now when these things were done, the king suspected that the Jews would forsake the alliance: whereupon departing out of Egypt with a furious mind, he took the city by force of arms.

drb@B745:12 @And commanded the soldiers to kill, and not to spare any that came in their way, and to go up into the houses slay

drb@B745:14 @And there were slain in the space o three whole days fourscore thousand, forty thousand were made prisoners, and as many sold.

drb@B745:15 @But this was not enough; he presumed also to enter into the temple, the most holy in all the world, Menelaus, that traitor to the laws, and to his country, being his guide.

drb@B745:16 @And taking in his wicked hands the holy vessels, which were given by other kings and cities, for the ornament and the glory of the place, he unworthily handled and profaned them.

drb@B745:17 @Thus Antiochus going astray in mind, did not consider that God was angry for a while, because of the sins of the habitants of the city: and therefore contempt had happened to the place:

drb@B745:18 @Otherwise had they not been involved in many sins, as Heliodorus, who was sent by king Seleucus to rob treasury, so this man also, as soon as had come, had been forthwith scourged, and put back from his presumption.

drb@B745:19 @But God did not choose the people for the place's sake, but the place for the people's sake.

drb@B745:20 @And therefore the place also itself was made partaker of the evils of the people: but afterward shall communicate in the good things thereof, and as it was forsaken in the wrath of almighty God, shall be exalted again with great glory, when the great Lord shall be reconciled.

drb@B745:21 @So when Antiochus had taken away out of the temple a thousand and eight hundred talents, he went back in all haste to Antioch, thinking through pride, that he might now make the land navigable, and the sea passable on foot: such was the haughtiness of his mind.

drb@B745:22 @He left also governors to afflict the people: at Jerusalem, Philip, a Phrygian by birth, but in manners more barbarous than he that set him there:

drb@B745:23 @And in Gazarim, Andronicus and Menelaus, who bore a more heavy hand upon the citizens than the rest.

drb@B745:24 @And whereas he was set against the Jews, he sent that hateful prince Apollonius with an army of two and twenty thousand men, commanding him to kill all that were of perfect age, and to sell the women and the younger sort.

drb@B745:25 @Who when he was come to Jerusalem, pretending peace, rested till the holy day of the sabbath: and then the Jews keeping holiday, he commanded his men to take arms.

drb@B745:27 @But Judas Machabeus, who was the tenth, had withdrawn himself into a desert place, and there lived amongst wild beasts in the mountains with his company: and they continued feeding on herbs, that they might not be partakers of the pollution.

drb@B746:1 @But not long after the king sent a certain old man of Antioch, to compel the Jews to depart from the laws of their fathers and of God:

drb@B746:2 @And to defile the temple that was in Jerusalem, and to call it the temple of Jupiter Olympius: and that in Gazarim of Jupiter Hospitalis, according as they were that inhabited the place.

drb@B746:4 @For the temple was full of the riot and revellings of the Gentiles: and of men lying with lewd women. And women thrust themselves of their accord into the holy places, and brought in things that were not lawful.

drb@B746:6 @And neither were the sabbaths kept, nor the solemn days of the fathers observed, neither did any man plainly profess himself to be a Jew.

drb@B746:7 @But they were led by bitter constraint on the king's birthday to the sacrifices: and when the feast of Bacchus was kept, they wore compelled to go about crowned with ivy in honour of Bacchus.

drb@B746:8 @And there went out a decree into the neighbouring cities of the Gentiles, by the suggestion of the Ptolemeans, that they also should act in like manner against the Jews, to oblige them to sacrifice:

drb@B746:9 @And whosoever would not conform themselves to the ways of the Gentiles, should be put to death: then was misery to be seen.

drb@B746:10 @For two women were accused to have circumcised their children: whom, when they had openly led about through the city with the infants hanging at their breasts, they threw down headlong from the walls.

drb@B746:11 @And others that had met together in caves that were near, and were keeping the sabbath day privately, being discovered by Philip, were burnt with fire, because they made a conscience to help themselves with their hands, by reason of the religious observance of the day.

drb@B746:12 @Now I beseech those that shall read this book, that they be not shocked at these calamities, but that they consider the things that happened, not as being for the destruction, but for the correction of our nation.

drb@B746:13 @For it is a token of great goodness when sinners are not suffered to go on in their ways for a long time, but are presently punished.

drb@B746:14 @For, not as with other nations (whom the Lord patiently expecteth, that when the day of judgment shall come, he may punish them in the fulness of their sins:)

drb@B746:16 @And therefore he never withdraweth his mercy from us: but though he chastise his people with adversity, he forsaketh them not.

drb@B746:18 @Eleazar one of the chief of the scribes, a man advanced in years, and of a comely countenance, was pressed to open his mouth to eat swine's flesh.

drb@B746:20 @And considering in what manner he was come to ii;, patiently bearing, he determined not to do any unlawful things for the love of life.

drb@B746:21 @But they that stood by, being moved with wicked pity, for the old friendship they had with the man, taking him aside, desired that flesh might be brought, which it was lawful for him to eat, that he might make as if he had eaten, as the king had commanded of the flesh of the sacrifice:

drb@B746:22 @That by so doing he might be delivered from death: and for the sake of their old friendship with the man they did him this courtesy.

drb@B746:24 @For it doth not become our age, said he, to dissemble: whereby many young persons might think that Eleazar, at the age of fourscore and ten years, was gone over to the life of the heathens:

drb@B746:25 @And so they, through my dissimulation, and for a little time of a corruptible life, should be deceived, end hereby I should bring a stain and a curse upon my old age.

drb@B746:26 @For though, for the present time, I should be delivered from the punishments of men, yet should I not escape the hand of the Almighty neither alive nor dead.

drb@B746:27 @Wherefore by departing manfully out of this life, I shall shew myself worthy of my old age:

drb@B746:28 @And I shall leave an example of fortitude to young men, if with a ready mind and constancy I suffer an honourable death, for the most venerable and most holy laws. And having spoken thus, he was forthwith carried to execution.

drb@B746:29 @And they that led him, and had been a little before more mild, were changed to wrath for the words he had spoken, which they thought were uttered out of arrogancy.

drb@B746:30 @But when he was now ready to die with the stripes, he groaned, and said: O Lord, who hast the holy knowledge, thou knowest manifestly that whereas I might be delivered from death, I suffer grevious pains in body: but in soul am well content to suffer these things be- cause I fear thee.

drb@B746:31 @Thus did this man die, leaving not only to young men, but also to the whole nation, the memory of his death for an example of virtue and fortitude.

drb@B747:1 @To came to pass also, that seven brethren, together with their mother, were apprehended, and compelled by the king to eat swine's flesh against the law, for which end they were tormented with whips and scourges.

drb@B747:2 @have from heaven, but for the laws of God I now despise them: because I hope to receive them again from him.

drb@B747:4 @Then the king being angry commanded fryingpans, and brazen caldrons to be made hot: which forthwith being heated,

drb@B747:5 @He commanded to cut out the tongue of him that had spoken first: and the skin of his head being drawn off, to chop off also the extremities of his hands and feet, the rest of his brethren, and his mother, looking on.

drb@B747:6 @And when he was now maimed in all parts, he commanded him, being yet alive, to be brought to the Are, and to be fried in the fryingpan: and while he was suffering therein long torments, the rest, together with the mother, exhorted one another to die manfully,

drb@B747:7 @Saying: The Lord God will look upon the truth, and will take pleasure in us, "as Moses declared in the profession of the canticle: And In his servants he will take pleasure.

drb@B747:8 @So when the first was dead after this manner, they brought the next to make him a, mocking stock: and when they had pulled off the skin of his head with the hair, they asked him if he would eat, before he were punished throughout the whole body in every limb.

drb@B747:9 @But he answered in his own language, and said: I will not do it. Wherefore Ire also in the next place, received the torments of the first:

drb@B747:10 @And when he was at the last gasp, he said thus: Thou indeed, O most wicked man, destroyest us out of this present life: but the King of the world will raise us up, who die for his laws, in the resurrection of eternal life.

drb@B747:11 @After him the third was made a mocking stock, and when he was required, he quickly put forth his tongue, and courageously stretched out his hands:

drb@B747:15 @And when he was now ready to die, he spoke thus: It is better, being put to death by men, to look for hope from God, to be raised up again by him: for, as to thee thou shalt have no resurrection unto life.

drb@B747:16 @And when they had brought the fifth, they tormented him. But he looking upon the king,

drb@B747:17 @Said: Whereas thou hast power among men, though thou art corruptible, thou dost what thou wilt: but think not that our nation is forsaken by God

drb@B747:18 @But stay patiently a while, and thou shalt see his great power, in what manner he will torment thee and thy seed.

drb@B747:19 @After him they brought the sixth, and he being ready to die, spoke thus: Be not deceived without cause: for we suffer these things for ourselves, having sinned against our God, and things worthy of admiration are done to us:

drb@B747:20 @But do not think that thou s escape unpunished, for that thou attempted to fight against God.

drb@B747:21 @Now the mother was to be ad above measure, and worthy to be remembered by good men, who beheld seven sons slain in the space of one day, and bore it with a good courage, for the hope that she had in God:

drb@B747:24 @But the Creator of the world, that formed the nativity of man, and that found out the origin of all, he will re- store to you again in his mercy, both breath and life, as now you despise your- selves for the sake of his laws.

drb@B747:25 @Now Antiochus, thinking himself despised, and withal despising the voice of the upbraider, when the youngest was yet alive, did not only exhort him by words, but also assured him with an oath, that he would make him a rich and a happy man, and, if he would turn from the laws of his fathers, would take him for a friend, and furnish him with things necessary.

drb@B747:27 @And when he had exhorted her with many words, she promised that she would counsel her son.

drb@B747:28 @So bending herself towards him, mocking the cruel tyrant, she said her own language: My son, have pi upon me, that bore thee nine months my womb, and save thee suck years, and nourished thee, and b thee up unto this age.

drb@B747:29 @I beseech thee, my son, look upon heaven and earth, and all that is in them: and consider that God made the out of nothing, and mankind also:

drb@B747:30 @So thou shalt not fear this tormentor, but being made a worthy partner with thy brethren, receive death, that in that mercy I may receive thee again with thy brethren.

drb@B747:31 @While she was yet speaking these words, the young man said: For whom do you stay? I will not obey the commandment of the king, but the commandment of the law, which was given us by Moses.

drb@B747:32 @But thou that hast been the author of all mischief against the Hebrews, shalt not escape the hand of God.

drb@B747:35 @But thou, O wicked and of all men most flagitious, be not lifted up without cause with vain hopes, whilst thou art raging against his servants.

drb@B747:36 @For thou hast not yet escaped the judgment of the almighty God, who beholdeth all things.

drb@B747:37 @For my brethren, having now undergone a short pain, are under the covenant of eternal life: but thou by the judgment of God shalt receive just punishment for thy pride.

drb@B747:38 @But I, like my brethren, offer up my life and my body for the laws of our fathers: calling upon God to be speedily merciful to our nation, and that thou by torments and stripes mayst confess that he alone is God.

drb@B747:39 @But in me and in my brethren the wrath of the Almighty, which hath justly been brought upon all our nation, shall cease.

drb@B748:1 @But Judas Machabeus, and they that were with him, went privately into the towns: and calling together their kinsmen and friends, and taking unto them such as continued in the Jews' religion, they assembled six thousand men.

drb@B748:2 @And they called upon the Lord that he would look upon his people that was trodden down by all, and would have pity on the temple, that was defiled by the wicked:

drb@B748:3 @That he would have pity also upon the city that was destroyed, that was ready to be made even with the ground, and would hear the voice of the blood that cried to him:

drb@B748:4 @That he would remember also the most unjust deaths of innocent children, and the blasphemies offered to his name, and would shew his indignation on this occasion.

drb@B748:6 @So coming unawares upon the towns and cities, he set them on fire, and taking possession of the most commodious places, he made no small slaughter of the enemies �

drb@B748:7 @And especially in the nights he went upon these expeditions, and the fame of his valour was spread abroad every where.

drb@B748:8 @Then Philip, seeing that the man gained ground by little and little, and that things for the most part succeeded prosperously with him, wrote to Ptolemee the governor of Celesyria and Phenicia, to send aid to the king's affairs.

drb@B748:9 @And he with all speed sent Nicanor the son of Patroclus, one of his special friends, giving him no fewer than twenty thousand armed men of different nations, to root out the whole race of the Jews, joining also with him Gorgias, a good soldier, and of great experience in matters of war.

drb@B748:10 @And Nicanor purposed to raise for the king the tribute of two thousand talents, that was to be given to the Romans, by making so much money of the captive Jews:

drb@B748:11 @Wherefore he sent immediately to the cities upon the sea coast, to invite men together to buy up the Jewish slaves, promising that they should have ninety slaves for one talent, not reflecting on the vengeance, which was to follow him from the Almighty.

drb@B748:12 @Now when Judas found that Nicanor was coming, he imparted to the Jews that were with him, that the enemy was at hand.

drb@B748:15 @And if not for their sakes, yet for the covenant that he had made with their fathers, and for the sake of his holy and glorious name that was invoked upon them.

drb@B748:17 @Setting before their eyes the injury they had unjustly done the holy place, and also the injury they had done to the city, which had been shamefully abused, besides their destroying the ordinances of the fathers.

drb@B748:18 @For, said he, they trust in their weapons, and in their boldness: but we trust in the Almighty Lord, who at a beck can utterly destroy both them that come against us, and the whole world

drb@B748:19 @Moreover he put them in mind also of the helps their fathers had received from God: and how under Sennacherib a hundred and eighty-five thousand had been destroyed.

drb@B748:20 @And of the battle that they had fought against the Galatians in Babylonia, how they, being in all but six thousand, when it came to the point, and Macedonians their companions were a stand, slew a hundred and twenty thousand, because of the help they had from heaven, and for this they received many favours.

drb@B748:21 @With these words they were greatly encouraged, and disposed even to die for the laws and their country.

drb@B748:22 @So he appointed his brethren cap over each division of his army, Simon, and Joseph, and Jonathan, giving to one fifteen hundred men.

drb@B748:23 @And after the holy Book had been read to them by Esdras, and he had given them for a watchword, The help of God: himself leading the first band, he joined battle with Nicanor:

drb@B748:24 @And the Almighty being their helper, they slew above nine thousand men: and having wounded and disabled the greater part of Nicanor's army, they obliged them to fly.

drb@B748:25 @And they took the money of them that came to buy them, and they pursued them on every side.

drb@B748:26 @But they came back for want of time: for it was the day before the sabbath: and therefore they did not continue the pursuit.

drb@B748:27 @But when they had gathered together their arms and their spoils, they kept the sabbath: blessing the Lord who had delivered them that day, distilling the beginning of mercy upon them.

drb@B748:28 @Then after the sabbath they divided the spoils to the feeble and the orphans, and the widows: and the rest they took for themselves and their servants.

drb@B748:29 @When this was done, and they had all made a common supplication, they besought the merciful Lord to be reconciled to his servants unto the end.

drb@B748:30 @Moreover they slew above twenty thousand of them that were with Timotheus and Bacchides who fought them, and they made themselves masters of the high strong holds: and they divided amongst them many spoils, giving equal portions to the feeble, the fatherless and the widows, yea and the aged also.

drb@B748:31 @And when they had carefully gathered together their arms, they laid them all up in convenient places, and the residue of their spoils they carried to Jerusalem:

drb@B748:32 @They slew also Philarches who was with Timotheus, a wicked man, who had many ways afflicted the Jews.

drb@B748:33 @And when they kept the feast of the victory at Jerusalem, they burnt Callisthenes, that had set fire to the holy gates, who had taken refuge in a certain house, rendering to him a worthy reward for his impieties:

drb@B748:35 @Being through the help of the Lord brought down by them, of whom he had made no account, laying; aside his garment of glory, fleeing through the midland country, he came alone to Antioch, being rendered very unhappy by the destruction of his army.

drb@B748:36 @And he that had promised to levy the tribute for the Romans by the means of the captives of Jerusalem, now professed that the Jews had God for their protector, and therefore they could not be hurt, because they followed the laws appointed by him.

drb@B749:1 @At that time Antiochus returned with dishonour out of Persia.

drb@B749:2 @For he had entered into the city called Persepolis, and attempted to rob the temple, and to oppress the city: but the multitude running together to arms, put them to flight: and so it fell out that Antiochus being put to flight returned with disgrace.

drb@B749:3 @Now when he was come about Ecbatana, he received the news of what had happened to Nicanor and Timotheus.

drb@B749:4 @And swelling with anger he thought to revenge upon the Jews the injury done by them that had put him to flight. And therefore he commanded his chariot to be driven, without stopping in his journey, the judgment of heaven urging him forward, because he had spoken so proudly, that he would come to Jerusalem, and make it a common burying place of the Jews.

drb@B749:5 @But the Lord the God of Israel, that seeth all things, struck him with an in- curable and an invisible plague. For as soon as he had ended these words, a dreadful pain in his bowels came upon him, and bitter torments of the inner parts.

drb@B749:7 @Moreover being filled with pride, breathing out fire in his rage against the Jews, and commanding the matter to be hastened, it happened as he was going with violence that he fell from the chariot, so that his limbs were much pained by a grievous bruising of the body.

drb@B749:8 @Thus he that seemed to himself to command even the waves of the sea, being proud above the condition of man, and to weigh the heights of the mountains in a balance, now being cast down to the ground, was carried in a litter, bearing witness to the manifest power of God in himself:

drb@B749:9 @So that worms swarmed out of the body of this man, and whilst he lived in sorrow and pain, his flesh fell off, and the filthiness of his smell was noisome to the army.

drb@B749:11 @And by this means, being brought from his great pride, he began to come to the knowledge of himself, being admonished by the scourge of God, his pains increasing every moment

drb@B749:12 @And when he himself could not now abide his own stench, he spoke thus: It is just to be subject to God, and that a mortal man should not equal himself to God.

drb@B749:13 @Then this wicked man prayed to the Lord, of whom he was not like to obtain mercy.

drb@B749:14 @And the city to which he was going in haste to lay it even with the ground, and to make it a, common buryingplace, he now desireth to make free.

drb@B749:15 @And the Jews whom he said he would not account worthy to be so much as buried, but would give them up to be devoured by the birds and wild beasts, and would utterly destroy them with their children, he now promiseth to make equal with the Athenians.

drb@B749:16 @The holy temple also which before he had spoiled, he promiseth to adorn with goodly gifts, and to multiply the holy vessels, and to allow out of his revenues the charges pertaining to the sacrifices.

drb@B749:17 @Yea also, that he would become a Jew himself, and would go through every place of the earth, and declare the power of God.

drb@B749:18 @But his pains not ceasing (for the just judgment of God was come upon him) despairing of life he wrote to the Jews in the manner of a supplication, a letter in these words:

drb@B749:19 @To his very good subjects the Jews, Antiochus king and ruler wisheth much health and welfare, and happiness.

drb@B749:21 @As for me, being infirm, but yet kindly remembering you, returning out of the places of Persia, and being taken with a grievous disease, I thought it necessary to take care for the common good:

drb@B749:22 @Not distrusting my life, but having great hope to escape the sickness.

drb@B749:23 @But considering that my father also, at what time she led an army into the higher countries, appointed who should reign after him:

drb@B749:24 @To the end that if any thing contrary to expectation should fall out, or ally bad tidings should be brought, they that were in the countries, knowing to whom the whole government was left, might not be troubled.

drb@B749:25 @Moreover, considering that neighbouring princes and borderers wait for opportunities, and expect what shall be the event, I have appointed my son Antiochus king, whom I often recommended to many of you, when I went into the higher provinces: and I have written to him what I have joined here below.

drb@B749:26 @I pray you therefore, and request of you, that remembering favours both public and private, you will every man of you continue to be faithful to me and to my son.

drb@B749:28 @Thus the murderer and blasphemer, being grievously struck, as himself had treated others, died a miserable death in a strange country among the mountains.

drb@B749:29 @But Philip that was brought up with him, carried away his body: and out of fear of the son of Antiochus, went into Egypt to Ptolemee Philometor.

drb@B7410:1 @But Machabeus, and they that were with him, by the protection of the Lord, recovered the temple and the city again.

drb@B7410:2 @But he threw down the altars, which the heathens had set up in the streets, as also the temples of the idols.

drb@B7410:3 @And having purified the temple, they made another altar: and taking fire out of the fiery stones, they offered sacrifices after two years, and set forth incense, and lamps, and the leaves of proposition.

drb@B7410:4 @And when they had done these things, they besought the Lord, lying prostrate on the ground, that they might no more fall into such evils; but if they should at any time sin, that they might be chastised by him more gently, and not be delivered up to barbarians and blasphemous men.

drb@B7410:5 @Now upon the same day that the temple had been polluted by the strangers, on the very same day it was cleansed again, to wit, on the five and twentieth day of the month of Casleu.

drb@B7410:6 @And they kept eight days with joy, after the manner of the feast of the tabernacles, remembering that not long before they had kept the feast of the tabernacles when they were in the mountains, and in dens like wild beasts.

drb@B7410:7 @Therefore they now, carried boughs, and green branches, and palms for Him that had given them good success in cleansing his place.

drb@B7410:8 @And they ordained by a common statute, and decree, that all the nation of the Jews should keep those days every year.

drb@B7410:10 @But now we will relate the acts of Eupator the son of that wicked Antiochus, abridging the account of the evils that happened in the wars.

drb@B7410:11 @For when he was come to the crown. he appointed over the affairs of his realm one Lysias, general of the army of Phenicia and Syria.

drb@B7410:12 @For Ptolemee that was called Macer, was determined to be strictly just to the Jews, and especially by reason of the wrong that had been done them, and to deal peaceably with them.

drb@B7410:13 @But being accused for this to Eupator by his friends, and being oftentimes called traitor, because he had left Cyprus which Philometor had committed to him, and coming over to Antiochus the Illustrious, had revolted also from him, he put an end to his life by poison.

drb@B7410:15 @And the Jews that occupied the most commodious hold, received those that were driven out of Jerusalem, and at- tempted to make war.

drb@B7410:16 @Then they that were with Machabeus, beseeching the Lord by prayers to be their helper, made a strong attack upon the strong holds of the Idumeans:

drb@B7410:18 @And whereas some were fled into very strong towers, having all manner of provision to sustain a siege,

drb@B7410:19 @Machabeus left Simon and Joseph, and Zacheus, and them that were with them in sufficient number to besiege them, and departed to those expeditions which urged more.

drb@B7410:20 @Now they that were with Simon, being led with covetousness, were persuaded For the sake of money by some that were in the towers: and taking seventy thousand didrachmas, let some of them escape.

drb@B7410:21 @But when it was told Machabeus what was done, he assembled the rulers of the people, and accused those men that they had sold their brethren for money, having let their adversaries escape.

drb@B7410:22 @So he put these traitors to death, and forthwith took the two towers.

drb@B7410:24 @But Timotheus who before had been overcome by the Jews, having called together a multitude of foreign troops, and assembled horsemen out of Asia, came as though he would take Judea by force of arms.

drb@B7410:25 @But Machabeus and they that were with him, when he drew near, prayed to the Lord, sprinkling earth upon their heads and girding their loins with hair- cloth,

drb@B7410:26 @And lying prostrate at the foot of the altar, besought him to be merciful to them, and to be an enemy to their enemies, and an adversary to their adversaries, as the law saith.

drb@B7410:27 @And so after prayer taking their arms, they went forth further from the city, and when they were come very near the enemies they rested.

drb@B7410:28 @But as soon as the sun was risen both sides joined battle: the one part having with their valour the Lord for a surety o victory and success: but the other side making their rage their leader in battle.

drb@B7410:29 @But when they were in the heat of the engagement there appeared to the enemies from heaven five men upon horses, comely with golden bridles, con- ducting the Jews:

drb@B7410:30 @Two of whom took Machabeus between them, and covered him on every side with their arms, and kept him safe: but cast darts and fireballs against the enemy, so that they fell down, being both confounded with blindness, and filled with trouble.

drb@B7410:34 @But they that were within, trusting to the strength of the place, blasphemed exceedingly, and cast forth abominable words.

drb@B7410:35 @But when the fifth day appeared, twenty young men of them that were with Machabeus, inflamed in their minds because of the blasphemy, approached manfully to the wall, and pushing forward with fierce courage got up upon it.

drb@B7410:36 @Moreover others also getting up after them, went to set Are to the towers and the gates, and to burn the blasphemers alive.

drb@B7410:37 @And having for two days together pillaged and sacked the fortress, they killed Timotheus, who was found hid in a certain place: they slew also his brother Chereas, and Apollophanes.

drb@B7411:1 @A short time after this Lysias the king's lieutenant, and cousin, and who had chief charge over all the affairs, being greatly displeased with what had happened,

drb@B7411:3 @And to make a gain of the temple, as of the other temples of the Gentiles, and to set the high priesthood to sale every year:

drb@B7411:4 @Never considering the power of God, but puffed up in mind, and trusting in the multitude of his foot soldiers, and the thousands of his horsemen, and his four- score elephants.

drb@B7411:5 @So he came into Judea, and approaching to Bethsura, which was in a narrow place, the space of five furlongs from Jerusalem, he laid siege to that fortress.

drb@B7411:6 @But when Machabeus and they that were with him, understood that the strong holds were besieged, they and all the people besought the Lord with lamentations and tears, that he would send a good angel to save Israel.

drb@B7411:7 @Then Machabeus himself, first taking his arms, exhorted the rest to expose themselves together with him, to the danger, and to succour their brethren.

drb@B7411:8 @And when they were going forth together with a willing mind, there appeared at Jerusatem a horseman going before them in white clothing, with golden armour, shaking a spear.

drb@B7411:10 @So they went on courageously, having a helper from Peaven, and the who shewed mercy to them.

drb@B7411:11 @And rushing violently upon the my, like lions, they slew of them eleven thousand footmen, and one thousand hundred horsemen:

drb@B7411:12 @And put all the rest to flight: many of them being wounded, escaped naked: yea and Lysias himself fled away shamefully, and escaped.

drb@B7411:13 @And as he was a man of understanding considering with himself, the loss he had suffered, and perceiving that the Hebrews could not be overcome, because they relied upon the help of the Almighty God, he sent to them:

drb@B7411:14 @And promised that he would agree to all things that are just, and that he would persuade the king to be their friend.

drb@B7411:15 @Then Machabeus consented to the request of Lysias, providing for the common Food in all things, and whatsoever Machabeus wrote to Lysias concerning the Jews, the king allowed of.

drb@B7411:16 @For there were letters written to the Jews from Lysias, to this effect: Lysias to the people of the Jews, greeting.

drb@B7411:17 @John and Abesalom who were sent from you, delivering your writings, re- quested that I would accomplish those things which were signified by them.

drb@B7411:18 @Therefore whatsoever things could be reported to the king I have represented to him: and he hath granted as much as the matter permitted.

drb@B7411:19 @If therefore you will keep yourselves loyal in affairs, hereafter also I will endeavour to be a means of your good.

drb@B7411:20 @But as concerning other particulars, I have given orders by word both to these, and to them that are sent by me, to commune with you.

drb@B7411:23 @Our father being translated amongst the gods, we are desirous that they that are in our realm should live quietly, and apply themselves diligently to their own concerns,

drb@B7411:24 @And we have heard that the Jews would not consent to my father to turn to the rites of the Greeks, but that they would keep to their own manner of living, and therefore that they request us to allow them to live after their own laws.

drb@B7411:25 @Wherefore being desirous that this nation also should be at rest, we have ordained and decreed, that the temple should be restored to them, and that they may live according to the custom of their ancestors.

drb@B7411:26 @Thou shalt do well therefore to send to them, and grant them peace, that our pleasure being known, they may be of good comfort, and look to their own affairs.

drb@B7411:32 @And we have sent also Menelaus to speak to you.

drb@B7411:34 @The Romans also sent them a letter, to this effect. Quintus Memmius, and Titus Manilius, ambassadors of the Romans, to the people of the Jews, greeting.

drb@B7412:2 @But they that were behind, namely, Timotheus and Apollonius the son of Genneus, also Hieronymus, and Demophon, and besides them Nicanor the governor of Cyprus, would not suffer them to live in peace, and to be quiet.

drb@B7412:3 @The men of Joppe also were guilty of this kind of wickedness: they desired the Jews who dwelt among them to go with their wives and children into the boats, which they had prepared, as though they had no enmity to them.

drb@B7412:4 @Which when they had consented to, according to the common decree of the city, suspecting nothing, because of the peace: when they were gone forth into the deep, they drowned no fewer than two hundred of them.

drb@B7412:5 @But as soon as Judas heard of this cruelty done to his countrymen, he commanded the men that were with him: and after having called upon God the just judge,

drb@B7412:6 @He came against those murderers of his brethren, and set the haven on fire in the night, burnt the boats, and slew with the sword them that escaped from the fire.

drb@B7412:7 @And when he had done these things in this manner, he departed as if he would return again, and root out all the Joppites.

drb@B7412:9 @He came upon the Jamnites also by night, end set the haven on fire with the ships, so that the light of the fire was seen at Jerusalem two hundred and forty furlongs off.

drb@B7412:10 @And when they were now gone from thence nine furlongs, and were marching towards Timotheus, five thousand footmen and Ave hundred horsemen of the Arabians set upon them.

drb@B7412:11 @And after a hard fight, in which by the help of God they got the victory, the rest of the Arabians being overcome, besought Judas for peace, promising to give him pastures, and to assist him in other things.

drb@B7412:12 @And Judas thinking that they might be profitable indeed in many things, promised them peace, and after having joined hands, they departed to their tents.

drb@B7412:13 @He also laid siege to a certain strong city, encompassed with bridges and walls, and inhabited by multitudes of different nations, the name of which is Casphin

drb@B7412:14 @But they that were within it, trusting in the strength of the walls, and the provision of victuals, behaved in a more negligent manner, and provoked Judas with railing and blaspheming, and uttering such words as were not to be spoken.

drb@B7412:15 @But Machabeus calling upon the great Lord of the world, who without any rams or engines of war threw down the walls of Jericho in the time of Josue, fiercely assaulted the walls.

drb@B7412:16 @And having taken the city by the will of the Lord, he made an unspeakable slaughter, so that a pool adjoining of two furlongs broad seemed to run with the blood of the slain.

drb@B7412:17 @From thence they departed seven hundred and fifty furlongs, and came to Characa to the Jews that are called Tubianites.

drb@B7412:18 @But as for Timotheus, they found him not in those places, for before he had dispatched any thing he went back, having left a very strong garrison in a certain hold:

drb@B7412:19 @But Dositheus, and Sosipater, who were captains with Machabeus, slew them that were left by Timotheus in the hold, to the number of ten thousand men.

drb@B7412:21 @Now when Timotheus had knowledge of the coming of Judas, he sent the women and children, and the other baggage before him into a fortress, called Carnion: for it was impregnable and hard to come at, by reason of the straitness of the places.

drb@B7412:22 @But when the first band of Judas came in sight, the enemies were struck with fear, by the presence of God, who seeth all things, and they were put to flight one from another, so that they were often thrown down by their own companions, and wounded with the strokes of their own swords.

drb@B7412:23 @But Judas was vehemently earnest in punishing the profane, of whom he slew thirty thousand men.

drb@B7412:24 @And Timotheus himself fell into the hands of the band of Dositheus and Sosipater, and with many prayers he besought them to let him go with his life, because he had the parents and brethren of many of the Jews, who, by his death, might happen to be deceived.

drb@B7412:26 @Then Judas went away to Carnion, where he slew five and twenty thousand persons.

drb@B7412:27 @And after he had put to flight and destroyed these, he removed his army to Ephron, a strong city, wherein there dwelt a multitude of divers nations: and stout young men standing upon the walls made a vigorous resistance: and in this place there were many engines of war, and a provision of darts.

drb@B7412:28 @But when they had invocated the Almighty, who with his power breaketh the strength of the enemies, they took the city; and slew five and twenty thou- sand of them that were within.

drb@B7412:29 @From thence they departed to Scythopolis, which lieth six hundred furlongs from Jerusalem.

drb@B7412:30 @But the Jews that were among the Scythopolitans testifying that they were used kindly by them, and that even in the times of their adversity they had treated them with humanity:

drb@B7412:32 @And after Pentecost they marched against Gorgias the governor of Idumea.

drb@B7412:34 @And when they had joined battle, it happened that a few of the Jews were slain.

drb@B7412:35 @But Dositheus, a horseman, one of Bacenor's band, a valiant man, took hold of Gorgias: and when he would have taken him alive, a certain horseman of the Thracians came upon him, and cut off his shoulder: and so Gorgias escaped to Maresa.

drb@B7412:36 @But when they that were with Esdrin had fought long, and were weary, Judas called upon the Lord to be their helper, and leader of the battle:

drb@B7412:37 @Then beginning in his own language, and singing hymns with a loud voice, he put Gorgias' soldiers to flight.

drb@B7412:38 @So Judas having gathered together his army, came into the city Odollam: and when the seventh day came, they purified themselves according to the custom, and kept the sabbath in the place.

drb@B7412:39 @And the day following Judas cam with his company, to take away the bodies of them that were slain, and to bury them with their kinsmen, in the sepulchres of their fathers.

drb@B7412:42 @And so betaking themselves to prayers, they besought him, that the sin which had been committed might be forgotten. But the most valiant Judas exhorted the people to keep themselves from sin, forasmuch as they saw before their eyes what had happened, because of the sins of those that were slain.

drb@B7412:44 @(For if he had not hoped that the that were slain should rise again, it would have seemed superfluous and vain to pray for the dead,)

drb@B7412:45 @And because he considered that the who had fallen asleep with godliness, had great grace laid up for them.

drb@B7412:46 @It is therefore a holy and wholesome thought to pray for the dead, that they may be loosed from sins.

drb@B7412:47 @that all plainly saw, for this cause they were slain.

drb@B7413:1 @In the year one hundred and forty- nine, Judas understood that Antiochus Eupator was coming with a multitude against Judea,

drb@B7413:2 @And with him Lysias the regent, who had charge over the affairs of the realm, having with him a hundred and ten thousand footmen, five thousand horse- men, twenty-two elephants, and three hundred chariots armed with hooks.

drb@B7413:3 @Menelaus also joined himself with them: and with great deceitfulness besought Antiochus, not for the welfare of his country, but in hopes that he should be appointed chief ruler.

drb@B7413:4 @But the King of kings stirred up the mind of Antiochus against the sinner, and upon Lysias suggesting that he was the cause of all the evils, he commanded (as the custom is with them) that he should be apprehended and put to death in the same place.

drb@B7413:5 @Now there was in that place a tower fifty cubits high, having a heap of ashes on every side: this had a prospect steep down.

drb@B7413:7 @And by such a law it happened that Menelaus the transgressor of the law was put to death: not having so much as burial in the earth.

drb@B7413:9 @taste of the hardiness of the Jews, attempted to take the strong places by policy:

drb@B7413:11 @Which, when Judas understood, he commanded the people to call upon the Lord day and night, that as he had always done, so now also he would help them:

drb@B7413:12 @Because they were afraid to be deprived of the law, and of their country, and of the holy temple: and that he would not suffer the people, that had of late taken breath for a little while, to be again in subjection to blasphemous nations.

drb@B7413:13 @So when they had all done this together, and had craved mercy of the Lord with weeping and fasting, lying prostrate on the ground for three days continually, Judas exhorted them to make themselves ready.

drb@B7413:15 @So committing all to God, the creator of the world, and having exhorted his people to fight manfully, and to stand up even to death for the laws, the temple, the city, their country, and citizens: he placed his army about Modin.

drb@B7413:16 @And having given his company for a watchword, The victory of God, with most valiant chosen young men, he set upon the king's quarter by night, and slew four thousand men in the camp, and the greatest of the elephants, with them that had been upon him,

drb@B7413:17 @And having filled the camp of the enemies with exceeding greet fear and tumult, they went off with good success.

drb@B7413:18 @Now this was done at the break of day, by the protection and help of the Lord.

drb@B7413:20 @And he marched with his army to Bethsura, which was a strong hold of the Jews: but he was repulsed, he failed, he rest his men.

drb@B7413:22 @But Rhodocus, one of the Jews' army, disclosed the secrets to the enemies, so he was sought out, and taken up, and put in prison.

drb@B7413:24 @He fought with Jucias: and was overcome. And when he understood that Philip, who had been left over the affairs, had rebelled at Antioch, he was in a consternation of mind, and entreating the Jews, and yielding to them, he swore to all things that seemed reasonable, and, being reconciled, offered sacrifices, honoured the temple, and left gifts.

drb@B7413:25 @He embraced Machabeus, and made him governor and prince from Ptolemais unto the Cerrenians.

drb@B7413:26 @But when he was come to Ptolemais, the men of that city were much displeased with the conditions of the peace, being angry for fear they should break the covenant.

drb@B7413:27 @Then Lysias went up to the judgment seat, and set forth the reason, and appeased the people, and returned to Antioch: and thus matters went with regard to the king's coming and his return.

drb@B7414:1 @But after the space of three years Judas, and they that were with him, understood that Demetrius the son of Seleucus was come up with a great power, and a navy by the haven of Tripolis to places proper for his purpose.

drb@B7414:3 @Now one Alcimus, who had been chief priest, but had wilfully defiled himself in the time of mingling with the heathens, seeing that there was no safety for him, nor access to the altar,

drb@B7414:4 @Came to king Demetrius in the year one hundred and fifty, presenting unto him a crown of gold, and a palm, and besides these, some boughs which seemed to belong to the temple. And that day indeed he held his peace.

drb@B7414:5 @But having gotten a convenient time to further his madness, being called to counsel by Demetrius, and asked what the Jews relied upon, and what were their counsels,

drb@B7414:6 @He answered thereunto: They among the Jews that are called Assideans, of whom Judas Machabeus is captain, nourish wars, and raise seditions, and will not suffer the realm to be in peace.

drb@B7414:7 @For I also being deprived of my ancestors' glory (I mean of the high priesthood) am now come hither:

drb@B7414:8 @Principally indeed out of fidelity to the king's interests, but in the next place also to provide for the good of my countrymen: for all our nation suffereth much from the evil proceedings of those men.

drb@B7414:10 @For as long as Judas liveth, it is not possible that the state should be quiet.

drb@B7414:11 @Now when this man had spoken to this effect, the rest also of the king's friends, who were enemies of Judas, incensed Demetrius against him.

drb@B7414:12 @And forthwith he sent Nicanor, the commander over the elephants, governor into Judea:

drb@B7414:13 @Giving him in charge, to take Judas himself: and disperse all them that were with him, and to make Alcimus the high priest of the great temple.

drb@B7414:15 @Now when the Jews heard of Nicanor's coming, and that the nations were assembled against them, they cast earth upon their heads, and made supplication to him, who chose his people to keep them for ever, and who protected his portion by evident signs.

drb@B7414:16 @Then at the commandment of their captain, they forthwith removed from the place where they were, and went to the town of Dessau, to meet them.

drb@B7414:18 @Nevertheless Nicanor hearing of the valour of Judas' companions, and the greatness of courage with which they fought for their country, was afraid to try the matter by the sword.

drb@B7414:19 @Wherefore he sent Posidonius, and Theodotius, and Matthias before to pre- sent and receive the right hands.

drb@B7414:20 @And when there had been a consultation thereupon, and the captain had acquainted the multitude with it, the) were all of one mind to consent to covenants.

drb@B7414:21 @So they appointed a day upon which they might commune together by them- selves: and seats were brought out, and set for each one.

drb@B7414:22 @But Judas ordered men to be ready in convenient places, lest some mischief might he suddenly practised by the enemies: so they made an agreeable conference.

drb@B7414:27 @Then the king being in a rage and provoked with this man's wicked accusations, wrote to Nicanor, signifying, that he was greatly displeased with the covenant of friendship: and that he commanded him nevertheless to send Machabeus prisoner in all haste to Antioch.

drb@B7414:28 @When this was known, Nicanor was in a consternation, and took it grievously that he should make void the articles that were agreed upon, having received no injury from the man.

drb@B7414:29 @But because he could not oppose the king, he watched an opportunity to comply with the orders.

drb@B7414:30 @But when Machabeus perceived that Nicanor was more stern to him, and that when they met together as usual he behaved himself in a rough manner: and was sensible that this rough behaviour came not of good, he gathered together a few of his men, and hid himself from Nicanor.

drb@B7414:31 @But he finding himself notably pre- vented by the man, came to the great and holy temple: and commanded the priests that were offering the accustomed sacrifices, to deliver him the man.

drb@B7414:32 @And when they swore unto him, that they knew not where the man was whom he sought, he stretched out his hand to the temple,

drb@B7414:33 @And swore, saying: Unless you de- liver Judas prisoner to me, I will lay this temple of God even with the ground, and will beat down the altar, and I will dedicate this temple to Bacchus.

drb@B7414:34 @And when he had spoken thus he departed. But the priests stretching forth their hands to heaven, called upon him that was ever the defender of their nation, saying in this manner:

drb@B7414:35 @Thou, O Lord of all things, who wantest nothing, wast pleased that the temple of thy habitation should be amongst us.

drb@B7414:36 @Therefore now, 0 Lord the holy of all holies, keep this house for ever undefiled which was lately cleansed.

drb@B7414:37 @Now Razias, one of the ancients of Jerusalem, was accused to Nicanor, a man that was a lover of the city, and of good report, who for his affection was called the father of the Jews.

drb@B7414:38 @This man, for a long time, had held fast his purpose of keeping himself pure in the Jews' religion, and was ready to expose his body and life, that he might persevere therein.

drb@B7414:41 @Now as the multitude sought to rush into his house, and to break open the door, and to set fire to it, when he was ready to be taken, he struck himself with his sword:

drb@B7414:44 @But they quickly making room for his fall, he came upon the midst of the neck.

drb@B7414:46 @And standing upon a steep rock, when he was now almost without blood, grasping his bowels with both hands, he cast them upon the throng, calling upon the Lord of life and spirit, to restore these to him again: and so he departed this life.

drb@B7415:1 @But when Nicanor understood that Judas was in the places of Samaria, he purposed to set upon him with all violence on the sabbath day.

drb@B7415:3 @That unhappy man asked, if there were a mighty One in heaven, that had commanded the sabbath day to be kept.

drb@B7415:4 @And when they answered: There is the living Lord himself in heaven, the mighty One, that commanded the seventh day to be kept,

drb@B7415:5 @Then he said: And I am mighty upon the earth, and I command to take arms, and to do the king's business. Nevertheless he prevailed not to accomplish his design.

drb@B7415:6 @So Nicanor being puffed up with exceeding great pride, thought to set up a public monument of his victory over Judas.

drb@B7415:7 @But Machabeus ever trusted with all hope that God would help them.

drb@B7415:8 @And he exhorted his people not to fear the coming of the nations, but to remember the help they had before received from heaven, and now to hope for victory from the Almighty.

drb@B7415:9 @And speaking to them out of the law, and the prophets, and withal putting them in mind of the battles they had fought before, he made them more cheerful:

drb@B7415:11 @So he armed every one of them, not with defence of shield and spear, but with very good speeches and exhortations, and told them a dream worthy to be believed, whereby he rejoiced them all.

drb@B7415:12 @Now the vision was in this manner: Onias who had been high priest, a good and virtuous man, modest in his looks, gentle in his manners, and graceful in his speech, and who from a child was exercised in virtues, holding up his hands, prayed for all the people of the Jews:

drb@B7415:13 @After this there appeared also an- other man, admirable for age, and glory, and environed with great beauty and majesty:

drb@B7415:14 @Then Onias answering, Raid: This is a lover of his brethren, and of the people of Israel: this is he that prayeth much for the people, and for all the holy city, Jeremias the prophet of God.

drb@B7415:15 @Whereupon Jeremias stretched forth his right hand, and gave to Judas a sword of gold, saying:

drb@B7415:16 @Take this holy sword a gift from God, wherewith thou shalt overthrow the adversaries of my people Israel.

drb@B7415:17 @Thus being exhorted with the words of Judas, which were very good, and proper to stir up the courage, and strengthen the hearts of the young men, they resolved to fight, and to set upon them manfully: that valour might decide the matter, because the holy city and the temple were in danger.

drb@B7415:18 @For their concern was less for their wives, and children, and for their brethren, and kinsfolks: but their greatest and principal fear was for the holiness of the temple.

drb@B7415:20 @And now when all expected what judgment would be given, and the enemies were at hand, and the army was set in array, the beasts and the horsemen ranged in convenient places,

drb@B7415:21 @Machabeus considering the coming of the multitude, and the divers preparations of armour, and the fierceness of the beasts, stretching out his hands to heaven, called upon the Lord, that worketh wonders, who giveth victory to them that are worthy, not according to the power of their arms, but according as it seemeth good to him.

drb@B7415:22 @And in his prayer he said after this manner: Thou, O Lord, who didst send thy angel in the time of Ezechias king of Juda, and didst kill a hundred and eighty-five thousand of the army of Sennacherib:

drb@B7415:24 @That they may be afraid, who come with blasphemy against thy holy people. And thus he concluded his prayer.

drb@B7415:25 @But Nicanor, and they that were with him came forward, with trumpets and songs.

drb@B7415:26 @But Judas, and they that were with him, encountered them, calling upon God by prayers:

drb@B7415:27 @So fighting with their hands, but praying to the Lord with their hearts, they slew no less than five and thirty thousand, being greatly cheered with the presence of God.

drb@B7415:31 @And when he was come thither, having called together his countrymen, and the priests to the altar, he sent also for them that were in the castle,

drb@B7415:32 @And shewing them the head of Nicenor, and the wicked hand, which he had stretched out, with proud boasts, against the holy house of the Almighty God,

drb@B7415:33 @He commanded also, that the tongue of the wicked Nicanor, should be cut out and given by pieces to birds, and the hand of the furious man to be hanged up over against the temple.

drb@B7415:34 @Then all blessed the Lord of heaven, saying: Blessed be he that hath kept his own place undefiled.

drb@B7415:35 @And he hung up Nicanor's head in the top of the castle, that it might be an evident and manifest sign of the help of God.

drb@B7415:36 @And they all ordained by a common decree, by no means to let this day pass without solemnity:

drb@B7415:38 @So these things being done with relation to Nicanor, and from that time the city being possessed by the Hebrews, I also will here make an end of my narration.

drb@B7415:39 @Which if I have done well, and as it becometh the history, it is what I desired: but if not so perfectly, it must be pardoned me.

drb@B7415:40 @For as it is hurtful to drink always wine, or always water, but pleasant to use sometimes the one, and sometimes the other: so if the speech be always nicely framed, it will not be grateful to the readers. But here it shall be ended.

drb@B791:1 @Tobias of the tribe and city of Nephtali, (which is in the upper parts of Galilee above Naasson, beyond the way that leadeth to the west, having on the right hand the city of Sephet,)

drb@B791:2 @When he was made captive in the days of Salmanasar king of the Assyrians, even in his captivity, forsook not the way of truth,

drb@B791:3 @But every day gave all he could get to his brethren his fellow captives, that were of his kindred.

drb@B791:4 @And when he was younger than any of the tribe of Nephtali, yet did he no childish thing in his work.

drb@B791:5 @Moreover when all went to the golden calves which Jeroboam king of Israel had made, he alone fled the company of all,

drb@B791:6 @And went to Jerusalem to the temple of the Lord, and there adored the Lord God of Israel, offering faithfully all his firstfruits, and his tithes,

drb@B791:7 @So that in the third year he gave all his tithes to the proselytes, and strangers.

drb@B791:11 @And when by the captivity he with his wife and his son and all his tribe was come to the city of Ninive,

drb@B791:12 @(When all ate of the meats of the Gentiles) he kept his soul and never was defiled with their meats.

drb@B791:15 @He therefore went to all that were in captivity, and gave them wholesome admonitions.

drb@B791:18 @But after a long time, Salmanasar the king being dead, when Sennacherib his son, who reigned in his place, had a hatred for the children of Israel:

drb@B791:21 @And when king Sennacherib was come back, fleeing from Judea by reason of the slaughter that God had made about him for his blasphemy, and being angry slew many of the children of Israel, Tobias buried their bodies.

drb@B792:1 @But after this, when there was a festival of the Lord, and a good dinner was prepared in Tobias's house,

drb@B792:3 @And when he had gone, returning he told him, that one of the children of Israel lay slain in the street. And he forthwith leaped up from his place at the table, and left his dinner, and came fasting to the body:

drb@B792:4 @And taking it up carried it privately to his house, that after the sun was down, he might bury him cautiously.

drb@B792:6 @Remembering the word which the Lord spoke by Amos the prophet: Your festival days shall be turned into lamentation and mourning.

drb@B792:8 @Now all his neighbours blamed him, saying: Once already commandment was given for thee to be slain because of this matter, and thou didst scarce escape the sentence of death, and dost thou again bury the dead?

drb@B792:10 @Now it happened one day, that being wearied with burying, he came to his house, and cast himself down by the wall and slept,

drb@B792:11 @And as he was sleeping, hot dung out of a swallow's nest fell upon his eyes, and he was made blind.

drb@B792:12 @Now this trial the Lord therefore permitted to happen to him, that an example might be given to posterity of his patience, as also of holy Job.

drb@B792:13 @For whereas he had always feared God from his infancy, and kept his commandments, he repined not against God because the evil of blindness had befallen him,

drb@B792:16 @Where is thy hope, for which thou gavest alms, and buriedst the dead?

drb@B792:17 @But Tobias rebuked them, saying: Speak not so:

drb@B792:20 @Whereby it came to pass, that she received a young kid, and brought it home:

drb@B792:21 @And when her husband heard it bleating, he said: Take heed, lest perhaps it be stolen: restore ye it to its owners, for it is not lawful for us either to eat or to touch any thing that cometh by theft.

drb@B792:22 @At these words his wife being angry answered: It is evident thy hope is come to nothing, and thy alms now appear.

drb@B792:23 @And with these, and other such like words she upbraided him.

drb@B793:1 @Then Tobias sighed, and began to pray with tears,

drb@B793:3 @And now, O Lord, think of me, and take not revenge of my sins, neither remember my offenses, nor those of my parents.

drb@B793:4 @For we have not obeyed thy commandments, therefore are we delivered to spoil and to captivity, and death, and are made a fable, and a reproach to all nations, amongst which thou hast scattered us.

drb@B793:5 @And now, O Lord, great are thy judgments, because we have not done according to thy precepts, and have not walked sincerely before thee:

drb@B793:6 @And now, O Lord, do with me according to thy will, and command my spirit to be received in peace: for it is better for me to die, than to live.

drb@B793:7 @Now it happened on the same day, that Sara daughter of Raguel, in Rages a city of the Medes, received a reproach from one of her father's servant maids,

drb@B793:9 @So when she reproved the maid for her fault, she answered her, saying: May we never see son, or daughter of thee upon the earth, thou murderer of thy husbands.

drb@B793:10 @Wilt thou kill me also, as thou hast already killed seven husbands? At these words she went into an upper chamber of her house: and for three days and three nights did neither eat nor drink:

drb@B793:11 @But continuing in prayer with tears besought God, that he would deliver her from this reproach.

drb@B793:12 @And it came to pass on the third day, when she was making an end of her prayer, blessing the Lord,

drb@B793:13 @She said: Blessed is thy name, O God of our fathers: who when thou hast been angry, wilt shew mercy, and in the time of tribulation forgivest the sins of them that call upon thee.

drb@B793:15 @I beg, O Lord, that thou loose me from the bond of this reproach, or else take me away from the earth.

drb@B793:16 @Thou knowest, O Lord, that I never coveted a husband, and have kept my soul clean from all lust.

drb@B793:17 @Never have I joined myself with them that play: neither have I made myself partaker with them that walk in lightness.

drb@B793:19 @And either I was unworthy of them, or they perhaps were not worthy of me: because perhaps thou hast kept me for another man.

drb@B793:20 @For thy counsel is not in man's power.

drb@B793:21 @But this every one is sure of that worshippeth thee, that his life, if it be under trial, shall be crowned: and if it be under tribulation, it shall be delivered: and if it be under correction, it shall be allowed to come to thy mercy.

drb@B793:22 @For thou art not delighted in our being lost: because after a storm thou makest a calm, and after tears and weeping thou pourest in joyfulness.

drb@B793:24 @At that time the prayers of them both were heard in the sight of the glory of the most high God:

drb@B793:25 @And the holy angel of the Lord, Raphael was sent to heal them both, whose prayers at one time were rehearsed in the sight of the Lord.

drb@B794:1 @Therefore when Tobias thought that his prayer was heard that he might die, he called to him Tobias his son,

drb@B794:4 @For thou must be mindful what and how great perils she suffered for thee in her womb.

drb@B794:7 @Give alms out of thy substance, and turn not away thy face from any poor person: for so it shall come to pass that the face of the Lord shall not be turned from thee.

drb@B794:10 @For thus thou storest up to thyself a good reward for the day of necessity

drb@B794:13 @Take heed to keep thyself, my son, from all fornication, and beside thy wife never endure to know a crime.

drb@B794:14 @Never suffer pride to reign in thy mind, or in thy words: for from it all perdition took its beginning.

drb@B794:15 @If any man hath done any work for thee, immediately pay him his hire, and let not the wages of thy hired servant stay with thee at all.

drb@B794:18 @Lay out thy bread, and thy wine upon the burial of a just man, and do not eat and drink thereof with the wicked.

drb@B794:23 @Fear not, my son: we lead indeed a poor life, but we shall have many good things if we fear God, and depart from all sin, and do that which is good.

drb@B795:3 @Then his father answered him, and said: I have a note of his hand with me, which when thou shalt shew him, he will presently pay it.

drb@B795:10 @Then Tobias going in told all these things to his father. Upon which his father being in admiration, desired that he would come in unto him.

drb@B795:14 @And Tobias said to him: Canst thou conduct my son to Gabelus at Rages, a city of the Medes? and when thou shalt return, I will pay thee thy hire.

drb@B795:16 @And Tobias said to him: I pray thee, tell me, of what family, or what tribe art thou?

drb@B795:17 @And Raphael the angel answered: Dost thou seek the family of him thou hirest, or the hired servant himself to go with thy son?

drb@B795:19 @And Tobias answered: Thou art of a great family. But I pray thee be not angry that I desired to know thy family.

drb@B795:21 @And Tobias answering, said: May you have a good journey, and God be with you in your way, and his angel accompany you.

drb@B795:23 @And when they were departed, his mother began to weep, and to say: Thou hast taken the staff of our old age, and sent him away from us.

drb@B795:25 @For poverty was sufficient for us, that we might account it as riches, that we saw our son.

drb@B795:26 @And Tobias said to her: Weep not, our son will arrive thither safe, and will return safe to us, and thy eyes shall see him.

drb@B795:27 @For I believe that the good angel of God doth accompany him, and doth order all things well that are done about him, so that he shall return to us with joy.

drb@B795:28 @At these words his mother ceased weeping, and held her peace.

drb@B796:2 @And he went out to wash his feet, and behold a monstrous fish came up to devour him.

drb@B796:3 @And Tobias being afraid of him, cried out with a loud voice, saying: Sir, he cometh upon me.

drb@B796:4 @And the angel said to him: Take him by the gill, and draw him to thee. And when he had done so, he drew him out upon the land, and he began to pant before his feet.

drb@B796:5 @Then the angel said to him: Take out the entrails of the fish, and lay up his heart, and his gall, and his liver for thee: for these are necessary for useful medicines.

drb@B796:7 @Then Tobias asked the angel, and said to him: I beseech thee, brother Azarias, tell me what remedies are these things good for, which thou hast bid me keep of the fish?

drb@B796:8 @And the angel, answering, said to him: If thou put a little piece of its heart upon coals, the smoke thereof driveth away all kind of devils, either from man or from woman, so that they come no more to them.

drb@B796:9 @And the gall is good for anointing the eyes, in which there is a white speck, and they shall be cured.

drb@B796:15 @Now I am afraid, lest the same thing should happen to me also: and whereas I am the only child of my parents, I should bring down their old age with sorrow to hell.

drb@B796:16 @Then the angel Raphael said to him: Hear me, and I will shew thee who they are, over whom the devil can prevail.

drb@B796:17 @For they who in such manner receive matrimony, as to shut out God from themselves, and from their mind, and to give themselves to their lust, as the horse and mule, which have not understanding, over them the devil hath power.

drb@B796:18 @But thou when thou shalt take her, go into the chamber, and for three days keep thyself continent from her, and give thyself to nothing else but to prayers with her.

drb@B796:20 @But the second night thou shalt be admitted into the society of the holy Patriarchs.

drb@B796:22 @And when the third night is past, thou shalt take the virgin with the fear of the Lord, moved rather for love of children than for lust, that in the seed of Abraham thou mayst obtain a blessing in children.

drb@B797:2 @And Raguel looking upon Tobias, said to Anna his wife: How like is this young man to my cousin?

drb@B797:3 @And when he had spoken these words, he said: Whence are ye young men our brethren?

drb@B797:4 @But they said: We are of the tribe of Nephtali, of the captiveof Ninive.

drb@B797:6 @And when he was speaking many good things of him, the angel said to Raguel: Tobias concerning whom thou inquirest is this young man's father.

drb@B797:7 @And Raguel went to him, and kissed him with tears, and weeping upon his neck, said: A blessing be upon thee, my son, because thou art the son of a good and most virtuous man.

drb@B797:8 @And Anna his wife, and Sara their daughter wept.

drb@B797:9 @And after they had spoken, Raguel commanded a sheep to be killed, and a feast to be prepared. And when he desired them to sit down to dinner,

drb@B797:10 @Tobias said: I will not eat nor drink here this day, unless thou first grant me my petition, and promise to give me Sara thy daughter.

drb@B797:11 @Now when Raguel heard this he was afraid, knowing what had happened to those seven husbands, that went in unto her: and he began to fear lest it might happen to him also in like manner: and as he was in suspense, and gave no answer to his petition,

drb@B797:13 @Then Raguel said: I doubt not but God hath regarded my prayers and tears in his sight.

drb@B797:16 @And taking paper they made a writing of the marriage

drb@B797:18 @And Raguel called to him Anna his wife, and bade her prepare another chamber.

drb@B797:19 @And she brought Sara her daughter in thither, and she wept.

drb@B798:1 @And after they had supped, they brought in the young man to her.

drb@B798:2 @And Tobias remembering the angel's word, took out of his bag part of the liver, and laid it upon burning coals.

drb@B798:3 @Then the angel Raphael took the devil, and bound him in the desert of upper Egypt.

drb@B798:4 @Then Tobias exhorted the virgin, and said to her: Sara, arise, and let us pray to God to day, and to morrow, and the next day: because for these three nights we are joined to God: and when the third night is over, we will be in our own wedlock.

drb@B798:6 @So they both arose, and prayed earnestly both together that health might be given them,

drb@B798:8 @Thou madest Adam of the slime of the earth, and gavest him Eve for a helper.

drb@B798:9 @And now, Lord, thou knowest, that not for fleshly lust do I take my sister to wife, but only for the love of posterity, in which thy name may be blessed for ever and ever.

drb@B798:11 @And it came to pass about the cockcrowing, Raguel ordered his servants to be called for, and they went with him together to dig a grave.

drb@B798:12 @For he said: Lest perhaps it may have happened to him, in like manner as it did to the other seven husbands, that went in unto her.

drb@B798:13 @And when they had prepared the pit, Raguel went back to his wife, and said to her:

drb@B798:15 @So she sent one of her maidservants, who went into the chamber, and found them safe and sound, sleeping both together.

drb@B798:17 @And said: We bless thee, O Lord God of Israel, because it hath not happened as we suspected.

drb@B798:18 @For thou hast shewn thy mercy to us, and hast shut out from us the enemy that persecuted us

drb@B798:19 @And thou hast taken pity upon two only children. Make them, O Lord, bless thee more fully: and to offer up to thee a sacrifice of thy praise, and of their health, that all nations may know, that thou alone art God in all the earth.

drb@B798:20 @And immediately Raguel commanded his servants, to fill up the pit they had made, before it was day.

drb@B798:21 @And he spoke to his wife to make ready a feast, and prepare all kind of provisions that are necessary for such as go a journey.

drb@B798:22 @He caused also two fat kine, and four wethers to be killed, and a banquet to be prepared for all his neighbours, and all his friends.

drb@B798:24 @And of all things which Raguel possessed, he gave one half to Tobias, and made him a writing, that the half that remained should after their decease come also to Tobias.

drb@B799:1 @Then Tobias called the angel to him, whom he took to be a man, and said to him: Brother Azarias, I pray thee hearken to my words:

drb@B799:5 @And indeed thou seest how Raguel hath adjured me, whose adjuring I cannot despise.

drb@B799:6 @Then Raphael took four of Raguel's servants, and two camels, and went to Rages the city of the Medes: and finding Gabelus, gave him his note of hand, and received of him all the money.

drb@B799:8 @And when he was come into Raguel's house he found Tobias sitting at the table: and he leaped up, and they kissed each other: and Gabelus wept, and blessed God,

drb@B799:10 @And may a blessing come upon thy wife and upon your parents.

drb@B7910:1 @But as Tobias made longer stay upon occasion of the marriage, Tobias his father was solicitous, saying: Why thinkest thou doth my son tarry, or why is he detained there?

drb@B7910:2 @Is Gabelus dead, thinkest thou, and no man will pay him the money?

drb@B7910:3 @And he began to be exceeding sad, both he and Anna his wife with him: and they began both to weep together: because their son did not return to them on the day appointed.

drb@B7910:4 @But his mother wept and was quite disconsolate, and said: Woe, woe is me, my son; why did we send thee to go to a strange country, the light of our eyes, the staff of our old age, the comfort of our life, the hope of our posterity?

drb@B7910:6 @And Tobias said to her: Hold thy peace, and be not troubled, our son is safe: that man with whom we sent him is very trusty.

drb@B7910:7 @But she could by no means be comforted, but daily running out looked round about, and went into all the ways by which there seemed any hope he might return, that she might if possible see him coming afar off.

drb@B7910:9 @And Tobias said to him: I know that my father and mother now count the days, and their spirit is grievously afflicted within them

drb@B7910:10 @And when Raguel had pressed Tobias with many words, and he by no means would hearken to him, he delivered Sara unto him, and half of all his substance in menservants, and womenservants, in cattle, in camels, and in kine, and in much money, and sent him away safe and joyful from him.

drb@B7910:11 @Saying: The holy angel of the Lord be with you in your journey, and bring you through safe, and that you may find all things well about your parents, and my eyes see your children before I die.

drb@B7910:12 @And the parents taking their daughter kissed her, and let her go:

drb@B7910:13 @Admonishing her to honour her father and mother in law, to love her husband, to take care of the family, to govern the house, and to behave herself irreprehensibly.

drb@B7911:3 @If it please thee therefore, let us go before, and let the family follow softly after us, together with thy wife, and with the beasts.

drb@B7911:4 @And as this their going pleased him, Raphael said to Tobias: Take with thee of the gall of the fish, for it will be necessary. So Tobias took some of that gall and departed.

drb@B7911:5 @But Anna sat beside the way daily, on the top of a hill, from whence she might see afar off.

drb@B7911:6 @And while she watched his coming from that place, she saw him afar off, and presently perceived it was her son coming: and returning she told her husband, saying: Behold thy son cometh.

drb@B7911:7 @And Raphael said to Tobias: As soon as thou shalt come into thy house, forthwith adore the Lord thy God: and giving thanks to him, go to thy father, and kiss him.

drb@B7911:8 @And immediately anoint his eyes with this gall of the fish, which thou carriest with thee. For be assured that his eyes shall be presently opened, and thy father shall see the light of heaven, and shall rejoice in the sight of thee.

drb@B7911:10 @And his father that was blind, rising up, began to run stumbling with his feet: and giving a servant his hand, went to meet his son.

drb@B7911:11 @And receiving him kissed him, as did also his wife, and they began to weep for joy

drb@B7911:19 @And he told his parents all the benefits of God, which he had done to him by the man that conducted him.

drb@B7912:3 @He conducted me and brought me safe again, he received the money of Gabelus, he caused me to have my wife, and he chased from her the evil spirit, he gave joy to her parents, myself he delivered from being devoured by the fish, thee also he hath made to see the light of heaven, and we are filled with all good things through him. What can we give him sufficient for these things?

drb@B7912:4 @But I beseech thee, my father, to desire him, that he would vouchsafe to accept one half of all things that have been brought.

drb@B7912:5 @So the father and the son, calling him, took him aside: and began to desire him that he would vouchsafe to accept of half of all things that they had brought.

drb@B7912:8 @Prayer is good with fasting and alms more than to lay up treasures of gold:

drb@B7912:9 @For alms delivereth from death, and the same is that which purgeth away sins, and maketh to find mercy and life everlasting.

drb@B7912:12 @When thou didst pray with tears, and didst bury the dead, and didst leave thy dinner, and hide the dead by day in thy house, and bury them by night, I offered thy prayer to the Lord.

drb@B7912:13 @And because thou wast acceptable to God, it was necessary that temptation should prove thee

drb@B7912:15 @For I am the angel Raphael, one of the seven, who stand before the Lord.

drb@B7912:16 @And when they had heard these things, they were troubled, and being seized with fear they fell upon the ground on their face.

drb@B7912:17 @And the angel said to them: Peace be to you, fear not.

drb@B7912:18 @For when I was with you, I was there by the will of God: bless ye him, and sing praises to him.

drb@B7912:20 @It is time therefore that I return to him that sent me: but bless ye God, and publish all his wonderful works.

drb@B7912:22 @Then they lying prostrate for three hours upon their face, blessed God: and rising up, they told all his wonderful works.

drb@B7913:1 @And Tobias the elder opening his mouth, blessed the Lord, and said: Thou art great, O Lord, for ever, and thy kingdom is unto all ages:

drb@B7913:2 @For thou scourgest, and thou savest: thou leadest down to hell, and bringest up again: and there is none that can escape thy hand.

drb@B7913:3 @Give glory to the Lord, ye children of Israel, and praise him in the sight of the Gentiles:

drb@B7913:7 @As for me, I will praise him in the land of my captivity: because he hath shewn his majesty toward a sinful nation.

drb@B7913:10 @Bless ye the Lord, all his elect, keep days of joy, and give glory to him.

drb@B7913:12 @Give glory to the Lord for thy good things, and bless the God eternal, that he may rebuild his tabernacle in thee, and may call back all the captives to thee, and thou mayst rejoice for ever and ever.

drb@B7913:13 @Thou shalt shine with a glorious light: and all the ends of the earth shall worship thee.

drb@B7913:15 @For they shall call upon the great name in thee

drb@B7913:16 @They shall be cursed that shall despise thee: and they shall be condemned that shall blaspheme thee: and blessed shall they be that shall build thee up.

drb@B7913:18 @Blessed are all they that love thee, and that rejoice in thy peace.

drb@B7913:20 @Happy shall I be if there shall remain of my seed, to see the glory of Jerusalem.

drb@B7913:21 @The gates of Jerusalem shall be built of sapphire, and of emerald, and all the walls thereof round about of precious stones.

drb@B7913:22 @All its streets shall be paved with white and clean stones: and Alleluia shall be sung in its streets.

drb@B7914:4 @And the rest of his life was in joy, and with great increase of the fear of God he departed in peace.

drb@B7914:7 @And all the land thereof that is desert shall be filled with people, and the house of God which is burnt in it, shall again be rebuilt: and all that fear God shall return thither.

drb@B7914:10 @Hearken therefore, my children, to your father: serve the Lord in truth, and seek to do the things that please him:

drb@B7914:11 @And command your children that they do justice and almsdeeds, and that they be mindful of God, and bless him at all times in truth, and with all their power.

drb@B7914:12 @And now, children, hear me, and do not stay here: but as soon as you shall bury your mother by me in one sepulchre, without delay direct your steps to depart hence:

drb@B7914:14 @And it came to pass that after the death of his mother, Tobias departed out of Ninive with his wife, and children, and children's children, and returned to his father and mother in law.

drb@B7914:17 @And all his kindred, and all his generation continued in good life, and in holy conversation, so that they were acceptable both to God, and to men, and to all that dwelt in the land

drb@B801:1 @Love justice, you that are the judges of the earth. Think of the Lord in goodness, and seek him in simplicity of heart.

drb@B801:2 @For he is found by them that tempt him not: and he sheweth himself to them that have faith in him.

drb@B801:3 @For perverse thoughts seperate from God: and his power, when it is tried, reproveth the unwise:

drb@B801:5 @For the Holy Spirit of discipline will flee from the deceitful, and will withdraw himself from thoughts that are without understanding, and he shall not abide when iniquity cometh in.

drb@B801:6 @For the spirit of wisdom is benevolent, and will not acquit the evil speaker from his lips: for God is witness of his reins, and he is a true searcher of his heart, and a hearer of his tongue.

drb@B801:7 @For the spirit of the Lord hath filled the whole world: and that, which containeth all things, hath knowledge of the voice.

drb@B801:8 @Therefore he that speaketh unjust things cannot be hid, neither shall the chastising judgment pass him by.

drb@B801:11 @Keep yourselves therefore from murmuring, which profiteth nothing, and refrain your tongue from detraction, for an obscure speech shall not go for nought: and the mouth that belieth, killeth the soul.

drb@B801:12 @Seek not death in the error of your life, neither procure ye destruction by the works of your hands.

drb@B801:13 @For God made not death, neither hath he pleasure in the destruction of the living.

drb@B801:14 @For he created all things that they might be: and he made the nations of the earth for health: and there is no poison of destruction in them, nor kingdom of hell upon the earth.

drb@B801:15 @For justice is perpetual and immortal.

drb@B801:16 @But the wicked with works and words have called it to them: and esteeming it a friend have fallen away, and have made a covenant with it: because they are worthy to be of the part thereof.

drb@B802:2 @For we are born of nothing, and after this we shall be as if we had not been: for the breath in our nostrils is smoke: and speech a spark to move our heart,

drb@B802:3 @Which being put out, our body shall be ashes, and our spirit shall be poured abroad as soft air, and our life shall pass away as the trace of a cloud, and shall be dispersed as a mist, which is driven away by the beams of the sun, and overpowered with the heat thereof:

drb@B802:5 @For our time is as the passing of a shadow, and there is no going back of our end: for it is fast sealed, and no man returneth.

drb@B802:6 @Come therefore, and let us enjoy the good things that are present, and let us speedily use the creatures as in youth.

drb@B802:7 @Let us fill ourselves with costly wine, and ointments: and let not the flower of the time pass by us.

drb@B802:8 @Let us crown ourselves with roses, before they be withered: let no meadow escape our riot.

drb@B802:9 @Let none of us go without his part in luxury: let us everywhere leave tokens of joy: for this is our portion, and this our lot.

drb@B802:10 @Let us oppress the poor just man, and not spare the widow, nor honour the ancient grey hairs of the aged.

drb@B802:12 @Let us therefore lie in wait for the just, because he is not for our turn, and he is contrary to our doings, and upbraideth us with transgressions of the law, and divulgeth against us the sins of our way of life.

drb@B802:16 @We are esteemed by him as triflers, and he abstaineth from our ways as from filthiness, and he preferreth the latter end of the just, and glorieth that he hath God for his father.

drb@B802:17 @Let us see then if his words be true, and let us prove what shall happen to him, and we shall know what his end shall be.

drb@B802:19 @Let us examine him by outrages and tortures, that we may know his meekness and try his patience.

drb@B802:20 @Let us condemn him to a most shameful death: for there shall be respect had unto him by his words.

drb@B802:22 @And they knew not the secrets of God, nor hoped for the wages of justice, nor esteemed the honour of holy souls.

drb@B802:23 @For God created man incorruptible, and to the image of his own likeness he made him.

drb@B803:2 @In the sight of the unwise they seemed to die: and their departure was taken for misery:

drb@B803:3 @And their going away from us, for utter destruction: but they are in peace.

drb@B803:4 @And though in the sight of men they suffered torments, their hope is full of immortality.

drb@B803:6 @As gold in the furnace he hath proved them, and as a victim of a holocaust he hath received them, and in time there shall be respect had to them.

drb@B803:7 @The just shall shine, and shall run to and fro like sparks among the reeds.

drb@B803:8 @They shall judge nations, and rule over people, and their Lord shall reign for ever.

drb@B803:9 @They that trust in him, shall understand the truth: and they that are faithful in love shall rest in him: for grace and peace is to his elect.

drb@B803:10 @But the wicked shall be punished according to their own devices: who have neglected the just, and have revolted from the Lord

drb@B803:11 @For he that rejecteth wisdom, and discipline, is unhappy: and their hope is vain, and their labours without fruit, and their works unprofitable.

drb@B803:13 @Their offspring is cursed: for happy is the barren: and the undefiled, that hath not known bed in sin: she shall have fruit in the visitation of holy souls.

drb@B803:14 @And the eunuch, that hath not wrought iniquity with his hands, nor thought wicked things against God: for the precious gift of faith shall be given to him, and a most acceptable lot in the temple of God.

drb@B803:16 @But the children of adulterers shall not come to perfection, and the seed of the unlawful bed shall be rooted out.

drb@B803:18 @And if they die quickly, they shall have no hope, nor speech of comfort in the day of trial.

drb@B804:2 @When it is present, they imitate it: and they desire it when it hath withdrawn itself, and it triumpheth crowned for ever, winning the reward of undefiled conflicts.

drb@B804:3 @But the multiplied brood of the wicked shall not thrive, and bastard slips shall not take deep root, nor any fast foundation.

drb@B804:5 @For the branches not being perfect, shall be broken, and their fruits shall be unprofitable, and sour to eat, and fit for nothing.

drb@B804:6 @For the children that are born of unlawful beds, are witnesses of wickedness against their parents in their trial.

drb@B804:7 @But the just man, if he be prevented with death, shall be in rest.

drb@B804:9 @And a spotless life is old age.

drb@B804:10 @He pleased God and was beloved, and living among sinners he was translated

drb@B804:12 @For the bewitching of vanity obscureth good things, and the wandering of concupiscence overturneth the innocent mind.

drb@B804:13 @Being made perfect in a short space, he fulfilled a long time:

drb@B804:14 @For his soul pleased God: therefore he hastened to bring him out of the midst of iniquities: but the people see this, and understand not, nor lay up such things in their hearts:

drb@B804:15 @That the grace of God, and his mercy is with his saints, and that he hath respect to his chosen.

drb@B804:18 @They shall see him, and shall despise him: but the Lord shall laugh them to scorn.

drb@B804:19 @And they shall fall after this without honour, and be a reproach among the dead for ever: for he shall burst them puffed up and speechless, and shall shake them from the foundations, and they shall be utterly laid waste: they shall be in sorrow, and their memory shall perish.

drb@B805:2 @These seeing it, shall be troubled with terrible fear, and shall be amazed at the suddenness of their unexpected salvation.

drb@B805:3 @Saying within themselves, repenting, and groaning for anguish of spirit: These are they, whom we had some time in derision, and for a parable of reproach.

drb@B805:6 @Therefore we have erred from the way of truth, and the light of justice hath not shined unto us, and the sun of understanding hath not risen upon us.

drb@B805:8 @What hath pride profited us? or what advantage hath the boasting of riches brought us?

drb@B805:9 @All those things are passed away like a shadow, and like a post that runneth on,

drb@B805:10 @And as a ship that passeth through the waves: whereof when it is gone by, the trace cannot be found, nor the path of its keel in the waters:

drb@B805:11 @Or as when a bird flieth through the air, of the passage of which no mark can be found, but only the sound of the wings beating the light air, and parting it by the force of her flight; she moved her wings, and hath flown through, and there is no mark found afterwards of her way:

drb@B805:12 @Or as when an arrow is shot at a mark, the divided air presently cometh together again, so that the passage thereof is not known:

drb@B805:15 @For the hope of the wicked is as dust, which is blown away with the wind, and as a thin froth which is dispersed by the storm: and a smoke that is scattered abroad by the wind: and as the remembrance of a guest of one day that passeth by.

drb@B805:19 @He will put on justice as a breastplate, and will take true judgment instead of a helmet.

drb@B805:21 @And he will sharpen his severe wrath for a spear, and the whole world shall fight with him against the unwise.

drb@B805:23 @And thick hail shall be cast upon them from the stone casting wrath: the water of the sea shall rage against them, and the rivers shall run together in a terrible manner.

drb@B805:24 @A mighty wind shall stand up against them, and as a whirlwind shall divide them: and their iniquity shall bring all the earth to a desert, and wickedness shall overthrow the thrones of the mighty.

drb@B806:3 @Give ear, you that rule the people, and that please yourselves in multitudes of nations:

drb@B806:4 @For power is given you by the Lord, and strength by the most High, who will examine your works, and search out your thoughts:

drb@B806:5 @Because being ministers of his kingdom, you have not judged rightly, nor kept the law of justice, nor walked according to the will of God.

drb@B806:6 @Horribly and speedily will he appear to you: for a most severe judgment shall be for them that bear rule.

drb@B806:8 @For God will not except any man's person, neither will he stand in awe of any man's greatness: for he made the little and the great, and he hath equally care of all.

drb@B806:9 @But a greater punishment is ready for the more mighty.

drb@B806:11 @For they that have kept just things justly, shall be justified: and they that have learned these things, shall find what to answer.

drb@B806:14 @She preventeth them that covet her, so that she first sheweth herself unto them

drb@B806:16 @To think therefore upon her, is perfect understanding: and he that watcheth for her, shall quickly be secure.

drb@B806:17 @For she goeth about seeking such as are worthy of her, and she sheweth herself to them cheerfully in the ways, and meeteth them with all providence.

drb@B806:18 @For the beginning of her is the most true desire of discipline.

drb@B806:19 @And the care of discipline is love: and love is the keeping of her laws: and the keeping of her laws is the firm foundation of incorruption:

drb@B806:20 @And incorruption bringeth near to God.

drb@B806:22 @If then your delight be in thrones, and sceptres, O ye kings of the people, love wisdom, that you may reign for ever.

drb@B806:23 @Love the light of wisdom, all ye that bear rule over peoples.

drb@B806:24 @Now what wisdom is, and what was her origin, I will declare: and I will not hide from you the mysteries of God, but will seek her out from the beginning of her birth, and bring the knowledge of her to light, and will not pass over the truth:

drb@B806:25 @Neither will I go with consuming envy: for such a man shall not be partaker of wisdom.

drb@B806:26 @Now the multitude of the wise is the welfare of the whole world: and a wise king is the upholding of the people.

drb@B806:27 @Receive therefore instruction by my words, and it shall be profitable to you.

drb@B807:2 @In the time of ten months I was compacted in blood, of the seed of man, and the pleasure of sleep concurring.

drb@B807:3 @And being born I drew in the common air, and fell upon the earth, that is made alike, and the first voice which I uttered was crying, as all others do.

drb@B807:7 @Wherefore I wished, and understanding was given me: and I called upon God, and the spirit of wisdom came upon me:

drb@B807:8 @And I preferred her before kingdoms and thrones, and esteemed riches nothing in comparison of her.

drb@B807:9 @Neither did I compare unto her any precious stone: for all gold in comparison of her, is as a little sand, and silver in respect to her shall be counted as clay.

drb@B807:10 @I loved her above health and beauty, and chose to have her instead of light: for her light cannot be put out.

drb@B807:14 @For she is an infinite treasure to men! which they that use, become the friends of God, being commended for the gift of discipline.

drb@B807:15 @And God hath given to me to speak as I would, and to conceive thoughts worthy of those things that are given me: because he is the guide of wisdom, and the director of the wise:

drb@B807:17 @For he hath given me the true knowledge of the things that are: to know the disposition of the whole world, and the virtues of the elements,

drb@B807:19 @The revolutions of the year, and the dispositions of the stars,

drb@B807:20 @The natures of living creatures, and rage of wild beasts, the force of winds, and reasonings of men, the diversities of plants, and the virtues of roots,

drb@B807:22 @For in her is the spirit of understanding: holy, one, manifold, subtile, eloquent, active, undefiled, sure, sweet, loving that which is good, quick, which nothing hindereth, beneficent,

drb@B807:23 @Gentle, kind, steadfast, assured, secure, having all power, overseeing all things, and containing all spirits, intelligible, pure, subtile.

drb@B807:24 @For wisdom is more active than all active things: and reacheth everywhere by reason of her purity.

drb@B807:25 @For she is a vapour of the power of God, and a certain pure emanation of the glory of the almighty God: and therefore no defiled thing cometh into her.

drb@B807:26 @For she is the brightness of eternal light, and the unspotted mirror of God's majesty, and the image of his goodness.

drb@B807:27 @And being but one, she can do all things: and remaining in herself the same, she reneweth all things, and through nations conveyeth herself into holy souls, she maketh the friends of God and prophets.

drb@B807:29 @For she is more beautiful than the sun, and above all the order of the stars: being compared with the light, she is found before it.

drb@B808:2 @Her have I loved, and have sought her out from my youth, and have desired to take her for my spouse, and I became a lover of her beauty.

drb@B808:7 @And if a man love justice: her labours have great virtues; for she teacheth temperance, and prudence, anad justice, and fortitude, which are such things as men can have nothing more profitable in life.

drb@B808:8 @And if a man desire much knowledge: she knoweth things past, and judgeth of things to come: she knoweth the subtilties of speeches, and the solutions of arguments: she knoweth signs and wonders before they be done, and the events of times and ages.

drb@B808:9 @I purposed therefore to take her to me to live with me: knowing that she will communicate to me of her good things, and will be a comfort in my cares and grief.

drb@B808:11 @And I shall be found of a quick conceit in judgment, and shall be admired in the sight of the mighty, and the faces of princes shall wonder at me.

drb@B808:12 @They shall wait for me when I hold my peace, and they shall look upon me when I speak, and if I talk much they shall lay their hands on their mouths.

drb@B808:14 @I shall set the people in order: and nations shall be subject to me.

drb@B808:16 @When I go into my house, I shall repose myself with her: for her conversation hath no bitterness, nor her company any tediousness, but joy and gladness.

drb@B808:17 @Thinking these things with myself, and pondering them in my heart, that to be allied to wisdom is immortality,

drb@B808:18 @And that there is great delight in her friendship, and inexhaustible riches in the works of her hands, and in the exercise of conference with her, wisdom, and glory in the communication of her words: I went about seeking, that I might take her to myself

drb@B808:21 @And as I knew that I could not otherwise be continent, except God gave it, and this also was a point of wisdom, to know whose gift it was: I went to the Lord, and besought him, and said with my whole heart:

drb@B809:2 @And by thy wisdom hast appointed man, that he should have dominion over the creature that was made by thee,

drb@B809:3 @That he should order the world according to equity and justice, and execute justice with an upright heart:

drb@B809:6 @For if one be perfect among the children of men, yet if thy wisdom be not with him, he shall be nothing regarded.

drb@B809:7 @Thou hast chosen me to be king of thy people, and a judge of thy sons and daughters.

drb@B809:8 @And hast commanded me to build a temple on thy holy mount, and an altar in the city of thy dwelling place, a resemblance of thy holy tabernacle, which thou hast prepared from the beginning:

drb@B809:9 @And thy wisdom with thee, which knoweth thy works, which then also was present when thou madest the world, and knew what was agreeable to thy eyes, and what was right in thy commandments.

drb@B809:10 @Send her out of thy holy heaven, and from the throne of thy majesty, that she may be with me, and may labour with me, that I may know what is acceptable with thee:

drb@B809:11 @For she knoweth and understandeth all things, and shall lead me soberly in my works, and shall preserve me by her power.

drb@B809:12 @So shall my works be acceptable, and I shall govern thy people justly, and shall be worthy of the throne of my father.

drb@B809:15 @For the corruptible body is a load upon the soul, and the earthly habitation presseth down the mind that museth upon many things.

drb@B809:16 @And hardly do we guess aright at things that are upon earth: and with labour do we find the things that are before us. But the things that are in heaven, who shall search out?

drb@B809:17 @And who shall know thy thought, except thou give wisdom, and send thy Holy Spirit from above:

drb@B809:18 @And so the ways of them that are upon earth may be corrected, and men may learn the things that please thee?

drb@B809:19 @For by wisdom they were healed, whosoever have pleased thee, O Lord, from the beginning.

drb@B8010:1 @She preseved him, that was first formed by God the father of the world, when he was created alone,

drb@B8010:2 @And she brought him out of his sin, and gave him power to govern all things.

drb@B8010:3 @But when the unjust went away from her in his anger, he perished by the fury wherewith he murdered his brother.

drb@B8010:4 @For whose cause, when water destroyed the earth, wisdom healed it again, directing the course of the just by contemptible wood.

drb@B8010:5 @Moreover when the nations had conspired together to consent to wickedness, she knew the just, and preserved him without blame to God, and kept him strong against the compassion for his son.

drb@B8010:6 @She delivered the just man who fled from the wicked that were perishing, when the fire came down upon Pentapolis:

drb@B8010:7 @Whose land for a testimony of their wickedness is desolate, and smoketh to this day, and the trees bear fruits that ripen not, and a standing pillar of salt is a monument of an incredulous soul.

drb@B8010:8 @For regarding not wisdom, they did not only slip in this, that they were ignorant of good things, but they left also unto men a memorial of their folly, so that in the things in which they sinned, they could not so much as lie hid.

drb@B8010:9 @But wisdom hath delivered from sorrow them that attend upon her

drb@B8010:10 @She conducted the just, when he fled from his brother's wrath, through the right ways, and shewed him the kingdom of God, and gave him the knowledge of the holy things, made him honourable in his labours, and accomplished his labours.

drb@B8010:12 @She kept him safe from his enemies, and she defended him from seducers, and gave him a strong conflict, that he might overcome, and know that wisdom is mightier than all.

drb@B8010:13 @She forsook not the just when he was sold, but delivered him from sinners: she went down with him into the pit.

drb@B8010:14 @And in bands she left him not, till she brought him the sceptre of the kingdom, and power against those that oppressed him: and shewed them to be liars that had accused him, and gave him everlasting glory.

drb@B8010:15 @She delivered the just people, and blameless seed from the nations that oppressed them.

drb@B8010:19 @But their enemies she drowned in the sea, and from the depth of hell she brought them out. Therefore the just took the spoils of the wicked.

drb@B8010:20 @And they sung to thy holy name, O Lord, and they praised with one accord thy victorious hand.

drb@B8010:21 @For wisdom opened the mouth of the dumb, and made the tongues of infants eloquent.

drb@B8011:1 @She prospered their works in the hands of the holy prophet.

drb@B8011:2 @They went through wildernesses that were not inhabited, and in desert places they pitched their tents.

drb@B8011:4 @They were thirsty, and they called upon thee, and water was given them out of the high rock, and a refreshment of their thirst out of the hard stone.

drb@B8011:5 @For by what things their enemies were punished, when their drink failed them, while the children of Israel abounded therewith and rejoiced:

drb@B8011:8 @And whilst they were diminished for a manifest reproof of their murdering the infants, thou gavest to thine abundant water unlooked for:

drb@B8011:12 @For whether absent or present, they were tormented alike.

drb@B8011:13 @For a double affliction came upon them, and a groaning for the remembrance of things past.

drb@B8011:14 @For when they heard that by their punishments the others were benefited, they remembered the Lord, wondering at the end of what was come to pass.

drb@B8011:15 @For whom they scorned before, when he was thrown out at the time of his being wickedly exposed to perish, him they admired in the end, when they saw the event: their thirsting being unlike to that of the just.

drb@B8011:16 @But for the foolish devices of their iniquity, because some being deceived worshipped dumb serpents and worthless beasts, thou didst send upon them a multitude of dumb beasts for vengeance.

drb@B8011:18 @For thy almighty hand, which made the world of matter without form, was not unable to send upon them a multitude of bears, or fierce lions,

drb@B8011:19 @Or unknown beasts of a new kind, full of rage: either breathing out a fiery vapour, or sending forth a stinking smoke, or shooting horrible sparks out of their eyes:

drb@B8011:21 @Yea and without these, they might have been slain with one blast, persecuted by their own deeds, and scattered by the breath of thy power: but thou hast ordered all things in measure, and number, and weight.

drb@B8011:22 @For great power always belonged to thee alone: and who shall resist the strength of thy arm?

drb@B8011:23 @For the whole world before thee is as the least grain of the balance, and as a drop of the morning dew, that falleth down upon the earth:

drb@B8011:24 @But thou hast mercy upon all, because thou canst do all things, and overlookest the sins of men for the sake of repentance.

drb@B8011:25 @For thou lovest all things that are, and hatest none of the things which thou hast made: for thou didst not appoint, or make any thing hating it.

drb@B8011:26 @And how could any thing endure, if thou wouldst not? or be preserved, if not called by thee.

drb@B8011:27 @But thou sparest all: because they are thine, O Lord, who lovest souls.

drb@B8012:1 @O how good and sweet is thy spirit, O Lord, in all things!

drb@B8012:2 @And therefore thou chastisest them that err, by little and little: and admonishest them, and speakest to them, concerning the things wherein they offend: that leaving their wickedness, they may believe in thee, O Lord.

drb@B8012:6 @And those parents sacrificing with their own hands helpless souls, it was thy will to destroy by the hands of our parents,

drb@B8012:8 @Yet even those thou sparedst as men, and didst send wasps, forerunners of thy host, to destroy them by little and little.

drb@B8012:10 @But executing thy judgments by degrees thou gavest them place of repentance, not being ignorant that they were a wicked generation, and their malice natural, and that their thought could never be changed.

drb@B8012:11 @For it was a cursed seed from the beginning: neither didst thou for fear of any one give pardon to their sins.

drb@B8012:12 @For who shall say to thee: What hast thou done? or who shall withstand thy judgment? or who shall come before thee to be a revenger of wicked men? or who shall accuse thee, if the nations perish, which thou hast made?

drb@B8012:15 @For so much then as thou art just, thou orderest all things justly: thinking it not agreeable to thy power, to condemn him who deserveth not to be punished.

drb@B8012:16 @For thy power is the beginning of justice: and because thou art Lord of all, thou makest thyself gracious to all.

drb@B8012:17 @For thou shewest thy power, when men will not believe thee to be absolute in power, and thou convincest the boldness of them that know thee not.

drb@B8012:18 @But thou being master of power, judgest with tranquillity; and with great favour disposest of us: for thy power is at hand when thou wilt.

drb@B8012:19 @But thou hast taught thy people by such works, that they must be just and humane, and hast made thy children to be of a good hope: because in judging thou givest place for repentance for sins.

drb@B8012:20 @For if thou didst punish the enemies of thy servants, and that deserved to die, with so great deliberation, giving them time and place whereby they might be changed from their wickedness:

drb@B8012:21 @With what circumspection hast thou judged thy own children, to whose parents thou hast sworn and made covenants of good promises?

drb@B8012:22 @Therefore whereas thou chastisest us, thou scourgest our enemies very many ways, to the end that when we judge we may think on thy goodness: and when we are judged, we may hope for thy mercy.

drb@B8012:23 @Wherefore thou hast also greatly tormented them who in their life have lived foolishly and unjustly, by the same things which they worshipped.

drb@B8012:25 @Therefore thou hast sent a judgment upon them as senseless children to mock them.

drb@B8012:26 @But they that were not amended by mockeries and reprehensions, experienced the worthy judgment of God.

drb@B8012:27 @For seeing with indignation that they suffered by those very things which they took for gods, when they were destroyed by the same, they acknowledged him the true God, whom in time past they denied that they knew: for which cause the end also of their condemnation came upon them.

drb@B8013:4 @Or if they admired their power and their effects, let them understand by them, that he that made them, is mightier than they:

drb@B8013:6 @But yet as to these they are less to be blamed. For they perhaps err, seeking God, and desirous to find him.

drb@B8013:7 @For being conversant among his works, they search: and they are persuaded that the things are good which are seen.

drb@B8013:8 @But then again they are not to be pardoned.

drb@B8013:10 @But unhappy are they, and their hope is among the dead, who have called gods the works of the hands of men, gold and silver, the inventions of art, and the resemblances of beasts, or an unprofitable stone the work of an ancient hand.

drb@B8013:11 @Or if an artist, a carpenter, hath cut down a tree proper for his use in the wood, and skilfully taken off all the bark thereof, and with his art, diligently formeth a vessel profitable for the common uses of life,

drb@B8013:12 @And useth the chips of his work to dress his meat:

drb@B8013:13 @And taking what was left thereof, which is good for nothing, being a crooked piece of wood, and full of knots, carveth it diligently when he hath nothing else to do, and by the skill of his art fashioneth it and maketh it like the image of a man:

drb@B8013:14 @Or the resemblance of some beast, laying it over with vermillion, and painting it red, and covering every spot that is in it:

drb@B8013:15 @And maketh a convenient dwelling place for it, and setting it in a wall, and fastening it with iron,

drb@B8013:16 @Providing for it, lest it should fall, knowing that it is unable to help itself: for it is an image, and hath need of help.

drb@B8013:17 @And then maketh prayer to it, inquiring concerning his substance, and his children, or his marriage. And he is not ashamed to speak to that which hath no life:

drb@B8013:18 @And for health he maketh suspplication to the weak, and for life prayeth to that which is dead, and for help calleth upon that which is unprofitable:

drb@B8013:19 @And for a good journey he petitioneth him that cannot walk: and for getting, and for working, and for the event of all things he asketh him that is unable to do any thing.

drb@B8014:1 @Again, another designing to sail, and beginning to make his voyage through the raging waves, calleth upon a piece of wood more frail than the wood that carrieth him.

drb@B8014:3 @But thy providence, O Father, governeth it: for thou hast made a way even in the sea, and a most sure path among the waves,

drb@B8014:5 @But that the works of thy wisdom might not be idle: therefore men also trust their lives even to a little wood, and passing over the sea by ship are saved.

drb@B8014:6 @And from the beginning also when the proud giants perished, the hope of the world fleeing to a vessel, which was governed by thy hand, left to the world seed of generation.

drb@B8014:11 @Therefore there shall be no respect had even to the idols of the Gentiles: because the creatures of God are turned to an abomination, and a temptation to the souls of men, and a snare to the feet of the unwise.

drb@B8014:12 @For the beginning of fornication is the devising of idols: and the invention of them is the corruption of life.

drb@B8014:15 @For a father being afflicted with bitter grief, made to himself the image of his son who was quickly taken away: and him who then had died as a man, he began now to worship as a god, and appointed him rites and sacrifices among his servants.

drb@B8014:16 @Then in process of time, wicked custom prevailing, this error was kept as a law, and statues were worshipped by the commandment of tyrants.

drb@B8014:17 @And those whom men could not honour in presence, because they dwelt far off, they brought their resemblance from afar, and made an express image of the king whom they had a mind to honour: that by this their diligence, they might honour as present, him that was absent

drb@B8014:18 @And to worshipping of these, the singular diligence also of the artificer helped to set forward the ignorant.

drb@B8014:19 @For he being willing to please him that employed him, laboured with all his art to make the resemblance in the best manner.

drb@B8014:22 @And it was not enough for them to err about the knowledge of God, but whereas they lived in a great war of ignorance, they call so many and so great evils peace.

drb@B8014:23 @For either they sacrifice their own children, or use hidden sacrifices, or keep watches full of madness,

drb@B8014:24 @So that now they neither keep life, nor marriage undefiled, but one killeth another through envy, or grieveth him by adultery:

drb@B8014:25 @And all things are mingled together, blood, murder, theft and dissimulation, corruption and unfaithfulness, tumults and perjury, disquieting of the good,

drb@B8014:27 @For the worship of abominable idols is the cause, and the beginning and end of all evil.

drb@B8014:28 @For either they are mad when they are merry: or they prophesy lies, or they live unjustly, or easily forswear themselves.

drb@B8014:30 @But for two things they shall be justly punished, because they have thought not well of God, giving heed to idols, and have sworn unjustly, in guile despising justice.

drb@B8014:31 @For it is not the power of them, by whom they swear, but the just vengeance of sinners always punisheth the transgression of the unjust.

drb@B8015:1 @But thou, our God, art gracious and true, patient, and ordering all things in mercy.

drb@B8015:3 @For to know thee is perfect justice: and to know thy justice, and thy power, is the root of immortality.

drb@B8015:4 @For the invention of mischievous men hath not deceived us, nor the shadow of a picture, a fruitless labour, a graven figure with divers colours,

drb@B8015:6 @The lovers of evil things deserve to have no better things to trust in, both they that make them, and they that love them,and they that worship them.

drb@B8015:7 @The potter also tempering soft earth, with labour fashioneth every vessel for our service, and of the same clay he maketh both vessels that are for clean uses, and likewise such as serve to the contrary: but what is the use of these vessels, the potter is the judge.

drb@B8015:10 @For his heart is ashes, and his hope vain earth, and his life more base than clay:

drb@B8015:11 @Forasmuch as he knew not his maker and him that inspired into him the soul that worketh, and that breathed into him a living spirit.

drb@B8015:12 @Yea and they have counted our life a pastime, and the business of life to be gain, and that we must be getting every way, even out of evil.

drb@B8015:14 @But all the enemies of thy people that hold them in subjection, are foolish, and unhappy, and proud beyond measure:

drb@B8015:17 @For being mortal himself, he formeth a dead thing with his wicked hands. For he is better than they whom he worshippeth, because he indeed hath lived, though he were mortal, but they never.

drb@B8015:18 @Moreover they worship also the vilest creatures: but things without sense compared to these, are worse than they.

drb@B8016:1 @For these things, and by the like things to these, they were worthily punished, and were destroyed by a multitude of beasts.

drb@B8016:2 @Instead of which punishment, dealing well with thy people, thou gavest them their desire of delicious food, of a new taste, preparing for them quails for their meat:

drb@B8016:4 @For it was requisite that inevitable destruction should come upon them that exercised tyranny: but to these it should only be shewn how their enemies were destroyed.

drb@B8016:5 @For when the fierce rage of beasts came upon these, they were destroyed with the bitings of crooked serpents.

drb@B8016:6 @But thy wrath endured not for ever, but they were troubled for a short time for their correction, having a sign of salvation to put them in remembrance of the commandment of thy law.

drb@B8016:10 @But not even the teeth of venomous serpents overcame thy children: for thy mercy came and healed them.

drb@B8016:11 @For they were examined for the remembrance of thy words, and were quickly healed, lest falling into deep forgetfulness, they might not be able to use thy help.

drb@B8016:12 @For it was neither herb, nor mollifying plaster that healed them, but thy word, O Lord, which healeth all things.

drb@B8016:13 @For it is thou, O Lord, that hast power of life and death, and leadest down to the gates of death, and bringest back again:

drb@B8016:14 @A man indeed killeth through malice, and when the spirit is gone forth, it shall not return, neither shall he call back the soul that is received:

drb@B8016:15 @But it is impossible to escape thy hand.

drb@B8016:16 @For the wicked that denied to know thee, were scourged by the strength of thy arm, being persecuted by strange waters, and hail, and rain, and consumed by fire.

drb@B8016:18 @For at one time, the fire was mitigated, that the beasts which were sent against the wicked might not be burned, but that they might see and perceive that they were persecuted by the judgment of God.

drb@B8016:19 @And at another time the fire, above its own power, burned in the midst of water, to destroy the fruits of a wicked land.

drb@B8016:20 @Instead of which things thou didst feed thy people with the food of angels, and gavest them bread from heaven prepared without labour; having in it all that is delicious, and the sweetness of every taste.

drb@B8016:24 @For the creature serving thee the Creator, is made fierce against the unjust for their punishment; and abateth its strength for the benefit of them that trust in thee.

drb@B8016:26 @That thy children, O Lord, whom thou lovedst, might know that it is not the growing of fruits that nourisheth men, but thy word preseveth them that believe in thee:

drb@B8016:27 @For that which could not be destroyed by fire, being warmed with a little sunbeam presently melted away:

drb@B8016:28 @That it might be known to all, that we ought to prevent the sun to bless thee, and adore thee at the dawning of the light.

drb@B8016:29 @For the hope of the unthankful shall melt away as the winter's ice, and shall run off as unprofitable water.

drb@B8017:1 @For thy judgments, O Lord, are great, and thy words cannot be expressed: therefore undisciplined souls have erred.

drb@B8017:2 @For while the wicked thought to be able to have dominion over the holy nation, they themselves being fettered with the bonds of darkness, and a long night, shut up in their houses, lay there exiled from the eternal providence.

drb@B8017:4 @For neither did the den that held them, keep them from fear: for noises coming down troubled them, and sad visions appearing to them, affrighted them.

drb@B8017:5 @And no power of fire could give them light, neither could the bright flames of the stars enlighten that horrible night.

drb@B8017:6 @But there appeared to them a sudden fire, very dreadful: and being struck with the fear of that face, which was not seen, they thought the things which they saw to be worse:

drb@B8017:7 @And the delusions of their magic art were put down, and their boasting of wisdom was reproachfully rebuked.

drb@B8017:8 @For they who promised to drive away fears and troubles from a sick soul, were sick themselves of a fear worthy to be laughed at.

drb@B8017:9 @For though no terrible thing disturbed them: yet being scared with the passing by of beasts, and hissing of serpents, they died for fear: and denying that they saw the air, which could by no means be avoided.

drb@B8017:11 @For fear is nothing else but a yielding up of the succours from thought.

drb@B8017:12 @And while there is less expectation from within, the greater doth it count the ignorance of that cause which bringeth the torment.

drb@B8017:13 @But they that during that night, in which nothing could be done, and which came upon them from the lowest and deepest hell, slept the same sleep.

drb@B8017:14 @Were sometimes molested with the fear of monsters, sometimes fainted away, their soul failing them: for a sudden and unlooked for fear was come upon them.

drb@B8017:15 @Moreover if any of them had fallen down, he was kept shut up in prison without irons.

drb@B8017:16 @For if any one were a husbandman, or a shepherd, or a labourer in the field, and was suddenly overtaken, he endured a necessity from which he could not fly.

drb@B8017:17 @For they were all bound together with one chain of darkness. Whether it were a whistling wind, or the melodious voice of birds, among the spreading branches of trees, or a fall of water running down with violence,

drb@B8017:18 @Or the mighty noise of stones tumbling down, or the running that could not be seen of beasts playing together, or the roaring voice of wild beasts, or a rebounding echo from the highest mountains: these things made them to swoon for fear.

drb@B8017:20 @But over them only was spread a heavy night, an image of that darkness which was to come upon them. But they were to themselves more grievous than the darkness.

drb@B8018:1 @But thy saints had a very great light, and they heard their voice indeed, but did not see their shape. And because they also did not suffer the same things, they glorified thee:

drb@B8018:3 @Therefore they received a burning pillar of fire for a guide of the way which they knew not, and thou gavest them a harmless sun of a good entertainment.

drb@B8018:4 @The others indeed were worthy to be deprived of light, and imprisoned in darkness, who kept thy children shut up, by whom the pure light of the law was to be given to the world.

drb@B8018:5 @And whereas they thought to kill the babes of the just, one child being cast forth, and saved, to reprove them, thou tookest away a multitude of their children, and destroyedst them all together in a mighty water.

drb@B8018:7 @So thy people received the salvation of the just, and destruction of the unjust.

drb@B8018:8 @For as thou didst punish the adversaries: so thou didst also encourage and glorify us.

drb@B8018:9 @For the just children of good men were offering sacrifice secretly, and they unanimously ordered a law of justice: that the just should receive both good and evil alike, singing now the praises of the fathers.

drb@B8018:11 @And the servant suffered the same punishment as the master, and a common man suffered in like manner as the king.

drb@B8018:12 @So all alike had innumerable dead, with one kind of death. Neither were the living sufficient to bury them; for in one moment the noblest offspring of them was destroyed.

drb@B8018:13 @For whereas they would not believe any thing before by reason of the enchantments, then first upon the destruction of the firstborn, they acknowledged the people to be of God.

drb@B8018:15 @Thy almighty word leapt down from heaven from thy royal throne, as a fierce conqueror into the midst of the land of destruction.

drb@B8018:16 @With a sharp sword carrying thy unfeigned commandment, and he stood and filled all things with death, and standing on the earth reached even to heaven.

drb@B8018:17 @Then suddenly visions of evil dreams troubled them, and fears unlooked for came upon them.

drb@B8018:19 @For the visions that troubled them foreshewed these things, lest they should perish and not know why they suffered these evils.

drb@B8018:21 @For a blameless man made haste to pray for the people, bringing forth the shield of his ministry, prayer, and by incense making supplication, withstood the wrath, and put an end to the calamity, shewing that he was thy servant.

drb@B8018:22 @And he overcame the disturbance, not by strength of body nor with force of arms, but with a word he subdued him that punished them, alleging the oaths and covenant made with the fathers.

drb@B8018:23 @For when they were now fallen down dead by heaps one upon another, he stood between and stayed the assault, and cut off the way to the living.

drb@B8018:24 @For in the priestly robe which he wore, was the whole world: and in the four rows of the stones the glory of the fathers was graven, and thy majesty was written upon the diadem of his head.

drb@B8018:25 @And to these the destroyer gave place, and was afraid of them: for the proof only of wrath was enough.

drb@B8019:1 @But as to the wicked, even to the end there came upon them wrath without mercy. For he knew before also what they would do:

drb@B8019:2 @For when they had given them leave to depart, and had sent them away with great care, they repented, and pursued after them.

drb@B8019:3 @For whilst they were yet mourning, and lamenting at the graves of the dead, they took up another foolish device: and pursued them as fugitives whom they had pressed to be gone:

drb@B8019:4 @For a necessity, of which they were worthy, brought them to this end: and they lost the remembrance of those things which had happened, that their punishment might fill up what was wanting to their torments:

drb@B8019:5 @And that thy people might wonderfully pass through, but they might find a new death.

drb@B8019:6 @For every creature according to its kind was fashioned again as from the beginning, obeying thy commandments, that thy children might be kept without hurt.

drb@B8019:7 @For a cloud overshadowed their camp, and where water was before, dry land appeared, and in the Red Sea a way without hinderance, and out of the great deep a springing field:

drb@B8019:8 @Through which all the nation passed which was protected with thy hand, seeing thy miracles and wonders.

drb@B8019:9 @For they fed on their food like horses, and they skipped like lambs, praising thee, O Lord, who hadst delivered them.

drb@B8019:10 @For they were yet mindful of those things which had been done in the time of their sojourning, how the ground brought forth flies instead of cattle, and how the river cast up a multitude of frogs instead of fishes

drb@B8019:11 @And at length they saw a new generation of birds, when being led by their appetite they asked for delicate meats.

drb@B8019:12 @For to satisfy their desire, the quail came up to them from the sea: and punishments came upon the sinners, not without foregoing signs by the force of thunders: for they suffered justly according to their own wickedness.

drb@B8019:13 @For they exercised a more detestable inhospitality than any: others indeed received not strangers unknown to them, but these brought their guests into bondage that had deserved well of them.

drb@B8019:14 @And not only so, but in another respect also they were worse: for the others against their will received the strangers.

drb@B8019:16 @But they were struck with blindness: as those others were at the doors of the just man, when they were covered with sudden darkness, and every one sought the passage of his own door.

drb@B8019:17 @For while the elements are changed in themselves, as in an instrument the sound of the quality is changed, yet all keep their sound: which may clearly be perceived by the very sight.

drb@B8019:18 @For the things of the land were turned into things of the water: and the things before swam in the water passed upon the land.

drb@B8019:19 @The fire had power in water above its own virtue, and the water forgot its quenching nature.

drb@B8019:20 @On the other side, the flames wasted not the flesh of corruptible animals walking therein, neither did they melt that good food, which was apt to melt as ice. For in all things thou didst magnify thy people, O Lord, and didst honour them, and didst not despise them, but didst assist them at all times, and in every place.

drb@B831:1 @And they walked in the midst of the flame, praising God and blessing the Lord.

drb@B831:2 @Then Azarias standing up prayed in this manner, and opening his mouth in the midst of the fire, he said:

drb@B831:3 @Blessed art thou, O Lord, the God of our fathers, and thy name is worthy of praise, and glorious for ever:

drb@B831:5 @For thou hast executed true judgments in all the things that thou hast brought upon us, and upon Jerusalem the holy city of our fathers: for according to truth and judgment, thou hast brought all these things upon us for our sins.

drb@B831:6 @For we have sinned, and committed iniquity, departing from thee: and we have trespassed in all things:

drb@B831:8 @Wherefore all that thou hast brought upon us, and every thing that thou hast done to us, thou hast done in true judgment:

drb@B831:9 @And thou hast delivered us into the hands of our enemies that are unjust, and most wicked, and prevaricators, and to a king unjust, and most wicked beyond all that axe upon the earth.

drb@B831:10 @And now we cannot open our mouths: we are become a shame and reproach to thy servants, and to them that worship thee.

drb@B831:11 @Deliver us not up for ever, we beseech thee, for thy name's sake, and abolish not thy covenant.

drb@B831:13 @To whom thou hast spoken, promising that thou wouldst multiply their seed as the stars of heaven, and as the sand that is on the sea shore.

drb@B831:15 @Neither is there at this time prince, or leader, or prophet, or holocaust, or sacrifice, or oblation, or incense, or place of firstfruits before thee,

drb@B831:16 @That we may find thy mercy: nevertheless in a contrite heart and humble spirit let us be accepted.

drb@B831:17 @As in holocausts of rams, and bullocks, and as in thousands of fat lambs: so let our sacrifice be made in thy sight this day, that it may please thee: for there is no confusion to them that trust in thee.

drb@B831:19 @Put us not to confusion, but deal. with us according to thy meekness, and according to the multitude of thy mercies.

drb@B831:23 @Now the king's servants that had cast them in, ceased not to heat the furnace with brimstone, and tow, and pitch, and dry sticks,

drb@B831:24 @And the flame mounted up above the furnace nine and forty cubits:

drb@B831:26 @But the angel of the Lord went down with Azarias and his companions into the furnace: and he drove the flame of the fire out of the furnace,

drb@B831:28 @Then these three as with one mouth praised, and glorified, and blessed God in the furnace, saying:

drb@B831:29 @Blessed art thou, O Lord the God of our fathers: and worthy to be praised, and glorified, and exalted above all for ever: and blessed is the holy name of thy glory: and worthy to be praised, and exalted above all in all ages.

drb@B831:30 @Blessed art thou in the holy temple of thy glory: and exceedingly to be praised, and exceeding glorious for ever.

drb@B831:31 @Blessed art thou on the throne of thy kingdom, and exceedingly to be praised, and exalted above all for ever.

drb@B831:32 @Blessed art thou, that beholdest the depths, and sittest upon the cherubims: and worthy to be praised and exalted above all for ever.

drb@B831:33 @Blessed art thou in the firmament of heaven: and worthy of praise, and glorious for ever.

drb@B831:34 @All ye works of the Lord, bless the Lord: praise and exalt him above all for ever.

drb@B831:35 @O ye angels of the Lord, bless the Lord: praise and exalt him above all for ever.

drb@B831:36 @O ye heavens, bless the Lord: praise and exalt him above all for ever.

drb@B831:37 @O all ye waters that are above the heavens, bless the Lord; praise and exalt him above all for ever.

drb@B831:38 @O all ye powers of the Lord, bless the Lord: praise and exalt him above all for ever.

drb@B831:39 @O ye sun and moon, bless the Lord: praise and exalt him above all for ever.

drb@B831:40 @O ye stars of heaven, bless the Lord: praise and exalt him above all for ever.

drb@B831:41 @O every shower and dew, bless ye the Lord: praise and exalt him above all for ever.

drb@B831:42 @O all ye spirits of God, bless the Lord: praise and exalt him above all for ever.

drb@B831:43 @O ye fire and heat, bless the Lord: praise and exalt him above all for ever.

drb@B831:44 @O ye cold and heat, bless the Lord: praise and exalt him above all for ever.

drb@B831:45 @O ye dews and hoar frosts, bless the Lord: praise and exalt him above all for ever.

drb@B831:46 @O ye frost and cold, bless the Lord: praise and exalt him above all for ever.

drb@B831:47 @O ye ice and snow, bless the Lord: praise and exalt him above all for ever.

drb@B831:48 @O ye nights and days, bless the Lord: praise and exalt him above all for ever.

drb@B831:49 @O ye light and darkness, bless the Lord: praise and exalt him above all for ever.

drb@B831:50 @O ye lightnings and clouds, bless the Lord: praise and exalt him above all for ever.

drb@B831:51 @O let the earth bless the Lord: let it praise and exalt him above all for ever.

drb@B831:52 @O ye mountains and hills, bless the Lord: praise and exalt him above all for ever.

drb@B831:53 @O all ye things that spring up in the earth, bless the Lord: praise and exalt him above all for ever.

drb@B831:54 @O ye fountains, bless the Lord: praise and exalt him above all for ever.

drb@B831:55 @O ye seas and rivers, bless the Lord: praise and exalt him above all for ever.

drb@B831:56 @O ye whales, and all that move in the waters, bless the Lord: praise and exalt him above all for ever.

drb@B831:57 @O all ye fowls of the air, bless the Lord: praise and exalt him above all for ever.

drb@B831:58 @O all ye beasts and cattle, bless the Lord: praise and exalt him above all for ever.

drb@B831:59 @O ye sons of men, bless the Lord., praise and exalt him above all for ever.

drb@B831:60 @O let Israel bless the Lord: let them praise and exalt him above all for ever.

drb@B831:61 @O ye priests of the Lord, bless the Lord: praise and exalt him above all for ever.

drb@B831:62 @O ye servants of the Lord, bless the Lord: praise and exalt him above all for ever.

drb@B831:63 @O ye spirits and souls of the just, bless the Lord: praise and exalt him above all for ever.

drb@B831:64 @O ye holy and humble of heart, bless the Lord: praise and exalt him above all for ever.

drb@B831:65 @O Ananias, Azarias, and Misael, bless ye the Lord: praise and exalt him above all for ever. For he hath delivered us from hell, and saved us out of the hand of death, and delivered us out of the midst of the burning flame, and saved us out of the midst of the fire.

drb@B831:67 @O all ye religious, bless the Lord the God of gods: praise him and give him thanks, because his mercy endureth for ever and ever.

drb@B8610:6 @And my nation is Israel, who cried to the Lord, and the Lord saved his people: and he delivered us from all evils, and hath wrought great signs and wonders among the nations:

drb@B8610:7 @And he commanded that there should be two lots, one of the people of God, and the other of all the nations.

drb@B8610:8 @And both lots came to the day appointed already from that time before God to all nations:

drb@B8610:9 @And the Lord remembered his people, and had mercy on his inheritance.

drb@B8610:10 @And these days shall be observed in the month of Adar on the fourteenth, and fifteenth day of the same month. with all diligence, and joy of the people gathered into one assembly, throughout all the generations hereafter of the people of Israel.

drb@B8611:1 @In the fourth year of the reign of Ptolemy and Cleopatra, Dositheus, who said he was a priest, and of the Levitical race, and Ptolemy his son brought this epistle of Phurim, which they said Lysimachus the son of Ptolemy had interpreted in Jerusalem.

drb@B8611:4 @Now he was of the number of the captives, whom Nabuchodonosor king of Babylon had carried away from Jerusalem with Jechonias king of Juda:

drb@B8611:5 @And this was his dream: Behold there were voices, and tumults, and thunders, and earthquakes, and a disturbance upon the earth.

drb@B8611:7 @And at their cry all nations were stirred up to fight against the nation of the just.

drb@B8611:8 @And that was a day of darkness and danger, of tribulation and distress, and great fear upon the earth.

drb@B8611:9 @And the nation of the just was troubled fearing their own evils, and was prepared for death.

drb@B8611:11 @The light and the sun rose up, and the humble were exalted, and they devoured the glorious

drb@B8611:12 @And when Mardochai had seen this, and arose out of his bed, he was thinking what God would do: and he kept it fixed in his mind, desirous to know what the dream should signify.

drb@B8612:1 @And he abode at that time in the king's court with Bagatha and Thara the king's eunuchs, who were porters of the palace.

drb@B8612:2 @And when he understood their designs, and had diligently searched into their projects, he learned that they went about to lay violent hands on king Artaxerxes, and he told the king thereof.

drb@B8612:3 @Then the king had them both examined, and after they had confessed, commanded them to be put to death.

drb@B8612:5 @And the king commanded him, to abide in the court of the palace, and gave him presents for the information.

drb@B8612:6 @But Aman the son of Amadathi the Bugite was in great honour with the king, and sought to hurt Mardochai and his people, because of the two eunuchs of the king who were put to death.

drb@B8613:1 @And this was the copy of the letter: Artaxerxes the great king who reigneth from India to Ethiopia, to the princes and governors of the hundred and twenty-seven provinces, that are subject to his empire, greeting.

drb@B8613:2 @Whereas I reigned over many nations, and had brought all the world under my dominion, I was not willing to abuse the greatness of my power, but to govern my subjects with clemency and lenity, that they might live quietly without any terror. and might enjoy peace, which is desired by all men.

drb@B8613:3 @But when I asked my counsellors how this might be accomplished, one that excelled the rest in wisdom and fidelity, and was second after the king, Aman by name,

drb@B8613:4 @Told me that there was a people scattered through the whole world, which used new laws, and acted against the customs of all nations, despised the commandments of kings, and violated by their opposition the concord of all nations.

drb@B8613:5 @Wherefore having learned this, and seeing one nation in opposition to all mankind using perverse laws, and going against our commandments, and disturbing the peace and concord of the provinces subject to us,

drb@B8613:6 @We have commanded that all whom Aman shall mark out, who is chief over all the provinces, and second after the king, and whom we honour as a father, shall be utterly destroyed by their enemies, with their wives and children, and that none shall have pity on them. on the fourteenth day of the twelfth month Adar of this present year:

drb@B8613:7 @That these wicked men going down to hell in one day, may restore to our empire the peace which they had disturbed.

drb@B8613:9 @And said: O Lord, Lord, almighty king, for all things are in thy power, and there is none that can resist thy will, if thou determine to save Israel.

drb@B8613:10 @Thou hast made heaven and earth, and all things that are under the cope of heaven.

drb@B8613:12 @Thou knowest all things, and thou knowest that it was not out of pride and contempt, or any desire of glory, that I refused to worship the proud Aman,

drb@B8613:13 @(For I would willingly and readily for the salvation of Israel have kissed even the steps of his feet,)

drb@B8613:14 @But I feared lest I should transfer the honour of my God to a man, and lest I should adore any one except my God.

drb@B8613:15 @And now, O Lord, O king, O God of Abraham, have mercy on thy people, be- cause our enemies resolve to destroy us, and extinguish thy inheritance

drb@B8613:16 @Despise not thy portion, which thou hast redeemed for thyself out of Egypt.

drb@B8613:17 @Hear my supplication, and be merciful to thy lot and inheritance, and turn our mourning into joy, that we may live and praise thy name, 0 Lord, and shut not the mouths of them that sing to thee.

drb@B8613:18 @And all Israel with like mind and supplication cried to the Lord, because they saw certain death hanging over their heads.

drb@B8614:2 @And when she had laid away her royal apparel, she put on garments suitable for weeping and mourning: instead of divers precious ointments, she covered her head with ashes and dung, and she humbled her body with fasts: and all the places in which before she was accustomed to rejoice, she filled with her torn hair.

drb@B8614:3 @And she prayed to the Lord the God of Israel, saying: O my Lord, who alone art our king, help me a desolate woman, and who have no other helper but thee.

drb@B8614:5 @I have heard of my father that thou, O Lord, didst take Israel from among all nations, and our fathers from all their predecessors, to possess them as an everlasting inheritance, and thou hast done to them as thou hast promised.

drb@B8614:7 @For we have worshipped their gods. Thou art just, O Lord.

drb@B8614:8 @And now they are not content to oppress us with most hard bondage, but attributing the strength of their hands to the power of their idols,

drb@B8614:9 @They design to change thy promises, and destroy thy inheritance, and shut the mouths of them that praise thee, and extinguish the glory of thy temple and altar,

drb@B8614:10 @That they may open the mouths of Gentiles, and praise the strength of idols, and magnify for ever a carnal king.

drb@B8614:11 @Give not, O Lord, thy sceptre to them that are not, lest they laugh at our ruin: but turn their counsel upon themselves, and destroy him that hath begun to rage against us.

drb@B8614:12 @Remember, O Lord, and shew thyself to us in the time of our tribulation, and give me boldness, O Lord, king of gods, and of all power:

drb@B8614:13 @Give me a well ordered speech in my mouth in the presence of the lion, and turn his heart to the hatred of our enemy, that both he himself may perish, and the rest that consent to him.

drb@B8614:14 @But deliver us by thy hand, and help me, who have no other helper, but thee, O Lord, who hast the knowledge of all things.

drb@B8614:16 @Thou knowest my necessity, that I abominate the sign of my pride and glory, which is upon my head in the days of my public appearance, and detest it as a menstruous rag, and wear it not in the days of my silence,

drb@B8614:17 @And that I have not eaten at Aman's table, nor hath the king's banquet pleased me, and that I have not drunk the wine of the drink offerings:

drb@B8614:19 @O God, who art mighty above all, hear the voice of them, that have no other hope, and deliver us from the hand of the wicked, and deliver me from my fear.

drb@B8615:1 @And he commanded her (no doubt but he was Mardochai) to go to the king, and petition for her people, and for her country.

drb@B8615:2 @Remember, (said he,) the days of thy low estate, how thou wast brought up by my hand, because Aman the second after the king hath spoken against us unto death.

drb@B8615:3 @And do thou call upon the Lord, and speak to the king for us, and deliver us from death.

drb@B8615:4 @And on the third day she laid away the garments she wore, and put on her glorious apparel.

drb@B8615:5 @And glittering in royal robes, after she had called upon God the ruler and Saviour of all, she took two maids with her,

drb@B8615:6 @And upon one of them she leaned, as if for delicateness and overmuch tenderness she were not able to bear up her own body.

drb@B8615:7 @And the other maid followed her lady, bearing up her train flowing on the ground.

drb@B8615:9 @So going in she passed through all the doors in order, and stood before the king, where he sat upon his royal throne, clothed with his royal robes, and glittering with gold, and precious stones, and he was terrible to behold.

drb@B8615:10 @And when he had lifted up his countenance, and with burning eyes had shewn the wrath of his heart, the queen sunk down, and her colour turned pale, and she rested her weary head upon her handmaid.

drb@B8615:11 @And God changed the king's spirit into mildness, and all in haste and in fear he leaped from his throne, and holding her up in his arms, till she came to herself, caressed her with these words:

drb@B8615:14 @Come near then, and touch the sceptre.

drb@B8615:15 @And as she held her peace, he took the golden sceptre, and laid it upon her neck, and kissed her, and said: Why dost thou not speak to me?

drb@B8615:18 @And while she was speaking, she fell down again, and was almost in a swoon.

drb@B8616:1 @The great king Artaxerxes, from India to Ethiopia, to the governors and princes of a hundred and twenty- seven provinces, which obey our command, sendeth greeting.

drb@B8616:2 @Many have abused unto pride the goodness of princes, and the honour that hath been bestowed upon them:

drb@B8616:3 @And not only endeavour to oppress the king's subjects, but not bearing the glory that is given them, take in hand to practise also against them that gave it.

drb@B8616:4 @Neither are they content not to re- turn thanks for benefits received, and to violate in themselves the laws of humanity, but they think they can also escape the justice of God who seeth all things.

drb@B8616:5 @And they break out into so great madness, as to endeavour to undermine by lies such as observe diligently the offices committed to them, and do all things in such manner as to be worthy of all men's praise,

drb@B8616:6 @While with crafty fraud they deceive the ears of princes that are well meaning, and judge of others by their own nature.

drb@B8616:7 @Now this is proved both from ancient histories, and by the things which are done daily, how the good designs of kings are depraved by the evil suggestions of certain men.

drb@B8616:8 @Wherefore we must provide for the peace of all provinces.

drb@B8616:9 @Neither must you think, if we command different things, that it cometh of the levity of our mind, but that we give sentence according to the quality and necessity of times, as the profit of the commonwealth requireth.

drb@B8616:10 @Now that you may more plainly understand what we say, I Aman the son of Amadathi, a Macedonian both in mind and country, and having nothing of the Persian blood, but with his cruelty staining our goodness, was received being a stranger by us:

drb@B8616:11 @And found our humanity so great towards him, that he was called our father, and was worshipped by all as the next man after the king:

drb@B8616:12 @But he was so far puffed up with arrogancy, as to go about to deprive us of our kingdom and life.

drb@B8616:13 @For with certain new and unheard of devices he hath sought the destruction of Mardochai, by whose fidelity and good services our life was saved, and of Esther the partner of our kingdom, with all their nation:

drb@B8616:14 @Thinking that after they were slain, he might work treason against us left alone without friends, and might transfer the kingdom of the Persians to the Macedonians.

drb@B8616:15 @But we have found that the Jews, who were by that most wicked man appointed to be slain, are in no fault at all, but contrariwise, use just laws,

drb@B8616:16 @And are the children of the highest and the greatest, and the ever living God, by whose benefit the kingdom was given both to our fathers and to us, and is kept unto this day.

drb@B8616:18 @For which crime both he himself that devised it, and all his kindred hang on gibbets, before the gates of this city Susan: not we, but God repaying him as he deserved.

drb@B8616:19 @But this edict, which we now send, shall be published in all cities, that the Jews may freely follow their own laws.

drb@B8616:20 @And you shall aid them that they may kill those who had prepared themselves to kill them, on the thirteenth day of the twelfth month, which is called Adar.

drb@B8616:23 @That all they who faithfully obey the Persians, receive a worthy reward for their fidelity: but they that are traitors to their kingdom, are destroyed for their wickedness.

drb@B8616:24 @And let every province and city, that will not be partaker of this solemnity, perish by the sword and by fire, and be destroyed in such manner as to be made unpassable, both to men and beasts, for an example of contempt, and disobedience

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